Season 03 Episode 14 LIVE from Gateway 2010

The hosts and the listeners discuss the games we ran on Saturday at Gateway2010 in Los Angeles.

Laughing Moon Chronicles.

Join us a Orcon2011, February 18-21 (Presidents’ Day Weekend) at the Sheraton Gateway (next to LAX).

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.

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

Your hosts Stu, Stork and Casey.

Season 03 Episode 12

Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Kimi and Casey.

We discuss listener email and running con games.

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

Follow us on twitter at: www.twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

Final Gencon 2010 update from Veremond and Useless Triviaman.

Season 03 Episode 10

Your hosts: Stu, Kimi, Tappy, Casey and Bruce.

We read listener email and discuss GMs roles in Player Characters, both generation and in-play.

Update from Listener Veremond from Gencon 2010.

GENCON UPDATE from Listener Veremond and Useless Trivia Man.

Reminder about Gencon promos.

Go to THIS FORUM TOPIC for information.

Season 03 Episode 09

Your hosts: Stu, Gammonstark, CADave, Tyler, Bruce, Sarah

We read email, announce the “gaming nightmare” contest and discuss creepiness.

Dustin points us to an alternate dice theory, and provides us with a beer nutrition information site.

Dave discusses his game’s megaplots, based on this article from Critical-Hits.

The EPIC Sourtoe Cocktail story. I found a reference on the internet, so it must be true.

Season 03 Episode 08. Your hosts: Stu, Bruce, Tappy and Casey.

Playing outside of your class.

Happy Jack’s Game Day at Gateway 2010. Labor Day Weekend. Sep 3 – Sep 6, 2010

Radisson LAX

$35 for a 4-day pass (with our pre-registration group discount). At the door, a 4-day pass is FIFTY BUCKS. For more info, got to Strategicon.net.

We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either:

Email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com
Leave a voicemail: (626) 629-8RPG.
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Season 03, Episode 07

Your hosts: Stu, Clockverk, Gammonstark, CA Dave and Hosier Rob.

Listener feedback and Mongoose Traveller first impressions.

Season 03 Episode 06

Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Bill, Bruce and Kimi.

Happy Jack’s Game Day
at Gateway 2010
Labor Day Weekend
Sep 3 – Sep 6, 2010
Radisson LAX
$35 for a 4-day pass (with our pre-registration group discount).

At the door, a 4-day pass is FIFTY BUCKS. For more info, got to Strategicon.net.

We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either:

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• Leave a voicemail: (626) 629-8RPG
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Season 03 Episode 05. Listener email catchup.

Your hosts: Stu, Casey, Bruce, Claire, Tappy, Bill.

Hot Chicks: The Roleplaying Game

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Happy Jack’s Game Day
at Gateway 2010
Labor Day Weekend
Sep 3 – Sep 6, 2010
Radisson LAX
$35 for a 4-day pass (with our pre-registration group discount).

At the door, a 4-day pass is FIFTY BUCKS. For more info, got to Strategicon.net.

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Season 03 Episode 04 — Undefeatable Encounters.

Your hosts: Stu, Casey, Stork and Kimi.

Listener email, including a voice message from Jim Ryan.

Main topic: unwinnable combat encounters.

Featured Song: Yes Y’all by Electric Shoe (thanks to listener Kevin for the track).

Don’t forget: the hosts of Happy Jacks will be at Gateway on September 4th, at the LAX Radisson. We’ll run some games (with fabulous prizes) and record an episode at the event. Be there! You can pre-register for the con, and there’s a 5-dollar discount for Happy Jack’s listeners.

Season 03 Episode 03

Special guest host Bill Roper.

Season 03 Episode 02.

Your Hosts: Stu, Hosier Rob, Gammonstark, CA Dave, Clockverk and Kimi.

Featured Song: Little Beggar Man by Celtic Squall.

Season 03 Episode 01.

Your hosts: Stu, Casey, Bruce and Kimi.

Our Happy Jack’s Game Day will now be at Gateway. We’re planning on September 4th (Saturday). We’re planning for a few games and an episode recorded at the con. If you plan to attend, email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com.

Friends Like These, a play featured at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Featured Song: “Not As Young” by the Poxy Boggards, featured on the CD “Bitter and Stout.”

Season 2, Episode 20a – a bonus listener email show.

Your hosts: Stu, Stork and Kimi.

Template for Pathfinder campaign web page for Google Sites.

Fantasy Grounds & Rules Sets.

Season 02, Episode 20: Voicemails, email and Gritty vs. Heroic.

Your hosts: Stu, Casey, Kimi.

We also talk a bit about The Dungeon Masters, a feature film detailing three DnD enthusiasts and DMs and the excellent RPG novel Game Night, by Jonny Nexus (of Critical Miss fame).

Stu is also in the middle of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, by Ethan Gilsdorf, and it’s becoming quite an interesting read. An old-time gamer who dips his toe back in the geek pool.

We also briefly mention a youtube video. It’s not safe for work.

Happy Jack’s Season 02 Episode 19.

Your hosts: Stu, Tappy, Kimi, Casey.

A plethora of listener feedback and house rules for speeding DnD4e combat.

Featured song: Aboard the Good Ship Venus by the Poxy Boggards, from Lager Than Life.

Season 02, Episode 18.

DnD 4E vs. 3.5/Pathfinder.

Your hosts: Stu, Tappy, Casey and Kimi.

Featured song: I Can Hew by the Poxy Boggards.

**Announcements**

- BogFest this Saturday, 8pm at the Doubletree in Monrovia.

- RPG Podcast Listener Survey at www.rpgpolls.com.

- Would you attend a Happy Jack’s Game Day in So Calif? Email us.

Season 02, Episode 17. Listener feedback and houseruling.

Your hosts: Stu, Casey, Tappy and Kimi.

Featured Song: Je Ne Lose Dire by the Merry Wives of Windsor, from the CD Happy Endings.

Season 2, Episode 16. Listener email and settings and descriptions.

Your hosts: Stu and Kimi.

Stu & Tappy read listener email and further discuss PC vs PC social skills.

Featured song: Galway Shawl by the Poxy Boggards.

Recapping Kimi’s first game as a GM — a Sidebar Episode.

Your hosts: Stu, Kimi, Eric and Bruce.

Season 2, Episode 13: Player memory and recollection. Your hosts: Stu, Bruce, Casey.

Featured song: “When Spring’s Sprightly Wind,” by the Poxy Boggards, from Anchor Management.

Preparing/improvising random RP encounters.

Featured song: Drop of Good Beer by Celtic Squall.

Links mentioned in the show:

thediceoflife.com

wonderousimaginings

Podcast Listeners Survey

Foam Building Bricks

DM Feedback Article on Gnome Stew

Free Will. Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Kimi, Casey.

Matt’s Alignment Charts:

Good vs. Evil

Law vs. Chaos

Drivethrurpg has several titles using Robin Laws Gumshoe system for investigative RPGs. Alas, it appears the sale is over… but Stu picked up Esoterrorists, and is perusing it for a review…

Welcome to Season 02, Episode 10 of Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast. Your hosts are: Stu, Stork, Tappy and Kimi. We discuss collaborative play vs player coddling.

Featured Song, “The Day That I Wed,” by the Poxy Boggards, from Barley Legal.

Stu, Stork and Tappy discuss listener email, a few qualities of great players, DnD4e Martial Power 2 and Player’s Handbook 3.

Featured song: The Man Who Doesn’t Like Beer, by the Poxy Boggards, featured on Liver Let Die.

We briefly mentioned some fliers to promote the show.

Here’s the safe flyer. Here’s the not safe flyer. If you are so inclined, you can print these out and post them at your local game store. Ask first, and the “not safe” flyer could be objectionable — gamer discretion is advised…

A game day episode, featuring listener feedback and a brief recap of the game just played.

Your hosts: Stu, Tappy, Stork, Jenn, Bruce, Kory, Kimi.

Season 02, Episode 07. Alignments. We discuss DnD alignments through various editions, the meaning of good, evil, lawful and chaos, and our take on it. We also discuss The Burning Wheel, the latest release for Exalted, Drivethrurpg.com, listener email and voicemail and Stu’s failed attempt at new intro music.

We also discuss The Burning Wheel and the latest Exalted release, Manual of Exalted Powers: The Alchemicals.

Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Tappy and Kimi.

Featured song: The Devil and the Knight, by the Merry Wives of Windsor, from their CD Here’s to the Men.

Welcome to Season 02 Episode 06: Player vs. Player conflict.

Your hosts: Stu and Stork.

Links mentioned:

We Are Douchebags.

A series of old Dragon Magazine articles about gamemastering. Thanks to Jason for the link.

Featured song: “Fie, Nay, Prithee John” performed by the Poxy Boggards on Bawdy Parts.

Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 02, Episode 05. The listener feedback extravaganza!

Listener feedback: TPKs, Players Surprising the GM, etc.

Talked about Stu’s appearance on Kicked in the Dice Bags.

Game companies and power creep. How does the plethora of game supplements affect the players and the game.

We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either:

• call our voicemail line: (626) 629-8774
• email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com
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Welcome to Season 2 Episode 3, where in we read a lot of listener feedback, discuss scheduling and ramble on about publishers/game stores and what’s good for the hobby.

www.nearbygamers.com

www.accessdenied.net

MILFs 2

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A post-game-day episode!

Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Bruce, Claire, Casey.

Listener Feedback.

More discussion about co-GMs & assistant GMs (thanks to Paul for the voicemail).

Our impressions of Savage Worlds (after actually playing it).

Thoughts on the Pulp setting.

More on GM props.

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Welcome to Season 2 of Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast.

Game props (the cool fiddly stuff GMs give their players in-game).

Lots of listener feedback:

The Bay Area’s Kublacon: http://www.kublacon.com/

A Savage Worlds Fanzine: http://www.sharkbytes.info/news.php

Exalted Combat Primer.

GURPS 4e Combat Examples,

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Savage Worlds pre-game review.

Adament Entertainment’s Thrilling Tales 2nd Edition (Savage Worlds).

Listener Kevin’s Simulated Pulp Hero Experience (SPHerE) Wiki.

Featured song: Laser Printed Hero (complete).

We’ll be back in the second weekend of January. Happy New Year!

Pitfalls of character optimization.

Cardstock Characters: MILFs (Monster’s I’d Like to F*ck) — ie, Monsters w/ boobies.

Savage Worlds

More about Munchkins than you ever wanted to know.

A big “thank you” to Garret for the closing theme song.

“Character concept, meet character optimization.”

Game day episode!

Listener feedback.

Concept vs. Effectiveness

Keeping the action going.

Thanks to Jim Ryan of the Great Debate for our opening bumper.

Congratulation to Shadrin for his winning monster haiku:

The chairs never fit;
No legs, no hands for my ale.
The beholder’s plight.

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Season 1, Episode 17, a Game-Day show. Designing delves do’s and don’t's.

Your hosts: Stu, Tappy, Linnea, Jack, Stork, Bruce and Kimi.

Podiobook “Grey”

Grimtooth’s book of traps.

Interview with Jennifer Walker, who is working on a cook book for gamers, entitled “What to Feed Your Raiding Party,” a combination cookbook and comic book. She’s funding it through Kickstarter.com, and if you’d like to pledge, y0u can do so here.

Will’s campaign wiki.

The cool combat tracker Dyson mentioned (the one that everyone thinks is cool, but no one actually uses — if you use it, we’d love to hear about it).

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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.

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. Beautiful product. We don’t run packaged adventures, but includes some cool stuff (and more new epic-level monsters than you can shake a stick at). Also includes a very cool battle mat of a ship.

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.

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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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“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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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).

GoldTheSeries.com

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Welcome to Episode 10 of Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast, where in we discuss listener feedback, our game where the players go off the rails and do unexpected things and touch on PC background and using PC background as a form of collaborative world creation.

Opening bumper courtesy of the RPG Circus podcast at www.rpgcircus.com.

Featured song: Botany Bay, by the Poxy Boggards.

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Stu, Tappy, Stork, Claire & Bruce answer and discuss news, reviews and listener mail.

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Game Day Episode! Stu is joined by two players from the game, Claire and Bruce discuss player character death and several other tangents.

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Building an adventure.

We talk about D&D Collectible Minis, Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, Adventurer’s Vault 2, the revamped WOTC Forum, and email from Marcus, the HP Podcraft.

We then discuss building an adventure within a multi-setting story arc.

Finally, we discuss yesterday’s game, the character’s dreams and how it worked.

Featured song: “Red is the Rose/Loch Lommond” by the Poxy Boggards, from the CD Whiskey Business.

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The new GM’s first session – amenities, preparation and organization.

Continuing our series of ‘casts about helping and encouraging new GMs, we discuss your first gaming session, what you’ll need, what the players will need, what to prepare and how to organize it.

We also have some listener feedback: Emails from JohnD, Irven, ResGamer, and Fluffy; and a voicemail from Benji about the Hero Lab from wolflair.com.

And we discuss the La Canada/Flintridge fires (which are still going strong, as I can see the line of fire in the skyline to the North).

Featured song: Goodbye Muirshin Durkin by the Poxy Boggards, from the album Whiskey Business.

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We are joined by Greg Jones from the comedy improv team, the Merry Misfits of Doom. Greg is a student of theater improv and has come in to talk about the application of improv techniques and thought into RPGs.

Featured song: “I Wear No Pants” by the Poxy Boggards.

Happy Jacks RPG Podcast, Season 01, Episode 04.

The first in a series of podcast to encourage players to GM and help out beginning GMs: Building a Setting.

- Tappy discusses Shadowrun 4th Edition.

- Stork discusses Champions Online beta.

- Does Dungeons & Dragons lead to hammer beating?

- A dearth of Game Masters.

- Tips on making an RPG setting.

ChattyDM.net: One-Page Dungeon Codex.

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Welcome to Episode 3 of Season 1 of Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast.

Note: this episode was pre-recorded on Sunday, August 16th. It is the second part of our conversation that day. Since our recording date, we’ve received some letters and comments that we will feature in Episode 4.

Cross-gender role-playing.

Common player mistakes.

Featured Songs: “Scarborough Faire” by the Merry Wives of Windsor.

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Starting next week we will begin a series of podcasts for new GMs and folks thinking about GMing.

Gencon and our experiences performing at Gencon Socal 2006.

Listener comments from Garret and Charlie.

How to get into RPGs.

Nearbygamers.com

Accessdenied.net

Types of role playing gamers. How to keep them happy and how to stop them from taking over.

We also discuss the “problem” role playing gamers and how to deal with them.

Featured Songs: “All Among the Barley” by Celtic Squall.

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Episode 3: common player mistakes, is recorded and will be released next week.

GMing Mistakes

Welcome to the first official episode of Happy Jacks RPG Podcast. We discuss the interesting events during our last game, DnD Insider’s Monster Builder and GMing Mistakes. This episode is a little longer than we intended, we wanted to hit under an hour, but blew it by 20 minutes or so. If you have any comments, email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com.

Your hosts:

• Stu Venable
• Greg “Stork” Wilson
• Matt “Tappy” Cadwallader

In this show:

• Our DnD session and the drive-by shooting.
• Review: WOTC’s Monster Builder
• Ten GMing Mistakes
• Song: “Of All Jolly Pastimes” by the Poxy Boggards.

This is Episode 000 of the Happy Jack’s RPG Podcast, in which I introduce myself, describe my RPG experience and ramble on for 20 minutes or so.

If you have any comments, please feel free to post them here.

The blog I mention is at www.stuvenable.com/rpg.

And at this page is my definition of an RPG.

The featured song is “Happy Jacks Undrinkable Ale” by the Poxy Boggards.

This is the book I mentioned:

Errata: After listening to the episode, I double-checked my dates (ie, figured out when I was in Jr. High School) and realized that I said I played the Red Box edition two years before it came out (according to Wikipedia). So, it was in my second or third year of Jr. High, not my first (which was my original recollection). I’m old, and this was a long time ago.

More Errata: Nope. I was right. It was ’78 or ’79. Found this excerpt on Wikipedia:

The original Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set boxed set was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1977,^[1] and initially comprised a separate edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, apart from the first edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game initially published in the same year. Its product designation was TSR 1001. This box set contained a 48-page rules book (with a light blue cover and artwork by David C. Sutherland III), along with a set of polyhedral dice. (For a period in 1979, TSR experienced a dice shortage. Basic sets published during this time frame instead came with two sheets of numbered cutout cardstock chits that functioned in lieu of dice, along with a coupon for ordering dice from TSR.)

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