Between Two Cairns

Yochai & Brad review The Spire of Iron and Crystal by Matt Finch, and answer some mailbag questions.

• Mailbag 1: What do we think about crowdfunding and ttrpgs?
• Mailbag 2: What modules have good endings?

00:09:01 Mailbag: What do you think about crowdfunding and RPGs?
00:16:36 Mailbag: What modules have good endings?
00:26:05 Main Review
00:44:47 Deep Dive

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Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli aka Skullboy for our inaugural Gamer Blasts From The Past, where we review the "1981" module Palace of the Silver Princess by Jean Wells. 

• Question: What settings do you wish were more popular?
• Skullboy's Your Princess Is In Another Castle

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Yochai & Brad review Cold Wind Whispering by Markus Linderum, and answer a three-part question from Gus L.

Questions:

1. When you use someone else's adventure at your table - what do you look for?
2. Best adventure about pyramids?
3. What would it take to write a good adventure about Orcs in a hole?

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Yochai & Brad review Sepulchre of Dusk by Cutter Mountain Simulations.

• Question 1: What are your writing habits?
• Question 2: What do you think of the ORC license?
• Question 3: Do rules define what an RPG is about?
• Question 4: Will we see a return to "physicality" in game design?

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Yochai & Brad review Shadow of the Beakmen by Harley Stroh, and answer a question from the mailbag.

• Mailbag: How do you choose a module to review/run?
• Hereticwerks Collections on Itch

00:00:50 Mailbag: How do you choose a module?
00:14:00 Mailbag: How do you organize your PDFs?
00:20:53 Main Review (Deep Dive only!)
 

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Yochai & Brad review Monkey Murder Manor by Ripley Caldwell, and answer some questions from the mailbag.

• Question 1: How do you make puzzles "good"?
• Question 2:  Do you get tired of running modules more than once?
• Soviet Ants

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Yochai & Brad review Dogtooth Valley by Nate Treme (aka Highland Paranormal Society) and answer THREE questions from the mailbag. 

• Question 1:  How involved do you like to get when making characters, or when others make characters in games you GM?
• Question 2:  When you run a campaign, how do YOU end it? And what (if any)  kind of procedures or guidance do you wish game texts would offer to help bring things to a close?
• Questions 3: How do we help people unlearn whatever they think they know from the latest edition of D&D? Or do we even need to?
  
  

02:20 Mailbag 1
12:10 Mailbag 2
21:05 Mailbag 3
29:10 Main Review

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Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli (aka skullboy) to review The Isle of the Plangent Mage by Donn Stroud.

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Yochai & Brad review Magical Murder Mansion by Skerples, and answer a question from the mailbag.

• Mailbag: What makes a good RPG gift?

00:38 Mailbag
15:15 Main Review
41:29 Deep Dive

 

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Yochai & Brad review The Frost Spire by Jacob Hurst, and answer a question from the mailbag.

• Mailbag: Do you take notes about what voices or mannerisms an NPC has?

0:27 Mailbag 
12:02 Main Review
19:47 Deep Dive

Note: Apparently one of the guys from Blackalicious died, We didn't know that. RIP.

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