Video & Podcast Channel Highlights for the Week Ending October 29, 2022

It’s going to take a while for us to start hitting our stride and the format may change as we work out the kinks, but here we go!

GP Adventures – That Guy With The French Accent: Ben Poire is a veteran gamer who has been playing and running tabletop RPGs since the 1980s, posting in gaming circles online since the early 2000s, and designed his first module with the Hyperborean Laboratories of AFS Magazine #3. He partnered with Ernest G. Gygax Jr. for the cartography, design and writing of the Marmoreal Tomb Campaign Starter with Troll Lord Games. He is working on the larger Hobby Shop Dungeon project set in the the World around the Duinnsmere along with the Tomb.

Ben likes to create informative videos about the Old School, open-ended sanbox play style, mine and develop the published material of GP for their users, talk alone or with guests about the hobby, the games, play styles, pop culture, and various topics relevant to tabletop gamers including terrain and miniatures, cartography, logistics of gaming, as well as the occasional review or trailer reaction, because why not.

Where Ben discusses the content of one of Erik Tenkar's earlier videos, talks about how he started playing AD&D way back when, and how he wants to enjoy both the old TSR games and the modern OSR variants for what they are now to him as a 40-something gamer, rather than relive the “good old days” when he ran games for his 11-year-old friends and relatives.

Facebook: /bpoire Twitter: @BenoistPoire. Instagram: @benoistpoire

Greyhawk Grognard - Analysis, reviews, and new material relating to the World of Greyhawk Campaign Setting, tabletop gaming, and the OSR, with occasional forays into pop culture and industry/hobby news. Weekly videos on Thursdays, a Greyhawk-themed adventure hook every Sunday, plus other videos as the mood strikes.

This week's video:

I respond to Erik Tenkar's video, where he asks how we played D&D back in the day.

Tenkar’s Tavern - Gaming news, observations, punditry, and more regarding the OSR. Livestreams Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday Nights with various cohosts, including other casters on the TVN.

This Week’s Video:

As much as I love sandboxes today, in the late 70s to mid-90s nearly everything we ran was episodic in nature. Why are sandboxes and hex crawls considered to be so old school?

BTW, I’ve spoken highly of The Dread Thingonomicon. Well, now the first 50 pages can be snagged for free as a preview. (note - affiliate link)

Joethelawyer’s Analog Mancave – Joe is an old bastard who puts out videos on D&D, both old school and new.  He’s been playing D&D since 1984.  Joe is currently wrapping up a 4 ½ year 5e campaign and is about to start up a long long very long 2e campaign.  He’s doing a series of videos on how he’s prepping for it, and the campaign is expected to launch in the next couple of months.  No, you won’t ever see these games livestreamed.  The lack of dignity and decorum in these games would shock, confuse and horrify anyone under 50. 

He sometimes does videos with his brother Mike, called the Joe and Bro Firepit Show, where they talk about the D&D games they each play and run, while sitting in his brother’s backyard around his firepit. Roscoe the dog, known as “Squirrelbane” to his enemies, sometimes visits while they yammer on.  There’s usually much alcohol and other semi-legal things consumed during these shows, so they aren’t for the faint of heart.  Often, they aren’t even coherent or comprehensible.  He does unboxings, product reviews—both new and retro, and plans on reading all the books in Gary’s Appendix N soon.  God knows he has enough books…he may as well put them to use. 

This week’s video:

I got the idea for this video from Greg Stafford, who in a comment in my last video asked for “Suggestions for an adventure for a newbie to try older system where I’d take players who have only players 5e?” So I decided to answer it here, talking about how best to start an OSR style campaign using all that we learned over the years. Don't do it the old way that we used to, but do it in the old school style. Two different things. I hope you enjoy the video.

Links

Joe loves talking.  He just can’t shut up.  He replies to every YouTube comment.  You can also catch up with Joe here:

Email:  analogmancave@gmail.com 

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/analogmancave

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/analogmancave

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077311317522

MeWe:  www.mewe.com/i/joed15  

Webpage:  www.analogmancave.com

Matt Jackson’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mattjackson

Glen Hallstrom’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlenHallstrom

Glen Hallstrom’s Podcast: