Kevin, Jen, CJ, and Troll gather around to discuss the ins and outs of D. Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World. There were a wide variety of opinions about Apocalypse World, and we spend some time discussing the particulars of the GM style of AW and how the tone of the text affects some people’s enjoyment of the game. Overall, we really enjoyed Apocalypse World.

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent Baker’s Blog
• Mad Max
• Waterworld
• Fallout
• Gamma World
• Mutants and Masterminds
• Campaign Cartographer
• The Caller
• ““
• Chaos Rising
• Mark Singer
• The Beastmaster
• D&D Hack for AW
• Parkour Hack for AW
• Human Contact
• Elizabeth Sampat
• Sight for Sore Eyes Charity
• DLC
• Dragon Age
• Mass Effect 2
• Planescape

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro “The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro “The Earth Died Screaming” by Tom Waits

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This month, Dan delves into Hickman-ia even as Marvel develops a publishing schedule that can no longer be described by mere integers. Meanwhile, CJ thinks he has the Reverse Flash’s timeline all figured out – just in time for everything to change in a… aw, you know…

Comics discussed:

• Green Lantern #62
• Flash #9
• Detective Comics #874
• Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1
• SHIELD #6
• Secret Warriors #24
• Fantastic Four #588
• Time Masters: Vanishing Point #6
• Amazing Spider-Man #655 and #654.1
• Invincible Iron Man #500.1
• Superboy #4
• REBELS #25

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music: Pixelguru by Subatomicglue.

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Kevin sits down with Ryan Macklin, John Wick, and Eddy Webb to discuss the pros and cons of drifting the rules in RPG’s. It’s a good discussion, and fair warning, the last 10 minutes or so are actually a tangent on the realities of being an internet microcelebrity, and how people act vastly differently to said celebrities when they meet them in person rather than how they talk about them on internet forums. Still  a pretty interesting conversation, but if you’re here just to hear about drifting, you might wanna skip the last 10 minutes.

Relevant Links

• Ryan Macklin
• John Wick
• Eddy Webb
• AEG
• White Wolf
• “Dick Fingers“
• Game Design is Mind Control
• Hoyle
• Star Wars Live Action Adventures
• Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
• Mods
• Race for the Galaxy
• Gloom
• Apocalypse World
• Mage
• Camarilla Fan Club
• FATE
• Houses of the Blooded
• GURPS
• Wilderness of Mirrors
• The Farm
• Champions
• The Wheel of Time
• Chuck Wendig
• Dudes of Legend
• Pendragon
• Spirit of the Century
• Mage Noir
• Russel Bailey
• D&D Encounters
• Thirty
• Joseph Campbell
• GDC
• Montsegur 1244
• Burning Wheel (what, you thought we’d get through an entire episode without mentioning it?)
• Eddy’s Camarilla LARP Theory
• Will Hindmarch
• 7th Sea
• RPG.net Thread about writers tone getting in the way

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music by 

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The crew gets together for our final session of Apocalypse World. We sit down and generate a new character for Jen and integrate her into the game world. It works out pretty well, and we have a nice setup for further stories. Also, Errol’s efforts to seduce Midnight finally come to a… head?

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent’s Blog
• Atomic Monstrosity (actually the Atomic Beast by Judd Karlman)
• Saffron
• The Red Rocket
• Dreamcatcher
• Mischievous (Troll was right)
• ““
• I said Abrams APC but I meant Bradley.
• ““
• Tom Clancy
• I-80 Truck Stop
• The Fountain of 1000 Chemicals
• Yiffing
• “The Errol King“

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro Song “Bad Things” by Jace Everett

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Pecha Kucha is a new trend that started in Japan and is picking up steam here in the U.S. Basically, a person gives a slide show presentation of 20 slides, with 20 seconds devoted to each slide. Jen gave it a try last week and talked about The Walking Eye and storygames. Check it out!