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Join us on a journey to the world of Free League’s Coriolis and space station FS-7, orbiting the gas giant Xene in the Kua system. Hjalmar plays the pilot Leila Hatami and Craig the technician Alam Dania, who are part of a team of researchers contracted to install and oversee an experiment known...

New episode! CURSE OF STRAHD 18: LYCHANTROPE Werewolves are widespread in European folklore, with stories of men turning in to wolves going back to late antiquity. In Western Europe werewolves were often connected with shape-shifting sorcerers and witches who abducted children. During the...

New episode! CURSE OF STRAHD 17: ORPHANIM In Ezekiel, the throne of God is said to be moved around on wheels: “The four wheels had rims and they had spokes, and their rims were full of eyes round about.” These wheels are called the “Orphanim”. Other texts, such as the first book of Enoch...

New episode! CURSE OF STRAHD 16: PROMETHEUS The story of Prometheus, the champion who stole fire from the gods to give to humanity, is a story about us as a species. It's about our efforts to improve our existence and not accepting things as they are. It's also a tragic story about overreach...

Act III can be found here: https://www.redmoonroleplaying.com/podcast/2018/7/16/kult-divinity-lost-oakwood-heights-act-iii Zug island is a man-made island in the river Rouge in the southern part of Detroit. It’s home to a large ironmaking industry with massive blast furnaces. Ore and coal is...

New episode! CURSE OF STRAHD 15: TRADUCIANISM Traducianism is a Christian doctrine about the origins of the soul originally championed by scholars such as Tertullian. It holds that God created Adam’s soul but that all the souls created thereafter are actually generated naturally along with the...

Act II is up now! https://www.redmoonroleplaying.com/podcast/2018/7/10/kult-divinity-lost-oakwood-heights-act-ii Oakwood Heights is in the heavily industrialized southwestern part of Detroit. The neighborhood is relatively densely populated but also ranks as the most polluted in all of...

New episode! CURSE OF STRAHD 14: WESTINGHOUSED Electrocution is a portmanteau of” electro” and “execution” and was originally coined to describe electrical execution through the electric chair. At the time the “war of currents” between Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) and George...

Second and final episode is up! Moral panic was widespread fear and social concern of a, usually hitherto unknown, evil that threatened society and preferably the innocent children. The fear was spread by ”moral entrepreneurs” as well as the mass media. Often it related to new phenomena that...

We recently had the opportunity to do a collaboration with Josh and Tallsquall from Encounter Roleplay and our own DM extraordinaire Craig decided to take them to the lovely neighborhood of Oakwood Heights, Detroit in the year 2015. Enjoy! "It is a grey and cold winter’s day in Detroit, as...

New episode! CURSE OF STRAHD 13: HELIOPHOBIA In Bram Stoker’s "Dracula" the eponymous Count was weakened by sunlight, but it did not kill him. Trying to trace where the idea of vampires exploding in to a cloud of dust or catching on fire when in sunlight seems to lead to the 1922 movie...

At Red Moon Roleplaying we had the honor of being visited by Gabrielle De Bourg who led us through the amazing adventure "Horror Movie Mayhem" that shew wrote for the supplement "Our Friends the Machines & other Mysteries". The adventure is about video nasties, LGBT and moral panic and set in...

New episode! Curse of Strahd 11: Kresnik Legends in Slovenia and Croatia speak of the "Kresnik", a shaman whose spirit wanders into that of an animal at night. It does this to protect the lives of the people of the land, fighting the evil powers that stalk the night. The Kresnik's nemesis is...

New episode! Curse of Strahd 10: Valravn According to Danish folklore, when a chieftain was killed in battle but never found, ravens would come and eat him. The ravens that ate the chieftain’s heart would gain human intelligence and supernatural powers. They would also become malicious and...

We are happy to announce that we had the pleasure and great honor of welcoming a true legend in the Swedish roleplaying industry, Fredrik Malmberg, on the show. Fredrik was one the founders of Äventyrsspel / Target Games, the company who made KULT, Drakar och Demoner, Mutant and many more back...

New episode! Curse of Strahd 09: 4'33 Four minutes, thirty-three seconds is a composition by the American composer John Cage from 1952. The score instructs the performers not to play their instruments for the duration of the piece. It is effectively, four minutes and thirty-three seconds of...

New episode! Western: The Baron of Barbary Coast, Part 2 of 3 The Barbary Coast was San Francisco's red light district during the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century. It featured dance halls, saloons, variety shows and brothels. It was the California Gold Rush of 1849 that had given...

New episode! Curse of Strahd 08: Tastevin The color of the wine is one indicator of how mature it is. As wine is stored and aged in dark cellars, Burgundian winemakers in the Middle Ages created the tastevin, a shallow saucer-like cup made of silver. The shiny inner surface would allow them to...

Listen to us play Western by Åskfågeln Western: The Baron of Barbary Coast, Part 1 of 3. The War Between the States is over, but the bitterness and the conflicts still remain. Ranch wars flare, rumors of gold summon thousands of adventurers, peaceful towns live in fear of outlaw gangs and...

Curse of Strahd 07: Wallachia The area known as Wallachia is a historical region of Romania that, under the leadership of the legendary voivode Radu the Black, broke free from Hungary in 1290. As the years passed the Ottoman Empire was growing rapidly on the southern border and came to dominate...