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Roll to Save is a monthly(ish!)podcast dedicated to RPGs from yester-year. Episodes will cover the history of old roleplaying games, their backgrounds and their systems, as well as round table discussions where we prattle on about our fondest memories. We also do a variety of actual play episodes and occasionally interview authors.
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Get in touch with us!Discover sci-fi horror as we unwrap the Mothership RPG Kickstarter rewards and share our candid reactions. Picture the tense corridors of "Alien" and the haunting void of "Dead Space" as we analyze the game's system, designed for hair-raising one-shot adventures. Our friend Ryan hops aboard for this interstellar discussion, comparing editions and debating the impact of components from GM screens to cardstock figures on your gameplay experience. We also delve into the comm...
Get in touch with us!Prepare to be immersed in the spine-tingling realm of Cthulhu board games as we continue to recount our harrowing yet delightful experiences from the comfort of our tabletops. From the sudden demise of the Mythos card game that left us in academic nostalgia to the complex machinations of Arkham Horror, our tales are fraught with the kind of player interaction that only eldritch horror can inspire. And let's not forget our own Matt Sanderson's confession of his seemingly b...
Get in touch with us!Step into the shadows with us and special guest Matt Sanderson, a distinguished author of the eldritch horror RPG Call of Cthulhu, as we convene for a spine-tingling, two-part roundtable discussion. Our personal forays into the game's chilling depths provide a backdrop to our broader conversation, which spans the intellectual challenges and invigorating horrors that have gripped players for over four decades. While we revel in the Lovecraftian lore, we also share tales fr...
Get in touch with us!Step into the shadows of the unknown with us as we unearth the fascinating history behind the Call of Cthulhu RPG, a game that turned tabletop horror on its head. We'll trail the game's evolution, from Sandy Peterson's early work to the atmospheric depths of the 1920s setting, and delve into the ingenious Sanity Score. Prepare to celebrate the game's unique approach to horror as we guide you through its legacy, a journey not just for seasoned investigators but...
Get in touch with us!Greetings citizen!Join Troubleshooter Rapid Response Team 413 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.I've heard from some listeners who apparently like to listen to the whole series in one go so, this monster episode is for you folks - all five episodes of ToOHLFYD in one package.Enjoy.Thanks to our cast of @manticoretale, @4corners...
Get in touch with us!Greetings citizen!Join Troubleshooter Rapid Response Team 413 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.This episode sees the team enter silo RYI as they attempt to complete their mission (whatever that might be).Naturally, it's a fiasco.Oh, and there's singing...again...Thanks to our cast of @manticoretale, @4cornersgames, @cowsquashm...
Get in touch with us!Greetings citizen!Join Troubleshooter Rapid Response Team 413 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.This episode sees the team dealing with the consequences of messing around in a power plant, as well some very lively demonstrations of just how well protected a Comp Node actually is. They also *gasp* try and attempt to accomp...
Get in touch with us!With a certain Baldur's Gate 3 taking the world by storm, we decided to do an episode on computer RPGs - all those digital versions of our favourite games that we've lost hours to. Join us as we talk about games from the past that we loved (and loathed) and marvel at just how much time Steve has lost to Baldur's Gate 3...Contact us at:EMAIL: roll.to.save.pod@gmail.comTWITTER: @savepodcastFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/rolltosavepodWEBSITE: https://rolltosave.blo...
Get in touch with us!Greetings citizen!Join Troubleshooter Rapid Response Team 413 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.This episode sees our team explore RYI sector where they begin to suspect that Friend Computer isn't as...well..."stable" is a stretch, but isn't as "predictable" as usual. They also explore a cubicle farm and a nuclear reactor...
Get in touch with us!Greetings citizen!Join Troubleshooter Rapid Response Team 413 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.Our brave heroes spend this episode navigating a PLC warehouse, trigger happy Army troopers, experimental soft drinks and improvised religious icons.And guess what? More singing.Yes, the singing still isn't good.Thanks to our c...
Get in touch with us!Greetings citizen!Join Troubleshooter Rapid Response Team 413 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.This episode sees our brave team summoned to their mission briefing where they learn that they will be exploring a totally safe and doubtlessly disarmed missile silo, whilst also looking for game show hosts to interview. Predictably,...
Get in touch with us!Draw a Venn diagram of geeky interests, and there will be a massive circle where RPGs and Miniature Wargaming meet. In this episode, we're going to talk all about this cousin to RPGs, our experiences with it and some recent announcements in the mini wargaming community that have caught our interest.This is our second miniature wargaming episode - if you want more nonsense like this, check out part one.Contact us at:EMAIL: roll.to.save.pod@gmail.comTWITTER: @savepodc...
Get in touch with us!Steve's had this great idea that we should do some actual plays of the games we are talking about. So, here is the fourth of these - Episode 5 of "The Assumptions", a SLA Industries actual play podcast. We hope you enjoy it!In this episode, Bob continues his investigation of the sewage plant's records, whilst McTavish and Bovril battle it out with the spider creatures that seems to have taken up residence in Wooly's desiccated corpse. Contact us at:EMAIL:...
Get in touch with us!Join Troubleshooter Task Force 451 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.This episode (and apologies for the delay in it coming out!) sees our intrepid team try to solve the problem of dealing with whatever fell off Mark IV and caused the warbot to stop working. As would be expected, the Troubleshooters are a picture perfect ...
Get in touch with us!Steve's had this great idea that we should do some actual plays of the games we are talking about. So, here is the fourth of these - Episode 5 of "The Assumptions", a SLA Industries actual play podcast. We hope you enjoy it!In this episode, the Assumptions split up - leaving Bob to do some ever so exciting data analysis, whilst Bovril and McTavish go off to investigate Wooly - the missing sewage plant worker. Several doors were harmed in this episod...
Get in touch with us!Draw a Venn diagram of geeky interests, and there will be a massive circle where RPGs and Miniature Wargaming meet. In this episode, we're going to talk all about this cousin to RPGs, our experiences with it and some recent announcements in the mini wargaming community that have caught our interest.After recording we realised that there was a ton of other stuff that we wanted to mention, so consider this Part 1 of our trip into the world of plastic crack!Contact us ...
Get in touch with us!Join us as we ramble on about the Mind's Eye Theatre - White Wolf's fantastic series of Live Action Roleplay games. We talk about our experiences with the system, the games we've played in, the good times we've had and share the inevitable LARP horror stories.This is part two of our MET episode - part one features a review of the history of this system and how it came to be.Contact us at:EMAIL: roll.to.save.pod@gmail.comTWITTER: @savepodcastFACEBOOK: https://www.fac...
Get in touch with us!Join us as we take a deep dive into the Mind's Eye Theatre - White Wolf's fantastic series of Live Action Roleplay games. We talk about how MET got started, the various supplements released along the way, as well as some of the nuances of the LARPing scene.This is part one of our MET episode - part two will feature a round table discussion where we put on our rose tinted glasses and talk about our favourite memories of the game.Contact us at:EMAIL: roll.to.save.pod@...
Get in touch with us!Ok, ok... 2021 was a LONG time ago and this episode is horrendously late. We know... However we're back - that's the main thing, so settle back and enjoy this - rather long - episode where we warble on about 2021 and all the cool things we've played, bought and backed. WARNING: tangents abound in this episode!EMAIL: roll.to.save.pod@gmail.comTWITTER: @savepodcastFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/rolltosavepodWEBSITE: https://rolltosave.blogHOSTS: ...
Get in touch with us!Join Troubleshooter Task Force 451 as they take on another fun, routine task for your friend and mine, The Computer. As with most Troubleshooter missions, this one will be perfectly safe for everyone concerned.This episode sees the team get into an argument with a presumptive scrubbot, play a game of "who can get inside the Mark IV first", interpret the Computer's instructions incorrectly and with fatal consequences, and test out the fire suppression systems of the ...
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