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I talk about tabletop RPGs and fiction:, D&D, OSR, Dungeon World, TTRPG, analog games, story games, minimalist rule sets, Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Science Fantasy, Fantasy, Myth, REH, HPL, ERB, CAS, alternate history, Bronze Age Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

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    • Jul 2, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
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    S5E3 City of the Serpent Men

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2021 23:13


    Arion finds what he has been seeking --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S5E2: Arion and the Dreaded Isle

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 37:18


    The continuing adventures of Arion and our play test of Barbaric! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S5:E1 Barbaric

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2021 46:58


    Solo play test driving Barbaric! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    Last Stand at Outpost 3 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2021 16:58


    A review of Last Stand at Outpost 3 from Dungeon Magazine 110. For simple rule set to run Dark Sun adventures, check out Crimson Sun: https://minnonartor.itch.io/crimson-sun --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S4E2 The Forest Maker

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 36:15


    A scene-by-scene review of the 2e Dark Sun adventure module the Forest Maker plus some of the changes I made to the adventure to better fit my own Dark Sun campaign. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S4E1 Dark Sun Intro

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2020 30:27


    Where I introduce Dark Sun to those who are not familiar with it. I describe some unique aspects of the setting, discuss its origins, some controversies in its history and my own tweaks to the setting (YDSWV). https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DarkSun www.athas.org https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Sun_Wiki www.patreon.com/redram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    High School Gaming Club End of Semester Survey

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 5:50


    Frank from episode 18 sent out a survey to some of his students. I share with you their responses. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S3E45 OAR Before the Lost City

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 0:50


    The Goodman Games version of Before the Lost City is delayed at the printers. Once it comes in, I will review it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S2E28 VanHelsing Cleric

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 1:36


    Just learned the 'true' origin of the cleric by listening to Dave Aldridge's DPercentile podcast, Ep 202. Maybe it's old news to others but for me, mind blown. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    20200624 update

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 2:58


    Just an update on what I’ve been up to since the end of the last season. Also I’ve passed 1000 lessons! Thanks to everyone who made that possible :-) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

    S3E45 B4 The Lost City - The Underground Cavern

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 13:47


    Cynidicea Below The Garden of Orpheus The Fungal Forest The Isle of Death The Lower Catacombs --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3 E43 The Lower Tiers II

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 14:30


    What darkness lurks at the heart of the Ziggurat...? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3 E41 B4 The Lost City - The Lower Tiers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 15:01


    The gateway to theunderworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. Peter Ackroyd --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E39 B4 The Lost City - Tier 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 14:39


    Overview of Tier 5 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E37 B4 The Lost CIty - Tier 5 - Factions

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2020 9:30


    Children of Nun Rebel Priest Followers of the Formless One Haunted Residence of the Animator --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E35 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - The Counciler, the Chamberlain and the Lady-in-Waiting

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2020 7:49


    This sounds like the title to a bawdy tale by Chaucer --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E33 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - The Slaves

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2020 7:25


    “Dine with the masters and forget the slaves.” ― Pierce Brown --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E31 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - The Thief

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 7:53


    Though Slith had an experience of twenty years of theft, yet he said little; only if one of the others made a stone roll with his foot, or, later on in the forest, if one of them stepped on a twig, he whispered sharply to them always the same words: “That is not business.” --Lord Dunsany --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E29 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - A Noble Lady

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2020 4:52


    She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow. R. G. Moon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E27 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - the Rat's Nest

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 7:37


    From rat's nest to zombie rat's nest to necrotic ooze --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E25 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - A Nobleman's Burial Room

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2020 9:03


    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” ― Voltaire --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    Episode 21: Playing at the World Intro

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 4:56


    I start reading Jon Peterson's Playing At the World --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E23 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - Ghostly Haunts

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 7:25


    What may this mean. That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Making night hideous ; and we, fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? --Hamlet The more enlightened our houses are, the more the walls ooze ghosts --Italo Calvino --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E21 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - The Guard Captain

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 7:58


    The Guard Captain keeps lonely vigil... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

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    S3E20 Cool ghouls

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 0:38


    Ghouls gettin the munchies --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E19 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - the High Priest

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2020 10:05


    The priest's on the boat and hell is on its way --Portugal the Man --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E18 Dwarven Jester Call Ins

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 6:40


    Comedy, horror and treasure --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E17 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - The Jester's Burial Room

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 12:38


    A simple buffoon or the mastermind behind it all? You decide. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E15 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - Overview

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2020 12:35


    Burial chambers of Cynidicean nobility in the time of Zenobia and Alexander. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E13 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - Overview

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 17:56


    Followers of the Old Gods factions and their bases of operations . --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E11 B4 The Lost City - Tier 4 - North and West

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2020 9:30


    Beachheads for the MiGo and Shoggoth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E9 B4 The Lost City - Tier 2 - South and East

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2020 8:02


    The area of Tier 2 controlled by the Sons of Marduk --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E7 B4 The Lost City - Tier 2 - A Special Storeroom

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 9:43


    of Fire Beetles and Mechanical Parts... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E6 Tier 1 Call Ins

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 3:37


    Ladders and their signifiers --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E5 B4 The Lost City - Tier 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 14:11


    Three bronze columns elaborately carved... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E3 B4 The Lost City - Overview of the Lost City

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2020 16:36


    An overview of B4 The Lost City --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E2 Approach the Ziggurat Call Ins

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020 6:33


    Call ins for Approaching the Ziggurat --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S3E1 B4 The Lost City - Approaching the Ziggurat

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2020 11:37


    Lost in the desert, food and water gone, mounts dead ... then, rising from the sands, the cyclopean blocks of a lost city... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    Season 3 Intro: Exploring the Lost City

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 1:45


    In Season 3 I plan to do an in depth exploration of the OSR module B4: The Lost CIty. Join me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E27 Ablative Armor

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020 11:03


    If you give a mouse a cookie... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E26 Weapon Damage

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 16:09


    Call in on weapon damage in CL0e sparks a discussion --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E25 call ins on Chaoses Limb 0E part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 3:56


    initial reaction on my retro edition of Chaoses Limb --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E24 CL 0e

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2020 20:10


    What happens if we apply reverse evolution to Chaoses Limb? all sorts of craziness. Trigger warning: those easily disturbed by hearing rules being mangled, spindled and mutilated may experience increases in blood pressure listening to this episode. Note: no actual rules were harmed in the making of this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    Episode 20: Larry's RPG bio

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 45:47


    The latest in my series of interviews with my brothers and former players. Apologies for the sound quality on this one. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E23 Colin’s part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 2:58


    A call in from Mr. Spike Pit about playbooks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E22 Season 2 Call Ins part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2020 6:07


    More call ins for season 2 Iron and magic, arms and armor for magic users. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E21 Season 2 Call Ins

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 12:45


    Call ins from: Tim Shorts - Gothridge Manor - discovering new things in old rules Colin Green - SpikePit - the joys of game design Rob C - Down in a Heap - question on magic Spencer - Keep off the Borderlands - the Cleric --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E20 Season 2 Credits

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 14:33


    Inspirations for the Chaoses Limb Retro Clone http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E19 The Dwarven Playbook

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020 11:08


    A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. Robert Burton --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E18 The Halfling Playbook

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2020 10:50


    “And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

    S2E17 The Elf Playbook

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020 11:39


    Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself. ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

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