Down a Patrick, Matt and Art remember that Black Lodge Trivia Night is a TTRPG Actual Play podcast first and dive into a zero session for Swords of the Serpentine from Pelgrane Press. The first half is more of a Bookhouse Boys discussion of the setting and the Gumshoe system as a whole and the second half covers the creation of Art's PC.

Quick note... this is not going to start immediately. There will be a stretch in the relatively near future (probably November-ish?) where it's just going to be Matt and Art and they wanted to have something at the ready they were both excited about.

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Recorded on 8/21/25

Swords of the Serpentine: https://pelgranepress.com/product/swords-of-the-serpentine/

Intro Theme: Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod.

In session music provided by Tabletop RPG Music: www.patreon.com/tabletoprpgmusic

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:02:36) Trivia

(00:06:40) General Discussion of Swords of the Serpentine and Gumshoe

(00:53:28) Session Zero Character Creation

(01:51:44) Post-Session thoughts