Gaming on the Frontier

Episode 143: Halloween - Phobias part 1

This week Amber leads on a fearful run as we shudder and flee the subject of Phobias.  How can they be represented in your game?  What advantages are there to having such a crippling quality?  Find out this week and next.

Episode 142: Third year Wrap-Up

That's right.  We've completed 3 years of your favorite podcast of interdimensional exploration and adventure.  This week we look back over all the episodes we've done.  We are joined by Richard Tucholka who give us a lot of insight into his newly released products, some Tri Tac Lore, and what is planned for next year.

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.

Tri Tac at Dragon*Con 2012

Bruce and Blix talk about our time running games at Dragon*Con 2012. This was originally a ConMen PodCast episode but it was so full of Tri Tac goodness we decided that you would like to hear it. When you get done with this episode make sure to check out the ConMen at conmenpodcast.com and look for us on iTunes and Facebook.

Episode 140: Hatsumi Base FD 0-2 part 2

This week we finish our discussion of what was life like during the very early years after the discovery of the Fringe Portal in the antarctic. We discussion the construction of Hatsumi base,  political ramifications of the portal discovery,  contact with intelligent aliens, and contamination of Earth Prime and other worlds by unthinking actions of the early explorers and the Victorians.

Episode 139: Hatsumi Base FD 0 - 2 part 1

This week we return to our user questions.  What happened after the Fringe Portal was discovered in the Antarctic until the first expeditions ventured out onto the Fringepaths? Turns out it was a political hotbed.  We discuss the initial construction of access to the portal as well as possible alternatives to Hatsumi base as a starting point for your campaign. This is part one.  We will finish next week.  Please leave us comments and futher questions on our Facebook pages and especially a review at Itunes!

Episode 138: Time to Die?

This week we step back from the trenches and catch a load of shrapnel as we discuss Character Deaths:  When is it okay for a character to die.  What kind of deaths are meaningful.  What kind of campaigns support memorable character deaths.  We have Erik Spahr from the TravCast visiting this week as well.

Episode 137: Tangents, Backstories, and Side Quests

this week we are distracted by all the things that take us away from the main quest line.  What are these things and can we eat them?  "SQUIRREL!"

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.

HardWired Hinterland 1 Part 5

We continue to re-broadcast the John Reiher's SundaySkyper, Sunday Brunch episodes of HardWired Hinterland Actual Play.  In episode 5 we have a knock down, bone breaking, bare fist fight between one of our heroes and a great ape.  Who will break a bone first?  Will it end in a knockout or will it go to the bloody end? The descriptions are realistic so you were warned.