It’s the Hallowe’en episode! Witches, Great Old Ones, vampires and other ghoulish things are the topic of conversation – and we find some candy you may think twice about eating in the Dragon’s Hoard. Intro 0:00:00 Todd Hughes Brains for Dinner, Brains for Lunch Roll For Initiative Website Roll For Initiative Twitter Roll For
This week, the RFI Staff discusses the role of a magic user in the party, and it’s not just lobbing fireballs behind the rest of the party. A caller from a galaxy far far away ask what is everyone’s favorite monster. We take a look at a magic item worthy of Ned Flander’s Leftorium, the
For my birthday this year, we decided to get our NY gamer friends together and have our own mini “convention.” Tavis Allison, Andrew Sternick, and Gabe Garner came out to GM, and we played AD&D 1E, Top Secret, Blood Bowl, Settlers of Catan, D&D 3.5, Space Hulk, Battletech, and threw in a mass Tower of
Does THACO have a place in first edition? What’s the best way to run a game at a convention? What’s up with the mind flayer? Does DC Comics owe Jayson an apology for the AD&D comic books? Listen and find out… Intro 0:00 RFI Facebook Page www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast RFI Forums rfipodcast.com/show/forum/ RFI Twitter twitter.com/RFIpodcast/ RFI Spreadshirt
EpicWords.com creator Jonathan Cruz joins us this week as we talk about everyone’s favorite option from the DMG – psionics! We discuss the when, where, why and how of this love it or hate it system, and encounter a surprise in the Creature Feature Theater. IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE FREE LAPTOP SLEEVES: The free laptop
We welcome Patrick Murphy, AKA “The Mad Irishman” this week. Patrick is known throughout the gaming community for his old school (and new as well) character sheets for myriad systems, including 1E AD&D, of course. Patrick comes on to talk with us about creating new supplements and materials for old school games, and we geek
This week we welcome Michael and Colin from the Dead Games Society. More plans are made for our old-school gaming convention Low Tech Con, and we talk about crossover games. Get some Gamma World in your AD&D! How about sending your paladin to Boot Hill? media.blubrry.com/rfipodcast/archive.org/download/RollForInitiativeVol1/RFI029.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Klerikos, clericus, clerk, clergy, cleric… it’s one of the most storied words in the Romance languages, and one of the most versatile classes in AD&D. We examine clerics, from their roles in an adventuring party to the rationale (or irrationality, depending on your viewpoint) of prohibitions on edged weapons. Also this week, a classic Monster
Julie Hoverson joins us from 19 Nocturne Boulevard this week as we talk about traps, tricks, and ten foot poles. Jim & Debbie from Gamers Rule show us The Ultimate Unofficial Collector’s Guide to AD&D, and we smash Nick’s monster to bits in the Creature Feature Theater. Errata – we mention the new book from
We’re back from Gen Con, and the glow will take days to wear off. This issue is devoted to our interview with Frank Mentzer. Dig in and enjoy. Show notes: Chad from Dead Games Society joined us for the interview, you can find their site at dgsociety.com/ media.blubrry.com/rfipodcast/archive.org/download/RollForInitiativeVol1/RFI026.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We’ll be doing ongoing “special dispatches” from Gen Con from now until Sunday. They’ll be going into the regular podcast feed media.blubrry.com/rfipodcast/archive.org/download/RollForInitiativeVol1/Gen_Con_2010_-_Special_Dispatch_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
It’s just a few days until the start of Gen Con 2010, and we’re raring to go. This week, we discuss XP – when to pump it up and damp it down, splitting evenly among the party vs. calculating per character, and the great debate over 1gp = 1xp. Also, more about the goblin spider,
Seventy-eight percent of all adventures start in a tavern (according to a statistic I just made up on the spot), but how do you bring a tavern or an inn to life? Also in this week’s issue, Sage Advice talks about level limits (again!), we build our artifact in the Adventure Construction Set, bravely resist
Issue 23 – and you know what that means… CONSPIRACIES! Table Manners is about introducing conspiracies into your game We introduce a new segment – the Adventure Construction Set From the Dragon’s Hoard, we pull out the Sword of Sharpness DM Nick runs the Creature Feature Theater And in the Poll of the Week, we
AD&D is a human-sized world, where players are often rewarded by the rules for playing humans. In issue 22, we talk about playing the most dangerous animal of all – MAN. Table Manners – Making humans enticing to play The Dragon’s Hoard – Ring of Animal Friendship Creature Feature Theater – DM Vince leads us
