Tue, 24 November 2009 Per: Units of toy soldiers skirmish over imaginary battlefields, complete with advanced rules for firefights, objectives, intelligence, explosives and even airstrikes. The unusual part is that this time, the toy soldier is you. Shane, Dave and humbug meet with a sniffly DoC from the Irish Airsoft Association to take a look at running about for wagamers. Features:
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Tue, 17 November 2009 Con: All excited from three days of gaming excellence, Shane, Dave, humbug and Liam talk Gaelcon. Features:
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Tue, 10 November 2009 Int: With seconds to spare until Dominicon 2009 (in space!), Shane, Dave, humbug and Liam examine what's on offer at the end of the train line. Features:
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Tue, 3 November 2009 Cha: More hi-jinks from Gaelcon, as Shane and Dave, with assistance from unfortunate guest host Pixies, accost other punters who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time or have otherwise attracted our fell attentions, including an "overly candid" interview with Ireland's famousest game writer. Pretty much entirely unedited for authenticity. Guests are human beings and as such may use the foul language common to that species. Features:
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Tue, 27 October 2009 Cha: From down the end of the charity desk and elsewhere at Gaelcon, Shane, Liam, humbug and Dave talk to passers-by, attend the charity auction and grab the likes of the SCA, Cillian the trader and Gaelcon committee members for a chat. Pretty much entirely unedited, possibly some naughty words. Now correctly constructed and containing promised link and picture!
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Tue, 20 October 2009 +1 Int: Shane, humbug and Liam get stuck into the other half of unfounded speculation about Gaelcon. Apologies for the unbalanced sound levels, a mistake in editing skipped a stage of the process. Features:
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Tue, 13 October 2009 Int: With so much going on at Gaelcon this year, Shane, humbug and Liam have broken the preview into two parts, abiding by the chronology of the future. Blurbs are read, postulations thrown about, shocking revelations made. Features:
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Tue, 6 October 2009 Con: Shane, humbug and Liam attended the grand finale of ConFESS for assorted amounts of time. This is what they got up to. Features:
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Tue, 29 September 2009 Cha: Shane sits down live at ConFESS (in fact, all our episodes are recorded live) with Jude, Wayne, Dwane, Dave and Joe, the boys of the Flat Earth Society to talk about the lifespan of the convention that's burning out rather than fading away, from inception to grand finale. Features:
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Tue, 22 September 2009 +1 Exp: Part 2 of the excited banter about those adventure game book things has Dizzy aiding Dave and humbug on the enthusiastic side and Tom not aiding Shane on the somewhat confused side. Features:
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Tue, 15 September 2009 Exp: A full house of hosts with reviews and previews, except that Oisín insists he hasn't played anything new ever. humbug is in with first impressions of Twilight: 2013, Dave carefully conducts a spoiler-light consideration of the Pegasus expansion for a game about a space-ship, Shane rips into the redcoats of Duty & Honour and finally Liam's up with Small World after all. Features:
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Tue, 8 September 2009 Int: With the last ever ConFESS drawing perilously close, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín preview what's announced for the line-up there. Features:
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Tue, 1 September 2009 Bluff vs Scrutinise: Shane, humbug, Dave and Liam present the ultimate bluffer's guide to Deadlands - information and pre-packaged opinions to enable even the most ill-informed gamer to blend into a conversation like a suave secret agent. It's a bit like My Fair Lady, with breaking chairs over peoples' backs. Features:
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Mon, 24 August 2009 Exp: With the enthusiastic assistance of Dizzy, Dave and humbug leave a bewildered Shane in the dust reminiscing about the Fighting Fantasy game-books of yore. Features:
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Tue, 18 August 2009 Per: Shane, Dave and Oisín are joined by veteran rubber-sword LARPer Brian (not that Oisín isn't a veteran in his own right) to introduce us to the magical world of rubber-sword LARPing in general, the Lorien Trust in particular and The Gathering specifically. It's a long one (fnar fnar) but very informative and worthwhile, and it was fun to record. Features:
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Tue, 11 August 2009 NPC Exp: Further somewhat obscure board war game antics in the bag, Tom and Dizzy return to tell Shane, humbug, Dave and YOU about Command & Colours: Ancients and Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, where players do battle over the colour purple. Apologies for lots of background noise, caused by constant fiddling with game pieces lying on the table. Features:
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Tue, 4 August 2009 Downtime: With limited knowledge of historical wargaming, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín embark upon a rambling but ultimately productive discussion of using historical, quasi-historical and half-quasi-historical time periods in role-playing games. Features:
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Mon, 3 August 2009 Apologies folks, this week's podcast is going to be a little bit late due to bank holiday festivities impinging on the editing process. Should be up by Tuesday afternoon, fingers crossed!
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Tue, 28 July 2009 Downtime: The line or lack thereof between character knowledge becomes the bread in an excuse-to-tell-the-story-of-Dave-not-saying-a-short-sentence-correctly-and-Dizzy-not-drinking-olive-oil sandwich. Without Dave to defend himself, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín take on the task. Features:
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Tue, 21 July 2009 Source Material: Attempting to communicate something more constructive than "...and you should see it because yer man's all like hiiiyaaaah peowm peowm kerprgh kprgh and the bad guy's all like whaaaaaaaaaaaa-bowww!" or "...and then the screen goes all dark, right, and up in big letters it says: Jean-Claude Van Damme. And that's why it's great." Shane, Dave, Oisín, humbug and Liam demand that all gamers familiarise themselves with a list of books and movies. Features:
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Tue, 14 July 2009 NPC Exp: Shane and Liam are joined by Seán and Skippy to take a look at the new Codex: Imperial Guard for Warhammer 40,000 - its changes, its new units, its background fluff, its dreams, its desires, its most intimate of intimates. Features:
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Tue, 7 July 2009 Con: A maxed-out Adventuring Party reports on the goings-on at Queens University Belfast's gaming-and-cartoons convention, Q-Con. Features:
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Tue, 30 June 2009 Downtime: "We need an idea for a topic." "How about... mug. Chair. Microphone. Shirt. Maps." "Hey, maps is pretty good."
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Tue, 23 June 2009 Downtime: For the historic first time, all five hosts are present on all four mics to talk about the various roles of food in gaming, and the roles of drink in gaming and elsewhere. Comments[1] |
Tue, 16 June 2009 GP: An idea that could have been excellent with more forethought, The Adventuring Party recognises the stuff that matters to us at cons. Recognises with talking about it, there's no physical award or anything. We'll probably ruffle your hair if you ask nicely though. Comments[0] |
Tue, 9 June 2009 Int: Back to it, I guess... Shane, Oisín and Dave attempt to preview Q-Con 2009, but probably mostly end up previewing a strange figment of their collective imagination. No real enhanced content in this one due to it being late, sorry about that! Comments[2] |
Tue, 2 June 2009 Exp: Shane, Liam and humbug play fun games so you don't have to! And also Family Business. A review episode where our handsome heroes explore not one, not two, not three, not five, but four games for your convenience! Features some excellent double entendres that I'm refusing to point out. Comments[2] |
Tue, 26 May 2009 Con: Shane, Oisín, Dave and humbug go on at length about the great time had at Vaticon in University College Dublin at the tail end of con season, ranging from surprise excellent LARPs to radio miscommunication to getting locked in the pub.
I've decided it's a bit puerile to keep doing the double entendre thing for every episode, so why don't you folks give it a go? Post any good ones you find in the comments. I'll start you off: hot seat. Comments[1] |
Tue, 19 May 2009 NPC Exp: The return of Tom and Dizzy, our obscure board game contractors. This time around they're talking about Napoleon's Triumph (not Bonaparte's Triumph as Shane mistakenly says in the intro) and Star Warriors from the good old days. Apologies for all the snuffling and coughing, two of the four panelists were ill.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 Re-publishing this because my own stupidity messed things up for subscribers. Sorry folks!
Con: Shane, Liam and humbug's excitement about how great Conpulsion was causes a general break-down of communication.
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Tue, 5 May 2009 Downtime: Torn from within by confusion over whether or not computer wargames are better than table-top wargames, Shane provokes debate on computers versus reality throughout the spectrum of gaming.
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Tue, 28 April 2009 +2 Con: Shane and humbug welcome guest Drew, who attended K2 so we didn't have to (actually we were at Itzacon that weekend). K2 is a residential, freeform con in the depths of the bog and very unlike any other gaming con in Ireland - and that's a good thing.
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Tue, 28 April 2009 Apologies for the lack of an episode today - I claim the universal excuse of having been too hungover to finish the editing last night. It should be up tonight!
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Tue, 21 April 2009 +1 Con: Shane, humbug, Liam and Oisín report on Itzacon, which happened in Galway from the 6th to the 8th of March.
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Tue, 14 April 2009 NPC Exp: Extra-special guest hero stars Dizzy and Tom join us to talk about complicated map-board wargames World In Flames and Strike Them a Blow they've been playing so we don't have to.
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Tue, 7 April 2009 Mere minutes after adding the little Flash audio player over on the left, I've had to remove it because it's not compatible with the .m4a format to which we've moved. It's a shame as it was a neat addition, but it's only practical to keep your webpage in basic HTML for so long (that's a metaphor). Standing still and waiting for every player or viewer to advance is stagnation - moving on will push the software end to catch up.
In my browser I'm using plugged-in Quicktime to click on the little "Pod" icon beside the show notes and it works perfectly. Henceforth I think I'll be putting any links I feel the need to directly into the podcast rather than the show notes, which is just as tedious and risks being spirited away by Internator gremlins as happened last night. Sorry to anyone this inconveniences, but to you I say: Welcome to the WORLD OF TOMORROW! (actually it's not that big of a deal at all) Shane Category: general -- posted at: 7:05 AM Comments[2] |
Tue, 7 April 2009 Con: A software error eradicated the show notes I'd painstakingly constructed and am not redoing. It's now a .m4a file anyway, so has some links in it. Also people said a few things that sounded a bit rude. In this episode, Shane, Oisín and humbug explain what they got up to at Leprecon to Liam, who had to work instead. Hah. Pub quiz cheating is rumbled. Comments[0] |
Tue, 31 March 2009 +1 Int: Shane, humbug and Dave preview the line-up for Vaticon, this weekend in University College Dublin.
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Tue, 24 March 2009 Worldwide D&D Game Day: Time to celebrate the granddaddy of them all! Shane, humbug and Dave banter about Dungeons & Dragons character classes (so you don't have to), but they are not alone...
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Mon, 23 March 2009 Having some technical difficulties with this week's episode! I'll have it sorted as soon as possible. In the meantime, here's some chat with D&D players we recorded for War Pig Radio, which is an excellent service of streaming Internator radio about gaming. Mucho thanks to the guys in Models Inc. for allowing us to record there and interrupt the game.
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Tue, 17 March 2009 Paddy's Day: For the day that's in it, The Adventuring Party break out the potions of charisma and get down to hashing out what exactly it is they talk about in the first place - the Irish gaming scene. This recording required wild guesses about how things might be different elsewhere; it's not easy being green.
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Tue, 10 March 2009 Exp: A tropically fruity selection of game-and-similar reviews. Liam concludes that the play's the thing with Shakespeare: The Bard Game, humbug recounts schmoozing and backstabbing around France at a Diplomacy tournament, Shane simpers over his favourite computer game (ehh, tactical combat simulation) Combat Mission: Shock Force and Dave refuses to review his way from sea to shining sea in TransAmerica.
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Tue, 3 March 2009 Int: A look forward at events for the busy month of March - Itzacon, K2 and Conpulsion - by Shane, Liam, Dave and humbug.
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Tue, 24 February 2009 Downtime: To no discernible end, Shane, Liam and Dave yammer about character creation in a number of RPGs, and try out the create-yourself system of Timelords, 2nd edition.
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Tue, 17 February 2009 Exp: Dave launches into Carcassonne's daft Catapult expansion, Liam takes on the world with Axis & Allies: Anniversary Edition, Shane battles zombies in the snow and everyone takes a stab at catching a killer in Serial Homicide Unit.
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Tue, 10 February 2009 Int: Want to hear about the upcoming Leprecon XXX? Because Oisín sure as hell wants to talk about it.
Wis: Thinking about running an anything? Brian's run more than you have. Have a listen to what he's got to say - especially when he's alienating the Finnish.
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Mon, 2 February 2009 Con: Shane, Liam and Oisín look back at Warpcon 2009, held from the 23rd to the 25th of
January in University College Cork.
Per: Andrew Coffey talks about the Dark Heresy LARP, running on Tuesdays in Dublin city centre.
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The Adventuring Party
Discussing table-top and related gaming and the Irish gaming scene so you don't have to.
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