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RPPR Episode 55: One for the Recordbooks
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Synopsis: Every once in a while in a campaign, you need to shake things up with a big event – an epic boss fight or jaw dropping action scene that ties up a campaign or story arc. Of course, in order to make things memorable, you need to up your game as a GM. But how do you go above and beyond? Tom and I discuss ways to psyche the players up, prep for a big event and run it. Plus Tom has a letter, shout outs and anecdotes.
Shout outs
- Operation Family Secrets: This family is nothing but secrets and lies! SECRETS AND LIES
- We didn’t playtest this at all: An insanely fun card game with an honest title
- Zombies of the World: BUY MY BOOK
- The Music Scene: Chillax album from Blockhead
Music: My Skateboard will go on by Anamanaguchi
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RPPR Episode 54: Immerse Me!
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Immersion is a tricky element of tabletop RPGs. In order to achieve it, a GM must first design a good scenario. In this episode, Tom, special guest Caleb and I discuss how we design adventures and other related topics. The effects of a game system on immersion and how to deal with players that lose immersion in a game. Tom also has a letter and of course shout outs and anecdotes.
Shout outs
- RPPR Community AP Podcast: If the main RPPR AP podcast isn’t enough…
- Elephant Men Vol 1: A sci fi noir comic series of mutated soldiers
- Amnesia Dark Descent: A creepy Lovecraftian horror video game.
- Custom dice from Ean Moody: Get awesome skull dice!
- Lucid Chart: Flow chart program
- The Brain: 80s horror film about an evil man eating brain
- Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Zombies are serious business
- Videodrome: ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH
- Rebuild: A Flash Zombie post apocalyptic RTS
- Andrew Vachss: Incredible crime novelist and inspiration for Andrew’s Fortune
- Teatro Grottesco: An anthology of Thomas Ligotti short stories.
Podcast Promo: Redline Theatre - radio theater podcast
Other podcasts (I couldn’t find promos to play from you guys): Zero Fortitude, Drunk and Ugly and Booster Pack
Song: Immersed by Allison Crowe
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RPPR Episode 53: You Lie! Rhetoric and Large Groups
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Thank you RPPR listeners! The Ruins of Lemuria PDF Ransom was a success! We are hard at work behind the scenes creating many cool things for you and running games over Skype for the ransom contributors.
Synopsis: Rhetoric is a divisive issue in tabletop games. Where do you draw the line between a player’s skill in speech and the PC’s ability? Tom and I discuss how rhetoric touches on game design, running a game and player vs. player conflicts. I’ve also started a superheroes campaign, using Wild Talents for the rules, and this time around we have seven players. A large group presents quite a few interesting challenges so we discuss how to run a game with a huge number of players.
Shout outs
- Zombie Panic: Free zombie themed multiplayer FPS mod for the Source Engine
- The Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games: Critical analysis of RPGs
- By Dawn’s Early Light: Like Dr. Strangelove without the comedy.
- Debris volume 1 and 2: Insane montages of the most obscure and crazy films and video footage EVER
- Angry Joe Show: It’s a review show. Tom likes it.
- Comic Jumper: Xbox live arcade game about comic books. It’s funny and pretty hard
- asdfmovies: funny youtube videos.
- The Laundry: Horror-comedy RPG based on Charles Stross’ Atrocity Archives novel series.
Music: I can be persuaded by Mars
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