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Episode 457: A Lot to Lay on the Genius Loci

August 6th, 2021 | Robin

In the Gaming Hut, we look at game balance. What is it, and when do we care about it?

We try not to step on any skulls in the Archaeology Hut as Beloved Patreon backers Liz & Siskey seek the scoop on Roman gravesite in Cambridgeshire containing a surprising number of beheaded remains.

In the Horror Hut, estimable Patreon backer Elias Helfer asks us for cosmic horror without any Lovecraft in it.

And finally Ken’s Time Machine makes the intervention that will lead the earlier widespread adoption of solar power.

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Fear Is a Fractal …and your world is a lie. A horror freed from an antique book reverberates through reality. But don’t despair. There is hope. A King waits for us. And Impossible Landscapes, the  first campaign for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game waits for you. In PDF now, hardback in May. Hailed as “one of the best RPG campaigns ever made” and “a masterpiece of surreal horror!”

2 Responses to “Episode 457: A Lot to Lay on the Genius Loci”

  1. committed hero says:

    The real question for the time lords is whether Ken’s campaign eliminates Cinco de Mayo.

  2. IME, the main reason you don’t see every adventurer wielding a greatsword is because some of them want to use one of their hands for something else–like interposing a shield between themselves and the other guy’s greatsword. The characters who use big two-handed weapons (greatswords, polearms, etc.) tend to belong to the classes who can have really good AC even without a shield (paladins, some fighters) or have a ton of HP to make up for getting hit more often (barbarians, some fighters).

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