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Campaign Recap: Kingdom 2 – Legacies Episode 003

Luke — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:14:34 +0000

*This is not actual play

*Game System: Burning Wheel

*Session 4: The Lost and the Damned, Part II

*Session 5: A Harsh Winter (Downtime)

*Session 6: Hunter Hunted

Campaign Recap: Kingdom 2 – Legacies Episode 002

Luke — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:17:52 +0000

*This is not actual play

*Game System: Burning Wheel

*Session 2: Mysterium Ways (I)

*Session 3: The Lost and the Damned, Part I

TPC 121: The Burning Fellowship (GM)

David — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:59:04 +0000

* Josh joins us from the Brilliant Gameologists

* Buy Iron Tyrants!

* Join our WoW guild > Alliance > Zangarmarsh > Stay Awhile and Listen

* The Burning Problems as a GM

TPC 119: The Burning Fellowship (Player)

David — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:59:22 +0000

* This episode is explicit, but not for the reason you think it is

* Buy Iron Tyrants!

* Join our Wow Guild! Zangarmarsh > Alliance > Stay Awhile and Listen

* Meg joins us for the worst/best ice breaker ever

* Troubleshooting a Burning Wheel game from the perspective of a player

Campaign Recap: Kingdom 2 – Legacies Episode 001

Luke — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:26:25 +0000

*This is not Actual Play

*Game System: Burning Wheel

*You can find the original campaign recaps in this setting, Kingdom: The Next Generation starting here.

*Session 0: Premise and Characters

*Session 1: The Test at Tamren

TPC 111: 10 Things We Learned Playing Burning Empires

David — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:59:11 +0000

* Buy Iron Tyrants!

* Aron Head is doind Supers Sandobx Actual Play: here

* Virtual Sausagefest for breast cancer, link is here

* Back to the Future is a great f’n movie

* Matt tells the worst, most misleading story about a threesome at D*C

* 10 things we learned by playing Burning Empires (Topic starts around 18minutes in)

For the GM:
1. Get together and play a one-shot of the subsystems or lead in with simple, tutorial subsystem situations as an introduction; ease into it
2. Be aggressive as the GM; press the PCs without hesitation
3. BE is hardcore GM improv training; develop that skill
4. The GM needs to fill the world and give the players something to interact with
5. Make your players read the book

For the Player:
1. Write good beliefs (this is generic to any burning system, really)
2. Understand how color works.
3. Follow the1,2,3 rule
- in every 1 session, use your two important scenes (color, building) and include all 3 beliefs.
4. Look at the maneuver skill list in both character creation and maneuver selection each session – PLAN
5. Prepare to be disappointed with the disconnect between the meta game and the game at the table

TPC 104: Broad Spectrum Analysis

Luke — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:34 +0000

*MS 150 is nearly upon us! Please donate here

*Questionable Characterization

*Oh Yeah

*Adventure Burner Impressions

*Investment

*Open Secrets vs. Reveals

TPC 102: 10 Things I Learned at Gencon

David — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:59:15 +0000

10 Things I Learned At Gencon
1.) Kevin Weiser is a crazy person.
2.) James has the patience of a lion.
- No, I don’t know what that means
3.) I played Robert Bohl’s Misspent Youth.
- It was pretty fun.
- I don’t think Kevin or Robert Bohl believed I could handle playing a story game of that magnitude. I proved them wrong.
4.) Competitive D&D – Do not forget how D&D works
- I made a stupid assumption
- It cost us the competition
5.) I don’t like RPGA events.
- Mediocre encounters
- Awkward storytelling
- Inflexible rules
- Stupid plot twist (betraying character? seriously?)
6.) Some quick and dirty 4e tricks that can really speed up the game.
- Initiative cards on the DM screen
- Status cards to hand to players with condition and description
- Defenses on the reverse side of initiative cards
- Rotating initiative cards on the DM screen
- Popups in front of players with defenses (Tim!)
7.) Do not take 2 5 hour energies in a row
8.) Jen’s 1 Cool Thing Video from Gencon was awesome.
9.) The Iron Tyrants demo went well.
- This is the first time I’ve seen it demo’d for people outside of people I know well. Apparently, Luke designed a game that people like.
10.) You. You know who you are. You missed it.

10 Things I Learned At Gencon – Luke Edition
1) James will take pics of you when you sleep and post them on the net – though I may have deserved that.
2) Stingray will lick all the community alcohol.

Things I Learned While You Guys Were At Gencon
1. You are alcoholics, probably. Seriously, goddammit, what’s with the drunk outline editing?
2. I thought more about our 4e game than I have thought about a game in which I’m a player, during downtime, since KTNG.
-I think we have a world that will persist for this group beyond this campaign.
-D&D is simple and I love it. Very little about BE is simple (looking at you, Firefight) and it’s just okay.
-Still not wild about playing at level 2, so I hope we story-level quickly.

3. Adam is gay for dudes. No judgment, just sayin’. HE KISSED TWO DUDES
4. The Walking Eye’s video of things seen at Gencon really made me appreciate it as a community more than just a convention. I think this is the kind of thing that will keep me from skipping in the future.
5. Robert Bohl likes Social Distortion. AND HATES LUKE
7. The St. Louis craft brewery scene is about to explode. So getting drunk alone, in the dark, without going to another state under the guise of rolling dice, is still in vogue.
Six Row opened in December and they’re going to bottling soon.
Urban Chestnut opens this fall.
Perennial Artisan Ales intends to begin building by year’s end.
The Civil Life Brewing Co. next year – spring opening.

TPC 083: Socially Speaking

David — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:59:21 +0000

* Burning Empires, Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard and the Warhammer Fantasy CRPG

* The obligatory Blood Bowl talk. Congrats to Brad for winning last season!

* Zones and abstraction in games

*The Ideology of Madness thread in question

* Social Mechanics

TPC 082: A Gentleman’s Criticism

David — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:59:00 +0000

* Iron Tyrants at Fear the Con

* Blood Bowl Season 2 kicks off!

* Podcast criticism discussion

* The blog Paul is talking about is here.

* RPG Podcast Listener Survey can be found here.

* Luke poops in soup

* A bunch of game design philosophy and criticism

* Why is your favorite game your favorite game?

TPC 065: We Antagonize Each Other

David — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:59:11 +0000

* Dark Tower Online preview: Enjoy!

* Antagonism and Villains, something we know nothing about at the Podge

That Mitchell and Webb Look sketches referenced:

*Sir Digby Chicken Caeser

Episode 035: Evil Urges

Joe — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:01:27 +0000

* Buy Shawn Merwin’s D&D4e Adventure P3: Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress. He’s good peoples

* We can finally wank about Watchmen

* Shaky cam fight scenes and fish islands

* It’s just a penis. Get over it.

* Villainy, alignment, and being evil

* Evil campaigns

* Evil characters in non-evil campaigns

* Advice for playing evil characters

* Number of times we talk about Burning Wheel: 4

Bonus: DoW Actual Play Video

David — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:59:56 +0000

* This is an explicit recording. It doesn’t get too raucous, but there is one instance of the F-Bomb, and I didn’t feel like editing it out.

* This is two videos smashed together of real life Duel of Wits scenarios in Burning Wheel.

* Yes, things look green. The night vision setting was on, and I didn’t notice until a few days after we recorded it. Oops.

Episode 021: Sacrificing

Joe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:01:50 +0000

*A word of warning. While we don’t go into explicit territory, we push the boundaries as far as we can. This one is NSFW or small children. Well, or anyone, really.

* Apologies up front for Joe’s sound quality. It’s bad. We know. We’re sorry.

* Buffyverse Banter

* PodgeCast gaming on the Xbox, come play with us

* Warhammer Online: Badlands server, Xen of Onslaught is having open enrollment. Come play with Joe (and Dave from the Iron Agenda).

* Holiday Mail for Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD. 20791-5456

* V3 was a triumph…we’re assuming

* Sacrificing your character for the good of the party

* Affecting the decisions of other players

* Rule 1 and Subclause 1.a

* Number of times we discuss Burning Wheel: 6

* Luke is in the Hodge (Live)

Episode 012: Bailing Out the Economy

Luke — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:01:17 +0000

*New Contest!

*Economies in RPGs

*D&D: “Don’t Ask Questions”

*D&D’s Implied Setting

*Obfuscate!

*Burning Wheel: “Now You Don’t Have Pants”

Episode 006: That Burning Sensation (You Know the One)

Luke — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:01:09 +0000

*R.I.P. Gleemax

*Adam’s Job

*Info on Luke’s Gen Con panels can be found here and here. While you’re there give the Brilliant Gameologists a listen!

*Adam will be at New Media Expo in Las Vegas

*Bee Jerks vs. Spider Queens

*We try to get all the Burning Wheel talk out of our system. It probably won’t work, but we tried.

*Favorite social mechanics

*Luke talks about Obsidian Portal in The Hodge (Live). His campaign page is here.

Episode 001: A PodgeCast Is Born

Luke — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:01:24 +0000

*Who are you and what is this thing all about?

*Luke’s accidental deception and a discussion about what we like in rpgs and how our tastes have changed recently

*Information on Savage Worlds can be found here. Highly recommended and only ten bucks!

*Information on The Burning Wheel can be found here. It’ll change the way you play in a good way. That rhymed. Boo yah!

*We tell you mid-episode that we’re not going to talk about sandbox games…. and then proceed to talk about sandbox games…