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65 – ggnoRE:HYPEing Stay Frosty, Arlin Ortiz, Trollsmyth

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Lots of interesting stuff to talk about this week: Stay Frosty, a stylish illustrator, some movement bragging, and a couple D&D utilities. Check below the image for details and links.

Stay Frosty

Stay Frosty is Casey Garske’s ode to Aliens, Starship Troopers, etc. The blurb:

GAME OVER, MAN
The bugs are through the perimeter, the gates of hell have opened, the mothership is landing, and the Captain’s brain got sucked out…there’s only one thing you can do, Marine…Stay Frosty.

Stay Frosty is an OSR game of future marines versus whatever the universe can throw at them. Use these rules to play games in the style of your favorite military sci-fi movies and video games. PC’s will have to balance escalating tension and dwindling resources against staying Frosty to complete their missions.

Daniel’s read it and written up a scenario overview and had a blast doing it. We’ll probably record a session of our playthrough on the show.

Grab it from drivethrurpg/rpgnow here.

Arlin Ortiz

Arlin Ortiz is a fantastic artist who makes beautiful overland maps, as well as character-ful monster illustrations.

Check out his map blog, patreon, website, and print gallery.

Trollsmyth

Trollsmyth had an OSR brag-piece we enjoyed over at his blog.

WTF Is My D&D Character?

This web app generates spicy D&D character concepts in one click.

Digital Dungeon Master

Digital Dungeon Master (not Digital Foundry, as we say in the show) has a bunch of pregen 5e D&D character sheets in PDF for your convenience.

Support Us Maybe?!?

If you jump in our patreon, you get access to our discord server to chat with us.

And if you want a couple free audiobooks, that helps us too.

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode images taken from Stay Frosty‘s product page and from Arlin’s patreon.

64 – ggnoRE:PLAY of Army of the Damned (Part 9)

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Releasing this one a bit ahead of schedule. We’re trying to clear out our backlog of actual plays so that we’ll be as current as possible.

We’re down a couple players for this one. So you can listen to Ava, Henryk, and Sjurd venture north following the siege to track down the source of the necro weirdness.

Hosts

DM

Players

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode image modified from: T.Voekler – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

63 – ggnoRE:CAP of Army of the Damned (Part 8)

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This is the first of our ggnore:cap episodes, in which we give you the TL;DR of the big (and mostly raw) actual play episode we put out this week.

If you’re interested in a particular module (or one of our upcoming homebrew campaigns) but don’t want to listen to 2-4 hours of AP, you can just check out these recap episodes instead.

In the recaps, we’ll review & reflect on the session in every respect: the quality of the source material, table/player/rules dynamics, all that stuff.

In this episode, Tim and Daniel discuss the siege of Shadowgrange from our continuing actual play of the indie 5e module set in the Magic: the Gathering universe of Innistrad: Army of the Damned.

The blood hunter class we used you can find @ drivethrurpg.

You can grab the Army of the Damned module we’re playing from reddit.

 

Hosts

DM

Players

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode image: public domain

62 – ggnore:play ~ Army of the Damned (Part 8)

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BEWARE: the audio quality of this episode is garbage because of a technical issue. Future episodes will not sound like this.

We continue our playthrough of Army of the Damned with the siege of Shadowgrange.

This episode is the first of the “rebranded” ggnore:plays, which are very lightly edited actual play episodes. It’s just us playing with a mic in the middle of the table.

If you don’t want to listen to what’s essentially raw audio, we’ll have a ggnore:cap episode later in the week (should be Friday) that summarizes and discusses what happened in that week’s actual play.

Hosts

DM

Players

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode image: public domain

61 – ggnore:hype ~ Ben Milton, Michael Prescott, Nioh, Horizon Zero Dawn

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This week we introduce a new weekly episode type: ggnore:hype, in which we talk about interesting stuff going on DIY/OSR D&D circles and, after that, anything else we want to chat about. Generally videogames, movies, and TV.

If you don’t know, Google Plus is the home base for high-value RPG content and the people who make it. Get on there and search around some. Daniel reads this stuff compulsively and will highlight a few items each week.

If you are interested in that sort of thing and not necessarily in actual play (our ggnore:plays), we’ve separated our episodes so you can just listen to what you want.

In addition to actual play episodes, we’ll also be putting out ggnore:caps, which are TL;DR versions of our actual plays. In the recap episodes, we’ll review what just happened in our session and perhaps reflect insightfully thereon.

Links to hyped content below:

RPGs

Videogames

Dragons Dogma: http://store.steampowered.com/app/367500/
Tyranny: http://store.steampowered.com/app/362960/
Horizon Zero Dawn (“Best Six Year Old Girl Postapocalyptic Simulator 2017”): get it from Amazon
Nioh: get it from Amazon
Cool Ghosts: http://coolghosts.net/
Paragon: https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/home
Destiny: get it from Amazon

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Hosts

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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60 – Army of the Damned (Part 7)

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To make up for our tardiness over the last couple of weeks, here’s a bonus early episode that gets us right to the beginning of the zombie horde siege. The siege will begin in earnest next week.

Hosts

DM

Players

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Episode image public domain rendering of the siege of Jerusalem under Titus.

59 – Army of the Damned (Part 6)

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We begin the tower defense arc of the module, click to listen.

Not a ton going on in this shorter episode, just setting up (what Daniel expects is) the next chapter of the module, but the episode after this one should be nonstop action.

Daniel cut out 2/3 of the content because it was mostly just talking to shopkeepers for some reason? But there’s a quest that we accepted during that cut content:

Quest: get some special flower thingies from up north.

So when we refer obliquely to flowers, that’s what that’s about.

Hosts

DM

Players

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode image modified from David Holt London Flickr via Compfight cc