As you might have noticed, we got a new logo! Kerstin made it for us after being bribed with a lifelong* whisky supply.
I hope you like the logo as much as we do. Thanks, Kerstin!
*referring to the life of the podcast. So… possibly inheritable?
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Visit the Iron Republic of Jora with us and fight alien angels, explore ruins of incredibly advanced civilizations and meet forgotten terrors from other dimensions! Immortal: Gates of Pyre is a mini-setting by Donavon Bailey that brings the world of the strategy game with the same name to Savage Worlds. Together with the setting, we review a special edition of a scotch.
Timecodes:
- 00:00:33 General Information
- 00:07:31 Layout, Style and Artwork
- 00:24:40 Setting Background
- 00:25:33 Setting Rules
- 00:33:50 Edges
- 00:25:53 Arcane Backgrounds
- 00:33:50 Gear
- 00:41:51 NPCs
- 00:44:23 Pre-Gens
- 00:55:00 Adventure
- 01:21:24 Conclusion and Outlook
- 01:27:58 Whisky Review
Immortal: Gates of Pyre is available for a price of your choice on DriveThruRPG. You can find out more about the game – which is still in development – at https://gatesofpyre.com.
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In the magical world of Terra, the ruthless dragon emperor has united the Kappa tribes and conquered the peaceful mandragora kingdom. Will you help the oppressed people against the occupying forces? Are you a wanderer, looking for the valuable storage blocks in old and new ruins? Are you actually considering siding with the emperor? Or do you just… want to go karting? We’ll check out the setting by Blackwing Productions and also review a bourbon that was mysteriously suggested to us.
Timecodes:
- 00:00:34 General Information
- 00:01:21 Layout, Style and Artwork
- 00:04:25 Setting Background
- 00:09:10 Setting Rules
- 00:11:39 Clades
- 00:18:28 Hindrances
- 00:20:29 Edges
- 00:22:43 Arcane Backgrounds
- 00:27:46 Gear
- 00:35:36 NPCs
- 00:37:58 Storytelling Terra
- 00:41:40 Conclusion
- 00:43:24 Whiskey Review
Heroes of Terra: The Mushroom War is available on DriveThruRPG.
Hey folks! Now that the next full episode is finally out, I’d like to get you informed on what’s going on behind the scenes at our podcast.
First of all, I know I wrote about how we’d like to review bigger publications. Now we reviewed another Jump Start, though. We actually fell so far behind with our progress that we feared a long review would postpone the next episode even more, so we threw in a shorter publication. Sorry for that. We still plan to review a full setting, though!
But as our process showed, we need to change our way of producing the podcast quite a bit. It took more than a month from starting to read it until the episode got out. The edited show about it is more than an hour – and that’s for a Jump Start. You can probably see that this doesn’t scale well if we carry on like this for settings with 200+ pages.
Don’t worry – we’re not going to script the whole episode and put some generic music under it while we’re reading our lines. But we’re planning to switch up our production process so we spend less time rambling and editing (so we can spend more time playing and drinking).
Until then, have fun with our new episode, let us know what you think about it or what you’d like to have reviewed – we love to hear from you!
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In the shade of giant mushrooms, under old logs and dense blades of grass lie the marvelous kingdoms of insects – the world of Stingers and Spores! We’ll check out the Jumpstart for this setting by Twitchy Butcher Studios and review a rather exotic whisky.
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- 00:00:33 Introduction
- 00:03:04 Map
- 00:03:40 Character sheet
- 00:07:15 Looks and style
- 00:12:59 Setting background
- 00:26:16 Character creation
- 00:36:49 Edges
- 00:40:07 Arcane Backgrounds
- 00:49:50 Gear
- 00:55:04 Setting rules
- 00:59:13 Pre-Gens, allies and villains
- 01:06:51 Adventure
- 01:20:17 Conclusion
- 01:23:45 Whisky review
Stingers & Spores: The Leaping Jaws is available on DriveThruRPG.
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Happy New Year! Here’s a little bonus episode I recorded to make the waiting for the next episode easier. It’s just me, Vasant, reviewing Manu’s Sprawlrunners – a toolkit for cyberpunk settings.
Timecodes:
- 00:00:27 General info
- 00:01:09 Look and layout
- 00:02:28 Character creation
- 00:03:28 Setting rules
- 00:05:18 Hindrances and edges
- 00:05:51 Magic
- 00:08:11 Cyberspace and hacking
- 00:09:42 Jockeys
- 00:10:01 Equipment
- 00:12:15 Verdict
Sprawlrunners is available on DriveThruRPG, as well as the associated Sprawlrunners Countdown Deck and the rules for Fast Lane Hacking, should you need that separately.
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Happy Holidays!
We’d like to wish all our listeners happy holidays, no matter what you celebrate. Enjoy the celebrations (as unusual as they might be with social distancing), spend time with your loved ones (even if it’s just via video chat) and look forward to the next year – because the next episode from us won’t be out before 2021!
To give you at least a bit of info about it: After reviewing shorter publications, we’d like to step it up and make our next episode about a thicker book than before. Of course, that’ll take a bit more time if we want to make a meaningful review about it – hence the waiting time.
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A posh private school, British banter and supernatural phenomena – are you in? Here comes our review of Bartington Halls: School for the Elite by Wild Eye Books! We might not be as rich as the pupils there, but at least we’re old enough to buy whisky. So of course, we’re also reviewing a Scotch with a similarly venerable history as that school.
Timecodes:
- 00:00:33 Introduction
- 00:02:50 First impressions
- 00:03:47 Setting background
- 00:19:02 Setting rules and character creation
- 00:35:31 Adventure generator and other tools
- 00:39:41 Pre-generated characters
- 00:42:10 Encounters and NPCs
- 00:44:04 Adventure
- 00:53:49 Whisky review
Bartington Halls: School for the Elite is available on DriveThruRPG.
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Here’s our review for the Rise of the Ghost Machines, the Jumpstart adventure for Winter Eternal by Just Insert Imagination. To keep us warm and cozy, we have a special edition of a Scotch with us this time.
Timecodes:
- 00:00:33 General
- 00:04:00 Setting Description
- 00:08:11 Rules
- 00:13:13 Adventure
- 00:29:55 Bestiary
- 00:31:05 Adventure (continued)
- 00:34:18 Pre-gens
- 00:41:04 Whisky Review
Winter Eternal: Rise of the Ghost Machines is available on DriveThruRPG.
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For our first episode, we review the cyberpunk setting Citizens Divided by Aegis Studios, written by Travis Legge. And a Scotch Whisky.
Timecodes:
- 00:00:46 General
- 00:04:09 Setting fluff and background
- 00:21:10 Rules / Character Creation
- 00:22:13 Professional Edges
- 00:31:26 Hindrances
- 00:38:57 Edges
- 00:40:56 Setting Rule: Sheen
- 00:49:38 Gear
- 01:01:40 Archetypes and Adversaries
- 01:06:26 Adventures
- 01:09:50 Conclusion
- 01:13:25 Whisky Review
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