Review Episode 4: Shocked Bashful
Hosts: Megan, Scott, Timo, Todd, Reek
Banter: What we did last night, Happy Undeath Day Gary Gygax, Reek’s delicious delicious energy, GMless Game day: Fiasco, Zombie Cinema, Shab-Al-Hiri Roach (0:56)
Review: Shock by Joshua AC Newman (5:00)
What is a Shock: Immortality through cloning (6:00)
Source material/Similarities for our game: Battlestar Galactica, Free Market, Borderlands, Iain M Banks, David Brin‘s Kiln People (7:00)
The issues: Ageing, Reproduction, Meaning & Technology of Cloning (8:45)
Minutiae (10:20)
Ownership and Story Elements (12:00)
Protagonist & Antagonist (13:45)
Fiasco, Shab-al-Hiri and Shock rules spectrum (16:30)
party/player dynamic: short stories or vignettes (Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run) (17:52)
Audience helps balance/curb behaviour (20:00)
Timo’s Character: ladies of the world, cringe (21:15)
Conflict mechanics overview (22:40)
Reeks Character: the many deaths of Granthor Debourd (conflict resolution example; Oldboy) (26:20)
Game length: Antagonist credits, dice pools, new shocks (30:00)
Winning & losing: Story goals (31:25)
Metagaming and scene framing (32:55)
Winning and losing revisited (34:25)
Shock is about the issues, not the characters (Blade Runner, Kiln People, Glory Season) (35:25)
Timo’s character revisited: why what happened, happened (38:45)
Review: BASH by Chris Rutkowsky (39:45)
Storytell, GM, DM? (40:00)
Choosing the system for a super hero games (Ex Machina, new run of Batwoman) (41:00)
Super hero games are super crunchy (Wild Talents) (41:28)
Character stats and powers (42:50)
Dice mechanics and super-scaling (43:50)
Window dressing the rules; emulating a comic book (47:10)
Flaws and power advancement (48:50)
Hero die (49:45)
Meeting the needs of super hero story gamers: the rules just disappeared (51:15)
Villain points, villain dice and uber heroes (54:40)
Fun things from the game (56:50)
Announcements:
Jank cast party at Gencon (59:55)
Congratulations Ben and Sylvana (1:00:40)
Jankcast pimping (1:01:20)
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Very informative episode folks, fantastic job! It sounds like you had a lot of fun on Saturday. Enjoy GenCon; unfortunately I’m not going to be able to make it this year.
Thanks Doc. We’ll roll some dice for you.
This was my first Jank Cast and I found if very enjoyable! It was funny and informative! I am definatly checking out BASH! Good job!
[...] Jank Cast crew played Shock: and really dug it. Their game was Human Cloning vs. Aging and Reproduction. It [...]