It was our great pleasure to sit down with Fred Hicks of Evil Hat and Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files.  It’s a rare treat when Fred and Jim, longtime friends, are actually on the same side of the mic together. Troll, Kevin, and Jen talk with them about their gaming history, their friendship, and what dealing with the Dresden Files has taught them about themselves and their friendship. Enjoy.

Relevant Links

• Fred Hicks’  blog
• Evil Hat
• Jim Butcher
• Dresden Files RPG
• Jim’s Livejournal
• (More Notes coming soon!)

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro music from “The Wizard” by  of Idle Thumbs
• Outro music is dedicated to Jen’s PC in our DFRPG run: Danny, and his almost-girlfriend, Valerie. “Don’t Try” by Marian Call.

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Regular play begins in earnest! We cover a lot of basic ground this session: The Sight, Soul Gazing, a social conflict, and a few compels. The PC’s investigate a mysteriously exploding brothel and are manipulated by seen and unseen forces!

Relevant Links

• Dresden Files RPG Homepage
• Mutants and Masterminds
• Burning Empires
• The Crusades
• Dick Cheney
• Fallout 3
• The Smithsonian
• Dolley Madison
• The Archive (spoilers!)
• ’77 Dodge Charger
• Crocodile Tears
• Schadenfreude
• ““
• Burning Wheel
• In A Wicked Age
• Phlogiston
• Futurama
• Ghostrock

Crunchy Bits

• Intro music from “The Wizard” by  of Idle Thumbs
• Outro Music “I’m Your Late Night Evening Prostitute” by Tom Waits

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Session 2 of our run through the Dresden Files RPG covers most of character creation. There was a lot of explaining and brainstorming going on, so we didn’t manage to make it through the whole process, but what’s left (skills, mostly) is going to be done off-mic. Check out what wacky characters we came up with for our urban fantasy version of DC!

Relevant Links

(coming soon!)

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro music from “The Wizard” by of Idle Thumbs
• Outro Music “Black Magic Woman” by Carlos Santana.

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After a month and a half of cons, vacations, natural disasters and technical difficulties, we finally get a chance to sit down and play us some Dresden Files RPG by Evil Hat. This first session is our second try at city creation. The first time we decided on Anchorage, AK, and this time around we go a very different direction with Washington, D.C. A few changes have happened since our last run though a game. We got Jen back on the show as a regular, we lost Dan due to Real Life (aka. work schedule conflicts, but he’ll still be doing the Comics Cast) and for this game we’ve got the return of Troll, whom you may remember from our Dread Halloween Special.

Relevant Links

• Dresden Files RPG
• Evil Hat
• Dresden Files TV Show
• Dresden Files Books, comic, and audiobooks, and short stories
• Jim Butcher’s Home Page
• Fables
• Dexter
• Burn Notice
• Miami Vice
• A-Team
• Deadlands
• Nightwatch
• Deadwood
• Spoine
• Yakov Smirnoff
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Freakanomics
• Roe vs. Wade lowering crime
• The Library of Alexandria
• The Centurion (Dr. Who)
• Gilgamesh
• Dolley Madison
• Indiana Jones
• Emeritus
• Ley Lines
• George Washington (7 Feet Tall…)
• Rifts
• Pierre Charles L’Enfant
• Chowda!
• Cheney and Google Maps
• Roanoke
• Sir Richard Grenville
• Hopping Vampires
• Legion of Superheroes

Crunchy Bits

• Intro music from “The Wizard” by of Idle Thumbs
• Outro Music “The Man With the Hex” by The Atomic Fireballs

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