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PGOC 200: Season 1 Finale We've made it, folks.  Two hundred episodes of Out of Character.  The crew takes an extra long episode to celebrate their survival, and to bid the old times farewell before we make the jump to video.  This one's full of nostalgia--if you're new to the show, we recommend going back a few episodes before listening to this one. We also receive some well-wishing from various friends of the podcast, including: Dave Hat from Hat's Games Ron and Veronica Blessing Tom Gurganus Marcelo Figaro fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 199: First Contact You've assembled your notes, you've prepared your world, you've polished your dice.  It's the first session.  For some, it's the first foray into this particular campaign.  For others, it's the first time they've ever held dice.  How do you kickoff the first session?  The Pulp Gamer Crew discusses how to make that first step memorable, understandable, and--above all--repeatable.  Along the way, we drop a few names, including: Dungeons & Dragons Champions Dresden Files Vampire: th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 198: Sample This Pulp Gamer's had a bit of a turf war with video games these past few years, but it's time to acknowledge that electronic media has some vital lessons to teach the traditional gamers.  This week, we discuss the lessons we've learned from video games, and how they can be incorporated into the pen and paper world.  But in turn, we also point out some things our digital cousins could still stand to learn from us.  Along the way, we drop a number of titles both electronic and analogue, includ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 197: Board Game Bonanza With the upcoming change to Out of Character, the Crew is using this week to clear out all the board games we've had waiting in our queue.  We scale a mountain of plastic and cardboard, including: Perplexus Phone Frenzy Struggle for Catan Cambria Hibernia Test of Fire: First Bull Run 1861 Discworld: Ankh-Morpork Orbit GUBS Tikal II: The Lost Temple BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction And speaking of Phone Frenzy, we take the opportunity to pester our friend Marcelo over at WarPath ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 196: From the Shadows Stealth-based challenges have always been tricky in tabletop games, for numerous reasons--the strict pass/fail nature of most challenges, the difficulty of "group-stealth," and the risk of inadvertently bypassing the meat of the game..  This week, the Pulp Gamer Crew discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using these challenges, games with good stealth mechanics, and ways to make sneaking through the shadows satisfying for your players.  Along the way, we mention a few games, inclu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 195: Ripped from the Headlines This week, the Crew discusses the sensitive issue of bringing current events into your game.  When is it appropriate and when is it too much?  What about recreating similar events in more removed, fantisifal settings?  We share our experiences and perspectives, dropping a few names along the way: Fishing for Terrorists Victoriana: Beastmen of Britain Dungeons and Dragons: Forgotten Realms Brenda Brathwaite's The Mechanic Is the Message project We also discuss the best games for playing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 194: Weird New Worlds The Crew takes a turn for the bizarre, heading straight for the "weird" roleplaying settings.  What makes a setting weird?  What are the benefits of having a setting divorced from reality--or even fantasy--as we know it?  What are the challenges with running a game in a world so far afield?  Along the way, we namedrop a few settings, including: Deadlands Shadowrun RIFTS Low Life 50 Fathoms Children of the Sun Eclipse Phase GURPS Discworld Paranoia Tales from the Floating Vagabond HoL ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC: 193: It's a Conspiracy Alrighty!  This week, we check in withhhhhhhhhhhhhhl101010110 ***ACTIVATING DRONE CONTROL PROTOCOL.  BROADCAST INTERCEPTED*** Directives received from the secret masters:  Sleeper agents among Pulp Gamer Crew are to be activated, begin broadcasting subliminal messages.  Disguise hypnotic transmission as podcast about conspiracies in gaming.  Raise topics about games featuring conspiracies, how to use conspiracies as antagonists, and how to run conspirator characters.  Direct attention ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 192: Just Say No One of the first rules of improv, and of roleplaying, is "never negate."  But sometimes, you have to put your foot down.  Prompted by Ryan Macklin at Evil Hat Productions, we discuss when GMs and players should say no to the game events, both at convention games and at our weekly game table. Also, Thanksgiving is upon us here in the U.S., and we've got families to entertain.  We discuss our thoughts on games to play with your guests--the kids, the adults, and even the disaffected teenage ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 191: DEATH In honor of the Halloween/All Saints/All Souls Day trifecta, the Pulp Gamer Crew tackles the subject of death in games.  How should a system and/or a group address character death and ressurection?  At what point is it a burden, and at what point is it a speed bump?  We also discuss death and elimination mechanics in board games, and a few games that concern themselves primarily with death and the afterlife.  Along the way, we drop a few names, including Dungeons and Dragons Wraith: th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 190: Cheating! Partly inspired by Angus's shenanigans on this week's Bob & Angus Show, the Pulp Gamer Crew holds a philosophical discussion on the nature of cheating.  What defines cheating?  What motivates it, especially in cooperative games and RPGs?  How do you handle it?  And are there occasions when cheating is perhaps acceptable or even encouraged?  (For example, is it cheating when the GM does it?)  We share our cheating stories, experiences, and ultimate conclusions. Along the way, we na ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 189: Where Is Your Hall Pass Alrighty class, sit down.  Please open your textbooks to page 20, "High School Settings and Roleplaying Games."  Everyone, take notes on the salient points as we respond to listener Christopher's prompt:  How can high school settings be used in games?  How do you mock up the social realities of the environment?  What kind of adventures can be found in the setting?  How has the setting changed since the days of The Breakfast Club?  Your homework for tonight is the following games: We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 188: Outside Looking In In honor of National Coming Out Day, we discuss the experiences of marginalized groups in the gaming and geek communities--women, LGBT gamers, people of color, religious minorities.  What issues still remain prevalent in our community, and how do we address the problem and reach out to the excluded?  In addition, we namedrop Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress and address the crucial question: How does a transgendered individual play Munchkin? We also take a quick glance at Dreadflee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 187: Tearing Down the Wall This week, we take a look at roleplaying game plot structures, from the one shot wonder to the fifteen year D&D game and everything in between.  How does each type flow?  How do you keep your group interested in the three year campaign, and how do you bring new players in two years on?  And how do you switch your story from one form to another--turning the surprise hit one-shot into an ongoing storyline, for example?  Along the way, we mention: Dungeons and Dragons Outbreak: UNDEAD ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 186: Colonization We come in peace.  Now where do you keep your gold and magic fountains? Colonization is a popular theme in board games, and colonial frontiers make fascinating roleplaying settings.  The Pulp Gamer crew ponders the appeal of colony games--from the skill of resource management, to the thrill of braving the undiscovered and untamed, to the satisfaction of building civilization from nothing.  At the same time, however, we devote attention to a theme that often goes uncommented or is pushed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 185: Cold War We can't let there be a podcast gap!  Spurred on by some 80's nostalgia, this week Pulp Gamer discusses games set in the Cold War era.  We recommend a few of our favorites and how they've transitioned into the post-Soviet world.    We also discuss the tone of the era--both the seriousness of the looming nuclear threat and the absurdity of superspies and Strangelove--and how to bring it to life in your games.  Along the way, we mention: Buckaroo Banzai Paranoia Twilight 2000 Twilight S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 184: Let's Vary Gaming With a Little Piracy Ahoy, Matey!  Talk Like a Pirate Day be comin' into port this week, and ye don't want your gaming crew caught without shot and powder.  Good thing for you, Cap'n Pulp Gamer be feelin' generous today, and be sharin' a couple pirate-themed games from the chest.  The crew be diggin their hands in deep, and comin up with some gems from the high seas and the frontier stars, including: 7th Sea Merchants and Marauders 50 Fathoms Buccaneers and Bokor Freebooter's Fate Bulldogs! Rogue Trader Sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 183: Ain't No Party Like a Labor Party Labor Day is over, and it's back to the salt mines for you.  But despair not, because now you can work like a dog in your games, too!  This week, we look at labor and employment themes in games.  Along the way, we talk about: Agricola Pit Hecho Pillars of the Earth Management Material Give Me the Brain Ninja Burger Paranoia The Farming Game Globalization Scotland Yard 221B Baker Street In charity news, we hear from listener Dan and his organization, Gamers for Cures, about the 24-hou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 182: Thunderstorms! Our recording this week was cut short due to thunderstorms and flooding in the Tucson area, and several of our correspondents weren't able to brave the maelstrom, so this week's episode is a short one.  We'll be going on hiatus until our next recording session, but we'll be back with our full length show in two weeks! We focus on some great charities this week, including some updates on the efforts of the Creative Play Project!  We also talk about Extra Life 2011, the Jack Vasel Fund, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 181: Are We There Yet? One of the quintessential thrills of roleplaying games lies in exploration.  You put some graph paper in your hands and some unfamiliar world beneath your feet, and you trace a line with your boots and your deeds until you circumscribe a world. In this week's episode, the Pulp Gamer crew talks about setting, maps, and geography and how they can bring a roleplaying game to life.  Along the way, we drop a few names, including: Nuclear Sunset: The Southwest The Waterdeep setting for Dungeon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 180: Gen Con 2011 This week, Pulp Gamer reports straight from the field at Gen Con 2011!  We're joined by Mike Selinker from Lone Shark Games, James Ernst from Cheapass Games, Marcelo Figueroa from WarPath Games, Alex Yeager from Mayfair Games, and Steve Jackson from Steve Jackson Games. as well as Pulp Gamer alumnus Jeremiah Lynch and listener Jeff Ide! Our motley crew gives their impressions of the show and the shiny new games on display. Impact! Miniatures' Band of Orcs figures Remnants Mistborn Fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 179: Gamer Burnout Our topic this week is prompted by (read: stolen wholesale from) our friends Game On! with Cody and John. Burnout.  It strikes everyone in the hobby sooner or later, the feeling that the hobby has become a chore.  The weekly session becomes an appointment as dreaded as a doctor's visit, you're getting sick of your friends, and you just can't give anymore to the game. The Pulp Gamer discusses their own experiences with burnout, its causes and ways to hopefully prevent or cure it.  Along t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 178: Organizational Tools "Hold on, guys, just need to find which book that table was in.  It'll just take an hour, two tops." For roleplaying games, miniatures games, and some of the larger boardgames, organization and pre-prep are the crucial difference between a fast, flowing experience and a jarring slog.  The Pulp Gamer Crew discusses some of their favorite tools and practices, from the old, practical standbyes to accidental discoveries to the magic of PDFs and wikis.  We also touch on how these tools and th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 177: Tell Us Your Fantasy With the grand finale of the Harry Potter franchise upon us, and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings revival receding into the distance, the Pulp Gamer crew ponders what the next big movement in fantasy is going to be, both in entertainment and in games.  Along the way, we namedrop a few titles, including: Exalted Anima Scion The Dresden Files Legend of the Five Rings Sword Noir Prime Time Adventures Lashings of Ginger Beer The Pulpsters also talk about their favorite fantasy works, includ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 176: But I See You Won First Prize With the Origins Awards still fresh in our memories, we devote our attentions to the topic of gaming awards.  What impact do they have on the industry?  What do we expect from them?  Recently, there's been some conversation on the fact that the Origins Award for Best Historical--a category traditionally taken by a historical wargame--went to Settlers of America: Trails to Rails, and this sparked discussion. Along the way, we also talk about: The Spiel des Jahres Award The Mensa Mind Ga ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 175: Going to War Listener Ken from Wyoming asks us a complex question:  Is there a profile for the average gamer, and how do you introduce gaming to those who don't fit the profile?  This little question launches the crew into an in-depth discussion of typing and stereotyping in the gaming community  How are gamers viewed as a whole?  Within the community, how do we stereotype our own subgroups--board gamers, role-players, wargamers, and so forth?  Are their any truisms within these stereotypes? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 174: Origins 2011 This week, Pulp Gamer reports in from the Origins Game Fair!  Rather than our usual crew, we're joined by Alex Yeager from Mayfair Games, Mike Selinker from Lone Shark Games, and James Ernest from Cheapass Games. We talk about the race for the prize (coverage of which can be found at Critical-Hits.com). particularly the tense struggle for Best RPG this year between outstanding notables like Gamma World, Fiasco, and The Dresden Files RPG (the winner, as well as winner of Best RPG su ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 173: Why We Game It's not always the same motivation that brings your players to the table.  One is here to socialize.  One is here to explore.  One is here to perfect.  One is here to conquer.  And why are you here?  In this week's episode, the Pulp Gamer Crew discusses what draws them to games, how to identify (and satisfy) the needs of the players at the table, and how to discover the motivation that might pull a "non-gamer" into the fold. Along the way, we drop a few names: Catan: Cities and Knig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 172: Crowd Control From six-man brackets at the friendly local to the massive, game-defining regional slugfests, tournaments are central to the gaming community, but actually staging one is an even greater struggle.  Our crew talks through tournament essentials, discussing what sort of games lend themselves to tournament play, how to manage the atmosphere of the event, and maybe even explaining why you'd want to run one of these madhouses in the first place. Along the way, we touch on a few tournament memora ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 171: Outside the Game At some point, you have to leave the table, but that doesn't have to end the fun.  This week, we discuss the strange sorcery of doing non-gaming activities with your gaming group, and how they can strengthen your game and even bring in new players.  Along the way, our crew namedrops some of their favorites, both local to our Tucson studios and beyond, including: The Society for Creative Anachronism The Titan Missile Museum The Pima Air and Space Museum Old Tucson Studios Our absent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 170: Minutia The world of miniatures is changing!  Several major miniatures manufacturers, including Games Workshop and Privateer Press, have begun to change out their metal miniatures for new resin replacements.  What's motivating this shift?  How do the new resin minis hold up to their metal counterparts in quality?  And what does this mean for the future of old metalhead companies like Reaper Miniatures? We're also joined by a newcomer to the show, Dave's wife and co-owner of Hat's Games, Sam Hat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 169: Convention Survival Guide The summer convention season is upon us!  For those of you venturing out into your first few conventions, Pulp Gamer offers this guide to getting the most out of your experience.  Why go to a convention?  What should you expect to see?  How do you get the most out of your experience without burning yourself out?  Our crew of con-hall fixtures offers their take on the necessities of convention survival. We also take a look at two new games:  The Resistance and Microscope. We also take ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 168: Roleplay and the Law In honor of Police Week, we put out an APB on games that deal with law enforcement   We talk about the police as both antagonists and protagonists, about their changing role in history and the permutations they may take in the far future.  Along the way, we snap the cuffs on these suspicious characters: Shadowrun Mutant City Blues Serenity Vampire Paranoia Pathfinder's Cheliax setting Scotland Yard Murder City Bang! and the Star Wars, Star Trek, and Stargate franchises Jason also point ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 167: The Reality of Fantasy Prompted by a question from listener William, we take a look behind the scenes of brick-and-mortar games retail and distribution.  How do game distributors work?  Why does some product take weeks to get a special order through when the online stores have it right there?  Can stores deal directly with the publishers?  Drew and Gerri from Game Daze weigh in on the subject. We also bring an armful of game awards news: the 2010 winners of Dr. Toy's Green Toy Awards (including Gerri's pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 166: Destruction and Disaster For this week, we pull from current events. Drawing from international news, we discuss terrorism and counterterrorism in games, and discuss how different games handle this delicate subject.  Along the way, we touch on Labyrinth: The War on Terror, Fishing for Terrorists, Strike Force Seven, the Wargames series, and James Bond 007. And from US news, listener Marcello from Warpath Games Distribution brings our attention to members of the games industry displaced by the recent disaster in Al ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 165: PVP This week, we tackle the tricky issue of inter-character conflict--both the bad and the good.  How do you discourage it when it becomes disruptive, and how can you make it a beneficial part of your game?  Along the way, we take some examples from games that have done it well: Houses of the Blooded Paranoia Vampire the Masquerade Necessary Evil Cutthroat Caverns Battlestar Galactica Diplomacy and, of all things, Elkfest In other news, Jason tears into some exciting horror games that he's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 164: Heroes Wanted What does it mean to play a hero?  The Pulp Gamer Crew tackle this deceptively tricky question this week.  What defines a "heroic" character?  And how can you encourage and reward players who want to be heroic--both in your situation and your mechanics?  Along our way, we draw inspiration from In A Wicked Age, Scion, Necessary Evil, and Dark Sun. We also have some fun with two other excellent podcasts: The Flop House and Read It and Weep! In news: At long last, we discuss the newest Pu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 163: Over the Rainbow Our recent discussions about novels and games lead to a special presentation about one of the most enduring and beloved settings in American literature: the Land of Oz!  Rather than the typical Pulp Gamer crew, Jason Corley instead hosts a round-table discussion with three designers who've worked on bringing Baum's landmark work into the world of gaming. Jason's three guests include F. Alexander Wall, creator of the Adventures in Oz RPG, S. Alexander Gentry, creator of the Oz: Dark an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 162: A Novel Idea This week, we discuss adapting novels into games and the inherent advantages (and disadvantages) of using print as your source material.  Which games have made the transition with flourish, and which shouldn't have made it past the editor?  We namedrop quite a few examples this week, including:Lord of the RingsThe Dresden Files RPG Pillars of the Earth The various Discworld gamesDream ParkCyberpunk 2020 The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game A Game of Thrones Call of Cthulhu Arkham Horror ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 161: My God Is Bigger Than Your God Still abuzz with listener Ryan's question from Out of Character 158, we dedicate an episode to discussing religion in role playing games--how religion operates within games, how fictional religions interact with real world beliefs, and approaches on designing religions into your game. And on the subject of the all-powerful, godlike war-machines return to board games with the new edition of Ogre and the new Classic Battletech Box Set~ We conjure into existence the newest member of the Pulp G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 160: GAMA Trade Show This week's show comes to you straight from the field at the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas!  We discuss all the shiny new things that have us excited for this year.  We're also joined by Rachael Griffin from Spin Master, who gives us the scoop on their upcoming card game, Redakai.Some of our big notables this year:Mercs (up for an Origins Award!)The new Battletech box setSettlers of Catan tablesCollectA MiniaturesCrystal Caste's new dice accessoriesFortune and Glory OrbitResident EvilAtlan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 159: Bring in the Bad Guys Fools!  Your pathetic attempts cannot stop us from unleashing our episode on Villainy!  Our evil masterminds ponder how to create better campaign villains, what makes a lame villain, and how to make villainous PCs (robbing borrowing a few ideas from Pinnacle Entertainment Group's Necessary Evil).  And once again, we're joined by our loyal henchman listener Kevin.Adamant Entertainment causes a stir with their experimental new business model - offering digital RPG supplements at the price ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 158: Powered by Steam In the wake of Wild Wild West Con here in Tucson, we bring you a show all about Steampunk!  We namedrop far too many games to list them all here!  Let us know how many you've played--tweet your Steampunk Kung-Fu score to #pulpgamer!  Some notables we do bring up include the playtest of Tephra (which we played at the convention!) and the "shareware" game Forgotten Futures.We're also joined by one of our listeners!  Kevin Graham joins us all the way from Kentucky for this one, and puts up ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patrician   Patrician Designed by: Michael Schacht Players: 2-5 Ages: 10+ Play Time: 50 minutes   Throughout the Middle Ages, wealthy and influential men and women across Italy wished to prove their importance. They desired a solid, visible symbol of their power and prosperity. So, they built magnificent tower-like buildings: the more influential the family, the taller the towers! But the competition never let up, and if a family should ever lose influence, newer, taller towers quickly appeared. A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 157: Playing God As we're kicking off March with both Game Master's Day and the 4th annual First Gamemaster's Conference, we're dedicating this week to the art of being a GM.  We're sharing our thoughts on improving sessions, spicing up NPCs, making players feel like their actions matter, and training new GMs.  Along the way, we namedrop suggestions derived from the FATE System and Big Eyes, Small Mouth.  We also tell you how to set up a GM's Conference in your home city, ncluding the all important step: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 156: Getting Personal We have small group today, so we thought we would give you a peak into our game and talk about some pieces that work. We brought up Museum of Man, The Cloisters, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court. This episode is brought to you by Offworld Designs.  We specifically brought up the T's, This Quest Sucks and I Threw Up On Your Sanity a Little. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 155: New York Toy Fair 2011 We had a great time and made a lot of discoveries at the New York Toy Fair.  David Miller joins us from Purple Pawn.  Marcelo Figueroa is again with us.  He was there representing our friends from Neon Con.  We also spent some time with Gen Con and the Mayfair Games crew, and horsed around with Play Happens. Links as we find them: The Laser Game: Khet 2.0 Air Swimmers Jishaku Nuts Fur-Ever Home Alphabet Soup Giant Tree House Boom Boom Cards Four Esses Morphology City Square Off Mermaid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 154: Running Without Scissors Scott makes it back in the studio to answer some fantasy linguistic questions, though our main topic is about intensifying your non-combat action scenes.  Jason had some very helpful tips on that front. Angry Birds is to be released as a table-top game. Parsely Games announced some great deals. Law and the Multiverse is a great blog to check out for super heroes and the law. This episode is brought to you by Accent Your Character.  Dialect training for roleplayers, storytellers, and oth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 154: Running Without Scissors Scott makes it back in the studio to answer some fantasy linguistic questions, though our main topic is about intensifying your non-combat action scenes.  Jason had some very helpful tips on that front. Angry Birds is to be released as a table-top game. Parsely Games announced some great deals. Law and the Multiverse is a great blog to check out for super heroes and the law. This episode is brought to you by Accent Your Character.  Dialect training for roleplayers, storytellers, and other ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 153: The Chinese New Year - the Rabbit In honor of the Chinese New Year, we rattle off a list of games with an Oriental theme.  How many do you know?  Announce your #pulpgamer Kung-Fu score on Twitter. Industry Watchman, Michael Stackpole, joins us to share his thoughts on the banning of Dungeons & Dragons in Prison.  The GAMA Trade Show and Origins was also mentioned in this segment. Settlers of Catan Online helps to track down a criminal mastermind on NBC’s Chuck. Today’s episode is brought to you by OffWorld Design ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 152: Blood Donations Today’s theme is blood - your blood.  Give today.  In honor of blood donor month, we are spilling our thoughts over a few bloody titles, such as Vampire, Blood Games, Slasher Flick, Van Helsing, and GURPS Blood Types, and Violence.  Other topics give rise to the games Weinhandler, and Candamir.  Here is that Candamir Character Editor. Alex Yeager is still with us and continues to lend his expertise to the topics at hand.  We know him from Mayfair Games and the White Glove Movies. We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gamer Adventures Video Cruise the Caribbean, Alaska and more with gamers and your family.  Tell Kim that Pulp Gamer sent you to have a free bottle of wine delivered to your room. Find out more at gameradventures.com.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 151: Across the Network   We are extremely pleased to have Alex Yeager of Mayfair Games join us in the studio today.  With Alex’s new responsibilities of product acquisition, he gives us some great insight on getting your board game published.  He also helps us answer SpyderRev’s question on teaching an old gamer new tricks. We give you a look across a lot of the shows on the network.  Be sure to browse them all and find something new.  With Alex here, we get a little bit of an inside look on the White Gl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 150: Learn to Adapt We made it to episode 150! Today’s discussion is on adapted properties and modifying your roleplaying experience to fit inside of another licensed world. Submerge yourself into your favorite movie and experience the story through a game board or a set of dice. Our game highlight is on Reverse Charades. In other news, DriveThruRPG announced Print on Demand. We also prepare for the New York Toy Fair and make plans to participate in Play Happens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 149: The Outie Awards This wacky episode launches the Outies – our fast and loose awards for games and other things. As a result, we talk about quite a few titles. Feel free to provide helpful links in the comments. This episode is brought to you by Gamer Adventures.  Tell them we sent you and get a free bottle of wine delivered to your room.  Also, watch this video to learn more. We also pull another first and ask for money. This low budget show could really use your support. Please, just a few measly d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 148: Brought In For Questioning We have a veteran interrogator and a lawyer on staff.  They are both avid roleplayers.  Why did it take us so long to talk about interrogation in roleplaying games?  Who knows, but we finally did.  Listen and enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 147: Stump the Chumps Today we start facing the challenge we gave you and set up for ourselves, answering or finding answers to your expert roleplaying encounters. Gerri answers some veterinary questions, mostly around drugs. We also answer questions around story, keeping disruptive players, and the limits of the GM's leadership at the table.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 146: Game Within a Game Games are sometimes nested inside of games.  Sometimes, we can bring games into our games.  The discussion starts with an idea to play a “get to know you” party game by Patch Products called What’s Yours Like? – only in character during your roleplaying game.  We’ll see how well that turns out. Today’s episode is brought to you by Accent Your Character – dialect training for us casual pretenders.  You know the type: roleplayers, cosplayers, storytellers, etc..  Look for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wacky Wacky West   Derek presents the board game Wacky Wacky West.  This another genius game by Klaus Tueber of Catan fame.  Take turns directing rivers and railroads through the old west town of Rossdorf.  Protect your buildings by taking advantage of the politics and wacky laws protecting the existing outhouse infrastructure.  This funny theme has some serious consequences to the citizens of the town. Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $35.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 145: The Adventure Begins This episode is brought to you by Gamer Adventures.  Cruise Alaska or the Caribbean and have a free bottle of wine delivered to your cabin.  Listen to find out how. Today’s main topic is about putting together your gaming night and games in starting mode. Strands of Fate was probably the game most talked about today, but many more are mentioned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lemming Mafia   Brenda shares Lemming Mafia with us, the board game of Laughingly Larcenous Leaping Lemmings.  Bid on which lemming will be the first to jump off the pier and manipulate them as they make the lethal run.  This family game is light, fun, and adorable. Designed by: Michael Rieneck Players: 3-6 Play Time: 20 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $35.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 144: Crime After Crime Today’s episode is brought to you by Moosetache Games, makers of Rowboat: the bidding, trick-taking card game where trump changes at every turn.  Thanks Moosetache Games.  This show is only made possible with the support of people like you.  Be sure to listen to today's show for a special sale and discount code and round out your holiday gift list with Rowboat. This episode is all about Crime – mostly in your roleplaying games.  What are the highlights and even some of the pitfalls ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 143: Games To Be Thankful For Thanksgiving is just around the corner.  It is yet another excuse to game and an excuse for  us to talk about it.  Some of the Games in today’s show include Aye Dark Overlord, Settlers of Catan, Mage Chronicler’s Guide, World of Darkness: Mirrors, Anima Tactics, Pandemic,  and Dark Eldar.   We also get some great questions from d-infinity magazine.   Be sure to watch the White Glove Movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 142: Splitting the Loot Our main topic focuses on the different types of reward systems in games.  Jason refers to this article on Video Games and the Human Condition from Rice as the inspiration behind the discussion. We wrap up our first Play in Public day with Game Daze at the Park Place mall in Tucson and play games like Hotel Samoa, Lemming Mafia, and Smiley Face.  Speaking of smiley’s, here is that smiley face water tower Don told you about. Join us for our next Play in Public after 1 PM on the fourth S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tigris & Euphrates Ron tells us all about Tigris & Euphrates.  This tile placement and area domination game puts you in the cradle of civilization.  You must balance influence in key areas of development while placing yourself strategically against your opponents.  This one is great for conflict and deep thought.   Designed by: Reiner Knizia Players: 3-4 Play Time: 60-90 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $55.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 141: Death It is appropriate for the Halloween Holiday that we talk about Death and how to deal with it in your game.  It is also appropriate that we talk about the party this Saturday, October 30th at Hat’s Games.  We’ll be there with some spooky board games alongside some roleplaying madness.  Some of the books and games in today’s show include Field of Glory: Renaissance, Zombies:  A Hunter’s Guide, and the new deck building game Resident Evil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 140: Making New Gamers Brenda leads a discussion about the value we add to the lives of our little ones when we introduce them to the world of games. We have a soft launch of our Play in Public program coming this Sunday with Game Daze.  On the fourth Sunday of every month, we will be in the Park Place mall after 1 PM to play games and expose our hobby to the public. Speaking of promoting games; be sure to share the podcast Family Night with everyone you know that is not a gamer.  This one is especially for par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lords of Vegas Derek takes us on a paradise building and dice throwing adventure with the board game, Lords of Vegas.  This area control game has a unique risk element when trying to dominate the real estate on the freshly forming Las Vegas strip.  Put your hard hat on.  Building in this town may be about making deals, but it isn't about making friends. Designed by: Mike Selinker, James Ernest Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-90 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $45.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 039: RinCon 2010 This recording at RinCon was chalked full of games and personalities.  We had a great time.  Thanks RinCon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 138: Control Issues   How much control do you have over your game?  How much control do you want over your game?  We dive into that with some new voices on our program: Gerri Creason from Game Daze, and our very own new Media Specialist from the White Glove Movies production team, Scott Forster. Special events include RinCon with our open game library.  Be sure also to catch us at our Play in Public day at the Park Place mall.  Game Salute is rounding up the troops to participate in Extra Life.  More ann ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elk Fest   Brenda tells us the story of two elk, Jule and Ole that must reach the other side of the river where the grass is always greener.  The first one across the river wins at Elk Fest.  This is a simple and fun dexterity game that takes almost no room to play. Designed by: Hermann Huber Players: 2 Play Time: 10-15 minutes Ages: 6+ MSRP: $20.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 037: Love Today, its all about love.  Mostly we're talking about your game but we have a special deal worked out for you.  Take your love, or your friends, on a cruise with Gamer Adventures and get a free bottle of wine, on us!   Games in today's show include Houses of the Blooded, Breaking the Ice, Smallville, Blue Rose, and Tales of the Arabian Nights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 136: Fantisify Your Game Jeremiah leaves us a funny quip about Bella Sara.  We heckle him and move on to talk about the fantasy genre and many games that give us differing flavors of fantasy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1853: India Dave presents 1853: India.  In the latest edition of the 18XX series, you build your rail empire across imperial India.  Its all about engineering the best route across the map.  Strap yourself in for several hours of fun with this one. Style: Board Game Designed by: Phillip J Smith, Francis Tresham Players: 2-6 Play Time: 360 minutes Ages: 16+ MSRP: $75.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 135: Investigation   Derek gets back on the saddle and joins a lively discussion on investigation in your games.  Games in today's show include Alibi, Mystery of the Abby, Trail of Cthulhu, and Dirty Secrets.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 134: Speculative Gaming   A listener asks about science fiction games, and we answer.  We talk about the sub-genres of science fiction and introduce a number of games such as Eclipse Phase, Paranoia, Diaspora, Mission Red Planet, Race for the Galaxy, Space 1889, Twilight Emperium, and Cthulhu Tech.     Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Settlers of America Ron shares the Catan Histories board game, Settlers of America: Trails to Rails.  This game took off like a freight train, becoming popular very quickly.  Experience manifest destiny as you build trails and rails across America.  This game sets itself apart by keeping the Catan feel while also creating a strong addition to Mayfair's famous rail games. Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 3-4 Play Time: 90-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $55.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 033: Home vrs Away In today's show we compare convention games to home games and give some great tips for running especially convention games. Some of the games brought up in the discussion include Universalis, Burning Wheel, Blood Bowl, and All for One: Regime Diabolique. We also share a bit about RinCon over Columbus Day weekend in Tucson, Arizona.  You must join us! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 132: Props & Fetishes It's sometimes the props that makes the play.  We talk about those pieces and parts that do it for you. Some of the games in today's show include Catan 3D, Thunderstone, and Agricola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 131: Changing Tides Times are changing, and not just with the season.  Our new web site is looking sexy and is especially better suited now for video.  We have some part time job openings for someone here in Tucson to do some video work, some writing, or some community development.  Ron is looking for a job and he should not have any problem as he is a great catch.  The Professional Game Store Association has been founded to serve hobby game retailers, as reported by icv2. Minion Games is new on the scene ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catan: Seafarers   Ron shares the Settlers of Catan board game expansion, Catan Seafarers.  For Settlers of Catan fans, this expansion give you tons more to explore.  Brave the dangerous seas around the islands and experience several scenarios that come packaged in the game.  This one will keep you playing for a long time.  For an even closer look, watch the white glove demo. Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-90 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $42.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 130: Gen Con 2010 with Many Special Guests We packed a lively bunch into today's Gen Con coverage.  Hosts include James Earnest, Mike Selinker, Marcelo Figueroa, and Don Dehm.  Other special guests include Guido Teuber, Lisa Stevens, Pete Fenlon, Jean Vanaise, and Matt Forbeck. Games talked about in today's show include Mercs Minies, Lords of Vegas, Horus, Catan Histories: Settlers of America, Lemming Mafia, Exillis, Le Boomb, Poo, and Pathfinder. We also talked about White Wolf's Grand Masquerade, Mantic Games, Reactor 88 Studio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 129: Scary Summer Today's talk is tension and horror.  Board games in today's show include Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Witch of Salem.  Roleplaying games include Deadlands, World of Darkness, Slasher Flick, Dread, Chill, and Call of Cthulhu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oceania   Dave explains the board game, Oceania.  Explore and discover islands as you bring tiles into play.  Challenge yourself for high score or go head to head with another. Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 1-2 Play Time: 10-30 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $15.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 128: Going Back in Time Historical themes are ubiquitous in games.  These themes are challenging, educational, and sometimes even problematic.  You'll just have to listen to find out why.  Historical references Jason brought up include Google Books and the collections in the Library of Congress.  Some of today's games include Catan Histories: Settlers of America, Sons of Liberty, d20 Past, Colonial Gothic, and Forgotten Futures, Back to the Future, Homesteaders, Tsuro, and Elementeo.  We also hear word from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 127: Over the Top We go way over the top, starting with Brenda's Geek Scouts troop - what the heck is that?  Our main topic: comedy in your roleplaying game.  Roleplaying games include Underground, Paranoia, Feng Shui, and Toon.  Card Games include Munchkin and Aye, Dark Overlord. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear   Dave show us the board game, Conflict of Heroes: Awaking the Bear.  This war game is done Eurostyle and is just one of the Conflict of Heroes series.  The blend of historical accuracy and strategic flexibility quickly made this one a favorite among our crew of players. Designed by: Uwe Eickert Players: 1-4 Play Time: 60-240 minutes Ages: 14+ MSRP: $80.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 126: Fair and Balanced Green Ronin announces DC Adventures and their new Pre-Order Plus program. ENnie Nominations have been announced and Jess Hartley's One Geek to Another has been nominated for best blog. White Wolf announces some new releases. More Gen Con plans have been revealed, such as DJ Marcelo's party with Reactor 88 Studios, Fear the Boot's rolling party, the Pulp Gamer Network Panel and the Media Meet & Greet. We hear from the RPG Haven Podcast about the new Roludo.com and talk about some games ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 125: Girl Parts Brenda does her first Out of Character.  Dave introduces the 8th edition of Warhammer.  There is more dangling Origins coverage and a reminder about some Gen Con events (like our party). Matthew Graw comments on Poo.  We welcome Sandstorm Productions to the gaming arena. Wizkids announces Star Trek Clix.  Happy Birthday to The Game's the Thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website La Boomb Ron explores the explosive dice game, La Boomb.  We all work together to come up with a number of variants and applications to blowing up your friends.  Some variants require added beverage of your choice.   Style: Dice Game Players: 1-99 MSRP: $4.50 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 124: Origins 2010 We had a great time at the Origins Game Fair.  We are joined by Marcelo Figueroa, Mike Selinker, and Paul Tevis. Some of the many many topics we talked about include the following: Martin Gardner Origins Awards Elevator Mayfair Games Lords of Vegas Outland on Liberty Dungeon Deck by Gamers Rule Dresden Files RPG Reactor 88 Studios Indie Press Revolution How We Came to Live Here, Stories of the Fifth World Fiasco Mantic Games Warlord Games The Dice Turret Wyrd Games Crocodile Games Settle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 123: Free RPGs!   We celebrate Free RPG day at Hat's Games in Tucson, Arizona.  Guest hosting today is John Wick, witch gives us lots of opportunity to talk about Houses of the Blooded, Blood & Honor, and Shotgun Diaries.  We also mention the coming Game Master's Conference and Origins Game Fair.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Streetcar   Ron shares the board game, Streetcar.  Quickly build an efficient route across New Orleans and make the required stops.  Use your opponents wisely to complete your track and your inaugural run before anyone else.   Style: Board Game Designed by: Stefan Dorra Players: 2-6 Play Time: 60 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $30.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 122: The Live Action Experience   We step away from the table to LARP.  That is Live Action Roleplay. Games in today's show include C$sh 'n Gun$, Aye, Dark Overload, and Cthulhu Live. We also touch on Nero, Camarilla, and the Society for Creative Anachronisms (SCA).   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 121: Oh, the Drama!   We are inspired by a letter from David Mamet to the writers of The Unit.   This launches a discussion on drama and how it applies to your roleplaying games. Jason Corely is interviewed on The Canon Pucture Show. Games in today's show include Vampire, Masters of Venice, RUIN, and Covert Action.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maharaja   Dave delivers on the board game, Maharaja. Travel from city to city in India, build houses and a palace for the Maharaja.  This one is easy to learn but has the depth to keep you going for quite some time.     Style: Board Game Designed by: Wolfgang Kramer & Michael Kiesling Players: 2-5 Play Time: 90 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $45.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 120: Gaming and Training Today, we talk about strategy games and professional training and how it applies, especially to computer programing exercises.  The debate continues, can you roleplay with a computer?  Ron is showing off his iPad and its application to roleplaying games. “Games” in today's show include Model United Nations and the American workplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 119: Gaming in the Desert We find a 2nd century d20 to share with you and then talk games espeically those suited for the desert.  Some of the games in today's show include Phase 10, Settlers of Catan, Dungeons & Dragons, Tigris & Euphrates, Tales of the Caliphate Nights, Empire Builder, and Say Anything. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 118: Blood Red All Over the Web We are now on facebook!  Be sure to like us there.  Also, tweet anything with “PulpGamer” and join the discussion that shows up on our front page.  Paul Tevis chimes in with some news about Josh Roby and Rooksbridge.  Games in today's show include Forbidden Island and Witch Hunter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ablaze   Derek takes runs us through a burning forest in the board game(s), Ablaze.  We use the plural, because this one is actually several games in one.  The common element is fire, and you must run to escape or run to fight it.     Style: Board Game Designed by: Heinrich Glumpler Players: 1-4 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 20+ MSRP: $20.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 117: Shattered Glass and Desert Sands A familiar voice from the past joins us once again.  Jess Hartley shares Shattered Glass, her patron supported urban fey story.  Games in today's show include the board game, Kachina and the roleplaying game, Don't Rest Your Head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nuns on the Run Ron chases us around the convent in the board game, Nuns on the Run.  Get across the board to your secret goal and make it back before your supervisors catch you, unless your the one doing the catching.    Know when to hide and know when to run to achieve victory.   Style: Board Game Designed by:  Frederic Moyersoen Players: 2-8 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $35.00   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 016: Faster Than a Speeding Podcast There is an emphasis on super hero games today, but first we talk about the new Origins web site, and our party at Gen Con.  Attend.  Games include Spirit of the Century, Basic Action Super Heroes (BASH), Wild Talents, 4C, and Smallville. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 115: The Podcast Job We go over a lot of games today, starting with the new Leverage RPG.  We are also playing The Dresden Files RPG, Nanook, Nuns on the Run, Rowboat, Dice Town, and RUIN. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 114: Your Turn We are back in the comfort of our own studio, learning a little about Jess's adventures at ICON and with Voltaire.  We also mention the Game Daze Blog, Gamer Chris' blog, and Accent Your Character.  Some of the games in today's show include Fiasco, The Laundry Files, Dark Age, Ravenloft, Forbidden Island, Dogs in the Vineyard, Ablaze, and Casino Vegas.Also be sure to watch The Board Game Family and listen to Family Night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn's Gallery Dave explains the board game, Glenn's Gallery.  Keep up with the latest trends in art and fend off the art students that scare away paying customers.   Style: Board GameDesigned by: Reiner KniziaPlayers: 3-5Play Time: 60-70 minutesAges: 10+MSRP: $35.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 113: Cruising the Caribbean 2010 We are aboard the Carnival Glory and cruising the Caribbean with today's sponsors, Gamer Adventures and Mayfair Games.  We announce the Catan tournament winner that will be going on to Gen Con and talk about the deals Mayfair Games have made with Academy Games and Calliope Games.  Be sure to mark your calendars and mark your next trip with Gamer Adventures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hell Rail Ron takes us to hell with the tile game, Hell Rail.  Deliver condemned souls throughout the cirles of hell.  This game is hot.  Its all fire, brimstone, and one hell of a good time. Designed by: James Kyle, Sandie Richardson, Chris YoungPlayers: 2-4Play Time: 60 minutesAges: 10+MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 112: GAMA Trade Show 2010 We pick out some of our favorite pieces from the GAMA Trade Show 2010.  Some games, goodies, and organizations discussed in today's show include:Jet SetUndead States of AmericaWorld Without EndMayfair Games (Casino Vegas)Conflict of HeroesBucephalus GamesGaming paperCastle PanicRen FairCthulhu DiceZombie DiceNanukWizards of the CoastEx illisChubby Hubby UndiesTasty Minstrel Games Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 111: Teaching Roleplaying Games Jason leads today's discussion about teaching role-playing games and how to make it the best experience you can for your players. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pillars of the Earth Builders Duel Derek gives us The Pillars of the Earth Builders Duel.  Ken Follett's story is told this time through a 2 player card game of competitive construction.   Designed by: Stefan FeldPlayers: 2Play Time: 45 minutesAges: 10+MSRP: $25.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 109: Social Contracts Not long ago, the Southern Arizona Gamer's Association (SAGA) had their second first gamemaster's conference.  Jess Hartley of One Geek to Another was the star this time around.  We continue her discussion on today's show about social contracts at the game table.   We also wanted to share another resource mentioned during the show for electronic resources called Temporal Gulch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 108: Period Gaming A bunch of us had a great time checking out the SCA at Estrella.  No doubt, we geeked out.  We also touch up with a few more additional notes on the New York Toy Fair with Fan Staps, Hide & Seek Safari, and Finger Sports.  TomG plugs Accent Your Character and we start talking games. Games talked about in today's show include Fiasco, The Dance & the Dawn, The Dresden Files RPG, Elixir, Blue Panet, Glenn's Gallery, and Death Dealer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Italia Dave shares the board game, Italia.  Place yourself in the role of several civilizations and live through history as they come and go.  This board game is rich with culture and conflict.     Designed by: Andreas StedingPlayers: 2-4Play Time: 100 minutesAges: 10+MSRP: $60.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 107: The New Generation We are now set up with a voice mail line for your participation.  Call in at (520) 908-7782, introduce yourself and leave your question, comment, or juicy bit of news.Interesting links of note in today's show include Spare Brains Games, bySwarm, and Pulp Fest.Don't forget to watch the White Glove Movies by Mayfair Games, and improve your accent with Accent Your Character.Here are those host blogs you asked for: Jess, Ron, and Jason.We also heard words from Rick Loomis and talked about Evil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 106: New York Toy Fair 2010 Marcelo Figueroa joins Don Dehm at the New York Toy Fair. Some fun games and toys we discovered from the show include: Chop Sabers Masters of Venice 10 Days in America The Magic Labyrinth Forbidden Island Tara Flitter Fairies Brain Box Games Disney Online Innis & Gunn at The Perfect Pint The MMA Board Game Mayfair Games Saturday Night Live Board Game Hookum   We also shout out to Board Game News, Think Geek, and the Origins Awards. We would like to thank Greater Games Industry Catal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Without End Derek shares the board game, World Without End. Its a sequel to Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. You'll recognize the flavor but be treated to a new story and face new challenges. World Without End Style: Board Game Designed by: Michael Rieneck & Stefan Stadler Players: 2-4 Play Time: 90-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 105: Tabletop Forever We get a new look at the future of Electronic Board Games with some cool table-top components. This was shared with us by Catan. Jess Hartley responded to it by showing us Siftables. Board games in today's show include Vampire: Dark Influences, Rise of Empires, Super Circles, and Builders Dual. RPGs include Thrilling Tales, Mars, Sons of Liberty, Full Light, Full Steam, Blood Games 2, and Dragon Age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 104: Kicking Babies Don is on his way now to the New York Toy Fair, so you can start looking forward to some updates soon. Then next month, it is the GAMA Trade Show and the Caribbean Gamer's Cruise. Speaking of which, Kim Maita made a list of top thematic cruises to take. We also talk about Tucson's contribution to the Gaming Community. We would like to congratulate Mason on the launch of his blog, Explorersink and Ship of Fools on launching their iPhone version of Treasure Fleet. We also hear from Sonic- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 104: Kicking Babies Don is on his way now to the New York Toy Fair, so you can start looking forward to some updates soon. Then next month, it is the GAMA Trade Show and the Caribbean Gamer's Cruise. Speaking of which, Kim Maita made a list of top thematic cruises to take. We also talk about Tucson's contribution to the Gaming Community. We would like to congratulate Mason on the launch of his blog, Explorersink and Ship of Fools on launching their iPhone version of Treasure Fleet. We also hear from Sonic- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 072: Sean Preston Derek talks to Sean Preston at Gen Con 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 072: Sean Preston Derek talks to Sean Preston at Gen Con 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rise of Empires Ron introduces the board game, Rise of Empires. It's a civilization building game that can be played inside of an evening. Resources are limited and conflict is inevitable, but swift. Careful planning will keep you in contention for victory. Rise of Empires Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 2-5 Play Time: 180 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $55.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rise of Empires Ron introduces the board game, Rise of Empires. It's a civilization building game that can be played inside of an evening. Resources are limited and conflict is inevitable, but swift. Careful planning will keep you in contention for victory. Rise of Empires Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 2-5 Play Time: 180 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $55.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 102: Another Good Show We start out today's show with Jess Hartley's One Geek To Another audio segment. Be sure to check out her blog for the written version. Out of the Box strikes a deal with Sonic. Catan makes the wall street journal. The second first game master's conference is just around the corner. It sounds a bit like a bank name, doesn't it? Some games and other products we talked about include Knights of the Dinner Table, Sonic Legends, Summerland, Eve: Conquests, Rise of Empires, The Supernatural ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 102: Another Good Show We start out today's show with Jess Hartley's One Geek To Another audio segment. Be sure to check out her blog for the written version. Out of the Box strikes a deal with Sonic. Catan makes the wall street journal. The second first game master's conference is just around the corner. It sounds a bit like a bank name, doesn't it? Some games and other products we talked about include Knights of the Dinner Table, Sonic Legends, Summerland, Eve: Conquests, Rise of Empires, The Supernatural ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 071: Zev Shlasinger of Z-Man Games Derek Rex interviews Zev Shlasinger of Z-Man Games at Gen Con, 2009. Z-Man Games, Inc. is a publisher of games. The company was formed by New Yorker, Zev Shlasinger, in 1999 to bring back Shadowfist, one of the best multiplayer Collectable Card Games ever made. With the success of Shadowfist, Z-Man Games published its first B-Movie card game, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, and from that point on it was decided to continue to make fun, innovative games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 071: Zev Shlasinger of Z-Man Games Derek Rex interviews Zev Shlasinger of Z-Man Games at Gen Con, 2009. Z-Man Games, Inc. is a publisher of games. The company was formed by New Yorker, Zev Shlasinger, in 1999 to bring back Shadowfist, one of the best multiplayer Collectable Card Games ever made. With the success of Shadowfist, Z-Man Games published its first B-Movie card game, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, and from that point on it was decided to continue to make fun, innovative games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 053: The Downfall of Pompeii Ron takes us to ancient Rome in the board game, The Downfall of Pompeii. Lava is eating up the town and you have to get your people out to safety for victory. You are literally throwing your opponent's pieces in the volcano. He with the most survivors wins the game. The Downfall of Pompeii Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klause-Jürgen Wrede Players: 2-4 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 053: The Downfall of Pompeii Ron takes us to ancient Rome in the board game, The Downfall of Pompeii. Lava is eating up the town and you have to get your people out to safety for victory. You are literally throwing your opponent's pieces in the volcano. He with the most survivors wins the game. The Downfall of Pompeii Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klause-Jürgen Wrede Players: 2-4 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 103: Urgent - Gamers Help Haiti Put this one on your priority listen list. Haiti needs your support immediately, and DriveThruRPG.com has coordinated a limited time opportunity to receive over $1400 in product for a $20 donation to Haiti. The proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders to provide relief to the victims of the Haiti earthquakes. Smaller donations are also encouraged and matched by DriveThruRPG. We would also like to thank everyone that is a part of this effort. Great financial sacrifices have been made by m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 103: Urgent - Gamers Help Haiti Put this one on your priority listen list. Haiti needs your support immediately, and DriveThruRPG.com has coordinated a limited time opportunity to receive over $1400 in product for a $20 donation to Haiti. The proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders to provide relief to the victims of the Haiti earthquakes. Smaller donations are also encouraged and matched by DriveThruRPG. We would also like to thank everyone that is a part of this effort. Great financial sacrifices have been made by m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 070: Russel Bailey Derek Rex interviews Russel Bailey at Gen Con, 2009. Russell Bailey is a writer and game designer at White Wolf Publishing, where he develops the Vampire product line. His interests include computer programming and lying about the sex lives of dead people, both of which he has done for a living. Like all writers, he lives with cats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 070: Russel Bailey Derek Rex interviews Russel Bailey at Gen Con, 2009. Russell Bailey is a writer and game designer at White Wolf Publishing, where he develops the Vampire product line. His interests include computer programming and lying about the sex lives of dead people, both of which he has done for a living. Like all writers, he lives with cats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 101: We're Totally Over That Triple Digit Thing We have some great feedback that brought up a number of topics and games. Tucson's next GameMaster's Conference is right around the corner. Jess hartley is on Wired's list of sexiest geeks, vote for her today! Accent Your Character gets another great plug as a way to spruce up your characters. TomG has his spot and brings up the game, 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars. We also hear from the podcast, Hamishakia. If you find any more great links about today's show topics, be sure to post t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 101: We're Totally Over That Triple Digit Thing We have some great feedback that brought up a number of topics and games. Tucson's next GameMaster's Conference is right around the corner. Jess hartley is on Wired's list of sexist geeks, vote for her today! Accent Your Character gets another great plug as a way to spruce up your characters. TomG has his spot and brings up the game, 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars. We also hear from the podcast, Hamishakia. If you find any more great links about today's show topics, be sure to post th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 052: Station Master Ron takes us on a ride with the card game, Station Master. You want your passengers to ride the nicest trains and leave the livestock cars to your opponents. Manipulate the cars to suit your interests and sucker everyone else into choosing unwisely. It will help you to do some quick math on your feet to maximize your score. Station Master Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Chris Baylis Players: 3-8 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 052: Station Master Ron takes us on a ride with the card game, Station Master. You want your passengers to ride the nicest trains and leave the livestock cars to your opponents. Manipulate the cars to suit your interests and sucker everyone else into choosing unwisely. It will help you to do some quick math on your feet to maximize your score. Station Master Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Chris Baylis Players: 3-8 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 100: Triple Digits We're back and ready to celebrate our 100th episode and tackle the new year. As you might expect, we played a bunch of games over the holiday season. A small sample of them include Sorry Sliders, Pack & Stack, World Without End, 7 ATE 9, Penny for my Thoughts, Diaspora, and Blood and Honor. Sign up now for the Caribbean Cruise with Gamer Adventures. Everyone is always glad they went on the cruise. The only danger is you won't want to come home. We also tip our hat to Have Games Will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 100: Triple Digits We're back and ready to celebrate our 100th episode and tackle the new year. As you might expect, we played a bunch of games over the holiday season. A small sample of them include Sorry Sliders, Pack & Stack, World Without End, 7 ATE 9, Penny for my Thoughts, Diaspora, and Blood and Honor. Sign up now for the Caribbean Cruise with Gamer Adventures. Everyone is always glad they went on the cruise. The only danger is you won't want to come home. We also tip our hat to Have Games Will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 099: 2010 Resolutions Today we each have some of our own resolutions, but the most fun comes from the resolutions we each have picked for each other.  Be sure to leave your resolutions in the comments below!  We look forward to responding when we wake up from the party. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 099: 2010 Resolutions Today we each have some of our own resolutions, but the most fun comes from the resolutions we each have picked for each other.  Be sure to leave your resolutions in the comments below!  We look forward to responding when we wake up from the party. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 051: Heart of Africa Derek takes us on a wild trading adventure with the board game, Heart of Africa. This unique bidding and turn system forces a different look at play. Manipulate the market and gain control of the right resources to gain the score you need for victory. In this one, timing is also key. Heart of Africa Publisher: Phalanx Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Andreas Steding Players: 2-5 Play Time: 60 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 051: Heart of Africa Derek takes us on a wild trading adventure with the board game, Heart of Africa. This unique bidding and turn system forces a different look at play. Manipulate the market and gain control of the right resources to gain the score you need for victory. In this one, timing is also key. Heart of Africa Publisher: Phalanx Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Andreas Steding Players: 2-5 Play Time: 60 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 098: The Hours After Christmas We hope you enjoying the rest of your holiday season. Whatever traditions that may include, we hope some of it inclues some games. We have a close look at a number of great games that are coming up. Don is preparing to go on a cruise with gamer adventures. Be sure to come with me on the next one! Games today includes The Downfall of Pompeii, Hector & Achillies, Blunders, Spoils, Comuni, Dawg the RPG, Shotgun Diaries, Neuroshima Hex, and Runepunk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 098: The Hours After Christmas We hope you enjoying the rest of your holiday season. Whatever traditions that may include, we hope some of it inclues some games. We have a close look at a number of great games that are coming up. Don is preparing to go on a cruise with gamer adventures. Be sure to come with me on the next one! Games today includes The Downfall of Pompeii, Hector & Achillies, Blunders, Spoils, Comuni, Dawg the RPG, Shotgun Diaries, Neuroshima Hex, and Runepunk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 097: Heroes & Villains Jess Hartley just released Instant Antagonist: The Selfish Succubus. We get an inside look at this system neutral supplement and some good ideas for our roleplaying campaigns. This spawns the entire discussion today of not just the bad guys, but putting some depth in your heroes as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 097: Heroes & Villains Jess Hartley just released Instant Antagonist: The Selfish Succubus. We get an inside look at this system neutral supplement and some good ideas for our roleplaying campaigns. This spawns the entire discussion today of not just the bad guys, but putting some depth in your heroes as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 096: Gift Giving We're deep in the holiday season and are giving the gift of game. Today's show is about matching the game to the recipient so they are sure to enjoy it. You will hear a bunch of games mentioned during today's show. Please, post your ideas and your thoughts in the comments below and have a safe and happy holiday season. We'll be back next week with a bit of a deeper look at a number of good ones we have been playing lately.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 096: Gift Giving We're deep in the holiday season and are giving the gift of game. Today's show is about matching the game to the recipient so they are sure to enjoy it. You will hear a bunch of games mentioned during today's show. Please, post your ideas and your thoughts in the comments below and have a safe and happy holiday season. We'll be back next week with a bit of a deeper look at a number of good ones we have been playing lately.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 050: The First World War Dave gives us a look at the board game, The First World War. Be a part of history as the events of the first world war unfold with you in the driver's seat. Begin with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and end as expected in November of 1918. The First World War Publisher: Phalanx Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Ted Racier Players: 2-4 Play Time: 4-8 hours Ages: 12+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 050: The First World War Dave gives us a look at the board game, The First World War. Be a part of history as the events of the first world war unfold with you in the driver's seat. Begin with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and end as expected in November of 1918. The First World War Publisher: Phalanx Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Ted Racier Players: 2-4 Play Time: 4-8 hours Ages: 12+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 095: Impact We start the show with some updates on those writing submissions and where we are headed with it. So far, we have seen some entertaining articles. Thank you for that. The world's second gamermaster conference is being held in Amsterdam, called AmsterDM. Other links in today's show inlcude All About Dice and the d20 Toolbox. Also be sure to check out foolster's blogmarks.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 095: Impact We start the show with some updates on those writing submissions and where we are headed with it. So far, we have seen some entertaining articles. Thank you for that. The world's second gamermaster conference is being held in Amsterdam, called AmsterDM. Other links in today's show inlcude All About Dice and the d20 Toolbox. Also be sure to check out foolster's blogmarks.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 094: Leadership at the Game Table Today, we talk about the social dynamics over the table, specifically when it comes to player leadership and character leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 049: Atlantis Atlantis is sinking and you must run for your lives and grab as much loot as you can on the way out. Derek leads us on this tile collecting adventure. While the path slowly gives away to to the sea, your best chance of success is to balance your race to the end with your point collecting greedy side. This one has already received a lot of play in our little town and will continue to come out. Atlantis Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Tile Game Designed by: Leo Colvini Players: 2-4 Pl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 049: Atlantis Atlantis is sinking and you must run for your lives and grab as much loot as you can on the way out. Derek leads us on this tile collecting adventure. While the path slowly gives away to to the sea, your best chance of success is to balance your race to the end with your point collecting greedy side. This one has already received a lot of play in our little town and will continue to come out. Atlantis Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Tile Game Designed by: Leo Colvini Players: 2-4 Pl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 093: Just Glad to Be Here Its all about the games today – games such as: Ring-O Flamingo Warmachine Atlantis Shenandoah Secrets of Morocco GURPS: Magic GURPS: Thaumatology Mile High Dragon, for CyberGeneration Kingsburg Chrononauts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 092: Opportunity Today we tease you with some upcoming plans for the pulp gamer network and throw out an opportunity for writers. We have some great discussion today, all spurred by your feedback from the show. Some plugs today include The RPG Haven Podcast, Emerald City Game Fest, and of course, Uncle Bear. Our famous TomG also has a blog, where he posts a lot of his feedback to this and other shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 048: Justinian Derek takes us back to the court of Justinian. In this Byzantine themed and decorated board and card game, everyone is working hard to influence the members of the court. You only have so much influence and you want to be sure your counselors are positioned well to serve your cause. You will do well if you spend your influence wisely and can read through your opponents motives. Justinian Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: lessandro Saragosa and Leo Colovini Pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 048: Justinian Derek takes us back to the court of Justinian. In this Byzantine themed and decorated board and card game, everyone is working hard to influence the members of the court. You only have so much influence and you want to be sure your counselors are positioned well to serve your cause. You will do well if you spend your influence wisely and can read through your opponents motives. Justinian Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: lessandro Saragosa and Leo Colovini Pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 091: The Quest Continues We had a blast at RinCon (be sure to see One Cool Thing) and are now looking forward to TusCon, MACE, and sailing around Mexico and the Caribbean with Gamer Adventures. We were able to enjoy the cooperative game, Witch of Salem several times over RinCon. We also shamelessly plug one of our co-hosts game stores, Hat's Games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 090: The Bribe and Dollar Value Our main topic today is about value and what happens when a game changes edition or goes out of print. The game that started this discussion was Tales of the Arabian Nights. Many more are also referenced. Jess Hartley talks about her appearances on The Gearheart and The Game's the Thing. Don recently appeared in The Tome Show and The Game's the Thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 089: Full Disclosure We congratulate Jason for winning a writing contest with Alpha Omega. We plug Jess Hartley's book, Conventions for the Aspiring Game Professional. The Federal Trade Commission reminds bloggers to disclose their relationship with advertisers. Equinox Roads kicks off our final discussion of ending campaigns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 047: Witch of Salem Ron takes us to early 20th Century Arkham with the cooperative board game,Witch of Salem. Join characters from the works of Lovecraft inspired Wolfgang Hohlbein to stop the elder evil forces from taking over the city. We found this game to be elegant, challenging, replayable, and a real hit. It is an easy game to learn, but you will need some thought and cooperation to overcome the obstacles this one throws at you.Witch of SalemPublisher:Mayfair GamesStyle: Board GameDesigned by: Michael ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 047: Witch of Salem Ron takes us to early 20th Century Arkham with the cooperative board game, Witch of Salem. Join characters from the works of Lovecraft inspired Wolfgang Hohlbein to stop the elder evil forces from taking over the city. We found this game to be elegant, challenging, replayable, and a real hit. It is an easy game to learn, but you will need some thought and cooperation to overcome the obstacles this one throws at you. Witch of Salem Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 088: Fanticiful Games Its all about the games today – games such as: Letter Roll Justinian Emira Word on the Street Sticks & Stones Arthur Lives! Equinox Roads Swords at Dawn Goblin Markets Geist Witch of Salem Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 046: Martian Rails Dave takes us to space with the board game, Martian Rails. From the Empire Builder series known to may as the crayon rail games, this journey allows us to explore a new world and some new twists. Build your railroad empire across the Martian terrain and make tomorrow's big bucks. Martian Rails Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: M. Robert Stribula & the Empire Builder Design Team Players: 2-6 Play Time: 120-240+ minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $42.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 046: Martian Rails Dave takes us to space with the board game, Martian Rails. From the Empire Builder series known to may as the crayon rail games, this journey allows us to explore a new world and some new twists. Build your railroad empire across the Martian terrain and make tomorrow's big bucks. Martian Rails Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: M. Robert Stribula & the Empire Builder Design Team Players: 2-6 Play Time: 120-240+ minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $42.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 087: Elder Pronunciation Gods We have another great set of conversations today, most of them centering around your comments and emails. Before getting to that, however, we kick off the day by talking to Jess Hartley about her e-book, Conventions for the Aspiring Game Professional. Our conversations then take us into some about the various versions of Dungeons & Dragons. Uncle Bear gives us some notes about The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a rock band dedicated to promoting the literature of H.P. Lovecraft. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 069: Marcelo A. Figueroa Marcelo A. Figueroa is one of few individuals who have participated in every tier of the hobby games industry, first as a consumer, then in Retail (All Star Games), in Distribution (ACD Distribution), as Media (Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer Magazine, Shadis Magazine, Games Quarterly Magazine), and Publishing (Alderac Entertainment Group, Avalanche Press, Playroom Entertainment). And somewhere in there he found time to be a published writer & game designer. His years of experience have ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 069: Marcelo A. Figueroa Marcelo A. Figueroa is one of few individuals who have participated in every tier of the hobby games industry, first as a consumer, then in Retail (All Star Games), in Distribution (ACD Distribution), as Media (Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer Magazine, Shadis Magazine, Games Quarterly Magazine), and Publishing (Alderac Entertainment Group, Avalanche Press, Playroom Entertainment). And somewhere in there he found time to be a published writer & game designer. His years of experience have ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 086: Player Investment Our crew talks today about encouraging your players to become more invested into your roleplaying campaign world.  There are several tips and tricks to increasing their involvement, thus increasing their emotional connection, the richness of the story, and the degree of fun everyone will have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 045: A House Divided Dave introduces us to the board game, A House Divided. Its a strategic war game that allowed us to reenact and even modify the events of the American Civil War. We were able to start with a basic rule set to dive into the game quickly and allow it to grow with us as expanded rules add all the complexities and details to give the game some reach crunch and realism. A House Divided Publisher: Phalanx Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Frank Chadwick Players: 2 Play Time: 60+ minutes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 045: A House Divided Dave introduces us to the board game, A House Divided. Its a strategic war game that allowed us to reenact and even modify the events of the American Civil War. We were able to start with a basic rule set to dive into the game quickly and allow it to grow with us as expanded rules add all the complexities and details to give the game some reach crunch and realism. A House Divided Publisher: Phalanx Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Frank Chadwick Players: 2 Play Time: 60+ minutes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 085: Awkward Today, like about every other day, we play games. These games include Le Boomb, Loot, Mesopotamia, A House Divided, Adventures of Oz, Trailblazer, Letter Roll, Bannanagrams, Space Hulk, Terror Thirteen, and Alpha Omega. RinCon is just coming around the corner. Be sure to join us October 9-11 at the Tucson Convention Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 084: Exclamation Points We are going over your thoughts today. We had a great time with a full studio. Interest in the Gen Con panels were brought up, and we are pleased to announce the first of those have been released. Kirt brought up some LARP links, such as as the LARPA web site, Mike's Microgames and other freely downloadable LARPS, and Interactive Literature. Some other games that got brought up include Twilight 2013, Mousegaurd, Battlefleet Gothic, Pandemic, FBI, Geist, Grimm, and Duck Duck Go. Be sure t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 044: Mesopotamia Derek takes us back in time with the board game, Mesopotamia. Appease the ancient Mesopotamian god, Marduk, by brining your offerings to the ziggurat. To reach that goal, however, you will need to also collect other resources and build a thriving culture. This one also gives us the opportunity to beat up our neighbors up a little bit and take their stuff. Mesopotamia Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus-Jurgen Wrede Players: 2-4 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 083: Gen Con and RinCon 2009 Today we reflect on Gen Con and start looking forward to RinCon. There is an impressive list of guests as you can tell by the RinCon web site and listening to today's show. We are joined by RinCon director and game designer, Boyan Radakovich. We also welcome Jess Hartley to the crew for a few episodes. More blog support is provided by Uncle Bear. Some entertaining bits we discovered at Gen Con include Mind Flex, Geek Chic, some paper and the cool GM screen by Fat Dragon Games. Some nota ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 068: Leah Osterhaus of Out of the Box Publishing Derek visits with Leah Osterhaus of Out of the Box Publishing, touching on a number of great titles and learning a little more about the founding and growth of the company. Leah Osterhaus began working with Out of the Box Publishing 11 years ago test playing games and demoing at trade shows. Since then she earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and worked for several years as an inventory specialist at Target Corporati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 068: Leah Osterhaus of Out of the Box Publishing Derek visits with Leah Osterhaus of Out of the Box Publishing, touching on a number of great titles and learning a little more about the founding and growth of the company. Leah Osterhaus began working with Out of the Box Publishing 11 years ago test playing games and demoing at trade shows. Since then she earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and worked for several years as an inventory specialist at Target Corporati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 082: Campaign Metamorphoses We wrap up the month with a discussion on the evolution of campaigns. They evolve and change as the times change with technology, or rules just get updated. This spawns a lot of fun discussion and many campaign settings are brought up. We do want to share at least a couple of links with you because we are just so pleased to have Uncle Bear back with us again – oh, and don't forget to follow him on Twitter. The girls say he's pretty hot when he is in character. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 042: Elasund: The First City Derek welcomes us to Elasund, a city from which you set sail to Catan, and a board game of urban development. Your score depends on your contribution to the growing community and how well you can out-wit your opponents with your influence. This Catan Adventure stands apart from the rest of the Catan games with some aggressive overlapping of city buildings and has all the fun you would expect from a Klaus Teuber game. Elasund: The First City Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 067: Loren Coleman of Catalyst Game Labs Derek visits with Loren Coleman at Gen Con 2009, hitting on a number of things from his writing to his company, Catalyst Game Labs. We get a look at some new and coming titles and get to know more about Loren. Loren L. Coleman grew up in the Pacific Northwest. An avid reader, he became infatuated with stories and the art of storytelling at a young age. He wrote creative works as early as twelve years old and began to write actual fiction stories in high school for a Creative Writing cla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 067: Loren Coleman of Catalyst Game Labs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 081: The World's First Gamemaster's Conference So far as we can tell, we held the world's first gamemaster's conference, at least of our kind, with the Southern Arizona Gamers Association (SAGA). If you are in improving your game, this is a must-listen episode. We touch on a number of tips given by the presenters. Our keynote speaker was John Wick of Play Dirty and RPG fame. He and everyone else gave some great advise we were all able to grow on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 043: FBI Ron enlists us in the FBI. This card game is all about the arrests, and you have a quota to meet. You are probably going to pick up some innocent folks, but that is their tough luck. Capture the worst criminals for the best score and stay on top of the game by clever play. FBI Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Wolfgang Kramer & Horst-Rainer Rösner Players: 2-5 Play Time: 30 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $13.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 080: 109 degrees It's hot in the desert, so we stay in and play games, like we need an excuse. Today's discussion includes Geist: The Sin Eaters, Pathfiner, Arcane Legions, City in the Sands, The Chain game, Station Master, Express, and the National Security Decision Making Game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 079: Screwing Up This one is driven by you and made up almost entirely by your feedback. We start the show by announcing the winner of our Trivathon contest who was awarded digital copies of Accent Your Character and The Game's the Thing style chips. We had a number of links come up in todays show to share. These include Tasty Minstrel Games, some information about a D&D summer camp, and MACE. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 041: Steam: Rails to Riches Derek introduces us to the latest rail board game by Martin Wallace called Steam: Rails to Riches. Lay track across the country and respond to the economy of the game to build up the most victory points. Steam is the next step in the evolution of the games Martin is most known for. We'll be digging this one out again for our own delight. Steam: Rails to Riches Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 3-6 Play Time: 90+ minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 078: Memorable Characters Our main topic of which we spend a great deal of time on is how to bring characters to life, both as a GM/Storyteller and as a player character. The games referenced in today's show include Night Horrors, FBI, Innocents, Duck Duck Go, and Forgotten Realms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 077: Origins 2009 The bulk of today's show is about the games released and the events around Origins, and there were plenty. We were therefore only able to cover handful of highlights. Games today include Triviathon, Penny for My Thoughts, Steam, Say Anything, Pandemic, Mouseguard, Dominion, Arcane Legions, and Are you the Traitor? We also mentioned the awesome gaming tables by Geek Chic, and the d-total. Cody and John released the board game panel. Dan and Sara released the Origins Awards. We also mention ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Origins Awards 2009 This is a special presentation of the 35th annual Origins Awards brought to you by the Origins Game Fair and the Pulp Gamer Media Network. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Origins Awards 2009 This is a special presentation of the 35th annual Origins Awards brought to you by the Origins Game Fair and the Pulp Gamer Media Network. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 040: Candamir: The First Settlers Ron takes us to Candamir: The First Settlers. Adventure through the wilds of Catan and be the hero of your town. This board game is a streamlined, low-conflict adventure game as compared to other adventure games and plays in less time. Provide what the town needs and more than anyone else to be the one to claim victory. Candamir: The First Settlers Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-120 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 039: Barbarossa Barbarossa is a sculpture, riddle, and guessing game. Build sculptures that are abstract enough to challenge your guessing opponents, but don't make them too hard or you will get nowhere. This one also appealed to a wide range of players and employed a very unique skill. Barbarossa Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 3-4 Play Time: 60 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 076: Gaming in the Old Pueblo We couldn't help but notice the mini-mecca of gaming that Tucson has become and decided to spend a few minutes on the topic. Aside from the grand Pulp Gamer Media Network and all of its glory, we have several stores, publishers, and other outlets. The Games the Thing is an independent podcast that includes Ron Blessing, with several credits now to his name. Other media outlets include Uncle Bear and Cerise. Publishers in town include Good Company Games, Tasty Minstrel, Shifting Skies, S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 038: Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix is a racing board game like no other. Your moving not just your cars, but others around the track. Your decisions were about timing and maximizing your move, but you usually can't get around the track yourself. This was a real hit for everyone. Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Wolfgang Kramer Players: 2-6 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $25.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 075: D-Day We are still reminiscing about the trip to Las Vegas and shout out to one of our friends we seem to only be seeing on that trip, Alan Sugarbaker of Ogre Cave and now doing a lot of work for RPG.net. Uncle Bear has released a couple of interviews with Don Dehm and Ron Blessing that you may enjoy. We also call back to the passing of Dave Arneson and pointed out an interview we did with him last year. A lot of things are coming up to include Origins and Gen Con. At Gen Con, we have put toge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 037: Pack & Stack Load the trucks and move 'em out with Pack & Stack. You'll need to grab the right trucks and pack as efficiently as you can to stay ahead of the curve on this one. This short game is getting a lot of play and has lots of little blocks to play with. Go West Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Bernd Eisenstein Players: 3-6 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 036: Go West! Derek gives us the board game, Go West! Your a businessman exploiting the westward migration of covered wagons across North America. This heads-down strategy game of action and reaction will require some focus. You decide when to score, but your opponent scores every time you do. Go West Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Renaud Verlaque Players: 2-4 Play Time: 30 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $30.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 074: Haunted Encounters Our main topic today is ghosts – where to find them and how to use them in your game. We returned home from the GAMA trade show with a whole list of games to explore. Others are more related to our main topic. Some of these include Arcane Legions, Are you the Traitor, Battle Spirits, Pack & Stack, Amazonas, Spirit Slayers, 10 Commandments, Bill of Rights, Savage Worlds, Inspectres, Green's Guides to Ghosts. and Houses of the Blooded, Lost Souls, and Ghostwalk. We also mention severa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 066: Aaron Witten and Game Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 066: Aaron Witten and Game Science Don sits down with Aaron Witten at the GAMA Trade Show. We talk about the trade show, his retail experience, the financial advise he is loaded with and lends to other retailers, and precision dice. Aaron is founder and currently the CEO/CFO of the Gamestation, Inc. in Leitchfield, Kentucky and recently acquired Game Science. He’s also an independent licensed broker, securities principal, and insurance agent with The Legend Group. His education includes a Bachelors of Science degree in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weston Ochse and the Smoky Mountain Horrors We just announce the release of Pulp Studio's new brand, Kanigit Media and our first audio book, Smoky Mountain Horrors by Weston Ochse. This collection of short stories takes place in Appalachian country and is filled with frighteningly familiar characters. Today, we visit with Weston and play a short story for you. To download another free short story, visit Kanigit Media. More are available from your favorite digital audio book provider. Weston Ochse is the author of science ficti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weston Ochse and the Smoky Mountain Horrors We just announce the release of Pulp Studio's new brand, Kanigit Media and our first audio book, Smoky Mountain Horrors by Weston Ochse. This collection of short stories takes place in Appalachian country and is filled with frighteningly familiar characters. Today, we visit with Weston and play a short story for you. To download another free short story, visit Kanigit Media. More are available from your favorite digital audio book provider. Weston Ochse is the author of science ficti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 035: Amazonas Ron takes us to the Amazon of the 19th century with the board game, Amazonas. Cut your path across the amazon, set up your outposts, and collect specimens to win the game. Suffer the dangers of the amazon and stay ahead of your opponents to keep your costs down and weigh your options carefully. Amazonas Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Stephan Dorra Players: 3-4 Play Time: 50 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 034: Shear Panic Derek gives us Shear Panic. On each turn, your manipulating a flock of sheep to appear in the arrangement that will score you the most points. The sheep are cuddly cute. The rules are clever and funny. This will certainly be a win for many game tables. Shear Panic Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: The Lamont Brothers Players: 2-4 Play Time: 45+ minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $30.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 065: Larry Roznai of Mayfair Games While on the Caribbean cruise with Gamer Adventures, Don had the opportunity to sit and visit with Larry Roznai, president of Mayfair Games. Games brought up during today's show include Empire Builder, Sutter's Mill, Silverton, Settlers of Catan, and Family Business. Larry Roznai is a German-speaking native of Chicago, and a U.S. Navy veteran. An avid gamer, he hosted weekly game nights for many years before discovering the new generation of fine parlor games. When he brought home Darw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 065: Larry Roznai of Mayfair Games While on the Caribbean cruise with Gamer Adventures, Don had the opportunity to sit and visit with Larry Roznai, president of Mayfair Games. Games brought up during today's show include Empire Builder, Sutter's Mill, Silverton, Settlers of Catan, and Family Business. Larry Roznai is a German-speaking native of Chicago, and a U.S. Navy veteran. An avid gamer, he hosted weekly game nights for many years before discovering the new generation of fine parlor games. When he brought home Darw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 073: Controversial Games We just returned from theCaribbeanand are headed out to theGAMA Trade showin Las Vegas. Our main topic is controversial games. We touch on a number of heated titles such asWar on Terror,Fishing for Terrorists,Suicide Bomber,Killing Puppies for Satan,Stoner Flux,Playing Gods,Ghettopoly,Blasphemy,Kablamo, theOuija Board,Hot Chicks,Choice and Blood, andJuden Raus. During the discussion, reference was also made to the move,Paradise Now. Of course we can't help but to bring up the ignorance ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 033.5: Poisson d'Avril Jeremiah explaines Poisson d'Avril. Its the easiest complex game to get into. Poisson d'Avril is a card and board miniatures game of abstract themes. The object is to win by beating the other players. We are certain you will enjoy at least part of the journey. Poisson d'Avril Style: Board, Card, and Minature Abstract Combat Euro-Style Game Players: 2-20 Play Time: 20-220 minutes Ages: 10+ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 072: Jamaican Rum We are sailing the open seas with Gamer Adventures, Mayfair Games, Fear the Boot, and 4500 of our closest friends. Forty-one of us signed up with Gamer Adventures to cruise the Caribbean, play some board games to include a qualifying Settlers of Catan tournament, drink rum, explore Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Key West, and of course our originating port, Fort Lauderdale. Listen in on our experience and be sure to join us next time. Our discussion continues on Fear the Boot. We are joine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 033: Empire Builder Jeremiah gives us the crayon rail game that started it all. Empire Builder is a classic board game about building a railroad empire over North America. The game has been beautifully redesigned and is gaining wide distribution. We always enjoy the rail games and the new challenges each one presents. Silverton Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Bill Fawcett, Darwin Bromley Players: 2-6 Play Time: 90+ minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $42.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 071: Bon Voyage! We are now headed of to the Caribbean with Gamer Adventures and Mayfair Games! We'll do some recording on the boat so you can share it at least some of the fun. We touched on a handful of board games, to include Catan Geographies Germany, Hey! That's my fish!, Monuments, The Dutch Golden Age, and Formula D. Asmodee has a new customer service email, contact_us@asmodee.com. On the topic of RPGs, we discuss White Wolf's, Seers of the Throne for Mage the Awakening. That ended up launching an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 032: Silverton Jeremiah takes us back to the southwest railroading days with Silverton. This board game reflects a realistic and challenging economy for you to thrive in with a supply and demand curve that changes during the game. Make your living and excel in the game by building the right rails, picking up the right goods, and making good on your delivery. Silverton Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Dori Smith, Phillip John Smith Players: 1-6 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 12 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 031: Catan Geographies Germany Ron gives us Catan Geographies: Germany. Relive Germany's history by building infrastructure and various landmarks. We had a great time with this one and see an amazing amount of potential for more Catan Games in our schedule. It is much like the original Catan, minus the setup and the tiles. Catan Geographies: Germany Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 3-4 Play Time: 90-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $55.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 030: Hey! That's My Fish! Derek gives us a look at Hey! That's My Fish! Jump from ice floe to ice floe to collect fish and block the other penguins from their quarry. This is a fast and simple strategy game that will keep you scratching your head. Hey! That's My Fish! Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Alvydas Jakeliunas Players: 2-4 Play Time: 20+ minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $25.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 070: More On Mechanics We add Berin Kinsman, AKA Uncle Bear, to our group today and continue our discussion on Game Mechanics. Berin helped us trace the discussion even farther back to an article by Ron Edwards. Berin also references the RPG Blogger's Network, Musings of the Chatty DM, and The Core Mechanic. He also talks about his Get Your Dice Off My Lawn contest. Jeremiah had a list of news notes to share around a board game resurgence, Hasbro's cash flow, Nerds at Heart, and Con of the North. Of course a n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 029: The Dutch Golden Age Derek gives us a look at The Dutch Golden Age. This one has a lot of elements that we enjoy in a game such as a tight economy, a beautiful map, and lots of options on your turn. Handle your choices and your money well and you may just come out on top. The Dutch Golden Age Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Leo Colovini & Guiseppe Bau Players: 3-5 Play Time: 25+ minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 069: Mechanics Matter We have a studio full and a great time. We talked about the gaming environment and finally closed the show with our discussion of mechanics and how much of an impact they have on the roleplaying game. We were also very excited to find from CNN a singles venue around games called Play Date. We touched on a few games today, but some of those most notable include Empire Builder, EABAnywhere, and what is now called The Sales Activator shown to me by my sales friend from New View Group. We alm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 028: Lunar Rails Jeremiah takes us to the moon with the board game, Lunar Rails. This is a crayon rail game that as Jeremiah found out, changes everything. Both the economy and the geography present new challenges that rail gamers will love. Lunar Rails Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: M. Robert Stribula Players: 2-6 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $38.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 068: Coordinated Campaigns We have a new guest we hope will continue to join us. Jason has been accused of being the best GM in Tucson and certainly had a lot to contribute to our discussion on coordinated campaigns. We talked about how to get 20+ people together to play in the same cohesive story and have a good time doing it. We started with a good story from NPR, Interactive Games Make Museums a Place to Play. Making education fun is always something we have stood by and it makes us happy every time we hear of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 064: John Ward of GAMA GAMA welcomes John Ward as its new Executive Director. Don welcomes John to the Inside Track. John holds a Master¹s degree in public administration with an emphasis in fiscal and policy management. His bachelor¹s degree is in criminology, with both degrees from Ohio University. Professionally, Ward has extensive experience in the military and in state government. Ward is a retired Army officer with over 23 years of combined service in the military police and engineer corps. His m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 064: John Ward of GAMA GAMA welcomes John Ward as its new Executive Director. Don welcomes John to the Inside Track. John holds a Master¹s degree in public administration with an emphasis in fiscal and policy management. His bachelor¹s degree is in criminology, with both degrees from Ohio University. Professionally, Ward has extensive experience in the military and in state government. Ward is a retired Army officer with over 23 years of combined service in the military police and engineer corps. His m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 027: Sutter's Mill Derek takes us back to the gold rush with the board game, Sutter's Mill. Digging for gold is a part of the rush, but the real winners are those that take advantage of the town while it alive, and get out of town before it dries up. We have a great time with the tight economy and all the tough decisions that must be made. Sutter's Mill Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Marco Teubner Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60+ minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 026: Monuments Derek takes us around the world with Monuments. Build the prized structures of western civilization and record the rest for historic record. Each turn is full of choices that will help you and your opponents. This, and the historic theme drew us in to play the game again and again. Monuments Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card and Board Game Designed by: Stefan Risthaus Players: 2-4 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $35.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGCO 067: Tear Down the Lights The year begins anew and we start off having a great time with a bunch of games. Today's discussion included Bella Sara, Sutter's Mill, Monuments, Express, Lunar Rails, Galaxy Trucker, Silverton, Tabogans of Doom, Say Anything, Battleship, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Prime Time Adventures, Call of Cthulhu's Mountains of Madness, Titan, To Court the King, Hive, Big Big Battles, and the new credit card version of Monopoly. We also talked some about the new Dungeons & ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 025: Express Derek shows us Express: The Railroad Card Game. This one is perfect for any card game lover. A lot off the mechanics will be familiar and it is themed beautifully. There are team play rules, individual play rules, and some options that vary play. Build a solid collection of trains and finish before your opponents beat you to the punch. Express: The Railroad Card Game Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Darwin P. Bromley Players: 2-6 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 8 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 066: Mad Science Games This just might be our last Out of Character for the year. We have many more games to talk about and can only squeeze in a few before the gift giving season concludes. We start by talking about some of the news surrounding Gen Con. The responded to an anonymous request to buy them before Anthony Gallela revealed his acquisition group on icv2. References in this discussion were also made to Matt Forbeck's blog post and the money paid by Gen Con to the Make a Wish foundation. At least some ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 065: Blog Bug We continue going forth into the electronic frontier and bring the games with us. Some discussion in our Facebook group has been brought to the show. Don has also contributed his first blog to Fear the Boot. We were also directed to a BBC story on Dungeons & Dragons we thought you would enjoy. Our discussion on essays for gamers started with See Page XX and Robin's Laws. RPG.net has an old list with a variety of gems on it. A list of articles geared more toward development can be f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 064: Facebook Fury We have jumped on board with Facebook. Join our group there and lets talk about the topics that interest us on the show. Settlers of Catan makes MSN's Top Ten Games list. WizKids Games is closing their doors. Polymancer is calling for bloggers. We received word of the coming Pulp Fest. We wish we could go! We thank Myriad Games for their ongoing support! The podcasting friends we mentioned on today's show include Yog Radio, Game On, and Fear the Boot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Special Presentations: Game Kennel 2008 Review We are just getting started in the holiday season and wanted to give you an overview of the games covered thus far on The Game Kennel. Be sure to listen to the individual episodes for a more in depth discussion about each game. Gangster Chicago Poker The Market of Alturien Weinhandler Lascaux China Rails La Strada Bacchus' Banquet Entdecker Domaine Toledo The Pillars of the Earth Expansion Set Nautilus Journey to the Center of the Earth Alibi Anno 1503 Horus Theophrastus Intrigue Megastar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Game Kennel 2008 Review We are just getting started in the holiday season and wanted to give you an overview of the games covered thus far on The Game Kennel. Be sure to listen to the individual episodes for a more in depth discussion about each game. Gangster Chicago Poker The Market of Alturien Weinhandler Lascaux China Rails La Strada Bacchus' Banquet Entdecker Domaine Toledo The Pillars of the Earth Expansion Set Nautilus Journey to the Center of the Earth Alibi Anno 1503 Horus Theophrastus Intrigue Megastar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 063: Kim Maita of Gamer Adventures We are extremely excited to be joining Gamer Adventures for a gamer cruise to the Caribbean this spring. To learn more about this and other cruises, we called Kim Maita. Kim just got back from a LARP cruise and was eager to tell us all about it. We then taked about the coming Magic cruise, and our Caribbean Cruise. I hope you will be able to join us in March of 2008 for this cruise for gamers and significant others. Kim was kind enough to share links to some of the activities we can par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 063: Kim Maita of Gamer Adventures We are extremely excited to be joining Gamer Adventures for a gamer cruise to the Caribbean this spring. To learn more about this and other cruises, we called Kim Maita. Kim just got back from a LARP cruise and was eager to tell us all about it. We then taked about the coming Magic cruise, and our Caribbean Cruise. I hope you will be able to join us in March of 2008 for this cruise for gamers and significant others. Kim was kind enough to share links to some of the activities we can par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 024: Intrigue Derek takes a close look at Intrigue. You will laugh and cry as your scholars are hired and fired in this game of backstabbing, betrayal, and negotiation. Talk it up right and you just might receive enough in bribe money to win the game. Intrige Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Negotiation Designed by: Stefan Dorra Players: 3-5 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 062: John Wick Don spent some time with John Wick at RinCon in Tucson Arizona. The new Houses of the Blooded was a large part of the conversation, but significant talk was also given to Seventh Sea and Legend of the Five Rings. John is currently a co-owner of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 063: Stocking Stuffer Games We were inspired with a gift basket question to start addressing small and affordable games for stocking stuffers, secret Santa gifts, or other office celebrations over the holiday season. This turned out to be quite a list. Enjoy looking more closely at these titles: Catan Dice, Family Business, Megastar, Bison, Gloom, Once Upon a Time, Mad Scientist University, Fluxx, Are you a Werewolf, Chrononauts, Treehouse, Dungeoneer, Treasure Fleet, Liar's Dice (play online here), Coloretto, Set, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 023: Megastar Derek gives us Megastar, a music band themed card game of market manipulation. There are a few things to work out such as how much to invest in certain bands and how much to just ride the market. Looking into the future is a tricky business with so many uncertainties, but if you watch closely you can at least get an idea of your competition's motives. Megastar Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Friedemann Friese Players: 2-5 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $10 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 062: Gateway Roleplay We had a great time with a number of things in today's show then we are off to RinCon for the weekend. The GAMA Trade Show Seminars are complete. The Gen Con panels are up and running at full speed. We touched on Twitter. Continuing on our Games as Art discussion, The Philosopher's Zone talked about what qualifies as art. You must also check out the Citizens of Virtue. We kick the day off by taking a look at the book, The Elfish Gene written by Mark Barrowcliffe and published by SOH ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 061: Richard Borg While at Gen Con, Jeremiah was able to get some time with Richard Borg. He is in more places in the game industry than his name appears and his design ranges from Yatzee Free for All and Liars Dice to BattleLore and Memoir 44. We also mentioned Wyatt Earp, and Stonehenge in today's show. Richard was a blast to visit with and is full of good information. Richard’s professional game credits cover a broad spectrum, which includes over 50 titles. Milton Bradley published his first ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 060: Jean Vanaise Jeremiah has the opportunity to visit with Jean Vanaise at Gen Con to talk about music, the economy, and of course, games. Jean has been producing games with his own company Flying Turtle for years but has also produced for such companies as West End Games, Iron Crown Enterprises, Ravensburger, and Mayfiar Games. Some of his titles you may be familiar with, to include Shark, Dicemaster, the Hobbit Adventure Boardgame, and the most recent Egyptian themed tile game, Horus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 022: Theophrastus Derek picks up the mortar and pedestal and takes direction from Theophrastus. His alchemy skills will grant him the ability to become his next apprentice. He may have the best brew, or just mess with the others bad enough to beat the curve. Theophrastus Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: P. R. Chase Players: 2-5 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 9+ MSRP: $25.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 061: Spooky! Most of us agree that Halloween is our favorite holiday. This Halloween, we will be at RinCon. The preregistration is coming down upon us, so get signed while you can. Also upon us is an important date for securing your spot on the Caribbean Gamer Cruise. There is limited space available, so you will want to secure your spot now. Oh, and here is that list of things to do in Jamaica we promised you. During feedback, the topic of Accent Your Character comes up. We were also sent some pi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 059: Ethan Skemp of White Wolf Jeremiah catches Ethan Skemp at Gen Con. Ethan has a long list of credits with White Wolf. There is a lot of talk given to the contrast between the new and the old versions of the many White Wolf roleplaying games, such as Vampire, Werewolf, and Changeling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 058: Erik Yaple of Privateer Press Jeremiah had the pleasure of visiting one of the biggest and baddest men in gaming, Erik Yaple. Erik has taken over the Monsterpocalypse project with Privateer Press. This is a very appealing game of monstrous combat. He caught him between games at Gen Con where he spent a lot of his weekend showing the game with a horde of fans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 060: Clubbing Up Our headline topic is about meeting other gamers and finding space to build your group or a full fledged club. This is such a huge topic that we can barely scratch the surface, but some great ideas came to light, like game stores, conventions, meetup.com, or even just google. In our need to continue reminiscing about Gen Con, we talked about the Q-Workshop Dice, Midnight Syndicate's trailer to The Dead Matter, and The Dead Gentleman's movie, Dorkness Rising. Our discussion of media contin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 057: Nicolas Logue Jeremiah was able to catch Nicolas Logue at Gen Con and uncovered a wealth of interesting thoughts. Nick talks about the crossover between improv acting and roleplaying and about several projects he has been working on. We most recently know have been seeing his work on Paizo's Pathfinder, several great articles in Kobold Quarterly, the Open Design Project, and of course, Sinister Adventures. We wish him well on his adventures to come and hope to see him again very soon. Nicolas Logue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 021: Journey to the Center of the Earth Derek gives us a look at Journey to the Center of the Earth. Its an adventure game based on the Jules Verne novel by the same name. You work together with your opponents to move the party through treacherous terrain, over the underground sea, and then get shot out a volcano. The one that emerges with the best collection of treasure will be the victor. Journey to the Center of the Earth Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Rüdiger Dorn Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 056: Justin Achilli of White Wolf and CCP While at Gen Con, Jeremiah was able to to spend some time at the White Wolf/CCP booth and visit with Justin Achilli. We all had a great time with the whole crew and are always eager to get caught up with the newest releases. With Justin's long list of credits at White Wolf, we were able to learn about the evolution of the game over time and catch a glimpse at what may be coming in the future. Justin Achilli is a game designer for CCP Games. He comes from a pen-and-paper roleplaying games ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 059: Ahoy Maties! Talk like a pirate day is upon us, and we are adding some flavor with a variety of pirate themed games, but we can't stop there. We talk about a bunch of titles to include Seventh Sea (and Swashbucker), Plunder, Treasure Fleet, Jamaica, Pirate's Cove, Pieces of Eight, Anno 1503, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Tomb, Hunter, and Delta Green. We are participating in a contest at podcastawards.com and are asking for your nominations. Please take a moment to fill out this form with your f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 055: Pete Fenlon of Mayfair Games Jeremiah was able to visit with Pete Fenlon at Gen Con about his roots in the gaming industry and the workings of his current position at Mayfair Games.  Pete started with a love for Middle Earth's a cartographer and an avid roleplayer.  His professional career in games began with with Rolemaster at Iron Crown Enterprises.  Now, he is the CEO and studio director for Mayfair Games.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 020: Catan Traders and Barbarians Expansion Chaz shows us how to expand our Settlers of Catan game with Catan Traders and Barbarians. This expansion has several variations and scenarios that provide even more variety and depth to what was already one of our favorite titles. Add some economic complexity or beat back the barbarians while you struggle to settle the island of Catan. Catan Traders and Barbarians Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Expansion, Tile Game Required: The Settlers of Catan Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 058: Geeks and Freaks Today's focus is on Dragon*Con and the good time Don had at the show. One of the highlights this year was the Mad Scientists Ball, where ArcAttack entertained the crowd of evil geniuses with their singing Tesla coils. We also got caught up to most of the feedback leading up to the convention continuing on topics such as the role-playing table tips and opening a new topic on gaming with friends you don't like to game with. Some of the board games discussed on the show include Pandemic, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 054: Corey Konieczka of Fantasy Flight Games While at Gen Con, Jeremiah was able to spend some time with Corey Konieczka of Fantasy Flight Games. Corey Konieczka has designed numerous strategy and adventure games for Fantasy Flight Games. He has worked on numerous other strategy games and expansions including Warrior Knights (2006), Tide of Iron (2007), Battlestar Galactica (2008), and the Origins Award Winning StarCraft: The Boardgame (2007). Corey works as a senior game designer, developer and producer for Fantasy Flight Games. O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 057: Friends and Fans We settle back in after a convention spree. We got back from Gen Con and took off for Dragon*Con, where Don accepted a Parsec Award for The Game Kennel as The Best Gaming Podcast. We held off some on our Dragon*Con report to talk mostly about Gen Con, especially the excitement we had visiting with you. Your support is quite literally keeping us going. We touched on a number of games today. Board games included Theophrastus, Horus, Wings of War, La Strada, and Red November. We also talk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 053: Sterling Hershey and the Star Wars games Don was able to talk Star Wars with freelancer, Sterling Hershey at Gen Con. We visit on a number of aspects of the roleplaying game, how it has grown, and how it compares to other games. We also touch on his work in the miniatures game. Sterling Hershey is a freelance game designer for Wizards of the Coast and its Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition and Star Wars Miniatures games. His recent work includes the newly-released Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide, the upcomin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 019: Horus Jeremiah takes us to Egypt by sharing a tile game called Horus. While placing tiles on the board to build regions around the Nile, you are also spreading your influence across those regions. This is a beautiful game of endless variation that will keep you struggling for control. Horus Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Tile Game Designed by: H. Jean Vanaise Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60+ minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $35.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 056: Gen Con 08 Don and Jeremiah record in front of a live audience at Gen Con 2008. We are joined by Mike Selinker, Derek Guder, and Alex Yeager. We talk about a variety of events going on at Gen Con to include Gygax memorials, the results of the Catan World Championships, the ENnies, and Johan, the Settler of Catan. Some games mentioned in today's show include Unspeakable Words, Changeling: The Lost, Yetisburg, and Settlers of Catan. Thanks again to everyone who has made Gen Con special to us. We loo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 052: Dave Wallace While at Origins, Don was able to sit down with Dave Wallace. You may have heard Dave on many of the GAMA Trade Show Seminars. He and his wife, Kelli, run a small chain of stores and do a considerable amount of work for GAMA helping other retailers get started. He has also just recently taken a position for the online store, Troll and Toad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 051: Kenneth Hite Don brings us another great conversation from Origins. This time he visits with Kenneth Hite. Kenneth has written a number of our favorite games, but today we talk mostly about Trail of Cthulhu. Kenneth Hite has designed, written, or co-authored more than 70 books, roleplaying games, and supplements, including the Origins Award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation RPG, GURPS Infinite Worlds, and Call Of Cthulhu d20. He has been Line Developer for Chaosium's Nephilim and Last Unicorn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 018: Settlers of the Stone Age Jeremiah takes us back in time to Settlers of the Stone Age. Journey out of Africa as human-kind settles the globe. Improve your ability to survive harsh climates and collect what resources you can before Africa turns to desert. Settlers of the Stone Age Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 3-4 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 050: Fred Hicks of Evil Hat Productions and IPR Don was able to sit down with Fred Hicks at Origins to spend some time talking about our game. We have all come to the conclusion that he would be one of our first picks to have at our table. Fred Hicks is one of the minds behind Evil Hat Productions, a small-press publisher of roleplaying games, is the author of Don't Rest Your Head, and is a co-author of Spirit of the Century. He also works part-time as the customer service desk for Indie Press Revolution and as a freelance layout con ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 055: Table Tips We are all back together in the studio again and dive into something we have wanted to talk about for a long time. This is a collection of tips you can implement to run a smoother roleplaying game. We also respond to some feedback that continues with the Are Games Art discussion, started by Johnathan. In other news, Wizards will be closing down Gleemax. We touch on the Southern Arizona Gamer's Association's new projects, the coordinated campaigns. One is for World of Darkness, the other ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 049: Jeff Bellinger of Killer Bunnies Don had a great opportunity at Origins to visit with Jeff Bellinger, the designer of Playroom Entertainment's Killer Bunnies. Jeff was full of stories making it an easy and entertaining conversation. Jeff Bellinger began his life in Jersey and spent many hours developing games as he grew up. He took those games with him to the United States Navy to see the world until he was finally dropped off in San Diego where he created Saren's Stuff to take his games to market. Killer Bunnies cau ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 054: Gamer Adventures Derek is missing from today's show, but we have several clips from some friends we talked to at Origins. Each with good stories to tell. Ron from The Games the Thing launched a topic of game store ethics that we are eager to hear your opinions on. We also talked to Kim from Gamer Adventures. There are several gaming cruises coming up. We have got to get ourselves on one of these trips. Perhaps we will participate sometime soon. Some of our news was around the changes with West End Games. It ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 048: P. R. Chase Don had a great time talking to Phil Chase at Origins. Phil was joined by his son Auden, who was equally as entertaining. We spoke on a variety of educational topics, emphasizing linguistics in a way we had not yet explored. We also talked about a lot of games, even outside of Phil’s designs. Some of them include Set, Lord of the Rings, Settlers of Catan, Shear Panic, Hey! Where’s My Fish!, and Down with the King. Phil Chase has been an educator for 14 years, working now for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 017: Anno 1503 Jeremiah takes us on a journey in Anno 1503 to explore uncharted islands and find valuable resources for our people. Of course to be of any value, we also focus on the growth of our settlements and culture. Anno 1503 Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 053: The Art of Gaming Today's main topic fascinated us. Are games considered art? We even get into the topic of how gaming itself may or may not be art. Join in the discussion. We talk some about our friends at Polymancer. They had a little car wreck, but things seem to be going well. Their magazine is certainly looking good. They also have other projects coming. We talk about D&D some, mostly to bring up the Chaos Challenge at RinCon. Many will enter; all but one will die. The last one standing wins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 047: Michelle Nephew of Atlas Games Don was able to spend some time with Michelle Nephew at Origins this year. The visit was phenomenal. We learned at least a little about a bunch of Atlas Games titles, talked some about women in gaming, but mostly just learned more about Michelle and her gaming life. After years of playing Shadowrun and Vampire in college, Michelle Nephew's RPG editing career began in 2000 with Atlas Games' Three Days to Kill, the very first adventure available for sale under the Open Game License. She ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 016: Alibi Derek give us Alibi. Through clever questioning, elimination, and deduction, you figure out whodunit. It is a little more involved than most whodunit games, and coming close will even give you a few points. Alibi Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Darwin Bromley & Jim Musser Players: 3-10 Play Time: 45-60 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $15.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Inside Track: PGIT 046: Eddy Webb and John Chambers of White Wolf Don visits with Eddy Webb and John Chambers of White Wolf. Topics touched on range from the White Wolf culture to the range of roleplaying games we often find ourselves immersed in. Eddy officially started in the RPG industry in 2002 by working with Cynthia Celeste Miller on "Cartoon Action Hour" (which was later nominated for an Origins Award for Best RPG of 2003). He worked on projects for his own company (Spectrum Games) as well as freelance for other companies such as Deep7 and Comi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 015: Nautilus Derek takes us on a journey with Nautilus. Explore the depth of the ocean. Only a combination of discovery and research will lead to victory. You will split your time between building the under-water station and diving your submarines to the depths in search of Atlantis. Nautilus Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Brigette & Wolfgang Ditt Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-120 minutes Ages: 12+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 052: Games for Training We area really enjoying the new features of the network. You can create your own custom feed and put a player on your web site. Choose what shows you want with mycast and listen to the rest of the instructions in today's show. We would like to thank Myriad Games for including us on their web site and in their store. Our topic today is about using games in professional training arenas, especially sales. This and other topics brought up games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 014: The Pillars of the Earth Expansion Set We have been long-time fans of The Pillars of the Earth. Your master builders have a number of ways to participate in the building of the cathedral. If you can be more efficient and make wise choices, you will do well against your opponents. The Expansion Set gives you even more choices during the game and allows a couple more players to join in. The Pillars of the Earth Expansion Set Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Required: The Pillars of the Earth Designed by: Michael Ri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulp Gamer Out of Character: PGOC 051: First Look at 4th Edition We ran our first games of 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons and had a great time. Like every change, there are things we really liked and others that we are still getting used to. We will certainly continue to play. It seems that we all differed in opinion at least slightly on a lot of details. Listen to find out more and let us know your thoughts! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel: PGGK 013: The Settlers of Catan Jeremiah talks about one of our favorites, The Settlers of Catan. Explore and settle the island of Catan. Smart trades, planning, and a little bit of luck will work toward your victory. Some of the discussion is around a wealth of resources online. Educators can find some good information on Using The Settlers of Catan in the Classroom. Try it yourself from Professor Easy and learn more about The Origins of Catan. The Settlers of Catan Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Desig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 050: The Not-So Gamer Today’s main topic is about running a game night, specifically for casual players. We also talk some about games for large groups. We pick out a few favorites. This is just one of the great topics in today’s show that came from the feedback. There were a ton of games mentioned. These [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 050: The Not-So Gamer Today's main topic is about running a game night, specifically for casual players. We also talk some about games for large groups. We pick out a few favorites. This is just one of the great topics in today's show that came from the feedback. There were a ton of games mentioned. These include Apples to Apples, Are You a Werewolf?, Time's Up, Taboo, Alibi, Wits and Wagers, Saboteur, Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Starfleet Battles, Pipe Works, Catan Dice Game, and Carcassonne. This d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 045: Phil Lacefield Jr. While at the GAMA Trade Show, Don had a chance to sit down with Phil Lacefield Jr. about several aspects of the industry. Apart from trying to make a couple of predictions, we mostly talked about the Origins Awards. You will be able to vote on the Origins Awards at Origins in Columbus, Ohio. Phil Lacefield Jr. has been an active sales manager, marketing guru, writer, line editor, designer and layout guy for game companies such as Agents of Gaming, US Playing Card Co., Journeyman Press, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 045: Phil Lacefield Jr. While at the GAMA Trade Show, Don had a chance to sit down with Phil Lacefield Jr. about several aspects of the industry. Apart from trying to make a couple of predictions, we mostly talked about the Origins Awards. You will be able to vote on the Origins Awards at Origins in Columbus, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 012: Toledo Derek introduces a board game of Spanish sword making called Toledo. Everyone is racing through town to collect resources, find craftsmen, and present the best swords to the emperor. It is a competitive business. You will find yourself in a few duals on the way with other families seeking the same glory. Toledo Publisher: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 012: Toledo Derek introduces a board game of Spanish sword making called Toledo. Everyone is racing through town to collect resources, find craftsmen, and present the best swords to the emperor. It is a competitive business. You will find yourself in a few duals on the way with other families seeking the same glory. Toledo Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 2-4 Play Time: 90-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 049: Arizona Explosion Our main topic of discussion, at least for a short while today, is on characters that are hard to play in your roleplaying games. It seems to be the smart ones and the young ones that give us the most trouble, perhaps we can’t relate very well to either. A lot of events are going [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 049: Arizona Explosion Our main topic of discussion, at least for a short while today, is on characters that are hard to play in your roleplaying games. It seems to be the smart ones and the young ones that give us the most trouble, perhaps we can’t relate very well to either. A lot of events are going on. Locally, we are celebrating National D&D Day with some 4th edition adventures. We have a cookout at Hat’s Games to support SAGA’s coming RinCon. Then we are headed to Phoenix Con Games ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 011: Catan Dice Game Derek has been rolling for resources lately with the Catan Dice Game. Its a fun probability game of planning and building infrastructure. It is an easy one to find a home for. It is so versatile and portable. Once very day, you can play it online. Catan Dice Game Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Dice [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 011: Catan Dice Game Derek has been rolling for resources lately with the Catan Dice Game. Its a fun probability game of planning and building infrastructure. It is an easy one to find a home for. It is so versatile and portable. Once every day, you can play it online. Catan Dice Game Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Dice Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 1-4 Play Time: 15-30 minutes Ages: 7+ MSRP: $12.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 044: Aaron Williams Derek had the long awaited opportunity to talk to Aaron Williams at the GAMA Trade show. We have all been fans of Aaron’s work for a long time. You have probably seen it on a variety of products but most directly from Nodwick, Full Frontal Nerdity, and Ps228. As always, it was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 044: Aaron Williams Derek had the long awaited opportunity to talk to Aaron Williams at the GAMA Trade show. We have all been fans of Aaron’s work for a long time. You have probably seen it on a variety of products but most directly from Nodwick, Full Frontal Nerdity, and Ps238. As always, it was a great visit. Aaron is someone we will always look forward to seeing again. Find more about Aaron at nodwick.com Aaron Williams' first cartoon was published in Dragon magazine in 1989. He was 19 years ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 010: La Strada Jeremiah presents La Strada. We recently talked to Martin Wallace about La Strada, making it that much more fun to check out for ourselves. Everyone is making money from the economy of the game, but how much depends on what markets you share and how many times you have to split the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 010: La Strada Jeremiah presents La Strada. We recently talked to Martin Wallace about La Strada, making it that much more fun to check out for ourselves. Everyone is making money from the economy of the game, but how much depends on what markets you share and how many times you have to split the pie. La Strada Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 2-4 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $36.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 048: GTS 2008 The Game Manufacturer’s Association’s Trade Show (GTS) was an awesome good time and as always packed full of good information. Several seminars were captured and will soon be made available online. It was great to see everyone and we will certainly be looking for you at the next show. We had the opportunity to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 048: GTS 2008 The Game Manufacturer’s Association’s Trade Show (GTS) was an awesome good time and as always packed full of good information. Several seminars were captured and will soon be made available online. It was great to see everyone and we will certainly be looking for you at the next show. We had the opportunity to play several games at the GAMA Trade Show. We would like to thank Rich Waldbiess from Six Feet Under Games, New Holland, PA for providing a picture of Don playing Li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Good Homes for Great Games What started out as a training interview turned into a discussion made public on fitting games into the right hands. The intent is to provide insight to anyone that sells or promotes games on what to present and who to present them to. This is the premise of The Game Kennel and we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Good Homes for Great Games What started out as a training interview turned into a discussion made public on fitting games into the right hands. The intent is to provide insight to anyone that sells or promotes games on what to present and who to present them to. This is the premise of The Game Kennel and we want you to get the most out of it. By providing additional support to the customers that walk in your door, you can apply your expertise in a way nobody else can. We aim to help arm you with that information ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 043: Anthony Gallela and the Game Manufacturer�s Association We welcome Anthony Gallela to todays show and get involved in a lot of conversation about the benefits of the Game Manufacturer’s Association. We had a great time at the GAMA Trade show. You can expect to see the seminars posted very soon. Anthony has been involved in gaming in one way or another [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 043: Anthony Gallela, Game Manufacturer’s Association We welcome Anthony Gallela to todays show and get involved in a lot of conversation about the benefits of the Game Manufacturer’s Association (GAMA). We had a great time at the GAMA Trade show. You can expect to see the seminars posted very soon. Anthony has been involved in games and gaming in one way or another for some 30 years. He started as a consumer, playing D&D and Avalon Hill and SPI games in elementary school. In high school, Anthony played just about every game he cou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 009: Entdecker: Exploring New Horizons You can never go wrong with the Catan series of games. This time, Ron presents Entdecker. Its a tile exploration game of area control. It is packed with decisions that will make or break your success. Entdecker: Exploring New Horizons Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Tile Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-90 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 009: Entdecker: Exploring New Horizons You can never go wrong with the Catan series of games. This time, Ron presents Entdecker. Its a tile exploration game of area control. It is packed with decisions that will make or break your success. Entdecker: Exploring New Horizons Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Tile Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-90 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 You can learn the game by playing through this tutorial by professor easy. The single player online game, Oceania, w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 047: Network Overview If you are joining us for the first time, we welcome your visit with an overview of the network. We’ll see you next week for the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas. We have a lot of things planned and hope to see you there. Stop by our booth (#1114) and attend our seminar on Monday at noon. Today’s topics also include Ides of Gaming in Arizona and the convention we are brewing, RinCon. We bring up a few games in todays show. In particular, we want to direct you to Frederic Moyers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 047: Network Overview If you are joining us for the first time, we welcome your visit with an overview of the network. We’ll see you next week for the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas. We have a lot of things planned and hope to see you there. Stop by our booth (#1114) and attend [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 042: Skip Williams We were very excited to have arranged a meeting with Skip Williams. He had an impact on many years of our lives. Skip is a co-owner in Crystal Unicorn Enterprises where you can find his forums. A bunch of his and Penny’s work can be found in the Vicious Venues Archive. He also mentions some fiction in Time Twisters. Apart from today’s show, you can learn more about Skip Williams in an entertaining interview with Monte Cook. Skip Williams professes a love of old things, s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 042: Skip Williams We were very excited to have arranged a meeting with Skip Williams. He had an impact on many years of our lives. Skip is a co-owner in Crystal Unicorn Enterprises where you can find his forums. A bunch of his and Penny’s work can be found in the Vicious Venues Archive. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The COW: Catan Online World Radio, Meet the Moderators We are delighted be in discussion today with the Catan Online moderators, KayakPete, Aero, and Sloejack. Each of them are strong community members and add a lot of value to our experience online. They keep the forums in check and spend a lot of time helping new players with the online games. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The COW: Catan Online World Radio, Meet the Moderators We are delighted be in discussion today with the Catan Online moderators, KayakPete, Aero, and Sloejack. Each of them are strong community members and add a lot of value to our experience online. They keep the forums in check and spend a lot of time helping new players with the online games. Their guidance has made a positive impact on a lot of players. There are several ways to participate at PlayCatan.com. There are a handful of web games that only require the free account ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The COW: Catan Online World Radio, Meet the Moderators We are delighted be in discussion today with the Catan Online moderators, KayakPete, Aero, and Sloejack. Each of them are strong community members and add a lot of value to our experience online. They keep the forums in check and spend a lot of time helping new players with the online games. Their guidance has made a positive impact on a lot of players. There are several ways to participate at PlayCatan.com. There are a handful of web games that only require the free account ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 046: Wish List We are joined today by Ron and Veronica Blessing. They are hosts of The Games the Thing, a podcast about table top games. Ron also manages the Tucson Mall location of Game Daze. We follow up on some demographic discussion and then go right into a wish list of what we hope to see in games of the future. Some of the games that get a high degree of mention in the show include Savage Worlds, Alpha Omega, and Aces & Eights. Savage Worlds is one of Ron and Veronica’s main topics on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 046: Wish List We are joined today by Ron and Veronica Blessing. They are hosts of The Games the Thing, a podcast about table top games. Ron also manages the Tucson Mall location of Game Daze. We follow up on some demographic discussion and then go right into a wish list of what we hope [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 008: Bacchus� Banquet Bacchus’ Banquet is a card game with a Roman dinner party theme. Everyone comes to the dinner with their own agenda making variable winning conditions for each player. Its a light hearted fun game of deception, scandal, and intrigue. Bacchus’ Banquet Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Frederic Moyersoen Players: 3-5 Play Time: 30 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 008: Bacchus’ Banquet Bacchus' Banquet is a card game with a Roman dinner party theme. Everyone comes to the dinner with their own agenda making variable winning conditions for each player. Its a light hearted fun game of deception, scandal, and intrigue. Bacchus' Banquet Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Frederic Moyersoen Players: 3-5 Play Time: 30 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 041: Martin Wallace Martin Wallace has been designing some outstanding game titles since the mid 90s. Some you will recognize include La Strada, Runebound, Age of Steam, and Struggle of Empires. His work can be seen on the shelves from several different publishers, including his own company, Warfrog Games. He loves to work with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 041: Martin Wallace Martin Wallace has been designing some outstanding game titles since the mid 90s. Some you will recognize include La Strada, Runebound, Age of Steam, and Struggle of Empires. His work can be seen on the shelves from several different publishers, including his own company, Warfrog Games. He loves to work with historical themes and has an educational background which inspires some great conversation in today’s show. The game that got the most attention today was Toledo. It is sc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 045: Gaming Infidelity We have a lot of fun today talking about cheating at the game table. We have all been witness to such a blight of character and it makes for some great stories. We talk about quite a few games today to include China Rails and Pillars of the Earth. Pillars just one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGOC 045: Gaming Infidelity We have a lot of fun today talking about cheating at the game table. We have all been witness to such a blight of character and it makes for some great stories. We talk about quite a few games today to include China Rails and Pillars of the Earth. Pillars just one Best Advanced Game in Japan. We also are preparing a new Pathfinder campaign. Paizo made some important announcements about its future. Everyone, join us for our Catan Online party on Sunday, March 30th after 5 PM PST. Yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website POINT BLANK Special Presentation: Joseph Carriker Every episode of POINT BLANK features a recorded interview with the creative team at White Wolf that gives listeners a sneak peak at the new releases coming out in a segment called White Wolf Confidential. For episode 2, I had the pleasure of interviewing the lead developer for Vampire: The Requiem, Joseph Carriker, about the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website POINT BLANK Special Presentation: Joseph Carriker Every episode of POINT BLANK features a recorded interview with the creative team at White Wolf that gives listeners a sneak peak at the new releases coming out in a segment called White Wolf Confidential. For episode 2, I had the pleasure of interviewing the lead developer for Vampire: The Requiem, Joseph Carriker, about the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website POINT BLANK Special Presentation: Joseph Carriker Every episode of POINT BLANK features a recorded interview with the creative team at White Wolf that gives listeners a sneak peak at the new releases coming out in a segment called White Wolf Confidential. For episode 2, I had the pleasure of interviewing the lead developer for Vampire: The Requiem, Joseph Carriker, about the beautiful new clanbook series. I think Joseph did such a great job detailing this new line, I decided to release the full interview as its own separate show. I am cert ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website POINT BLANK Special Presentation: Joseph Carriker Every episode of POINT BLANK features a recorded interview with the creative team at White Wolf that gives listeners a sneak peak at the new releases coming out in a segment called White Wolf Confidential. For episode 2, I had the pleasure of interviewing the lead developer for Vampire: The Requiem, Joseph Carriker, about the beautiful new clanbook series. I think Joseph did such a great job detailing this new line, I decided to release the full interview as its own separate show. I am cert ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 007: Domaine Bo is a huge fan of Domaine. We haven’t seen him leave the house without it since we have known him. When the opportunity came up to spotlight Domaine, we had to ask him to do the honors. He jumped at the opportunity. It is a great area control board game [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 007: Domaine Bo is a huge fan of Domaine. We haven't seen him leave the house without it since we have known him. When the opportunity came up to spotlight Domaine, we had to ask him to do the honors. He jumped at the opportunity. It is a great area control board game with elegant mechanics and a tight economy. Domaine Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 There is a lot of opportunity to experien ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 044: Superstar Jeremiah joins us from a new location in Georgia as he undergoes some National Guard training. Bo joins us to catch us up on a bunch of news, such as the Toy Fair and his new podcast, Point Blank, for PSI. We start our show by saying goodbyes to Dungeons & Dragons co-creator, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGIT 040: Guido Teuber and Gavin Allister of Catan We have been looking forward to talking to Guido Teuber and Gavin Allister of Catan, LLC. We have been enjoying a variety of games at PlayCatan for a while now and now have the chance to let Guido and Gavin share them with you. We even have some links to share with you to download the Catan Online beta clients so you can start playing today. Guido Teuber grew up in the world of Catan as a subject of playtesting for his father, Klaus Teuber, and later to take on roles inside the company ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 040: Guido Teuber and Gavin Allister of Catan We have been looking forward to talking to Guido Teuber and Gavin Allister of Catan, LLC. We have been enjoying a variety of games at PlayCatan for a while now and now have the chance to let Guido and Gavin share them with you. We even have some links to share with you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 043: Rolling for Resources Con season is winding up. Jeremiah touches on a few games he played at Con of the North to include Call of Cthulhu, Promethean, Union Pacific, and China Rails. We also make a rule clarification on Lascaux and touch on one of last year’s favorites, Bison. Community building is again a big topic. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 006: China Rails Jeremiah has spent a lot of time lately building railroad empires across China. China Rails is a pick-up and delivery rail game. Efficiency is key to providing for the people of China. China Rails Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game, Rail Game Designed by: Michael Dreiling Players: 2-6 Play Time: 3+ hours Ages: 10+ MSRP: $40.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Game Kennel 006: China Rails Jeremiah has spent a lot of time lately building railroad empires across China. China Rails is a pick-up and delivery rail game. Efficiency is key to providing for the people of China. China Rails Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game, Rail Game Designed by: Michael Dreiling Players: 2-6 Play Time: 3+ hours Ages: 10+ MSRP: $40.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 042: Wilbraham We shout out to a bunch of regions around the world. The one that stood out in our minds most was Wilbraham, MA. More locations are highlighted at the very tail end of the show after the credits. We also touch upon some crazy news for some local events, such as Family [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 039: Wolfgang Baur of Kobold Quarterly Today we have the honor if sitting down with Wolfgang Baur. Wolfgang is responsible for the Open Design project and Kobold Quarterly. If you are missing the fun and adventure adventure of Dungeon and Dragon magazine, subscribe to Kobold Quartery. Wolfgang also mentions his Open Design blog as a good place to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 005: Lascaux Derek gives us a look at Lascaux. Collect beautiful cave art by pressing your luck with a cache of stones. This one was an absolute hit with all of our gaming groups. So far it has been played at least twice every time it has been brought out. Lascaux Publisher: Mayfair Games, Phalanx Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Dominque Ehrhard & Michel Lalet Players: 3-5 Play Time: 25 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $30.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 005: Lascaux Derek gives us a look at Lascaux. Collect beautiful cave art by pressing your luck with a cache of stones. This one was an absolute hit with all of our gaming groups. So far it has been played at least twice every time it has been brought out. Lascaux Publisher: Mayfair Games, Phalanx Games Style: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 041: Feed Me Don just returned home from Phoenix Cactus Comicon to report on the trip. Some of the fondest memories included Wil Wheaton’s performance - that just had to be talked about again. The zombie beauty pageant was a blast we haven’t yet found any links to that performance. Zombie Channel is likely to release [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 004: Chicago Poker Jeremiah gives us a look at Chicago Poker. We argued before the show how much this game was and wasn’t like poker. I am not sure we finished arguing before starting to record, but we were able to at least give you a good idea about the game. A lot of people [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 004: Chicago Poker Jeremiah gives us a look at Chicago Poker. We argued before the show how much this game was and wasn't like poker. I am not sure we finished arguing before starting to record, but we were able to at least give you a good idea about the game. A lot of people in our play groups really enjoyed this one. It was quick to learn and fun to play. Gangster themes are always a hit with us. Chicago Poker Publisher: Mayfair Games, Phalanx Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Bruno Cathala and Br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wil Wheaton Reading at Phoenix Cactus Comicon 2008 We have a special treat for you from Wil Wheaton (geek, gamer, writer, Wesley Crusher). He preformed a reading from some of his work at Phoenix Cactus Comicon last weekend and invited us to record it for you. You are going to have a great time with this one. It is about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wil Wheaton Reading at Phoenix Cactus Comicon 2008 We have a special treat for you from Wil Wheaton (geek, gamer, writer, Wesley Crusher). He preformed a reading from some of his work at Phoenix Cactus Comicon last weekend and invited us to record it for you. You are going to have a great time with this one. It is about an hour long but easy to listen to in two half-hour drives, though by the time you listen to the first story I doubt you’ll want to stop. The first half is a story called Blue Light Special from his book, The Happi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wil Wheaton Reading at Phoenix Cactus Comicon 2008 We have a special treat for you from Wil Wheaton (geek, gamer, writer, Wesley Crusher). He preformed a reading from some of his work at Phoenix Cactus Comicon last weekend and invited us to record it for you. You are going to have a great time with this one. It is about an hour long but easy to listen to in two half-hour drives, though by the time you listen to the first story I doubt you’ll want to stop. The first half is a story called Blue Light Special from his book, The Happi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 003: Weinhandler Jeremiah presents Weinhandler. Compete to become the ultimate wine handler by building up the most valuable wine cellar. The bidding mechanic will keep both families and avid gamers entertained. This is a popular choose for many occasions but really fits well at wine parties. Jeremiah has a wine stained rule book to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 003: Weinhandler Jeremiah presents Weinhandler. Compete to become the ultimate wine handler by building up the most valuable wine cellar. The bidding mechanic will keep both families and avid gamers entertained. This is a popular choose for many occasions but really fits well at wine parties. Jeremiah has a wine stained rule book to prove it. Weinhandler Publisher: Mayfair Games, Amigo Spiel Style: Card Game Designed by: Claudia Hely and Roman Pelek Players: 3-5 Play Time: 45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 040: The Dog House The feedback has been pouring in. Bo joins us in Derek’s place to go over it. We really had some insightful thoughts that has made us take a hard look at The Game Kennel. Thanks to everyone for talking back. It really keeps us going and helps us shape our shows. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 038: Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games We are joined today by Joseph Goodman. We dove into some new business with 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons and quite a bit about coming releases such as GM Gems, Eldritch, and Haiiii Ya! Post show discussion continues on an “explain it to your mom” discussion where Jeremiah credits Fear the Boot for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 002: The Market of Alturien Derek gives us a look at The Market of Alturien. Everyone is competing for the attention and the pocketbook of several customers wandering the market. If they are buying from you, your making the money you need to invest in your success. With every roll of the die, you weigh your options, grab the customers you can, and distract them from your neighbors. The Market of Alturien Publisher: Mayfair Games Designed by: Wolfgang Kramer Players: 2-6 Play Time: 60 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $50. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 002: The Market of Alturien Derek gives us a look at The Market of Alturien. Everyone is competing for the attention and the pocketbook of several customers wandering the market. If they are buying from you, your making the money you need to invest in your success. With every roll of the die, you weigh your options, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 039: The Gnome is Dead We bring in the new year with some notes on our new beginnings. You are already aware of our Family Podcast. We have now launched The Game Kennel. We hope you enjoy the new spotlight show as much as we do. We are always very proud to have Mayfair Games listed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PGGK 001: Gangster Your a mob boss competing for control of Chicago. You need to have all the right influence in all the right places, and by influence, I mean muscle. Drive your boys where they need to be, and offer rides to your rivals. Of course, your rivals will ride in the trunk. Ganster Publisher: Mayfair Games Designed by: Thorsten Gimmler Players: 2-5 Play Time: 90 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $45.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Game Kennel 001: Gangster In Gangster, your a mob boss competing for control of Chicago. You need to have all the right influence in all the right places, and by influence, I mean muscle. Drive your boys where they need to be, and offer rides to your rivals. Of course, your rivals will ride in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 037: Jamie Chambers of Margaret Weis Productions A native of the kudzu-covered hills of north Georgia, Jamie Chambers began playing role-playing games at the age of seven - cutting his teeth on the “red box” set of Dungeons & Dragons. A few years later (and an upgrade to “Advanced”), he ran his very first campaign for fellow sixth-graders: the original Dragonlance modules. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 038: Holiday Roleplay We are treated to another visit from Boyan Radakovich. He helps us answer the challenge of providing the top ten reasons to hire a gamer for city council. Some games mentioned during today’s show include Blokus, Jungle Speed, Patrician, Mr. Jack, Apple to Apples, and Risk. Our Christmas gift talk also includes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 036: Dave Arneson Dave Arneson joins us and has some great stories to tell. With Dave being the co-founder of Dungeons & Dragons, you might expect that we would inquire about the origins and role-playing. You would be correct, but we are even more interested in what Dave is doing now. He teaches game design [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 037: Help Wanted We are calling for talent. If you are a writer, artist, or voice actor, send us your portfolio and demos! We also announce the winner of the Orc Wars game. The winner was chosen at random from the correct answers of a rules quiz. Find out the answer in today’s show. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 035: Jess Hartley We are joined today by Jess Hartley as we partake in the activities of a regular game day at the Espresso Art Cafe in Tucson, Arizona. Our visit was absolutely spectacular. We talked about everything from her freelance work with white wolf to her new life in a beautiful southern Arizona town called [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 038: Mr. Jack Derek brings a two player board to the game table called Mr. Jack. One works to keep Jack the Ripper’s identity safe among eight characters on the board, the other eliminates suspects until he is able to catch Jack. We had a great time challenging each other with this game and think you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 036: Gnome in the Hole We packed half and hour pretty tightly this time. We have a lot of news about Jeremiah’s local area. It was pointed out by City Pages that Maplewood is the most dysfunctional suburb of the Twin Cities. We are pleased to congratulate John Nephew for his win in the political arena of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 037: The Red Dragon Inn Derek introduces us to The Red Dragon Inn, a humorous game about post-adventure celebration. The iconic characters, a wizard, cleric, rogue, and a warrior have met at the tavern to drink each other under the table and gamble away their loot. The Red Dragon Inn Publisher: Slugfest Games Designed by: Cliff Bohm, Geoff Bottone, Colleen Skadl Players: 2-4 Play [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 034: Steve Jackson We get into a lot of great topics today with Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games, to include some coming new releases of the popular Munchkin series. We had a great time and received a wealth of things to check out over the web. Be sure to visit these links: Sign up to play [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 036: HeroCard Orc Wars Derek introduces another HeroCard game called Orc Wars. If you are an elf, you face hordes of orcs. If you are playing the orc’s hand, you will find knocking off the elf is quite a challenge. We had a great time working through several scenarios in the game and had fun looking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 035: The Quiz We have some great fun today as we re-look at more games including some we haven’t talked about in a long time. Part of this is in the form of a quiz. Jeremiah reads a few selections from some rule books, and it is up to the rest of us to figure out what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 035: Battleground Fantasy Warefare Jeremiah takes on Battleground Fantasy Warfare. When you have a fantasy miniatures game without the miniatures, you have a much more affordable and portable fix for your combative needs. It plays great, even better that a lot of miniatures games. Check out the demo. Battleground Fantasy Warfare Publisher: Your Move Games Designed by: Robert Dougherty [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 033: Bobby Stickel of Sabertooth Games Today we kick back with Bobby Stickel of Sabertooth Games and have a great time. We talk mostly about Sabertooth’s Universal Fighting System. It is a fighting card game where you can pit fighters against each other from popular video games. This system has the coolest prize in gaming. If you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 034: Reflections 2007 Today we look back over the games we have reviewed in the past year and give you our long-lasting impressions. This may be a good time to start your Christmas shopping list (or wish list). Its Good to be the King Wits and Wagers Pieces of Eight Hunting Party Bison Family Business Kung Fu Fighting Palabra Anasazi Figaro Mission Red Planet Ave Caesar Illiad Elvish Checkers Pillars of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 034: Stonehenge: An Anthology Board Game After playing several times we share Stonehenge: An Anthology Board Game. The box contains several beautiful components for use in five different rule sets that come with it. Each game uses a Stonehenge theme, but you will be surprised at how far the imagination will take you around this mystical structure of rock. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 033: High School Drama This is probably our longest Kings Court to date, but we couldn’t stop talking about High School Drama. It is a hilarious and attractive parody of life in high school. You build your click and your popularity to rule the school. Its a great game for mixed company and a wide span [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 033: Clad in Kilt We had a great time today going over a number of topics in your feedback. After issuing a massive toy recall, Mattel then apologizes to China about it. We talked in the past at some great length about Ghoulash. We looked at a hard copy today that is now in stores. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 032: Patrician Don gives us something we can all enjoy. Patrician is about building prestige in the middle ages of Italy by building tall towers. It is a great game that casual players will be able to get into easily alongside the more serious gamer that will appreciate good strategy. Patrician Publisher: Mayfair Games Designed By: Michael Schacht Players: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 032: Mike Selinker and Lone Shark Games Today we kick back with Mike Selinker and have an obvious good time. Some topics include the Guardian 6 events at Gen Con, Cowpoker, drinking, geocaching, curling, Mendel's law, and the suspicious performance by James Ernest. Also, for our fellow Stongehenge fans, we mention the Stonehenge Library. Be sure and pay it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 031: Dungeon Twister Erin joins us once again to share her experience with Dungeon Twister. It is easy to tell she had a great time with this modular dungeon crawl. Your pitted against the other parties in the dungeon. Escape with as much of your party intact as you can while grabbing treasure and fighting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 031: Jeremy Stomberg of Fantasy Flight Games It is with great pleasure that we were able to talk to Jeremy Stomberg. With Jeremy’s love for games, he is a natural fit for marketing at Fantasy Flight Games. We were able to spend some time with him during the last day of Gen Con to talk about Fantasy Flight and some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character: 032: We Won! Right on the heals of Gen Con, Jeremiah returns home from Dragon*Con. Between both of the conventions, we have a few notes to share. The podcasting panels at Gen Con are steadily being posted. The Dragon*Con panels are also up and available. Jeremiah participated in the panel, “Podcasting for Games [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 031: Jeremiah is Pregnant We have arrived home safely from Gen Con and have just started to sift through a bunch great games and our notes. We also get a first chance to catch up on feedback in a while. Some of that feedback pointed us back to Ptolus and we promised to give you that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 030: Peter Adkison and Gen Con Peter made a special appearance during our podcasting track at Gen Con to subject himself to interview by Jeremiah Lynch and the live audience. We all learned quite a lot, both from and about Peter. He is a jovial and open personality, a successful business man, and a gamer like the rest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out Of Character 030: Live from Gen Con 2007 We had a great time recording Live in front of the crowd at Gen Con 2007. One of the hot topics for today’s show was the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. We heard from our friends at Asmodee games to include the designer of Dungeon Twister, Christophe Boelinger. Chistophe had come hear all of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 029: 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons with Scott Rouse and Bill Slavicsek One of the biggest announcements of Gen Con was the coming release of the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. To get the inside scoop, Jeremiah was able to get some time from the brand manager of D&D, Scott Rouse, and the director of R&D for this and several Wizards of the Coast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 030: Wicked Witches Way We had an absolute blast with Wicked Witches Way. At the start of every turn you must clear your head and focus on a formula; one that will propel you through a broom race. This is a game that you can bring out for kids and your gaming buddies. Wicked Witches Way Publisher: Asmodee Editions Designed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 028: Daniel Rowen of Playroom Entertainment Today we step back again to Origins to talk to Daniel Rowen. Dan has spent the last few years building up Playroom Entertainment to the success it is today. We had a great time visiting about how he and his company has grown, and what the industry can do to continue to grow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 029: Before the Wind Its back to work and you have ships to fill. The market is rough and you have to procure goods, warehouse them, and then meet the demands of the ships before they set sail. We think you will agree that Before the Wind is a fun and challenging addition to your collection. Before [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 029: Tennis Star Boyan Radakovich of Shifting Skies Games joins us to fill Jeremiah’s shoes while he plays warrior in the woods. He is also going to be with us at Gen Con. His first order of business is to report to us about his adventure at Comic-Con in San Diego. We release some more information about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 027: Michael Gray of Hasbro Today we visit with Michael Gray. Mike is a senior director of new product acquisition for Hasbro. He gives us a peak at the things Hasbro is looking for in a game, and what he is looking for in his personal collection. Mike had also spent some time working for TSR and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 028: Mall of Horror Flee for your lives! You have been trapped in the mall and zombies are everywhere. There is but one way to survive, make sure your friends get eaten first. Mall of Horror is a fun zombie game with a voting element and lots of spilled blood. Mall of Horror Publisher: Asmodee Editions Designed By: Nicolas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accent Your Character, Promo 1 This promo specifically calls attention to Accent Your Character, a dialect training series of CDs for the casual pretender. Links can be directed to pulpgamer.com, but may be even more specific by linking www.pulpgamer.com/products, where you can read more about it. The list below contains a list of images you may use for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 028: Legendary We are caught between cons and have a lot to share. You will be interested to know the notorious ?Fire Jeremiah? reveals his true identity. We talk some about the process of the origins awards, our podcasting track at Gen Con, and a recent comparison we made to the foam Guns in CA$H [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 026: Rick Loomis of Flying Buffalo During the course of Origins, Don had a chance to talk to Rick Loomis. Rick is the president of the Game Manufacturer’s Association (GAMA) and his own company, Flying Buffalo. Flying Buffalo is responsible for Tunnels and Trolls, Lost Worlds, Nuclear War, and those board game box bands that come in so handy. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 027: Kill Doctor Lucky We had hoped for a long time to see Kill Doctor Lucky in a value version and we have received just that. Titan Games takes an old favorite, polishes it some more and entertains us all. Jeremiah is the lucky one today to take the game and review it for us. Kill Doctor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 025: Mayfair Games We are delighted to have the head(s) of Mayfair Games join us and give us some insight to their company and their lives. After Will Niebling’s recent retirement, Pete Fenlon will step into the role of CEO. Larry Roznai will continue as president, and Bob Carty will take on more responsibility but remain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 027: Origins 2007 We’re back from Origins with a bunch of news and updates. We had an absolute blast with our podcasting friends. The high point is always visiting and socializing with our friends in the industry. One of the opportunities to do that was at a party hosted by Barfleet. This followed the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 026: Cash �n Guns You have just robbed a bank and are sitting in a warehouse dividing up the cash, but how it is divided is decided at the end of a gun. The game even comes with orange foam guns to draw on your peers. We received Cash ‘n Guns on the way to our gaming [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 026: How Big is Your Dice Bag? We just returned home from a great time at Con Games, and are now off to Origins. You will expect to see Don working with Bo showing off High School Drama, and with Michael Stackpole and the rest of the podcasting group sharing our art with all of the attendees from booth 125. Today we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 024: Michael A. Stackpole, part 2 We continue our discussion with Mike Stackpole, touching a lot more on gaming this time. We start with the industry watch committee and learn about how games have been defended against the misunderstandings that have occurred over the years. Some additional links include: We refer to The Pulling Report, written in 1990 to address the public [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 025: Kragmortha Derek has let a group of kids loose with Kragmortha and they had a blast with it. It seems to be a good way to generate some laughter. Players are challenged with silly behavior while they move their goblins around the board avoiding the attention of the evil overlord, Rigor Mortis. Kragmortha Publisher: Mayfair Games Designed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 018: Joshua Frost of Paizo Publishing A lot of excitement is going on now at Paizo Publishing. We have learned about the cease of publication of Dungeon and Dragon magazines and their many new products to hit the shelves in the next few months. We will continue to hear more about these new products in coming episodes, but today [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GAMA Trade Show 2007 Derek and Don return home from Las Vegas to report on the events at the GAMA Trade Show. We talked to a lot of great people, ate a lot of great food, lost a lot of good money, and collected a list of new games for review. We have been attending the GAMA Trade Show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 017: Marcelo Figueroa Today we are treated to the company of Marcelo Figueroa. He gives us some insight to a few games and the unique experiences they offer. Aside from the games, Marcelo also gives us a glance at the business and what it takes to take the games to market. Marcelo found his way into the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 020: 42 Anizona went well and we look forward now to the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas. This time of year is wonderfully busy for us as we visit with more industry professionals and line up interviews for the coming months. Discussions around our recent guests continues today with some terminology offered by the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 019: Humble Advice Off all the feed back, the overriding theme is advice to a beginning GM. Exalted is a specific target of the inquiry but the art is the same regardless of the game. Dungeons & Dragons is mentioned a lot just because this question seemed to be timed well with our review of Dungeon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 016: Klaus and Guido Teuber Don’s trip to Games Expo in Las Vegas rewarded him to a visit with Klaus and Guido Teuber. After the exhibition hall closed down on Monday we sat in the Mayfair Games booth and talked about their game designing experience and and their quality visit in the U.S.. The strength in their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 018: Games Exposure Don has made it home from Las Vegas and has some stories to tell. We do not delve into it too much because you have offered some great topics for us to discus. We continue with some discussion on healthy gaming and also touch again on a few games we like to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 015: Games Expo 2007 Don is walking the floor now at Games Expo 2007 gathering more information you will be hearing over the next few weeks. In today?s presentation we will visit with a number of influential members of our industry. We fist talked to Mark Simmons. Mark announced this show 18 months ago and been working hard since, not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 018: Pillars of the Earth Derek reviews Pillars of the Earth, a board game based on the novel by Ken Follett. This one stood out as soon as we opened the box because it is absolutely beautiful. As we started to play we realized the game mechanics were just as masterful. We had a blast playing with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 017: Going Commando Today, your feedback drives us through a number of topics before we add a few of our own. Some of the games brought up during the show include Ingenious, Mission Red Planet, Fading Suns, and Jack the Ripper. Also, should you interfere when your neighbors kids are playing Dungeons & Dragons? Our answer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 017: Elvish Checkers Jeremaih reviews Elvish Checkers. Its a an abstract strategy game stylized with a fantasy theme. This fun and simple game is played on a unique cloth playing board and designed with portability in mind. Iliad Publisher: Three Sages Games Designed By: David Waino Players: 2 Ages: 10+ MSRP: $12.95 Today’s promo was for the Weekly Anime Review. It is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 014: Reiner Knizia Our show today is with Dr. Reiner Knizia. We met Reiner in Los Angles at OrcCon, one of the conventions under the Stratigicon umbrella. We had a great time playing with many Knizia designs at the convention, but the highlight was undoubtedly being able to spend some time with Reiner.Reiner Knizia has hundreds [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 013: Bill Bridges of White Wolf Today we dive into the World of Darkness with Bill Bridges. This was a great opportunity to catch ourselves up with the storyline and gain some insight into the White Wolf products that are to be released this summer. We were just as pleased to be taken on that tour with Bill and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 016: Iliad Jeremiah reviews Iliad. Its a card game about the legends surrounding the Trojan war. Through a series of sieges you battle for victory points, carefully choosing what armies to apply and when. This game has an interesting blend of mechanics than even achieves a bit of a poker feel but is clearly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 016: Furry Time Our show opens with a tragedy. This week, our thoughts are with Irene McGee of the No One’s Listening podcast who recently lost her home and pet cat in a fire. Please join us in support Irene as she puts her life back together.Reiner Knizia was in Las Angeles this weekend for OrcCon and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 012: Chris Pramas and Green Ronin We are joined today by Chirs Pramas. Chris has been writing and designing since the 90s and has worked on projects such as Warhammer Fantasy, Feng Sui, Underground, Chainmail, AD&D’s Guide to Hell, Dragonfist, and Death in Freeport. He founded Green Ronin and now has a long list of credits we are barely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 011: Tracy Hickman part 2 We continue this week spending time with Tracy Hickman. We had such a great time and just didn’t stop. At first, it was beginning to look like a bonus show but before we knew it we had enough to release another entire show. Be sure also to listen to the first part.Before [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 015: Catan Histories Struggle for Rome Derek reviews Catan Histories Struggle for Rome. It is a board game that brings the Settlers of Catan feel to the historical fall of the Rome. Instead of placing tiles, the European map is already laid out in traditional Catan hexes. Struggle against your opponents to sack Roman cities and start building [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 015: Free Money Happy Valentines Day! We are busy maneuvering around the holiday to get our game in and our podcast released. Our friends at Eye-Level Entertainment have put together some Nature of the Beast Valentines for you to send a message of love to your geek. Feedback has led us to a number of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 014: Ave Caesar Derek Reviews Ave Caesar; a chariot racing board game. This game is less about speed and more about positioning and cutting off your opponent. This game is easy to learn and play. We found this to be a great choice for company of mixed maturity. Ave Caesar Publisher: ASMODEE editions Designed By: Wolfgang Riedesser Players: 3-6 Ages: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 014: Ave Caesar Derek Reviews Ave Caesar; a chariot racing board game. This game is less about speed and more about positioning and cutting off your opponent. This game is easy to learn and play. We found this to be a great choice for company of mixed maturity.Ave CaesarPublisher: ASMODEE editionsDesigned By: Wolfgang RiedesserPlayers: 3-6Ages: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 014: Connecting Things keep moving quickly. We just returned from Phoenix Catcus Comicon and will now be heading to OrcCon. We are not going to be exhibiting this time but shouldn’t be to hard to find. Other news includes the closure of GenCon So Cal, further expounded upon by this open letter from Peter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 014: Connecting Things keep moving quickly. We just returned from Phoenix Catcus Comicon and will now be heading to OrcCon. We are not going to be exhibiting this time but shouldn’t be to hard to find. Other news includes the closure of GenCon So Cal, further expounded upon by this open letter from Peter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 010: Tracy Hickman It is an absolute delight talk to Tracy Hickman. He is a master storyteller and treats us with tales of himself from many aspects of his life including Tracy as an author, a gamer, and a game designer.Tracy and his wife Laura Hickman are actively involved with their fans. They produce a fun [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 010: Tracy Hickman It is an absolute delight talk to Tracy Hickman. He is a master storyteller and treats us with tales of himself from many aspects of his life including Tracy as an author, a gamer, and a game designer.Tracy and his wife Laura Hickman are actively involved with their fans. They produce a fun [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 013: Mission Red Planet Jeremiah reviews Misson: Red Planet. This is a board game about 19th century Mars exploration. You are constantly engaged while sending rockets to Mars to collect resources from it’s surface. Jeremiah refuses to send this one back for Don and Derek to try, insisting on having it to play again and again. Mission: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 013: Mission Red Planet Jeremiah reviews Misson: Red Planet. This is a board game about 19th century Mars exploration. You are constantly engaged while sending rockets to Mars to collect resources from it’s surface. Jeremiah refuses to send this one back for Don and Derek to try, insisting on having it to play again and again.Mission: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 013: Dungeon Masters Wanted Subjects for todays show are driven not just by feedback but a bunch of products we have been sent for review. These include both games and books. Jeremiah brings up the five star rating scale again. Wiley Publishing has sent us a few titles that we will be talking about more in future episodes. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 013: Dungeon Masters Wanted Subjects for todays show are driven not just by feedback but a bunch of products we have been sent for review. These include both games and books. Jeremiah brings up the five star rating scale again.Wiley Publishing has sent us a few titles that we will be talking about more in future episodes. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 012: Figaro Jeremiah reviews Figaro; an easy to learn yet deceptively complex card game. Your play represents that of a mischievous jester that is stuck with the king in a lonely castle. Your challenge is to stay out of trouble, at least more so than your opponents. This one is going to get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 012: Figaro Jeremiah reviews Figaro; an easy to learn yet deceptively complex card game. Your play represents that of a mischievous jester that is stuck with the king in a lonely castle. Your challenge is to stay out of trouble, at least more so than your opponents. This one is going to get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 012: Back in the Saddle After a refreshing vacation we are ready to hit the ground running. Its good to be back. After reviewing the feedback from over the holidays, we talk about a bunch of products that have caught our attention.Dead Gentlemen have come out with a directors cut to Gamers. We are all fans of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 012: Back in the Saddle After a refreshing vacation we are ready to hit the ground running. Its good to be back. After reviewing the feedback from over the holidays, we talk about a bunch of products that have caught our attention. Dead Gentlemen have come out with a directors cut to Gamers. We are all fans of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 011: Anasazi Derek reviews Anasazi; a board game of exploration. Steer expeditions and loot ancient treasures from the cliff-dwellers of the US southwest. This game beautiful and sets up a little differently each time.AnasaziPublisher: Mayfair Games, Phalanx GamesDesigned By: Klaus-J�rgen WredePlayers: 2-4Ages: 10+Play Time: 30 minutesMSRP: $30.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 011: Anasazi Derek reviews Anasazi; a board game of exploration. Steer expeditions and loot ancient treasures from the cliff-dwellers of the US southwest. This game beautiful and sets up a little differently each time. Anasazi Publisher: Mayfair Games, Phalanx Games Designed By: Klaus-J�rgen Wrede Players: 2-4 Ages: 10+ Play Time: 30 minutes MSRP: $30.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modified Pulp Gamer Podcast Promo Mix 2007 This promo is identical to the standard promo mix except for the closing tag. If you find this promo appropriate for your show and appreciate the humor, this promo may be the one for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modified Pulp Gamer Podcast Promo Mix 2007 This promo is identical to the standard promo mix except for the closing tag. If you find this promo appropriate for your show and appreciate the humor, this promo may be the one for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Standard Pulp Gamer Podcast Promo Mix 2007 This promo introduces our three core shows and plays just over 30 seconds. Keep us informed on where it is played. We would love to know! We are gearing up to tackle the new year and have some more additions coming soon to pulp gamer so stay tuned! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Standard Pulp Gamer Podcast Promo Mix 2007 This promo introduces our three core shows and plays just over 30 seconds. Keep us informed on where it is played. We would love to know! We are gearing up to tackle the new year and have some more additions coming soon to pulp gamer so stay tuned! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Character 011: Fan Food We wish you a happy holiday season on this last show of the year. We will be back again the second week in January. As always we had a great time with your feedback starting with a package of Baklava from MikeAbleXray. Thank you, Mike! We close the show by giving [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Court 010: Palabra Derek reviews Palabra; a card game all of us played and thoroughly enjoyed. Palabra is a cross of words, rummy, and poker. It does a great job of bridging the gap between the verbally elite and the rest of us.PalabraPublisher: Palabra EnterprisesPlayers: 2-6Play Time: 20-30 minutesMSRP: $20.00 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Track 009: Andy Looney of Looney Labs After continuously brining up Looney Labs games over the lifetime of pulp gamer, it was only appropriate that we bring Andy Looney in on the discussion. It is always a treat to talk to him and he certainly entertained us today. Andy keeps up a weekly web column about himself and the [...] Listen |