Accent Your Character - Irish (audio product)

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay. Addition...   [click here for more]

Accent Your Character - Standard British English (audio product)

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay. Addition...   [click here for more]

Battles (audio product)

Whatever game you play -- miniatures, board-war games, role-playing games -- Toxic Bag Productions' Battles sound scenes collection puts you in the center of the action. The air is thick with the sound of bullets whizzing by, cannons roaring, officers barking orders, tanks rumbling down wrecked streets, volleys of arrows and the crackling of energy weapons. Four audio battles from four d...   [click here for more]

Battles: Fantasy Battle Scene (audio product)

Fantasy Battle Scene (8:50)

The army of men have made camp by the river. The Orc drums can be heard in the distance. Battle will be joined soon. The soldiers watch the dark forest with unease. Suddenly the Orcs erupt out of the tangle of woods. The battle has come sooner than expected...

Whatever game you play -- miniatures, board-...   [click here for more]

Charnel Burial Procession (audio product)

Charnel Burial ProcessionCopyright 2010 TW Cory Music Publishing (ASCAP).  All Rights Reserved!Song Length = 03:11Audio = Stereo MP3Sample Rate = 44,100 Samples/SecondBit Rate = 192 Bits/Second

Style = Cinematic / SoundtrackTheme = Dark ambience marching death in.

Dark ambience.  Terrifying sounds.  Spine-tingling melodies.  This is Horrific Uni...   [click here for more]

Cosmic Christmas - Special Edition (audio product)

12 songs for $6.00!

Early in my career as Stratos, I was composing original music for low-budget independent films such as The Screen.  In my “off time” I began dabbling in remix contests as well as new arrangements of classic songs - which is how this album came to be.  In December 2000, I began distributing rough mixes of some Christmas techno to close friends in...   [click here for more]

Episode 101: Locales: Tokyo Part 1 (audio product)

In this twist on our Locales series, we take a real world city and explore what elements it would offer games set there. We start with one near(ish) to our hearts: Tokyo. Learn all about what it’s like to be a Japanese woman on a crowded Tokyo train! From three (mostly) white foreigners who live in Kansai! In Part 1, we cover the people, power and culture of one of the world’s most ...   [click here for more]

Episode 16: Once Upon a Time… (audio product)

In a land very much like your own, but with more Sailor Moon uniforms, three podcasters did an episode on Changeling: The Lost. Lyal thought it was too dark. Wayne thought it wasn’t dark enough. Chris thought, well, that was never quite clear. So, the three podcasters decided to look for gaming inspiration from real fairy tales. Chris collected ladies’ shoes until his wife ...   [click here for more]

Episode 35: Secrets and Lies (audio product)

In this episode, we talk about how to best use lying and secrecy in your games.

The secrets of this episode:

Wayne’s d100 joke was originally Lyal’s. It was also originally funny.

Wayne has never seen Goodfellas, and Lyal has never seen Family Guy. This actually won’t seem like much of a secret after you listen to the episode.

Chris initially ha...   [click here for more]

Episode 37: Literature Lesson: Lovecrafted (audio product)

We opin the Month o’ Horror with aower debut Literature Lesson. In this un, we look at H.P. Lovecraft and haow te use ’is queer themes in yer games. Naow, dis Lovecraft feller kin set a body thinkin’, an’ when we git ta thinkin’, we git ta talkin’. Thar’s plenty here ta stir ye up an’ make yer blood tickle. See ef ye kin find aower leetle soorpris...   [click here for more]

Episode 45: Campaign Confessions: Savaged Worlds Part 1 (audio product)

Eight years after its release, the always topical Idle Red Hands review new(ish) RPG kid on the block Savage Worlds. Does the game live up to its promise of being “fast, furious, and fun”? Well, one of us found it fast, another found it fun, and someone was furious. Listen to find out who thought what.

Yujiro guest hosts. (Hey! That makes four people. Now, you r...   [click here for more]

Episode 56: Pantheon Pandemonium: Olympus (audio product)

“The gods give two sorrows for every blessing.” -Achilles

Here’s your blessing. Apologies for the future sorrows. In this latest installment of the Pantheon Pandemonium, we discuss the Greek gods and how to use themes from Greek mythology in your game. We also discuss the worst birthday gift you could possibly give your husband or wife. Hint: It’s worse than givi...   [click here for more]

Episode 58: Creature Feature: Bankers (audio product)

The only thing too big to fail is a dragon, and if we had dragon bankers, we bet people wouldn’t be so keen to Occupy Wall Street. You want to pass on this episode? Passing’s for quarterbacks, and I don’t see a number on your back. So, listen up and join the 1%.Also, a review of Descent: Journeys in the Dark.

Episode 61: Campaign Confessions: Time & Temp (audio product)

“Welcome to the team. This is your cubicle and over there is the break room. Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday and go back in time to, ah, fix some temporal anomalies.” Are you tired of playing heroes? Is it bad for your self-esteem? Well, Time & Temp, a game of “time travel and underemployment”, is the answer. Play the...   [click here for more]

Episode 63: Movie Genres: Thrillers (audio product)

“No, we’re okay, now that we’re not murdered or anything.”- Joy Ride In this episode, we debut another series: movie genres. To kick it off, we discuss thrillers and what thrilling tricks we can use in our games to make them more, yup, thrilling. Lyal talks about submarine movies. Wayne talks about submarine movies. No, wait, that was Lyal talking over Wayne. Ch...   [click here for more]

Episode 65: Creature Feature: Giants (audio product)

“You sure do look pretty, Miss Leslie. Pert nigh good enough to eat!” -Jett Rink, Giant Now, imagine a 15-foot tall James Dean saying that. Size matters. In this installment of Creature Features, we discuss giants of legend and fiction. Go big or go home.

Episode 68: Apocalypse Part 2 (audio product)

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”- Winston Churchill Was Churchill talking about World War Two or a game of Axis and Allies? With an apocalypse, the end is not really the end either. In fact, it’s where the fun really begins, if radiation sickness, starvation and sterility could b...   [click here for more]

Episode 70: Friday Night Lights (audio product)

“Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can’t lose!” - Dillon Panthers’ motto It’s Sunday night, folks, and the Idle Red Hands are without one of their star players, Chris “Flesh Wall” Idle. They’ve faced this situation before, but they are also looking at a strict no spoiler policy with this episode. It’s going to be tough talking about one of t...   [click here for more]

Episode 72: Pantheon Pandemonium: Egypt (audio product)

A lion, crocodile and hippopotamus walks into a bar. Oh, did I mention that this is just one demon? In this addition to Pantheon Pandemonium, we look at the Egyptians. As you would expect, we don’t talk about pyramids and mummies barely get a mention. Instead, we discuss ma’at, ka, ba, the Book of the Dead, some hippopotamus-lion-crocodile demon, and gay m...   [click here for more]

Episode 75: Locales: Ships (audio product)

The month of series debuts continues with Locales, a look at how to use different settings in your games. In this episode, we also look at ships, from submarines to starships (not the band, although Lyal does talk about the band), with the added bonus of how to use them as antagonists and protagonists. Also, Chris talks about the virtues of booth babes, Wayne talks about the benefits of emphasi...   [click here for more]

Episode 77: Literature Lessons: Science Romance (audio product)

Let’s look 100 years into the future to see what 2012 will bring! A pneumatic tube messaging craze will sweep the country! Science will find the cure for racism: all babies born in 2012 will be white! Automatons will do all domestic chores! Women will stay in the kitchen for the fun of it! Man will teach dogs and cats to talk! Will learn that they never really had much to say! The Idle Re...   [click here for more]