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Today s main topic is about running a game night, specifically for casual players. We also talk some about games for large groups. We pick out a few favorites. This is just one of the great topics in today s show that came from the feedback. There were a ton of games mentioned. These include Apples to Apples, Are You a Werewolf?, Time s Up, Taboo, Alibi, Wits and Wagers, Saboteur, Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Starfleet Battles, Pipe Works, Catan Dice Game, and Carcassonne. This discussion took us also into a topic of how to teach a game, something presented very well in this article by Mayfair Games. Here we are on the cover of Polymancer. Polymancer magazine is a multi-genre magazine about roleplaying games (RPGs), miniature wargames, LARPs, and more. Articles are written so that they can be useful to gamers of all kinds, no matter which rules they prefer to use. This is done by making the articles system-independent. There is a complete adventure scenario in every issue. This is not an e-zine, but the real thing: an honest to goodness, printed magazine for gamers. Find out more at www.polymancerstudios.com. Coming Events include Worldwide Game D D Day with SAGA, Con Games, Origins, and Free RPG Day. We also announced the release of the Gen Con podcasting and media events. If you just can t wait until D D day, you can get Keep on the Shadowfell from your local retail store. It is complete enough to play right off the bat. An evil cleric seeks to open a gate that just isn t supposed to be opened. It is up to you to stop him. Don was recently interviewed on The Digital Front. Take a listen to that show to learn more about what is going on behind the scenes of our podcasting world. We also learned from Alan Sugarbaker from Ogre Cave, who also let us know about some GTS reports.

While at the GAMA Trade Show, Don had a chance to sit down with Phil Lacefield Jr. about several aspects of the industry. Apart from trying to make a couple of predictions, we mostly talked about the Origins Awards. You will be able to vote on the Origins Awards at Origins in Columbus, Ohio. Phil Lacefield Jr. has been an active sales manager, marketing guru, writer, line editor, designer and layout guy for game companies such as Agents of Gaming, US Playing Card Co., Journeyman Press, Score Entertainment, Reaper Miniatures and many more. In 2001 (against the advice of his therapist) he founded Sacred Cheese Productions in order to consult on issues of sales and marketing to game companies big and small. SCP also runs the legendary Origins-To-GenCon caravan every year. In February of 2006, Phil took the plunge and moved to Seattle to take up the mantle of Sales Manager for Paizo Publishing. Now safely ensconced in his mountain hideaway, Phil continues to obsess over his precious Saab collection, dote on his precious tropical fish tanks and insists on wearing a full kilt on random occasions.

Derek introduces a board game of Spanish sword making called Toledo. Everyone is racing through town to collect resources, find craftsmen, and present the best swords to the emperor. It is a competitive business. You will find yourself in a few duals on the way with other families seeking the same glory. Toledo Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 2-4 Play Time: 90-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00

Our main topic of discussion, at least for a short while today, is on characters that are hard to play in your roleplaying games. It seems to be the smart ones and the young ones that give us the most trouble, perhaps we can t relate very well to either. A lot of events are going on. Locally, we are celebrating National D D Day with some 4th edition adventures. We have a cookout at Hat s Games to support SAGA s coming RinCon. Then we are headed to Phoenix Con Games to play and host some activities. Origins is right after that, and then we prepare for Gen Con. Games plugged during today s show include Mutant Chronicles from Fantasy Flight Games, Hunter from White Wolf, Dungeons Dragons from Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder from Paizo, Grimm from Fantasy Flight Games, and Faery s Tale Deluxe from Green Ronin Publishing. Our comments from our friends in the podospere include Daniel from The Gamer Traveler and The Digital Front, and Donald from On Board Games. We also heard a promo from Tale Chasing.

Derek has been rolling for resources lately with the Catan Dice Game. Its a fun probability game of planning and building infrastructure. It is an easy one to find a home for. It is so versatile and portable. Once very day, you can play it online. Catan Dice Game Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Dice Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 1-4 Play Time: 15-30 minutes Ages: 7+ MSRP: $12.00

Interview with We Are Wolves

Interview with We Are Wolves

Derek had the long awaited opportunity to talk to Aaron Williams at the GAMA Trade show. We have all been fans of Aaron s work for a long time. You have probably seen it on a variety of products but most directly from Nodwick, Full Frontal Nerdity, and Ps228. As always, it was a great visit. Aaron is someone we will always look forward to seeing again. Find more about Aaron at nodwick.com Aaron Williams first cartoon was published in Dragon magazine in 1989. He was 19 years old, and it was drawn on typing paper with a flair-tipped pen. He's come a long way since then. His work has been published in Dragon Magazine, Dungeon Magazine, and Amazing Stories. While starting his career in cartooning, he worked as an artist for Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages. In 2000 he took a leap and decided to take the Nodwick cartoon strip he'd created and turn it into a comic book. It's the story of a henchman used and abused by his companions on their many quests to save the world, find treasure, and right the wrongs done by evil. His latest efforts are to be found both in print and all over the internet. Ps238 is a comic book that also publishes pages on the web at ps238.com. It's an all-ages look at the first public school for the children of superheroes. Full Frontal Nerdity is a webcomic about four guys (one represented by a webcam) who delve into all things geeky, including role-playing games, movies, TV, and whatever else the elite classes of fandom are into these days. Crispygamer.com hosts his strip, Backward Compatible. Primarily centering on video games, the cast includes the CrispyGamer staff, their writers, and anyone who has an impact on what happens when you press a start button. When not cartooning or surfing the web blog-fodder, Aaron is often dragged out into the sunlight by his loving wife to both broaden his horizons and prevent his transformation into a Morlock.

Jeremiah presents La Strada. We recently talked to Martin Wallace about La Strada, making it that much more fun to check out for ourselves. Everyone is making money from the economy of the game, but how much depends on what markets you share and how many times you have to split the pie. La Strada Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Martin Wallace Players: 2-4 Play Time: 30-45 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $36.00

The Game Manufacturer s Association s Trade Show (GTS) was an awesome good time and as always packed full of good information. Several seminars were captured and will soon be made available online. It was great to see everyone and we will certainly be looking for you at the next show. We had the opportunity to play several games at the GAMA Trade Show. We would like to thank Rich Waldbiess from Six Feet Under Games, New Holland, PA for providing a picture of Don playing Lifeboat. We also played Monster Mayhem, Toledo, Portobello Market, Cash n Guns, Yetisburg, and of course, Poker. We also talk about Hunter The Vigil, Catan Dice (also playable online), the Catan Expansion, Traders and Barbarians, and a few from the Indie Press Revolution. We are now gearing up for Phoenix Con Games, Arizona s largest gaming convention. Held at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona. They offer just about every type of gaming, as well as parties, contests, anime/cosplay activities and other fun events. We will be running a few games there right out of our booth in the exhibit hall, some come by and play with us! We talked about several folks that share the podosphere with us. Specifically, we a talked about an interview with Pete Fenlon on On Board Games. Ron s and Veronica s recent appearance on the show led us to mention The Games the Thing. We were extremely excited to meet with several podcasters at the GAMA Trade Show. These included Dan Repperger from Fear the Boot, Daniel Perez from The Digital Front and The Gamer Traveler, Alan Sugarbaker from OgreCave Audio Report, and Collin from Obsessed with Gaming. Don is criticized for his British ignorance in our discussion of Accent Your Character, our casual dialect training. CDs and digital downloads are available at paizo.com and lovecraftiana.com. We had some great feedback today from friends from several companies and game stores. Some of these include Myriad Games in Salem, NH, The Kid in Me in Milford, DE, and Blitz Games. We will, no doubt miss Boyan s steady contribution to Out of Character, but duty calls him to join PSI in Georgia. We hope to have him on from time to time, but you will best keep up with him from his podcast and his blog at Shifting Skies Games.

What started out as a training interview turned into a discussion made public on fitting games into the right hands. The intent is to provide insight to anyone that sells or promotes games on what to present and who to present them to. This is the premise of The Game Kennel and we want you to get the most out of it. By providing additional support to the customers that walk in your door, you can apply your expertise in a way nobody else can. We aim to help arm you with that information on every episode of The Game Kennel in less time than it takes to drive to work. The discussion today is with Bob Carty and Alex Yeager of Mayfair Games. We have been extremely pleased to work with Mayfair. They have a commitment to the community at the grass roots level, a commitment to educational outreach, and a commitment to quality entertainment. All this has helped us to shape our values and our programing to the betterment of everyone that participates.

We welcome Anthony Gallela to todays show and get involved in a lot of conversation about the benefits of the Game Manufacturer s Association. We had a great time at the GAMA Trade show. You can expect to see the seminars posted very soon. Anthony has been involved in gaming in one way or another for some 30 years. He started by playing D D, Avalon Hill, and SPI games in elementary school. In high school, Anthony played just about every game he could find; and began running gaming events at Sci-Fi cons. In his late teens, Anthony moved on to running whole game programs at Sci-Fi conventions, and was playtesting games as well. In 1993, Anthony published the Theatrix diceless role-playing game with some pals under the banner of Backstage Press, and in 1994, he started running the ManaFest game convention in the San Francisco Bay Area with Japji Khalsa. He also helped to open an manage a retail store in the Bay Area in the mid-90s. Since then he has been running conventions, writing articles for gaming publications, consulting on game design, brokering games, and designing board games. Anthony has worked for GAMA since 2001, and as the Executive Director for GAMA, he oversees the running Origins Game Expo, GAMA Trade Show, and several industry programs. He still runs ManaFest, now called KublaCon, and he is the co-designer of Dwarven Dig!, with Japji Khalsa, from Kenzer and Co.

You can never go wrong with the Catan series of games. This time, Ron presents Entdecker. Its a tile exploration game of area control. It is packed with decisions that will make or break your success. Entdecker: Exploring New Horizons Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Tile Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-90 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 You can learn the game by playing through this tutorial by professor easy. The single player online game, Oceania, will give you a great feel for the exploration component of the game. There is so much more too it, though. Learn more about the back ground story and the Origins of Catan. Join us online to meet and experience several other Catan games.

If you are joining us for the first time, we welcome your visit with an overview of the network. We ll see you next week for the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas. We have a lot of things planned and hope to see you there. Stop by our booth (#1114) and attend our seminar on Monday at noon. Today s topics also include Ides of Gaming in Arizona and the convention we are brewing, RinCon. We bring up a few games in todays show. In particular, we want to direct you to Frederic Moyersoen s blog to learn more about Bacchus Banquet. More information is also available for Alpha Omega, to include a starting scenario and pregenerated characters. The dialect training series, Accent Your Character is now available at Lovecraftiana in digital format. You can learn more about it at Yog-Sothoth.com, award winning Call of Cthulhu web site and host of the famous Yog Radio. We also heard from Dan from The Gamer Traveler. It sparks a discussion about one of his episodes on gamer cruises.

We were very excited to have arranged a meeting with Skip Williams. He had an impact on many years of our lives. Skip is a co-owner in Crystal Unicorn Enterprises where you can find his forums. A bunch of his and Penny s work can be found in the Vicious Venues Archive. He also mentions some fiction in Time Twisters. Apart from today s show, you can learn more about Skip Williams in an entertaining interview with Monte Cook. Skip Williams professes a love of old things, such as classic Hollywood movies, musty old books, vintage airplanes, his wife, Penny, and the century-old farmhouse he shares with her-though not necessarily in that order. Skip has numerous role-playing game credits, and has dabbled in many other things. Skip pens the Ask the Kobold feature in Kobold Quarterly and has recently completed a work for Dungeon Magazine. When not contriving dire plots to bedevil role-players, Skip putters in his vegetable garden and orchard (which keep many deer and rabbits fed), and works to reclaim the fields around the farmhouse from the obstinate weeds that blanket them. He also paints toy soldiers. The Williams house is the site of an annual Christmas cookie bake that draws friends from both sides of the Atlantic; it s also the permanent home to a growing pride of unruly housecats.

We are delighted be in discussion today with the Catan Online moderators, KayakPete, Aero, and Sloejack. Each of them are strong community members and add a lot of value to our experience online. They keep the forums in check and spend a lot of time helping new players with the online games. Their guidance has made a positive impact on a lot of players. There are several ways to participate at PlayCatan.com. There are a handful of web games that only require the free account to play. Just by signing up you can also participate in Settlers of Catan games in the Catan Online World. With a premium account, several more Klaus Teuber titles are available to you as well as the meta game, where you as a play can collect resources and contribute to the Catan world. Join us in the forums to visit with our moderators and schedule a game today!

We are joined today by Ron and Veronica Blessing. They are hosts of The Games the Thing, a podcast about table top games. Ron also manages the Tucson Mall location of Game Daze. We follow up on some demographic discussion and then go right into a wish list of what we hope to see in games of the future. Some of the games that get a high degree of mention in the show include Savage Worlds, Alpha Omega, and Aces Eights. Savage Worlds is one of Ron and Veronica s main topics on their podcast, so you can imaging they play a lot. As excited as we are to get into the others, we haven t quite yet made that leap. We talk about why in the show. On the board game side, we are excited to soon dig into Mutant Chronicles. We have come across another great discussion on Accent Your Character. These are our dialect training series (which, by the way, are available now from Lovecraftiana). Fear the Boot has a nice introduction and then goes on in a later episode to have a great discussion on dialog and character. Fear the Boot is a great show and we encourage you to listen. A lot of podcasts get some mention in todays show. These are obviously The Games the Thing and Fear the Boot, but we also mention our old friend, Paul of Cthulhu and Yog Radio, and welcome Ed to the world of podcasting with Dark Whispers.

Bacchus Banquet is a card game with a Roman dinner party theme. Everyone comes to the dinner with their own agenda making variable winning conditions for each player. Its a light hearted fun game of deception, scandal, and intrigue. Bacchus Banquet Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Card Game Designed by: Frederic Moyersoen Players: 3-5 Play Time: 30 minutes Ages: 8+ MSRP: $20.00

Martin Wallace has been designing some outstanding game titles since the mid 90s. Some you will recognize include La Strada, Runebound, Age of Steam, and Struggle of Empires. His work can be seen on the shelves from several different publishers, including his own company, Warfrog Games. He loves to work with historical themes and has an educational background which inspires some great conversation in today s show. The game that got the most attention today was Toledo. It is scheduled for release in June of 2008. In keeping with Martin s love of historical themes, we work in 17th century Toledo, Spain to gather the right resources and have the finest and most beautiful swords crafted to present to the emperor. Toledo sounds like a dangerous place where protecting your honor may require some swordplay. We will be looking closer at Toledo very soon.

We have a lot of fun today talking about cheating at the game table. We have all been witness to such a blight of character and it makes for some great stories. We talk about quite a few games today to include China Rails and Pillars of the Earth. Pillars just one Best Advanced Game in Japan. We also are preparing a new Pathfinder campaign. Paizo made some important announcements about its future. Everyone, join us for our Catan Online party on Sunday, March 30th after 5 PM PST. You will need to download the client software and perhaps allowing it to update when logging on for the first time. When you get into the world, click on your backpack and move to the World Village, the English speaking community. Remember, the software is still in beta, so some translation bugs are still being worked out. For more information and discussion, join is in the forums. For those of you holding on to an older version of Catan, Mayfair now has the Adapter Kit. This provides an outer frame to enclose the hexes that make up the island of Catan, stabilizing them on the table. Several bits of community and convention news have come up during the show. We learn that Bo is headed to Game Storm, an adventure the rest of us are envious of. The Southern Arizona Gamers Association announces RinCon in Tucson, Arizona. This will be a don t-miss event. We are introduced to the Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers. The troops are starting to be rallied for something called MideastCon. Its always fun to reach out to other folks with media to share. Of course, we are especially delighted to call your attention also to Accent Your Character. This dialect training series for role-players and other casual pretenders is reviewed in great detail by the Wandering Geek on his Game Bag Review Show. You can purchase them on CD or digital download from paizo.com. We also mention today about the new video from Ghoulash.

Every episode of POINT BLANK features a recorded interview with the creative team at White Wolf that gives listeners a sneak peak at the new releases coming out in a segment called White Wolf Confidential. For episode 2, I had the pleasure of interviewing the lead developer for Vampire: The Requiem, Joseph Carriker, about the beautiful new clanbook series. I think Joseph did such a great job detailing this new line, I decided to release the full interview as its own separate show. I am certain that you will find this interview enjoyable and very informative, especially if you're looking for more information about the Ventrue clanbook, Lords Over the Damned. The total length of this special director's cut interview is roughly 15 minutes and includes information not included in POINT BLANK episode 2 due to time constraints. Enjoy! Please email all questions and comments to boyan [@] pubservinc.com.

Bo is a huge fan of Domaine. We haven t seen him leave the house without it since we have known him. When the opportunity came up to spotlight Domaine, we had to ask him to do the honors. He jumped at the opportunity. It is a great area control board game with elegant mechanics and a tight economy. Domaine Publisher: Mayfair Games Style: Board Game Designed by: Klaus Teuber Players: 2-4 Play Time: 60-120 minutes Ages: 10+ MSRP: $49.00 There is a lot of opportunity to experience Domaine online. Premium account holders will be able to play Domaine online with new friends and old advocates. You can learn the game by playing through this tutorial by professor easy. We also made reference in today s show to the back ground story and the Origins of Catan.

Jeremiah joins us from a new location in Georgia as he undergoes some National Guard training. Bo joins us to catch us up on a bunch of news, such as the Toy Fair and his new podcast, Point Blank, for PSI. We start our show by saying goodbyes to Dungeons Dragons co-creator, Gary Gygax. NPR has a great story where you can learn more. Other news includes Midnight Syndicate s release of the movie soundtrack for The Rage. White Wolf has a very interesting promotion going on for Exalted where you can get a free copy of the game. You graduate from D D by sacrificing your players handbook. Your then off and running with a new game. We learn some about the game but not near enough for my tastes. I look forward to my first opportunity to play. We found a great conversation by the Fist Full of Comics crew about our dialect training series for roleplayers, Accent Your Character. It is a fun listen and an objective 3rd party conversation about the CDs. They are also available as digital downloads from Paizo.com. Not too long ago, Bo introduced us to a game that doesn t leave his car except to break it out and play. It is a Catan title called Domaine; a great area domination game. We have also been playing with the beta version of Domaine in Catan Online. We also learned the World Villiage has been created. Sign in, click on your backpack, and move to the World Villiage. Polymancer says their goodbyes. Appropriately, their last installment talks about wrapping up a campaign. Polymancer magazine is a multi-genre magazine about roleplaying games (RPGs), miniature wargames, LARPs, and more. Articles are written so that they can be useful to gamers of all kinds, no matter which rules they prefer to use. This is done by making the articles system-independent. There is a complete adventure scenario in every issue. This is not an e-zine, but the real thing: an honest to goodness, printed magazine for gamers. Find out more at www.polymancerstudios.com.

We have been looking forward to talking to Guido Teuber and Gavin Allister of Catan, LLC. We have been enjoying a variety of games at PlayCatan for a while now and now have the chance to let Guido and Gavin share them with you. We even have some links to share with you to download the Catan Online beta clients so you can start playing today. Guido Teuber grew up in the world of Catan as a subject of playtesting for his father, Klaus Teuber, and later to take on roles inside the company of this successful line of games. He is now a managing director for Catan, LLC, the United States wing of the Catan World. Gavin got his start in the Catan world by translating German for us English speaking folk and now serves as the community manager for the online world. Apart from Catan Online that you play in, we also talked about several web games. The popular one is Catan Dice Game, which is also about to be released as a physical product. You can also play Oceania, Starship Catan Light and Multicatan. They ll give you a challenge and a brief break, and a chance to sample the games before buying their physical counterparts. Make sure to join us for the Catan Online world with these clients below. Remember, this is a beta version. It is playable and an absolute blast, but you may find a few lingering translation errors. Enjoy, and we will see you inside the world of Catan. for Windows (Windows 2000 / XP / Vista) - includes the Card Game for Mac OS X (for PPC / Intel // 10.4 Tiger / 10.5 Leopard) - does not yet include the Card Game for Linux / UNIX (requires J2SE 5, J2SE 6 recommended) - does not yet include the Card Game

Interview with Of The First Born Son

Interview with Of The First Born Son

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