Haste – Episode 0: Getting Started

Nice podcast, guys. Keep it up!

I think I answered your poll when you made it, but I go back and forth. We have a girl in our group playing a guy for the first time and she’s loving it. She makes her voice deep, and in order to stay in character, tends to ham it up as much as possible: chasing every skirt and making all kinds of bold claims about his sexual apparatus. It’s a lot of fun to watch her.

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Sorry about the background hiss. We’re figuring it out and hope to have some higher quality recording for next time.

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An Obsidian Portal podcast! Are you kidding? I’m so excited I’m posting about how great this is before I’ve even heard the podcast!

My listener questions are: How soon can we grab it from itunes? And why didn’t you think of this sooner?

That said, I’m a newbie to a new arrival to Obsidian Portal who’s been happily building his campaign world ever since.

Great podcast and amazing website guys! I suppose I need to get my question now: What is yall’s (yes, I just used that word) favorite RPG system? D20? Roll-master? White Wolf systems? Etc.

Pros and Cons for the system wouldn’t be bad either if you guys want.

Listening to the podcast now, very cool idea and looking very much forward to hearing more. On the “gender-bending” role-playing topic… just thought I’d point out (as a DM) that Game Masters role-play characters of all genders, otherwise it would be an awkward campaign in a world of 1-gender NPC’s. So, really, it shouldn’t be awkward for players to do so as well. I’ve never had players with a primary character that was of another gender, but I have had characters who run different gender Secondary PC’s (a frequency in a lot of my campaigns where simultaneous storylines jump around). But, it really shouldn’t be awkward, or impede on any sort of male-ego issues in the scenario. Actually, it can lead to a lot of hilarity and provide a unique opportunity to see the campaign world through the perspective of the opposite gender.

Thanks for the Podcast. A good listen. I like the accompanying Headlines Summary with links included in the Podcast. Will look forwad to hearing the next one.

Gender bending characters have occurred in many of my games. I have had women play men, men play women, and one person played a changeling that would play any sex or race.
I have been lucky enough to play in groups that have been of different genders and races, and everyone has been very open. We have a policy of a long interview before allowing people in, and if anyone is uncomfortable, people either change behavior or leave.
I should mention that my current game is the first I have played in many years (close to 20) with no gender bending.

Love the new podcast. Wish I was better at using the graphics that I see on alot of other peoples campaign websites, mine is pretty text heavy, but OP has helped alot with maintaining the campaign. I would say Obsidian Portal is a must if your campaign features subplots and intrigue and still useful even if you just dungeon crawl every session.

Ive seen you get asked alot on what your favorite table top rpg is. My question would be what do you think about computer games with true table top roots such as Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Placescape, etc, etc?

Just listening to the podcast now. On the subject of playing characters of the opposite sex, this happens occasionally in our group. We’re a group of all guys (although women have joined from time to time) and have been playing for about 15 years. I’ve even played one myself in a Marvel game because it fit my concept better than a Male character. We recently finished a Vampire game where 2 out of 8 characters were guys playing female characters. One character had his body swapped and went from being male to female. I think it’s an interesting challenge. Some people are better at it than others.