The Independent Characters | Warhammer 40k Podcast

Episode 205 of The Independent Characters brings you something familiar, but at the same time, totally new. Welcome to the Community Warrior Lodge! In our continuing effort to make people feel like they are a part of our gaming group, we have invited three special guests from our Patreon group to participate in a Warrior Lodge Episode. You will get to meet Liz, Dave and Rob. Three of our most acti...

Episode 204 of The Independent Characters is as late as we have ever been with a show. The current situation around the world has impacted us here as well (as you will hear on the show), but we finally were able to work out a time to record. A couple of notes however: We obviously had to record remotely, which isn't ever my first choice, but we made the best of it. Additionally, we had to pivot aw...

Episode 203 of The Independent Characters tackles the subject of Necromunda Campaigns and their various iterations. Now that Josh, our Specialist games Correspondent has returned from his illness, we take a deep dive into this topic. Additionally, we couldn't address this topic without pulling in a couple of experts. Namely Dan and Campbell from the 40k Badcast. They join us for a thirty minute in...

As Josh, our Specialist Games correspondent is still out sick, we felt we couldn't delay any longer. So we bring you a bit different episode of The Independent Characters. Jody and Carl pivot to discuss The Challenge from Episode 202 and discuss the lore behind each of their creations and how they would interpret their play on the Tabletop. It's a bit short for an episode of The Independent Charac...

Episode 202 of The Independent Characters takes a look at Extreme Narrative Gaming! We take a deep delve into how we define Narrative Gaming, and why we think it is the best way to play Warhammer 40k. We have a discussion with the Narrative Guys, and then go into how you can get into Narrative Gaming, how to develop ideas, and finally we let our imaginations run a little wild with ideas for taking...

Episode 201 of The Independent Characters contains our coverage of the latest version of Apocalypse! The latest iteration of Apocalypse is something both unlike we have seen before AND familiar to long time players of Games Workshop games. Jody and Carl talk about playing through the game, some of the changes and challenges, as well as what their final take on it all is. A solid two hours and twen...

We have finally reached our 200th episode (although somewhat late), and that means it is time to take stock of where we came from, what has changed, and where we are going. We have spent nearly 10 years (April will be 10!) looking at this hobby and at times have planted our stake in the ground and made either predictions, or taken stances. We will see how many of those have held up over the years....

Episode 199 of The Independent Characters is our year in review episode. Now we talked about this before, but with so many shows out there going over everything that released last year, we felt like a change was in order. We were the first show to take that route and quite honestly we were feeling like it was a bit stale anyway. This year we do something different. We speak with most of the member...

Episode 198 of The Independent Characters is a return to an Extended Warrior Lodge! Unfortunately, Discord was having some issues with Google today and people could not log into Discord servers around the world. This prevented us from pulling in any live listeners during our live Twitch broadcast unfortunately. That's ok though, we WILL do this again! Carl is joined by Justin, Jody, and Josh... th...

Episode 197 of The Independent Characters present you with a new Show of Force episode! This time we double stack it and take a look at both the Imperial and Chaos Knights in an episode we like to call Show of Force: Engines of Faith and Ruin. We're sorry, but we thought you said you LIKED long episodes... so this one clocks in at nearly four hours in length! Not only that, we have the return (som...

Episode 196 of The Independent Characters takes a close look at what happens when you have to move. How do you take your hobby with you? How do you ensure that everything transports safely? And how do you join a gaming group or form one once you arrive? We have our usual Hobby Progress section followed by a solid two hours of discussion around moving with your hobby. Then we launch into an intervi...

Episode 195 of The Independent Characters is back and to celebrate we have three guest hosts! Adan comes into town and joins, Josh and Jody to discuss Kill Team. We take a close look at where it came from, how it has evolved, and where it is going! At least where we HOPE it is going. We return with a lengthy hobby progress section, then launch right into our exciting coverage of Kill Team! We hope...

Episode 194 of The Independent Characters is a bit of a train wreck. We aren't going to lie. When Carl was going to be doing so much traveling in September, we expected that he would be able to fit in a couple of interviews. Justin Hill, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, maybe even Robin Cruddace. However, delayed flights, jetlag, expired Drivers licenses... all kinds of things conspired against...

Episode 193 of The Independent Characters arrives delayed by about two days since Carl had to deal with majore work issues all weekend. This episode we are discussing how to get some extra life out of all of your old hobby publications. Be they old campaign materials, old codexes, old mission books, or just old anything - we discuss ideas for how you can look at these things at the changing of an...

Episode 192 of The Independent Characters where we run our second ever Warrior Lodge LIVE Episode! For those worried that Justin and Adan had been fired, you can put those rumors to rest as Adan flies into the area to record and Justin finally DOESN'T have to fly somewhere to teach airbrush classes! The episode comes in at a much more reasonable two and a half hours - but it's a solid two and half...

Episode 191 of The Independent Characters has us doing a deep dive into the ideas, fiction, fact, and fantasy that spawned the lore of Warhammer 40,000. If you hate long episodes, this one might not be for you as it is over 4 hours of content. But that's what the timestamps below are for! We include our usual Hobby Progress section and then we leap into an interview with none other than Miniwargam...

Episode 190 of The Independent Characters has a return to our Show of Force series - and this time it's all about The Insidious Curse... We take a deep dive into the horror that is The Genestealer Cults! To help us out with this, we have brought in our resident Genestealer Cult player, new guest host, new member to our gaming group, AND new 40k Player (since January!), Matt Bruner! He is a long ti...

Episode 189 of The Independent Characters sees us diving headfirst into the incredible game that is Adeptus Titanicus! We include our usual Hobby Progress section and then spend the rest of the evening doing our best to tempt Jody into joining Josh, Carl, Austin (both of them), Thom and a couple others of our group to investing in and playing Adeptus Titanicus. And to help Josh and I convince him...

Episode 188 of The Independent Characters is our very first LIVE show! And this time around it is an episode of The Warrior Lodge! Our new equipment (thanks to our Patrons) has allowed us to make you a part of our gaming group more than ever before. This time around we are able to have a few luckly listeners join us to give their points of view on some of the topics we discuss. This won't be the l...

Episode 187 of The Independent Characters contains brings us nearly to the end of our Heroes of 40k series with the Enigmas of the Xenos! We include our usual Hobby Progress (or lack thereof) section and then jump right into our main topic of the show. This is the first episode recorded on our new equipment. I'm still dialing in a few things but I think you will already find the audio quality impr...

Episode 186 of The Independent Characters is a deep dive into the Cities of Death rules. These can be found in the narrative section of Chapter Approved 2018 as well as a slightly expanded version in the rule book for the Urban Conquest campaign set. This episode clocks in at a more reasonable two and a half hours. Which is a nice change for us from the marathon recordings we've been doing lately....

Episode 185 of The Independent Characters contains about four solid hours of great content for you! After a lengthy Hobby Progress and Games Played Segment - we dive into our Champions of Warhammer 40,000. This time we explore some of the Powers of Chaos! When we are all done with that amazing topic, we have a discussion with Dave and Mel about their Kickstarter for Terrain Essentials, followed up...

Episode 184 of The Independent Characters brings back The Warrior Lodge! This is a moderated discussion around topics that are top of mind in the community, our Facebook Group, or just things we generally want to discuss! This episode has Carl joined by Jody, Lars, and Austin… along with a special piped in guest host, Skari from The Skaredcast! Not only that we have a great interview with Dave Tay...

Episode 183 of The Independent Characters contains a massive four and a half hours of content for you. Now we wouldn't normally put out an episode this long, but with the loss of the Astronomicon computer, and the replacement, and scheduling... it had been over a month since we recorded. So you try to think of it as two episodes that are each two hours and twenty minutes long. If that wasn't excit...

Episode 182 of The Independent Characters brings you a new series we are launching… In the 41st Millennium there are those who stand out among all others. Shining beacons of light or blackened embers of darkness. In this new series entitled 'Champions of 40k', The Independent Characters take an in depth view of several of their favorite heroes in the game. In this episode we explore the lore aroun...