fredrix
Master Douchebag
Posts: 2,142
Preferred Game Systems: Fate, L5R, Pendragon, Gumshoe, Feng Shui
Currently Playing: Pendragon, Song of Ice and Fire, L5R, Feng Shui, Traveller
Currently Running: Fate, Coriolis, Nights Black Agents
Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Feb 16, 2015 0:28:39 GMT -8
Sounds like maddest episode ever. Never was your preamble truer, Stu.
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Post by lowkeyoh on Feb 16, 2015 1:18:31 GMT -8
As I said in the chat room last time.
Drunk Tyler is best Tyler.
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fredrix
Master Douchebag
Posts: 2,142
Preferred Game Systems: Fate, L5R, Pendragon, Gumshoe, Feng Shui
Currently Playing: Pendragon, Song of Ice and Fire, L5R, Feng Shui, Traveller
Currently Running: Fate, Coriolis, Nights Black Agents
Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Feb 16, 2015 1:36:15 GMT -8
Just got past the boy where soneone says "this must be our worst podcast ever" "Or the best"
But on Eldemy: Stu, your mistake was to make the Con game something that riffs of an action in the AP. An alternative approach would have been to set the game in the council in Eldemy, maybe even make two PCs the wife and son. And have the impact of what happens in the Con game effect the story in the AP
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Post by Probie Tim on Feb 16, 2015 8:12:27 GMT -8
Made me wish I'd gone to the con... and I've only gotten through the first 20 minutes or so.
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HyveMynd
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Dirty hippie, PbtA, Fate, & Cortex Prime <3er
Posts: 2,273
Preferred Game Systems: PbtA, Cortex Plus, Fate, Ubiquity
Currently Playing: Monsterhearts 2
Currently Running: The Sprawl
Favorite Species of Monkey: None
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Post by HyveMynd on Feb 16, 2015 17:47:11 GMT -8
Made me wish I'd gone to the con... Yeah. That's always how I feel when I listen to the con episodes, too. Damn you and your ease of access to the Strategicon Cons, LA Jackers!
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Post by Probie Tim on Feb 16, 2015 19:52:29 GMT -8
The legend of the Shit Zombie will never die.
This is hard to admit, but Tyler was right and I was wrong: Bruce only shit on the guy once. Right in his mouth, as he was dying. Then Bruce raised him as a zombie and killed him again.
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Post by Probie Tim on Feb 16, 2015 19:53:39 GMT -8
Made me wish I'd gone to the con... Damn you and your ease of access to the Strategicon Cons, LA Jackers! Well, for what it's worth, I don't think I'll be missing another one. So you'll be able to damn me directly then.
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jeffrywith1e
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 182
Preferred Game Systems: Pathfinder, BRP, d20 Modern
Currently Playing: Pathfinder
Currently Running: OpenQuest
Favorite Species of Monkey: gone to heaven
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Post by jeffrywith1e on Feb 16, 2015 22:49:49 GMT -8
I've never seen a visual of Elspeth, but she has a fine radio/broadcast voice.
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Feb 17, 2015 18:13:22 GMT -8
I'm pretty sure this is, in fact, the single best convention episode you guys have ever done.
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Post by hoseirrob on Feb 18, 2015 11:25:30 GMT -8
uselesstriviaman - Stu and I were talking about it after the con and there was concern that it wasn't that good for the listening audience. What did you like about it?
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fredrix
Master Douchebag
Posts: 2,142
Preferred Game Systems: Fate, L5R, Pendragon, Gumshoe, Feng Shui
Currently Playing: Pendragon, Song of Ice and Fire, L5R, Feng Shui, Traveller
Currently Running: Fate, Coriolis, Nights Black Agents
Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Feb 18, 2015 11:58:14 GMT -8
I'm going to say it. There was a point when Stork was about to say something interesting about Fate and two others started cracking jokes that I thought "oh just shut the fuck up, idiot boys, and let the man speak about games." At that point I'd had enough of the hi-jinks. For the first time on HJRPG, I almost stopped listening.
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Post by lowkeyoh on Feb 18, 2015 13:57:28 GMT -8
I'm going to say it. There was a point when Stork was about to say something interesting about Fate and two others started cracking jokes that I thought "oh just shut the fuck up, idiot boys, and let the man speak about games." At that point I'd had enough of the hi-jinks. For the first time on HJRPG, I almost stopped listening. I mean, live episodes are particularly drinky. I'm excited to hear stork explain his experience on a normal episode
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tomes
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Hello madness
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Currently Running: Dungeon World, hippie games, Fallout Shelter RPG hack
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Post by tomes on Feb 18, 2015 14:16:43 GMT -8
I'm going to say it. There was a point when Stork was about to say something interesting about Fate and two others started cracking jokes that I thought "oh just shut the fuck up, idiot boys, and let the man speak about games." At that point I'd had enough of the hi-jinks. For the first time on HJRPG, I almost stopped listening. At the risk of being expunged, yes, I agree with some of that. I still haven't listened to the second half yet. Maybe it works better if you drink (quite heavily) in parallel? When you got that many drunkies all in one place, everyone thinks they've got funny stuff to say (and for the most part, they did!) It did remind me a little about how I felt during the earlier days when Claire was just about to start giving an opinion to shed a little light into something, and Tappy would just turn whatever word she said into some sexual innuendo and derail the thought. It was kind of like that. But with more drinking. And less sexual innuendos.
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Muddyboots
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Posts: 83
Preferred Game Systems: Callofsavagetoon 5ERPS
Currently Playing: Pla-Ying, wazzat?!?
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Post by Muddyboots on Feb 18, 2015 17:24:14 GMT -8
I like the show and its community, so I am offering some constructive commentary.
I have been to a few live meetings of forum/podcast based communities and there is a special dynamic at play. Some of the participants see each other all the time and have real world, ongoing social relationships. Some are regular voices on the forums who ONLY see others at the meets. Some are quiet readers who come to observe and see the "personalities." With the repeat of these events, new relationships form and people develop intense friendships in a short time that are only experienced at the meet. These events are serious festivals, and people are very happy to be with their distant friends and often drink. It is very easy to drink too much, since there is so much relief and joy involved in doing your thing together.
Now, The Happy Jack's community meets, not at the Jacker's Campout and Rendezvous, but at gaming conventions that take place at regular intervals. This means that a lot of the logistics are covered and there is a serious purpose to the unifying ideas. Everyone is there to have a really good time seeing friends, playing RPGs and drinking with them!!! That is freakin awesome!
What's good is that: -We (who aren't there) get to hear people who we consider to be possible friends, having a hell of a good time! -We get to hear a great discussion of the games that people ran or ran through (this is the real meat!) -We get to hear the human-ness of "those people who are teaching others to run better games."
What's bad is:
-That sometimes the con show format gets sunk by "The Room" with the party and the podcast fighting for dominance of purpose. -The festival of games and drinking together leaves some in or near that "I love you man!" stage. It can be funny or distracting, either way it detracts to some degree from the game talk. -Listeners who don't know the people we are hearing, in the real world hear some really nasty crap said about other people there. It might make people think " if he's such a toxic prick, why (TF!) should I listen to their GMing advice!?!" and walk away. -The weird booze challenge at the beginning. It makes the event about booze, not gaming. The subtitle is "Pursuing The RPG Hobby With Reckless Abandon...and Beer." It would help to keep to that order.
What works and helps:
-The basic format, it works well "This is who ran what. They introduce it and comment, then the players comment on it too." It shows the whole picture. -What really helps is people who come up and talk about the games they played in. That saved this episode.
In short, Watch the social E.Q. and stay on mission.
I hope this helps!
Muddyboots
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Post by cadave on Feb 18, 2015 19:26:12 GMT -8
I think the big mistake was in the timing of the nasty drink challenge. I think that should be held for after the game talk. That should alleviate the problem instead of leaving people incoherent for 2/3 of the show.
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