How Role Playing Games Forged Their Identity #dnd Black Lodge Games 2024-03-06 | Join Black Lodge Games for a discussion of the origins of the TTRPG hobby through the lens of the incredible book, "The Elusive Shift" by Jon Peterson. Join our community over at blacklodgegames.locals.com with promo code MIDWIT for a free month. You get access to our videos 24-36 hours prior to release on YouTube, discussions with our community, and much more!#dungeonsanddragons #wargaming #gygax #garygygax #dnd5e
ShadowDark: The Shucked Oyster Part 2 #Shorts Black Lodge Games 2024-06-30 | Check out the Shucked Oyster Kickstarter, a new supplement for ShadowDark RPG: https://shorturl.at/L3gb9
ShadowDark: The Shucked Oyster Part 1 #Shorts Black Lodge Games 2024-06-30 | Check out the Shucked Oyster Kickstarter, a new supplement for ShadowDark RPG: https://shorturl.at/L3gb9#dnd5e #shadowdark #osr #dnd #kickstarter
BURN Your RPG Town For FUN and PROFIT Black Lodge Games 2024-06-29 | Get notified for The Shucked Oyster Kickstarter: https://shorturl.at/kiNg6The Shucked Oyster is a new third party supplement designed for use with ShadowDark and other fantasy RPGs. A single location that links more than 30 NPCs with conflicting motivations and goals, this new carousing location will get your players tangled in a web of intrigue like nothing they've ever seen. Within the 200 pages of this new module you'll find:- New carousing outcomes- 20 prostitutes to endlessly harass and harangue your players- 12 bizarre patrons connected to this mysterious brothel to flesh out your campaign world- New random encounter tables- Expanded social mechanics- 2 new legendary monsters- 2 fully mapped dungeons (19 rooms each!)- 4 new magic items, including the most masculine intelligent sword ever forged: Coward's Bane!
Legwork, Laziness, and Leg Day | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-06-27 | Join us tonight as we discuss Sam Sorensen's blog post about doing "legwork" when building world's in RPGs. Sign up to get notified for when the kickstarter goes live for this new ShadowDark RPG Supplement: https://shorturl.at/Ru9jBSam's blog post: https://samsorensen.blot.im/in-praise-of-legworkroyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Talking Soap Operas and The Shucked Oyster | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-06-21 | Join us tonight as we talk about our recent video about Soap Opera structure in RPGs and The Shucked Oyster. Sign up to get notified for when the kickstarter goes live for this new ShadowDark RPG Supplement: https://shorturl.at/Ru9jBroyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
STOP Running Sandboxes, START Running SOAP OPERAS Black Lodge Games 2024-06-19 | The key to running a good RPG sandbox is to use a soap opera structure. Don't build a railroad, build a web of intrigue! #dungeonanddragons #dnd5e #shadowdark Check out our kickstarter for The Shucked Oyster here: https://shorturl.at/1g8eE
Talking Tékumel | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-06-14 | Tonight we are talking about the impenetrable Empire of the Petal Throne and world of Tékumel.royalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Tékumel: The Most Influential Setting Youve Never Heard Of Black Lodge Games 2024-06-13 | Victor Raymond of the Tékumel Foundation was kind enough to sit down with us to discuss Professor M.A.R. Barker's monumental contributions to TTRPG history. Empire of the Petal Throne was one of the first RPG settings, and it is no longer out of print! Black Blade Publishing was hosting both the Tékumel Foundation as well as a huge assortment of amazing products from small indie publishers at North Texas RPG Con 2024. This was an excellent conversation and we will be speaking with Victor more in the future.Foundation website:tekumelfoundation.orgBuy Tékumel Products online:drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/57/the-tekumel-foundationTékumel Podcasttekumelpodcast.com
North Texas RPG Con 2024 | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-06-07 | We are headed to North Texas RPG Con this weekend. Come hang with us!Join our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITroyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Interview With A Grognard | BLG Podcast Black Lodge Games 2024-06-06 | This episode, we sit down with our good friend Spencer who was there 3000 years ago when Dungeons and Dragons first hit the scene. We talk about how gaming changed, what it was like to see D&D develop, and how to make everyone rage quit a multi year campaign because you never revealed your true alignment. Great stories, and much more to come with this level 98 Grognard.#dnd #dnd5e #osr #rpg #ttrpg #dragonlance #ravenloft #dndpodcast
Ginny Di Saves D&D | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-05-31 | Our Queen Ginny Di made a video about running D&D that just may save the normies. Is she also on the Mission™ From™ God™ too!?Join our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITroyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Are TTRPGs Really JUST Games? | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-05-24 | Do hobbies require work to get the most out of them? Is work even really the correct word? Come hang out with us and find out.Join our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITRoyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
First Principles of RPGs | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-05-17 | Hello redditors, lets talk foudational issues in RPGs. What's the point?Join our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITRoyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Talking ShadowDark | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-05-10 | Tonight we are talking ShadowDark again. Check out our kickstarter for The Shucked Oyster here: https://shorturl.at/1g8eEJoin our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITRoyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Star Wars Is Trash Because YOU Are Trash #shorts #starwars #starwars #maythe4th Black Lodge Games 2024-05-05 | ...
Star Wars is Trash Because YOU Are Trash Black Lodge Games 2024-05-04 | If you are tired of Star Wars being ruined over and over again, we have the solution for you. Happy Star Wars Day and "May the 4th be with you!"#starwars #starwarsday #maythe4thbewithyou #maythefourthbewithyou #maythe4th
Exalted Dethroned? Lone Wolf Fists RPG | Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-05-03 | Ginger Frasier and Yung Steve discuss their recent one shot running Lone Wolf Fists from @joelclark5458. Lone Wolf Fists on Drivethrurpg: drivethrurpg.com/en/product/416442/Tian-Shang-Lone-Wolf-Fists-CORE-RULEBOOKJoin our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITRoyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
DragonLance in Mythras: The Right System for the Right Setting Black Lodge Games 2024-04-26 | Yung Steve ran a one shot (soon to be a two shot) of DragonLance using the Mythras Setting with some of our community members from our Locals. What were the results?Join our locals for one month for free using promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWITRoyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Horde Wars with DM Blackwall Black Lodge Games 2024-04-19 | Come hang with us as we talk with DM Blackwall about his awesome game, Horde Wars. Links below for where you can purchase and where you can find his community!Buy Horde Wars: biggeekemporium.com/product/horde-wars-basicDM Blackwall on Twitter/X: twitter.com/DM_BlackwallDM Blackwall on Facebook: facebook.com/BlackwallGamesDM Blackwall email: hordewars@blackwallgames.com
MCDM Power Rolls and Immersion as the RPG Central Axis Black Lodge Games 2024-04-12 | Tonight, let's talk about the view from nowhere in rpg design and why character immersion is should be the central axis of the RPG experience.music by @WhiteBatAudio
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman RPG (Kickstarter!!!) Black Lodge Games 2024-04-01 | Black Lodge Games has been contracted to bring an officially licensed RPG product to life in vivid detail! Get in here and help us make it happen!!!Note: Check video upload date
Basic Roleplaying, Mythras, and RuneQuest | BLG Hangout Black Lodge Games 2024-03-29 | Tonight, let's talk about BRP, Mythras, RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha and why hit locations are awesome.
Matt Mercer Vs. Gary Gygax: Is There a Third Way? Black Lodge Games 2024-03-22 | Do RPG's have to be epic storytelling sessions or purely procedural dungeon crawls? No. There is another way.Royalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Matt Mercer Vs. Gary Gygax: Is There a Third Way? | Vertical Black Lodge Games 2024-03-22 | Do RPG's have to be epic storytelling sessions or purely procedural dungeon crawls? No. There is another way.Royalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Gamer Girls Hit the Wall?? #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e #shorts Black Lodge Games 2024-03-20 | The absolute state of #ttrpg and #dnd discourse on youtube
#dnd is about IMMERSION #shorts #dndpodcast #dungeonsanddragons Black Lodge Games 2024-03-19 | TTRPGs need immersion as their central feature
#dnd for Therapy?? #shorts #podcast #ttrpg #dnd5e Black Lodge Games 2024-03-18 | Should you trauma dump, or cause trauma? #dungeonsanddragons #dndpodcast
DnD Power Gamers in the 1970s were NUTS #shorts #podcast #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg Black Lodge Games 2024-03-17 | Check the full podcast in the link on screen. The 1970's had absolutely insane amounts of energy in the #ttrpg hobby. It was like the dinosaurs, too much oxygen in the air!
Dark Adventures in Bellifallow and Nighthaven | Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-03-15 | Come hang with the BLG bois while we talk with @RollinBones and the Wonkee about their new volume of adventures for d20 based fantasy games. The kickstarter for Gut N' Glory Vol 1 is already smashing stretch goals! Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/gutsngloryvol1/guts-n-glory-vol-1 Rollin Bones with Ryan Howard: youtube.com/@RollinBones Support Wonkee: guilded.gg/chat/8f30fa2a-65e2-4fc3-8002-7916da70739f?messageId=f8dfb653-4c22-4153-afb6-bd901cc7766fRoyalty free music from @WhiteBatAudio
Dungeons and Dragons and Therapy Black Lodge Games 2024-03-11 | Generations of gamers have used Dungeons and Dragons for Therapy, and so can you! #dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #dndpodcast Excerpt from the latest episode of the Black Lodge Games Podcast
If You Think Power Gamers Are Bad Now... #dnd Black Lodge Games 2024-03-08 | If you think min-maxers and power gamers are bad now, you have no idea the level to which people were playing D&D in the 1970's. There explosive creativity and imagination at the beginning of the #ttrpg hobby was prehistoric in it's proportions.This is an excerpt from the full Black Lodge Games Podcast which you can find here: youtu.be/8x2dKqzjKzo#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg #roleplayinggames #osr
BLG Reacts To Our Oldest Videos | Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-03-08 | Come hang and watch ancient Ginger Frasier content from the depths of Black Lodge Games' history. Was Frasier based or [REDACTED]?
Youve Been Playing Vampire The Masquerade WRONG Black Lodge Games 2024-03-04 | Vampire: The Masquerade does not have to be a game of foppish politicking or brooding street samurai. If you follow the underlying structure of the game, you should be playing a dark supernatural version of The Sopranos. Vampire is about the Mob!Get notified for our upcoming kickstarter: https://shorturl.at/X3Uj8Check us out on locals and use promo code MIDWIT to get a month free! blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWIT#vampirethemasquerade #vamily #vampire #worldofdarkness
Modern Necessities with The Scrying Dutchman | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-03-01 | Ever think that Old School Essentials needs automatic weapons? Of course you do! Come check out our conversation with Viktor Gorchev aka The Scrying Dutchman as he talks about his new version of Modern Necessities.Modern Necessities: Modern setting rules for OSE, via @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/scryingdutchman/modern-necessities-modern-setting-rules-for-ose?ref=android_project_share
Role Playing Vs. Acting | Black Lodge Games Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-02-23 | Come say hello and talk about role playing vs acting in TTRPGs. Join us over on locals for one month free with promo code MIDWIT: blacklodgegames.locals.com/support/promo/MIDWIT
How to ROLE PLAY #shorts #criticalrole #dimension20 Black Lodge Games 2024-02-20 | You don't need to be an actor to role play in #ttrpgs
Stop PERFORMING and Start ROLE PLAYING Black Lodge Games 2024-02-19 | Get Notified for our Kickstarter for "The Shucked Oyster", designed for use with Shadowdark RPG!kickstarter.com/projects/1003133567/the-shucked-oyster-a-cursed-brothel-for-shadowdark-rpg?ref=eldtdzWant to learn how to role play? Want your TTRPG experience to be more immersive like @criticalrole or @dimension20show? STOP trying to be a performer and START being a ROLE PLAYER.#criticalrole #dimension20 #dnd #ttrpg #roleplay
Deadly Dice Pools: Storms Over Sturmburgh | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-02-16 | Today we are talking to Kyle Griswold of Broken Blade Publishing. "Storms Over Sturmburgh" is in the home stretch of its kickstarter and Kyle will be telling us all about this new supplement for the excellent fantasy role playing game, "Streets of Peril". Support the kickstarter here: kickstarter.com/projects/streetsofperil/storms-over-sturmburgh
Golems: Monsters From the Black Lodge | BLG Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-02-09 | Come hang with Ginger Frasier and Steve Buscemi while we talk a bit about our in-development RPG supplement.
MCDM Design Hell and AI Contacts Humanity Through D&D?? | Black Lodge Games Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-02-02 | Tonight we take a look at some of the MCDM game design diaries as well as checking in on the prophet of Gygax (pbuh), Scott Garibay. Has the first true artificial intelligence made contact with our species through Dungeons & Dragons? Yes.
The Living Campaign with John N. McGowan | Black Lodge Games Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-01-25 | Learn how to run a sustainable long term fantasy campaign without the need for countless hours of prep work before your sessions. Join us for a discussion of the excellent book "The Living Campaign" with author John N. McGowan. We discuss sandbox adventuring, the importance of strict time keeping, and edge cases of Jeffro-Gygaxian 1:1 time.Grab the book here: amazon.com/Living-Campaign-Creating-Maintaining-Campaigns/dp/B0CRBLYWG6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16HAI6E6D1J6L&keywords=the+living+campaign&qid=1706142180&sprefix=%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1Join our Locals community here: blacklodgegames.locals.com
Race to the Bottom (of the dungeon) | ShadowDark vs OSE Black Lodge Games 2024-01-24 | Check out our kickstarter for The Shucked Oyster here: https://shorturl.at/1g8eECheck out a fully vibes based comparison of ShadowDark RPG and Old School Essentials! Which one should you buy? Who cares!When it came time to make this video, we realized that we really don't really care about Old School Essentials or ShadowDark, but we want those sweet, sweet views. After talking over the differences between the two games we started working on the thumbnail and title for the video and honed in on Frank Reynolds as a dnd character in front of a pile of coke.We then started writing the script and realized that the intro hook was way more interesting than the boring thoughts that we had about the games themselves and we decided that the hook was actually a better video.Find out what happens to our ShadowDark hero in the Shucked Oyster Brothel as he faces off against Garfunkle the Wise!If you liked this video, head over to our community and join in the discussions there:blacklodgegames.locals.com
NEET Life Stream | Black Lodge Games Black Lodge Games 2024-01-19 | Escape the wage cage and embrace life as the almighty neet. We are talking RPGs (surprise)
ACKS II: First Impressions | Black Lodge Games Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-01-12 | Ginger Frasier ran his first session of ACKS II this past Sunday. Find out how it went and what our first impressions of this new game system are.
Vampire The Masquerade Camarilla Review | V5 Black Lodge Games 2024-01-07 | An in depth review of Camarilla, a Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition source book. Does it pass muster for Yung Steve Buscemi?Camarilla is an excellent roleplaying supplement that will bring new unlife to your table. Though not without flaws, this book adds new twists on a familiar organization and terrifying new threats to the Masquerade. Don't sleep on this great addition to the V5 lineup.#vampirethemasquerade #vampire5e #vtm #labynight #vamily
Reddit Found Us | Black Lodge Games Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2024-01-05 | We did it! We finally got the attention and adulation that is rightfully ours. r/rpg and r/candelaobscura found our channel and had a lot to say.
Candela Obscuras FAILURE And What To Play Instead (Wretched Epoque) Black Lodge Games 2024-01-01 | Part 2 of our review of Candela Obscura! Does the world building of this game make any sense or let you have fun?The truth is that this game is like your nagging mother in law, constantly trying to make sure you aren't having too much fun. Its world building is full of nonsensical contradictions and the most boring realization of its premises. The real alternative to this nightmarishly bad game is to play a different game: Wretched Epoque from @TheRedRoomChannel Check out Wretched Epoque and the Wretched Roleplaying Game Core Rule book at the links below:Wretched Epoque: moordereht.com/product/wretched-epoque-second-editionWretched Roleplaying Game Core Rules: moordereht.com/product/wretched-role-playing-game#candelaobscura #criticalrole
RPG Christmas Haul | Black Lodge Games Live Stream Black Lodge Games 2023-12-29 | Join us for a post Christmas livestream and tell us what Santa left under the tree! #ttrpg
Did Millennials RUIN Vampire The Masquerade??? | V5 Review Black Lodge Games 2023-12-17 | Does Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition live up to the legacy of it's gothic punk predecessor? Join Young Steve Buscemi for a deep dive on the good , the bad, the cringe and the brilliant in this flawed gem of a table top roleplaying game.Vampire is a product of a particular moment in time, and this latest edition is no exception. We trace the cultural roots of the original editions that were fueled by the subcultures of Gen X and its transformation into the Millennial milieu.Check us out on twitter to find out how wrong you are about everything: twitter.com/blacklodgegames#vampirethemasquerade #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #genx #millennials #vamily
