Episodes

  • The No-Bill Prize!
    Apr 21 2026

    The Ancients decide to ignore the pleas of their listeners and ask each other questions for a change! Bill Reich had a senior moment and lost track of what day it was, but luckily Frank Filz stepped in and we had a wonderful time. It was so pleasing to ignore our listeners! It felt so... God-like! So we will be doing this more regularly! Enjoy!

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Son of Return of the RPG Ancients
    Apr 14 2026

    The Ancients talk about their most exasperating experience with players, how they deal with magic in their games, In game puzzles and riddles, and how best to track things in a game - particularly a living world sandbox type of game like we all run. All these are responses to listener questions.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • The Return of the Ancients
    Mar 31 2026

    The RPG Ancients are back! Full of something stinky and brandishing their walkers! The Ancients delve into the pile of fan mail from flounders that has been sitting around and have an unspeakable amount of fun!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • The Ancient Go Off Topic... But I Digress
    Mar 10 2026

    The Ancients have one job to do, one job! But they skitter off topic like dogs chasing squirrels! Where will they end up? On someone's lawn, protecting it from those damned kids! Somehow they wend through ancient stone age computers, maps, proportion of fighting to non-fighting in RPGs, Troupe Play, and end up with a unanimous thumbs down on Grimdark! Join the fun!

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Are you Experienced? The Ancients certainly are!
    Mar 3 2026

    The Ancient Frank could not be here this week, but wanted the other Ancients to discuss the topic of "Experience" in role-playing games. Now if there is anything Ancients are experienced about, it's Experience, and sounded like more fun than yelling at the kids to get off the lawn again!

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • The Ancients Go On a Quest for a Dragon
    Feb 17 2026

    The Ancients take advantage of the innocent questions of Mia the Dragon to skitter off in nineteen different directions at once, offending everyone in the process, as is their wont!

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Listener James questions the Ancients!
    Feb 10 2026

    Listener James has four questions for the Ancients, and their answers fill the entirety of the show. Moral: Do not question an Ancient, for they will answer with Too Much Information!

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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • The Ancients Finally Get Those Damned Listeners Off Their Backs
    Jan 20 2026

    The Ancients dig everything out of their chest of Listener Questions and free them to haunt the world. At the very bottom. crushed under the weight of the questions but still barely alive, they find Hope! But Bill was faster and killed it before it could get away!

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    1 hr and 33 mins