Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

Jeff Barber of Biohazard Games was kind enough to join us for a Table Chatter on the (as of press time) about to launch Blue Planet Recontact Kickstarter! Ben and Greg ask him about the history of this game line, the desire to make Recontact, and growth in game design. Also biology facts.

The Kickstarter is slated to launch on the 6th on Kickstarter. Jeff can be found on Twitter @biohazardjeff, or at Biohazard Games' website.

We've recorded a Table Chatter, and we're dropping it as a bonus episode for Patrons for a limited time!

Ben introduced Aaron and Greg to the Image comic series DIE by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans. In DIE, a group of six teens got sent to the world of their RPG in the 90s. Only five came back a few years later, and now in 2017, the remnant have returned to their world to confront their pasts and their futures. In addition, Kieron has started to develop an RPG version of the series. We talk the comic, our own pasts with comic books as a whole, the comic and how it interacts with RPGs, and the beta itself.

Kieron's already got over 250 pages of the beta for DIE available for free online, and on itch.io. If you are interested in the comic itself, the first issue is available to read for free on Image's website. DIE does contain depictions of violence, depression, and more. Viewer Discretion is advised (and for the rest of Kieron's work for Image, frankly.)

Aaron and Vince have just opened a Patreon for Kame House Party. They also stream weekly on Twitch. Aaron's also on Thinking Too Hard About Anime with Noah.

If you really want to read about wasps, Ben's paper is available on Biorxiv.

Greg is on Twitter @gjbennett33 and really should stream more on Twitch.

Micah leads us through a DG one shot! A rag tag group of people are called into a town in Wisconsin. A siren is going off, warning nearby residents that a nuclear incident is occurring at the nearby decomissioned Kewaunee Power Station, and residents in a 20 mile exclusion zone are warned to leave. These four folks (not read into DG,) are called in because of their expertise, and were not in the exclusion zone at the start of things. A potential terrorist event is happening, and Chad needs to lead the crew inside to ensure that the plant isn't going into a full meltdown...

Micah: GM

Ben: Chad Fisher, Soldier

Dan: Tracy Roberson, Nuclear Engineer

Greg: Lawrence Simpson, Firefighter

Whit: Victoria Carr, Mathematician

This episode was formerly a bonus episode for our patrons, now made public.

Knight Katchers MC was out for a country ride, and ready to head home, when a group of mice came hauling tail from the south, carrying something with them...

Greg - GM

Aaron: Maga, Patch Member. Gruff in nature but good in heart.

Ben: Twofer, Patch Member. Got out of the drug game and into a gentler gang.

Ian: Paula, Prospect. A young mouse eager to prove her mettle to the other members of the gang.

Laura: Anisa, Sergeant At Arms. Ranking member of this group, and always with a plan.

Dontae's back from her research at the NYPL, but the mystery of Harold the accountant deepens...

Harlem Unbound is by Chris Spivey for Darker Hue Studios & Chaosium, and can be found as both a pdf for the multi-system 1st Edition version at Darker Hue's website, and as a pdf or physical book for the Call of Cthulhu 2nd Edition at Chaosium.

Ethan - GM

Ben - Sgt. Reginald Luther, a field medic for the Harlem Hellfighters, who is trying to get in to med school or get out of America.

Dan - Ford Kitchens, a guy who knows everybody and can fix most things.

Laura - Dontae Jackson, a young writer and activist who writes under "D. Jackson" to The Crisis and other newspapers so she can get published.