* A new segment: Getting to know your hosts

* Role-Playing Games

* In the Hodge (live), Joe talks about bagels

* Tony Mast records with us, but the episode still comes out the next week

* You want to win D&D minis! We want to give them to you! Enter now!

* Literary devices that can be applied to role-playing games

* Fish out of water and system bias

* Matt wants to role-play the Gilmore Girls

* The prologue

* GMs breaking their own rules

* Misdirection

* In the Hodge (live), Joe talks about Taking Chance

* The debut of Shawn Gaston’s Clockworks

* If you like Lovecraft pulp, check out Lovecraft is Missing

* For the hattrick, go read A Girl and her Fed

* Last part of our D&D Minis. Email your answers to joe@podgecast.com

* Harry Potter – the books

* Harry Potter – the movies

* Book 7, how it should have been

* The Last Airbender live action movie

* In the Hodge (live), White Wolf’s new podcast and blog

* NERD RAGE!

* How to design online content and not suck

* 4e, its successes and failures, a business prespective

* When can a company be a jerk?

* Where’s Waldo (by Waldo we mean Matt)

* Wanking about Joss Whedon is awesome

* This XKCD strip is the show’s thesis

* Joe talks about the graphic novel Serenity: Those Left Behind in the Hodge (Live!)

* Joe is thankful the gang decided to talk about movies, TV, and politics while he was on vacation because he hates talking about those subjects

* The Bear Swarm thinks Joe is their favorite PodgeCast host (other than Table Saw)

* What is a campaign? What is a story?

* What do you like campaign length to be as a player? How about as a GM?

* What are published adventures good for?

* Matt is wise and all-knowing, Luke…not so much

* Number of times we talk about Burning Wheel: 1

* Joe talks about the book, Hitman, in the Hodge (live)

* 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
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* 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)

*Are published settings crap?

*What makes a setting good?

*Convincing the yonkels

*Matt becomes the center of a deep mystery and a foul conspiracy

*Joe gets teleported in the Hodge.  Seriously.

*Kansas: The Survivor State

*The Appeal of Post-Apocalyptic Settings

*Here Comes Dr. Tran (NSFW)

*Jungle Tales

*Keith Curtis’ Savage Earth

*HERO book ballistic test

*Under A Broken Moon

*Joe discusses Race for the Galaxy in the Hodge (Live)

*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.

* Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State, and Chip mutha$@!*^# Coffey

*What players want out of an NPC

*Roadblocks vs. Data Terminals

*Killing the GMPC: A solemn duty

*Joe’s TPK

*Upcoming Night of Carnage

*In the Hodge (Live), Adam talks about Atomic Array podcast.

* The logo design contest is in full swing! You can find information here.

* Thanks to Stefan Sallay (Dhyjinx) for creating the logo we’re going to use on our business cards.

* Grungydan’s “Great First Lines” Livejournal community can be found here.

* We say we’re going to talk about Burning Wheel, but don’t.

* Let the Bat-critiquing commence! If you’re interested in the Backseat Producers’ take on it, you can check that episode out at their website here.

* In the Hodge (Live), Joe talks about Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

*We define sandbox games.  Feel the pretentiousness.

*Character creation in sandbox games.

*Phil’s character is awesome.

*How types of character creation work with sandbox games

*In The Hodge (Live), Matt has a unique take on the summer’s best superhero movie.

*We hotly debate our experiences with MMOs

*Here’s the horse-kicking video

*Griefing

*Edition Wars – The best thing on the internet every decade or so

*Joe introduces The Hodge Live

*Closing out with our original theme, as promised.