pursuing the RPG hobby with reckless abandon
MMORPGs vs. Table Top RPGs. A massive game day episode.
Show notes to follow … maybe …
DnD the Opera Guys. The you tube video of Tripod.
Initiative Hangies. Our little hanging initiative cards for hanging on GM screens.
Epic Words. Wikis and blogs for your campaign.
Dragon Age Character Generator download sites.
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Starting adventures/”You’re all in a tavern.”
Bumper from the Slash and Cast Podcast.
Announcing the Happy Jack’s Haiku Contest! Send us a haiku as if written by a monster. Email it to us and we’ll pick our favorite and send the poet some sort of prize (TBD).
Example:
Your Realm beckons me
The Fell Taint is patient, with
Unfortunate name.
Grimm: the RPG where you play a snotty nosed kid, battling your fairy tale favorites.
Laser Ponies! An RPG where you play ponies — that shoot lasers from their eyes!
Prince of Undeath: Adventure E3 for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons
Sharing WOTC pdfs can cost you a 100k.
Dungeons and Dragons: the Opera?
We discuss campaign starts. Stu defends “you’re all in a tavern.” We offer some alternatives. It degenerates into a tirade about players who insist on bucking starting campaign guidelines.
Featured song: “The Pub That We Call Home” by the Poxy Boggards, from the CD, Anchor Management.
We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either:
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We recorded a bumper for Jim Ryan at “the Great Debate,” and he’s kindly included it in his latest episode.
If you haven’t heard his show, give it a listen. It’s a short-form show where Jim portrays two RPG characters debating some concept or phenomenon in roleplaying (the current episode features a powerful mage and a bounty hunter debating power gaming).
Shattering stereotypes. The drinky episode.
Please take our second listener survey.
Neverwhere from Drivethrurpg.com.
Had a nice messaging exchange with Andrew, from the, Slash and Cast Podcast. His podcast describes his re-introduction to the RPG hobby. Give him a listen, his show is interesting and entertaining, and his production quality is what I want when I grow up.
Featured song: Sospan Fach by the Poxy Boggards, from the album, Anchor Management.
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Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.
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Just logged in to iTunes and noticed that we’ve cracked the top 10 on the “other games” podcast category!
The volatility of the list is such that we’ll probably be #86 in the next hour or so, but we cracked the top 10 for now, and I have the screengrab to prove it.
Thank you listeners.
We’re recording tomorrow afternoon. The episode should be up by Sunday evening/Monday morning.
Take Happy Jack’s Listener Survey 2 right now!
I cannot express how much your opinions about our show and its content mean to us. We are all stage performers at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, so we’re used to immediate audience feedback (they applaud and cheer if they like it, and boo that throw empty beer cups at us if they don’t).
With a podcast, we’re working in a void of audience feedback, and we’re not used to it. We can’t hear you when you’re applauding while listening to the show, and throwing empty beer cups at your iPod is kind of weird. This is why we’re including these surveys. It lets us know what you like, what you don’t and you wish we’d do.
We learned a lot from our first listener survey, and we have already made some changes to the show since reviewing the last survey. For instance, most of you seemed somewhat indifferent about product reviews, so we’re planning on limiting our product reviews to one per episode. Conversely, nearly everyone who completed the survey wants more stories (and applicable lessons) about our gaming sessions, so we’ve tried to include more of this (and we’d include even more if we could play more often…). You also told us that you really like hear our listener feedback, so that’s become a major part of our content.
This new survey asks your opinions about some changes we’re considering making, and some other issues that may hinder our ability to join certain media networks. Your feedback will determine our course for the future, so if you have an opinion, please express it.
This new survey also includes a question about our hiatus, which will happen when we all don our goofy Elizabethan costumes and cavort at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire from Mid-March to the end of May. It won’t be possible for us to continue our normal schedule during this time, so we want your opinion about the various solutions we’ve come up with.
“What makes a great player.”
This is a game day episode. Your hosts are Stu, Tappy, Claire, Bruce and Casey.
We review Kobold Quarterly #11 (you can purchase it from Drive Thru RPG), discuss listener email and talk about the attributes of a great player.
Links mentioned:
swordsandwizardry.com (a roleplaying game that hearkens back to the original DnD, pre-AD&D).
Bro Rape (this is a Youtube video that is NOT SAFE FOR WORK).
Join the Poxy Boggards, the Merry Wives of Windsor and the Dread Crew of Oddwood at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, California, on November 7th. Tickets: tickets.poxyboggards.com or www.mwow.net.
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We just fell off the front page of the iTunes “Other Games” podcast directory. It’s the second or third time we’ve been up there (that I’m aware of).
I was waiting for a call from Oprah ….
Season 01, Episode 11 – Character Backgrounds, where in we discuss three different approaches to coming up with player character backgrounds.
Links mentioned:
EAIeducation.com (this is the site that’s selling 105 polyhedral dice for 12 bucks).
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Firstly, our apologies for missing last week’s episode. Everyone is now right as rain and we’re ready to lay down some RPG geeky goodness (and a little douchebaggery) on Sunday.
It looks like we’re going to discuss coming up with character backgrounds, as we’ll as a large backlog of listener feedback.
We’ll also have have a special announcement for listeners only (none of the details will appear in the blog in written form).
I’m hoping to have the Episode posted by late Sunday night — and with luck, we’ll feature a song from our the new Poxy Boggards CD (which we finish mastering tomorrow).
You also may have noticed that I’ve changed the layout theme for the blog page. I was over at RPG Circus, and they’ve done a very nice redesign. Then I was looking at our page and I thought, “this is crap.” So I changed it.
Let us know what you think.
Thanks to everyone who took our listener survey. We found your responses to be VERY eye-opening. Tappy and I discussed the survey last night and we’re going to try to modify the show some to give you more of what you want (and less of what you don’t).
If you haven’t taken the listener survey, please do. We’re doing the show for the listeners, so it stand to reason that we should know what you want out of the show. Here’s the survey post.
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