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RPPR Episode 40: First Time GMing

On: January 19, 2010

In this episode, we have two guests, Cody and Aaron, to help us dispense advice for newbie game masters and share stories of our novice attempts at running a game. Plus the usual letter from Tom, an anecdote and an explanation of the phrase “There’s monsters in the school, Tom.”

Promos

Fear The Con: We’ll be there!
Nerdbound: They run a campaign based in the New World.

Shout Outs

Team Conan! Show your support
Sequart. Deep writing about comix.
Rad Anthem: Incredibly awesome music video and the song is available as a free download.
Fawlty Towers: A BBC sitcom starring John Cleese.
Daybreakers: Vampiric cinematic gore and fun.
Gomorra: A recent Italian gangster epic worth watching.
Horribleville Volume 1: A collection of comics from KC Green. Highly recommended!
The Burma Chronicles: A cartoonist spends a year in the worst dictatorship in the world.

Song: Rad Anthem by Rad Omen.

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RPPR Episode 39: 2009 Year in Review

On: December 31, 2009

In: Podcast Episode

With: 9 Comments

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:52 — 95.9MB)

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RPPR Epsiode 38: Fight me or Give me a Quest

On: November 19, 2009

In: Podcast Episode

With: 10 Comments

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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:22:01 — 75.1MB)

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