Gaming on the Frontier

Sorry about the delay, I got a bad cold and was under the weather.  Our next episode will drop at our normal time of Sunday.   This week we finish the first session of Fallout paper and pencil (PNP) for Fallout tabletop rpg.  

This week we begin our actual play session of Fallout the pen and paper version of the computer game.  Join Trav, Dana, and Ken as they trek across the wasteland, trying to survive.

This week we finish talking about the different kinds of games where you have to pick up the pieces.   next week we have actual Fallout paper and pencil play.

This week we continue to discuss what makes an apocalyptic game and why play one.

This week we begin to discuss what kind of post apocalyptic games there are and what makes a good one.

this week we finish our discussion of Superscience (yes really I think we are done).

This week we continue to talk about how you can implement superscience is your game and what effects it will have.

Wow, I didn't know that it would take 3 separate sessions to record this topic but we are on the home stretch.  This topic is so important for Science fiction as it is so easy to just treat it as a Mcguffin and miss the wide reaching effects of super high tech on all parts of a society.  

This week we finish our discussion of how to convert your existing campaign or game to a whole new system.  

This week we begin discussing how to change your game from one game mechanic to another.  Sometimes it is as simple as adding a foreign mechanic or chart to your existing game.  Other times everything has to change (say D&D to Fate).  It isn't as simple as "just recreate your character using the new system's rules as there may be equipment, setting, and lore that relied on the previous system to r...

This week we conclude our second part of Superscience:  Tech with unbelievable precision.  

Adding superscience to your game can really punch it up.  This level of god tech can change the entire game.  This week we begin to discuss Instrumentality with precision beyond understanding.  Or "Can you really do that?"  

This week we finish, for now, our discussion of what you need to do to include time travel in your adventures.

This week we start exploring what it takes to create a time travel Adventure and the weird twists and turns that can come from them.

This week we continue to discuss what is superscience and how to recognize it so you can put it in your campaigns.

This week we begin our discussion of what superscience really looks like and what it would mean to your campaign.

This week we finish our exploration of adding Cryptids to your game world.

This week we start our discussion of adding "real life" monsters to your campaign based on urban myths, folklore, and real science.

just to prove we deserve our gaming cred, we celebrate the holiday season by creating two adventures out of random stuff and Christmas provided by our absent former gm, John Reiher.  Sorry for the short episode, but we asked a lot of former hosts to participate but everyone was busy with family.

This week we finish our discussion of why Video Games make such bad rpgs and how to improve them.

This week we ask the question:  Why do video games that propose to be rpgs do such a bad job at it?

This week we send you out to make better, more interesting characters by breaking stereotypes when appropriate but also keep the stereotypes because there is a reason they exist

This week we challenge you to give up your preconceived ideas of what a race or profession must be in a roleplaying game.

This week we continue or discussion of Real World cults and what they can bring to your adventure.

I think we finally got the bugs ironed out just in time for our 10th season opener. This week we discuss real world cults past and present and how they can be used for your gaming.