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    The Children of Fear - interview with Lynne Hardy

    in Call of Cthulhu

    Posted · Edited by Nick Brooke

    Hi

    The GROGNARD files returns to Call of Cthulhu. Lynne Hardy shares stories of her formative years in roleplaying as well as discussing Children of Fear. There's also a piece from Tristan, a player based in Japan on his experiences of playing in the country. There's also a discussion of some of the settings that we have used and how we've found it difficult to put the Mythos in a far-space context.

    The episode has been really well received by listeners so far, I leave the link here in the hope that you enjoy it too:

    https://thegrognardfiles.com/2021/05/29/episode-48-part-1-return-to-call-of-cthulhu-with-lynne-hardy/

     

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    RuneQuest Podcast

    in RuneQuest

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    Hi All 

    The third episode of The GROGNARD files featuring RuneQuest has just been published - featuring an interview with MOB!

    INTRO: Three years of GROGPODing and Forty Years of RuneQuest seems like a great point in time to revisit the game that we played the most back in the day. RQ3 contributed to us stopping playing, so this is a chance to revisit the game and see what happened when we stopped playing. The sound is a bit haywire on this podcast, hope it doesn’t spoil things too much.

    OPENBOX: Chaosium’s Vice President tells the stories of his formative years in role-playing and how RuneQuest in Glorantha was so important to him. He was instrumental in keeping the flame alive as a fan as he wrote and developed Sun County, the first RuneQuest supplement produced for 8 years, following Avalon Hill acquiring the game in 1984. He wrote a report in the early nineties for The Tales of the Reaching Moon explaining how the game could be revived.  This is a great chat about the nineties renaissance.

    THE WHITE DWARF: A survey of RQ3 as it appeared (and disappeared) from White Dwarf, written by the wonderful @dailydwarf

    JUDGE BLYTHY RULES! Dirk and Blythy pick over the bones of RQ3 and there’s a monster quiz!

    OUTRO: Check out the RuneQuest Actual Play with The Smart Party   . If you’d like the GROGZINE 19 and The Collected Daily Dwarf Vol 3 and Judge Blythy’s Book of Judgments — then please chuck us a tip in the beret and join the Patreon campaign

    Part 2 will be out late August/ early September.

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    Mike Mason ... The Early Years

    in Call of Cthulhu

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    In the latest The GROGNARD files podcast, Mike Mason shares his experiences from his formative years of role-playing and how his fascination with horror, drew him towards Call of Cthulhu.
     
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    INTRO 00.00.16
    We are returning to one of our favourite games, Call of Cthulhu, to consider what has changed for the game over the past 2 years, since the last episode.
    OPEN BOX (with Mike Mason) 06.00
    At the time of recording, Mike had just returned from his trip to NECRONOMICON and was fresh with the news of the great success for Call of Cthulhu at GENCON.
    ED’S BRAND NEW SHED 50.00
    Ed is the first of us to hit 50 and his family have treated him to a brand-new metal shed. He talks us through his Fungi From Yuggoth scrapbook. You can get Mutable Deception from Drive Thru RPG.
    GAMESMASTER’S SCREEN 01.08.00
    We’re on a Jolly Boys outing – this is the player reflections on playing the Fungi … campaign

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    What do you love about Glorantha? (Glorantha Quickstart)

    in Glorantha

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    For most of my teenage years I wondered through the harsh hills of Dragon Pass, toured the steppes of Prax and settled on the banks of the Zola Fel. These great landscapes of imagination populated by a richly described weird creatures and people is the place I love to return to with my friends thirty odd years later. Your Glorantha will vary; ours definitely does. 

    Dirk, the Armchair Adventurers 

     

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    RuneQuest QuickStart

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    Hi All

    My group, The Armchair Adventurers, played The Broken Tower on Tuesday at our FLGS. 

    We had cranked up the MGF in a thrilling, tense three hours, which was a chance to showcase of the new features of the game. I'm with RuneBlogger, given the quality of this scenario, I'm really looking forward to the new supporting material.

    In the meantime, the play report is at theGROGNARDfiles.com

    Thanks 

    Dirk the Dice

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    Podcasting

    in Mythras

    Posted

    Hi 

    The second part of the podcast on RuneQuest, featuring Rick Meints, is now available: https://armchairadventurerblog.com/2017/02/15/episode-part2-more-runequest-rpg-with-rick-meints/ 

    There's no Mythras content this time, but you can get details of the Luther Arkwright adventure I'm running at Convergence. I will be using the pre-gens and adventure The Fire Opal of Set (from Imagine #14). There are still places available if you can make Stockport (UK) on the parallel 18.03.17 

    On another note ... The RPG Academy are looking for a Mythras GM. I ran RuneQuest 2nd edition version of Gringle's Pawn Shop and was unable to convince them of the virtues of a percentile system. They're looking for a Mythras GM who might be able to succeed where I failed! 

    Thanks

    Dirk

     

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    RuneQuest Podcast

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    Hi All

    I've just posted a RuneQuest Podcast to theGROGNARDfiles.com which features an interview with Rick Meints, president of Chaosium talking about how he started in RPGs and how his love of playing developed into running the company.

    There's also coverage of the RuneRites department in White Dwarf and an examination of the rules of Mythras.

    In the next part I'll be selecting 5 items from Rick's collection he played back in the day to discuss his experiences. I'll also be looking at Borderlands, which we played twice, 33 years apart.

    In other RuneQuest news, I also appeared on the Dissecting Worlds Podcast and ran an actual play of Gringle's Pawnshop for the RPG Academy, as part of their 'Trial' Series (coming soon - you can see a recording of the Twitch broadcast on their YouTube channel).

    Thanks,

    Dirk the Dice

     

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    Stormbringer! - A website supporting Stormbringer 5th edition

    in Stormbringer

    Posted

    Great to hear that the podcast inspired the face-lift. It's been great hearing from people who are discovering STORMBRINGER for the first time by listening. I've been surprised by the number of people who are not familiar with Moorcock. 

    Revisiting the game and discovering some of the great scenarios for the first time (The Black Sword is fantastic) as made me want to play the game again on a regular basis.

    It's good to know that there are still people keeping the flame alive!

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