“I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.”
– First Edition
The God Machine. A powerful and mysterious entity that was only hinted at in a short story in the New World of Darkness book. It’s been spawning questions and rumors for over a decade. What is it? How does it relate to the World of Darkness? Now, with the release of this book, none of these questions are answered.
In this episode, Wayne and Lyal continue their review of The God-Machine Chronicle.
This is how you do edition rage, Internet: you don’t.
In this episode, World of Darkness superfans Wayne and Lyal review The God-Machine Chronicle, which includes the World of Darkness rules update. Chris also claims to be a fan. Yet, he can never remember the rules, and when it comes time to record the episode, his daughter gets “sick”.
This turned out to be a really long episode, so we broke it into two parts. This part covers most of the character rules. The “story” rules (e.g., combat) and the setting will be discussed in Part 2.
“We can certainly risk a few Legionnaires for France. After all, they are mostly foreigners.”
–March or Die
Those that make jokes about the French’s inability to fight forget the elite, battle-hardened French Foreign Legion. This collection of Germans, Eastern Europeans, Latin Americans … aaaaand that doesn’t help. Never mind.
In this installment of warriors, we look at the French Foreign Legion, a gang of murderers, rapists, and thieves, until Interpol stepped in with background checks. Now, it’s home to alimony-escaping ex-spouses, the unemployed, and probably still thieves (at least Interpol left us with that one).
In this installment of Rogues, we discuss the criminal underworld’s UPS drivers: smugglers. But you won’t see Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Nathan Fillion and Pam Grier caught dead in any unflattering brown uniforms. Or that van. And they probably would never ask anyone to sign for a package. Okay, the analogy is breaking down.
This follow-up to the first tabletop industry survey was mailed out to those that indicated that they would be willing to take another one. I’m posting it here as well and would appreciate it if you could take some time to fill this out. It focuses on digital tools and attracting children to the hobby.
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Thanks.
Lyal
“Part 2 and there seems no end in sight to this episode. Will my children recognize me when we finish? Will my wife? I had cats. Two. How long do cats live for? Oh god.
I hear voices. No, it is not madness. It is the other hosts. Something about a 13th Age. When did we start? The 1st Age? I can’t remember. I do remember two books with such promise. Will this second deliver? Is it what we’ve been seeking? I’m so tired.”
In this episode, we review 13th Age. Is it worth the 3 a.m. bedtime that the hosts suffered to bring you this review?
In this two-part episode, we review Numenera and 13th Age. This episode focuses on Kickstarter sensation Numenera. Should you buy it?
It should be noted that these reviews are based on reading the books, not playing the games. After these reviews, we’ve decided to make one our next game. It should be clear which one after listening to both parts.
It takes three to make a thing go right
It takes espirit to make it outta sight
En garde!
I wanna allez now
I am prêt and I came to get down
I am internationally known And I am known to riposte for the throne
Because I get stoopid, I mean rivalacious Stay away from me if you’re contagious
Cause I’m the winner, no, I’m not a loser
To be musketeer is what I choose-a
Ladies love me, girls adore me
I mean even the ones who never saw me
Like the way that I touché them in bed
While my rivals passé instead
In this installment of warriors, we look at the French Musketeers. Are you flashy enough to carry an épée?
Please take the survey below. It asks how and why you play tabletop role-playing games, what other games you play, and how to get children more involved in the hobby. If you play TRPGs, the survey should take under 10 minutes. If you don’t play TRPGs, then you must love our extremely late movie reviews and will be able to complete the survey in a couple of minutes.
This survey is for a school paper I’m doing. The results of the survey will never be presented in any way that individuals will be able to be identified.
I would really appreciate it if you shared the survey with as many people as you can.
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Thanks,
Lyal
The Idle Red Hands are still finding inspiration in everyday things like Jenga towers, X-Box games and bear gods. Join us for our second installment of Inspirations where we share game ideas we’ve gotten from outside of the TRPG world.
In this episode, we discuss the novel Shardik, the video game Bastion, and the TRPG Dread. I think one of the hosts doesn’t quite get the concept of this series.
