June 2009 -- The Shadow of Yesterday Review and Wolfgang Baur Interview

• 0:29 - Brennan is joined this month by special guest co-host, Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games. They kick off the show with the new products list.
  • Kobold Quartery Magazines #4, #7, #9
  • Zobeck Gazetteer
  • Kobold Guide to Game Design, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
  • Esoterror Fact Book
  • It's Complicated: Online Play Edition
  • A Penny For My Thoughts
  • Poisoncraft for D&D 4E: The Codex Venenorum
  • Ninja-To Go: A Ninja Burger Bored Game
• 5:30 - The Shadow of Yesterday, by CRN Games, is a fantasy game focusing on people and individuals, and the sorts of stories they produce.
• 14:34 - Wolfgang Baur talks with Brennan about his work with Open Design and Kobold Quarterly.
• 23:38 - Jason & Brennan talk about what's going on At Our Tables, discussing emotionally-intense play.
  • Grey Ranks
  • Mortal Coil
  • Primetime Adventures
  • The Shadow of Yesterday
  • Three Sixteen: Carnage Among the Stars
  • Legend of the Five Rings

Runtime: 36:45 / File size: 33.6M

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May 2009 -- 3:16 review and John Harper interview

• 0:29 - What's new on IPR this month?
  • Tales of the Seven Dogs Society (for Alethea)
  • API Demon Codex: Lochs (for Apocalypse Prevention, Inc.)
  • This Favored Land (for Wild Talents)
• 3:39 - 3:16: Carnage Among the Stars, from Box Ninja Games, is more than a little Starship Troopers-esque.
• 13:54 - John Harper, designer of Agon, talks about some short design experiments (GHOST/ECHO, The Mustang, Lady Blackbird) he's released recently.
• 21:32 - In At Our Tables, Paul and Brennan talk about character advancement and changes to the world, inspired by Brennan's current Spirit of the Century game. Other games they're playing include:
  • Dirty Secrets
  • Annalise
• 30:09 - And in the shameless plug portion of the program, Paul is excited that A Penny For My Thoughts will finally be released this summer.

Runtime: 32:59 / File size: 30.2M

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April 2009 -- Suitors review and Chad Underkoffler interview

• 0:29 - As usual, Brennan shares with us what's new on IPR.
  • Hard Boiled Armies for D&D 4E
  • Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (also available in paperback)
  • Apocalypse Prevention, Inc.
  • The Dying of St Margaret's
  • Fae Noir: The Paris Escapade
  • Gripping Tales of the Impossible #2
  • Colonial Gothic: Elizabethtown
• 5:31 - Suitors, by Firestorm Ink, is a trick-taking card game about romance.
• 9:32 - Chad Underkoffler talks about his newest game from Evil Hat Productions, Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
• 18:03 - Finally, Paul & Brennan talk about what's going on At Our Tables, discussing the desire for long-term campaign play.
  • Primetime Adventures
  • Burning Wheel
  • Annalise: Eternal Tears
  • Bulldogs!
  • Spirit of the Century

Runtime: 29:11 / File size: 26.7M

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March 2009 -- Mist-Robed Gate review and Mark Reed interview.

• 0:29 - Thanks to some accidential omissions at the Dreamation show, this month Brennan gives us a downpour of news.
  • Adventures Into Darkness, available for HERO System, M&M Superlink, Truth & Justice
  • Under My Skin
  • Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper
  • Shadows Over Filmland (preorder)
  • The Witch Doctor Player Class for D&D 4E
  • Shrouded Agendas 4E: The Purifiers
  • Dragon
  • My Monster
  • Tombstones n' Tumbleweeds
  • New Gods of Mankind
  • Dirty Deutsch
  • Bounty Head Bebop
  • Bounty Head Bebop: Ghost in the Machine
  • Montsegur 1244
  • Mortal Coil Revised (preorder)
  • Mist-Robed Gate
  • Jaws of the Six Serpents
• 7:11 - Mist-Robed Gate, by Two Scooters Press, is a wuxia-themed game involving a knife that's about emotional violence.
• 16:06 - Mark Reed, from Heroic Journey Publising talks about their new game, Bounty Head Bebop
• 22:34 - Lastly, Paul and Brennan combine Pravda and At Our Tables into one segment, talking about playing games with kids
  • Dunegons & Dragons Fourth Edition
  • Mouse Guard
  • Spirit of the Century
  • Primetime Adventures
  • Montsegur 1244
  • Annalise: Eternal Tears PDF Edition

Runtime: 30:28 / File size: 27.9M

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Episode from Dreamation -- It's Complicated review and Frederick Jensen interview.

• 0:30 - Paul and Brennan are back with another episode, recorded at Dreamation. As always, Brennan kicks off with what's new on the site.
  • Mutant City Blues
  • MSG(tm) Executive Edition
  • D6 Powers: Revised and Expanded
• 3:24 It's Complicated, by Two Scooters Press, is a guided narrative game about dysfunctional people and their relationships.
• 10:00 Frederik Jensen visit Dreamation from Denmark, and takes some time to talk with Paul & Brennan about his structured freeform story game, Montsegur 1244.
• 16:38 In At Our Tables, Paul & Brennan talk about their play at Dreamation, with a good mix of published games and playtests.
  • How We Came To Live Here
  • Mortal Coil
  • Tales of a Fisherman's Wife
  • It's Complicated
  • Montsegur 1244
  • carry. a game about war.
  • Annalise: Eternal Tears
  • 1st Quest

Runtime: 25:09 / File size: 23.0M

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Serial Homicide Unit review and Krista White interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Brennan gives the low-down on what's new on IPR.
  
  • Hard Boiled Cultures
  • A Fistfull of Miniatures
  • Summerland
  • StoryCards
  • Super Gachapon Fighter Omega Infinity!
    
  • Enemy Gods
    
  • Schauermarchen
• 5:42 - Serial Homicide Unit, from Incarnadine Press, is a GM-less game about a serial killer's potential victims and their hopes.
• 13:16 - Brennan Taylor's better half, Krista White, talks with us about how to do research for games.
• Further information on Krista's Livejournal
  
• 24:55 - In Pravda, Paul and Brennan discuss ending games.
• 29:46 - Finally, Brennan and Paul talk about what's going on at their tables.
  • Primetime Adventures
  • Burning Empires
  • One Bad Egg
  • Bulldogs!
  • Spirit of the Century
  • Mortal Coil
    

Runtime: 37:58 / File size: 34.7M

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Reign review and Nathan Paoletta interview Show notes:

• 0:29 - Brennan starts the show off with what's new on the site.
  
  • The Shroudborn
  • Fight Like a Legend
  • Disposable Heroes: Printed HARP
  • Serial Homicide Unit: Electronic Edition
• 4:42 - Reign, from Schröedinger's Cat Press, is a game of leaders and their companies on a strange, fantasy world.
• 15:14 - Nathan Paoletta, of Hamsterprophet Productions, sits down with us to talk about Annalise and issues with production.
• 24:27 - In Pravda, Paul and Brennan discuss the process their groups use to choose new campaigns.
• 31:30 - Since it's December, Brennan and Paul talk about not about what they're playing now, but on games they're looking forward to.
  • Primetime Adventures
  • The Mountain Witch

Runtime: 36:35 / File size: 33.5M

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Annalise review and Luke Crane interview

Show notes:

• 0:30 - This month's new releases are merely a steady drizzle compared to earlier deluges.
  
  • Capes: Invasion from Earth Prime
  • Play Unsafe
  • Dissonance: Music for Esoterrorists
    
  • Sweet Agatha
  • Colonial Gothic: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Annalise
  • Gods of the Shroud and Horrors of the Shroud: The Death-Mother
  • Wilderness of Mirrors
  • More Pulp Villains
• 6:45 - Annalise, by Nathan Paoletta, is a game nominally about a vampire but more about his intended victims.
• 14:50 - Paul tracks down Luke Crane to talk about his latest project: Mouse Guard.
• 25:19 - In Pravda, Brennan talks about the playtesting process for How We Came To Live Here.
• 31:49 - Finally, in At Our Tables, Paul and Brennan discuss their (sadly short) currently playing lists.
  • Burning Empires
  • Mortal Coil

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Beast Hunters review and Imagination Sweatshop interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - As always, Brennan gives the low-down on what's new on the site:
  • Burning Wheel: Magic Burner
  • Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales
  • Candycreeps
  • Races of the Shroud: The Apelord
  • Disposable Heroes: 4e Core Classes
  • First Year of Our Reign
  • Maid: The RPG
  • House of Whack
• 6:47 - Beast Hunters, by Christian Griffin, is a competitive, two-player RPG.
• 13:23 - Brennan sits down with Jason Keeley, Epidiah Ravachol, Jim Sullivan from The Imagination Sweatshop to talk about their process of "playstorming."
• 22:03 - In Pravda, Brennan and Paul discuss low- and high-contact game systems and different people's preferences.
• 29:01 - Paul and Brennan discuss the contact they've been having with different games in At Our Tables, including:
  • D&D 4e
  • Houses of the Blooded
  • Mortal Coil
  • Bulldogs! (with Spirit of the Century)
  • Burning Empires
• 37:59 - Before they sign off, Brennan and Paul celebrate the second anniversary of the show and official welcome Ryan Macklin as the show's producer.

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Zombie Cinema review and Mel White interview

• 0:29 - This month has seen a ton of new products appear on the website, including:
  • Fae Noir
  • Disposable Heroes: WWII Soldiers, Pirates, and Cyberpunk
    
  • Gripping Tales of the Impossible #1
  • Trail of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen and Four Shadows
    
  • Game Night
  • Fudge dice
  • A Dirty World
  • Things We Think About Games
  • Ninja Burger: No Honor Edition
  • Hellas
    
  • Godlike Saipan
  • In A Wicked Age
  • Poor Wizard's Grimoire
  • A Flower For Mara
  • Solar System
  • Zombie Cinema
  • Thou Art But A Warrior
  • More comics from Archaia Studios Press
• 7:23 - Zombie Cinema, designed by Eero Tuovinen, is a story game about an untenable situation: zombies coming to eat your brains.
• 17:07 - Mel White from Virtual Play stops by to chat with Paul about running games at conventions.
• 25:13 - In Pravda, Brennan talks about designing vs. publishing games.
• 29:48 - Finally, in At Our Tables, Paul and Brennan discuss what they've been playing recently including:
  • Mist-Robed Gate
  • A Dirty World
  • Zombie Cinema
  • Mythender
  • Three Sixteen: Carnage Among The Stars
  • A Flower For Mara
  • D&D 4e

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