Molten Sulfur Podcast

This is part 4 of a 4-part series about the wars of Julius Caesar. The focus is on moments where individual people impacted the outcomes of battles and entire campaigns. They’re perfect to drop into your game in place of playing out entire battles! In this episode, we conclude our story with Caesar's African and Spanish wars.

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In 1931, the International Olympic Committee awarded Berlin the privilege of hosting the 1936 Summer Olympics. Two years later, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The 1936 Olympic Games had intense geopolitical, propagandistic, and ethical components, and are terrific gaming fodder!

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Let’s talk about cave formations, more properly called ‘speleothems’, and how we can use them to make underground adventures awesome. We’ll focus on examples that are easy to describe (so they don’t slow down play), good combat terrain, evocative of something cool, or otherwise immediately gameable!

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The 1808 shipwreck of the Russian schooner Nikolai on the shores of the Quileute nation (in what is today Washington state) is remarkable primarily for its aftermath: the collective efforts of the Quileute, Hoh, and Makah nations to deal with 22 armed and desperate shipwrecked Russian sailors.

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European folklore is full of odd characters that are neither truly hero nor villain. These characters can make wonderful supporting NPCs for an ongoing fantasy campaign. We’ll look at five: a wizard who weighs virtue, an assassin with poisonous skin, a doctor who can rewrite personalities, a magician with a dangerous sense of humor, and a ragged hanger-on who’s much more than he appears.

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This is part 3 of a 4-part series about the wars of Julius Caesar. The focus is on moments where individual people impacted the outcomes of battles and entire campaigns. They’re perfect to drop into your game in place of playing out entire battles! In this episode, we wrap up Caesar’s Civil War against his former ally Pompey.

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The Akodessewa Fetish Market, in Lomé, Togo, is a place to buy talismans, pieces of animals, and other objects important to the practice of Vodoun. It's colorful, memorable, and very gameable!

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From the 8th century to the late Middle Ages, the West African savanna was a gold-producing region for the distant Mediterranean. Vast sums of metal flowed along sinuous trade routes into the Islamic world and Europe. As the gold traveled, the merchants carrying it knew less and less about the source of this wealth. By the time it arrived in trade hubs like Cairo or Venice, the tales told of the source of the gold were tall indeed!

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The ballad ‘Lulie Vars’, based on the 1916 murder of Lula Viers by her lover, is a jarring case. It’s got a particularly heinous killing, a unique getaway, a folk ballad, and a truly unusual way to seek justice for the crime.

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This is part 2 of a 4-part series about the wars of Julius Caesar. The focus is on moments where individual people impacted the outcomes of battles and entire campaigns. They’re perfect to drop into your game in place of playing out entire battles! In this episode, we wrap up Caesar’s conquest of Gaul and segue into his Civil War against Pompey.

A full transcript of this episode is available at MoltenSulfur.com