RPPR Episode 64: Adventures in Adventuring
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Synopsis: Adventure design for long term campaigns is different than designing for a one shot scenario. Keeping up with the entirety of a complex ruleset is impossible for a campaign so you must determine what rules to keep track of and what to ignore. Adventures have to be geared to specific player characters. You can’t keep adding on new elements into the campaign. Instead, you must provide closure for the plot elements you do introduce. We discuss all of these topics and more. Furthermore, Tom has a new letter, shout outs and more.
Shout outs:
- Com Truise: Ultra chillax 80s style electronic music. Check out the ultimate 80s cyberpunk music video.
- I Sell the Dead: Grave robbers sell corpses to doctors. Undead appear. Hilarity ensues.
- Shadow of a Dead Star: Sci-fi horror novel delving into the depravities of the cybernetics black market.
- Adventures of Pete and Pete: One of the great shows made by Nickelodeon in the 90s.
- Z.N.A: Zombie survival horror novella. Worth the 99 cents to a zombie fan.
- Delilah Dirk: High adventure webcomic with incredible art.
- Monster Pulse: Kids with monsters fight an evil government conspiracy.
- Hark A Vagrant: A print edition of one of the funniest webcomics of all time.
Song: League of Extraordinary Adventurers by Sounda
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RPPR Episode 63: Stylish Substance
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Synopsis: Adventure design is a complex topic so we’d thought we would delve into it once again. In this episode, Tom and I discuss the difference between good design choices and style choices. While good design is applicable to any genre of RPG scenario, it is possible to make choices in creating an adventure that only work under certain circumstances. The choice to emphasize one aspect of a game over another isn’t necessarily right or wrong. It’s a style choice. Hack and slash versus political intrigue? Style. Dungeon crawling versus mass battles? Style. Tom also has a new letter entailing the virtues of various cinematic firearms.
Shout outs:
- Americus: A graphic novel about a student dealing with a book banning. Excellent writing and art.
- Island of the Fishmen: Bizarre Italian horror flick about fishmen.
- Cthulhu Dark: An ultra rules light RPG of Cthulhu inspired insanity.
- Messiah of Evil: Public domain 1970s Lovecraftian zombie horror film
- Bastion: Amazing indie RPG with unique setting, art and music
- Cargo: The most Eclipse Phase-ish sci fi movie I’ve seen in a while
- Seven Minutes in Heaven: Hilariously awkward interviews. Check out Elijah Wood’s interview.
Song: PonPonPon De Floor mashup (special request from Caleb)
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RPPR Episode 62: Post Gencon 2011 Wrapup part 2
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Synopsis: In this episode, we bring in Aaron and David to discuss their experiences at Gencon 2011. Aaron ran three sessions of a Monsters and Other Childish Things game based on the Secrets of NIMH while this was David’s first Gencon. David cosplayed as an anime character, so he had a different experience. We also go over our purchases at Gencon and share more anecdotes from con games.
Shout outs:
- The Last Lovecraft: A horror-comedy about the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft.
- Stealing Cthulhu: the perfect resource to jumpstart your next Cthulhu mythos based game
- The Noodle Company: Holy shit they have great noodles
- 7 Wonders: A board game of skill and strategy
- LFG volume 2: If you like the webcomic, you’ll like this print collection
- Hobomancer: Magic hobos fight crime or evil or some junk. Awesome name for a game
- Arkham Horror: It’s still the best Cthulhu themed board game ever
- Shane Ivey: Keep up with the Arc Dream publisher on Twitter
- Adam Scott Glancy: BUY HIS BOOKS
- Mutuk Wolfsbreath Hard Boiled Shaman: Film Noir meets Siberian shamanism. AND IT WORKS
- The Hunger Games: Battle Royale as a YA novel series. Very gameable material
Song: Comedians by Cossbysweater
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