The Committee of the Exploration of Mysteries review and Seth Ben-Ezra interview

Show notes:

• 0:30 Paul and Brennan are back to start year two of the podcast. As usual, it starts with Brennan telling us what's new.
  • Bliss Stage
  • Journeying West
  • Piledrivers and Powerbombs
  • Bulldogs! Robots PDF
    
• 3:28 - The Committee of the Exploration of Mysteries is a GM-less game of competitive storytelling from Eric J. Boyd.
• 13:05 - Seth Ben-Ezra is the creator of Dirty Secrets and Legends of Alyria.
• 24:53 - In Pravda, Paul talks more about the development process for A Penny For My Thoughts.
• 36:25 - Brennan and Paul talk about what they're currently playing (which is more than last time).

Other games:

• Unknown Armies
• Spirit of the Century
• Burning Wheel
• Burning Empires
• Primetime Adventures

Other links:

• Legends of Alyria blog
• Joshua BishopRoby's outline guide
• Fist Full of Comics and Games

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Grey Ranks review and Julia Ellingboe interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Brennan starts things off with IPR news. New on the site:
  • Og
  • Grey Ranks
  • Blossoms are Falling
  • Burning Sands: Jihad
  • The Roach Returns
  • Dirty Secrets
  • Steal Away Jordan
  • Reign
  • Death's Door, Brick Battles, Blood and Bronze
• 5:57 - Grey Ranks, by Jason Morningstar, is coming of age story set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
  
• 19:05 - Paul and Brennan talk with Julia Ellingboe, author of Steal Away Jordan.
  
• 30:06 - In Pravda, Paul gives us another installment of Confessions of a First-Time Game Publisher.
• 39:02 - Brennan and Paul share their currently playing lists, which this time are rather short.

Other games:

• Full Light, Full Steam
• Know Thyself
• Sons of Liberty
• Primetime Adventures
• The Shadow of Yesterday

Other links:

• Joshua BishopRoby
• The Ashcan Front
• Finis
• Sons of Kryos
• House of the Harping Monkey
• The Gamer Traveler
• Canon Puncture

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Live from GenCon 2007!

Show notes:

• 0:38 - Simon J Rogers joins Paul and Brennan at the Embassy Suites at GenCon 2007 to talk about new games that will be showing up on IPR soon.
• 2:12 - Blood and Bronze by James Brown is a diplomacy-based board game of competitive boasting. Will your Greek city-state be Without Peer?
• 5:00 - Dirty Secrets by Seth Ben-Ezra is a single-player, multiple-GM game of Raymond Chandler-esque mysteries.
• 10:32 - Steal Away Jordon by Julia Bond Ellingboe is a harrowing exploration of the history of slavery.   
• 12:27 - Simon talks about his GenCon and the impact of the D&D 4th Edition announcement on the gaming software industry.
• 16:25 - Blossoms Are Falling, a new supplement for Burning Wheel, brings the Burning Wheel core system to Heian-era Japan.
• 19:29 - Reign by Greg Stolze takes the One Roll Engine from Godlike and Wild Talents and applies it to epic fantasy.

Other games:

• The Esoterrorists
• Spirit of the Century

Other links:

• Pelgrane Press
• ProFantasy Software
• Matt Snyder’s podcast, The Score
• The Indie RPG Awards

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Perfect review and Fred Hicks interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - As usual, Brennan brings us IPR news. New on the site:
  • ORX
  • Godsend Agenda
  • Burning Empires
  • Shock 1.1
  • Mob Justice
  • Truth and Justice
  • Cold City Companion
  • Two-Fisted Tales Revised
  • Og Unearthed Edition
  Also, check out the new buying guides.
• 5:32 - Perfect, by Joe MacDonald, is a game of crime and criminals in a dystopian Victorian world.
• 24:50 - Fred Hicks puts on his Evil Hat hat to talk with Paul about managing your brand as an indie publisher and importance of treating fans as peers.
• 38:49 - With Brennan’s series on publishing your game concluded, Paul begins a new series on how he’s applying those lessons to publishing his first game, A Penny For My Thoughts.
• 52:37 - Paul and Brennan discuss what they’re currently playing. They haven’t had a lot of time recently, with GenCon approaching quickly. Speaking of which, come see us at GenCon!

Other Games:

1. 1001 Nights
2. The Shab-al-Hiri Roach
3. Spirit of the Century
4. Burning Wheel
5. Full Light, Full Steam

Other Links:

1. The Game Master Show
2. Endgame Oakland
3. Game Chef
4. Master Plan
   
5. Master Mines
6. The Ashcan Front
   

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Covenant review and John Harper interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Brennan starts things off with IPR news. New on the site:
  • Ninja Burger (PDF)
    
  • Faery's Tale
  • Active Exploits Diceless Roleplaying
  • Classroom Deathmatch
  • Finis: A Book of Endings to Give People New Beginnings
  • Urchin
• 5:02 - Covenant, by Matt Machell, is a roleplaying game of failing conspiracies.
• 20:12 - Paul sits down with John Harper, the designer of Agon, to talk about Go Play Northwest.
• 31:22 - In Pravda, Brennan discusses the process of printing your game.
• 40:35 - Brennan and Paul share their currently playing lists, which turn out to be rather long.

Other games:

• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Burning Wheel
• Memoir '44
• Blokus
• HeroQuest
• It Was A Mutual Decision
• The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach
• Cas$h 'n Gun$
• Mexican Standoff
• A Penny For My Thoughts
• Death's Door
• 1001 Nights
• Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries
• Perfect
• Primetime Adventures

Other links:

• Ryan Macklin's Master Plan podcast

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Don't Rest Your Head review and Jason Morningstar interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Brennan starts things off with IPR news. New on the site:
  • The Dossier (PDF supplement for Cold City)
  • Piledrivers and Powerbombs (PDF)
  • Sports Fan Double Pack (PDF)
  • Donjon and Donjon Pack B-1 (PDF)
  • Primetime Adventures
• 3:18 - Don't Rest Your Head, by Fred Hicks, is a game about insomniac superheroes and the nightmares that want to eat them.
• 20:18 - Jason Morningstar, author of the The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, talks about the forthcoming Grey Ranks (set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising) and The Roach Returns.
• 30:25 - In Pravda, Brennan talks about the editing and layout stage of game production.
• 40:15 - Brennan and Paul share their currently playing list before signing off.

Other Games:

• Sorcerer
• Dead Inside
• Spirit of the Century
• Beast Hunters
• Under the Bed
• Shock:
• The Mountain Witch and Kwaidan
• The Burning Wheel
• HeroQuest
• Contenders

Other links:

• The Game Master Show
• The Durham 3

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Hero's Banner review and Chris Hanrahan interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Despite audio problems, Paul and Brennan are back for the April show. As always, the episode starts with IPR news. New:
  • The Zorcerer of Zo (PDF)
  • Intergalactic Cooking Challenge (PDF)
  • Nine Worlds (PDF)
  • Seven Leagues (PDF)
  • Vs. Monsters (PDF)
    
  • Dust Devils Revenged
  • Beast Hunters
• 02:41 - Hero's Banner, by Tim C. Koppang, is a roleplaying game that focuses on coming of age stories.
• 15:38 - Chris Hanrahan of Endgame in Oakland, CA, talks with Paul and Brennan about indie games from a retailer's perspective.
• 29:07 - Brennan talks about the process of procuring art for your game in the latest installment of Pravda.
• 39:26 - Paul and Brennan talk about what they're playing now. Paul even goes first this time.

Other games:

• Polaris
• Agon
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Mortal Coil
• Don't Rest Your Head
• The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach
• carry. a game about war.
  
• Primetime Adventures
• Mystery of the Abbey

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Conspiracy of Shadows review and Joshua A.C. Newman and Emily Care Boss interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Welcome to the sixth (slightly delayed) episode of the Voice of the Revolution. As always, Brennan starts us off with IPR news.
  New:
  • Vs. Outlaws
• 3:26 - Conspiracy of Shadows, by Keith Senkowski, is a game of Doom and Destiny in an analogue of medieval Poland.
• 13:11 - Joshua A.C. Newman (Shock:, Under the Bed) and Emily Care Boss (Breaking the Ice, Shooting the Moon) stop by to talk about their games and their gaming group.
• 27:11 - Brennan brings the next installment of Pravda, in which he discusses the importance of external playtesting.
• 35:52 - Paul and Brennan close the show with a brief discussion of what they're playing right now.

Other Games:

• Conspiracy X
• Call of Cthulhu
• The Mountain Witch
• Mortal Coil
• Spirit of the Century
• Primetime Adventures
• Polaris
• Full Light, Full Steam

Other Links:

• Games Expo
• Nerdly Beach Party
• Game Chef

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Nine Worlds review and Jonathan Walton interview

Show notes:

• 0:29 - Welcome to the fifth episode of The Voice of the Revolution. Brennan starts us off with IPR news.
  New:
  • Legends of Alyria
  • Agon
• 2:34 - Nine Worlds, by Matt Synder, is a game of Greek gods and aetherships.
• 13:59 - Jonathan Walton sits down with Paul and Brennan to discuss PUSH.
• 24:21 - In Pravda, Brennan continues his series on game design.
• 31:02 - To wrap things up, Paul and Brennan talk about what they're playing now.

Other Games:

• The Riddle of Steel
• The Burning Wheel
• The Shadow of Yesterday
• Breaking the Ice
• Memoir '44
• My Life with Master
• The Mountain Witch (and Kwaidan)
• HeroQuest

Other Links:

• The Sons of Kryos
• Knight Realms

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Best Friends review and Justin Jacobson interview

Show notes:

• 0:28 - Welcome to the fourth episode of The Voice of the Revolution, and the first of 2007. As usual, we start with IPR news.
  • New:
    • Tower of Ruin
    • Cat, Thirty, Discordia
  • Coming soon:
    • Roanoke
• 3:19 - Best Friends, by Gregor Hutton, is a game about girlfriends and all their petty hatreds. Paul had the chance to play it last weekend, and he's eager to talk about it.
• 14:50 - Joining us today is Justin Jacobson of Blue Devil Games. Justin has some interesting things to say about how the D20 system and indie publishing fit together.
• 28:10 - In Pravda, Brennan starts a series of short pieces on game design and publishing. Today he talks about first steps in game design.
• 37:03 - With holidays behind them, Paul and Brennan talk about what they're playing now.

Other Games:

• Mutants and Masterminds
• Mortal Coil
• Dictionary of Mu
• Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men
• My Life with Master
• Iron Kingdoms

Other Links:

• Endgame
• A Manifesto on Mastery
• Dreamation

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Covert Generation review and Michael S. Miller interview

Show notes:

• 0:28 - Welcome to the third episode of The Voice of the Revolution! Brennan brings us IPR news, which is a little shorter than last time.
  Coming soon:
  • Agon
  • Swan Song
  • Intergalactic Cooking Challenge
• 4:05 - Covert Generation, by Caz Granberg, pits kids against Generation X in an over-the-top espionage setting.
• 17:42 - Brennan has Michael S. Miller, the designer of With Great Power. . ., in the New Jersey studio for an interview.
• 31:56 - In the section that's now being called Pravda, Paul takes a brief look back at the explosion of indie games in 2006.
• 35:05 - What are Brennan and Paul playing right now? Not a whole lot, but a little.

Other Games:

• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Shab-al-Hiri Roach and Drowning & Falling
• The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men
• Waiting for the Queen/Tea at Midnight (from PUSH, Vol. 1)

Other Links:

• Escape Pod (featuring the Union Dues stories Iron Bars and the Glass Jaw, Off-White Lies, The Baby and the Bathwater, and Cleanup in Aisle Five).
• Jeffrey DeRego

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carry review and Luke Crane interview

Show notes:

• 0:30 - Welcome to the second episode of The Voice of the Revolution! Brennan digs right in with IPR news.
  • New to IPR
    • Passages from Blue Devil Games
      
    • Panty Explosion from Atarashi Games
      
    • PUSH, Vol 1from One Thousand One
      
    • Perfect from Inciteful Entertainment
      
  • Coming soon
    • House of Horiku and InTERRORgation from itesser ink
    • Mechaton from lumpley games
    • The Zorceror of Zo from Atomic Sock Monkey Press
• 9:44 - carry. a game about war from Hamsterprophet Productions is a fairly serious look at the Vietnam War and the effects that war has on its participants.
• 20:04 - Paul sits down with Luke Crane at GenCon SoCal to talk about the last year (and beyond) in indie game design.
• 35:24 - Paul talks a bit about community building in the Southern California area and plugs NerdSoCal.
• 39:59 - Brennan and Paul discuss their "currently playing" lists and wrap up the show.

Other Games:

• Primetime Adventures
• Mortal Coil
• The Burning Wheel
• Burning Empires
• Spirit of the Century
• Polaris
• The Mountain Witch
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Sorcerer
• Spycraft
• Lacuna and Inspectres
• Thirty and Cat
• The Shab-al-Hiri Roach

Other Links:

• IPR News mailing list
• The Voice of the Revolution forum / email
• The Gamestas
• Geek Nights
• Have Games, Will Travel
• 1KM1KT
• Crafty Games
• NerdNYC
• Sons of Kryos

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