I am joined again by Darkfluid of the Silver Key podcast (⁠https://darkfluid.substack.com/) ⁠who explains the game Rolemaster to me. The second part has been Skill & Arms Law. We have plans to revisit this topic to discuss Spell Law and run some combat challenges.

Please also check out the recent podcast from Nerd's RPG Variety Cast where Jason discusses Rolemaster with GMShadow (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/jason376/episodes/S2E24-Rolemaster-Ramble-with-GMsShadow-e30fld4)

You can find Rolemaster products on DTRPG for later editions (1994, 1999). We refence mainly about the 1984 edition (RM2)

Please check out our YouTube channel - The GMologist Presents (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@thegmologist)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today's art is the Cover Art from the RM2 Arms & Claw Law book by Agnus McBride. Thanks TJ for the intro/outro music.

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I am joined by Darkfluid of the Silver Key podcast (https://darkfluid.substack.com/) who explains the game Rolemaster to me. The first part has been Basic Rules and Character Creation & Concepts. We have plans to revisit this topic and run some skills challenges & combats.

Please also check out the recent podcast from Nerd's RPG Variety Cast where Jason discusses Rolemaster with GMShadow (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/jason376/episodes/S2E24-Rolemaster-Ramble-with-GMsShadow-e30fld4)

You can find Rolemaster products on DTRPG for later editions (1994, 1999). We refence mainly about the 1984 edition (RM2)

Please check out our YouTube channel - The GMologist Presents (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@thegmologist)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today's art is the Cover Art from the RM2 boxed set & Character Law & Campaign Law book by Agnus McBride.

You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/Th-role-playing?keyword=eldrich%20tales)eGmologistPresents

I talk about the games that I have run both regularly and as one-shots this quarter. Also a call in and response from MW Lewis of the Worlds of MW Lewis Podcast (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/mwlewis/episodes/316-Fantasy-Literature-Review-of-The-Well-at-the-Worlds-End-e2imf99). Check out the podcast linked above for his discussion about William Morris (https://fantasy.bnf.fr/en/understand/william-morris-writer-thousand-faces/#:~:text=His%20stories%20ranged%20from%20historical-fantasy%20novels%20like%20The,the%20fantasy%20texts%20that%20occupied%20his%20final%20years.)

The Games:

Traveller (https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/collections/traveller-rpgs)

Twilight 2000 (https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/twilight-2000/)

Hyperborea (https://www.hyperborea.tv/)

Corsairs of Cthulhu (https://www.newcometgames.com/product-page/corsairs-of-cthulhu-preorder-book; https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-getting-started/)

Enemy Within, Warhammer Fantasy RPG (https://cubicle7games.com/our-games/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay)

Blood Lords, Pathfinder 2 (https://paizo.com/pathfinder; https://paizo.com/store/pathfinder/adventures/adventurePath/bloodLords)

Masks of Nyarlathotep, Cohors Cthulhu (https://www.chaosium.com/masks-of-nyarlathotep-slipcase-set/; https://modiphius.net/en-us/pages/cohors-cthulhu)

The One Ring (https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/the-one-ring/)

AD&D 1e, Against the Slave Lords (https://www.dmsguild.com/product/169626/A0A4-Against-the-Slave-Lords-1e)

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Mothership (https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg)

Iron Kingdoms (5e) (https://home.privateerpress.com/2021/01/22/return-to-the-iron-kingdoms-the-ikrpg-is-now-5e-ready/)

Mausritter (https://mausritter.com/)

Alternity (1997) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternity)

Operation: Whitebox (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/196284/owb001-wwii-operation-whitebox)

Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying (https://www.marvel.com/rpg)

Please check out our YouTube channel - The GMologist Presents (⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@thegmologist)⁠⁠⁠⁠

Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez.

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I have a great conversation with Arlen Walker of Live From Pellam's Wasteland (https://www.youtube.com/@LivefromPellamsWasteland)

about our current The One Ring game. We discuss the current rules set from Free League and previous editions of the game!

https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/the-one-ring/

Please check out our YouTube channel - The GMologist Presents (⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@thegmologist)⁠⁠⁠

Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez.

You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/Th-role-playing?keyword=eldrich%20tales)eGmologistPresents

I have a great conversation with Joe Salvador of Raven God Games (https://www.ravengodgames.com/ ).

Check out his ongoing Reaver Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ravengodgames/reaver-sword-and-sorcery-role-playing-game-0/description)

and his Eldritch Tales Products on drivethru (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/250356/eldritch-tales-lovecraftian-white-box

Please check out our YouTube channel - The GMologist Presents (⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@thegmologist)⁠⁠

Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez.

You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/Th-role-playing?keyword=eldrich%20tales)eGmologistPresents

Inspired by a message from BJ Boyd of the Arcane Alienist podcast (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanealienist), I talk about Metallica and that connection to H.P. Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu. It's pretty cool! Also a Metal Minute on the band Pantera - The band that saved Metal in the 90s IMO.

Also, some gaming talk.

Please check out our YouTube channel - The GMologist Presents (www.youtube.com/@thegmologist)

Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresents

Other samples from looperman Free Loops & Samples (https://www.looperman.com/)

I am joined by Arlen Walker of Live from Pellam's Wasteland (https://www.youtube.com/@LivefromPellamsWasteland) to talk about our recent forays into games set in Roman Times. We also talk about Call of Cthulhu and Cohors Cthulhu, rules sets used in a couple of games we played this week.

https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-getting-started/

https://modiphius.net/en-us/pages/cohors-cthulhu

Also a reading from the book of Aput the Skinner detailing the further escapades of my Hyperborea, " Down and Out in Fort Thunder" group and the Metal Minute featuring Metallica!

Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresents

Other samples from looperman Free Loops & Samples (https://www.looperman.com/), and StudioKolomna from Pixaby "Creepy"

Just me this time. I catch us all up on the games that I run currently and mention a few I play.

Monday - Traveller, Coyote & Crow

Tuesday - Twilight:2000, Tales of the Valiant

Wednesday - Corsairs of Cthulhu, Hyperborea

Thursday - Pathfinder 2, Warhammer Fantasy

Friday - Cohors Cthulhu

Saturday - The One Ring

Sunday - AD&D 1e

Also the Metal Minute where I talk about the album Hemispheres by Rush

And finally, another Tales from Fort Thunder, a reading about happenings in from our bi-weekly Hyperborea game.

Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresentsOther samples from looperman Free Loops & Samples (https://www.looperman.com/), and StudioKolomna from Pixaby "Creepy"

I get together with Steve Grodzicki from Pickpocket Press to discuss Tales of Argosa (Low-Fantasy Gaming 2nd edition) and other games.

Check out Pickpocket Press

https://lowfantasygaming.com/

Other Games:

Primeval Thule https://www.sasquatchgamestudio.com/products/primeval-thule/

Harnworld

https://columbiagames.com/harnworld/

Today's clip art is the cover for Tales of Argosa with the cover art done by Luke Eidenshink. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email ([email protected]) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresents

Stefan Surrat of Dragon Peak Publishing (https://www.dragonpeakpublishing.com/) joins me to talk about Conventions in 2025, and his crowdfunding success and approaches. And another Metal Minute! Remember the Filthy Fifteen?

Check out his latest Crowdfunding Venture - The Conquest of Chaos on Backerkit

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dragon-peak-publishing/the-conquest-of-chaos-a-level-0-5-dcc-campaign

Stefan will also be at PeliCON. If you are in the Galveston Area, check it out!

https://tabletop.events/conventions/the-pelicon-2025

We also talked about a couple cool DCC products:

Academia Arcana RPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/445345/academia-arcana-rpg-ashcan-edition-dungeon-crawl-classics-dcc

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/502566/dungeon-dwelling-creatures-quick-start-rules

Both are Quickstarts on DTRPG.