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| Episode 57 |Announcements
Tonight we’re joined by Eric Ausley from the GamersTable podcast, check them out at gamerstable.com a roundtable topical podcast on all things gaming. You can also follow them on twitter: @GamersTable. Our d20Monkey caption contest for August is over, congrats to our winner Robert!
Topics 
Iron Kingdoms Release Date Moves Up!
Sounds like Gencon was a good time for the folks at Privateer Press this year, as it has resulted in them bumping up the release date for the Iron Kingdoms RPG! We know we’re a little nuts for IKRPG, but that’s okay – you will be too soon enough. (We also briefly mentioned Level 7 Escape, which will be OP’s Board Game Corner feature this month, you can check out our unboxing of it here.)
13th Age Expansion Kickstarter
There’s an expansion in the works for 13th Age called “13 True Ways”, the ever-emerging RPG by Jonathan Tweet & Rob Heinsoo. This expansion is full of new stuff for both players and GM’s meant to really show off what the system is capable of. We’re definitely interested.
Stuff For The Travelling DM
An article over at Stargazer’s World pointed us toward this cool little device that should be useful to any of us who use technology at our tables – a bluetooth audio cube by Verbatim. Looks like it has multiple options for powering it and playing music through it, personally I (Jerry) want to buy one immediately.
Tip Corner
I’ve got a non-OP tip for you this evening because I felt the need to share some recently acquired wisdom. When starting a new campaign, try and come up with a story arc that has an end. Yeah. If you’re like me and you just imagine the campaign lasting years and years and no one ever getting bored you’re probably wrong. A 3 act story structure will help your game prep immensely.
Twitter Question(s)
Last week we took a little twitter survey, I’m going to relay some of the best responses we got instead of a question tonight. Our question was “We want to know: what is the absolute dumbest thing you’ve seen a GM or player do in-game?”
- A couple breaking up during a gaming session in front of everyone.
- A GM instructing his group to take a short break, and then disappearing.
- A GM trying to “create drama” by jumping up on his chair, breaking it, and slamming face first into the table sending minis flying everywhere.
Music Credits | Intro: “Prelude” | Outro: “Stande Alone” | by LukHash |
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For some reason the podcast always ends early when I download the MP3.
I signed up for the 13th Age True Ways kickstarter because my wife thought the die was awesome. It wasn’t until after that I discovered the stuff about the core game. I haven’t seen any of the playtest stuff but the impression I get is that it runs closer to the OSR tendencies of 5th than it does 3rd or 4th.
Weird. What browser are you using? The mp3 file itself is cut short, how many minutes does it display as? Let us know because I’d really like to hammer this issue out.
As for 13th Age, I’ve heard the same myself so it really seems like there is a wide range of opinions out there. Guess I’ll have to read it myself to find out, I’ll file that under the 1,000 other games I’ve been meaning to learn. Such is the life of a gamer.
It cut out for me at 21:44 which it thought was the end of the file. That might be the end of it. I wasn’t looking at the numbers but it was in the middle of the Travelling DM segment. I’m using Chrome as my browser on XP and was playing the file with Windows Media Player.
My two favorite podcast in one, awesome!!
Keep up the great work!
Thanks, and thanks for listening!
I really like the portable speaker. Since I play a bunch of games in different locations though I will be checking this speaker out for its sheer versatility.
When we play we usually have an iphone hooked up our system and we run the iphone app DMDJ, possibly the best gaming music/sound app i’ve found and having that speaker could make things much simpler.
Yeah I’m really considering picking one up.
Hey, I’m rather new to your podcast and to Obsidian Portal, but I’m really digging both so far! You’ve got me excited about the Iron Kingdoms RPG I may end up blowing my hobby budget for the month to pick it up.
And great tip. I’m just starting a new campaign myself, and as much as I’d like to pretend my group will beat their Gaming ADD and stick with my game for more than 3 months, I’m pretty sure it won’t happen. So, I need to start making up the ending NOW before we get started…
Great stuff and looking forward to the next one!
Thanks! We’re glad you’re enjoying the podcast and checking out the site. Yeah we’re both pretty fired up for the Iron Kingdoms RPG, can’t wait to start talking about stuff from actual games. Anyway, thanks again for listening and enjoying the site, we’re glad to have you aboard!