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

MEPACon Fall 2025 Retrospective

Cover art for the games Fallout, ShadowDark, Mork Borg, and Mothership

Another season, another MEPACon. I attended all three days of this autumn’s MEPACon, playing in two events and running three. Not bad for a weekend of gaming while still getting in some sleep (though sleep logistics did prove a little challenging). My first game was Flails Akimbo, a zero-level scenario for MÖRK BORG. I bought … 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