Jul 21, 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:
- 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]"
Oh Lord of the Rings... damn credit hog. Read some Moorcock you philistines!
If you think Fighting Fantasy are bad, try the Tunnels and Trolls solo-play adventures where you\'re a Goblin... ouch.
You haven\'t seen Mad Max????
Good podcast. Nice idea. Have you done anything on Pick-Up RPGs (Spirit of the Century, InSpectres, etc.)?
We\'ve brought up a few but haven\'t devoted a full episode to indy rpgs.
Back in Feb we talked about Dogs in the Vineyard (ish) and Serial Homicide unit in this episode: http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=432250
We also brought up some indy rpgs in our discussion on character creation;
http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=436635
Perhaps it is time to have a full show devoted to our favs. I\'ll talk it over with the guys, thanks for the feedback :)
I\'ll listen to those. Thanks.