Pod of Blunders

All good things must come to an end, and our stretch of Heroes of Tara content is no different. Don't be sad that it's over, be glad that Jake Duerksen is so incredibly generous with his time! Also, our editor/cohost Richard went a little nuts with one particular sound effect towards the end of this episode so...brace yourself!

The Heroes of Tara Kickstarter will be live until August 1st, 2021 so go get everything you need to run your own adventures in Ériu today.

Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1955128460/heroes-of-tara-players-guide

Also, head to the Heroes of Tara website (https://www.heroesoftara.com/) for contact information and for a link to their Discord. If you're lucky, you'll have a chance to play a game with Jake, as well.

If you want to support the show and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Can't get enough Heroes of Tara? We can't, either! Lucky for us, Jake Duerksen, the creator of HoT, is incredibly generous with his time. Not only did Jake agree to a Hearthside Chat, he ran a great adventure for us, too!

His Kickstarter will be live until August 1st, 2021 so go get everything you need to run your own adventures in Ériu today.

Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1955128460/heroes-of-tara-players-guide

Also, head to the Heroes of Tara website (https://www.heroesoftara.com/) for contact information and for a link to their Discord. If you're lucky, you'll have a chance to play a game with Jake, as well.

If you want to support the show and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

What do you get when you combine a person's passion for Celtic mythology with his love of 5th edition D&D? Heroes of Tara! I mean, how did you not guess that? It's right in the title...

Moving on...

We had a great time interviewing Jake (@jacobvduerksen) who is both the author and writer of this amazing setting/player's guide. His Kickstarter will be live until August 1st, 2021 so go get everything you need to run your own adventures in Ériu today.

Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1955128460/heroes-of-tara-players-guide

Oh...and we also have a two-part actual play coming up over the next few weeks so stay tuned if you want to see the setting in action. We're so glad Jake was able to be so generous with his time!

If you want to support the show and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Welp, I know I said NOVA was awesome in the previous show notes but now that I've actually played it...it turns out it's super awesome. And know what was even better? The fact that the amazingly talented Spencer Campbell ran the game for us! That's right, that Spencer Campbell! Creator of NOVA!

Yeah, it's okay to feel a little envious.

NOVA's Kickstarter is going on right now (it's fully funded!!) so hop on prior to July 3rd, 2021 and secure your copy.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegilaboy/nova-2/description

Spencer's also got a TON of fantastic games on his itch.io page worth checking out (Slayers is a personal favorite)

https://gilarpgs.itch.io/

And if you want to see more content for LUMEN, check out the jam that's going on RIGHT NOW!!

https://itch.io/jam/lumen-jam

If you want to support our show and help ensure we can keep bringing you actual plays, interview, and a ton more content, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

NOVA is so awesome. Sorry to come in strong like that, but it is. We had the chance to speak with its creator, Spencer Campbell, and he was kind enough to run the game for us, too! That episode will becoming out next week but, in the meantime, I hope you enjoy our conversation about NOVA, LIGHT, and a slew of other fantastic games.

NOVA's Kickstarter is going on right now (it's fully funded!!) so hop on prior to July 3rd, 2021 and secure your copy. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegilaboy/nova-2/description

Spencer's also got a TON of fantastic games on his itch.io page worth checking out (Slayers is a personal favorite)                https://gilarpgs.itch.io/

And if you want to see more content for LUMEN, check out the jam they're holding for it                                                                  https://itch.io/jam/lumen-jam

If you want to support the show and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews with fantastic indie designers like Spencer, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Richard and Nate decided to ignore the millions upon millions of fans begging to come on the show and rocked this episode on their own. Their egos cannot be contained. 

And, of course, they couldn't stand to tell a normal heartwarming story, no. They had to go and spin the tale of Devin, a recently divorced janitor who wanted nothing more than to become a wizard and the washed up dodgeball trainer who saw in him the heart of a champion.

Yeah, they got weird with it. Surprise!

If you want to get weird with it, grab a copy of Fight Bears, Cough Blood, Kill God for yourself via https://luciellaes.itch.io/fight-bears-cough-blood-kill-god. 

Oh, and in addition to this actual play, Nate also reviewed the game for the website! 

https://podofblunders.com/2021/06/11/fight-bears-cough-blood-kill-god/

Our ad this week is for our spinoff/bonus podcast, "Jumping the Street Sharks", the first two episodes of which are out right now! Our first episode is free to everyone but, after that, we're going to use future episodes to entice people into supporting us via Patreon. Head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

How do you interview a person who does not exist? This is not rhetorical. We have it on good authority that Heather Flowers (@HTHRFLWRS) does not exist and yet our good friend Eric Crumrine (@ECrumrine) managed to finagle an interview with them. It boggles the mind.

The tabletop version of Heather's LUDICROUSLY COOL game, Extreme Meatpunks Forever, is on Kickstarter right now and, as previously mentioned, is LUDICROUSLY COOL. You can be a queer person in a meat mech and punch neo-n*zis! It's true! Also, you can do many of those things in real life so don't let your dreams be dreams!

Sure, you could check out the PWYW quickstart here...but you could also get the full version of the game for yourself here. Treat yourself. 

Once again, I need to give a special thanks to our friend and occasional guest host Eric Crumrine for interviewing our guest this week. If you want to hear more from Eric, you should check out his Twitch streams - https://www.twitch.tv/falconwizard. You can also message him on Twitter @ECrumrine in case you want him to be a guest on YOUR podcast or game or stream. It's all the rage these days.

Our ad this week is for our spinoff/bonus podcast, "Jumping the Street Sharks", the first three episodes of which are out right now! Our first episode is free to everyone but, after that, we're going to use future episodes to entice people into supporting us via Patreon. Head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Shoutout to my cohost/editor Richard for getting this episode edited while recovering from surgery! You're the best!

I hope you enjoy the conclusion to our Mothership actual play with players Jenna, Ryan, and Richard. Also, as we mentioned last week, Warden Nate totally biffed one of the rules. You don't roll for stress after each failed roll, only after each failed save. Unless Nate was just playing on hardcore mode and didn't tell anyone. I guess we'll never know...

Anyway!

If you want a copy of Mothership and/or this specific adventure, head on over to Tuesday Knight Games! We don't get a referral kickback or anything, we just think they're neat!

I feel like I say this a lot but I want to give a special thanks to our friend and occasional guest host Eric Crumrine for providing his vocal talents on this week's episode. Though the players didn't find the message he recorded for us, we made sure to include it here anyway. If you want to hear more from Eric, you should check out his Twitch streams - https://www.twitch.tv/falconwizard. You can also message him on Twitter @ECrumrine in case you want him to be a guest on YOUR podcast or game or stream. It's all the rage these days.

Our ad this week is for our spinoff/bonus podcast, "Jumping the Street Sharks", the first two episodes of which are out right now! Our first episode is free to everyone but, after that, we're going to use future episodes to entice people into supporting us via Patreon. Head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Captains Log, Stardate 98989.62: Anyone else tired of optimistic and hopeful SciFi futures presented in so much of our media? Well don't worry, we've got the cure for that! This week Jenna, Ryan, Rich, and Nate are proud to present the first half of our Mothership actual play. Also, Nate totally biffed one of the rules. You don't roll for stress after each failed roll, only after each failed save. Unless Nate was just playing on hardcore mode and didn't tell anyone. I guess we'll never know...

Anyway!

If you want a copy of Mothership and/or this specific adventure, head on over to Tuesday Knight Games! We don't get a referral kickback or anything, we just think they're neat!

And again, a huge thanks to Zach Walsh of Scheduled for Launch for his fantastic guest voice acting work. If you want to hear more of Zach's voice (and who wouldn't) be sure to check out the link above to listen to his indie game interview podcast!

Our ad this week is for our spinoff/bonus podcast, "Jumping the Street Sharks", the first episode of which is out right now! Our first episode will be free to everyone but, after that, we're going to use future episodes to entice people into supporting us via Patreon. Head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Game designer Adam Blumenau (@AdamBlumenau) stopped by to chat about his fantastic tarot-based RPG, Hesitation at the Gate. He's an incredibly creative and thoughtful designer and I think that really comes through in this interview! I can't wait to see what Adam comes up with next.

To grab a copy of Hesitation at the Gate for yourself (and Adam's other RPG materials) head to his itch.io page - https://itch.io/profile/radmad

If you'd like to support the show, please consider heading to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you.

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!