Sun, 30 December 2007 Well, sorry for the delay, but the holidays make it a bit difficult to get together with co-hosts. And, on with the show notes. Two games we mentioned during our conversation about board games when we were kids that you may not have heard of are http://www.farmgame.com/tfg.htm The Farming Game, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_%28board_game%29 Scotland yard. Gloom, an excellent witty card game http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG1250.php Bang! A western game about shooting each other http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang! The Kenneth Hite episodes of Have Games, Will Travel can be found on this page http://havegameswilltravel.libsyn.com/?search_string=kenneth+hite&search=1 Kublacon the Khan of cons, where Jules runs a game design contest http://www.kublacon.com/ BoardGameGeek http://www.boardgamegeek.com/newuser.php Phoenix, a former winner of that KublaCon contest http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/6481 Russian Rails, by former winner Jodi Soares (though not the entry she won with) http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/9617 Time's Up, Jules and I's favorite party game http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1353 Apples to Apples, another great party game http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/74 Are You a Werewolf, which I'm not so crazy about, but Jules loves http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/925 Paranoia, my favorite pick-up rpg http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/rpg/series.php?qsSeries=19 and the design blog http://www.costik.com/paranoia/ Days of Wonder a great games company who make Ticket To Ride, Colosseum, and other games we mention. http://www.daysofwonder.com/en/ The Vintage Gamer, by Jim Van Verth, an excellent and informative podcast that's made me track down and buy a few things http://www.thevintagegamer.net/ Asmodee Games, who make Mall of Horror, Cash and Guns, and Jungle Speed http://www.asmodee-us.com/ Suicide Bomber Card Game http://www.playccg.com/ A thread with links about luke Crane and Jared Sorensen being hired by Hidden City Games, the makers of Bella Sara http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=4630 Bella Sara, the greatest pretty horses game ever http://www.hiddencitygames.com/ The Origins Awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_Award http://www.originsgamefair.com/ Cheapass Games http://www.cheapass.com/ Mechwarrior http://www.wizkidsgames.com/mechwarrior/ Horrorclix http://www.wizkidsgames.com/horrorclix/ Multiman Publishing, http://www.multimanpublishing.com/about.php Lu Ann Youse isn't listed as a designer like I'd thought, sorry. Sounds like she gets stuck playing "adult" in that company a lot. NerdNYC http://www.nerdnyc.com/ NerdSo-Cal http://nerdsocal.com/ NerdNC (not mentioned) http://www.nerdnc.com/ Emerald City Game Feast in Seattle WA http://ecgf.wikidot.com/ Go-Play NW http://goplaynw.wetpaint.com/ The Wayward, a coffee house in the Greenwood area of Seattle. http://www.waywardcoffee.com/ The Dreaming, my favorite comic and game store. http://thedreamingcomics.com/ Whew, that was a l;ong one, and I had to leave some things out. It seems Jules and I are name droppers. Heh. Comments[7] |
Sun, 16 December 2007 Episode Three wherein Judd from the Sons Of Kryos and I talk about all manner of things, and Mickey chimes in once in awhile. About an hour and nine minutes, and about 66mb. I think my New Years resolution is to try to stop myself from saying "y'know" as much, y'know? Also: note to self. Do not move mic during recording and do not let someone type at her laptop next to the mic. I'm still figuring these these things out, but those should have been obvious to me. Some show notes: http://www.sonsofkryos.com/ Judd, Jeff, and Storn's show. John Wick's lj http://wickedthought.livejournal.com/ where he talks extensively about houses of the Blooded. http://www.evilhat.com/home/?page_id=101 Don't Rest Your head, again. I love this game so much. http://www.burningwheel.org/ Home of the Burning Wheel. An awesome game to read and an awesomer game to play. Hateful nasty orcs, ooooohhh! Speaking of awesome http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html Prime Time Adventures is made of magic fairy crack. We then talk quite a lot about the upcoming D&D 4th edition http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome and about how we're getting out information about it. One of those places is http://www.enworld.org/ and another is my good friend Alex Chobot, who you'll hear on an upcoming show. hopefully soon. We talk a little about http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/rpgsagaed The Star Wars Saga edition, which is somewhat of a playtest for 4E. We also talked about how Alex and i want to break in 4E with a homebrew Spelljammer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelljammer ) campaign. We didn't even get to talk about the angel drives. I guess we'll get to that when I do a show with Alex. Another place to get your 4E straight dope is http://www.rpg.net/ We talk briefly about social combat, which leads to talking about geek attractiveness, and no conversation on that subject is complete without mentioning Gamer: The podcasting, http://somniturne.com/gtp/ and Sasha's awesome hair. We also talk quite a lot about the Story Games forum, as I often do. http://www.story-games.com/forums/ We get into the subject of games that bring up heavy subjects, and we talk about Carry http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16181&cat=0&page=1 and Grey Ranks http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/index.php?game=grey_ranks also Death's Door http://www.blankshieldpress.com/death.html And Steal Away Jordan http://swingpad.com/julia/wordpress/ We mention Under The Bed http://www.glyphpress.com/UtB/ We talk bout GURPS as I tend to a lot http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/ In The Statement: Play Other Games we talk about boardgames as well as rpgs and Arkham horror comes up http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/arkhamhorror.html as well as http://www.daysofwonder.com/shadowsovercamelot/en/ Shadows over Camelot. We also talk about the super-rad card game Jungle Speed http://www.junglespeed.co.uk/ Then we talk about running games for kids and mention Faery's Tale http://www.firefly-games.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=48&osCsid=71a96d47323a394d8707230794d5c39f and Cat http://www.wicked-dead.com/cat/ and Monkey Wrench, which I couldn't find a link to. I suck. We also mention the Sam Chupp has talked about gaming with kids extensively over at The Bears Grove. http://bearsgrove.com/ He has most of those shows in their own section now. So that about does it. Feel free to leave comments here or at Stabbingcontest@gmail.com Thanks for listening. we had a great time recording it.
Judd sent me some more show notes. Monkey Wrench is here. http://www.harlekin-maus.com/ It appears to be the whole game. Here's the ap for Judd's hateful hateful orcs game. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=3 Thanks, Judd. Comments[4] |
Mon, 10 December 2007 This one's a bit chaotic, but it's always a bit chaotic when my co-host and best friend Jordan Block get together. This comes in at about 1hr,05min and is about 60mb.
Sepiachord, Jordans steampunk music site: http://www.sepiachord.com/ Victorian Adventure Enthusiast, his Victorian gaming site, which will hopefully have some content soon: http://www.victorianadventureenthusiast.com/ Uchronia, a Victorian rpg the jordan is translating with the help of the authors: http://uchronia.free.fr/ Forgotten Futures, by Marcus Rowland. An amazingly huge site chock full of content: http://www.forgottenfutures.com/ Da Yoopers, Michigan's upper penninsula's greatest band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Yoopers
I know this one sounds a bit rough. Jordan and I get a little goofy together and we've always had the bad habit of talking over each other, but I hope it comes through just how much fun we have at the same time. As always, thanks for listening and comment here, or email at stabbingcontest@gmail.com
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Sat, 1 December 2007 It's my first podcast. Welcome to the show. This one is rated not for young audiences and wear your headphones at work due to coarse language and some frank talk about sexuality. My co-host this episode is my lovely wife, Mickey, and we have a lot of fun figuring this thing out. Some notes: The webcomic where you can find the cartoon that gave me the name is Edible Dirt by Matt Rosemier. http://eddirt.frozenreality.co.uk/ In fact, here's the specific comic. http://eddirt.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=252 I mentioned my workplace. http://www.privateerpress.com/ I hope i didn't give the idea that I was involved in design or development, because I actually work in production. I turn hot metal into miniatures. Eos Press http://www.eos-press.com/ producers of Unhallowed http://www.eos-press.com/products-unhallowed.html Geek Girls Rule, my wife's geek collumn http://geekgirlsrule.wordpress.com/ and Media Gauntlet where it's hosted as a feature http://www.mediagauntlet.com/ Valerie Strangiato, her sex advice site http://www.valeriestrangiato.com/ The free short version of the Two-Die system http://ogremarco.fileave.com/ The Zorcerer of Zo http://www.atomicsockmonkey.com/products/zoz.asp Faery's Tale http://www.firefly-games.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=48&osCsid=71a96d47323a394d8707230794d5c39f Little Fears, looks like something is coming soon http://www.littlefears.com/ Don't Rest Your Head http://www.evilhat.com/home/?page_id=101 Prime Time Adventures http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html Carry: A Game About War http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16181&cat=0&page=1 GURPS http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/ which I still love to pieces.
Some of the podcasts I mentioned and a few I forgot. The Voice Of The Revolution http://www.thevoiceoftherevolution.com/ The Score http://www.chimera.info/ Theory From The Closet http://theoryfromthecloset.com/ Master Plan http://masterplan.libsyn.com/ Sons Of Kryos http://www.sonsofkryos.com/ The Dragon's Landing http://www.dragonslanding.com/mambo/ Gamer: The Podcasting http://somniturne.com/gtp/ The Vintage Gamer http://www.thevintagegamer.net/ Have Games, Will Travel http://www.havegameswilltravel.net/ How did i forget to mention this one? And, also how could I forget the Durham 3? http://www.durham3.com/ A couple of cons mentioned http://www.norwescon.org/ Norweson, A Seattle area con. http://www.amberconnw.org/ Ambercon Northwest in Troutdale Oregon
Hey, so It's really late, and I need to sleep. Feel free to email me your comments. Thanks. Comments[7] |
