Episode 57 – Playing Up
(a.k.a Player’s advice for players)
We have books full of gaming advice for GMs, but where is all the help for players? What can you do to help your fellow players out? Shouldn’t we all just be helping each other have a great time?
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Episode 56 – ShaCon All Over
(a.k.a Savage Worlds and ShaCon Convention)
The UK’s inaugural Savage Worlds convention has happened and Gaz was there as Guest of Honour! Baz asks searching questions about this Savage Worlds thing as may some people haven’t yet heard about it or played it. It’s not Earthdawn after all.
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Episode 55 – Licensed Games with Mat Hart
If you’ve heard about Guild Ball and the Dark Souls board game, you’ll have heard of record-breaking Kickstarters from Steamforged Games. The lads have an extensive chat with the loquacious Mat Hart about RPGs, licensed games, kickstarters and what he’s having for tea.
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Episode 54 – Counting Beans
Special Guest time once more! The Gents speak to Paul Baldowski, joint creator of the excellent All Rolled Up gaming accessories, prolific blog writer, author of the Cthulhu Hack and more! We also chat about the latest games from Sweden and try to work out why we love them so much. Like Stranger Things? Play The Future Loop!
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The lads are back from holiday! They’ve been reading stuff, playing games, going to conventions. This week they just about Games Expo, ConDamned and not wearing pants. Also! Bonus content – preparing characters for a con game or maybe just rolling them up at the convention table. Why do one over the other?
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Special Guest time again! We’re too good to you. This week the lads chat to Mike Mason, Line Editor for Call of Cthuhlu at Chaosium.
Kult of Keepers – who or what are they? Secrets from Black Library and 40K roleplaying. What does a line developer actually do? Organised Play and being on different sides of the Keeper’s screen. Can we get Baz into Horror gaming? All this and more delved into by our plucky investigators – Sanity rolls be damned!
If you want to learn more about Chaosium’s Organised Play, have a gander on their website.
Anyone wanting to buy Baz his copy of Pulp Cthulhu as a late birthday present, can do so direct from Chaosium too.
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Episode 51 – All Rolled Up & Swedish Gaming
Special Guest time once more! The Gents speak to Paul Baldowski, joint creator of the excellent All Rolled Up gaming accessories, prolific blog writer, author of the Cthulhu Hack and more! We also chat about the latest games from Sweden and try to work out why we love them so much. Like Stranger Things? Play The Future Loop!
Treat yourself to some lovely All Rolled Up gaming stuff here
You can also learn more about Symbaroum at the Iron Pact blog, and make sure to check out Paul’s other writings!
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Episode 50 – Back to the Future
Prepare to travel back to the times of Black & White TVs and only three channels on your TV. The Smart Party take us back to their roleplaying beginnings, through to what they’ve been playing at conventions only days ago. Guest comments, special features, Smart Party Healing Potions, intrusions from other podcasts, bespoke Trv Metal underlays. This ‘cast is a veritable banquet of nostalgic nuggets amusing interludes from the listeners. Both of them.
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If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
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Episode 49 – Ten Things We’re Jonesing For
(a.k.a. Chasing the Dragon)
This week the guys talk about ten of their current favourite gaming things. Everything from Post Apocalypse to Super Heroes, trying new things, system specific conventions, alternate history, Asterix, blogs and more!
Next time it’ll be our 50th episode! Drop us a line with any messages, thoughts or ideas. We’re excited to have a plethora snippets to pepper into our cast – feel free to send us something – we love hearing from both our listeners.
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Episode 48 – Ten Interesting Mechanics
(a.k.a. Systems Are Doing It For Themselves)
There are a plethora, nay myriad of systems out there, so what are some good ones? The lads chat through some of their favourite ways of rolling funny shaped dice. Thanks to the d20 Future Show for inspiring this week’s topic.
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Episode 48
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