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Phantom Thoughts

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Capturing the gaming ghosts in my brain and rendering them in audio form. Like if Ghostbusters used a reel-to-reel instead of that foot triggered trap thingy.
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Episodes

032 Dungeons and Denizens: Procedures, Plot, and the Latest Poop

Phantom Feedback from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast, another Denizen of the North, and discussion on #dungeon23, procedures, plot in OSR style games, and brief talk on the OneD&D drama. - Mentioned podcasts: - Nerds' RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/ - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail -

Dec 22, 202227 min

031 Procedures, Orcs, and Joe

Call ins from Joe from the Hindsightless podcast (link below), another Denizen of the North, and I ask can using procedures in RPGs go too far? - Hindsightless (with Joe) https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9

Dec 15, 202215 min

030 Skills and Chill(y)

Something on Twitter caught my attention. - A call from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast. - Skills in OD&D style OSR games. - Another Denizen of the North. - #dungeon23 substack entry: https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23 - Nerds' RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - Red Dice Diaries https://anchor.fm/the-red-dice-diaries - On the 12/8/22 episode of Plundergrounds, Ray Otus talks about #dungeon23 in more detail https://anchor.fm/plundergrounds/episodes/357-dung...

Dec 08, 202211 min

029 And Yet

Phantom Feedback from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast - Some final thoughts on OctOSR and themed months for podcasts - Start of a December-long feature "Denizens of the North" - Find Jason at Nerds RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 -

Dec 01, 202213 min

028 Inside the beast

I discuss what valuable things might be inside large critters. Also a call from Jason at Nerds RPG Variety Cast - Check out the 1 Player podcast episode of So, You've Been Eaten https://1playerpodcast.com/e/1p-275-so-you-ve-been-eaten/ - And the So, Yiou've Been Eaten kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ludicreations/so-youve-been-eaten - Listen to Jason here Nerds RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 -

Nov 17, 202212 min

027 What R We Doing

My take on the "R" in OSR and calls from Jason and Joe! Check out their padcasts, linked below: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - Hindsightless (with Joe) https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 -

Nov 10, 202219 min

026 More Rule Zero

I expound a little more on Rule Zero, what I think it's sometimes perceived to be and what I believe it is. Also a contender to end the Anchorpocalypse.

Nov 03, 20228 min

025 OctOSR Phantom Feedback: Theater of the Railroad

Call ins from Spencer aka Free Thrall from Keep off the Borderlands podcast about aphasia - Joe from Hindsightless about maps and minis - and Daniel from Bandit's Keep about railroading - Links to their podcasts are below - Keep off the Borderlands (with Spenser aka FreeThrall) https://anchor.fm/free-thrall - Hindsightless (with Joe) https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/ - Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RP...

Oct 31, 202210 min

024 OctOSR Rule Zero and Mean Gary

My take on why Rule Zero is. And why does Gary Gygax seem so mean to players in the AD&D DM Guide? Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/ - Dekahedron https...

Oct 30, 20228 min

023 OctOSR Phantom Feedback - DM Notes and Theatre of the Mind

Calls from Jason of the Nerds RPG Variety Cast on how he manages his DM Notes and using Theatre of the Mind to run RPGs - Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/...

Oct 24, 202210 min

022 OctOSR - Theatre of the Mind vs Maps and Minis

Exploring the notion of Theatre of the Mind RPG play that seems very widespread in OSR groups - Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/ - Dekahedron https://anch...

Oct 20, 202210 min

021 OctOSR - Call-ins - Rulings and Player Skill

Call-in from Evil Jeff of Minions and Musings and Jason from Nerds' RPG Variety Cast about Rulings over rules and Jason on Player skill - Check out their podcasts on #OctOSR - Minions and Musings https://anchor.fm/eviljeff - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a...

Oct 17, 202223 min

20 OctOSR Campaigns

Campaigns are a staple of OSR play. But how many ways are there to do a campaign? And is railroading always bad? Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/ - Dekahe...

Oct 15, 202210 min

019 OctOSR - Player Skill

Player skill in OSR games - Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/ - Dekahedron https://anchor.fm/jpgill - Minions and Musings https://anchor.fm/eviljeff -...

Oct 13, 20226 min

018 OctOSR - Call-ins - This is our (procedural) domain

Call-ins covering domain play, the main character in OSR campaigns, and does rules light mean procedural heavy - Evil Jeff's take on ruling over rules: https://anchor.fm/eviljeff/episodes/OSRtober---My-explanation-of-Rulings-over-Rules-e1oln46 - Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear...

Oct 10, 202222 min

017 OctOSR - Domain Play

Talking about domain play as an extension of the party centered play of the OSR. OctOSR related episodes: https://anchor.fm/rob-c/episodes/OSR-October-Thursday-Theories---Life-is-Cheap-e1osfad https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/OctOSR---Day-Three-Heroic--not-Super-Heroic-e1oct1f Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR: - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringm...

Oct 08, 20229 min

016 OctOSR - Old School Characters

A brief talk about old school characters - Check out these other podcasts participating in #OctOSR - Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 - The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/

Oct 06, 20228 min

015 Call-ins: Critical Hits and Rulings over Rules

Call ins about Critical Hits and Rulings over Rules - Thanks to Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast, Kevin of the Redcaps Podcast and Joe of the Hindsightless Podcast - Check out thier links below as well as links podcasts participating in OctOSR - https://anchor.fm/jason376 - https://anchor.fm/theredcaps - https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 - Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail - Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-c - Bandit's Keep (with Daniel)...

Oct 03, 202219 min

014 It's #OctOSR!!

OctOSR is a month long celebration of old school game play Today I talk about Rulings not Rules Check out OctOSR related content from: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail https://anchor.fm/rob-c https://anchor.fm/theredcaps https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/

Oct 01, 202211 min

013 Call ins- Cards & Crits Meta and More OSR

A call-in bonanza! Using cards as randomizers, critical hits for fighters, metagaming and metacurrency, more on the positive and negative people in the OSR spheres Credit to Rob of Down in a Heap podcast for his podcasts talking about magical weapons and crits https://anchor.fm/rob-c Thanks to my callers: Jason - https://anchor.fm/jason376 Kevin - https://anchor.fm/theredcaps Spencer aka Free Thrall - https://anchor.fm/free-thrall

Sep 29, 202252 min

012 Critical call ins (magic, Space Kings, OSR)

Goblin's Henchman episode on 'magic reservoirs' - https://anchor.fm/ghench/episodes/130---unusable-magic-system--updates-e1nnic8 Goblin's Henchman podcast - https://anchor.fm/ghench Redcaps podcast (Kevin) - https://anchor.fm/theredcaps Hindsightless (Joe) - https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 Keep off the Borderlands (Spencer/Free Thrall) - https://anchor.fm/free-thrall Wobblies and Wizards - https://anchor.fm/wobbliesandwizards

Sep 22, 202238 min

011 Space Kings RPG and Call in from Joe

An overview of the Space kings RPG and a Call in from Joe from Hindsightless https://supertry.itch.io/spacekings https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 Message me on Anchor https://anchor.fm/the-pink-phantom/ Email me at thepinkphantom1@gmail.com Tweet at me twitter.com/ThePinkPhantom

Sep 15, 202241 min

010 Call ins and More on Metagaming

Jason's Google Voicemail 540-445-1145 Jason's Speakpipe https://www.speakpipe.com/NerdsRPGVarietyCast Nerd RPG VarietyCast Anchor page https://anchor.fm/jason376 Blogpost with Anchorites' contact info https://nerdusinterruptus.blogspot.com/2022/08/anchorites.html

Sep 07, 202241 min

009 Call ins Player Skill Metagaming System Mastery

A discussion of Metagaming, Player Skill, and System Mastery Inspired by this episode of Clerics wear Ringmail podcast https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Regarding-Player-Skill-e1mse9p

Sep 01, 202219 min

008 Grok, Call-ins, and OctOSR-Redux

A brief overview of parts of the Grok?! RPG, Call-ins from various Anchorite luminaries, more talk about highlighting old school RPG games/play in October Find Grok?! at https://lestortoise.itch.io/grok https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/395261/GROK?term=grok Check out the caller's podcasts! Redcaps Podcast Hindsightless Clerics Wear Ringmail Down in a Heap Nerd's RPG Variety Cast You can find links to their (and others') Anchor podcast pages (which contain links to other podcast host links) a...

Aug 25, 202243 min

007 More Anchor, More Guns, and OSRtober

Calls in from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Podcast on the Anchorpocalypse and Suns My take on the potential for increasing awareness and positive promotion of the OSR in October

Aug 18, 202225 min

006 Guns, Inked Adventures, Podinbox

Guns in D&D, Podinbox hosting, Inked Adventures Map & Dice playing cards https://www.etsy.com/listing/526074766/inked-adventures-map-dice-playing-cards?click_key=e2fabe9eab380782ebca2f760560a8e1d72ad1db%3A526074766&click_sum=53e6838e&ref=user_profile&bes=1 https://www.podinbox.com/

Aug 12, 202217 min

005 A Call In! and Anchorpocalypse

Calls from Jason of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast (https://anchor.fm/jason376) and talk about the Anchorpocalypse and potential hosting options

Aug 04, 202222 min

004 Dungeons & Debacles and fantasy wargaming

Covering the Dungeons and Debacles actual play podcast http://dungeonsanddebaclespodcast.com/ Also discussing the Campaign Carnival put on by World of Weirth https://world-of-weirth.itch.io/campaign-carnival-2022 https://www.youtube.com/user/atStephen/featured https://twitter.com/WorldofWeirth http://journal.stephenpsmith.com/blog/

Jul 28, 20226 min

003 3d6 in Order

How prevalent is 3d6 in order in D&D? What does "in order" mean? And what does it mean to the ability of the characters created?

Jul 21, 202213 min
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