I’m half Cajun from both sides of my family – my mother and my father both are half Cajun. I can trace my paternal line all the way from my grandfather in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to several generations in Louisiana then back to Canada and finally France in the 1400s, […]
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We finally get the Shadowrun out of our systems as we’re joined by John Dunn and Russell Zimmerman to talk about my personal favorite RPG of all time, Shadowrun! If you’ve never played the game before, you’ll want to check out the primer I recorded on the Shadowrun system and […]
Tomorrow’s episode is about my favorite roleplaying game on the planet, Shadowrun. Because I’m such a big fan and both our guests, John Dunn and Russell Zimmerman, as well as Ross himself have all worked on the Shadowrun line at some point, I felt it was necessary to record a […]
I want to try something new around here. I pride myself on being a graduate of the Good Eats Culinary Academy (if you don’t get the joke, I mean I’ve seen every episode of Good Eatsby Alton Brown multiple times each) and a fairly decent cook, so I thought I’d […]
If you listened to the most recent Gamer’s Tavern episode, you might have noticed that I seemed to be the Negative Nancy for Kickstarted games. I also probably came off as a Luddite, but my love for technology is a subject for another blog. I know I sounded down on […]
Modern technology is changing the gaming world one app and social media page at a time. Jesse Scoble (designer on Silver Age Sentinels and A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying) joins us to discuss how our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet are all changing the industry and our […]
Okay, there’s been some confusion based on the title of the podcast and the website not matching, so after some research and a bit of work, we’re cleaning house. Welcome officially to the Gamer’s Tavern Podcast!! In addition, I’m also going to step back a bit in my on-air role […]
Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, World of Darkness both new and old, Ravenloft, Call of Cthulhu…what draws us to these classic horror roleplaying systems and settings? Guest Ari Marmell (fantasy author and game designer for White Wolf and Wizards of the Coast) joins us at the Gamer’s Tavern to […]
Welcome to the Gamer’s Tavern. How do you define horror in roleplaying games? What tricks can you use to increase the horror in your games? How do you stop the tension in your games from getting derailed? Our guests Brian Patterson (d20Monkey) and Jason Marker join us to find answers […]
I wasn’t just adding color to the podcast to get into that fantasy tavern feel when I said I was drinking mulled wine on Episode 3. I started making it last winter and I’m in love with it. It’s also incredibly easy to make and a great way to get […]
Welcome to the Gamer’s Tavern. This week’s episode was…a bit of a clusterfrag as we had a guest unfortunately cancel on us at the last minute. But swooping in to save us was Darrell Hardy (who spells his name wrong regardless of what he says on the podcast because everyone […]
The night of ghouls and goblins is upon us in a few short weeks, the night when the barrier between the living and the dead is the thinnest and spirits of the deceased return…and the Gamer’s Tavern is celebrating!! We’ve got a trio of Halloween themed episodes for you, the […]