The Jank Cast

Episode Thirty-Eight: ADMs
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Rick (Mustashio), Lexx

(00:30) Degrees of Gayness
(01:00)Who is Rick?
(02:30) What we played this week: Supernatural, Lexx LARPed, Left 4 Dead 2, Bayonetta, Kafka , Dungeon Lords, Les Miserables: the Arm Joe
(03:15) Cloak, and the other good things about Marvel
(07:30) Main Topic: Adversarial GMs
(18:00) Knights of the Dinner Table
(28:00) Dogs in the Vineyard, Black Cadillacs, Apocalypse World, Poison’d
(50:00) Dungeons and Dragons

Rants
(52:30) Lexx: I am so goddamn popular [Gorbo the Destroya]
(53:35) Timo: Bring back Lexx?
(54:45) JOHNKELLY: Lexx…….
(55:20) Rick: Be Afraid young Goblins

 

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Episode Thirty-Seven: Where are you Character?
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Allen, J.P.

(00:05) Lexx is dead….not really but he should be.
(00:45) What we played this week: Starblazer Adventures, Dungeons and Dragons 4E, Serenity, Supernatural, Bayoneta, Dragonage
(02:00) Traditional Gaming Spaces
(05:30) Stubbs the Zombie
(07:00) Main Topic: Where is your character?
(07:50) “I can edit this out” but I won’t
(08:30) AD&D
(13:20) J.P.’s Forest Gump example
(14:00) What else is on your character sheet?
(17:00) Dread
(20:00) Shadowrun & Character Journals

Rants
(45:21) Allen: British Accents
(48:00) JOHNKELLY: “It’s hard to die in Roleplaying Games” (A LexxPhrase)
(49:45) Timo: Muggles
(51:30) Pokemon is about dog fighting.
(52:00) J.P.: Combat time

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Episode Thirty-Six: Mechanical
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Kevin, Allen, Todd, Timo

(01:20) The Walking Eye
(02:00) Des Moines, Iowa
(03:40) What did we play this week: Mouse Guard, Batman: Arkham Asylum, D&D 4th Edition, Battle Raper 1 & 2, Spirit of the Century, Supernatural
(04:50) What’s wrong with Japan?
(09:30) The JOHNKELLY Filter
(10:00) The Main Topic: Favorite Mechanic
(11:00) Godlike
(11:30) Millennium’s End
( 13:20) JOHNKELLY talks
(14:50) Dogs in the Vineyard
(19:20) Dust Devils
(23:30) Deadlands
(25:20) Marvel Superheroes
(27:00) Mutants and Masterminds
(28:00) Rollmaster
(29:20) Burning Wheel
(32:00) JOHNKELLY is pretty
(32:30) Weapons of the Gods
(32:30) Prime Time Adventures
(33:40) Burning Wheel & Mouseguard
(35:00) Todd leaves
(35:30) Call of Cthulhu
(36:30) Cortex
(37:00) Dread
(41:40) Burning Wheel
(50:00) Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing
(53:00) My Life With Master

Rants
(55:15) Allen: Naruto is good for the soul
(56:30) Kevin: Colonel Speedy McQuickFast
( 57:45) Lexx: Games are not cereal
(58:30) JOHNKELLY: Superman IV (now with Repair the Great Wall of China Vision)
( 1:00:15) Timo: I want my books back

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Episode Thirty-Five: Random Encounter!
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Timo, Scott, Todd

(01:30) What We Played This Week
(02:00) Todd’s Starblazer Adventure’s Game
(03:00) J.P.’s Podcast: Unwanted Opinion
(11:45) JOHNKELLY’s Supernatural Game
(13:00) Full Metal Alchemist
(14:15) Main Topic: Creating Interesting Encounters
(15:40) Pandas & Koala & Second Edition D&D
(16:30) Fear the Boot
(17:30) Defining Encounters
(48:00) Dresden Files RPG, City Creation

Rants
(1:00:40) Scott: 30 Rock, Stone Mountain
(1:02:30) Lexx: Southern Detail
(1:03:40) JOHNKELLY: Mike the Pro-Champion
(1:04:50) Todd: Dashing, Handsome, Gay Men
(1:06:30) Timo: What is wrong with me?

You have been listening to The Jank Cast, copyright 2009 under the creative commons license. You can find out more about us at jankcast.com. All the music in the show is from the song, “Jank is a Dork Word” written and recorded by Todd and is used with his permission. You can send comments and feedback tofeedback@jankcast.com Again, we are sponsored by Chicagoland Games, and this is JOHNKELLY reminding you to support your local gaming store. Now go out and roll some dice.

 

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Episode Thirty-Four: To Game or Not to Game?
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Allen, Juan, Timo

(00:00) “I love short hair Lexx.”
(01:55) Allen’s intro
(03:00) Timo comes in late
(03:15) Juan’s intro
(05:45) What did you game this week?
(06:00) The Slanket (aka Snuggie)
(06:45) Supernatural RPG
(08:30) Assassin’s Creed 2/Half Life
(12:30) Shard/Furry Discussion
(16:15) Main Topic: Theatre and Role-playing Games
(18:45) Scott’s “Consider Yes” philosophy
( 26:00) The Owl Bear is now the Monojolo
(31:00) MouseGod
(36:00) Eddie Izzard
(41:20) The 1 good thing Theatre has brought gaming
(41:30) Juan’s rookieness
(45:00) MacBeth Spoilers
(48:00) Battlestar Galatica discussion
(50:00) Feng shui

Rants
(54:20) Timo: Avatar
(56:10) Lexx: Darcy Burgess
(58:00) JOHNKELLY: Plot Point Complaint
(58:45) Juan: Hate on the Apocalypse
(1:02:15) Allen: Tradition Fantasy

(1:05:30) “Man, why you guys always gotta fight whitey?”

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Episode Thirty-Three: Preparation GM
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Todd
Sponsor: Chicagoland Games (Located at 5550 N. Broadway Avenue, Chicago, IL )

(00:05) Jank is a Dork Word, our new Theme Song
(01:30) The Episodes first high five
(01:35) Lexx calls out gamer to come to Chicagoland Games on New Year’s Eve
(02:00) Holiday Discussion/Canada
(04:25) MAIN TOPIC: GM Preparation
(04:45) Lexx’s Preparation Techniques
(07:00) Todd’s Preparation Techniques
(10:00) JOHNKELLY’s Preparation Techniques
( 12:00) Ending Your Games
(14:30) SEVEN DEADLY SAINTS
(16:40) Lexx’s one piece of advice
(19:30) Starblazer Adventures
(21:05) Seven Sentence NPCs
(26:30) Spirit of the Century
(29:35) Maid the RPG
(30:00) Mechanics in your prep.
( 33:00) The GM’s Notes
(41:40) PCs playing NPCs

Rants
(48:30) JOHNKELLY: A few years ago, in a Galaxy far far away
(50:00) Lexx: Details
(51:30) Todd: People on Airplanes
(54:00) JOHNKELLY’s Airport adventures

You have been listening to The Jank Cast, copyright 2009 under the creative commons license. You can find out more about us at jankcast.com. All the music in the show is from the song, “Jank is a Dork Word” written and recorded by Todd and is used with his permission. You can send comments and feedback to feedback@jankcast.com Again, we are sponsored by Chicagoland Games, and this is JOHNKELLY reminding you to support your local gaming store. Now go out and roll some dice.

 

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Episode Thirty-Two: Kicked in the Jank
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Timo, Jonathan

Special Host: Jonathan from Kicked in the Dicebags

Epimas

Main Topic: DMs Having fun with Crappy Players

Jonathan’s Asshole Group

Call of Cthulhu

Rants

Our Rants section contains extra explicit material. We highly suggest you do not listen if you are bellow the age of 18, or are easily offended.

JOHNKELLY: Inglourious Basterds
Lexx: Arkham Horror Specialty Dice
Timo: Josh
Jonathan: 51 Days

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Now go out and roll some dice.

 

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Alright, if you have a good Christmas/Holiday gaming story or you just want to rant about Christmas send them to feedback@jankcast.com in mp3 format, no longer than 2 minutes long. They will be featured on a special Christmas episode to be released this holiday season.

Episode Thirty-One: Pass the Stick
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Scott, Todd, Timo

SEVEN DEADLY SAINTS by Power Wolf

Bat Boy the Musical

Main Topic: Story Games

Lexx gets academic.

Spirit of the Century

Sorcerer

Dogs in the Vineyard

Rants
Scott: Cody, this one’s for you
Todd: DM railroading
Timo: No.
JOHNKELLY: Clowns
J.P. (replacing Lexx):  Story gaming is euro-roleplaying

We decided to cut J.P. off before he alienated our entire audience.

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Now go out and roll some dice.

 

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Episode Thirty: Attack of the Walking Eye!!!
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Lexx and Kevin

Special host: Kevin Weiser from The Walking Eye Podcast

Dresden Files RPG
The Blue Snowball
Kicked in the Dicebags Episode 36

Main Topic: GM preparation in Story Driven Games

Discussion of the difference between a Story Game and a Story Driven Game
Spirit of the Century
Dogs in the Vineyard
Sorcerer
Burning Empires

Rants
Scott: Special Effects
Lexx: Story Games are not Scary
JOHNKELLY: College Theatre
Kevin: Weapons of the Gods

Put an index in your book.

Quote of the Episode: “Why won’t JP return my calls?”

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Now go out and roll some dice.

 

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