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C-Sides: Trophy Gold ft. Jason Cordova - The Rime Palace, Chapter III

This is the conclusion of our second Trophy Gold series with Jason Cordova! While you don’t need to have listened to our previous series, Hester’s Mill, to understand this one, I highly recommend you check it out.

Lord Dion, Bruno, Zabatu, and Ezio have made their way into the Rime Palace and survived the life-or-death games being played there. But as they continue lower toward the deep towers of the upside-down, hanging palace and meet the upper echelons of the fae court, they soon learn that it's not just games that are deadly-serious in the Rime Palace, but every aspect of courtly life.

For more information about Trophy, or to purchase this excellent system, check their website here.

You can follow Jason on twitter, and check out The Gauntlet’s website and Patreon.

Cloven Pine Games can be found here, where you can pick up more of their TTRPG work.

The theme music for our Trophy games was made by Gabi Vanek who rules. You can find more of her work here.

Finally, here are links to our merch, twitter and instagram.

P.S. Series IX continues later this week!

C-Sides: Trophy Gold ft. Jason Cordova - The Rime Palace, Chapter II

This is part two of our second Trophy Gold series with Jason Cordova! While you don’t need to have listened to our previous series, Hester’s Mill, to understand this one, I highly recommend you check it out.

Ezio, Zabatu, Sgt. Bruno Ilicik, and Lord Dion Devanos, along with their new companion Iditha are carried by the bone ship Ardken through the Gossamer Void to the Rime Palace. While the journey has been strange, their destination holds stranger mysteries still. But also some familiar faces…

For more information about Trophy, or to purchase this excellent system, check their website here.

You can follow Jason on twitter, and check out The Gauntlet’s website and Patreon.

Cloven Pine Games can be found here, where you can pick up more of their TTRPG work.

The theme music for our Trophy games was made by Gabi Vanek who rules. You can find more of her work here.

Finally, here are links to our Patreon, merch, and twitter and instagram.

C-Sides: Trophy Gold ft. Jason Cordova - The Rime Palace, Chapter I

We continue our game of Trophy Gold with Jason Cordova! While you don’t need to have listened to that series to understand this one, I highly recommend you check it out.

Ezio, Zabatu, Sgt. Bruno Ilicik, and Lord Dion Devanos are treasure-hunters searching for a bone ship called Ardken, a legendary ship that supposedly will be able to take them to a lost domain of fae called The Rime Palace.

For more information about Trophy, or to purchase this excellent system, check their website here.

You can follow Jason on twitter, and check out The Gauntlet’s website and Patreon.

Cloven Pine Games can be found here, where you can pick up more of their TTRPG work.

The theme music for our Trophy games was made by Gabi Vanek who rules. You can find more of her work here.

Finally, here are links to our Patreon, merch, and twitter and instagram.

C-Sides: Hungry Gnolls Eat the Rich

Today's C-Side is Zack Garth's Hungry Gnolls Eat the Rich! A game about building community and uh.. eating the rich, of course.

So enjoy the quest of Tooth-tooth and Greymane as they attempt to steal what food and clothing they can from the human Gospa ruling class preparing for a war the Gnolls have no say in.

If you would like to support us we have merch available on our store, or you can check out our Patreon for opportunities to vote on new C-Sides and chat in our Discord

Finally, be sure to check out Zack Garth’s works. He makes small games and publishes them on itch as well as podcasts with his wife Diana on the one-on-one RPG podcast Heart Points.

Thanks for listening!

C-Sides: The Veil - Chapter V

This is it! The Veil concludes!

Mr. Smiley, now mask-off to the viewer, leads the team toward an assassination attempt on the famous talking-head Bryan O'Doule of Omega Day News, but first there's a to-do on the floor of the Crystal Palace Casino...

900 opens themself up -- both figuratively and literally -- to one of the casino staff, but their affections only bring the crew more trouble.

Chainbreaker, now the de-facto leader of his local religious sect, has to keep the neophytes safe as best he can, but his fast-progressing illness can only let him do so much.

And Snow White is determined to make sure that she's the biggest beneficiary of all this chaos, at any means necessary.


Also, before you go, our friend Gabi Vanek, who has done music for several of our games now, released a couple of EPs with another local Will Yager in the last year. If you 'd like to give her a little love, you can find those here and here.

You hear my pitch in the intro, but if you have the desire and scratch to help us make this podcast, consider subscribing to our Patreon, it really helps us out, or buy an awesome T-Shirt.

See you next time, thanks again

-N

C-Sides: The Skeletons

This week, Nathan, Zach, and J.D. celebrate the coming of Halloween with a one-shot of The Skeletons, by Jason Morningstar. This is a freeform, meditative, and GMless RPG about dead guardians protecting a tomb. Though limited in their awareness due to magic only animating them when intruders are breaking in, the guardians slowly remember their forgotten pasts. This was our first time playing it, and we had an absolute delight with this little game.

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Dogs in the Vineyard Pt. 1

Hey ya'll! Welcome to the start of "C-Sides" our new series powered by the ChimaeraCast. For our first series we are going to travel west to fantasy Utah where we will accompany Brother Oak and Brother Austin as they go through their initiation challenges and head to the beautiful town of Willow Bluff. This episode deals a lot with background and getting you set out on the right foot, so if it's a little slow just bear with us. 

I have to give an exceptionally huge shout out to The Gauntlet whose zine Codex (specifically the "Love II" issue) featured the supplement I used for this series. Thanks as well to Sid Icarus (@ActionEconomy) who wrote the supplement. Thanks to the Black Twig Pickers for their cover of "Wreck of the Old 97." Finally a big shout out to Vincent Baker for making this game. It was a blast to play!