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.

• Heavy Gear
• People have dump.
• Mind's Eye Theatre
• The Camarilla
• A very important part of it.
• Relationships with NPCs.
• Shadowrun
• Deadlands
• Poker. Hand.
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Traveller
• Star Trek Role-Playing Game
• FASA
• Last Unicorn Games
• Decipher?
• Burning Empires
• Burning Wheel
• It's nice to fill in all the back.
• Spirit of the Century
• Such-And-Such In The Great Whatever
• Guest spots in other players.
• Dark Heresy
• Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play
• Cyberpunk
• Conspiracy X
• Pools their resources.
• Big arsenal.
• Primetime Adventures
• Something that they're trying to overcome.
• InSpectres
• Fill that void!
• Dark Sun
• Twilight: 2000
• Hoses the entire party.
• Ars Magica
• Ars Magica.
• Getting towards the bottom.
• 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars
• Fighting Fantasy
• Timelords
• Hold it.
• Fibber's
• Square root.
• This is a hard one.

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.

• Fine expansion.
• Carcassonne
• Popular tile laying.
• Score points.
• Catapult expansion
• Let's do this!
• When one of those comes out.
• These are nice and round.
• Quick and simple and fast.
• Probably doubles in length.
• Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition
• Brought out this big massive...
• They've... done things...
• A land affair.
• The only way Italy has to go is down.
• China used to have two regions.
• You get a massive bonus.
• It can be quite long.
• All of their troops in their own little box.
• Don't Rest Your Head
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• A fair crack of the whip.
• You want to try and work them in.
• Zombies in the Vineyard
• Slight modifications to make it fit better.
• Much further into it.
• Relationships the characters have with themselves.
• Primetime Adventures
• 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars
• The thing that I'm most interested in playing with.
• The Mountain Witch
• Cold City
• Something that I can lift and put in.
• A solid one.
• A handle.
• It's long and inefficient.
• Serial Homicide Unit
• How to do each portion.
• Two joke ones.
• You want a certain length.
• Fiddle them around.
• With you guys, on the first time we're doing it...

Int: Want to hear about the upcoming Leprecon XXX? Because Oisín sure as hell wants to talk about it.

• Leprecon
• Been involved with.
• Staffer.
• Been on the committee.
• The hardcore theme.
• Abuse that to the nines.
• Very big special events.
• Checking out a couple of them.
• Little Wars
• A hundred men a side.
• This time it's going to be bigger.
• Fire your Nerf guns.
• Fecking around with little miniatures.
• Covered in floor varnish and PVA glue.
• An awful lot of protection.
• Blood Bowl
• Now entering its third year.
• People standing there in armour doing the whole.
• Society for Creative Anachronism
• Unpulled blows.
• Deadlands
• Warhammer Fantasy Role Play
• Spirit of the Century
• Space: 1889
• Warhammer 40,000
• Warmachine
• Shot at a prize.
• Command & Colours: Ancients
• Memoir '44
• Battle Cry
• Challenging three people at a time.
• Star Wars miniatures
• Legend of the Five Rings
• Magic: The Gathering
• VS
• They get very into it.
• Seven foot long handle.
• Not quite the top drawer.
• Social stuff.
• Fun that was had in the hostel.
• Jacob's Inn
• Robo Rally
• Rock Band
• Cassidy's
• Q-Con
• Looking at a couple.

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.

• Share some of his hard.
• Discworld Convention
• K2
• Three main areas.
• Sometimes you can look at it.
• Why can't I just do what people have done before me?
• Why can't I just open my doors?
• These things are big.
• Out of pocket.
• Finncon
• Huge waste disaster.
• Audience hangs out.

Con: Shane, Liam and Oisín look back at Warpcon 2009, held from the 23rd to the 25th of January in University College Cork.

• Warpcon!
• Things to do in hostels when you're thirsty and sober.
• Robo Rally
• Portly gentlemen in pyjamas porn.
• Illogical conclusions.
• Battlestar Galactica board game
• Shadows Over Camelot
• President Admiral Cylon Adama.
• Titan
• Know what you're getting yourself in for.
• Wet weekend in with your mates.
• Someone will come up behind you and jump on you.
• Red Dwarf
• The Spirit of Red Dwarf.
• Trying to fill the entire slot.
• Twilight Imperium
• Shuuro
• It's like random chess!
• I use this starting manoeuvre.
• Drop people straight into Titan.
• High-point bad-asses.
• Came fourth.
• Dork Tower
• Steve Jackson Games
• Munchkin
• Munchkin underpants!
• Conpulsion
• Fair amount of beer.

Per: Andrew Coffey talks about the Dark Heresy LARP, running on Tuesdays in Dublin city centre.

• Dark Heresy
• BRAIN CHILD.
• Warhammer 40,000
• Read into the fluff.
• Players come in costume.
• No costumes, just models.
• More immersive and a lot more likely to get emotional attachments.
• Email Andrew about the game!