Dragonlance is one of the most popular settings for Dungeons & Dragons. And, like most things in tabletop gaming, there’s a lot of history behind the scenes that shaped the products over the years. Even very minor decisions made huge impacts as the line progressed, and we’re going to look […]
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Our chummer Sam Watts has died, which we find out from our chummer Sam Watts. With 100,000¥ on the line, we dive back into the underbelly of Seattle and try to unravel the mystery of Sam’s death. This video was originally streamed on Twitch at http://twitch.tv/GamersTavernShow on March 9, 2019, […]
BattleTech celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, but for 25 of those years, a good deal of the BattleMech designs were caught in a legal quagmire. Why did so many classic mechs of the game disappear? This is the story of the history of the BattleTech license, Harmony Gold, Robotech, […]
What does the classic, award-winning film Rashomon have in common with Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu? More than you might think as I untangle the web of stories to uncover what really happened to AD&D 1st Edition’s Deities & Demigods. Art and Photography Credits: Eric Lofgren – https://www.redbubble.com/people/EricLofgren […]
An archive of the Twitch Live Streams of Darryl’s playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins. Follow on Twitch to watch live at http://twitch.tv/gamerstavernshow
I cannot stress enough that as absurd as this episode gets, this actually happened. The Secret Service raided Steve Jackson Games because they thought the GURPS Cyberpunk sourcebook was a real-life hacker manual. Find out more about the raid and lawsuit including copies of legal documents from http://sjgames.com/SS Find out […]
A Let’s Play from Darryl for the atmospheric horror game Anatomy from independent developer Kitty Horrorshow. Find this game and more at http://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io
Welcome to Gamer’s Tavern History Check! This episode, we explore the series of events that led to the formation of the gaming hobby as we know it going all the way back to the very origin of the concept of “roleplaying games”.
UPDATE: This episode has now been uploaded with the break music removed. Gamer’s Tavern Game Table Shadowrun live stream. This episode, the team finishes the cleanup of their last run, realizes that stealing a bunch of trucks for the UCAS military means they need to GTFO of Seattle, finds a new […]