Fortunes Untold

Episode 12: Overlight Part 1 (Subscribe on iTunes)

This week, the Fortunes Untold gang sets out on a kaleidoscopic journey through the world of Overlight by Renegade Games. Join our heroes as they travel from distant lands all the way from the Sea of Stars to the jungles of Quill making their way to the market world of Haark.

If you liked what you heard about Overlight, you can find it at the Renegade Games website: https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/overlight/

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 11: Call of Cthulhu part 04 (Subscribe on iTunes)

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 10: Call of Cthulhu part 03 (Subscribe on iTunes)

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 09: Call of Cthulhu part 02 (Subscribe on iTunes)

How will Hank and Aidan survive their encounter with the strange creatures in the caves? Will they ever find Joshua? Most importantly, will they ever find the treasure they’re searching for?!

Put down that copy of the Necronomicon and tune your RCA Westinghouse to WHP-28 for this week’s episode: “The Darkness Beneath the Hill”.

If you liked what you heard about Call of Cthulhu, you can find the game at their website: https://www.chaosium.com/

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 08: Call of Cthulhu part 01 (Subscribe on iTunes)

The Jazz Age! Prohibition! Squamous Horrors! The Fortunes Untold crew are headed back to 1925 to review Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu (7th edition)! Call of Cthulhu is the first game in our new series of connected reviews. We’re going to start off with the granddaddy of all horror RPGs and then compare it with the spin-offs and variants that have come after.

So put down that copy of the Necronomicon and tune your RCA Westinghouse to WHP-28 for this week’s episode: “The Darkness Beneath the Hill”.

If you liked what you heard about Call of Cthulhu, you can find the game at their website: https://www.chaosium.com/

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 07: Alternity 2017 pt. 2 (Subscribe on iTunes)

We’re hitting the gas and barrelling to the end of the Thunder Run! Will Doc Turbo and One-Eyed Jack get the vaccine to Gonzo University in time? Or do the Scabland Marauders have other plans for them?

This week Chad, Davery, and Andrew are reviewing the newly released edition of the Alternity core rulebook from Sasquatch Game Studio .

Alternity is a tabletop RPG engine from Sasquatch Games designed for science fiction adventure across a wide range of genres. Alternity campaigns can be set across the spectrum of sci-fi genres: from hard sci-fi to space opera, or post-apocalyptic wastelands to alien conspiracies.

If you liked what you heard about Alternity, you can find the game at their website: http://www.sasquatchgamestudio.com/

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 06: Alternity 2017 pt. 1 (Subscribe on iTunes)

Get ready to ride the Thunder Run! The Thunder Run adventure scenario uses the new Alternity RPG rules to throw the players into a screaming heavy metal death-ride across the wastelands of eastern Washington—the appropriately named Scablands.

Alternity is a tabletop RPG engine from Sasquatch Games designed for science fiction adventure across a wide range of genres. Alternity campaigns can be set across the spectrum of sci-fi genres: from hard sci-fi to space opera, or post-apocalyptic wastelands to alien conspiracies.

This week Chad, Davery, and Andrew are reviewing the newly released edition of the Alternity core rulebook from Sasquatch Game Studio .

If you liked what you heard about Alternity, you can find the game at their website: http://www.sasquatchgamestudio.com/

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 05: Demon Hunters pt. 2 (Subscribe on iTunes)

Do you have a leprechaun stuck up in your tree? Do you think that sinkhole off of I-30 might actually be a Hellgate? Would Santa Clara be perfect except for all the damn vampires? Then you need The Brotherhood of the Celestial Torch.

They’re not the police. They’re not the army. They’re Demon Hunters. Here’s the thrilling conclusion!

This week Chad, Davery, and Andrew are reviewing “Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors” from Dead Gentlemen Productions.

If you liked what you heard about Demon Hunters, you can find the game at their website: http://demonhuntersrpg.com

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 04: Demon Hunters pt. 1 (Subscribe on iTunes)

Do you have a leprechaun stuck up in your tree? Do you think that sinkhole off of I-30 might actually be a Hellgate? Would Santa Clara be perfect except for all the damn vampires? Then you need The Brotherhood of the Celestial Torch.

They’re not the police. They’re not the army. They’re Demon Hunters.

This week Chad, Davery, and Andrew are reviewing “Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors” from Dead Gentlemen Productions.

If you liked what you heard about Demon Hunters, you can find the game at their website: http://demonhuntersrpg.com

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

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Episode 03: Forbidden Lands pt. 3

If you liked what you heard about Forbidden Lands, you can find the game at the Free League website: http://frialigan.se/en/startpage/

Fortunes Untold is a show where a group of gamers get together and review different table-top RPGs. But we don’t just tell you about the games, we show you how they play. We’ll try out the rules, we’ll test drive the setting, and at the end of the adventure we’ll hand out Experience Points and see if the system levels up.

We take the crits so you don’t have to.

(Disclaimer: Free League has supplied us with a review copy of the rulebook)

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