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HOTOE Episode 1

It's finally here!  Out of Space Games brings you Horror on the Orient Express, a Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign, the actual play podcast.  Join us as we officially begin our adventure in 1920s London, but we can guarantee you it won't stop there.  Follow our brave investigators lead by their keeper Jay and find out what perils lie ahead.  Thanks for listening!

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*Note: Don't read the time breaks below if you don't want anything spoiled.

01:29 - Special Abilities

07:10 - Scenario Background

15:35 - The Professor

17:58 - The Job

26:14 - The Room

40:22 - Police Station

44:21 - The Shop

53:17 - The Association

58:34 - The Hotel

1;00:38 - The Dinner

1:07:57 - The Toy

1:20:15 - Credits

Music from Sense Impacts by Chad Fifer and Horror on the Orient Express by Alex Otterlei

Sound FX from freesound.org

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Episode 14

RPG character creation starts at 25:10.

In this week's episode, we discuss one of our favorite horror writers as we approach Halloween.  In addition to talking Lovecraft the man, we also discuss the mythos in general and a bunch of games and influences his work has inspired.  At the end, we finally start our Call of Cthulhu RPG by rolling some characters and filling in the backstories for our brave investigators.  Listen to the process of character creation and the hilarity when appearance rolls go bad.  Thanks for listening, and join us next time for the exciting start to our campaign!

00:50 - Intro to Lovecraft

16:48 - Mythos Board Games (Arkham Horror, Cthulhu Wars, Delta Green)

25:10 - Call of Cthulhu Character Creation

49:20 - Character Intros

56:26 - Final Thoughts

*Note: Some audio issues this episode

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Episode 13

Welcome to the unlucky episode... whatever that means.  We kind of go off the cuff and talk about a wide variety of topics from games to tv, kickstarters to movies in a jam packed episode full of discussion.  Some of the bigger topics we cover are Space Cadets: Dice Duel, the upcoming Spaceteam board game, a ton of Kickstarter arrivals including Kingdom Death: Monster, Warfighter Wave 2, and Coven.  In other media, we venture to Suicide Squad movie talk, the Marvel TV/Netflix universe, Resident Evil movies, The Flash before moving to TV reboots including Prison Break, X-Files, and Heroes Reborn.  Thanks for listening!

00:42 - Apologies and updates

02:00 - Space Cadets: Dice Duel

15:15 - Spaceteam Kickstarter

20:00 - Kickstarter Arrivals

29:45 - More Kickstarters

34:26 - Comic/TV talk

43:06 - TV Reboots

56:05 - Video Games, Shout Outs, Final Thoughts

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Episode 12

Out of Space Games had the opportunity to demo an upcoming board game called Zephyr: Winds of Change from The Portal Dragon, and have plenty of thoughts and feedback, including a live session with one of the game's creators!  We move from there to digital card games and Hearthstone before diving back into deck building games, starting with an odd one called Barbarossa.  We end with some discussion regarding the newly released Journey: Wrath of Demons from Marrow Production.  No overall theme for this episode, but there's plenty of content and topics.

Note: we do still have some technical issues that are affecting audio quality, but are working on fixes.  Thanks for listening!

01:30 - Zephyr: Winds of Change

04:01 - Zephyr Live Impressions/Interview

14:11 - More Zephyr talk

27:36 - Hearthstone, Star Wars Card Trader

38:32 - Wizard World Con, Barbarossa DBG

47:59 - A games we're picking up (Legendary Encounters: Predator, Arctic Scavengers, Shadow Hunters)

51:15 - Journey: Wrath of Demons

1:04:10 - Final Thoughts

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Episode 11

We discuss one of the really cool genres and exciting franchises as the Out of Space Crew talks about asymmetrical games!  Starting off with one of our favorite board games called Tomorrow before moving to the modern-day classic Cthulhu Wars, we end with Aliens vs Predator talk, both video and board game versions.  Not a ton of topics, but we get to dive deeper in each one.  Thanks for listening!

00:55 - What is asymmetrical?

08:07 - Tomorrow

16:49 - Cthulhu Wars

25:33 - Aliens vs Predator 2 PC

40:03 - Aliens vs Predator Board Game

49:25 - Quick Hits and Final Thoughts

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Episode 10 We bring it back to games with one of the biggest gaming conventions out there: Gen Con!  While none of the crew attended this years con, we did have a few friends go and followed the hottest tabletop news during the whole weekend.  In this short(er) recap episode, we cover a few games we found interesting and discuss some of the bigger news to come out of the show.  Leave us some feedback, and thanks for listening! 01:23 - Fantasy Flight Games 10:00 - Portal 15:02 - Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn 21:04 - Zephyr: Winds of Change 23:13 - The Gen Con Experience, Call of Cthulhu 29:35 - Quick Hits and Final Thoughts Zephyr webpage: http://zephyrboardgame.com Polygon article: http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/3/9089959/gencon-best-new-board-games-2015 http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames

Episode 9 San Diego Comic-Con was last week, so we take the opportunity to talk about all the new trailers and movie news from the show including Marvel, DC, zombies, and Star Wars.  Don't worry, we also spend some time discussing gaming as we finally sit down to play some 'outer space' themed board games, giving impressions of Chaosmos and Star Trek: Fleet Captains.  We also talk about board game news with the weird release of Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers and the upcoming Attack on Titan board game.  Next time, we are back with a plethora of board games as we get excited for Gen-Con.  Thanks for listening! 00:50 - The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman 09:13 - Evil Dead 14:18 - Star Wars 18:50 - Deadpool 23:47 - Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse 27:24 - Batman vs Superman 32:47 - Suicide Squad 38:39 - DC Animated 41:49 - Chaosmos 51:31 - Star Trek: Fleet Captains 57:32 - Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers 1:00:50 - Attack on Titan 1:03:24 - Tokyo in Tulsa, Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames

Episode 8 It's the summer of nostalgia with a ton of movies and games hearkening back to our favorite childhood memories.  This week, the Out of Space Crew talks nostalgic board games, video games, and movies, along with some historic Kickstarter news.  We start with E3 announcements of an FF7 remake and Shenmue 3 along with a Fallout and Halo sequel before moving to the blockbuster movies of Jurassic World and Mad Max: Fury Road.  Of course we squeeze in board games as well, looking back at an old Lost World Board Game, and rewind a few years as the FTC has just ruled on an early Kickstarter scam with The Doom that Came to Atlantic City, and finally discuss the newly launched Zombicide: Black Plague.  Our longest episode yet, but packed full of gaming goodness.  Thanks for listening! 01:32 - FF7 Remake 05:37 - Last Guardian 08:30 - Shenmue 3 12:40 - Star Wars Battlefront 18;14 - More E3 28:30 - Jurassic World 42:25 - Jurassic Video Games 45:54 - Mad Max 50:19 - Lost World Board Game 58:50 - Kickstarter FTC Ruling 1:11:31 - Other Kickstarter Mishaps 1:17:48  Zombicide Black Plague 1:24:46 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames

Episode 7 This week we branch off a little bit into geekdom, exploring comics, video games, tv, and movie culture while still discussing fun games, rpgs, and kickstarter news.  We cover a wide variety of topics including Vertigo's Sandman series, Star Wars (movies and games), more Attack Wing, Call of Cthulhu, the Bloodstained Kickstarter from the creator of Castlevania, Chaosmos, Marvel and DC movies, and end with some Star Trek.  Thanks for listening! 00:37 - Sandman 04:30 - Star Wars 07:24 - Attack Wing 17:35 - Call of Cthulhu RPG 30:48 - Bloodstained Kickstarter 35:11 - Chaosmos 39:43 - Superhero shows and movies 53:28 - Star Trek 1:01:26 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames

Episode 6 The best way to get people excited for gaming is to teach them games, but there are many different ways to go about it.  The Out of Space crew talks about their teaching methods, a recent convention experience where we demoed games, and talk a little about our own gaming journey.  Some games we discuss in the episode are Hive, HeroClix, D&D Attack Wing, Boss Monster, Guns of Gettysburg, along with some gaming news and Kickstarter projects.  Thanks for listening! 02:48 - Our gaming history, RPGs to board games 09:45 - Hive, Demoing at Conventions 14:52 - D&D Attack Wing 21:26 - Teaching games, Dean's gaming history 30:19 - Reddit responses 38:30 - Boss Monster & next steps 49:44 - More teaching 52:09 - News and Kickstarters Reddit Thread http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames