The Misdirected Mark Podcast

UB CON Actual Play Part 1 Mark shows off his teaching and GMing skills in part 1 of this learn to play 4e D&D game from UB Con 2012.

The Old School Round Table  This week we have Phil Vecchione of the Gnome Stew and Engine Publish along with Kevin and Daina Burke back for our old school round table where we talk about a variety of topics concerning old school gaming. Check out the pictures of some of the stuff we had on hand and feel free to browse the bazillion links from the show. There's even a link for Ditto. Show Notes 0:42  Intro 2:21  The Gameroom 8:15  The Workshop: The Old School Round Table 61:25 The Freeze Pictures Links The Kingmaker Adventure Path Pathfinder  Corporation Car Wars Buffalo Gamer's Society Changeling the Lost Dominion 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Next  Never Unprepared: The Complete Guide to Session Prep OD&D  AD&D Rune Quest  BRP  Call of Cthulhu  Star Frontiers  Expedition to the Barrier Peaks  Dungeon: Board Game  Price of Freedom  West End Games  Gamma World Metamorphosis Alpha  Top Secret  Villains and Vigilantes  Champions  Traveler  Boot Hill  B2 Keep on the Borderlands  I6 Ravenloft  Planescape  SpellJammer  Dark Dungeons  Monsters and Mazes Dragon Magazine GenCon Polyhedron Magazine  Judge's Guild  White Dwarf  Queen City Conquest  4th Edition D&D  Gnome Stew  Red Box Set  2nd Edition AD&D  Tracy Hickman  Dragonlance Greyhawk  Marvel Super Heroes GURPS  GURPS Auto Duel GURPS Horror Monte Cook Ptolus  Malhavock Press Star Wars SAGA Ditto Reality Blurs  Kickstarter  Fred Hicks Evil Hat Productions Paizo  Wizards of the Coast Open Design Project OSRIC Labyrinth Lord  Swords and Wizardry  Basic Fantasy Roleplay Castles and Crusades  Hackmaster  Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Lamentations of the Flame Princess  Dungeon World Kickstarter Table Top Forge Kickstarter  The Logic of RPGs Sim's Medieval  Dungeon Rampage Young Justice  Ultimate Spider Man

Mark's back and tells all about Origins and is excited about Artemis, the Spaceship Bridge Simulator. We then chat a bit about Dungeon Command, a new skirmish WotC game before moving over to the workshop and get into episodic gaming, the structure and what pieces you need to prep for such a game before chatting a little about comics in the Freeze. 014 - Origins and Episodic Gaming Show Notes 0:37 Intro 0:48 Origins Talk 3:13 Chris's Knee is jacked up 5:35 The Game room (It's dusty) 6:29 Mark can't kill PCs 8:37 Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator 16:19 Dungeon Command Discussion 21:03 Workshop 40:25 Misdirected Mark running D&D Next at UB 42:42 The Freeze Links Origins GenCon Pax Wizards of the Coast Ashes of Athas Living Forgotten Realms Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator Queen City Conquest Mouse Guard Burning Wheel Get Bit Table Top Changeling the Lost World of Darkness Dungeons and Dragons Marvel Heroic Role Playing Game Carcassonne Dungeon Raid Defender II Dungeon Command Never Unprepared - The Complete Game Masters guide to Session Prep Roleplay DNA X-Files Buffy the Vampire Slayer Law and Order Dr. Who Eureka - 501 Plots for any game Plotto by William Wallace Cook D&D Encounters Forgotten Realms D&D Next Temple of Elemental Evil Marvel's Civil War Thunderbolts 50 Shades of Grey OotS - Start of Darkness Kickstarter Keith Baker  

013 - Alone...sort of This week Mark is getting ready for Origins and the holiday weekend kinda threw off our schedules, and my knee, so I recorded the Gameroom and the Freeze all alone and the Workshop is a segment we recorded a little while ago. Let us know what you think. Show Notes 0:38 - The Intro 2:06 - The Gameroom 4:04 - The Workshop - When to leave or shutdown a game 37:50 - The Freeze

012 - D&D Next and Shawn Merwin This is a big one folks. A double length episode. In our Workshop we talk about D&D Next or 5th edition depending on which one of use you ask. Then we talk to freelance writer and game designer Shawn Merwin. He's worked on a fair number of projects for WotC and done a lot in the Living Campaigns. Show Notes 0:44 Intro 3:40 The Gameroom 12:19 The Workshop: D&D Next We jump around a bit during our D&D discusion. I suppose we should use outlines but we didn't so the information is kind of all over the place. Sorry about that folks. 1:08:23 Shawn Merwin interview 1:12:20 GenCon Drow Adventure by Shawn 1:14:03 Gaming with family 1:16:38 Writing for Undermountain 1:21:20 Making Dungeon Crawls interesting 1:26:42 Pizza's here 1:27:55 Changing up Modules up for replayability. 1:29:05 Dealing with critisism in writing. 1:30:25 The Assult on Nightwyrm Fortress debacle 1:34:42 Shawn's Favorite Setting - It's Greyhawk. 1:37:02 Shawn's time with Organized Play. 1:53:56 Writing for Critical Hits. 1:57:37 Differences in writing for fiction and games 2:05:25 Who's the man behind the writer 2:07:06 Game's we think Shawn should buy Dungeon Raid app Thread Detected Actual Play Podcast Changeling the Lost Lair Assault: Lair of the Tyrantclaw Baldursgate Ready Player One Diablo 3 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Critical Hits D&D Encounters Lego Harry Potter Dominion Carcassonne Cribbage Spades Pinochle Ticket to Ride The Moathouse and Hommlett Halls of Undermountain Adventure Haunting of Harrowshire The Radiant Vessel of Thesk Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress Ashes of Athas Living Divine Baldman Games

011 - Monsters and the Avengers Howdy folks. I'm on a bit of a tight schedule this week so the show notes might be a little late but for a preview of what you'll find is some Lords of Waterdeeep and Undermountain talk in the the Gameroom, a chat about Monsters in your games in the Workshop, and a little dice jewelry and Whedon fanboyism concerning his run on the Astonishing X-Men in the Freeze. Be careful during the Freeze because we get into the Avengers movie and their are SPOILERS. Show Notes 0:00 - Chris' Phone 1:14 - The Gameroom - Lords of Waterdeep, Defender, Undermountain 10:12 - The Workshop - Flavoring, Weaknesses, Research, Building from Scratch, Balance, Monsters for Home Play vs Monsters for Publication, 32:53 - The Freeze - Geeky Arts and Crafts, Joss Whedon and the Astonishing X-Men(Outdated Spoilers!), Avengers(Current Spoilers!) Links Lords of Waterdeep Halls of Undermountain Defender Spiders Prowlies Jar of Dreams Astonishing X-Men on Hulu Shawarma

010 - Interview with a Gnome This week we have special guest Phil Vecchione AKA DNAPhil from the ennie award winning Gnome Stew blog. In addition he brought one of his friends from his gaming group, Myke Niemira. He gives us a behind the scenes look at the games he, Phil, and their friends play, and the idea's Phil has mined from those games for the Stew. We also talk about engine publishing, Masks, Eureka, and their newest book Never Unprepared, written by Phil. Enjoy. Show Notes 1:55 - The Gameroom 8:40 - The Workshop with Phil Vecchione. 9:25 - What's the Gnome Stew? 10:25 - Why Phil likes blogging. 11:12 - Treasure Tables Blog 14:10 - Birth of the Gnome Stew 19:27 - Other bloggers/ Friend or Foe? 21:27 - Our favorite Gnome Stew Articles 29:22 - Engine Publishing 30:30 - Eurkea 501 plots 38:04 - Masks 1000 NPC's for your games 48:00 - Game night rotation 51:30 - Never Unprepared, the new book. 69:48 - A little about copyright and Pirating. 73:15 - What Phil does when he's not writing or gaming. 77:23 - The Freeze (Avengers - No spoilers, and Monte Cook leaving WotC) Links Engine Publishing  Armcannon  Kingmaker for Pathfinder  Houses of the Blooded  Corporation Malifaux Warhammer 40K  Bloodbowl Guitar Hero  Pandemic Forbiden Island Halls of Undermountain Savage Worlds: Rippers  Changeling the Lost Lords of Waterdeep  Treasure Tables  Gnome Stew  Burning Empires Break the Ice Shooting the Moon  Blowback  Critical Hits Stargazers  Drive thru RPG  Conspirisy X Name Generator GenCon  Studio 2  Steve Jackson  Sean Patrick Fannon  Shintar  Reality Blurs  Silvervine games  Con on the Cob Role Playing Public Radio Faery's Tail  Little Fears  Iron Heroes Unisystem 36 Dramatic Situations

The New Format - This week we have a new format. Well I guess I should say we finally have a format with segments and everything. We talk about what we've been playing in The Game room then discuss ways you can go about putting together a gaming group and finish up with a couple cool things in the freeze. 0:50   Intro 2:31  The Gameroom 12:22 The Workshop - Building your gaming group 36:19 The Freeze Links Battle Star Galactica Board Game Changeling: The Lost Miskatonic School For Girls Carcassonne Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game X-Men Arcade Game Small World Lords of Waterdeep Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Penny Arcade Pen and Paper Games Find gamers in your area. Dragon Snack Games The Dark Knight Rises D&D Open Play Test Origins Game Fair AnCon Dinocalypse Trilogy Spirit of the Century Dresden Files RPG Evil Hat Kickstarter Mouseguard

008 - Campaign Foundations : This week we have Dave back with us, one half of the Tangent Twins, to chat a little about first sessions of campaigns and the foundations of great campaigns. We also talk about Table Top, Wil Wheaton's new show on the You Tube station Geek and Sundry and some of our more embarrassing encounters with gaming and geek celebrities. Show Notes 1:45 - Table Top 8:55 - Embarrassing Gaming Celebrity Stories 15:40 - Campaign Foundations 42:35 - Final Thoughts Links Table Top  R.A. Salvatore Sons of Alamar American Times Dagohir Wil Wheaton Mike Mearls Critical Hits Fred Hicks Don't Rest Your Head Evil Hat Darth Plagueis Dresden Files Apocalypse World Eberron Shining Force Marvel RPG Mouseguard Young Justice AvX House of M

007 - UBCon In Episode 7 the Misdirected Mark Podcast goes to UB Con. We talk about improvisation and keeping the gaming romance going with Kevin and Daina Burke, Savage Worlds with Tim Hannon (Mr. Savage Worlds Western New York), interview SARPA's director of gaming, recap our Pax East experience, and talk a little about how you can make you campaign feel alive. Show Notes :42 Introductions 7:55 Improvisation in gaming 101 16:45 Keeping the gaming couple fire. 20:26 Savage Worlds with Tim Hannon "Mr. WNY Savage Worlds" 35:54 Interview with David Schwartz. 46:14 Pax East Recap 61:58 Adventure and Senario Design: Tricks to Making your campaigns feel alive Links - UBCon - Buffalo Comedy Sportz - Gary Gygax Memorial Fund - 1st Edition Rereleases - Nicolas Logue - With Great Power - Gormenghast - GenCon - Savage Worlds Explorers Society - Beautiful Brains Books and Games - Pinnacle Entertainment, owners of Savage Worlds - Queen City Conquest - Con on the Cob - Reality Blurs - SARPA - Dagohir - Buffalo Gamer's Society - Pax East - Melissa Lewis-Gentry on Facebook. Winner of the DM Challenge at Pax East 2012. - Origins

The Tangent Twins This week Mark was having some technical difficulties with his computer so with Skype out I called the Tangent Twins in off the bench. Some of you will remember Dave from the Drunk cast and on her first episode of Misdirected Mark I welcome Katie. Our comic book girl. We talk about a bunch of different things in this one folks so get ready for a ramble. Show Notes! Miskatonic School for Girls Dresden Files RPG Serenity RPG at Amazon.com PAX East Skunk 'Monkey' (Ape) The Killing Joke Mispent Youth Settlers of Catan WizWar The Red Death Arkham Horror Madness at Gardmore Abbey Skull and Shackles: Pathfinder Adventure Path Mass Effect Dagorhir UBCon Badass Garb Katie's Facebook Dave's Facebook Avengers vs XMen Sky Doll(Rated M for Mature)