In this episode, I talk to Luke Crane of the Burning Wheel Headquarters, about their RPG adaptation of the comic book Mouse Guard. I'm really happy with how this interview went; it's one of the best I've put out so far. Luke has some really interesting things to say about the use of art and the way layout and editing work. We also get to talk a bit about how the HQ is constructed and who does what.

NOTE: This was obviously recorded before the release of the Magic Burner, but it's funny to listen to Luke toy with me.

This episode is 64.5 MB big and 1 hour and 10 minutes long.

00:59: The MGRPG will be based on the Burning Wheel system
01:25: Like Burning Empires, MGRPG is an evolution of the BW rules
02:18: Differences include: changes in how you can use dice, advancement, and the way rewards work
02:43: I tried the game at Ubercon
03:05: Mouse Guard is a comic written by David Petersen Published by Archaia Studios Press, which is owned by Mark Smylie who wrote the comic book Artesia and published the Origins-Award-winning Artesia: Adventures in the Known World roleplaying game
03:55: Part of a tradition of fantasy about mice, which includes The Wind in the Willows, Redwall, (parts of) the Narnia series
05:04: Kid friendly?
07:09: MGRPG is "essential Burning Wheel," a version of the rules is as stripped-down as BW can get and still be BW
08:08: The game has tons of new and previously-unpublished Petersen art
09:56: The new ubiquity of the enmity clause: Twists and Conditions
10:51: Conditions (hungry, angry, tired, injured, and sick) are the new damage track
13:31: The new way advancement works
14:47: Versioning through new games rather than re-releasing games
18:34: Why did you design this game?
19:37: Clinton R. Nixon made BWHQ aware of Mouse Guard; he had tried an earlier adaptation, Tiny Triangles
22:07: Other designs that arose from creating MGRPG?
26:51: Anything you had to drop?
27:58: How Traits work in MGRPG
30:24: GM turn and player turn
34:36: The most useful feedback received from playtesters
36:26: The hardest thing to fix
38:14: Choosing a printer
43:07: How are you using art?
48:40: Layout/design challenges
54:16: Marketing
56:05: Playing the game with Dave
58:10: Defining success
59:27: Magic Burner?
59:53: A peek behind the curtain at BWHQ

Closing song is Jenny Whiskey by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I talk to Judd Karlman, about his game The Dictionary of Mu. We talk a lot about the purpose of setting books, what constitutes game design, and even discuss the possibility of Mu for FATE. I'm really proud of the quality of this conversation, and I want Judd to design more fucking games so I can do more interviews with him.

This episode is 60 MB big and 1 hour and 5 minutes long.

01:17: Dictionary of Mu: A supplement for Ron Edwards's Sorcerer
01:36: A combination of Conan, Kull, Barsoom and the Bible
02:25: The Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy inspired me to want to do a parkour game set on Mars
03:29: Mako of the Conan movie and Avatar: The Last Airbender
06:31: Settings that do what Judd likes settings to do include: Legend of the Five Rings (1st Edition), Midnight (original hardcover), and Exalted
07:12: Rules differences between Mu and Sorcerer
08:19: Judd's dad made a kill puppies for satan character with Mu
11:19: In a lot of ways, Mu is really a supplement for Sorcerer & Sword
13:11: Luke Crane and Ron encouraged Judd to bring the game to print.
13:54: Charnel Gods also came out of the Sorcerer mini-supplement project
16:35: Giving money to Joshua A.C. Newman for layout consultancy was a big impetus to me to complete
16:49: Rich Forest was Judd's editor for Mu and Jennifer Rodgers did the art.
17:10: Why did you make Mu?
21:55: The shock: solar system game we want to play some day
25:37: Don Corchran played Mu with Judd
27:38: The most useful feedback
30:07: The editing process
31:34: Thor Olavsrud talked about editing on an episode of the Theory from the Closet podcast
34:05: Use of art in the book
35:56: Keith Senkowski nearly called Judd a pussy
39:09: Choosing a printer (he uses Lightning Source now).
41:21: The economics of a print run and the sales flow
44:20: Marketing (having a podcast like Sons of Kryos "doesn't hurt")
47:14: "If I could change ANYthing...."
50:20: Defining success
57:33: The big announcement: Dictionary of Mu and FATE?

Closing song is Leave Me the Fuck Alone by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

PS: Thanks to Rich Rodgers of The Canon Puncture show for help with a niggling Audacity problem.

In this episode, Judd Karlman, writer of The Dictionary of Mu and my
guest on my first episode, was kind enough to interview me about my
game, Misspent Youth. Misspent Youth's tagline is "Teenage rebellion in a
fucked-up future" and is a game about friendship and standing up to
authority. It's coming out in ashcan form at Gen Con 2008 and it's the
ashcan edition that we talk about here. It was a pleasure to talk to Judd,
who is my oldest friend and someone I'm very glad to know. I'm grateful
to him for doing me the honor of allowing me to piggyback on his renown
for my self-aggrandizement.

This episode is 54.8 MB big and 59:45 long.

00:59: Jennifer Rodgers did the cover art for the game and Joshua A.C. Newman (writer of shock: social science fiction et al.) provided layout consultancy.
01:56: The Adobe website has a lot of good tutorials to learn the InDesign layout program.
02:11: I stole layout ideas from the seminal punk 'zine, Maximumrocknroll.
03:01: Tell me about the game
04:10: Clockwork Orange (film or book) meets Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Ocean's 11 (2001)
04:24: Why did you design it?
05:06: A problematic game of Cybergeneration at Dreamation 2006 helped birth MY
06:28: Covert Generation, a game somewhat similar to Misspent Youth, came out at Gen Con 06 and got me nervous!
07:49: Other designs, such as Obvious Monstrosities--the werewolf game--that arose from the process
09:43: The very first playtest, with Andrew Morris (designer of the free RPG Unistat), and the crappy version of the rules
11:00: Misspent Youth's system is a version of craps that is easier than the one that crackheads play
11:47: Who I stole from: My Life with Master, Dogs in the Vineyard, FATE, World of Darkness, Burning Wheel, The Shadow of Yesterday, and Cybergeneration
14:20: Judd, Joshua, Andrew, Tony Lower-Basch (designer of Capes), and I played in a seminal-for-me game of My Life with Master which Michael S. Miller (designer of With Great Power) GMed
15:00: What got dropped in the design
17:17: Joshua Roby's game, Full Light, Full Steam inspired some now-gone mechanics after I listened to an episode with him of Master Plan
18:50: carry: a game about war by Nathan Paoletta
20:32: Primetime Adventures
20:34: The hardest thing to fix
28:10: The most useful feedback
30:42: Epidiah Ravachol (designer of Dread) and Nathan helped me with a thorny design issue.
32:06: Mickey Shulz (of the Geek Girls Rule blog and podcast) ran the one game that was run without ever having played it with me and found helpful problems
34:27: The Ashcan Front
37:30: The editing process (Tom Mazorlig and Adam Dray)
40:52: Use of art in the book
46:25: The game is being printed by Publishers' Graphics.
49:31: How do you define success?
50:42: Nathan's game Annalise
52:55: What if you can't get to Gen Con? How do you get a copy?

Closing song is Letting You by Nine Inch Nails, from the freely-available album The Slip

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

Hey folks,

I don't ordinarily do this for my show (I have this silly pride in not breaking the fourth wall), but at the moment I don't have any shows banked that I can use and things are a little hectic, finishing up my game (Misspent Youth). If you're a game designer and you wanna do an interview and you're reasonably close to NJ (I only do face-to-face interviews for the show), maybe you can help me avoid missing Thursday's show-coming-out-failure.

Anyway, it might be a little while for my next show(s), but I promise I'll get back on the stick.

In this episode, I talk with Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games

about Grey Ranks. Grey Ranks is a game about the 1944
Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis in World War II (not to be confused
with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). In the game, you play teenage kids
(roughly the equivalent of the Boy Scouts) to fight (to ultimate futility)
to defeat the Nazis. I get very verbally fumbly at the end, discussing the 
status issue. Hope you enjoy the show.

This episode is 52.8 MB big and 57:35 long.

Closing song is Little Julie Swastiska by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I speak with Anna Kreider about her supplement for
Ben Lehman's game Polaris, Thou Art But A Warrior. Thou Art But a
Warrior is a game where your Muslim knights seek (ultimately, in good

Polaris style, in vain) to fend off Christian crusaders. We recorded this on
the first night of Camp Nerdly 2 in the woods of Triangle, VA. Hope you
enjoy it.

This episode is 77.9 MB big and 56:45 long. 

01:11: Began as an entry in a setting design contest
01:40: The game is about the Reconquista
03:04: The doomsday clock
05:14: How the game works
05:45: In A Wicked Age
09:46: Ways TABAW is different from Polaris
11:28: Structure of interlocking stories, like Crash
14:14: One-shot game rules
15:51: Why did you design the game?
17:58: Wrestling with the label of "game designer"
20:07: Any games arise from the design process?
20:59: Game Chef
22:01: The way the Discord mechanic works
24:38: Troubleshooting the Discord mechanic
26:52: Anything you had to get rid of that you wish you didn't?
29:29: Steal Away Jordan by Julia Ellingboe (of Stone Baby Games)
30:59: How many times has the game been played?
31:14: "Knife-fight"
34:00: The most helpful feedback you got from playtesters
36:55: Picking a printer (Pandora Press)
37:56: Lulu
38:25: IPR
39:16: How is art used in the book?
40:56: Joshua AC Newman
41:23: What form factor, and why?
42:41: Marketing the game
44:02: Emily Care Boss
44:50: Gen Con and The Forge booth
45:16: Defining success for the game
46:35: Personal religious beliefs and how they intersect with the game
50:13: Anything else to say?
52:17: Master Mines

 

Closing song is Latina Rose by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode I talk with Kat and Michael Miller about their upcoming
game, Serial. Serial, which will be published by Incarnadine Press, is a 
game based on true crime investigations of serial killers. The game is 
careful to focus most of the interest on the victims of these crimes rather 
than the cops or the killer. In fact, no one plays the killer. It's an exciting 
and interesting game that I enjoyed playing. 

This episode is 80.9 MB big and 58:55 long.

01:14: "A game about the horrors of serial murder."
02:30: The Forensic Files and City Confidential TV shows
03:50: Dreamation (A convention from Double Exposure)
06:03: An overview of how Serial works
09:42: The chains of evidence system
13:10: Rules, re-summarized
16:20: "Not really" a GM in the game
17:07: Design goals replicating fiction?
18:04: The Boston Strangler
18:47: The BTK Killer
19:43: Killers in Serial aren't "cool, sexy outsiders" (from Vincent Baker on Episode 10)
21:49: What happens if you run out of victims?
22:34: Serial attempts to make an experience that is unique to roleplaying rather than emulative of another genre
23:22: Serial is a one-shot game
23:45: Compassion fatigue
25:02: Serial will be presented as a CD with included reference material
25:46: Russell Collins is doing the music for Serial
27:48: With Great Power
28:34: Serial is "done in one" gaming (from Michael O'Sullivan on Episode 9)
29:25: Unofficial estimated cost of Serial
30:06: Sons of Kryos thread including discussion of audio delivery of RPG rules
32:15: Why design this game?
33:25: Any other designs arise out of Serial?
35:20: The Czege Principle (named after Paul Czege)
37:18: Who did you steal from the most?
38:02: Acts of Evil by Paul Czege
38:38: My Life with Master
38:53: InSpectres
39:15: Michael's game, Discernment, in the No Press Anthology
39:22: Division of labor in the design process
40:56: Lessons learned from playtesting
43:17: Anything you had to drop that you wish you didn't?
45:59: The hardest thing to fix
46:34: Don Corchran
48:34: How to press CDs, the new frontier
51:48: "This is Not a Pipe"
51:52: Two definitions of success for Serial
53:52: Spirit of the Century
55:20: Illusionism
55:44: Planned (hoped-for) release date

 

Closing song is Skinhead Boi by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I interview Vincent Baker of Lumpley Games about his
first published roleplaying game, kill puppies for satan. This was kind of a
silly one, as many of the questions I'd ordinarily ask a little weird in this
context. You'll see.

This episode is 01:01:48 long and 84.8 MB big.

01:36: What is kill puppies for satan?
02:39: "It is extremely mean to Vampire: The Masquerade."
03:33: Obligatory Forge reference
04:57: Conpulsion in Edinburgh and the kpfs resurgence
05:31: Malcolm Craig (of Contested Ground Studios)
05:45: kpfs 2nd edition?
05:35: Ralph Steadman
06:36: How does the game work mechanically?
10:03: A bunch of different kinds of NPCs
11:25: Meguey Baker (of Night Sky Games)
12:11: A parody of gamers or a certain kind of game?
12:44: Alas, now the 23rd hit on Google
12:57: kpfs hate mail site
16:27: Trying to get back to mechanics, conflict or tasky?
18:17: How indie is kpfs?
20:45: Why did you design the game?
22:59: The Lumpley Principle
27:58: kpfs is also self-parody
28:17: Comparing Vampire and Ars Magica
30:13: A reading from kpfs: A character sheet for a vampire
34:30: Playtesting? Fuck no!
34:51: The evil hamster wheel, a mechanic which coincidentally worked fine
38:52: kpfs saves lives
42:17: kpfs and the Columbine Massacre
42:40: The kpfs gun rules
43:32: Why Vincent doesn't run the game anymore
45:54: The DNA that kpfs shares with Poison'd
47:11: Angry threads sell games
48:33: Ron Edwards: "You make games about the morality of people you don't think are moral."
50:33: Is kpfs a success?

Closing song is Bridge Over Troubled Squatter by the Hub City Stompers

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I talk to Michael O'Sullivan of Full Motor Productions 
about his heist game, Criminal Element (whose development version is 
currently available as a free download). This is the first show I've done 
from my home and I was very grateful to Michael for coming up to see 
me and talking with me about his game.

This episode is 1:03:51 long and 87.7 MB big.

01:16: CE is a heist movie game that came out of the 24 Hour RPG Design contest
01:38: Scott McLeod
02:20: Phil Reed's vs. Monsters and Fred Hicks's PACE
05:00: Tell us about the (blackjack-based) system
05:48: Ron Edwards compared the system to Over the Edge
07:00: Vices, personal weaknesses that create opposition for the crew or
the mission
07:22: Betting on your hand with Drama Points
08:35: The Director's (GM's) currency: Meltdown Points, freaking out
according to your Vice
11:00: Meltdown Points and Tension
11:44: Meltdown and Drama: player currency, not character currency
12:30: Flashbacking
13:02: Obligatory Judd Karlman reference
14:30: Heist (Heat) vs. Caper (Ocean's Eleven)
17:28: How the mechanics model the drama of these flicks
18:05: Heist creation before character creation
19:35: Why did you want to design a game?
19:43: Obligatory Forge reference
20:01: The Mountain Witch, Dictionary of Mu, Universalis, Dust Devils,
and Sorcerer
20:27: Why did you design this game?
22:29: The spoiler mechanic
23:44: Other games that came out of CE?
24:32: Ray Winninger's Underground
24:55: Shock:
26:52: Warren Ellis, The Authority, Planetary
27:49: Who did you steal from?
28:25: Obligatory Spirit of the Century reference
30:00: Mozambique Drill
30:29: What got dropped from the game?
31:07: Game Chef
33:21: Playtester feedback
33:56: Intent, Initiation, Execution, and Effect (IIEE)
34:30: Obligatory Dreamation/DexCon (Double Exposure, LLC.) reference
35:09: Star C. Foster Charity Auction funding a scholarship for Star's high
school
35:38: Slouching Towards Bedlam interactive fiction game by Star and
Daniel Ravipinto
36:35: Obligatory Vincent Baker reference
36:54: The Sons of Kryos
38:59: Ashcanning CE? Ryan Macklin
39:06: Misspent Youth
39:44: Know Thyself
40:23: The hardest thing to fix
43:18: The nascent production process of Criminal Element
46:28: Cthulhutech
46:56: How will art be used in the book?
50:16: Paying for/compensating models
51:17: Marketing the game
54:49: What is success for Criminal Element?
56:43: One shot or ongoing?
57:24: Luke, Emily, and Tobias Wrigstad (of Jeepform) at the Indie Game
Designer's Roundtable

Closing music is Everytime by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I speak with Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games about his game,
Mortal Coil. As Brennan is also a co-owner of Indie Press Revolution, we also discuss a
bit about how that business works and what implications there are for him as a client and
owner of IPR.

 

This episode is 78.2 MB big and 56:55 long.

01:08: Tell us about the game
02:09: Originally a World of Darkness hack
03:51: Why this title?
04:04: The CRPG, Darklands
04:36: The title, Nine Inch Nails, and horror
06:02: The grungy exuberance of Flaming Taft
06:37: Magic that feels magical
07:52: The Price of introducing magical facts
09:11: "I'm a Neil Gaiman fan"
09:31: The bidding system in the game
09:38: A stronger GM than many indie players are used to
10:27: Polaris
11:36: Players' major powers to introduce facts
12:37: Problems in the game
13:29: Second edition
14:54: Who did you steal from the most?
15:02: Primetime Adventures
16:12: Things you had to let go of
17:15: The fruits of playtesting
17:49: The NYC RPG Playtest group with Thor Olavsrud, Mayuran, et al.
18:16: Judd Karlman
20:44: The new game, How We Came To Live Here
22:49: The hardest thing to fix
24:38: Making an economy work
24:25: (Lack of) game balance in Mortal Coil
27:00: Deciding what printer to use
27:31: Alphagraphics, buy-outers of RPI
28:16: Costs of production
30:00: Indie Press Revolution
34:16: How do you use art? Jennifer Rodgers
34:40: Bulldogs!
36:27: Clinton R. Nixon, Dresden Files RPG
37:58: The trifecta of cock, Mortal Coil, The Dictionary of Mu, and It Was a Mutual Decision
38:14: Keith Senkowski
39:29: Layout
41:26: What doesn't work in the book?
45:46: Why this form factor?
46:10: Dogs in the Vineyard and Burning Wheel
46:50: The new Star Wars game
47:06: Fred and Rob of Evil Hat
47:59: Marketing
49:24: Paul Tevis, the other half of The Voice of the Revolution
56:10: DexCon and Dreamation (Double Exposure)
51:33: Defining success for Mortal Coil
53:56: How Mortal Coil saved my life

 

Closing music is WTFIU? by the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

On this show I interviewed Rob Donoghue and Fred Hicks of Evil Hat

Productions about Spirit of the Century. We also touch on some
previewey stuff for the Dresden Files RPG as well.

This episode is 93 MB big and 1:07:40 long. 

00:01:47: What Spirit of the Century is

00:02:22: A public beta for The Dresden Files RPG

00:02:54: FUDGE > FATE > Spirit of the Century > The Dresden Files RPG

00:04:49: Grey Ghost Games

00:05:15: A quick rundown of FATE, FUDGE dice

00:05:53: The Shadow of Yesterday

00:07:19: The skill pyramid, and the reasons for it

00:07:58: Skills in The Dresden Files RPG

00:08:23: Harry Dresden's player min-maxed him

00:08:51: Musashi

00:09:47: Aspects

00:10:00: Amber and Amber Diceless RPG

00:13:01: Seventh Sea

00:13:25: Trollbabe

00:16:01: The compel mechanic

00:16:25: Leonard Balsera

00:17:02: The Dresden Files RPG: Supernaturals driven by their nature by low refresh

00:19:38: Gateway between hippy and trad

00:20:07: Declarations

00:21:00: "The really hippy stuff is the GM advice"

00:24:00: The traditional stuff in the game

00:24:48: Marvel Superheroes RPG

00:25:22: Don't Rest Your Head

00:26:04: Reign and True20

00:27:11: Stunts in The Dresden Files RPG

00:29:26: Stuff in Spirit of the Century as published that does not work

00:31:13: Companions Reloaded in Spirit of the Season

00:31:44: "We suck at playtesting!"

00:32:20: Stress tracks, problems with them

00:34:42: How The Dresden Files RPG fixes stress track problems

00:36:38: Stuff that didn't make it in to Spirit of the Century

00:36:59: The lost dogfighting rules

00:39:19: Clinton R. Nixon on parallel and perpendicular actions

00:41:03: Editioning through new products

00:42:27: Wherein Rob tries to find something Fred hasn't said already elsewhere about the publishing process

00:43:56: Clinton's game, Paladin

00:45:03: iStockphoto and Dover Publications clip art

00:46:56: Why this form factor?

00:47:21: Skill trappings in The Dresden Files RPG

00:47:56: Aberrant and Trinity

00:49:08: Form factor of The Dresden Files RPG

00:49:00: Jennifer Rodgers is doing art in The Dresden Files RPG

00:49:48: Robot from the future, Chad Underkoffler, writing setting in The Dresden Files RPG

00:50:10: My Newark in the Dresdenverse thingie

00:50:51: How do you do marketing? (HAHAHAHAH)

00:54:20: FATAL, an example of a game with its marketing built right in

00:55:11: Dealing with the problematic elements of the pulp genre

00:56:10: Harry Chapin

00:57:15: The point of Spirit of the Century

00:59:26: Bruce Baugh's New Horizons, a socially-conscious Spirit of the Century supplement

00:59:45: Is Spirit of the Century a success?

01:04:09: The secret origins of The Grey Ghost, Jet Black, Max Silver, and Sally Slick

Closing music is Skins Don't Cry by The Hub City Stompers. 

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I interview Joshua AC Newman on his game, Shock: Social Science Fiction. Joshua's a great graphic designer, so in addition to the interesting things he has to say about his game and the design process, he's particularly instructive with regard to the production phase of putting your game out there.

 

This episode is 91.4 MB big and 01:06:34 long.

 

02:00: What Shock: is and does

02:45: Alvin Toffler's concept of the future shock (the inspiration for the game's title)

04:12: Issues (as they connect to shocks)

05:09: Resources for shocks and issues

06:26: Beaming ads into your skull bones

07:25: "The world ends a lot."

08:38: GMless

11:55: The ideal number of people to play

12:10: Minutiae

13:21: Ending soliloquy

14:52: Protagonist and antagonist

15:18: Praxes

15:47: How conflicts work and orthogonal stakes

16:18: Story goals

17:54: The way minutiae affect things

19:08: Playing audience

21:04: "This is the first science fiction game!"

23:55: Why did you design this game?

25:02: Philip K. Dick (in case you didn't know)

26:00: Criticisms of Shock: 1.0, Ron Edwards

27:06: Stuff that had to get edited out

27:28: Ubiquitous Primetime Adventures shout-out

28:50: Most useful feedback from playtesters, Thor Olavsrud

29:35: Vincent Baker

30:53: The hardest thing to fix (writing)

34:50: Deciding what printer to use, Fidlar Doubleday Digital Printing and Publishers' Graphics

38:42: Give yourself a month to get something published

39:38: Ben Lehman

40:00: The Forge

44:29: Costs of production

46:35: IPR

47:31: Graphic design/layout challenges

48:34: Emily Care Boss

50:49: Order of operations for layout vs. editing

52:08: Form factor considerations

52:57: Golden rectangle

54:29: Contact by Carl Sagan

57:10: Success

 

Closing music is Chatterbox by The Hub City Stompers.

 

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I speak with Epidiah Ravachol of The Impossible Dream about Dread.

 

This episode is 57.5 MB big and 1:02:52 long.

 

Notes:

 

02:02: About the game

02:05: Jenga

10:36: Jenga and horror

12:10: Nervousness about running the game

13:08: When your character's out

17:04: Jenga skill

17:29: Multiple sessions

19:15: "I won a freakin' Ennie!"

20:48: Piratecat

22: Sitting with the bigwigs at the Ennies (Robin D. Laws, Brennan Taylor of Indie Press Revolution)

22:52: Goodman Games

23:18: Atomic Sock Monkey Press

24:12: Playstorming at the Imagination Sweatshop

25:15: Kate's Joint in the Lower East Side

29:21: Emily Care Boss on the Fair Game Blog talking about playstorming Sign In Stranger

31:33: Time & Temp at the Imagination Sweatshop

34:02: Voyagers! TV show

37:04: Spirit of the Century has great advice on running a mystery

38:06: Deprotagonizing and horror

41:23: Most useful feedback from playtesters

44:09: What printer to use?

46:28: shock:

47:02: Marketing

47:49: Vegan implications of game publication

52:13: Actual play post from the Adventures in the Land of 1000 Kings session mentioned

57:35: War Eternal, Eppy's story-gamey Warhammer-like game

58:20: Wasabi tamari popcorn recipe

 

Closing music is Tocatta and Droog by The Hub City Stompers.

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I interviewed Julia Bond Ellingboe about her game Steal Away Jordan.

This episode is 59:07 minutes long and 54.1 MB big

Links!

Stone Baby Games (Julia's company): http://www.stone-baby.com/
The Imagination Sweatshop (playstorming): http://imaginationsweatshop.com/?page_id=10
Buffy RPG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffyverse_role-playing_games
Primetime Adventures: http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html
Fairy Meat: http://www.kenzerco.com/index.php?cPath=34_63
Lumpley Games (Vincent's Baker): http://www.lumpley.com/games/
Ron Edwards' Sorcerer: http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/
Yahtzee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee
Spelman College: http://www.spelman.edu/

The episode ends with the Hub City Stompers song WHOLOTTAMULATTO: http://www.hubcitystompers.com/lyrics/wholottamulatto.html

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

In this episode, I talk with Vincent Baker of Lumpley Games about his upcoming game, In a Wicked Age, which will be released at Dreamation 2008, in late January. I was so excited, I couldn't wait for my preproscribed deadline this Saturday.

The show is 01:10:38 long and 64.6 MB big.

Links:

Lumpley Games (Vincent's company): http://www.lumpley.com/games/
- There you will find links for In a Wicked Age..., Dogs in the Vineyard, Poison'd, Mechaton, and kill puppies for satan.
Dreamation 2008: http://www.dexposure.com/d2008.html
Conan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian
Tanith Lee: http://www.tanithlee.com/
- Tales From The Flat Earth: http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/tales-from-flat-earth
Jack Vance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance
- Lyonesse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonesse
Drew Baker: http://www.drewbaker.com/
Joshua A.C. Newman:
- Joshua A.C. Newman Design: http://joshuanewmandesign.com/
- The Glyphpress http://glyphpress.com/
Cheap & Cheesy Fantasy Game (via the waybackmachine): http://web.archive.org/web/20050909010740/http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/cnc.html
Clinton R. Nixon:
- CRN Games: http://crngames.com/
- The Fantasy Oracle generator for AG&G/IaWA: http://crngames.com/oracle
Grey Ranks: http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/index.php?game=grey_ranks
Play Collective: http://playcollective.org/
Ashcan Front: http://ashcanfront.net/
Ron Edwards' Sorcerer: http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/
Black and Green Games (Emily Care Boss): http://www.blackgreengames.com/
Tony Dowler: http://tony.dowler.com/
Troels's fixes for IaWA: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25173.0
Judd Karlman:
- Livejournal: http://judd-sonofbert.livejournal.com/
- Paka's Thread Games: http://www.bobgoat.com/mu/
Durham 3 (Jason Morningstar, Clinton R. Nixon, Remi Treur): http://www.durham3.com/
Agon (John Harper): http://www.agon-rpg.com/
Night Sky Games's 1001 Nights (Meguey Baker): http://www.nightskygames.com/
Collective Copies: http://www.collectivecopies.com/cchome.html
TAO Games (Ben Lehman): http://www.tao-games.com/
Lulu: http://lulu.com/
The Forge RPG Bookshelf: http://bookshelf.indie-rpgs.com/
RPGNow: http://www.rpgnow.com/
Anna Kreider: http://wundergeek.blogspot.com/
Ed Heil: http://esotericmurmurs.blogspot.com/
My Life with Master (Paul Czege): http://www.halfmeme.com/master.html
Ars Magica: http://www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica/

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/

This is my first show, and Judd Karlman (designer of Dictionary of Mu and a member of the Sons of Kryos podcast) came on to talk about his Young Adult fantasy hack of The Shadows of Yesterday, entitled 1st Quest.

Judd's awesome and so is this episode. I'm so glad he's on the first one.

This episode is 48.3 MB big and 00:52:46 long. Here are the relevant show notes:


Hub City Stompers: http://hubcitystompers.com
The Dictionary of Mu: http://www.bobgoat.com/mu/
The Sons of Kryos: http://www.sonsofkryos.com/
Birthright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_%28campaign_setting%29
Rob Donoghue (Evil Hat Games): http://evilhat.com/
Days of Wonder: http://www.daysofwonder.com/
The Shadow of Yesterday: http://crngames.com/the_shadow_of_yesterday/
Keith Senkowski: http://www.bobgoat.com/
Ralph Mazza (Ramshead Publishing):  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/ramshead/
Sorcerer: http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/
Philip Pullman: http://www.philip-pullman.com/
Thor Oluvsrud and Luke Crane (Burning Wheel): http://burningwheel.org/
Thor Oluvsrud (blog): http://urdwell.blogspot.com/
FATE RPG: http://faterpg.com/
Wraith: The Oblivion: http://www.white-wolf.com/Games/Pages/Wraithhome.html
The Riddle of Steel: http://www.theriddleofsteel.net/
Ron Edwards (Adept Press): http://www.adept-press.com/
The Forge playtesting forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?board=62.0
Aaron Kuder: http://www.comicspace.com/aaronkuder/ and http://dancingdoorguy.deviantart.com/
Riddle of Blood Yahoo Group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/TRoB/

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/