Swords, Boards and Beards

This week Orky Adam bares his soul and shares with us a little bit about himself. Adam breaks down what he loves about both RPGs and wargaming, which itches the different games scratch and how you can try them out for yourself even if you’ve never tried them before

Plus, Allegedly, Hobbit Corner & Orky Adam’s beard care tips

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week Adam & Adam get political. With the US Election & Guy Fawkes night falling on the same day this year we break down video games, board games, TV shows, movies, books and TTRPGs you can play, watch and read that have a Political leaning. We also offer some counter programming if you’d rather leave politics out of your entertainment

Plus, Allegedly, Hobbit Corner & the usual gubbins

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week, Orky Adam is back!! We’re rejoined by infamous friend of the show @kevinshouldbewriting who sits down with us to rewind our State of the Film Industry conversation and delve further into the topic. We hear Orky Adam’s take on things answer some listener questions and debate where things are headed

Plus “Where’s Jayce (formally of this parish)”, Allegedly and Hobbit Corner the sing along extended edition

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week, Sister Adam is joined by infamous friend of the show @kevinshouldbewriting who sits down to join in for a spiritual sequel to our State of Play gaming episode. This time they look at the state of the film industry and discuss what they think has changed in the time they have known each other

Plus “Where’s Jayce (formally of this parish)”, Allegedly and Hobbit Corner the sing along edition

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week the “Adams” are joined by friend of the show Sam Martin aka TikTok’s @SamMakingMead aka The Arcane Alchemist who sits down to chat with us about his love of D&D, role playing, his experiences of his many character deaths and of course his very delicious Mead.

Plus Hobbits, Allegedly and Orky Adam challenges Sam to a Warhammer edition of “Name that Character”

Sam can be found on TikTok @sammakingmead & at www.arcanealchemist.co.uk

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week, the “Adams” come out of Hypersleep early to investigate a signal that MU/TH/UR has found. Following the recent release of Alien Romulus Orky Adam & Sister Adam break down the Alien franchise chatting through how they discovered it, their favourite movies, the video games, and their experiences of playing the TTRPG and how that has impacted their experiences of the wider Weyland Yutani universe

Plus Hobbits, Allegedly and more

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week, Orky Adam, Sister Adam & our special guest Sharon return to complete our adventure in writing backstories for our TTRPG characters. We continue to chat through our ideas on the best ways we’ve built characters and ask what is a good starting point if you’ve never done it before. We also wax lyrical about campaign memories and how backstory played a part in memorable moments around the table.

Plus Allegedly and our other usual gubbins.

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

This week, Orky Adam, Sister Adam & our special guest Sharon delve into the world of making  backstories for our TTRPG characters. We chat through how we build our character backstories and why we do it that way. We share our favourite characters we've built and offer you player and GM tips as to how you can get started.

Plus more Hobbit Corner, Allegedly and the usual gubbins.

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins Copyright: Charles R. Green

This week Adam is back and we're going bad. Following a listener request we answer the question “What makes a good bad guy?”

We break down our favourite villains, discuss what makes them great, hear from listeners about their choices and talk about how to make your own homebrew baddies, as well as how to run pre made villains for your TTRPGs

Original Music Copyright: Alex Priest

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins Copyright: Charles R. Green

This week we are down 2 Beards* but we are joined by our 2nd guest of the season as we discuss how to approach, plan and run an RPG for just one other player. We chat through the pros and cons, the differences to running a full table and the changes you have to make for just one player character

Plus, Hobbit Corner, “Allegedly” and some Nepotism thrown in for good measure 

*miss you Jayce, get well soon Adam