Adventure Party

In this episode of Adventure Party; we focus on upping your game, as a player. More often than not, we read articles about how a Game Master can be better at what they do. This time, we have an article that has 11 ways you can be a better player. In our discussion, we focus on 5 in particular.

Glenn's Review

Glenn reviews the card game, Superfight. It's a card game of building the ultimate superhero and promoting discussions of how super that character really is. There are numerous expansions that help keep this game fresh.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/139443/superfight

News:

The news highlights the main part of our show discussion. The author is Grant from the website, Look, Robot. it the 11 ways to be a better player by upping your game and it may be the most important article your read, as a role-playing gamer.

http://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/06/20/11-ways-to-be-a-better-roleplayer/

XCOM 2 delayed out of 2015

We have a bit more time to prepare for our battle to take back Earth from the alien invaders as XCOM 2 has been delayed until February 5th, 2016.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/08/28/xcom-2-delayed-out-of-2015.aspx

Borderlands movie in the works

With the Warcraft movie next year, the recent unveiling of Michael Fassbender in his Assassin’s Creed garb, AND Nintendo being open to film again, it looks like video game movies are back.

http://www.slashfilm.com/borderlands-movie/

Metal Gear Solid V

Kojima and Konami may not be on speaking terms as of late, but that’s not stopping them from advertising the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/287700/

Kickstarter Spotlight:

Our Kickstarter Spotlight shines on a 2-4 player game called Sun, Moon, and Stars. It's a fast playing game of strategy, planning, and a bit of luck. It's also, a game that Brad backed while doing the show.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miniongames/sun-moon-and-stars-a-micro-card-game

We also got some feedback from YouTube viewer, Corskii Lansdale, about episode 7 with Patrick Rothfuss.

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We are taking a break from our convention theme to talk with Matthew McFarland of Growling Door Games. He picked up the license for the horror genre RPG Chill and brought it back in a new, updated version. We wanted to know what it took to get the license to a game that is no longer in print and breathe new life into it. We also discuss the impact Chill made on us in the 90's and what Matthew's plans for the future are for Chill resource books.

Glenn's Review:

Glenn reviews the expandable card game called Ashes: Rise of the Phoenix Born. It's a two player game that allows for you to add to your decks. You play Phoenixborns, beings who are demi-gods, charged with protecting the world. Something has gone wrong, and greed rules the land. A legend of a Phoenixborn who absorbs enough of the ashes of others, can ascend into godhood. Now it's every Phoenixborn for themselves. Using your 30 card deck and your 10 dice magic pool, your fight the other Phoenixborn to conquer the world or just survive it.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167400/ashes-rise-phoenixborn

News:

Paizo's RPG Superstar Season 9 Is Open For Voting

Create your best magic weapon, magic armor or magical device and submit it to be considered.

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/voting-happening-now-for-opening-round-of-paizos-rpg-superstar-season-9/

On August 29th, Splatoon players will get to choose to fight for the Decepticons or Autobots in a Splatfest. Looks like Nintnedo is getting into the sponsored game with Transformers!

http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/18/9172189/splatoon-transformers-splatfest

On August 19th Bungie held a Twitch stream to reveal more details about their upcoming expansion for Destiny titled, The Taken King.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/19/27-major-destiny-changes-in-the-taken-king

Mike Bithell’s followup to Thomas Was Alone, Volume is a top-down stealth game set in a futuristic dystopian England.

http://www.volumegame.net/

Curious about Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture? Here’s me playing the first 20 minutes!

https://youtu.be/3JOA2Lh85DY

Kickstarter Spotlight:

Our Kickstarter Spotlight shines on the Immersion Studios RPG called Infected Zombie. It a post-apocalyptic zombie tale that takes place AFTER the great 'zombie war'. How does humanity pick up the pieces of civilazation? Do you try to put it back to where it once was or create a 'new world order'? It's a game of morals, survival, and possible political intrigue.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1196986656/infected-zombie-rpg-by-oliver-r-shead/

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with Amy Frost about dressing as your character. Be it for a convention, LARP or other gathering. Amy is the co-host of The Overcast, which is a podcast about the relatively soon to be released PC game called Overwatch. She’s also been a guest on one of Galactic Netcasts’ other shows, SciFi Geeks Club. She’s also the former host of the Galactic Netbite segment called The S-Word. She is a talented artist, crafter, and seamstress who also is a cosplayer. We discuss, how she got started, what does cosplay mean, and what are some good resources to get you started in creating your cosplay. You can find Amy Frost's work @ https://www.etsy.com/shop/InstantCosplay

Glenn's Game Review:

Glenn reviews the boardgame Via Appia from Queen Games. You are on the Via Appia, the famous road of Ancient Rome. You need to help finish the road that connects Rome to Brindisi. You need to quarry stone, manage, and place materials to help finish the great Roman road. It plays up to 4 players and takes about 45 minutes to play. It's a fun game that is family friendly.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/137397/appia

RPG News:

Our news story is the Savage Worlds release of Family Affiar, a new adventure that deals with the Mob. You need to protect your master bookkeeper, Mr. Lewis. He's the key to keeping the Family money safe and away from the IRS. That said, there is also a supernatural element to this adventure that will keep you guessing.

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/family-affair-a-new-savage-worlds-adventure-from-fabled-environments/

Ryan Murphy's Galactic Gaming News covers:

Halo Wars 2 is really happening!

The spin off that tried to take the first person series back to it’s roots of real time strategy is getting a sequel!

Nolan North is your new AND old Ghost

Destiny is getting a huge upgrade this September with The Taken King expansion, but Bungie is also going back to touch up old content.

Let’s all go to the rapture!

Hey everyone! Who wants to go to the rapture? Well in Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture you can! This PS4 exclusive launched this week and places you in a world that was once inhabited by lovely villagers, but not anymore!

Kickstarter Spotlight

Our Kickstarter Spotlight focuses on Lobotomy Board Game. Characters will fight off monsters straight out from the classic horror movies (or maybe just concerned hospital staff?), collect powerful items (or rather random trash?) and recover scraps of memory that unlock new skills and powers (also known as slipping deeper into madness). All that in an anticipation for the final battle against the Chief Hospital Administrator who holds the keys to the asylum and your freedom.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1084608523/lobotomy-board-game/

 

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with Adam Loper. Adam created and ran Osh Con for 12 years, has a vlog called Tabletop Minions as well, and is big into miniature gaming. We ask Adam about creating your own convention. What does it take to create a con, who needs to help, and how do you market it?

Glenn's Review

Glenn reviews the card game, Deck Building: The Deck Building Game from Greater Than Games. It's a game that combines the thrill of building your deck with the excitement of building your deck!

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175846/deck-building-deck-building-game

The News

In the news, we talk about an 3D modeler who has re-created all of the original monsters from original D&D Monster Manual in a 3D printable format. You can now make your own miniatures of classic monsters such as the "Owlbear, the Ettin, and even Tiamat, the many-headed dragon that haunted the dreams of many a Saturday morning cartoon watcher."

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/a-designer-is-making-3d-models-of-the-nasties-in-the-dd-monster-manual/

Kickstarter Spotlight

Our Kickstarter Spotlight focuses on Random Encounters - The RPG Card Game! It's a cooperative RPG card game that allows you to do battle with creatures, find treasure, avoid traps, and fight evil bosses.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/randomencounters/random-encounters-the-rpg-card-game

We also get some great feedback from some of your fellow Adventurers!

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with Glenn who is at GenCon. He gives us insight into what GenCon is like, what surprises he found, what vendors brought their "A game", the most talked about games at the convention, who he got to rub elbows with, and tips to make your future convention visits a little better. He even may have met some folks that could appear in a future meeting of the Adventure Party!

Glenn reviews The Builders: Middle Ages. It's a game that is all about building, recruiting and managing your workforce. You keep building until someone gets 17 points. Then the round is over. You earn money and at the end of the game your score accordingly.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/144553/builders-middle-ages

In the news, we discuss an article from Geek & Sundry, The Unspoken Rules of Gaming Conventions. These may be the five most important tips you may ever read to help make your next convention visit even better.

https://geekandsundry.com/geek-etiquette-tips-gaming-at-conventions/

Our Kickstarter Spotlight shines on Ninja Camp. Anthropomorphic ninja clans navigate the board with the cards in your hand. Each ninja has a unique skill that gives them an advantage. It's a family game that we think you'll enjoy.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/actionphasegames/ninja-camp

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with Gary Astleford.

Gary has added something cool to the Girl Scout Troops in the San Diego County area. A D&D Girl Scout Workshop that can net them a badge. We’re going to talk about how this idea came to fruition, what benefits does Gary see for these young ladies who get their RPG badge and how he came up with his streamlined 5th Edition character sheets. The wonderful thing about what he has done is that he's set up a site where he's shared his materials so that ANY scout troop in the nation can set up their own workshop! You get the character sheets and scenarios to make this happen. Find out more at http://www.dungeonscouts.com/

Glenn reviews Specter Ops. It's a game where one player is an spy. Everyone else is trying to hunt the player down and capture the spy. One of the other players is there to aid the spy. It has elements of Scotland Yard and Fury of Dracula. The game lasts about 40 minutes. There is a lot of planning involved with each play you make.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/144553/builders-middle-ages

In the news, we discuss the separating of Steve Jackson Games from the GURPS Traveller property. Once the stock in their warehouse is gone, they will be done with it. If you're a GURPS Traveller fan, buy it up before December 31st.

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/steve-jackson-games-to-not-renew-traveller-license/

Our Kickstarter Spotlight shines on Gods and Monsters. Select the mythos of gods you'd like to play and then build your deck. Your deck will help you accomplish your in-game goals. The miniatures in this game are almost unreal! The quality really shines though and you would be able to repurpose these into any RPG you might play, as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2129612089/gods-and-monsters

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with Benjamin Loomes of Syrinscape. It's a downloadable soundtrack for your gaming experience for all sorts of devices and desktop computers. Benjamin has an extensive background in music and sound design and we spoke about what it takes to make it happen.

Glenn reviews the board game called Scoville. Growing the hottest pepper in the land takes skill and keeping the people of Scoville happy with a steady supply of hot peppers is a challenge. It's a 60-90 minute game that has a great replay value.

Our news story is all about the latest release from Syrinscape called Dragon's Demand. A multipurpose sound pack that has kobolds, lightning elementals, a ferocious green dragon, and much more. Benjamin filled in some other details and gave us a bit more of the inside workings of his latest release.

Our Kickstarter Spotlight of the week is 100 Swords. It's a deck based game that is fun and fast paced. Don't confuse it with Munchkin. The game play is very different and has unique cards that can make each game play differently from the last.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with Kenneth Hite. He's a game designer, author, and Cthulu Mythos scholar. He has released the latest update to Night's Black Agents called The Dracula Dossier. The system that Night's Black Agents uses is called GUMSHOE and we got to talk to Kenneth about the benefits of the system, why the Cthulu Mythos is so interesting, what Kickstarter has done for the game industry, the joy of writing kid's themed parody books, and working on his own podcast called Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.

Glenn reviews the game Evolution, where you get a chance to create life and do your best to keep it alive. It's a game of resource management and strategy for up to 6 players.

We then talk about Modiphius creating games based on John Carter of Mars, (which Brad mistakenly credits to Robert E. Howard). There will be an RPG and a board game, all set in the world of Barsoom.

Ryan Murphy gives us the latest PC and console game news.

Our Kickstarter Spotlight is the card game called The Voting Game. A game that could make or break friendships as up to 6 people vote on who is the most likely to do certain things.

We also got some feedback from listeners, that we discuss.

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In this meeting of the Adventure Party, we talk with the creator of the RPG, Unchained Heroes. We find out what it takes to put together a game from concept to printing physical copies of the book, how the real-time combat system of Unchained Heroes works and some interesting play testing issues that came up while developing the game.

Glenn reviews the Clever Mojo board game called Formula E. A face paced game of elephant racing. A fun and interesting game for up to 6 players that takes about an hour to play.

The RPG, Blue Rose, is in the news. The game was released 10 years ago but is finding new life, new powers, and a revamped rules system. They even got Stephanie Law to do the cover artwork again. This romantic fantasy game was thought to be controversial, because it is LGBT inclusive. Times have changed and now new life and a reissue will bring this game back to the foreground.

Ryan Murphy has another Galactic Gaming News bite for us and goes over some of the latest PC and console gaming news for us.

Last but not least, our Kickstarter Spotlight features the Reaper Bones 3 project. Reaper Miniatures specializes in high quality plastic miniatures. They're funding a new run of miniatures and now's your chance to get a heap of new miniatures for your campaigns.

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In this meeting, we talk Magic the Gathering with 'Scary' Terry Stevens of Rock 94.7. Terry has been playing Magic for a long time and has passed this love of the game on to his kids. Terry has also been following the story lines that have gone with each expansion of the game. He took some time to share that knowledge with us.

Glenn reviews the Funforge board game called Samurai Spirit. It's a co-op game in which you and up to six others can defend a village against it's impending doom from bandits. While it only goes 3 rounds, it's a brutal game where it's very possible to lose.

In the news, we have the latest Shadowrun release called Chrome Flesh. You have more options to trick out your street samurai or rigger with new cyberware.

Ryan Murphy has the latest Galactic Gaming News on the PC and console gaming front.

Our Kickstarter Spotlight focuses on the Wasteland Playing cards. If you loved the game, you'll love these Wasteland themed playing card decks.

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