Radio Grognard KING SIZE

Radio Grognard KING SIZE is a long-running OSR tabletop podcast about the practical craft of being a GM. Glenn Hallstrom approaches role-playing games from the bench, not the balcony. The episodes sound like a hobbyist thinking aloud after watching a video, running a convention game, or revisiting an old assumption at the table. The pace is casual and direct. Recent topics stay close to the decisions that shape actual play: hex crawls versus point crawls, how much geography to prepare, where a dungeon belongs, and when a plotted hook becomes a railroad. Player agency comes up repeatedly. So does the GM's responsibility to keep events moving without forcing every choice into a single path. In one episode, point crawls are treated as useful but risky because they can make an adventure feel too linear. In another, campaign prep begins with a small local area, a town named Bumbleford, a village called Stratus, the Hackney Forest, and a dungeon placed with just enough context to start play. The show also spends time on the human side of the table. It considers the difference between acting and role-playing, giving room to both without treating one as a requirement for the other. Character hooks get a similarly pragmatic read, including a reconsideration of questions about likes, dislikes, loyalties, and grudges. Convention experience matters here too, with Gangbusters and Ghostbusters games feeding into thoughts about action, flow, and bad-guy agendas. Radio Grognard KING SIZE is not trying to sound definitive. It is more useful than that. It catches the doubts, preferences, corrections, and compromises that come with GMing. For listeners who like OSR talk that stays grounded in preparation, pacing, maps, hooks, and table agency, it offers a familiar voice working through the same problems they probably face before game night.