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Third in the series of episodes from Conpulsion.

This time I bring you, with out most pleasure, an interview with Kevin Beimers, the mind behind Italic Pig. I could tell you what that is, but Kevin explains much better than I could during the interview.

Not an interview about RPGs or Board Games, but about videogames for the mobile platform, but I think you’ll find it interesting. Or I hope you will!

Enjoy the show! (please)

As usual, your feedback is most appreciated, so please do feel free to email us on [email protected] and let us know what you think!

Look forward to hearing from you!

Second episode from the panels that took place at Conpulsion. Landscape art with Paul Bourne and Paul Canavan.

Both artists have extensive experience in creating landscape art in Role Playing games and Videogames and they’re only so happy to talk about their experiences, landscapes, software and the work they’ve done.

And with good reason. They’re bloody brilliant!

Remember that our friends at Nearly Enough Dice also have a bunch of interviews and videos int heir website!

As usual, your feedback is most appreciated, so please do feel free to email us on [email protected] and let us know what you think!

Look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy the show!

I could tell everyone that I’ve been to Conpulsion. Again. But it’d be annoying because I keep going on about it. But that’s because it’s a great convention!

Anyway, while over there, I recorded some audio of the seminars – some of the seminars, that is – and I thought someone might be interested in them.

So here is the first of them and I’ll be releasing the rest as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, hope you enjoy this seminar about World Building with Ian Lowson, Phil Harris and Kevin Beimers!

Although not everyone is keen on Kickstarter, it can’t be argued that it has helped a lot of projects that otherwise wouldn’t have seen the light of day.

Whether that is a good thing or not, depends on how much you like those products and whether those products are out already or not.

Shadowland is a weird mix of both circumstances.

Whereas there is no doubt it is a product of immense quality – you only have to look at the existing material to realise that – the first Kickstarter hasn’t been finalised yet as product, and they have the second Kickstarter going on, and succeeding, for more material.

What’s that all about?

Who better to ask than one of the two people behind the Kickstarter and the Shadowland itself?

So that’s what Vickey and I did!

Enjoy the show!

Another episode of the podcast and Dr Reddy and myself since Kara has a “Family” to look after. It would appear a “family” is a condition that affects most humans at some stage in their lives and they are not always malign. In fact it would seem they can be benign. However I haven’t seen that in Facebook or in a photo with a cute kitten, so I won’t believe it right away.

So Dr Reddy and I had a good natter. One you’ll find interesting, we hope!

For starters we talk about my interview with Matt Buchholtz from Crit Juice. We discuss what makes that podcast successful and the work that goes behind producing something as polished at that, even if a bunch of guys drinking around a game of Dungeons & Dragons doesn’t sound like it.

We also talk about my recent trip to Edinburg, where I enjoyed a weekend of terrific talks at Conpulsion, Scotland’s biggest and best Role Playing Games convention.

During the convention, experienced Role Playing authors like Ian Lowson mingled with video games producers like Kevin Beimers or Luke Dicken. Of course they weren’t the only ones there and for a full list of the rather talented people present at the convention, please click here.

Of course the fact that they were truly enjoyable doesn’t mean I’d be able to remember the names of the videogames mentioned. No matter how many times Kevin mentioned Badge of Carnage or Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark, you can count on me to forget the name when we’re recording!

Hope you enjoy the show!

As usual, your feedback is most appreciated, so please do feel free to email us on [email protected] and let us know what you think!

Look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy the show!

Welcome back humans of all the Galaxy!

In this rather awesome episode, I bring you Matt Buchholtz, the second more difficult to pronounce surname I’ve ever had in the podcast, and the first member from the Crit Juice actual play podcast to come and talk to me.

Crit Juice is a actual-play podcast with a difference or two, though.

For starters is fun.

Secondly, it’s not just a bunch of guys playing games around a table. It is a bunch of guys playing games around a table getting drunker and drunker as the game progresses. And yes, they get funnier and funnier too.

But thirdly, we are talking about professionals here. These are a bunch of guys who actually act and write comedy. For real.

I could tell you a lot about them, but I’m sure the photo does give away a fair bit. And what the photo doesn’t give away, the interview will indeed!

A bit later than I wanted and mostly because of work commitments not letting me publish this episode on time, here’s our first attempt to the Game Buffet!

But before we start on the buffet, though, we discuss what’s probably one of the most controversial Kickstarter project to date. The Emperor’s New Clothes. By now this project is well and truly over, but its quirky and unique approach to boardgames has meant is indeed not for everyone.

We also discuss, well… argue… about the qualities of the art direction in the latest series of games by AEG; Mercante, Dominare and Courtier.

And lastly, the Game Buffet. This buffet’s theme: Guilty Pleasures. This is a new thing we’re trying, so your feedback could be very much appreciated.

Each one of us proposes a series of games and tell the reasons why that game should be featured in the top 10 of the list. Then we discuss why the game should or shouldn’t be in the list, and if it should be in a high or low position.

As usual, your feedback is most appreciated, so please do feel free to email us on [email protected] and let us know what you think!

The joy of being able to speak more than language (two in my case) is that you can read books in all those languages, which is what I’ve done this time.

I realise that the attractive might be less for you if you can’t speak Spanish, but I have recently been very gladly surprised by La Puerta de Ishtar, as you might know if you’ve read my review here. Taking advantage that Jenn and Vickey were going to be around for a chat, I thought I’d talk with them about it.

We also talked about Gigax Magazine and take a close look at the first issue, what we liked, what we didn’t like and what we hope the magazine will have to offer in the future.

As always, we’re more than happy to receive your feedback and to do so you can email us on [email protected] or leave a voice message by clicking the tab to the side!

Look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy the show!

Role Playing Games publishers come and go all the time. To the point that it is very difficult to keep up with the influx of new titles and the companies behind them.

This means that grabbing my attention is certainly not easy, but when you grab my attention… well, you’ve got it!

That is what Len Pimentel did before he created his company Lakeside Games with the idea of bringing new ideas and new games into the RPG scene.

With an emphasis on short preparation time and quick gameplay that leaves plenty of room for the players and GMs to play the game the way they want to, rather than the way they’re “meant” to.

With Hughesville High now out, this is your chance to play in the decade that needs a lot of taking the mickey of. The 80’s!

But don’t take it from me. Listen to the interview and make up your mind!

Squirmish games are that sort of games that fascinate me and scare me. They scare me more than they fascinate me, which is why I’ve never got into any of them. The huge tomes of rules, the tons and tons of rules to become familiar with (or so they look like to me) and the pretty huge amount of money some minis cost have put me off so far.

And then came Torn Armor. Firstly it was recommended to me by my friend Jonathan Roberts. Wen I looked into it, I was properly hooked. The lovely miniatures and the fact that is very easy to get to grips with were winners.

But this is a Kickstarter project and we all know that, no matter how nice they look, sometimes they don’t turn up to be as good as they appear, so I had to talk to the designer, Alyssa Faden.

Alyssa is a well known cartographer. Her maps are truly stunning and she’s been commissioned to do too many maps to mention.

That work indeed reflects in Torn Armor, but she’s also shown to have a truly terrific taste for miniatures, which is also very reassuring. With some breath-taking Behemots and a gorgeous Clockwork Dragon from Reaper Miniatures, Torn Armor promises to be really, really cool.

But don’t take it from me, take it from the lady herself and listen to the interview. You might be surprised, and hopefully inspired, by what you hear!