A podcast about board games, role playing games and gaming conventions! We bring on game designers, creators, players and game masters to talk about their passion.
Episodes
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
This week Mike returns with a new Dungeons and Dragons game and a familiar problem: The party is a bunch of oddball classes. Though challenging for some DMs we talk about the some of the issues that can creep in mid and late game, and the extra care a DM should take early levels while people get their feet wet. We also talk about some dream teams we've wanted to run games for and the inspiration behind them.
Fun times are always had when Mike's on, please enjoy!
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
This week the phenomenally talented B. Dave Walters (Victor Temple on LA By Night) joins us to talk gaming, streaming, comics and philosophy. We cover some serious ground in this episode. Everything from his upcoming comic book, games that he's running and playing in on Twitch and other streaming venues along with an absolute wealth of background, history, and thoughts. B. Dave could teach a master class on what it takes to achieve your goals.
He's available in many places all at once: @BDaveWalters, Patreon, New D&D Comic, His regular crew at @UncommonTrust, and several shows on Geek and Sundry: Ask Your Black Geek Friend, We're Alive: Frontier, and of course LA By Night! He's also appeared on Stream of Many Eyes and will certainly be in tons more shows in the future.
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Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
This Week Hugo and Fernando share their story of coming to D&D. They have adventures in getting books! It's quite a tale and shows some of the challenges o gaming in Latin America.
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Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
This week Rich and I recap our best GenCon yet! we played several great games but more importantly had a ton of really great moments with other creators, fans of the show, and some special celebrity interactions that really couldn't happen anywhere else but GenCon.
What we got up to
- D&D 1st Edition
- Fireball Island
- Super Robo Rally!
- Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition (beta testing)
- Rising Sun
- True Dungeon N2 & N3
- We met Joe Manganiello
- And Met Mike, Lisa, and Cody Pondsmith (of Cyberpunk 2020 / Witcher RPG Fame)
And of course an excellent Gen Con Meetup with the High shelf gaming family
Special thanks to Amy and Paul for taking such great care of the HSG family, you rock! Hugo and Fernando for finding us and spending so much time talking games with us at the show. And of course Dicks Last Resort for providing us with tons of giveaways and gift-cards for our fans and the GenCon community at large!
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Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Our True Dungeon Guru, Larry, returns to share with us some more basics about this game, talking event types, difficulty levels, and volunteering opportunities. But the real fun of this episode is hearing Rich and Larry talk about True Raid, a special invite-only event that they got to participate in. At the end of this episode we talk N1 - Journey in to the Astral Bliss, the first part of the new True Dungeon storyline.
There are a couple spoilers at the end so if you're hoping to go into N1 fresh we warn you ahead of time so you can stop the episode when we start the discussion about N1.
In this episode, we talk about one of my favorite D&D lampoons: Cubicles and Careers
Topics:
Gen Con E-Tickets (and true dungeon ghost tickets)
Volunteering for True Dungeon
True Raid (a special event for true dungeon backers)
N1 - Astral Journey to the Bliss (first installment of the new TD story line)
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Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
This week Al comes back to chat about his and Rich's time at Origins Game Fair, and their experiences with the upcoming playtest for Pathfinder 2nd Edition! This episode is packed full of system detail and commentary about what they gleaned from a short 2-hour game.
Quick plug for Glass Cannon Podcast, Al had listened to part of their series on Pathfinder 2e and shared some tidbits from their own research. Great guys! give them a listen.
We talk about the Tripple action economy, 3 Phases of gameplay, Death and Dying, and so much more
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Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
We kept talking after the DM Tips recording and ended up in a cool conversation about some of the current examples of play out in the role-playing gaming scene. Not quite enough to be its own weekly episode but still a fun little conversation.
Let us know if you'd like more of this behind the scenes chatter!
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Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
This week Mike joins us to talk about some Dungeon Master tips in DnD and other RPGs. This episode focuses on building the story and what to do when players throw you a curveball. It's a fun discussion as all three of us have different approaches and expectations of our players and we get into the differences between running games for local friend group vs. running games at gaming conventions.
Mike turned us onto a great DM toolkit available on the google play store!
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Friday Apr 20, 2018
Friday Apr 20, 2018
This week Vlad joins Rich and I to talk about where this lovely role playing game came from. How it came to be known as DnD 3.75 and chat a tiny bit about what we hope to see with the recently announced Pathfinder 2e.
Pathfinder is made by Paizo http://paizo.com/pathfinder/rpg
The new playtest for 2nd Edition is available here: http://paizo.com/pathfinderplaytest
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Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
The mental break for Dungeon Masters.
In this episode, Larry and Al join Rich and me in talking about the board games that Dungeons and Dragons have been putting out. Great games, tons of hours of play, interchangeable heroes from box to box, and excellent miniatures you can use in your Roleplaying games!
http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/board-card-games