Podcasts about Ashen Stars

In this episode I am joined by Kaye, Kat, Dirk and Mark and we look at Magic, Psionics and the thorny issue of Investigation but in the spirit of Angela Lansbury we get to the bottom of it all very very quickly. Enjoy! The Gaean Reach: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/142189/The-Gaean-Reach?term=reach++gaean?affiliate_id=3487430 Gumshoe: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/232837/Pocket-GUMSHOE?filters=10146_0_0_0_0?affiliate_id=3487430 Ashen Stars: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/95598/Ashen-Stars?src=hottest_filtered?affiliate_id=3487430 Vaesen: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/319119/Vaesen--Nordic-Horror-Roleplaying?affiliate_id=3487430 Hero System: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/19008/Hero-System-5th-Edition-Revised?affiliate_id=3487430 Psi World: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/897/Psi-World?affiliate_id=3487430 Mutant City Blues: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/60269/Mutant-City-Blues?affiliate_id=3487430 Starfinder: https://paizo.com/starfinder --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frankensteinrpg/message

The dramatic conclusion to our campaign where a few mistakes were made. GM: Aser Players: Bernie, Kim, Megan, and Tom. System: Ashen Stars (Gumshoe) Special thanks to our Agent+ patrons: Ben, Bernie, Chris, Denise, Eric, Fandible, John, Jonn, LordTentacle, Nyssa, Patrick, Slacker Initiative, Stuart, Terryann, and Tom. Tyrant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5031-tyrant License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license For more information visit The Redacted Files. To help support us, check out our Patreon. You can also find us on Discord!

The Lasers investigate a mysterious raider targeting an outpost on the edge of the Bleed, with connections to Brick's uncertain past. GM: Aser Players: Bernie, Kim, Megan, and Tom. System: Ashen Stars (Gumshoe) Special thanks to our Agent+ patrons: Ben, Bernie, Chris, Denise, Eric, Fandible, John, Jonn, LordTentacle, Nyssa, Patrick, Slacker Initiative, Stuart, Terryann, and Tom. Tyrant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5031-tyrant License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license For more information visit The Redacted Files. To help support us, check out our Patreon. You can also find us on Discord!

The Lasers discover someone taking coping mechanisms to a whole new level.  GM: Aser Players: Bernie, Kim, Megan, and Tom. System: Ashen Stars (Gumshoe) Special thanks to our Agent+ patrons: Ben, Bernie, Chris, Denise, Eric, Fandible, John, Jonn, LordTentacle, Nyssa, Patrick, Slacker Initiative, Stuart, Terryann, and Tom. Tyrant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5031-tyrant License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license For more information visit The Redacted Files. To help support us, check out our Patreon. You can also find us on Discord!

The Lasers engages in an old-fashioned murder investigation, complete with séance.  GM: Aser Players: Bernie, Kim, Megan, and Tom. System: Ashen Stars (Gumshoe) Special thanks to our Agent+ patrons: Ben, Bernie, Chris, Denise, Eric, Fandible, John, Jonn, LordTentacle, Nyssa, Patrick, Slacker Initiative, Stuart, Terryann, and Tom. Tyrant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5031-tyrant License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license For more information visit The Redacted Files. To help support us, check out our Patreon. You can also find us on Discord!

The Lasers discover that in the Bleed, sometimes your food bites back.  GM: Aser Players: Bernie, Kim, Megan, and Tom. System: Ashen Stars (Gumshoe) Special thanks to our Agent+ patrons: Ben, Bernie, Chris, Denise, Eric, Fandible, John, Jonn, LordTentacle, Nyssa, Patrick, Slacker Initiative, Stuart, Terryann, and Tom. Tyrant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5031-tyrant License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license For more information visit The Redacted Files. To help support us, check out our Patreon. You can also find us on Discord!

A team of Lasers discover that they might be the criminals. GM: Aser Players: Bernie, Kim, Megan, and Tom. System: Ashen Stars (Gumshoe) Special thanks to our Agent+ patrons: Ben, Bernie, Chris, Denise, Eric, Fandible, John, Jonn, LordTentacle, Nyssa, Patrick, Slacker Initiative, Stuart, Terryann, and Tom. Tyrant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5031-tyrant License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license For more information visit The Redacted Files. To help support us, check out our Patreon. You can also find us on Discord!

Award-winning tabletop RPG game designer and podcaster, Robin D. Laws was kind enough to visit the Dicegeeks podcast today. We discuss his career, several of RPGs as well as some advice for gamemasters. Also, I ask Robin about the Gumshoe RPG system, Ashen Stars, and the Yellow King RPG. Robin is the co-host of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff podcast. Plus he is the designer behind Hillfolk, Gumshoe, and the author of Hamlet's Hit Points.

In the Gaming Hut we fulfill a Tell Me More Request from beloved Patreon backer Bryan, who wants us to wring gaming ideas from the most recent version of The Invisible Man. Ask Ken and Robin finds estimable Patreon backer Scot Ryder asking if Robin would decrease the number of abilities in Ashen Stars, given […]

Pelgrane Press has been a referent in the world of #TTRPGs for a very long time. They keep producing some amazing work and have some iconic games in their catalogue. But, who’s behind? That would be Cat Tobin! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   I got together with Cat to ask about how she runs Pelgrane and the ethos behind the company, including their approach to diversity, social justice and safety for everyone around the table.   With giants of the RPG world like Ken Hite, Robin D. Laws, Rob Heinsoo and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, they have produced game powered by the Gumshoe system (Trail of Cthulhu, Ashen Stars, Bubblegumshoe, Cthulhu Confidential, The Esoterrorists, Fear Itself, The Gaenan reach, Mutant City Blues, Night’s Black Agents, Timewatch and The Fall of Delta Green), there is a big responsibility on her shoulders! Hope you enjoy the show!   Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Episode 172: The serious hundred and seventy-second episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight, we have a special guest! The hilarious Matt Maranda joins us tonight to talk about his latest excitement at PAX Unplugged, repping for Pelgrane Press, the publisher of 13th Age, Gumshoe, Cthulhu Confidential, Ashen Stars, and TimeWatch! He tells us about the games he played in his free time at the Con, including Honey Heist! We talk about Action Cats, First Quest, the Gamer Assembly and Gamer Assembly publications, Reaper Miniatures, his blog, which he plans on picking up more this year, and Aboleths. We also talk news! Pokémon GO Buddy Adventure is happening now! Check out the 2019 Year in Review! The next community day on January 19th will have different times in different hemispheres! PowerA Controllers has some really great Pokemon Designs. There are ones for the original starters and the new generation's starters, along with many more Pokemon designs! Play the Overwatch Winter Wonderland event until January 2nd. They've just started announcing the comics for Free Comic Book Day, which is on May 2nd, 2020. From @VIZMedia comes The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show! In Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, an evil menace is trying to find the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power over both the Twilight Realm & the World of Light! pic.twitter.com/zsaBMtV35o— Free Comic Book Day (@Freecomicbook) December 17, 2019 PAX South is happening January 17th - 19th. There's a lot of good panels! Miz Sylver is one of the hosts of Nintendo Feud: Team Zelda vs Team Meowth, but she also wanted to highlight some excellent sounding panels: Zelda Universe Presents: A Musical History of Zelda, and What the Heck is Mr. Mime? A New Phylogeny of Pokémon! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncastTweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Lænestolsrollespil bringer en specialepisode, hvor vi snakker om de rollespil, vi gerne vil spille, men som vi endnu ikke har fået på bordet. Nedenfor finder du en oversigt over, de rollespil vi har på bucketlisten, og de rollespil, vi går nævnt undervejs. Elias: Mage: The Ascension Mage: The Ascension (Udgivet 1993, 1995, 2000, 2015) Ars Magica (Udgivet 1987, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2004) Mage: Sorcerer's Crusade (Udgivet 1998) Vampire: The Masquerade (Udgivet 1991, 1992, 1998, 2011, 2018) Lyt til vores episode om Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Nis: Burning Empires Burning Empires (Udgivet 2006) Iron Empires (Udgivet 1994-2013) Burning Wheel (Udgivet 2002) Mouse Guard rollespil (2008) Mouse Guard tegneserie (2006-...) Torchbearer (2013) Oliver: Sorcerer Sorcerer (Udgivet 2002) Elias: Unknown Armies Unknown Armies (Udgivet 1998, 2002, 2017) Call of Cthulhu (Udgivet 1981, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2004, 2014) Over the Edge (Udgivet 1992, 1997, 2018) Lyt til vores episode om Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Nis: TORG  TORG (Udgivet 1990, 2015, 2017) Shadowrun (Udgivet 1989, 1992, 1998, 2005, 2009, 2013) Rifts (Udgivet 1990, 2005) Dream Park (Udgivet 1992) Oliver: Grey Ranks Grey Ranks (udgivet 2007) Monster Hearts (Udgivet 2012, 2017) Night Witches (Udgivet 2014) Spione (Udgivet 2007) Elias: Orpheus Orpheus (Udgivet 2003) Wraith (Udgivet 1994, 1996, 2018) Nis: Mindjammer Mindjammer (Starblazer) (Udgivet 2010) Mindjammer (FATE) (Udgivet 2014) Mindjammer (Traveller) (Udgivet 2017) FATE Core (Udgivet 2003, 2013) Traveller (Udgivet 1977, 1987, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2016) The Culture (serie af Iain Banks) Lyt til vores episode om FATE Accelerated Oliver: Coriolis  Coriolis: The Third Horizon (Udgivet 2008, 2016) Tales from the Loop (Udgivet 2017) Lyt til vores episode om Tales from the Loop Mutant: Year Zero (Udgivet 2014) Forbidden Lands (Udgivet 2018) AD&D Al-Qadim (Udgivet 1992) Elias: Alternity Alternity (Udgivet 1998, 2017) Alternity: Gamma Worlds (Udgivet 2000) Alternity: Dark*Matter (Udgivet 1999) Alternity: Star*Drive (Udgivet 1998) Dungeons & Dragons (Udgivet 1974) Lyt til vores episode om D&D Basic Set Ashen Stars (Udgivet 2011) Lyt til vores episode om Ashen Stars

Velkommen til episode 19, hvor vi tager fat i rollespilsbogen Bookhounds of London, som er en setting til rollespillet Trail of Cthulhu. Vi har tidligere talt om Call of Cthulhu (episode 9), som deler universe med Trail of Cthulhu, og vi har talt om Gumshoe reglerne i episoden om Ashen Stars (episode 1), som er det regelsystem, som Trail of Cthulhu anvender, og nu skal det så handle om boghandlere og bibliofile i et cthulhuidt univers. Bookhounds of London er forfattet af Kenneth Hite, og bogen er udgivet på Pelgrane Press, som udgiver Trail of Cthulhu og andre gumshoe-rollespil, som blandt andet Night's Black Agents og Fear Itself. Suppressed Transmission blev udgivet under Steve Jackson Games, som er kendt for rollespillet GURPS (episode 5). Kenneth Hite kan høres i podcasten Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. Sidst men ikke mindst en lille korrektion: Undervejs i afsnittet snakker Elias om forskellen mellem "horror" og "terror". Desværre får han byttet rundt på begreberne. "Terror" er den snigende fornemmelse af, at der er noget uhyggeligt og farligt på færde, horror er chokket, når man ser noget. Så når man efterforsker noget forfærdeligt og uforståeligt, er man grebet af terror, men når man står ansigt til ansigt med monsteret, er man grebet af horror.

Velkommen til Lænestolsrollespils bonusepisode om vores rollespilskampagner. I denne ekstra-episode snakker vi om de kampagner, som vi lige nu er involveret i. Vi kommer rundt om en række rollespil, som vi også har omtalt i tidligere episoder bl,a. Ashen Stars og Tales from the Loop. Du kan finde billeder af os og andre, der spiller rollespil, under hashtagget #FlereRollespilsbillederiDitFeed særligt på facebook. Brug det gerne til dine billeder også, så vi alle kan se hinanden spille.

Team Silverhawk must stop the villain behind the plan to wipe out Abundance 5 and that means finding and infiltrating his personal ship, the Bloody Baron. That's easier said than done, as the villain still has numerous minions, traps, and other defenses. But justice demands the crew of the Silverhawk stop the captain of the Bloody Baron in our campaign finale of Abundance 5!

A villain has plotted to use an ancient artifact to gain control over a swarm of dangerous aliens. In order to do this, the villain has endangered the life of everyone on Abundance 5 and the crew of the Holiday will try to stop him, at any cost.

Team Silverhawk races to a distant planet to pursue a lead in their investigation. In order to proceed, they must infiltrate a popular game show that pits contestants in a deadly arena, fighting for supremacy. Can they survive and get the intel they need?

The crew of the Holiday needs to research a strange alien artifact they have discovered. A scholar on a remote and dangerous jungle planet can help them, so they travel there in hopes of learning the machine's secrets. Unfortunately, a gang of mercenaries is hot on their trail.

Team Silverhawk tracks down a group of miscreants on Abundance 5 by tracking cyber cows and investigating an abandoned resort, complete with malfunctioning robots. As they get closer to the truth, the dangers increase...

Team Holiday is off to the moon of Abundance 5 to investigate a missing expedition. A group of colonists found something on the moon and dug it up, but failed to check in. What could be lurking inside the moon? More importantly, what happened to the colonists?

Between squatters, odd critters, and a darker mystery, the lasers assigned to protecting Abundance 5 have their work cut out for them! Can they keep the peace while discovering the cause of all the trouble since the squatters showed up? News: Be sure to back the RPPR Patreon to get an enamel pin!

Abundance 5 is a remote planet, ill-equipped to deal with dangers. Its population of former resort employees who re-enact the Wild West, the rebels who hate the Wild West, and a commune of cultists who worship a galactic hero, can't deal with the numerous threats they face. Two teams of Lasers, professional troubleshooters and law enforcers, have been hired to protect them.

It's Pelgrane Press Week on DSPN Presents! Amazing audio from the makers of 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, Cthulhu Confidential, TimeWatch, and so much more! We've got seven panels of their Gen Con audio coming straight to your ears.This panel: Investigative Roleplaying Master Class!Thanks to Wade Rockett of Natural 20 PR for this audio!Robin D. Laws designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, which powers such games as The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars, and the upcoming Yellow King RPG. He podcasts weekly on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff with longtime collaborator Kenneth Hite.Ruth Tillman is a writer and game designer whose credits include the Cthulhu Confidential RPG and adventures for Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents. She has created setting material and monster design for 13th Age, Feng Shui, TimeWatch, and the ENnie-winning Harlem Unbound.Kenneth Hite has designed, written, or co-authored over 100 RPG books, including Trail of Cthulhu, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, and more. He is half of the award-winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, and an Artistic Associate at Chicago’s WildClaw Theatre.

It's Pelgrane Press Week on DSPN Presents! Amazing audio from the makers of 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, Cthulhu Confidential, TimeWatch, and so much more! We've got seven panels of their Gen Con audio coming straight to your ears.This panel: Investigative Roleplaying Master Class!Thanks to Wade Rockett of Natural 20 PR for this audio!Robin D. Laws designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, which powers such games as The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars, and the upcoming Yellow King RPG. He podcasts weekly on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff with longtime collaborator Kenneth Hite.Ruth Tillman is a writer and game designer whose credits include the Cthulhu Confidential RPG and adventures for Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents. She has created setting material and monster design for 13th Age, Feng Shui, TimeWatch, and the ENnie-winning Harlem Unbound.Kenneth Hite has designed, written, or co-authored over 100 RPG books, including Trail of Cthulhu, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, and more. He is half of the award-winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, and an Artistic Associate at Chicago’s WildClaw Theatre.

It's Pelgrane Press Week on DSPN Presents! Amazing audio from the makers of 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, Cthulhu Confidential, TimeWatch, and so much more! We've got seven panels of their Gen Con audio coming straight to your ears.This panel: Dramatic Roleplaying Master Class!Thanks to Wade Rockett of Natural 20 PR for this audio!Robin D. Laws designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, which powers such games as The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars, and the upcoming Yellow King RPG. He podcasts weekly on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff with longtime collaborator Kenneth Hite.Cat Tobin is a game designer, convention organizer, and co-owner and Managing Director of Pelgrane Press. She has more than 100 production credits, including Cold City, Hillfolk, and several games in the GUMSHOE, 13th Age, and Trail of Cthulhu RPG product lines.Shel Kahn illustrates for, playtests, writes and educates in tabletop RPGs, videogames, comics and fiction. You can see her art in the upcoming Yellow King RPG, the Six Ages videogame, and in Strange Horizons. Shel Kahn also self-publishes small system-agnostic adventures in her Pocket Dungeons format.

It's Pelgrane Press Week on DSPN Presents! Amazing audio from the makers of 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, Cthulhu Confidential, TimeWatch, and so much more! We've got seven panels of their Gen Con audio coming straight to your ears.This panel: Dramatic Roleplaying Master Class!Thanks to Wade Rockett of Natural 20 PR for this audio!Robin D. Laws designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, which powers such games as The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars, and the upcoming Yellow King RPG. He podcasts weekly on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff with longtime collaborator Kenneth Hite.Cat Tobin is a game designer, convention organizer, and co-owner and Managing Director of Pelgrane Press. She has more than 100 production credits, including Cold City, Hillfolk, and several games in the GUMSHOE, 13th Age, and Trail of Cthulhu RPG product lines.Shel Kahn illustrates for, playtests, writes and educates in tabletop RPGs, videogames, comics and fiction. You can see her art in the upcoming Yellow King RPG, the Six Ages videogame, and in Strange Horizons. Shel Kahn also self-publishes small system-agnostic adventures in her Pocket Dungeons format.

Ashen Stars er et rollespil i GUMSHOE-familien, der er et forsøg på at lave investigation på en anden måde end det gamle Call of Cthulhu gjorde det. Hvordan mon det lykkes for dem? Hvad er det mon for en type historier, Ashen Stars fortæller? Hvilket univers er det, de brave rumefterforskere rejser rundt i? Og hvor vigtigt er det for rumkamp at have en hacker med om bord? Ashen Stars kan findes her: http://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/ashen-stars/

The Lasers of the Benedict now know how the evo station crew was wiped out, but not why--  blind emotion ruled the scene. Malevolence is not necessary to cause harm, and valor can be as misplaced as anger. They follow up on their leads at the unnamed settlements within the city's ruins. Many bumpy introductions aside, the crew draws closer and closer to the source of the psycho-electronic interference that has dogged them since they arrived.Ironicus runs the adventure for dangerous pilot Jackets O'Tarker (Keith Carberry), rookie tech Bentley Rudkin (Phil Kollar), the unmistakably unremarkable Norman Averáge (Ambisagrus), diminutive medic Julius Joestar (Gnome), bloodthirsty bug Ka-Cha (Drakkel), and heartbroken machine Eos (Ikks).Click here to see the crew's portraits by Cataegory!Six Feats Under Presents: Ashen StarsGUMSHOE SystemRun ButtonFriends at the TablePolygonfuckdads.comAustin Walker's Patreon

Star Trek, Fringe, The Genius... you know what's a good form of media that is not game-related? TV! Discussion of the usual unrelated entertainment mixed with the usual frantic planning and re-planning.If you've listened to tabletalk before, this is just like that-- it just gets its own post now! Congrats on the promotion, tabletalk!If you've never listened to tabletalk before, it is, as you may expect, all the off-topic chatter before, during, and after recordings! Be aware there is minimal noise editing.

Special guests Keith Carberry of Run Button and Friends at the Table and Phil Kollar of Polygon join us to discuss a somewhat reversed method of design, genre emulation. Genres, created as an ends to categorize media, can also be a powerful tool to give your game the feel it needs; the key lies in breaking your favorite genre down into the criteria that define it, then analyzing just what it is about those individual criteria you like so much. We present our favorite examples and test the theory out on two game sure to be the next big thing: Where's Waldo & Kevin RPG and Noir Swimmingly.This episode expands upon topics first discussed in our episodes on Designing from Influences, Show Wrestling & Mechanics, and Feats 101. We also discussed Law's Out (with which we put together a harrowing tale) and Monsterhearts (with which we surely will soon).Six Feats Under Presents: Ashen StarsGUMSHOE System

Ashen Stars follows crews of investigators known as Lasers as they roam a war-torn galaxy. One crew in particular answers a distress beacon in the radiation-blasted wasteland of what was once a great city. Unidentified shipments of medical supplies, malevolent computer code, and silent rooms of death await. Ironicus runs the adventure for dangerous pilot Jackets O'Tarker (Keith Carberry), rookie tech Bentley Rudkin (Phil Kollar), the unmistakably unremarkable Norman Averáge (Ambisagrus), diminutive medic Julius Joestar (Gnome), bloodthirsty bug Ka-Cha (Drakkel), and heartbroken machine Eos (Ikks).Click here to see the crew's portraits by Cataegory!Six Feats Under Presents: Ashen StarsGUMSHOE SystemRun ButtonFriends at the TablePolygon

Special guests and RPG beginners Mark Soloff and Ashley Davis join us to discuss just what to do when you've never played an RPG before. ----more---- Here are our recommendations for D&D4e's player types!Actors Golden Sky Stories: A focus on developing your character as a complete (and cute) individual Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, Nobilis - in both games, your character is literally center stage, and the world revolves around them. Advancing your character is based around developing the desires and the responsibilities they gain from their newfound powers. Becoming - everyone plays as the same hero, and the goal of the game is to flesh them out and determine how they overcome challenges and why they are a hero. FATE (Core and Accelerated Edition): A game engine based on playing to your character’s aspects, for good or ill. WWWRPG: Of all the *World games, none gives you a stronger character role to play with. Explorers Eclipse Phase, Ashen Stars, Malifaux, and other games with strong established settings Last Stand: All the GM advice is built around setting up unique fight scenarios and cool locations and big flashy one-time events Instigators DANGER PATROL: Leap into action, don’t bother thinking about it! That is the core mechanic of Danger Patrol: the more danger you are in, the better your dice rolls get. Costume Fairy Adventures: Causing shenanigans is the goal of the game and how you win at being fairies. Everyone is John: This is like Becoming, above, except extremely silly and the goal is to Kill John. Power Gamers D&D 4e: Fully customizable, robust character classes, with potential for fun synergies. Double Cross: Probably the best point-buy supers game currently on the market! Last Stand: It is a save-the-world fightgame where you rip apart giant monsters! Strike! RPG: A simplified battle system designed for quick fights and lots of ‘em Storytellers 13th Age: Encourages characters to have relationships with the established setting Breakfast Cult: Cooperative and competitive; each player has a secret objective for plenty of intrigue Fiasco: The perfect game for telling a story where everything goes wrong. GM-less. Final Bid: For the exact same reasons as Fiasco. Monster Hearts: If you want to play Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the RPG, this is where it is, and it hits the sense of drama perfectly. Thinkers Retrocausality: This game is all about time travel, and the core mechanic is messing with the time stream in a way that gets you what you want out of it, but without causing unintended consequences The GUMSHOE line: Various games all about finding information and piecing it together to solve a mystery. The Quiet Year: This is a game where everyone has to spend a year preparing for a horrible disaster that they don't know what it is, and do what they think is best to save their community from the coming disaster. Problem solving is the name of the game. Microscope: Microscope is a game you play before another game. Microscope is a collaborative worldbuilding game where everyone works together to figure out what elements of the setting everyone cares about and wants to explore, and building a setting around those ideas. Watchers Apocalypse World: no turn order, meaning players can play whenever they feel comfortable Dungeon World: Same reasons as Apocalypse World, except for people who want the classic D&D feel. DW also has probably the best handouts of any *World game out there, which are nice for beginners. Law’s Out: the players are actors on the set of an Old West movie-- games are as fun to watch as they are to play, and the auction mechanic is good for beginners or those uncomfortable with number-crunching. Six Feats Under Presents: Lasers & Feelings Blastropodcast oddlookingbird

Hi!  This is the first episode here at the new site!  I am excited to be publishing these podcasts again after a long hiatus.  Thanks to all who have been waiting for Virtual Play to resume--as I've said before--both of you!  In this episode, Bill and I talk about a few of the games we played at Dreamation 2014.  The show includes excerpts from Dungeon Crawl Classics, Ashen Stars, and Trail of Cthulhu.  The focus of the show is on the use of flashbacks and other time manipulation as a technique for adventure design.  Our discussion also includes a few minutes on a Traveller adventure I ran, but we have no excerpt because I lost the SD card.  Drat!  The episode clocks in at 75 minute--a little longer than usualI think it's worth it.  Enjoy the show!  Mel 

Alexander hat sich (ausnahmsweise ohne Markus) das Science-Fiction-Rollenspiel Ashen Stars von Robin D. Laws genauer angeschaut. Das Spiel ist bei Pelgrane Press erschienen und verwendet das Gumshoe-System. Polyeder Podcast Folge 35: Ashen Stars (Downloadlink, 20 min)  

Welcome to Virtual Play!  In this episode, Bill and I discuss Ashen Stars and Night’s Black Agents.  Bill ran both these games at Dexcon.  They are both based on the Gumshoe system, by Pelgrane Press, and so share the same basic mechanics.  Ashen Stars includes rules to give it a science fiction feel: space combat, […]

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