A Podcast about Games, Travel, and Creativity

We like to be appreciated — those of us who run games. Consider getting us something nice for this GM’s day. The best of us won’t take it personally if you don’t. After all, TPKs are unreasonable under just about all circumstances. But then again, some of us are trying to be better.

Let me specifically recommend Robin D. Laws’ Hamlet’s Hit Points, which should be in every GM’s library as one of the best (only?) examples of beat analysis as applied to role-playing games. It’s stellar work and changed the way I run games (hint: I got better).

One of the smartest people I know who happens to think a lot about games contributed to the GM section of the Leverage RPG. Read everything that Rob Donoghue has to say – you’ll absorb brilliance – plus he’s one of the nicest guys around. AND it’s on sale. AND it’s a great game. AND….just go buy it.

As mentioned previously, I’ll be running the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Game this weekend as part of the Twenty Sided Store’s launch party event this weekend. Incidentally, it also runs on Cortex+Action, the same system that powers Leverage (I’m not a shill, just a fan). And you can get two great games that you where you don’t have to learn a completely new system.

And to shill for promote myself a little bit, the print and play edition of my own board game Ghost Pirates is also available if you need an awesome 2-player wargame to pass a quick 20 minutes before the game starts. You can even print off a couple of copies and run your own tournament. You can even go make up your own captains at this site over here.

Did I miss your GM’s preference? Well, then look up something yourself. I can’t know everything. What do you think this is, an RPG? Go investigate DriveThruStuff’s GM’s Day Sale. And by the gods, don’t get us more dice, we already have too many.

Back again after a sparse several months!

I haven’t completely disappeared, although it may have come off that way. Two major things have been happening. The first, a change in jobs. The last one that sucked my time and life energy is now gone as of August (and I’ve just accepted a new one), and two, my board game Ghost Pirates has gone to production and will be available in the spring directly and from select retailers around the country!

I haven’t been completely ignoring the gaming world. There are a couple of backed up interview episodes that I have recorded and not posted yet—so those will go into an active production queue tonight—and I’ve also got further ideas for shows which means great new content to look forward to this year.

Dreamation went off phenomenally this last weekend. I ran six different events and got a chance to catch up with a ton of great people and started planning new exciting projects. I’m now in a live action RP group called Death by Awesome which ran a half-dozen different jeepform events and workshops. I also demoed the aforementioned board game Ghost Pirates, which was very well received by all players, and ran the very first playtest of Where My Clothes!? Plenty of work remains to go there, but with the phenomenal playtest assistance of Kevin Allen Jr., many improvements will be made for the next go-around.

In other news, if you’re in the NYC Area, there are some Marvel RPG Launch Parties coming this weekend. Saturday at the Compleat Strategist, and Sunday at 20 Sided Store (I will be running a game for Sunday’s event, and possibly Saturday if I end up not playtesting). I’ve played with this CortexPlus implementation of superhero role-playing and it’s a lot of fun; definitely a worthy addition to the category.

Finally this week, Brooklyn Indie Games will formally open for business. The Ghost Pirates PDF and FiascoMobile will be the first products available, with plenty more in the pipeline!

I’m really looking forward to reconnecting with everyone, so stay tuned for more.

New discounts on DriveThruRPG include:

Aruneus Bundle [Troll in the Corner]
Part-Time Gods [Third Eye Games]
A Peculiar Pentad – Savaged [Super Genius Games]
Ultimate Dice Tower 2 [Fat Dragon Games]
Exodus Post Apocalyptic RPG Survivor’s Guide [Glutton Creeper Games]

Use the code GeekLoveRules2012 for 20% off any of the above products! This code is good until March 14th, 2012.

Are you going to be at Dreamation next week? I’ll give a listener a $10 gift certificate to DriveThruRPG for the first person to ask.