This was written way back during Origins 2024, but I evidently forgot to hit publish. Enjoy! Back after years away This year, Erin and I (David) went back to Origins. It had been years since we had last gone. The last time we went, our youngest decided to trim her eyelashes, not eyebrows, eyelashes. This […]
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In this episode of “Campaigns and Coffee,” hosts David, Josh, and Erin dive into convention season, offering tips and sharing personal experiences. The trio discusses their preparation rituals, with Erin highlighting her dedication to the Sparks campaign—a Star Wars role-playing game using the West End Games D6 system. Josh shares his strategy for attending Gen
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This announcement was originally posted over on Chris Miller’s personal site. Thanks for doing this Chris! Hello folks! As previously mentioned on this site, I’m organizing a cyberpunk book club. The goal is to read some of the staples of the genre and discuss them with other fun people. The stories I have in mind
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The entrance to the Lair of Secrets needs some work. It is currently just a dry and dusty crack in the hillside. Inside the space behind the crack are the battered stainless steel doors of an old elevator.
#dungeon23 1.1 The entrance to the Lair Read More »
We are planning our next actual play arc now and as part of that we wanted to try out a new-to-us virtual tabletop, TaleSpire! This is our TaleSpire review and the experience we’ve had with it so far. I (David) have had TaleSpire for a while now but haven’t used it much. Mainly because as
TaleSpire review: The start of our virtual tabletop adventures! Read More »
Grab a sandwich and a Mountain Dew and join us for this episode’s topic: lunch tie gaming The typical role-playing game session lasts 4-5 hours and happens once a week. Sometimes they’re more frequent, sometimes they’re a little longer, but a four-hour Friday night hangout is pretty typical. With a lunchtime game, sessions may happen
Welcome to The Lair of Secrets podcast, the podcast about gaming and being a geek by two middle-aged geek dads. Yeah, we said middle-aged … because “forty-something” wasn’t quite accurate anymore. This episode finds Ken Newquist caught in a maze of endless meetings, all alike, while David Moore finds that his week went somewhere …
The old After Serenity and The Game Master Show feeds have still hung around since both of those podcasts that I (David) created have pod-faded. Since the content of the Lair of Secrets might be of interest to the audiences of those former podcasts, I am redirecting their feeds to this one. So if you
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Season 2 of The Lair of Secrets kicks off with a bang (and the muttering of a few spells) as David and Ken interview Matt Forbeck and Marty Forbeck about their Shotguns & Sorcery for 5E Kickstarter. The Kickstarter funded within hours of its launch and runs until 10 p.m. EST, Tuesday, November 16, 2021. Shotguns & Sorcery is a
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More than several years ago I worked on a game that unfortunately never got published. During that time I worked on some different mechanics for players driving play. This is one of those ideas. The rules system I was using was FATE and Fate points, but this could be adapted to a number of different
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