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+1 Int, October 2011: Gaelcon preview

Wednesday, 19 October 2011 01:00


+1 Int: Now with even more links and formatting, a rundown of the latter two days of the upcoming Gaelcon.

 

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Int, October 2011: Gaelcon preview

Wednesday, 12 October 2011 01:00


Int: Humbug mixes up the Arctic and the Antarctic. Liam tells us about his member. Stu
distinguishes between things that are balls are things that are not. Oh, and we review
the first two days of the enormous Gaelcon.

 

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/lSVQCeI7uQg/int-october-2011-gaelcon-preview

 

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Mailbag Exp, October 2011: Master Nomenclature, Poo

Wednesday, 05 October 2011 01:00


Mailbag: In another fine example of straying off topic, the question of what's the best thing to call the guy running the game is partially discussed.

Exp: Stu is suspicious of its similarities to Lunch Money, but we battle through the torrent of incoming missiles to review Poo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaa

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/929/the-great-dalmuti

http://www.atlas-games.com/lunchmoney/

http://poothecardgame.com/

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Con, September 2011: Warlock Conspiracies

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 01:00


Cillian tells us all about a game that comes in a box and has a board and is really a card game, and he thinks the guy who invented Magic: The Gathering probably played it before. And it's called Warlock. Meanwhile (afterwards) Liam tells us about how much Kilkenny stinks, and Conspiracy doesn't. Also, humbug does the intro and outro in one take, and it shows.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2146/warlock

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameartist/13893/russ-nicholson 

http://poothecardgame.com/ 

http://www.kilkennytourist.com/details/st_francis_abbey_brewery.shtml

 

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Con, September 2011: GenCon with Eoin

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:00


Con: Eoin is semi-officially a complete card-gaming badass, having recently traveled to GenCon to represent clan and country (mostly clan) and beat the card-playing snot out of almost everybody in the entire world, even you, even thought you may not have realised it.  Shane, Cillian, Liam, and humbug have never been to GenCon.  Graham has, but isn't a semi-official complete card-gaming badass.  So, we quiz Eoin about his GenCon experience.  Features:

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/Wb1IZNNVOEY/con-september-2011-gen-con-with-eoin

 

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Per, September 2011: A Game of War art exhibition

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:00


Per: With the recent opening of an unusual cross-over between art and gaming happening in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Shane and Liam, who attended the opening (or maybe were a part of it) talk with Graham, Eoin, Cillian, and humbug about the game, the exhibition, and the free wine.  Features:

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/lxd-iKtSXas/per-september-2011-a-game-of-war-art-exhibition

 

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Int, September 2011: Conspiracy

Wednesday, 07 September 2011 01:00


Int: Filling the void left by the passing of the excellent ConFESS, Conspiracy steps up to take on the challenge of running a downright great non-college convention at the end of the summer.  Join Shane, humbug, and Liam to take a close look at the games and events on offer, and mull over whether it's practical to attend even when it blatantly isn't.

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/ZKUBhjGhGOI/int-september-2011-conspiracy

 

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+3 Downtime, August 2011: Missing players

Wednesday, 31 August 2011 01:00


+3 Downtime:  What to do when a player, or worse yet several players, miss a role-playing game session?  Ignore it?  Give them diarrhoea?  Send them down the hallways first to set off all the traps?  Shane, humbug, Cillian, and Liam gather round to throw about some ideas, most of which are decidedly unsatisfactory.  Features:

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/hdxGjbj1k0Q/-3-downtime-august-2011-missing-players

 

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+2 Downtime, August 2011: Desert Island Games

Wednesday, 24 August 2011 01:00


+2 Downtime:  Trapped on 3 separate desert islands, Shane, Cillian, and Liam struggle to decide which games they'll bring with them, being limited to only 5 each in the traditional fashion!  Pull up a piña colada and join the fun as we select the cream of the crop based on accessability, replayability, and usefulness in a survival situation.  Features:

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+1 Downtime, August 2011: Universe creation responsibilities

Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:56


+1 Downtime:  Where is the line drawn between player and game master when it comes to defining facts about the setting of a role-playing game?  Shane, Stu, and humbug utterly fail to solve a problem that's never really existed anyway.  Features:

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Per, August 2011: Upcoming releases

Monday, 08 August 2011 01:00


Per:  With all of the big gaming releases happening in and around now, Shane, Stu, Liam, and humbug get together to ignore not being at any of the major exciting events by digging about online to see what's supposed to be coming out.  If you're particularly uninformed in general, this might even be mildly interesting to you.  Features:

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Downtime, August 2011: Cross-over in RPGs

Wednesday, 03 August 2011 01:00


Downtime:  Cross-over - a shadowy flight into the dangerous life of a man who does not exist.  Not a very common technique in role-playing games but with definite familiarity to everyone; Shane, Cillian, and humbug bounce around some ideas and discuss the pit-falls and triumphs possible when mixing and matching.

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/4UzhDTvARlU/downtime-august-2011-cross-over-in-rp-gs

 

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+1 Mailbag, July 2011: New gamers

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:00


+1 Mailbag:  More tired plays upon the word "mailbag" kick off sage advice and discussion on the topic of new role-playing gamers and getting into the hobby.  It's contradictory, it wavers between over-specific and over-general, it's not much use!  Promises to find links to stuff mentioned turn out to be in vain, as follows:

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/wTbkSfzVneY/-1-mailbag-july-2011-new-gamers

 

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Exp, July 2011: Storm of Magic, Station Master, Rory's Story Cubes

Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:00


Exp:  Stepping in from the eldritch battlefields, the train station, the little box of dice, The Adventuring Party assemble to knock out reviews for some eclectic products.  Join Shane, Cillian, humbug and Liam for a look at Storm of Magic for Warhammer, Station Master, and Rory's Story Cubes.  Features:

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Mailbag, July 2011: Clichés

Wednesday, 13 July 2011 01:00


Mailbag:  Once more delving into the murky depths of The Adventuring Party mailbag, out comes a question about the use of cliche in role-playing games.  Liam, humbug, and Cillian gather to investigate and engage in another confused semantics discussion, running from moustache-twirling podcast panelists to staunch defence of classic Paranoia jokes.

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Con, July 2011: Q-Con XVIII

Wednesday, 06 July 2011 01:00


Con: Gather round, and heal told tales of great triumph, bitter shame, trials and tribulations, and indestructible psychotic jerk robots.  Explore perversion with Shane!  Stand confused in the hall with humbug!  Consume spuds with Liam!  Get the late bus home with Cillian!  Join The Adventuring Party, as they recount their adventures at Q-Con, and answer the immortal question: What About Ye?  Features:

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/BOvTzkeiED8/con-july-2011-q-con-xviii

 

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AP, June 2011: The Haunting

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 01:00


AP:  Fact: 'actual play' podcasts are bollocks.  Even Johnny No-Mates who can't find anybody to game with should have something better to do with his time than listen to those.  Compounding the case against your listening to this episode is that humbug, Shane, and Liam intentionally set out to destroy a classic Call of Cthulhu module, The Haunting (formerly The Haunted House), which has been the sample module forever and ever.  And destroy it they do, by having a good old read through it before playing.  Who will win?  GM or game-breakingly-well-prepared player?  Find out, if you dare, and if you don't ever want to play The Haunting yourself!

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+1 Int, June 2011: Q-Con, part 2

Thursday, 23 June 2011 06:45


+1 Int:  With last week's episode not even getting so far as previewing RPGs, a ludicrously jam-packed Q-Con leaves this episode running crazy long to cover the remaining bases.  From reminiscing about high-profile and disruptive Paranoia games of yore, to the return of the Queen's RAG, Shane, humbug, and Liam wrap up the Q-Con preview in a cool 96 minutes.

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Int, June 2011: Q-Con, part 1

Wednesday, 15 June 2011 01:00


Int:  As reigning international Q-Con pub quiz champions of the world for the second year running, we have a soft spot in our hearts for Queens University's Dragonslayers society's convention.  But are we so modest as to deny that our obnoxious victories colour our opinions, making them biased and unreliable?  Indeed we are not!  Nevertheless, Q-Con is great fun, and this year seems to be more packed with millions of cool events than ever before even.  Shane, humbug, and Liam barely even get halfway through the preview.

A full set of links will not be forthcoming, due to prep for a big game taking precedence.  However, there's loads of info on everything on Q-Con's website.

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Exp, June 2011: The Hobbit and Kill Doctor Lucky

Wednesday, 08 June 2011 01:00


Exp:  It's review time again, for a couple of fairly simple, fairly abstract, fairly time-killery board games whose actual linking relationship has yet to be determined.  Shane, humbug and Liam gather round to examine the seedy underbellies of The Hobbit and Kill Doctor Lucky.  Features:

  • Keeping the fourth wall intact
  • The Hobbit
  • ...not The Hobbit (or the Lord of the Rings)
  • The Titular Hobbit
  • Gems are the best bit
  • Additional axe
  • If I can't win, nobody can
  • Happy dwarf sort-of-collaboration
  • The Titular Book
  • Unscientific dice
  • Warpcon
  • Kill Doctor Lucky
  • Game continuity
  • Get Lucky with the monkey paw
  • The prisoner's dilemma
  • Game wrecked by gamers
  • Expansion name as game mechanic
  • Laughing at people who don't get to play
  • Playing it doggy-style
  • Uncertainty in numbers
  • The theme of the episode

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Downtime, June 2011: Players keep ruining my games!

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 01:00


Downtime:  Part witticism, part legitimate grievance, when Stu utters the catch-phrase Shane, humbug and Liam take up the call.  It takes probably longer than it should to realise that nobody actually knows what it means.

The out-take at the end relates to memories of the classic Goatse picture.  Surprisingly, the phrases "very open-ended" and "black hole" both got used during the episode and did not trigger crippling laughter.

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Character Creation, May 2011: From Another Time, Another Land

Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:00


Character Creation:  Despite being a much-discussed and widely-known role-playing game, the convoluted character creation process is one that few gamers have actually undertaken.  Shane, humbug, and Liam put their very sanity on the line and delve into the circumferential, accommodating depths of the process.  We had to go through it, and now you bloody well have to listen to it!

Here's a fun game to play: humbug says that every time he says the word "right", he's making a Sanity check, but I think he's exaggerating.  See if you can pick out the ones where he's really on the verge of losing it!

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+1 Downtime, May 2011: Role-playing in fantasy versus sci-fi settings

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:00


+1 Downtime:  Get that mail bag out and see what's inside!  In response to a completely fictional listener, Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu debate the question of whether it's easier to role-play in a fantasy or a science fiction setting, until a fortunately-timed technical glitch cuts things short.  Features:

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Bonus Exp, May 2011: Recent gaming antics round-up

Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:00


Bonus Exp:  Having done some natter-worthy gaming-related things in recent months unworthy of a full review individually but deserving a mention nonetheless, Shane, Stu and Liam recap some interesting (to them) stuff they've experienced recently, each of which is worth a look for yourself.  Features:

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Downtime, May 2011: Economies in role-playing games

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 01:00


Downtime:  With different RPGs treating the idea of an economy in every way from something to be hand-waved and ignored to a complex system that's the focus of the game itself, Shane, humbug, Cillian and Liam mull over the concept of economies in role-playing games and find it to be a rich topic with a lot to consider.  Features:

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Exp, April 2011: Civilisation and Twilight Struggle reviews

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 01:00


Exp:  Having delved sufficiently into delicious purchases made during con season, Shane, humbug, Cillian and Liam review two board games that both, like, have boards.  And maps and multiple players and counters.  Features:

  • Sid Meier's Civilisation
  • Eagle Games, makers of the old crap version
  • Unthematic inclusion of colonial America
  • Tech advances
  • How to fight
  • Racial abilities
  • Board or computer version?  We don't provide an answer.
  • Twilight Struggle
  • Board game or card game?  Eh, both.
  • Simulating the Cold War mentality
  • DEFCON as a game mechanic
  • The race to the stars!
  • Special Olympics
  • The balance issue
  • Thud!
  • Zip-lock bag fanboyism
  • The Irish Twilight Struggle Championships

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Downtime, April 2011: GM screens

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 01:00


Downtime:  GM screens are available for the majority of role-playing games, but do we like 'em, do we use 'em, and could we do better ourselves?  Shane, humbug, Cillian and Liam have a natter about what makes for a good or bad screen experience.  Features:

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Wis, April 2011: Getting started in Ambush Alley

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:00


Wis:  Excited about this week's release of the new edition of Force on Force, incorporating the revised Ambush Alley rules, Shane, humbug, Cillian and Liam present a rough guide to how to put together the required miniature people and places to play the game.  Actual potentially useful content, from The Adventuring Party!  Unprecedented.  Features:

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Con, April 2011: Vaticon report

Wednesday, 06 April 2011 01:00


Con:  With a technical hitch preventing release of a non-convention-related episode, Shane, humbug and Liam wrap up the hectic month of March's convention calendar with a somewhat exhausted report from Vaticon.  We'd like to take a moment to commend the Irish gaming community for a convention season that's been mercifully short on flashes of wargamers' cleavage.  Keep it up!  (your trousers)  Features:

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Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theadventuringparty/~3/gQafJNr5iVg/con-april-2011-vaticon-report

 

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Con, March 2011: Leprecon report, and Itzacon addendum

Monday, 28 March 2011 01:00


Con:  With the madness of con season arguably behind us (well, it's definitely behind everyone except Liam), the reports start.  This one's a few weeks out of date as necessitated by scheduling, but was recorded fresh - Shane, humbug and Liam's Leprecon report.  A short report on some great games at Itzacon is also included!  Features:

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+2 Int, March 2011: Vaticon preview

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:00


+2 Int: A last-minute recording and editing session wraps up con season depending on who you listen to, as Shane, humbug and Liam steeple their fingers and plot what to do this weekend in University College Dublin at Vaticon.

Due to some time constraints we're just going to dispense with the detailed show notes.  Sorry!

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Exp, March 2011: Ambush Alley

Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:00


Exp:  As Shane takes his first shaky steps back into wargaming, having discovered Ambush Alley at ConFESS some time ago and finally decided to take the plunge, the game itself is briefly occupying a strange position before its second edition but after lots of tweaks and spin-offs.  Shane, humbug, Cillian, Stu, and Liam sit down (or stay sat down, for this was originally recorded as one episode alongside our review of Battles of Westeros) to talk about the ups and downs of martyring unbelievers and slotting hajis.  Features:

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+1 Int, March 2011: Itzacon preview

Wednesday, 09 March 2011 00:00


+1 Int:  Without a pause to report on Leprecon (it's recorded, just don't have time to drop it yet), Shane, humbug and Liam launch into examining what's happening this weekend in Galway at Itzacon, where lots of lovely gaming is on offer.

Due to a problem with our hosting system the show notes got eaten and not regurgitated, so if you want to find a link to something, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way.  (with Internet search engines, like our forefathers used to in days of yore)

Apologies for the delay as well (and the file that only half-worked), we've had all kinds of technical problems this week.  It should all be okay now though!

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Int, March 2011: Leprecon preview

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 00:00


Int:  Con season is upon us once again, bringing with it a festive multitude of games, hangovers, overdrafts, ill-considered purchases, and hairy arse-cracks.  And kicking things into gear is Leprecon in Trinity College, Dublin.  Shane, Liam, Stu and humbug take to the mics to preview what is Ireland's oldest convention, you know.  Features:

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+1 GP, February 2011: 2nd Anniversary Pub Quiz answers

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 00:00


+1 GP: Your time is up!  Actually it was up a week ago.  Because you love pub quizzes, even though you don't seem to actually realise that simple fact, we're doing the whole works again, this time, with answers!  Score along, see how you did!  Not very well, you non-entering Scrooge.  You know who else didn't enter our pub quiz?  Hitler, that's who.  Features:

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Exp, Feburary 2011: Battles of Westeros

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:00


Exp:  George R. R. Martin might not be getting Song of Ice & Fire stuff out as quickly as Liam might like, but somebody else is, so Shane, humbug, Cillian, Stu and Liam sit down to have a chat about the BattleLore spin-off set in the world of that interminable Game of Thrones series, Battles of Westeros.  Features:

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Con, February 2011: Warpcon report

Wednesday, 09 February 2011 00:00


Con:  Recorded a few short days after returning from the depths of the countryside, apparently that wasn't long enough to entirely recover from the revelry that is Warpcon.  Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu reminisce about their triumphs and gloss over their failures at University College Cork's alcohol-fuelled convention madness.  Features:

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A word from the War on Terror guys

Saturday, 05 February 2011 01:25


With the usual intention of actually doing a little promotion of the podcast, I emailed TerrorBull Games and Gaming Paper to let them know about our reviews (because they're the little guys - haven't bothered with Hasbro or Lego yet but humbug insists there might be one guy at Lego headquarters who's constantly trying to push ahead the board game idea who'd be delighted to hear from us), which so far we've only done with the dude who wrote Duty & Honour (he said he appreciated our honesty because it was the only negative review it'd ever had.  WHY?).  Both companies wrote back!  Gaming Paper said humbug's Army of Darkness bit was very funny and I don't believe them, and Andrew from TerrorBull Games had loads of excellent stuff to say about War on Terror, which he gave us permission to reproduce here:

Hi Shane,

Thanks for letting us know - and for taking the time to review the game. It's most appreciated.

So, a tough audience ... but I get where you're coming from. The criticisms that Liam (?) raised have certainly been mentioned before - the game can be pretty chaotic and unfair if the chaos lands disproportionately with you. Yeh, that kinda sucks if your shiny new empire gets bombed back to the stone age in one turn, but not only is that intentional, but we made it pretty easy to recover should that happen. Yes, you can nuke someone, play the "look through the deck" card and nuke them again and yes, that hurts, but it's damn funny for everyone else.

Some people say we're sacrificing gameplay for theme and that may well be the case, but I prefer to see it as not looking for something in War on Terror that isn't there. It's not Diplomacy or Chess. Pure strategies don't exist - nor will they probably be rewarded. It's a very human game and full of human error. China's a weakspot to build your empire? No kidding - don't build there in great concentration unless you have a nuclear bunker handy (and a nuke for deterrence, why not?).

Anyway, sorry, I don't mean to sound defensive - it was an honest review and I can't (and don't want to) control how you approach the game. However, I did actually want to write with some advice. Some people find that they're not being aggressive enough and they focus only on empire building. Suddenly someone builds 3 cities and they've won. The solution here is to look ahead and keep people who are within 3 or 4 points of winning well in check. Other people have the opposite problem and are too aggressive and initiate a damaging and money-sapping tit-for-tat battle where you basically take it in turns to demolish each others' empire. These games can be particularly chaotic and "tippy". The solution here is to be creatively aggressive. Pay someone else to do your fighting for you - or better still, play two Empires off against each other.

I just wanted to offer that to those of you who are interested in playing the game again. It can be tamed and it can be very rewarding - you can almost go as deep with the game as the group wants to go. I know I've left  some particularly intense games psychologically and emotionally drained.

Anyway, thanks once again. I like your show - very listenable.

Cheers,
Andrew

Good stuff!  He also said it's spurred him to make a video on how to play the game to get the most out of it, which I haven't been able to find yet but will post here if I do so basically this useless sentence serves no purpose but as a placeholder.

Shane

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GP, February 2011: 2nd anniversary pub quiz

Wednesday, 02 February 2011 00:00


GP:  Another year of regular blather in the bag, it's time to celebrate the only way we know how (apparently): with a pub quiz, ritual beloved of gamers everywhere (except possibly abroad)!  This innovation, in combination with cheap cans, lets you take the pub quiz with you, for the busy gamer on the go.  Stuck in traffic?  Bored in a meeting?  Significant other telling you about something important?  Pop in your earphones, crack open a cold one and get scribbling down answers to our 50 exciting questions.  There's a prize in it for you if you win, which frankly you're quite likely to do.

Download this and become the obnoxiously-celebrating victor!  Closing date is the 16th of February, with ties broken by earliness.  Except Stu's bonus round.

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Downtime, January 2011: Fate points

Wednesday, 26 January 2011 00:00


Downtime:  Having satisfied themselves that they've produced enough actually decent content for a while, Shane, Liam, humbug, Cillian and Stu get to needlessly discussing the topic of fate points, under whatever name and mechanic they may lurk, in role-playing games.  Features:

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The Adventuring Party on Twitter

Monday, 24 January 2011 01:00


We don't do much promotion because it's nowhere near as much fun as playing games and waffling about it, but we just set up a Twitter account.  It's non-invasive!

http://twitter.com/#!/adventuringpty

 

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Exp, January 2010: War on Terror, Cranium: Wow You're Good, Gaming Paper, Lego board games

Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:00


Exp: With an embarrassing amount of pre-holiday waffle recorded and released, a sheepish Shane, humbug, Cillian and Liam knuckle down to produce some actual useful content, by reviewing some interesting games and gaming products they've been putting to use in recent times.  Photographs are sideways because humbug's camera is stupid!  Features:

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Int, January 2011: Warpcon

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 00:00


Int:  Time for a convention!  The madcap insanity that is Warpcon hoves into view over the new year's horizon, luring gamers from across the land to Cork town, home of the unintelligible, the gaming intervarsity cup, the Grand Canyon burger.  Get your drinking trousers on and follow us to Warpcon!  Features:

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Exp, January 2011: Twilight Imperium and Space Crusade

Wednesday, 05 January 2011 00:00


Exp:  Some nice reviews, tied haphazardly together by both being board games set in space (remember when we did Escape From Colditz and that Call of Cthulhu LARP and pretended it was a World War II themed episode?).  Liam unpacks his large copy of fighting-and-trading-and-diplomaticising monstrosity Twilight Imperium and its expansion, and humbug teleports back to his misguided youth to take the Space Marines to some blips.  Features:

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+3 Downtime, December 2010: Accents

Wednesday, 29 December 2010 00:00


+3 Downtime:  It's episode 100!  We've put out an episode a week, every week, 100 times, and that's something.  In lieu of something elaborate and special, we thought this would be the ideal opportunity to let our hair down and do the mildly silly episode we'd been wanting to do for a while.  So sit back, relax, pick up your stress balls and grind your teeth as Shane, Cillian, Stu, Liam and humbug ponder accents in role-playing games.

Editing for this episode was delayed by holiday travel and gaming, and further gaming is preventing the writing of full show notes.  We don't mention anything we haven't linked to repeatedly in the past, anyway, and gaming always trumps podcasting, and anyway it's episode 100 so cut me some slack.

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Character Creation, December 2010: Santa Claus

Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:00


Character Creation:  Putting festivity ahead of common sense, an even more informal than usual seasonal episode sees Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu putting stats on one jolly old elf in a number of different role-playing game systems, to no appreciable end.  Thanks for listening, happy holidays and we'll be back in the new year!  Or the end of this year if there's another Wednesday yet to come.

Apologies for the lack of the actual character sheets for your perusal, we might have them some time if fingers are gotten out ever.

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+2 Downtime, December 2010: High-level play

Wednesday, 15 December 2010 00:00


+2 Downtime:  Whether it be epic-level spells or delta-grade cyberware, and climbing the experience point ladder or starting characters with ridiculous creation points, most role-playing game systems have something that can class as high-level play.  Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu consider the various aspects of all this, with a little thought also given to low-level play, and reach very few useful conclusions.  Features:

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+1 Downtime, December 2010: Power creep

Wednesday, 08 December 2010 00:00


+1 Downtime:  Maybe it's the only way to sell game expansions, because there sure seems to be a lot of it around - prestige classes in RPGs, army lists in wargames, cards in collectible card games.  Shane, humbug, Liam, Dizzy and Stu get on the mics to discuss what power creep is, where it is, why it is, and whether we like it or not.  Features:

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Downtime, December 2010: Printed modules

Wednesday, 01 December 2010 05:00


Downtime:  A topic that we've been considering for some time (although you might not realise it to listen to the uninformed half-assery), Shane, humbug, Liam, Dizzy and Stu talk about official adventure modules they've known and loved and hated and just been downright confused by, from Swiss Army knife espionage to D&D's smuttiest.  Apologies for the late release of this episode, the editing process was delayed by playing Ambush Alley and creating a sweet snowman.  Features:

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Exp, November 2010: Pathfinder

Wednesday, 24 November 2010 05:00


Exp:  A dream team of experienced Pathfinder veterans sits down at the microphones, and so does Shane.  They tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Pathfinder, and about an hour's more.  If you like Pathfinder, your opinions will be slightly different and you'll be enraged!  If you don't like Pathfinder, you'll be bored and borderline suicidal!  Everyone's a winner.  Features:

  • A brief moment of laughter before the tedium
  • Pathfinder
  • Fighting a dragon in half a ballgown
  • Eberron
  • Big fat swords style of artwork
  • The Index
  • Beefed-up base classes
  • Example of play
  • The black-and-white side of the screen
  • Fun with feats
  • Online resources
  • Horse-eating so-and-sos
  • Well-prepared idiocy
  • The ol' scry-buff-teleport
  • Fate chips!
  • World's best GM screen
  • Pervious

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+1 Con, November 2010: Dominicon report

Wednesday, 17 November 2010 05:00


+1 Con:  Rushing straight from the halls of Maynooth college to The Adventuring Party's headquarters, a snuffly group of Shane, Liam, humbug, Cillian and Dizzy recap a multitude of events from Dominicon 2010, ranging from Liam's poor spelling to Shane's brief emergence from the closet.  Features:

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Int, November 2010: Dominicon

Wednesday, 10 November 2010 05:00


Int:  Without a break from the madness of Gaelcon, Shane, Stu, humbug, Cillian and Liam get stuck into a preview of the myriad goodies on offer in Maynooth at Dominicon this very weekend!  Features:

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Con, November 2010: Gaelcon report, part 2

Wednesday, 03 November 2010 04:00


+1 Con:  Forced by common sense to split one long enthusiastic chronological ramble about Gaelcon in twain, Shane, humbug and Liam pick up where they left off almost as if they'd never been away, to talk about what they got up to on Sunday and Monday at Ireland's national gaming convention.  Features:

  • No welcomes to this party
  • No extra hour in bed either
  • Dublin Area Rapid Transit says no to humbug
  • The Usual Suspects
  • The butler didn't it!
  • GURPS Old West
  • Good old trustworthy Colonel Van Cleef
  • Whittenham Forum
  • Good old trustworthy William the Negotiator
  • Chips
  • Escape From Colditz during the Charity Auction
  • Yugioh
  • Sean Alpha's Geek Media Centre
  • Show me the way to go home
  • Deadlands
  • Gitcher accent goin'
  • Wonders From the Occident
  • Iron Kingdoms
  • How to lose a LARP
  • Not playing Rakehell
  • Requiem for Rome
  • Spoken like an expert
  • More train trouble
  • Wayne O'Connor
  • GMs say no to idiocy

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Con, October 2010: Gaelcon report, part 1

Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:19


Con:  Fresh (ish) from the constant barrage of madness that is Gaelcon, Shane, humbug and Liam manage to drum up enough residual excitement from their withered husks to report at what turns out to be great length on their antics at Ireland's national gaming convention.  After recording it turned out to be really quite long indeed so it's being inelegantly broken into two parts.  Check back next week for the second half!  Features:

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Post-Gaelcon delay

Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:41


This week's episode is going to be a little late, because I pretty much slept through Tuesday when I should have been editing as a result of Gaelcon (and I'd do it again).  It'll be up as soon as I get it together.

Shane

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Exp, October 2010: Escape From Colditz and Demands of the Deep LARP

Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:00


Exp:  Adopting a coincidental World War II theme in recent activities, Shane, humbug, Cillian, Liam and Stu provide their thoughts and opinions on the decrepit prison-break board game Escape From Colditz, and live-action Lovecraftian horror in the wilds of Northern Ireland in the Demands of the Deep LARP event.  Apologies for the sound quality resulting from a mistake in recording.  Features:

  • Gaelcon
  • Escape From Colditz on BoardGameGeek
  • These colours don't run
  • Irish Red Cross
  • A byword for ambiguity
  • The land before hexes
  • Tackling guards
  • Appel!
  • The other versions
  • Rules abuse, or lack-of-rules abuse
  • Crackdown
  • The Colditz Story movie on IMDB
  • Do or die!
  • Shoot to kill!
  • Bidding war
  • Larp NI (turns out they do have a website)
  • Arkham Gaming Centre
  • The gravy train
  • I forgot to mention the murder that started it all, of course
  • Rolling Library Use
  • Bank vault contrivance
  • Misdirected paranoia
  • Ritual requirements
  • What happened the fishmen?
  • Driving up North

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+1 Int, October 2010: Gaelcon preview, part 2

Wednesday, 13 October 2010 04:00


+1 Int: Because Gaelcon's so big it took an entire episode just to talk about the RPGs, so this episode Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu squash in everything else that's going on - LARPs, wargames, card games, computer games, special events, and social (drinking) stuff!  Getting very excited indeed. Features:

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Int, October 2010: Gaelcon preview, part 1

Wednesday, 06 October 2010 04:00


Int:  Gaelcon is the main event in the Irish gaming calendar, a long weekend of wall-to-wall gaming, drinking, and buying stuff you absolutely have no use for.  In the first of what last year turned into about a million episodes Gaelcon-related, Shane, humbug, Liam and Stu take a look at what's on the cards in RPGs, and a bountiful selection it verily is.  Features:

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+1 Mailbag, September 2010: RPG character background

Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:00


+1 Mailbag:  Another non-fictional listener has a question about when and how much character background it's best to create.  Typically, the answers from Shane, humbug, Liam and new guy Stu are many, varied and inconclusive, although drag in some interesting examples from experience.  Features:

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Mailbag, September 2010: Background music

Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:00


Mailbag:  Listeners got questions, we got long-winded vaguely-related rambling.  One irlpotato asks us about background music in gaming, and Shane, humbug, Liam and Cillian manage to scrounge together some opinions, and for once we don't concentrate exclusively on RPGs.  Features:

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+1 Downtime, September 2010: Gaming club venues

Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:00


+1 Downtime:  With Dublin's Thursday Games Nights on the move again as its pub venue closes down under it, Shane, humbug, Liam and Cillian throw around ideas for what makes a good space for a gaming club to conduct its shadowy business.  Features:

  • Unlikely business truths
  • Good drink and bad food
  • Let them eat cake
  • Vote for wargames!
  • The Eldar Pit of Doom
  • Questions from passers-by
  • Hotels instead of pubs
  • Imaginary American game shops
  • Community halls
  • The Camarilla
  • No lammie, no game effect
  • Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the diamond toilet
  • Who ate all the pies?
  • They Ended Up Having To Eat Each Other
  • Wreckage and murderage
  • Gaming on the Orient Express
  • Memoir 44
  • Axis & Allies: Europe
  • Playing on the floor
  • Getting off the floor

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Downtime, September 2010: Money in gaming

Wednesday, 08 September 2010 04:00


Downtime:  Although money plays a major part in a lot of board games and RPGs, that's for another day; today Shane, humbug and Liam are discussing the subject of real actual money and how it relates to the hobby.  Gaming has been accused of being both an expensive hobby and defended as being a cheap one, so what's the truth?  How can you make it cheaper?  How can you make it more expensive?  What lies within  Liam's big chest and Shane's bellybutton?  Features:

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Character creation, September 2010: Midway LARP

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 04:00


Character creation:  Excited about the ongoing outdoor LARP starting this week in Dublin, Shane, humbug and Liam dig into the rules document and see what kinds of characters they can turn out - a real man, a real roleplayer, a munchkin and a loony.  It's worth noting that in the short amount of time between recording and release a new version of the rules has been released so some of the rules referenced are now out of date.  Some of them are just referenced incorrectly, of course.  Features:

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Mailbag, August 2010: RPG wound systems

Wednesday, 25 August 2010 04:00


Mailbag:  A Completely Non-Fictional Listener is back with another rambling question, and Shane, Liam and humbug are at hand with another rambling non-answer.  It's all got something to do with RPG wound systems, lethality and healing, and as with so many questions about RPGs, raises the big issue again of "what exactly is that nonsense trying to simulate, anyway?".  Some interesting things to think about are raised.  Features:

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+1 Downtime, August 2010: RPG supplements

Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:00


+1 Downtime:  With stacks of role-playing supplements accumulated from years of ill-advised purchasing, Shane, humbug and Dizzy examine the merits and flaws (ho ho) of the big-line-of-crap-for-each-game model, and discuss the many forms those supplements take.  Unfortunately a computer error wiped out the list of things in the episode which should be here.  I have no idea why humbug's new camera-phone is making all the embedded pictures be sideways.

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Downtime, August 2010: Initiative

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:00


Downtime:  Initiative systems in role-playing games are something abstract and strange and full of weird anomalies and holes, possibly the hardest part of a role-playing game rule system to get right.  This week, Shane, humbug, Liam, Dizzy and Cillian take a look at the complexities and pitfalls of the concept in general and some specific games, eh, specifically.  Features:

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Exp, August 2010: Axis & Allies

Wednesday, 04 August 2010 04:00


Exp:  Fresh from games of the apparently rare Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition, Shane, humbug, Liam, Dizzy and Cillian discuss the original, the revisions and the board game spin-offs of this classic in the high on World War II, low on swastikas stakes board war game.  Features:

  • Axis & Allies
  • Aggravated uninformedness
  • Canada and Australia weren't proper countries back then, either
  • Breach of non-aggression
  • Historically correct terminology
  • Germans with funny accents
  • World in Flames
  • The Manhattan Party
  • Zeros and Lancasters and Chaos cruisers from Battlefleet Gothic
  • Burning the Statue of Liberty
  • Downing fighters with Lugers
  • The Fuhrer has taken a sleeping pill and is not to be disturbed
  • Rooting
  • The navel option
  • War of the Ring
  • Money/3=infantry
  • The only copies of the game in the country
  • Playing online
  • Nuclear War
  • Marks on a scale from 3 to 18
  • Don't listen to this if you like Axis & Allies

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Downtime, July 2010: Good con scenarios past

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 04:00


Downtime:  Happy memories!  Shane, humbug, Liam, Dizzy and Cillian cast their minds back over their con-attending careers to talk about some of the role-playing scenarios that really stood out as being great, either because they actually were great or just because of where our own heads were at the time.  Features:

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+1 Per: Berget 8, part 2

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 04:00


+1 Per:  With more enthusiasm than any human could bear to hear in one sitting, Shane, Dave, Dizzy and Liam return for the second part of the excited ramblings about their experiences at Berget, the world's biggest airsoft game with a large chunk of LARP mixed in.  If you haven't listened to part 1, go do that now.  We'll wait for you.  Features:

  • Berget 8
  • Those wacky civilians
  • Unreasonable demands
  • Those two doctors again
  • A bit of purple monkey dishwasher
  • Gypsies, scientists and berets
  • To the Batcave!
  • 5 minutes! 10 minutes if we're bringing Dizzy.
  • Schiess dem Fenster
  • Angry toilet lady
  • The Big Push
  • Word of the day
  • Beer party
  • No regrets
  • I'm a dude playing a dude pretending to be another dude masquerading as a dude disguised as the third dude
  • Get Doctor Frumpy!
  • Waffle about food

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Per: Berget 8, part 1

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 04:00


Per:  With the series of episodes examining what's going on in the greater sphere of gaming which brought us interviews with Camarilla organisers and Lorien Trust players as an excuse, Shane, Dave, Dizzy and Liam go on at great length about their action-packed holiday at Berget in Sweden.  More than an airsoft game, more than a LARP, it was a gaming experience more intense and sustained than any we'd had before.  Features:

  • Dizzy's Swedish language skills
  • Berget 8
  • Our episode on airsoft
  • Mountaineer madness
  • It's not the size of the game area, it's what you do with it that counts
  • Sjätte Tunnan (Sixth Barrel restaurant)
  • Why your teachers taught you to write neatly
  • How to escape from prison in the most convoluted fashion possible
  • Lack of medical attention
  • Moustache appreciation
  • The Camarilla
  • Code purple!
  • Crazy Gypsy Lady
  • Anti-trust
  • The big red one

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Int, July 2010: BroCon preview

Wednesday, 07 July 2010 04:00


Int:  Not long now until the anticipated BroCon hits us, the University of Limerick's combined gaming and anime convention.  Shane, humbug, Dizzy and Liam check out the offerings listed on their website.  Well, Shane does, anyway.  Features:

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Con, June 2010: Q-Con

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 04:00


Con:  Fresh from the con-face, our heroes bring you tales of derring-do - at the gaming table!  In the pub!  Upon cartons of mashed potatoes!  Q-Con has happened again, and it brought a lot of very cheap drinking, along with some games.  Features:

  • N is for Queen
  • Moving up
  • Perudo
  • The Great Dalmuti
  • Monopoly
  • Security upgrades
  • Hungary 1944 LARP
  • Doctor Who RPG
  • Time to change your cant's
  • War on Terror
  • Firefly LARP
  • Imaginary languages
  • Castles & Crusades
  • Save versus tea!
  • Magnanimity in victory
  • The Starship Troopers thing
  • 4D Dungeon
  • Save versus walking away!
  • Cliché playtest
  • Imperial
  • Austro-Hungria and narrow margins
  • Cyberpunk 2020
  • Too much Cyberpunk!
  • Alahambra
  • Mystery counterintuitive computer game
  • Black Powder
  • Camouflage nerdery
  • Japanese choccie biccies
  • The Queen's Rag, again
  • Kings of all men

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Exp, June 2010: Cheapass Games

Wednesday, 23 June 2010 04:00


Exp:  Cheapass Games have been a constant in shops, on trade stands and at convention main hall tables for years, but it's easy not to notice them.  Shane, humbug, Liam, Cillian and Dizzy take a look at some of the many Cheapass games.  Features:

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+1 Int, June 2010: Q-Con, part 2

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:00


+1 Int:  Having only managed to touch on RPGs and LARPs in last week's episode, Shane, humbug, Liam, Cillian and Dizzy return to examining the forthcoming Q-Con by looking at... everything else.  Features:

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Int, June 2010: Q-Con, part 1

Wednesday, 09 June 2010 04:00


Int: Kicking back into the con groove, Shane, humbug, Liam, Cillian and Dizzy take a long-winded look at what Q-Con's promising us at the end of this month.  RPGs and LARPs feature this week, and there's so much stuff that the remainder will have to wait until next week!  Features:

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Downtime, June 2010: Dice fudging

Wednesday, 02 June 2010 04:00


Downtime:  Fudging is a despicable activity practised by depraved villains for their own perverse ends.  Perhaps someone you know could be a disgruntled saboteur, attacking your gaming enjoyment in order to fulfill their hidden desire to write a novel or screenplay.  Beware!  Liam, humbug and Dizzy find themselves without a straw man, little suspecting the dreadful sound quality that haunts them.  Features:

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+2 Exp, May 2010: Pit, Oregon, Pandemic & Dominion

Wednesday, 26 May 2010 04:00


+2 Exp:  With a selection of unreviewed games in boxes knocking around, Shane, Liam and humbug see what, if anything, lies within bell-ringing Pit, wagon-firin' Oregon, city-infecting Pandemic and expansion-releasing Dominion.  Features:

  • Pit at Boardgamegeek
  • Frantic shouting!
  • Gratuitous belling
  • Comprehensive reviewing
  • Oregon
  • Creepy kids with diseases
  • Exactly unlike a road-map
  • Serious dissing of Carcassonne
  • Pandemic
  • Free packet of donoteat
  • Disease spread!  Yummy.
  • Naked Pandemic
  • Stats
  • Dominion
  • ...versus Mega-Dominion
  • Four-player solitaire
  • Pterodactyl Attack
  • Confusing time-travel

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+1 Exp, May 2010: Currently Playing

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 04:00


+1 Exp: One little microcosm of the Irish gaming scene is we ourselves, The Adventuring Party.  Rather than purely being all talk (although we are that as well), we play games too.  So in this episode, we're chatting about what those games are and how we're finding them.  Features:

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Downtime, May 2010: The Dice Gods

Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:00


Downtime: Paying homage, or lack thereof, to the Dice Gods, or lack thereof, and the many zany behaviours we as gamers hold dear in our interface with what to the less enlightened would be a simple random-number generator, Shane, Cillian, humbug, Dizzy and Liam put their faith to the test.  Features:

  • Mistaken introduction as the third week of May when it's only the second
  • Introducing Dizzy
  • Offence intended
  • The unbeliever
  • What a crazy person might think
  • Axis & Allies
  • The folly of lacking faith
  • Faith over maths
  • A hard day's night
  • On-the-job training
  • Getting cocked
  • Roll dem phones
  • Deadlands
  • That guy (seriously, you need to watch this or you're wallowing in wilful ignorance)
  • Terrible explanation of That Guy's point
  • Etymology uncut
  • Mind over matter
  • The Dice-O-Matic
  • ...very inaccurately described
  • The gauntlet thrown
  • Science, baby

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Exp, May 2010: Early American Chrononauts, The Da Vinci Code, The Great Dalmuti, Puerto Rico

Wednesday, 05 May 2010 04:00


Exp:  Returning once again to reviews of games, Shane, humbug, Cillian and Liam hit up two card games and two board games - the obscure of subject matter Early American Chrononauts, the surprisingly non-crap The Da Vinci Code board game, the belongs-in-a-museum The Great Dalmuti and the horrifically racist Puerto Rico.  Features:

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NPC Exp, April 2010: Richard III and Maria

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:00


NPC Exp:  Another over-long in-depth analysis of board games you'll never even see!  Tom and Dizzy are back and they've brought historical board war games with 'em.  Features:

  • Richard III
  • Hammer of the Scots
  • Questionable history
  • Britannia
  • Picking at nits
  • Command & Colours
  • Bad pun about canon
  • Status quo retention
  • Fix bayonets!  (did they even have bayonets?)
  • Treachery!
  • How to gain votes and execute people
  • Navel movement
  • Maria
  • King of Hungary and Elector of Bohemia strangle each other
  • Male heirs in a hurry
  • Pragmatically fighting France
  • Glory deposits
  • Strike Them A Blow
  • The War of Jenkins' Ear
  • Psychological warfare
  • War by suits
  • Dizzy's ghost armies
  • The colourblind leading the blind
  • Indestructible wagons
  • Pillage shortages
  • Liam confuses historical periods yet again

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Downtime, April 2010: Idealcon

Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:00


Downtime:  What would you have at your ideal gaming convention?  That's not what this episode is about.  It's about what Shane, Liam, Cillian and humbeg would like at their ideal gaming convention, or more correctly conventions, because of course opinions vary dramatically.  Convention organisers take note!  But not too much note.  Apologies for Cillian's faintness, he was actually in the recording room but slouching very far from his microphone like a big slobby gamer.  Features:

  • Lord of the Pies
  • There's 'ideal' and there's 'ideal'
  • Maslow's hierarchy of needs
  • Pub quiz time
  • Conduration
  • Looking at wargamers
  • Layout by the guys who did R'lyeh
  • Venue for atmosphere
  • Medieval or at least pre-60s
  • Lots and lots of delicious trade
  • humbug's junk
  • Lots of travel or none at all
  • Girlfriends in another country
  • Unspecified vague adversity
  • People talking to you
  • Style over substance
  • Slots a day
  • RPGs versus pub quiz
  • Call of Cthulhu
  • Savage Worlds
  • Special events
  • BattleTech
  • Space Hulk
  • Variety
  • Elaborate GMed wargame scenarios
  • Serious boardgame throw-down
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Twilight Imperium
  • Axis & Allies
  • Pie-corresponding toilet facilities
  • Up-front information
  • Leaving the con excited
  • The prize fight
  • RPG and LARP coordinator
  • Scenarios ready
  • Nice weather
  • Belt up!
  • The crack is ninety
  • How not to organise a con

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Source Material, April 2010: Films that have been turned into games and vice versa

Wednesday, 14 April 2010 04:00


Source Material: With the film industry seeming to lean more and more heavily on existing intellectual properties from other media for material and a number of surprisingly good and unsurprisingly bad tie-in games knocking about, Shane, Liam, Cillian and humbug discuss a number of examples in each direction, and then start dreaming.  Features:

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Con, April 2010: Vaticon

Wednesday, 07 April 2010 04:00


Con: Small, cheap, and with lots of fun crammed into it, Vaticon is in many ways like your mum.  Shane, humbug, Dave and Liam gather around to discuss the goings-on of the weekend, including Dave's first foray into rubber-sword LARPing.  Features:

  • The correct opinions on Vaticon
  • Dave is completely unfair toward the excellently-organised Leprecon and Vaticon of last year
  • Concentric-circle-free travel
  • Outlast
  • Timeline as sand painting
  • Winning minor-drinking by default
  • Dominion for Trilogy
  • Geist: The Sin-Eaters
  • Real actual informative facts about Geist
  • The International Convention for the Normalisation of Protocols and Legislation With Reference to Temporally Locomotive Technologies
  • Fastest finger in the west
  • Rubber-sword LARPing
  • Waving big latex-encased weapons about
  • Laying down your arms, werewolf attack style
  • Field-expedient Jebrovian palliative care
  • BY THE POWER OF BEING A HIGH-LEVEL NECROMANCER!
  • The Innquizition
  • Human people dressed as nuns
  • Etymology of a hangover
  • How's the cracks?
  • Battletech
  • Zangief versus Chun Li
  • Deadlands
  • The Quick & the Dead
  • Drinkies for directy-man
  • Chrononauts
  • Dominion
  • Judge Dredd RPG

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Mailbag, March 2010: Atmosphere in combat

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 04:00


Mailbag: Coming to the aid of a listener in distress (or at least a listener with a question), Shane, Liam and humbug stutteringfully tackle the issue of how to keep the atmosphere alive when a role-playing game hits combat rounds.  Features:

  • Completely non-fictional listener!
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Not letting players know how many hit-points they have left
  • How to play RPGs wrong
  • Twilight: 2013
  • Exalted
  • Huge dice pools
  • Shadowrun
  • Insufficient GM processor power
  • Shorn off fingers
  • Feng Shui
  • The coward problem
  • The combat mini-game
  • Evil speeches first, offing characters second
  • No atheists in foxholes
  • Quaffing not drinking
  • Not naming the threat
  • Arm-waving
  • Heavy Gear
  • Thinking fast or losing your action
  • Descriptions and franticism to a point
  • Intent, roll, description
  • Captain Kirk versus the GM machine

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+1 Int, March 2010: Vaticon

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:00


+1 Int: With a great line-up, novel ideas, a tight schedule, lots to do and serve-yourself free tea, Vaticon is looking to be one of the best college cons of the year - it certainly was last year.  Shane, Liam, Dave, humbug and now featuring a guest appearance by Oisín take a look over what's to get excited about this weekend.  Features:

  • Vaticon
  • The Sum of all Adventurers
  • Geist: The Sin-Eaters
  • ...explained by our expert
  • Victoriana
  • The good ship Punctilitious
  • Mass Effect: Spectre of the Past
  • C-Sec's (say it fast)
  • Liam confuses Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
  • Space 1889
  • Pirate's Life
  • Outlast
  • Chrononauts
  • The Trilogy
  • Harry Potter & The Dagda's Colossal... Wand
  • A very serious in-depth going-over
  • Deadlands
  • Broken Gears
  • Ditches and D-Words
  • Mr. Flibble vs Ballygobackwards
  • Dark Heresy
  • Hong Kong Action Theatre!
  • The International Convention for the Normalisation of Protocols and Legislation with Reference to Temporally Locomotive Technologies
  • Obsessing over speed limits and timetables
  • Hard Times rubber-sword LRP
  • Pigged and dangerous
  • Mooks on a budget
  • The ever-present crop
  • The Olympia Tragedy
  • The Warhammers
  • Battletech
  • Sign of weakness!
  • The more things change
  • Warmachine
  • ...or go home
  • Magic: The Gathering
  • Legend of the 5 Rings
  • The smell of victory
  • Board games from throughout history
  • Smash Bros. Brawl
  • Goldeneye
  • Rock Band
  • Mariokart
  • Modern Warfare 2
  • Street Fighter IV
  • The InnQuizition
  • Guaranteed free tea and coffee
  • Posthumous accolades for Leprecon
  • Armed goons

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Con, March 2010: Leprecon

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 04:00


Con: Staggering from Leprecon to The Adventuring Party recording-hole, Shane, Liam and humbug tiredly enthuse about a weekend of LARPs, RPGs, associated goings-on, board games, unnecessary purchases and pints, many of which got to go in mouths instead of on trousers.  Features:

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Int, March 2010: Leprecon

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 05:00


Int: The oldest thing in gaming in Ireland that anybody knows about, Leprecon's been going since dice were carved from granite by nerdy cavemen and wargames featuring flintlock muskets were categorised as science fiction.  It still usually manages to serve up an excellent show.  A full house of Adventurers takes a look at what's on the cards for this year's.  Features:

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GP, March 2010: 1st Anniversary Pub Quiz results

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 05:00


GP: Your time is up!  Minions, collect the answer sheets!  Pencils down!  Don't make me take off my sunglasses!  With the opening time of the Pub Quiz past, Shane, Liam, Dave and humbug welcome Cillian aboard as a new fifth Beatle, and make asses of themselves attempting to answer their own questions after having had a month to research them.  Pitiful, really.  Also, the actual winner is announced - assuming that is that it isn't The Adventuring Party.  Features:

  • A new contestant
  • Scoring our contestants
  • Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
  • Round humbug
  • The owlbear question
  • humbug forgets about Yorkshire and Black Sea
  • Not the Necronomicon
  • Round Shane
  • Liam's knobulous face
  • Round Liam
  • Races and political alliances
  • Round Dave
  • Mysteriously vanishing whiskey
  • A short pause
  • The losers
  • The winner

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Per, February 2010: The Camarilla

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:00


Per: Roaming the night in up to, eh, six or so guises are the members of the Camarilla, White Wolf's ongoing, worldwide LARPs.  Ceire, Boomer and Phil from the Irish Cam contingent join us to give the low-down on just what it's all about, and to spill the beans on whether Dave's actually as much of a badass as we make him out to be.  Features:

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Int, February 2010: Itzacon

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 05:00


Int: With mere seconds to spare, Shane, Dave and humbug see what they can find on the Itzacon website to tempt their strange and arcane appetites.  Features:

  • Itzacon
  • Retro-sci-fi aesthetic
  • The Galwegian language
  • Geist: The Sin-Eaters
  • Half-informing you so you don't have to
  • Mystery games
  • Starfleet Special!
  • What year it is
  • Weirdness in the Appalachians, go figure
  • The old half-orc-maker
  • Vile experiments
  • Warhammer likes its beer
  • No flamethrowers
  • The sixth dandy
  • Secret babies
  • Call of Cthulhu
  • Benevolent Dr. Smythe
  • Uninsulting rustic accent
  • American explosions
  • How to get rid of this prince
  • Kneel before Zendikar!
  • Gravity floor

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Con, February 2010: Warpcon

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 05:00


Con: Shane, Dave and humbug gather and recollect a weekend of debauchery at Warpcon, a con filled with booze, games and booty.  Yarrrr!  Features:

 

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Cha, February 2010: Warpcon special guests

Wednesday, 03 February 2010 05:00


Cha: LIVE from Warpcon (all our podcasts are recorded live), Shane, Liam and humbug haul people from the timetable to the recording table and make them talk for your gratification.  Alessio Cavatore is the head behind Shuuro, the game that takes chess to new places, and the crew of Terrains4Games are making high-quality wargames scenery features in Cork.  Features:

  • All Games Considered
  • That chess game
  • Shuuro
  • Getting very into your set-pieces
  • Horsey on a plinth
  • Ramping up the pawns
  • Minds in wargames mode
  • Shuuro on the clock
  • Downfall through greed
  • Pawn phalanx
  • Knightmare Chess
  • The core engine
  • Shuuro on Facebook
  • Lots of ninjas
  • Terrains4Games
  • Joining hobbies and work
  • Non-secret production techniques!
  • No more forests
  • Planet of the blue trees

Due to a mistake uploading, this post initially linked to last week's episode.  This has been fixed!  Sorry.

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Change of release day

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 16:04


As of this week (the new year!), the podcast will be dropping on Wednesdays instead of Tuesdays.  It's to do with scheduling issues with real life and all that.  See y'all tomorrow...

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GP, January 2010: 1st Anniversary Pub Quiz

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 05:00


GP: As the first year of The Adventuring Party draws to a close, gather round as Shane, Dave, humbug and Liam host your very own portable digital pub quiz! Get a pencil and some paper because the most right answers sent in wins a thoroughly spiffy box of the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Questions may be daft, obscure, silly or unfair, but you should be used to that by now. The quiz will run through February and we'll wrap it up in the first episode of March.

Thanks to everyone for listening, and to everyone who encouraged us, said they like the show, commented on the episodes with something other than ads for World of Warhammer gold, and to our many guests.

Now get answering!

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Theatrics vs Human Perception, January 2010: Heavy Gear

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 19:59


Theatrics vs Human Perception: As in times gone by, the gamer is oft called upon to display feats of great informedness. Shane, Dave, humbug and Liam instruct you on the specifics of Heavy Gear, complete with pre-packaged opinions for you to pretend to share. It's a bit like My Fair Lady, with particle cannons. Features:
  • The Haiti bundle! (available after the start of the 20th in EST, America)
  • Restraint in the face of Liam's face
  • Heavy Gear
  • Shane's Heavy Gear Brain Junkyard
  • Shane's munificence
  • Tannhauser gates
  • Chess pieces
  • Getting to the robots
  • Agility out the arse
  • Peace through superior typos
  • A new despotic regime
  • Science
  • 10% crew casualties, minimum 1!
  • Cigarskill
  • Blue Angels
  • Cardboard for back armour
  • A guy-killing gun and feet
  • Gulags over violence
  • The pistol-whippin' bit
  • Things you'd do if you had giant robots and a planet with at least one hole in it
  • Fight o' the week
  • The way that Hevay Gears brain
  • Wrecking the world though player characterism
  • The fastest man on Terra Nova
  • Heavy Espionage
  • Places to stick your XP

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+1 Con, January 2010: Warpcon

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:00


Con: Too excited about Warpcon to contain it within a single episode, Shane, Liam, Oisín and Brian return to the preview, to cover everything they can find that isn't RPGs. Features:

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Con, January 2010: Warpcon

Tuesday, 05 January 2010 05:00


Con: With Warpcon XX looming near, Shane, Liam, Oisín and humbug are on scene to delve into the very heart of its game blurbs - so you don't have to. Features:

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+3 Downtime, December 2005: Character Deaths

Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:49


Downtime: Shane, Dave and humbug together explore the graveyard where character sheets go, and talk about the myriad of topics relating to role-playing game character death. Features:
  • Campaign lethality
  • MERP
  • Keeping it in the family
  • Deathcon I
  • The near-inevitability of death
  • That cartoon
  • Avoiding misery through all-powerful badassery
  • Getting stoned out of your gaming group
  • Avoiding misery through self-medication
  • Blaze Of Glory Guy!
  • A bit of the old group suicide
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Other peoples' fault
  • Diplomacy
  • The Camarilla
  • Deadlands
  • Avoiding misery through acclimatisation
  • Killed by your own stupidity

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Episode delayed

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:58


The grueling rigours of Christmastime have filled editing time with dinner and drinking and prezzies and telly and all that, so this week's episode is delayed! Sorry about that!

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+2 Downtime, December 2009: Games for Christmas

Tuesday, 22 December 2009 09:27


+2 Downtime: With visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads (or they would be if they knew what those are), Shane, Dave and humbug remember some of the great games they received as Christmas prezzies in the past, and think about what they'd love to get this year. But first, announcing the lucky winner of the Twilight: 2013 competition! Where by 'lucky' we mean 'knows a mildly unhealthy amount about gaming'. Features:

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+1 Downtime, December 2009: Gamer-Friendly Family Games

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 05:00


+1 Downtime: Following on from last week's yak about weird games your family might like, Shane, Liam and humbug turn things around and consider family games your weirdo might like. Features:

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Downtime, December 2009: Family-Friendly Gamer Games

Tuesday, 08 December 2009 05:00


Downtime: With impending family time looming on the horizon, Shane, humbug, Dave and Liam make some recommendations and some anti-recommendations for gamer games that you can dig out to play with a human family. Features:

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Exp, December 2009: Perudo

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 13:00


Exp: With the holiday season finally unarguably upon us maybe people will stop looking oddly at Shane for wearing a Santa hat and even Mean Old Mr. Humbug has found some Christmas spirit, because they with Liam and guest expert Stu are reviewing Perudo (Dice of the Andes) as part of the Game Cryer Holiday Gift Guide project. You should buy this now. NOW! Features:
  • Game Cryer Holiday Gift Guide
  • Perudo
  • Oh No, Not More Pirates
  • Dank Peruvian Mexican Prison Cell
  • Little sock of a game
  • Ordinary human charisma
  • Other prisonly activities
  • Ignorant gamers
  • Non-structural drink colour change
  • Guesswork, bluff and luck
  • Some kind of statistics
  • Swearing
  • The Conflict
  • A rules example
  • The House Rule
  • What's hiding behind that moustache
  • The Advanced Rules
  • humbug's hip flask
  • The bell curve of godhood
  • Mojo loss

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GP: Twilight: 2013 competition

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 10:38


GP: If you think having to roll for cholera, track how thirsty you are, perform constant preventative maintenance on your gun and count expenditure of valuable, irreplaceable ammunition sounds like fun, enter our competition to win a copy of Twilight: 2013! Alternatively, if you think naming all the games in our logo sounds like fun, you can enter too.

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Late episode

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 09:49


Today's episode is going to drop at 1800 instead of the usual midnight-wherever-our-server-is, because it's part of a bigger project spanning multiple gaming podcasts and blogs and they're trying to sync it all up. There'll be something to keep you occupied in the meantime though; watch this space. Shane

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Per, November 2009: Military Simulation airsoft

Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:00


Per: Units of toy soldiers skirmish over imaginary battlefields, complete with advanced rules for firefights, objectives, intelligence, explosives and even airstrikes. The unusual part is that this time, the toy soldier is you. Shane, Dave and humbug meet with a sniffly DoC from the Irish Airsoft Association to take a look at running about for wagamers. Features:
  • Irish Airsoft Association
  • A story
  • Deadly weapons
  • That German guy from Die Hard
  • Your own activity level
  • Sitting-in-a-tree fun
  • That gun with the funny sight that cocks off to one side from Die Hard
  • Faint whining
  • Pokemon for grown-ups
  • A flag the shape of a briefcase
  • Running with your human legs
  • Chairsofting
  • The Argument
  • Berget 7
  • Running up a ski resort in summertime
  • The Jebrovian Conflict
  • The Liberation of Fictionalistan
  • Phoenix Rising III
  • The South rising again
  • The Mall
  • The coolest man on Earth

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Con, November 2009: Gaelcon

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:00


Con: All excited from three days of gaming excellence, Shane, Dave, humbug and Liam talk Gaelcon. Features:

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Int, November 2009: Dominicon

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 05:00


Int: With seconds to spare until Dominicon 2009 (in space!), Shane, Dave, humbug and Liam examine what's on offer at the end of the train line. Features:

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Cha, November 2009: Gaelcon Live II

Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:00


Cha: More hi-jinks from Gaelcon, as Shane and Dave, with assistance from unfortunate guest host Pixies, accost other punters who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time or have otherwise attracted our fell attentions, including an "overly candid" interview with Ireland's famousest game writer. Pretty much entirely unedited for authenticity. Guests are human beings and as such may use the foul language common to that species. Features:
  • Crazy hippie-looking guy from Cork
  • Noodle a.k.a. You In The Red T-Shirt
  • The most affable man in gaming
  • Drew from the bring-and-buy charity stall
  • Tristram Hills, wargames co-director
  • Darryl Trainor, warmaster for forces of Chaos and Tristram's expendable minion
  • Ireland's famousest game writer Gar Hanrahan
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Cha, October 2009: Gaelcon Live I

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:00


Cha: From down the end of the charity desk and elsewhere at Gaelcon, Shane, Liam, humbug and Dave talk to passers-by, attend the charity auction and grab the likes of the SCA, Cillian the trader and Gaelcon committee members for a chat. Pretty much entirely unedited, possibly some naughty words. Now correctly constructed and containing promised link and picture!

 

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+1 Int, October 2009: Gaelcon, part 2

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:00


+1 Int: Shane, humbug and Liam get stuck into the other half of unfounded speculation about Gaelcon. Apologies for the unbalanced sound levels, a mistake in editing skipped a stage of the process. Features: Discuss this episode on IrishGaming.Com!

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Int, October 2009: Gaelcon, part 1

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 04:00


Int: With so much going on at Gaelcon this year, Shane, humbug and Liam have broken the preview into two parts, abiding by the chronology of the future. Blurbs are read, postulations thrown about, shocking revelations made. Features: Discuss this episode on IrishGaming.Com!

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Con, October 2009: ConFESS report

Tuesday, 06 October 2009 04:00


Con: Shane, humbug and Liam attended the grand finale of ConFESS for assorted amounts of time. This is what they got up to. Features: Discuss this episode on IrishGaming.Com!

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Cha, September 2009: ConFESS committee reminiscence

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:00


Cha: Shane sits down live at ConFESS (in fact, all our episodes are recorded live) with Jude, Wayne, Dwane, Dave and Joe, the boys of the Flat Earth Society to talk about the lifespan of the convention that's burning out rather than fading away, from inception to grand finale. Features:
  • Power struggles
  • The craic
  • The origin of Flat Earth
  • Grassroots Magic
  • Solidarity through t-shirts
  • The classic double-take
  • Just another transvestite on The Wall
  • Sligo infiltration
  • The epic pub quiz
  • Multiple Gamer Olympic gold medallist
  • Gamers who both know AND like each other
  • Peer pressure to marry
  • The high-Dex convention
  • Epidemic friendliness
  • Ultimate relaxation
  • The Emergency Wargame Coordinator
  • Half-assed pirates
  • A town of former mental hospitals
  • The touch of DEATH
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+1 Exp, September 2009: Not Fighting Fantasy

Tuesday, 22 September 2009 04:00


+1 Exp: Part 2 of the excited banter about those adventure game book things has Dizzy aiding Dave and humbug on the enthusiastic side and Tom not aiding Shane on the somewhat confused side. Features:
  • New Fighting Fantasy Books
  • The first thing Dave ever GMed
  • Only a dream
  • Schoolboggers
  • Robin of Sherwood
  • Budget survival education
  • Entries snobbery
  • "The reader is a person reading a book"
  • Happy anger
  • The Deathometer
  • A thin shaft of blue light with laughing scary faces in it
  • Leather facemask
  • How to win a girl
  • Strange outlandish clothes
  • Escape from the valley of the dinosaurs
  • Tricky puzzles
  • Shane's £550 DVD player
  • Bearded shouty king
  • Sim Ninja
  • The one-sentence D&D campaign
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Exp, September 2009: Twilight: 2013, Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus, Duty & Honour and Smallworld

Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:00


Exp: A full house of hosts with reviews and previews, except that Oisín insists he hasn't played anything new ever. humbug is in with first impressions of Twilight: 2013, Dave carefully conducts a spoiler-light consideration of the Pegasus expansion for a game about a space-ship, Shane rips into the redcoats of Duty & Honour and finally Liam's up with Small World after all. Features:
  • Twilight: 2013
  • Game of the Year 1985!
  • Wolverines
  • What happens to Ireland
  • The Dark Sun character archetype
  • Rolling your Fieldcraft
  • Unhamminess
  • Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus
  • A game about another space-ship
  • Treachery!
  • Bits in the box
  • Like a brig
  • Duty & Honour
  • How many groats are in a... eh.
  • You get the sex?
  • A large moustache
  • Donkey-tending
  • Your physical pain-hole
  • A go on a horse
  • 4 shots a minute
  • Small World
  • Guys sitting on tiles
  • The same rebuttal
  • Mildly amusing flying giants
  • The little icon
  • One for everybody in the audience
  • The greatest game in the history of the world
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Int, September 2009: ConFESS

Tuesday, 08 September 2009 04:00


Int: With the last ever ConFESS drawing perilously close, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín preview what's announced for the line-up there. Features:

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Bluff vs Scrutinise, September 2009: Deadlands

Tuesday, 01 September 2009 04:00


Bluff vs Scrutinise: Shane, humbug, Dave and Liam present the ultimate bluffer's guide to Deadlands - information and pre-packaged opinions to enable even the most ill-informed gamer to blend into a conversation like a suave secret agent. It's a bit like My Fair Lady, with breaking chairs over peoples' backs. Features:
  • IrishGaming.Com
  • What an RPG is
  • Deadlands
  • Damn Yankees
  • California doing what it does
  • Spells that cost an arm and a leg
  • No, YOU'RE open-ended
  • Authentic frontier gibberish
  • Pavlov's poker-playing dogs
  • Failed Cognition check
  • MYSTERIOUS PAAAASSSST
  • The anomaly in botching
  • Grim servants o' death
  • Spades like what you'd dig a grave with
  • Women in human society
  • Crazy Dave
  • Zombie Mad Max
  • Deadlands in SPAAAAAAAAACE
  • Weirdness arms race
  • My d12s cry themselves to sleep because I've been touching them inappropriately.
  • John Wayne humbug
  • The Adventuring Party forum on IrishGaming.Com
  • Discussion thread for this episode

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Exp, August 2009: Fighting Fantasy

Monday, 24 August 2009 17:04


Exp: With the enthusiastic assistance of Dizzy, Dave and humbug leave a bewildered Shane in the dust reminiscing about the Fighting Fantasy game-books of yore. Features:

  • Archetypal something
  • Use of your own judgment
  • The abandonment of reason
  • Little cube things
  • Adventurers from another world
  • Skill, stamina and luck
  • Heroic leaping
  • Left turns
  • Waking up hungry
  • Tank of all tanks
  • Library Use
  • What makes it hard
  • F.E.A.R.
  • Big dirty patch of flaying red skin
  • Zap zip zop big or pop
  • Sabre-tooth tiger fur bikini lady
  • The dud option
  • Aliens that look nothing like the alien on the front cover
  • Turning to page 400

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Per, August 2009: Rubber-sword LARPing and The Gathering

Tuesday, 18 August 2009 11:49


Per: Shane, Dave and Oisín are joined by veteran rubber-sword LARPer Brian (not that Oisín isn't a veteran in his own right) to introduce us to the magical world of rubber-sword LARPing in general, the Lorien Trust in particular and The Gathering specifically. It's a long one (fnar fnar) but very informative and worthwhile, and it was fun to record. Features:

  • A game where you act out the actions of your character!!
  • Camarilla
  • Suspicious denials
  • Real-life experience points
  • Incredibly complex terms
  • Lorien Trust
  • A certain epic fantasy novel series
  • Personal spmace invasion
  • Dave's impeded magical abilities
  • Derogatory terminology
  • A card-rippingly good time
  • A system for looting the dead
  • Actually, it's physical representation, isn't it?

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NPC Exp, August 2009: Punic wargames

Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:00


NPC Exp: Further somewhat obscure board war game antics in the bag, Tom and Dizzy return to tell Shane, humbug, Dave and YOU about Command & Colours: Ancients and Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, where players do battle over the colour purple. Apologies for lots of background noise, caused by constant fiddling with game pieces lying on the table. Features:

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Downtime, August 2009: Historical RPGs

Tuesday, 04 August 2009 11:29


Downtime: With limited knowledge of historical wargaming, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín embark upon a rambling but ultimately productive discussion of using historical, quasi-historical and half-quasi-historical time periods in role-playing games. Features:

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Late podcast!

Tuesday, 04 August 2009 00:19


Apologies folks, this week's podcast is going to be a little bit late due to bank holiday festivities impinging on the editing process. Should be up by Tuesday afternoon, fingers crossed! Shane

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Downtime, July 2009: Excuse to tell story of Dave not saying short sentence correctly and Dizzy not drinking olive oil

Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:00


Downtime: The line or lack thereof between character knowledge becomes the bread in an excuse-to-tell-the-story-of-Dave-not-saying-a-short-sentence-correctly-and-Dizzy-not-drinking-olive-oil sandwich. Without Dave to defend himself, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín take on the task. Features:

  • Successful entrants to humbug's competition
  • Fortune and glory
  • Gaming stories
  • Murder mystery
  • Great GMing
  • Klaatu Verata, eh...
  • The name of That Guy
  • Levels of immersion
  • Baron Grellis
  • Rolling a 1
  • Lost axe
  • The origin of Shane and humbug
  • Shady banking
  • Chemistry 101
  • Squad-level tactics
  • Corporal punishment
  • NPC mentality
  • Deadlands
  • Heart health
  • Game-related arson
  • 11-foot poles
  • Diligently avoided mickey jokes
  • Kicking-out time
  • Goons on the roof
  • Thespnapping
  • Corpse looting
  • Mongo
  • Dumbing Liam down
  • Pre-dumbed-down players
  • Shades of grey
  • Unleashing the dark side
  • The condensed lessons
  • Olive oil for everyone

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Source Material, July 2009: Gamer Book & Movie Recommendations

Tuesday, 21 July 2009 04:00


Source Material: Attempting to communicate something more constructive than "...and you should see it because yer man's all like hiiiyaaaah peowm peowm kerprgh kprgh and the bad guy's all like whaaaaaaaaaaaa-bowww!" or "...and then the screen goes all dark, right, and up in big letters it says: Jean-Claude Van Damme. And that's why it's great." Shane, Dave, Oisín, humbug and Liam demand that all gamers familiarise themselves with a list of books and movies. Features:

  • Life in the future
  • Thousands of Space Marines
  • Mad Max
  • Crazy cockroaches and mad hair
  • A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Pervy chainmail bikini
  • Andean doubt
  • Plot advancement
  • An important life lesson
  • Unknown cyberpunky movie
  • Ruined city full of canals
  • Pervert with binoculars
  • Free pint competition!
  • Necroscope, and others
  • The adventures of Harry Something
  • Special agents with powers
  • Poseidon
  • Traps and obstacles
  • Tremors
  • Strange happenings
  • Arsenal owner
  • Stargate: SG-1
  • Aiding another
  • Monster of the week
  • Group dynamic business
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • Stupid gods
  • Our colleague
  • Kelly's Heroes
  • Perfect con scenario?
  • World War Z
  • Son of Mel Brooks
  • Stuff that'll make the GM angry
  • Sad Dave
  • Guns, Germs and Steel
  • Different insight
  • Blissful ignorance
  • Sharpe
  • A really big eagle that Bonaparte had down his trousers
  • Sean Bean dedication
  • Return of the Living Dead
  • Rabid weasels
  • Graveyard dancing
  • 1984
  • Thought crime (thinking bad about The Adventuring Party is wrong!)
  • A truckload of grit
  • Dog Soldiers
  • Gigantic portion of cheese
  • Berserk
  • Repeater crossbow
  • Extended, non-musical montage
  • Gladiator
  • He's-behind-you bad guys
  • Vaguely whiny operatic music
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Sean Bean's hit points
  • Words we know
  • Ghostbusters
  • Maxed-out Bluff score
  • Improperly fleshed-out character
  • Mountain Survival
  • Scary hillbilly
  • Oisín versus a motor rifle division
  • "Pint" followed by "[name of movie]"

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NPC Exp, July 2009: Codex: Imperial Guard

Tuesday, 14 July 2009 04:00


NPC Exp: Shane and Liam are joined by Seán and Skippy to take a look at the new Codex: Imperial Guard for Warhammer 40,000 - its changes, its new units, its background fluff, its dreams, its desires, its most intimate of intimates. Features:

  • No gag reflex
  • Codex: Imperial Guard
  • Codex envy
  • Standard Imperial bullet-stopper
  • Dark Eldar rumours
  • An awful lot of tanks
  • Valkyrie
  • Hommina
  • Meat ablative armour
  • Pie plates
  • Squadronables
  • All sorts of fancy orders
  • Lord Commissar
  • Mr. Shouty
  • Primaris Psyker
  • Sanctioned Psykers
  • Tau Empire
  • Stormtroopers
  • Ogryns
  • Sly Marbo
  • One man, but what a man
  • Heavy weapons
  • Veteran squads
  • Salamander scout vehicle
  • Leman Russ Conqueror
  • Leman Russ Punisher
  • 29 dice
  • Griffon
  • Colossus
  • Crazy machines of death
  • Wargear
  • Bionic face
  • How to destroy Skippy
  • Kill points
  • Lots of command squads running around
  • How to be the baddest
  • Chainswords and power fists and stuff like that
  • A guy standing on the treads of a tank while it's moving
  • The Great Enemy
  • Deathstrike missile launcher
  • Hot new models
  • Hydra flak tank
  • Elite SAS operatives
  • Penal legion
  • Valhallans and Tallarns too
  • Damn Spoiled Marines

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Con, July 2009: Q-Con

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 04:00


Con: A maxed-out Adventuring Party reports on the goings-on at Queens University Belfast's gaming-and-cartoons convention, Q-Con. Features:

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Downtime, June 2009: Maps

Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:44


Downtime: "We need an idea for a topic." "How about... mug. Chair. Microphone. Shirt. Maps." "Hey, maps is pretty good."

Apologies for slight delay in release of episode, caused by important drinking.

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Downtime, June 2009: Food

Tuesday, 23 June 2009 04:00


Downtime: For the historic first time, all five hosts are present on all four mics to talk about the various roles of food in gaming, and the roles of drink in gaming and elsewhere.

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GP, June 2009: The Adventuring Party Convention Awards 2008-2009

Tuesday, 16 June 2009 04:00


GP: An idea that could have been excellent with more forethought, The Adventuring Party recognises the stuff that matters to us at cons. Recognises with talking about it, there's no physical award or anything. We'll probably ruffle your hair if you ask nicely though.

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Int, June 2009: Q-Con

Tuesday, 09 June 2009 14:35


Int: Back to it, I guess... Shane, Oisín and Dave attempt to preview Q-Con 2009, but probably mostly end up previewing a strange figment of their collective imagination. No real enhanced content in this one due to it being late, sorry about that!

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Exp, June 2009: Family Business, Dwarf Fortress, Last Night on Earth and Race for the Galaxy

Tuesday, 02 June 2009 04:00


Exp: Shane, Liam and humbug play fun games so you don't have to! And also Family Business. A review episode where our handsome heroes explore not one, not two, not three, not five, but four games for your convenience! Features some excellent double entendres that I'm refusing to point out.

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+1 Con, May 2009: Vaticon

Tuesday, 26 May 2009 04:00


Con: Shane, Oisín, Dave and humbug go on at length about the great time had at Vaticon in University College Dublin at the tail end of con season, ranging from surprise excellent LARPs to radio miscommunication to getting locked in the pub.

I've decided it's a bit puerile to keep doing the double entendre thing for every episode, so why don't you folks give it a go? Post any good ones you find in the comments. I'll start you off: hot seat.

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NPC Exp, May 2009: Napoleon's Triumph and Star Warriors

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:00


NPC Exp: The return of Tom and Dizzy, our obscure board game contractors. This time around they're talking about Napoleon's Triumph (not Bonaparte's Triumph as Shane mistakenly says in the intro) and Star Warriors from the good old days. Apologies for all the snuffling and coughing, two of the four panelists were ill.

  • Stretches out the edges a little bit.
  • The polygons are quite large.
  • You want to get around behind somebody.
  • Wrestling for position.
  • It's going to be messy.
  • Mounted on hard board.
  • He kept coming at my flank.
  • Put them in the cockpit.
  • It was a bit too long.
  • It fits in lovely.

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Con, May 2009: Conpulsion

Thursday, 14 May 2009 09:37


Re-publishing this because my own stupidity messed things up for subscribers. Sorry folks!

Con: Shane, Liam and humbug's excitement about how great Conpulsion was causes a general break-down of communication.

  • Shane got a giant fist.
  • I've made a pile.
  • You took that out in the pub.
  • Play ball.
  • Two people deep.
  • Someone stuck up their hand.
  • They were looking to put out.
  • Look at an Imperial thingie.

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Downtime, May 2009

Tuesday, 05 May 2009 04:00


Downtime: Torn from within by confusion over whether or not computer wargames are better than table-top wargames, Shane provokes debate on computers versus reality throughout the spectrum of gaming.

  • Big barrier to entry.
  • I go up and I can only do certain things.
  • Doing it with another person.
  • Raise another point.
  • Face-to-face ambience.
  • Keeping a log.
  • Strip!

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+2 Con & Wis, April 2009: K2 report & Event Organisation part 3

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 11:22


+2 Con: Shane and humbug welcome guest Drew, who attended K2 so we didn't have to (actually we were at Itzacon that weekend). K2 is a residential, freeform con in the depths of the bog and very unlike any other gaming con in Ireland - and that's a good thing.
  • Up in the back yard.
  • People go down.
  • Your Imperial Destroyers are about 3 inches long.
  • Bought the box.
  • A huge amount of meat.
  • Didn't happen to fit in.
  • Next year we'll get it in there.
Wis: Brian Nisbet is back, finishing up his excellent advice on organising and running a con or con-like event. This time he's dealing with how it'll impact your life. And it will.
  • Touched on the actual nuts.
  • Who you're going to do it with.
  • Looking at their areas.
  • Interfering with a whole bunch of other areas.
  • In the end.
  • If I'm involved in one more of these, I'll never want to come.
  • Go it alone.
  • I appreciate Shane's time and his huge array.
  • A variety of parts.
  • lir at lspace dot org

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Episode delay

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 10:25


Apologies for the lack of an episode today - I claim the universal excuse of having been too hungover to finish the editing last night. It should be up tonight! Shane

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+1 Con, April 2009

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 04:00


+1 Con: Shane, humbug, Liam and Oisín report on Itzacon, which happened in Galway from the 6th to the 8th of March.

  • It was bigger than I thought.
  • Straight up, straight in.
  • I would have been happy with twice the length.
  • Cup them in your hands.
  • Went to bed; it was tight.
  • Selling out their slots.
  • You could have gone in, done your five minutes, come back and then gone in again.
  • It's nice to give people something to do in between slots.

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NCP Exp, April 2009

Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:00


NPC Exp: Extra-special guest hero stars Dizzy and Tom join us to talk about complicated map-board wargames World In Flames and Strike Them a Blow they've been playing so we don't have to.

  • Laid hands on.
  • Putting this thing out.
  • Look at that thing!
  • Knobbly bits.
  • Looks an awful lot like a submarine.
  • This is a tool.
  • Unfolding the Asian.
  • Covering the hole.
  • Navel combat.
  • Tom was invading me.
  • Came in a box.
  • In a bag for a tenner.
  • Flank presents itself.
  • Retreat to the rear.
  • Debatable what the rear is.
  • A bit fiddly.
  • Felt quick.
  • On the folds it's quite hard.
  • They're nice and big.

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File format switch

Tuesday, 07 April 2009 11:05


Mere minutes after adding the little Flash audio player over on the left, I've had to remove it because it's not compatible with the .m4a format to which we've moved. It's a shame as it was a neat addition, but it's only practical to keep your webpage in basic HTML for so long (that's a metaphor). Standing still and waiting for every player or viewer to advance is stagnation - moving on will push the software end to catch up.

In my browser I'm using plugged-in Quicktime to click on the little "Pod" icon beside the show notes and it works perfectly. Henceforth I think I'll be putting any links I feel the need to directly into the podcast rather than the show notes, which is just as tedious and risks being spirited away by Internator gremlins as happened last night.

Sorry to anyone this inconveniences, but to you I say: Welcome to the WORLD OF TOMORROW!

(actually it's not that big of a deal at all)

Shane

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Con, April 2009

Tuesday, 07 April 2009 04:00


Con: A software error eradicated the show notes I'd painstakingly constructed and am not redoing. It's now a .m4a file anyway, so has some links in it. Also people said a few things that sounded a bit rude. In this episode, Shane, Oisín and humbug explain what they got up to at Leprecon to Liam, who had to work instead. Hah. Pub quiz cheating is rumbled.

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+1 Int & Wis, March 2009

Tuesday, 31 March 2009 04:00


+1 Int: Shane, humbug and Dave preview the line-up for Vaticon, this weekend in University College Dublin.

Wis: Brian Nisbet returns with part 2 of his advice on running an event.

  • Nuts.

Housekeeping: The file format switch happening from next episode, and some networking.

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D&D Game Day, March 2009

Tuesday, 24 March 2009 04:00


Worldwide D&D Game Day: Time to celebrate the granddaddy of them all! Shane, humbug and Dave banter about Dungeons & Dragons character classes (so you don't have to), but they are not alone...

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Random Encounters, March 2009

Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:56


Having some technical difficulties with this week's episode! I'll have it sorted as soon as possible. In the meantime, here's some chat with D&D players we recorded for War Pig Radio, which is an excellent service of streaming Internator radio about gaming. Mucho thanks to the guys in Models Inc. for allowing us to record there and interrupt the game.

No-frills bonus stuff

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Paddy's Day, March 2009

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 04:00


Paddy's Day: For the day that's in it, The Adventuring Party break out the potions of charisma and get down to hashing out what exactly it is they talk about in the first place - the Irish gaming scene. This recording required wild guesses about how things might be different elsewhere; it's not easy being green.

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Exp, March 2009

Tuesday, 10 March 2009 04:00


Exp: A tropically fruity selection of game-and-similar reviews. Liam concludes that the play's the thing with Shakespeare: The Bard Game, humbug recounts schmoozing and backstabbing around France at a Diplomacy tournament, Shane simpers over his favourite computer game (ehh, tactical combat simulation) Combat Mission: Shock Force and Dave refuses to review his way from sea to shining sea in TransAmerica.

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Int, March 2009

Tuesday, 03 March 2009 05:00


Int: A look forward at events for the busy month of March - Itzacon, K2 and Conpulsion - by Shane, Liam, Dave and humbug.

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Downtime, February 2009

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 05:00


Downtime: To no discernible end, Shane, Liam and Dave yammer about character creation in a number of RPGs, and try out the create-yourself system of Timelords, 2nd edition.

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Exp, February 2009

Tuesday, 17 February 2009 05:00


Exp: Dave launches into Carcassonne's daft Catapult expansion, Liam takes on the world with Axis & Allies: Anniversary Edition, Shane battles zombies in the snow and everyone takes a stab at catching a killer in Serial Homicide Unit.

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Int & Wis, February 2009

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:00


Int: Want to hear about the upcoming Leprecon XXX? Because Oisín sure as hell wants to talk about it.

Wis: Thinking about running an anything? Brian's run more than you have. Have a listen to what he's got to say - especially when he's alienating the Finnish.

  • Share some of his hard.
  • Discworld Convention
  • K2
  • Three main areas.
  • Sometimes you can look at it.
  • Why can't I just do what people have done before me?
  • Why can't I just open my doors?
  • These things are big.
  • Out of pocket.
  • Finncon
  • Huge waste disaster.
  • Audience hangs out.

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Con & Per, February 2009

Monday, 02 February 2009 17:25


Con: Shane, Liam and Oisín look back at Warpcon 2009, held from the 23rd to the 25th of January in University College Cork.

Per: Andrew Coffey talks about the Dark Heresy LARP, running on Tuesdays in Dublin city centre.

  • Dark Heresy
  • BRAIN CHILD.
  • Warhammer 40,000
  • Read into the fluff.
  • Players come in costume.
  • No costumes, just models.
  • More immersive and a lot more likely to get emotional attachments.
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