*Kevin from The Walking Eye returns

*We are also joined by Shaun from This Modern Death and Red Number Games

*Revisiting the benefits and folly of “Gaming Academia”

*Bangs, Problems, Conflicts

*Self-Critical Hits

*Revelations

*Game System: Burning Wheel

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

*Session 5: A Harsh Winter (Downtime)

*Session 6: Hunter Hunted

-Adam is Captain Kirk

-Eric’s cold heart and other depths plumbed

-Luke is still a doctor (of wretched television)

-Luke’s tragic past

-We finally get to the topic: Emotions While Gaming

-Comedy & Horror

-Anticipation

-Eric’s still a creeper

*Game System: Burning Wheel

*Session 2: Mysterium Ways (I)

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

*Sound quality is a bit wonky this episode due to Skype going crazy

*Buy Iron Tyrants!

*New comprehensive Iron Tyrants review over at Ideology of Madness.

*Welcome back special guest Robert Bohl!

*Whatever happened to “Oo Let’s Make a Game!”

*Joshua A.C. Newman and Shock: Social Science Fiction

*Check out Misspent Youth!

*Marketing your small press game

*That indie stigma

*Award shows

* Buy Iron Tyrants!

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

* The Burning Problems as a GM

* 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

* 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

*Joe returns!

*Joe update

*Publishing

*Indie Games

*Stargate Universe

*Archer (OH YEAH)

*Rob Justice, Harrowed

*Harrowed Outro

*Questionable Characterization

*Oh Yeah

*Adventure Burner Impressions

*Investment

*Open Secrets vs. Reveals

Topics Covered:
* Gencon
* True Dungeon
* The Gateway Game
* Houses of the Blooded

*The first 47 minutes has Eric explaining Maneuvers and Scene Budget along with banter

*Play begins at 47 minutes

*Phase: Usurpation

*The world of Allera Imperia is a storm-wracked aquatic world whose toxic atmosphere forces is lethal to humans. Defying nature, humanity has settled there to capture a great prize. Algae, unique to this world, can be harvested and processed into a drug called Verdant, which halts the body’s aging process. For the few who can afford it, immortality is only a regular dose away. Obtaining this prize is difficult, but protecting it will prove even harder as nearly all living beings seek to escape death.

Especially the Vaylen.

House Zente, led by the immortal Forge Lord Kriati, has long held control of the planet.  Recently, operations have been disrupted by the introduction of a street-level version of Verdant called Green. Green won’t stop you from aging, but this highly-addictive form of the drug will make you feel physically and mentally in your prime.  Through several different factions, the Vaylen are poised to strike as the Forge Lord struggles to maintain control. Her reign will be challenged by both a mercenary force new to the planet and The Cult of Transition who directly oppose the anti-aging drug.

*Cast

Forge Lord Kriati Zente – Sarah

Hammer Pilot Jayce Bronze – Adam

Minister of Information and Education, Psychologist Xanthus Dorne- Luke

Bastard Smuggling Noblewoman – Katie

Anvil Lord – Paul

Green-addicted Hammer Lord Gepard Frost (NPC) – Eric

Vaylen Cult of Transition Leader Sharaya Va’non (NPC) – Eric

Vaylen Mercenary Leader Diamades Shah (NPC) – Eric

Vaylen Mercenary Chief Surgeon Garoda (NPC) – Eric

Sharaya’s Mule Bodyguard Brutus (NPC) – Eric

* Prince of Persia

* More 360 talk

* Metagaming, Burning Empires and Mouse Guard

* Random Racism

* Drawven Conquistadors

* Burning Wheel’s Emotional Attributes

* Character creation

* Some Burning Empire’s Talk

* In which we both do and do not talk about immersion

* James’ t-shirt survery can be found here

* Eric continues his mammoth Dresden Files RPG Review

*Season 3 of Blood Bowl is kicking off. The sign-up thread is here.

* Eric’s back so he can…

* Eric learns us about the Dresden Files RPG by Evil Hat Productions

* Gencon Oz event registration can be found here

* v3 is making a comeback on the last half of June! Details here

* GMs as authority figures

* RPG Podcast Listener Survey is happening again at http://rpgpolls.com/

* Dresden Files next week? Probably not.

* Rob’s blog post about the drunk thing

* Slice of Life in games – and then we go somewhere bizarre

* Why Luke sucks as a GM, and the trials of an average gaming group

* Back to slice of life?

* A Gen Con controversy?

* Ideology of Madness Podge Cast article.

* A double standard in our culture

* We answer all of your burning questions – for realz

*This has more snark (all in the name of good fun) than all of our other episodes combined.

*This is the recap of our first two session of our Dark Tower game powered by Diaspora along with our thoughts on the game.

*Session One: This Little Light Pt 1

*Session Two: This Little Light Pt 2

* Chris can’t find anything wrong with 4e – he’s such a fanboi

* 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

* 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?

* Rob and Mike from the Bear Swarm are here; and boy do they sound excited

* Good players, which gets derailed by what is a party

* Matt and Limp Bizkit

* Rob’s here, so we have to talk about Houses of the Blooded

* Group dynamics

* The Best They Might Be Giants Album

* Blood Bowl Season 2 is starting soon!

* Repo the Genetic Opera apparently sucks

* It’s been a full year since Watchmen came out

* Homebreweing? Why are we doing less of it

* Chatroulette redux

* Starcraft Night of Carnage? We should plan one.

* Quest for Glory has a place in our hearts

* Luke will be at Fear the Con 3 runnnig Iron Tyrants!

* Small Press publishing – a case study in Spooky Outhouse Production’s journey with Iron Tyrants.

* Black Pidgeon Press and Hacktastic

* Print options: Studio 2

David is joined by:
* Brant (TrapCast)
* Meg (Brilliant Gameologists)
* Tim (Return to Northmoor)

We do a live episode, joined by various peoples and shoot the bull for an hour.

*EXPLICIT!

*Session 1 of our Diaspora game – The Dark Tower: Dissonance

*Our Obsidian Portal campaign hub is here. The worlds we generated are there in detail.

*Diaspora’s SRD can be found here.

*This is a bit of an experiment. We get a lot of calls for Actual Play. Some love it. Some hate it. Let us know what you think.

*We will also be doing our Campaign Recaps, like with KTNG, in the future.

*Sound quality is a bit lower than normal because Adam’s usual recording device was gone. We made do.

*The occasional rhythmic banging? Those are the cats trying to escape. Can’t be helped.

*BSG: The Plan sucks

*Ron Swanson is the man

*Matt lives a year behind in TMBG releases

*Discussing breaking up with your gaming group as inspired by this post.

* Blood Bowl Leage

* Luke is old, the Miner’s Daughter and Curling a Grumpy with the Dusty Muffin

* Fable 2 and Chaoseater

* Double Meat Podcast

* Pillars of the Earth audiobook

* Matt Kills It: Pitching Established Settings

*Rat Tails and Trad Gaming

*Dickle

*Contest Winner

*The Internet Age

*The d20 boom and bust

*Small publishers and indie explosion

*What’s next?

*Intro products and pricing

*Media that’s so bad it’s good

*Finding the sweet spot in gaming philosophies

*Names

Other stuff:

Serial Homicide Unit by Kat and Michael Miller
Dirty Secrets by Seth Ben Ezra
The Drifter’s Escape by Ben Lehman
Burning Wheel Revised and by Luke Crane and the Burning Wheel Headquarters

My stuff:

Misspent Youth, my first game
The Independent Insurgency, my first podcast
Oo! Let’s Make a Game!, my other podcast

* Geek trauma, which turns into: geek inspirations

* Paul doesn’t do a very good job of getting us on to settings

*GM vs. Players

*Player vs. Player

*Hodge: Chris Engler, World Vision 2009 Charity

More details:

I’m sending you this message in the hopes that you’ll partner with myself and World Vision again this year for my third annual Christmas fundraiser. This year I’m going to depart from the “cow” theme of the prior two years and ask for your help raising money for the rehabilitation and restoration of child soldiers and sexually exploited children. For $75 World Vision can provide many resources to children who have been virtually destroyed. I’d like us to help 20 such children. Based on the number of people I’m inviting to participate, if everyone I invite donates an average of $20 this goal will be met but donations of any size are welcome.

Below is a link to a four-minute video on YouTube that was put together by a friend of mine (Paul Bettings) who has travelled extensively and documented first-hand some of the worst circumstances children are in. The video tells the story of an 11 year-old girl named Elise who was once a sex-worker but is in the process of getting her life back thanks to World Vision’s efforts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SoxWq0e9yg

Here is a link to my World Vision Gift Catalogue page. Please forward this e-mail or any of the links contained to anyon that you think may be interested in participating:

Full Link
Shortened Link (suitable for Twitter)

Thank you in advance, and Merry Christmas!

* Luke is a teenage girl and liked New Moon

* The “Name That Contest” contest. Just go ahead and e-mail your submissions to adam@podgecast.com

* Handling downtime in games

* Can elements of board/video games translate to the tabletop to handle downtime?

Hodge: Chris Engler, World Vision 2009 Charity

More details:

I’m sending you this message in the hopes that you’ll partner with myself and World Vision again this year for my third annual Christmas fundraiser. This year I’m going to depart from the “cow” theme of the prior two years and ask for your help raising money for the rehabilitation and restoration of child soldiers and sexually exploited children. For $75 World Vision can provide many resources to children who have been virtually destroyed. I’d like us to help 20 such children. Based on the number of people I’m inviting to participate, if everyone I invite donates an average of $20 this goal will be met but donations of any size are welcome.

Below is a link to a four-minute video on YouTube that was put together by a friend of mine (Paul Bettings) who has travelled extensively and documented first-hand some of the worst circumstances children are in. The video tells the story of an 11 year-old girl named Elise who was once a sex-worker but is in the process of getting her life back thanks to World Vision’s efforts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SoxWq0e9yg

Here is a link to my World Vision Gift Catalogue page. Please forward this e-mail or any of the links contained to anyon that you think may be interested in participating:

Full Link
Shortened Link (suitable for Twitter)

Thank you in advance, and Merry Christmas!

* Stuff Kevin mentions:

His Majesty’s Dragon

In A Wicked Age

Dirty Secrets

Zombie Cinema

Polaris

Drifter’s Escape

*Houses of the Blooded – Aria of Ill Fortune

*Session I: The Rose and the Thorn Part I

*Session II: Unquiet Repose

* Google Wave

* Master Plan

*Luke is a guest on this week’s Kicked in the Dicebags. If you don’t already know, it’s super-explicit. Also, super-awesome.

* Do us a favor, tell a friend or leave an iTunes review.

* The TrapCast‘s bad iTunes review contest was hilarious and awesome, we’re not doing that.

* Project Donut: http://projectdonut.com

* Kevin, The Walking Eye

* What is art?

Favorite Art from this Year:

- David – Glee
- Eric – Battletech
- Matt – The Brothers Bloom
- Paul -Sphongle’s New Album

Twisted Records (Shpongle samples on the front page player)

- Luke – Iron Tyrants

- Hodge: Fraser from Accidental Survivors is here to talk about Mondus Novit being released by Swords Edge Publshing