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Time for a change

Posted on January 28, 2013 by GM Ricc

Hey all:

We have come to a decision. By we, of course, I mean I. There has been a little change in our group, and considering this and the fact that we I have been taking the complete cost of the podcast, production, website(s) and gear, I have decided to end the podcast. The financial part of it is currently too much.

We will again, at some point in the future restart the podcast when it is more feasible, but we do not have a date for such, but it will be down the road quite a way.

I will continue to blog, produce videos and the like, likely using youtube and a “free” blogging site, the URL for sure is still to be announced.

I would like to take a moment to thank you all for listening to our weekly shinanigans, and have enjoys the conversations we have had with many of you. Thank you so much for taking time out of your week to go on this journey with us. We will miss you all greatly.

Thanks for all the fish,

GM Ricc

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Side Bar 001: How I write campaigns

Posted on October 14, 2012 by GM Ricc

Hey all:

We did not have a game this week. For that reason, I decided that this week’s podcast would be a great time for the promised “How I write long campaigns” segment I promised in the beginning of last weeks episode.

Also, I mentioned that I would include a link to my Obsidian Portal profile, you can find that HERE

While I recorded this during the time frame of us playing the Savage Worlds role play game, the way I write campaigns applies equally well in every game system I run.

I hope to have another game edited and posted in a couple of days, so stay tuned, and as always, drop by our forums and let me know what you think about this side bar episode!

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Savage Worlds: Quaker Golems and Harrison Ford’s Ice cream Troubles

Posted on September 30, 2012 by GM Ricc

This week, The Party invades a warehouse and foils a plot…but who’s plot is it and why? What does it all mean for the player characters? Jeremy missed this week.

00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:27 – Music
00:01:15 – Pre-Game Chat
00:27:57 – GM Hold Music
00:28:06 – Actual play starts with filling in Kevin what happened the week he missed. This quickly devolves into chatting about Quaker Golems, and how Harrison Ford punches people with ice cream cones.
00:31:18 – I do not admit my age here, so just skip this part!
00:35:01 – The game starts for the week.
00:43:40 – The door is smashed in and combat begins. 00:58:16 – GM Hold Music
00:58:26 – Outro
01:01:05 – Music out.

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Savage Worlds: How Nobles trample peasants with horses

Posted on September 15, 2012 by GM Ricc

This week, the party makes it to Dunross…finds more then they bargined for and kills them all! Jeremy missed this week.

00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:23 – Music
00:01:11 – GM Hold Music
00:01:24 – Pre game info
00:10:10 – Play starts discussing rules, stratagy and why my snow map isn’t white. Also, a shout out to the Shark Bone Podcast
00:18:20 – The battle we almost started begins, and ends (fast)
01:41:30 – The party arrives at Dunross
02:04:20 – Rats…by the millions. RATS
02:13:10 – We find out that nobles trample peasents…until McPreachy pants goes into PvP.
02:21:59 – The players piss of the GM (what’s new)
02:25:05 – The players burn down Dunross, killing everyone.
02:29:25 – Players piss of the GM…AGAIN
02:33:20 – Wrap up begins and XP is awarded.

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Savage Worlds role play game: Pencil Monkey and Gnome wood!

Posted on September 7, 2012 by GM Ricc

Runtime: 01 hrs, 05 mins, 42 sec

The start of the Savage Worlds role play game, using the Hellfrost campaign setting. Today is a short game. We spent most of the game session making characters, writing their background, linking them together. We start the podcast as we start to finish up character creation.

SHOUT OUT TO PENCIL MONKEY!

00:00:01: Intro

00 hrs, 01 mins, 11 sec: Segment 1

00 hrs, 05 mins, 23 sec: GM Hold music
Game starts with some chat and the finishing up of character creation.

00 hrs, 17 mins, 58 sec: The game advances to a brief character introduction.

00 hrs, 37 mins, 18 sec:Pencil Monkey shoutout!

00 hrs, 41 mins, 01 sec: I give the party the stats for their new wagon, and they slowly start off on their advanture.

00 hrs, 47 mins, 15 sec: The Gnome has wood?

00 hrs: 53 mins, 00 sec: As we start wrapping up for the night, the party discovers orc footprints in the snow, and the attack starts…almost.

01 hrs, 03 mins, 01 sec: Outro

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Myth and Magic delay

Posted on August 31, 2012 by GM Ricc

Hey all:

We have had a long standing “house rule” that states: if more then one person must miss a scheduled game, then we cancel it for the night. We usually play every Thursday. Unfortunately, we had 2 people who had to cancel the game last night (Brandon and Kevin), so unfortunately, we did not play. We will pick up next week and present the actual play podcast for our Myth and Magic role play game then. Thank you for your understanding.

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Myth and Magic Actual Play – Episode 001

Posted on August 24, 2012 by GM Ricc

Welcome to the 1st episode of our actual play podcast featuring the Myth and Magic role play game. This role play game is a revised version of AD&D 2nd edition. Myth and Magic is published by New Haven Games. The first 15 minutes or so is a little hard to listen to do to some technical issues.

Run time: 1 hour, 48 Minutes and 54 seconds.

00 hrs: 01 mins: 20 sec – We take a few minutes to discuss the house rules we will be using.

00 hrs: 04 mins: 20 sec – We decide to use a different alignment system, and spend some time discussing the new system (Spoiler: we are using the Palladium Alignment system).

00 hrs: 13 mins: 53 sec – The players learn about their starting location, a small hamlet in the mud named “Greeville”. Yes, I named the play world “Grognardia”…get over it….lol

00 hrs: 24 mins: 30 sec – The game starts as 2 locals approach the group.

00 hrs: 45 mins: 20 sec – The party heads out to find Artek’s Magic Academy.

00 hrs: 46 mins: 21 sec – Since I failed to roll a random encounter, they soon find the ruined academy. They investigate it a bit.

01 hrs: 13 mins: 10 sec – The crew spots a group that includes 2 humans and 2 Hobgoblins. The crew makes battle plans and the battle begins, but just barely.

01 hrs: 44 mins: 01 sec – We chat a little after the game.

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Rogue Trader Actual Play – Episode 018

Posted on August 17, 2012 by GM Ricc

Welcome to the 18th episode of our actual play podcast featuring the Rogue Trader role play game. Rogue Trader is published by Fantasy Flight Games. Kevin Missed this game. We have been playing Rogue Trader or six months. This will be our last Rogue Trader game for a while, as we start up our Myth and Magic game. We will podcast that game as well. We will be coming back to Rogue Trader later, of course…

00 hrs: 01 mins: 09 sec – Pre-game chat

00 hrs: 02 mins: 35 sec – Do dragon hornets poop Explorators?

00 hrs: 14 mins: 45 sec – The game starts and the crew searches for the temple of far – seeing.

00 hrs: 39 mins: 00 – The crew finds the temple of far seeing…and Rogue Trader Lady Sun Lee…

01 hrs: 21 mins: 30 – Lady Sun Lee and the crew attacks the Eldar guarding the temple.

02 hrs: 40 mins: 00 sec – The fight finally ends with the crew winning, though, I almost killed Jeremy’s character, the party psyker…

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Rogue Trader Actual Play – Episode 017

Posted on August 14, 2012 by GM Ricc

Welcome to the 17th episode of our actual play podcast featuring the Rogue Trader role play game. Rogue Trader is published by Fantasy Flight Games. Jeremy Missed this game.

00 hrs: 01 mins: 20 sec – Pre-game chat.

00 hrs: 04 mins: 00 sec- We return to the battle that started last week.

00 hrs: 27 mins: 00 sec – the crew finally defeats that Eldar vessel.

00 hrs: 28 mins: 34 sec – The crew gets back to focusing on the planet they found, and discover some interesting facts.

00 hrs: 44 mins: 30 sec – The crew makes a difficult landing on the planets surface to investigate a temple they found.

00 hrs: 48 mins: 10 sec – A Dragon Hornet attacks their gun cutter, then them!

01 hrs: 34 mins: 16 sec - The Rogue Trader goes down after getting pummeled by the Dragon Hornet.

02 hrs: 08 mins: 56 sec – Brian’s character dies, sacrificed for the group as he savagely assaults the dragon hornet even though he has little health remaining! He dies…

02 hrs: 11 mins: 30 sec – The fight ends, but it has been a brutal battle indeed.

02 hrs: 13 mins: 09 sec – End of game wrap up.

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Rogue Trader Actual Play – Episode 016

Posted on August 14, 2012 by GM Ricc

Welcome to the 16th episode of our actual play podcast featuring the Rogue Trader role play game. Rogue Trader is published by Fantasy Flight Games.

00 hrs: 01 mins: 13 sec – some pre-game chat, but not much.

00 hrs: 01 mins: 30 sec – The crew discovers they have arrived…but not at the dread pearl.

00 hrs: 09 mins: 30 sec – “friendly” Xenos? we’ll see about that.

01 hrs: 04 mins: 02 sec – Trading with the Xenos starts.

01 hrs: 18 mins: 31 sec – Brandon attacks the Xenos for no reason! well, other then he can’t help himself….

01 hrs: 37 mins: 00 sec – The battle continues in space, except it is with the Eldar instead…

02 hrs: 08 mins: 35 sec – End of game wrap up.

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