Palladium Megaverse Podcast – Fantasy 1e – Episode 6
In this very episode we pick up where we left off, the group licks their wounds after the fight with the skeletons. The group travels into the room and found…
Clarifications Press Release with TSR, about TSR Con dates?
So last night, various people reached out to me via facebook with some news & rumors. These folks were concerned about a facebook posting that TSR had put up, changing their TSRCon dates from July to March. They were also kind of bothered by some other rumors about how Justin LaNasa was trying to use
Palladium Megaverse Podcast – Fantasy 1e – Episode 5
Inside the heart of the temple, the group continues where they left off, right at the mirror/chalice room. After looking around a bit they decide to check on the wards…
Palladium Megaverse Podcast – Fantasy 1e – Episode 4
In this episode the group finds a secret door behind a painting and decides to follow this new path, as they travel around this temple. The path turns them around…
Palladium Megaverse Podcast – Fantasy 1e – Episode 3
In this episode the group finishing cleaning up the outpost and then heads back for their reward. After returning to the guild, the group gains its reward for completing the…
Palladium Megaverse Podcast – Fantasy 1e – Episode 2
In this episode we pick back up where we left off, as the group heads to the outpost to discover what happened to the outpost as part of their mission….
Palladium Megaverse Podcast – Fantasy 1e – Episode 1
In this episode, we get introduced to the world, the players and their characters. After some introductions and a brief orientation of how things work the group gets their first…
Encounter Balance & fairness for older D&D editions? HA! Nope!
Question of the Week: A Book goes missing from your collection..
Has this happened to you before? Suddenly a book goes missing from your collection, whether it be at your house, or at a friends house. You know you had that book, but now its gone. How would you handle this situation with the group? or do you ignore it, hoping you just lost it and
Twilight 2k Solo Play – What do I need? What Rules? Starting Point?
Obviously I am going to be playing this solo or there might be a small chance I know someone who wants to play, so then it would be co-op, which is also VERY interesting…. but for now.. its all solo play and we’ll stick to that. Now I’ll be doing all the rolling of dice
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini-Cast #14 – Voicemail about Henchmen…
Got a voicemail from The Goblin’s Henchmen, about the Max Number of Henchmen a character can have.. is it a perm number? or just at one time? Let’s explore! https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini-Cast #13 – Talking Starting Gold and the Monetary system
Flipping to page 35 of the book, I go over the starting gold you get and wonder why its like that as well as tell you the adjustments I’ve made for my campaigns. https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
Thinking about Twilight 2000, Solo Play?
One of the many games I enjoyed playing when I was younger was Twilight 2000. The big yellow book (as displayed in the picture) was the book I purchased when I was in high school. It was the newer updated rules to the 1e box-set (which I didn’t know about at the time). I
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini-Cast #12 – Talking Secret Hit Points?
In this episode I flip to page 34 and talk about the rule Gary lists for how a DM can hide the hitpoints from players only telling them “status”. I found it interesting. I posed a few questions to those listening out as I want emails and voicemails! Send them in now! https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini-Cast #11 Email Question about percentile Attributes
Got a facebook page message from Darin, asking about Percentile attributes for intelligence and why Gary did not use it. Its an interesting question, one that we never came across in all the years of doing RFI Podcast. https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #10 – Talking Magical Armor Savings throws rule
10 episode in! We are rolling with these episodes! Remember every Tuesday and Thursday there will be a new mini-episode of the RFI podcast. Send in your questions now! This week I got a question from LeroyD20 on Twitter ask about the magical item savings throw rule that can be found on p81 of the
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #9 – Talking about alignment changes and what happens?
In this episode, I flip to p34 in the Player’s handbook and discuss the alignment changes. What happens and how to handle with some examples. How would you handle it? https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #8 – No, no… Clerics can’t use edged weapons…sorry!
This episode I am talking about the old cleric class, the wisdom qualifications for the class and multiclass.. as well as talk about how Clerics are not allowed to use edged weapons, even when multiclassing, but hey, its your campaign, you can do as you want right? https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #7 – Talking about Half Races and Racial Preferences, do you use them?
Filling to page 8 in the book this week, I decided to take a chat and tell my experiences about using the Racial Preferences chart in the book. I have to ask, did you use this table and what are you experiences with it? https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #6 – Voicemails and questions!
Got a couple of voicemail questions from The Goblin’s Henchman.. He makes some good points about levels with monsters and then talks about White Dwarf’s Monster Mark. He did a post on his blog about it in detail: Monster Mark … off the mark? | quantifying monster threat levels Send your voicemails and emails in
Old School Mapping! Fun times!
When I start a campaign from the beginning, I love to sit down and draw out the area. While I am not the best artist in the world, the map I draw is for my tracking purposes and sometimes I share with my group. I think drawing out the map on hex paper gives
Small Update, more videos soon!
Just wanted to give a small update on what’s going on and that more videos are coming soon, I plan on starting with Palladium Fantasy 1e and exploring that book in detail. Fantasy has always been my favorite out of the palladium series.
Bundle of Holding the Catalyst Collection, System Neutral!
Saw a post on facebook about this bundle of holding, and thought it was quite interesting because of the things you can get. “The Catalyst series presents system-neutral supplements full of shops, establishments, characters, treasures, traps, and perils you can add to any fantasy adventure. This revived and expanded offer brings you all seven CityBooks,
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #5 – Email Question about Green Slimes!
Another RFI Mini, which will come out on Tuesdays and Thursdays of the week. In this episode DM Glenn asked a question about how I handle Green Slimes. Green Slimes can be found in the monster manual on p49. Listen in and see if you agree or not. Go ahead and email your questions
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #4 – Voicemails and Questions
Hey folks a new episode today. Got two voicemails, both are from Carl of the Save or Die podcast. He asks some interesting questions and points out somethings about abilities scores being 15 and has thoughts on the whole females strength topic. Listen in and you too can leave a voicemail or email me.
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #3 – Rolling HP for Multi-Class Characters
Looking through the book, I saw a rule about rolling hit-points for multi-class characters and decided to talk about it and my experiences with the rule and how Gary wrote the book. Https://TheEvilDM.com/Support
Railguns & Dragons – Mutant Characters
Flipping to p109 in the basic revised book, we look at the different types of mutants and take a closer look at the cut down version of the BIO-E creation system from TMNT. Rolling up Mutant characters can be a lot of fun, and the designing a mutant animal character is a blast, I do
Railguns & Dragons is back! Talking Magical Characters!
Yep, my wonder series on Palladium games continues and I pick up, right where I left off with Heroes Unlimited Basic, Magic Character Classes, its a two part series so I did two videos to keep the time down, so you get two, 15 minute or less videos. I had a lot of fun doing
Announcement: So the RFI Minis are here to stay..
So I’ve done two Roll For Initiative Podcast mini episodes on my personal podcast channel located here: https://Anchor.fm/TheEvilDM With Episode 1 and 2 links: Episode 1 Episode 2 Which can be found on almost any podcasting platform from Spotify to Apple podcasts thanks to Anchor podcasts. The comments have been overwhelmingly positive (thank you) with
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI Mini #2 – Talking Attributes
Another episode of the RFI Podcast, just in Mini format with your wonderful host, the Podfather of the OSR Vince! This episode the paragraph about abilities caught my eye, and how its suggested that each character have at least two scores of 15 in their attributes to be successful.. what does that mean for
TheEvilDM Podcast: RFI is back.. Sort of? RFI Mini #1
In this episode, I decided to bring back RFI, sort of. While the co-hosts of the show no longer as interested, I am in doing AD&D 1e material. So why not bring back the mini-RFI podcasts, but keep them to small chunks of AD&D 1e goodness. While this wont be daily, I am not
TheEvilDM Podcast: TSR is back, is this good or bad? YOU decide.
Hey folks, this episode I decided to talk about the whole TSR is back, and that they have filed for various trademarks attempting to rekindle the flame of old. Will this bite them in the ass? Who knows, remember the big bad know as the “Wizards” is lurking with its X-Cards, ready to throw down
The EvilDM Podcast: update & no Orcs, Goblins and Kobolds don’t have feelings.
Hey folks, the podcast is back for today and I wanted to update people about what’s going on in life and my thoughts on the moronic people that come up with this shit I keep seeing. I don’t understand why people can’t just play games and have to find reasons to change it because THEY
Introducing: DeadWinter – Zombie Survival SWADE Game!
A while back, I hosted an actual play podcast called DeadWinter at RollHighorDie.com and DeadWinter started as a 6 episode Zombie Survival Audio Podcast, using the Palladium rules, Dead Reign. While I enjoy the Palladium system, I kind of stayed away from the story in Dead Reign and did my own thing, created my own