Happy Jacks RPG Podcast

The advance team has made it to Gateway2010.

All of our games tomorrow (and the podcast recording) will be on the penthouse level of the hotel.

Our games will be in Penthouse 3 and 4, and the podcast will be in the (sadly) former penthouse bar.

Hope to see you all here!

As most of you know, we’re going to be at Strategicon this weekend, running games and recording a show.

Saw the following from the Strategicon twitter account yesterday:

Pre-reg has closed for Gateway 2010 and we’re at record numbers! Thanks to all who booked to come early. Gateway is going to be huge!

Record numbers!? Awesome!

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Season 03 Episode 13

Your hosts: Stu, CADave, Gammon, Merril and Casey

We discuss listener email and talk about Savage Worlds some more.

Featured Song: “The Parting Glass” by Celtic Squall.

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Season 3 Episode 12a — listener email catch-up.

Your hosts Stu, Stork and Casey.

This is a screen grab I just took from iTunes. This is the first time we’ve hit the top 10 since iTunes changed their listing from top 25 to top 10.

A big “thank you” to our listeners.

Listener Steve emailed me a much prettier version of the hanging initiative tracker for DnD4E.

I’ve included it here.

Initiative Tracker

Thanks, Steve!

There’s a really good article about how to play (and survive) in game heavy with political intrigue over at CampaignMastery.com.

It describes in great detail how to handing the avalanche of information players can receive in those kinds of games. Check it out.

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Season 03 Episode 12

Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Kimi and Casey.

We discuss listener email and running con games.

Here are some of the results from our latest listener survey. We had 70 responses, which is two or three times our previous responses.

Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edtition						19.73%
Dungeons and Dragons 3rd, 3.5 or Pathfinder						12.93%
Star Wars						10.2%
Savage Worlds						8.16%
GURPS						7.48%
Homebrew						7.48%
White Wolf						7.48%
Traveller						6.8%
Chaosium/BRP (includes Call of Cthulhu)						5.44%
Shadow Run						4.08%
Other D20 OGL System						3.4%
Fantasy Flight Games Titles (Rogue Trader, Dark Heresy, Grimm, etc)						2.72%
Indie System						2.04%
Hero System						1.36%
Fate/FUDGE-based Systems						0.68%
Burning Wheel/Mouseguard						0%

Again, I’m surprised that the various DnD flavors combined only hit 39%. The other notable response is that no one said they played Burning Wheel or Mouseguard. This reinforces my theory that only bloggers play these games.

Regarding how often you GM/DM:

I primarily GM/DM the games my group plays.						34%
I tend to GM/DM more often than other players in my group.						29%
I GM/DM occasionally.						18%
I rarely GM/DM — I am primarily a player.						15%
I’m a player and have no interest in GM/DMing.						3%

Again, not surprising. I figure most of the audience of podcasts and blogs are GMs or DMs. Though players are better represented that I expected, so we’re going to continue to work toward adding more content for players.

We also asked about listener email, as it’s the backbone of our content:

Like it! There’s just enough listener email and voicemail.						54%
Love it! I want more listener email and voicemail.						33%
It’s okay. Sometimes, there’s too much listern email and voicemail.						13%

Regarding the CONTENT of these emails what do you like/don’t like:

	I want more	Just right	Too much	I want less
Listeners’ gaming stories.	29.23%	64.62%	3.08%	3.08%
Homebrewed rules changes.	21.54%	61.54%	7.69%	9.23%
Questions about RPG topics.	54.55%	45.45%	0%	0%
Answers to questions posed in previous episodes.	34.85%	62.12%	1.52%	1.52%
Beer recommendations.	27.69%	35.38%	15.38%	21.54%

This may be of interest to those of you who write us emails, and when we get to the point where we have to limit the number of emails we read, we’ll definitely keep this in mind. So in the future, if your email includes QUESTIONS about RPGs, they’ll go to the front of the line, because more than half of our listeners want to hear more of your questions (and our answers, apparently).

And finally we asked about the rest of our content:

	More please	Just right	I want less	Make it go away
Recaps of our current games.	44.78%	49.25%	5.97%	0%
Commentary about the gaming industry.	26.87%	64.18%	8.96%	0%
Gaming stories from “the old days.”	40.3%	55.22%	4.48%	0%
Reviews/critiques of various RPG systems.	60.61%	36.36%	3.03%	0%
Tangents	23.88%	67.16%	8.96%	0%

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Season 03 Episode 11

Your hosts: Stu, CADave, Gammonstark, Stork, Tyler and Kimi.

Listener email, and keeping the challenge in your games.

Featured song: “That Bastard John Barleycorn” by the Merry Wives of Windsor.

We love listener feedback.

Email us at happyjacksrpg at gmail dot com.

Call our voicemail line at (626) 629-8RPG

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