Tag Archives: Rob

Episode 109: Playing for Exploration

Hosts: Todd, Timo, Rob, Megan What did we play: (10:14) Dogs in the Vineyard: Todd, Rob, Megan, Timo Megan: D&D Encounters, 1st ed Todd: Apocalypse World Shadowrun hack, Elder Sign Jank on Demand: We play a lot of random games, and we’d like to encourage you guys to do the same. As part of that [...]

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Ep 107: Long form and short form games

Because of the way we’ve structured out gaming, we play a lot of short campaigns or single scenarios. This lends our gaming a certain feel and has some positives and negatives. How does that compare to playing long, ongoing games? What do you gain, what do you lose?

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Episode 105: The Relationship Between GMs and Players/Players and Players

Hosts: Megan, Rob, Scott, Todd What is the relationship between player and player or player and GM? In this episode, we beat that horse to death with a bat and then kick it a few times. Take that, dead horse! Banter, aka “Foreplay”: Let us stand next to your fire(s). How to know if you’re [...]

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Episode 104: We’re So Excited and We Just Can’t Hide It

Hosts: Dave, Rob, Scott, Todd First off, if you are a gamer in Germany or know any gamers in Germany, let us know because Rob is moving to the Frankfurt area and wants to get his German game on! Second, we’re trying to get some good crosstalk going on the episodes. We’d like to push [...]

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Episode 101: Character Flaws

Hosts: Timo, Rob, Megan, Scott What did we play: (3:17) Scott: Blood Bowl Team Manager, Eminent Domain, Belfort, Ninja Megan: Blood Bowl Team Manager, Belfort, Ninja, Ticket to Ride, Seven Wonders, Pandemic, Drunken Magic: Holier than Meow Rob: No games this week, but spent some time reading The Mountain Witch. Timo: Escape from the Aliens [...]

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Episode 84: Anthropomorphic Gaming (aka The Janksters Get Furry!)

We talk about anthropomorphic gaming, i.e. playing non-humans. Lexx and Scott say I’m going to link a bunch of stuff in the show notes, but there’s no way I’m doing a google search for “squid chair” to link it. My gmail adds would be CRAZY after that. Hosts: Ben, Lexx, Megan, Rob, Scott Show notes: [...]

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Episode 83: Comics and Gaming, in honor of C2E2

Hosts: Charles, JOHNKELLY, Scott, Todd Notes: (I’m super busy getting ready for a conference, so I don’t have time to add links to all the fun stuff in the show notes. If something sounds cool, you’re going to have to google it!) Bumper: Fuck Timo, and Fuck That Game Too. Banter: Todd’s neighbors bring the [...]

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Episode 82: We’re Not Here For the Party

Hosts: Reek, Rob, Timo, Todd We start out talking about when you’re playing a game where the “party” isn’t a “party,” so to speak. This shifts to a discussion about how system fits into this along with how a balance of character goals vs. group goals shape this. Also: Canada. Shhhhhhhhnotes: Bumper: OH CANADA! Banter: [...]

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Episode 80: Theme

Hosts: Megan, Todd, Reek, Rob, Charles, Timo Gaming and theme are an interesting thing: It may or may not be a thing that is strongly expressed, desired or even present. But what role it takes in game play and how it affects the game and the players is an interesting topic, and one that we [...]

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Review Episode 6: Apocalypse World

Hosts: Todd, Megan, Timo, Charles, Rob In this review episode we discuss the latest game from Vincent Baker. Using our own gaming experience as example we talk about what it’s like to play this game and some of the intricacies of this immersion-centered game. Holiday Note I’ve mentioned Epimas, and I’ll mention it again: Spearheaded [...]

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