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Push It Real Good | The Goblins and Growlers Podcast Episode Introduction Josh and Brandon’re here and we’re in effect. It’s been a while since it was just us on the show. They catch up on some personal news, as well as talking about Brandon’s latest TTRPG product selection, and some basic Twitter drama. Relatedly [...]
Episode Introduction Happy Valentine's Day. Brandon + Gabe = Review of episodes 7-9 of "The Legend of Vox Machina" from Critical Role and Prime Video. We're in the stride. Everything feels cohesive (except for Pike's story) and our episode notes are suffering from us being engrossed in the plot. By the end of this batch [...]
Episode Introduction Brandon and Gabe are back with a review of episodes 4-6 of "The Legend of Vox Machina" from Critical Role and Prime Video. This batch of episodes feels so much more cohesive than episodes 1, 2 and 3. The story gets rolling kept us engaged through all three 24-minute installments. After the somewhat-bumpy [...]
Episode Introduction Noah Downs (he's a lawyer, but he's a cool lawyer) returns this week to talk with us about amnesia campaigns. How fun is it when your players have no idea who they are or what they're doing. If you're not as old as me, you can Google "Admiral Stockdale debate" to see [...]
Episode Introduction Josh was busy this weekend, so Brandon and Gabe hijacked the podcast to do a review of the new “Critical Role” animated series, “The Legend of Vox Machina.” Gabe is a casual fan of “Critical Role” who fell out of regular listening because of the episode length. Brandon actually has never seen or [...]
Episode Introduction We’re joined by guest Noah Downs (he’s a lawyer, but he’s a cool lawyer) to talk about OGLs and SRDs, the alphabet soups of publishing tabletop role-playing game content. Noah tells us about how Wizards of the Coast’s Open Gaming License works and how you can use the Fifth Edition System Reference Document [...]
Super MAGFest 2022 JANUARY 6-9, 2022 – NATIONAL HARBOR, MD https://super.magfest.org/ Join Goblins and Growlers and Quid Pro Roll as we *finally* descend once again on National Harbor, MD for our third year as MAGFest panelists! It's been a while, but we're glad to be back. 🥰🥰🥰 Help! My Tabletop RPG is on Fire! Thursday, [...]
Hey, Goblins. We have some hot spy action this week! Josh and Brandon enter a world of espionage, intrigue, and dice-rolling, with Victory Games’ 1980s TTRPG “Role Playing in Her Majesty’s Secret Service." Contents A brief news item about Wizards of the Coast rebooting and retconning in their latest Errata to eliminate more insensitive portrayals [...]
In This Episode What kind of settings do you enjoy more? Heavy magic, low magic, or a more realistic milieu with near-zero casting? This episode we discuss merits and preferences on the level of magic in a gaming setting. Just a freewheeling discussion about magic levels. We also quickly touch base on a new release [...]
Hey all you Goblins out there, People have been asking us a lot about when we are returning to the massive, local business supporting, community building in person TTRPG gaming experiences that made Goblins and Growlers synonymous with D&D in RVA. We've been asking ourselves when to return to in person games a lot too. [...]