Hosts: Jenn, Megan, Todd

After a hiatus due to life stuff for all of us, we're back! We settle back into our regular casting routine with a somewhat fluffier episode about making friends and meeting people through gaming.

7:24- What'd we play?

-Apocalypse World

-Carolina Death Crawl

-Lady Blackbird

-The Quiet Year

21:15- Topic: Meeting People Through Gaming

49:27- Rants

-Everyone's rant: Babies! Babies everywhere!

-Megan: Diablo III makes me an awful person.

-Jenn: No IRL gaming!

-Todd: Natural beauty, PCN is kind of weird.

Players: Joe, Megan, Timo, Todd, Tom

After a month-long absence due to work and travel and weddings and moving and the like, we return with a new AP! Swords Without Master! Huzzah!

Swords Without Master is a storytelling sword and sorcery game by Epidah Ravachol that we all found to be quite likeable. In this one-shot session, we go through the intro mission that teaches you the rules, which is free online.

At about 2:34:50, we end the game and go to a discussion about it.

We'll be back soon with some actual episode episodes, as well as roll out some more AP over the course of the next few months.

Hosts: Dr. Boyfriend, Jenn, Megan, Phil, Scott, Todd

There's a lot of hosts this week because we're doing a big Gencon wrap up. Whoo! There's too much in here to put in the show notes, but we touch on:

The Glitter Guild

Fantasy Flight's new games

The upcoming Firefly RPG

Dungeon Roll

True Dungeon

Monsterhearts

Inspectres

Playtesting SCUP and Time Cellist

and lots more.

Hosts: Megan, Rob, Scott, Timo, Todd

12:29- What'd we play

27:52- Topic: playing scumbags! How do you play a scummy person? What's the line between being compelling and just being an idiot? What makes one scumbag a lovable rogue and another a hateable jerk? Slight trigger warning: we talk about scummy characters we've played so we delve a little bit into some of the mean stuff they've done in-game. It never gets graphic, but if hearing us talk about vile people isn't your thing, listen with caution.

1:29:50- Rants

Rob- 80s songs in my head!

Scott- 18 pig legs.

Todd- Deconstructing "don't be a dick".

Megan- My Galactus costume.

Timo- Fringe reboots itself!

Hosts: Megan, Timo, Todd

There's a lot of banter this week on:

L.A.

Pie

Gentrification

Honey!

12:22- What'd we play?

Monsterhearts

Inspectres

24:30- Time in games- how do we convey the passage of time in games? What advantages are there in skipping around in time versus doing things moment to moment? How do mechanics affect the flow of time? Is the Jank Cast a giant waste of your time? All these questions will be answered!

1:16:07- Rants

-Timo- My cat pees EVERYWHERE

-Megan- GLITTER GUILD FREAKOUTS!

-Todd- A funny story about Denver...

Hosts: Joe, Megan, Todd

In this episode, we discuss running and playing games at cons. We also shoot the shit for a really long time at the beginning (and I cut out an 8 minute tangent on the Civil War. Seriously).

Relevant info:

14:30- What'd we play?

Megan and Joe: Shooting the Moon

Todd: Sentinels of the Multiverse, Sleeping Dogs

28:15- Topic: Gaming at conventions. With Gencon coming up, we thought we'd have a little discussion about Con gaming, especially since Joe and Todd will be GMs at Games on Demand this year.

1:25:22- Rants:

-Todd- CAR TROUBLE!

-Megan- Dr. Boyfriend presents!

-Joe- I'm a DIY guy!

Players: Joe, Megan, Timo, Todd, Tom

The final session of our Black Diamond AW campaign. Everything gets as crazy and explodey and trippy as you would imagine.

We had fun playing. We hope you had fun listening.

Hosts: Larry, Megan, Todd

In this episode, Larry from the Emergent Play video series guest hosts. If you haven't checked out Emergent Play yet, go do that right now. We'll wait.

What's in the episode:

5:51- We introduce Larry and talk to him about his video series.

29:50- What'd we play?

-Larry: Apocalypse World, that one anime game.

-Megan: Durance, Kagamatsu

-Todd: Kagamatsu, Settlers of Catan

46:38- Topic: As per Larry's request, we discuss whether or not gaming relationships are healthy, given the prevalence of people saying that their at-the-table relationships need to be fixed.

1:35:01- Rants:

-Megan- I'm a groupie now.

-Todd- Chicago drivers. What's the deal?

-Larry- Why do people who game differently not see eye to eye?

Players: Joe, Megan, Timo, Todd, Tom

The next installment of Black Diamond. Grab your hankies, folks. It gets emotional.

Players: Joe, Megan, Timo, Todd, Tom

The next installment of Black Diamond! In this episode: Mr. Shit? This is Ms. Fan. I think you two will get along splendidly.