This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network and is listed at RPG Podcasts.com You can find Rob’s game at Misspent Youth’s website. Rob’s podcast is the Independent Insurgency. Promos: RSS Feed for This Just In From Gen Con Omega: the Novel Special Thanks! A special thanks and Happiest of Anniversaries to my friends Jack and Theresa Jaffee! Jack writes and Theresa voices a podcast called 12 [...]

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This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network and is listed at RPG Podcasts.com The promo is for The Wandering Geek Podcast who is up for an Ennie Award! Teeuwynn Woodruff is a very influential game designer and writer. I wanted her to come on the show to discuss game design and her work on the Gypsies World [...]

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This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network and is listed at RPG Podcasts.com Bear’s Grove numbers 40, 41, 42 and 43 are all part of a single interview with Phil Brucato (Satyrblade to some), the game designer and developer with credits such as Deliria and White Wolf’s Mage: the Ascension to his name. This is the last [...]

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This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network and is listed at RPG Podcasts.com Bear’s Grove numbers 40, 41, 42 and 43 are all part of a single interview with Phil Brucato (Satyrblade to some), the game designer and developer with credits such as Deliria and White Wolf’s Mage: the Ascension to his name. I hope you enjoy [...]

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This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network and is listed at RPG Podcasts.com Bear’s Grove numbers 40, 41, 42 and 43 are all part of a single interview with Phil Brucato (Satyrblade to some), the game designer and developer with credits such as Deliria and White Wolf’s Mage: the Ascension to his name. I hope you enjoy [...]

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This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network and is listed at RPG Podcasts.com Bear’s Grove numbers 40, 41, 42 and 43 are all part of a single interview with Phil Brucato (Satyrblade to some), the game designer and developer with credits such as Deliria and White Wolf’s Mage: the Ascension to his name. I hope you enjoy [...]

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New actual play recording of a sexy french farce available!

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Hey there, Bear’s Grove listeners. This is a special podcast created in memory of E. Gary Gygax. It is 44 minutes, 53 seconds long. The following podcasts participated, I just stitched it all together. 3.5 Private Sanctuary Accidental Survivors All Games Considered Canon Puncture The Escapistcast Fist Full of Comics and Games The Game Master Show The Rolemonkeys Wapcaplets Special thanks to The Brobdingnagian Bards for their music given freely for [...]

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This podcast is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network at GBNCOM.COM Ryan Macklin has a podcast called The Master Plan. And he usually complains if a podcast is longer than his commute. Check out the new forum about GMs and players working together to make gaming awesome, There Is No Screen. And there is no spoon, either! Silken’s influences are Here Theory from [...]

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I had a great conversation with two members of the team responsible for the True 20 Blood Throne supplement “Blight Elves: Architects of Despair,” about the book and about their play habits. You can find out more about this book at Reality Deviants Publications and more about the Were-Cabbages here. In case you were wondering whether the explicit tag [...]

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Warning: this show is about 1 hour, 5 minutes long! Promo: 12 Volt Theater Chris Chinn Gamers Of Color Live Journal community Oriental Adventures Dirty Secrets, from Dark Omen Games My rough-draft Voodoo Rules The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde Wyrd is Bond The Blossoms Are Falling Steal Away Jordan by Julia Bond Ellingboe from her Stone Baby Games. Dog Eat Dog, by William Burke The Emperor’s Heart Inspiration for Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress, by Kurosawa Feng Shui RPG Socratic Design 19 Questions Promo: The Plitone Revisionist

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Be welcome to the Bear’s Grove podcast. Today on the program is part 2 of a two part interview with John Wick of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company John talks about his game design theories and also about Houses of the Blooded, the latest Big Game he has designed. He mentions the Sons of Kryos, as well. In the [...]

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Be welcome to the Bear’s Grove podcast. Today on the program is part 1 of a two part interview with John Wick of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company John talks about his game design theories and also about Houses of the Blooded, the latest Big Game he has designed. Part 2 will be out next week. Thanks for listening!

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Please enjoy Episode 34 of The Bear’s Grove Links for You Find out more about the new Podcasts by going to the Goblin Broadcast Network Socratic Design’s Power 19 Questionnaire Prime Time Adventures Pendragon Vampire: the Masquerade Spirit of the Century Story Now Donate if you Wish Music link From the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com Nick Murray’s Stratosphere

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Here’s a little video podcast I did just for y’all, saying thanks.

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Please enjoy The Bear’s Grove Episode 33! Today on the program I go into my plans for Dragon*Con and talk about how I like to design modules (when I do design them). Promos for the show are: Nuke Town Radio Active Geek Acres The Wandering Geek The Art of Roleplaying Podcast This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network Special thanks to Dante and Cobwebs for writing in! If [...]

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I’d like to offer an official Bear’s Grove Congratulations to the Ennies Winners from the Goblin Broadcast Network, Have Games, Will Travel by Paul Tevis and Yog Radio with Paul (of Cthulhu) Maclean, Fin (Gerout) Patterson, and Neil (N-kun) Young Presenting the award was another GBN podcaster, Dan Repperger of the podcast Fear The Boot

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Please enjoy Episode 32 of The Bear’s Grove. In this episode: Sam introduces you to the Fireheart Foundry family of podcasts, just in case. Sam talks a little about his Spirit of the Century game. A promo for Theory from the Closet plays. Sam has a segment about one of his favorite movies, Joe Versus the Volcano. A promo for the Canon Puncture podcast plays. There is a [...]

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Please enjoy The Bear’s Grove #31. In it, I talk about my recent computer disaster, bring you up to date on the podcasts I’ve been working on, talk to you about some of my favorite podcasts, talk about natural character generation and secrets held around the gaming table. Just in case you are wondering: yeah, I had backups. My [...]

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Show Notes I take you into one shot scenario design, showing you step by step how I designed the “To Dance Upon The Dawn” scenario for the Old World of Darkness Vampire: the Masquerade. Also, I give some hints as to how you might work the Urban Fantasy genre into your roleplaying game. Podcast Shout-Outs in this Episode The Basics of the [...]

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Show Notes I talk a bit about Heart of the Hunter. The Harping Monkey’s got a new podcast together with All Games Considered called “The Rolemonkeys.” In this episode I talk about techniques you can use in your game to keep the pace of your story on the beat; just a few ideas about how you can speed up or slow [...]

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Here is a brief update on what’s been up with me. Thanks for hanging in there!

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Welcome to our Hack and Slash special! Show Notes This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network. Won’t you donate to HACC, the Helping Association for Confined Creatures? Listen to Pulp Gamer’s Christmas shopping special! News & Notes The Harping Monkey’s on hiatus The Square One Podcast will feature segments from Miranda Thomas, the co-host of Firefly Talk and regular on The Signal Serenity / Firefly podcast. [...]

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Sequels: we got ‘em this time. “What’s My Motivation” covers attainment: in other words, getting stuff, bennies, cool toys, titles, etc., etc. “Game With Me” this time is more talk with Cynthia about Seauclaire. If you have any questions, please let me know. It’s hard to explain everything about your game setting in one sitting, but I will be [...]

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This project has been long in development and we’re finally ready to go forward with it. Have a listen to Episode 0. What we are doing, essentially, is creating a gaming podcast designed for absolute newbies and non-gamers to use to learn more about the art and fun of roleplaying games of all kinds. We’ll be covering [...]

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Fireseeds sponsoring virtual LARP Second Book “Deceit” JC Hutchins Daughter of the Sun, by Lonnie Ezell Actual Play Reports of DragonCon coming soon! The Godzilla Gaming Podcast bumper What’s My Motivation? Triumph Does My Geek Look Big In This podcast bumper Game With Me (And Cyn): Seauclaire The Sons of Kryos Podcast bumper Feedback: Mick Bradley from the Harping Monkey podcasts “Misfit Brew” and “The Round Table.” Anim5 from “International Detective Dragons from Outer Space”

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I had the opportunity and the privilege to do the podcast for “After Serenity” as part of the “Shaken Not Stirred” event. I’m going to put this podcast out on “The Bear’s Grove” feed as it does pertain to adult-level discussion of roleplaying as a storytelling art in the Serenity / Firefly ‘verse Show notes are [...]

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When the great wizard Weirdbeard from Does My Geek Look Big In This decides to use magic to load his new MZ3 player, a certain random element falls into the spell, and muddles things up a bit! With a bright flash of light, Sam (chief bear of the Bear’s Grove) vanishes! Two regular guys materialize on [...]

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This is just a mini-cast to let you, my audience, know how much I appreciate you hanging with me for one year of podcasting. Thanks very much, folks! Note to my employers: This was done over lunch break! :)

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Show Notes: This show is a member of Goblin, the Gaming Broadcast Network, at GBNCOM.COM News & Notes Dragon*Con The Parsec Awards Sons of Kryos The Durham 3 The Forge Indie RPGs One Thousand Monkeys, One Thousand Typewriters Cory Doctorow’s Craphound podcast Tropes Segment Tropes Definition Notes: Sydalians would rather make you biscuits than make you kill your king. The demon Balashazzar who is a turncoat demon. He serves the Demon Lord of Beggars, who has since fled [...]

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Show Notes It’s not too late if you want to game with me at Dragon*Con I’m going to be on a panel Friday evening at Dragon*Con, come and see me at the Gaming Podcast panel run by Jim Van Verth from The Vintage Gamer Podcast I am really enjoying the stuff coming out of GenCon Almost Live Forums are at http://forum.bearsgrove.com Music: Pachelbel’s Canon for [...]

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Show Notes: This show is part of Goblin, the Gaming Broadcast Network, at http://gbncom.com. Question: do you like the Goblin Bumpers? Do you find them funny or annoying? Enquiring minds want to know. Segments: News and Notes Midnight’s Lair Green Ronin Publishing Dragon*Con Dragonkin Podcast Game With Me: Unusual “Freak Show” PCs Fear the Boot GM’s Tips: How to Introduce your Own World Click here [...]

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Here is the new, really long (3 minutes and 6 seconds) promo for The Bear’s Grove Podcast.

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