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As promised, Stephen Smith of Purple Druid fame cordially joins me to talk shop and to tell us about the World of Weirth - his project based off of the Low Fantasy Gaming engine but adapted with AD&D and OD&D influences - and some of the mechanics and themes (like its changes to the magic system) that set it apart and lend it its intrigue.

Interested in the World of Weirth, in Low Fantasy Gaming, or in AD&D or OD&D as inspiring therein? Or do you have a setting, supplement, or zine that you'd like to tell me about on the air? Tell me on Anchor! https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail

Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).

 - - Show Notes - - 

00:00:00 - Theme

00:00:30 - Introduction: World of Weirth!

00:06:20 - AD&D Resurgence?

00:11:37 - On Vancian Magic

00:13:31 - Magic in Weirth

00:15:28 - Post-Post-Apocalypse and the Appendix N of Weirth

00:19:17 - Magical Paucity versus Abundance

00:21:37 - Low Fantasy Gaming - Mostly

00:23:06 - Creating a Magic User in Weirth

00:26:27 - Dark & Deviant Magic

00:34:24 - No Clerics in Weirth (Strict Alignment Records must be kept!)

00:39:04 - Camp Anderson or Camp Moorcock?

00:43:55 - Mechanizing Alignment

00:48:13 - Classes in Weirth

00:53:23 - Itch.io: Current and Future Projects

00:57:06 - The Undereground Architect's Dungeon Ecology

00:59:41 - Recap & Final Words

01:02:44 - Promises for Chainmail!

01:05:22 - Outro

01:05:35 - Theme & Legal

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World of Weirth Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldofWeirth

World of Weirth Blog: http://journal.stephenpsmith.com/world-of-weirth/

World of Weirth Itch.IO: https://world-of-weirth.itch.io/

Wargame Culture: https://www.youtube.com/user/atStephen

Low Fantasy Gaming: https://lowfantasygaming.com/

Jason Hobbs' The Lost Lake: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJihWQoKqzZCK6h6LbGkaoGSdpj8Zype

The Free, Brian Ruckley: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23204200-the-free

Moo-Hoo!: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2372/62984/