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#RPGaDay2015 8: Favorite appearance of RPGs in the Media

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!

For August 8, What is your favorite appearance of RPGs in the media?

Aser: There’s a Dresden Files story that actually starts with a narration of one of the Alpha’s RPG adventures, interrupted by Harry’s griping about how that’s not how magic really works: perfect.
Chuck: Knights of Badassdom
John: Maybe Vin Diesel’s D&D birthday cake.
Jonn: Order of the Stick is probably one of my favorite RPG web comics.
Landan: A lot of the Podcasts, Twitch streams, and even YouTube series that are out now.
Matt: This may date me a bit, but I enjoyed The Lone Gunmen playing D&D on a few episodes of The X-Files back in the day.
Megan: That would be the Community episde “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.” Annie’s scene of seduction is one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched. And Abed is way better at voices then me.
Patrick: Knights of Badassdom – Peter Dinklage as a stoner LARPer that kicks a demons ass. Yeah, it’s LARPing but its damn cool.
Rob: Knights of Badassdom (available on Netflix)

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#RPGaDay2015 7: Favorite Free RPG?

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 7, What is your favorite free RPG?
Aser: Eclipse Phase: This game is just so deep. The company seems really cool too.
Chuck: FATE (pay what you want, I think)
John: Eclipse Phase- pdfs available here! Also Cthulhu Dark
Jonn: Hands down Fate Core. I found I like core more than the products that have been sold using the Fudge or Fate ruleset.
Landan: Well Numenera was free to me when I learned then I bought the book and the Reliquary boxed set when it came up on Kickstarter. So not sure if that qualifies anymore
Matt: Pathfinder is technically free via the PRD, and it’s pretty fun if we can avoid getting bogged down in 2 hour combats.
Megan: Eclipse Phase is the only one I can think of that I’ve played. And it was a ton of fun.
Patrick: Americhaos 1994 – Picture a mad Max setting but due to a drug in the 70s that altered the DNA of the children of users to be Slamkids (Think super mutant).

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#RPGaDay2015 6: Most recent RPG played

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 6, What is the most recent RPG you’ve played?
Aser: Pathfinder: It’ll be our twentieth session. Seeing as we’ve only released the first four actual plays, saying more would be a spoiler.
Chuck: The Strange
John: Fear Itself (GUMSHOE)
Jonn: I’ve play Fate Core, D&D 3.5, D&D 4, D&D/PF, Earthawn and Forthright Beta in the last two weeks. I just finished a character sheet for Serenity and D&D/PF last night, so I guess PF?
Landan: Pathfinder
Matt: The Strange, during our last podcast recording session. Now that Gen Con is over, I’m looking forward to getting back to playing some games.
Megan: Pathfinder 🙂
Patrick: Pathfinder.
Rob: Final Girl

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#RPGaDay2015 5: Most Recent RPG purchase

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 5, What is your most recent RPG purchase?
Aser: The Big Crime: It’s a game that sets out to recreate a story straight out of a film noir movie night, to a fault some will probably say, me among them. The game sounds like a lot of fun though, and I can’t wait until I have more exposure to the genre and can run it for Megan.
Chuck: Worlds Numberless and Strange: Monte Cook Games
John: Prob Onyx Path Dark Eras Kickstarter for the Hunter chapters on pdf.
Jonn: Firefly Roleplaying
Landan: I pre-ordered the Monte Cook Games Cypher System Rulebook and I am going to purchase the Occult Adventures for Pathfinder soon.
Matt: Shadows of Esteren and Feng Shui 2. Looking forward to trying both soon!
Megan: I just participated in DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July so Stars of Empire, Monsterhearts, Horror Rules: The Simply Horrible Role-Playing Game, It’s Coming…, The Black Spot, Lost Days of Memories and Madness, and Control: The Game of Absolute Corruption.
Patrick: Iron Kingdoms
Rob: Firefly RPG

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#RPGaDay2015 4: Most Surprising Game

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 4, What is the most surprising game?
Aser: Pathfinder: I may or may not have been dragged into playing A Rune Awakening, but I have to say, I’ve come to look forward to our Tuesday night sessions of Pathfinder as much as if not occasionally more than our other recurring games. There’s just something fun about watching those numbers go up: it’s really quite fascinating.
Chuck: Fate Accelerated, so simple and a fun system for supers play.
John: D&D 5th edition! It’s so fresh, streamlined, close to BECMI and fun!
Jonn: D&D 5e. After taking part in the playtest all the way through and seeing the changes that were made towards the end, I was convinced I was going to be very disappointed. A few of my favorite things were missing like were intentionally exclude warlord class and the seemingly unpopular goliath. What was include was great. I was really happy with the result of the fighter; disappointed by how they worded the bard inspiration to prevent it from interacting with combat expertise; and pleasantly surprised by the page 121.
Landan: I think Numenera since it is relatively easy to learn only has a few mechanics I constantly seem fuzzy on.
Matt: Fear Itself, I wasn’t totally sold on the Gumshoe system, but I had a really fun time playing this.
Megan: I think in general the small, indie games have been the most surprising for how much I enjoy them. It seems like everyone should be enjoyng them. This last year we’ve played Final Girl, Lovecraftian Shorts, Protocol, and Mars Colony have all been a great deal of fun to try out.
Patrick: Exalted, didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did.
Rob: Fiasco

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#RPGaDay2015 3: Favorite Game of the last 12 months

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 3, What is your favorite new game of the last 12 months?
Aser: Night’s Black Agents: We’ve tried a lot of games this last year and what a number of great ones had in common was the Gumshoe Engine from Pelgrane Press. I point to Night’s Black Agents in particular because of its unique setting and the fact that I’ve had the opportunity to run it for a number of great players. This blend of modern espionage and vampiric horror takes the investigation-based narrative of its predecessors and gives it a techno-thriller shot in the arm that makes every session an absolute blast.
Chuck: The Cypher System Core.
John: The Strange.
Jonn: Firefly Roleplaying
Landan: My friend’s homebrew Pathfinder campaign. I know Pathfinder itself isn’t new but his world is rather unique that he created so I am sticking to my answer.
Megan: The Strange is the game that came out in the last year that I have played and enjoyed the most. I love the recursions and options that come with it. Plus Worlds Numberless and Strange is a fantastic supplement that just came out with so many more recursions to play with.
Patrick: I’d say Iron Kingdoms, but that’s been a bit longer then 12.
Rob: Firefly

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#RPGaDay2015 1: Forthcoming game you’re most looking forward to

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Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 1, What is the forthcoming game you’re most looking forward to?

Aser: I’m most looking forward to two very collaborative games on the grittier side of their genres. Blades in the Dark is an industrial fantasy game where your party take on the roles of a street gang trying to make a name for itself, while Scavengers is another team-based outing where you head up a crew of scrappers trying to make a living in the cold void. Both games place emphasis on teamwork and speed of play, so I’m anxious to see how much they can deliver on their promise. As a bonus, Blades was built from the ground up to be endlessly hackable, so we’ll have to see what TRF can do when we get our grubby little hands on it.
Chuck: No Thank You Evil. It is odd that I don’t have kids but I am looking forward to this game.
John: Burning Games’ FAITH: The Sci Fi RPG, and my hardcover Call of Cthulhu 7th ed book…
Jonn: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Landan: I think it would be my friend’s original campaign he is doing using the Pathfinder rules. We are playing Gestalt style characters so it is pretty crazy but his setting is really cool.
Megan: The Horrors of War set of adventures for Call of Cthluhu by Adam Scott Glancy and John H. Crowe that was funded through Kickstarter! This set of adventures is set in WWI and I can’t wait to play/run them.
Patrick: The Witcher RPG. If there is as much story in the fluff for the Table Top version as the PC game, then I’ll be hooked for some time.
Rob: Anything Firefly RPG

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Five Nights in Avalon 1: That Lady’s a Knockout!

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In our first outing in 7th Sea, a group is brought together to deal with some strange disappearances in Avalon. However, they get a bit distracted on their way to the Festival of the Tides.

Featuring Aser, James, Jonn, Landan, Megan, and Patrick.

Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Intended Force”

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A Rune Awakening 4: The Littlest Black Dress

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Erylium

The party ventures into the caverns under Sandpoint to find the quasit mentioned in Tsuto’s journal.

Featuring Aser, James, Jonn, Landan, Megan, and Patrick.

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A Rune Awakening Episode 3: One Glassy Guy

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Tsuto

Our heroes set off in the middle of the night to find a missing friend.

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