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Episode 10: Magic systems and Making Magic Magical This is Episode 10 and the date is Thursday November 12, 2020. We had a special guest to our podcast, our good friend, fellow CabinCon attendee, and CEO of Pointy Hat Games: Patrick Demo! Pointy Hat Games can be found here . After our usual intro and recent gaming catch-up, Joe waxed poetic about HackMaster! The Gaming NEWS: 1) Beginner Box for PF...

November 5, 2020 Intro and Our recent game together! The Gaming NEWS: Dungeons and Dragons Live Action Show in the works at Hasbro (Thanks to Josh Z for the tip) Magpie Games-Urban Shadows 2e( Dresden-esque/WOD and is PbtA game) Mutants and Masterminds 3e releases The Super team Handbook Beadle & Grimm’s Character Chronicles The Dungenerator Randy kicked this one. Main topic: Who Are you as a...

October 28, 2020 Intro: The usual intro and the obligatory gaming catch-up Gaming news: 1) New Pathfinder Board game- competitive/monster fighting (to be crowdfunded) 2) New Terminator RPG coming out by Nightfall games 3) Curse of Strahd Revamped: deluxe version $99(?) 4) The Dungeon Hobby Museum and FB site what is this? Hmmmmmm…… Main Topic: Let’s Start a Campaign We discuss starting up a campai...

“It’s Worse than That, He’s Dead Jim” (handling PC death) October 22, 2020 The usual intro and the obligatory gaming catch-up The Gaming News: Hickman & Weis have sued WOTC for breach of contract Sexism/racism accusations at WOTC recently Nazi Dracula Must Die! Kickstarter Main Topic: Handling PC Death Is PC death a thing that should be at the gaming table?  Sure it sucks, but is that a b...

Wednesday September 30th, 2020 We open with the usual intro and talk about the next session of Savage Worlds The Gaming News: 1) Fans (with some help) have made the final episode of DnD cartoon : REQUIEM 2) Power Rangers RPG coming out soon (5e rules) 3) Hellboy RPG coming (5e rules) Main Topic: Dungeons and Dragons though the Ages Old DnD: OD&D (1974-1977) + Greyhawk (’75) Holmes Basic (77’),...

Thursday, July 30th, 2020 We open with the usual intro and talk about the next session of Savage Worlds Segment #2: The Gaming NEWS: 1. On the D&D Celebration 2 Batman Gotham City Chronicles: The Role Playing Game, Main Topic: The Prep Scale 1. How much is too much? And how much is too little? 2. Is there a ratio for hours played vs prepped? Both in general and for you specifically? 3. What ki...

Saturday May 9th, 2020 We open with the usual and talk about not gaming. Listening to podcasts. Main Topic: High and Low Fantasy We come up with some definitions, then compare and contrast. Fantasy literature and other media are also brough to bear. A Cabin Con Moment New date announced: June 11-14, 2020 We discussed games we prepped and COVID19 related attendance issues The Gaming NEWS Free Leagu...

Saturday, May 9th, 2020 We open with the usual intro and talk about preparing for CabinCon, and our short-lived Deadlands game. Also Randy’s harrowing cellar escapade. What is Adventure? We defined it and spoke at length about that and how to flavor it with heroism. How Lord of the Rings, Conan, and John Carter are a kind of foundation. Also how western culture figures in. A Cabin Con Moment We ta...

Wednesday, October 7th, 2020. This episode replaces Episode 2 from Sunday, April 5, 2020 due to it being lost. We open with the usual intro and talk about how we are not gaming much. The Gaming News Monte Cook’s Diamond Throne RPG Kickstarter BG 3 Early Access yesterday 10/6/20 Campaigns vs. One-Shots: Campaigns and One-shot games are defined, compared and contrasted. The we say what we like about...

Tuesday, October 7th, 2020 This episode replaces our lost episode from March 1. Lost because I failed to download it from Skype before it was deleted. This is one of 2 that was lost in the same manner. We open with the usual intro and lament at the lack of gaming in our lives. The Gaming News: 1. As the holiday season approaches GAMA has a cool charity 2. WOTC has an update to sage advice 3. Human...

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 Opening: This is our inaugural episode attempting to tell you a little bit about how we got into RPGs and the gaming hobby as well as what we hope to cover in this podcast. Then we discussed our progression through the editions of DnD. We then discuss other games we tried…how our play changed and what helped form it. Questions: 1) What do you recall of your first tim...