Kevin sits down with CJ to regale him with tales of his exploits at GenCon. There are several games explained, and a fuzzy recollection of Kevin’s booze-soaked Saturday adventures at the Podcasters Meet and Greet.

Relevant Links

• Bear Swarm
• Podgecast
• Trapcast
• Brilliant Gamologists
• Action Castle
• Do You Worship Cthulhu / Mafia/Are you a Werewolf
• Rob Bohl
• Siggraph
• Michael Stackpole / The Pulling Report
• Mechwarrior PC game / / Battletech Classic / Battletech Pods
• Storn A. Cook / Sons of Kryos
• Indie Press Revolution
• Paul Tevis: Voice of the Revolution / Have Games Will Travel
• All Games Considered Podcast
• Penny for My Thoughts
• Sean Nittner / Narrative Control Podcast
• Paul Czege / My Life with Master
• Tony Lower-Basch: Capes and Misery Bubblegum
• Games on Demand Games: Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, In A Wicked Age, Houses of the Blooded, Spirit of the Century, Misspent Youth, Primetime Adventures, Escape from Tentacle City, Dogs in the Vineyard, Mouse Guard, Polaris, 3:16, Cold City, Hot War, Shock, Amber, Inspectres, Shab-Al-Hiri Roach, Carry, Shooting the Moon, Annalise, Penny for My Thoughts.
• Coma White (what Kevin actually meant was “Soma” from Brave New World. Oops)
• Burning Wheel / The Sword
• Christopher Moeller
• Games Workshop
• Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
• Forge Midwest
• Willow Palecek
• The Forge
• Ron Edwards / S/lay w/ Me / Spione
• Steve Long
• Theory from the Closet
• Ryan Macklin / Master Plan Podcast
• Pulp Gamer
• The Jank Cast
• Diagonally Through the Woods
• D&D “Moldvay Basic”
• Tony Dowler / How to Host a Dungeon
• Dungeon Keeper / Dwarf Fortress

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music provided by

Promos and Bumpers:

• This Modern Death
• Have Games, Will Travel
• Spooky Outhouse

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Kevin, Misha, Sabe and Jason talk about their experiences with Blazing Rose.  It was the first GMless game for Misha and Jason, and we discuss how it resulted in a different play experience for them. The conversation then continues on to many differences between traditional and story games, and wraps with a bit of talk with Sabe about his inspirations for Blazing Rose.

Relevant Links

• Blazing Rose Page/Sabe’s Blog
• Diagonally Through the Wood
• Grey Ranks
• Shab-al-hiri Roach
• Agon
• Czege Principle
• Weapons of the Gods
• Dynasty Warriors
• Burning Wheel
• Burning Empires
• Willow’s Blog post about Burning Empires
• Exalted
• In a Wicked Age
• Riviera the Promised Land
• Primetime Adventures
• Lulu

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music provided by

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I met Edward “Sabe” Jones at Forge Midwest 2009, and we’ve kept in touch ever since. A few weeks back he was in town and we sat down to play his game Blazing Rose: A game of romantic rivalry. Joining us is Sabe’s girlfriend Misha and fellow local podcaster from Diagonally Through the Woods. This was Jason’s first experience with a GMless storygame, and he had a great time with it. This is a full session of BR, covering setting, beloved, and character creation and then one round of narration. After a bit of discussion, we decided on a Fables/American Gods “mythical creatures in the modern day”. After the session we talked about how Blazing Rose was different from games Jason had been playing (mostly 4E). Stay tuned for that next week!

Relevant Links

• There’s Something About Mary
• To Heart
• Grumpy Old Men
• The Village of Hommlet
• Poison’d
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Amistad
• Harem Anime
• Fables
• Neil Gaiman
• Mayan Calendar “Doomsday”
• Piers Anthony
• Bruce Campbell
• Burn Notice
• In Nomine
• The Sword in the Stone
• Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
• Metatron
• Mists of Avalon

Crunchy Bits!

• Blazing Rose Actual Play: 3 and a half hours.
• Intro music by , Outro Music by Chitlins, Whiskey, and Skirt: “Increased Chances”

Broken down into 3 parts:

• Part A: 1 Hour
• Part B: 1 Hour
• Part C: 1 Hour 30 min

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Our final interview from the heady days of Forge Midwest 2009 is a brief interview with Willow Palecek, Forge Midwest organizer and designer of the FATE-based RPG Awesome Adventures. We talk with Willow about why she made Awesome Adventures, how she got into roleplaying, and how Forge Midwest came to be in Madison instead of Chicago. It was nice talking to Willow and I can’t wait for next year’s Forge Midwest!

Relevant Links

• Willow’s Blog
• FATE RPG
• Awesome Adventures
• Voight-Kampff test
• Spirit of the Century
• Lenny Balsera
• Starblazer Adventures
• John Woo
• Carolyn Burg
• Escape from Tentacle City
• Houses of the Blooded
• Legend of the Five Rings
• Hero Quest
• Dust Devils
• Champions
• The Forge
• Ron Edwards
• Dungeons and Dragons
• RPGA
• Blazing Rose
• Mouse Guard
• Storming the Wizard’s Castle
• The Mountain Witch

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music provided by .

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