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Episode Thirteen – The President’s Earth Chakra Is Missing!

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In which Ben imagines a crack team of crystal-wielding homeopathic commandos protecting the spiritual sanctity of the President; Craig unleashes both sanctioned/competent and unsanctioned/kooky shadowy cabals of occult librarians; Tonya imagines a ‘How to Host a Murder’ session about manipulating the soul of a CEO; and Kev gets sleep deprived and rants about Voltron. Along the way, we imagine a game where chakras are embodied in people… and what that might look like in the example of The Wire.

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Bonus Episode – Gen Con 2013

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Recorded two entire days after Craig got back from his Gen Con trip, this is poorly-edited and blatant filler a no-questions-barred hard-hitting investigation into One Gamer’s Experiences During the Best Four Days In Gaming.

Craig has the wrong of it. by the way; Having seen the photo, it’s Totoro & Mei, not Totoro & Satsuki ~ T. Jones

Gen Con

Dropzone Commander

Flatpack: Fix The Future!
Savage Worlds
School Daze
QAGS
Zombie Cinema
Better Angels
Rocket Age

Counter Slam

The Pop vs. Soda Map

The Bob & Angus Show

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Episode Twelve – Starbutt Magic-Horse And The Existential Vacuum Of Modern Acquaintance

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In which Ben considers the last days of an era in music, Tonya goes Noir with an unexpected femme fatale, Craig considers the possibility of Magical Pulp Adventure, and Kev comes up with something Monstrous.

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If Our Listener Is At GenCon

This is what Craig looks like.

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hopefully a different shirt every day, because otherwise … ewww

[Edit by Tonya]- He left out that he has a very long plait. Just in case you spot him from behind. Ask him for a bookmark, he has plenty! (that may or may not be covered in BRC propaganda)

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Episode Eleven – Neighbourhood Watch In The Future

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In which Ben wonders about the struggles of neighbourhoods protecting themselves from the people (& things) in other, different, neighbourhoods, Kev goes entirely literal with the word ‘Neighbourhood’, Tonya does terrible, terrible things to your fond childhood memories of ‘The Jetsons’, and Craig wonders what’s out beyond the relatively tranquil borders of an isolated little town.

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Episode Ten – Raised By Space Wolves

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In which Craig starts with rogue military units and ends up, as he so frequently does, at Space Pirates, Ben considers Monastic Orders in the Emperor’s Name, Kevin dreams of Astral Wolves, and Tonya wonders what responsibilities we have towards past & future species, and just what you do when confronted with your frozen mythical ancestors.

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Sale!

Hi folks!  The good people at Arc Dream publications are having a sweeping 30% off sale at the moment, and since we discuss a lot of their stuff in the podcast where relevant, we thought you might want to know. Here’s the link.

The sale includes all One Roll Engine products (Barring Better Angels which is in preorder), together with the FATE and Savage Worlds ends of the spectrum.  Plus, all products are available print+pdf from what I can see.

This means that the series on sale include:
The Kerberos Club (Strange FATE, Savage Worlds and One Roll Engine flavours available)
Monsters and Other Childish Things
Wild Talents (including the fantastically ambitious and well-done Progenitor)
A Dirty World
GODLIKE
eCollapse
And other sundries.

My particular favourites would be The Kerberos Club (Strange FATE edition), Monsters and Other Childish Things, and Progenitor, though Progenitor requires the Wild Talents system to run.  Fortunately there is Wild Talents: Essential Edition which is normally available for something like $10 USD, and hey, 30% off sale.

But pretty much everything there is worth a look.

– Kev.

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Game Resources

Hi everybody!

As part of playing around with learning new systems, we at the Big Red Couch build experimental characters, and put together other stuff that we find useful.  We’ve put up a new page called Gaming Resources where we’re going to archive that kind of material, just in case it’s useful to anyone else as well.

Currently it has character sheets for Fate Accelerated Edition (FAE), featuring such characters as Veronica Mars, Dexter Morgan, Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, and the Mane 6 protagonists from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

We’ll add to it as new things are developed, and if anyone wants to ask questions or make suggestions about how the characters work or how we’ve built them, that’d be a conversation we’d love to have.

Hell, if we get time, we might even take requests!

– Kev.

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Episode Nine – The Big Red Couch Holiday Gaming Special

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In which Tonya brings the whole podcast down by coming up with something touching, Craig does horrible things to established cultural traditions, Kevin makes Christmas shopping just a little bit more horrifying, and Ben looks at how, over his RPG career, gaming has become more aware of the media environment in which it operates.
And there’s a snake. A good one.

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