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youtube.comGold Country AP - Episode 12: Flame on a Gilded MareYouTube video by Effekt

we are live! another playtest session for our gold country book... www.youtube.com/live/INn7N_f...

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Christian L. Nommay (Knight Errant Media)

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I had the great pleasure to be interviewed by the two gentlemen from @effektpodcast.org and talk about Titan Effect Zero. The campaign is 65% funded and there are 5 days to go. Check it out! #rpg

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In our latest magazine episode we interview Christian Nommay about his Year Zero Engine version of Titan Effect - Xero! Plus the Necromunda confusion, more Avatar, Cohors Cthulhu Bundle of Holding and what our spies learned at Spelkongess. www.effektpodcast.org/294

effektpodcast.orgEffekt | The Titan Effect EffektWe interview Christian Nommay about his Year Zero Engine version of Titan Effect - Xero! Plus the Necromunda confusion, more Avatar, Cohors Cthulhu Bundle of Holding and what our spies learned at S...

We are enjoying Blood Red Gulch from The Lost Mountain Saga so much. In this episode, Episode four, Mr Bottoms, and they beginning to get a handle on the rules as the finches the started adventure in the core book (spoilers!) www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the...

podchaser.comBlood Red Gulch, Episode 4: Mr. Bottoms by The Lost Mountain Saga: Blood Red GulchBlood Red Gulch, Episode 4: Mr. Bottoms from The Lost Mountain Saga: Blood Red Gulch on Podchaser, aired Monday, 26th October 2026. After a dangerous fight, Ernst and Ann-Marie share a moment to think...

And price is right his damage to Docity from attempting (or succeeding in) a coup de grace is Doubts, it does not change his Docity score. Oh and while Eli is waving dynamite around, she might want to read on the note on Dynamite and Trouble on page 83...

One more thing! If Dusty does not open a library in Red Gulch, there will be a riot!

Just a couple of points, Sydney is right, Shakes can indeed be psychological. For example, just one point means the bullet just whizzed past your ear, or shot a hole in your hat or sleeve, and Hurts is generally just grazes and the like, the REAL damage only comes with a role on the critical table.

First five #TTRPGs* in the order I played them: 1: AD&D 2: Traveller 3: bloody hell! I can’t remember! It was almost 50 years ago, maybe Bunnies and Burrows? 4: Gamma World? (For a session?) 5: Runequest *They were just called RPGs back then

David F Chapman@autocratik.bsky.social

First five #TTRPGs in the order I played them: 1: Traveller (little black books) 2: AD&D 3: Runequest (1st ed) 4: Star Frontiers (first one I GMd) 5: Gamma World

theguardian.comLime bike jousts? Why youth culture is embracing the medieval eraFrom chainmail-wearing pop stars to high-fashion catwalks, the spirit of the middle ages is erupting into the zeitgeist

But Matthew’s boy was lime-jousting in the pages of Vice Magazine way back in May!

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Huh, it’s good to see co-host Matthew’s son is a trend-setter. The Guardian is swooning over Lime Bike jousting at the Freize Art Fair, claiming “just one example of the spirit of the middle ages erupting into the zeitgeist” but that‘s already old news. www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

theguardian.comLime bike jousts? Why youth culture is embracing the medieval eraFrom chainmail-wearing pop stars to high-fashion catwalks, the spirit of the middle ages is erupting into the zeitgeist

share.transistor.fmJornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 39 | Effekt APA great place to start listening. Jornada Springs, New Mexico, 1874. A hard winter blossoms into spring. But there is no rest for Sheriff Hoarecock. His breakfast with Jimmy Harlesden is interrupted b...

Having been shamed in action by the launch of @ellidilorenzo.bsky.social's Lost Mountain Saga #TalesoftheOldWest season, Blood Red Gulch, I have finally got round to editing our own, the last episode of which was over two years ago, before our Kickstarter. share.transistor.fm/s/88213b0d

Other than that, its a pretty good place to get on-board, as its the start of an adventure which will have a pretty big impact on the town of Jornada Springs, and indeed the life of one of our characters.

Editing it, its a great pleasure to hear the theme music once again: The brilliant "Old West Game" by Angry Folk Media Empire and Poxy Boggarts' Stu Veneble, erstwhile founder of @happyjacksrpg.bsky.social 🎶"Noooo you can't play a ninja. This is an Old West game, and they didn't have ninjas"🎶

In fact this episode is interesting because its obviously recorded after the Kickstarter, you will hear us discussing layout as at the point of recording, we were "about 150 pages" into that, and now using the finalised rules, illustrated maps that feature in the book, rather than hand-drawn ones.

Part three is up, and I love that even though we wrote this first adventure (it’s the one in the core book) we don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. Like the spontaneous nervous vomit last week, or the mad gunfight that happens this week. SPOILERS! There is a had gunfight this week.

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We are very excited to listen to a new #TalesoftheOldWest actual play! RSS anchor.fm/s/6f4e0c2c/p... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3dgm... Or search for the lost mountain saga blood red gulch on your podcatcher of your choice

Some people might be asking “this Lost Mountain AP is lovely, bit didn’t you boys used to do a #TalesoftheOldWest AP of your own?“ Watch this space ...

We decided we had too much work to do on Gold Country to attend this year's Free League Publishing #spelkongress despite having a whale of a time and meeting loads of new friends when we were invited last year. So, sadly we are not there. But our spies are!

There are TWO new books coming for #CoriolisTheGreatDark Across the Abyss - an explorer themed campaign where they have drawn inspiration from The Terror, among other things, written by Gareth Hanrahan! Free Leauge are very pleased with his work. The Dying City is a source book about Ship City.

Overall these books seem to expand the limited "Delving" centred game - The Dying city is inspired by Blades in the Dark and written by Elinor Hingley. They hope they will be able to make an announcement about The Walking Dead for Spelkongress 2027. No immediate Tales from the Loop plans.

Then the long awaited Twilight 2000: Operation Reset. This been long delayed The aim is to release in Spring 2027. Free League worked with military consultants to get the minutia correct.They had to do a lot of research to get things right regarding how Warzaw and Stockholm looked in the 1990s.

Remember that campaign that was promised in Vaesen's Core Book? The one that "started" with the example adventure? Now, finally, it's on the way! Written more or less at the same time as the rulebook. It took so long to publish because of the slow but constantly growing audience - apparently

Back to our #FreeLeague #SpelKongress op-sec reports: Delegates (and our spies) also hears about the head about the revision and translation of one of the most famous #DoD campaign. Erik Granstrom's #Svavelvinter will known as #TheBrimstoneSleep in English. Here is the cover

And here is (I think) the map: This will be a standard Dragonbane book. Since it is its own world that is quite particular (influences from early Renaissance Italy and Ancient Sumer including the god Marduk) our spy thinks that it is a standalone. Though Erik says it can be connected with Ereb Altor

first up, #LegendsofStormbringer the Elric themed version of Dragonbane, featuring the same Elric cover art that was licences for the very first edition of Drakar oct Demoner. our spy saw spreads with lovely red spot colour over black and white imagery. The magic system however will be different.

(More later)

Last 12 hours for this crowdfund. And it’s had a surge of backers in the last 12. If you were on the fence about it, now is the time to act and get it over the line. Let’s expand the #YearZeroEngine library!

Paul VX2@letsdamage.bsky.social

Closing in on 24 hours left to back my dream edition of my dream game, which I hoped to deliver with artwork by world-class cartoonists like @simonroy.bsky.social , @milonogiannis.com and Steven De Waele. I'll be direct with you: It hasn't funded yet. It won't, unless a lot more people back it.

share.transistor.fmCasino Paradiso | EffektWe talk about playing poker in Alien 00.00.40: Introduction 00.06.48: Thank you to our new Patrons: Simon Cooper and Scorx McSeardon 00.12.47: World of Gaming: Preview pages of D&D world of Warcraft g...

In our latest episode, out today, we talk about playing poker in Alien. Plus we can sell #TalesoftheOldWest in the EU again, the Blood Red Gulch actual play has started, #TitanEffect is come to Year Zero, a WotC union, and the One Ring is Free League’s top crowdfunder share.transistor.fm/s/98d60318

overcast.fmBlood Red Gulch, Episode 2: This is gon’ travel, worm — The Lost Mountain Saga: Blood Red GulchAfter recovering from a brutal fight, another encounter threatens to tarnish our adventurers reputation forever… With Sydney Amanuel as Game master and players Ellinor DiLorenzo and Price Stoeffel. Jo...

The second episode of Blood Red Gulch from our friends at Lost Mountain Saga is up, and starts with wolves 2nd Episode of blood red gulch is live: overcast.fm/+AA0nrg1m_po

I love that during the session zero, Sydney quotes our first lines: “Life is hard. Life is short. And life don’t owe you a goddamn thing. But you are extraordinary.” When Dave and I set out to design #TotOW this was the first design principle I wrote down. The only one to get written into the text.

EU! We are back! 🇪🇺 Not in the unions, but able to send parcels to there so, our webstore is coming (slowly) back online as I rebuild the shipping tables for each county . (If your country is not there yet, drop us a line and I will make it happen.)

Dammit can’t post or reply these last few days without some bot following me, with just one post on their account explaining they are bi and sub and, in all likelihood, an onlyfans in their profile.

Woah! Go Free League! The One Ring including a lightly revised Core Book is doing really well.

Co-host Matthew first saw this game packed in a ziplock plastic bag at Esdevium games. He met Chris who was a new recruit at the company he was working for and was impressed that Chaosium had actually published a game by somebody it was possible to actually know! This version is improved and boxed

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33y in the making... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/479868 A new 2026 edition Credo The Game of Dueling Dogmas By Chris Gidlow (and Chaosium). The original was from 1993.

share.transistor.fmWe Are Shocked, SHOCKED I Tell You | EffektWe talk with the Vermeren bothers about Gridshock and Terminal State 00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.30: World of Gaming: UK Games Expo bans AI products; Atrapos Kickstarting from Soul Muppet; Necromunda...

In our latest episode we talk to @letsdamage.bsky.social about #Gridshock Zero Edition, crowdfunding now on Gamefound. Plus UKGE banning AI; Necromunda and #Atrapos from @soulmuppet.co.uk Oh and we get the date of #Spelkongress wrong, but we still are not coming. share.transistor.fm/s/cea09cd4

#RPGParty publishers were promised mentoring through creating their campaigns, and yet the onus was on @letsdamage.bsky.social to ASK @gamefound.bsky.social's finance team to adjust the VAT rates. Given that as mere US citizen, Paul knows fuck-all about VAT, he should not have had to ask...

gamefound.comGRIDSHOCK Zero Edition by Paul Vermeren | VX2 - GamefoundYou are a new breed of heroes, fighting to restore hope to a warped world in the grip of villainy. A new, standalone tabletop roleplaying game of superpowered resistance on the run, powered by the Yea...

Anyhow, the upshot of all this is: back gamefound.com/en/projects/.... It's great! And if you are in the UK, don't worry about the VAT charge - think of it as a downpayment on shipping. Elsewhere in the EU? There may be adjustments for you too, based on your local VAT regulations.

... for eligible products before the campaign started. "but no worries - our Finance team can take care of this after the campaign ends. We’ll then refresh the affected orders and recalculate the VAT. ... where the VAT rate changes, backers will see the... overpayment as a balance in their carts."

Meaning backers will get a refund or "can use it toward additional costs, such as shipping." Good on @gamefound.bsky.social for this, BUT given that #RPGParty is a promotion design to attract more TTRPG publishers to the platform, it seems guidance was lacking in the early stages.

If you listened through to the end of podcast, you will have heard us moan about the VAT charge added to the pledge amount before checkout when I tried to back #GridshockZeroEdition from @letsdamage.bsky.social I wrote to @gamefound.bsky.social (via Paul's campaign) and got a positive response

I pointed out that that books and (ebook)PDFs were Xero rated for VAT in the UK, not charged at 20%. To be honest I was expecting them to give me some guff about crowdfunding being a digital service and so charged at 20%, but to their credit they said that VAT rates should have been adjusted...

oldmenrunningtheworld.comMy 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 20-11 - Old Men Running The WorldWe're back. With two days until my self-imposed deadline of the closer-to-death-remembrance of my 50th birthday, here's the next part of my Top 101 TTRPGs I

Woo hoo! Tales from the Loop makes the cut! And only ten more places … so I am pretty sure Tales from the Old West will be in the final ten … surely?? 😉

Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social

We're getting there. My favourite 101 TTRPGs reach 20-11. A bunch of epic games in here, and also some less so. My big teenage campaign. And more! #ttrpg

Our favourite? That’s like asking us to choose between our children! Oh… our children? That makes the answer a whole lot easier: #TalesoftheOldWest from, ummm, us!

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

*hides ur DnD books* name your fav table top rpg.

podcasts.apple.comTales of the Old WestPodcast Episode · The Raspy Raven · 24 September · 54min

We have been listening to this podcast episode of the Raspy Raven Gang. They discuss their recently completed #TalesoftheOldWest campaign. We were pleased to hear that despite some initial reservations they all had a great time. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/7tCl...

(It’s worth mentioning that in the second half two of the online guests acquire an echo on their tracks)

21 Sept

We just backed Gridshock Zero Edition from @letsdamage.bsky.social it’s shaping up to be a great game with loads of 2000AD style art. Post apocalyptic supers, not maintaining the status quo, but ripping it down gamefound.com/en/projects/...

20 Sept

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Savage World of Solomon Kane Spectaculars Tales of the Old West The One Ring

Raven Writ Games@ravenwritgames.bsky.social

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Altered State Index Card RPG - Warp Shell Shadowdark Dragonbane

19 Sept

Sitting down with our home group to play Solomon Kane, it’s been a long time since we played so Tony reads the GM’s notes on that session. Co-host Dave remarks “hold on, this sounds like something we did before?” Yes Dave, it’s a recap.