Drink Spin Run: The RPG Talkshow Podcast

Drink Spin Run S3 E4.2: Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol. 2

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:14:00 -0700

Season Three: The Time-Travel Season

Our Guests
+David Fisher
+James Pozenel

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

David Fisher

Shinobi 27 Games, publisher of such fine products as:

Feast of the Preserver
Trolls of Mistwood
Revelation of Mulmo
Angels, Demons & Beings Between (in print!)

James Pozenel

Serious contributor to the Gongfarmer's Almanac

These guys have a Kickstarter up for Angels, Daemons & Beings Between: Volume II RIGHT EFFING NOW! (Until 10/26. After that, you're on your own.)

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S3 E4.1: David Fisher and James Pozenel

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 3 Oct 2017 19:39:00 -0700

Focus on the bit wolf

Our Guests
+David Fisher
+James Pozenel

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

David Fisher

Shinobi 27 Games, publisher of such fine products as:

Feast of the Preserver
Trolls of Mistwood
Revelation of Mulmo
Angels, Demons & Beings Between (in print!)

James Pozenel

These guys have a Kickstarter up for Angels, Demons & Beings Between: Volume II RIGHT EFFING NOW! (Until 10/26. After that, you're on your own.)

Show Notes

Drink

NutBandit, Oddside Ale, Grand Haven, Michigan
Meester Quadrupel, Brouwerij De Meester, Kruune, Belgium (not Netherlands!)
Founders Porter, Founders Brewery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Unfinished Business, Perrin Brewery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Malted Milk Ball Imperial Porter, Perrin Brewery, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Spin

BITWVLF's cover of Taylor Swift's "Remember Me"
BITWVLF, "Ivory"
Spaceslug, "Mountains & Reminiscence"
Stoned Meadow of Doom
Hobbs & Friends of the OSR
Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack... you know how to find this.
Hawk the Slayer soundtrack
Talking Heads, "77"
Kuedo

Read

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Mote In God's Eye
ER Burroughs, Warlord of Mars
Norman Bogner, Snowman
Jeff Lindsay, Dexter novel series
WS Burroughs, Naked Lunch
NK Jamisin, The Fifth Season
RE Howard, A Devil In Iron
CA Smith, The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection
Oliver Poetzsch, The Hangman's Daughter

Run

Donn's still running DCC, James is one of the players in that game. Running "The Emerald Enchanter."
Adam is running DCC at work and just ran "The Portal Under the Stars." He recommends "The 13th Skull." He's also running Blades In The Dark still, the Murder Gangs of Ur-Hadad! He's also about to start running Uncharted Worlds (PbtA Hard Sci Fi). Vampire, The Dracula, The RPG is happening.
David is also running DCC, mostly funnels for his family.
James has a long-running lunchtime game running... you guessed it... DCC. He also plays in a game run by his kids and is playing "The Abbot In The Woods" with his kids and their cousins.

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S2 E3.2: Investigative Games

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 21:24:00 -0700

It's gotta be a slackwagon.

Our Guests
+Bob Brinkman
+Andrew Shields

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Bob Brinkman

Sanctum Secorum podcast

Andrew Shields

Fictive Fantasies blog

Show Notes

Call of Cthulhu
Adam plugged the company he works for: The Murder Mystery Company
Andrew suggests three levels of "scope" so that the mystery can wrap up into an interesting and satisfying end.
The Three Clue Rule (Justin Alexander, The Alexandrian): when the PCs must know something, sort out three ways to introduce the same information.
Four Points of Failure: Bob thinks it's really two points of failure.
Andrew: "Don't hold on to your mysteries too tightly. There's always a mystery behind it."
Blades In The Dark

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S3 E3.1: Bob and Andrew

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:06:00 -0700

Our Guests
+Bob Brinkman
+Andrew Shields

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Bob Brinkman

Sanctum Secorum podcast

Andrew Shields

Fictive Fantasies blog

Show Notes

Run

Lasers & Feelings becomes Ghostbusters in Andrew's hands
Yoon-Suin + Mad Monks of Kwantoom + Maze Rats (I totally misunderstood this as "Amaze Rats" at first. Oops.)
Cyborg Commando. Turns out, it's playable!
Call of Cthulhu via Mountain Monsters
1e AD&D
Donn wants to run The Emerald Enchanter for his DCC group
Adam explains DWIMMERMARS (OD&D-ified Barsoomian Dwimmermount via Warriors of the Red Planet)
At GaryCon, Adam ran The Revenge of CHUD Strikes Back Again, The Musical, The RPG

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S3 E2.2: Mythoard

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 23 May 2017 20:10:00 -0700

Shut up! Let's keep talking.

Our Guests:

+Jarrod Shaw

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Jarrod Shaw of MYTHOARD!

Show Notes

+Tim Callahan -- friend of the show, all-around awesome guy and author of Age of Undying and Bizarre Tales (mentioned in this episode, a ton of other awesome stuff as well)

Tome of Horrors 4 & Monstrosities by Frog God

Everything Is Dolphins

And lots and lots of +Tim Shorts because daaaaaamn, dude is prolific.

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S3 E2.1

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Sun, 7 May 2017 21:01:00 -0700

In this episode, Adam tears his finger open with pliers. How? Listen and learn, folks.

Our Guests:

+Jarrod Shaw

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Jarrod Shaw of MYTHOARD!

Show Notes

Drink

A dude on a turtle

Jarrod was drinking what sounded like an awful mess that Donn thinks should taste like a peach cobbler

Hop Cocoa, Wicked Weed, Asheville, NC

Nosferatu Imperial Red Ale, Great Lakes Brewing, Cleveland OH

OctoRock Semi-Sweet Cider, Starcut Ciders, Elk Rapids, MI

Spin

Archers of Loaf
Mary Halvorson Octet
Nurgle, Me and That Man
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads

Read

OpenQuest 2
Chaosium's The Hastur Cycle
Mysteries of the Worm, Robert Bloch

Run

Jarrod has been running OpenQuest 2
Modded into "Arena Trent"
Donn ran his DCC campaign
Check out Adam's RuneQuest6 Elder Wilds game [HERE]

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S3 1.2: Mining Childhood and Fairy Tales

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 6 Apr 2017 09:00:00 -0700

Daniel's Cat-in-the-Hat voice is the stuff of nightmares.

Our Guests

+Kiel Chenier
+Daniel Bishop

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Kiel Chenier

Blood in the Chocolate [[Print & PDF]] [[PDF]]
Dungeon & Donuts blog

Daniel Bishop

OMG all this stuff on RPGNow.com [[RIGHT HERE]]
Raven Crowking's Nest blog

Show Notes

+Stacy Dellorfano's Zaya's Promise [[HERE]]
+Harley Stroh's Bride of the Black Manse [[PDF HERE]] [[PRINT HERE]]
+Pearce Shea's In The Woods [[HERE]]

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S3 1.1: Daniel and Kiel

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:46:00 -0700

Adam knows just how full of it he is.

Our Guests

+Kiel Chenier
+Daniel Bishop

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Kiel Chenier

Blood in the Chocolate [[Print & PDF]] [[PDF]]
Dungeon & Donuts blog

Daniel Bishop

OMG all this stuff on RPGNow.com [[RIGHT HERE]]
Raven Crowking's Nest blog

Show Notes

Drink

French Press Vanilla Stout, Double Trouble Brewing Company, Guelph, Ontario
No Rules Vietnamese Porter, Perrin Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
New Crustacean Barleywineish Imperial IPA Sorta, Rogue Brewery, Ashland OR
Verdun Biere de Garde, Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids, MI

Spin

Weedcraft
Spaceslug
Some Podcasts Kiel was listening to: The Comedy Button & Cool Games, Inc.
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, A Tribe Called Quest
Moana soundtrack (seriously Daniel?)
Storybots Super Songs (on Netflix)
The Unexplained podcast

Read

Uzumaki, Junji Ito
The Mucker, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lies of Locke Lamorra, Scott Lynch
The Hastur Cycle

Run

Kiel: Some play tests of Reynaldo Madriñan's 'BREAK!!', also a bunch of D&D 5e.
Daniel: Fire in the Mountain, Frozen in Time, Gnome Jambalaya...5 games at Gary Con!
Donn: Bronze Age DCC!
Adam: Runequest 6!

Drink Spin Run S2 E9.2: Creative Campagin Settings

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:48:00 -0800

Ben and Erik join us to discuss creative campaigns.

Our Guests
+Erik Jensen
+Ben Djarum

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Old School Games Design Panel at UCon

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:41:00 -0800

We recorded the OSR Old School Games Design Panel discussion at Ucon in Ypsilanti, MI. +Adam Muszkiewicz couldn't make it Friday night so +Donn Stroud jumped in at the last minute sans prep, but with the trusty DSR digital recorder.

The Panel:
+Brendan LaSalle
+Stacy Dellorfano
+R.J. Thompson
+Bill Webb

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S2 E12.2: The Mythic Underworld

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 18:59:00 -0800

Drink Spin Run S2 E12.1: Jason Sholtis and Mike Evans

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 18:28:00 -0800

Drink Spin Run S2 E10.2: Inclusion

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:22:00 -0700

Drink Spin Run S2 10.1: Stacy Dellorfano

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 3 Nov 2016 19:35:00 -0700

Yes, Adam might be in a deep, dark cave.

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Pre-Order Your New DSR "Narcolich" T Shirt Now!

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:08:00 -0700

The wait is over! Preorder the new DSR "Narcolich" T Shirt designed by Matt Walters now and start the wait all over again! Either follow this link (http://gum.co/dsrnarco) or use the Gumroad overlay below.

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There will be some small tweaks to this design over the next few days, mostly to add a slightly more legible "DSR" to the bottom of the design and probably our website URL as well.

Let us know what you think! share your comments below, drop us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net or share this link with your friends!

Drink Spin Run S2 E9.1: Erik and Ben

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:54:00 -0700

Something clever goes here

Our Guests
+Erik Jensen
+Ben Djarum

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Erik Jensen

Wampus Country blog
Daydream Tiger Press

Wampus Country Tome 41: Theriospheric Transfigurations

Ben Djarum

Yngarr zine
Codex Apocrypha blog

Show Notes

Drink

Tree Bucket (previously "Trebuchet") Belgian-Inspired Double IPA, Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids, MI
Gosling Ginger Beer + Fireball
Boris the Crusher, Hopping Frog Brewery, Akron, OH
Distorter Porter, Greenbush Brewery, Sawyer, MI

Spin

Amebix radio on Pandora
Windhand
Weird Al
XTC
Loretta Lynn
Hexvessel
Wanda Jackson
Voidcrawler
Mulatu Astatke
Kult of the Wizard
In the Company of Serpents
Odd Future & Tyler, the Creator

Read

Elric series by Michael Moorcock... chronologically
RE Howard (obviously)
WH Pugmire
Savage Sword of Conan
Afghanistan: A Military History, Steven Tanner (Adam couldn't find a link)
Quag Keep, Andre Norton
Well World series, Jack Chalker
Playing At The World, Jon Peterson
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (again)
Yngarr zine
Gongfarmer's Almanac zines
The Night Land, William Hope Hodgson

Run

Donn ran some DCC.
Erik was getting ready to run WAMPUS COUNTRY!
Erik was planning to run Ghost Tower of Inverness using the Marvel Super Heroes RPG at Legacies Game Day.
Ben had run some Into The Odd.
Adam went to GaryCon and only played in two sessions and ran them both. He ran +Pearce Shea's Monster Parts (not to be confused with Monsterhearts) and Torchbearer. Adam's wife Katie ran "MuppetMorphosis Alpha," Metamorphosis Alpha set on the Swine Trek.

Our intro bumps were graciously provided by the one and only +Gabriel Perez Gallardi.

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S2 E7.2: Pushing Boundaries and Innovation

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 10:12:00 -0700

Our Guests
+Alex Mayo
+Chris Kutalik

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Chris Kutalik

Alex Mayo

Layout and illustration for lots of OSR products!
Penetralia blog - No longer available

Show Notes

This is the second half of our conversation with Chris & Alex. The first part (Episode 7.1) aired on 3/24/16.

Talking about pushing boundaries.

Chris messes with form a lot, specifically the point-crawl.

Problem: "Where are these things in the hex?"
Instead of "What's in the hex?" the point-crawl strips out the empty space and instead moves between interesting things.
(Then Adam kind of missed the point and got corrected by Chris)

Alex pushes boundaries in art.

A common thread in this conversation (but that Adam doesn't realize until the end) is that better decisions, better innovations and better gaming happens when we are authentic and genuine to our own thoughts and experiences.

Alex: "One of the things that I love about the OSR is that it's an aesthetic movement as much as a movement about mechanics." [Paraphrase]

"Where is the innovation in the OSR?" was a trolly thread that circulated on G+ in the beginning of 2016. While the folks behind that thread claimed they asked their question in good faith, they promptly shut down many OSR innovators who contributed to the conversation.

Adam: "The innovation & boundary pushing in the OSR isn't about the rules, it's about form, structure and content."

Donn seems to experience a degree of dissonance when he exposes himself to too many rule sets.

Alex: "Boundaries are pushed in the community at large as a hive mind."

Adam: "It's as much incubation as innovation."

Our favorite boundary-pushers:

Alex - James Raggi & Lamentations of the Flame Princess line
Chris - Hydra Coop stuff, especially Jason Sholtis's Operation Unfathomable, and Patrick Stewart & Scrap Princess's Broken Fire Regime
Donn - Zzarchov Kowalski's Scenic Dunnsmouth & Thulian Echoes
Adam - Jason Lutes's Perilous Wilds, Zak S.'s Red & Pleasant Land and Vornheim

Who are we most excited about their next creation?

Alex - Zzarchov Kowalski
Chris - Gus L. (not sure how he spells his last name)
Donn - Mike Evans (specifically Hubris)
Adam - Erik Jensen (Wampus Country forever!)

DSR Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Coverage Preview

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:05:00 -0700

There, fixed it. Happy?

Last year, DSR was asked to host a show for Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day, an awesome event organized by blogger, friend of the show and all-around great guy +R.J. Thompson. This year, we're doing it again but, in true DSR style, we're going bigger!

Guest host +R.J. Thompson
Special guests

+James Spahn, the mind behind Barrel Rider Games
+Stacy Dellorfano, director of the next edition of S&W Complete
+Matt Finch, creator of Swords & Wizardry, Mythmere himself!

Prizes and giveaways!

For our part, Donn & Adam promise to not be too drunk to run the show! Follow the link below to the G+ Hangout On Air event or head to http://twitch.tv/dsrcast on Sunday, April 17th @ 8p EDT to tune in to the show!

Drink Spin Run S2 E8.2: RPGs and Technology

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:12:00 -0700

Adam feels better about being liked by Wayne than he feels about liking Wayne in the first place

Our Guests
+Dan Sandberg
+Wayne Snyder

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Dan Sandberg

Atom Switch, Inc.
Infinitas DM on Kickstarter now! (Adam screwed up the order of the terms "DM" and "Infinitas")

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomswitch/infinitas-dm?ref=nav_search

Wayne Snyder

Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad zine
More independent gaming projects than I can remember

Show Notes

Roll20.net
Donn doesn't like online gaming because he feels like he has to spend too much time setting these up.
Online gaming tools have to support on-the-fly gaming and improv style
Adam preemptively makes useful macros & conflict maps/mats to improv conflicts

Adam's Torchbearer conflict map

Drawing in Roll20 sucks
Wayne uses Twiddla in hangouts instead

Infinitas DM + a big screen TV laid down with a sheet of acrylic over top = Dan's ideal gaming set up (and Adam plans on making it happen)

Make the things you need for your game, share the things you make. Basic DIY ethics.

None of us had used Fantasy Grounds or MapTool or any of the other Roll20 alternatives, Dan has reservations about complete rule integration in Fantasy Grounds. Adam doesn't appreciate the $$$ barrier to entry.

Crawler's Companion for DCC RPG by Purple Sorcerer Games

ACKS treasure generator on Autarch's website: http://autarch.co/treasure

Mega.co.nz

Wayne & Donn are curmudgeonly about pdfs. Everyone prefers books.

Wayne talked about random generator websites:

Wizardawn
Adam mentioned Abulafia
Rememberdismove http://henrycjc.com/rememberdismove/dungeon.cgi?rooms=10
Last Gasp Grimoire
VHS Title Generator http://www.memento-mori.com/vhs/

Donn brought up 3D printing for minis

Shapeways

HeroForge (but actual minis are cheaper)

Adam talked about 3D modelling with Google SketchUp

Donn says that using music in games is good at the beginning of sessions, but can be ignored as you start to get into stuff (his Sound Cloud stuff can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/pollyworg )
Adam mentioned TableTopAudio.com
Music was a point of contention
DMDJ app

Obviously, Google Drive is a thing
Adam has been using his iPad a lot
Trello app for smart stuff (hierarchical note storing, can add pictures!)
Obsidian Portal (Adam's OP page: https://fromkickassistan.obsidianportal.com/)

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S2 E8.1: Wayne and Dan

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 5 Apr 2016 20:41:00 -0700

Let's learn about North Kovacistani customs

Our Guests
+Dan Sandberg
+Wayne Snyder

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Dan Sandberg

Atom Switch, Inc.
Infinitas DM on Kickstarter now! (Adam screwed up the order of the terms "DM" and "Infinitas")

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomswitch/infinitas-dm?ref=nav_search

Wayne Snyder

Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad zine
More independent gaming projects than I can remember

Show Notes

Drink

Trois Pistoles, Unibroue, Chambly, Quebec
Curmudgeon Old Ale, Founders Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout, North Coast Brewing, Fort Bragg, CA
Fat Tire, New Belgium Brewery, Fort Collins, CO
Jackhammer Old Ale, Arbor Brewing Company, Ann Arbor, MI (Adam managed to pawn off the rest of his Jackhammer on his ACKS group this past Sunday)

Spin

Disenchanter
Yidhra, "Hexed"
Black Pyramid
Blind Guardian
Grave Digger
Jag Panzer
Frederico Durand (?)
Biosphere
Blue Snaggletooth, "Beyond Thule"
Electric Wizard
Dead Games Society's GaryCon Podcast Panel Podcast

Read

Lord of the Rings appendices
CA Smith, The End of the Story
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The Troll King Trilogy, John Vornholt
Playing At The World, Jon Peterson
Peril on the Purple Planet Boxed Set

Run

Wayne has taken over the reins of the Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad campaign
Dan was playing D&D 4e
Apes Victorious is on its way from Goblinoid Games
Adam has been running Torchbearer and will run it as part of the "DSR Actually Plays" series of livestreams on 4/10/16 & 4/24/16
RuneQuest 6

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S2 E7.1: Chris and Alex

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:04:00 -0700

Something clever goes here

Our Guests
+Alex Mayo

+Chris Kutalik

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Chris Kutalik

Alex Mayo

Layout and illustration for lots of OSR products!
Penetralia blog - No longer available

Show Notes

Drink

Scallywagger, Oddside Ales, Grand Haven, Mi
Grapefruit Sculpin, Ballast Point, San Diego, CA
Heavyweight Zinfandel, Scotto Cellars, Walnut Creek, CA
Bean Flicker, Oddside Ales, Grand Haven, MI

Spin

Kylesa
[Adam couldn't figure out the band that Chris mentioned. If you know what it was, let us know!]
Low & Beck got a little depressing for Katie
Old time radio shows on Spotify

Read

Tunnels of Chuchi [Adam couldn't find a link to this book]
World War Z, Max Brooks
An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
Matt Fraction Hawkeye collected hardback
The Complete Guide to Making Mead, Steve Piatz
Kill the Dead, Tannith Lee
The Mushroom Handbook, Louis Charles Christopher Krieger

Run

Mutant Year Zero
Hill Cantons
DCC RPG
Dungeon of the Unknown, Geoffrey McKinney
Random Esoteric Creature Generator blah blah blah
Tome of Adventure Design
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
Bad Myrmidon, Rafael Chandler
Donn STILL needs to design his minis rules!

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. If you like what you've heard, share us with your friends, leave us an iTunes review or send us an email at dsr@kickassistan.net. You can also support us at http://www.patreon.com/DSRCast. Our theme music was generously provided by the band Blue Snaggletooth (http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com). Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Drink Spin Run S2 E6: Adam and Donn

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 3 Mar 2016 08:43:00 -0800

We could suck a little less.

Our Guests
... couldn't make it, so Donn & Adam recorded anyway

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

Drink (4:35)

Twisted Cain, Short's Brewery, Bellaire, MI
Zhatfig Ghastly Pale Stout, Dark Horse special release, Marshall, MI

Spin (9:40)

Sweet, "Action"

Mud
Brian Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Bohren & Der Club of Gore
Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble
Bowie, "Bewlay Brothers"

Motorhead, "Burner"

Read (19:00)

House on the Borderland, WH Hodgson
The Wendigo, Algernon Blackwood

Run (30:20)

Dungeon as mythic underworld
DCC RPG: are the modules railroads?
5e Ravenloft
5e Greyhawk
Dark Sun
Frostgrave
Adam talks about Kings of War but means Wrath of Kings

Other Stuff (49:00)

Donn's going to write minis rules, Adam will pay him $5 for it
Can players spend too much planning at the table?

Donn: No way! Whatever the players are having fun with is cool, also good for the DM to use that time to do stuff on his side of the screen.
Adam: Usually no, but if they do, give them something to react to.

Miniatures digression

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Drink Spin Run S2 E4.2: The Weird

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:51:00 -0800

I'll do my Donn voice. "Hi, I'm Donn."

Our Guest
+Clint Krause

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Red Moon Medicine Show

Vacant Ritual Assembly zine
Don't Walk in Winter Wood
Stygian Garden of Abelia Prem
Driftwood Verses (upcoming)

Show Notes

Clint talks a bit about his Driftwood Verses supplement (1:42)
Adam makes up a definition of Weird Horror (4:30)
Clint: You can't force creepy, it happens on its own (8:50)
Adam: dissonance between player agency and terror (12:00)
Clint: build up and absence of a creature (Hitchcock effect?) (13:00)
Donn: the unknown! (16:00)
Adam: the seductive allure of the unknown (17:50)
Donn: ghosts! Give 'em stuff they can't fight! (19:10)
Clint: Keep players wondering (20:23)
Donn still hates Adam's Senior Sugarskull (21:25)
Clint: what's mechanical, what's scenery? (23:00)
Clint is prep-heavy. Donn finally has an ally.
Adam: ever good GM has a moment of self-doubt right before a game starts (26:00)
Clint & Donn: prep makes a session real for the GM (26:30)
Adam: communicating a feeling is more important than communicating a fact (28:20)
Donn takes over (30:43)
Adam talks about reality & phenomena again (35:00)
Donn: immersion means presenting things to the characters rather than the players (39:00)
Clint: if everything's weird, nothing is; mundane stuff creates essential contrast (41:00)
Adam: when you name a thing, it ceases to be unknown (45:40)
Clint makes Adam's points coherent (48:00)
The Third Rail: Is The "Quantum Clue" worth the loss of failure?
Clint: No. The chance of failure is a small issue.
Donn: Has never played either.
Adam: It's complicated. It solves a problem that isn't one. Rather, its answer is more useful for everything other than the question that it attempts to answer.

Mythoard is awesome. You should do it. (Not a paid advertisement) http://www.mythoard.com

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Drink Spin Run S2 E4.1: Clint Krause

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:35:00 -0800

"We can play it as hard as you want"

Our Guest
+Clint Krause

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Red Moon Medicine Show

Vacant Ritual Assembly zine
Don't Walk in Winter Wood
Stygian Garden of Abelia Prem
Driftwood Verses (upcoming)

Show Notes

Drink (2:02)

Remnant of Dragon Imperial Red IPA, Greenbush Brewing Co., Sawyer MI

Clint was boring and drank coffee, but I wish we had a picture of his dragon mug he got from a 1996 Ren Faire

Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Great Lakes Brewing, Cleveland, OH

Spin (7:00)

Hexvessel
Tech N9ne
Kasey Chambers
Black Blight
Voidcrawler by the awesome +Ben Djarum
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
Adam's Spotify playlist based on MWWB's Top Ten Metal Albums
Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa
Seu Jorge, "Life Aquatic Studio Sessions"
Danzig II: Lucifuge

Read (16:44)

"Jade Man's Eyes," Michael Moorcock
Man & His Symbols, Karl Jung (has nothing to do with cymbals)
Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron, Ronald Utt
Oak Island Quest, William Crooker
Sinister Stone of Sakkara, Michael Skail

Run (22:30)

Adam was running the DSR Actual Play of Beyond the Wall from Flatland Games
Clint runs two Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy campaigns
Whispering Vault! POD on Lulu.com
Donn was playing 5e (note that this episode was recorded before Donn started his new DCC game)
Adam dislikes the Underdark so much it makes him say things he wish he hadn't said

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Drink Spin Run S2 E3.2: Favorite Mechanics in RPGs

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:35:00 -0800

Donn only talks on a fumble

Our Guests
+Noah Stevens
+Tim Callahan

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Tim Callahan - the man, the myth, the legend

HNIC of Moon Dice Games

Noah Stevens

Hounds of Halthrag Keep

Show Notes

Donn & Adam would like to apologize for the crappy quality of the audio on this episode. Long story.

Donn loves dice.

Tim's most stolen mechanic: from Questlandia - put narrative spaces on index cards, then have the players determine how they connect.

Adam steals -- from King of Dragon Pass -- a mechanism for defining a group of people based on the myths they tell themselves

Noah -- from Adventures in Oz -- conflict doesn't need to be deadly. The focus on murder is problematic as a dad. Why all the death?

Noah -- from Gangbusters -- non-cooperative narrative? Characters not working toward the same ends.

Adam hates rewarding players for rolling well (this happens in many old school games in their original form; players are already rewarded for rolling well by succeeding).

Adam steals dice success distributions from HeroQuest. The good one, not the RPG.

Noah & Adam both use lots of ApocalypseWorld-inspired dice mechanics.

Donn uses reaction rolls all the time. Adam suggests you pay attention to the one Jobe Bittman put in the Monster Alphabet.

Adam suggests "Jaquaying" dungeons.

Then it got all murky.

DungeonWorld instincts are cool.

Tim -- Marvel Superheroes -- award characters in-game benefits for enacting character motivations/beliefs/etc.

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Drink Spin Run S2 E3.1: Noah and Tim

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:09:00 -0800

This episode spends most of its time under the dumpster.

Our Guests
+Noah Stevens
+Tim Callahan

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Tim Callahan - the man, the myth, the legend

HNIC of Moon Dice Games

Noah Stevens

Hounds of Halthrag Keep

Donn & Adam had a great time at U Con Gaming Convention in Ypsilanti, MI

Show Notes

Drink

Naughty Belgian Style Dark Ale, Flying Dog Brewing, Frederick, MD
Tim didn't drink... again
Willpower Artisanal Pale Ale, Right Brain Brewery, Traverse City, MI (Scroll waaaaaay down)
Dark Penance Imperial Black IPA, Founders Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Nosferatu, Great Lakes Brewery, Cleveland, OH
WaterKeeper Catch & Release Seasonal Ale Hefeweizen, SweetWater Brewing, Atlanta, GA

Spin

Handel's Messiah
Sanctum Secorum Podcast with our friends +Jen Brinkman, +Bob Brinkman & +David Baity
Noah has been inundated with Mary Poppins due to his kids
The Great Old Ones, "Tekeli-Li"
Adam gushes about the Warsaw Village Band (Kapela ze wsi Warszawa)
Brownout, "Brown Sabbath"
Sulfur Aeon, "Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide"

Read

Hounds of Halthrag Keep, Noah Stevens (you know, that guy in this episode)
Sailor on Seas of Fate, Michael Moorcock
Graymantle, John Morressy
Empire of the Imagination, Michael Witwer
Gilliamesqe, Terry Gilliam (memoir)
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Glass Hammer, KW Jeter
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Run

Noah had a good time at Trident Con, running Into the Odd and playing in Black Powder, Black Magic and a bunch of other stuff including +Reynaldo Madriñan's Break!
Castle Gargantua
Barrowmaze/Black Powder Black Magic mashup
Tim: still running FFG EotE, campaign and a 5-hour block at a 24 hr game-a-thon
DCC for 6-7 graders (mostly girls) who are mostly Minecraft-generation kids
5e was-Forgotten-Realms (until it bored Tim, so, like five minutes) via Punjar and Goodman Games 4e stuff mixed with Renaissance (and Northern Renaissance) Christianity through the lens of a non-Christian
Adam ran the DSR Actual Play of Beyond the Wall in December (done already! Watch for links to the show soon!). Other systems in the hopper: Paranoia, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, Dungeon World, Torchbearer and more!
Adam & Donn were at U Con the weekend before we recorded this episode
Adam ran "A Night In Ur-Hadad" via DCC RPG (improvised session & emergent characters!); 007 James Bond RPG (too much fun!); "Quasquetherion" via Delving Deeper with tons of fun folks! Adam also played in +Bill Webb's "Character Killing Session" on Thursday night (an unofficial event)
Donn hung out at U Con, mostly, and didn't play much.
Above & Below
Donn was playing 5e with +Jason Hobbs as DM

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Drink Spin Run S2 E5.2: This Old Module

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:46:00 -0800

Your new in-joke: "the Vampire's wife."

Our Guests
+Nathan Panke
+Stan Shinn

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Stan & Nathan are part of the creative team behind Rogue Comet Games (http://roguecomet.com/)

Rogue Comet is currently Kickstarting their "Dungeonesque: World of Redmark" line of adventures at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stanshinn/dungeonesque-world-of-redmark-5e-adventures-and-ma

Show Notes

We Play "This Old Module"

Here's the premise:

Adam picks a module from a stack of classic TSR modules
Each panelist picks three ways in which they would do one of the following:

Update it
Improve it
Make it your own

The Modules In Play

What would you do with these modules? Send us your three things and we'll try to post them on the website soon. We might even broadcast them!

Episode S2E05.1: Stan & Nathan

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:41:00 -0800

Continuity be damned!

Our Guests
+Nathan Panke
+Stan Shinn

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Stan & Nathan are part of the creative team behind Rogue Comet Games (http://roguecomet.com/)

Rogue Comet is currently Kickstarting their "Dungeonesque: World of Redmark" line of adventures at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stanshinn/dungeonesque-world-of-redmark-5e-adventures-and-ma

Show Notes

Drink

Oarsman Ale, Bell's Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI
Snow Roller Hoppy Brown Ale, Magic Hat Brewery,South Burlington, VT
Dirty Bastard, Founders Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Cast Iron Oatmeal Brown, Four Hands Brewery, St. Louis, MO
Chocolate Milk Stout, Four Hands Brewery, St. Louis, MO
Tasmanian IPA, Schlafly, St. Louis, MO

Spin

The "Berlin Period"

David Bowie

"Low"
"Heroes"
"Lodger"

Iggy Pop

"The Idiot"

Brian Eno

"Before And After Science"

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Soundtack
Glam rock Christmas music!

Downfall of Nur, "Umbras de Barbagia"
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Snarky Puppy

Read

Weird of the White Wolf, Michael Moorcock
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Alan Dean Foster (!!!)
Leviathan Wakes, James SA Corey
Nathan was listening to audiobooks of the following:

Shattered Sea Trilogy, Joe Abercrombie
The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King
American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Run

Stan's been running a lot of games, including:

An Apocalypse World game based on Rush's album "2112"
Star Wars via Savage Worlds
Classic Traveller
5e D&D (where the KS came from)

Adam just got done running Beyond the Wall for the DSR Actual Play Live Stream and is gearing up to run Paranoia 2e in January!

Episode S2E2.2: DIY Gaming

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:33:00 -0800

Let's all talk about why the mainstream sucks together

Our Guests
+Mike Evans
+Ripley Stonebrook

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Mike Evans

Blogs at https://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/
Creator of the Hubris Campaign Setting for the DCC RPG

At the time this was recorded, Hubris was on Kickstarter. The Kickstarter was very successful and in a few months, we should have more info to share on it!

Ripley Stonebrook

Creator of the Lair of Sword & Sorcery zine, game & blog found here: http://lairofswordandsorcery.blogspot.com/

Show Notes

Donn was eating a pawpaw
Yoon-Suin by David McGrogan (art by Matthew Adams)
Adam has some serious opinions of Numenera
Another shout out to David McGrogan and his blog Monsters & Manuals
Scrap Princess and Monster Manual Sewn From Pants
We talk about Zak Smith a bit
Trey Causey & Strange Stars
Warband
Inquisimunda
WhiteHack
Delving Deeper
Zzarchov Kowalski's Scenic Dunsmouth and Thulian Echoes

Third Rail

What's the worst thing to come out of mainstream gaming in the last decade?

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Drink Spin Run S2 E2.1: Mike and Ripley

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:49:00 -0800

"Sternum" isn't a dirty word... yet.

Our Guests
+Mike Evans
+Ripley Stonebrook

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Mike Evans

Blogs at https://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/
Creator of the Hubris Campaign Setting for the DCC RPG

At the time this was recorded, Hubris was on Kickstarter. The Kickstarter was very successful and in a few months, we should have more info to share on it!

Ripley Stonebrook

Creator of the Lair of Sword & Sorcery zine, game & blog found here: http://lairofswordandsorcery.blogspot.com/

Show Notes

Drink

Dr. Thirty's Blonde, Wychwood Brewing, Oxfordshire, UK
Mike was unapologetically drinking PBR
Maple Bourbon Barrel Black Beer, Dark Horse, Marhsall, MI
Bell's Best Brown, Bell's Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI

Spin

Ghost BC, Meliora
Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
Nazareth
Uriah Heap
Jethro Tull
The Dead Weather, Dodge And Burn
KMFDM
Carrie Nation & the Speakeasy
Soggy Bog of Doom is on Mixcloud!
Kings Go Forth, "One Day"
Warsaw Village Band, "Nord" -- Not at all like Wardruna, but hey
The Sorcerers, s/t

Read

Hellboy In Hell, Mike Mignola
Copperhead, Jay Faerber
Fear Agent, Rick Remender
White Star, James Spahn
Strange Stars, Trey Causey
Wyatt Earp Speaks, Wyatt Earp & John Richard Stevens
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Filth, Irvine Welsh
A Red & Pleasant Land, Zak S.
Death Frost Doom, Zak S & James Raggi
WhiteHack, Christian Mehrstram
Perilous Wilds, Jason Lutes
Saga/Hellblazer/Fire Upon the Deep (see last episode)

Run

+Jason Hobbs ran 5e for Donn
(Donn never ended up running DCC for that Saturday night group)
Ripley is running LoSS on Roll20.net!
Mike enjoyed running Beyond the Wall by Flatland Games (Adam ran this as our first Actual Play session of the season!)
Adam was about to start running Metamorphosis Alpha 1e, running +Jobe Bittman's module "Death Ziggurat In Zero G"

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Episode S2E01.2: Self-Publishing

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:00:00 -0800

Stanley is this episode's Waldo.

Our Guests
+Tim Callahan
+Stephen Newton

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Tim Callahan

Moon Dice Games & Crawljammer

Stephen Newton

Thick Skull Adventures

Show Notes

(If you listen closely, you can hear Adam's baby Stanley making cute little sounds throughout the episode.)

Stephen expressed what pretty much is the best KS advice: "Don't ask for money until it's at least 90% done."

More from Stephen:

"...[W]rite the thing, outline the story..."
Figure out the channels (Print? Pdf?)

Later on, Stephen says that you should get into print even if it's Print On Demand

POD means you don't have to do any warehousing/fulfillment/handling distributors
POD also makes it easier for overseas shipping customers

What's your format? (Letter? "Digest?" - "digest" size is really half-letter)

Adam adds: "your audience isn't everyone"

Adam wants to see print/pdf bundles to work the opposite way that they work now: if you buy the PDF, you should get a discount on the print product.

[Note: "One Bookshelf" or "OBS" is the company that owns & operates the websites RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. Most of the panel members use these terms interchangeably because they are.]

One of Adam's reasons for self-publishing is that he wanted to continue to own his work. Most publishers own the work that is produced under contract.

LIGHTNING ROUND: The panel all agrees that if you buy something in print, you should get it in pdf for free. If you can think of a way to make this happen, let us know your strategies!

Episode S2E01.1: Tim & Stephen

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:21:00 -0800

We start as werewolves, and we turn into more impressive werewolves like Altered Beast.

Our Guests

+Tim Callahan
+Stephen Newton

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Donn now works at Unity Vibration Brewery
Adam had a baby named Stanley back in July
Tim is still the Crawljammer & Moon Dice Games guy
Stephen is still the Thick Skull Adventures guy

Show Notes

Drink

Stephen didn't bring any drinks to his office for some reason
Whistlepig Rye
Snozzberries IPA with Cherries, Oddside Ales, Grand Haven, MI
Warlock Pumpkin Imperial Stout, Southern Tier Brewing, Lakewood, NY
Bellaire Brown, Short's Brewing, Bellaire, MI
Adam visited Brewery Vivant in Grand Rapids, MI - not just great beer, great food, too.
Tim was actually drinking this time, but it was Kahlua, so he was taking it easy

Spin

The Sword, High Country
Depeche Mode got yanked at Tim's hipster wedding
Yuggoth Records

Anechoic, Leng Jin

John Carpenter, Lost Themes

Read

Adam was cheating, listening to CA Smith
Jack Vance Treasury (can't find a current link to the Gumroad page)

Adam loved "the Dragonmasters"

Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels
Vernor Vinge, Fire Upon the Deep
Hellblazer vol. I
Saga
Jack Vance, Demon Princes novels

Sadly formulaic

William Gibson, Neuromancer
Michael DeForge, Lose
Chuck Forseman, Revenger
Donn's re-reading DCC, wishing he was reading White Star
Stephen is re-reading his old TSR modules from back in the day
Tim was getting into the FFG Star Wars games & tried to read Forgotten Realms but it sucked (even the 1e stuff)
Adam tried to read Shadows of Esteren and was bored to tears
Adam also got really into +Nathan Paoletta's World Wide Wrestling and +Clint Krause's Don't Walk In The Winter Wood

Run

Tim ran

+Jeff Talanian's Rats in the Walls in AD&D 1e
5e D&D, running +Harley Stroh's 4e Punjar modules from Goodman games
FFG's Star Wars RPGs

Stephen has been writing a bunch of stuff for DCC and playtesting it
Donn made a bunch of excuses for not gaming
Adam started running Metamorphosis Alpha 1e

Episode 15.2: MONSTERS!

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Wed, 1 Jul 2015 13:20:00 -0700

Drink Spin Run... that kind of podcast

Our Guests
+Jobe Bittman
+James Raggi

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

+Jobe Bittman

Has written for

Dungeon Crawl Classics
Metamorhposis Alpha
D&D 5e
Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Host of Spellburn! podcast
Renaissance asshole

+James Raggi

Writer/publisher of the Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy RPG

Lots of top tier adventures!

Grinding Gear
Death Frost Doom (original!)
Weird New World

Writer of the Random Esoteric Creature Generator For Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and Their Modern Simulacra

Show Notes

Yes, we are officially on between-season break. We'll resume recording in September, but are thinking about doing some Actual Play podcast in the intervening months.

+D.j. Chadwick, +Mike Evans, we're looking at you
Jobe is hoping for Metamorphosis Alpha, but won't run it for us

"Random Esoteric Creature Generator For Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and Their Modern Simulacra" is like a Tribe Called Quest, you've got to say the whole thing
Favorite Monster Books

James - Fire on the Velvet Horizon by Patrick Stewart & Scrap Princess
Jobe -

Field Guide to Encounters - Judges Guild
Fiend Folio - TSR

Adam - honorable mention for Chaosium's All The Worlds' Monsters book
Donn - Lusus Naturae - Raphael Chandler & Gennifer Bone

Then we talked a whole lot of crap. Listen to it.
We didn't end up making a monster, but we did discover the Jobe Bittman/Joe Rogan "A Florida man..." monster generation method.

For monster ideas, click here: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=florida+man

Jobe's daughters did a good job of listing all of Jobe's special abilities

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Episode 15.1: Jobe & James

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:50:00 -0700

What's at the end of Jobe's rainbow? Listen to find out.

Our Guests
+Jobe Bittman
+James Raggi

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

+Jobe Bittman

Has written for

Dungeon Crawl Classics
Metamorhposis Alpha
D&D 5e
Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Host of Spellburn! podcast
Renaissance asshole

+James Raggi

Writer/publisher of the Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy RPG

Lots of top tier adventures!

Grinding Gear
Death Frost Doom (original!)
Weird New World

Writer of the Random Esoteric Creature Generator For Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and Their Modern Simulacra

Show Notes

Drink

Curmudgeon Old Ale, Founder's Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Legal, Marijuana soda
Finnish farm-fresh skim milk... no joke. It was 4am in Finland
Dragon's Milk, New Holland Brewery, Holland, MI
Coconut Brown, Black Rocks Brewery, Marquette, MI

Spin

Blood Ceremony, "the Eldritch Dark"
Cradle of Filth, "Cruelty and the Beast"
Danzing, s/t
The Exploding Eyes Orchestra
Television, "Marquee Moon"
Rocket From the Crypt
Minor Threat
Black Flag
Bad Brains

Read

James was reading the 99 monster entries sent in for the LotFP monster contest
Yoon-Suin, David McGrogan
Lusus Naturae, Rafael Chandler & Gennifer Bone
Playing at the World, Jon Peterson
The Grand Medieval Bestiary (Adam spells it "b-e-est")
Snow White & Russian Red, Dorota Maslowska
Skyrealms of Jorune RPG (Adam incorrectly identified his recent purchase as 1e, but it's 2e)

Run

Jobe is playing 5e
Macho Women With Guns
Free RPG Day
Fanfare Games, Kalamazoo, MI

Episode 14.2: Urban Campaigns & the Citycrawl

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:47:00 -0700

The Day the Wizards Took Over

Our Guest
+Harley Stroh

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

"I can say any rap lyric by replacing any objectionable terms with the word 'wizard.'"

Vornheim - Zak S.
Middenheim - Jeff Russell
Last Gasp Grimoire - Logan Knight
City State of the Invincible Overlord - beautiful, but less useful
City of Carse
Medieval Demographics Made Easy
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Yoon-Suin - David McGrogan

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Episode 14.1: Harley

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:33:00 -0700

The episode where Harley takes over the show.

Our Guest
+Harley Stroh

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

Drink

Hornitos Tequila
Tyskie Gronie, Kompania Piwowarska, Poznan, Poland
Maibock, Atwater Brewing, Detroit, MI
Project Mayhem, Oddside Ales, Grand Haven, MI

Spin

Jurassic 5
Mustard Plug
Skankin' Pickle
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
MF Doom - Mm... Food
Wardruna
Sabbath Assembly
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
The Lord Weird Slough Feg

Read

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott
Shadow Games, Glen Cook
Forever War, Joe Haldeman
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Robert Heinlein
Armor, John Steakly
Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe

Run

Donn's is playing White Star by friend-of-the-show, +James Spahn
The Nova Scream zine for White Star by Donn & Adam is coming out soon
Adam's been sharpening his improv skills with DCC RPG at the bar

Shout Outs

+Noah Stevens - Tried to be our correspondent for WayneCon
+Tim Callahan - Just because
+Timothy Stone - For the Night Gaunt Rye Stout at WayneCon

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Episode 13: Adam & Donn

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 29 May 2015 12:45:00 -0700

Shout outs, drinks, books, more drinks and what folks won't let us play.

Our Guests
Don't exist

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

Shout Outs

+Noah Stevens & Greg Heany for show topics!
Props to +Gaming and BS! Great show, guys.

Drink

Space Rock American IPA, Shorts Brewery, Bellaire, MI
Undertaker Belgian Style Dark Ale, Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids, MI

Spin

WCBN - 88.3 - University of Michigan's college radio station
WIDR - 89.1 - Western Michigan University's college radio station
Mogwai, Rock Action
Hombre Lobo's "Howls From the Veil" Lamentations of the Flame Princess playlist
Ancient Warlocks, "Super Wizard"
Wardruna is amazing gaming music
BOLT THROWER!
Botch - the hardcore band with a sense of humor

Read

Shadow Games, Glenn Cook
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
The Incal, Allejandro Jodorowski & Moebius

Run

Donn might be running some White Star soon
Adam & Donn are working on Nova Scream, a zine for White Star
Adam's Iron Coast ACKS campaign is getting ready to use the Domains At War mass-combat system
Red Box Miniatures - classic Citadel if classic Citadel was even better
Osprey Publishing has been making wargames and they're pretty exciting.

Games We Want To Play And Haven't Had The Chance

Donn really wants to play

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play 1e (Adam does, too, really)
Dying Earth - Vancian fantasy at its finest!
Torchbearer - Adam & Donn want to play this, have no idea how to run it

Adam's Top 3 4:

Talislanta!
Skyrealms of Jorune
Empire of the Petal Throne

Shout out to +James Maliszewski & his zine "The Excellent Travelling Volume"

Doctor Who: Adventures In Time & Space - but Adam has some reservations

Games We Can't Get Anyone To Play With Us

Wraith: the Oblivion - One of Adam's favorites from the dark age that was the 90's
Donn's just pickier about the groups he plays with, they'll just trust him to run whatever

DSR Actual Play: DSR Learns the HERO System!

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 21 May 2015 19:33:00 -0700

Ignoring this episode causes extra Body damage.

Our GM
+Shane Harsch

Players
+Jason Hobbs
+Donn Stroud
+Adam Muszkiewicz

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Episode 12.2: Our Favorite Published Campaign Settings

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 14 May 2015 15:53:00 -0700

Donn is not younger than Adam. It's a fact.

Our Guests
+Mark Donkers
+Roy Snyder

Show Notes after the Jump

Show Notes

First Loves

Dark Sun - Roy
Palladium Multiverse - Roy
Greyhawk - Mark
Forgotten Realms - Donn
Dragonlance - Adam

Current Favorites

Warhammer FRP's Old World (more from the 1e rpg materials, less from the WHFB)
WH40k Rogue Trader-era universe
Lankhmar - Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser for life!
Thieves' World - all urban adventure!
(Mark gives some love to Adam's Ur-Hadad)
Hyborian Age - world of Conans!
Al-Qadim - world of Aladdins!
Aereth - Goodman Games' default setting
Aihrde - Troll Lord Games' default setting
Spelljammer - Adam still loves it
Earth Dawn - not just fantasy Shadowrun, it's a post-supernatural-horror-apocalypse fantasy from the folks who brought you Shadowrun
East Mark - From Adventures in the East Mark

What Do We Change to Make a Setting Our Own?

Donn - Races. De-Tolkein-ify them.

Adam - Aesthetic. Then I only change things that get us there.
Roy - Sandbox or railroad? Then, what sort of rules changes are implied by the setting?

Third Rail of Gaming: Race-and-Class or Race-as-Class?

Episode 12.1: Mark & Roy

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 8 May 2015 13:46:00 -0700

Twelve feet long and highly mobile.

Our Guests
+Mark Donkers
+Roy Snyder

Show Notes after the Jump

Show Notes

Drink

Farm Hand French-Style Farmhouse Ale, Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids, MI

500 BC Double IPA, Humboldt Brewing Co.
Drew & Steve's Imperial Mutt Brown Ale, Stone Brewing Co, Escondido, CA

The Cherry Business, Cherry Mead - Mark made it

Necromangocon, B. Nektar, Ferndale, MI

Zombie Killer, B. Nektar, Ferndale, MI

Dwarf Invasion, B. Nektar, Ferndale, MI

Sinister Vertigo Imperial Stout, Oddside Ale, Grand Haven, MI

Spin

A Year Of No Light, "Nord"

Faith No More, "Angel Dust"

Mr. Bungle, "Disco Volante"

Fantomas

Witchcraft

Blood Ceremony

Creedence Clearwater Revival (Do I have to provide links for this stuff? Is this not day one material?)

The Books

Read

Frederic Brown short stories

Morrow Project 4e

David Eddings, The Belgariad

Glen Cook, the White Rose

Run

More from the Donk about Morrow Project
Adventures in the East Mark
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
Castles & Crusades RPG
The Drink Spin Run Monthly Mini Non-Competition!
Join Donn & Adam every month as we paint a different mini together! We'll share our work along with those submitted by you gorgeous listeners!
This month's mini is Reaper's Toghra the Destroyer, Gnoll Warlord

Buy it here! (aff)

DSR Special Coverage: Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:43:00 -0700

Our Guests:
+R.J. Thompson of Gamers & Grognards
+James Spahn of Barrel Rider Games
+Bill Webb of Frog God Games

Show Notes

Frog God Games
Barrel Rider Games
Mythmere Games

Ryan's Master List of SWApDay posts

Open Gaming Store - Goldenrod Guides: A Guide To Swords & Wizardry Combat

Ignore all sales information! By the time this show is live, they've been over for over a week!

Adam's posts on Dispatches from Kickassistan

James had released White Box Demihumans

Ruins & Ronin

Crypts & Things

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

Backswords & Bucklers

Space Yeast?

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

DSR 11.2: The Friendly Local Gaming Store

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:55:00 -0700

Friendly? Local? Gaming? All of the above, please.

Our Guests
+Nathan Panke
+Todd Bunn

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Todd Bunn

Gateway Games & More

Show Notes

Todd mentioned some posts from Adam's blog, Dispatches From Kickassistan

Fantasy Shop, St. Louis
Adam can't find any online details about the old MAGI gaming club in Elkhart, IN
Vault of Midnight, Ann Arbor, MI
Vallejo Paints List Android App
Todd's niche: the stuff that the other folks don't do.

"The only way you can sell the independent or obscure stuff is if you know something about it."

Todd's Recipe For Success:

Listen to your customers and pay attention.
Give them a reason to want to be loyal to you.
Be passionate about what you're doing.

RetroN
HoL - Human Occupied Landfill(aff)

Supplement: BUTTery wHOLesomeness(aff)

Tabletop Game & Hobby, Kansas City
Adam thinks that an RPG resurgence will follow the current tabletop revival

Todd says there's a retro-wave, but not a full-on resurgence
"We're in the classic rock period for RPGs." - Todd "[But] RPGs will never be the top of the heap again."
Donn thinks it's just boardgames and doesn't expect an RPG boom

Episode 11.1: Todd & Nathan

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:03:00 -0700

Todd & Nathan are a Gateway drug.

Our Guests
+Nathan Panke
+Todd Bunn

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Todd Bunn

Gateway Games & More

Show Notes

Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day 2015 - DSR Live Stream!

Drink

Dark Penance, Founders Brewery, Grand Rapids MI
Flat Branch Brewery
Quasar Dank, Short's Brewery, Bellaire MI
Donn is much better at knowing things about beer than Adam is
Boffo Brown Ale, Dark Horse, Marshall MI

Spin

Todd was listening to the Rolling Stones' live albums
Fishbone
24-7 Spyz
Screaming Headless Torsos
David Fiuczynski
Hiromi's Sonicbloom
Hiatus Kaiyote
PJ Harvey, again.
SWaG on WIDR
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs & Aladdin Sane
Year of No Light, Vampyr & Nord
Chuck soundtrack

The Thermals

Idiotbox Guitar Effects

Dungeonmaster Pedal - Watch the videos on that page for brain-melting sound!

Read

Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Michael Moorcock
Joe Abercombie comes up again

Nathan recommends the audiobook version of the First Law series

Yes Please, Amy Poehler
GI Joe vs. Transformers

+Casey G. <= follow this dude on G+! He posts the best stuff!
The comic Adam mentions wasn't on IDW, it was on Dreamwave. Is Dreamwave still a thing?

Donn did not like Joe Abercrombie
Home Cheese Making

Run

Todd

Castles & Crusades
Traveller (MGT)

Nathan

D&D 5e

Donn

WH40K Conquest

Adam

Playing in +Gabriel Perez Gallardi's Greyhawk 5e game
Eminent Domain
GaryCon

"It's just like a gaming sleepover from middle school."

Adam wants to run something new and different and strange

WHFRP1e?
Mini6 Wild West?

DSR Actual Play: DSR Learn Fate, Part 2

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:05:00 -0700

I rolled a Boost on my Podcast skill roll.

Our GM
+Nathan Panke

Our Players
+Adam Muszkiewicz
+Donn Stroud
+Edgar Johnson

Here's the conclusion of our "Nathan teaches these goofs how to play Fate Core" Actual Play session, finally available for your auditory consumption. For part one of the session, click here. Thanks go out to Nathan once again for providing us with such a damn good time. While we do wrap up the session with some early after-action thoughts on the matter, we may have a further post mortem session up our sleeves, with Donn & Adam getting back together with the good doctor to share their thoughts.

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Episode 10.2: GM Burnout

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:38:00 -0700

We talk about how to identify, prevent and repair GM Burnout

Our Guests
+Stacy Dellorfano
+Mike Evans

Guest Notes

Stacy Dellorfano

Mike Evans

Show Notes

Episode 10.1: Stacy & Mike

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:13:00 -0700

WSG Stacy Dellorfano & Mike Evans

Our Guests
+Stacy Dellorfano
+Mike Evans

Guest Notes

Stacy Dellorfano

Mike Evans

Show Notes

Drink

Mike's Hard Lemonade
Crunkle Sam, Clown Shoes Brewery, Ipswitch, MA
Queen City Common, Red Clay Ciderworks, Charlotte, NC
Culinan's Revival Irish Red, Roc Brewery, Rochester, NY
Single Chair, Magic Hat, Burlington, VT

Spin

PJ Harvey
Nick Cave, Murder Ballads
Locrian
Sleater-Kinney
Bikini Kill
Reel Big Fish
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
King Crimson
Captain Beefheart
Louis Armstrong
Barrows, Imprecari Island
In the Company of Serpents, Merging In Light

Read

Swords Against Wizardry, Fritz Leiber
Red & Pleasant Land, Zak Smith
Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy RPG
Swords & Wizardry RPG
Strange Stars, Trey Causey
Nova Express, William S. Burroughs

Run

Adam & Donn are playing in Stormbringer 1e with +Mark Donkers & +Shawn Gates
Donn is running D&D 5e for his family & friends
Stacy is running her developing RPG, Precious Dark
Mike is running the final playtest for his Hubris campaign setting

Episode 9.2: World Building and Campaign Sufficiency

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:17:00 -0700

Our Guest
+Rafael Chandler

Guest Notes

Rafael

Neoplastic Press

Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Novelist

Show Notes

Email from +Pete Schwab:

Hey Adam/Donn,

I was just listening to the episode about running con games and I'm finding it very informative. If there's an opportunity, could you guys do a show covering how you approach developing material for campaign settings from scratch?

What are the essential ingredients for getting started, and how much do you feel like you need to have on hand before you begin? Also, what are considerations in terms of rules sets and how much do you feel like you need to tailor aspects before hand based on player temperament/style?

Thanks, I am really enjoying the show! Keep up the good work!

Rafael likes to do a brainstorming session with his players about what the campaign setting is going to be like.

Rafael: "I believe, as did Zuul, that the players should choose the implements of their own demise."

Adam uses the term "campaign sufficiency" to mean "enough detail to start a campaign."

Adam: "I give them the object then let them paint it."

Rafael on improvising creatures: "I roll 2d8 and multiply them for the monster's hit points. I take the higher die and add 10 to it to get its armor class. The lower number +1d6 is the amount of damage it does." Then he uses a chart for special details.

Adam: "Don't cheat yourself! Come up with a new way to do stuff every time."

Donn brings up GM Burnout... we think that's such an important topic that we devoted Episode 10.2 to the whole topic.

Donn: "There isn't a 'doin' it right.'"

Donn: "World building adds confidence because I know the answers."

Rafael: (Great anecdote about campaign play) "Let your players' decisions count and help them add meaning to your campaign."

Adam: "Look for the opportunities your players give you and make them deal with the consequences of the things they do or don't do."

Rafael: "I don't want to make things that make people flip through a book."

Tables and Random Generators are pretty much the most useful thing you can have for improv.

Adam: "I only want enough to run the first session. Everything else comes out of that one session."

Donn: "How much do you give the players?"

Adam: "If you make a thing, why would you hide it from your players?"

Rafael: (Blind men & the elephant) "Failing at gathering information should never happen, that's not the risk of the game."

Rafael: "Part of your obligation as a DM is to take these random bits of data and interpret them and turn them into something meaningful."

Rafael: "Part of the job is figuring out 'What is the best way to turn this into a bad situation for the players?'"

Donn: "You want the game to flow, not to sit around anticipating the next 'story arc.'"

Rafael: "If I can't remember it, it doesn't matter."

Adam's session sheet is based on +Brendan S from the Necropraxis blog, which you should all be reading. [Brendan's session sheet]

MEAT DWARF!

Third Rail

Do the skills that a thief class brings to the game justify the existence of the thief within that game?

Rafael: "The game would be incomplete without a specialist in the environment. Fighters are combat specialist, wizards are magic specialist, why not a specialist in the dungeon itself?"

Donn: "It's in the source material, so it's not even a question for me."

Adam: "I'm more interested in the narrative that the players are telling, so I'm less worried about having to have skills and a class that does things that a player could just narrate, but it's fine to me if players want those elements. Is the Grey Mouser a thief or a fighter? Depends on how you look at it."

DSR Actual Play: DSR Learns Fate

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:47:00 -0700

Invoke situational aspect: "Kickass Podcast"

Our GM
+Nathan Panke

Players
+Edgar Johnson
+Donn Stroud
+Adam Muszkiewicz

Several episodes ago, we put out a challenge to our listeners: teach Donn & Adam how to play Fate! We'd tried before, but didn't quite grasp key elements of the system. The excellent Mr. Nathan Panke stepped up to the plate and decided to take that challenge. We wrangled up the Reverand Doctor Edgar Johnson III to round out our team and proceeded down this particular rabbit hole.

In this first episode of our "actual play" session, Nathan gets us going on Fate Core, gives us a crash course on the system and Adam has a nearly existential crisis about the system's jargon.

Stay tuned for the next episode, where the system really "clicks" for the group as we take on General Tso himself!

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

Epsidoe 9.1: DSR & Rafael

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:19:00 -0800

1234 1234 POD-CAST, POD-CAST!

Our Guest:
+Rafael Chandler
(+Mike Evans was also supposed to be on, but he got a promotion and needed to celebrate. Congratz, Mike!)

Guest Notes

Rafael

Neoplastic Press

Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Novelist

Show Notes

Drink

Spin

The Ocean, "Precambrian"
Tom Waits, "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards"
Inanimate Existence
Beyond Creation
Wu-Tang Clan
Toots motherfuckin' Hibbert & the Maytalls (know it, son!)

Read

Run

Donn will be running D&D 5e for his family & some friends & their family. Multi-generational play!
Rafael is running LotFP & Hot War
Adam is still running ACKS & DCC, but RQ6 is about to go on hiatus for awhile (by now, it has)
ViewScream!
Adam's Emergent DCC
Sleeping Place of the Feathered Swine by +Logan Knight

DSR Episode 8.2: The 5lephant In The Room

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:42:00 -0800

Something something something podcast

Our Guests
+Shane Harsch
+Andrew Lenox

Show Notes after the jump

Guest Notes

Shane

Legendsmiths

Narosia campaign setting

U Con

Andy

20 Minutes of Filler podcast

Show Notes

Andy started a conversation on the OSR...
The OSR doesn't matter, but it totally matters
Nostalgia can be a component but isn't the end all and be all of OSR gaming
The OSR isn't a monolith
Is OSRIC a disaster that adds nothing to the community or does it preserve a gaming legacy that might get relegated to the past?
Playing D&D vs. Gaming D&D?

The challenge of 5e (as Adam sees it): can 5e live up to its promise of bringing everybody back to the same table? Or will it fail and under-deliver like 3e did?

Narosia - Village of Gilkas (sp?)... watch for it!

D&D 5e Starter Set - Lost Mines of Phandelver

Bad beginning, great sandbox
No character creation rules in the Starter Set, just pregens (then Shane had some nonsense to say about faking it)

Free "Basic D&D" is a good idea

OSR publishers already do that (Swords & Wizardry, Labyrinth Lord, LotFP, etc.)
No more excuses!

Adam talks about WinterCon over here.
And then talked about Marmalade Dog con over here.

Advantage: roll 2d20, take the higher
Disadvantage: roll 2d20, take the lower
DCC Dice Chain: If things are harder, reduce the die you're rolling one or two steps on the dice; if easier, improve the die one or more steps. A d20 can become a d16 or d14 if unfavorable, d24 or d30 if favorable.

Backgrounds - How much depth do narrative mechanics like this add within the game? Is it a crutch? A straightjacket? A useful tool?

5e DMG - pretty damn great

Adam says 1e DMG is better, Shane & Donn say 5e DMG beats it
Game customization options in the DMG are essential to Adam
Donn: It's all in there!
Donn: Will this DMG make better DMs?

Andy: Lack of specific rules for specific situations creates more opportunity for better rulings-logic

Andy: Creative hand-holding is helpful

5e PHB - pretty damn awful

Adam doesn't think that the 5e PHB is inclusive from a racial standpoint
Adam and Shane disagree on what counts or not as inclusion
#halflinggate

Adam's going to get up on a soapbox for a moment: All of this stuff is fantasy. If you're going to hide behind a veil of "historical accuracy," you're in the wrong place. The big point of fantasy is that we're making this shit up anyway, so why not take the opportunity to make things more open and accepting? What's the point of not making things more inclusive? What does that gain you? Nothing whatsoever.

Player Skill vs. Character Skill?

Adventure Arcs/Seasons - Tyranny of Dragons, etc.

Adam gets it as a marketing decision, but doesn't like it.
Zak Smith's "My Advice to WotC Now That 5e Has Rolled Out"
Andy: Give me the modules, but make the world surrounding them vague. I'm here for the world building.
Adam: It's disingenuous to write continuity rather than teach how people how to make it for themselves.
Shane: Wizards only has to do one thing, let everyone else figure out how to serve the rest of the market.

Glass Door rating of Wizards of the Coast

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

DSR Episode 8.1: Shane & Andy

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:00 -0800

Here come the podcast

Our Guests
+Shane Harsch
+Andrew Lenox

Show Notes after the jump!

Guest Notes

Shane

Legendsmiths

Narosia campaign setting

U Con

Andy

20 Minutes of Filler podcast

Show Notes

Drink

Black Rye, Founders' Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Dirty Bastard, Founders' Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Dragon's Milk, New Holland Brewery, Holland, MI
Buffalo Trace
Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Stout, Anderson Valley Brewing Co., Boonville, CA
Allagash Curieux, Allagash Brewery, Portland, Maine

Spin

4skins - [Edit: thanks to +Jobe Bittman for setting Adam straight on the spelling of "4skins"]
Sham 69
Cocksparrer
Spotify - duh
Hawkwind
Stray
Flower Travellin' Band, Satori
Pallbearer
Kvelertak
Ghost BC
Ancient Warlocks
Django Reinhardt

Read

The King in Yellow, Robert Chalmers
5e books - Donn phoned this one in
Bossy Pants, Tina Fey
George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade & Yaeger
Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Whack on the Side of the Head, Roger van Oech

Run

World of Dungeons x Delving Deeper
Donn was Hubbsed
D&D 5e playtesting of Narosia
Lost Mines of Phandelver... plus kids!
Storyteller Cards

DSR Episode 7.2: Our Favorite Old School Adventure Modules

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:51:00 -0800

Is that a brief pause while the podcast loads in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Our Guests:
+Noah Stevens
+James Spahn

Show Notes after the jump

This episode was recorded on 01/05/15

Guest Links

Noah Stevens

The Hapless Henchman blog
Hounds of Halthrag Keep DCC Solo Adventure
The "Noah Tax"

James Spahn

Barrel Rider Games

Indie Go Go campaign for Labyrinth Lord Class Compendium

Over 50 classes for Labyrinth Lord!

Small Niche Games
Cubicle 7

Show Notes

BSOLO: Ghost of Lion Castle
I1: Dwellers in the Forbidden City
I6: Ravenloft
Escape From Innsmouth
B4: The Lost City
B10: Night's Dark Terror
B2: Keep on the Borderlands
Dead Man Stomp - Adam seriously couldn't find a better link. How lame!
B3: Palace of the Silver Princess
The Enemy Within
Tatooine Manhunt
Barrowmaze Complete
Master Dungeons M1: Dragora's Dungeon
Tomb of the Iron God
Death Frost Doom

Third Rail

James - "Actually game!"
Noah - "Spend less money, write more!" - Later "Try 5e!"
Donn - "Reboot the campaign! Finish writing some things!"
Adam - "3 issues of Metal Gods! 1st adventure from KMT Publications! Draw a bit every day!"

Adam decided to keep Donn in the dark, so he didn't provide links for the stuff that Noah was referencing.

The "Edgar & Tim talk about gaming and education" episode is still forthcoming.

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening, you gorgeous listeners.

DSR Episode 7.1: James & Noah

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:00:00 -0800

Your podcast will be served up fresh momentarily.

Our Guests:

+Noah Stevens
+James Spahn

Show Notes after the jump

This episode was recorded on 01/05/15

Guest Links

Noah Stevens

The Hapless Henchman blog
Hounds of Halthrag Keep DCC Solo Adventure NOW IN PRINT!
The "Noah Tax"

James Spahn

Barrel Rider Games

Indie Go Go campaign for Labyrinth Lord Class Compendium

Over 50 classes for Labyrinth Lord!

Small Niche Games
Cubicle 7

Show Notes

Drink

Fifth Voyage Coconut Porter, Cranker's Brewery, Big Rapids, MI
Wizard Burial Ground, Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids, MI
James was drinking old, reheated coffee, and I'm stunned that I'm writing that fact down
Cutlass Amber Lager, Heavy Seas, Baltimore, MD

Spin

The Heavy Eyes, s/t and Maera
Behemoth
Wilson Pickett
Judas Priest
Rob Zombie
Carpathian Forest
Emperor
Wolves in the Throne Room

Read

Warlock of Witch World, Andre Norton
Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett
Time-Traveler's Guide to Medieval Europe, Ian Mortimer
19th century anonymous British porn [I really wasn't sure how to handle that]

Run

Into the Odd
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Warhammer 40,000

DSR Episode 6.2: Role Play Elements In Board Games

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:59:00 -0800

In the time it takes you read this, the podcast will probably have loaded. Or will shortly thereafter.

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Our Guests
+Jon Gilmour co-designer of Dead of Winter
+Jerry Hawthorne designer of Mice & Mystics

Show Notes after the jump

This episode was recorded on 12/22/14

Show Notes

Soggy Bog of Doom
Earth, Primitive and Deadly
Sleep, "The Clarity"
Electric Wizard, "Time to Die"
Cough
Bongripper, "Miserable"

HeroQuest - it is indeed a magical thing

Arcadia Quest

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game - has RPG elements, but not Role Play elements - doesn't make you feel like you're playing that character

Warhammer Quest - Jerry felt the strongest RP elements came in "in town" rather than in the dungeon.

Red Dragon Inn - Competitive RP?

Necromunda/Mordheim/Gorka Morka

White Bear & Red Moon

Dread

Claustrophobia

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DSR Episode 6.1: Jon & Jerry

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:21:00 -0800

Jerry is clearly the mouse, but I think Jon is the zombie, not a cat.

Our Guests

+Jon Gilmour co-designer of Dead of Winter

+Jerry Hawthorne designer of Mouse & Mystics

Show Notes after the jump

This episode was recorded on 12/22/14

Drink

Milk Stout Nitro Left Hand Brewing, Longmont, CO

Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Bell's Brewery Kalamazoo, MI
Bell's Double Cream Stout, Bell's Brewery
Kentucky Bourbon Stout, could this be from Lexington Brewery Co.?
Chocolate Sombrero, Clown Shoes & Mercury Brewing Co., Ipswitch, MA

Spin

Rusted Root, When I Woke

Buck 65, Neverlove, This Right Here Is
Colossus, ...And The Sepulcher of the Mirror Warlocks
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Of Natural History

Read

[Adam totally got this part out of order]

The Sixth Gun, Oni Press
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
Kyrik: Warrior Warlock, Gardner Fox

Run

Marvel Dice Masters/Quarriors
Star Wars Imperial Assault
Arcadia Quest
Dungeon!
Hero Kids RPG
Dagger RPG
Adventures in Oz RPG
Happy Birthday Robot
[The Bundle of Holding collection that Jon mentioned has expired by this episode's air date]
The Old God's Return, Michael Curtis

DSR Episode 5.2: Props, Visual Aids & Maps At The Table

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:05:00 -0800

Do a little dance, make a little love, wait for the podcast to load.

Our guests:
Rev. Dr. +Edgar Johnson III
+Andrew Moss

Show Notes after the jump

This episode recorded on 12/08/2014.

Show Notes

Chessex Battle Mat
Crystal Caste Combat Mat [Adam's preferred mat]
Noteboard (it only has one size of hexes, though; Adam got that detail wrong)
Dwarven Forge
Legendary Realms Terrain
Hirst Arts (this didn't get mentioned, but deserves a look)
D&D 4e Dungeon Tiles
B1: In Search of the Unknown
Call of Cthulhu RPG
Paranoia RPG
Barrowmaze Complete
Lesser Gnome Whisper & Venom boxed set

[Edit] Here's a pic of some of Donn's handouts

Also, as of the date of this episode's release, there are 7 days left to get your Drink Spin Run t shirt or hoodie!

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DSR Mini Episode 1: Adam & Donn Sell Out

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:55:00 -0800

Prepare to calculate the jump to hyperspace!

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DSR Episode 5.1: Andrew & Edgar

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 8 Jan 2015 12:52:00 -0800

Save vs. wait for the podcast to load.

Our Guests

Rev. Dr. +Edgar Johnson III

+Andrew Moss

Show Notes after the jump

This episode recorded on 12/8/2014.

Drink

Chimay Trappist Ale Grand Reserve

Westvleteren Trappist
Brewery Vivant Big Red Coq, Grand Rapids, MI
Adam was wussing out and drinking a White Russian out of a very large snifter
Sobieski Vodka

Spin

Baroness
The Sword
Kylesa

Hawkwind
Adam couldn't bring himself to write down or look up the pop music Andrew was talking about
Blue Snaggletooth, Beyond Thule
The Move
Wizzard
Blood Ceremony
Jess & the Ancient Ones
Blues Pills
Witchcraft
Candlemass, "The Samaritan" and "Bewitched"

Finntroll

Read

Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain

Usagi Yojimbo
HP Lovecraft
Jason Thompson
Gardner Fox, Escape Across the Cosmos, Kyrik: Warlock Warrior

Run

Donn has been running DCC on Roll20.net on Thursday nights
13th Age, running B10: Night's Dark Terror
Mutants & Masterminds 3e
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Shadow Worlds, Rolemaster
Midgard
CoastCon, Biloxi, MS - March 20-22
WinterCon, Oakland University, MI - January 24th
Marmalade Dog, Kalamazoo, MI - February 6-8

DSR T Shirts & Hoodies For Sale!

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:55:00 -0800

Support the Drink Spin Run RPG talk show podcast! Not only do you get to demonstrate your allegiance for the "Drunk History" of RPG podcasts, but you also help us to get new equipment to make DSR even better! These t shirts will only be available until January 21st, so order yours... some time within the next 21 days.

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As always, we'd like to be completely transparent about stuff, so here's what we'd like to use the profits from this fundraiser for:

A new microphone for Donn
New headphones
Storage - both online and back up
Web hosting - at some point, we'd like to move beyond Blogger and get a real website
Anything left over will probably be used to buy some marketing materials; we've been thinking about vinyl stickers and coasters. The coasters seemed like a no-brainer.

On a side note, it's pretty exciting for us that we've got this first bit of merch for sale. We'd like to thank everyone who's helped us get this far (which, if you haven't noticed, means you) and tell you how excited we are for all of the great opportunities we have to make 2015 an even greater year than 2014 was!

Thanks again for your support!

DSR Episode 4.2: Adventure Design with Jobe & Stephen

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:19:00 -0800

Please stand clear of the wait:

Our Guests
+Jobe Bittman
+Stephen Newton

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

Stephen likes to get ideas from his surroundings
King's Canyon National Park
[Adam had a really hard time figuring out what to actually write down as far as notes go; some links, it seems, really didn't need to be included.]
Jobe apparently really likes stew
"I don't want to do another goblin ambush." Unlike Lost Mine of Phandelver.
Jobe: "Try to do something that hasn't been done before."
Which means you have to read everything out there; never stop reading.
"Set the sate, put the gun on the wall and let the players do what they're going to do."
Chekov's gun?
PLAYTEST!
LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYTESTERS!
Hooks should motivate action, not reaction.

Third Rail of Gaming

Roll under your stat as a task resolution system?
Donn loves it because it makes your stats matter
Adam doesn't like it because rolling low "is dumb"
Jobe likes it and his anecdote fizzled
Stephen does it just for Luck rolls in DCC

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DSR Episode 4.1: Leave It To Bittman

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:54:00 -0800

The podcast will be with you shortly.

Our Guests
+Jobe Bittman
+Stephen Newton

Show Notes after the jump

This episode was recorded on November 10th, 2014

Adam made a prediction about U Con that ended up coming true.

Drink

Mother-In-Law Double IPA from Valholl Brewing, Poulsbo, WA
Lagunitas IPA
Green Apple Bubba Kush (Adam can't find links for this)
Dark Penance Imperial Black IPA from Founders' Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
Vernor's Ginger Ale
Talking Rain Sparkling Spring Water

Spin

Jobe hates all new music
The Shaggs, Philosophy of the World
Roky Erickson, The Evil One
She Wants Revenge
Ben Frost, By The Throat
Rancid, ...And Out Come The Wolves (we'll ignore their new album)
Ministry, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Soggy Bog of Doom
Magnus Pelander, s/t ep
Witchcraft
Godflesh, A World Lit Only By Fire
Clarendonians
Toots & The Maytals

Read

Playing At The World, Jon Peterson
Designers & Dragons, Shannon Applecline
Of Dice And Men, David Ewalt
At The Mountains Of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, Kara Cooney Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
Shadows Linger, Glenn Cook
The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie
First Lensman, E.E. "Doc" Smith

Run

5d6?
Savage Worlds, Hellfrost
RuneQuest 6, Griffin Mountain
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Lamentations of the Flame Princess

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Episode 3.3: Adam & Tim Talk Metamorphosis Alpha

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:02:00 -0800

Patience is a virtue

This week, due to a snow storm power outage, +Donn Stroud couldn't make it to the show, so +Adam Muszkiewicz runs solo-ish, hosting Tim Callahan and a discussion about Goodman Games's new re-release of the first edition of James Ward's classic RPG, Metamorphosis Alpha.

Our guest:
+Tim Callahan

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

Show recorded 11/24/2104; due to using an untested recording method, there were some unpredicted audio irregularities in the recording
Metamorphosis Alpha Hardcover
Doug Kovacs's art
Stefan Poag's art
James M. Ward & WardCo
Jon Peterson & Playing At The World
Adam & Tim like big fonts and they cannot lie
John Reyst - shop.d20pfsrd.com
The Rocket, Ypsilanti, MI
Someone will correct Adam on his Dungeoneer chronology
Drink Spin Run does not advocate beating your children, with or without books
Adam was on a panel discussion at U Con, a recording of which was posted on the Save Or Die podcast
Blue Snaggletooth, Beyond Thule

Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics "Gazetteer of the Known World" Boxed set
Parliament-Funkadelic

Carcosa

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DSR Episode 3.2: Blending Sci Fi & Fantasy in Your RPGs

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:18:00 -0800

By the time you pour yourself a whiskey on the rocks, the podcast will have loaded.

Our Guest

+Tim Callahan

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

Orange juice & toothpaste are gross together
Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Michael Curtis, Frozen In Time
Adam likes to blame Dragonlance, as usual
Poul Anderson, Three Hearts & Three Lions
Terry Brooks, Shannara
Adam loves being told he's wrong... when folks can back it up. Tim can.
Tim: "Sci Fi is based on speculation and scientific fact... Fantasy is everything else. Why did it stop being about [awesome stuff]?"
Adam likes to talk in terms of Phenomenology
"Ren Faire Fantasy"
David Lynch
Shadowbrook Manor for Labyrinth Lord
Toon RPG
Castle Greyhawk is a steaming pile of crap
Fate Core
Dresden Files RPG
Tim says that +Lowell Francis is a great DM

Third Rail of Gaming: Ascending or Descending Armor Class?

Tim: Ascending for game play, descending for the literary aesthetic.
Donn: Ascending. Period.
Adam: They're the same damn thing.

[EDIT: Adam & Donn are serious about the Fate thing. If you want to run a session of Fate for us (possibly appearing on an episode or several of DSR in the process) drop us a line at the address below!]

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Episode 5 Recording 11/24/14

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:57:00 -0800

If you've been enjoying the Drink Spin Run podcast, join us on Monday, November 24th at 9pm EST for our live recording of episode 5 via Google+ Hangouts On Air. For the first time, our audience (all tens of you!) can join us while we have the conversations that we will later chop up into episode 5.1 & 5.2. The guest are up in the air right now, as are the topics, but we thought we should get this part straight first.

Click on the following link to make sure this is on your calendar:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c9hiluc1ahjcbmiemvcjogiks10

After the hangout, the YouTube video of it will only be available for a short time and we'll be taking (at least some) questions from viewers during the show, so please, if you're interested, try to catch the hangout the first time around.

DSR Episode 3.1: Tim Callahan

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:54:00 -0800

You deserve a short break while the podcast loads.

Our Guest

+Tim Callahan

Show Notes after the jump

Drinking

Oddside Ales Red Eye PA
Arnold Palmer, not the golfer
Tour de Franzia (Franzia Chianti)

Spinning

Clint Mansell
Drive soundtrack
Solaris soundtrack
Nels Cline Singers
Soggy Bog of Doom (Adam might have gotten a detail or two wrong here)
Candlemass

Reading

TOR.com Appendix N series
The Witcher (the "Lord of the Rings of Poland") Andrzej Sapkowski, the Last Wish
Tim & Adam agree: the Dresden Files really fucking sucks
Kothar & The Wizard Slayer, Gardner Fox
Adam earns hate mail over Dune
Designers & Dragons 1970's by Shannon Applecline
Playing At The World by Jon Peterson
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart - Chronicles of Master Li & Number Ten Ox

Running

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea and mad props to +Jeff Talanian
Adventurer Conqueror King System Iron Coast
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Dwimmermount - Labyrinth Lord - and mad props to +James Maliszewski
Traveller'd By The Apocalypse
Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad
Delving Deeper Hyperbarbaria

Other Notes

Rest in peace, Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk

As always, thanks to Blue Snaggletooth for the badass theme. Their new album "Beyond Thule" is out now and rocks!

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening.

DSR Episode 2.2: Running Convention Games

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:24:00 -0800

Kick back for a moment and let the podcasty goodness load.

Our Guests

+Edgar Johnson
+Matthias Weeks

Show Notes after the jump

Show Notes

U Con - Not as small of a con as Donn suggests, U Con is the biggest gaming convention in Michigan
Transylvanian Adventures - Not the same as "Lamentations of the Dungeon Crawl Princess"
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Tower Out of Time
GenCon
Blood for the Serpent King - Published as a bonus adventure in Bride of the Black Manse
Frozen in Time
B1: In Search of the Unknown - Adam's Quasquetherion hack of it

Donn says "Be confident!"
Edgar says "I prep like a mofo so I don't get lost."
Matt says "Make it memorable and manage your time."
Adam says "I only prep what I can't make up on the spot."

Purple Sorcerer 0-Level Generator

MichiCon
G+ DCC RPG Community
Deep Carbon Observatory
Secret Santicore

Matt says "Pace yourself, make sure the game speaks to you and get comfortable with the system/adventure."
Donn says "Have it be something you're excited about and be confident."
Edgar says "It's not about you, it's about the folks at your table. Do what it takes to make sure they're having fun."
Adam says "Don't freak yourself out. You won't know what it takes until you do it."

Third Rail of Gaming

Alignment - 3-Point or 9-Point Alignment?
Matt: 3-Point
Edgar: Hates alignment, chooses 3 under the gun.
Donn: 3-Point
Adam: 3-Point

Does 9-Point Alignment suck?
Matt: Too cumbersome.
Adam: Good & evil are irrelevant.
Edgar: 9-Point sucks because of insurance tables.
Donn: Evil is evil. Suggests a two alignment system: "cool" or "asshole."

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening.

DSR Episode 2.1: Edgar & Matthias

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:56:00 -0700

Pour yourself a drink and give the podcast a moment to load.

Our Guests

+Edgar Johnson
+Matthias Weeks

Show notes after the jump

This episode was recorded on September 11, 2014.

Drink

Donn was drinking New Holland Dragon's Milk
Edgar was "drinking all fuckin' day."
Southern Tier 2XIPA
Yuengling
Sweetwater IPA
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Crispin Cider
Jameson Whiskey

Spin

Donn had a great opportunity to listen to garage rock, but he squandered it.
Ivy & Lux
Blood Ceremony
Orchid
Stoned Jesus
The Sound
Laughing Hyenas
Wardruna
Temple of Void
Jucifer (the album was called "the Russian Album," not "White Lies," since the title and track listing is all written in Cyrillic)
Blue Snaggletooth

Read

"Kovacsian"

Lord Dunsany, In The Land of Time And Other Fantasies
Robert E Howard, The Horror Storeis of Robert E. Howard
Jack Vance, Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Legotti, The Spectral Link
Karl Edward Wagner, Gods In Darkness
Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Manly Wade Wellman, After Dark
Fritz Lieber, Gather, Darkness
Frank Herbert, Dune
Kevin J Anderson is a hack

Run

D&D 5e is a thing now
Savage Worlds Weird Wars Rome
Tomb of Horrors / Return to the Tomb of Horrors
Traveller driven by the Apocalypse World Engine (more info here)

Recording Tonight! [Updated]

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:34:00 -0700

Tonight, we'll be recording episodes 4.1 & 4.2 of Drink Spin Run. Keep an eye on our G+ page (google.com/+DrinkspinrunBlogspotPodcast) for links to the Hangout On Air where you can watch along with our hosts and panelists as we discuss what we're drinking, spinning, reading and running as well as our topic for the night. Tonight, +Stephen Newton (and hopefully +Carl Bussler if he can make it) will be talking about adventure design with us. If you can't make it for the Hangout On Air, hold tight, as it should make it through Donn's audio meatgrinder in a few weeks and get processed into a full episode.

[Update]
Unfortunately, Adam had to call off the recording due to technical difficulties. Our next recording session is set for 11/10, where we hope to talk to Stephen Newton again. Also, episode 2.1 is due out in two days, so stay tuned for that as well.

DSR Episode 1.2: What's Your Favorite Old-School Fantasy RPG That's Not D&D?

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:58:00 -0700

Grab a drink while you wait for this to load.

Our Guests

+Jason Hobbs
+Edgar Johnson
+Mark Donkers

More info after the jump

Show Notes

007 James Bond RPG - Matt's fantasy, Adam's reality

Gamma World - Totally fantasy, man

MERP - Rolemaster for folks with day jobs

Fantasy HERO - Hobbs is stuck on HERO.

GURPS/GURPS Supers

Warhammer - Adam says 1e is best, the rest of the guys don't care

Palladium RPG - Again, Adam prefers the first edition

This show was originally recorded in May of 2014, so at that point in time, Edgar & Adam hadn't actually met in real life yet. That was remedied at GenCon 2014 when many of the Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad campaign members got to hang out together for the first time ever.

RuneQuest - Hobbs hasn't played, Adam has probably inaccurate thoughts but percentile dice aren't great.

Again, this episode was recorded in May 2014, so the Fantasy HERO Complete Kickstarter than Hobbs mentioned is in our past. I'm pretty sure it was successful, but I can't find it on the KS website.

Dangerous Journeys MYTHUS - Adam has an unreasonable appreciation for this game.

Our theme music was provided by Blue Snaggletooth. If you buy their stuff, you get music. You can also pre-order their new album, "Beyond Thule," due out November 3rd.

If you have an idea you'd like to hear us talk about on DSR, are interested in being a guest on the program or have anything else you'd like to tell us, please email us any time at dsr@kickassistan.net

DSR Episode 1.1: Edgar, Mark & Hobbs

donn.stroud@gmail.com (Donn Stroud/Adam Muszkiewicz) — Thu, 9 Oct 2014 09:50:00 -0700

Give it just a moment to load.

Our Guests
+Edgar Johnson
+Jason Hobbs
+Mark Donkers

More info after the jump.

Drinking

Hercules Double IPA from Great Divide Brewing in Boulder, CO
Johnny Appleseed Hard Apple Cider
Black Tulip from New Holland
Ellie's Brown Ale from Avery Brewing in Boulder, CO
Sweetwater 420 Pale Ale from Sweetwater Brewing in Athens, GA
New Holland Beer Barrel Bourbon from New Holland Brewery
Rogue Brewing Co. (purveyor of fine beard-brewed beers)
Schramm's Blackberry Mead

Spinning

High on Fire
Sleep, Dopesmoker
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking
Early Bob Seger catalog... is impossible to find
The Firefly theme song is the worst piece of music ever recorded
Swingin Utter$
Super Thing
Electric Wizard

Also, our theme music is by Blue Snaggletooth

Reading

Glen Cook, Black Company
Michael Moorcock, Elric Saga
Clark Ashton Smith is goddamn amazing
Steven Erikson, Malazan, Book of the Fallen
Assyrian stone tablets
RPG zines:

Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad
Crawling Under a Broken Moon
Crawljammer (this episode was recorded a long time ago; Adam has since gotten every issue of CJ)
the Manor
6 Iron Spikes & A Small Hammer

Running

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG

Edgar was playtesting his upcoming DCC adventure,

Adventurer Conqueror King System

RCU Net

Mutants & Masterminds 3e

In Episode 1.2: Favorite Old School RPGs That Aren't D&D

If you have any ideas, comments, threats or presents for us, email us any time at dsr@kickassistan.net.