Accidental Survivors: The Modern Gaming Podcast
The Modern Role-Playing Game Podcast
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Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast
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0. What's Better Than a Cow?

1. Geek Week
Rob's been playing Fallout 3. And playing, and playing, and playing... and playing...

Chuck's been writing a board game called Dungeon Dwellers, and RPG Objects is going all printified with Amazon BookSurge

Fraser is hyped by the new Star Trek Trailer at Apple Trailers and is looking forward to his Viking True20 game. You can read the campaign journal  if you really are that bored.

A list of 12 RPGs every gamer  should play before they die.

   If you're ready to attack the darkness, check out the KORE RPG podcast.

2. Feature - Wars and Rumours of Wars

Are the PCs involved in the Siege of Mafeking or are maybe meeting Winston Churchill  during the Second Boer War 

In World War I, you could run games set in the Arab Revolt, there's espionage, or you could go the alt-history Soldiers and Spellfighters route.
Commandos, SAS or the Red Orchestra  (perhaps attempting to retrieve the Blutfahne) during World War II
The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam - Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG), riverine warfare, or just plain weird stuff (like the Korean movie R-Point) in the Vietnam War.

Did you just rediscover beer? Time to discover Return to Northmoor.
 
3. The Hook
What if the PCs are part of an SAS team (one of the Special Raiding Squadrons) in Italy in Aug/Sept 1943, only to intercept information that Otto Skorzeny, famed German commando, is in the area. This would be near Gran Sasso d'Italia, a mountain located in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. Mussolini is being held at Campo Imperatore. The actual rescue of Mussolini by Skorzeny took place on Sept 12, but can your SRS foil Skorzeny's attempt? Perhaps even capture the German hero?

4. Podcast News
Heart of the Hunter Completed.
Heart of the Hunter, Sam Chupp's fantasy novel, is now complete. Sam describes this novel as being in the style of Steven Brust's Jhereg novels, using pastiches and cognates of real-world cultures in order to convey a sense of culture and place.

You can  listen to the novel over at heartofthehunter.com

Veni Vidi Venatus
The fine gentlemen over at Spooky Outhouse Productions are organizing something they call "One Shotter Day", or Veni Vidi Venatus (I came, I saw, I gamed), which is a day which several gaming stores will be offering one-shots of various RPGs and board games. There might be something set up in your area, so go check out the forums at www.podgecast.com. I'm going to be trying to set something up in Kitchener, so if you're interested, let me know on the forums or via email.

5. Feedback
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This bonus episode offers up an interview with Darcy Burgess of Achtung Spiel. We talk about his new game, Black Cadillacs, a game about war, the man behind the gun, and political and moral commentary.

 

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GenCon Survivors - Actual Play: Modern20 Part 2
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted, unedited and unprepared.

Actual Play: Modern20 Part 2 was recorded at GenCon. It is an updated and altered version of the module the Qalashar Device and we were using a loose interpretation of the Modern20 rules. This is Part 2. You can find Part 1 here. The Actual Play series includes Part 1 of this game and a 2 Part AP recording of Star Wars SAGA edition.

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GenCon Survivors - Actual Play: Modern20 Part 1
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted, unedited and unprepared.

Actual Play: Modern20 Part 1 was recorded at GenCon. It is an updated and altered version of the module the Qalashar Device and we were using a loose interpretation of the Modern20 rules. This is Part 1. You can find Part 2 here. The Actual Play series includes Part 2 of this game and a 2 Part AP recording of Star Wars SAGA edition.

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0. MorphVOX
Rob talks a little bit about a cool app called MorphVOX.

1. Geek Week

TV: Supernatural, Life, The Office, Dexter, and True Blood, Burn Notice, Heroes, Supernatural, Prison Break
Video Games: LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2 beta, Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, Crysis Warhead (and Wars), SPORE and Assassin's Creed.
RPGs: Halloween one shot WFRP game for several of our forum members which included Octarine. Writing some zombie products (RPGObjects and TheLe Games).
Comics: Marvel's "The Road to Civil War"

2. Feature - Ross Watson from Fantasy Flight Games
An interview with Ross Watson, a Senior RPG Developer for Fantasy Flight Games.

3. The Hook
David put together a cool little audio clip for this episode's Zombie Invasion hook.

4. Feedback
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Here's another Accidental Survivors promo, this one with the voice talents of David S Gallant and "friend."
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Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast

GenCon Survivors - Actual Play: Star Wars SAGA Part 2
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted, unedited and unprepared.

Actual Play: Star Wars SAGA Part 2 was recorded at GenCon. It is the first of the Dawn of Defiance series. This is Part 2. You can find Part 1 here. The Actual Play series includes Part 1 of this game and a 2 Part AP recording of Qalashar Dogs using a loose adaptation of Modern20.

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GenCon Survivors - Actual Play: Star Wars SAGA Part 1
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted, unedited and unprepared.

Actual Play: Star Wars SAGA Part 1 was recorded at GenCon. It is the first of the Dawn of Defiance series. This is Part 1. You can find Part 2 here. The Actual Play series includes Part 2 of this game and a 2 Part AP recording of Qalashar Dogs using a loose adaptation of Modern20.

You can email us at accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca

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GenCon Survivors - 13th Warrior Commentary Track
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted and unprepared.

13th Warrior Commentary Track was recorded in our hotel room at GenCon. You can play this while watching the 13th Warrior, as a kind of commentary track. The beginning of the recording has a point for you to sync your movie with the commentary.

Oh, and it turns out it's Herger the joyous. Go figure.

 

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GenCon Survivors Interview 03 - Shane Hensley, Mike MacNeal, and Steve Todd of Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Welcome to another GenCon Survivors Interview episode. These episodes include interviews recorded at GenCon. This episode is with Shane Hensley, Mike MacNeal, and Steve Todd of Pinnacle Entertainment Group discussing the Savage Worlds of Solomon Kane .

The content has had only minor editting and is unscripted.

You can find out more about the products discussed in this interview at the Pinnacle Entertainment Group website.

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GenCon Survivors 03 - Survivors Avec Frontieres
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted and unprepared.

Episode 03 - Survivors Avec Frontieres was recorded during and after our crossing of the Canadian-US border, Colin, Rob and Fraser discuss rules and stories in RPGs, the different Star Trek series, and a few other geek and game topics.

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GenCon Survivors Interview 02 - Andrew Peregrine of Cubicle 7 Entertainment

Welcome to a GenCon Survivors Interview episode. These episodes will include interviews recorded at GenCon. This episode is with Andrew Peregrine of Cubicle 7 Entertainment discussing Victoriana.

The content has had only minor editting and is unscripted.

You can find out more about the products discussed in this interview at the Cubicle 7 website.

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GenCon Survivors 02 - Border Bound
Welcome to the another episode of the Gen Con Survivors. The GenCon Survivors episodes include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted and unprepared.

Episode 02 - Border Bound was recorded on our way to the US Border during our trip to GenCon. Colin, Rob and Fraser discuss early D&D experiences, Kevin Smith, and a few other geek and game topics.

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1. Geek Week
Watching Burn Notice and designing Burn Notice campaigns
Reading 40 Years of the Avengers (currently up to 1968!) 
Picked up an Xbox 360 Pro
Thinking about Force Unleashed and being amused by the PA comments
Considering the Nuketown Radioactive 4e review

Dungeon Crawl Classics

2. Feature - True20
Talking about True20 Revised Edition.
Conversion notes for Green Ronin's Thieves' World book: http://true20.com/support/
Check out Freeport
Some philosophical impasses occured in the discussion, but here's a chance to continue.
 
The Tome Show

3. The Hook
This episode's hook is based on the TV series Burn Notice. You can read about it here.

4. Podcast News
Actual Play for Dungeon Crawl Classics
In conjunction with Goodman Games, Gamer's Haven and The Vorpal Network will be posting Dungeon Crawl Classics 4E Actual Play beginning this week.  The first adventure scheduled is Sellswords of Punjar. You can find the Gamer's Haven at www.canadiancrusaders.com/.

5.Feedback
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1. Geek Week Ticket to Ride Card Game
On Spec

2. Feature - Post Apocalypso

Nuclear Holocausts like Mad Max, Planet of the Apes, Fallout, Darwin's World RPG, Gamma World RPG

 

Viral Holocausts like The Stand, Jeremiah /Star Trek OS: Miri, The Last Man, 12 Monkeys, Omega Man /I am Legend

Monster Apocalypses like Reign of Fire

Mystical (Nuclear?) Holocausts like the Dark Tower

Post Apocalyptic game resources on the intertubes include
PA Forge: dedicated to PA RPG games and focuses on development of resources for said games
Desolation Nation: A campaign for a PA game using D20 Modern rules. Great map resource!
The Ten Best PA Survival Vehicles: For kicks
 
3. Gear Locker
4. Podcast News
A) Dragon's Landing Inn is back
After a summer hiatus, the Dragon's Landing Inn is back. Episode 92 talks about the hiatus and initial thoughts on 4e. This one is a long one, clocking in at about 2 hours, but for those of us who have been jonesing for some DLI, it was a quick 2 hours. You can find Dragon's Landing Inn at www.dragonslanding.com.

B) Spooky Outhouse
You've heard me talk about the Podgecast before, and here I am talking about it again. This time, it's in relation to Spooky Outhouse Productions, which is a production and marketing company anchored by some fine quality podcasts. Right now, Spooky Outhouse Productions includes The Habitual Insomniac, The Man Cast, Red Earth Saga, the Podge Cast, Story Shtick, Bear Swarm!, and Wapcaplets. Head on over to spookyouthouse.com and see what's going on there. Join the forums, where you might just bump into a couple of Accidental Survivors, getting in on the forumy goodness.

I just have to say that Spooky Outhouse is Pretty F#$&in' Chang!

C) Vorpal Network
Fist Full of Comics and Games has always hosted some of my favourite podcasts, from the Inner Circle to the Monarch Comics Briefing. Now, the Fist Full of Comics crew has gotten together with the Tome Show and the Gamer's Haven to start the Vorpal Network. This is one sweet collection of high quality podcasts. Added to this is a geek news aggregator which also delivers tidbits to Twitter. I don't just love the Vorpal Network because my game from GenCon got a favourable shoutout on the first of the Main Feed episodes, I love it because its got a fair portion of my podcast fix all on one feed.

Got check it out at vorpalnetwork.com  If you want to contact us, you can email us at accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca


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GenCon Survivors Interview 01 - Eric Wiener of Paradigm Concepts
Welcome to the first of the GenCon Survivors Interview episodes. These episodes will include interviews recorded at GenCon. This first episode is with Eric Wiener of Paradigm Concepts discussing Witch Hunter: the Invisible World.

The content has had only minor editting and is unscripted.

You can find out more about the products discussed in this interview at the Paradigm Concepts website.

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Rob and Fraser's Excellent Adventure
Welcome to the first of the GenCon Survivors episodes. These episodes will include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary.

The sound quality is very poor. The language is very offensive. The content is unscripted and unprepared.

Episode 01 - Rob and Fraser's Excellent Adventure was recorded on the first leg of our GenCon odyssey, as Rob and Fraser travel to meet Colin.

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The GenCon Wrapup
Some of the awesome crews we met belonged to the following, in alphabetical order:

The Basics of the Game
Brilliant Gameologists
Canon Puncture
The Digital Front/Gamer Traveler
Fist Full of Comics And Games
Gamer's Haven
Order 66
The Podgecast
Pulp Gamer
This Just In From Gencon

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Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast
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1. News & Views
Need rules for playing with your green and tan plastic army men? Combat Storm may have what you need.

Chris reveals the Supernatural Season 4 details

Hidden Nazi bunkers found intact after more than 50 years.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog no longer available free, but if you have access to it, there's always Hulu. And if you're going to be running a Dr. Horrible campaign using Supers20, you may want to read a review.

Bring the Pain! (Ray).

Barnett R. Rubin is shocked, shocked to learn that that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) appears to be supporting insurgents and terrorists in Afghanistan.

Choson, the RPG, now appearing on the forums.

Head on over to the Tome Show for all your D&D info needs.

2. Feature: Garden Variety "Monsters"
Rob's Obscure Pop Culture Reference #265.
First Appearance of Henry Pym; The Man in the Anthill.
Fraser's old! The first sci-fi movie he saw was Them! (Fraser notes: while I am old, I saw Them! on TV, not in the cinemas.

Relevance? Intelligent discourse? Insight? If these things are not important to you, check out the Podgecast.

3. Inspiration Time
Arachnophobia
Kingdom of the Spiders
Phase IV
Willard (1971) remade in 2003 with Chrispin Clover, and there's a sequal Ben, for which Michael Jackson sang the theme song.
Star Man's Son
Deadly Creatures and Bad Mojo
Crazy Old Ladies and their rats
The Indiana Jones trilogy

4. Gear Locker
Lots of stabby things

5. Podcast News
The Podgecast
A show about movies, music, books, games, and whatever's on their minds. Luke, Adam, Matt and Joe pontificate and spout opinion as though fact, and it rocks. Get ready for a good time and plenty of laughs. There might actually be something useful in there as well. Find it all at podgecast.com.

IFC News
From the Independent Film Channel comes the IFC News podcast. With hosts Matt Singer and Alison Willmore, the IFC News podcasts talks movies, and the talk is usually pretty interesting. Maybe not geeky, per se, but if you love movies, you'll likely enjoy this podcast. You can find it at feeds.feedburner.com/ifcnewspodcast

6. Feedback

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Thanks Rob for taking care of this!


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News & Views

  • West End Games is for sale, triggering a firestorm of discussions from the ill-informed on various RPG message boards, like here and here.
  • Open Office now has a PDF editor, though it is still in beta development. Take a look here.
  • We're late to the game in wishing Stan Lee a wonderful 85th birthday. 'Nuff said.

Feature: Modern20: A Review

Why did Chuck Rice write Modern20? To make a pantload of money, of course!

Inspiration Time

The Shield: Season 5 and Season 6: An ambitious, mentally unstable IAD officer is after Vic in Season 5 and the death of a member of the Strike Team turns them against each other in Season 6. Some of the best TV ever and easily one of the 5 best cop shows of all time.

The Losers: Comic book from Vertigo/DC Thanks to BrianK on the boards for mentioning this back in the discussion on Episode 26: Finding Inspiration.

Feedback

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1. News & Views
Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms and yet more! Don't forget to read the comments.

We're going to Gen Con. Check out our schedule. Make sure you email us if you want in on one of our games.

Supers20 is almost out! Also, the Dispatch is going weekly again for at least 6 weeks in honor of Supers20 release!

FFoCaG - Official Contest: Burn Notice Season 2

Chinese Cops get Segways . . . no longer so intimidating

Go-Play Ottawa a GO for July 26.

Welcome back Walt/kroh!

The Wandering Geek podcast is up for an Ennie! Head on over to support Curt in his quest for glory.

2. Feature: Real Crime
Our previous episode about player characters as criminals, which we called Criminal Intentions.
Mafia
Murder Inc
Yakuza

Play like you've got two with the Brilliant Gameologists.

3. Inspiration Time
Current situation in Zimbabwe
The Departed
Infernal Affairs
Ross Kemp On Gangs

4. The Hook
Undercover: The PCs are cops tasked with infiltrating a dangerous criminal organization. How can they work their way up the ladder while maintaining their integrity? Ordinary complications, like family problems, can play a big part in a campaign like this, since the PCs will have the added complication of a secret identity--trying to keep their assignment and their home life separate.

5. Podcast News
A. The Material World looks at Tunguska
On the 30th June 1908, a huge fireball hurtled towards the Tunguska River region of Siberia. The explosion that followed was as powerful as 1000 Hiroshima bombs and knocked down an estimated 80 million trees. But 100 years later scientists are yet to find an impact crater or tell-tale meteorite remains. So what happened?

The Material World is a BBC Radio podcast. In this episode, Host Quentin Cooper is joined by Dr Phil Bland and Gareth Collins from Imperial College London to find out. You can learn more at the website.

B. Brilliant Gameologists
In their own words, Brilliant Gameologists is a podcast about tabletop games and the people who play them. Helping you play like you have to, play like you have to and play like you have two.

For my two cents, the BGs are fun and enjoy using language that is less than family friendly, like some other podcast I know . . . and possibly participate in. They understand LARPing is all about hitting on hot gamer chicks and has no other value. Me like.

You can find them at: brilliantgameologists.com/

6. Feedback

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I'm excited to announce that the Accidental Survivors (two of them) are going to be heading to GenCon Indy this August! We are very, very excited about this. We are busily finalizing transportation, a room, and the more important items like Accidental Survivor t-shirts and business cards.

Drop us a line and let us know if you're going to be there, too! We'd love to meet with some of our listeners over a beer and a chicken wing or two, and perhaps Fraser will run us through one of his "low magic" adventures.

Telemetry, go. Communications, go. Retro thusters thrustering. The Accidental Survivors are go!

Rob.
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So, it looks as though the Accidental Survivors - or, at least, a couple of us - may be going to GenCon this year. We're still working out the logistics, but we've gotten the all-clear on the home front, so now it's just figuring out time off at work and where we're going to lay our heads and then it's off to Indianapolis in August! With any luck you're going to get a chance to see Fraser, Rob and Colin (one of our early guest hosts) at Indy.

As exciting as attending the largest gaming convention in the entire universe is, we are equally excited to get to meet members of the RPG podcasting community. We are hoping to spend as much time as possible looking into new modern-themed RPG products, speaking to the publishers of them, and generally getting the word out to you, the listener, about them - we know you love to hear our opinions!

The Accidental Survivors are go!
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1. News & Views
Erik Wujicik died on June 7. The first RPG Rob ever purchased was TMNT and Other Strangeness!

The Air Force wants botnets of MASS DESTRUCTION!

4e, 'nuff said

Accidental Survivors RPG development forum

Chris Davies 4e review

Is it @$$ kickin' time? Get down and dirty with some Action Maneuvers!

2. Feature: Conspiracies
MKUltra
Skull and Bones
Montauk Project
MJ12
That Government Warehouse!

Get those buttery-smooth Ts from Geeklabel.Remember: these are not magic t-shirts.

3. Inspiration Time
The Manchurian Candidate
The X-Files
Metal Gear Solid
Planetary

4. The Hook
OpCom VULTURE

The PCs are drawn into a trip or mission to the town of Iana Sarat in Mondovia, a fictional state in Eastern Europe. If they are military or spies, they are assigned to a mission, if they are private individuals, they are either hired to escort a subject they will meet there, or the NPC is a friend or other acquaintance that calls on their aid.

Stories of lights in the skies and unexplained explosions the previous night meet the PCs. They meet Piotr Korensky, who is their contact. He indicates a belief that they are a “recovery team” with “Vulture.” He passes on a map and coordinates some 40 kilometres south west of Iana Sarat. Before he can explain any further, he is assassinated by a rifle shot.

The shooter, if captured, carries a letter stating “Provide assistance to RAVEN acting under orders. Recovery operation underway. OpCom VULTURE may intervene. RAVEN is to terminate this threat.” It is only signed “Majestic”

The map leads to a valley in the mountains where a strange aircraft has crashed. The occupants are not human. Here, the PCs meet Devoe, and he explains that they have been sent here through the machinations of Operational Command VULTURE, a secret military command created by elements of NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the 1960s to oppose the Majestic 12 conspiracy. Vulture adapts and then spreads alien technology, preparing to battle the aliens who have infiltrated Earth societies through the help of Majestic.

The PCs are now caught in the middle of the battle between the conspirators of Majestic 12 and OpCom VULTURE, possibly the saviours of humanity. Devoe can act as their contact and feed them information. But since this is the shadowy world of black ops and conspiracies, is VULTURE or Devoe really who they say they are? Is Majestic 12 really the threat Devoe states it is?

That’s up to you.

5. Podcast News
A. Penny Arcade + PvP + 4e = Good Times!

The folks at Penny Arcade and PvP sat down with WotC's Chris Perkins to play 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons (for some of them, it was their very first game of D&D). How did it go? Well, they recorded the entire session—which WotC is offering in episodic podcasts, along with comics commemorating the game!

You can find the podcasts at the Wizard's site. And don't forget Downloadable Content, PA's podcast.

6. Feedback

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1. News & Views
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in production, starring Jake Gyllenhal

Play by post on ForgedRPG: Agents of LEET: Operation Sticky Fingers.

Jon Favreau is a D&D geek

Go Play Ottawa

Interview with me up at Fist Full of Comics and Games

Sneak peek at serial fiction for Mundus Novit

Need the basics? The Basics of the Game has got you covered.

2. Feature: Grim & Gritty
My article on grim & gritty fantasy roleplaying called Getting Medieval: Grim & Gritty at Sword's Edge
The "discussion" thread on grim & gritty.

For more role-play-y podcast-y goodness, head on over to Role Playing Public Radio.

3. Inspiration Time
Star Wars
The Watchmen
Angel
Firefly
Casablanca
Blade Runner
the Immortal Iron Fist
Get Shorty

Chris Miller is digging on The Failed Cities Monologues by Matt Wallace. Also check out Variant Frequencies, and the Next Fix.

4. Feedback
Nightmask
Warren Ellis on Twitter

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We're not going to be using ODEO any more as they have fracked up a couple of message, the most recent from Ken Newquist at Nuketown Radio Active. If they ever get their act together, we'll use them again.

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1. News & Views
Christophe Gans set to direct Onimusha

Marvel announces 4 new superhero movies for 2010-2011

4E GSL, restrictions on a product line basis as per articles at En World and WotC

Twiddla, an internet whiteboard that could be used for gaming. Thanks Ken at Nuketown!

Covert Forces Redux is available as a POD from SEP's Lulu store.

Check out Nuketown Radio Active. All the cool kids are listening.

2. Feature: Keeping Your Players Invested

Finished with us? Try Wapcaplets.

3. Inspiration Time
Sandman
The Dreamland Chronicles
Tin Man
New Teen Titans Archive Volume 1
Dark City
and
Chuck was wrong about the successful lawsuit against the Wachowskis. Still, we can dream.

4. the Hooks
Chuck brings us Asylum seekers:
Got a campaign that’s getting a bit predictable? Tell your players you'd like to try a one-shot with new characters set in an asylum. Over the course of the adventure, the players will slowly begin to realize that the characters they're playing are their standard characters from the ongoing campaign, who have been drugged, supplied with fake identities, and deposited in a home for the criminally insane as a convenient way for the villain to rid himself of his enemies.

Worse, the players are inside with many former enemies.

And from Chris, Exdreamas Machina:
Nazi's have recently started infiltrating the dream lands in order to probe the dreams of leading scientists around the world. The characters are part of a rival British organization called ESPionage (Necroscope rip-off) they are pressed with entering the dreamlands to prevent the Nazi's from stealing the secrets of inventors and at the same time securing those ideas for themselves.

5. Feedback

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1. News & Views
People, Places, and Things: You are Here from Second Rat Games

Yo Joe! Pics from the upcoming G.I. Joe movie were here, but they've been taken down. You can read some reactions in this thread. Also, check out what IMDB and Wikipedia have to say.

The 4E rumour mill is soldiering on. After you've scoffed at our uninformed opinions, you can head on over to check out information at WotC and in this thread and this thread at EN World

Check out Have Games, Will Travel

2. Feature: Finding Inspiration
The Article and . . .
The Thread it inspired!

Need more podcasts? Goblin: the Gaming Broadcast Network has got them!

3. The Hook
The situation that inspired the Hook

4. Podcast News
A. The History of Rome
A weekly podcast hosted by Mike Duncan tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending (someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

Found at thehistoryofrome.blogspot.com/.

5. Feedback

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1. News & Views
Arkham Horror
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
Bell Sympatico sucks

Pulp Gamer: Out Of Character

2. Feature: Franchise Fiasco
d20 Modern
Spycraft
GURPS
Buffy
Ronin
Gnoll Pimp
Demon Bartender
Google Earth
Google Maps

RPGPodcasts.com

Geeklabel Radio

3. Inspiration
Ronin
The Dark Tower series
Deadlands
Secret War
Black Hawk Down
the Ghosts of Medak Pocket

4. The Hook
the Long Kiss Goodnight

5. Podcast News
A) Wapcaplets
Recorded by Chris Engler, a gamer living near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Wapcaplets is an audio-blog of his opinions and thoughts on gaming. Episodes will come out at least once per week and be around five minutes in length. If you're looking for gamer talk in bite-sized chunks, Wapcaplets might just be for you. Wapcaplets can be found at wapcaplets.podbean.com. If you're wondering about the term Wapcaplet, it's all explained at the site, so go have a look.

6. Feedback
Check out the info on Elseworlds, pointed out by asylum643 on the boards.

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7. Pimpage Zone
The gang over at Fist Full of Comics and Games have been giving Chuck the love . . . in a manner of speaking. Just go and see what I mean. There's something to read and something to listen to.

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This episode we welcome Mike Lafferty the author of Wizards & Wiseguys, Modern Dispatch (#118): Pirates20: The Golden Age of Piracy, the 6th Seal, and Defcon 1, among others.

1. News & Views
PCGen v5.13.12 (Beta) released! Release notes here.

In memory of the late E. Gary Gygax, Sword’s Edge Publishing will be donating its revenues from March and April to the Christian Children’s Fund, a charity to which his family has indicated Mr. Gygax was much endeared.

The Escapistcast

2. Feature: Franchise Fiasco
Get read for the flood of links! Stand well away from the screen.

Brotherhood of the Wolf
d20 Past
A Mighty Fortress
Witchhunter
Savage Worlds of Solomon Kane
Chuck's Web novel, Hellstrom Voyage
Patrick O'Brien
Master and Commander
Last of the Mohicans
Louisbourg
Beast of Gévaudan
His Majesty's Dragon
William Walker
Filibusters/Freebooters
British East India Company
Zulu
The Thing (and the original)
HP Lovecraft
Sir Richard Burton (the explorer)
First Footsteps in East Africa
Mountains of the Moon
Mutants and Masterminds
DC Universe
Gotham by Gaslight
Deadlands
Transcontinental Railway (Canada)
Wormhole
Sewers of Paris
Steampunk Musha
Crimson Skies
Saving Private Ryan
Dog Soldiers
An American Werewolf in London
The Keep
Operation Jedburgh and the adventure from Empty Room Studios

Game Bag Review Show

3. Inspiration
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Difference Engine and the In Our Time episode with Ada Lovelace
Tunguska Event
Cast a Deadly Spell
Arrowsmith
Flyboys
Public Enemies
The Imperial Age line from Adamant Entertainment, specifically London, British India and the Gamemaster's Guidebook to Victorian Adventure
The Anubis Gates

4. The Hook
One explanation of the Tunguska Event
Tesla (and the David Bowie reference)
Rasputin
Hellboy

5. Feedback
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6. Pimpage Zone
Don't forget to check out Defcon 1.

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1. News & Views
D&D 4e gets some play at the D&D Experience. Chuck says: "It doesn't suck!"

Dreamwalker: Revised. Initial thoughts, very cool and interesting. More later.

Steven Brust's free Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom.

Gryphcon at the University of Guelph in Southwestern Ontario. Jeff Dunnett needs volunteers!

The Secret Lair

2. Feature: Franchise Fiasco
The Unit: add some vampires and werewolves for the Night Unit.

The Untouchables: add magic and rogue thaumaturges (say that three times fast) and you have the Uncharmables.

Spooks: add the supernatural and you've got Spooky.

Stargate: it's the 1880s, it's on Captain Nemo's island, and Earth is threatened by the hi-tech and/or magical denizens beyond it. This one didn't get a name.

International Detective Dragons from outer Space

3. Podcast News
A. FFoCaG, Your Source for Star Trek News!
FFoCaG has been accepted into Paramount Pictures webmaster program campaign for the upcoming Star Trek feature film being released 12.25.08. The guys at FFoCaG will be getting first hand news and information directly from Paramount to report via their website with other opportunities available down the pike as the release the date draws nearer.

Paramount is also tracking traffic between their site and the official Paramount site for Star Trek, so if you want to visit the official Paramount Star Trek site, do it through www.fistfullofcomics.com/st. If you want the latest news, visit www.fistfullofcomics.com/startrek.

B. The Secret Lair: not so secret anymore!
Chris and KJ who were two of the regular hosts on the late Roundtable podcast from the House of the Harping Monkey are back with the Secret Lair. These two villains crouch like spiders in their lair, waiting for the unwary. Ken Newquist, he of Nuketown Radio Active, has been captured and interrogated in episode 6. None can say who might be next. Perhaps you!

In order to prepare for their onslaught, I suggest you research their diabolical plans at www.thesecretlair.com/.

C. The Game That May Be: Mick just couldn't keep away
And the final piece in the Roundtable podcast puzzle has broken cover. Mick Bradley is soloing in the podosphere with The Game That May Be. In Mick's own words: What kind of roleplayer do I want to be? What kinds of games do I want to play, how do I want to play them, and who do I want to play them with? What tools are available to help me figure all that out, and to help me get where I want to go? Exploring the answers to those questions is what this site is about. It's my ongoing chronicle of my roleplaying life. Here's where I ponder, wonder, dream, wrestle, steal, and share. If you're interested, come along.

You can find Mick at harpingmonkey.com/tgtmb.

4. Feedback
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E. Gary Gygax, one of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, 2008. We at Accidental Survivors wanted to add our voices to the multitude remembering a man pivotal to our hobby.

Some other thoughts can be found in my blog.

Requiescat In Pace


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Actual Play 2: Electric Boogaloo

This episode continues the actual play session that began in episode 22. If you have not listened to episode 22, please do so before listening to this episode. This episode has only been minimally editted and is not a regular Accidental Survivors podcast episode.

I don't think I wrote episode enough. Episode episode.


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1. News & Views
Gencon files for Chapter 11, with comments from Peter Adkison.

Sword's Edge Publishing interview at the Monday Monkey News.

Mundus Novit will be released from Dark Quest Games.

Fantasy Flight Games gets the Warhammer rights. More info from the FFG website.

Christian Bale in the next Terminator movie.

Star Trek News from Fist Full of Comics and Games

2. Feature: Actually Playing
You'll need the factory map!

This adventure was written during the recording of Episode 21: Writing An Adventure.

On Board Games

3. Feedback
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This is a special episode, so there is no editing and not a lot of forethought. Be prepared. The live play episode, that which will be episode 22, is still coming. This special episode explains why we haven't done so yet.

1. News & Views
End of Warhammer RPG?

Once you're done with us, why not give a listen to:

Gamer's Haven

2. Feature - Actual Without Play

Open RPG
Fantasy Grounds
Digital Adventures
Glitter
iTabletop
Skype
Audacity
Total Recorder
Gizmo
Screen Monkey
Google Docs
PC Gen
RPG Objects' Modern Character Generator
Pathguy d20 Modern Character Generator
Modern 20
Martial Arts 20
Gamer's Haven
Geeks On
Dark Quest Games
Sword's Edge Publishing
Fraser's Blog

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This time, it's all about the Feature!

You'll need the map!

Once you're done with us, why not give a listen to:

Canon Puncture
or
Fist Full of Comics and Games

2. Feature - Writing An Adventure
The adventure is based on Ong Bak by way of Big Trouble in Little China, doing some martial arts mayhem in honour of Chuck's new product Martial Arts 20 for Modern 20. Inspiration for the adventure design from:

Kwai Chang Caine
Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu
Tony Jaa
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Immortal Iron Fist
Raiders of the Lost ArK
Dozer from the Matrix
Jayne Cobb
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Universal Soldier
Hard Target
Episode 2: Kung-Fu Fighting, our martial arts episode.

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