ALONE IN THE LABYRINTH (alonein thelabyrinth)

Sofinho's favourite OSR/RPG blogposts from the past seven days broadcast fro your listening pleasure!

This is my first attempt so apologise for low production values, lack of script, awful incidentalmusic, absence of any focus, hairloss, depression.

Do not operate heavy machinery while listening to this podcast. Focus on the machine you dolt.

Featured blogposts:

http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2020/01/birds.html

https://halfminotaurfarmer.blogspot.com/2020/01/4e-d-hack-hp-costs-on-powers.html

https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2020/01/osr-world-of-rust-unofficial-bestiary.html

https://signsinthewilderness.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-true-history-of-conquest-of-new.html

https://teylen.blog/2020/02/02/crowdfunding-collection-132-part-2-of-2-zine-quest/

Semiurge responds to my silly prompt with characteristic flair and imagination. Visit his blog at https://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com

I've been running a regular (ish) drop-in game on my server https://discord.gg/BdasKhNrBj

Recently one of my regular(ish) players messaged me to explain that they weren't happy with how the game was going and why they felt they weren't able to continue playing. While this was upsetting, I really appreciated it and asked Alex back to more fully explain himself and why I thinks PARIAH is such a terrible game!

Sofinho reading the first 16 pages of LBB I: Men & Magic.

WARNING: this episode features swearing (well, one instance of the "F" word), a tired and unimaginative host and general low-quality audio!

Postcards from Cable Street is available from https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/postcards-from-cable-street-rpg-against-fascism and https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/postcards-from-34th-street

I talk to Henry Kissinger aka Semiurge of http://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com/ about elves, vampires and Talk-to-Transformer.

Contains strong language.

LINKS:
Middenmurk Elveshttp://middenmurk.blogspot.com/2013/04/fallen-elves.html

Goblin Punch Elves http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-inextricable-grace-of-elves.html 

Ynn Sidhe http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2018/02/more-stuff-from-ynn.html

Garblag Games playing the Free League Alien RPG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVY8XfgSdqo

You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge by Amanda Lee Frank: https://amandalee.itch.io/you-got-a-job-on-the-garbage-barge

Lexi's blog: a Blasted, Cratered Land  https://crateredland.blogspot.com/

The mech game: https://crateredland.blogspot.com/2020/03/giant-robots-deserve-giant-monsters.html

Oblidisideryptch (please call on in with pronunciation advice!) https://oblidisideryptch.blogspot.com/

Numbers Aren't Real, Deus Ex Parabola's blog: https://as-they-must.blogspot.com/

Dawn of Worlds RPG http://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rpg/Dawn_of_Worlds_game_1_0Final.pdf

Throne of Salt on solo RPGs: http://throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2020/09/play-report-barbarian-prince.html

Hikikomori RPG by Ewen Cluney: http://dsg.neko-machi.com/hikikomori.pdf

Goblin's Henchman's Hex Flower Cook Book: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/293661/Mythicstyle-Hex-Flower-Chaos-Emulator

No interview today but I respond to the very kind messages from Spencer of Keep off the Borderlands 

https://anchor.fm/free-thrall

...and Barney from Loco Ludus

https://anchor.fm/loco-ludus

The poem I read at the end is Bogland by Seamus Heaney, one of the greatest poets in the English language.

All music in this episode is recorded by my alt, Youssef Ifscapulet, apart from a hint of death grips.

Death grips do not endorse this podcast but your mum does.

I chat to one of the regular players in the PARIAH campaign about:

•  the Russian-language RPG scene
• Eugene's unlucky PARIAH characters...
• Eugene's Russian-language PARIAH one-shot...
• The joy of Stonehell

Intro music by Sofinho's alt, Youssef Ifscapulet, accompanied by Tiffany

All other music sampled from Никто не в безопасности (No-one is safe) by Supruga:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4FG6YLDTSsnRO0UMZ2upZJ?si=wHZHv4a1RmagKrZ7HLeViQ

Used without permission: fair use in non-commercial context. Supruga do not endorse this podcast or PARIAH!

Order the digitally printed edition of PARIAH Vol. 1 distributed by Soul Muppet:

https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/pariah-volume-1

Pariah wilderness supplement available here:

https://atelier-hwei.itch.io/pariah-wilderness-supplement

The mega-dungeon Stonehell by Michael Curtis can be bought from Lulu:

https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/michael-curtis/stonehell-dungeon-down-night-haunted-halls/paperback/product-1v8vy2zz.html

Jim Parkin is an RPG blogger and game designer on the FKR fringe of the OSR. Despite this, he hates 3 letter acronyms!

He's also a father of (at least) two and we spoke about introducing children to adventure games, alongside other game stuff.

...that "other game stuff" includes:

• his Swords & Sorcery hack of Into the Odd known as  Weird North...
• Any Planet is Earth, a  his rules-lite hard sci-fi game inspired by a FKR approach to traveller.
• Galaxy Far Away, an interesting spin on one of the world's most popular franchises!
  

Walk on music is performed by DJ Kool, who does not endorse this podcast in any way, but used here under fair use for a non-commercial project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwODP84mkQ

Jim's blog: https://d66kobolds.blogspot.com/

Any Planet Is Earth https://classless-kobolds.itch.io/any-planet-is-earth

Weird North https://classless-kobolds.itch.io/weird-north

A Galaxy Far Away https://d66kobolds.blogspot.com/2020/09/galaxy-far-away-star-wars-this-is-fkr.html

No doubt a more comprehensive write-up will be available at this address:

https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/search/label/campaign%20diary

Meanwhile, help me feed my children by buying stuff I make:

https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/pariah-volume-1

The pre-podcast for the soon-to-be-broadcast interview with Semiurge.

NB: SEMIURGE DOES NOT FEATURE IN THIS EPISODE

Intro music by Sofinho.

All other non-library music courtesy Death Grips. This is a non-commercial podcast, used without permission but fair use?
https://deathgriphc.bandcamp.com/

Keep off the Borderlands discussing Shamanic Magic:
https://anchor.fm/free-thrall/episodes/The-Magical-Mystery-of-Alluvial-Plains---Vol--3--The-Shaman-Rises-Extended-Cut-episode-157-emasoc/a-a3qrbce

Find Keep off the Borderlands HERE: https://anchor.fm/free-thrall

Alone in the Labyrinth BLOG can be read HERE: https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/

Buy PARIAH or get a FREEcommunity copy on itch: https://atelier-hwei.itch.io/pariah

Order a print-on-demand copy of PARIAH on DRIVE THRU RPG! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311826/PARIAH-Volume-1

Thanks those who played in this session (not present in this recording but take my word for it, they exist!) Jen Furious, Alex Thezanderd and Semiurge  (http://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com/)

UPDATE: twice in this episode I say PAGODA when I mean PERGOLA. Apologies: I have designed and built pergolas (pergolae?) and lived in a land full of pagodas (also, many pergolas) and not sure why I made that error... apologies!

Jennifer aka JFUR is a lapsed farmer, recovering poet, eternal queer witch supreme of the illuminati, and current social work graduate student. One freezing  cold/incredibly mild Monday evening we sat down with one another (on either side of the Atlantic) to talk about aliens from the moon invading 19th Century Europe, Slovenian ski resort inspired Adventures for Electric Bastionland, anthroposophist agricultural communities and... uhh... the weather!

The show features the song Champagne Ladies by And The Kids. The song is used without permission for non-commercial/fair use purposes on a non-commercial podcast. And The Kids do not in any way endorse this podcast. 

Support And the Kids here:
https://andthekidsmusic.bandcamp.com/

JFur's itch page:
https://jenniferixon.itch.io/

Some of the other things mentioned in the podcast...

Pretendo Games - Jason Tocci
https://jasontocci.itch.io/

Cave Girl's Game Stuff - Emmy Allen:
http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/

Bastionland - Chris McDowall
https://www.bastionland.com/

Signs in the Wilderness - Joe Fatula
https://signsinthewilderness.blogspot.com/

Tribes of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
http://mysticbull.blogspot.com/2015/08/from-great-sky-gods-falls-gift.html

All music in this episode is by Death Grips and is used without permission in this non-commercial podcast. Death Grips do not endorse this podcast nor Goblin Punch. Website is here http://thirdworlds.net/

My conversation with Henry Kissinger continues, with talk moving onto LBJ's junk. Less talk about elfgames and more bad language.

ANOMALOUS MEDIA:

Archons March On: http://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com/2020/11/d20-additional-anomalous-media.html

Throne of Salt http://throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2020/11/d20-anomalous-media.html

I don't remember that move http://rememberdismove.blogspot.com/2020/11/d20-more-anomalous-media.html

Original Black Auction posts: 

http://rememberdismove.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-black-auction.html

http://rememberdismove.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-black-auction-2.html

http://rememberdismove.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-black-auction-3.html

Featured bloposts:

DIY AND DRAGONS: SECRET SANTICORN 2019

https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2020/02/secret-santicorn-2019.html

NOISE SANS SIGNAL: HER DREAM ENVELOPS US

https://noisesanssignal.blogspot.com/2020/02/her-dream-envelops-us.html

BOX FULL OF BOXES: DYING EARTH MONSTERS PART 3: THE PELGRANE

https://boxfullofboxes.blogspot.com/2020/02/dying-earth-monsters-part-iii-pelgrane.html

FALSE MACHINE: I READ BOOKS

https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/02/i-read-books.html

WIZARD THIEF FIGHTER: NO MASTERS, ONLY DUNGEONS
https://www.wizardthieffighter.com/2020/no-masters-only-dungeons/

Zine Quest 2 Links:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/6773centipedes/centipedes

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sofinho/pariah-0/

What a hiatus! Fear not though, I have returned.

Special thanks to Spencer of Keep off the Borderlands for the message, sorry for the late reply!

This is episode is mostly me reading this blogpost:

https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/2020/06/pariah-actual-play-discord-session-o1.html

Witheringly footed in the point is played by Semiurge of Archons March On (yes I know it is a /k/ sound there, sorry for my mispeaking)

Fox-through-the-Stream is played by Sach Gauthier aka https://twitter.com/sachagoat?lang=en

Big thanks to Eugene for playing Quiet One, Rides the Grave and for breaking PARIAH in Russia! https://twitter.com/eakiselev

Characters were generated using this thing I made: https://perchance.org/pariahchargen

Spwack's Meandering Banter blog shares the free DIE TRYING rules hack http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2019/02/die-trying-v1.html

PARIAH available in PDF and print-on-demand at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311826/PARIAH-Volume-1

Call-ins to this episode were from:

Spencer/Free Thrall of Keep off the Borderlands
Keep off the Borderlands • A podcast on Anchor
Keep Off The Borderlands (@FreeThrall) / Twitter

Goblin's Henchman
Goblin's Henchman (at home; BLM) (@GoblinsHenchman) / Twitter
Goblin’s Henchman • A podcast on Anchor
Goblin's Henchman (wordpress.com)

The collaborative gygaxian train assembly project organised by Skerples of Coins and Scrolls can be found here:
Folder - Google Drive

Barney of Loco Ludus
Loco Ludus • A podcast on Anchor
Loco Ludus (@loco_ludus) / Twitter

Jason of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast
Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast • A podcast on Anchor

Joe Richter of Hindsightless
S4E30 There's a Time to Live, a Time to Die, a Time to Meet Your Maker by Hindsightless • A podcast on Anchor

Additionally, I read out messages to labyrinthalone@gmal.com from Semiurge of Archons march On
Archons March On

..and Leon/Bubblereg of Garblag Games
Bubblereg | Leon Osborne (@leonjosborne) / Twitter
(14) Garblag Games - YouTube