Down a Patrick, Matt and Art remember that Black Lodge Trivia Night is a TTRPG Actual Play podcast first and dive into a zero session for Swords of the Serpentine from Pelgrane Press. The first half is more of a Bookhouse Boys discussion of the setting and the Gumshoe system as a whole and the second half covers the creation of Art's PC.

Quick note... this is not going to start immediately. There will be a stretch in the relatively near future (probably November-ish?) where it's just going to be Matt and Art and they wanted to have something at the ready they were both excited about.

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Recorded on 8/21/25

Swords of the Serpentine: https://pelgranepress.com/product/swords-of-the-serpentine/

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

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(00:00:00) Intro

(00:02:36) Trivia

(00:06:40) General Discussion of Swords of the Serpentine and Gumshoe

(00:53:28) Session Zero Character Creation

(01:51:44) Post-Session thoughts

Matt and Art continue their journey through Demon's Souls by discussing The Lord's Path (World 1-2) and finding much more to chat about than they expected.

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Recorded on 8/13/25

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

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After fumbling through the first session's character creation and story introduction, we finally collect ourselves enough to properly dive into the mystery surrounding The Rose in the Garden.

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Recorded on 8/7/25

Rosewood Abbey:https://rolistespod.itch.io/rosewood-abbey

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:01:02) First Trivia Question

(00:07:29) Matt's Second Trivia Question That Is Actually Twin Peaks Related

(00:11:38) Recap

(00:15:42) Start of Session

(01:16:47) End of Session/Post Session Chat

Down a Patrick, Matt and Art decide to get back to something that has sat unloved for too long... talking about Souls games. This episode discusses the Nexus and opening level in Demon's Souls (Gates of Boletaria 1-1).Follow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNRecorded on 8/6/25Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

We get the whole band back together this week but need a little bit of time to get back into the swing of things, so we decided to try some Rosewood Abbey, a Carved From Brindlewood game of 13th century monks solving mysteries. Two quick notes, this is much more of a Session Zero... we barely start the story (see timestamps). And things go completely off the rails a lot since the three of us hadn't gotten to record together in a while.

We had a blast and can't wait to properly get into The Rose in the Garden.

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Recorded on 7/24/25

Rosewood Abbey:https://rolistespod.itch.io/rosewood-abbey

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:40 Trivia

00:07:04 Start of Character Creation

00:34:08 Choosing the Ancient and Chatting About Rules

00:41:32 Start of Story

01:05:04 End of Session

Having just received Coriolis: The Great Dark, Art decides to revisit The Third Horizon and go into the two books a little bit. A little warning... Art's initial impressions of The Great Dark lean a little more negative if that's not your thing.

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Recorded on 7/20/25

Coriolis: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/coriolis/

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:00:39 The Third Horizon

00:46:03 The Great Dark

01:00:02 Wrap Up

Down a Patrick, Matt and Art decide to give the Forged-in-the-Dark based Space Train Space Heist a try for a really fun one-shot. Designed by Sam Dunnewold.

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Recorded on 7/10/25Space Train Space Heist:https://sdunnewold.itch.io/space-train-space-heistIntro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic00:00:00 Intro00:02:14 Trivia00:04:06 Start of session01:18:52 Post session wrap up

Art dives into the first actual play session for Zozer's gritty hard-sci fi Hostile: Solo. Crew gets assembled, some background gets fleshed out, and a mission gets assigned.Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNRecorded on 7/8/25Hostile:https://www.paulelliottbooks.com/Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusicSound Effects by SOUND_GARAGE and by freesound_community from Pixabay

WARNING: This is not at all what our usual content is like and Art is definitely not an expert (as you will soon hear). We are a TTRPG Actual Play channel. Also, not sure how well this will play with audio only.

A Youtube comment saying Art overthinks his audio inspired this examination of just how stupidly he has overthought his audio through the years - it's a little disconcerting. Covers the mics and interfaces he's used and discusses them from the perspective of someone who came into streaming audio production with essentially zero knowledge. Maybe there's something here that helps you skip a few steps getting to the audio you're looking for.

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Recorded on 7/3/25

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:04:05 Start of microphone tier ranking

00:43:34 Start of interface tier ranking

01:02:23 Wrapping up

Art decides to go for it and give Hostile: Solo a shot in this session zero focusing on rolling up the crew.

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Recorded on 6/25/25

Hostile:https://www.paulelliottbooks.com/Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

Sound Effects by SOUND_GARAGE and by freesound_community from Pixabay