May 4, 2016
This week's hosts: Brian, Eoin, Liam and Mary
This week, we discuss when, why and if you should surrender inRPGs.
Show notes:
- 00:13 Just kidding, we merely discuss givingup.
- 00:31 Copyright pending. (SpinOff 1, OriginalTopic)
- 00:39 The party that flee together, DnDtogether
- 00:51 DnD reference at under 1 minute
- 00:59 Not the sound of Eoin coughing, "WFRP"is actually short for Warhammer Fantasy Role Play
- 01:06 BigBad
- 02:24 Notice Eoin quickly shying away fromfractions here.
- 03:53 "shshhshkkssghss" according to googletranslate this is Air Elementalese for "Run you fools!" either thator "Dibs on the last slice of Pizza"
- 05:07 Looting the corpses of your fallencomrades is a time honoured tradition among adventurers (andextremely pragmatic).
- 06:42 Sweepthe Leg
- 06:52 Flip it!
- 07:07 Firefly - Serenity
- 08:22 Flip it 2!
- 08:27 Still technically part of the lastflip, I will refer to this as "Flip it 2A".
- 13:35 Sometimes your party just needs tofail to trigger more plot.
- 14:40 Note, Eoin does not ask about takingcharacters hostage, he asks about "players", make of that what youwill....
- 15:50 Quote of the episode "Mercy, we'll workwith you... you're our new overlord!"
- 17:48 Star Wars Roleplaying game, released as(what else but) a trilogy, in the form of Edge of the Empire (2013), Age of Rebellion (2014) and Force and Destiny (2015)
- 19:26 Fellow host Stu, sure he doesn't showup often (his last pub quiz round was in 2014) but thats why we allstill like him right?
- 19:30 FLIP it 3!
- 20:12 I believe the silence here represents"What the hell guys!"
- 21:02 At this stage methinks Eoin is flat outdescribing Railroading
- 22:01 The "Die Evildoers" was actually thesound of the Podcasters in the next room, but our party hadn't metthem yet....
- 22:18 Determinatorsvs CombatPragmatists
- 23:34 RocksFall, Everyone Dies!
- 23:42 Wow, that was such a sad and defeatedsigh from Mary, I can only assume she has unknowingly walked intoDragons Lairs in the past
- 24:00 Meta-Annoyance from Liam
- 24:43 Paranoia
- 25:28 SunkCost Fallacy, or as I like to call it, my PhD.
- 27:13 Don't worry it was all just a dream,Bobbydidn't really get hit by that car :)
- 29:58 Who doesn't have a story about ahalfling beginning negotiations by loosing an arrow into the lizardambassadors face?
- 33:11 AMacGuffin or possibly in this case actually a Sword of Plot Advancement
