Podcasts about elm city games

Join us for our last episode of the year with guests Max and Bobby, where we cover Trash Talk, a party game published by Friendly Skeleton and designed by Matt Fantastic and Andrea Pincumbe.  Also, check out Elm City Games if your ever in New Haven, CT.  38/42

Consider the following.   Ever since the intellectual awakening of humankind, we have been telling stories to pass the time. Be it Gronk who was able to harness fire to save his tribe from eminent disaster, to the alleged stories Shaharizad told her bertroved to survive just another night, each are equally important for the storyteller and its participants.   Our players and skilled DM have woven a narritive which I hope has inspired you, yes you listener, to weave your own reality with others. Obviously the first step is the hardest, and scarriest. But, given the correct atmosphere and open acceptance, you too could have what I have felt in my soul.    A tale so vivid and shared, it means more than the reality of its parts. I can feel Arj slicing through a spider's thorax, the pulse of Rush as he topples cultists in a mad dash for survival, and can feel the wardrobe change of a victorious Florence deciding between leopard corset or polished segmented leathers. That's what makes this all the more sorrowful when I say this is the last episode of season 2.   Blame, well, you know.   Please consider Out Of The Abyss as a fantastic campaign to run on your own time, and feel free to share the results. I'm sure you might have vastly different results... but not as much fun as we have over the course of these almost 2 year recordings.   Once again none of this could be possible without Travis Holyfield.  Music provided by Kellen and a wopping dollop of Games Brown. Both are bandcamp bound and ready to entertain you. Freesound.org fills in the missing chimes and might be worth your time. Check em out.   This quest had its origins at Elm City Games, New Haven, CT. Stop in and say hi to Matt, Trish, or any of the fellow Elmers who are just the best souls this side of the Dixon.   Good Night. See you on season 3.   -Bob Kegler finally out of the Dungeon, CT

My guest will be Matt Fantastic. Matt primarily does freelance game design and development for publishers around the world as the creative director of Forever Stoked, the creative studio he founded over a decade ago. He also owns a game shop/library (Elm City Games), is sometimes an adjunct instructor of game design, publishes indie games, books, zines, vinyl records, and other creative weirdness with killjoy and Prettiest Princess, is a Creative Director at Vice Games, founded the New Haven Game Makers Guild, organizes Fantasticon, and does consulting/fixing across the game industry as well as for corporate clients like Netflix and Yale. Growing up in a house of gamers, educators, artists, and community organizers along with an adolescence filled with basement shows and political protests, Matt's professional life is rooted in collectivism, art, nerdery, social justice, and DIY punk rock.

Have you invited friends over virtually to visit your dream island home on Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons? Or maybe your weekly board game night has moved onto Zoom. This hour, we take a break from the heavy stuff and talk about the ways people are staying connected and having fun while isolated from friends and family. From multiplayer video games to Yahtzee over Skype, we learn how you can play games with your crew while still staying home. And later, we check in with NPR TV critic Eric Deggans to get his recommendations on what shows to binge during quarantine. We want to hear from you. What are you playing or watching while staying at home? GUESTS: Matt Fantastic - Game designer and co-owner of Elm City Games in New Haven Elise Favis - Reporter for Launcher, the Washington Post’s video game section  Eric Deggans - Television critic for NPR Support the show.

Recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. Not all that holds the terror can be seen. In the Underdark, you can be sure all shadows hold are murderous fiends. Decisions made and directions taken without guff, the party strikes out for Slubidop, a Kuo Toan stronghold on the edge of the Darklake. With the promise of peace, but an impossible draw to violence, our party looses more than just their sanity. The pure awakening of the Demigorgon feels fast approaching and the options to run dwindling at the second...   Well, uh, we are not the heroes you thought we were... Also sorry about the Audio Goblin,   Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown. Check both out at bandcamp.

Recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. Not all that holds the terror can be seen. In the Underdark, you can be sure all shadows hold are murderous fiends. Decisions made and directions taken without guff, the party strikes out for Slubidop, a Kuo Toan stronghold on the edge of the Darklake. With the promise of peace, our party seeks a brief respite from the shifting madness which is slowly warping the mind of Prince Dendril, a cursed elf stuck in the body of a Quagoth.   Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown. Check both out at bandcamp.

Recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. Not all that holds the terror can be seen. In the Underdark, you can be sure all shadows hold are murderous fiends. ...and the occasional mycolith with the cutest voice who better not be killed by the DM no matter what. You hear me, Travis! Decisions made, and directions taken the party strives for the hometown of Shushar, a Kuo Toa with the promise of piece. Along the way, we may or may not keep him safe and proud.   Yup.   Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown. Check both out at bandcamp.

Recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. Good fortune befalls our party as an unlikely ally releases our prison doors for petty revenge on an ex-lover. Yeah, you though your high school drama was tough. The prision at Velkynvelve in the Underdark are getting tiresome. Digging holes for 5 hours then filling them for the pleasure of oppressive Drow is not a great feeling.  Drow that we know are only keeping us alive to use us for mysterious means to a final end. They mean us harm and we mean to be free at all costs. But is getting our spell focuses, Artificers Hammers, Armor, and murder loot machine going strong for unit cohesion worth getting killed over.   Yup.   Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown. Check both out at bandcamp.

Recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. Good fortune befalls our party as an unlikely ally releases our prison doors for petty revenge on an ex-lover. Yeah, you though your high school drama was tough. Survival becomes the main goal for the unlikely 16 survivors as we traverse Velkynvelve seeking an exit, gear, and any guard to payback for our vicious imprisonment. For the uninitiated this campaign starts in a prision at Velkynvelve in the Underdark. The Underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark elf Gromph Baenre, Archmage of Menzoberranzan decides to orchestrate his grand plan, engulfing all who inhabit the land with a demonic portal to eternal suffering. What steps through surprises even him, and from that moment on, the insanity that pervades the Underdark escalates and threatens to shake the Forgotten Realms to its foundations. Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown. Check both out at bandcamp.

Dungeonetics- 2:2 Coerce the guards? These sessions were recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. 7 days in a cell breaking rock is no way to adventure. Its time for a jailbreak. In our second episode we discuss strategies with our NPC's and "formulate and execute a plan". Did you know quotation marks also help signify sarcasm. For the uninitiated this campaign starts in a prision at Velkynvelve in the Underdark. The Underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark elf Gromph Baenre, Archmage of Menzoberranzan decides to orchestrate his grand plan, engulfing all who inhabit the land with a demonic portal to eternal suffering. What steps through surprises even him, and from that moment on, the insanity that pervades the Underdark escalates and threatens to shake the Forgotten Realms to its foundations. Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown. Check both out at bandcamp.

Alright, were back!  These sessions were recorded at Elm City Games in New Haven CT, featuring DM Travis Holyfield. It contains six new participants doomed to trudge the unknown in the official Out Of The Abyss Campaign setting. For the uninitiated this campaign starts in a prision at Velkynvelve in the Underdark. The Underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark elf Gromph Baenre, Archmage of Menzoberranzan decides to orchestrate his grand plan, engulfing all who inhabit the land with a demonic portal to eternal suffering. What steps through surprises even him, and from that moment on, the insanity that pervades the Underdark escalates and threatens to shake the Forgotten Realms to its foundations. Feel free to check out the shop at Elm City Games or check out Travis and his artwork Street Clothes Our opening theme provided by Kellen and closing theme by Games Brown

Originally aired in July 2016 Zach and Vanessa discuss their visit to Elm City Games cafe in New Haven Connecticut.

The GSA’s Happenings episodes are designed to help Yale’s graduate students become more engaged in the greater New Haven community. This Happenings episode is a local holiday gift buying guide featuring EcoWorks, Make Haven, and Elm City Games! Share our Facebook post for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to Jack’s Steakhouse. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yalegsa/ More information: EcoWorks: https://ecoworksct.org/ Make Haven: https://www.makehaven.org/ Elm City Games: http://newhavenboardgames.com/ Voices on the episode: Rick Crouse - Podcast Producer Lisa Spetrini - Co-Founder, EcoWorks J.R. Logan - Executive Director, Make Haven Matt Fantastic - Co-Owner, Elm City Games