Black Lodge Trivia Night

We finally arrive at the end of our second chapter as Matt and Patrick decide how to approach the completion of their Finnish objective. As always, everything goes completely off the rails.

Recorded on 5/8/25

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Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:29 Trivia

00:09:30 Session

01:21:06 Post-session thoughts

Down a Matt, Patrick leads Art through an RPG experiment running the first part of an adventure set in a cyberpunk future.

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Recorded on 5/1/25

Music:

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

00:00:00 Start

00:02:05 Trivia

00:05:38 Session

01:29:15 End of session discussion

Not sure if absence makes the heart grow fonder, but the guys were really excited to get back to Free League's Symbaroum. The last two (known) surviving Twilight Friars explore their ruined monastery.

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Recorded on 4/24/25

Free League's Symbaroum site:https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/symbaroum/

Music:Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

'Echoes' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au'Computations in a Snowstorm' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

Maps by Czepeku: https://www.patreon.com/czepeku

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:33Trivia

00:07:13 Start of Session

01:17:30 Post Session Chat

Down a Patrick and Matt, Art tries an experiment doing the whole session live on a stream... intros, outros, and all. Only a few SNAFUs but nothing that stops the session from going off.After last session's journey Eradan councils with two encampments trying to align them against the evolving Shadow presence on the western shore of Lake Evendim.Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNRecorded on 4/17/25Free League: www.freeleaguepublishing.comIntro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

We have the gang on deck and dive back into another gonzo session of our Cold War espionage game using Mythras Imperative. Matt's off camera and Art's bad luck with Riverside.fm truly rears its ugly head. And is this the session where the GM's sanity finally breaks?Recorded on 4/10/25Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNThe Design Mechanism: thedesignmechanism.comIntro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic00:00:00 Intro00:01:02 Trivia00:02:49 R.I.P. Val Kilmer00:04:42 Shooting the breeze about movies00:17:31 Start of Session

Art is back for another session of The One Ring in Strider Mode. After last session's Fellowship phase, Art receives word from his patron about a disturbance that sends him toward the North Moors.Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNRecorded on 4/7/25Free League: www.freeleaguepublishing.comIntro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic @3Skulls  had the nice Telling Table macro that I mentioned. @OlympusRPGGroup  is the channel that runs everything in GURPs with Fantasy Grounds (including The One Ring as I mentioned)Finally, Eye Awareness is what goes up when you roll an Eye of Sauron outside of combat, not Shadow.

Art is back in Eriador to continue the Tales of the Strider with Free League's The One Ring 2e. Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNRecorded on 3/27/25Free League: www.freeleaguepublishing.comIntro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

00:00:00 Intro and rambling

00:03:58 Recap

00:06:30 Nameless Thing Generation Recap

00:10:27 Starting the new session but get distracted thinking about Lord of the Rings Online, some tech stuff, and discussing different The One Ring 2e printings

00:17:20 Starting the session... no, for real this time

Our heroes finally depart for Finland where their tough love approach continues as they delve into the mysterious death of a fallen agent.Recorded on 3/13/25Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPG and on Mastadon @ BLTNThe Design Mechanism: thedesignmechanism.comIntro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic00:00:00 Intro00:02:45 Trivia00:05:39 Start of session01:36:17 Fade to black

We finally begin our journey into the world of Symbaroum as we start off at Kloster Umberholt, home of the Twilight Friars - an intelligence gathering arm for the Church of Prios. But right away, things are not as they seem.

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Recorded on 3/6/25

Free League's Symbaroum site: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/symbaroum/Music:

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

'Echoes' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

'Computations in a Snowstorm' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

00:00:00 Intro

00:05:52 Trivia

00:10:00 Start of session

01:25:00 Fade to black/Post session chat

We get the whole team together and riff about Savage Worlds, the generic RPG system that we're all big fans of. We get into a lot of what we like and some of the things we don't... and then get back to the important business of tier-ranking.

Here's a link to the channel mentioned about converting some Dark Suns to SWADE:Mastering The RPG - A tabletop RPG Podcast

Savage Worlds:https://peginc.com/savage-settings/savage-worlds/Recorded on 02/27/25Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/tQGJVsrnNpFollow us on Blue Sky and X @BlackLodgeRPGMusic:Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.00:00:00 Intro00:01:50 Trivia00:02:01 Spoiler Warning for Trivia00:03:54 End of Spoiler00:04:23 Start of Discussion Topic