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:
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.