Get ready True Believers for a first…a Prequel Save for Half! We’ll be reviewing the West End Games Star Wars D6 RPG in episode 53, but first we invite the Curmudgeon in the Cellar himself Tim Kask on to talk about 1977’s Star Wars and its impact on us and the RPG community. Yes, some of us are really old enough to remember Star Wars when it just referred to a single film instead of the Disney juggernaut it is today....
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Episode 52: I6 Ravenloft by Tracy & Laura Hickman
You’ve heard of Christmas in July? Well, welcome to Halloween in January! Your Fab-lings start the new year with a ‘Bleh!’ with everyone’s favorite vampire Strahd in the original AD&D module I6: Ravenloft by Tracy and Laura Hickman. Thrills, chills, and NPCs with Motives™ abound in this episode of Save For Half! No vampires were harmed in the making of this podcast, well…yes they were but there’s always more on the...
Read MoreEpisode 51.5: Emails & 2023 Retrospective
It’s December, which means it’s time for the patented Save for Half year-end retrospective and email hot tub time machine! Well, DM Liz reads some emails anyway. Forgive our delay in getting to some of these emails, but we kept them in the same calendar year so that’s got to count for something, right? Right? No Dwarves were harmed in the making of this podcast, only their nerves! Links mentioned in this show: 3...
Read MoreEpisode 51: Gamma World 4E by TSR
What’s this? Your Fab Four covering Gamma World again? Keep patient True Believers, because this isn’t the Gamma World you remember from the late 1970s. This is the 1992 revamp of our favorite game of mutations and murderbots! New rules system, new mutations, and yet the same favorite mutant creatures you know and love. Is it better? Worse? Tune in and find out in this episode of Save for Half! No mutants were harmed in the...
Read MoreEpisode 50.5: Skeeter Green and his Productions!
A show literally months in the making! Your Fab Four Halflings sit down with Skeeter Green to discuss his RPG company Skeeter Green Productions, the Independent Publisher’s Union (#notaunion), and of course…new classes? We discuss all these topics as well as Skeeter’s Mixed Martial Arts activities in this Sideshow™ of Sideshows™! No PC classes were harmed in the making of this podcast, except for that pesky Archer-Ranger!...
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