Roll For Initiative

RFI has returned from their Gen Con hiatus, to bring you your weekly dose of 1st Edition AD&D goodness. We talk about our Gen Con experience and have an extended edition of Sage Advice. We then talk about the usefulness of secondary skills and how to flesh out your characters with them. We weight inRead More

Intro – 0:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook Page www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast OSR Gaming Forums www.osrgaming.org RFI Actual Play rfiactualplay.tk/ D20 Radio Forums www.d20radio.com/forums/ DM Vince’s Blog www.theevilgm.com/       Sage Advice – 4:16.000 Seeking Sage Advice? Contact RFI via our call in line 570-865-4210 or Via E-mail RFIStaff@gmail.com Grappling, Overbearing, Pummeling Rules – Dungeon Master’s GuideRead More

Intro – 0:00.000     Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook Page www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast OSR Gaming Forums www.osrgaming.org RFI Actual Play rfiactualplay.tk/ D20 Radio Forums www.d20radio.com/forums/ DM Vince’s Blog www.theevilgm.com/     Sage Advice – 4:00.059 Seeking Sage Advice? Contact RFI via our call in line 570-865-4210 or Via E-mail RFIStaff@gmail.com     Table Manners Falling DamageRead More

Intro – 0:00.000     Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook Page www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast OSR Gaming Forums www.osrgaming.org RFI Actual Play rfiactualplay.tk/ D20 Radio Forums www.d20radio.com/forums/ DM Vince’s Blog www.theevilgm.com/     Sage Advice – 10:23.070 Seeking Sage Advice? Contact RFI via our call in line 570-865-4210 or Via E-mail RFIStaff@gmail.com   Table Manners  – Lethal DamageRead More

Roll For Initiative is reunited, with the return of DM Jayson, bringing you your weekly dose of old school gaming. The various flavors of Monks are discussed in Table Manners. We talk about Morale checks in Game Mechanics. Algoids join us in Creature Feature Theater and we stumble across a Bag of Beams in TheRead More

RFI returns once again to give you your weekly fix of old school gaming goodness. This week, we talk about a class that is one part Legolas and one part Rambo, the Ranger. Our next segment involves segments as we break down the rules for actions in combat. The Pech appears in our Creature FeatureRead More

RFI is back and this week and The Devil made us do it, because the topic of this week’s issue is devils. We give advice on setting the mood and how to roleplay a devil. Asmodeus makes an appearance in The Creature Feature Theater. We even show demons some love when we talk about TheRead More

This week RFI is back and joined by a very special guest, Dragonlance author Tracy Hickman! And Tracy joins us for a round table discussion on conventions. We’ll talk Hickman’s Killer Breakfast, XDM, swap stories for conventions past, convention do’ and don’ts and more. You’ll definitely want to listen to this very special convention editionRead More

Intro- 0:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast Roll For Initiative Forums http://rfipodcast.com/show/forum/ OSR Gaming Forums www.orsgaming.org RFI Actual Play http://rfiactualplay.tk/ D20 Radio Forums http://www.d20radio.com/forums/ DM Vince’s Blog http://www.theevilgm.com/ Sage Advice – 4:16.833 Seeking Sage Advice? Contact RFI via our call in line 570-865-4210 or Via E-mail RFIStaff@gmail.com “What is Dungeons and Dragons” by JohnRead More

This week on RFI, we discuss the Dungeons and Dragons documentary, The Dungeon Masters. Is this something worth watching or is it a Mazes and Monsters for a new generation? Listen in and find out in this week’s issue of Roll For Initiative. Intro – 0:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast RollRead More

I-CON 30, held in Stony Brook, NY, was a rousing success, and a ton of fun. One of the most poignant and fascinating moments was when Frank Mentzer gave a talk remembering his old friend and TSR boss Gary Gygax. We hope you’ll enjoy listening to Frank speak. Have a happy Easter, and see youRead More

Intro 0:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast Roll For Initiative Forums http://rfipodcast.com/show/forum/ Roll For Initiative Forum on Dragonsfoot.org www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=76&sid=7f73db353f9aad6e577327841f11da59 RFI Actual Play http://rfiactualplay.tk/ D20 Radio Forums http://www.d20radio.com/forums/ DM Vince’s Blog http://www.theevilgm.com/ Table Manners – Martial Arts Fighting 1:16.142 Oriental Adventures – pg 101 Game Mechanics – Spies – 29:44.322 Dungeon Master’sRead More

Intro 0:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/RFIpodcast Roll For Initiative Forums http://rfipodcast.com/show/forum/ Roll For Initiative Forum on Dragonsfoot.org www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=76&sid=7f73db353f9aad6e577327841f11da59 RFI Actual Play http://rfiactualplay.tk/ D20 Radio Forums http://www.d20radio.com/forums/ DM Vince’s Blog http://www.theevilgm.com/ Todd Hughes’s I’ve Got a Crush on You I’ve Got a Crush on You Sage Advice – 12:57.551 Seeking SageRead More

RFI returns this week, to give your fix of AD&D gaming goodness. They discuss fighting in the dark and firing into melee combat. A creature designed to torment magic users is the focus of Creature Feature Theater. And while RFI won’t toot their own horn, they will toot Valhalla’s when talking about the Horn ofRead More

RFI is back, busting out the hex maps, as we talk about how opponent adjacency during combat. We also discover, saving throws aren’t just for PCs when we discuss item saving throws. A Meelock pops out of its lair to torture us in our dreams in Creature Feature Theater, and Arlock the Wizard joins usRead More

Issue 44 – I’m a Monster! RARRR! RFI returns this week and approaches the idea of monsters as PC classes. We also answer the ago old question of who would win a foot race between two player characters and a hippopotamus, when talking about chase rules. And Blackstone returns this week reviewing the final moduleRead More

RFI is back this week discussing the more optional aspect of 1st edition, when we talk about Honor and Comeliness. Also we reveal why the worst monster to be would be a hemophilic Firedrake. All of that, plus Paris Hilton’s Con score is in this weeks issue of Roll For Initiative. Intro – 0:00.000 RollRead More

This week the RFI staff brings you the answer to the life, the universe and everything. Okay, well actually they bring you the answer to Unseen Servants, Surpise and Perytons but that’s close enough. Also hitchhiking his way to this issue is Arlock the Wizard bringing us another Prestidigitator’s Council. So go grab your towelRead More

RFI brings in this new year, a little older and wiser, discussing the effects of aging in the game. We then lose ourselves in conversation about being lost in the woods and we are joined by an old friend, Mr. Blackstone and a new friend from the Prestidigitator’s Council. All of this and some GenConRead More

For our first recording of the new year, we bring you a special interview with Larry Elmore. Notes: Larry Elmore Interview Larry Elmore’s Website – larryelmore.com/ Smirth – Dragon Issue 55 Page 74 Donato  Giancola  – www.donatoart.com/index.html Defenders of the Realms boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65532/defenders-of-the-realm