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:

• Archetypal something
• Use of your own judgment
• The abandonment of reason
• Little cube things
• Adventurers from another world
• Skill, stamina and luck
• Heroic leaping
• Left turns
• Waking up hungry
• Tank of all tanks
• Library Use
• What makes it hard
• F.E.A.R.
• Big dirty patch of flaying red skin
• Zap zip zop big or pop
• Sabre-tooth tiger fur bikini lady
• The dud option
• Aliens that look nothing like the alien on the front cover
• Turning to page 400

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:

• A game where you act out the actions of your character!!
• Camarilla
• Suspicious denials
• Real-life experience points
• Incredibly complex terms
• Lorien Trust
• A certain epic fantasy novel series
• Personal spmace invasion
• Dave's impeded magical abilities
• Derogatory terminology
• A card-rippingly good time
• A system for looting the dead
• Actually, it's physical representation, isn't it?

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:

• This Just In... From GenCon!
• Knowing more nothing
• Command & Colours: Ancients
• Disobedience
• A few hours of fun new boardgame
• The pain prize
• Memoir 44
• Your chance to try and re-play history or something
• Colour-matching
• Very little skill
• Victory points you're handing your opponent
• Big plume
• Top Trumps
• The new Gor
• A bad word
• Massive disappointment
• Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
• A lot of Spain
• Incompetent McIncompetent and Stupidius Maximus
• Province counting
• Rain in the mountains
• Dirty Sicilian nice people
• The Punic Wars by Nigel Bagnall
• Pestilence
• Gibberish dice
• Tom taking the initiative
• Portugalis
• Axis & Allies
• World War II on Earth again
• The best way to win games
• The Siege of New Carthage
• The feel of the Second Punic War
• 1870
• Pre-hardass Rome
• Arkham Horror

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:

• Boring learning
• Weird Wars
• Deadlands
• History with fireballs
• Lonely humbug
• That thing they make the war movies in
• Hats you could turn into a raft
• Biggles
• Biggles: Adventures in Time
• The present day of the 1980s
• The dinosaur conspiracy
• Prehistoric GM notes
• Ancient grease?
• Elephants with different-sized ears
• Hairy guy on a cloud
• The damn city in Italy
• Asterix
• Another podcast about gaming out there
• A tiny bit of inaccurate knowledge
• Ars Magica
• World of Darkness
• Denver Public Library
• Eberron
• The society of 5th century Kerry
• Sword thrust to the groin
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• Savage Worlds
• Stick with a rectangle coming out of it
• Too many mushrooms
• GURPS Celtic Myth
• Clan Spacenaarg
• Run Out the Guns!
• humbug versus King Ferdinand
• 7th Sea
• Duty & Honour
• Murdering dudes with bayonets
• Aces & Eights
• Victorians with horsemen and dogmen
• 7th Sea: Japan
• Godlike
• Call of Cthulhu
• Red Pokemon
• Shane makes a clever
• A sweet and beautiful thing
• Twilight: 2000 (well, 2013)
• A toast!
• Ancient Macedonians with Dublin accents
• Moral ambiguity

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! Shane