Sinopsis
an RPG blog with pretentions
Episodios
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Power-gaming is Good for the Soul
29/08/2021 Duración: 01h08min00.00.40: Introduction00.04.08: Thank you to our new Patrons: Stevan Radojevic and Jason QueerAF00.05.38: World of Gaming: Steve Perrin; Success for Book and Beasts and Bloodmarch; SLA industries Kickstarter00.26.06: In Defence of Power-gamers01.10.49: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Blood and Beasts
14/08/2021 Duración: 01h11min00.40.00: Introduction00.07.02: World of Gaming: Flying Buffalo sold; Carbon Grey kickstarting; Avatar legends RPG simply blowing everything else on KS away and ushering in a new age of PbtA; James Bond Spectre boardgames announced.00.29.59: Erik Granstrom interview: Svavelwinter RPG Quickstart available in English from Free League's website01.05.23: Back Book and Beasts and Bloodmarch here01.10.49: Goodbye, and may the Icons bless your adventuresEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Live (kinda) from UK Games Expo!
03/08/2021 Duración: 01h08min00.00.00: Introduction00.01.08: Setting Off00.04.09: The press preview - the set up and our staring role on OnTabletop 00.06.22: Friday Breakfast - talking numbers, and Brown Sauce00.08.14: Saturday set-up, and reviewing Friday sales00.17.07: Player in the Hamam: Neil Jackson of Paladin Roleplaying, currently kickstarting Starfarer dice00.30.56: Wash-up on Monday: Destroyer of Worlds and Vaesen win awards, we discuss Sunday, and our comparative lack of swag00.58.45: World of gaming: The Warren and Fallout RPG01.04.20: Welcome to our new patron Bobby Ellis!01.07.26: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patr
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Cold War Goes Hot
18/07/2021 Duración: 01h11min00.00.40: Introduction00.03.45: Thank you to our latest patron Scott Spieker00.04.18: World of Gaming: whats going on at Cubicle7? (with bonus(?) discussion and about the merits and otherwise of YouTuber The Critical Drinker); Is The Trove shut down?; The Sight (by friend and Patron Andy Brick) is out for The Dee Sanction; Rogue Trooper supplement, Tour of Nu-Earth 1 by patron, Ben Rogers published for the Judge Dread game. Vaesen and the Dee Sanction up for UKGE awards and they update their Covid regs00.38.44: Player in the Hamam: James Langham!00.57.40: Next episode (not) live from UKGE; and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this pod
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Animal Magic
03/07/2021 Duración: 01h20s00.00.40: Introduction00.03.24: World of Gaming: the TSR dumpster fire; Alberator and Project Cassandra; UK Games Expo; War Stories 00.38.44: Genlab Alpha00.57.40: Next episode (James Langham!) and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Are you experienced? Take 2
21/06/2021 Duración: 01h34min00.00.40: Introduction00.04.00: World of Gaming: Twilight 2000; one of James Langham's T2K videos; Wyrd Science KS; The Siren; UK Games Expo; and more of our stuff including the Coriolis Planetarium00.26.47: Breaking in - getting published. We mention Frank Graff's excellent work. 00.45.45: Alien XP for campaigns: Matthew's take00.52.01: Alien XP for campaigns: Dave's take00.55.32: Alien XP for campaigns: Discussion01.32.41: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Back to the Workshop
06/06/2021 Duración: 01h04min00.00.40: Introduction00.01.50: Thank you and welcome to our new patrons: Jim McCarthy and Nicholas, plus an impromptu conversation about Alien Campaigns00.12.04: World of Gaming: Marvel's Multiverse RPG00.21.03: Wolf and Raven00.33.27: Playing with Goblins00.44.23: The Hyenas of Odacon, wherein we also mention The Siren and the Coriolis Planetarium00.52.44: Mythic Japan: Ukiyo-e01.03.04: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Back To Where It All Began
24/05/2021 Duración: 01h10min00.00.40: Introduction00.05.22: Thank you and welcome to our new patrons: Steve Knot And John (L?)Junggren00.08.54: World of Gaming: Project: Cassandra; Dune; Twilight 2000; Broken Compass; Into the Motherlands; Awfully Cheerful Engine; 00.31.17: The Silver City - a Zone for Mutant Year Zero00.55.36: In development: what he have been doing for Vaesen, Firelock, ToTOW and Coriolis01.08.36: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Per Ardua Ad Astra
09/05/2021 Duración: 01h25min00.00.40: Introduction00.03.24: Thank you and welcome to our new patrons: Matija Kompan and Stacie Winters00.04.20: World of Gaming: Ruins of Symbaroum; War Stories; Jeff Goldblum Actual Play; Starforged; Court of Blades00.31.14: Player in the Hamam - Patrice Long, of streamers Dieselshot; co-author of Changed Stars and creator of some very alienesque VTT tiles 01.18.14: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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The New Seekers
25/04/2021 Duración: 01h11min00.00.40: Introduction00.04.48: Thank you and welcome to our new patrons: Mohamed El Dakak, William Paine and Dean Morrisey00.07.05: World of Gaming: Free League are Kickstarter champions; Changed Stars KS coming soon; Dune PDF; Twilight2000 Beta; our merch! 00.25.20: Tales of the Old West update00.20.59: Skills in Alien RPG campaigns00.48.26: Next episode and Goodbye00.51.23: SPOILER WARNING! WE return to talk about the Circle of Seekers.Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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The Ruin of Symbaroum?
10/04/2021 Duración: 01h21min00.00.40: Introduction00.02.21: Welcome to our new patrons: Pierre Gravelat; Paul Venner; Carl Landsberg; and Philip Greeley 00.03.55: Competition congratulations to our competition winner 00.10.08: World of Gaming: The Community Atlas is out for Coriolis; Edgeland - Year Zero Engine Cyberpunk00.20.41: Interview with Mattias Johnson Haake about Alberetor – The Haunted Waste and The Ruins of Symbaroum 5E01.18.04: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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The Swedish Style
28/03/2021 Duración: 01h38min00.00.40: Introduction00.01.50: A tribute to Yaphet Kotto00.03.58: Competition update 00.05.26: World of Gaming: Alien fourth in ICV2 survey; Solomn Vale Kickstarter; first Feng Shui subscription product out, preorders for Alberetor – The Haunted Waste00.22.25: What's coming in two weeks and goodbye from Dave (he's leaving the show)*00.25.04: The Swedish Style - a panel discussion with Anders Blixt, Magnus Seter, and Shannon Appelcline *he is not leaving the showEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it
14/03/2021 Duración: 01h57min00.00.40: Introduction00.02.08: Thank you to our new patron: Peter Jenson00.04.27: A bit of self-promotion - Planetarium: Miran Chain; thanks to everyone who bought the Coriolis Calendar and Summer in December; Alien the Colony; "That's why I am the best GM" teeshirts etc at RedBubble store. 00.14.58: World of Gaming: Coyote and Crow; Pixel Dice; Terminator RPG; Achtung Cthulhu 2d20; Temples and Tombs KS 00.37.21: Hacking the Engine for History: Dave's manifesto00.48.56: Hacking the Engine for History: Our discussion with Thomas Boulton - check out his Mythic Japan Vaesen here.01.55.35: What's coming in two weeks and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support
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Kicking off the OGL explosion
27/02/2021 Duración: 01h49min00.00.40: Introduction00.02.51: Thank you to our new patrons: Karl Unde; Rowland A Gault; Arne Sahlberg; Liam Beeton; and "Beskar" Tom Cantwell00.07.08: A reminder of our competition Choose any Free League game in English Write an adventure for it in English in 1500 words or less (about two sides of US letter paper) Send it to our email by Monday 15th March You retain all the intellectual rights to your work The prize is a £50 (or local equivalent) voucher for Drive Thru RPG 00.09.20: World of Gaming: Alien: the Colony; ZineQuest and Cephalopod: Ocean Home; The One Ring KS, Year Zero Mini00.22.27: Player in the Hamam: Craig Duffy tells us about his Zinequest 3 game: Project Cassandra, Thomasks streamed game, mentioned in our discussion, will be on his YouTube channel. 01.01.19: Player in the Hamam: Christopher Grey tells us about Temples and Tombs a new game using the Year Zero Engine01.47.39: what's coming in two weeks and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Bl
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Avast there landlubbers! Pirates on the port bow!
14/02/2021 Duración: 01h48minTo celebrate our 150th episode (by some ways of counting) we launch a competition to write a whole adventure in 1500 words, and talk to Alex Aguila, who has already done it, about his life in gaming and Year Zero Engine plans00.00.40: Introduction00.03.36: Thank you to our new patrons: Wil Logsdon and Aaron Silverman00.05.19: World of Gaming: ZineQuest; The One Ring KS, Xanadu - Nibiru Expansion; Traveller Mercenary set; Alien Colonial Marine Operations Manual delay; Alien Dead Sea; Alien: The Colony00.35.18: 150th episode - reflections and a competition Choose any Free League game in English Write an adventure for it in English in 1500 words or less (about two sides of US letter paper) Send it to our email You retain all the intellectual rights to your work The prize is a £50 (or local equivalent) voucher for Drive Thru RPG 00.49.21: The Syndicate 01.05.13: Player in the Hamam: Alex Aguila tells us about his life in gaming, founding Alienware, selling Alienware, founding Firelock Games, publishing Blood and
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A light from the shadows shall spring
23/01/2021 Duración: 01h55minWoah! We get an exciting scoop about when the Kickstarter for the new edition of The One Ring is going to be announced, plus how its different from the first edition, and how Free League was one of the few companies that didn't make an approach when Cubicle 7 dropped the game, and how they eventually played a blinder to tackle it away from a third company! Hear too about the creative hub of game designers in Venice.00.00.40: Introduction00.05.51: Thank you to our new patrons: NotRusselCrowe; Bill Miller; Mattias Bärkström; and Alex Aguila00.05.52: World of Gaming: Mörk Borg: Heretic KS; Feng Shui subscription; Symbaroum starter set and Alien campaigns00.33.40: Acid criticals and electric shocks in Alien RPG00.42.53: The One Ring - interview with designer Francesco Nepitello, and Martin Takaichi 01.51.42: Coming next and goodbye.Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face!
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I am fortune’s fool
01/01/2021 Duración: 01h33min00.00.40: Introduction and thank you to our new patron, John Salquist00.05.52: We review 2020, and hand out a prestigious No-Trophy for various arbitrary awards like "on-line tool do the year," "best game" and "00.55.44: Pushing rolls in Verona Beach01.20.56: We look forward to 202101.32.40: Goodbye and end credits.Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Secrets of the Void be with You, My Friend
14/12/2020 Duración: 02h08min00.00.40: Introduction00.03.34: Thank you to our new Patrons: panicked sheep, Andy Gibbs and errr one other... maybe?00.06.33: World of Gaming: W.I.L.D, Opera House, Dune and Twilight: 2000 Alpha00.35.16: The Nomads: Redux00.55.07: Writer in the Hamam: Rickard Antroia Interview01.31.30: Goodbye and end credits01.32.49: Spoilers in the Hamam: Rickard "Spoiler" Antroia talks about what us GMs do after the *spoiler* events of Mercy II, the Last Cyclade.Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here
21/11/2020 Duración: 01h42min00.00.37: Introduction00.04.42: Thank you to our new Patrons: Alexander Karnowski, Frontinus of Boraelia, Tony Semark, and Craig Duffy00.10.18: World of Gaming: The Dee Sanction (final hours as this feed goes live), a digression into Tales of the Old West, W.I.L.D, Terminator, Dragonmeet and the FL December plans, Dieselshot Alien panel00.43.12: Players in the Hamam: Moa Frithiofsson and Adam Palmquist talk about the forthcoming Frozen Inferno01.19.31: Rank and Chains of Command in RPGs01.39.18: Whats coming on the next episode, and Goodbye.Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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A Fireside Chat
04/11/2020 Duración: 01h36minRecorded at our 00.00.37: Introduction00.03.47: World of Gaming: Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds Alien (did you notice our "subtle" edits?); Role; Putrescence Regnant 00.15.57: Thank you to our Patrons: Ben and Frank00.18.28: Players in the Hamam: Frank Graeff talks about translating The Truth About Station 18; Djachroum and the Rimward Reach and Light Flower Dark Leaf.00.49.54: Forbidden Lands - a simple system for battles01.16.35: Playing and running our Western game, Tales of the Old West01.35.09: Goodbye.Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★