The Times (and Opinions) They Are A’changin’
A quick side discussion wherein Kevin and Troll discuss how their opinions of games have changed over the years, and Kevin re-emphasizes how important it is to pay attention to your own personal tastes when it comes to what games you are deciding to play.
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- Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
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I love these little bonus conversations, and this one didn’t disappoint
Speaking of bonuses–why don’t you just have a bonus recording of AP? I’m thinking of the stuff that the Jank Cast (tied for my favorite gaming podcast) is doing at the moment. Their first, for example, was 7 or so 4ish hour unedited recording of Apocalypse World. The Walking Eye crew (or whomever) could play a longer form game and just put them up as bonuses. (I guess you don’t reallllly need to put them up, but I’d love to hear them.)
This is assuming you do actually have time to play in additional games though…
Either way, keep up the good work!
–DJS
David,
Thanks, glad you are enjoying these! They originally spawned from our “warmup” discussions we’d have before sitting down to do a regular episode, and I noticed some of those conversations would be good enough to print, and also, it allowed us to be much more reactive to things like comments people have made. Since we so rarely revisit old games, this allows us to talk about how things may have changed since our episodes.
Basically, if we’re going to go to the effort to record and edit an AP, it’s going up as a full episode.
That said, Jason Pitre did record the session of Spark that he ran for us at GenCon, and that one IS going up as a bonus AP. But that’s much more likely the exception rather than the rule.
I think my most remediable characters have been from Burning Wheel, thus far. I guess it is something about how you flesh out characters during creation that it stuck with ya deeply. At least for myself. I really like how if you keep a record of your beliefs at creation then look at them again in 3-5 sessions you would be like.. he was like that? XD But yes, I haven’t played it as much as you guys seemed to have been doing, so who knows.
I also experienced my first game of DITV the same horrible way. The players were railroading to the end, off people they felt were a threat. Make the sessions overly short and well.. boring.