Gaming on the Frontier

More questions from our fans to answer.  We start off with a Fringeworthy question about the Blizniz, the elephantine race with the prehensile trunk.  The amount of discussion about this race has been amazing, but they are a very different race.  I love all the possibilities that each GM can try since there isn't a lot of canon about this race.

This week we finish our great interview with Dr. Nik Palmer who has written two great modules, Caravan and Seven Deadly Sins, great for Fringeworthy and Bureau 13 respectively. We hope you enjoyed this episode and will buy Dr Nik's adventures for your campaigns.  We look forward to everyone showing up at Gencon to play in our game sessions.  Even if all of them are sold out, please show up with ge...

This week we start our interview with Dr Nik Palmer, a long time RPG adventure writer who has just released 2 great products on Drive Thru RPG:  Mesopotamia and The Seven Deadly Sins Mesopotamia is set in 3000 years BC in our historical past, but with all the mythology, magic, and mayhem intact.  Fringworthy fans know that many Fringworthy worlds go to times in the past.  This adventure path is a...

This week we finish our discussion of the Golden Horde, The Fringeworthy Alternate World where the dominant culture is descended from Gengis Khan, and what fun it would be to play one of the horde in your campaign.

This week we explore putting a member of a member of the Mongol Empire in your exploring party for Fringeworthy.  As one of the alternate earths in Fringeworthy goes to where the golden horde conquered the world, this is very possible.  We explore the beginnings of such a culture and how that culture would clash with that of a 21st century viewpoint. Also we want to remind everyone to sign up for...

We finish out our questions from Facebook session.  More Fringeworthy goodness, alternate histories, mellor, and what if's. We just finished another question recording session but that won't drop for a few more weeks since I like to vary our content.  So keep sending in those questions.

This week we answer player questions about Fringeworthy.  We'd love to answer questions about any of our other games such as Bureau 13, Hardwired Hinterlands, FTL 2448, Incursion, WeirdZone, and even Duck Trooper and Beach Bunny Bimbos with Blasters. However, we need you to send them in.  We are recording another questions session this Wednesday, so please send us your questions via facebook or co...

This week we continue our discussion with Mark Kinney of All Games Considered about how to promote your podcast or other media.  We recap our best advice on equipment for recording audio and then continue with promo's, forums, and convention demos.

This week we are joined by Mark Kinney of All Games Considered as we pick his brain on how to best promote and publicize a podcast.  Mark has a wealth of experience with his own podcast as well as many industry contact.  We look forward to being his padawan learners. This is part 1 of a 2 part session.  The last part to drop next Sunday.

This week we continue our exploration of the late campaign and how it is different from the middle and early campaign. We are joined by Fringeworthy creator, Richard Tucholka for more previously unknown Fringe Lore. Specifically we discuss those portals to Alternate Earths and Other Places that are not explored until the late campaign.  What makes them different?  Why wait until the late campaign?...

Sorry folks but when you edit 8 simultaneous tracks, you occasionally make a mistake.  I've removed the duplicated audo so this is the better version.

This week we return to the Mellor, those loveable homocidal shape changers who live to bite off your character's head.  How are encounters with them different in the late campaign?  Do they even have a place without nerfing them?  Can "cured" infected mellor be player characters?   We delve into roles that only experienced characters and players can pull off and what should be the cost of attempti...

This week we try to wrangle those pesky uber npc characters that you have to have for one reason or another, but they try to steal the spotlight from the real stars:  your characters.  How to rein them in by design and practice.  Why have them at all? Blix took the week off so we'll see him next week.  But Trav, John, and Bruce have plenty for you.

This week we are joined again by Richard Tucholka and Melody Nacher.  We examine what we know and what could be about the elephantine race of beings called the Blizniz.  Richard reveals a lot of previously unpublished info about them.  We really go to the limits as to how they could be used in a Fringworthy campaign.

High atop of might airship we scout for the best ways to expoit those wonderous devices:  The Lightening Crystals.  In the Hard Wired Hinterland you can use them to steal up to 90% of an object's weight.  From there it is a short leap to squirrel suits and Buck Rodgers jetpacks. We are joined by Richard and Melody Tucholka who reveal upcoming projects and inside secrets to Tri Tac Games.

This week we break down a bureau 13 adventure.  We go through it step by step so both the players and GM can see how to create an awesome adventure that pops!  If you follow these steps your adventure or players can't fail to succeed.  Creating supernatural investigation adventures isn't easy, but we make it simple. Then we go over our plans for convention appearances in the next 6 months.

This week we finish up our Adventuring During a Disaster series with part 5, diseases. We talk about diseases in general but we focus on Zombies! We invited guest host Ben Gerber of Troll in the Corner fame to talk with us about how to run a zombie outbreak in your game. Thanks to Ben for being an awesome guest and when you're done listening to this episode, check out Troll in the Corner . Also, p...

This week we finish our discussion of Bureau 13's primary training, reliquery, and dangerous supernatural containment facility.  We concentrate on the last 2 parts this week. What kinds of objects must be hidden away and destroyed? What kind of creatures cannot be redeemed?  And what do you do if they cannot be contained?

this week we continue our discussion of how the Bureau 13 training base in a pocket dimension could or should be designed.  We talk about the time compressed area and if it should be that way throughout. Next week we finish up with the other two parts:  The reliquarium and the supernatural prison.

Sorry about that folks.  Due to some difficulty in the sound of one of the hosts I switched the track I got his voice and forgot to blank out the original track.  This has been fixed.  Please enjoy part 1 of Bureau 13 Bangor Maine training base.

To Bureau 13 fans, the location of Bangor Maine is shrouded in mystery.  Is it a top secret b13 base under a tool and die factory?  It is a extra-dimensional pocket?  Is it a prison for the damned and damning? In bureau 13 all stories are true. Come find out more about Bangor Maine in this week's episode. This is the first appearance of our new host Amber Roe!

This week we continue our series on the Fringeworthy Races with the Tziel, a lizard men like race.  Trav, John, and Bruce delve into their culture, biology, and birthing practices to bring them far above the easy cliche of the stalward native companion. This was a lot of fun and a lot of surprises.  Thanks for all the questions.

This is the second half of episode 104, but just in case you want to keep it separate, here's all the gencon 2012 sessions (except the b13 one John didn't get done) we will be running.  We will be posting a lot more info on these sessions, plus product art for the new releases as we get closer to Gencon.  Keep watching here and on our facebook pages.  Search for our groups: Fringeworthy RPG Fans,...

This week we finish our discussion about how to play Super Rich characters in your games, how they can transform a game, support the party, and generally bring the awesome. Then we have a special segment where we detail most of the gencon 2012 sessions in Indianapolis.  Plus for no additional charge, we have an interview with Richard Tucholka detailing his new releases scheduled for Gencon, includ...

This week we have Eric from the Travcast telling us how to run awesome super rich characters.  Next week we will conclude with answering a comment from our facebook page about this and how to implement super rich characters in your campaigns and game systems.