{"id":247,"date":"2009-11-19T22:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T03:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/?p=247"},"modified":"2016-06-07T23:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T04:04:53","slug":"rppr-epsiode-38-fight-me-or-give-me-a-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2009\/11\/podcast-episode\/rppr-epsiode-38-fight-me-or-give-me-a-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"RPPR Epsiode 38: Fight me or Give me a Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The RPPR Actual Play Podcast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slangdesign.com\/RPPR-AP-Podcast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>If you are a fan of our Actual Play episodes, head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com\/\">brand new RPPR Actual Play Podcast.<\/a> It will feature a new AP episode every single week! We&#8217;ve already got over 11 hours of Call of Cthulhu ready for download. Don&#8217;t forget to comment on the episodes or post about them in our forums if you enjoy them.<\/p>\n<p>As you might have realized, it&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve done an episode. I&#8217;ve had to move, <a href=\"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2009\/11\/rpg-pdf\/the-goblin-hulk-a-new-world-campaign-sourcebook\/\">get the Goblin Hulk PDF out<\/a> and set up the new podcast feed. Fortunately,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuroglyphgames.com\/?p=625\"> the Goblin Hulk has already gotten some good reviews<\/a>, so if you haven&#8217;t, be sure to check it out.\u00a0 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&#8217;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.\u00a0 I also go over some <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanmechner.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/designing-story-based-games\/\">game design advice as described by Jordan Mechner <\/a>which relates to the discussion. We also have several anecdotes, a rant about the POS movie 2012 and more!<\/p>\n<p>Shout outs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Greatest-Show-Unearthed-Creature-Feature\/dp\/B000W04RZW\/\"><strong>Creature Feature: The Greatest Show Unearthed<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; horror rock music that Tom approves of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eisenhorn-Warhammer-40-000-Omnibus\/dp\/1844161560\"><strong>Eisenhorn:<\/strong><\/a> A Warhammer 40k sci-fi action pulp novel trilogy. Very slick, bad-ass fiction.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/paperback-book\/ecollapse\/7385092\"><strong>E-collapse:<\/strong><\/a> A new superhero RPG put out by Greg Stolze. Postmodern ideologies and super-science.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobocon.com\/\"><strong>Hobocon<\/strong><\/a>: If you are curious about Gencon, check this documentary about it. Interesting but flawed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topatoco.com\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET&amp;Category_Code=QW\"><strong>Time Travel T-shirt:<\/strong><\/a> A very useful t-shirt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Left-4-Dead-2-Xbox-360\/dp\/B002BRZ852\"><strong>L4D2<\/strong><\/a>: The bestest vidya game ever. My Xbox Live gamertag is Clockworkjoe13<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Juliette-Danielle-Sestero-Haldiman-Carolyn\/dp\/B000CFYAMC\/\"><strong>The Room:<\/strong><\/a> The bestest movie ever. WATCH IT.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackdynamitemovie.com\/\"><strong>Black Dynamite:<\/strong><\/a> The most super-bad outta sight movie ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Music: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/davidcyr\">The Quest by David Cyr<\/a><br \/>\nPromo: <a href=\"http:\/\/swingandamiss.net\/\"><strong>Swing and A Miss Podcast.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"RPPR Epsiode 38: Fight me or Give me a Quest\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2009-11-19T22:03:03-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1H22M01S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"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&#039;ve already got over 11 hours of Call of Cthulhu ready for download. 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