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Hone that tradecraft, or you'll find out what they do to spies around here... This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Hambone takes the lead, talking about running Top Secret: New World Order. He also played in a session of Renegade's G.I. Joe RPG, so we talk about that, too! Also: Ron Meischker chats with Hambone about PAGE 2, coming in January. Use code VintageRPG for a ticket discount! * * * Instagram? Old news. Join the Vintage RPG Newsletter! That's where all the cool kids are now! Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! Buy it! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need are right here in one place! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast! Edited by the one and only R. Alex Murray. Send questions, comments or corrections to info@vintagerpg.com. Available on iTunes, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify, YouTube and your favorite podcast clients. The Vintage RPG illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter. Tune in next week for the next episode. Until then, may the dice always roll in your favor!
It's time for #RPGaDay 2024! Check out the prompts at www.autocratik.comHere's link to our character creation video for Top Secret: New World Order: https://youtu.be/qSy7ixdnkKM?si=aCq0uy93wANp8rUf
In this episode Bill, Edwin, and Lou discuss the classic Top Secret module, TS003: "Lady in Distress." This GenCon XIV tournament module features a cruise ship taken over by terrorists who are after a secret bio weapon smuggled on board by a rogue Spanish scientist. BUT FIRST: Mike Carr - TSR legend and co-writer of this adventure - spends some of his afternoon with us answering a few questions about the module. Bill is in the hot seat for Geek Credit and the mailbag doth provide... Below we have some bonus anecdotes from Merle Rasmussen the OG Admisstrator and founder of the Top Secret game. We are looking to have both him and Mike back for full-length episodes. Mr. Rasmussen: "(Mike) and I are long-time friends. Mike was working for TSR before I submitted modern espionage rules. We wrote letters to each other (before the internet) and I sent him a copy of my rules with the working title SPY WORLD (inspired by GAMMA WORLD). Mike sent me the note from Gary Gygax, “Accept this MS [manuscript] as soon as it is typed.” I then hired typists to complete the work. Mike and I independently filed the rules under “TOP SECRET.” When we discovered this coincidence, it was obvious the game should be titled, TOP SECRET®! I wrote a module to be included in the TOP SECRET® COMPANION. It involved terrorists using Carbonophage Microbes to destroy the carbon-carbon reinforced surfaces of the Space Shuttle. I was paid by TSR, unfortunately, they would hold my product for a year. Space Shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after liftoff killing all crew members on board. This is the problem writing contemporary role-playing games-- reality sometimes catches up. I also submitted material for TOP SECRET: NEW WORLD ORDER® that ended up on the cutting room floor. Good news! Last night I saw editing on HACKNOIA® GONZO MODERN Role-Playing Game by Jolly Blackburn and Merle M. Rasmussen. SOLARIAN GAMES hopes to publish the conspiracy, supernatural, and espionage rules. They signed a licensing agreement with KENZER & COMPANY years ago. Jolly is a fan of TOP SECRET® and spoofed my serious spy game in his Knights of the Dinner Table® cartoons calling it HACKNOIA®. I suggested we create HACKNOIA® for real. Players create characters like James Bond, but play them like Maxwell Smart. He said he couldn't write rules. I told him I couldn't draw comics. We shook on the deal. SOLARIAN GAMES must be nearing completion. They are on their third editor and they politely asked me to stop writing! " -more to come from Mr. Rasmussen in future episodes!
Start of a discussion on TOP SECRET NEW WORLD ORDER, which can be found here at Solarian (formerly TSR Games) Thanks to Jason (Nerd's RPG Variety Cast) and Che (Roleplay Rescue) for the calls and great comments - sorry these took a while
It's morning in Quarantine... downtown Sydney, quiet due to the current lockdown. A few more thoughts on quarantine, an "unboxing," and discussion about Star Frontiers and Top Secret New World Order.
At Total Con 35, which had an espionage focus, I ran a hack of TSR's Top Secret: New World Order. My goal was to run it in the style of TV's Mission: Impossible. I wanted to include the briefing scene, a preview of the mission, and then the mission itself. This meant the characters should start the mission knowing what is going on and what they have to do. It was a bit rough but Bill and I discuss how to make it better. The episode runs at approximately 40 minutes. If you're interested, here is the mission the characters received at the start of the game (you'll have to imagine the accompanying images): Greetings, Agent. This man is Orest Doroshenko, a physicist with the Ukrainian National Academy of Science. Doroshenko’s wife and two children were killed in the accidental downing of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 by Iranian air defense forces. We have learned that through the black market, Doroshenko has acquired a radiological thermal generator formerly used to power automated lighthouses on the northern coast of the erstwhile Soviet Union. If removed from its lead casing, the strontium 90 powering the generator poses a hazard to any exposed to its radiation. Reliable sources indicate that Doroshenko has smuggled the generator into Iran and intends to use the strontium 90 material as a component in a radiation dispersion device, or dirty bomb. In addition to immediate and long-term casualties, such an act would almost certainly lead to retaliatory acts and war in the region and beyond. We cannot let that happen. We also cannot let the radiological material fall into Iranian hands because the head of Iranian secret intelligence, General Jamshid Rostami, has strong links to known terrorist organizations acting against our interests in the region. Your mission is to prevent Doroshenko from carrying out his plan and ensuring that the radiological material does not fall into Iranian hands. As always, should you be caught or killed, the Secretariat will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck.
Game School went to TotalCon and played Top Secret: New World Order with Merle Rassmussen, Allen Hammack, and Jayson Elliot. Top Secret is the new espionage role-playing game from Merle M. Rasmussen, creator of the first espionage role-playing game. Your mission: preserve peace and stability in a world rife with conflict, mistrust, duplicity, and shadowy organizations. You are an agent of ICON: The International Covert Operatives Network. You have been recruited from your former life, trained in the ways of tradecraft, and sent into the field to handle the missions that other agencies cannot, or will not handle. Tense negotiations, dangerous combat, thrilling car chases, tradecraft, surveillance, intrigue, and subterfuge are all at hand with the roll of the dice. http://store.tsrgames.com/top-secret-new-world-order-box-set/
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In the maiden episode, Lucky 13 designer James Carpio talks about how dice pools work in the Top Secret: New World Order role playing game.
Steve & Izzy are joined by Hanae & her husband Jayson of the Making Games Podcast to continue the 007th Month, a month of talking about the James Bond Movie franchise, with 1967's "Casino Royale" starring a BUNCH of people as James Bond including David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress and more... and even as Orson Welles as Le Chiffre!!! Is it as bad as everyone says it is? Is this canon? Are you sure? What if everybody were James Bond 007? Can an actual spy fiction expert help us figure this out? Were those seals?!? Let's find out!!! So kick back, grab a few brews, enjoy the sounds of Burt Bacharach, and enjoy!!! This episode is brought to you by TSR Gaming and their new incredible board game Top Secret: New World Order available at www.TopSecretNWO.com where if you use the special promo code UNTIDY you can save 15% on this amazing game, or anything else from TSR Gaming !!! We'll be having a mini episode soon enough with more details about this amazing game, so stay tuned... or let us know if you'd like to play it with us!!! This episode is also brought to you by Frankie & Myrrh at www.frankieandmyrrh.com where when you use the code "UNTIDY" upon check-out, you can get: - 15% off your purchase - Free shipping on orders over $35 - Help out your favorite podcast (us) - AND of course enjoy the greatest aromatherapy on the market!!! Try it today!!! Twitter - www.twitter.com/eilfmovies Facebook - www.facebook.com/eilfmovies Instagram - www.instagram.com/eilfmovies Etsy - www.untidyvenus.etsy.com
Join the team as they try to avenge a fallen comrade in this one-shot campaign of Top Secret: New World Order from TSR Games. This high-action spy-thriller is sure to please all! Follow us! --FB: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersFB --Insta: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersIG --Twitter: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersTw --Twitch: http://bit.ly/MindplayersTwitch --YouTube: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersYT Music Attribution: Urban Gauntlet by Kevin MacLeod, https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500009
Join the team as they try to avenge a fallen comrade in this one-shot campaign of Top Secret: New World Order from TSR Games. This high-action spy-thriller is sure to please all! Follow us! --FB: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersFB --Insta: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersIG --Twitter: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersTw --Twitch: http://bit.ly/MindplayersTwitch --YouTube: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersYT Music Attribution: Urban Gauntlet by Kevin MacLeod, https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500009
Join the team as they try to avenge a fallen comrade in this one-shot campaign of Top Secret: New World Order from TSR Games. This high-action spy-thriller is sure to please all! Follow us! --FB: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersFB --Insta: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersIG --Twitter: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersTw --Twitch: http://bit.ly/MindplayersTwitch --YouTube: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersYT Music Attribution: Urban Gauntlet by Kevin MacLeod, https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500009
Join the team as they try to avenge a fallen comrade in this one-shot campaign of Top Secret: New World Order from TSR Games. This high-action spy-thriller is sure to please all! Follow us! --FB: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersFB --Insta: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersIG --Twitter: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersTw --Twitch: http://bit.ly/MindplayersTwitch --YouTube: http://bit.ly/MindPlayersYT Music Attribution: Urban Gauntlet by Kevin MacLeod, https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500009
Once again your intrepid Halflings dive into the murky world of Espionage RPGs. No Cold War this time around, instead we jack into the 21st century with Top Secret: New World Order by TSR Games. We are joined by author Merle Rasmussen and TSR Games head honcho Jayson Elliot to talk over what’s old, what’s […]
Come join the Dungeon Crawlers team as we sit down with Jayson Elliot and Merle Rassmussen of TSR Games to talk about their current Kickstarter the Top Secret: New World Order game. This fantastic game is the brand-new espionage role-playing game where you are an agent of ICON, the International Covert Operatives Network. Working alone or with a team, you are tasked with the missions that other agencies cannot, or will not, handle. Tune in and find out more about this great RPG game and system. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tsrgames/top-secret-new-world-order-the-espionage-roleplayi Remember if you haven’t already to like us on Facebook (facebook.com/dungeoncrawlersradio/) or tweet us on Twitter (@DCR_Show). Join the conversation as we want to hear from you as we value our listener’s opinions and if your download our show on iTunes, please give us a review.
Once again your intrepid Halflings dive into the murky world of Espionage RPGs. No Cold War this time around, instead we jack into the 21st century with Top Secret: New World Order by TSR Games. We are joined by author Merle Rasmussen and TSR Games head honcho Jayson Elliot to talk over what’s old, what’s […]