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Lair of Secrets

@sidepassages.com

A podcast exploring the sprawling caverns of gaming and hidden treasures of geekdom. sidepassages.com lairofsecrets.com www.youtube.com/@lairofsecrets

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 08/08/2026

Ken's Saturday RPG project is painting his cleric for his monthly Castles & Crusades real-world game (in which he's a player, not a GM). What's your weekend RPG project? #RPG #TTRPG #CastlesAndCrusades #RPGMinis

A green-cloaked cleric wielding a mace stands next to a set of green-and-black crystal dice.

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 04/03/2026

Ken's prepping for an overland journey in his Shadowdark campaign, and thinking about weather. The weather "hex flower" approach at Goblin's Henchman is pretty cool: it's like a hexcrawl ... but for weather. goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/h... #weather #hexcrawl #GMTools #CampaignPrep

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 13/09/2025

Check out these step-by-step instructions for creating a Pipboy-style map for your #Fallout campaign. Ken's looking at using this for his "Crawl out through the Fallout" one-shot for MEPACon. www.reddit.com/r/Fallout2d2... #TTRPG #Fallout2d20 #MapMaking

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 10/06/2025

Our quest for #ShadowDark monsters continues! Got a book or source you like? Post a reply; we'll be posting updates about what we found in this thread.

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 20/04/2025

First rezzed in the 1990s Cybersmiley's Datafort is packed with content for Cyberpunk RED and its predecessor, Cyberpunk 2020. cybersmily.net #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkRED #TTRPG

A screenshot of the text-heavy homepage of Cybersmiley.

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 13/03/2025

Glumdark's agnostic cyberpunk random tables provide NPC inspiration, e.g. a wirehead poser with tasteless sunglasses, wearing a t-shirt for a band you've never heard of walks into a netrunner bar. #cyberpunk #CyberpunkRed #ttrpg cyber.glumdark.com

Screenshot showing the a cyberpunk-inspired table for NPC features.

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 12/03/2025

It's a dark future. So of course you'll need some evil corporations. Reddit provides 1d100 of them. www.reddit.com/r/d100/comme... #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkRED #RPGGenerators #GMTools

The first three entries of 100 cyberpunk corporations. Featuring Priceless Perception, Remmeron, and Uropa

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 08/03/2025

Our latest episode is up: d12 Ways #ShadowDark is Awesome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAr... #TTRPG #ShadowDarkRPG

Dark-shrouded monsters appear in the background. The title text reads 'D12 Ways ShadowDark Is Awesome!'

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 03/03/2025

"Choomba, got the detes on that Corpse yet? Mr. Who says we gotta flatline 'em by Tuesday or its our heads that catch a bullet." Level up your Cyberpunk jargon with Streetlang page at the Cyberpunk Wiki. #cyberpunk #CyberpunkRed #Cyberpunk2077 #TTRPG cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Streets...

A list of cyberpunk terms and their definitions.

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 02/03/2025

Random street encounters need random names, and Fantasy Name Generator's Cyberpunk (Nick)name Generator obliges. It generates short, one-word street names like Ghost, Pitch, and Cash. #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkRED #NameGenerators #RandomGenerators www.fantasynamegenerators.com/cyberpunk-na...

A list of 10 cyberpunk-inspired nicknames

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 13/02/2025

We're gearing up for more #CyberpunkRED ... which means remembering how combat works. This post from Reddit gives a ton of advice on running combat scenarios in the Time of Red: GM's Guide to Cyberpunk: RED (3/15): COMBAT! www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkr...

An indoor battle map depicting the layout and flow of a Cyberpunk RED combat.

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 07/12/2024

Speaking of dice ... Ken's kicked off his Greyhawk '76 campaign, which leads to the question ... New Campaign, New Dice? - Yes - No Vote in the comments, since we haven't figured out polls in Bluesky yet. #NewDice #MoreDice #AllTheDice

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