![[Riff] Welcome to Gehennmoor, aka RNG-Town (Tome Of Adventure Design).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1763636923343-NMIKYW34W2OSDUB7EWIH/guard.jpg)
[Riff] Welcome to Gehennmoor, aka RNG-Town (Tome Of Adventure Design).
[Tabletop Thursdays/ Lore]: Taking a bit of a different tack to the usual news-updates posts for TT Thursday - Brady explores an emergent city coined Gehennmoor, via the method of pure RNG. With thanks to Mythmere Games and Matt Finch for The Tome Of Adventure Design (Revised) as the guide!
![[Riff] My Time with The Lord of the Rings, or Why I Struggle with Tolkien](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1742134756030-NEVMKR9XA00TRL041LAG/image_2025-03-17_011916552.png)
[Riff] My Time with The Lord of the Rings, or Why I Struggle with Tolkien
In exploring his own thoughts and feelings with the universe of all thinks Tolkein/Lord of the Rings, Hamza takes us on his own developmental journey through the world of literary and media analysis of the LOTR-verse. From audiobooks, the original Hobbit and three-part series trilogy, through to gaming titles, Peter Jackson’s films and more, this is a comprehensive and fun run through the lore, series and canon.
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[Archive] ISC Podcast, Ep. 30: AUDIO LOG - Clinical Examination Of Specimen XX-121, AKA ‘Xenomorph’(Part 2).
Exhumed from the chest-bursted corpse of our old website (RIP old site 31.12.24, sniff), here’s Part 2 of our Dissecting The Perfect Organism series. Check link for both audiodrama podcast links and written narrative, diagrams, lore and information relating to sci-fi’s perfect villain, told from a scientist-doctor perspective. The current episode details, among other things, the ‘Black Goo’, engineers, The Deacon, proto-xenomorphs and potential origins of our favourite eyeless-space killer!
![[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 31: Luna's Cult of Dark Souls - A DM Interview With... A DM.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737374953745-KOOUP7BVQPNHKY8IRE43/image-51.png)
[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 31: Luna's Cult of Dark Souls - A DM Interview With... A DM.
My first interview focussed on exploring someone else's expertise and thoughts around a franchise/hobby/series and the community surrounding it, and first interview with a community member around the design of their own RPG! Read on for a fantastic discussion with Luna, a friend of mine from Discord, who goes all-out on Dark Souls lore and discusses her TTRPG adaptation. Which she also provides for free, by the way, in the link!
![[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 29: Dissecting The Perfect Organism - An Examination of Xenomorph XX-121, Part 1.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1737370632341-HWO0D4SC4NLWD4KB6FJX/image-14.png)
[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 29: Dissecting The Perfect Organism - An Examination of Xenomorph XX-121, Part 1.
Check the link for Episode 29 of the Inner-Strength Check Podcast, and the full transcript of Dissecting The Perfect Organism: An Examination of Specimen XX-121. Over multiple podcast episodes, we’re bringing you a comprehensive, lore-based examination of the infamous Xenomorph from the Alien franchise. The current article explores the Chemical Agent or ‘Black Goo’ , as well as initial encounters with the pathogen as seen in the film Prometheus. Plenty of additional media here, so be sure to check it all out!