Episode 30 part 2 - Narayan's Con Report

Episode 30 part 2 - Narayan's Con Report (14:11, 6.8MB)

For the second half of the Phenomenon con report, Narayan kindly allowed me to interview him.

Narayan tells us about some of the difficulties he had with the sessions, and describes his reservations at the description of some of the sessions as 'role-playing games'.

His highlights included The Cabinet of Doctor Makundi, and Mike and Sandra's freeform, 'This Party Tonight'.

Other con reviews are up on the RPGMeetup forum - but there are spoilers, which you may want to watch out for if you're thinking of playing in Pheno Reloaded.


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Episode 30 (part 1) - Liz's Con Report

Episode 30 (part 1) - Liz's Con Report

Instead of making this one great long episode, I have divided it into two. Mostly because I am driving interstate to Supanova this weekend!

In this episode...
Liz chats about her experiences at Phenomenon 2010, in particular her con highlights, including Team Dragon and This Party Tonight; and how Fish made Liz's con experience so fun.

(As Fish mentions on his webpage, a Pheno Reloaded con is in the planning stages for five weeks' time!)

Part 2 will be Narayan's con report.


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Liz and Emma do CanCon 2010

Liz and Emma do CanCon 2010

Possibly NSFW (depending on your work, and your idea about what constitutes "explicit" language).

Liz and I visited CanCon 2010.
We saw lots of nerds (and geeks and gamers), CCGs, tabletop war games - fantasy, historical, and alt-historical, board games, and, of course, role-players.

This episode contains a number of short interviews with random people who were gaming and working at the con. The sound quality is a little patchy in places (sorry), and Emma talks like she's getting paid per word.

Enjoy!

(Pics to come!)
(You heard me.)

Episode 14 - Con Review

Episode 14 - Con Review
(To download: Right mouse-click and choose 'Save Linked File As')

Show notes will be up anon.

Episode 13 - Interviews and Prep. (Luckiest. Episode. Ever.)

Dear Listeners,

Please find linked Episode 13 - Interviews and Prep (39MB, 42:24min) for your listening pleasure.

In this episode, I interrogate Liz about the workshop - "Improv for Gamers" - that she will be running at 9.30am and 1.30pm on Saturday 22 November as part of Blue Moon Con. Liz and I chat about what we (as gamers and GMs) do when we are preparing to get back into a game after an extended absence (or just in between monthly games). Finally, ArmyDan tells us everything we need to know to register and participate in Blue Moon Con.

I hope you enjoy this episode, which is, as you will see, the luckiest episode ever.

love and hugs,
emmajeans


Links:
Info/Registration for BlueMoonCon
About Improv
Book: Play Unsafe
Improv Olympic
Book: Truth in Comedy
Who grabbed Liz's butt?
Kiwi English Pronunciation = doubleplus schwa
The Copland Building
The Copland Building (googlemap)

Contact Dan!:
email ArmyDan
ArmyDan's RPG Meetup profile
The Con Website

Music credits:
Terence Janssen
Never Alone by Michael Mellender
Yellow Lasers by MC Frontalot

News - ArmyDan's callout for GMs

This message was posted on RPGMeetup on Saturday 20 July 2008 by ArmyDan.

If you are from Canberra or can be in Canberra on 22 November 08, and are thinking about GMing a convention game, contact ArmyDan through the RPGMeetup forums or by the forum's PM or email facility.

The call out for GMs

Okay, Blue Moon needs GMs who can provide a commitment to running a game on the 22nd of November.

We are looking for 2 sorts of commitment...

First tier GMs -
GMs willing and able to run their game on the first and second session of the day (from about 9am through to about 4pm - two sessions of the same game). Each game is to be around 3 hours long (we are forgiving if you go over or under).

Second tier GMs -
GMs willing and able to run a one off game at the last session of the day (from about 6pm-9pm).

In both cases, GMs are expected to provide pre-generated characters for their game. (Note - In the case of Living Greyhawke, being able to provide characters for those who havent got any). As well as any other materials necessary for the running of the game (Minatures, handouts etc etc)..

The brief for the Blue Moon is "Something New". This could be a new adventure, a new games system, new characters or a new idea or concept for the game. We would like to try something new..

Please reply here, PM me, or send me an email. We would like around 8 GMs (at least intially - 4 first tier, 4 second tier) at this stage, but would gladly accept more as the registrations or expressions of interest are recieved.

Please reply with - Name of the GM, Number of players, Name of system (if any), Short blurb on the game (preferrably with the words "Something New" in the blurb).
Also it would be preferrable if you provide an idea of if the players require system knowledge (and how much), the "mood" of the game (fun, serious, dramatic, high action etc).

I would like to fill the first 8 slots by the end of July, so please reply early.
Ta,

Dan