RPPR Episode 85: We Three Games
News: Check out Caleb and I shooting up (space) zombies in Dead Space 3! Be sure to subscribe to Raillery’s Youtube channel for all the latest from us. Base Raiders is progressing nicely but it was slowed down a bit so I could contribute to Eclipse Phase’s newest book – Transhuman. There’s an open playtest for some of the material right now – read it and give them your feedback. And of course, the Know Evil Fan Creation Contest is still ongoing!
Synopsis: Tom, special guest Caleb, and I each came up with 3 ideas for standalone RPGs and pitch them to each other. From mythos warlords and gods the weird west and beyond, we talk about games about making movies, fighting magic with technology, and life inside video games. If you like the ideas or hate them, let us know in the comments!
Shout Outs
- Idle Red Hands Podcast: podcast about gaming and Japan by expat gamers in Japan.
- Haste Podcast: Silver Ennie award winning gaming podcast.
- Graphic Canon Volume 1: The classics of world literature told in comix format.
- The Night Lands, A Story Retold: the weird fiction classic rewritten so mortals may understand what the hell is going on in it.
- The Corridor: What happens when humans brush up against the unknown? Bad things.
- Itras By: Surreal tabletop RPG inspired by Dali and the other surrealists. Fascinating setting too!
- Breaker, Breaker: 1970s trucker Chuck Norris doesn’t have time for your shit. Watch the goddamn truck-o-pocalypse already.
- Lizards of Skyrim mod: Yo dawg I heard you like Argonians
- Tomb of Horrors D&D comic: Death Traps have never been so hilarious
- Steve Rogers’ American Captain: Captain America totes has the feels you guys. Srsly though, this is pretty good.
- Nick Fury MAX – My Wars Gone By: Garth Ennis wrote this shit. Read it already.
Song: Behemoth by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
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Interview with Micah Wedemeyer of Obsidian Portal
Obsidian Portal, the campaign tracking website, has launched a Kickstarter to pay for site upgrades. I talked to the programmer behind Obsidian Portal, Micah Wedemeyer, who is also co-host of the Haste podcast. In this interview, we talk about Obsidian Portal, Kickstarter, and crowdfunding in the RPG industry.
Be sure to take a look at Greg Stolze’s Kickstarter: Mask of the Other!
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RPPR Episode 84: Murphy Rules
News: The Know Evil Fan Creation contest is well underway and the deadline for entries has been extended. Tom has started a Pathfinder campaign, which will be recorded. I have a short story in The Unspeakable Oath 22 – read “Message in a Bottle.” Also, I want to thank every RPPR donor who helps keep this site up and going!
Synopsis: Murphy’s Rules were a long standing comic in Pyramid magazine that pointed out the quirks of various RPG systems. Recently, I found a hilarious thread on the SA forums carrying on that tradition by explaining how jumping really high in D&D 3.5E can make you really popular or how a priest wouldn’t be able to recognize his own god in the flesh. This episode deals with this disconnection between reality, game rules, and genre conventions and how to deal with them in games. Is this even a problem? What do you do when a player finds a way to break the game or its genre? After the main discussion, Tom has a letter for us and shout outs and anecdotes.
Shout outs
- The Quiet Year: Post apocalyptic map making and story telling game. Great stuff!
- Crackerjack: a Die Hard ripoff that is the most 1990s of movies.
- Cam Scanner: Scan documents with your smartphone! Great for keeping track of character sheets.
- Cool as Ice Rifftrax: Oh yeah. We went there. Deal with it.
- Nexus 7 Tablet: It’s neat! Please don’t start a iOS/Droid flame war.
- Reel Physics: Web series about physics in movies.
- Knights of Pen and Paper: Fun RPG for iOS and droid with pixel art and a tabletop RPG theme.
- Army of Darkness Defense: Free game for iOS/droid based on the movie.
- Zombie Run! Jogging app that uses zombies to motivate you to keep moving.
- How Did This Get Made? Funny podcast about bad movies. Entertaining guest stars like Patton Oswalt and Kevin Smith pop in on occasion.
- Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land – WW1 turn based strategy game – fight the Mythos during the Great War
Song: I am the night by Perturbator
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