Rolling in the Ruins Part Two - Last Rollers Standing

Welcome friends to part two of our Rolling in the Ruins special.

It's finally not infernally hot and my brain can actually brain.

I hope you're all managing to keep cool.

I'm taking full advantage of a lull in the heat dome bollocks to do some bits and pieces, but even contemplating a week of 32 degree heat here in the Bradford Hills is enough to slow me down, let alone the reality of it.

But a lull we have, for now, and I know some of you have it much worse.

For travellers stumbling across this with no context, in June 2026, we hosted a couple of Moorcock flavoured RPG days a fortnight apart here in Bradford.

For more on how that came about, check out the last episode.

A lot of our fellow rollers made a weekend of it and stuck around on the Sunday morning, allowing for the first time a more community based podcast experience in two parts.

This was a new experience for us, and for me particularly, because the vagaries and complications of recording with up to 15 or 16 people in a less than ideal environment definitely came into play.

Groaning chairs, a very hot room with USB fans keeping people alive, terrible reverb from that room that was at least half floor to ceiling windows overlooking Bradford City Hall.

A terrible, terrible place to record.

Brilliant for gaming, awful for recording audio.

So a lot to address for me in my amateurish fashion in post and editing.

Some lessons definitely learned for next time, though, and the second half, which we recorded a fortnight later, does sound significantly better.

But despite all of that and some scandalous errors on the part of the Quizmaster, there was also camaraderie, laughter, prizes and a live delivery of a blunt and blistering one star review.

So join me and Phil at the Ginger Goose as we tackle a lazily assembled quiz, trapped mugs, breakfast stout, and a couple of balmy, hungover Sunday mornings with the help of the last row of standing.

We are recording.