Gaming on the Frontier

The Omega Event has happened.  Something so serious that Bureau 13 has to announce its existence to the world.  What happens afterward?  This week we examine that sea change through the lens of the standard Bureau 13 npcs in the Friends, Enemies and In Betweens section of the 2008 bureau 13 edition.   Please note that we decided that if nothing really changed for a npc or npc group with the Revela...

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This week we finish our analysis of the world of Erde, a prime Fringeworthy commonwealth supporter. 

this week we examine the Fringeworthy world called Erde which has a large population of 1st Century Germans who have been transplanted to a virgin glacial world where they can develop isolated from their normal enemies and cultural contacts.

On this episode Peter Bryant is hijacking the show. This is a live recording from GenCon 2012. The adventure is Deutschland Uber Alles and is one of the plot points in the Savage Worlds edition of Fringeworthy. This is part one and part two will be up next week. If you like live role play sessions, you're in for a treat. If you don't, we'll see you in two weeks where we resume our regular broadcas...

This week we conclude our discussion on how to play characters who are a little or really, really insane.

We continue our playing difficult characters with INSANITY (heh, heh).

This week we finish our discussion on how to introduce fairytale adventures or fairytale elements into your games.

This week we go deep into the dark woods, leaving a few bread crumbs, and talk about fairytales in your adventures.

This week, Bruce continues to take a much deserved vacation and leave the helm to Peter and the gang.  They continue to discuss how to take off the rack adventures for other games and put them to use in Fringeworthy.

This week, Bruce takes a much deserved vacation and leaves the helm to Peter and the gang.  They discuss how to take off the rack adventures for other games and put them to use in Fringeworthy.

thanks to our faithful listeners who discovered a problem with the second part of Weirdzone.  This should be a corrected file.  Please download it again and overwrite the original file.  If you just listen to it on the site, it will stream correctly. This week we finish our first look at one of Tri Tac's new game of interdimensional hopping using your house.  We were very surprised at how fun and...

Last Gencon 2012, Tri Tac Games released their new game: Weirdzone (the day everything went to Hell). We've mentioned it briefly before, but we wanted to get into it and see if it was worth playing. Turns out it is another quality Tri Tac Product that is good as both a short or ongoing rpg. We've got the skinny on how to play it and have the most fun, depending on your group and the tone of the ga...

Welcome back to our second episode on surviving the Zombie Holocaust! This time around John and Bruce wheel out their ideas on the best places to hide from those nasty zombies, Amber takes us on a boat trip, Paul goes to jail, and then we go on a cruise on the Blood Boat with Bruce. Then we go spelunking and hiding out on various military bases. So sit back, grab a beverage of your choice, some sn...

This week we conclude our series on setting up a colony in the Fringeworthy game.  We discuss why colonies would be established at the perimeter of IDET controlled space and what are the responsibilities of the Exploration teams to colony members.

This week we return to our discussion on colonies.  Lots more material to cover.

This time we visit the topic of surviving the Zombie Holocaust. What can you do to make sure that your loved ones don't end up as some zombie's brain pate on toast. In part one, our hosts, Amber, Trav, and Paul describe their ideal hideouts and boltholes to hide until the zombies die down. So sit back, get a snack... Brains!... and learn how to survive the Zombie Holocaust!

We talk with Paul Nunes about the uses of melee weapons in modern campaigns. How to survive and strive taking a knife to a gun fight, part 2.

We talk with Paul Nunes about the uses of melee weapons in modern campaigns. How to survive and strive taking a knife to a gun fight.

This week we conclude the first part of the colonization series.  We wet our toes on the concept of true right and wrong and how clashes of culture can make that very hard to determine.

As a break from our discussion on Fringeworthy Colonization we look upon the plight of some Bureau 13 creatures that cannot be easily hidden in modern society.  Is there any hope for them or must the bureau 13 agent be forced to Coup de Grace!

Sorry, but I've been slammed at work so I only have half an episode for you this week.  We continue to discuss how to set up a colony and its issues, before heading off the reservation again.

This week we start on colonization of other world in games. The reference is to Brave New World if anyone was offended.

This week we conclude our discussion of introducing super powered characters into a Fringeworthy campaign.

This week we conclude our probe of alien love or love between sentients that are not of the same species.  This is an explicit episode.  We will be covering adult topics, bodily functions, and sensitive situations.  Please listen to one of our non-explicit episodes if this could offend you.  Thanks for your support.  We will be returning to our non-explicit game coverage next week.