Plot Points

This week we take a look at The Vortex for Monte Cook's Numenera! The gang goes over the many innovations the game represents, and takes a good hard look at the adventure meant to introduce what Numenera is to gamers. 

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This week, the gang talks about the recent news that Microsoft is looking at making a TV show out of the Deadlands rpg.

In this soliloquy, Ben runs through Egyptian history, Joseph Campbell, and the D&D ruleset to prove that not only are RPGs myth-generation engines, they represent an epochal shift in the history of myth. Powers once reserved for priests and emperors are, via RPGs, brought to anyone with a D6 and Pathfinde Core Book.

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"Tower of the Serpents" by Brennan Taylor from Fate Worlds gets the Plot Points treatment in this month's episode. Our hosts erupt in argument and discord over the adventure, but no spiders were harmed in the making of this episode.

By popular demand, Plot Points is now presented in a single episode!

Also, come see Plot Points live! We'll be at the Nexus Game Fair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Friday, June 20th!  

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Plot Points has been invited to depart the close and comforting confines of Rainbird Studios and venture out into the wide world at the Nexus Game Fair in beautiful downtown Milwaukee, which has completely recovered from last autumn's deadly zombie outbreak. See Sarah, Brad, Ben and Producer Chris in the flesh (and such flesh it is). Marvel at their physical forms! Take part in a Q&A! Prove to them that you too exist!

We'd love to see you! June 20th, 2014 at 8 PM at the Nexus Game Fair!

http://www.nexusgamefair.com/#!/page_home

The gang discusses how to get new people into gaming, with and emphasis on the revolutionary busines model and introduction of gaming to countless children at the Brooklyn Strategist. 

Thanks to all our new listeners, especially those of you in Canada, Illinois, and Europe!

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Today, we are thrilled to finish our discussion with Rob "Wild Dog" Wieland, author of Bucking the Tiger for the Firefly RPG by Margaret Weis Productions.

You can find Bucking the Tiger, which in this man's humble opinion may be the best adventure for novices written in the past four years, right here on DriveThruRPG:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/129444/Firefly-Echoes-of-War-Bucking-the-Tiger

You can find the Firefly RPG here on DriveThruRPG:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/128012/Firefly-RolePlaying-Game-Corebook

Thanks to all our new listeners, especially those of you in Missouri, Indiana, and Pennsylvania! Thanks to SuperNova72 for a super-awesome iTunes review!

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This week, the gang tackles Bucking the Tiger by Rob Wieland for the all-new, bestselling, Firefly Role-Playing Game published by Margaret Weis Productions. As a special treat, for the first time ever, we actually have the author himself in Rainbird Studio to discuss his work!

You can find the Firefly RPG here on DriveThruRPG:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/128012/Firefly-RolePlaying-Game-Corebook

Bucking the Tiger itself will be available for purchase on Tuesday, May 6th 2014. Check out the 'cast and then pick up the adventure, which may be the best adventure for novices written in the past four years. 

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Ben flies solo in this week's episode, inquiring about what psychology can tell us about gaming, and suggesting that gaming may be a more noble thing than we have heretofore considered. 

This week, we complete our discussion of Last Unicorn Games' Star Trek: The Next Generation RPG. We'll be back next Friday with a new episode! 

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