Tue, 23 December 2008
Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast All music in podcast by Mindscape Music Too long for bloopers, too crappy for the actual podcast, Fraser took a bunch of stuff from the cutting room floor and shoved it into your MP3 player. Chris said it was all golden. Let's see how golden that might be. This is worse than most Accidental Survivors podcasts, so if you value your sanity at all, you'll walk away. Do not play this around people, even if they don't speak English. The profanity and insanity will infect even those who can't comprehend this pure horror. Oh, and do I need to say Not Safe For Work? |
Tue, 23 December 2008
WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners. Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast All music in podcast by Mindscape Music 1. Geek Week Dave came along via recording to let us know that since we last met, he's become an Assistant Manager in Training at EB Games (store #1700, Queen st. & Airport rd. Brampton, if anyone wants to see a real live podcast-person) fighting off angry mothers desparate for Wii's and Wii Fit's. He's still playing some LittleBigPlanet, as well as Ana's Christmas gift, a JRPG called Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Also nearly finished a great Capcom story game on the DS, Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice. He's getting buried in Twitter messages thanks to TweetDeck, struggling financially to make ends meet, and being a human pincushion for his three cats. Fraser's got his True20 Viking campaign going well. His Snowflake Project with Jonathan Holmberg is moving forward. And if you are looking for Geek Gifts, check out 10 Holiday Gaming Gifts for under $20 from RPG Blog II. Chris is getting prepped for starting up a Dark Heresy game he'll be running. He got a free 4 pack of beer from Moosehead for Christmas - yay BEER! (Moosehead, last of the "big" Canadian beers). He watched Death Race , and says it didn't suck. He says Role Models is fantastic and Zack and Miri Make a Porno is also really good. We disturbed him while he was praying that Dog Soldiers 2: Fresh Meat finally gets some forward momentum. Chuck got a Wii (cause it's awesome, which is why it's still hot), and he's got to remember to give Rob and Chris his Wii number. He is also checking out Legend of the Seeker. 2. Feature - Merry Christmas, Accidental Survivors! (no linkage) Dave's List Games: Civilization Revolution on PS3, Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1 on PSN, PS3 chat pad. Movies: HDTV. Please. No sense in asking for Blu-rays until I have the TV for it. Bring the PSN Video Store to Canada! Books: A nice print edition of Modern20 Revised. Or a Kindle. I'm not picky. More: Cheater's Dice Rob's List RPGs: Savage Worlds Explorer Edition, SW Starships of the Galaxy, SW Threats of the Galaxy, SW Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide Books: 4th book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, FOR GOD'S SAKE MARTIN, WRITE IT! Movies: Iron Man, Batman: Dark Knight, Supernatural Seasons 1 - 3 Boardgames: Race for the Galaxy, Power Grid More: GameMastery Flip Map Fraser's List Games: True20 Warriors Handbook Books: Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company, Charles Nicholl's The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe or Alec Ryrie's The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England about Gregory Wisdom Comics: trades of Brubaker's Captain America or Daredevil, Warren Ellis' Thunderbolts or Global Frequency Movies: Iron Man, Kung-fu Hustle, DVDs of Richard Lester's Three Musketeers, Four Musketeers or Return of the Musketeers. Chris's List RPG's: Dark Heresy Rogue Trader other Dark Heresy stuff, Books: 3 or 4 Harry Dresden books I'm missing, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Killing Season, Autumn of the Gun by Ralph Compton Board Games: Cosmic Encounter, Formula D, Blood Bowl Human Team, 2nd Blood Bowl Box set Video Games: Resident Evil 5, Ion DRUM kit, Skate 2 DVD: Dark Knight, Supernatural 3, Chuck's List Games: Classic RPGs and Strategy Games of the 8 and 16 Bit era (Shining Force, Bandit Kings of Ancient China) along with new Wii games (Godfather Black Hand edition). Comics: Wolverine Origins trade (with Cap and Wolverine in Madripoor in WWII). Games: New editions of Targum, an updated version of Testament maybe? 3. The Hook(somewhat riffed off of Lobo's Paramilitary Christmas Special) The Easter Bunny is tired of being second-best to Christmas, so he hires the PCs to take out Santa Claus in order for him to rule over the Holidays. The PCs travel to the North Pole only to find that Santa's Workshop (which should actually be called "Santa's Sweatshop") is heavily guarded by Kalashnikov-wielding elves, jet-powered reindeer with flame throwers and the jolly fat man himself who is ready to rain down hot lead on any intruder. However - it turns out that the PCs were expected and Santa wants to parley with them regarding a counter offer. 4. Podcast NewsWhat could be going on? Does Santa want the PCs to work for him? Could it be that E. Bunny has something more nefarious up his sleeve? And how are they going to get all of this resolved before Christmas Eve? Won't somebody think about the children?! A Cthulu Christmas! The Yog-Sothoth Christmas show is out and features an interview with Mark Barrowcliffe, author of 'The Elfish Gene'. Yog Radio #33 features an interview with Mark Barrowcliffe, along with the results of their Yog Radio #32 competitions to win Lurker Films DVDs and Scarifyers CDs, The Paradroid Papers (Markus covers Spiel 08) and Pookie reviews Green Ronin's Freeport. Music is by Midnight Syndicate and the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=524There's also all the usual news, banter and tangents you've come to expect from the Yoggie crew! 5. Listener Poll: After the commentary track we did for the 13th Warrior at Gen Con, we've had some listeners ask us if we're going to do another one. That's lead to a discussion about what the movie we would do a commentary track for. There have been some suggestions, but we want to leave it up to you, the listeners, to choose what movie we're going to do the commentary track for. Here's the list, so choose one and email us at accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca or go to www.accidentalsurvivors.com. Dog Soldiers Brotherhood of the Wolf Shaun of the Dead Commando Aliens Johnny Mnemonic The Crow Lost Boys 6. Feedback If you want to contact us, you can email us at accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca If you're signed up on Facebook you can join the Accidental Survivors Podcast group and leave comments for us there |
Sun, 7 December 2008
WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners. Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast All music in podcast by Mindscape Music 1. Geek Week Fraser wants you to know all about The Midnight Charity Project. We are in the season of giving! Without the Monarch Comics Briefing, Fraser wouldn't know what's going on in comics, and he certainly wouldn't know that Warren Ellis is writing the Astonishing X-Men. Fraser follows Immortal Iron Fist faithfully, and he really enjoyed Northlanders. If anyone cares, Fraser's True20 Vikings campaign journal is on line. He'll try to keep that up to date. A couple of articles already exist. Chuck's working on an RPG using the setting from his web-novel, Hellstrom Voyage. The conversation continues at Narrative Control. 2. Feature - Getting Modernized With a tip of the hat to Dave! To get out of print games, Chuck recommends Noble Knight. Listen to the novel, Heart of the Hunter. 3. The Hook So, let's say we know we have a player who digs superhero comics, a player who digs Indiana Jones, and a player who digs James Bond.
All are great modern concepts, and if you mash them up, you might be
able to entice all three players into a modern game. Let's call it
"Planetary Jones, International Men of Mystery." Planetary
is a comic by--you guessed it--Warren Ellis that follows a group
of "Archaeologists of the Impossible", tracking down the world's secret
history. They are also superheroes, but not the kind with colourful
costumes. That hits our superhero quotient. We're going to change Planetary and turn them into a group of super-spies in the 1950s, possibly even run by MI-6--very James Bond.
This team goes up again a resurgent Nazi threat based in Argentina that
is trying to acquire occult items of power in order to create an
unstoppable army and usher in the Fourth Reich. And there we have our Indiana Jones angle. You could even fashion the Nazi menace as a kind of riff on SPECTRE or SMERSH, to further the JB quotient. And, of course, their first mission might be the team trying to recover the Blutfahne. The History of Rome Returns! I've spoken about the History of Rome podcast
before, and when I did, the updates stopped coming. I hope I'm not
jinxing this by letting you all know there are new episodes, and they
are maintaining the level of quality I remember. The website has moved
to thehistoryofrome.typepad.com. In case you didn't know, the History of Rome is
a weekly podcast 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. That website again is thehistoryofrome.typepad.com 5. Feedback If you want to contact us, you can email us at accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca If you're signed up on Facebook you can join the Accidental Survivors Podcast group and leave comments for us there |
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