Game Store Prophets

In this episode, we give you a feast of gaming stories across tabletop, rpg, and con gaming. Luke builds on the Kublacon update, I talk about playing games with folks from church, and then we talk about the ever present announcement that D&D will be available for free!

And, as per my Future Mike Intrusion, here is a link where  you can get your hands on Honor & Intrigue if you’re interested in the

UPDATE: We had a handful of listeners get back to us about the episode getting cut off prematurely. We think there must have been a glitch in the initial upload. We’ve fixed the problem and you should be able to hear the full version of the episode now. Thanks for your patience and for letting us know about the issue.

I was tempted to entitle this episode Too Many Cows – but I went back and forth on whether or not that would be just crazy enough to entice people to listen, or so bizarre it scares people off. To say the least – this episode starts off in a rather interesting  manner.

Instead, we’ll talk about games the games we’ve been playing, and wonder if the new generation of gamers will be as quick to pick up the standards that brought so many of us into the hobby.

We have some guests with us in this episode. We asked the guys from Saving the Game to come on the podcast and talk with us a bit about the wide and wonderful world of tabletop role playing games. Grant and Peter share some games we’ve never even heard of before and explain the value of playing rpgs as a whole.

If you were curious about role playing games but wasn’t into the sword and sworcery style of D&D – definitely give this a listen.

Some great resources mentioned in this episode:

And, naturally, be sure to check out the guys on their podcast site or find them on the InnRoads Ministries podcast page.

This episode the tabletop news and stories are pretty slim. A series of unfortunate events kept us from the gaming tables. There were fortunate ones too – but I’m sure you’ll agree that any event that takes you away from the table is at least partly unfortunate.

Instead, we banter about video games like Civ 5, Smite, and Hearthstone for a while until that gives way to a discussion about our Pathfinder Play-by-post, Absalom in Shadow, and Luke drops the mic with some philosophical complexity that may make your brain hurt.

We’ve been buys. Between an insane amount of average gaming activity on Luke’s side and all the glorius fun of putting together our tabletop day event, you can even hear it in our voices. However, we recap our gaming experiences as of late, I give a full report on this year’s event, and give my first  impressions of the game Freedom: The Underground Railroad after being contacted by the game’s designer.

Whether it’s International Tabletop Day, or just a regular run of the mill tournament at your FLGS, get out there and get involved with the gaming community and watch how it can do wonderful things in the life of another person.