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.
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Ok, wait a minute…they’ve got rules for guns in this. Sweet!
I remember saying that exact line when I first dove into Steve Jackson’s GURPS. The Generic Universal Roleplaying System had come out of their skirmish system Man to Man which I had loved. This was 1986 and the 18-year-old me was looking for new roleplaying games.
Sure, I had done my early work on D&D. I had even played around a little...
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Let’s start off with some news that’s close to our heart. Oddfish Games has announced that Wordleaf Media is joining their Leviathan Rising team. Wordleaf Media is a TTRPG focused publishing support company that provides professional editing, layout, graphic design, art, and creative content. This is going to help brin...
Alexander Dumas’s The Three Musketeers is one of my favorite books of all time. I first read the classic in junior high and I was immediately blown away. It was like reading my favorite super hero comics, but it was a classic. It’s one of those books that made me want to read, and that’s a love I have never lost. I tend to read a lot, rarely going back to books I’ve already finished, but The ...
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Let’s start off with at the end, or the beginning of the end, or…well I guess it’s been going on for a while now, but…let’s just start with I told you so.
Dark Suns, the very mature themed...
For those of you that were lucky enough to get a chance to play Leviathan Rising at GenCon, you are welcome. It was a great time and we got to see players laugh, clap, applaud, cheer, and generally have as much fun as we were hoping.
Leviathan Rising is a hit.
But, it’s going to be better.
The rules are written, it’s been playtested, and now we are going into pre-production to get all the art, stories, lore...
Welcome to you heard it hear last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard.
Paizo is in the news again. But this time it sounds like good news
It seems that Paizo and Diamond Comics Distributors have reached an agreement to release millions of dollars of Paizo inventory they have held since January of 2025...
Normally we'd all be sitting around the microphones, arguing over games, movies, roleplaying, and whatever other rabbit hole we decide to wander down. But this week... well... life got in the way in the best possible fashion.
We went to Gen Con.
You know, there are some places that just have an energy all their own. A baseball stadium on Opening Day. Walking into Disney for the first time. Maybe your favorite band's c...
YHIHL S4E17
Let’s start off with some news that made me give an audible “Ohhh!”
Renegade Games Studios has announced they will be launching Ann Rice’s Immortal Universe Roleplaying Game later this year through Backerkit.
https://www.enworld.org/threads/anne-rices-supernatural-world-is-coming-to-a-ttrpg-near-you.719998/
That was one of those announcements that had me at hello.
I am a huge fan of th...
On our last episode we started talking about turning roleplaying into a career. If you haven’t listened to that would I would recommend going back and diving into it. We planned on keeping it pretty conventional and immediately went off the rails into a deep dive on, well, starting a career in anything. For a quick recap I think we ended up with a few tips. One, Work Hard. Two, Be Patient. Three, Don’t G...
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We start off with more Paizo News. Specifically, Paizo has ended its 8-year relationship with the Archives of Nethys, citing lack of earnings and financial issues. The Archives of Nethys has been the online repository of al...
On this episode Mike, Christina and I are going to talk about professions that you can get into either directly involved in the roleplaying game industry or those professions that roleplaying will help you get into.
Or at least that was the goal. You will see that we went an entirely different direction.
Christina, as a Dr. of Education games and game designing has played a prominent role in your profession. When did ...
Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard.
Our first news article is going to kill two birds with one stone.
https://ttrpgfans.com/origins-awards/
The Origins Awards winners were announced at this years Origins convention that was held in Colombus Ohio June 17th through the 21st. The Origins Awards are an annual award that recognizes excellence in the tabletop gaming industr...
I was sixteen years old in 1985, sitting around a table with a group of friends, a pile of dice, some character sheets, and a copy of the James Bond 007 roleplaying game.
Now, I'd seen the movies. I'd watched Bond race across exotic locations, escape impossible situations, and somehow always come out on top. But that day was different. We weren't watching James Bond. We were James Bond.
I still remember the adventure ...
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https://www.enworld.org/threads/paizo-laying-off-12-due-to-fallout-from-diamonds-bankruptcy.719446/
No one likes layoffs
Piazo, the publisher of Pathfinder among other games has announced it will be laying off 12 employees due to the fallout from Diamond Comics bankruptcy last year. We discussed the Diamond Comics bankruptcy and the...
Have you ever had this awkward moment in your roleplaying game?
“As you turn the corner you come face to face with an animated walking corpse! Give me a Fright Check”
“Uh, this game doesn’t have fright checks.”
“What, Seriously…hang on, surely it has a mechanic…crap.”
If so, then you are not alone. I pretty much pulled that dialogue word for word out of one of the ...
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Let’s start todays episode off with…WoW
And I mean that in a good sense.
Wizards of the Coast has released some of it’s plans for GenCon. And it’s pretty cool. The recently announced plans ...
I know this isn’t table top roleplaying, but stay with me for a moment.
When I was a senior in high school the guy who ran our gaming and miniatures sessions invited us all to a Murder Mystery Party.
We received an elaborate invitation with information about the “character” we were to play for the party. It also had suggestions for what to wear.
When we showed up, his place was completely decorated. L...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w
Several years ago, I stumbled across one of the greatest podcasts I have ever listened to. It was called the Lovecraft Investigations and it started with the Case of Charles Dexter Ward. I’m a huge fan of Call of Cthulhu and I’ve pretty much read all of Lovecraft over the years....
It started with a simple text to the Thursday Night Gaming Group.
“Hey, Free League’s Twilight 2000 has a life path character creation system. Anybody interested in playing it?”
And I have to say, of all the texts and emails I have sent to the group over the years that one got a lot of attention and the answer was an overwhelming yes.
I had played the original Twilight 2000 as a teenager and I liked i...
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Recently D&D Beyond has started providing Drops for their online subscriber-based system for releasing Dungeons and Dragons Material. The problem is, the new Drops, which include maps, characters, and premade encounter...
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