Happy Jacks RPG Podcast

Season 1, Episode 17, a Game-Day show. Designing delves do's and don't's. Your hosts: Stu, Tappy, Linnea, Jack, Stork, Bruce and Kimi. Podiobook "Grey" Grimtooth's book of traps.

Interview with Jennifer Walker, who is working on a cook book for gamers, entitled "What to Feed Your Raiding Party," a combination cookbook and comic book. She's funding it through Kickstarter.com, and if you'd like to pledge, y0u can do so here. Will's campaign wiki. The cool combat tracker Dyson mentioned (the one that everyone thinks is cool, but no one actually uses -- if you use it, we'd love to hear about it). We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com Skype Voice mail: happyjacksrpg leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks

MMORPGs vs. Table Top RPGs.  A massive game day episode. Show notes to follow ... maybe ... DnD the Opera Guys. The you tube video of Tripod. Initiative Hangies. Our little hanging initiative cards for hanging on GM screens. Epic Words. Wikis and blogs for your campaign. Dragon Age Character Generator download sites.

Starting adventures/"You're all in a tavern." Bumper from the Slash and Cast Podcast. Announcing the Happy Jack's Haiku Contest! Send us a haiku as if written by a monster. Email it to us and we'll pick our favorite and send the poet some sort of prize (TBD). Example: Your Realm beckons me The Fell Taint is patient, with Unfortunate name. Grimm: the RPG where you play a snotty nosed kid, battling your fairy tale favorites. Laser Ponies! An RPG where you play ponies -- that shoot lasers from their eyes! Prince of Undeath: Adventure E3 for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Beautiful product. We don't run packaged adventures, but includes some cool stuff (and more new epic-level monsters than you can shake a stick at). Also includes a very cool battle mat of a ship. Sharing WOTC pdfs can cost you a 100k. Dungeons and Dragons: the Opera? We discuss campaign starts. Stu defends "you're all in a tavern." We offer some alternatives. It degenerates into a tirade about players who insist on bucking starting campaign guidelines. Featured song: "The Pub That We Call Home" by the Poxy Boggards, from the CD, Anchor Management. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com Skype Voice mail: happyjacksrpg leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks

Shattering stereotypes. The drinky episode. Please take our second listener survey. Neverwhere from Drivethrurpg.com. Had a nice messaging exchange with Andrew, from the, Slash and Cast Podcast. His podcast describes his re-introduction to the RPG hobby. Give him a listen, his show is interesting and entertaining, and his production quality is what I want when I grow up. Featured song: Sospan Fach by the Poxy Boggards, from the album, Anchor Management. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com Skype Voice mail: happyjacksrpg leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

"What makes a great player." This is a game day episode. Your hosts are Stu, Tappy, Claire, Bruce and Casey. We review Kobold Quarterly #11 (you can purchase it from Drive Thru RPG), discuss listener email and talk about the attributes of a great player. Links mentioned: swordsandwizardry.com (a roleplaying game that hearkens back to the original DnD, pre-AD&D). Bro Rape (this is a Youtube video that is NOT SAFE FOR WORK). Join the Poxy Boggards, the Merry Wives of Windsor and the Dread Crew of Oddwood at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, California, on November 7th. Tickets: tickets.poxyboggards.com or www.mwow.net. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com Skype voicemail: happyjacksrpg leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks

Season 01, Episode 11 - Character Backgrounds, where in we discuss three different approaches to coming up with player character backgrounds. Links mentioned: EAIeducation.com (this is the site that's selling 105 polyhedral dice for 12 bucks). GoldTheSeries.com We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com Skype voicemail: happyjacksrpg leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks

Welcome to Episode 10 of Happy Jack's RPG Podcast, where in we discuss listener feedback, our game where the players go off the rails and do unexpected things and touch on PC background and using PC background as a form of collaborative world creation. Opening bumper courtesy of the RPG Circus podcast at www.rpgcircus.com. Featured song: Botany Bay, by the Poxy Boggards. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

Stu, Tappy, Stork, Claire & Bruce answer and discuss news, reviews and listener mail. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

Game Day Episode! Stu is joined by two players from the game, Claire and Bruce discuss player character death and several other tangents. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

Building an adventure. We talk about D&D Collectible Minis, Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, Adventurer's Vault 2, the revamped WOTC Forum, and email from Marcus, the HP Podcraft. We then discuss building an adventure within a multi-setting story arc. Finally, we discuss yesterday's game, the character's dreams and how it worked. Featured song: "Red is the Rose/Loch Lommond" by the Poxy Boggards, from the CD Whiskey Business. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

The new GM's first session - amenities, preparation and organization. Continuing our series of 'casts about helping and encouraging new GMs, we discuss your first gaming session, what you'll need, what the players will need, what to prepare and how to organize it. We also have some listener feedback: Emails from JohnD, Irven, ResGamer, and Fluffy; and a voicemail from Benji about the Hero Lab from wolflair.com. And we discuss the La Canada/Flintridge fires (which are still going strong, as I can see the line of fire in the skyline to the North). Featured song: Goodbye Muirshin Durkin by the Poxy Boggards, from the album Whiskey Business. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

We are joined by Greg Jones from the comedy improv team, the Merry Misfits of Doom. Greg is a student of theater improv and has come in to talk about the application of improv techniques and thought into RPGs. Featured song: "I Wear No Pants" by the Poxy Boggards.

Happy Jacks RPG Podcast, Season 01, Episode 04. The first in a series of podcast to encourage players to GM and help out beginning GMs: Building a Setting. - Tappy discusses Shadowrun 4th Edition. - Stork discusses Champions Online beta. - Does Dungeons & Dragons lead to hammer beating? - A dearth of Game Masters. - Tips on making an RPG setting. ChattyDM.net: One-Page Dungeon Codex. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/happyjacksrpg.

Welcome to Episode 3 of Season 1 of Happy Jack's RPG Podcast. Note: this episode was pre-recorded on Sunday, August 16th. It is the second part of our conversation that day. Since our recording date, we've received some letters and comments that we will feature in Episode 4. Cross-gender role-playing. Common player mistakes. Featured Songs: "Scarborough Faire" by the Merry Wives of Windsor. We love feedback. If you’d like to leave us a question or comment you can either: email us at happyjacksrpg@gmail.com leave a voicemail at (646) 462-4031 x 35052 (long distance charges may apply) leave a comment here on the blog register on the blog, click on “forum” and post. or you can leave an audio file at our drop: www.drop.io/happyjacks Starting next week we will begin a series of podcasts for new GMs and folks thinking about GMing.