Con:  Fresh (ish) from the constant barrage of madness that is Gaelcon, Shane, humbug and Liam manage to drum up enough residual excitement from their withered husks to report at what turns out to be great length on their antics at Ireland's national gaming convention.  After recording it turned out to be really quite long indeed so it's being inelegantly broken into two parts.  Check back next week for the second half!  Features:

• Gaelcon
• Monster board games table
• Patented chronological approach
• Ticket to Ride: DART edition
• Live-action Space Hulk
• LET'S ROCK!!
• Faw the Empewoh
• Trail of Cthulhu
• On-the-spot prizegiving
• Axis & Allies
• Cyberpunk 2020
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Hell for Leather
• Ambush Alley
• Yet more reasons not to close-assault British troops
• JumpTech
• Big ultimatum!
• Battletech
• Monty Python Fluxx
• Cthulhu Dice
• The Avowal Falls
• The Pub Quiz
• Smallworld

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This week's episode is going to be a little late, because I pretty much slept through Tuesday when I should have been editing as a result of Gaelcon (and I'd do it again).  It'll be up as soon as I get it together.

Shane

Exp:  Adopting a coincidental World War II theme in recent activities, Shane, humbug, Cillian, Liam and Stu provide their thoughts and opinions on the decrepit prison-break board game Escape From Colditz, and live-action Lovecraftian horror in the wilds of Northern Ireland in the Demands of the Deep LARP event.  Apologies for the sound quality resulting from a mistake in recording.  Features:

• Gaelcon
• Escape From Colditz on BoardGameGeek
• These colours don't run
• Irish Red Cross
• A byword for ambiguity
• The land before hexes
• Tackling guards
• Appel!
• The other versions
• Rules abuse, or lack-of-rules abuse
• Crackdown
• The Colditz Story movie on IMDB
• Do or die!
• Shoot to kill!
• Bidding war
• Larp NI (turns out they do have a website)
• Arkham Gaming Centre
• The gravy train
• I forgot to mention the murder that started it all, of course
• Rolling Library Use
• Bank vault contrivance
• Misdirected paranoia
• Ritual requirements
• What happened the fishmen?
• Driving up North

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+1 Int: Because Gaelcon's so big it took an entire episode just to talk about the RPGs, so this episode Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu squash in everything else that's going on - LARPs, wargames, card games, computer games, special events, and social (drinking) stuff!  Getting very excited indeed. Features:

• Gaelcon
• Late-breaking Yugioh card game news
• Bad directions
• LARPs
• Rome Wasn't Built in a Night
• The Camarilla
• Wonders From the Occident
• Iron Kingdoms
• Whittenham Forum
• Jumptech: Doppleganger
• How to blow up a space station
• The Usual Suspects
• Murder mysteries
• Scintilla Concorde
• Dark Heresy
• NiteRider
• Licence to incessantly mouth loudly
• Consoles
• The "I've Never Played Before Honest" league
• Super Street Fighter IV
• Halo Reach
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Nice clean MUD
• Card games
• Legend of the 5 Rings
• Indie RPGs
• Hell for Leather
• Wargames
• Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• Battletech
• Memoir 44
• Warhammer 40,000
• En Avant! (free rules download)
• Ambush Alley
• The Taliban's kill limit
• Battle of Endor
• Special Events
• Gamer of Steel
• Live Action Space Hulk
• Warhammer Ancient Battles: Raid on Lindisfarne 793AD
• Ticket to Ride: Ireland Edition
• Social
• The Gaelcon Pub Quiz
• IGA Charity Auction
• Unfounded speculation
• Club Gaelcon
• Radio Gaelcon
• Board Games
• Trade

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Int:  Gaelcon is the main event in the Irish gaming calendar, a long weekend of wall-to-wall gaming, drinking, and buying stuff you absolutely have no use for.  In the first of what last year turned into about a million episodes Gaelcon-related, Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu take a look at what's on the cards in RPGs, and a bountiful selection it verily is.  Features:

• Gaelcon
• The big one
• Actually maybe it is sort of interesting
• Pre-con Meet-up
• The Geekest Link
• There is no H on the roof
• RPG blurbs
• The Avowal Falls
• Dead Men Tell No Tales
• I can't believe I didn't think of the obvious solution - they all repeatedly shot and decapitated each other
• How to become an expert
• Broken Sword
• Exalted
• Wholesale Destruction
• Authentic frontier gibberish
• Rakehell
• That Fallen London game (Echo Bazaar)
• Operation: Overthrow Olympus
• Mutants & Masterminds
• Absent Without Official Leave
• Deadlands
• Go Go Team Unscrupulous
• Necessary Evil
• Shadown Over Pontypandy
• Call of Cthulhu
• Sacrificial Lambs
• Promethean: The Created
• The Defence of Meridian
• Well-defined system specification
• From Persephone With Love
• Victorian Age: Vampire
• The Last Days of Outpost 241
• Traveller
• Shadows of the Earth
• GURPS Old West
• Front Lines
• The Dresden Files RPG
• Cogs and Dogs
• GURPS Discworld
• Shane gets outed
• Dracula's Wives
• Sang Real
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• A Night That Will Live in Infamy
• Trail of Cthulhu
• Enemies of Dune
• Dune RPG
• The Things They Left Behind
• GURPS
• Deciphering the timetable

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