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 …
Announcing The Neon Library, a Cyberpunk book discussion group Read More »
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
On this episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast … David Moore has had a strange few weeks and he’s not really sure who he is anymore. Meanwhile, Ken Newquist digs into a good, scary graphic novel, tries out some new backpacking gadgets, and investigates a small-town murder mystery. David Messed Up Bullet Journaling Rolled …
