The Adventuring Party

EPISODE 591

This week's hosts: Shiv, Savage and Shane

This week, the party discuss the Medieval period, and how it was more interesting that it's usually given credit for.

Show notes:

00:45: ‘A Hector of Grain’

01:13: ‘The well from which we mine the mind-silver of our generic fantasy’ - Truly, the world was spared when I decided not to become a speechwriter

02:25: Shiv starts us off with Demographics and Population Density

04:04: Dublinia, a spot that’s well worth a visit if you’re in Dublin and there’s no quarantine

05:58: Savage gets us back to what we should be doing: Blaming the English

09:30: Travel – People did do it

11:30: Regional Economics

11:55: Homogeneity – Mostly just a myth

13:14: ‘Lancelot is meant to be French’d’

13:26: Palamedes, the Token Black Guy of Arthurian Myth

14:18: ‘Muck-raking seraph’

15:50: Differing levels of worldliness depending on where you are

18:00: Issues of Land Ownership and Trespassing

19:00: The peasants might not be ignorant but they were revolting

19:57: Lack of liquid currency, reliance on barter and trade goods

22:02: Turns out the solution was on your character sheet. Checkmate, OSRists

22:30: Medieval Industry

23:20: Magenta – A Lie made up by Satan

24:35: Landsknechts

25:30: Fairs and Celebrations

27:00: Acceptable Breaks from Medieval Reality

28:33: Feudal Scifi like Dune and Warhammer 40000

29:22: Someone in town probably knows your language and can read your letter

30:15: There’s some flavour to throw into your Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign

32:!5: If I could walk with the manticores, talk with the manticores, claw and bite and sting with the manticores....

33:41: The ‘Medieval Mindset’

34:37: Our well-timed and extremely tasteful episode on Plague

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EPISODE 591

This week's hosts: Shiv, Savage and Shane

This week, the party discuss the Medieval period, and how it was more interesting that it's usually given credit for.

Show notes:

00:45: ‘A Hector of Grain’

01:13: ‘The well from which we mine the mind-silver of our generic fantasy’ - Truly, the world was spared when I decided not to become a speechwriter

02:25: Shiv starts us off with Demographics and Population Density

04:04: Dublinia, a spot that’s well worth a visit if you’re in Dublin and there’s no quarantine

05:58: Savage gets us back to what we should be doing: Blaming the English

09:30: Travel – People did do it

11:30: Regional Economics

11:55: Homogeneity – Mostly just a myth

13:14: ‘Lancelot is meant to be French’d’

13:26: Palamedes, the Token Black Guy of Arthurian Myth

14:18: ‘Muck-raking seraph’

15:50: Differing levels of worldliness depending on where you are

18:00: Issues of Land Ownership and Trespassing

19:00: The peasants might not be ignorant but they were revolting

19:57: Lack of liquid currency, reliance on barter and trade goods

22:02: Turns out the solution was on your character sheet. Checkmate, OSRists

22:30: Medieval Industry

23:20: Magenta – A Lie made up by Satan

24:35: Landsknechts

25:30: Fairs and Celebrations

27:00: Acceptable Breaks from Medieval Reality

28:33: Feudal Scifi like Dune and Warhammer 40000

29:22: Someone in town probably knows your language and can read your letter

30:15: There’s some flavour to throw into your Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign

32:!5: If I could walk with the manticores, talk with the manticores, claw and bite and sting with the manticores....

33:41: The ‘Medieval Mindset’

34:37: Our well-timed and extremely tasteful episode on Plague

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Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous!

We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! - https://discord.gg/VW6NUJe

Find us on Facebook here. Leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends!

Come ear-watch us on Youtube. Leave a comment!

We are on Spotify? Yup, you can listen to us over there too!

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The hosts can be contacted by good old email at [email protected]

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The Adventuring Party is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike version 3 licence.

EPISODE 590

This week's hosts: Eoin, Savage and Shane

This week, the party discuss NPCs in RPGs, and why they just can’t get any danged respect.

Show notes:

01:45: Starting off with some shocking truths

03:00: Eoin starts by blaming bad players

04:00: We’re already on the flipside: The NPC who gets too much attention. Efficient podcasting like this is how we win awards.
04:50: Eoin continues by blaming the GMs

06:30: Clearly the problem is lack of information. Keep the players informed and surely they’ll react properly

10:00: Episode on Risk is recorded and will be coming your way soon!

11:50: Editting your NPCs to suit what your players think about them

13:45: Use multiple lesser NPCs instead of relying on a few super-realised ones

15:10: Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master. Mike ‘Sly Flourish’ Shea is a font of advice for Gms, well worth checking out his website and his books

16:30: Show, Don’t Tell how the NPCs should relate to the party

20:00: “You must rap battle for the right to save our lives!”

22:05: Advice straight from the Codex Astartes, probably

22:50: Murderhobos as the consequence of NPCs not getting on the players’ side

23:50: Respect is a two-way street

27:15: Possible future topic? Let us know if you want to hear us talk Motivation

30:00: The mechanics of disrespect

30:45: Some people want to be dragons, Mick. Has the internet taught you nothing?

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Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous!

We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! - https://discord.gg/VW6NUJe

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Come ear-watch us on Youtube. Leave a comment!

We are on Spotify? Yup, you can listen to us over there too!

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The hosts can be contacted by good old email at [email protected]

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The Adventuring Party is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike version 3 licence.

EPISODE 590

This week's hosts: Eoin, Savage and Shane

This week, the party discuss NPCs in RPGs, and why they just can’t get any danged respect.

Show notes:

01:45: Starting off with some shocking truths

03:00: Eoin starts by blaming bad players

04:00: We’re already on the flipside: The NPC who gets too much attention. Efficient podcasting like this is how we win awards.
04:50: Eoin continues by blaming the GMs

06:30: Clearly the problem is lack of information. Keep the players informed and surely they’ll react properly

10:00: Episode on Risk is recorded and will be coming your way soon!

11:50: Editting your NPCs to suit what your players think about them

13:45: Use multiple lesser NPCs instead of relying on a few super-realised ones

15:10: Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master. Mike ‘Sly Flourish’ Shea is a font of advice for Gms, well worth checking out his website and his books

16:30: Show, Don’t Tell how the NPCs should relate to the party

20:00: “You must rap battle for the right to save our lives!”

22:05: Advice straight from the Codex Astartes, probably

22:50: Murderhobos as the consequence of NPCs not getting on the players’ side

23:50: Respect is a two-way street

27:15: Possible future topic? Let us know if you want to hear us talk Motivation

30:00: The mechanics of disrespect

30:45: Some people want to be dragons, Mick. Has the internet taught you nothing?

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Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous!

We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! - https://discord.gg/VW6NUJe

Find us on Facebook here. Leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends!

Come ear-watch us on Youtube. Leave a comment!

We are on Spotify? Yup, you can listen to us over there too!

Twitter! Follow us on twitter  @adventuringpty Will we follow you back? Are you cool? Maybe!

The hosts can be contacted by good old email at [email protected]

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The Adventuring Party is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike version 3 licence.

You bought it, broke it and now you have to play it. This week the party sit down and ruminate on the wisdom of turning rulings into rules and tinkering under the hood while your game is still on the road. There's no roadmap for this one and it's a long way to the next errata, so you are going to need to fix your own fixes to keep things running.

This week's hosts: Eoin, Icecream, Shane & Savage. Special Guest: Conrad Kinch

You bought it, broke it and now you have to play it. This week the party sit down and ruminate on the wisdom of turning rulings into rules and tinkering under the hood while your game is still on the road. There's no roadmap for this one and it's a long way to the next errata, so you are going to need to fix your own fixes to keep things running.

Find Conrad and  his excellent podcast over here - Send Three & Fourpence - https://anchor.fm/conrad-kinch/

Come hangout with the Party on Discord - https://discord.gg/VW6NUJe

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The hosts can be contacted by good old email at [email protected]

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EPISODE 588

This week's hosts: Shiv, Eoin, Savage and Shane

This week, the party return to the topic of roleplaying online internet, one month on, and relates their trials and triumphs in the new isolated game-o-sphere.

Show notes:

01:30: Foundry Virtual Tabletop

01:50: Roll20

02:24: Discord, used to record these Covid-era episodes

02:58: Sadly, we never got around to talking about boardgames in the actual episode, so I’ll just link to Board Game Arena here and hope that’s good enough for the curious.

16:45: The death of Pointless Table Chatter?

18:55: Savage stealing bread out of the mouths of Mr. Roll20’s newborn children

21:55: The problem of hearing about something but not being able to ‘see’ it on the virtual table.

25:20: Are VTTs just highlighting communication problems we already had?

27:38: Some sadly realistic predictions from Eoin

29:30: Has the training online helped us all rise to be better GMs and players?

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Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous!

We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! - https://discord.gg/VW6NUJe

Find us on Facebook here. Leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends!

Come ear-watch us on Youtube. Leave a comment!

We are on Spotify? Yup, you can listen to us over there too!

Twitter! Follow us on twitter  @adventuringpty Will we follow you back? Are you cool? Maybe!

The hosts can be contacted by good old email at [email protected]

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This week the party kick in the doors of a lair of 10 O'clock monsters and start handing out slaps. But why? Why are we here? Why are the monsters here? What do we even want? In response to a recent episode of Send Three & Fourpence we are talking about using cheap violence to pad out or spice up your games, depending on your preference. Let's Fight!

This week the party gear up with masks and gloves before poking the topic of using a plague in your game with a ten-foot pole. How can a crisis of global impact and horrific consequences possibly bring drama and adventure to a world of gods and monsters? Let's find out!

This week the party tip out the mailbag and address their accusers before ripping into the headlines and delivering some spicy hot takes on the recentish gaming news.