Tag: Book Club

Liminal Inspirations Ep.63 (with C.K.McDonnell) (Part 2)

Continuing to find inspiration from urban horror/fantasy, in this episode we look at The Stranger Times and Children of the Stones

In this episode, we continue looking for inspiration from urban horror/fantasy.

C.K. McDonnell joins the book club to talk about his career and his series of novels set in Manchester, The Stranger Times, about a newspaper covering the supernatural. There are three books in the series, with another coming in a couple of months, and a podcast that supports the novels.

Dirk and Blythy are in the Las O’Gowrie discussing the seventies children’s TV Classic, The Children of the Stones.

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Star Frontiers (with Ben Riggs) Ep.61 (Part 1)

This time we look at a TSR classic and consider the history of the company post Gygax

Join the Galactic Legions with Dirk and Blythy as we explore Star Frontiers.

Introduction: An apology for the misreading of the shrine last time. The background to Star Frontiers as a setting explained.

Book Club: Ben Riggs joins Dirk in the Zoom of Role-Playing Rambling to talk about the history of TSR as explained in his book. Slaying the Dragon.

Daily Dwarf: The triumphant return of the Daily Dwarf essay looking at how Imagine magazine covered Star Frontiers.

Speed-Rating: Judge Blythy and Dirk give the low-down on the game including the highlights and the things that don’t quite work.

Save for Half: an advert for our friends at The Save for Half podcast

I’ll get mi coat: Monster of the Week and Planescape, our latest obsessions

Outro: Virtual Grogmeet, the Book Club and join us on Patreon.

I guess I was Never There – new EP from Omari (Dirk Jnr)

RPG Book Club GROGPOD Extra (with Gareth Hanrahan)

Welcome, this is an extra-GROGPOD which is from a live recording made at this year’s virtual GROGMEET. Every month, on the first Sunday, the GROGSQUAD meet to discuss books from The Great Library of RPGs. This time we read The Gutter Prayer and invited Gareth Hanrahan for a Q&A session.

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