Midnight's Lair

WalkerP and James Maliszewski on Old School Games
Recorded 09 Nov 2008
Released 17 Nov 2008
Opening music is Boss by the Ramblers.
End music is Fat Back by Link Wray.
Hosting by Erik Menard.
Emcee, Doc Holaday.

Links
Thousand Suns
http://www.rogue-games.net/othergames2.html

Grognardia
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/

Dragon's Foot
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/

Knight's & Knaves Alehouse
http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb/index.php

Original D&D Discussion
http://odd74.proboards76.com/

Jeff's Gameblog
http://jrients.blogspot.com/2008/11/...of-cinder.html

OSRIC
http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/

Castles & Crusades
http://www.trolllord.com/cnc/index.html

Labyrinth Lord
http://www.goblinoidgames.com/labyrinthlord.htm

Swords & Wizardry
http://www.swordsandwizardry.com/

Og, Critical Mass, and Effective Handouts with PMikey and Doc
Recorded 12 Oct 2008
Released 10 Nov 2008

Games Mentioned:
Og, the Unearthed Edition from Firefly Games.

Opening music is Primitive by the Cramps.
End music is Caveman by the Cramps.
Hosting by Erik Menard.

System and Setting Hacks with Jocelyn Robitaille
Recorded 12 Oct 2008

Opening music is Minor Chaos by the Treasures.
End music is The Other Side by the Torquays.
Hosting by Erik Menard.

Games Mentioned:

Dark Sun was a 2nd edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons product by Timothy B. Brown and Troy Denning of TSR, Inc. The setting was inspired by the art of Brom.

Episode 1: Sacrifices of War.

Episode 2: In Freedom's Name.

Savage Worlds Explorer's Edition is a generic, settingless RPG by Shane Lacy Hensley, John Hopler, Zeke Sparkes, and published by the Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc.

Nemesis is a One Role Engine game designed by Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze, and Shane Ivey. Nemesis is published by Dennis Detwiller.

Reign is a fantasy RPG using the One Role Engine. It is published by Schroedinger's Cat Press and was designed by Greg Stolze.

Unknown Armies was designed by Greg Stolze & John Tynes. It is published by Atlas Games.

WalkerP, Jocelyn Robitaille, and Doc Holaday on
Mutant Future, Randomness, and Old School Games
Recorded 12 Oct 2008

Mutant Future and Goblinoid Games
(http://www.goblinoidgames.com/products.html)

Opening music: Green Slime by Richard Delvey.
End music: Green Slime by the Young Turds.
Hosting by Erik Menard.
Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/...3.0/legalcode.

PMikey and WalkerP on Halloween Games.
October 19th, 2008.
40 minutes.

Joe’s Apparment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe’s_Apartment

Deep Rising
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Rising

Opening music is Drac’s Back from The Bollock Brothers.
End music is The Monster by Evan Carroll.
This podcast is released under the creative commons attribution-sharealike 3.0 unported agreement (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/…3.0/legalcode).

Hosting and sponsorship generously provided by Erik Menard of the Midnight’s Lair.
Emcee for From the Lair, Doc Holaday.

Here’s our Sticks and Stones Show
Intro: The ususal banter
Review of Og: Unearthed Edition & Primitive
Roundtable: Prepareing and Planing to Write / Run a Con Senario.
Cruel Humor: Caveman vs. Bear

- Midnight

Well Show number 2 for Season 2 is in the can I really hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it!

I’m sure the Show Notes will be along presently 

- Midnight

Erik, Luc, and Troy resurrect the show after a long hiatus.

Let me foreground my conflict of interest right here. The new third co-host on this show is me, the author of this blog. I used to do the segment for this show called Gaming Ether but have joined them for the long haul as another talking head. Feel free to blog about my poor performance or comment on it here!

This was a solid re-entry into the podcastmosphere. (Yes, I think I did just make up that word.) The trio talk about hobby news since they last casted: the passing of father Gygax, the Dark Heresy and Warhammer announcements by Black Library (involving the passing of the license to Fantasy Flight), the redesign of Dungeons & Dragons.

Luc and Erik interview Lee Foster of Abstract Nova about his game, Aletheia (link to RPGnet review). There are some really nice mechanics in this game. One of my favorites is the idea of debriefing players after a session and having them explain what just happened (it’s a game of paranormal investigation). Their accuracy determines how many experience points they get for the session.

I introduce a new segment called “What’s the big idea?,” which is just about quickly stating things that inspired us recently. I mention an article I read about Tengu. Luc talked about a robot drone with twin machine guns outfitted for assassination. Erik brought up the interesting concept of “retconning” characters in long-term campaigns. (Reference comic books and how they retroactively revise character histories to fit with the current incarnation of a character.)

As always, there was cruel humor. Yikes!

-Troy

Here is Episode 3 people!! I really hope you enjoy it as we had a blast bringing it you.

In this Episode we cover Some Industry News including some information on a local Montreal Convention RoyalCon, User Feedback.

The Main Event is about how to Run a better Game.

We also have a new feature, Interviews with GM’s of successful long term campaigns were calling “Other Peoples Games”.

We also wrap up on some of the neat stuff we found at GenCon in the Review Corner / Hidden Treasures Segment, and of course we have the very popular “Cruel Humour”.

The Show Notes will follow as soon as Luc can figure out how to post them to the Blog!!

Also we invested in some better recording equipment for use in the Lair Studios, so you may notice a change in the sound of the show. There appears to be a slight background hum, but I think I have isolated the source, so it should be less noticable in the future!

As always feedback of any kind is greatly appreciated!

-Erik / Midnight

Well Folks were back and what an experince it was. Sorry this is late but real life got in the way, Agian. I promise that later this week I will expand on these Show Notes and Complete the Show Notes from Episode 2.

Well I've got Episode 2 up a little late due to family commitments over the weekend that delayed production.

Intro / Warm Up:

We're going to Gen*Con!!!

• It our first and probably only time we'll get to go
• We'll be doing a Convention Diary for the Podcast for August Monday 14th

Notebook:

• I have to say thank you to Mike Hodge for bringing this to my attention. The Amazing Screw-On Head By Mike Mignola Creator http://www.scifi.com/amazingscrewonhead/

Listener Feedback:

The Main Event: Getting into Character

Review: True 20 Roleplaying by Green Ronin.

Cruel Humor: Gaming Humor

Hidden Treasures: Resources that can help you stay in character

• Kate monk's Onomastikon ( Dictionary of names) 
  http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk
• Wizards of the Coast NPC Background Generator (Good Place to start if your absolutely stuck for Character History)
  http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20010112e
• IMDB Internet Movie data base for finding stock shots of movie stars to use for you character Portraits
  http://www.imdb.com/
• rpgsheets.com
  http://www.rpgsheets.com/
• The Mad Irishman’s sheets
  http://www.unc.edu/~murphy/mad_irishman/
• Emma’s Character Sheets
  http://www.emass-web.com/
• Timpani Character Manager
  http://www.dndtools.com/

Wrap Up / Outro / Bloopers:

Music for this Show:

Showdown at the Bridge by Eric Dietrich
Moria by the Brobdingnagian Bards
2073 The New Gladiators By Eric Kauschen
Under Investigation by Eric Dietrich
Music was provided by the Podsafe Music Network
http://music.podshow.com/

Well Folks, they said it could not be done, but we did it and early to boot!

Enjoy and please let us know what you think, and if you have any gaming related questions comments, or suggestions. please send them to us!

-Erik

Show Notes for Episode 1

• Dragon’s Landing Promo
• Bear’s Grove Promo

Review Corner

• http://www.blackindustries.com/
• http://www.greenronin.com/warhammer_fantasy_roleplay/

Hidden Treasures

• Rondak's Portal for Play by Post role-playing games of all descriptions
  http://www.rondaksportal.com/
• The D20 3.5 Revised SRD by Sovelior & Sage
• The D20 Modern SRD by Roarerbull
• WotC SRD Clearing House of Sorts
• WoTC downloadable Dice Roller
  http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20040517a
• The Elfwood artists site
  http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/
• The Drawing utility that I couldn't remember the name For
  http://sketchup.google.com/

 Music for this Show:

Showdown at the Bridge by Eric Dietrich
Moria by the Brobdingnagian Bards
2073 The New Gladiators By Eric Kauschen
Under Investigation by Eric Dietrich
Music was provided by the Podsafe Music Network
http://music.podshow.com/