Chaoses Limb: Recent Episodes

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I talk about tabletop RPGs and fiction: D&D, OSR, Dungeon World, TTRPG, analog games, story games, minimalist rule sets, Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Science Fantasy, Fantasy, Myth, REH, HPL, ERB, CAS, alternate history, Bronze Age Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

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Arion finds what he has been seeking


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The continuing adventures of Arion and our play test of Barbaric!


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Solo play test driving Barbaric!


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A review of Last Stand at Outpost 3 from Dungeon Magazine 110.

For simple rule set to run Dark Sun adventures, check out Crimson Sun: https://minnonartor.itch.io/crimson-sun


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A scene-by-scene review of the 2e Dark Sun adventure module the Forest Maker plus some of the changes I made to the adventure to better fit my own Dark Sun campaign.


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Where I introduce Dark Sun to those who are not familiar with it.

I describe some unique aspects of the setting, discuss its origins, some controversies in its history and my own tweaks to the setting (YDSWV).

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DarkSun

www.athas.org

https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Sun_Wiki

www.patreon.com/redram


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Frank from episode 18 sent out a survey to some of his students.  I share with you their responses.


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The Goodman Games version of Before the Lost City is delayed at the printers.  Once it comes in, I will review it.


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Just learned the 'true' origin of the cleric by listening to Dave Aldridge's DPercentile podcast, Ep 202.  Maybe it's old news to others but for me, mind blown.


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Just an update on what I’ve been up to since the end of the last season. Also I’ve passed 1000 lessons! Thanks to everyone who made that possible :-)


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Cynidicea Below

The Garden of Orpheus

The Fungal Forest

The Isle of Death

The Lower Catacombs


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What darkness lurks at the heart of the Ziggurat...?


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The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Peter Ackroyd


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Overview of Tier 5


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Children of Nun

Rebel Priest

Followers of the Formless One

Haunted Residence of the Animator


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This sounds like the title to a bawdy tale by Chaucer


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“Dine with the masters and forget the slaves.”

Pierce Brown


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Though Slith had an experience of twenty years of theft, yet he said little; only if one of the others made a stone roll with his foot, or, later on in the forest, if one of them stepped on a twig, he whispered sharply to them always the same words: “That is not business.”

--Lord Dunsany


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She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow.

R. G. Moon


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From rat's nest to zombie rat's nest to necrotic ooze


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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

Voltaire


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I start reading Jon Peterson's Playing At the World


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What may this mean.

That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel,

Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon.

Making night hideous ; and we, fools of nature,

So horridly to shake our disposition,

With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?

--Hamlet

The more enlightened our houses are, the more the walls ooze ghosts

--Italo Calvino


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The Guard Captain keeps lonely vigil...


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Ghouls gettin the munchies


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The priest's on the boat and hell is on its way

--Portugal the Man


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Comedy, horror and treasure


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A simple buffoon or the mastermind behind it all?  You decide.


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Burial chambers of Cynidicean nobility in the time of Zenobia and Alexander.


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Followers of the Old Gods factions and their bases of operations .


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Beachheads for the MiGo and Shoggoth.


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The area of Tier 2 controlled by the Sons of Marduk


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of Fire Beetles and Mechanical Parts...


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Ladders and their signifiers

Call ins from:

Josh Beckelhimer from JB Publishing

Larry


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Three bronze columns elaborately carved...


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An overview of B4 The Lost City


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Call ins for Approaching the Ziggurat including:

Josh Beckelhimer from JB Publishing

Rob C from Down in a Heap


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Lost in the desert, food and water gone, mounts dead ... then, rising from the sands, the cyclopean blocks of a lost city...


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In Season 3 I plan to do an in depth exploration of the OSR module B4: The Lost CIty.

Join me.


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If you give a mouse a cookie...


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Call in on weapon damage in CL0e sparks a discussion


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initial reaction on my retro edition of Chaoses Limb


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What happens if we apply reverse evolution to Chaoses Limb?  all sorts of craziness.

Trigger warning: those easily disturbed by hearing rules being mangled, spindled and mutilated may experience increases in blood pressure listening to this episode.

Note: no actual rules were harmed in the making of this episode.


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The latest in my series of interviews with my brothers and former players.

Apologies for the sound quality on this one.


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A call in from Mr. Spike Pit about playbooks


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More call ins for season 2

Iron and magic, arms and armor for magic users.


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Call ins from:

Tim Shorts - Gothridge Manor - discovering new things in old rules

Colin Green - SpikePit - the joys of game design

Rob C - Down in a Heap - question on magic

Spencer - Keep off the Borderlands - the Cleric


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Inspirations for the Chaoses Limb Retro Clone

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/


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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton


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“And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers


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Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,

Eddie touched a troll,

Laurie danced with witches once,

Charlie found some goblins gold.

Donald heard a mermaid sing,

Susy spied an elf,

But all the magic I have known

I've had to make myself.

Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends


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Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king.

Bob Dylan


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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore


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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Billy Joel

My patreon post on spell books: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cl-spellbook-29824701


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Fighters can use any weapon and wear any kind of armor. As they advance in experience they increase their “hit dice” making them harder to kill.


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For Holmes Basic (and Chaoses Limb) all character generation rules can fit on one side of a single sheet of paper--and that's including gear.

Simplicity.


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“When you’re short of everything but the enemy, you are in combat.”


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The fourth rail of fantasy adventure gaming

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Of the 3 (4?) pillars of fantasy adventure gaming one of the broadest is how characters interact with their environment.  For OD&D this default environment is the Dungeon.


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Rules from Holmes Basic that I left out of Chaoses Limb


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Let's go shopping! The equipment lists and what to do with them.


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Race, Class and Race as Class in Holmes Basic & Chaoses Limb


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The foundational building blocks of a character: Abilities in Holmes Basic and Chaoses Limb

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A brief overview of some things I changed in Chaoses Limb vs the Holmes Basic it was based on


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Of all the old school games to clone, why Holmes?

And for all things Holmes there's no better source than Zenopus Archives:

Blog:  http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/

on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenopusArchives

Google Site: https://sites.google.com/site/zenopusarchives/

Tumblr: https://zenopusarchives.tumblr.com/


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The last thing the world needs is another retro-clone.  Am I right fellas?

here's a good list of them from taxidermic owlbear: http://taxidermicowlbear.weebly.com/dd-retroclones.html


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As I discuss some of the choices I made in 'designing' my retro clone I want to highlight the parts of the OSR that most appeal to me as a background into what drove some of my design decisions.

Many others have described the OSR better than I can.  Just do a google search on "What is the OSR" and you'll run into some great discussions.


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I introduce a new season where I'm going to talk about some of the design decisions that went into making my Holmes Basic Retro Clone--Chaoses Limb.

PWYW on DriveThru: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/289881/Chaoses-Limb-Players-Guide


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in Down in the Heap, Rob C presents 12 rules of gaming.  I go through them here and add my own viewpoint where I have something to add.


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Frank and I talk about some of our history with our favorite game and Frank tells us how he has brought gaming to his high school as well as some of the challenges and rewards of gaming with high schoolers.


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My impressions of the Call of Cthulhu system in general and my experience with a Cthulhu Dark Ages game that I was lucky enough to be a part of this DunDraCon.


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Mr Hobbs!

and playing Troika at DunDraCon


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Great call in from Rob C of Down in a Heap

And some curiosity about Land of the Lost...remember, curiosity killed the Sleestak ;-)


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An envelope opening (keep your finger on the volume control)

Kane - Bloodstone


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An interview with Philip about his history with role playing games.

Also: the experience of in game vs system mastery, delayed gratification with character advancement, and the effect of the internet on play style normalization


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The psychology of unboxings

Wagner's Kane


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Land of the Lost geography and settings


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A message from Jason Hobbs on Naming and reactions to Safety Tools

And Land of the Lost crystal magic

Be sure and catch Mr. Hobbs on his podcasts: Hobbs & Friends of the OSR and Random Screed


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A response from Tim Short's of Gothridge Manor fame about railroading and me going on about Land of the Lost.


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Game summary of my last session 

Also, is it ever desirable to railroad?


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What are the main sources of inspiration for your gaming and for your campaign?


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Continued discussion on naming

1) generating random names from board games

2) Good vanilla vs Ethnic

3) Language families and your fantasy proto indo european

4) Usability/Immersion/Fun triangle

5) Naming with kids


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Call ins on Safety Tools for OSR


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Is OSR gaming antithetical to the use of Safety Tools?


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3rd segment on naming and an idea for different versions of names depending on your native language.


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Continue my conversation on naming with a short clip about the use of Google Translate and how it can be used to create regional or racial consistency in your world.


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First in a series of podcasts where my brother and I discuss our experience at Big Bad Con 2019.

In this episode we introduce the characters for the first game I ran and discuss character  naming.

How do you feel about absurd or comical character names? Where do you get inspiration for names?

Game System: Chaoses Limb (a Holmes Basic retroclone)

Adventure: Before the Lost City (a hack of B4 - The Lost City)


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