For our first recording of the new year, we bring you a special interview with Larry Elmore. Notes: Larry Elmore Interview Larry Elmore’s Website – larryelmore.com/ Smirth – Dragon Issue 55 Page 74 Donato  Giancola  – www.donatoart.com/index.html Defenders of the Realms boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65532/defenders-of-the-realm

This week RFI unearths arcana and discusses the Cavalier. Is this class a worthy addition to your game or is it a lawful stupid paladin on a horse? Find out in this weeks issue of Roll For Initiative. Intro 00:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook PageRead More

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We’re starting a new semi-regular section, the DM Challenge. Give this week’s special insert a listen for the first DM Challenge, and call the voice mail with your best answers to the challenge! Our voicemail is (570) 865-4210. (Challenge was canceled, no winner was decided)

Gamers often complain about being railroaded in a campaign, but giving them complete and total freedom can just as easily derail game. This week on Roll For Initiative, we talk about the ultimate free flowing campaign, the sandbox campaign. And we have a special guest DM, as  Stephan McClanahan joins us for a very stickyRead More

This week Roll for Initiative has a very special guest – Hardcore History podcast host Dan Carlin. Ancient and medieval societies are discussed, as well as real life counterparts of AD&D classes. Also, this weeks Creature Feature Theater has roots in ancient Greece, as we discuss caryatid columns. All of this and more is inRead More

Just because it’s in the book doesn’t mean it’s written in stone. This week RFI discusses house rules. Also on the agenda is a listener question on how best to fortify a castle. And Creature Feature Theater returns this week with a guest DM. All of this and more is on this weeks Roll ForRead More

Is this talk of the Illusionist being an unplayable class an illusion? What’s this about an extradimensional Pokéball? And which one of the RFI hosts needed to “Rally for Sanity” after last weeks Cthululu discussion? Find out on this weeks issues of Roll for Initiative. Intro – 0:00:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll ForRead More

It’s the Hallowe’en episode! Witches, Great Old Ones, vampires and other ghoulish things are the topic of conversation – and we find some candy you may think twice about eating in the Dragon’s Hoard. Intro 0:00:00 Todd Hughes Brains for Dinner, Brains for Lunch   Roll For Initiative Website Roll For Initiative Twitter Roll ForRead More

This week, the RFI Staff discusses the role of a magic user in the party, and it’s not just lobbing fireballs behind the rest of the party. A caller from a galaxy far far away ask what is everyone’s favorite monster. We take a look at a magic item worthy of Ned Flander’s Leftorium, theRead More