RPPR Episode 39: 2009 Year in Review
In this episode, Tom and I review 2009 in terms of gaming. The most memorable moments, games we played, games we wished we played and more. We also go over some of what we have planned for 2010 and Toms has some ‘anti-resolutions’ for New Years in his letter.
Shout Outs
- Eclipse Phase Quick-Start Rules
- Dead Snow: Nazi Zombies plus college students FTW
- Russian versus fights – crazy cartoons of various people fighting to the death
- Tetris God – a funny video from college humor
- We got That B-Roll – as long as it isn’t too specific
Song: New Year’s Resolution by Bill DeRome.
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Ab3 Rant 01: The Team That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
THE GUY WITH A JETPACK AND A HIGH POWERED RIFLE: When combat broke out he would zoom up into the air and start sniping. He had a kind of code against killing, he only killed villains if they fought back, or sassed him.
Ab3’s first proper rant is now immortalized by RPPR! Listen to find out the worst heroes ever made in a horrible superhero campaign. This rant was originally posted on rpg.net.
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RPPR Epsiode 38: Fight me or Give me a Quest
If you are a fan of our Actual Play episodes, head over to the brand new RPPR Actual Play Podcast. It will feature a new AP episode every single week! We’ve already got over 11 hours of Call of Cthulhu ready for download. Don’t forget to comment on the episodes or post about them in our forums if you enjoy them.
As you might have realized, it’s been a while since we’ve done an episode. I’ve had to move, get the Goblin Hulk PDF out and set up the new podcast feed. Fortunately, the Goblin Hulk has already gotten some good reviews, so if you haven’t, be sure to check it out. But all is now well so we can go back to the basics: gaming advice, shout outs and Tom bitching about the announcer voice. In this episode, we focus on improving a game by talking about NPCs who aren’t enemies or quest-givers. Many GMs forget to include this type of NPC, thinking of only the bare essentials in their game, but a great game needs NPCs who just do their own thing. I also go over some game design advice as described by Jordan Mechner which relates to the discussion. We also have several anecdotes, a rant about the POS movie 2012 and more!
Shout outs:
- Creature Feature: The Greatest Show Unearthed – horror rock music that Tom approves of.
- Eisenhorn: A Warhammer 40k sci-fi action pulp novel trilogy. Very slick, bad-ass fiction.
- E-collapse: A new superhero RPG put out by Greg Stolze. Postmodern ideologies and super-science.
- Hobocon: If you are curious about Gencon, check this documentary about it. Interesting but flawed.
- Time Travel T-shirt: A very useful t-shirt.
- L4D2: The bestest vidya game ever. My Xbox Live gamertag is Clockworkjoe13
- The Room: The bestest movie ever. WATCH IT.
- Black Dynamite: The most super-bad outta sight movie ever.
Music: The Quest by David Cyr
Promo: Swing and A Miss Podcast.
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