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The Jank Cast Episode Seventeen
The Jank Cast Episode Seventeen: The Villain Cast
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Tom, Dylan, Lexx, Reek, Autumn
Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha. We talk about evil people.
Rants
Dylan: Twilight
Autumn: Respect for all authors who are published
JOHNKELLY: Selling out
Lexx: meh
Reek: Villian PCs
Tom: The great overlord of Chicago
Read more...Jank Cast Interview Two: Corey Konieczka
The Jank Cast managed to attend and record a seminar that Corey Konieczka did at the @spot Cafe on July 5th.
Take a listen to the designer of games such as Starcraft and the Battlestar Galactica board game talk about upcomming Fantasy Flight projects.
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Dogs in the Vineyard: Guns of Faith
Behold the Dogs as they ride from town to town, saving the faithful from the lure of demons and wickedness. Smoking black-powder pistol in one hand, the Book of Life in the other, the Dog brings the word of the King of Life, beating back the darkness in a game of Paladins in the Wild West
Read more...We Don't Need no Water: A Review of the Burning Wheel game system
I recently picked up a new role playing system called Burning Wheel. I learned about the game through a few podcasts that I listen to regularly, particularly noting The Podge Cast, and I was intrigued by the way they seemed to use a classic fantasy world of similar to that of Dungeons and Dragons without being overly reliant on the rules. I’ve been able...
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Gaming With Metal
First, the wonderful nerd blog io9 posted this.
As someone whose free time revolves around metal and gaming, I wanted to comment.
Read more...Continuing the "Risk Taking" Line of Thought
In my previous post (see below) I blamed it all on system. Most systems encourage character investment/building, and have mechanics which don't lend themselves to single, grand heroic gestures. Timo's comment got me thinking, though. While that's all true, this is also about both the players and the GM contributing to a certain kind of story. This has a ring of GNS theory, here.
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Zombietown: An Animated Review
Oh won't you take me to... Zombietown!
Designed By: Twilight Creations Inc
Year Published: 2007
# of Players: 5-6
Playtime: 60 Minutes
Suggested Ages 12+
Read more...A Stone Age Review
Rio Grande Games
2-4 Players
Around 45 Min
Resource Management
Stone Age
To start
- As the tittle implies Stone Age is a strategic resource management game set in (you guessed it!) the Stone Age.
Materials, Qualities and Stuff
- Open the box and you get little wooden unisex people and resource wedges in a variety of colors, standard light cards and a pretty good game board. The art is great quality, with a vivid board and clearly defined items. The art saves the quality of the game components and clearly aids game play with well defined positions, resources and spaces. You also get some wood dice and a neat leather dice cup, just stone aged theme.
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Jank Cast Episode Ten: The Intervention Cast
Episode Ten: The Intervention Cast
We sit down and talk about one thing that every gamer has at least heard about. Problem players.
Rants
Dylan: 100 Percept Pure Cotten Hawaian Shirts
JOHNKELLY: Hentai (This made Dylan really happy)
Timo: The most ironic rant ever
Autumn: Stupid Shirts (We finally say what JOHNKELLY’s shirt says!)
Lexx: Fireball Island
Read more...Jank Cast Episode Nine: The Meta Cast
Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Lexx, Dylan
This episode we sit down and yell at each other about meta gaming, it purpose in games, and whether it's right or wrong.
Rants
Timo: Bad Rules
JOHNKELLY: How will I survive this summer?
Lexx: Indie Comics
Dylan: Space Rocks
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J.P. Nery
Jon-Paul originally hails from upstate New York, a place he quickly escaped from prior to settling in Chicago to study screen writing at Columbia College.
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Lexx Dunning
Alex Dunning was born in Hawaii in the 1970's and is still wondering how he left the tropics.
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John Kelly
Timo Newton
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