Legends from The Fireside

A Sword & Sorcery, hybrid storytelling podcast. Old School D&D goodness, victim and benefactor of the dice. He/Him

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

Check out the first episode of the show!

Fan of #AudioDrama? #dnd? #TTRPGs? You will certainly appreciate this Sword & Sorcery, hybrid storytelling podcast!

https://t.co/fyz1Dua3tz

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

It has certainly been a minute, but I am back in the dungeon again!

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #solo #ose #oldschoolessentials

https://t.co/AVCrhuvbzX

[Legend of the Bones @LegendBones]

New Episode Today!

Legend of the Bones is a dark fantasy audio drama, driven by old school, solo Dungeons and Dragons.

None shall escape the destony of bone...

https://t.co/840BN5U6z4

#ttrpg #solorpg #audiodrama #dungeonsanddragons #osr

[YUM DM - Publishing a D&D Zine @yum_dm]

A new blog post - this one is all about adding cool magical weapons to your #DnD campaign. +1 weapons are so last year. :)
https://t.co/Bo35EiAqyX

#DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

Dungeon Synth rules, all forms and all iterations

[Aeres @AeresChronicles]

It's only a minor secret that many black metal musicians in the Norwegian scene congregated for underground tape trading, especially for their personal synth experiments, which sometimes never saw the light of day. Dungeon Synth probably coalesced there in basements and record stores, a swirling cauldron fueled by the European EDM scene, cheap beer, late-night dungeons & dragons games, and re-watches of classic fantasy movies like Conan the Barbarian. What is Dungeon Synth? It's what remains of black metal when you take away the metal and leave the Dead Can Dance and Berlin School (Tangerine Dream).

Purely atmospheric, it wasn't meant to accompany Dungeons & Dragons at first, and the artists making this music didn't call it "dungeon synth." It's often associated with Mortiis, whose Era I projects like Født til å herske are still highly influential on the genre (but other artists were essential to its growth). Like black metal before it, dungeon synth artists are usually obsessed with classical fantasy and myth, especially Tolkien, and many of them intentionally write their music to accompany "old school" Dungeons & Dragons play (although a surprising number of them have zero experience with the game, which came as a shock to me).

Cassette tape trading always has been, and probably forever will be, a staple of Dungeon Synth and one of the things keeping it going (that and a curious draw towards re-enchantment creeping its way into the consciousness of Westerners). But despite all of its fantasy trappings, underground allure, and "grass roots" appeal, Dungeon Synth is a genre defined more by emotion than musical structure. Artists like Hole Dweller perform live on electric guitar using synth merely as a backdrop, while other musicians are implementing more folk stylings into their compositions, including mandolin, violin, ocarina, and other traditional instruments. It's not always about droning lo-fi keys, nor should it be; because of the genre's rock-solid basis in old-school pre-2000s fantasy, musical experimentation does almost nothing to dilute it.

Is Dungeon Synth political? Usually not, but it does have a pervasive sense of tradition and a veneration for the ancient past and the myths that have shaped us, as black metal did before it.

One thing Dungeon Synth is NOT, however, is mainstream. And I hope it stays that way. (Drop me into a volcano when we start seeing the dungeon synth + mumble rap fusions, please.) #osr #dnd #dungeonsynth #synth

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

Check out the latest #ose solo play session:

Episode 13 of the solo game continues our descent into the dungeons of the Warden of the Verdant Deep!

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg

https://t.co/FQ436mADKi

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

20 Things I have learned in 20 Years of playing #dungeonsanddragons and #ttrpg

https://t.co/5uLIqcpHUN

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

@yum_dm For whatever it’s worth, I have always enjoyed your posts and I was happy to learn of your content through here, but I know what you mean about the burnout with social media

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

Perhaps I am a mad man
Perhaps I have consumed too many potions

BUT here's another episode of the solo adventure series!

Loot? Level ups? Dungeon Crawling?
Heck yeah
#dnd #ose #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #solo #osr #oldschool

https://t.co/sHJzx1XVHv

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

@CountDraculaDB The Seven Samurai

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

New episode of the solo adventure through Old School Essentials!

It begins with a recap of the last 10 episodes making this a great spot to jump into the series!

#dnd #ttrpg #solo #ose #dungeonsanddragons

https://t.co/gy3DP4hkUw

[Tale of the Manticore @ManticoreTale]

📣 New Podcast! "Episode 39 (S3E39)" on @Spreaker https://t.co/lBqnc4Ez0u

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

when it comes to dice in the #ttrpg space, I feel like I ping pong back and forth between stoic simplicity with one single set of black and white dice and needing to own 1000's of the weirdest and funkiest I can hoard

Can anyone else relate?

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons

[BKGibson @bkgibsonwrites]

You need to be making bigger rooms in your dungeon.

[Tale of the Manticore @ManticoreTale]

📣 New Podcast! "Episode 38 (S3E38)" on @Spreaker https://t.co/iy0TwA29kW

[Castle Grief @CastleGrief]

Secure Brightstone.

Drive out the bandits and restore the shrine.

Discover the secret of Black Hill Barrow.

Destroy the Ogre blockade and liberate Calen March!

(This is for a new party of Moldvay Basic PCs)

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

Just released the newest episode of the podcast!

ep35: Thaedel!

https://t.co/imLBSEGWlm

The party enter the capital city and head right for the most important person's home right away

Will they be welcomed or shunned?

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #audiodrama #ose #osr

[YUM DM - Publishing a D&D Zine @yum_dm]

Issue 52 of d12 Monthly - the 2025 Halloween issue - is out! This one marks the arrival of the Moribund and their city, Necropolis. https://t.co/XKfFTBoi8b

#DungeonsAndDragons #DnD #TTRPG #OSE

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

A new episode of my #ose solo play series out now!

So many hexes, so little time! The party adventure, exploring the vast wilderness and uncovering some potentially dangerous surprises

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #oldschoolessentials #ttrpg

https://t.co/K86JcPzcR1

[Legends from The Fireside @FiresideLegends]

Check out my latest EP - Forlorn, Forgotten, Forsaken!

#newmusic #dungeonsynth #synth #fantasysynth #dungeonsanddragons

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