October 2009 -- Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies Review and Kevin Allen Jr. Interview

• 0:29 - Brennan welcomes Paul back after his month off and jumps right into what's new on the site.
  • Empire of Dust
  • Mars: Savage Worlds Edition
    
  • Cthulhu Britannica
  • Tome of Secrets
  • Alpha Omega: The Encountered
  • eCollapse
  • Bulletin #3: Marine Talent Operations
  • The Shotgun Diaries
  • Kobold Quarterly #11
    
• 7:19 - Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies by Chad Underkoffler is a game of fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles, and sky pirates.
• 18:08 - Kevin Allen Jr. talks with Brennan about his approaches to and experiences with indie publishing.
• 27:04 - In At Our Tables, Paul and Brennan talk about ending games (and other things), and why Chewbacca is the best supporting character in sci-fi.
  

Runtime: 38:35 / File size: 26.5M

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September 2009 -- Misery Bubble Review and Jeremy Keller Interview

• 0:29 - With Paul again away for the month, Brennan brings on Ryan Macklin and talks about what's new on the site.
  • The World of Near
  • The Dance and the Dawn
  • Thousand Suns: Foundation Transmissions
  • Cold City/Hot War Insignia Badge Bundle
  • 3:16 Insignia
  • Ganagagok
  • Chronica Feudalis
  • Ribbon Drive
  • Misery Bubblegum
  • Book of Divine Magic [Preorder]
  • Curse of the Yellow Sign, Act 2
  • Milk Run: An Alpha Omega Adventure
  • Vox
  • Rough Magicks
  • Arkham Detetive Tales
• 8:47 - Misery Bubblegum, by Muse of Fire Games, is a quick card-based, anime-themed RPG about the trials of high school relationships.
  • Notes from Tony Dowler on playing the game
• 15:25 - Jeremy Keller sits down with Brennan to talk about the making of Chronica Feudalis.
• 22:00 - Ryan and Brennan talk about their GM preparation styles in At Our Tables.
  • Legend of the Five Rings
  • Spirit of the Century
  • Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition
  • GURPS Special Ops

Runtime: 31:14 / File size: 28.5M

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The Voice of the Revolution #34: August 2009, Ganakagok Review and Emily Care Boss Interview August 2009 -- Ganakagok Review and Emily Care Boss Interview

• 0:29 - Almost-live from Gen Con 2009, Paul, Brennan & Ryan talk about what's new on the site, after a moment of banter.
  • Dwarves of the Ironcrags
  • Second Year of Our REIGN
  • Corporate Espionage: Startup Deck
  • The Book of Arcane Magic
  • Labyrinths & Lycanthropes
  • Hard Helix: Four adventures for Mutant City Blues
• 4:49 - Ganakagok, by Consensus Games, is a mythopoetic game with a custom card deck, where the players interpreting these cards while play a story about a world admist a great cataclysm.
• 11:53 - Emily Care Boss talks with Paul & Brennan about the Pirate Jenny Booth at Gen Con.
• 20:51 - Ryan talks with Brennan & Paul about demoing games at conventions.
  • A Penny For My Thoughts
  • Mortal Coil

Runtime: 32:18 / File size: 29.6M

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• 0:29 - With Paul back this month as co-host, they start by talking about ENnie Awards and Summer-Revolution.com, particularly the fact that we're nominated for Best Podcast! Afterward, Brennan tells us what's new on the site.
  • Colonial Gothic Revised
  • Murderland
  • Starblazer Adventures
  • Super Gachapon Fighter Omega Infinity!
  • Curse of the Yellow Sign: Digging for a Dead God
  • Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 #6
  • Eye of the Vortex - June 2009
  • Vox
  • Victoriana 2nd Edition
  • Day After Ragnarok: A Savage Setting
  • Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition
• 8:09 - Houses of the Blooded, by Wicked Dead Brewing Company, is an Elric-esque role-playing game about romance, revenge, and opera.
• 14:52 - Fred Hicks talks with Brennan and Paul about the ENnie Awards and Summer-Revolution.com.
• 22:16 - In At Our Tables, Paul & Brennan talk about designing games specifically for their groups.
  • Delta Green
  • Bulldogs!
  • Spirit of the Century
  • Legend of the Five Rings
  • Danger Patrol

Runtime: 34:31 / File size: 31.6M

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ENnies 2009 PSA

In this quick message to our listeners, Paul talks with Ryan Macklin, The Voice of the Revolution's producer, about their nomination for the ENnies. They're excited and honored to be among the nominees, and would like your consideration when voting -- from July 24th to August 1st. In addition, a number of fantastic indie games are up for various ENnies awards.

We'll be back later this month with a regular episode of The Voice.

• ENnie Awards
• Summer Revolution

Runtime: 3:13 / File size: 3.0M

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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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