Dungeon Saga Podcast

In this episode Colin is talking to Paco from G*M*S Magazine. The main topic is their current project Dice and Slice – a web TV show centred around gaming and cookery. Yep, unusual combo, I know, but when you hear Paco tell us about it, you’ll find out why! We’re talking gaming history, the background of GMS Magazine, how to go about producing a web tv show, shiny new equipment and a couple of games that Paco’s currently developing. If you want to find out more about GMS itself, including tonnes of existing content, unboxing videos and a whole lot more, pop over to G*M*S Magazine. And to have a look at the Kickstarter get on over to Dice and Slice. Leave us a Voice Message! You might notice a shiny new button over there on the right hand side – it’s our new Speakpipe! By clicking that button, you can leave us a voice recording to play on the show. We’d love to get some new voices on there so please leave us a message. Here’s some ideas on what you can record: [list type=”arrow”] Ask us a question about games

It’s fantasy wargame time on Dicing with Design this time round. After a bumper edition of updates, Colin gives us his first impressions on the brand new Warhammer Dwarfs army book. Then Joe tells us about the great progress he’s made on the in-development Warpack ruleset. 00:00:00 Lords of War, Warpack, Warhammer, Sedition Wars, Ankh Morpork, Dreadball, Blood Bowl, Ticket to Ride, Warpack 00:15:10 Warhammer Fantasy Battles – Colin gets his first new army book in the 5 years he’s been playing Warhammer. But will it be thumbs up or thumbs down for the latest GW supplement? 00:48:40 Warpack update – exciting news on how Warpack can be used to fit anyone’s fantasy miniature collection. 01:20:00 Outro and contact details. The post Episode 20 – Build Your Own Army Book appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:35 Martin Vaux joins us to talk Lords of War – a Kickstarter update 00:19:55 Martin tells us how he went about creating a world for the game. 00:51:15 The GM of our When Worlds Collide Campaign joins us to discuss how he created a world for us to game in. 01:31:05 Outro and contact details The post Episode 19 – World Building Part 2 appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:45 Updates – RAEX games, kickstarter, Once upon a time, B movie, Battlestar Galactica, Lords of War, Blackbox Games, Sedition Wars, DreadBall, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale, Drive Thru RPG, XCOM 00:15:00 Joe tells us about developments on the Warpack fantasy battles system – Warpack, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, The Wheel of Time, 00:27:15 World Building: Playing games in popular culture settings, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, 00:38:10 World Building: Specific gaming settings – Legend of the 5 Rings, Eclipse Phase, Eternal Contenders, When Worlds Collide 00:59:40 Contact Details and Outros. In this episode Joe gives us an update on the developments to his forthcoming fantasy battle game, Warpack. Then we get into a discussion about world design – playing in literary and cinematic worlds, custom gaming worlds and building games worlds from scratch. The post Episode 18 – World Building Part 1 appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Desi

In this episode, we’re thrilled to be joined by Martin Vaux, co-designer of Lords of War card game. We discuss the game, the Kickstarter for the new expansion, Templars vs Undead, and all things gaming. Unfortunately, the sound quality won’t be as high as you’ve come to expect from your hosts, but Martin sounded great and he’s the one you’ll be interested in anyway! The post Ep 17 – A Chat with Lords of War on their New Wargaming Card Game Crossover appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

This episode was recorded after some alpha testing of Warpack. Warpack is Prince of Darkness Games’ forthcoming card-based fantasy wargame. We discuss the design philosophy behind the game, various ways in which the game could be expanded, campaign gaming and more!   The post Ep 16 – Warpack Special – A New Breed of Table-top Wargame appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

0:00:00 Introduction and updates, including: Lords of War Warpack Warhammer Warhammer World Forbidden Planet Ticket to Ride Shadows Over Camelot Battlestar Galactica Cortex Plus Dragonlance DreadBall Blood Bowl Project Pandora Carcasonne Sedition Wars When Worlds Collide Labyrinths and Lycanthropes Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royal   00:22:55 Lords of War Review With the new instalment of Lords of War being currently kickstarting, we review the the Elves and Lizardmen set.   0:38:50 Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale Joe reveals his plans to take his pro-wrestling based card game to Kickstarter for its 2nd edition.   0:49:32 Outro and contact details Including a shout out to Gunz and his Advanced Heroquest blog, Enhanced Advanced Heroquest   All music is by Kevin McLeod of incompetech.com   The post Episode 15 – Lords of War Kickstarter and Pro Wrasslin Card Game News appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

This time round we discuss our experiences at the recent September 2013 Warhammer Battle Brothers at Warhammer World. We’d like to thank all of our opponents and the tournament organisers for giving us such an enjoyable weekend.   0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:30 The day before – practice match and first impressions of Warhammer World 0:14:05 Tournament Day 1 and the Pub Quiz 0:38:45 Tournament Day 2 and results 1:08:30 Outro   Discussion topics: Battle Brothers Warhammer World Warhammer Fantasy Battles Warpack Dungeon Duellists The post Ep 14 – Warhammer Battle Brothers: A Report from the Biggest Wargaming Tournament Around appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

0:02:00 Updates, Including: Kromore 2145 Kickstarter, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Space Hulk computer game, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Vassal Engine, Chainsaw Warrior, Dreadball, A Game of Thrones LCG, Space 1889,   0:15:45 Battle Brothers and Warhammer Tournaments – Our preparations for the upcoming tournament at Warhammer World and tournament design in general, including: Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40K, Heelan Hammer,   0:49:20 Warhammer 9th edition and Wargame Design, including: Warseer News and Rumours, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warpack   1:34:50 Outros Dicing with Design Podcast The post Episode 13 – Warhammer is broken and we’re going to fix it appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

Hey folks – this week we have a continuation of last week’s interview with T. Julian Bell. Last time you found out about the RAEX system, and this time we hear from Julian’s experience in getting games published and sold. If you’re an aspiring games designer, or even if you’ve been in the industry a little while, you should find something interesting here. Julian gives us his thoughts on Kickstarter too and his plans to use the platform for their current project. Later in the Podcast we also have a recording Grant and Colin made after a Warhammer Fantasy battle a few weeks back. They give a short battle report and what they think went right and wrong during the game. Hear how Grant thinks he misused his multiple demon princes! Colin, Grant and Joe are all practicing for the Battle Brothers tournament in Warhammer world in September, so if any of you might be there, let us know. It’d be great to meet up and have a beer. In other news, Colin chats briefly about XCom: Enemy Unknown – his attempt to get nostalgi

In this episode Colin’s talking to T. Julian Bell from RAEX Games. They’re soon releasing a new setting for their RAEX gaming system called Kromore 2145, a Cyber-Steam setting as they call it. It’ll be coming out in Q1 2014. You can try out an abridged version of the game in the meantime though – there’s free public version of their Core Rulebook available on the RAEX games website. In the interview Julian takes us through the RAEX system and tells us his thoughts on game design, and how to make an engaging game. Here are a couple of links to find out a bit more information on both Julian and RAEX Games, and make sure to look out for the Kromore 2145 Kickstarter when it releases later this month. This is actually only part 1 of the interview – Julian and I had a pretty long chat! Part 2 will be released soon and is all around how to go about setting yourself up as a pro games designer. Julian tells us his tips and tricks for getting into the games industry, getting a producer and getting yourself published.

0:00:00 Intro and updates 0:11:50 Our favourite characters 0:43:20 Character creation systems   Another episode in quick succession! This time it’s all about characters. First of all we talk about our own favourite characters from games and fiction and what makes them so great. Then we move on to character creation systems, including Joe’s brand new hotness Eternal Contenders! Apologies for the dip in audio quality in this episode, there were a couple of technical issues that were sorted for tomorrow’s (yes, that fast!) episode. Enjoy! Things what we talked about today: Warhammer Fantasy Battle Agricola Dungeon Duellists Wappinshaw Space Hulk The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen Rolemaster The Wheel of Time Feng Shui Sorcery My Life with Master Enjoy your burrito, everyone. The post Ep 9 – Character Design in Role Playing Games appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

0:00:00 Intro and updates 0:06:30 Main topic: designing the game In this episode we continue to hammer out our live design of Cthulu’s Cosmic Kobold Commandos. We’re aiming for a light-hearted comedy game, so we spend some time discussing just what makes a comedy game. We’re still putting the game together, so if you have any ideas for the game we’d love to hear from you – get us on podcast@dicingwithdesign.com, @grantsensei, @joejprince and @gamercolin. I won’t lie, this episode won’t be for everyone as there’s a lot of brainstorming and hammering out of details. For those of you brave enough to come along, here’s a list of things we talked about today: Stitch by Iain McAllister Dwarf King’s Hold Tweet RPG Joe on Indie+ Hangouts: GMless Games Mortal Coil Space Pirates Inspectres Impro ,Impro for Storytellers Archipelago Play Unsafe Pantheon 3:16 Hungry Troll and the Gobbos   The post Ep 8 – Live Games Design Part 2 appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game D

Episode 7 – Mobile Frame Zero and Rules Heavy vs Rules Light In this episode Joe and Grant discuss their experiences at Conpulsion, followed by a review of the rules-light Lego-based minis game, Mobile Frame Zero (16:15). This leads onto a discussion of rules light vs. rules heavy games (38:20) Things we discussed in this episode: Warhammer Fantasy Battles Blood Bowl Dungeon Duellists Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royal Game of  Thrones LCG Conpulsion Mobile Frame Zero Eternal Contenders Hell for Leather Knights of Trinity Aberdeen Elder Sign Malifaux Tartan Skirmish Radio Nearly Enough Dice Podcast Memoir 44 Warhammer 40,000 Dreadball Magic: The Gathering Dungeons and Dragons Ygdrassil Over the Edge Leave us a comment to let us know what you think of the episode, hope you enjoy!     The post Ep 7 – Mobile Frame Zero and Big Rules vs Small Rules for Role Playing Games & Wargaming appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

A Monopoly “variant”, from boardgamegeek.com Our main topic this week is starting designing a game LIVE on air! We need YOU to help us, so make sure and let us know what you think of our design as it stands. Here are some things we talk about: XCOM – Enemy Unknown Civilization – Revolution Alas Vegas Hell 4 leather Tweet RPG Nearly Enough Dice Podcast Monopoly Eternal Contenders Yggdrasil Burning Empires Vassal Lackey CCG Bearswarm Podcast play Hell 4 Leather The Mighty Boosh Radio Series Prime Time Adventures Aye, Dark Overlord Baron Munchausen Central Belt Pick-Up Gamers Knights of Trinity The post Ep 6 – Live Game Design appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

In this episode we discuss what games we’ve been playing recently, before launching into our main topic:  The Role of the GM. I broke it down into 8 roles: Scenario designer Monster player (the evil wizard) Rules designer Referee Director RL leader / skivvy Keeper of secrets World builder We talked about a huge number of games this episode, here are the links: Joe’s article: Is the Era of the GM over? On Geeknative Joe’s article: Dicing with Design on Geeknative Sedition Wars Project Pandora X-COM: Enemy Unknown Eternal Contenders by Chronicle City Games Eternal Contenders Actual Play thread by Grant Knights of Trinity, Aberdeen Facebook page Legacy of Frankenstein Nearly Enough Dice Podcast Warhammer Fantasy Battle Hamlet’s Hit Points by Robin D.Laws at drivethru rpg Hill Folk by Robin D. Laws on Kickstarter World War by Harry Turtledove Magic the Gathering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying Game Battlestar Galactica the board game The D6 Generation Shadows over Camelot Wrath of Ashardalon Rolemaster Inspectre

Episode 4 – Advanced Heroquest Advanced Welcome to another episode of the Dicing with Design podcast, with Colin, Grant and Joe. In this episode we start off with an update on our recent gaming, followed by our main topic: Heroquest! We begin the discussion with a history of Games Workshop / MB Games’ classic Heroquest. That’s followed by GW’s own Advanced Heroquest and a comparison with other dungeonbash games. Then we explain our homebrew rules which we’ve been working on and playing with recently, before some in-depth examples of actual play. We round off with news of exciting future topics on the show. We love feedback, so please get in touch on Twitter: @grantsensei, @gamercolin and @joejprince, leave a comment on our website, www.thepodcasthost.com/dicingwithdesign or leave a positive review on itunes. Enjoy your games!   Joe’s Article on Geeknative Battlestar Galactica Advanced Heroquest Master Builder Static Games, Glasgow Magic the Gathering Prince of Darkness Games Forbidden Island Texas Hold ’em P

  DWD-Episode-3-PvP In this episode Colin, Grant and Joe talk about the most recent session in their epic Rolemaster roleplaying campaign. This is followed by the main topic of PvP. We discuss, “What if” conflicts we play for fun, examples where PvP has arisen in our games, managing nonphysical conflicts between party members, traditional D&D PvP conflicts, deliberately designing PvP into games, PvP in digital games, balance between character classes and LARPing We hope you enjoy the show. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any feedback – you can get us on Twitter: @gamercolin, @grantsensei and @joejprince or post a comment on our website, www.thepodcasthost.com/dicingwithdesign   The post Ep 3 – Player v Player in Role Playing Games & Board Games appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

Smallworld – check out that cardboard It’s Episode 2 and we’re talking Smallworld, board game design, online gaming and, for some reason cardboard… What’s We’re Talking This is a live episode, recorded after Grant and I met up for a few drinks and a lot of games. Mostly, we played Smallworld, with a couple of games of Dwarves of King’s Hold and a spot of Game of Thrones. But, like all good cardboard fetishists, we were stuck on Smallworld and the sheer quality of the game. Listen to the Podcast to see what we thought. Let Us Know What You Think As always, we’d love some feedback, and ideas for future episodes. Let us know your thoughts on the podcast series so far. What are we doing right? What could we do better? We’d love to make this something that you love listening to, and the only way to do that is to get in touch. Contact us through any of the following: Twitter: @gamecolin – @grantsensei – @JoeJPrince Our Contact Page: Send us an email through the contact page Podcast comments: At the bottom of this p

Welcome to the first ever episode of Dicing with Design! This podcast hopes to cover all aspects of games design, from creating a brand new game from scratch to designing a campaign to run as a GM. We’ll be talking about creating characters, creating storylines, creating rules and creating entire games systems. We’ll be discussing existing games, how they’re designed and how they can be changed with a bit of creative house ruling. We’ll also be talking a bit more generally about games we’re playing right now, and what we like. So, we hope you like it – join us for spot of Dicing with Design! Time and Games Design: Dicing With Design – Episode 1 The post We’ve Got None! Time & Games Design – Episode 1 appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.