Accent Your Character - Irish (audio product)

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay. Addition...   [click here for more]

Accent Your Character - Standard British English (audio product)

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay. Addition...   [click here for more]

Battles (audio product)

Whatever game you play -- miniatures, board-war games, role-playing games -- Toxic Bag Productions' Battles sound scenes collection puts you in the center of the action. The air is thick with the sound of bullets whizzing by, cannons roaring, officers barking orders, tanks rumbling down wrecked streets, volleys of arrows and the crackling of energy weapons. Four audio battles from four d...   [click here for more]

Battles: Fantasy Battle Scene (audio product)

Fantasy Battle Scene (8:50)

The army of men have made camp by the river. The Orc drums can be heard in the distance. Battle will be joined soon. The soldiers watch the dark forest with unease. Suddenly the Orcs erupt out of the tangle of woods. The battle has come sooner than expected...

Whatever game you play -- miniatures, board-...   [click here for more]

Brain Powered Beach Party Official Soundtrack (audio product)

Rock on with the Brainpowered Beach Party Original Soundtrack by Alex Cottrell! Get this great soundtrack as a way to set the mood for your game.

This is an album designed for Quantum Sliders' most recent adventure "Brainpowered Beach Party"

Product contains: 12 tracks recorded at 320kbps, the highest standard of MP3. Over 42 minutes of music!

Conversations in Eschatology [yule mix] (audio product)

Conversations in Eschatology [yule mix]Copyright 2003 Winged Warrior Publishing (ASCAP).  All Rights Reserved!Song Length = 4:41Audio = Stereo MP3Sample Rate = 44,100 Samples/SecondBit Rate = 192 Bits/Second

Conversations in Eschatology [yule mix] is the second single from the remastered album, techNO*EL, Special Edition (Bailey Records / November 4, 2003 /2009...   [click here for more]

Episode 100: Warriors: Gladiators (audio product)

Jupiter’s middle leg! Has it been C episodes already? Gratitude for listening. At times, words fell from our mouths as crap from ass. However, we pray we offered some manner of good advice on other occasions. We plan to continue as long as desire wills our tongues. In episode C, we offer another installment of Warriors. Here we discuss Gladiators, the brotherhood of the stadium.

Episode 102: Locales: Tokyo Part 2 (audio product)

“When you’re young, Roppongi is where your dreams can happen, and when you’re old, it’s kind of like where your dreams go to die.” In Part 2, we take you on a tour of Tokyo. Get your freak on, your geek on, your chic on. It’s Tokyo, gaijin; anything can happen.

Episode 34: Pantheon Pandemonium: Norse Play (audio product)

Praise not the day until evening has come; praise not a woman until she is burnt; praise not a sword until it is tried; praise not a maiden until she is married; praise not ice until it is crossed; praise not beer until it is drunk; praise a podcast any time. -Norse proverb (well, most of it)

In this episode, we discuss the Norse pantheon. We also uncover startling parallels between the...   [click here for more]

Episode 37: Literature Lesson: Lovecrafted (audio product)

We opin the Month o’ Horror with aower debut Literature Lesson. In this un, we look at H.P. Lovecraft and haow te use ’is queer themes in yer games. Naow, dis Lovecraft feller kin set a body thinkin’, an’ when we git ta thinkin’, we git ta talkin’. Thar’s plenty here ta stir ye up an’ make yer blood tickle. See ef ye kin find aower leetle soorpris...   [click here for more]

Episode 45: Campaign Confessions: Savaged Worlds Part 1 (audio product)

Eight years after its release, the always topical Idle Red Hands review new(ish) RPG kid on the block Savage Worlds. Does the game live up to its promise of being “fast, furious, and fun”? Well, one of us found it fast, another found it fun, and someone was furious. Listen to find out who thought what.

Yujiro guest hosts. (Hey! That makes four people. Now, you r...   [click here for more]

Episode 55: Warriors: Hoplites (audio product)

This. Is. Kansai!

In this episode, we debut the first in our Warriors series. This series will take a warrior type from history and discuss key elements that you can use to make any character in any game setting a little more alive. First up, Hoplites. Are you ready to make your character worthy to stand with swift-footed Achilles and the cunning Odysseus?

Episode 57: Narrative Structure (audio product)

Is Savage Worlds better than Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game?

[Three sentences before.]In this episode, we discuss narrative techniques from movies and novels that you can use to make your games more fun. We look at in media res, flashbacks, flash forwards, flash sideways, epistolary novels, and reverse chronology. We also offer advice for new gamemasters, including which...   [click here for more]

Episode 60: Warriors: Vikings (audio product)

“A man can carry no better load than too much good sense, and no worse one than yo’ mama.” – Viking proverb (kind of) Straight outta Oslo, crazy Viking warrior named Brand, From the podcast called Erik Red Hands. Before anthrax, there’s my scramasax, Swing the iron and bodies get axed. In the second in our Warriors series, we bring the fury of the Norsemen to any g...   [click here for more]

Episode 62: Warriors: Legionaries (audio product)

“Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war!”- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar We don’t let slip dogs, however. We let slip men, manly men, men’s men. Roman men whose virtus strained against the chains of disciplina. Men who could march all day and then spend three hours setting up camp, until their short, sweaty tunics clung to t...   [click here for more]

Episode 64: Literature Lessons: Animals (audio product)

“Not to recommend Canadian hip hop; that is the Law. Are we not Men?” “Not to talk about dolphin sex; that is the Law. Are we not Men?” “Not to tear up during an episode; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”Apparently not, because we break every law. In this episode, we discuss some classic “animal” novels and how to play animals in games....   [click here for more]

Episode 66: Apocalypse Part 1 (audio product)

In the first of two parts, we discuss running games set before and during an apocalypse. In this episode, it’s Wayne’s turn to read out the difficult words. Unlike Lyal’s struggles with Icelandic, though, Wayne struggles with English words. Fyndið! In part 2, we’ll look at playing in a post-apocalyptic setting and the role zombies really play in a zombocalyp...   [click here for more]

Episode 69: Sexism and Gender Bias (audio product)

In this episode, we discuss sexism and gender bias. To tackle a subject of such delicacy, we use Lego, as you would. We also discuss whether a gaming company can handle tentacle rape in a classy and tasteful way, especially when they don’t even try to. Please excuse the unfortunate episode numbering. It was completely unintentional.

Episode 71: Warriors: Stormtroopers (audio product)

“O la vittoria, o tutti accoppati.” - Arditi motto “We either win, or we all die, eh?” - Canadian version (Often used by the Olympic hockey team) In this installment of Warriors, we look at the original stormtroopers, the German Stosstruppen of World War I. But that’s not all! Download now and we’ll throw in the Italian Arditi. Wait...   [click here for more]

Episode 74: Magic: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (audio product)

With male strippers, Vancian magic and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, this episode has something for everyone. It’s also the debut of our Magic series, which will examine real world examples of “magical” organizations and magic. Plus: Another entry in our D&D Next Diary (yes, magic)

Episode 76: Rogues: Black Marketeers (audio product)

“In the criminal Idle Red Hands system, Rogues will be separated into two separate yet equally important groups: the crimes and the people who commit them. These are their stories.” The month of debuts gets another debut! This time, it’s Rogues, a look at criminals and the crimes they commit. We look at the proud noble tradition of deal dealers, gunrunners and pimps (...   [click here for more]

Episode 79: Creature Feature: Femme Fatales (audio product)

We’re not bad; we’re just recorded that way. In this installment of Creature Features, we continue to redefine what a “creature” is. We look at the mysterious, sexy and dangerous femme fatale and the lesser known homme letal (probably because we coined it).

Episode 82: Warriors: Condottieri (audio product)

Because our listeners demanded it: condottieri! Actually, it was only was one listener, and he really just casually mentioned it. In this edition of Warriors, we talk about mercenaries and free companies. Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure buys everything else worth having. Live free and die hard.

Episode 84: Pacing (audio product)

Whether you want to run a fast-paced game that leaves your players struggling to catch their breaths or a slow-paced game that squeezes every drop of feeling out of each line, this episode is for you. If you want to run a game at a medium pace, this episode isn’t for you so much.

Episode 86: Generalization vs. Specialization (audio product)

“More choices, more problems.” - game designer In this episode, we look at whether it’s best to play a jack-of-all-trades or a master of one. We also compare how to build generalists in different systems: level, point buy, and life path.