The Bear's Grove Podcast

New Actual Play Posted and shameless donation request

May 12th, 2008

There’s a new Actual Play post over on the Actual Play page. We’re doing this quite a lot these days, aren’t we? I really love them.

This one is a free form roleplay session starring Cynthia as Tarafear the Bard, Hope Evey as a dancer runaway noble and Katarina who was playing a mercenary bodyguard and protector - an armed chaperon. The story turned into something of a risque French Farce sort of thing with genders changing, lots of comedy and doors opening and closing and a drunk Priest of the Sword Goddess and a prude and a boy/girl gender transformation mirror. This recording is rated R but it’s more risque than outright naughty. Running time is 2 hours and 42 minutes.

In addition to the Actual Play Recording, I am putting the final touches on an interview with Phil Brucato and another with Teeuwynn Woodruff.

And now I am shamelessly also Asking For Money. I think about this when the Libsyn bill comes due, or the website hosting comes due, and I mean to ask about it, but I haven’t yet. If you like the Bear’s Grove and want to show your support for it now and into the future, please don’t hesitate to contribute. This is a totally voluntary thing, but I would very much appreciate it.

The last time I got any money for the podcast, I bought a Logitech Headset so I could do Skype interviews. I only say this because I wanted you to know that I am putting the money back into the podcast.

I dream of having my fees paid by this podcast, but that may just remain a dream!

Anyone who does contribute will get a shout out on the podcast unless you say you’d rather not get one. Thanks!

I Got into a Stabbing Contest! (And I liked it)

April 12th, 2008

I got interviewed on the Stabbing Contest, cause I asked for it.

In it we talk about a lot of things, but among them are Mickey’s Tarot-based Casanova game. I’m looking forward to hearing more about this.

So check it out!

here

And stay tuned for more cheesy goodness on THIS podcast feed!

Gary Gygax Memorial

March 31st, 2008

Hey there, Bear’s Grove listeners.

This is a special podcast created in memory of E. Gary Gygax.

It is 44 minutes, 53 seconds long.

The following podcasts participated, I just stitched it all together.

3.5 Private Sanctuary
Accidental Survivors
All Games Considered
Canon Puncture
The Escapistcast
Fist Full of Comics and Games
The Game Master Show
The Rolemonkeys
 Wapcaplets

Special thanks to The Brobdingnagian Bards for their music given freely for this episode. The music was provided to us through the Podsafe Music Network

Thanks to all of the participants!

Gary died March 4th, 2008. Gary, man, we miss you.

This particular recording is owned by its participants, released to you under a Creative Commons license 3.0: Attribution, no derivatives, no commercial use.

 
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New Actual Play Recording!

March 26th, 2008

Sam Chupp and Julia Bond Ellingboe

I recently recorded a talk Julia Bond Ellingboe did which included an Actual Play Demo of her game “Steal Away Jordan.” If you’d like to download it (it’s very long, but worth it!), the link is here.

Julia’s talk was part of the Digital Moving Image Salon at Spelman College, which you can find out more about here.

The Bear’s Grove 39: Gaming Failures and One-Shots Redux

March 24th, 2008


This podcast is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network at GBNCOM.COM

Ryan Macklin has a podcast called The Master Plan. And he usually complains if a podcast is longer than his commute.

Check out the new forum about GMs and players working together to make gaming awesome, There Is No Screen. And there is no spoon, either!

Silken’s influences are Here

Theory from the Closet

The Bear’s Grove 30

Check out Indie Press Revolution to buy all the cool story games I mentioned in this episode.

Feedback: Daniel from The Digital Front Podcast

Promos in this episode:

The Escapistcast
The 3.5 Private Sanctuary
and an unauthorized promo for
Stabbing Contest

Closing music from Hannah at The Sixty One

 
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The Bear’s Grove 38: Interview with Were-Cabbages Rone Barton and Ed Healy

February 24th, 2008

I had a great conversation with two members of the team responsible for the True 20 Blood Throne supplement “Blight Elves: Architects of Despair,” about the book and about their play habits.


You can find out more about this book at Reality Deviants Publications and more about the Were-Cabbages here.

In case you were wondering whether the explicit tag on this podcast is real, IT IS. THIS PODCAST IS EXPLICIT. It is NOT for children! Listen without headphones at work at your own risk.

The Blight Elves are very icky creatures and some of their nihilist, entropy-worshiping practices are downright offensive. To be clear, the book doesn’t hold them out as paragons, either.

I think it’s pretty clear that these Blight Elves are EVIL! But not in the “They’re evil because they are” sort of way. No, no, there’s a lot of reasons why they are. Some of them are cultural and some of them are religious. But they’re all out to make you commit suicide. Basically. Evil.

Also in the podcast you’ll hear an unauthorized promo I made for The Independent Insurgency and an authorized promo for The Game Master Show

Music is from the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com

 
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The Bear’s Grove 37: Race and RPGs

February 18th, 2008

Warning: this show is about 1 hour, 5 minutes long!

Promo: 12 Volt Theater

Chris Chinn

Gamers Of Color Live Journal community

Oriental Adventures

Dirty Secrets, from Dark Omen Games

My rough-draft Voodoo Rules

The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde

Wyrd is Bond

The Blossoms Are Falling

Steal Away Jordan by Julia Bond Ellingboe from her Stone Baby Games.

Dog Eat Dog, by William Burke

The Emperor’s Heart

Inspiration for Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress, by Kurosawa

Feng Shui RPG

Socratic Design 19 Questions

Promo: The Plitone Revisionist

 
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The Bear’s Grove Podcast #36: John Wick Interview Part 2

January 28th, 2008


Be welcome to the Bear’s Grove podcast.

Today on the program is part 2 of a two part interview with John Wick of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company John talks about his game design theories and also about Houses of the Blooded, the latest Big Game he has designed. He mentions the Sons of Kryos, as well.

In the “News and Notes” section, I talk about a few new podcasts you may be interested in:

Discussions from the Closet on the same feed as “Theories from the Closet”

Stabbing Contest
Geek Girls Rule
The Independent Insurgency
Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty
Murder at Avedon Hill by PG Holyfield
Nocturnal by Scott Sigler
Space Casey by Christiana Ellis

A reminder: the Bear’s Grove is considered an adult podcast; that’s part of why we have an EXPLICIT tag in iTunes. Don’t listen around kids, or at work, without headphones.

 
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The Bear’s Grove 35: Interview with John Wick Part 1

January 14th, 2008


Be welcome to the Bear’s Grove podcast.

Today on the program is part 1 of a two part interview with John Wick of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company John talks about his game design theories and also about Houses of the Blooded, the latest Big Game he has designed.

Part 2 will be out next week. Thanks for listening!

 
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The Bear’s Grove 34: Rewards in Game Design and Strategies for Storytelling

January 7th, 2008

Please enjoy Episode 34 of The Bear’s Grove

Links for You

Find out more about the new Podcasts by going to the Goblin Broadcast Network

Socratic Design’s Power 19 Questionnaire

Prime Time Adventures

Pendragon

Vampire: the Masquerade

Spirit of the Century

Story Now

Donate if you Wish

Music link

From the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com

Nick Murray’s Stratosphere

 
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