

We talk about the Hammer and Shaw Brothers co-production, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires.


I discuss an approach to character advancement in Ogre Gate that involves no rules or XP


I talk about some of the rules I no longer use in my Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate campaigns


We talk about the movie Swordsman II. Lead-in music is Isaac Albeniz, Suite espanola op. 47 - Asturias leyenda, performed by Gordon Rowland.


In this podcast I talk about which game, Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades or Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate is the right choice for your group


I talk about how to resolve ties on opposed rolls in Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades


We talk about Kill Bill, both volumes 1 and 2. Lead-in music is Isaac Albeniz, Suite espanola op. 47 - Asturias leyenda, performed by Gordon Rowland.


I explain how skills and defenses work in Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate and Strange Tales of Songling
I give some updates and talk about some of the resources available on TheBedrockBlog


We talk about the classic film, Police Story 3, starring Jackie Chan and Micelle Yeoh. For our discussion we watched the supercop version. I believe I have a review of the Police Story 3 cut elsewhere on the podcast.


We continue our celebration of Fistmas with a discussion of the first John Wick movie.


We talk about the 1972 Michael Winner film The Mechanic, starring Charles Bronson. Music is creative commons license from String quartet number 2 op. 10 By Arnold Schoenberg, fourth movement, played by the Carmel String Quartet http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~yoelg/, with soprano Rona Israel-Kolatt


We talk about Michael Winner's 1974 classic, Death Wish, starring Charles Bronson.


We talk about Wed Craven's lesser known classic The Serpent and the Rainbow






We talk about the movie China Girl, directed by Abel Ferrara and released in 1987


Joel and I talk about the classic Chang Cheh film, The Five Deadly Venoms. We discuss ways to use it as a foundation for adventures, campaigns, and we also explore how to make it work mechanically. As a companion to this episode, check out my Gaming Five Deadly Venoms entry on The Bedrock Blog. https://thebedrockblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/doing-five-deadly-venoms-in-rbrb.html We had some minor connectivity issues at the start of the show but things smooth out pretty quickly.


I talk about Bill Butler and the last project we were working on, as well as Sertorius in general