Gaming on the Frontier

Episode 159: Superpowers part 1

This week we explore the idea of adding superpowers to your game.  In Fringeworthy there is a world that grants all explorers superpowers while on that world.  Which offers the possiblity of them keeping them on other worlds as well. Trav leads this exploration.  There is lots of comic book and movie superhero lore and fun.

Episode 158: Alternate Bureau 13 Adventures part 2

This week we finish our discussion of different kinds of Bureau 13 adventures.  Not the same old find and kill the monster adventures. This week we concentrate on more subtle changes.  Ultimately it depends on you the player and GM to be willing to step outside your comfort zone and try something truly different.

Episode 157: Bureau 13 Alternate Adventures part 1

This week we open a new book on Bureau 13 Adventures.  The adventures we've never run or experienced but would like to. Each game has its genre tropes.  That can limit the game.  How can we break out of those expected adventures and run truly new adventures?

Episode 156: Bureau 13 at Carnage

Mike Larsen ran 2 Bureau 13 games at a convention in New England called Carnage recently.  He tells us all about the fun he had. If any of our listeners are running any Tri Tac Games at any convention.  Please contact us about prize support.  We love to support game demos of our products.

Episode 150: Take Back Earth Prime from Mellor part 1

This week we continue our exploration of taking back Earth Prime if taken over by an outside force.  We move into the middle campaign and sic the mellor on the Fringeworthy.  This is the first time we've really detailed how to use the mellor to destroy a planet and we were all surprised to find out that in a modern setting, it only takes about a month.  Wow. Jay Hailey returns as a host.  Welcome back Jay! Next week is our holiday episode so you will have to wait until the end or just into the new year to find out how to eradicate those pesky homocidal shapechangers.

Episode 148: Playing the Monsters pt 2

We conclude our discussion on how to best play the inhuman aspects of monsters in games, especially Bureau 13.

Episode 147: Playing the Monsters

This week we followup on a very early episode where we laid out the best supernatural creatures to add to a bureau 13 team.  In this segment we talk about making sure the monsters are played in all their inhumanity, not just a pc in a rubber suit. Next week we conclude this episode.

Episode 145: Bureau 13 Training Missions Part 2

This week we finish our discussion of sample missions that can be used to evaluate your Bureau 13 team's effectiveness.

Episode 141: Bureau 13 Training Missions Part 1

This week we begin our assignment of creating effective Bureau 13 training mission.  These are missions that are designed to evaluate some aspect of a Bureau 13 team's performance, perhaps to allow them to be given high security rating or more difficult missions.  The crucial aspect is that these are not "real" supernatural incidents, even though the supernatural may be part of the trapping of the mission or supernatural forces were used to in support of the scenario.  Each host was tasked with creating a bureau 13 training mission.  In this episode Trav and Blix present theirs. There will be a delay in the conclusion of this episode because next week is our 3rd year anniversary.  We have a special show for that.  The following week is a special Halloween episode.  So the 2nd part of this episode will drop the first Sunday in November.

Episode 136: Gencon 2012

Almost Dead from Gencon 2012!  We recorded this about 2AM on Saturday right after Savage Saturday Nights.  We ran 10 demos of Tri Tac Games this year, at least half using the Savage Worlds System, two using d20 Modern and even 2 using the original Tri Tac rules by Richard Tucholka, himself. This was the first time all the podcast hosts were physically in the same room together.