CPS 068, If I am the Killy-est Dude

Rich and Mick gather to discuss two weeks’ worth of interesting and mind-boggling RPG tidbits culled from the digital aether. As a special treat in the last segment, Ogre Whiteside and Mickey Schulz join in the fun.

Show Notes

Items of Discussion:

• The Untapped Potential of Technology - from Mad Brew Labs
• The Internet Already Exists - from Buried Without Ceremony
• Imaginary Funerals - from Buried Without Ceremony
• ‘Your Character Sheet Says What You Want’ - O RLY? - from RPGnet Open Threads

Guests:

• Ogre Whiteside and Mickey Schulz from Stabbing Contest and Geek Girls Rule

Promos:

• Tuning Into Scifi TV
  
• Upside Down and Halfway to Happyland

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CPS 067, Tell Us, Tellas

Another edition of Fun with Mick-n-Rich dive-bombs you with tales of grand schemes, great blog posts, and heaping bucketfulls of enthusiasm. Join us for episode 67!

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Show Notes:

• What am I Doing Here? - from Gnome Stew
• I Only Play With the Best Players - from Story Games
• Mike Sugarbaker on Story Games - from Vimeo
• Something’s Brewing - from Jonathan Walton
• RPGs Are Engines for Making Interesting Decisions - from Gnome Stew

CPS 066, Jason Morningstar on Fiasco

Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games joins Rich for a discussion on Jason’s upcoming game Fiasco.

This episode is sponsored by RPGNow.com

Check out Bully Pulpit Games for Jason’s other great games, including Grey Ranks and The Shab-al-Hiri Roach!

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CPS 065, Changing How We Daydream

Rich, Mick, and Norwood are joined once again by honorary canoneer Judd Karlman for an engaging discussion about what whet our rpg appetites last week. Be sure to “read the rest” and comment with your own impressions and follow the links contained in the show notes.

Show Notes:

• Rest in Peace, Dave Arneson
  • Ken Hite’s Out of the Box tribute
  • John Wick tells the truth
• AAR: Don’t Rest Your Head; April 5, 2009
  • from Mediocre Tales of the Fair to Middling Game Master
• The Purpose of Dwimmermount
  • from Grognardia
• The Hobby of Map Making and Setting Design
  • from Monsters and Manuals by Noisms

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CPS 064, Ten-Foot Poles

Rich and Mick are joined once again by Judd Karlman for a rousing discussion of play experiences, opinions, and ideas inspired by the following bits of treasure we gleaned during the last week of March. Episode 64 is unleashed!:

* But I’m Your Long Lost Brother! from Bonescroll
* Demihuman Oddities from Grognardia
* Skill Resolution from Keep on the Gaming Lands
* Optimism, Action, and How To Be The Neighborhood Pulp Hero from Tim Byrd
* Hard Boiled Cultures from OBE, Evil Hat and the S7S preorder on IPR

The “Ryan Macklin” promo was actually Clyde Rhoer of the excellent podcast Theory From the Closet.

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CPS 063, Cargo Cults

CPS 063, Cargo Cults

Recorded on March 26th. Rich and a special guest from the Sons of Kryos podcast bring you the best of the week's booty and Ryan Macklin stops by to talk with Rich about Hacking Modules.

Show Notes for CP63:

• Fair is Fair (found on Trollsmyth's blog)
• The Death of RPGs (also found on Trollsmyth's blog)
• Zak Arntson's games for kids
• Midnight's Lair episode on games for kids
  
• What is D&D? (from A Butterfly Dreaming)
• Ron Edwards' thoughts on D&D
• Ryan Macklin and Rich Rogers discuss hacking modules

Linkage:
Trollsmyth
http://trollsmyth.blogspot.com/
Ron Edwards' Post on Cargo Cults *be warned*
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/20/
What's is D&D?
http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/03/12/what-is-dd-anyway/
Kids RPGs
http://www.harlekin-maus.com/index.html
Midnight's Lair episode on games for kids
http://porousmind.net/lair/ML-Ep12-021207.mp3

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CPS 062, A Corpse of Course

CPS 062, A Corpse of Course

Recorded on March 11th. Rich, Norwood and Mick gather to bring you the best of the week's booty and Ryan Macklin stops by to talk about NPC-only scenes.

Show Notes for CP62:

• Pathfinder License

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/compatibility

• Geek Related Breakdown of the Pathfinder License

http://mxyzplk.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/paizos-new-pathfinder-license-and-fansite-policy-examined/

• The Reputation Economy on Deconstructing Infinity (thanks Judd)

http://www.jadettman.com/deconstructinginfinity/?p=466

• Roleplaying as an Equisite Corpse on To RPG, or not to RPG, that is the question

http://writingrpgs.blogspot.com/2009/03/role-playing-games-as-sort-of-exquisite.html

• Equisite Corpse on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

• Role Playing Games Considered as a Creative Writing Course on Ideas by David Friedman

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2009/02/role-playing-games-considered-as.html

• PaizoCon June 12-14

http://paizo.com/store/paizo/paizocon

• FUMCon April 10-12

http://rpg.brouhaha.us/?p=412

• WeddingCon Dec 11-13

http://weddingcon2009.com/page2.cfm

• NPC-only Scenes with Ryan Macklin

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CPS 061, Licensed to Roll

CPS 061 - Licensed to Roll

Show Notes:
Recorded on March 5th. Rich and Mick gather to bring you the best of the week's booty while Norwood stays back on land helping a friend move.

Show Notes for CP61:

• Canon Puncture has a re-vamped Website


• D&D 4th Edition Revised GSL
  
  
  
  • the original OGL (for comparison)
  
  
  • Geek Related's revised GSL overview
  
  
  • Necromancer Games is doing 4th Ed products after all.
  
  
  • Green Ronin will NOT be doing 4th Ed stuff. | Read Chris Pramas' blog announcement.
  
  
  • Highmoon Games (Daniel Perez)
  
  


• RPG Bloggers got previews of PHB 2
  
  
  
  • Uncle Bear - The Chatty DM - Gnome Stew has some pics
  
  


• Other Gnome Stew stuff - Round Robin Preludes for White Wolf.
  
  
  
  • Related - On the Harping Monkey Radar : Helping others be more awesome.


• Dungeonaday.com - Monte Cook's new site


• The Escapist's Terra Libris - ALA giving $5000 grants to libraries to develop gaming literacy services.
  
  
  
  • Related: Theory from the Closet episode 50 - Clyde interviews Eero Tuovinen, who is designing an rpg for a gov't. grant in Finland.
  
  
  • President Obama reads Savage Sword of Conan (article from The Onion)
    
  
  
• Gaming traditions - The Dice Bag blog shares some game day traditions.


• Dice Monkey - Speaking in Character - to do or not to do?
  
  
  
  • The Rolemonkeys' original Spirit of the Century sessions
  
  
  • Spirit of the Century RPG
  
  
  • Canon Puncture's Sojourn 66 PTA


• Crappy movies make awesome rpgs - a thread on Story Games.
  
  
  
  • John (jenskot of NerdNYC) posted the original question.
  
  
  • Mick's choice: Reign of Fire
    
    
    
    • System: PrimeTime Adventures or The Shadow of Yesterday
    
    
  
  
  • Rich's choice: The Blood of Heroes
    
    
    
    • System: Savage Worlds + Blood Bowl

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CPS 060, Dont Confuse Modernity with Better

CPS 060 - Don't Confuse Modernity with Better

Show Notes:

• (tipped by Daniel Perez) - Knockspell Magazine released for old school gamers
  http://www.enworld.org/forum/publishers-press-releases/250639-1e-0e-knockspell-magazine-1-released.html
• Key20 goes bust (from Fred Hicks aka Driving Blind's LiveJournal) http://drivingblind.livejournal.com/424954.html
• (also mentioned by Fred Hicks) I am Mongoose and So Can You PDF available on RPG Now
  www.rpgnow.com
• GenCon Indy 2009 new website looks a little familiar to us indie game lovers
  http://www.gencon.com/2009/indy/default.aspx
• Low Context Geek t-shirts at Last Exit to Nowhere (linked by GM Skarka)
  http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/473030.html
• Uncle Bear reviews SKETCH version of Blade Runner
  http://unclebear.com/?p=2916
• (tipped by zendead of Hidden Grid podcast) RPGBomb, a new social network for gamers.
  http://rpgbomb.com/
• (linked by Paul Czege) PlayDate story on CNN
  http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=8609&page=1#Item_65
• 10 Crazy Ways to Kick Off Your Next Campaign by Dungeonmastering.com
  http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/10-crazy-ways-to-kick-off-your-next-campaign
• 3 Articles on Gaming at a Table on Gnome Stew
  http://www.gnomestew.com/
  

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CPS GMs Day 2009

On this "holiday" of GM's Day, Rich shares some thoughts about some GMs who have inspired him:

• Trey Justice
• Harry Young
• "Hobbit" aka Stephen Rhew
• Hank Marshall
• Jeremy Qualls
• Greg Secaur
• Adam Coleman
• Judd Karlman

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CPS Special Episode

CPS Special Episode
Taste the Change

The Crew discusses a new format for the show, one we're really excited about!

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CPS 058, Playing the Canon Puncture Way, pt. 2

CPS 058, Playing the Canon Puncture Way, pt. 2

Playing the Canon Puncture Way, pt. 2: Scenes
The Crew reviews their style of play from their years of playing RPGs, giving some dos and don'ts and examples

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CPS 057, Kenneth Hite and Cthulhu

CPS 057, Kenneth Hite and Cthulhu

At GenCon Indy 2008, Rich Rogers picks Ken Hite's brain about Cthulhu in games and also horror gaming.

• Adventures into Darkness
• Trail of Cthulhu
• Dubious Shards
• Where the Deep Ones Are
  

Promo for Buffy Between the Lines - http://www.buffybetweenthelines.com/

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CPS 056, Playing the Canon Puncture Way, pt. 1

CPS 056, Playing the Canon Puncture Way, pt. 1

Catch-up Segment:

• Chris Perrin has left the building...
• Norwood is reading Sandman and Hellboy graphic novels
  
• Rich is working on Making the Bigs (orklord.wordpress.com)
• Mick gives a Micro Review of Hard Boiled Cultures by Evil Hat (find it on RPGnow.com)

Playing the Canon Puncture Way, pt. 1: Character
The Crew reviews their style of play from their years of playing RPGs, giving some dos and don'ts and examples

Promo for the Hidden Grid, a Shadowrun podcast (www.hiddengrid.com)

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CPS 55, '08 Top Gaming Moments and '09 Resolutions

CPS 55, '08 Top Gaming Moments and '09 Resolutions


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