Blogs on Tape

OSR Blog Posts. Read out loud.

Episode 145 – Twelve Angry Rooms, by Emmy Verte
May 14, 2025 – 7:53
Episode 144 – Bite-Sized Dungeons, by Marcia B.
May 12, 2025 – 25:35
Episode 143 – Empty But Not Nothing: Thoughts on Actionable Empty Rooms, by Warren D.
May 9, 2025 – 7:31
Episode 142 – Skill, Twenty Percent, by Ian McDougal
May 7, 2025 – 16:28
Episode 141 – An OSR Aesthetics of Ruinewal? Pende Art in Decay, by Ènziramire
May 5, 2025 – 18:13
Episode 140 – How to Run 200+ Sessions with 25 Systems in One Year, by Lowell Francis
May 2, 2025 – 22:39
Episode 139 – La-Mulana, Tomb of the Serpent Kings, and Multi-Layered Tutorials, by Dr Curious VII
Apr 30, 2025 – 17:50
Episode 138 – How To Set a DC in a D20 Dungeon Game, by Ty Pitre
Apr 28, 2025 – 18:08
Episode 137 – Question-Based Adventure Design (Q-BAD), by Ty Pitre
Apr 25, 2025 – 11:37
Episode 136 – Other Crews, by Ian McDougall
Apr 23, 2025 – 3:34
Episode 135 – The OSR Should Die, by Marcia B.
Apr 21, 2025 – 1:13:19
Episode 134 – Proceduralism, by Gus L.
Nov 24, 2022 – 51:00
Episode 133 – False Hydra, by Arnold K.
Nov 23, 2022 – 31:03
Episode 132 – Psychological Weight in Slot-Based Encumbrance: The Burden of Magic & Sin, by Warren D.
Nov 22, 2022 – 6:11
Episode 131 – Modern Mimics, by Velexi Raptor
Nov 21, 2022 – 13:48
Episode 130 – Apolitical RPGs Do Not Exist, by Prismatic Wasteland
Nov 18, 2022 – 10:36
Episode 129 – Parrot-Fiends of House Manati (and the Unceasingly Useful Dermestid Box), by Marsworms
Nov 17, 2022 – 10:40
Episode 128 – What Is a Dungeon Crawl?, by Gus L.
Nov 16, 2022 – 15:32
Episode 127 – Sui Generia, by Brendan S.
Nov 15, 2022 – 13:13
Episode 126 – Pleasures of the OSR: Secrecy and Discovery, by Ben L.
Nov 14, 2022 – 24:14
Episode 125 – Space is an Ocean, Spaceships are Submarines, by Emmy
Nov 11, 2022 – 31:28
Episode 124 – Ten Challenges I Love in Games, by Phlox
Nov 10, 2022 – 5:49
Episode 123 – A Fracture in Old School Philosophy: Barbarian or King?, by Dwiz
Nov 9, 2022 – 9:25
Episode 122 – So You Want to Run a Puzzle Dungeon: Tips and Procedures for Pleasant Puzzling, by Direct Sun
Nov 8, 2022 – 9:17
Episode 121 – Mechanics for Resource Management Part 3: Types of Resources, by Anne Hunter
Nov 7, 2022 – 1:24:36
Episode 120 – Positive Gross, by Evlyn Moreau
Nov 4, 2022 – 13:47
Episode 119 – Planning a Campaign as a Series of Decisions, by Retired Adventurer
Nov 3, 2022 – 9:32
Episode 118 – The Basis of the Game is Making Decisions, by Retired Adventurer
Nov 2, 2022 – 7:08
Episode 117 – The Keep on the Borderlands is Full of Lies, by Prismatic Wasteland
Nov 1, 2022 – 16:26
Episode 116 – Prep Tools, Not Adventures, by Nick LS Whelan
Oct 31, 2022 – 14:35
Episode 115 – Variations on the Johnson Meet, by Velexi Raptor
Oct 28, 2022 – 6:11
Episode 114 – Critique 2: The Old School, by marcia
Oct 27, 2022 – 28:36
Episode 113 – Traits of the Mythic Underworld, by Dwiz
Oct 26, 2022 – 5:31
Episode 112 – Soft Skills in Running a Game by Joshy McCroo
Oct 25, 2022 – 10:49
Episode 111, Adventure Writing Tips (Featuring Unicorn Meat), by Dan D.
Oct 24, 2022 – 14:24
Episode 110 – Memory Problems, by Ava Islam
Oct 21, 2022 – 23:30
Episode 109 – In Praise of “Silly” Names, by James Maliszewski
Oct 20, 2022 – 7:30
Episode 108 – Meet the New Boss: Some Thoughts on Domain-Level Play, by Joseph Manola
Sep 3, 2021 – 15:35
Episode 107 – Critique 1: Towards Better Critiques of Games, by Marcia
Sep 2, 2021 – 8:32
Episode 106 – Six Cultures of Play, by John B.
Sep 1, 2021 – 28:36
Episode 105 – On the Ecology of Gold & Dragons, by Ava Islam
Aug 31, 2021 – 8:52
Episode 104 – How to Run a Mystery in TTRPGs, by Prismatic Wasteland
Aug 30, 2021 – 11:36
Episode 103 – Two Week Megadungeon, by Nick LS Whelan
Aug 28, 2021 – 18:40
Episode 102 – Traversing Fantasy: Repetition & Drive, by Marcia
Aug 27, 2021 – 4:57
Episode 101 – Locks, by Larry Hamilton
Aug 26, 2021 – 14:35
Episode 100 – Maybe Split the Party, by Prismatic Wasteland
Aug 25, 2021 – 10:46
Episode 99 – Your Demon Lord Doesn’t Need That Many Hit Dice, by Joseph Manola
Aug 24, 2021 – 8:17
Episode 98 – Keystone Encounter Table, by Scrap Princess
Aug 21, 2021 – 9:14
Episode 97 – Hollow Hermit, by Evlyn Moreau
Aug 20, 2021 – 6:27
Episode 96 – Example of Play for Running Traps Without a Search Check, by Nick LS Whelan
Aug 19, 2021 – 8:44

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