The premiere issue of Arcane "The Roleplaying Magazine" (December 1995) included this preview of FRUP - an "almost-ready" RPG by Hogshead Publishing's founder James Wallis "due in February '96." The game was set in a satirical fantasy world that somehow received copies of the AD&D rulebooks (or a legally distinct equivalent), revered them as holy texts, and built a society around them governed by "rules lawyers" with a culture of murdering monsters for their experience points. "FRUP" is their attempt to pronounce FRP, the old term for fantasy roleplaying games that preceded RPG.

When we recorded this episode, I discovered my microphone was broken, so I fashioned a very large bullhorn using some bamboo poles and the sail cloth from an old schooner in the back yard. I pointed the bullhorn in the general direction of Hambone's house and shouted very loudly into it. Meanwhile, Hambone had to scurry around with an ill-fitting baseball mitt in order to catch each individual word as it flew through the air. Once caught, he deposited the words into a disused aquarium for safekeeping until they could be reconstructed at a later time. The real amazing thing about this is that Hambone only had a vaguest idea of what I was saying and I had simply no clue what he was saying, but somehow, the episodes of the podcast came together as if we were sitting in the same room having a normal conversation.

Oh, yea, this week's episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast is about The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1998), a storytelling game about tall tales.

WFRP: Something Rotten in Kislev ~ Hogshead Publishing (1999)