Episode 7 - John and Peta's First Time

Episode 7 - John and Peta's First Time (39:05, 44.8MB)

In this episode, we find out about John's and Peta's first times gaming.
We learn how John independently created roleplaying, and why the Swiss Army Knife approach to gaming is a bad thing.
We find out how Peta prepares for her first time GMing.
We also discuss the impact of John and Peta's relationship upon their gaming experience, and we talk about choosing gender in a game.

Links
Dungeons and Dragons
World of Darkness
Storyteller System
Jack Vance
'Dying Earth'
Dying Earth RPG
Robin D Laws
D&D 3.5
Burning Empires
Burning Wheel
Exalted
Trail of Cthulhu
Ars Magica
Fading Suns
Nephilim
Shock
Dirty Secrets
Vampire: the Masquirade
HoL - Human occupied Landfill
In A Wicked Age
Luke Crane
Redwall
Mouse Guard
Heroquest
Feng Shui

Thanks
Terence Janssen for the music
Phase Two Comics for the hosting
Peta and John for their hospitality

up!

Well done, typewriter monkeys. Have a banana.

All the episodes are now up on iTunes for your listening pleasure.

enjoy!

update

Episode 7 is just about ready to go up. This is a good thing seeing as I'm going to Supanova this weekend, and will be too busy having nerdalicious fun to edit.

In other news, the xml is problematic. Teams of monkeys with typewriters have been set to work in the hope that one of them will produce a document that will solve all my xml problems. And maybe global warming.

So, episodes via iTunes are still some time away.
But you can still get them through this blog!

xml

The new xml is going up now.
All 7 episodes (0-6) should be up on iTunes within the next 24 hours.

Stay tuned!

Episode 6 - Recommendations

Episode 6 - Recommendations (33:19 min - 38MB)

Elizabeth has described this show as a podcast about roleplaying and roleplaying culture. Today we take a break from talking specifically about gaming and chat about some of the culture: i.e., webcomics, movies, books, sites and music that we like to geek out to. We make recommendations (both for and against) authors, movies and comics; and, as always, get just that little bit off topic.

Here is a list of links to things we talk about in the 'cast. In no particular order.

TV and Movies
D&D cartoon
Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie
Dungeons & Dragons: The Elemental Might
Heart of the Warrior
Underworld
Love Actually
Never-Ending Story
Sarah Silverman Program
Buffy Season 7 Ep 22 ‘Chosen’

Webcomics
Sons Of Kryos
Roll Initiative
Geeks On
I Read Comics
Order Of The Stick
Full Frontal Nerdity
Nodwick
PvP

Websites
Wil Wheaton Blog
Neatorama
Baby Names
Fantasy Namer Widget For Macs:
Burning Wheel Wiki
4th Edition D&D
Indie Forge
D20 System Reference Document
Homestar Runner

Books and Magazines
Tolkein
China Mieville
Neil Gaiman
Gregory Maguire
Anne Rice
Geek Magazine

Music
Jonathan Coulton
MC Chris
MC Frontalot
MC Lars
Tripod - The Messenger
Flight of the Conchords

Episode 5 - ArmyDan's First Time

Episode 5 - ArmyDan's First Time (32:49 min - ~38MB)

In this Episode, Dan tells Liz and Emma about his first time gaming, his positive and negative influences, and how he first used Fidonet to organise KapCon.

We chat about the Last Action Heroes game he would run at Phenomenon, and find out what the terms 'Mega Roleplaying' and 'bach' mean.

We also discuss the upcoming 'Con with No Name' which Dan is organising for November in Canberra.

iTunes

It's official! We are now on iTunes.

Just search for Natural 20 Podcast in the iTunes store.
(This morning, we were the second hit with that search criteria, the first being 'Jay Cunnings Weekly Minimix'. Obviously...)

There is one episode up (episode 0), with more to come soon.

Also, (insha'Allah) Episode 5 will be up within 24 hours.

Hooray for everything!
:)
emmajeans

Apologies

'Scuse my lateness.
There should have been another episode of the 'cast up here by now.

There will be... soon. Very soon.
I promise.

The next episode is a 'first time' chat with (Army)Dan: local GM and all-round nice guy.
Stay tuned!

from Elizabeth

Dear Listeners,

I will be going away for a while. My homeland, California, calls to me from across the wide Pacific. I shall be visiting the land of my birth for three weeks, abandoning Emma and you, our listeners.
However, never fear! There will be shiny new podcast for your listening pleasure every week while I am away! We've pre-recorded two already and we will record one more before I leave.

Episode 5 will be another "First Time" interview with Dan.

Episode 6 will be a shorter episode

Superstitions at the Gaming Table

Episode #4 - Superstition Roadtest

In Episode 4 Liz plays Scully to Emma's Mulder as we explore superstition, luck and rituals in roleplaying games.

Recorded in two parts (but as one episode thanks to the magic of editing), Emma describes several common ways roleplaying gamers try to control the fates, and sceptical Liz talks about the nature of superstition.

After a brief musical interlude (we couldn't get Stevie Wonder, so we had to settle for a cheap counterfeit), we return for part two where Liz and Emma discuss the results of their research and examine whether or not we should even try to influence those pesky dice.

And then there's the bit about the rooster and the monkey.

Links
RPG Meetup - A forum for role players, based in Canberra.
Master Chris's satirical explanation of die statistics


Thanks
Terence Jannsen for the music.
Phase Two Comics for the hosting.
Members of the RPG Meetup boards for feedback and ideas!


Research - List of References
Full Frontal Nerdity
When Dice Go Bad
Cursed Dice
Wil Wheaton blog