Legends Of Tabletop Podcast

Jack Nash – John (Prime) Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta) GM- Tod Foley Reggie and Nash head back into the viadome. While talking with D.A.N they learn that Dr. Mentaka was powering down D.A.N and using the external scans to draw mimics to the dome. Nash believes that Blanche Regardie knew the mimics were here. There’s a discussion about leaving but they decide to go and investigate the crashed ship, the Delphina that brought Mentaka and the crew here. As they are getting ready to head to the downed ship, Nash instructs D.A.N to run a scan that they hope will potentially draw mimics away from them and toward the dome. An uneventful jog brings them to the ship where Reggie sees the doglike mimic. They enter the ship and the mimic doesn’t do anything. Inside it looks like part of the cockpit exploded. Nash fiddles with the onboard computer but it keeps powering off. Instead he pulls the computer in the hopes that D.A.N will be able to read it. http://daytrippersrpg.com http://www.fictioneers.net/

THE DREAMLANDS AND DREAM NARRATIVE IN HP Lovecraft Dreams figure prominently in the work of Lovecraft, both in his Dream Cycle stories and in other work. Our panelists explore the geography and denizens of the Dreamlands, and his use of dreams in general in fiction and poetry. What were the major influences on his dream writing and how did his own dreams invade his waking life? How have writers expanded on or modified his ideas since? Close your eyes and find out! Panelists: Peter Cannon, Christa Carmen, James Chambers, Pete Rawlik (M), Jason Bradley Thompson https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Kayne wades into the fray challenging the command crew with his elite Xenos warriors. It will be a battle to the death but whose? https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

I had a great conversation with Shane Hensley and I hope you enjoy it. In 1994, Shane started Pinnacle Entertainment Group, where he created the best-selling, award-winning Deadlands, Hell on Earth, Weird Wars, and later Savage Worlds and many of its settings. Since then he’s written dozens of books and several novels, and designed everything from card games to miniature games to computer games. https://www.peginc.com/ https://www.twitter.co/PEG_Games https://www.facebook.com/PinnacleEntGroup/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/deadlands-lost-colony https://gameradventures.com/event/savage-worlds-rpg-board-game-cruise/ https://www.youngandholt.com https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Narrowly escaping a vicious sneak attack by Kayne, the crew heads back to the mining colony. Venari wants to talk with Brandt about what resources are available. Brandt is short with him reminding Venari that it was his responsibility to provide security for the operation and to have whatever would be necessary for the job. Venari leaves annoyed. After a protracted discussion the crew decides to bring down five murder servitors from the Heretics Bane to be part of the strike force against Kayne. They leave a skeleton crew of mercenaries behind along with a few of Jarnan’s acolytes to protect the base on the off chance the Kayne makes an end around and then they set out. The strike force lands about a mile out from the waterfall and begins making their way in. The auspex scanners show that Kayne has his proto-kroot forces arrayed in imperial battle formation.

Wonderful sports anecdotes about locally relevant events for baseball enthusiasts. A valuable source of information for the writer wanting to learn more about the process of ghostwriting in general. https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Filippo "The Great" Pacini - Shawn Manny Velazquez - Jesse Javier Castilllo - John GM – Tod Javier transforms into a raven and flies over to scout out the F13 HQ. Javier hops around on the roof, looking down through the sunroof sections until he spots Tio Martin. Casper is standing over him and it seems he's losing patience with Martin who looks sad. There are F13 members outside the warehouse, and Javier flies down near two of them, listening to their conversation. They're laughing about how irate Casper is becoming with the old man inside, though he can't treat him too badly, since Martin is the one making the Little Smoke. At that moment Javier's magical spell expires, and he turns back into human form, tumbling down off the fence outside the complex. He takes off running. Manny attempts to contact the spirit of his mother to ask what to do about his brother. He grasps his Santa Muerte medallion and begins his ritual. His mother appears and Manny asks if Alex is worth saving. His mother's eyes spe

CREATING HISTORICAL SETTINGS FOR CALL OF CTHULHU – One of the freedoms presented by the Call of Cthulhu RPG is the ability to set your games in any era, from the Stone Age through the Roaring Twenties to the Modern-Day and beyond! With the 1920s/30s era being particularly popular, how does one go about creating the right flavor, tone, and feel of a particular epoch? Where do you start if creating a historical setting? Join Call of Cthulhu Line Editor Mike Mason and an invited guest panel to lift the hood on creating and running games set in very different times. Panelists: Lynne Hardy, Mike Mason (M) Oscar Rios, Christopher Smith Adair https://www.chaosium.com/ https://www.goldengoblinpress.com/ https://www.chaosium.com/lynne-hardy/ https://csmithadair.com/ https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Filippo "The Great" Pacini - Shawn Manny Velazquez - Jesse Javier Castilllo - John GM – Tod Filippo has invited Javier to Gregorio's, an expensive Italian restaurant. He offers his apologies for the previous night, and proposes that the two of them work together to extract Tio Martin from his predicament. Javier is nonplussed, and doesn't think it sounds like a good idea: going up against either La Famila or the Cisco cartel. He's thinking of using magic to free his uncle. Filippo changes the topic and asks Javier what he knows of Manny. Javier reveals that Manny has been asking for an audience with Tio, but still doesn't trust the young brujo. Filippo suggests that Manny come in useful, since he is not known to either F13 or the cartel. Javier remains unconvinced. Javier decides it's time to reach out to his "spirit cousin" Coyote, to see if he can get any advice from the other side. In the yard outside Martin's little house, he relaxes his thoughts and steps sideways into the shimmering tableau of

Jack Crandall – Brett Randy Anders – Kurt Erin Shaughnessy – John GM – Neil Erin and Randy find the cave of the Wendigo. They scope out the area and Randy grabs a spot a little ways away with a clear line of fire towards the cave. Erin climbs up above the mouth of the cave and begins taunting the creature to come out. Just when they thought the plan would fail the Wendigo emerges. Erin and Randy both shoot it but the Wendigo stays on its feet and scrambles up the rock face to attack Erin. Deftly avoiding the creatures blows Erin jumps down and fires off another shot hitting the creature again. Erin’s luck begins to run out when the Wendigo jumps down and savagely begins to rake him with its claws. Luckily Randy is a crack shot and fells the beast with a well-placed shot to its head. After getting Erin patched up a bit they investigate the cave and find the remains of the villagers. They remove the bodies and build a pyre chanting prayers in both Huron and Catholic rights. The Wendigo they also crem

THE UNNAMABLE DOWN EAST: THE INFLUENCE OF LOVECRAFT ON THE WORKS OF STEPHEN KING What elements of Lovecraftian fiction have been incorporated by King into his narratives? Which stories of Lovecraft influenced his works the most? What are the differences and similarities between the two? What is Stephen King’s most Lovecraftian story? These themes and more will be explored by our panelists. Panelists: S.J. bagley (M), Gemma Files, John Foster, Leslie Klinger, Victor LaValle, Paul Tremblay https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Jack Crandall – Brett Randy Anders – Kurt Erin Shaughnessy – John GM – Neil Erin and Randy finish preparing the cabin and Sophia seems more at easy and quickly falls asleep. Erin sleeps on the floor near Sophia while Randy takes first watch. After about two hours Randy hears a knock on the door followed by a demonic voice taunting him. Randy does his best to ignore it but the noise winds up waking Erin. After a bit of witty repartee the creature changes tactics and tries to wake Sophia by calling out in her mother’s voice. Erin covers her ears and hopes for the best. About two hours before sun up the voice stops and things get quiet. Once the sun comes up Erin and Randy go outside to grab some chickens and prepare some horse so they can go and track the Wendigo. All around the house they see what look like handprints in the snow. Randy has a bit of an existential crisis and takes some time to settle down before they head out. In the meantime they set up Sophia with food and tell her to lock the doo

JON PADGETT is the creator and co-administrator of Thomas Ligotti Online. Padgett’s first short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of the Year by Rue Morgue Magazine. He has work out or forthcoming in Weird Fiction Review, PseudoPod, Lovecraft eZine, Xnoybis, and the anthologies A Walk on the Weird Side, Wound of Wounds, Phantasm/Chimera, and For Mortal Things Unsung. Padgett is also a professional voice-over artist with over forty years of theater and twenty-five years of audio narration experience. He has produced multiple audiobooks and is a regular narrator for Pseudopod and Lovecraft eZine, among other venues. Finally, Cadabra Records is set to release 20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism, a story written and narrated by Padgett, in the coming months. https://twitter.com/Jon__Padgett http://www.ligotti.net/ https://vastarien-journal.com/ https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order

Jack Nash – John (Prime) Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta) GM- Tod Foley Visibility on Drir is severely limited, so Reggie asks Reggie Jr to scan the area with radar. Nash follows that up by sending the drone out to recon up to the vidome. The drone shows a dog sized form running from the vidome. With no sign of the crew Reggie and Nash head up to the dome. As soon as they enter the dome proper, they are attacked by a malfunctioning service drone. Nash is able to get behind it and switch it off and Reggie notices that the floor is strewn with garbage. Moving quickly they head into the computer operations room and Nash boots up the computer. The friendly and helpful AI, D.A.N, informs Reggie and Nash that he has had not communication with the crew for the last several days. They determine while talking with D.A.N that Dr. Mentaka was concerned about a creature he referred to as a mimic and was actively trying to determine it's biological make up. Judging by the state of his programming It appears that h

THE WEIRD ON A BLACK AND WHITE SCREEN: CLASSIC WEIRD TELEVISION The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kolchak the Night Stalker – For decades, classic television brought the weird into living rooms across America. Our panelists explore the classic era of weird television. What did they do well and not so well? How did they influence generations of creators and fans of weird fiction, cinema, and television? Panelists: Nicholas Kaufmann (M), Gwendolyn Kiste, Pete Rawlik, Alan Tromp, Joe Zannella

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Bento debriefs Reggie and Nash about their mission to Caladena. He’s concerned about the status of Doctor Charybdis and what that might mean for Dark Matter but lets it pass. Reggie and Nash head back to work with the team on the holodeck. During a lull in their training, Julio tries out his new Inra simulation on Reggie who seems relatively unaffected. Later in the day Bento calls Reggie and Nash back to his office where he has Blanche Reggerty, an X Investments executive, in a holo-call. After an exchange of pleasantries Blanche indicates that she would like to retain their services for a mission, to leave right away. X Investments has lost contact with a small team that was sent to investigate the planet Drir. After “grilling” Blanche for a bit trying to determine if she’s holding anything back they agree and head off to Drir. http://daytrippersrpg.com

Géza A. G. Reilly is a Canadian expatriate living in the wilds of Florida with his wife, Andrea, and their cat, Jay Jay Von Meow Meow. He is a university literature professor and author, having returned to writing fiction after an absence of ten years. His works tend towards being dark, often with a bit of wry humor, and are informed by the punk and industrial milieux he came from. https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/mountains-of-madness-revealed-hardcover-edited-by-darrell-schweitzer-4895-p.asp https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/dead-reckonings http://www.fandible.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrTNhL_yO3tPTdQ5XgmmWjA https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Venari spend some time shmoozing with the troops and finds out that morale is good. In the morning the crew heads out in the shuttle to see if they can find any trace of Kayne. Scanning the dense forest doesn’t turn up anything but Venari happens to catch the glint of metal in a crevasse in the mountains nearby. Refocusing their scanning efforts in that area reveals a cavern system located behind a waterfall reaching back into the mountain. The glint of metal, the crew believes, most likely is a solar power generator along with some cloaking technology. The crew debates possible options as Venari peruses the manifest of stolen equipment and reaches the stunning conclusion that Kayne may have over a hundred well armed and armored xenos fighters. Emmaus suggests trying to contact Kayne using a multiband transmission. Somewhat surprisingly Kayne answers and i

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil The security footage has revealed that Kayne has been leading indigenous life forms on raids against the mining colony. They have been talking weapons and high-end supplies. So far no one has been injured but Kayne has very easily evaded capture. Venari talks with Jarnan about the possibility of saving Kayne. Jarnan assures him that he can save Kayne soul (maybe not all that reassuring). Prior to making their voyage through the warp Venari contacts the mining colony to let them know that the Heretics Bane is inbound and aware of the situation. During their month long trip through the warp the ship is tossed about by warp shoals and the crew is troubled by strange dreams and visions but otherwise unscathed. Upon arriving on the planet they find the mining facility to be up and running and Venari’s secret base functional. After talking with the uppity sup

ENDARKENMENT: NIHILISM AS LIBERATION IN WEIRD FICTION Thomas Ligotti once wrote that ” Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones” and, in doing so, joined a host of writers and philosophers dabbling in what’s generally scoffed at as ‘nihilism.’ But what if that lack of meaning could lead, not to oppression, but to liberation? Come join our panel as they discuss ways in which literary and philosophical endarkenment can lead to new vistas of understanding and meaning in meaninglessness. Panelists: Nicole Cushing, Scott Dwyer, Daphne Gem, Bracken MacLeod (M), Jon Padgett https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/