Gaming on the Frontier

We continue our discussion of the big bad focusing on Tri Tac's much unappreciated gem: Beach Bunny Bimbo's with Blasters.  Also we discussion Stellar Games: Night Life, A.C.E and A.C.E Supers Stellar Games products are available through Tri Tac Games.

Who is the big bad of your game?  Does he/she/it make  the player gnash their teeth, froth at the mouths, and shake their fists?  What are some examples of good big bad antagonists that really drive the story and the characters?

As promised, we have a full episode with is actually two recording sessions.  First we discuss the Fringeworthy advanced crystal powers as part of a question from Eric of the Travcast.  He wanted to know how the protective electrostatic dome power worked.  Then we follow that with a discussion of the Fringeworty Alien Corps race:  The Dimixi.  These spider-like creatures have many nuances that spr...

We continue our review of the podcast Blix recorded on Interdimensional Gaming at TotalCon.

Thanks again to Blix's friends at Totalcon for giving us so much to think about.  We discuss their points and add our own perspectives.  They suggested great enhancements to the game which we shall be developing in the future.

The podcast gang and my regular Fringeworthy group recorded this last summer.  It includes John Reiher, Jay Hailey, John Altizer, Ken Arrondee, Erik Sheffer, and Bruce Sheffer as the GM. We did have some mike dropout problems and for some reason skype recorder compressed JR and JH by 15% which had to be fixed.  However, overall I'm very pleased with this AP episode simply because it showed what I...

This week Blix hijacks the show and takes it to TotalCon. Enjoy this live recording with Blix as your MC and his three guest hosts: Jay Libby, James Carpio, and John Sussenburger. The show was recorded live before an audience and tackles inter-dimensional gaming. Being that my co-hosts, who are all games designers, have never played Fringeworthy, we spoke about inter-dimensional gaming in a broad...

We conclude our inteview with Jess Hartley, rpg developer and blogger, about how gender does and doesn't affect adventure design and character development.  We had a great time.  Thanks again Jess for being such a great guest.

This week we are joined by RPG luminary Jess Hartley who sets us straight regarding how it is in gaming regarding gender roles and how to bring the awesome to our table.  Jess has extensive writing credits and is both a longtime LARPer and table top player.  This is part 1 of a 2 hour interview to be concluded next week.

We continue our discussion of anti-heroes.  This week we concern ourselves with GM difficulties and how they work in different campaigns. This ran shorter than expected.  Next week we will have full hour of an special guest.

We explore what defines an antihero.  We look at how he or she interacts with other characters, with lots of examples from movies and other games. This is part 1.  Part 2 concludes next week.

This week we examine how to build, maintain, and rescue a cover identity in an exploration or investigation game such as Fringeworthy, Bureau 13, Call of Cthulu, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk or others of the many genres that support this kind of play.

We continue our discussion led by Jay on adding Fringeworthy to your Star Wars campaign. Then we continue to a Bureau 13 segment where we show how you can use banes to even the playing field with the creatures you hunt without having to resort to supernatural team players such as Mages, Psionicists, or Vampires.

This is the first part of our exploration of adding Fringeworthy to Star Wars while keeping all that makes Star Wars awesome.

This week we have a full Fringeworthy episode, but we are really talking non-game specific about what super tech is and how it might appear in your games. This is another episode that was found hiding on my hard drive for nearly a year so the sound quality isn't to our current standards.  Please forgive. Links for this episode: Indistinguishable from Magic by Robert L. Forward Puppeteer General Pr...

This week we discuss the optimum Bureau 13 team composition.  How many supernatural creatures should be in it? Is there an advantage to mixed teams?

The Gutter Skypes finish their run of Fringeworthy Actual Play.  Thanks to all the gang, especially Mark Kinney of All Games Considered for being the GM. They do go over the comments that they have collected during this run so you might find some illumination there. The actual FW session starts at 01:11:10

This week we talk about what a great show is the Fringeworthy Actual Play done by the Gutter Skypes.  We also talk about upcoming convention demos.  Then on to listener questions.  Trav's co-host on Dementia Radio has a lot of Fringeworthy questions for John and Bruce to tackle.  Sit back and we delve into the hidden reaches of the Fringeworthy:  The first and best transdimensional roleplaying gam...

this is the official link to the next episode of the Gutterskypes Fringeworthy actual play sessions.  Those of you who use Itunes have already gotten this as episode 52: sources of inspiration where Itunes is pulling down the wrong file.  A file that until now didn't even exist in our library (cue twilight zone music).  So the universe wants you to listen to this file, loyal fans :)

Wow, Itunes has linked our episode 52 to the gutter skypes Fringeworthy Actual Play episode # 5 somehow so what you get on the Podbean site isn't what you get in Itunes.  So hopefully this one will actually link to the correct episode.

When you look for sources of inspiration for your adventure design where do you turn?  Bruce, John, and Peter reveal their cache of thought provoking books, movies, comics, etc so you too can free your mind and make even more awesome adventures than you already do. This is a blast from the past.  We did this last March and only now is it getting published.  Sorry about the sound quality.  We've ma...

Hi folks! This is to let you know that I'm going to be running two Tri Tac Games at Conquest NW 2011 , on January 22. Conquest NW 2011 is being held at the Doubletree Hotel near the SeaTac Airport: Doubletree Hotel SeaTac Airport 18740 International Blvd. Seattle, WA 98188 Phone: (206) 246-8600 The first game is Fringeworthy using the Savage Worlds rules: FR-266 9:00AM Victoria - Victorians by Joh...

Hey there gamers! This week we delve into all of the subtle nuances of taking your pets on the pathways with you. This is a short and rather light episode but we have been very busy with the holidays and spending time with our families. Also, this was recorded before the changeover so you'll hear Bruce call it the Fringeworthy podcast. Rest assured, we are still the Tri Tac podcast but this is a F...

Merry Christmas to all our fans! In this episode we talk about how Christmas is observed and celebrated in our games: Fringeworthy Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic Incursion Hardwired Hinterland It's been a great year and we're glad to have had you along for the ride. Here's to a another great year of podcasting and we here at the Tri Tac Games Podcast wish you and your loved ones a very Me...

This week we have a two part episode.  We finish our discussion of using Virtual worlds in games.  Then we continue our series on Fringeworthy adventuring in other campaigns.  We explore how to add Fringeworthy to a D&D campaign and how it could change it. Sorry about the delay again.  We try to drop these episodes at midnight Monday morning, but the holiday's have really cut into the editing time...