Epic Adventure
Are you ready for an epic adventure? Welcome to the Epic Adventure Podcast! Host Steve Kellams and guests discuss all things table top roleplaying. From TTRPG news and tabletop RPG game design to tips and tricks to make your games epic.
Episodes
If you’ve followed the podcast from the beginning, you might notice a theme. We aren’t fans of D&D.
Sure, we started with the OGL Scandal and ever since then we have made fun of, complained about, and down right called out Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, and Dungeons and Dragons. But, that’s just business, right? We must actually like D&D I mean everyone does. It’s the grandaddy of all roleplaying games.
Nope we h...
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We start this week off with news about a game world that both Mike and Christina love. The World of Darkness.
https://www.enworld.org/threads/jason-carl-on-white-wolfs-return-mage-the-ascension-plans.713655/
Paradox Interactive announced that it was rebranding its World of Darkness group to White Wolf, with further plans to build out the g...
Our 100th Episode.
Jen and I were walking through the hallways of the Indianapolis Convention Center. We had just finished setting up the booth for GenCon and we had been talking about all things roleplaying.
“Hey, do you think you or Mike would be interested in doing a podcast. We could tie Oddfish Games into it and just chat about roleplaying in general.”
I threw out the question hoping she would be interested. I had d...
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We are going to start with an article from Wolfgang Baur the CEO of Kobold Press. Now this doesn’t really constitute news, but I found it very interesting and thought Mike and Christina might agree.
https://koboldpress.com/state-of-play-in-it-to-print-it-what-to-know-to-get-your-game-printed/
The article: State of Play: In It to Print It. W...
“Live Action Roleplaying, you’ve love it. We get together the first Saturday of the month and everybody is really cool.”
“I don’t know, I mean it’s one thing to play around a table, but I’m not sure about getting all dressed up and acting it out.”
“It’s not like that. Dress however you want; nobody judges you and everybody is chill.”
“Fine, I’ll give it a try”
That was the recruiting pitch I got for my first ever LARP. Li...
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https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo70cy9?Gen-Con-Preview-Blog
You may not realize it, but GenCon is just around the corner, and while the online chatter wants to turn the tariff issues into doom and gloom for GenCon, I tend to believe it will be as big as ever. Paizo’s recent announcement about GenCon events seems to bear out my sent...
William Gibson described Cyberpunk as a fusion of high-tech and low-life, exploring the intersection of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on human society in a near-future, often dystopian setting.
If you don’t know who William Gibson is then shame on you.
Like most people out there, my first exposure to Cyberpunk was Blade Runner. The 1982 movie by Ridley Scott blew me away. After that I watched movies lik...
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Well it’s finally happened.
I don’t want to talk about it. I said you can’t make me talk about it. But I guess when I started down this podcast road it kinda became my job to talk about it. So here we go.
Tariffs.
https://www.enworld.org/threads/do-tariffs-apply-to-rpg-books-maybe-maybe-not.712908/
EN World posted an article titled Do Tariff...
I think it was the James Bond Roleplaying game, or maybe it was Twilight 2000. My memory is a little fuzzy on this one, but there was a point in my roleplaying past where I started running adventures set in the modern era,
And I loved it.
Traditionally table top roleplaying games have focused on the Fantasy. Tolkien’s world or some variation of it has the been the centerpiece for TTRPGs from the beginning and many of yo...
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We are starting with a special request from Christina
https://www.mythicalmeats.com/snacks/dungeons-dragons-variety-pack/
She sent me this link along with the following sentence; “I will say I just got a targeted ad for official D&D branded 'adventure snacks' and was overcome by the need to rant at Hasbro.”
The Advertisement in...
In 2003 Shane Hensley and Pinnacle Entertainment released a brand-new generic roleplaying game. The game was called Savage Worlds and it kinda made a splash.
The game emphasized speed of play over detail. That may not seem like much today, but at the time it was revolutionary. You see Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 was also released in 2003, which would go on to birth Pathfinder. Steve Jackson Games had 5 years’ worth of sou...
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Professor Dungeon Master on his YouTube channel Dungeon Craft announced that the New D&D 2024 Players Handbook only sold 3,773 books in its opening week. That’s right, what was announced as the fastest selling D&D book in history only sold 3,773 physical copies. The rest of those sales were digital over on DnD Beyond.
I couldn’t tell you the date, but I remember sitting in my parent’s basement, my buddy Dave was over and spending the night. We were staying up late, drinking why too much Dr. Pepper and eating all the popcorn we could get our hands on. We were watching late night movies and having a blast like most 10-year-olds.
That’s when we watched what I would later figure out, was my first Post Apocalyptic Film…The Omega Man with...
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In 1992 I was working night shift, which meant that on my days off I stayed up all night to keep my body in sync. What did you do to help you stay up all night in the 90’s…well you either drank, or watched movies.
I tended to do both.
But I had a buddy that worked at a movie rental place and he was always hooking me up with the new releases...
I started roleplaying in the early days. When character sheets could fit on an index card and the only rolls you made were for combat or avoiding traps. The games were one long dungeon crawl, slowly mapping out confusing underground caves with traps around every corner. Every time the space widened up into a 10 by 10 room you had a fight.
For no reason.
I mean, every single thing we came across was an enemy.
So, every si...
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I am a big fan of James Bond. I remember as a kid watching Dr. No on television and it blew my mind. Starting with Moonraker, I saw every James Bond film in the movie theater until the last one, No Time To Die. And while some were good, some were great, and some were just flat out bad, I didn’t care. I loved them all…well except the last...
Let’s Make a Game
When I first got into this hobby it was all about the game for me. The rules, the books, the miniatures, the dice, and of course the adventure.
Like most people once I settled on my game of choice…GURPS of course. I couldn’t get enough. GURPS 3rd Edition seemed to come out with a new sourcebook every month and my bulging bookshelf can attest to how many of those things I bought. I played the games and ...
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Diamond Comic Distributors, the owner of Alliance Game Distributors has filed for bankruptcy. In a message from Chuck Parker the President of Diamond comic Distributors he outlines the necessity for the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy...
You know the old saying, Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. And of course, if you have an opinion you gotta share that with as many people as possible, it’s the law.
Now that might sound somewhat hypocritically coming from the host of a podcast that is based solely upon sharing our opinions, but you know what, I’m gonna own that shit.
We love to talk about our favorite hobby and of course that means sharing ...
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https://ennie-awards.com/revised-policy-on-generative-ai-usage/
It seems that the Ennies Awards, an annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying, has taken a stand on AI. In 2023 the Awards added some language regarding the use of Generative AI that was a bit confusing. In 2025 they have outlawed Generative AI in any ...
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