Interviews – Ep 15 – Project Quintet

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Nov 122014
 

Topic – In this interview from GenCon 2014, I was able to sit down with Joseph and Carmine of Project Quintet and talk a little about gaming and geekdom in general as well as their bridge simulation and galaxy conquest game, “Project Quintet.” Enjoy!

 

Media –

Project Quintet
5th Wall Gaming
Quintet website
Find out more about Quintet on:
Facebook@ https://www.facebook.com/SpaceQuintet
Twitter@ https://twitter.com/QuintetLive
Twitch@ http://www.twitch.tv/quintetlive

Joseph supported – Town of Salem: BlankMediaGames
Carmine supported – Space Simulator for iOS and Android (Kickstarter)

Once again, this episode was made possible by the beautiful folks at GenCon 2014. Be sure to check them out – http://www.gencon.com/


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Interviews – Ep 13 – Erik Carl

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Jul 292014
 

Special Guest – Erik Carl

Topic: I had the great pleasure of sitting down with my good friend, host and Executive Producer of Metagamers Anonymous, and patriarch of the Prismatic Tsunami community, Erik Carl.  We discussed gaming with kids and his latest venture, TsunamiCon!

Support! Support!  Support!

 

 

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 Be sure to check out and support the Tsunamicon Kickstarter, a National level gaming convention based in Wichita, Kansas and being organized by our sister podcast, Metagamers Anonymous.   Only good things can come of this……..

Tsunamicon Kickstarter
Tsunamicon.org
Tsunamicon Facebook

Erik Supported:

BobCon: A gamer retreat in Kansas City
BobCon 2014 by Brad Kelley — Kickstarter
BobCon | Facebook

 

 

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Feb 092014
 

lModiphius Entertainment Announces “MINDJAMMER
From Mindjammer Press

Mindjammer Press and Modiphius Entertainment are delighted to announce their partnership to produce the new edition of  Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game , a transhuman science-fiction roleplaying game using the  Fate Core system, written by ENnie Award-winning RPG and fiction writer Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Achtung! Cthulhu, Monsters & Magic, Legends of Anglerre, Fate Core – Burn Shift, The Chronicles of Future Earth ).

If you would like to review Mindjammer please reply and we’ll send you the pre-release PDF! As usual if you post anything please let us know so we can link to you from our Twitter, Facebook and Modiphius.com press page as thanks!

If you are a fan of the adventure Diablo ll classic and Expansion has to offer you (read more about those games on https://www.yesgamers.com/info/diablo-2-classic-vs-expansion-lord-destruction/) then grab your blaster, thoughtcast your orders to the starship sentience, and fire up the planing engines – come and defend the light of humanity’s greatest civilization as it spreads to the stars!

Have you always wanted to play a modern science-fiction roleplaying game – with consistent yet futuristic science, virtual realites, sentient starships, realistic aliens, and mysterious worlds, yet action-packed and filled with adventure? Mindjammer is your answer. It’s a tabletop roleplaying game about heroic adventurers in the galaxy of the far future. With its hyper advanced technology humankind has spread to the stars, discovering ancient lost colonies and mysterious alien worlds. Using the popular and award-winning Fate Core rules,Mindjammerlets you play hardened mercenaries, cunning traders, steely-nerved pilots, intrigue-filled spies and culture agents, aliens, divergent hominids, artificial life forms, and even sentient starships.

Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game is a 496-page hardback with gorgeous artwork and astrography by industry stalwarts such as Jason Juta, Eric Lofgren, Andreas Schroth, and Ian Stead. It’s a standalone game with everything you need to play, including innovative new rules for alien life, planets, and star systems, organisations, culture conflict, hypertech, starmaps, background material, virtual realities and techno-psionic powers, and much more.

It’s the Second Age of Space – the transhuman adventure is just beginning!

“We’re really excited to be releasing Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game,”said Sarah Newton, co-owner of Mindjammer Press and author of the game.“Chris Birch (Modiphius) and I have worked together on many titles, including the ENnie-award winning Achtung! Cthulhu and first edition Mindjammer, and the ENnie-nominated Legends of Anglerre. It’s great to be teaming up now to bring Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game and its line of supplements and fiction to a wide and discerning audience, using Modiphius’s proven industry expertise and excellent track record. We’re looking forward to a regular release of Mindjammer products with Modiphius, beginning with the core rulebook this May.”

“Mindjammer was first introduced as an incredible supplement for the enormous Starblazer Adventures RPG and it’s fantastic that Sarah has now developed the universe into such an incredible setting and brought it bang up to date with the Fate Core ruleset. I know Fate and sci-fi fans are going to find one of the best and most comprehensive roleplaying games at their fingertips.” Said Chris Birch, Publisher of Modiphius.

You can pre-order Mindjammer  The Roleplaying Game right now from theModiphius webstore and download the Thoughtcast Edition 496-page PDF immediately. The hardback version of the game is expected to ship in late March, and hit the shelves in May. A free preview is available from

Backwards Compatible – Ep 11 – These Happy Days

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Nov 122013
 

 

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Join the Gang this week as we discuss what we’ve been playing. Kyle forces David to buy Fallout 3 (at gunpoint), we continue the Dark Souls/Demon’s Souls talk (INVISIBLE WALKWAYS!), keep erections at bay for Trackmania 2 (Hot Wheels for adults!), pronounce Volgarr the Viking (Biking), narrate The Stanley Parable (Blue Grass!), laugh at Crysis 2’s A.I. again (Cloak Engaged!), and discuss strategies in Call of Juarez Gunslinger (Shoot ’em in the face!). Plus we determine if the Next-Gen Resolutiongate pandemic is just hyperbole and reminisce on Blockbuster’s heyday.

 

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Theme Music is:

“Play the Game” by Pocketmaster

Gamecast Ep 31 – Super-Musings Volume 2

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Sep 042013
 

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Topic – In this episode, we tackle a couple more listener emails, lovingly shred Man of Steel, and play an amazing round of Two True based in the Superman universe, created by Steve!

Hosts – Dan, Steve, Tyler, Mack, Bryan

Notes – For those of you who have been paying attention, this episode has been on hold for a little while as we’ve had a whole lot of new and exciting developments over the last couple of weeks.  Announcements will be made very soon…………

Be sure to check out our Game Store Weirdos contest page for a chance to win a $10 Drivethru RPG gift card and your own episode of the Gamecast!

 

 

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 The interstitial music for this episode is “Razor’s Edge” by Aaron Kamm and the One Drops

Find out more about this band :

On their website – http://www.theonedrops.com/

On Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/theonedrops

On ReverbNation – http://www.reverbnation.com/aaronkammandtheonedrops

Purchase their music :

http://akt1d.bandcamp.com/

 

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Modiphius Calling – Episode 1

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Aug 142013
 

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Welcome to Modiphius Calling – our new regular tabletop podcast hosted by Josh O’Connor and Chris Birch. You can expect news of our main games such as Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, our miniatures line as well as reviews of boardgames and RPG’s we like, tabletop gaming related Apps and interviews with a big range of guests, competitions and more. If you’d like to be a guest on our show and talk about your game please drop us a line here

Running Order:
00:31 News From Modiphius
06:13 What’s on Your Table?
16:34 Interview: Nick FallonOneWar co-designer
27:24 Mobile Tabletop
34:54 Achtung! Cthulhu News
42:17 Mutant Chronicles Playtest Intro Read by Stephane Middleton
53:32 Goodbye!

Links:
Achtung! Cthulhu
http://www.modiphius.com/achtung-cthulhu.html
Achtung! Cthulhu: Three Kings at RPGNow.com
http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?keywords=modiphius+three+kings&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=
Mutant Chronicles
http://www.modiphius.com/mutant-chronicles.html
One War Battle Report
http://www.modiphius.com/one-war-system.html
Siege of the Citadel
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1621/mutant-chronicles-siege-of-the-citadel
Dungeon Crawl Classics
http://www.goodmangames.com/5070preview.html
0-Level Party Generator:
http://purplesorcerer.com/create.htm
Crawler’s Companion:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-crawlers-companion/id597725801?mt=8
Battle Academy
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battle-academy/id499901136?mt=8
Frozen Front
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/1941-frozen-front/id598584564?mt=8Music Intro to Mutant Chronicles reading Ephemera by System Divide, used with permissionDisclaimerThe opinions expressed here represent personal opinions of presenters and guests and do not not necessarily reflect the views of Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. 

Modiphius Calling is a presentation of Modiphius Entertainment, for this and other awesome projects please visit Modiphius.com!!!

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Episode 28 – Super-Musings Volume 1

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Jun 212013
 

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Hosts – Dan, Steve, Tyler, Mack, Bryan

Topic – In this episode, we talk about Star Trek- Into Darkness from the Trekkie and Non-Trekkie points of view.  This episode also contains part 1 of a 2 part series concerning Superman.  In part one, we discuss the lore of the “Big Blue Boy Scout”, his history,  and our opinions before we see Man of Steel.  Be sure to check out part 2 of the series where we will be discussing our opinions of “Supes” after having seen Man of Steel,  where we will also present a review and breakdown of the theatrical release in classic CarpeGM style.

 

 

 

Media – 

Probably Questionable (Podcast)
Heroclix Team Base (Pics)
Half in the Bag: Star Trek Into Darkness | – Red Letter Media

 

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Notes – the interstitial music on this episode is “Perfect Occasion” by Falter

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Episode 14 – When Science Meets Fiction

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Oct 222012
 

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Hosts –Dan, Tyler, Bryan, Mack

Topic – In this episode, we answer(?) another listener email.  We also discuss the sci-fi genre  (What is sci-fi and what isn’t?).

We then spend a little time talking about the sub-genres of sci-fi, and close the episode out with a campaign idea from Mack.

(2:40) Another listener email!!! Keep ’em coming!!

(20:48) The sci-fi breakdown

(42:07) Sub-genres

(47:23) An homage to the Steve moment

(56:47) Mack’s game concept

Media – 

MTG: Return to Ravnica
iTunes review
Please feel free to leave one while you’re there!
Critical Hit (podcast)
RPPR Actual Play (podcast)
Sammy and the Punk
Legend (RPG) (Rule of Cool.com)
Pathfinder (RPG)
GURPS (RPG)
QAGS (RPG)
PDQ (RPG)
Don’t Rest Your Head (RPG)
Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the Roleplaying Game
Toon (RPG)
Savage Worlds (RPG)
Mutants and Masterminds (RPG)
Hero Games
Margaret Weis Productions
Cloverfield (2008) – IMDb
Super 8 (2011) – IMDb
Fringe (TV Series 2008– ) – IMDb
Mac and Me (1988) – IMDb
Paul (2011) – IMDb
Isaac Asimov (Wikipedia)
Shadowrun (RPG)
Toilet paper dispenser Ipod dock
The Fifth Element (1997) – IMDb
Surrogates (2009) – IMDb
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) – IMDb
Borderlands 2
Firefly (TV Series 2002–2003) – IMDb
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series 1993–1999) – IMDb
Cowboy Bebop (TV Series 1998– ) – IMDb
Red Dwarf (TV Series 1988– ) – IMDb
^This is really still on?!?^

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Episode 12 – Engage!

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Sep 272012
 

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Hosts – Dan, Bryan, Mack, Tyler, Steve

Topic – In this episode, we discuss ways to keep your game group engaged when there has been a significant change in scheduling,and we answer(?) a listener email.

(:44) On our horizon

(11:19) Game savers

(21:03) EMAIL!!

 

 

Media-

 

 D&D Next playtest
Metagamers Anonymous
Heroes of Newerth
League of Legends
TMNT 2 (IMDb)
IDW Publishing
Lasagna Quattro Formaggi
Obsidian Portal
Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast
Savage Worlds
Martha Stewart tv movie (IMDb)
Star Wars Saga Edition
Traveller (Mongoose)
GURPS
Prime Directive RPG
Rogue Trader
Battle Fleet Gothic
Spelljammer (apparently, people still play this)
Hackmaster
Scumbag Shang Tsung

Mack Supported Shai-Hulud (Wikipedia)

Notes – Because of a pressing schedule, a late start, and tangential (yet substantive) discussions, we did not quite make it to to our topic in this episode.  Stay tuned…the Sci Fi episode is coming!

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Sep 112012
 

This thing looks AWESOME!

LEVEL 7 [ESCAPE], the all-new science fiction survival-horror board game set in the LEVEL 7 world, has sold out at the manufacturer level due to the high volume of distributor and retailer preorders and excitement built by promotions at GenCon and PAX. Though stock of (the game) is sold out at Privateer Press, the highly anticipated semi-cooperative game will be available to retailers from distributors and will be available in stores on September 19.

You are a captive of Subterra Bravo, imprisoned in the facility’s deepest laboratory, the hall of nightmares known as LEVEL 7. Your singular goal is to escape, but to do that you will have to evade the human and inhuman denizens of this subterranean labyrinth before the entire base is locked down, sealing you in for the rest of your short, tormented life. Will you work together with your fellow prisoners to endure Subterra Bravo’s endless perils, or will you use them to secure your own escape? Ultimately, your chances of survival will depend on how well you manage your greatest weapon, which is also your greatest threat: fear itself.

LEVEL 7 [ESCAPE] is a semi-cooperative, story-driven survival-horror board game for 1–4 players with nerves of steel and a willingness to confront the impossible.

For more info and background on the sinister world of LEVEL 7, click the banner below!

Level 7 [Escape}

 

Contents:

  • 47 Map Tiles
  • 138 Cards
  • 4 Character Sheets
  • 133 Tokens and Markers
  • 28 Stands
  • 8 Special Dice
  • Rulebook
  • Scenario Guide

Box Dimensions: 12.75 (W) x 12.75 (H) x 3 (D) measurements in inches.