Episode 403: Exploring The Gun Belt

The Curmudgeon steps away from hosting to talk about his forthcoming tabletop RPG, The Gun Belt! The Favorite and the Legend talk to Ashley Raburn and Ryan about alien and robot cowboys riding dinosaurs in an interstellar Wild West!

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Links:

• The Gun Belt

Episode 402: New Players

Carie, Jason and Ryan talk about the challenge of welcoming new players to your gaming group. They discuss the typical ways new players often behave, and how to make sure they get involved and enjoy the game! Join the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend as they explore New Players!

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Episode 401: The Story of Grapevine

In the season four premiere of On A Roll, the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend return with guest Adam Cerling. Adam created the infamous larp character database software Grapevine, used around the world for more than two decades as the standard for running World of Darkness larps. Carie, Jason and Ryan learn the story of how Grapevine came to be, and the tale of Adam's new project – an indie larp called Storywild!

Special Guest: Adam Cerling.

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Links:

• Grapevine LARP Administration Utility — Download Grapevine here!
• Storywild — Learn about Adam's new larp project Storywild and subscribe to the mailing list for more info!
• The Awfully Cheerful Engine: An RPG of Action Comedy! by Morrus — Kickstarter — Back the Kickstarter for the Awfully Cheerful Engine from Morrus!

Episode 330: The Hero's Journey

The Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend explore the twelve steps to greater story telling. Carie, Jason and Ryan take a deep dive into the monomyth structure of The Hero's Journey!

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Episode 329: Memories of Gaming

After an extensive sick leave, Carie, Jason and Ryan return to answer listeners' questions about our past gaming experiences!

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Episode 328: Building a Gaming Org

In this double-length episode, the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend talk about what they've learned from being administrators of national larp organizations. Carie, Jason and Ryan then build a hypothetical org for The Gun Belt!

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Episode 327: Shooting Genre From Canons

Josh Heath joins the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend to talk about genre and canon. Carie, Jason, Ryan and Josh try to define what they are before talking about how they're different, the importance of enforcing them, and if your game even needs them!

Special Guest: Josh Heath.

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Links:

• High Level Games - High Level Games — Find more of Josh's work at High Level Games!

Episode 326: Good Strong Hands

Craig Campbell from NerdBurger Games came by to tell the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend about his new game, Good Strong Hands. Carie, Jason and Ryan learn about this fun new game based loosely on The Neverending Story!

Special Guest: Craig Campbell.

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Links:

• NerdBurger Games — NerdBurger Games' website!
• Good Strong Hands RPG by Craig Campbell — Kickstarter — Back Good Strong Hands on Kickstarter!

Episode 325: Find a DM on Crawlr

Jackie Zantow-Schwartz joins Ryan, Jason and Carie to tell the story of CRAWLR, the web-based social network she created that connects gamers with one another. It's like TindR, but for vampires, superheroes, deckers and clerics!

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Links:

• CRAWLR - Facebook — Like CRAWLR on Facebook!
• CRAWLR — Join CRAWLR on their website, here!

Episode 324: Ryan Asks A Question

Jason's finished his surgery, so we're back! This week, Ryan made a list of fun questions about our experiences in gaming. With no preparation, Ryan asks Carie and Jason all sorts of things about games, players, locations, game lines and more!

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Episode 323: Australian Nerdball

Brendan Faithfull joins us from Melbourne to talk about larp in Australia and the popularity of weekly battle larps they refer to as Nerdball. Carie, Jason and Ryan learn about his larp, Exodus, and talk about the differences and similarities of international larp philosophies!

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Links:

• Exodus Battle LARP — Here's the website for Brendan's larp!
• Exodus Battle LARP — Check out the Facebook group for Brendan's larp, Exodus!