RPG Crosstalk Show 02

This episode is hosted by Jenn of Jennisodes and Devon from Shark Bone podcast.

How to contact us:

• forums: www.rpgcrosstalk.webs.com
• email: rpgcrosstalk@gmail.com
• twitter: @rpgcrosstalk
• facebook page: RPG Crosstalk

Updates and Announcements

• A new show!! Here Be Gamers from AUS!
• Contest - once we get up to 100 members (sans administrators/podcasters) there will be a prize. A PRIZE!
• Firefly is coming back to cable!! Science Channel March 6th at 8pm
• Stargate Universe is coming back on March 7th
• Forum topics: Mediocrity being rewarded
• What can pdfs do for my gaming?
• Episode Recommendations - recommend a great episode you enjoyed in the podosphere
• Calendar

Canon Puncture 106: Game Advocates - Feng Shui

• Jim Crocker - owner of Modern Myths
• Feng Shui - action movie Hong Kong martial arts game
• You can be Jackie Chang

Designer Vs Reality:

• Continues to playset his game Final Hour of a Storied Age.
• In beta testing and he is looking for outside playtesters to give it a spin. If you're interested, he gives his email in the show, so check it out.
• The structure of the game, by using chapters instead of scenes, gives the feel of playing through a book much moreso than playing through a theatrical play or a TV show or movie.
• The die mechanics are a nice mix of scene resolution but with enough back and forth to allow a narrative to develop towards an agreed outcome.

Here Be Games 39: Australian Games Expo

• Interview with Charles Bishop about Australian Games Expo
• Tournaments! Demos (so you don’t have to be in a tournament
• Geographic issues in AUS to get smaller press games in
• Growing and expanding (more retailers, different size booths)
• Ticket to Ride tournament and win a trip to Germany for tournament

Jennisodes 27: Creating an internet presence

• Ryan Macklin
• Rules to abide by on the internet - being professional in the gaming community
• Mediocrity being rewarded

Jennisodes 28: Innovation in Gaming

• David A Hill Jr - Machine Age Productions
• As a freelancer how one needs to adapt their games to be more innovative either in design and deliverables
• Chats about his games machine Zeit and Anarantheme
• PDF’s and how they are used/can be used

Märklighetstroget

• Thom talks to Wilhelm Person, designer of the storytelling game While the World Ends (available in English through Lulu) about that game specifically and storytelling games in general

Mom’s Basement 23: Ronnies February 2011

• Ronnies Awards - a competition hosted by Ron Edwards
• Chat about the different games that were submitted and how the mechanics work
• Rates the top games

Narrative Control: Look for a new episode coming out next week!

Shark Bone 45:

• Threshold Kickstarter
• Bubba Ho-tep - Bruce Campbell
• Adventure in a single location - everything has to come to them
• Eye to eye communication - sympathetic villain
• A rumor is a myth that isn’t around for very long
• Conspiracy Theory - body switching stuff or aliens
• PC/NPC’s can be old and lead to interesting complications
• GM Screens
• Cuts off the players from GM
• Laptops - put next to you
• Pros and Cons

Shark Bone 46:

• Kung Fu Panda
• i love kung fu panda
• the secret is using what you have and being awesome at it
• situation of neccesessity
• Star Wars Saga Edition
• Smallville RPG - good explanation of why you roll
• Suggest to combine smallville and leverage

Learn Swedish!

• Dice
• Kill
• Experience Points

Direct Download:  http://www.canonpuncture.com/audio/rpgcross-talk-show-02.mp3

RPG Crosstalk Show 01 (re-release)

Hello and welcome to the RPG Crosstalk Show!

This episode is hosted by Jenn and Rich.

http://www.canonpuncture.com/audio/rpgcrosstalk-show-01_2.mp3

This is the version with better levels.

As always, please come to the RPG Crosstalk forum and discuss the shows we mentioned here.

RPG Crosstalk Show 01

Hello and welcome to the RPG Crosstalk Show!

This episode is hosted by Jenn of Jennisodes and Rich from Canon Puncture show.

Introduction

• This is the RPG Crosstalk Show
• Its a Biweekly show where we will bring together all the podcasts on the forums
• Highlight interesting forum posts or projects going on
  
• Where you can find us: RSS feed, twitter - rpgcrosstalk, facebook page, email - rpgcrosstalk@gmail.com

Shows on RPG Crosstalk and the Episodes

• Canon Puncture Show
• Canon Puncture Show 105: PEW
• PEW Contest! - ends Feb....
• Changing over to the Fate system with Bulldogs
• Designer vs Reality
• Episode 14 - Final Hour of the Storied Age Playtest 8A
• What is an AP show?
• Jennisodes
• Jennisode 25 - Smallville with her game group
• A recap of the smallville game and how the game works/plays overall
• Character creation, mechanics, tips and tricks that we realized during/after play
• READ THE BOOK
• Markligheststroget
• "This episode is part two of Thom's discussion with Gabriel Widing, LARP organizer and theorist. In the last episode they talked about participatory culture (for example RPGs and LARPs), how it is different from spectator culture (TV, Books, Films, Podcasts etc.) and why that's important to understand. This episode they talk about collaborative writing as a tool for role play and what happens when role play moves into the public space in the form of reality games."
• Narrative Control
• Episode 59 - Player vs Player Awesome
• Characters versus each other instead of against an NPC - more meaningful interactions
• Set stakes and examples of games that encourage pvp in a good way. BW, Smallville, DiTV, AW
• SharkBone Podcast
• Episode 44 FTPH
• Devon's Threshold Kickstarter - His game about Tragic Superheroes is a game of terminal hospital patients given superpowers. Instead of living their last weeks in a hospital bed, they are given powers that most people only dream of. The game uses an interesting trait named Regret to tie the characters to the world and give them something to care about during their last days. It is a rules-lite story game, concentrating on telling the stories of these characters' final days of life
• Contest! Finish the Plot Hook - ends Feb 19th at midnight! “Your ship has wrecked at sea. You’ve been floating amongst the driftwood for what seems like a week, but it can’t have been more than 24 hours. As you lay on a makeshift raft, something bumps it from below. Cautiously, you roll over and…”
• Count of Monte Cristo the movie and turning it into the game and using the themes from the movie to put into the game
• Money - use wealth to get what you want
  
• Have character assumptions be wrong - betrayal and revenge
• Other kind of dice - "Otherkind" from a lumpley.com post - a dice mechanic that can be used in any game. Makes the player have to come up with outcomes and consequences for an action - not just saying you want to do the action. Adds more to the story and game and allows the player to change/add to the game.
  

Learn Swedish! Three gaming words

• Dice - tärning  http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html#dice&2&nocorr
• Table - bord http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html#table&2
• Alignment -  inriktning  - http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html#alignment&0

Upcoming Events for February - Let us know if you are going to a con and we can put it on the calendar!

• OrcCon - Feb 18-21
• Dundracon 35 - Feb 19-21
• Dreamation Feb 25-27
• Arnold Con - March 4-6
  

Direct Download: http://www.canonpuncture.com/audio/rpgcrosstalk-show-01.mp3

As always, please come to the RPG Crosstalk forum and discuss the shows we mentioned here.