The Square One Podcast

Episode: 5
Air Date: March 20, 2009
Sub­ject: Find­ing a Gam­ing Group

Links to RPGs and other sites men­tioned in (and related to) the episode:

Here’s  a pod­cast about non-face-to-face gam­ing — check it out! Groovy Gamers: http://gggc.blogspot.com/

Find­ing a Group
Nearby Gamers - www.nearbygamers.com
RPG­Bomb - www.rpgbomb.com
RPGLife - www.rpglife.com
(If you join either of these gamer net­work­ing sites, be sure to send a friend request to Bill at DrAwk­ward and Sam at SambearPoet!)

Meetup.com - dnd.meetup.com, larp.meetup.com

Lizzie’s Mas­ter LARP Cal­en­dar -  http://snipurl.com/e7bxk

Geek Girls Rule! - geekgirlsrule.wordpress.com/

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SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION SECTION
Be sure to visit our other sites and projects:

Sam Chupp
Sam’s Main Page: SamChupp.com
The Bear’s Grove Pod­cast: www.bearsgrove.com
Drag­onkin Pod­cast: dragonkin.bearsgrove.com
Heart of the Hunter: www.heartofthehunter.com

Bill Wal­ton
The Escapist: www.theescapist.com
The Escapist­cast: www.theescapist.com/escapistcast
The Young Person’s Adven­ture League: www.theescapist.com/ypal
Terra Lib­ris, the Library RPG Project: www.theescapist.com/library

The Square One Pod­cast is released under a Cre­ative Com­mons License, Attri­bu­tion, No Deriv­a­tives, No Com­mer­cial Use 3.0.

Music pro­vided by the Pod­safe Music Net­work ( http://music.podshow.com)

 

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Episode: 4
Air Date: March 17, 2008
Sub­ject: Dice and Fortune

Links to RPGs and other sites men­tioned in (and related to) the episode:

FUDGE RPG: http://www.fudgerpg.com
Make your own FUDGE dice: http://www.fudgefactor.org/2001/12/01/babys_first_fudge_dice.html

Tooth & Claw: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=17893&it=1

Ches­sex: www.chessex.com
Pic­ture of the Ches­sex booth at Gen Con 2007 — look for the large bin of loose dice in the fore­ground: http://picasaweb.google.com/jhunterj/GenCon2007/photo#5100569166045402818

Star Wars (d6) RPG — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_role-playing_game_(WEG)

1001 Nights — http://www.nightskygames.com/

Bill’s retired dice from 1981 (even older than he thought!) — http://fossilapostle.livejournal.com/152232.html

Dead­lands (clas­sic) — http://www.smithandrobards.com/index.php?cPath=1_18

Cas­tle Falken­stein — http://www.talsorian.com/cfindex.shtml

The Shab-al-Hiri Roach — http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/index.php?game=roach

Torg — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torg

Baron Mun­chausen RPG — http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=163

Mar­vel RPG — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Universe_Roleplaying_Game

Crys­tal Caste — http://www.crystalcaste.com/

Q-Workshop — http://q-workshop.com

We for­got to men­tion the fan­tas­tic Dice Col­lec­tor page, home of the world’s largest dice col­lec­tion, dur­ing this episode — http://www.dicecollector.com/

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SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION SECTION
Be sure to visit our other sites and projects:

Sam Chupp
The Bear’s Grove Pod­cast: www.bearsgrove.com
Drag­onkin Pod­cast: dragonkin.bearsgrove.com
Heart of the Hunter: www.heartofthehunter.com

Bill Wal­ton
The Escapist: www.theescapist.com
The Escapist­cast: www.theescapist.com/escapistcast
The Young Person’s Adven­ture League: www.theescapist.com/ypal

The Square One Pod­cast is released under a Cre­ative Com­mons License, Attri­bu­tion, No Deriv­a­tives, No Com­mer­cial Use 3.0.

Bill says: Please wait an hour after eat­ing before swim­ming in the dice pool.

Music pro­vided by the Pod­safe Music Net­work ( http://music.podshow.com)

 

 Episode 4: Dice: Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

Episode: 3
Air Date: Febru­rary 03, 2008
Sub­ject: Cre­at­ing Char­ac­ters (and giv­ing them character)

Links to RPGs and other sites men­tioned in the episode:

FUDGE RPG: http://www.fudgerpg.com

Mar­vel Super Heroes RPG: http://www.marvelrpg.net — Down­load it for free! (Legally!)

Truth and Jus­tice RPG: http://www.atomicsockmonkey.com/products/tj.asp

Spirit of the Cen­tury RPG: http://www.evilhat.com/home/?page_id=103

The Secret Lives of Gin­ger­bread Men RPG: http://wicked-dead.com/gingerbread

The Story Games Name Project: http://www.lulu.com/content/404111

The Prime Time Adven­tures RPG: http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION SECTION
Be sure to visit our other sites and projects:

Sam Chupp
The Bear’s Grove Pod­cast: www.bearsgrove.com
Drag­onkin Pod­cast: dragonkin.bearsgrove.com
Heart of the Hunter: www.heartofthehunter.com

Bill Wal­ton
The Escapist: www.theescapist.com
BeQuest: www.theescapist.com/bequest
The Young Person’s Adven­ture League: www.theescapist.com/ypal

The Square One Pod­cast is released under a Cre­ative Com­mons License, Attri­bu­tion, No Deriv­a­tives, No Com­mer­cial Use 3.0.

Bill says: Com­ing soon — The Pippi Long­stock­ing RPG!

Music pro­vided by the Pod­safe Music Net­work (http://music.podshow.com)

 

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SQUARE ONE PODCAST SHOW NOTES
Episode: 2
Air Date: Octo­ber 7, 2007
Sub­ject: Gen­res of role-playing games

Links to RPGs and other sites men­tioned in the episode:

Fan­tasy RPGs
Dun­geons & Drag­ons: www.wizards.com/dnd
Earth­dawn: www.earthdawn.com
Tun­nels & Trolls: www.flyingbuffalo.com/tandt.htm
Burn­ing Wheel: www.burningwheel.org
Mazes & Mino­taurs: storygame.free.fr/MAZES.htm (Note that Bill mis­tak­enly says “Mazes and MONSTERS,” rather than “Mazes and MINOTAURS” at one point.)

Hor­ror / Mod­ern RPGs
World of Dark­ness: www.white-wolf.com/worldofdarkness
Call of Cthulhu: tinyurl.com/2jyzfa

Super­hero RPGs
Mar­vel Super Heroes: www.marvelrpg.com
Cham­pi­ons: www.herogames.com
Capes: www.museoffire.com/Games
With Great Power: tinyurl.com/2vy9h5
Truth & Jus­tice: www.atomicsockmonkey.com/products/tj.asp

His­tor­i­cal RPGs
Spirit of the Cen­tury: www.evilhat.com/home/?page_id=103
Adven­ture!: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%28role-playing_game%29
World of Dark­ness his­tor­i­cal set­tings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wolf,_Inc.#Historical_variants
GURPS Source­books: www.sjgames.com/gurps
Grey Ranks: Bully Pul­pit Games RPG.net entry
GURPS Alter­nate Earths: www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/AltEarths/ — www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/altearths2/

Sci-Fi RPGs
Trav­eller: www.travellerrpg.com — www.sjgames.com/traveller
Star Wars d6: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_role-playing_game_(WEG)
Star Wars d20: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Roleplaying_Game_(Wizards_of_the_Coast)
Star Wars Saga: www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/rpgsagaed
Seren­ity: www.serenityrpg.com
Burn­ing Empires: www.burningempires.com
Gamma World: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_World

Unclas­si­fied RPGs
Torg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torg
Prime Time Adven­tures: www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html

Cross-Genre RPGs
Shad­owrun: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun
Dead­lands: www.peginc.com/games

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION SECTION
Be sure to visit our other sites and projects:

Sam Chupp
The Bear’s Grove Pod­cast: www.bearsgrove.com
Drag­onkin Pod­cast: dragonkin.bearsgrove.com
Heart of the Hunter: www.heartofthehunter.com

Bill Wal­ton
The Escapist: www.theescapist.com
BeQuest: www.theescapist.com/bequest
The Young Person’s Adven­ture League: www.theescapist.com/ypal

Miranda Thomas
The Sig­nal: http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/
Fire­fly Talk: Fire­fly Talk
The 9th: Heroescast http://www.heroescast.com/

The Square One Pod­cast is released under a Cre­ative Com­mons License, Attri­bu­tion, No Deriv­a­tives, No Com­mer­cial Use 3.0.

Bill says: Remem­ber, you can do any­thing at zombo.com!

Music pro­vided by the Pod­safe Music Net­work (http://music.podshow.com)
The song is Lit­tle Red Vega by Mon­keyshine

 

 Episode 2: Games You Will Meet: Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

Wel­come to Episode 1 of the Square One Podcast.

In this pod­cast we have:

What is Role­play­ing? With Sam Chupp and Cyn­thia Armistead

My First Time Gam­ing by Bill Walton

Con­fes­sions of an Absolute New­bie Gamer by Miranda Thomas of The Sig­nal podcast

Impor­tant links from the episode:

The Escapist

After Seren­ity

The Sig­nal

 

 Episode 1: What is Role­play­ing?: Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load