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            This is a bonus special announcement episode by Mark S. of DunDraCon.    In Feb. 14-17th, 2020 DDC will be at the San Ramon Marriot where it has been for the last 28 years.  But in 2021 DunDraCon is moving to the Santa Clara Marriot in Santa Clara.  We wanted to put this news out as quickly as possible so we give you the interview announcement without editing.  Mark shares with us the big news and other changes that he is planning on making starting in 2020 at DDC and then the "Big Change" in 2021 to Santa Clara.  We would like to thank Mark for sharing breaking information.

    As Always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share this podcast with friends and family.

     In this episode we discuss our play test of John Carter of Mars rpg.  It is published by Modiphius and uses the 2D20 system.  This is a "streamlined" version of the 2D20 system used in Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, Conan RPG, Star Trek Adventures and the Infinity RPG.  Saul and Jolene played this with their friend Steve and our collective kids.  Saul gave a quick introduction to the setting, rules and we were off to a fantastic adventure on Barsoom.  Thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your friends and family.

    Full disclosure we received a PDF of the rules from Modiphius.

     Music is back. 

   Music by Jahzzar, song Seas of Mars off the album  Galaxy.   

     This week Saul and Jolene talk about the four letter word in some RPG circles, Metagaming.  In this episode both Saul and Jolene give their definition of what metagaming is.   Is metagaming terrible?  It is just bad?  Or is it a legitimate way of playing rpgs?  Saul and Jolene tackle this topic though it is a very subjective one.  Give it a listen and see what is too much metagaming for Saul and what he tries to do to mitigate what he thinks is too much metagaming at his game table.

     As always thanks for listening.  Always glad to see new states and countries that download our podcast.  Canada!! England and Norway are some top downloads outside the U.S. and the latest one is Israel and a country by the initials of CW.  We had to look up what country this was and it is known as Curaçao. Its a tiny island north of South America.  Thanks to all of you  for listening we really appreciate it.  All we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends to get our podcast to as many ears as possible. 

    Sorry no intro music this week as we could not get to download anything from the usual site we usually use for getting our intro music.   If any listener wants to send us some of their music.  We will gladly use and and credit you.  Just email us at [email protected]  Thanks again for listening.

     This week Saul and Jolene talk about the four letter word in some RPG circles, Metagaming.  In this episode both Saul and Jolene give their definition of what metagaming is.   Is metagaming terrible?  It is just bad?  Or is it a legitimate way of playing rpgs?  Saul and Jolene tackle this topic though it is a very subjective one.  Give it a listen and see what is too much metagaming for Saul and what he tries to do to mitigate what he thinks is too much metagaming at his game table.

     As always thanks for listening.  Always glad to see new states and countries that download our podcast.  Canada!! England and Norway are some top downloads outside the U.S. and the latest one is Israel and a country by the initials of CW.  We had to look up what country this was and it is known as Curaçao. Its a tiny island north of South America.  Thanks to all of you  for listening we really appreciate it.  All we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends to get our podcast to as many ears as possible. 

    Sorry no intro music this week as we could not get to download anything from the usual site we usually use for getting our intro music.   If any listener wants to send us some of their music.  We will gladly use and and credit you.  Just email us at [email protected]  Thanks again for listening.

     In this Episode we continue the Pre-Kublacon interviews, this one is with Alicia H.   She is a long time gamer, gaming from back when she was a kid and starting RPGs when she was in Jr. High School.  Saul saw her for many years but only thought that she played boardgames since that is all that he saw her play.  But it turns out she is a RPG gamer from a young age.  So in this episode Saul finds out that Alicia isn't a Latina, plays rpgs and is running her first rpg game at a game con at Kublacon.  She is using her years of experience at working at a very popular haunted house that ran for many years here in the Bay Area.  So her first game will be a Haunted House inspired CoC game.  So listen and learn a bit about Alicia, like how to pronounce her name and many more interesting things about this Bay Area gamer and now GM at Kublacon.

     The recording got all messed up with the timing.  We did the best we could to sync up the two different tracks and for the most part we got it to work. except for a bit toward the end where we just could not figure out the two audio tracks.  It is still a great episode and we are very grateful for Alicia H. for joining us on the microphone.  

      As always we thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your friends and family.

     Another episode in our Pre-Kublacon interview series we talk to Wendy-Ann and John who are in charge of Pathfinder Society for the Bay Area.  Wendy-Ann and John do an amazing job being representatives for Paizo organized play.  They are the Venture Captains for the South Bay.  Wendy-Ann and John are the people in charge of Organized play at Kublacon.  They do an amazing job by running over a hundred tables of Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society organized play at Kublacon.   In our interview they talk about their beginning in roleplaying way back in 1975!! How they came to the U.S. and lived on the East Coast moved West to make their home here in the Bay Area and go to their first convention in 2011?? Yes.. 2011!

     How they went from playing Pathfinder Society to running three of ten the biggest Pathfinder Society events at conventions.  It is a great story.  I learned quite a bit about these two delightful people who do a tremendous amount of work and are true goodwill ambassadors of our great hobby.  I would like to thank them for talking to us and giving us insight to their lives and the running of Pathfinder Society events. 

     So if your at Kublacon and the shuffler has not been kind to you.  Check out the Pathfinder Society area where Wendy-Ann and John will do their best to get you playing Pathfinder and having fun!!  I truly thank John and Wendy-Ann for doing the interview. 

     We will be doing two episodes Live From Kublacon Recording on Saturday and Sunday. We will have extra microphones so stop by and say hi and tell us how your Kublacon is going.

     As always thanks for listening and all we ask is for you to share our podcast with your family and friends.