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We interview Duncan Rhodes, and then he (about to run his first Alien game) interviews us! 00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.40: World of Gaming: 10 most anticipated games of 2026; Results of Toon Backerkit campaign; Dragonbane: Trudvang kickstarting soon; Matthew (and Frank/Raldanash) will be at Tabletop Live in Doncaster00.26.16: Old West News: Our new streamed campaign starts with session zero00.29.46: Interview Duncan Rhodes, author of (deep breath) The Creative Game Master's Guide of Extraordinary Locactions and How to Design Them, and the Hipsters and Dragons blog. 01.34.26: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We talk about solo gaming, especially as it pertains to Tales of the Old West 00.00.40: Introductions00.02.30: Welcome and thank you to our new patron: Shaky T (Simon)00.03.59: Slightly unscheduled Old West (Marches) news  00.10.00: World of Gaming: Blades ‘68 from Evil Hat; Tiny Defenders trauma therapy RPG out of Palestine; Traveller: Cluster Truck 00.30.28: Going Solo (we mention Beyond Cataclysm; Frank; and The Soloist)01.11.53: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Taking the opportunity of the Christmas break to gather some patrons, and review the year 2025 as well as look forward to objectives for 2026. Featuring patrons, Frank, Thomas, Douglas, Paul, Jed and Bruce talking about Planet of the Apes; Space 1999; Harnmaster; Ronin, Spectaculars; Coriolis: The Great Dark; and, Forbidden Lands in German! Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Kind of a freeform episode  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dedicated to Diggy 00.00.40: Introductions 00.04.26: World of Gaming: Twilight Sword from 2Little Mice and FreeLeague on Backer Kit; Ghost in the Shell RPG kickstarting; we are going to be at Dragonmeet running the Free League Stand and Selling Tales of tee Old West next door; we are also writing an epic Alien: Evolved adventure for UKGames expo. 00.23.02: Tales of the new Verse01.25.18: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Actually a packed but tight episode not much over an hour, there's efficiency 00.00.40: Introductions00.02.51: Welcome to our new patron: Charlie Creek 00.03.28: World of Gaming: AI controversy at UKGE; we are going to UKGE; we are also going to TableTopGaming live; and Dragonmeet; Cohors Cthulhu on sale; Apocaplyse World Burned Over Kickstarter, Japanese’s version of Mörk Borg being kickstarted; Pioneer Kickstarter; Godzilla RPG announced00.45.47: Old West News: The Foundry module is available to buy; The Made in the Old West license means you can publish and sell your own adventures00.54.36: Invincible, the not-an-interview-with-Tomas discussion01.09.09: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Recorded at Spelkongress, Stockholm, Sweden! (The audio is of varying quality) 00.00.30: Introductions 00.03.48: World of Gaming: news from Spelkongress presnantions that we did not go to, that were mostly in Swedish - our Swedish patrons did attend though and thoughtful told us what was going on, on Discord.00.12.01: On the plane David and Matthew discuss their hopes for the event00.38.25: Eric Granstrom, on Svavlewinter (The Brimstone Sleep) for DoD/Dragonbane; and Alderland for Forbidden Lands00.47.43: Anders Gilbring, on Western01.04.20: Magnus Seter, on Trudvang01.49.40: Anders Blick, on on being an elder statesman of Swedish gaming (and Ereb Altor)01.26.08: Next time and Goodbye 01:27:14: Music by Tjaut Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing.Music by kind permission of Tjaut [email protected] www.tjaut.se Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The episode we mucked up, not featuring the interview with Tomas that we failed to actually record  00.00.40: Introductions 00.065.46: World of Gaming: Cosmic Corsairs Kickstarter; Vaesen Mythic Carpathia pre-orders; Alien Evolved Pledgemanger closes; we are going to Spelkongress!00.24.22: Old West News: The Foundry module is available to buy; The Made in the Old West license means you can publish and sell your own adventures00.41.03: Invincible, the not-an-interview-with-Tomas discussion01.04.08: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In an episode for creators everywhere Dave looks back on his two years working solely on RPG writing, what went right and what he might have done differently. 00.00.40: Introductions00.02.29: welcome to our new Patron Phillip D Massey 00.06.12: World of Gaming: Invincible kickstarter; Vaesen getting delivered; the new Conan RPG too00.26.31: Old West News: The Foundry system is ready for download; The Last Vegas Legacy adventure00.38.40: Dave's reflections01.11.307: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We talk about crowdfunding vs pre-orders, how tired we were after Tabletop Scotland, and chat with Andreas of Nordlc Skalds, who reveals some exciting news that you can't afford to miss 00.00.40: Introductions00.03.04: World of Gaming - Melsonian Arts Council gives up on crowdfunding sites; Planet of the Apes arriving; RipCrypt from Modiphius; our Tabletop Scotland report00.45.29: Interview: Andreas about Windheim Falling01.22.33: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Matthew needles Dave in this episode, plus we talk about Coriolis licenses, Tabletop Scotland, Windheim and NPC for Tales of the Old West 00.00.40: Introductions00.03.26: World of Gaming - Coriolis the Great Dark 3rd party license released; TableTop Scotland approaches (next weekend!); Windheim Falling the second part of the Horn of Dawn, is on Kickstarter00.24.48: Essay and Discussion: Non-player characters in Tales of the Old West01.06.00: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

De minimis; Diablo; deadly wuxia; DIE; Dungeons and Dyslexia; and detectives 00.00.40: Introductions00.03.59: World of Gaming - De minimus and US imports; Diablo rpg; Streets of Jade and its inspiration; DIE the TTRPG of the comic about TTRPGs is getting a Comic QuickStart; we got a great review; Tabletop Scotland 00.42.12: Interview with Paul Baldowski about Cork Bord01.29.03: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Old school podcasting! Hose rules for Coriolis the Third Horizon 00.00.40: Introductions00.03.37: Thank you to our new Patron - D20 Raven00.05.12: World of Gaming - The One Ring starter set and 5e version; Dragonbane minis up on Kickstarter; Coriolis - The Great Dark official release date 12 August; new game Twilight Sword, by 2Little Mice & Free League; ENNIE wins. 00.32.56: A Vaesen tour of Uppsala01.13.25: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Old school podcasting! Hose rules for Coriolis the Third Horizon 00.00.40: Introductions00.02.03: Thank you to our new Patron - Paul Penna00.02.33: World of Gaming - Troll Lord games crowdfunding a factory; Green Ronin legal defence fund, crowdfunding legal costs: Cörk Bord, Paul Baldowski’s Nordic police procedural/horror. 00.23.04: Old West News - our error00.35.29: Faith in the 3rd Horizon (Jim’s blog)00.58.22: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00.00.40: Introductions00.02.02: World of Gaming - The "punch a republikan" affair; Diamond Distribution claiming ownership of publisher’s stock; Moria up for Ennies; Nations and Cannons RPG00.31.22: Od West News - Distribution; certain things are exclusive to our on-line store; catch up on stretch goals00.45.12: Feature - Coriolis, Great Dark, Great Questions01.10.20: Next time and Goodbye  Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing. Like what we do? Sign up for updates on Tales of the Old West via our new website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★