Part 2 of Let’s Roll’s look at the greatest Dungeons & Dragons settings has Siskoid and special guest Fred Melanson talk about Spelljammer, AD&D’s Adventures in Space! How does THAT work? And ultimately, what made the game line fail? Plus, how to create your own genre mash-ups, in the GameMaster Advice column.
Siskoid and special guest Furn go 10 years back in time to when they were playing Hong Kong Action Theatre! (or HKAT, 2nd edition) on a kung fu fightin’, gun fun shootin’, wire fu flyin’ episode of Let’s Roll! Action film emulation! Actors taking on roles! Martial arts madness! Order out for dumplings and grab the edge of your seat for some role-playing podcast action! (Depending on what you’re doing while you listen.) And in the GameMaster Advice column, Siskoid discusses Cinematic Points! with an exclamation point!
Here are some images relevant to this episode of Let’s Roll:
Hong Kong Action Theatre! 2nd edition was published in 2000 by Guardians of Order. Written in large part by Nicholas Lindroos, Chris Pramas, Jeff Macintosh and Lucien Soulban; cover by Andrew Baker. To give some of the flavor, here’s a sample page with some of the Wire Fu abilities available: …Read More
Chapters 3 and 4 of Siskoid’s GURPS Shftworld campaign feature GURPS Mars and GURPS Ice Age (yes, cavemen), which are similar in a number of ways. To discuss these games and their role-playing opportunities, he welcomes back to the show his players Daniel “Pout” Ouellet and Alexandre “Beb” Hébert. It’s also a good avenue to talk about how a GameMaster can surprise his or her players. Ready to roll?
Siskoid has finally bowed down to public pressure and produced an episode about Dungeons & Dragons. But it’s too big a topic, so he and his guests, fellow DungeonMasters Fred Melanson and Jonathan Schaefer-Hames, are drilling down into the specifics of D&D’s default setting – the Forgotten Realms! What’s so great about this world and why has it become THE choice of sword & sorcery adventuring? Plus, GameMaster advice and your feedback from our previous episode. Let’s Roll… NOW ON ITS OWN FEED!
For the first time, Let’s Roll discusses a role-playing game Siskoid has never played. He OWNS a copy of Pendragon, the role-playing game of Arthurian romance, but has never managed to get a game together. Not so his guest, Gene Hendricks, who HAS played and Gamemastered Pendragon a lot. A CamaLOT. Let’s Roll… NOW ON ITS OWN FEED!