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
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
This week two accomplished artists from the RPG and gaming community join us to talk about all kinds of stuff! we talk about their relationship to the industry, their specialties and cover some important social topics as well. Rich and I mostly hold on as Jabari and Crystal reveal some fascinating underpinnings of the industry from their experiences.
Huge thanks go to both of them for coming on the show and being cool during our technical difficulties during recording!
Crystal's work can be found here:
http://crystalsully.com/ | @CrystalSully | http://untamedbeasts.com/
Jabari's work can be found here:
www.jmwillustration.com | www.lunarveil.press | @jabariweathers | IG @jmwillustration | www.fortuneandfey.tumblr.com
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Tuesday Sep 25, 2018
Tuesday Sep 25, 2018
LEGO Super User, Steve Hassenplug, joins us to talk about some truly remarkable creations and how they came to be. Steve created Super Robo Rally using LEGO Mindstorms and Raspberry Pi based on the award-winning game, Robo Rally by Richard Garfield (of Magic the Gathering fame).
Steve is an accomplished builder, joining a special group of adult Lego builders to help improve LEGO Mindstorms. He was featured in Wired Magazine talking about the experience and of course, we get into it on the show as well. He is also partner to Brickworld, the nationally-known, family-friendly LEGO events. He tours with them as well as makes time every year for Gen Con.
Steve's creation kicks off our Gen Con every year and is near and dear to our hearts. If you've been listening to this podcast you've heard us gush about these guys since the very beginning with Episode 1. We're already looking forward to next year and can hopefully pick up a full run again and make it an event for the whole HSG family at Gen Con 2019!
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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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Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
This week my great friend Phillip joins us to share his newfound love of Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu. Rich and I have played the pandemic series extensively, never this game and Phil is the opposite of us! so lots of good discussion about the game, how it compares to the base editions and a ton of good details on how to get into the Cthulhu lore (Phil is quite the expert)
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Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
This week we continue our talk with Cody Pondsmith from R. Talsorian games who just designed and published the tabletop RPG of The Witcher, based on the video game series by CD Projekt Red. The co-creative projects between these two companies have been a favorite topic around here at High Shelf Gaming. Getting to talk with Cody covering so much material has been a real treat for us.
This episode covers much of the lethality in the system, some mechanics discussion and reasoning behind those rules along with some future expectation for the product line. Lastly, we get into some fun stories about the trials of being a GM.
We don't talk about it in the episode but Cody and the rest of the development team have been doing an absolute ton of Q&A discussion with the community. Every week they post several Q&A threads detailing different aspects of the game and updating errata as necessary.
Catch R. Talsorian Games and the TRPG Witcher Community here:
TRPG Witcher Facebook group
TRPG Subreddit
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Tuesday Aug 28, 2018
Tuesday Aug 28, 2018
This week we're joined by Cody Pondsmith from R. Talsorian games who just designed and published the tabletop RPG of The Witcher, based on the video game series by CD Projekt Red. The co-creative projects between these two companies have been a favorite topic around here at High Shelf Gaming. Getting to talk with Cody covering so much material has been a real treat for us.
This episode covers much of the genesis of the game, their process for putting it together and the depth that Lisa and Cody Pondsmith went through to get it right from a lore perspective. Impressive effort on their part. I don't think another studio would have contributed so much to the lore of another product in such a responsible way as they have. Already their product is credited with confirming several rumors about Witcher Schools other than the one which gave rise to Geralt.
We don't talk about it in the episode but Cody and the rest of the development team have been doing an absolute ton of Q&A discussion with the community. Every week they post several Q&A threads detailing different aspects of the game and updating errata as necessary.
Catch R. Talsorian Games and the TRPG Witcher Community here:
TRPG Witcher Facebook group
TRPG Subreddit
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Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
This one is special. Heather (AKA @Kratrina) returns with a friend from the Critical Role community, Conner (AKA @Cybrwulf1201) joins us to talk all about their first time at Gen Con. We cover everything from the many live shows and panels they got up to, lessons learned, and some great laughs as Rich and I are exposed to a completely different side of the show from anything we've ever seen.
Huge shout out to the amazing and wonderful Critical Role show and their community (critters as they like to be called), to Dungeon Master - Interactive Stage Show (@DungeonMasterLA), Library Bards (@LibraryBards, @bonniebellg, @xanderrific), @theanimegoddess, Maze Arcana with @satinephoenix, @mazearcana, Dread game system (@hydra_lord) https://dreadthegame.wordpress.com/about-dread-the-game/
And lastly, two amazing artists who really took great care of @kratrina (Heather) @crystalsully @kristinacarroll
You can find more of Connor's stuff here:
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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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Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Rich and I take this week to talk about a game Rich loves that's going away soon. We just got back from Gen Con 2018 (Episodes are coming!) but for this week we wanted to just bask in the memory and fun this game provides Rich and his family.
Uplifting Bonus! he has an awesome idea on how to hack this card game into the likes of Cyberpunk 2020 / Shadowrun. We'll be spending some time in the coming months working out the kinks and when we're ready we'll roll out the system hacks for everyone to see.
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Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
This week Mike returns to talk with Rich and me about Cyberpunk 2077/2020's primary location: Night City!
We had to come back to talk about the history of the city, take a safari and discuss the local wildlife... Gangs, Corps, and of course the Combat Zone. We also talk DM tips for finding great floorplans for any combat scenes you want to put together.
Mike talked about this Soviet-era abandoned airbase which he uses regularly to inspire firefight terrain.
RPG books worth picking up (affiliate links):
- Night City sourcebook full of general city knowledge good for folks hungry for details of what might be in Cyberpunk 2077
- Cyberpunk 2020 game system
- Chrome books 1 & 2 Gear
- Chrome books 3 & 4 More Gear
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