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The crew talks about their generally positive experiences with Numenera. Relevant Links Numenera Monte Cook Ancient Aliens THACO The Forge Burning Wheel Dungeon World Apocalypse World The Mountain Witch GURPS Torchbearer Ptolus Crunchy Bits The Walking Eye Podcast: Discussion 53 Intro "Song 32" from the Half-Life 2 Soundtrack Outro Song from Oh Possum

The thrilling conclusion to our Numenera run. And my, did they run! Relevant Links Numenera In a Wicked Age Eaters of the Dead Vegas Vacation Buffet Scene Pixel Dungeon Galaxy Quest Sci-fi door opening Elysium Genetic Bottleneck Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast: Numenera Actual Play Session 5 Intro "Song 32" from the Half-Life 2 Soundtrack Outro Song "Want You Gone" by Jonathan Coulton

Things heat up inside the mysterious compound at the bottom of the Voil Chasm! Relevant Links Numenera Monte Cook Brave New World Link smashes pots in people's homes Twinkies Yurt Capsule Company in Dragon Ball Z Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Hallway Scene New Robocop Uniform "Shiny Tactical Black" Fallout 3 Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast: Numenera Actual Play Session 4 Intro "Song 32" from the Half-Life 2 Soundtrack Outro "I Think I'm A Clone Now" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

We continue our journey through the creepy Voil Chasm. (Note: CJ was quite sick during this recording, but ever the dedicated role player, he did a great job!) Relevant Links Numenera Neo "birth" scene Half Life 2 Terrible Stalker Scream Morticia Addams smoking Squiddly Spooch (Invader Zim)  Crunchy Bits The Walking Eye Podcast: Numenera Actual Play Session 3 Intro "Song 32" from the Half-Life 2 Soundtrack

The Iron Wind blows through Stirthal with disastrous consequences, leaving the crew in dire straits! Relevant Links Numenera Rigid Airship Strip mining machine All Hail the Glow Cloud The Colour Out of Space The Hulk catching Iron Man Legolas Using Arrows as a Ladder Ben Hur Tachikomas Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast Numenera Actual Play Session 2: 1 Hour 23 Minutes Intro "Song 32" from the Half-Life 2 Soundtrack Outro song "Against the Wind" by Bob Seger

Kevin, CJ, Troll and Allegra begin their foray into Monte Cook's Numenera, with complex character sheets and character classes! Relevant Links Numenera Monte Cook Gamma World Planescape Jack Vance Dying Earth Clarke's Third  Law Techno mage in Babylon 5 Thundarr the Barbarian HeMan D20 Futures Krull Tyrion Lannister Peter Dinklage Swan neck flask Johnny Got His Gun Dean's Electronics"Ruin the Adventure" = Find the Path spell in D&D Hermann's killphrase is "Laputan machine" Steelheart Neuromancer Lo Pan Cybrid Crunchy Bits The Walking Eye: Numenera Actual Play Session 1: 1 Hour 30 Minutes Intro "Song 32" from the Half-Life 2 Soundtrack Outro "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse. (Mostly for the video)  

Kevin and Allegra sit down with Meguey Baker to talk about Psi*Run, Victorian Parlor Games, and myriad other topics! Relevant Links Night Sky Games 1001 Nights Psi*Run Valiant Girls Murderous Ghosts (Audience Participation) Apocalypse World Psi*Run: The Pursuit Joshua A.C. Newman Emily Care Boss Julia Ellingboe Epidiah Ravachol Ars Magica Otherkind Playstorming Ashcans Paul Czege ConTessa Google Hangout Panel Holidays in Gaming Spin the Beetle  Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast Interview Episode 32: Interview with Meguey Baker: 1 Hour Intro I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls Outro Runnin Down A Dream by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers    

After our 10 Commandments of Gaming discussion Ron Edwards posted* a great comment asking a whole bunch of questions with some commentary. So we decided to address as many of his questions and comments as we could. Enjoy! *Turns out it was someone posing as Ron, or someone who coincidentally has the same name. Ah well. It was a fun episode to record and there's good discussion in there anyway. Relative Links 10 Commandments Discussion Ron Edwards Dexter's Lab D&D Episode Gary Allen Fine "Shared Fantasy" Sunk Cost Fallacy Mario/Toad OTP Challenge Rating Protean Comic Book Store Owner in The Simpsons GM Authority Discussion Book of Erotic Fantasy Type I and Type II errors D&D Campaign Start/Finish Image Macro Game Design Is Mind Control Playing at the World Blackmoor White Wolf Brain Damage Interview Blood and Smoke - Strix Chronicle David Hill Torchbearer Chaos Rising (Search for "Kenmis" to find my review) Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast Discussion 53: Gaming Commandments Response Intro and Outro music by Oh Possum  

We come down from the mountain with 10 (12!) gaming commandments. Update: Listener Urs has created a very nice Google Doc with notes on each of the commandments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1crApXzGObngTWVXZ1CiD2Dgcq033FkEBBoND5bStc58/edit?usp=sharing Relevant Links Apocalypse World Dungeon World Burning Empires Tone Episode Same Page Episode The Comic Book Ages Hypnotoad (ALL GLORY) Dogs in the Vineyard Complexity in Gaming Roundtable Jared Sorensen GURPS Brilliant Gameologists Extra Credits: Negative Possibility Space Sim City TPK Cultural Appropriation Talk Autism Spectrum Mutants and Masterminds The Socratic Method "These 15... 10 Commandments!" Ryan Macklin Play Lots of Games Poster Spy Party Hey Ash Whatcha Playing: Spy Party Downton Abbey Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast Discussion 50: Gaming Commandments Intro and Outro music by Oh Possum

And now for something a little different. Due to a technical issue, the last recording of the Dungeon World Revisted AP was lost. So Kevin, CJ, Troll, and Allegra sit down to do a more traditional AP/recap. More character death! More gods! More...Dungeon World! Relevant Links Dungeon World Princess Bride Dwarf Fortress At the Mountains of Madness  Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast: Recap of the Missing Session  of Dungeon World Intro Prevailing Hero (Epic Symphonic Music) by Philip Timofeyev Outro music by Oh Possum

Kevin, CJ, and Allegra talk about their GenCon 2013 experience, along with special guest Sean. Troll was also in attendance, but sadly he got sick right before we left. All in all, it was a great GenCon! Relevant Links Gen Con Tron Recognizer Ryan Macklin Diana Jones Award Jank Cast Adam Koebel (G+ Photos) Backup Ribbon Project Nora Last Wayne Reynolds Jeph Jacques Wil Wheaton Walter Koenig FATE Peter Davison All Creatures Great and Small Ennies Jess Banks Cam Banks Dungeon World Grognards.TXT Logan Bonner Paizo The Doubleclicks Glitter Guild Bazooka Joe My Little Pony Mortal Kombat Pon Farr Twilight Zone Gremlin Episode Delirium from Sandman Miss Pixy Gamers 3 Torgo Star Craft 2 Convergence Balloon Guy's website Games on Demand Burning Con Torchbearer Fiasco Game of Thrones Monsterhearts Will Hindmarch D&D Cartoon Shadowgate Durance Mountain Witch Dog Eat Dog X Card Steve Segedy Dominion Megaman Battletech John Adamus Shoshanna Kessock GAW: Convention Season and Mental Health Lillian Cohen Moore Lyndsay Peters Danger Patrol Dune Boardgame Mad Jay Nice Guy (tm) X Wing Spicy Indy Duos Taco Lassi Relevant Links The Walking Eye Discussion Episode 45: Gen Con 2013: 1 Hour 30 Minutes Intro music by Oh Possum Outro Music "Nothing to Prove" by The Doubleclicks

This session shows us just how bad CJ's luck can get! Relevant Links Dungeon World Pitfall Atari Lodestone Die Hard II Naked Tai Chi  Crunch Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast: Dungeon World Revisited Session 2: 1 Hour 50 Minutes Intro Prevailing Hero (Epic Symphonic Music) by Philip Timofeyev Outro "Always The First To Die" by Sean "Jinx" Gailey

Adam and Sage timed the release of a major update to the Red Book version of Dungeon World very well. The same day as our review, they put out an update that basically fixed every issue we had! That was actually several updates ago, and so we thought it'd be a good idea to come back to the new and improved Dungeon World. Here's session 1 with Troll as the GM in our bronze-age homebrew world! Relevant Links: Dungeon World Ziggurat American Gods "Fantastic Racism" Mythender Krang Temple Prostitutes Gallagher Trigger Warnings: Some disturbing violent scenes. Heavily veiled reference to rape. Crunchy Bits: The Walking Eye Actual Play: Dungeon World Redux Session 1: 1 Hour Intro and Outro: Prevailing Hero (Epic Symphonic Music) by Philip Timofeyev

Session two of Mythender has the crew slaughtering thrice-hundred Einherjar! \m/ MYTHENDER \m/ Relevant Links Mythender Ryan Macklin Skyrim Einherjar Ravenloft Bacchanal Deadlands Knights of the Round Blood Rayne Uwe Boll Plan 9 From Outer Space Yahweh vs. Iron Chariots Dungeon Bastard Weapons of the Gods Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Podcast Mythender Actual Play Session 2: 1 hour 40 minutes Intro "Hand of Doom" by Manowar. Outro "The Dragonborn Comes" from The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim performed by Malu    

Kevin brings in his old friend Victor, who's now a active member of the Old School Renaissance to talk to Ron Edwards about the early days of tabletop gaming and the similarities between The Forge and the OSR. These two had a lot to talk about, so we split this interview up into two parts. Part 2 coming next week! Relevant Links Ron Edwards The Forge Victor Raymond The Empire of the Petal Throne Michael Mornard (Old Geezer) M.A.R Barker John M. Ford Gary Allen Fine/Shared Fantasy Old School Renaissance There is no 1st edition D&D Blackmoor White Box D&D GNS GURPS Feng Shui Gary Gygax Lee Gold Alarms and Excursions #2 Dragon Magazine Tunnels and Trolls Brian and Kevin Blume D&D Cartoon Kingmaker Traveller LBB's GDW The Third Imperium Judges Guild Red Box D&D James Maliszewski Naked Went the Gamer Harlan Ellison James Dallas Eggbert Satanic Panic Bothered About D&D Dave Hargrave Arduin Shadowrun Dragonlance Champions RuneQuest Call of Cthulhu Megatraveller Trigger Warnings: None, I think? Be sure to let us know if there's something in here you think might be triggering.  Crunchy Bits Interview 29: Victor Raymond and Ron Edwards Part One: 50 Minutes Intro music provided by Oh Possum. Outro music "Always The First to Die" by Sean Gailey  

Kevin, Allegra, CJ, and Dan chat about the #1ReasonWhy hashtag, and why it's important to talk about the issues keeping women from being part of game design. Relevant Links #1reasonwhy hashtag 1reasonwhy < -- Now a website so people can submit anonymously/without Twitter Luke Crane Filamena Young Machine Age Productions ESA Report Including Number of Women Gamers (Lots of good info in here) Mother Jones article New York Times article Apocalypse World Kotaku Article Feminist Frequency #1reasontobe Elizabeth Sampat Liam Burke / Twitter Weapons of the Gods Jade Raymond (she's still making games!) Geek Girls Rule / Twitter (Correction: she was not a dominatrix, but a bartender at a fetish bar. Sorry for the confusion) Trigger Warnings We talk about some of the blatant sexism in the backlash. Crunchy Bits! The Walking Eye Bonus Episode: #1ReasonWhy Twitter Explosion (22 minutes)  Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac Outro Song "Just a Girl" by No Doubt