“Lively to the Rescue!”
In this episode, we have unlikely heroes, likely villains, and a lot of tense action. Some of Silver’s debts come due, Man starts his recovery, Susan learns how bodies are disposed of at the Gold Mine (and also that his systems don’t always agree with brainers). Several plots are hatched, and many wheels begin to turn.
Filed under Actual Play, Podcast
“All Drums Go to Hell”
We discuss how gamers grow and change over time, including what motivates them. We cover our own experiences, and how coming from traditional versus indie role-playing games changes the course of players’ evolution (but often not where they end up, given enough time).
Other topics mentioned include:
Note: regardless of how it may sound we did not record this episode in a submarine. Sorry for the over-compression.
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“Mother”
In this episode, Grace gets in even deeper trouble, Lively makes a deal with Omie Wise, Mr. Silver worries about the Locales, and Man and Susan have their budding bromance challenged by Man’s mother.
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“The Legend of Anders Gunmith”
We play the (relatively) new indie RPG from Jason Morningstar, Durance.
Durance is a game about people surviving on a prison planet, roughly modeled after historical British penal colonies like Port Jackson, Australia.
Sit back and listen to the story of a grand and terrible social experiment, destined for failure!
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“And you’ll entitle that ‘Crap We Talked About'”
In which we ramble, but eventually settle into a discussion of movies based on comic books – which are good, which are bad, and a little bit of why.
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“Mr. Silver’s Bad Night”
First and most importantly, we have fan art! (Thanks to TheBoyd for that!)
In this episode we get a flashback to Lively, Hugo, and Grace’s morning together before she left for Lamprey’s, Mr. Silver makes a deal with Lively, Grace has her first meeting with Lamprey since her imprisonment, Susan deals with the Twygers, Man convinces Mr. Silver to let him wrestle (for show, of course), evidently, someone gives Mr. Silver a motive, and – as it turns out – Man is very, very bad at staged combat.
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“I Podcast Magic Missile: Inventing new stereotypes since 2012!”
In which we gush about one of the best comics currently in print, and also talk abut a bunch of other stuff. This was also the first episode (chronologically) for friend-of-the-cast Elle, who will be joining us periodically.
Note: Caitlin mentions drawing pictures of the AW New Sodom cast; we’ll post them as soon as they’re done.
Stuff we talk about:
Filed under Discussion, Podcast
“Grace’s Bad Day”
Trigger Warning: this episode contains descriptions of a woman becoming trapped in a dangerous, abusive situation that some listeners may find disturbing.
In this episode, Mr. Silver gets a visit from the Locales, Man and Susan have bro time, Grace finds out what her deal with Omie Wise actually entails, and Susan starts his recon mission for the dolphin command.
This was a short episode because of a family emergency. Don’t worry – everything turned out ok!
Filed under Actual Play, Podcast
This is our demo/AP of Calico Games’ Short Order Heroes, a deck-based role-playing game that can also be used as an NPC generator for other games. We’re releasing it out of order as a bonus episode because we want it to coincide with the game’s pre-order period.
We talk about the challenge of creating lots of compelling NPCs as a GM, and then we play about an hour of the game (to a satisfying story conclusion). Our general consensus was that this is a reasonably fun nano-game attached to an excellent tool for GMs.
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“We will drive you right to the hospital!”
Note: this was recorded before Gen Con
In this episode we talk about exploring darker and more serious topics in role-playing: why we do it, how we handle it as a group. The impetus was Dave’s character Grace (if you want to know more about what he’s doing with her, he’s posted about it on his own blog).
We also talk about:
Filed under Discussion, Podcast
