CJ, Troll, and Kevin attempt (with some difficulty) to define tone, how it affects play at the table, and different systems that use a variety of tricks to reinforce their tone.

Relevant Links

• Paul of the Podgecast
• Weapons of the Gods
• Joss
• Don’t Rest Your Head
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Vincent Baker
• In A Wicked Age
• Our Interview with Vincent about DitV and IAWA
• Apocalypse World
• Dungeon World
• Dread
• Lady Blackbird
• Planescape
• Dresden Files
• Fiasco
• HOL
• Shock: Human Contact
• Luke Crane
• Burning Wheel
• RPG.net Thread about Author’s Tone
• John Wick
• Houses of the Blooded
• Paranoia
• Rolemaster
• Grey Ranks
• FATAL
• Kill Puppies for Satan
• Ars Magica
• Dudes of Legend
• Hackmaster
• Baldur’s Gate
• SSI
• Shadow Run
• China Mielville
• Arcanum
• Call of Cthulhu
• RPGA
• World of Darkness
• GURPS
• GNS
• Arcana Evolved
• Burning Empires
• Mouse Guard
• Millennium’s End
• Rifts
• Captain Indigo

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Kevin and Clyde talk over skype about their recent gaming experiences at Forge Midwest. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Lady Blackbird, and Clyde offers Kevin some constructive criticism about his GMing style. What follows is a pretty good discussion about how to use Bangs and how to identify when you are blocking another player’s desires.

Relevant Links

• Theory From The Closet
• Lady Blackbird
• Lady Blackbird AP on The Walking Eye
• Earthdawn
• Lady Blackbird Companion
• The Shadow of Yesterday
• Eero Tuovinen
• Judd Karlman
• “You Kick We Bang” RPG.net Thread
• In a Wicked Age
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Mountain Witch
• Sorcerer
• Prime Time Adventures
• 3:16
• Gregor Hutton
• Clyde’s (most recent) Vincent Baker Interview
• Willow’s Rules for The Mountain Witch
• The Adventure Burner
• Play Sorcerer

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Kevin and Troll sit down with D. Vincent Baker to discuss some of the nitty gritty of Apocalypse World. We talk a fair bit about the philosophy behind Moves, and the inspirations for Apocalypse World. A small note on the audio quality: Vincent’s microphone seems a bit unreliable, so some parts of the interview were very quiet. Kevin tried to amplify and salvage it as best he could, but the result might be a bit annoying in some parts. Apologies for that. It might be best to listen to this interview w/ headphones.

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent’s Blog
• Ars Magica
• Forgotten Realms
• Shieldmeet
• Otherkind
• Emily Care Boss
• Meguey Baker
• Shadowrun
• Prime Time Adventures
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Paranoia
• Kill Puppies for Satan
• Cormac McCarthey
• Elmore Leonard
• John Harper’s Blog Post about Seize By Force
• Shreyas Sampat
• John Harper’s Blog Post about Authority in Custom Moves
• Battle Babe Example 1 (Doomsday)
• (Steel Dawn)
• Battle Babe Example 3 (The Road Warrior)
• Firefly
• Original Apocalypse World Cover
• PAX
• GenCon
• Christian Kelly
• Sight for Sore Eyes Charity
• Human Contact
• Monster Hearts
• Sage Latorra
• Tony Dowler
• Dungeon World
• Clyde’s Interview with Vincent (GenCon 2010)
• Storming the Wizards Tower
• The Dragon Killer
• Round-table with Joshua, Vincent, and Rob
• Mars Colony
• Graham Walmsley

Crunchy Bits

• Intro “The Day the World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro “Livin’ on the Edge” by Aerosmith

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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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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“

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

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This was a tumultuous session! Corbett, the leader of Princey’s personal security, decides he’s had enough of playing second fiddle to Midnight. There are no status quos in Apocalypse World! This session proves that, as everything changes, drastically and preeminently.

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent Baker’s Blog

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro Song “Blaze of Glory” by Bon Jovi

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After a nice break from the holidays we’re back with a vengeance! Things get rolling nicely this session: A Kidnapping, a Rescue, and more creepy amorous advances by Burroughs.  Enjoy!

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent Baker’s Blog
• Check out our to see the pic Jen snapped of CJ during the “Exploding Teeth” discussion.

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro Song “The Horror of Our Love” by Ludo

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Jen and Kevin have been playing in a “warm-up” Apocalypse World game for the last couple months and its been an absolute blast. We were all very excited to show our listeners D. Vincent Baker’s new game. In the first session, we do a little bit of world creation, character creation, and a few quick scenes to get a feel for the characters. Jen may have created her most disturbing character yet! Enjoy.

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent Baker’s Blog
• (more to come!)

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro Song “Whiskey, Chitlins, and Skirt” by The Gone Jackals

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During our interview with Vincent Baker, he agreed to tell us about a secret project in exchange for a promise to have him back on to discuss the topic of abandoning games. With GenCon right around the corner, this seemed like a great time to hold up our end of the bargain. We grabbed two of Vincent’s good friends Joshua A.C. Newman and Robert Bohl to join us in this discussion since, well, none of us here at The Walking Eye have designed, let alone abandoned, a game before. Kevin moderated as these three discussed the different aspects of abandoning games: how difficult it can be, what you can learn from it, and how to know when to let an idea go.

Relevant Links

• Vincent’s Blog
• Joshua’s Blog
• The Dragon Killer
• Under The Bed
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• The Dark Crystal
• Human Contact
• Prime Time Adventures
• Apocalypse World
• The 20×20 Room
• Misspent Youth
• Otherkind
• In A Wicked Age
• Psi-Run
• Jared Sorensen
• Key Parties
• Paul Czege
• Acts of Evil
• Night’s Master by Tannith Lee
• Ron Edwards
• Beowulf
• Fantasy Heartbreakers
• GameChef
• Myers-Briggs Personality Test
• PAX East
• Mike and Jerry
• Dreamnation

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After running three of his games back-to-back-to-back, we were pretty excited to sit down with D. Vincent Baker to chat about our experiences. We spend some time talking about aspects of Dogs in the Vineyard, In a Wicked Age…, and Poison’d, as well as cover some of his basic design philosophies. Unfortunately our first attempt to conduct this interview met with some nasty technical difficulties. There are a couple references to the fact that this is the 2nd attempt, but we only got about 10 minutes in, so no worries, you didn’t miss anything. This interview was great fun, and we can’t wait to have Vincent on again to talk about abandoning games!

Relevant Links

• Vincent’s Blog ()
• Lumpley Games Forum
• Kill Puppies for Satan
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• In A Wicked Age
• Mechaton
• Poison’d
• Storming The Wizard’s Tower
• Apocalypse World
• GTAIV
• ZORK
• Traveller
• Dragon Magazine
• Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon
• rec.games.frp.advocacy
• The Forge
• Drew Baker
• The Gaming Outpost
• Ron Edwards
• Clinton R. Nixon
• Ed Healy
• Jared Sorenson
• Universalis
• FreeMarket
• Graham Walmsley
• No Country for Old Men
• Matt Snyder
• Brigham City
• Burning Wheel
• Tanith Lee
• Jack Vance
• Willow Palecek
• Wicked Nights (Vampire Oracle)
• True Blood
• Judd Karlman
• Matt Wilson
• DexCon
• GenCon
• Dread
• Oo! Let’s make a Game!
• ROCK OF TAHAMAAT, SPACE TYRANT
• The Dragon Killer

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