Interview with Jonny Nexus of Critical Miss and author of Game Night
September 11, 2008
Jonny Nexus is one of the net’s funniest established gaming humorists. He’s behind the long standing RPG site, Critical Miss and the author of a new novel, Game Night. It’s about a group of gods who role play eternity away, using real mortals and a real universe as their campaign setting. I caught up with him at Gencon and talked about gaming, writing comedy, and the meaning of life. (He was a bit jet lagged on that last question).
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Actual Play: Call of Cthulhu - Dig to Victory!
August 28, 2008
Trench warfare in World War 1 was horrific. Millions died from disease, chemical weapons, barbed wire, machine guns and other forms of industrialized death. However, the British tunnelers dug massive underground systems to support the soldiers and to undermine German trenches. In this scenario, a few men from the 117th tunneling company found themselves tunneling to something far more dangerous than the Germans.
This is a playtest for an upcoming book by Pagan Publishing and was run at Gencon 2008.
Keeper: Adam Scott Glancy
Players: Greg Stolze
Ross Payton
Tom Church
Allan Goddall
Kevin Pezzano
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RPPR Episode 19: Gencon 2008 Wrapup
August 19, 2008
We’re back from the best four days of gaming! We talk about everything from the new games premiering at Gencon to the awesome people we met to the games we played or ran. It was a blast and we look forward to next year. Some of the highlights this year include meeting Dave Arneson and getting a first edition of Blackmoor autographed, interviewing quite a few game designers and writers, playtesting a new Call of Cthulhu scenario from Pagan Press (which we recorded and will post to the podcast! stay tuned for that) hanging out with gamers and podcasters, sleeping very little and eating less and running Monsters and Other Childish Things. We will post our interviews on a regular basis for the next month or so.
Games and books mentioned:
- Monsterpocalypse
- Monsters and Other Childish Things and my supplement for it: A Curriculum of Conspiracy now in print!
- Mutant City Blues
- GUMSHOE/Trail of Cthulhu/Esoterrorists/Fear Itself
- Freaky Creatures
- Pirates of the Burning Sea
- Hunter the Vigil
- Goodman Games’ new 4E modules
- Beneath Flanders Field: The Tunnelers of WW1 1914-1918
Music: The Sword of Fire by Studiomig.
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RPPR Gencon Preview
August 13, 2008
Gencon is upon us! We have a brief preview of what we aim to do. Check out the full schedule if you’re going. I’m running Monsters and Other Childish Things. We’re also part of a panel discussion on podcasting. See you there!
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RPPR Episode 18: 4E Dungeons and Dragons Rundown
August 05, 2008
We’ve finally gotten around to looking at the monster RPG of the summer, the fourth edition of Dungeons and Dragons. We cover the good, the bad and the ugly of the system. Special thanks to the Bear Swarm podcast for joining in on our first game of 4E. We also talk about Gencon, scuba diving and of course, a very entertaining letter from Tom.
Song: Journey by Excellent Adventure
Shout Outs:
- Elona: A graphical roguelike with all kinds of neat features like random quests, companions, pets, and housing.
- The Kids In the Hall: The best comedy out of Canada in the 90s.
- The Demon Rush: MMMMMMMM. Watch the trailer.
- Spore Creature Creator: Make wang monsters or something. I don’t know.
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Interview with Adrian Pommier of Goodman Games
July 28, 2008
Every year, hundreds of adventurers die horrible deaths, all competing for treasure, glory and points to move on to the next round. This isn’t a weird reality TV series, it’s the DCC tourney at Gencon. Adrian Pommier is the man in charge of this year’s Dungeon Crawl Classic Tournament. He’s also the co-author of the mega module Castle Whiterock and several other dungeon crawls. In this interview, we talk about how the DCC module is designed, the creation of Castle Whiterock and Palace of the Wastes, (stories from the module are here) what the dungeon crawl really is and the differences between 3E and 4E.
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