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Intro: “Now Get Busy” ~ Beastie BoysOutro: “Sister Saviour” ~ The Rapture
We have detected the source of our echo problems and they should disappear after this episode, please bear with us in the meantime.
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Topics
Masks – 1000 NPCs by Gnome Stew
Recently published “Masks” book of 1,000 ready to use NPC’s written by the fine folks at Gnome Stew gets some air time as Micah gushes about it being the book he’s always wanted. We were lucky to get a review copy of this book and can confirm it is wholly awesome and mega useful for both inspiration, and whipping up NPC’s on the spot!
DDI Report Card
A user thread in the WotC forums was started by someone “grading” their DDI offerings in a report card style. Many followed suit and the page has gained the attention of some WotC-folk and the thread continues to grow. I give out my own DDI credit card! Listen up!
Deities Album Kickstarter
A musician by the name of Chris Littler has a kickstarter project up to fund an album called “Deities“, a collection of songs inspired by D&D. Micah and I talk D&D music and kickstarter projects in general. Without giving too much away I’ll say it’s very candid.
Twitter Question
@Supersaijinkyle asks: “I’ve had problems with people drinking too much at RPG sessions, at what point do you ban alcohol at games?”
Listen to find out!
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Definitely going to have to check out Masks!!
BTW, echo getting worse…
Not sure if you caught the note in the post but we’ve determined the cause of the echo and it should no longer be an issue from this episode forth. Thanks for putting up with “Micah-in-outer-space” though, you’re a trooper
Thank you so much for reviewing Masks! That was really fantastic to hear, and I love that you loved the book.
Thanks for creating it! I’ve been looking it over even more since the initial podcast. This is really great stuff!
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Thanks again for the Podcast. I now look forward to this feature every week and always find something interesting. The new Blog layout is fantastic by the way. I love the shifting visual links at the top and the whole organisation will be getting an “A” from me on the imminent OP Report Card. (It won’t all be A’s though.)
Masks sounds like a great resource so thank you for bringing it to our attention. Good luck to Mr Littler with his funding, but personally, I will be waiting for a YouTube link.
I have been playing for many years and in our youth we used to drink very heavily while playing – it was also our Sunday Night Social after all. Most memories were good, some unclear and others may not even be memories at all, but in the games I play now, we don’t have alcohol at the table, although this is not imposed. I look forward to hearing the “unechoed” version of Number Nine!