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https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Episode-25-Review-of-2018-featuring-WFRP-actual-play-20_12_2018-08.20.m4a Download Episode In this episode we review our year in gaming and dish out our GROGGIE awards. It also features WFRP actual play, hosted by The Smart Party. Subscribe to their feed to catch the rest of it, when it is released. Podcast recommendations: How we Roll, The Chimpions, Vintage RPG podcast, and Appendix N.The post Episode 25 – Review of 2018 (Featuring WFRP actual play) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Episode-24-Part-2-WARHAMMER-Fantasy-Role-Play-with-Graeme-Davies-25_11_2018-15.25.m4a Download Episode INTRO: We’ve had another iTunes review (we’d love to get more!) GAMESMASTER’S SCREEN: Graeme Davis takes us on a whistle stop tour around his career so far: check out this book-listing  at Graeme’s site for all the references mentioned. WHITE DWARF: @dailydwarf has given another insightful perspective of all of the adventures that appeared White Dwarf for the game. OPEN BOX: Blythy and Dirk talk about Warhammer and how they can fit it in their gaming repertoire. OUTRO: Only a few days left to register for a hard copy of the GROGZINE 2019.The post Episode 24 (Part 2) WARHAMMER Fantasy Role Play (with Graeme Davis) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Episode-23-Part-1-WARHAMMER-Fantasy-Role-Play-with-Graeme-Davis-21_10_2018-11.08.m4a Download Episode INTRO: The GROGNARD files is dedicated to Greg Stafford (1948-2018) OPEN BOX: Graeme Davis talks to us about the genesis of the 1st edition of WARHAMMER and some of the plans for the new edition. You find out more about his long and distinguished career in gaming on his website. WHITE DWARF: The Daily Dwarf reviews the articles that appeared in White Dwarf for WARHAMMER, it’s a long list. JUDGE BAZ RULES!: Baz Stevens from The Smart Party podcast (The UK’s Premier RPG Podcast… mmm?) joins us in the room of role-playing rambling to get deep and dirty into the rules. OUTRO: Join our Patreon before the end of November to get a hard copy of the zine.The post Episode 24 (Part 1) WARHAMMER Fantasy Role Play (with Graeme Davis) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Episode-23-Dungeons-and-Dragons-Storm-Kings-Thunder.m4a Download Episode Intro: It has been a summer of love for the library – there’s too much on there! Open Box: We’re in Port Street in Manchester reflecting on the campaign The White Dwarf: Daily Dwarf goes Against the Giants. Games Master’s Screen: What’s our favourite class? Ed’s Shed: Ed decides to ‘bring out the Gimp‘ when he creates a dynamic, digital table top. Outro: Find out more about the Patreon campaign and the next GROGZINE.The post Episode 23 – Dungeons & Dragons, Storm King’s Thunder first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Episode-22-Part-2-RuneQuest-Role-Playing-in-Glorantha-with-Michael-OBrien-aka-MOB-06_08_2018-23.47.m4a Download Episode INTRO: I’ve got one of those blowers with a feather on the end to celebrate our anniversary and the release of RuneQuest RolePlaying in Glorantha. MOB RETURNS: MOB talks about all the different ways that you can play in Glorantha: 13th Age, HeroQuest, but especially RuneQuest. Here he talks about how RuneQuest appeals to the gamers from back in the day, through its legacy supplements and how it can appeal to new gamers who have discovered Glorantha through The King of Dragon Pass. He also talks about some of the new releases, such as the Bestiary and 6 Ages as well as some of the fan initiatives such as Encounter Role-Play. He also reveals the plans to create a site for Glorantha fan material using a similar model as The Miskatonic  Repository.   JUDGE BLYTHY ROLLS: We discuss ‘how to get started in Glorantha’ with an emphasis on ‘play’s the thing’. ACTUAL PLAY: Gaz and Baz from The Smart Party podcast with Matt Hart from Steam Forged Games join Dirk in a Diana Jones Award winning segment of Actual Play. If you want to see more then head to their site. JUDGE BLYTHY ROLLS AGAIN: We discuss character creation using the new rules. I try to appeal to the Judge with my new gizmos from Infinity Engine and Q Workshop. OUTRO: There’s three months to go to join the Patreon campaign to receive a hard-copy of the GROGZINE 19.  The post Episode 22 (Part 2) RuneQuest RolePlaying in Glorantha (with Michael O’Brien aka MOB) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Episode-22-Part-1-RuneQuest-Renaissance-with-Michael-OBrien-aka-MOB-16_07_2018-09.59.m4a Download Episode INTRO: Three years of GROGPODing and Forty Years of RuneQuest seems like a great point in time to revisit the game that we played the most back in the day. RQ3 contributed to us stopping playing, so this is a chance to revisit the game and see what happened when we stopped playing. The sound is a bit haywire on this podcast, hope it doesn’t spoil things too much. OPENBOX: Chaosium’s Vice President tells the stories of his formative years in role-playing and how RuneQuest in Glorantha was so important to him. He was instrumental in keeping the flame alive as a fan as he wrote and developed Sun County, the first RuneQuest supplement produced for 8 years, following Avalon Hill acquiring the game in 1984. He wrote a report in the early nineties for The Tales of the Reaching Moon explaining how the game could be revived.  This is a great chat about the nineties renaissance. THE WHITE DWARF: A survey of RQ3 as it appeared (and disappeared) from White Dwarf, written by the wonderful @dailydwarf JUDGE BLYTHY RULES! Dirk and Blythy pick over the bones of RQ3 and there’s a monster quiz! OUTRO: Check out the RuneQuest Actual Play with The Smart Party   . If you’d like the GROGZINE 19 and The Collected Daily Dwarf Vol 3 and Judge Blythy’s Book of Judgments — then please chuck us a tip in the beret and join the Patreon campaign  The post Episode 22 (Part 1) RuneQuest RPG Renaissance (with Michael O’Brien aka MOB) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/episode-21-nights-black-agents-rpg-with-gareth-ryder-hanrahan-20_06_2018-07-54.m4a Download Episode INTRO (00:00) The GROGNARD files finally sells out to one of those new fangled games. There’s a new iTunes review too, that compares us to Ridley Scott’s Hovis advert.  OPEN BOX (with Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan) (0:07) We are joined by Gar who tells us about his formative years in RPGs, his role in relaunching some of the 80s classics for Mongoose and his role in developing adventures for Night’s Black Agents. ACTUAL PLAY (41:31) The Virtual GROGMEET twittercrew take on Operation: GROUNDWORM. JUDGE BLYTHY: (1:02:00) Judge Blythy sinks his teeth into the finer points of spending points. OUTRO (1:40:02) Up date from the Patreon Projects.The post Episode 21 – Night’s Black Agents RPG (with Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/episode-20-part-2-golden-heroes-rpg-with-simon-burley-17_05_2018-19-36.m4a Download Episode   INTRO We’ve had a great, positive response to the first part of the episode, and a new iTunes review from Steve Race, host of Squadron Chatter, the Unofficial Podcast for Squadron UK RPG. GM SCREEN (with Simon Burley) Simon Burley returns, to talk about Imagine magazine, his role as a ‘zine editor, his passion for the UK convention scene and the design principles behind his Code of … series of games. POST BAG We head for birthday drinks in the hubbub of the Las O Gowrie snug and review some of the correspondence that we’ve received WHITE DWARF @DailyDwarf has written an essay about the articles and scenarios that appeared in White Dwarf to support GOLDEN HEROES. SHAGGY DOG A long rambling story about the worst game ever. OUTRO The usual parish notices and thanks to Patreons.The post Episode 20 (Part 2) Golden Heroes RPG (with Simon Burley) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/episode-20-part-one-golden-heroes-rpg-with-simon-burley-18_04_2018-00-18.m4a Download Episode INTRO: This is a game that embodies the spirit of the podcast. It belongs to a period when the players were informing the gaming industry. Games Workshop decided to do a big budget version of the game. You can see the short film I made here (it’s less than 5 minutes) OPEN BOX (with Simon Burley): As the co-creator of the game, Simon shares the story of its ups and downs. You can find SQUADRON UK at Drive Thru by following the link. JUDGE BLYTHY RULES: We examine the rules with our resident rules lawyer. OUTRO: News of the latest Patreons. and the aims of the campaign.The post Episode 20 (Part 1) Golden Heroes RPG (with Simon Burley) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/episode-19-paranoia-rpg-with-paul-baldowski-21_03_2018-09-53.m4a Download Episode INTRO: Thanks to a Poll of Patreons, we are examining a game that we never played back in the day … PARANOIA. OPEN BOX: (with Paul Baldowski): Paul Baldowski was a writer for the Mongoose edition. He’s also runs Just Crunch which publishes The Cthulhu Hack. Also, make sure you check out the Fighting Fantasy accessories at All Rolled Up. WHITE DWARF: @dailydwarf provides a survey of the surprising amount of PARANOIA material that appeared in White Dwarf after Games Workshop printed the second edition in the UK ACTUAL PLAY: A sample from an online game of PARANOIA. You can’t beat a bit of bully. GAMESMASTER’S SCREEN: One of Blythy’s clones talks about the game and why we never played it back in the day. OUTRO: Thanks to Patreons and best wishes to Kalum of the Roliste PodcastThe post Episode 19 – Paranoia RPG (with Paul Baldowski) first appeared on The GROGNARD Files.