Mick, Rich and special guest Judd discuss a recent Primetime Adventures Pitch session over Skype that went off the rails and talk about ways to fix it in the future.

Mick’s blog post on the subject: This was over before it ever began.

The episode was sponsored by DriveThruRpg!

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Last night the Monday night group took a break from the Savage Worlds fantasy game and played some Lacuna Part 1. I ran the game and Cary, Joel and Doris played agents from the Hospital storyline see here for a bit o’ that) that “Dude” ran last year.  “Dude” played Falconer, an agent from a previous solo game I’d run for him a couple years ago. For brevity’s sake, I’m assuming you know about Lacuna, but the quick bits are PCs are Mystery Agents who hunt down monsters in a shared dream world called Blue City. When the monsters are sent to the Lacuna, the person they “inhabited”, who were previously criminals, wake up “fixed”.

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In this week’s Savage Worlds fantasy game (based loosely in Shaintar) the party brought the snake cult to its knees, but the Temple of Knowledge may end up being a casualty in the war.

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Happy GM’s Day!

Today we’re adding a new feature to the Canon Puncture website. Its a weekly webcomic called Pukk’s Perfect Game (PPG). These comics were created using the very cool bitstrips website (www.bitstrips.com). PPG is about an orc named Pukk who is a long time tabletop RPG player as he shares his hobby with his young son Lekk, an avid video game player. Enjoy!

(Press release)

DriveThruRPG Once Again Celebrates GM’s Day With It’s Biggest Sale Ever!

(Atlanta, GA) – March 4th has become well known in RPG fan circles as “Game Master’s Day,” or GM’s Day, a day on which all gamers honor and celebrate the folks who take the time to set up and run roleplaying games. As a part of this celebration, dozens of publishers on DriveThruRPG are offering hundreds upon hundreds of products for sale at 25% off.

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(copied from a post on rpg.net by Dr. Awkward from The Escapist)

Read An RPG Book in Public Week is an event that happens three times a year, during the weeks surrounding March 4th, July 27th, and October 1st (starting on the Sunday on or before, and ending on the Saturday on or after). During these weeks, roleplaying enthusiasts are encouraged to take their favorite RPG rulebooks out with them and “get caught” reading them in public – on the bus, in the coffee shop, at lunch, at the park, or anywhere (as long as it isn’t disruptive to work, school, church, or any other functions).

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So, there’s this game called “Happy Birthday Robot!”

I found it here

As Beth pointed out, it’s not unlike a drama improv exercise she used to do back in high school.  Players get together to build a story, one sentence at a time.  What this game does differently, however, is put rules on how many words you can use, and what words your fellow players can add to the sentence you created.

We played it twice over skype last night.

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Game Advocates is a miniseries of interviews about a single game, not with the game designers but with people who have thoroughly played the game.  In Game Advocates, we ask about how the game plays, what’s fun about it and what players enjoy about it.  We also chat about possible pitfalls for new players.

This episode’s advocate is Ryan Stoughton, creator of the D&D hack called E6 (http://esix.pbworks.com/)

Ryan advocates for In a Wicked Age by Vincent Baker.

Find it here: http://lumpley.com/wicked.html

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In this week’s Savage Worlds fantasy game (based loosely in Shaintar) the party found out most of the plotting behind the snake cult and took some decisive actions to stop them. Two weeks in a row this game has been surprisingly fun.

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