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PGOC 062: Gateway Roleplay

We had a great time with a number of things in today's show then we are off to RinCon for the weekend. The GAMA Trade Show Seminars are complete. The Gen Con panels are up and running at full speed. We touched on Twitter. Continuing on our Games as Art discussion, The Philosopher's Zone talked about what qualifies as art. You must also check out the Citizens of Virtue.

We kick the day off by taking a look at the book, The Elfish Gene written by Mark Barrowcliffe and published by SOHO Press. It is easy to relate to this account of growing up geek. It's humorous and a lot of fun. We took turns reading our favorite passages to each other. On the same topic, we also talked about a youtube video we found linked on the author's blog that was a lot of fun as well.

Our main topic was Gateway Roleplaying games. What is the best game to introduce someone new to? Perhaps even your mother can play. Those mentioned include Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, Prime Time Adventures, Risus, Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, The Fantasy Trip (Wikipedia),Long Live the King, and Once Upon a Time.

Some podcasters that came up in today's show or otherwise deserve credit in today's discussions include Antti, Tim, Ryan, Ross, Ron, and Paul.

Posted October 29, 2008 Comments »

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From: Anonymous – October 30,2008 at 2:13 am

Love the show. One note, I have a copy of Recon and it's from Palladium (though this could be a remake or something). I'd rarely start a new gamer with Palladium. I like the company and the games they make, but I had to play through D&D then Star Wars (ala West End) before I could handle playing Palladium systems.

From: Anonymous – October 30,2008 at 1:09 pm

Hi there - this is Tim White from Return to Northmoor, our direct URL is http://northmoor.spookyouthouse.com.

I've also put up a blog post that talks about speeding things up for 4e, especially with new players: http://timlwhite.vox.com/library/post/speeding-up-dd-4e.html

Cheers!

Tim

From: Anonymous – November 4,2008 at 12:56 am

Entry level RPG
Tunnels and Trolls from Flying Buffalo
http://flyingbuffalo.com/

MicroLiteD20 - the fun without too much crunch
http://microlite20.net/