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:

• Successful entrants to humbug's competition
• Fortune and glory
• Gaming stories
• Murder mystery
• Great GMing
• Klaatu Verata, eh...
• The name of That Guy
• Levels of immersion
• Baron Grellis
• Rolling a 1
• Lost axe
• The origin of Shane and humbug
• Shady banking
• Chemistry 101
• Squad-level tactics
• Corporal punishment
• NPC mentality
• Deadlands
• Heart health
• Game-related arson
• 11-foot poles
• Diligently avoided mickey jokes
• Kicking-out time
• Goons on the roof
• Thespnapping
• Corpse looting
• Mongo
• Dumbing Liam down
• Pre-dumbed-down players
• Shades of grey
• Unleashing the dark side
• The condensed lessons
• Olive oil for everyone

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:

• Life in the future
• Thousands of Space Marines
• Mad Max
• Crazy cockroaches and mad hair
• A Song of Ice and Fire
• Pervy chainmail bikini
• Andean doubt
• Plot advancement
• An important life lesson
• Unknown cyberpunky movie
• Ruined city full of canals
• Pervert with binoculars
• Free pint competition!
• Necroscope, and others
• The adventures of Harry Something
• Special agents with powers
• Poseidon
• Traps and obstacles
• Tremors
• Strange happenings
• Arsenal owner
• Stargate: SG-1
• Aiding another
• Monster of the week
• Group dynamic business
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Stupid gods
• Our colleague
• Kelly's Heroes
• Perfect con scenario?
• World War Z
• Son of Mel Brooks
• Stuff that'll make the GM angry
• Sad Dave
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• Different insight
• Blissful ignorance
• Sharpe
• A really big eagle that Bonaparte had down his trousers
• Sean Bean dedication
• Return of the Living Dead
• Rabid weasels
• Graveyard dancing
• 1984
• Thought crime (thinking bad about The Adventuring Party is wrong!)
• A truckload of grit
• Dog Soldiers
• Gigantic portion of cheese
• Berserk
• Repeater crossbow
• Extended, non-musical montage
• Gladiator
• He's-behind-you bad guys
• Vaguely whiny operatic music
• Lord of the Rings
• Sean Bean's hit points
• Words we know
• Ghostbusters
• Maxed-out Bluff score
• Improperly fleshed-out character
• Mountain Survival
• Scary hillbilly
• Oisín versus a motor rifle division
• "Pint" followed by "[name of movie]"

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:

• No gag reflex
• Codex: Imperial Guard
• Codex envy
• Standard Imperial bullet-stopper
• Dark Eldar rumours
• An awful lot of tanks
• Valkyrie
• Hommina
• Meat ablative armour
• Pie plates
• Squadronables
• All sorts of fancy orders
• Lord Commissar
• Mr. Shouty
• Primaris Psyker
• Sanctioned Psykers
• Tau Empire
• Stormtroopers
• Ogryns
• Sly Marbo
• One man, but what a man
• Heavy weapons
• Veteran squads
• Salamander scout vehicle
• Leman Russ Conqueror
• Leman Russ Punisher
• 29 dice
• Griffon
• Colossus
• Crazy machines of death
• Wargear
• Bionic face
• How to destroy Skippy
• Kill points
• Lots of command squads running around
• How to be the baddest
• Chainswords and power fists and stuff like that
• A guy standing on the treads of a tank while it's moving
• The Great Enemy
• Deathstrike missile launcher
• Hot new models
• Hydra flak tank
• Elite SAS operatives
• Penal legion
• Valhallans and Tallarns too
• Damn Spoiled Marines

Con: A maxed-out Adventuring Party reports on the goings-on at Queens University Belfast's gaming-and-cartoons convention, Q-Con. Features:

• Starblazer Adventures
• Castles & Crusades
• Only 4 microphones
• Identity theft
• Sink vandalism
• Cheap booze
• Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
• Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
• The cosplay element
• Celebration of the Feast of Maximum Occupancy
• Inn security
• Shane addressed by correct title
• Dark Heresy
• Rouge Trader
• Castles & Crusades
• Thigh-rubbing goodness
• Video games and board games
• Steve Jackson Games' Men in Black
• Bangers, beans and chips
• Tree spuzz
• Call of Cthulhu
• Removal from duty with the aid of a fragmentation grenade
• A dead cow
• Big bushy moustache
• The Holy Bomb
• A dose of the verdigris flux
• Reigning All-Ireland Con Pub Quiz Champions of the World
• Looks and towering intellects
• ConFESS
• 6-pound pitchers of booze
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• The WFRP Companion
• Double-great prizes
• Paranoia XP
• The 36-hour hangover
• Impressive mutations
• Castles & Crusades
• Longsword delivery!
• Infinite Mayhem seems to be a role-playing game that doesn't actually exist
• Weird dream-like thing
• iSpy LARP
• Magicks and truth serums
• Imaginative hilarious house rules
• Trade stands and shopping
• Pizza stain from 10 years ago
• Traveller: Pocket Edition
• A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying
• High mortality potential
• Shadows Over Filmland for Trail of Cthulhu
• Castles & Crusades
• No overthanking, no double-thanking
• Travel advice
• The LARP scene
• Congratulatory words
• Lack of boardgames
• Nice cheap activities
• Spud's

Downtime: "We need an idea for a topic." "How about... mug. Chair. Microphone. Shirt. Maps." "Hey, maps is pretty good."

Apologies for slight delay in release of episode, caused by important drinking.