Roll For Initiative

This week RFI unearths arcana and discusses the Cavalier. Is this class a worthy addition to your game or is it a lawful stupid paladin on a horse? Find out in this weeks issue of Roll For Initiative. Intro 00:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll For Initiative Twitter www.twitter.com/rfipodcast Roll For Initiative Facebook PageRead More

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We’re starting a new semi-regular section, the DM Challenge. Give this week’s special insert a listen for the first DM Challenge, and call the voice mail with your best answers to the challenge! Our voicemail is (570) 865-4210. (Challenge was canceled, no winner was decided)

Gamers often complain about being railroaded in a campaign, but giving them complete and total freedom can just as easily derail game. This week on Roll For Initiative, we talk about the ultimate free flowing campaign, the sandbox campaign. And we have a special guest DM, as  Stephan McClanahan joins us for a very stickyRead More

This week Roll for Initiative has a very special guest – Hardcore History podcast host Dan Carlin. Ancient and medieval societies are discussed, as well as real life counterparts of AD&D classes. Also, this weeks Creature Feature Theater has roots in ancient Greece, as we discuss caryatid columns. All of this and more is inRead More

Just because it’s in the book doesn’t mean it’s written in stone. This week RFI discusses house rules. Also on the agenda is a listener question on how best to fortify a castle. And Creature Feature Theater returns this week with a guest DM. All of this and more is on this weeks Roll ForRead More

Is this talk of the Illusionist being an unplayable class an illusion? What’s this about an extradimensional Pokéball? And which one of the RFI hosts needed to “Rally for Sanity” after last weeks Cthululu discussion? Find out on this weeks issues of Roll for Initiative. Intro – 0:00:00.000 Roll For Initiative Website www.rfipodcast.com Roll ForRead More

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 ForRead More

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, theRead More

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 SpreadshirtRead More

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 laptopRead More

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 geekRead More

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?

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 MonsterRead More

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 fromRead More

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/

We’ll be doing ongoing “special dispatches” from Gen Con from now until Sunday. They’ll be going into the regular podcast feed  

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,Read More

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 resistRead More

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, weRead More