Kevin and Allegra sit down with Meguey Baker to talk about Psi*Run, Victorian Parlor Games, and myriad other topics!

Relevant Links

• Night Sky Games
• 1001 Nights
• Psi*Run
• Valiant Girls
• Murderous Ghosts (Audience Participation)
• Apocalypse World
• Joshua A.C. Newman
• Emily Care Boss
• Julia Ellingboe
• Epidiah Ravachol
• Ars Magica
• Playstorming
• Ashcans
• Paul Czege
• Holidays in Gaming
• Spin the Beetle

 Crunchy Bits!

• Intro  by A Flock of Seagulls
• Outro  by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

 

 

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Kevin and Allegra chat with the always entertaining Ryan Macklin about his baby Mythender.

Relevant Links

• Mythender
• Ryan Macklin
• Paizo
• Onyx Path
• Technocracy
• Marvel RPG
• Burning Wheel

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outtro: “” by Manowar

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Kevin and Allegra sit down with Joe McDaldno and discuss the genesis of Monsterhearts,  including a good discussion about The Ghost.

Relevant Links

• Monsterhearts
• My Life with Master
• Jank Cast
• Gothic Melodrama
• The Quiet Year
• Perfect RPG
• Ribbon Drive
• Paranormal Romance
• Heteronormativity
• Cis Privilege
• Teen Wolf
• Vampire Diaries
• True Blood
• Apocalypse World
• Durance
• Dog Eat Dog

Trigger Warnings

• None

Crunchy Bits

• Intro Song: Main theme from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines by Rik W. Schaffer
• Outro Song: e by Muse

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Part two of our discussion with Victor and Ron about the early days of gaming, identity politics, and the similarities between the OSR and The Forge. Enjoy! Also: having trouble finding a few of the names mentioned in this episode. If any of you know where I could link to information about these people, put it in a comment!

Relevant Links

• Ron Edwards
• The Forge
• Victor Raymond
• The Empire of the Petal Throne
• M.A.R Barker
• Hyboria
• Midgard
• Michael Mornard (Old Geezer)
• Conflict Simulation Association
• Clyde’s Interview with David Wesley
• Jon Peterson Playing at the World
• Diplomacy
• Braunstein
• Ross Maker
• Dave Arneson
• Dave Megarry
• Panzerfaust
• The Courier
• The Tekumel Foundation
• Glorantha
• Tekumel Novels
• The Palace of the Silver Princess
• Greg Stafford
• Legend of the Five Rings
• Deadlands
• Dragonlance
• Greyhawk
• Society for Creative Anachronism
• Diffusion Theory
• Abiogenesis Theories
• The Wild Hunt
• James Wallace
• The International Journal of Role playing
• Morrowind
• Ken Rolston
• Lucca
• Andy Kitkowski
• Story-games.com
• Prime Time Adventures
• Agon
• Story Now
• Big Model Wiki
• Vincent Baker’s Blog Anyway
• Shareware
• Webrings
• Institutional Memory

Trigger Warnings

• None

Relevant Links

• Intro music provided by 
• Outro music “You’ll Grow Up to be a Bard” by Tripod from their performance

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Kevin brings in his old friend Victor, who’s now a active member of the Old School Renaissance to talk to Ron Edwards about the early days of tabletop gaming and the similarities between The Forge and the OSR. These two had a lot to talk about, so we split this interview up into two parts. Part 2 coming next week!

Relevant Links

• Ron Edwards
• The Forge
• Victor Raymond
• The Empire of the Petal Throne
• Michael Mornard (Old Geezer)
• M.A.R Barker
• John M. Ford
• Old School Renaissance
• There is no 1st edition D&D
• Blackmoor
• White Box D&D
• GNS
• GURPS
• Feng Shui
• Gary Gygax
• Lee Gold
• Alarms and Excursions #2
• Dragon Magazine
• Tunnels and Trolls
• Brian and Kevin Blume
• D&D Cartoon
• Kingmaker
• Traveller LBB’s
• GDW
• The Third Imperium
• Judges Guild
• Red Box D&D
• James Maliszewski
• Naked Went the Gamer
• Harlan Ellison
• James Dallas Eggbert
• Satanic Panic
• Bothered About D&D
• Dave Hargrave
• Arduin
• Shadowrun
• Dragonlance
• Champions
• RuneQuest
• Call of Cthulhu
• Megatraveller

Trigger Warnings:

• None, I think? Be sure to let us know if there’s something in here you think might be triggering. 

Crunchy Bits

• Intro music provided by 
• Outro music “” by

 

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Kevin and Allegra have a nice chat with Liam Burke, creator of Dog Eat Dog.

Relevant Links

• Dog Eat Dog
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Elizabeth Sampat
• Kickstarter
• Burgoo
• Frank DeLima
• Republic of Texas
• Bayonet Constitution
• Privilege
• Post-Colonial Theory
• Peace Corps
• Kyriarchy
• Apocalypse World
• Jason Morningstar
• Durance
• American Territories
• Puppet Government
• Steal Away Jordan
• Social Justice
• JankCast

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro song “Ewell T. Otis” by Bob Connelly

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Kevin and Troll sit down with Jason Morningstar to discuss Durance and all things Bully Pulpit.

Relevant Links

• Durance
• Game Chef
• Bully Pulpit Games
• Robert Hughes / The Fatal Shore
• Port Jackson
• Botany Bay
• Female Factory
• Grey Ranks
• Games on Demand
• Dog Eat Dog
• Replay
• Pedagogy
• Peter Adkison
• Record of Lodoss War
• GenCon Recap 2012
• Nathan Bailey’s Dictionary of Slang
• Shawn Puckett Word Scrambler
• The First Fleet
• Trouble!
• Fiasco Companion
• The Prisoner’s Dilemma
• The Proposition
• Alien 3
• RPGgeek
• Story-Games.com
• RPG.net
• Bradford Walker “Fiasco is not a game RPG”
• The RPG Site
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Robert Fiske “Pity the Nation”
• Mujahedin
• Hong Kong 1997 Playset
• D.W Griffith
• Mabel Normand
• Mack Sennett

Crunchy Bits

• Intro song “)” from Bastion by , performed by .
• Outro Song “Theodore” by Edward Favor

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Kevin gave Joshua A.C. Newman a call last week to talk about science fiction and how it intersects with gaming. As you can see from the show notes, what follows is a sci-fi bonanza. Enjoy!

Relevant Links

• Joshua’s RPG Company the glyphpress
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• Shock: Human Contact
• Mobile Frame Zero
• Fredric Brown, Arena
• Ray Bradbury, Mars is Heaven!
• Sonya Dorman, When I was Miss Dow
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster than Empires and More Slow
• E.T.A. Hoffman: The Sandman
• Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
• Isaac Asimov, Liar!
• Jules Verne, Master Zacharius
• Robert A. Heinlein All You Zombies —
• Robert Silverberg When We Went to See the End of the World
• Connie Willis, At the Rialto
• Yevgeny Zamyatin, from We
• Damon Knight, The Country of the Kind
• Harlan Ellison, “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman
• Geoff Ryman Dead Space for the Unexpected
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini’s Daughter
• Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
• Samuel R. Delany, Driftglass
• Greg Bear, Blood Music
• Netflicks Categories
• Battlestar Galactica
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Frank Herbert, Dune
• Earth Sea
• Blade Runner
• John Carter of Mars
• The Stars My Destination
• Hard Science Fiction
• Soft Science Fiction
• Social Science Fiction
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Dragon Riders of Pern
• Larry Niven Ringworld
• Singularity and Company
• Iain M. Banks, Player of Games
• Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• Chinatown
• Steampunk
• Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
• Charles Babbage
• Freemarket
• Mars Colony
• The Mountain Witch
• The Tombs of Atuan
• Galadriel
• Eowyn
• Silmerrillian
• Wagner
• Traveller
• Quake
• GURPS Transhuman Space
• Universe Sandbox
• The Cold Equations
• Durance
• Australian Penal Colonies
• Grey Ranks
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Steal Away Jordan
• Roots
• Diaspora
• Paranoia
• Planet of the Apes
• Logan’s Run
• Stainless Steel Rat
• Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (What? Didn’t think we’d get around to it?)

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro Song “Science Fiction Double Feature” covered by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies.

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The whole crew sits down with Jason Pitre, designer behind The Spark RPG, to discuss our playtesting experience. We talk about changes that are being considered, and how challenging yet informative playtesting can be. Enjoy!

Relevant Links

• Genesis of Legend Publishing
• The Spark RPG
• Fight Club
• American Gods
• World of Darkness
• The Forge
• Sorcerer
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Unknown Armies
• Burning Empires
• Diaspora
• The Dresden Files
• Apocalypse World
• 3:16
• Polaris
• Shadowrun
• Romeo and Juliet
• Red vs. Blue
• GameChef
• Remember Tomorrow
• Universalis

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music by James Durham.

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We sit down with the affable Cam Banks and talk about the Marvel Heroic RPG. Cam’s a funny and interesting fellow, we had a great time discussing our loves and hates with his game!

Relevant Links

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “Fight As One” by Bad City from The Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes
• Outro Song: “The Lonely Man” by Joe Harnell.

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