Brandon takes over as GM for our final session of Vincent Baker’s In A Wicked Age… We made a distinct attempt at going for non-violent conflicts this time around, and it worked out pretty well. This session focused around a nomadic remnants of

CJ takes the reins as GM this round and much fun was had by all. By this session we're all pretty comfortable with the rules and conflict flows quickly and freely. This session would prove to be Brandon's day, as his now-corrupted character from last sess

Unfortunately we had a bit of a technical failure when we recorded our "real" session 2. Only an hour or so was saved, so in actuality this is session 3. Fortunately the serial nature of In a Wicked Age stories gave us some considerable leeway. There shou

We've all been champing at the bit to dig into Vincent Baker's games, and due to its popularity as a one-shot party game, the crew decided to go with In a Wicked Age first.  These sessions were an absolute blast, and everyone came away a pretty big fan.

Kevin gathered up Shaun Hayworth from This Modern Death and Robert Bohl from the Independent Insurgency to talk about how much roleplaying is done in a usual session. Rob had recently been listening to some podcasts that seemed to at time discourage rolep

Kevin sits down with CJ to regale him with tales of his exploits at GenCon. There are several games explained, and a fuzzy recollection of Kevin's booze-soaked Saturday adventures at the Podcasters Meet and Greet. Relevant Links * Bear Swarm (http://ww

Kevin, Misha, Sabe and Jason talk about their experiences with Blazing Rose.  It was the first GMless game for Misha and Jason, and we discuss how it resulted in a different play experience for them. The conversation then continues on to many differences

I met Edward "Sabe" Jones at Forge Midwest 2009, and we've kept in touch ever since. A few weeks back he was in town and we sat down to play his game Blazing Rose: A game of romantic rivalry. Joining us is Sabe's girlfriend Misha and fellow local podcaste

A couple weeks ago we switched from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. This means we have a lot more flexibility with what kinds of features we can have on the site. Behold our new on-site media player! Marvel at our multiple RSS feeds! On that note, some of

Our final interview from the heady days of Forge Midwest 2009 is a brief interview with Willow Palecek, Forge Midwest organizer and designer of the FATE-based RPG Awesome Adventures. We talk with Willow about why she made Awesome Adventures, how she got i