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HeroQuest

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 6th, 2020

Prepare for adventure! This week, we dive into Milton Bradley/Games Workshop’s classic board game HeroQuest!

Star Frontiers

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 30th, 2020

Join us in the far reaches of known space as we explore Star Frontiers!

The Shadow People

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 23rd, 2020

Descend into the depths of the earth to meet The Shadow People!

Bunnies & Burrows

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 16th, 2020

An RPG about rabbits? From 1976?!

Wizards & Spells

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 9th, 2020

Jim Zub is back on the show this week, dishing about the newest Young Adventurer’s Guide, Wizards & Spells, and dropping some hints about volume five!

Horror on the Orient Express

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 2nd, 2020

Choo-choo! All aboard the Orient Express, where horrors beyond imagining await you!

The Isle of Dread

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 24th, 2020

We set sail into danger. Our course: The Isle of Dread.

Fantasy Wargaming

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 17th, 2020

We crack the cover of Fantasy Wargaming (1981) and check out the stats for the big cheese, God Himself!

Old-School Essentials

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 10th, 2020

Old-School Essentials might be the final word on Dungeons & Dragons retro clones and hacks.

Fungi of the Far Realms

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 3rd, 2020

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking magic mushrooms. No, for real.

Cobwebs

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 27th, 2020

This week, we chat with Adam Vass and Sally Cantirino about Cobwebs, their forthcoming storytelling RPG about conspiracies and dark secrets.

The Keep on the Borderlands

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 20th, 2020

The Caves of Chaos must be sealed! We look at the classic module The Keep on the Borderlands.

Dungeons

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 13th, 2020

You can’t have Dungeons & Dragons without the dungeons!

Russ Nicholson Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 6th, 2020

We chat with the incomparable fantasy illustrator Russ Nicholson!

D&D Monster Cards

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 30th, 2019

Monster Cards! We take a look at this beautiful set of early, full color play aids for Dungeons & Dragons.

Players Handbook

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 23rd, 2019

What revelations lurk behind the idol of Moloch, within the pages of the first edition Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook?

Monster Manual

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 16th, 2019

Monsters! We peel back the cover of the original Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual to see what’s biting. (Everything!)

Star Wars Galaxy Guides

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 9th, 2019

Everyone is talking about Star Wars right now, and so are we! We take a stroll through the 12-volume series of Galaxy Guide sourcebooks for the West End Games Star Wars RPG.

Dungeons & Drawings

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 2nd, 2019

This week, we chat about the monster art book Dungeons & Drawings!

Holiday Gift Guide 2019

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 25th, 2019

This week, we’re getting ready for the holidays and wanted to help give you a leg up on your gifts for your friends and family around the gaming table (and maybe yourself too, let’s be real).

Jim Zub, Part 2: Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 19th, 2019

Part two of our interview with Jim Zub! We chat about his D&D comics, the Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty box set and learn he does a pretty mean Rick Sanchez impersonation.

The Rust Monster

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 18th, 2019

The Vintage RPG Podcast is now weekly! We celebrate by talking about the Rust Monster (shudder).

Jim Zub on the Young Adventurer’s Guides

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 11th, 2019

This week, author Jim Zub fills us in on everything you want to know about his brand new series of introductory Dungeons & Dragons books.

The Satanic Panic

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 28th, 2019

This week, we look at Dungeons & Dragons and its part in the Satanic Panic.

Pacesetter’s Chill, and an interview with Nathan D. Paoletta

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 14th, 2019

This week, we look at the 1984 horror RPG Chill, from Pacesetter Games. We also chat with Nathan D. Paoletta about his games Worldwide Wrestling and Imp of the Perverse.

Ultraviolet Grasslands and Luka Rejec

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 30th, 2019

This week, its all about artist, writer and game designer Luka Rejec. We dig into Witchburner, the forthcoming Ultraviolet Grasslands and interview the man himself!

Zweihander – Daniel D. Fox Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 16th, 2019

We talk to Daniel Fox about his two-handed dark fantasy RPG, Zweihander!

Endless Quest

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 2nd, 2019

This week, we check out the old TSR Endless Quest gamebooks, then we get a head start on Halloween with some spooky games.

Dragonlance

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 19th, 2019

Get your lance! Get your dragon! We’re talking about Dragonlance this week!

LJN Dungeons & Dragons Toys

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 5th, 2019

We open up Stu’s toy chest and (CAREFULLY) play with his LJN D&D toys. We also talk about Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and the D&D Young Adventurers Guides.

Forgotten Realms

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 22nd, 2019

We’re back to the regular format, looking at Forgotten Realms, the Jaws board game and the Tales From the Loop follow-up, Things From the Flood.

Paper Anniversary, plus Planet X Games!

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 8th, 2019

We celebrate our one year anniversary with a look at some of our favorite tabletop roleplaying things. Plus: we talk to Levi Combs of Planet X games about his forthcoming grindhouse D&D module.

Tony DiTerlizzi Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 24th, 2019

This week, we have a nice long chat with children’s book author and legendary Dungeons & Dragons artist Tony DiTerlizzi!

Dungeons & Dragons 1.5 Edition

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 10th, 2019

Did you know there was an unofficial 1.5 edition of Dungeons & Dragons? There was and it is mostly not good! Stu walks us through the history.

Lovecraft Country/Ghosts of Saltmarsh

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 27th, 2019

We’ve doubled the meat this podcast, taking on the Lovecraft Country sourcebooks for Call of Cthulhu and Ghosts of Saltmarsh for 5E Dungeons & Dragons.

Dungeon Masters Guide (plus Chaosium VP Michael O’Brien)

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 13th, 2019

In the latest episode, we talk about the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection board game, we get philosophical about Gary Gygax’s Dungeon Masters Guide and we chat with Michael O’Brien, vice president of Chaosium.

Skyrealms of Jorune

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 29th, 2019

Do you know what a Sholari is? Neither do we! But we discuss the weird tabletop RPG Skyrealms of Jorune anyway.

GURPS

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 15th, 2019

GURPS! No, I didn’t just belch, that stands for Generic Universal Role Playing System, from Steve Jackson Games, our main topic this episode. We also talk Cyclades and Pendragon. Have a listen!

Red Box

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 1st, 2019

This week, we’re talking about the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, the iconic red box. We also chat about the Mixtape Massacre board game and the indie TTRPG distro/publisher Exalted Funeral.

James Lowder Interview (Plus Call of Cthulhu Goodies)

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 18th, 2019

We chat with Chaosium executive fiction editor and RPG industry vet James Lowder. We also discuss the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set and Chaosium’s Lovecraft for Beginning Readers series.

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