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Think Story Corp for gamers. I'll talk with the folks that play the games, facilitate the games, the folks behind the scenes that make cons go and certainly the game creators. We'll cover the rest of the gamers story, like where games fit in their lives, what's life after games look like? What was early gaming like? I'll also cover what's happening in TTRPGs that week. what I'm playing or prepping at the table (or online)
My guest today is a gamer I admire for his style of DMing and asking players questions. He has the uncanny ability for generating gameable premises. He is the author of the Dictionary of Mu, a favorite sword and sorcery setting of mine. He's the host of the Daydreaming About Dragons podcast and my current Friday morning GM for Trophy Gold. Judd Kar…
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Last Week in Gaming - Legacy 2E Shenanigans
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Started Mothership with Judd. I'm playing a character inspired by Fox Mulder. The pitch: Two scientists investigate the disappearance of their professor and the crew of a science vessel. Twilight: 2000: The discovery of a dead soldier stashed in the woods and a convoy heading toward Barnes's occupied Polish town, sends Bard and Justin off to extrac…
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Last Week in Gaming: Rich Rogers of Plus One Forward (Edit)
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Rich Rogers, co-host of Plus One Forward and designer of Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, an ENnie award-winning street-level supers RPG joins me to talk about his gaming week - it's like a mini-con!! Rich's Stone Top duet game with his wife, Vampire 5e, Bounty of the Week (Monster of the Week hack), Gravity Rip, Star Wars Blades in the Dark, Ras…
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Last Week In Gaming: The Whitehack Dilemma
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Running: Whitehack + Dungeons and Dilemmas Twilight: 2000: Base building and sweet, sweet sandbox magic. Legacy 2E: Life Among the Ruins. Four families and bad virtual dice rolling! Wrath & Glory 1v1. Tech-Priest visiting a Space Hulk. Playing An ex-Stormtrooper in Bounty of the Week on twitch.tv/actualplay, Rich Rogers is running it. A Buzzard-hea…
The 2021 Mad Jay Picks! Some year-end metrics and my personal game picks for: Most Surprised Experience. The Old Man Logan Award. The Lethal Sessions Award Most evocative setting Closest to my heart. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)By MadJayZero
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The One Ring on Twitch is a wrap at 11 sessions! We've traveled from Rivendell to the Cold Fells to Bree and finale in the South Barrow-downs tracking down the fell sorcerer Gorlanc! Rich Rogers of +1 Forward takes the reigns and will run Bounty of the Week in the new year! Twilight: 2000 - Straight Outta Kalisz the Saturday sessions, we're two ses…
On the table 3 sessions in for Vena and the King of Nothing! We had a solid ordinary but strong third session of Burning Wheel. We talk about the three sessions and the game so far, the good, the bad, and what's next. Spoilers: Elle is still game! I did a panel called Fresh Starts for Big Bad Con with Lowel Francis from the Gauntlet and Rich Rogers…
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Vena and the King of Nothing: Ep02 - Choices
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Mad Elle and I continue our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. In this episode, she has to make some choices about the humans living in the millhouse she once stayed in with the ghost king. An Elven patrol finds her and her crew at the mill house. And Elle…
It's a Bye Week!!! The One Ring was a Bye Week. Our Fellowship is in Bree to track down Gorlanc the sorcerer dwarf?! The One Ring has final PDFs released and we're pouring through looking updating our characters! My new Burning Wheel game Vena and the King of Nothing is two sessions in and on the Diceology podcast. Vena is pursued by elves, made an…
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Vena and the King of Nothing: Ep01 - Ghosts, Tengu and Owlbears!
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We set off on our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. We learn a bit about the ghost of the murdered King, Tengu in an ancient forest, and an Owlbear! You can check out our session zero and see how we got here! Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madja…
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Vena and the King of Nothing. Session Zero.
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We've started our second chapter of The One Ring. The fellowship is journeying from Rivendell to Bree in search of that bad, bad, sorcerer!! Prepping a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2ED by UFOPress for play with the Gauntlet folks GauntletCon Open Gaming is coming up and I'm running sessions of Twilight 2K and UVG. My lady friend has burned up a 4LP…
It's been a couple of weeks and I have lots to cover! We played our first session of Pirates of Drinax using Cortex Prime -it was the BOMB! Talked about playing Burning Wheel with my lady friend, she brought it up and pitched a premise inspired by...The Lion King. We also played the Harry Potter Hogwarts battle game, the co-op, and the PvP version.…
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Kickstarters...WTF!! Hottest KS - Avatar Legends. The Upset - Tears of a Machine SC Carbon Grey RPG Chronicles of Drunagor Dogmight’s GM screen. Forbidden Lands RPG – Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch A|State Ran/Played: 2nd episode of The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay R3D - Lifted with Champions Now. On my campaign turn with Five Parsecs from H…
Last week I ... Ran/Played: The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay Twilight: 2000 twice! Lifted with Champions Now two times! And thinking about an All-Star-Crisis session. Started Five Parsecs from Home, a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargaming game by Modiphius. Lancer RPG. Reading/Prepping: Session Zero from Nahual Reading Ruin Masters and the White Hack…
I nerd-out about designing Debtpunk and Pinx via Vincent Baker's Powered by the Apocalypse essays and my Vampire game (SPOILERS) Played: Lancer RPG Hutt Cartel - a Star Wars hack of Cartel Twilight: 2000 Tears of a Machine Sc -Live on Kickstarter!! Prepping VtM:Rio by Night The One Ring for Twitch/Actualplay Nahual A Tabletop RPG of Mexican Urban F…
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Tears of a Machine SC with Russell Collins(Edit) - Diceology 41
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Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible content for blind and dyslexic students and training others to do the same. As a game designer, he created The Tears of a Machine, a game inspired by his love of science fiction stories and young adult melo…
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Talking NextPunk with Kira Magrann - Diceology 39
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Kira is a multi-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and LARP designer, queer nonbinary human, and snake friend living in Columbus, Ohio. Kira and I go from goth to future punk at the speed of Trans. We discuss how Kira got into games, her goto game to run and what she gets out of the gaming hobby. Check out her library of work including her lat…
Mad Jay covers his gaming from last week. Rio By Night. A Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle Sorcerer: The Fallen. A Mage setting powered by Sorcerer RPG. Nibiru RPG on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay Sorcerer of Marr'd. Yes another game of Sorcerer set in the Dictionary of Mu Lancer RPG with my kid. Lifted RPG teasers, Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/…
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Last Week in Gaming with Rich Rogers (Edited)
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My good friend Rich Rogers and I talk about ALL the stuff he played last week! Rich is the creator of ENnie Award-winning Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, a ttRPG about street-level supers who protect their neighborhood. Co-host of +1 Forward podcast. And it's Star Wars Sundays -not Saturdays! 😬 Light-Hearted RPG by Kurt Potts Once more Into the …
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Last Week in Gaming with Paul Beakley(Edit)
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This week Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club talks about what he played last week. Paul started the Indie Game Reading Club on Google+ in 2015. It was a king's vault of opinions, reviews, thoughts, and play experiences. Today he covers a ton of small press games on his blog, there you can find links to his Patreon and the club’s slack. The…
I'm back and covering the week of May 9th, let me know what you're playing in the comments or on Twitter at @madjayzero Sorcerer & Sword & Dictionary of Mu with Judd. Lifted Universe with Champions Now with Kickstarter Backers Sorcerer: The Fallen a Mage setting with Brendan Rio by Night a Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle Three from Kalisz using Tw…
Trying out something new by request. Here's how my gaming life played out last week! Let me know if this stuff is useful to you -I'll keep doing it. Behind the scenes of Three From Kalisz , my Twilight: 2000 game. ActualPlay, where I play|stream Nibiru RPG, Sorcerer: Dictionary of Mu, Stars without Number. Tears of a Machine Kickstarter Lifted. My …
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Out of the Ashes with Paul Mitchener - Diceology 33
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We get out on the existential side of things with Dr. Mitch, the virtual pub landlord. We start easy enough with beer, early gaming life in the UK, and the Virtual Pub origin story. We cover both his RPG works Liminal and the newly Kickstarter funded Out of the Ashes (of which I am a stretch goal writer) then we get off the path into consciousness,…
It’s my birthday month. I had my midlife crisis back in my late 20s returning to civilian life after I left the military. On the 21st of January at 16:20 I’ll be 50. Every year I get a skull tattoo to mark the years that I’m kicking diabetes ass and I make a playlist of 21 songs that I’m currently feeling. This year I will also make playlist of the…
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All Day Replay with Andy Kitkowski, pt 2(Extended)
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Happy Birthday to me! This is the full, part two version of my talk with Andy Kitkowski made possible by my Patreon supporters, my gift to you! Andy K on Twitter Heavy Kotdama Discord Liminal RPG Raphael Chandler Judd Karlman Stras Acimovic Ars Magica The Spire RPG Shinobigami RPG Dungeon World Tenra Bansho Zero RPG Support the show (http://www.pat…
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All Day Replay with Andy Kitkowski, pt 1.
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Andy and I talk for two hours and thirty minutes. After editing, I have two hours and fifteen minutes of conversation! This, part one, is our first hour and while we cover a lot of topics, there's a central point that plays out, again, and again! Andy K on Twitter Heavy Kotdama Discord Liminal RPG Raphael Chandler Judd Karlman Stras Acimovic Ars Ma…
Paul and I talk about capitalism, evil races, inclusion vs representation, safety tools, abortion...then we get into our Ars Magica game. Lots of triggery content. Be warned. We recorded this some months back, but I held it because the stuff we talk about is hard, for some folks emotional and full of triggers. Know this: Paul and I do not have the …
Somewhere along the line, I dropped a couple of podcasts... it's Catch-up weekend! Jason Cordova and I have a solid conversation on the origins of the Gauntlet, our shared challenges of race and what's giving him life! Jason Cordova on Twittter The Gauntlet Trophy Gold RPG The Golden Girls Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)…
Priest returns from the crypts victorious and we discuss the *real* trials of Priest and his new quest! We are playing B/X D&D using the Old School Essentials from Necrotic Gnome Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)By MadJayZero
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In the deep end with Whitney Delaglio - Diceology 28
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Whitney Delaglio, game designer but wanted to be a Lawful Evil Dolphin. We chat about Play by post games, Aquatic paladins, and the making of her indie game Prism. It turns out we both enjoyed the Netflix series Marco Polo and Scott Bakula. If you're paying attention, there's a Bret Gillan game designer reference and wisdom in here too! Whitney Del…
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It's Goths...all the way down with Lucian Khan - Diceology 27
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I got a chance to sit down with Lucian Khan and talk about quarantine life in NY. His early game roots with NES, and playing "secret" Vampire the masquerade games! Lucian is the creator of Dead Friend RPG (it's about necromancy!) and he's wrapping up Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths RPG. We talk about his approach to micro-creations and macro-creations. Lu…
In Champions Now Edwards talks about the Now, the stuff that's already in action at the start of a session. We are 'playing it cool' with the Now in this session. There are several conversations our anti-hero Kurt has with the authorities and one Charles requested to see play out. And a cliffhanger ending! Creed "Kat" makes another appearance this …
I catch up with Maxwell before rambling on about the stuff you talk about when you're celebrating your one year anniversary. Lumpley Games Lucian Khan - Visigoths vs Mall Goths Whitney Delaglio - Prism RPG Andy K - Shinobigami Alien RPG Symbaroum Trudvang RPG Anthony Bourdain w/Luther Campbell (Parts Unknown S05E02) Support the show (http://www.pat…
Rich Rogers joins me today and we run the bases!! We start with his current play of Minimum Rage RPG, a spin-off of the Mutant Year Zero Engine then we get into his various sessions of Star Wars Themed RPGs Dogs in the vineyard Star Wars World PBTA AW Burned-Over Cartel/ Hutt Cartel Bounty of the Week We talk about Fantasy Flight Games Genesys Shad…
Detective Armstead brings Kurt on a witness relocation job, only someone has plans to move that witness to the grave. Join Charles Picard and I as we continue our Champions Now series. We talk about presence attacks, hazards, and Armstead, Kurt's Hunted Situation. 10 Hunted: Detective Armstead, Spokane PD (one person, manipulative), Marine veteran.…
The Witness Protection Services in Spokane, WA. gets a brand new client. Kurt Renfro. He's a mid-level super-villain F.K.A Bone from the east. He's settling into his new life in the WitSec program. Welcome to our run of Champions Now by Ron Edwards and Hero Games. Charles Picard is playing Kurt Renfro. We start with me monologuing about what we're …
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The Young Mandalorian Actual Play - Two Clients, One Bounty.
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In Episode Two, the Young Mandalorian returns to the Steel having taken on a new bounty...from two different clients! We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire with the books: No Disintegrations (Bounty Hunters), Lords of Nal Hutta(Hutts) and Allies and Adversaries (LOADS of baddies) Cast: Tara720 (Gank) and IG-3OJ - Enforcers for Bael…
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Stepping into the ring with Nathan D. Paoletta
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On today’s show, we chat up Nathan D. Paoletta about the 2nd edition of World Wide Wrestling RPG which is running on Kickstarter. We cover NDP game Carry, a game about war RPG and The Things They Carried novel. We also cover Imp of the perverse and a Paul Beakely story. $200 a day podcast about the Rockford files, and a little teaser about Black, R…
Today we welcome game designer, Beau Sheldon, to the show to talk about his life in gaming. Beau is the creator of Script Change and the author behind Thoughty! He has created several games, the most recent and dear of these being Turn. Beau explains his family background and upbringing and how these have informed creating and playing games in his …
We begin our Young Mandalorian series on the Steel, a floating shadow port tracking down an AWOL stormtrooper. We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire. One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)By MadJay Zero
Joining us is game designer and extraordinary player, Misha B of Black Girl Gameworks and More Seats at the Table! Show notes Black Girl Game Works More Seats at the table Orun and New Agenda Publishing Earthdawn Rolemaster by I.C.E Rolegate - a play by chat web app. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)…
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James Mendez-Hodes pilots the Funkadelic Mothership
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From the starships, Jersey City and Manhattan to the OG rapping Greeks and the Wu-Tang Larp, James and I go long and wide in this episode most funkadelic. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)…
I catch up with Rich after the holidays and talk about what's ahead for 2020. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)By MadJay Studios
Max and I continue playing D&D using the Old school Essentials from Necrotic Gnome. Max is playing Priest the Cleric of the god of Ahrepo. We are using the Mad Lands 'rulings'. Priest and Jefferies track the gnolls to an old village and descend into the crypts beneath. I'm using The Church of Morlorrim for inspiration for the crypts beneath the vil…
We continue our 'Trials of Priest' D&D B/X game using the Old school Essentials from Necrotic Gnome Old dogs and new faces come for those idols that Priest has. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)By MadJayZero
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Free League's Mattias Haake on Symbaroum RPG
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We cover a lot of Symbaroum ground and the origins of Fria Ligan! We get into the new Alien RPG and Mattias talks about what he likes best about making games. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/madjayzero)…
