Hile brave adventurers! Here we return with yet another episode of Bourbon and Barbarians, an actual play recording of The Cromcast getting into some old-school D&D! Make sure to check out the details in the post related to the first episode!
We'll see you soon with another exciting episode of The Cromcast! In the mean-time, watch your back as you travel over the these barren hills.... You might run into a dread long-necked weasel-cat!
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Next time: We journey to the Temple of Abomination with Cormac and Wulfhere!
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"Sudden Defeat" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
Closing theme: "Dungeon Master" performed by Visigoth from the 2015 album "The Revenant King."
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Hile brave adventurers! What are you doing here in the Borderlands of the North? Thirsting for challenges and glory, eh? Well rest assured, you are not alone... Many brave souls fare to the Castellan's Keep, and further, searching for the mythic Caves of Chaos!
Characters begin at 3rd level, then choose / roll for a class specialty as provided in the OSR 'zine published by the Dyson's Dodecahedron.
Any ‘skill checks’ are attribute-based, and rely upon rolling some number of d6s against the attribute in question... Rolling under the attribute = success!
2d6 – easy task to accomplish!
3d6 – some difficulty
4d6 – very difficult
5d6 / 6d6 – nigh impossible
We’re using a redundancy rule for spell memorization… Basically if you memorize the same spell twice-over for the day, you ‘get’ that spell three times (e.g., if you memorize magic missile twice in the morning, then you can fire it off three times that day)
Special fighting actions (e.g., called shot, off-hand weapons) will be at a -4 to hit. Further, natural 20’s on a ‘to hit’ role results in maximum damage.
And that's it! Otherwise, we're jumping into the classic module, B2: The Keep on the Borderlands. Hope you enjoy these occasional episodes. If this doesn't happen to be your bag, just sit tight... We'll be back soon with another exciting episode of The Cromcast!
Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Black Vortex" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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"Tigers of the sea! Men with the hearts of wolves and thews of fire and steel! Feeders of ravens whose only joy lies in slaying and dying! Giants to whom the death-song of the sword is sweeter than the love-song of a girl!"
The Many Editions of Tigers of the Sea
Hail, Cromrades! It is your loyal Podcast carls, back in the recording steading again and returning to our roots with a Robert E. Howard story on this week's episode: "Tigers of the Sea"! This was unpublished in Howard's lifetime, but was later finished by Richard Tierney and released by Donald Grant Publications in 1973. This story features Gaelic pirate Cormac Mac Art and his exploits with his Danish viking companion Wulfhere, who are charged with the rescue of a Briton princess from... well, someone!
One Things:
Jon: The Billy Gibbons and the BFG's record "Perfectamundo."
The next stop on the Lost Road is another adventure on the choppy northern seas with Cormac and Wulfhere, but this Tuesday (4/5/16) we are joining Jeffrey Shanks and Jason Durall to discuss the upcoming Conan RPG from Modiphius Entertainment: "Adventures in An Age Undreamed Of." If you have questions for the Hyborean Age scribes, please email them our way before Tuesday at 7PM Eastern Standard Time!
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"Sudden Defeat" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
Closing theme: "Baby Please Don't Go" performed by Billy Gibbons and the BFG's from the 2015 album "Perfectamundo."
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Greetings Cromrades! On today's show we meet up with El Goro of The Talk Without Rhythm podcast to discuss the cinematic spectacle and splendor of King Kong (1933)! If you haven't watched this movie or even if it's just been a while, do yourself a favor and check it out!
Josh: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien
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When next we meet!
As we continue to journey down the lost road we will find ourselves in familiar territory as we return to some Robert E. Howard literature! If you wish to prepare then start looking for the Cormac mac Art stories, "The Tigers of the Sea" and "The Temple of Abomination".
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Hile, adventurers! Explorers! Paleontologists! Cromrades! We have returned from a recent trek to the jungles of South America, and escaped from a mysterious plateau filled with dinosaurs and ape-men with our lives intact! This episode features a discussion of the original film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal work "The Lost World." It was directed by Harry Hoyt, and featured a cast that went on to great acclaim including Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, and Lloyd Hughes. But the real stars of the show are the dinosaurs, painstakingly animated by Willis O'Brien and Marcel Delgado! This film was groundbreaking for its time, and definitely influenced special effects work in cinema. The stop-motion dinosaurs are still fun to watch! And, their appearance influence the way dinosaurs have been portrayed on screen to this day!
We focus on Arthur Conan Doyle, the film adaptation, and a brief look at how evolution and geologic time are portrayed in fiction! We get scientific in this one!
Next time: Journey with us to Skull Island to explore the legend of Kong...
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Beginning theme: "Sudden Defeat" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
Closing theme: "S.O.B." by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
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