Podcast appearances and mentions of don dehm

This episode I am joined by Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer as we build a Halfling Cleric focused on healing, evangelizing, and protecting itself. We also give some of our thoughts on pacing and engagement in the game. Sponsor: RPGNow.com RPGNow Pick of the Episode - Huxtropy Links: Jeff on the Wizard's Community The Tome Show on the Wizard's Community

This episode I am joined by Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer as we build a Halfling Cleric focused on healing, evangelizing, and protecting itself. We also give some of our thoughts on pacing and engagement in the game. Sponsor: RPGNow.com RPGNow Pick of the Episode - Huxtropy Links: Jeff on the Wizard's Community The Tome Show on the Wizard's Community

This episode I am joined by Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer as we build a Halfling Cleric focused on healing, evangelizing, and protecting itself. We also give some of our thoughts on pacing and engagement in the game. Sponsor: RPGNow.com RPGNow Pick of the Episode - Huxtropy Links: Jeff on the Wizard's Community The Tome Show on the Wizard's Community

The Tome's Summer 2008 contest is coming to a close at the end of August. But I wanted to give you one quick chance to hear what sort of quality things you could win. Why haven't you entered yet? What are you thinking?!?!? Get over to the website and enter today before it's too late. Also, I am so very excited to bring you the Vorpal Network, which I serve on the Board of Directors for. Go check out the site, the new forums, and the news page. We have some big plans and want you to be in on the ground floor. This episode has me talking to Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer, Daniel Perez of Highmoon Media, Fraser Ronald of Sword's Edge Publishing and the Accidental Survivors podcast, Jakub Jaraczewski of Q-Workshop, Nicolas Logue of Sinister Adventures, Rone Barton for Goodman Games, Steve Kenson of Green Ronin, and Steve Machow of Myth Merchant Press. Amazon.com Widgets Phew, it was a lot of talking and a lot of prizes for you to win...so get to entering!!

The Tome's Summer 2008 contest is coming to a close at the end of August. But I wanted to give you one quick chance to hear what sort of quality things you could win. Why haven't you entered yet? What are you thinking?!?!? Get over to the website and enter today before it's too late. Also, I am so very excited to bring you the Vorpal Network, which I serve on the Board of Directors for. Go check out the site, the new forums, and the news page. We have some big plans and want you to be in on the ground floor. This episode has me talking to Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer, Daniel Perez of Highmoon Media, Fraser Ronald of Sword's Edge Publishing and the Accidental Survivors podcast, Jakub Jaraczewski of Q-Workshop, Nicolas Logue of Sinister Adventures, Rone Barton for Goodman Games, Steve Kenson of Green Ronin, and Steve Machow of Myth Merchant Press. Amazon.com Widgets Phew, it was a lot of talking and a lot of prizes for you to win...so get to entering!!

The Tome's Summer 2008 contest is coming to a close at the end of August. But I wanted to give you one quick chance to hear what sort of quality things you could win. Why haven't you entered yet? What are you thinking?!?!? Get over to the website and enter today before it's too late. Also, I am so very excited to bring you the Vorpal Network, which I serve on the Board of Directors for. Go check out the site, the new forums, and the news page. We have some big plans and want you to be in on the ground floor. This episode has me talking to Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer, Daniel Perez of Highmoon Media, Fraser Ronald of Sword's Edge Publishing and the Accidental Survivors podcast, Jakub Jaraczewski of Q-Workshop, Nicolas Logue of Sinister Adventures, Rone Barton for Goodman Games, Steve Kenson of Green Ronin, and Steve Machow of Myth Merchant Press. Amazon.com Widgets Phew, it was a lot of talking and a lot of prizes for you to win...so get to entering!!

Interview with Kenneth Hite at GenCon 2007 0:37 - I sat down with frequent guest Kenneth Hite at GenCon to talk about what we saw at the show that excited us. 1:26 - This show is a member of the Goblin Broadcast Network. 1:33 - Ken and I weren't able to do this at GenCon last year, as he was at Ropecon in Finland. He's glad to be back. 3:34 - Both of us were tremendously impressed by Jason Morningstar's Grey Ranks, a game about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. 6:12 - Ken got a glimpse at Julia Ellingboe's Steal Away Jordan, a game about slavery in the antebellum American South. I had the opportunity to play in a demo of it, and it deeply affected me as well. 10:13 - I tried to pick up The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane from Pinnacle, but it was sold out. 11:50 - Neither of us have a had chance to read Monte Cook's World of Darkness or Changeling: The Lost from White Wolf, but they look great. 12:49 - Both of us have had a chance to look at Blossoms Are Falling, the newest supplement Burning Wheel supplement, covering Heian-era Japan. 13:47 - We talk about the Ashcan Front, using Paul Czege's Acts of Evil as an example. 16:09 - Oh yeah, and Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition was announced, but we don't know that much specific about it. That doesn't stop us from speculating. 20:33 - Edited by James Lowder, Hobby Games: The 100 Best is a great collection of essays by one hundred game designers about their favorite games. We recommend it, and not just because Ken is one of those hundred. 23:58 - Both us were jazzed by different parts of Post-Apocalyptic Hero, the latest Hero System genre book. 24:36 - In the quick hits segment we talk about the Pirate's Guide to Freeport, Dirty Secrets, The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries, and Blood and Bronze. 27:23 True to form, Ken manages a seamless segue to talk about the forthcoming Trail of Cthulhu before we go. 28:42 - Don Dehm from the Parsec Award-winning Pulp Gamer podcast says hello. 28:48 - I'll be back next episode with my interview with Monte Cook for Inside the Game Designers Studio. --PaulDiscuss this episode in the HG,WT forum.

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.

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

OrcCon Wrap-up, Notes on Game Preparation, and Thoughts on the Role of System in RPGs 0:37 - Beware the Ides of March! I'm back, after a brief hiatus to run the RPG department at Strategicon. To see what I played there, check out A Fistful of Games. 3:34 - This show is a member of the Gaming Broadcast Network. 3:42 - I begin answering a pair of questions from a listener by starting with the idea of fostering character-driven play. 14:39 - I get to the second question and talk about my techniques for game preparation. 20:13 - Don Dehm from Pulp Gamer (with whom I got the chance to play some games at OrcCon) says hello. 20:19 - Inspired by something the Sons of Kryos said in episode 36, I talk about what excites me about the role of system in roleplaying games. 32:06 - This show is part of the Gaming Podcast Network. 32:15 - That's it for now. I'll be back in a few weeks, after the Game Chef competition and the Nerdly Beach Party. --PaulDiscuss this episode in the HG,WT forum

In a gaming podcast crossover, Paul interviews Don Dehm and Derek Rex of Pulp Gamer. Show notes: Pulp Gamer Fantasy Frontiers Discuss this episode in the HG,WT forum