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Where’s Dave-o? That’s right, back to the basics this week as we were not able to get together with History Dave. Darn Kobolds!

You’ve got a great reason to jump over to our sponsor’s site, this week, RPGNow.com. Flying Buffalo has become a part of the site, and they’re releasing the Tunnels and Trolls RPG for free!

Since we were without History Dave, the feature this week is a grab-bag of questions that our listeners have asked over the years that we felt we hadn’t touched on enough.
This week’s news:

• RivCa has started a Play By Post on the boards. Looks like it’s going to be fun, and I believe there’s still room for you!
• Kobold Quarterly - http://www.koboldquarterly.com - by Wolfgang Baur
• Among others, Judd, Gary, Arcangel, and Dan all recognized that Marshall Will and Holly were the characters from Land of the Lost. Dan went on to mention that Will Farell’s character from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was named Willenhollie, and he was a feredal marshall.
• We’ve played a bit of their music for you all before, but Erdenstern - Into The Green is available on iTunes, and they are working on their fifth album, “Into the Gold”. Pretty good mood music for gamers.
• Yax from www.dungeonmastering.com is writing a blurb about us this month. Very cool website…
• New gaming podcast - Wap Caplets is an audio-blog of my opinions and thoughts on gaming.

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Happy Holidays to all of our wonderful listeners!

Be sure to check out all of the great deals at RPGNow.com, especially if you’re looking for some of that Reverse Dungeon goodness (thanks Nor’Morgwae)!
In the feature this week, we took our listeners advice and actually start creating a new world which will ultimately be the default world for CORE! It’s a fun and lively discussion, and we think we’ve got some interesting ideas brewing…

And now… the news:

• New RPG podcast, and the only all-Hebrew RPG podcast - Hamishakia
• Justinthebig has a new podcast - All Things Medieval. Way to go Justin!
• Arriving with little to no fanfare, the Dragonlance DVD “Dragon’s of Autumn Twilight” is available for purchase
• We hate to report it, but Erik Wujcik is dying of cancer…

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Wow! How the time gets away from you at the holidays. We’ve actually had this recorded for a couple of weeks, and edited for about a week. I’m such a slacker. So think of it as a great way to start the new year!

Once again, we have to give a huge thanks to our sponsor, RPGNow.com. These guys have always had the best selection and price and digital (and occasionally print) RPG products.
In the feature this week, we take a break from the Campaign Creation series and do a segment on bards.

[NEWS]

• Along the lines of our Legend of the Green Dragon, here’s another old favorite: Hack n’ Slash.
• History mentioned that Australian’s are more American than Americans. According to Pete, here’s funny proof that Australian’s wouldn’t take that as a compliment!
• Chuck got interviewed for an article that appeared in our local paper. And you thought we could talk!
• Jim in Buffalo pointed us to a hilarious spoof on the Chick Tracts.

[FRUGAL LINKS]

• the Mind Unveiled Dreamscape at RPGNow.com. It’s a great companion to Lonnie’s own Liber Sodalitas: Dream Healers.
• d20 to FATE conversion manual.
• Wikipedia article on Bards. Good info, if a little dry.
• Highmoon Media’s Bardic Lore: Ogham
• Some free info on the Ogham.
• the Bard’s Guild - songs, midi, history and fantasy, good stories, and more!
• Cariadoc’s Miscellany - from an SCA source, lots of good information from recipes to stories to great info to keep you in character.