Plundergrounds

• My bookshelf on Goodreads
• The Colour of Magic
• Engine Summer
• Donovan's Brain
• The Year of Less - Audible
• The Game Players of Titan

• Theme song by Logan of the Sword Breaker podcast
• Elric

• Theme Song by Logan Howard
• Shadowdark KS - ENDS MAR 30, 2023
• Index Card Sleeves - Soft (untested) and Hard
• Monster Football  Tokens
• Coin Holders 
• Kelsey's Minimalistic GM Kit ... and the Updated Version
• Whatnot
• Blood Bowl teams I painted 
• Dice Shakers - Acorns and Small Dice and Smaller Dice
• Castle Gameskull
• Google Voice Number (a real telephone number)

• Opening theme by Logan Howard (HE'S BACK!)
• Andrew Walter: Wolfbane, Hothouse
• David Johnston of Betelnut Games, The Pastel City
• Voltron, Primal (NOT Primeval), Stalker, Kraken Wakes, The Bull and the Spear
• Boris and Brom
• The Pink Phantom
• Chris Shorb's Into the Maze
• D23 News - Invasion of lava worms, cult of three armed priests and their slumbering overlord, silent bird folk,  an angry tribe of undead fish-people, and a suspiciously friendly ogress. Test run 1. Also - issue 1 in PDF!
• Joshua Skelton Rufus graphic
• Online Oracle by Shawn Medero 
• Bob the World Builder gives Gygax 75 some love

• Between Two Cairns
• Cairn by Yochai Gal
• Dungeon23
• Monster Football Tokens
• VTT Token Maker

• Theme song by Logan Howard
• #Dungeon23, a creative challenge by Sean McCoy
• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Wolfbane by Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• Sean's blog https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23
• Mazirian's Garden rehash http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2022/12/megadungeon-2023.html

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Bookpilled YouTube Channel
• Whatnot
• The Magician, by Eggy Toast

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Zine Give-Away blog post
• 20. The Desert Moon of Karth, Joel Hines, 2021. [Discussed on Between Two Cairns.] Small moon sandbox for Mothership with a space-western feel.
• 21. Low Country Crawl, John Gregory, 2019. Southern Gothic (US) OSR goodness.
• 22. Mudwarren Alley, Jennifer "Moonpoison" & Evelyn Moreau, 2018. Collaborative OSR, copiously-illustrated dungeon. Fun, weird, and evocative.
• 23. Mothership (signed), Sean McCoy, 2018. Bought by me at Gen Con 2018 and signed by Sean on site. Popular horror-survival-SF RPG. This is the original zine edition.
• 24. Dead Planet, Fiona Maeve Geist, Donn Stroud, Sean McCoy, 2018. "A violent incursion into the land of the living for the MOTHERSHIP Sci-Fi Horror Roleplaying Game."
• 25. Cosmic Crawl, Evelyn Moreau, 2018. Lovecraftian astral goodness with EM's awesome illustrations.
• 26. Lighthouse at the End of the Universe, Ella Lim, 2021? Contemplative solo RPG about ... (the titel).
• 27. The Eternal Caverns of Urk (mini), Nate Treme, 2019. "A procedural science fantasy underground" with it's own system, Tunnel Goons. Caverns of Urk solo play
• 28. The Temple of the Blood Moth, Jacob Butcher, 2019. [Discussed on Between Two Cairns.] OSR goodness/weirdness.
• 29. Mutants of Ixx (trifolds), Karl Stjernberg, 2019? Gamma world style hack using Into the Odd mechanics.
• 30. Cairn, Yochai Gal, 2021? An original, new school revolution adventure game. Cairn Capsule Review
• BONUS: Apocalypse World PROTOTYPES - four pocket mods handed to me by Vincent Baker at his house after a night of playing 3:16 in the year of our Lord 2007. The origins of PbtA!
• Emotional Damage Epic Moment by Kirk Osamayo

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• The Subterranean Malstrom, Alex T., 2022? System agnostic but kind of aimed at OSE. "Endless vile tunnel encounters for solo play and DMs."
• Wizard Funk 3, Robin Irwin et al, 2021. A miscellany of cool old school material and INTERVIEWS with important creators in the early days of the adventure game hobby.
• Dodeca, Peter Lattimore, 2022. A d12 based old school feeling rules set for "adventuring through grimdark worlds."
• The Drain, Ian Yusem, 2022? A full color, "funnel" for the Mothership SF RPG.
• Harrowings: The Exalted Hours, Various, 2020. Miscellaneous material for supporting games themed around the twilight and the coming dark. Old school vibes.
• Blues Theme, Johnny Chan and the New Dynasty 6

• Plundergrounds Theme, by Logan Howard
• Harrowings: From the Rhine (issue 1), Various, 2019. A collection of ice-age fantasy material suitable for most fantasy RPGs, but occasionally tuned to a version of D&D. Digital is free.
• Aetherjack's Almanac 1-6, Ian Woolley, 2020. Troika. Space-faring stuff. [Featured in episode 317.]
• The Cerulean Curtain, Mark Conway, 2021. Troika. A gladiatorial-theatrical sphere, complete with backgrounds. [Featured in episode 317.]
• The Viridian Scroll - zine giveaway post
• Zinevember Sponsor: Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman (covered on episode 339)
• Pure Adrenaline, by eddy.

• Plundergrounds Theme, by Logan Howard
• Eat the Rich by Ambika Kirkland
• Not a Place of Honor, David Lombardo and Emanuel Melo. [Featured in episode 307.]
• The Viridian Scroll - zine giveaway post
• Zinevember Sponsor: Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman (covered on episode 339)
• Warzaw Express by the Pharaohs

• Plundergrounds Theme, by Logan Howard
• Courier, by Cody Barr
• Dethroners, by Jedediah Berry and Andrew McAlpine [Featured in episode 316]
• The Viridian Scroll - zine giveaway post
• The Pharaohs Theme, by the Pharaohs
• Zinevember Sponsor: Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman (covered on episode 339)

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Delver Issue 1 by James Floyd Kelly
• Fresh From the Forge, L. L. Blumire, 2021. [Featured in episode 345.]
• Lowlife, Sam Sorenson, 2021.  [Featured in episode 319.]
• The Viridian Scroll - zine giveaway post
• Mission Bucharest, the Pharaos
• Zinevember Sponsor: Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman (covered on episode 339)

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Mouth Brood digital / physical 
• Thousand Pound Canvas [Featured in episode 317]
• The Viridian Scroll - zine giveaway post
• Redaction, by Eggy Toast
• Zinevember Sponsor: Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman (covered on episode 339)

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Strange World by Aaron M. Sturgill
• Forking Paths 2 by Nathan Harrison (covered on episode 319)
• Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman (covered on episode 339)
• Viridian Scroll - zine giveaway post
• The Magician, by Eggy Toast

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• Fronds of Benevolence by Andrew Walter
• Crossover Dragon by Comptroller

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• GOZR Adventure RPG by James West (includes page looks)
• Viridian Scroll - Project Grayskull, Monster Drawing Club
• Reptilian Civilization by 1st Contact

• Theme music by Logan Howard
• Between Two Cairns podcast
• Fresh from the Forge
• Heritage Minis
• My channels: www.rayotus.com
• The White by Rolemusic

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Daydreaming About Dragons
• Goblin's Henchmen
• The Redcaps Podcast
• Dragon Magazine
• Dungeon Magazine
• Closing music: Big Sky Spy
• Feedback options: tel:6197191931 or send a recording to rayotus@gmail.com

• Theme by Logan Howard
• Jason from Nerd's RPG Variety Cast
• Cody from No Save for You
• Little Free Libraries
• The Rainbow Abyss
• Gardens of the Moon (Malazan)
• Chronicles of Amber
• Embassytown
• Event Horizon
• Military Conflict (truncated) by Audiorezout

• Plundergrounds theme by Logan Howard
• Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
• Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
• Resin Owlbears
• Dragonriders of the Styx
• Worm Men, Lava Men, Owlbears, Drawings
• Corrections and Additions:
• Go Motion
• Standard Tesselation Langauge
• Umerican Survival Guide by Reid San Filippo
• Malazan Book of the Fallen
• Gestalt Psychology
• Saxophone Guy by Eggy Toast

• Plundergrounds theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• Maxfield Parrish
• Jack Kirby
• 1976 Tolkien Calendar by The Brothers Hildebrandt
• Loco Banana by the Vivisectors

• Opening theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• Call-ins from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Podcast
• Spikepit
• Runeslinger of Casting Shadows
• Psychobilly
• The Cramps, The Meteors, Dai Kaiju, Khrangbin, Vivisectors, HoliznaCC0, Mystery Mammal, Nova's The Crusher ("Do the Hammerlock")
• Outland (1981), not Outlander!
• Twin Peaks
• Nicole Williamson's rendition of The Hobbit
• The Wind in the Willows stop-motion
• Nostalgia, life stories, coherence
• Heraclitus said "No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man."
• Glory Days by the Boss
• Mike Wyatt - Against the 70s
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Hong Kong toys - inspirations for Rust Monster, Owlbear, etc.
• 3-D Owlbear
• When We Were Wizards podcast - rise and fall of EGG
• Toy Soldiers blog on Dragonriders of Styx
• Blog post on HD > hp
• Taika Watiti, What We Do in the Shadows, Jojo Rabbit
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet (influenced Yojimbo, Fistful of Dollars)
• Thor Wake the Mangog by Lee/Kirby, Simonson
• Dragonriders of Styx Demons
• Phil Tippet Mad Dreams and Monsters
• Rayotus.com
• Closing music is Moth Man by Apache Tomcat

• Plundergrounds opening theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• Back Face Folio by Goblin's Henchman
• Call-ins from:
• Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast
• Runeslinger, aka , of Casting Shadows
• Joe of Hindsightless
• Closing is Vodka and Beer by the Vivisectors

• Plundergrounds opening theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• I wax nostalgic about stories and fables (Mother West Wind, Jack and the Giant Killer, Beowulf, Gilgamesh), board and card games (Carrier Strike, Payday, Auto Dealer, Masterpiece, Mastermind, Rook, Dutch Blitz, Risk, Inventors, Stop Thief), reading (The Hobbit, A Wizard of Earthsea, Dragonriders of Pern, Heinlein's juvenile works, Choose Your Own Adventure, The Science Fiction Book Club), 1977 (Star Wars, The Hobbit cartoon, Atari 2600, Steely Dan, Space Mountain, Roots, the blizzard, the energy crisis), 1978 (D&D Holmes Basic, Advanced D&D, Melee and Wizard, Ogre, another blizzard!, Pete Rose's 3,000th hit, WKRP, Bob Crane's murder, the Jonestown massacre, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Alladin's Castle, Omni magazine), 1919 (the TI-99/4a, moving houses, Voyager and Pioneer 11, Three Mile Island, Disco Demolition, Star Trek the Motion Picture, the Iran Hostage Crisis, Jimmy Carter attacked by a swamp rabbit, and Traveller).
• Closing music is Cemetery Dance by the Vivisectors

• Plundergrounds opening theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
• Science Fiction Book Review Podcast
• Ten Very Big Books Podcast (Malazan specific)
• The Discord Conversation
• The Chronicles of Amber
• Agartta City of Runes, Season 1
• Shadowdark (recently updated), Old School Essentials, The Black Hack
• Closing: Leopard Girl by The Vivisectors

• Opening theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• Call-in from Aron Clark of On the Tabletop
• Call-ins from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast
• Warlock! and Troika!
• Nope (movie, 2022), Space 1999
• Monthly podcast prompt (downloadable mp3): Rufus Asks - Favorite Fantasy Fight?
• Call-in from Joe Richter of Hindsightless
• Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan Book of the Fallen
• Ramble: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Fantasy Trip, Lovecraft (The White Ape or Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family, Misspent Youth, Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (Way in the Middle of the Air), MAR Barker, author of Empire of the Petal Throne, a nazi -- I never said it but I meant to mention his War of Wizards, Ben Riggs Slaying the Dragon (sales figures), Game Wizards, When We Were Wizards podcast with Adam Turner and Paul Stormberg, is Oriental a bad word?
• Into the Odd by Chris McDowall, Vaults of Vaarn by Leo Hunt, Bones Deep by David Schirduan
• Closing music is Silky by Alex Figueira 

• Opening theme by Logan Howard of Sword Breaker
• Call-in from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast
• Call-in from Chris Shorb
• Call-in from Joe Richter of Hindightless
• Call-in from Cody Mazza of the No Save for You! podcast
• The Clerics Wear Ringmail podcast
• Burning Wheel
• Geiger Counter by Jonathan Walton
• Warpstar!, Warlock!'s spacey cousin
• Closing music is 37 ohmperios by Rolemusic
• Big thanks to my Campaigners!
• My links

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• Warlock! by Fire Ruby Designs
• Ray Otus
• Closing music is Dance til You Die by HolizinaCC0

• Before Fire by James Feore
• Index Card RPG (ICRPG) by Runehammer Games
• rayotus.com
• Producers A-L
  Aljoscha Beyer
  Aron Clark
  Asbjørn Flø
  Beckett at Weird Realms
  Brian Oldfield
  Brian T Bullard
  Christopher Thompson
  D.C.
  David Dorward
  Dennis Gaens
  Diederik van Arkel
  FelTK
  Gherhartd Sildoenfein
  James Knight
  James West
  Jeffrey Jones
  Jessalynn
  Joaquín Aguirrezabalaga
  John Taber
  Joshua Skelton
  Kyle Hodnett
  Leckie
  Leonard Maradan
  Love Dahlgren

• Opening theme by Logan Howard, accompanied by Rufus!
• Call-in: Cody Mazza, No Save For You
• Call-in: Menion, Confessions of a Wee Timorous Bushi
• Call-in: Daniel Norton, Bandit's Keep
• Follow up to podcast on skill checks: March 11 Skill Rolls in Classic D&D
• Quick graph showing d20, 3d6 and d100 skill tests compared to 2-in-6 chance, Viridian Scroll
• "Modern Traditional Initiative"
• Index Card RPG Master Edition by Modiphius Entertainment
• "Classic Traditional Initiative"
• Sequence as given in Old School Essentials
• Comment from Philotomy's Musings
• Orchestrating turns in detail
• Housekeeping and Producer Roll Call
• Plundergrounds Patreon
• rayotus.com
• Closing music NPC Theme by Holzina

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• What is a Zettelkasten?
• Obsidian
• Control Panel Layout in the OSR
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Fighting Fantasy
• Interactive Fiction
• Jaquaying the Dungeon
• Retro copies The Dark Tower
• "Dungeon"
• "Link Distance"
• "Room" / Page / Numbered Location
• Blogs on Tape
• Should We Start Numbering Hallways On Our Maps? - Audio
• Should We Start Numbering Hallways On Our Maps? - Post
• See my work
• End Music is Hard Mode by HoliznaCC0
• rayotus.com

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• Cody from No Save For You
• BJ of Arcane Alienist
• Goblin's Henchman
• Diagesis
• Archipelago
• Itras By
• Plundergrounds Patreon
• Closing Music is Demomiculator by Hobotek

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Duvelman Dice
• Get a copy of The Gygax 75 Challenge
• Affinity products 
• Life After People
• Just Use Bears / Everything Is a Bear
• Maze Rats
• Torchbearer
• 30 Minute Dungeons
• Two Week Megadungeon
• Blogs on Tape
• Midjourney AI
• Cowspiders and Dropbears
• Desiccated Temple of Locha
• Me
• Out music is Benthic by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Get a copy of The Gygax 75 Challenge
• World of Dungeons by John Harper
• Sorcerer & Sword by Ron Edwards
• Dictionary of Mu by Judd Karlman
• Perilous Wilds / Freebooters on the Frontier
• Hex Kit by Cone of Negative Energy
• Thomas No's Strange Hex Tiles
• SageDaMage's Wasted Potential zine
• My Gygax 75 work: week 1, week 2
• Closing Music is Friendly Fire by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Andrew Walter's Ferverax and the Valley of Gleam
• Joe from Hindsightless!
• Wayne Peacock talks DCC (he also makes zines!)
• Get a copy of The Gygax 75 Challenge 
• Jump into the Cauldron, or just look at week 1 of the Gygax 75 Challenge entries (my week 1 work is there or you can see it on my Patreon)
• Closing Music is Life on Laserdisc by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Andrew Walter
• Cockatrice Nuggets
• Goblin's Henchmen
• Blorb Principles - original post by Sandra Snan
• Blorb Principles - recap by technoskald
• F**k You Design - original post
• Rules with Gaps - a response to F**k You Design
• Cairn by Yochai Gal
• The Super Hack by Simon Burley 
• Maze Rats by Ben Milton
• Closing Music is Innuendo 64 by Mystery Mammal

Tired of hearing crappy audio? Anyone want to help me with my mic issues? Contact me ... my gmail is just my name all run together, no caps.

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Niklas Luhmann
• Zotero
• Zettelkasten, Archive
• Typora
• Obsidian
• Notion
• Closing Music is Dog on a Rocket by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Gygax 75 mentioned on Questing Beast
• Call in from Chris Schorb about digital vs. physical media
• Call in from Rich Fraser of Cockatrice Nuggets about organizing digital media
• Software: Calibre, Name Mangler
• Goblin's Henchman recommends Blake's Seven, check out his Face Folio! 
• Cody of No Save for You on the magic of dice
• Judd Karlman's creative rubric and Daydreaming about Dragons
• Full Light, Full Steam by Josh Roby
• Reading: The Godwhale by TJ Bass and Dracula in "real time" - sign up by May 3rd
• Sound clips from Voltron and Land of the Lost
• Writing (rewriting) Plundergrounds the Collected Edition (here are the individual DW zines)
• Closing Music is Dog on a Rocket by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Dr. Strange: .... multiverse ... something ... madness something something
• Dr. Who: The Keys of Marinus
• Read Dracula in "real time" - sign up by May 3rd
• Closing Music is Dog on a Rocket by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Call-ins from Dennis, Jason
• Rogue Scroll and Swords without Master by Epidiah Ravachol (See also Dread and Wolfspell)
• Talrand, Sky Summoner and the Master of Waves
• VTT Token Maker and Owlbear Rodeo
• Read Dracula in "real time" - sign up by May 3rd
• Lots of rambling without links: First Men in the Moon, The Shining, Dracula, the Parker series by Richard Stark (pen name for Donald Westlake), Sortilege and fortune telling, Bible tales, teaching a board game class, Mancala, OSE, Canterbury Tales, "Eternal Atlanteans", The Chronicles of Amber ... 
• Closing Music is Industrial Fights & Magic by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Three Dice to Rule them All
• Places to buy more (!) dice: d20Collective, Kraken Dice, Roll4Initiative
• Mastodon
• Perl
• Results from Alex Schroeder's nutty and awesome Hex Describe Perl generator! (link to generator at bottom, it takes a bit of time to run)
• Magic the Gathering Cubes: What is a Cube?, What is a Battle Box?, The Pauper Cube, a Budget Battle Box (costs about $35 all-in), Winston Draft, Grid Draft
• Read Dracula in "real time" - sign up by May 3rd
• Closing Music is Industrial Fights & Magic by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Lowlife by Sam Sorenson
• Forking Paths
• Hunters in the Snow by Peter Bruegel the Elder
• Harlot's Progress/Rake's Progress by William Hogarth
• The Fall of Icarus (also by Bruegel!)
• Closing Music is The Situationists... by Fucked Up Beats

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Blood Heist by Leo Hunt and Lewis Garvey
• The original Kickstarter
• From Spear Witch (US)
• From Rook's Press (UK)
• Music to heist by
• Vaults of Vaarn (digital)
• Closing Music is Videogames with Your Brother by Mystery Mammal

• Opening theme by Logan Howard
• Kriegsmesser by Gregor Vuga ($8 digital)
• Aetherjack's Almanac by Ian Woolley ($24 .... ?!)
• The Cerulean Curtain by Mark Conway ($5 digital)
• Thousand Pound Canvas by Mark Conway ($3 digital)
• Closing Music is Unauthorized Forms of Space Propulsion by Mystery Mammal

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard
• Dethroners from Phantom Mill Games
• Closing Music is Frisky Business by Mystery Mammal

• Opening Theme by Logan Howard of Swordbreaker
• Chaosium's Cities book
• Escape from Skullcano Island, Levi Combs, Planet X Games
• Black Oak Workshop
• The Adventurer's Almanac, Michael Curtis
• ShadowDark, Kelsey Dionne
• Cursed Scroll Zine
• The Hideous Halls of Mugdulblub
• The rest of this week, the zine-a-day challenge?
• Call ins from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast and Colin Green of Spikepit
• Closing music is Good Grief by Mystery Mammal

• Opening music by Logan Howard
• Dragonlance, the Board Game
• Dave Arneson
• Fight in the Skies
• Secrets of Blackmoor
• Wizard Funk 3
• End music by Mystery Mammal