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Chris, who presents Good Vibrations on Clare FM, has once again organised Clare FM's busking performance in aid of Clare Haven. It will be taking place in Dunnes Stores, as it does every year, this Sunday, the 15th of December. Donations will be welcome on the day and all proceeds will go to Clare Haven. To discuss this further, Alan Morrissey was joined by Chris Hanrahan and Offices Coordinator at Clare Haven, Brenda Brannock. Photo (c): https://www.facebook.com/ClareHavenServices
Fr. Cletus Noone was a beloved voice on Clare FM for many years, known for his long tenure as a presenter. Many will fondly remember him from his one-hour Saturday night show, "Noone at Night." Unfortunately, we heard yesterday morning that Fr. Cletus had passed away. Alan Morrissey was joined by Chris Hanrahan, who worked closely with the late Fr. Cletus Noone. Photo (c): Clare FM
Each year, Chris Hanrahan who presents the Good Vibrations show on Clare Fm does his bit for a very worthy cause in the run-in to Christmas. It will be no different this year, when Chris gathers a bunch of musicians together to perform, in order to raise funds for Clare Haven. This year's fundraiser is happening this Saturday. For more on this, on Friday's Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey was joined by Clare Fm's Chris Hanrahan and Siobhán O'Connor, Manager of Services at Clare Haven.
Recorded at Metatopia 2016 Presented by Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan. Innovation and new ideas are fantastic in game design, but designers have borrowed, stolen, and adapted other people's ideas for as long as we've been making games. Let's talk about whose works have influenced us, how we can best credit and pay homage to that work, and what we might not understand about ourselves as designers based on the works we ourselves have created. Note: This is a short episode with mediocre sound quality. The content is good though!
Download Episode In this episode: Chris Hanrahan of Evil Hat Productions and more… With mention of: Fate, Atomic Robo, Bubblegumshoe, Monster Of The Week, Spirit of the Century and more. – A Fate Accelerated Actual Play with RpgGamerBoy and RpgGamerUncle … Continue reading →
Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan sit down to discuss the reinvention of That's How We Roll in the coming months. With season 2 of THWR on the horizon, it's time for a reroll.
Chris Hanrahan and Chris Ruggerio sit down to discuss their trip to Gencon 2008. The show swings a little wide at times (then again, when doesn’t it) and you get to hear about all manners of food, gaming, hatred of United Airlines, people we met and Battletech (sweet, sweet Battletech.) Liner Notes[0:37] Intros! We Went […]
[36min 37sec] Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan (of Endgame in Oakland, CA and the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.Part 2 of this conversation veers off of Evil Hat specifics (mostly), taking a walk through all number of topics, including a shared love of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
[46min 7sec] Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan (of Endgame in Oakland, CA and the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.Part 1 of this conversation focuses mostly on Evil Hat things -- though in the House of Hanrahan, things do tend to get a bit random here and there...
A joint episode with “That’s How We Roll”, Chris Hanrahan and Fred Hicks talk GTS at, well, GTS. Live and unplugged.
[1hr 8min] In this episode, Fred Hicks sits down with Chris Hanrahan from 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction to talk about their impressions of the GAMA Trade Show, IPR, "the industry", selling RPGs as a retailer, and a ton of other stuff. No show notes for the moment! In the interests of putting out something super-current, Fred's skipping that part for now. We're podcasting without a net, baby!
Episode 100 0:33 - Welcome to episode 100! GenCon was a great time, not only because of the roast we recorded for this episode, but also because Have Games, Will Travel won the Gold ENnie for Best Podcast. Thanks to all of you for support. 3:16 - This show is a member of the Gaming Broadcast Network. 3:24 - Ryan Macklin of Master Plan kicks off the festivities at GenCon. He take his duties as Roastmaster seriously. 4:18 - Jared Sorensen and his index cards get the party started. 8:14 - Rich Rogers from Canon Puncture demonstrates why I don’t do a vidcast. 11:39 - Fred Hicks signs over his soul. 16:34 - Don Dehm from Pulp Gamer tries to convince people that’s he’s actually Derek. 19:30 - Jeff, Judd, and Storn from the Sons of Kryos bring the love. Tough, tough love. 23:27 - Silas Applebottom of The Little Shop of Crappy Games in Deathtrap, IA (aka Randy Porter) talks about my gaming past. 26:40 - Jeff Tidball tells a story that’s funny because it’s true. 29:23 - Michelle Nephew talks about the experience of working with me at conventions. 31:07 - JJ Lanza from Fist Full of Comics and Games explores my obsession to be first with everything. 33:34 - Mario Dongu from the Game Master Show reads the Top 5 list the Pod Thralls prepared. 37:48 - Brennan Taylor, my co-host from The Voice of the Revolution, tells us what it’s like to do a podcast with me. 40:58 - Frequent guest Kenneth Hite gives us a sneak peak as to what it’s like to play in games with me. (Note to Ken: Charles Grodin never won an Oscar.) 48:10 - Ryan opens up the floor to questions. 52:10 - I finally get a chance to speak my peace and look back at one hundred amazing episodes. 1:02:08 - Chris Hanrahan and Brian Isikoff from 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction pass along their congratulations. 1:02:32 - And that will do it for Have Games, Will Travel #100. Thank you all for making this possible. --PaulDiscuss this episode in the HG,WT forum.
Origins 2007 Round Table with Chris Hanrahan, Fred Hicks, and Kenneth Hite 0:38 - Before talking about Origins, I briefly discuss the ENnies. This show, along with The Sons of Kryos, The Godzilla Gaming Podcast, Yog Radio, and Fear the Boot, has been nominated for Best Podcast. 4:01 - The Sons of Kryos say hi. 4:14 - Chris Hanrahan (of 2d6 Feet In a Random Direction) and I corner Fred Hicks and Kenneth Hite to talk about our time at Origins, starting with our great dinner at the Burgundy Room. 7:25 - With that out of the way, Fred gives us the scoop on the Indie Press Revolution booth, while I talk about the joy of giving Luke Crane his Origins Award for Burning Empires. This led to a discussion of this year's voting procedure for the Origins Award and how important activism was. 12:08 - Ken talks about carry, Aces and Eights, and Witch Hunter. 23:23 - Prompted by Ken, Fred discusses his time at the IPR booth, focusing on Spirit of the Century and Don't Rest You Head. I mention Battlestations in passing, and Ken demands that I put a link to it in the show notes. 25:21 - We get Chris to talk about his love for new Battletech products. Drool is involved. 28:20 - Jerry Corrick of Adventure Retail and the Source gets serious kudos from Ken for his impressive stock of Cthulhiana and Lovecraft books (including The Kalem Klub and The Monster in the Mirror). 32:48 - I talk about playing board games, especially in the Board Room run by the Columbus Area Boardgaming Society. Among them were Zooloretto, Pizza Box Baseball, Lost Valley, and Jenseits von Theben. 37:46 - After a brief digression about the glories of the North Market, Fred talks about playing a few after-hours RPGs with Jared Sorensen, and we talk about what makes Origins a great experience (as Ken and I discussed last year). 42:14 - Chris and I got to shoot things in TerrorWerks. Ken manages to relate this to the Scandinavian gaming scene and how our hobby is able to adapt and sell a highly-individualized experience. (This is why we invite him on the show.) Fred brings in the Ashcan Front as an example. Eventually this comes around to a discussion of the Origins seminar track. 52:48 - Before we go, Chris gives a shout out to the city of Columbus, and we all agree. 57:28 - This show is part of the Gaming Broadcast Network. 57:34 - I have a few final thoughts on Origins before talking about two projects I've worked on recently, Finis and The Story Games Names Project. --Paul Discuss this episode in the HG,WT forum.
Passages and the Zorcerer of Zo 0:36 - In the first episode of a two-part series, I review two RPGs inspired by 19th century fiction. 1:29 - This show is a member of the Gaming Broadcast Network. 1:36 - Passages, from Blue Devil Games, is Sliders meets The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in a solid D20 reimplementation. 8:51 - Mick Bradley from The House of the Harping Monkey explains his love for the show. 9:02 - The Zorcerer of Zo, from Atomic Sock Monkey Press (who also brought us Truth and Justice), gives us a look inside Chad Underkoffler's head at what he thinks about fairy tales and how his campaign shaped the game's design. 19:02 - This show is part of the Gaming Podcast Network. 19:12 - I'm going to be traveling a lot this summer, bookended with two of the Strategicons. In between I'm really looking forward to Go Play Northwest in Seattle, hanging with Chris Hanrahan at Origins, playing some games with Doug Garrett at the West Coast Meeple Fest, and doing a ton of things (including the podcasting track that Don Dehm has organized and working with the Ashcan Front) at GenCon. 27:20 - I'll be back next week with an interview with Joshua BishopRoby about his game, Full Light, Full Steam. --PaulDiscuss this episode in the HG,WT forum
RPG Discussion with Chris Hanrahan and Brian Isikoff from 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction 0:37 – This episode is a co-production with 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction, and also appeared as their Episode 11.2:11 – If you find what we have to say interesting, check out Episode 34 of the Sons of Kryos, where they touch on similar issues.2:55 – I don't need GMs for OrcCon any more, but we could definitely use players for games of all types.4:39 – I'm going to be taking an intentional break from the show, but if you want to find out what I'm up to, check out my gaming weblog, A Fistful of Games.6:38 – And now the actual show.7:22 – We discuss the Endgame Mini-Con in January 2007, focusing primarily on Spirit of the Century, but touching briefly on Best Friends and The Mountain Witch as well.17:13 – During our reflections on our gaming, we start thinking about player investment and players' responsibilities to each other. 29:46 – We take a brief excursion into theories of improvisational theatre and how they can apply to gaming. Keith Johnstone's Impro gets particular notice.36:00 – We take some of these ideas to the extreme and look at how they apply to GM-less games. Eventually we come back to our core ideas about investment and responsibility.48:54 – Chris takes us on a brief tangent about younger players, with special emphasis on Faery's Tale and The Princes' Kingdom.54:08 – We attempt to sum up our preachy philosophical wandering.56:29 – I try to convince Brian and Chris to come down my way for gaming, especially for the Strategicons.59:54 – Brian gives a brief shout-out to DarkCon.1:00:46 - We say goodnight. --Paul Discuss this episode in the HG,WT forum
Endgame MiniCon report with Chris Hanrahan and Brian Isikoff of the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast 0:39 - I explain why this show is so long and what Chris, Brian, and I talked about. 1:41 - This is show is part of the Gaming Podcast Network. 1:52 - Brian, Chris, and I introduce ourselves and talk about food. 8:02 - We finally get around to talking about the MiniCon at Endgame (with a teaser for BattleLore). 9:41 - I got to play an amazing game of Cat (run by Rich Taylor of the Good Omens Productions crew). 15:38 - Chris managed to get Mark Kaufmann from Days of Wonder to bring up a preview of BattleLore, but I was the one who got to play it. Chris demanded details. 31:21 - Chris and I got to play a great game of Zombies in the Vineyard with legendary GM Carl Rigney. 43:10 - Brian (tired of hearing us talk about all the fun we had) talks about the session of Steampunk Musha he ran using Active Exploits. 51:40 - Chris is looking for feedback from MiniCon attendees about the direction to take future events. 54:10 - Speaking of future events, BoardGameGeek.CON and GenCon SoCal are coming up in November. 1:04:22 - I've got big news about my new podcast, The Voice of the Revolution. 1:07:36 - Chris, Brian, and I wrap up our recording. 1:08:02 - This show is member of the Gaming Broadcast Network. 1:08:10 - Before I go, I want to thanks lots of people who made it a great weekend. 1:10:17 - If you're going to be at BoardGameGeek.CON or GenCon SoCal, come on over to the forums and post to the meetup thread. 1:10:44 - I explain a few more things about The Voice of the Revolution and how it will impact this show. 1:12:38 - I'm hoping to get a couple of episodes out before BGG.CON, but that's going to do it for today's show. --PaulDiscuss this episode on the HG,WT forum