The Adventuring Party

EPISODE 584

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

This week, the party discuss the only moral thing to do when social distancing: Play games over the internet.

Show notes:

01:16: As of the editing of this episode, the government have reduced this figure to 4 people not of the same household, so the episode has only become more relevant.

01:57: You too can coordinate on our Discord!

06:10: Quote of the Episode: “How do you guys handle conflicts?” “Well we just kinda pick who wins.” “Oh Dear God I’m having a heart attack!”

06:31: Chuubo's Marvellous Wish-Granting Engine, by Jenna Moran

08:19: Roll20

09:49: Foundry Virtual Tabletop

18:20: Our Episode on Pathfinder 2nd Edition

18:29: The closure of FFG Interactive covered in this episode

19:43: Talespire

19:54: The Animated Spellbook, by Zee Bashew

20:49: Five Torches Deep

26:26: Roll For Your Party

35:03: 5e Tools

37:29: A belated mention of Fantasy Grounds

38:50: What could they be talking about? You’ll only find out if you come to the Discord!

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This week the whole world is celebrating St. Patrick's Day, an international holiday dedicated to small-town industry and political muck-flinging that somehow captured the global imagination. The party are safely locked away from any strong drink until they examine the importance of being Irish in roleplaying games and give a few suggestions as to how to depict the luckiest sods on Earth at the table. Mighty Craic!

This week's hosts: Shane and Savage, with Special Guest Conrad.

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This week, Shane and Conrad battle for the soul of Old-School RPGs, while Savage watches from the Pulpit of Neutrality, and occasionally tosses a half-eaten opinion into the ring.

Show notes:

01:04 – This all came from Our First OSR Episode, which has apparently gone down in infamy

01:11 – The baseless accusations begin

02:36 – Sound Effects!

05:01 – To be fair, they also hate 4E

06:14 – Grognardia, which is no longer updated, and Blood of Prokopius, which is still active

08:27 – Savage’s crime

09:40 – The Black Hack, Index Card RPG, Scarlet Heroes and Stars Without Number

09:59 – Gangbusters B/X, which I’d never heard of but amn’t that surprised to find exists.

10:16 – The OSR’s identity problem

11:13 – It took me a while to find out what a Kango hammer is. It seems to be a genericised brandname for pneumatic jackhammers, which I thought were more for breaking concrete than forcing pegs into holes.

11:30 – Our Combat as Sport Vs Combat as War episode

12:35 – Dragonlance, once TSR’s biggest property, now mostly forgotten. And that means the OSR people are remembering a time even before that!

12:41 – Vampire The Masquerade: Transylvania Chronicles. I’ll let WoD Veterans vent their spleens about this one

13:07 – Dolmenwood

13:46 – The actual title is even more pretentious than I made it sound

15:16 – Our Rulings vs Rules episode

16:55 – A weighty math-rock indeed

18:27 – The Midderlands

18:51 – AKA Sturgeon’s Law

21:04 – The Real Rulebook of 5E

22:52 – Don’t give it away so soon!

27:35 – The Shocking Twist!

27:45 – Isle of Dread (Specifically I’m using the fancy hardback version by Goodman Games)

30:16 – If you’d like to hear my pages of wasted diatribes, ask me a question on our Discord Server! Link below.

30:54 – Is this the good future or the bad future, Savage?

31:07 – Joy and Forgetfulness. It seems Blogspot ate Blogger at some point, and no-one really noticed

31:26 – Send Three and Fourpence

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Episode 581

This week's hosts: Shane & Savage. Special Show Friend: Conrad Kinch

This week the party gets out their grimoires and plays Vancian memory games. A system of magic first introduced in the Dying Earth novels, Vancian magic has shaped roleplaying magic systems since the first days of the hobby. Let's see if we can wrap our grey matter around the strain of capturing arcane energies in fragile meat cages!

This week the party dial in on the old party line to talk about how the sausage gets made and what you, dear listener, can do to help improve the show. After that, we pile on to the underpinning ideas of Generic Fantasy settings in RPGs. Shane extolls the good and Savage ravages the bad. Genre fight!

This week Shane and Savage chew the d12s and ruminate on the various recent goings-on in the world of tabletop gaming as well as some wild speculation about non-tabletop gaming and the increasingly blurry line between the two.

This weeks extra music from https://filmmusic.io:

"Call to Adventure" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

 

This Week's Hosts: Mick Savage, Liam and Sean, with Showfriend (Henchman?) Conrad Kinch

 

This week, the party discuss Tutorial Scenarios in RPGs, and which examples they think are best for teaching players and GMs about individual games and RPGs in general.

 

Show Notes (And links, but beware of spoiling yourself):

• 1:59: We're such a cohesive team.

• 3:20: Food Fight, an introductory scenario for Shadowrun

• 3:50: For Call of Cthulhu: The Haunting, Paper Chase, and Edge of Darkness

• 4:50: For D&D 5th Edition: Lost Mines of Phandelver, found in the Starter Set, and Dragon of Icespire Peak, found in the Essentials Kit

• 6:58: Tomb of the Serpent Kings, by one ‘Skerples’. One of the good OSR bloggers, I heartily recommend reading his stuff. There’s a link on the sidebar to where you can purchase a print copy.

• 11:29: Conrad shows his old-school sensibilities

• 12:03: So Cohesive.

• 13:40: The compilation book is Tales from the Yawning Portal. I’m not sure whether Liam is referencing the first scenario, The Sunless Citadel, where there are a lot of goblins but only a few of them are meant to be combatants (but actually going into the goblin hall is suicide), or the second, Forge of Fury, which is infamous for forcing the PCs into a mad dash against the orc sentries trying to wake up the entire tribe (unless you find another way in than the front door).

• 17:35: The Matt Mercer Effect, discussed in our Episode on Actual Play

• 21:55: Dungeoneer from Advanced Fighting Fantasy. One of the supplements for this was the first proper RPG book I owned, but by the time I found a copy I had already moved on to my cousins copy of ‘Black Box’ Basic D&D (which I personally think had a much better ‘Learn how to play and GM through the medium of a choose your own adventure’ example).

• 24:22: Kidnap The Archpriest, again by Skerples

• 26:09: BECMI, also known as Mentzer D&D, was the 3rd version of Basic D&D, which was TSRs money-maker while Gygax was busy with AD&D

• 27:46: I’d be flattered that Savage was hallucinating my presence if it weren’t so creepy

This week's hosts: Shane & Savage. Special Guest: Peter Honer

This week the party sits down with the newly minted Director of Vaticon games convention, hosted by UCD in Dublin. Peter gives us the low-down on what to expect at the con in 2020 and discusses the obstacles facing smaller conventions in the current climate.

This week the party bars the door and slips a cudgel up their sleeves before sitting down at the bar to discuss the Warhammer Fantasy RolePlaying adventure book Rough Days & Hard Nights by Cubicle 7.

This week the party discusses the rise of Actual Play and streaming RPG sessions. Who plays well to the crowds and how has the trend changed the way we play?