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.

Well folks, due to the constant attack that our old Wordpress based site has been under from "Script Based Virus'" I've have decided to move the show's Blog over to our Libsyn account. So far the move has gone rather well and I'm taking this as an opportunity to go back and listen to or old shows.

Ah Nostalgia!

There might be a few problems with the feed switching from Feedburner to Libsyn but I'll tackle those as they come up.

- Erik

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