Due to work and life we didn’t have an episode this week. We’ve got one in the pipeline though: a spirited discussion on theme. It’ll arrive on Monday. In the meantime, vote for our patrons and friends at Chicagoland Games right here in the “best local game store” poll. Jankify the Interwebs:

So something has been striking me lately with regard to gaming: we care a lot. I’m saying this because in both of the games I’m currently GMing, there has been much discussion of system, setting, gaming philosophy, character, plot, and other things (including a contract which was drafted for the fictional members of a fictional [...]

Anyone else done this? Tonight, a buddy of ours couldn’t make our Serenity game (snowpocalypse has him pinned down on the other side of the city!) so we skyped him in. I was a bit worried, but it totally worked. Like, 100%. In fact, it was kind of cool because the way the story shook [...]

Do you like games? Do you like noodles? Do you have a couple of hundred thousand dollars to kick around? Well we’re looking to open a restaurant/gaming house called “House of Games and Noodles,” and this is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor. You give us a bunch of money, hire a [...]

So I’m currently gearing up to GM two games in early 2011. One is a Serenity campaign with some of my school buddies, most of whom are new to gaming, and the other is a Godlike campaign with some of the Jank Casters and our friends. I decided to do something I had never done [...]

Yeah. That’s right. We went there. So the episode we record on the 28th will be a Turkey-day feast for the ears called Janksgiving (okay, I’ll stop now). We’re going to talk about why we’re thankful (get it? Wink, wink!) that we’re gamers. To make this the kind of life-affirming, tear-jerking schlock that awards committees [...]