Return to the Lair of Secrets with Season 5

A logo featuring orange tentacles on a blue circular background appears over top a black and white cavern.

Lair of Secrets is back for Season 5! The podcast, which David Moore and I launched back during the pandemic, is dedicated to all manner of geeky things, with a particular focus on role-playing games. We tend to venture beyond the Dungeons & Dragons mainstream, playing games like Cyberpunk RED, Scum & Villainy, and Fallout … Read more

Fallout 2d20: Meet Steve NuGunnar

A man in a blue Vault-Tec jump suit, accompanied by a German Shepherd dog, head toward a ruined city scape.

Back when the new Fallout series debuted on Amazon Prime, the Lair of Secrets crew geeked out about how good the series was … and about the possibility of running a Fallout 2d20 campaign. That led to David Moore putting together a Fallout adventure as our next actual play for the podcast. After doing a 1st level playlets, we decided to … Read more

One Focused Summer

A baseball game at sunset.

Every few summers, things get so busy that I need a list to remind myself how focus on the things that help me relax. This is that list. Is it a big list? Yes. Will I finish everything on it? No. But it gives me something to shoot for … and something to focus on. … Read more

Get lost in Fallout 3’s radioactive wasteland

War. War never changes. But thankfully, it does gets upgrades. Fallout 3’s all about those upgrades, presenting the best damn post-apocalyptic America this side of Thunderdome. Just as in the first Fallout from the late 90s, you stumble out of a subterranean Vault and blink at the toxic wasteland. Only now it’s rendered in millions … Read more