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Dark Tower
New Jan 12, 2026 43 min

Dark Tower

Can you defeat the tower before the tower defeats you? This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out Milton Bradley's legendary Dark Tower board game from 1981. One of the most powerful e...

Roads
Dec 15, 2025 31 min

Roads

Santa did what?!  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we reveal the secret origin of Santa Claus, as told by Seabury Quinn in the novella Roads (1948). Saying more than that would spoil the ...

Monsters
Dec 08, 2025 26 min

Monsters

Just what is a monster? This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we're talkin' monsters. The best thing to talk about! Specifically, we're talking about the changing definition of monsters over t...

Mausritter: Tails from the Night Market
Nov 24, 2025 22 min

Mausritter: Tails from the Night Market

So nice, we recorded it twice (because we lost the first recording). This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Tiger Wizard and Joey Royale about their entry for Mausritter Month. What happe...

The Spark Devil and Other Horrors
Nov 17, 2025 39 min

The Spark Devil and Other Horrors

It's another one of them there pot-pour-ee episodes. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, the main game-related topic is the HPL Historical Society's new Call of Cthulhu scenario The Spark Devil. ...

The Far Side
Nov 10, 2025 32 min

The Far Side

Cows, cavemen, monsters and more. No, it isn't a Monster Manual!  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we go to The Far Side, Gary Larsen's legendary comic strip and a staple of '80s abs...

Thousand Year Old Campfire
Nov 03, 2025 29 min

Thousand Year Old Campfire

It belongs in a museum! Oh, wait, that doesn't work here... This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out Thousand Year Old Campfire, also known as Old Morris Cave: A Continuous Use Camps...

Murder She Wrote: A Board Game of Strategy and Pursuit
Oct 27, 2025 29 min

Murder She Wrote: A Board Game of Strategy and Pursuit

Send in the clones! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Jessica Fletcher guest stars in a very special episode about Murder, She Wrote: A Board Game of Strategy and Pursuit. In fact, six Jes...

The Future King
Oct 20, 2025 23 min

The Future King

Remember the twist ending of the Arthurian romances when Bruce Lee appears at Camlann to kick Mordred's ass? Me neither. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out The Future King, a stand-...

The Means of Production
Oct 13, 2025 38 min

The Means of Production

Brian Colin becomes an ink-stained wretch.  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Vast Grimm creator Brian Colin is back. He's got a new crowdfunding campaign for Vast Grimm in zine form, but...

The Stars are Right!
Oct 06, 2025 39 min

The Stars are Right!

The end was nigh!  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we welcome the apocalypse(s) with The Stars are Right! (1992), an anthology of scenarios for Cthulhu Now (AKA Call of Cthulhu Modern). ...

Cults of RuneQuest
Sep 22, 2025 34 min

Cults of RuneQuest

Blurring the line between mythology and roleplaying games. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at the first six (!) of ten (!!) volumes of Chaosium's Cults of RuneQuest series of s...

The S-Series Continues?
Sep 15, 2025 30 min

The S-Series Continues?

That is not dead which can eternal lie...wait, no, that's the wrong franchise. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu learns that there are more than four modules in D&D's S-series. After a ...

Space Marine II
Sep 08, 2025 23 min

Space Marine II

A videogame? On the Vintage RPG Podcast?  Yes! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk Space Marine II, an excellent, pleasingly violent shooter and how it manages to be an entertaining ...

Wargames West
Sep 01, 2025 29 min

Wargames West

There's no time machine quite like an old catalog. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about Wargames West, a games mail order catalog from the late '80s and early '90s. Extremely hard to...

Toys, Toys, Toys
Aug 25, 2025 41 min

Toys, Toys, Toys

More plastic for the sculpture gallery.  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu's playing with toys again! First, an amazing rarity, the Tara Toys Roll-A-Mat Dark Adventure play set (1983)....

49 Pounds of RPG Books
Aug 18, 2025 39 min

49 Pounds of RPG Books

You bring a suitcase with your clothes, and an empty suitcase for all the crap you're gonna buy.  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu sifts through the gigantic pile of stuff he bought a...

GenCon 2025
Aug 11, 2025 30 min

GenCon 2025

Once again, Stu journeys to the biggest tabletop gaming convention in the US.  This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu reports back from GenCon 2025. How was the train? Did he survive his pa...

Dragon Kings
Jul 28, 2025 31 min

Dragon Kings

Are you ready to turn into a extraterrestrial angel? This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu is feeling nostalgic about Dark Suns past, so we take a look at Dragon Kings, the best-worst book...

Drunk Jousting
Jul 21, 2025 36 min

Drunk Jousting

In which the horse, the rider, or both can be dangerously inebriated! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out two cool things from the mailbox! First up, Nick Boreli's amazing minature k...