In it we talk about a lot of things, but among them are Mickey’s Tarot-based Casanova game. I’m looking forward to hearing more about this.

So check it out!

here

And stay tuned for more cheesy goodness on THIS podcast feed!

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This is a special podcast created in memory of E. Gary Gygax.

It is 44 minutes, 53 seconds long.

The following podcasts participated, I just stitched it all together.

3.5 Private Sanctuary
Accidental Survivors
All Games Considered
Canon Puncture
The Escapistcast
Fist Full of Comics and Games
The Game Master Show
The Rolemonkeys
 Wapcaplets

Special thanks to The Brobdingnagian Bards for their music given freely for this episode. The music was provided to us through the Podsafe Music Network

Thanks to all of the participants!

Gary died March 4th, 2008. Gary, man, we miss you.

This particular recording is owned by its participants, released to you under a Creative Commons license 3.0: Attribution, no derivatives, no commercial use.

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I recently recorded a talk Julia Bond Ellingboe did which included an Actual Play Demo of her game “Steal Away Jordan.” If you’d like to download it (it’s very long, but worth it!), the link is here.

Julia’s talk was part of the Digital Moving Image Salon at Spelman College, which you can find out more about here.

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Ryan Macklin has a podcast called The Master Plan. And he usually complains if a podcast is longer than his commute.

Check out the new forum about GMs and players working together to make gaming awesome, There Is No Screen. And there is no spoon, either!

Silken’s influences are Here

Theory from the Closet

The Bear’s Grove 30

Check out Indie Press Revolution to buy all the cool story games I mentioned in this episode.

Feedback: Daniel from The Digital Front Podcast

Promos in this episode:

The Escapistcast
The 3.5 Private Sanctuary
and an unauthorized promo for
Stabbing Contest

Closing music from Hannah at The Sixty One

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You can find out more about this book at Reality Deviants Publications and more about the Were-Cabbages here.

In case you were wondering whether the explicit tag on this podcast is real, IT IS. THIS PODCAST IS EXPLICIT. It is NOT for children! Listen without headphones at work at your own risk.

The Blight Elves are very icky creatures and some of their nihilist, entropy-worshiping practices are downright offensive. To be clear, the book doesn’t hold them out as paragons, either.

I think it’s pretty clear that these Blight Elves are EVIL! But not in the “They’re evil because they are” sort of way. No, no, there’s a lot of reasons why they are. Some of them are cultural and some of them are religious. But they’re all out to make you commit suicide. Basically. Evil.

Also in the podcast you’ll hear an unauthorized promo I made for The Independent Insurgency and an authorized promo for The Game Master Show

Music is from the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com

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Promo: 12 Volt Theater

Chris Chinn

Gamers Of Color Live Journal community

Oriental Adventures

Dirty Secrets, from Dark Omen Games

My rough-draft Voodoo Rules

The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde

Wyrd is Bond

The Blossoms Are Falling

Steal Away Jordan by Julia Bond Ellingboe from her Stone Baby Games.

Dog Eat Dog, by William Burke

The Emperor’s Heart

Inspiration for Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress, by Kurosawa

Feng Shui RPG

Socratic Design 19 Questions

Promo: The Plitone Revisionist

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Today on the program is part 2 of a two part interview with John Wick of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company John talks about his game design theories and also about Houses of the Blooded, the latest Big Game he has designed. He mentions the Sons of Kryos, as well.

In the “News and Notes” section, I talk about a few new podcasts you may be interested in:

Discussions from the Closet on the same feed as “Theories from the Closet”

Stabbing Contest
Geek Girls Rule
The Independent Insurgency
Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty
Murder at Avedon Hill by PG Holyfield
Nocturnal by Scott Sigler
Space Casey by Christiana Ellis

A reminder: the Bear’s Grove is considered an adult podcast; that’s part of why we have an EXPLICIT tag in iTunes. Don’t listen around kids, or at work, without headphones.

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Today on the program is part 1 of a two part interview with John Wick of the Wicked Dead Brewing Company John talks about his game design theories and also about Houses of the Blooded, the latest Big Game he has designed.

Part 2 will be out next week. Thanks for listening!

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Links for You

Find out more about the new Podcasts by going to the Goblin Broadcast Network

Socratic Design’s Power 19 Questionnaire

Prime Time Adventures

Pendragon

Vampire: the Masquerade

Spirit of the Century

Story Now

Donate if you Wish

Music link

From the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com

Nick Murray’s Stratosphere

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Here’s a little video podcast I did just for y’all, saying thanks.

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Please enjoy The Bear’s Grove Episode 33!

Today on the program I go into my plans for Dragon*Con and talk about how I like to design modules (when I do design them).

Promos for the show are:

Nuke Town Radio Active
Geek Acres
The Wandering Geek
The Art of Roleplaying Podcast

This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network

Special thanks to Dante and Cobwebs for writing in!

If you are going to Dragon*Con and would like to get my schedule, don’t hesitate to contact me at bearsgrove at gmail dot com and I’ll send you access to my D*C schedule.

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Presenting the award was another GBN podcaster, Dan Repperger of the podcast Fear The Boot

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Let us know what you think!

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All you Ennie Voters, go out there and vote on July 16 - let’s give them a killer turnout!

Best Pod/VidCast

Awarded for a podcast or vidcast run by fans.

• Fear the Boot
• Godzilla Gaming
• Have Games, Will Travel
• Sons of Kryos
• Yog Radio
• Honourable Mention: Pulp Gamer

For more info, check out http://www.ennieawards.com/2007noms-1.html

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In this episode:

Sam introduces you to the Fireheart Foundry family of podcasts, just in case.
Sam talks a little about his Spirit of the Century game.

A promo for Theory from the Closet plays.

Sam has a segment about one of his favorite movies, Joe Versus the Volcano.

A promo for the Canon Puncture podcast plays.

There is a segment with Sam and JC Hutchins from the Seventh Son podcast novel trilogy. This is part of his 50/50/50 podcast tour. We talk about foreshadowing, story structure, visceral details, and other important storytelling techniques.

Please give us feedback!

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In it, I talk about my recent computer disaster, bring you up to date on the podcasts I’ve been working on, talk to you about some of my favorite podcasts, talk about natural character generation and secrets held around the gaming table.

Just in case you are wondering: yeah, I had backups. My backups were on a second huge disk. That disk died at the same time. I am kicking myself. I recommend everyone get offsite backup, and get it soon. That is all.

The promos for this episode are:

Foretress Draconis podcast, by Mike Stackpole,
a commercial for The Geek Label Podcast (Happy Anniversary, guys!), and a promo for The Gamer Traveler Podcast.

I also mention:

Cory Doctorow’s Podcast
The Game Master Show
The Rolemonkeys and Misfit Brew
The Sons of Kryos

Please don’t forget to visit The Goblin Broadcast Network at GBNCOM.COM and use our lovely master feeds to subscribe to a whole slew of amazing RPG-related podcasts, OK?

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I take you into one shot scenario design, showing you step by step how I designed the “To Dance Upon The Dawn” scenario for the Old World of Darkness Vampire: the Masquerade.

Also, I give some hints as to how you might work the Urban Fantasy genre into your roleplaying game.

Podcast Shout-Outs in this Episode

The Basics of the Game
Villain Talk
Gamer: the Podcasting
The Game Master Show
International Detective Dragons from Outer Space
The Rolemonkeys

Special Thanks to our Sponsor, Khepera Publishing, with their game Godsend Agenda

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I talk a bit about Heart of the Hunter.

The Harping Monkey’s got a new podcast together with All Games Considered called “The Rolemonkeys.”

In this episode I talk about techniques you can use in your game to keep the pace of your story on the beat; just a few ideas about how you can speed up or slow down things.

Also, I talk about the Lyrica Magic System and the current state of the Lyrica game.

Plus there’s some feedback.

The music from this episode is called “Baja Taxi” and it’s from Brain Buckit on the Podsafe Music Network at Music.podshow.com

Hope you like it!

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I do! It’s called “The Bear’s Grove Bardic Circle.” And the reason you don’t know much about it is that I haven’t had a post to it in a long, long time. However, today, there is a new post over there.

The URL for that podcast is

http://bardscircle.bearsgrove.com

The story for today is called “Heart of the Hunter”, Part 1 of a fiction series. “Heart of the Hunter” is part of the Cora-Ni Chronicle of game-inspired stories.

I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you do:

http://forum.bearsgrove.com

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While you are there, check out the other podcasts and see if you can find some new ones you’ve not seen before!

http://digg.com/podcasts/The_Bear_s_Grove_Podcast

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Show Notes

This show is part of the Goblin Broadcast Network.

Won’t you donate to HACC, the Helping Association for Confined Creatures?

Listen to Pulp Gamer’s Christmas shopping special!
News & Notes

The Harping Monkey’s on hiatus

The Square One Podcast will feature segments from Miranda Thomas, the co-host of Firefly Talk and regular on The Signal Serenity / Firefly podcast. Miranda will be our Absolute Newbie Gamer, and will be playing with me and Cynthia in the “Out of the Black” play-by-Ventrilo game run by David from the After Serenity podcast.
There’s going to be a Firefly MMO. YAY!

There will soon be a Bear’s Grove in Second Life!

My daughter, whom I’ll call Firefey, is 15 years old this December 15th. She lives out in the Bay Area, and I don’t get to spend much time with her, but I just wanted to say “Happy Birthday” on the podcast to her.

Listen to “The Voice of the Revolution”

The Bear’s Growl: Don’t look down your nose at people who like different game styles than you! Also: have or get a sense of humor!
Listen to “The Sons of Kryos”

GM’s Corner: Hack and Slash Innovations (Part 2 will be released next time!)
Listen to “Second Life Notes” by Chill Moksung and Chris Taira (aka The Reigning Shogun of Taiwan and the Unquiet Desperado, or Mark Forman and Chris Miller, depending on whom you ask)

Game With Me: Some Hack and Slash I’ve Known

Feedback: Thanks to Arcane Gomi and Mefron!

Music: Elegy for M, by Ash Verjee

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“What’s My Motivation” covers attainment: in other words, getting stuff, bennies, cool toys, titles, etc., etc.
“Game With Me” this time is more talk with Cynthia about Seauclaire.
If you have any questions, please let me know. It’s hard to explain everything about your game setting in one sitting, but I will be glad to talk to you on the forums at http://forums.bearsgrove.com
If you’re interested in participating in the upcoming Square One Podcast, check out this forum post: http://forum.bearsgrove.com/tags.php?tag=squareone
I’ll be doing more show notes later, but for now, I’m getting this sucker out.
A lot of promos and Other Podcast mentions this time around!
Seventh Son: Deceit
Does My Geek Look Big In This? (It looks *fine* to me, baby!)
Villain Talk
Voice of the Revolution
Lipstick Aliens
The Plitone Revisionist or the podiobook link
Daughter of the Sun
Harping Monkey: IntWoCreMo
Geek Label T-Shirts

Special thanks to ActionTekJackson and Theory 12 for their song “Black Despondency” on the Podsafe Music Network

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While you’re there, buy some shirts. Or something!

And listen to the Psychology of Roleplaying Roundtable - it’s got a lot of cool people on it - and me!

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I was on the Round Table podcast from the House of the Harping Monkey:

http://harpingmonkey.com/roundtable/ 

Check out the latest episode, 3.5, for our discussion about World Building and Morality / Ethos / Religion

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We’ll be covering indie RPGs, the old classics, and all kinds of play styles.

We’ll have sections having to do with how to be a beginning game referee, how to choose a game that is right for you, and many other things you’ll want to think about if you’ve never played a RPG.

So check out The Square One Podcast at http://squareonepodcast.com. After this, you will have to subscribe to the following feed to get episodes:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/squareonepodcast

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Second Book “Deceit” JC Hutchins

Daughter of the Sun, by Lonnie Ezell

Actual Play Reports of DragonCon coming soon!

The Godzilla Gaming Podcast bumper

What’s My Motivation? Triumph

Does My Geek Look Big In This podcast bumper

Game With Me (And Cyn): Seauclaire

The Sons of Kryos Podcast bumper

Feedback:

Mick Bradley from the Harping Monkey podcasts “Misfit Brew” and “The Round Table.”

Anim5 from “International Detective Dragons from Outer Space”

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This wiki is located at http://magicalcountry.com/tw/

For now unregistered users can only view the wiki, they cannot make changes to it. However, if you wish to be a Contributor, please let me know at bearsgrove@gmail.com, and I will be more than happy to get you a Contributor account.

Also, for now, please do not even bother to look at the Forum section there - forums are still going to be at http://forum.bearsgrove.com

Thanks for your attention!

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Show notes are available at the podcast’s website.

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Note to my employers: This was done over lunch break! :)

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News & Notes

Dragon*Con

The Parsec Awards

Sons of Kryos

The Durham 3

The Forge Indie RPGs

One Thousand Monkeys, One Thousand Typewriters

Cory Doctorow’s Craphound podcast

Tropes Segment

Tropes Definition

Notes:

Sydalians would rather make you biscuits than make you kill your king.
The demon Balashazzar who is a turncoat demon. He serves the Demon Lord of Beggars, who has since fled Vavaseur, and is leaderless. His area is Efficiency as a subset of Sloth.

Game With Me Segment
 Notes:

Seauclaire is a “many-souled” character.
“Warbringer” is actually a sentient blade, holding the soul of Nathaniel Shadowchaser, Seauclaire’s tutor, and the spirit of the Demon Lord of War, a demon named Grimmer Warkind. Grimmer was actually captured in battle when he was weakened by a traitorous turn by his cohort.
What is a Warlock?
That’s the common use term that Stanford Holds people use to call anyone who is a demon slayer, although they also call them Shadowchasers or Demon Hunters, and the Yarian people call them “Diabolists.” Warlocks use magical glyphs and chain them together into actively magical wards. Typically the glyphs are drawn upon the air with coldfire, although sometimes they are carved into rock or wood. Warlocks can summon, banish, control, and otherwise deal with demons and infernal energies.

She has Silver Blood, which means she can manipulate the Glamourie. Not many people do (although her husband does, and her Queen and King do). What can the Glamourie do? Minor shapeshifting, light effects, illusions, enchanting others / specificially other Lunargenti and other powers. There is Silver Glamourie and Gold Glamourie, and apparently Gold can do some protective and healing effects as well.

The “May Babies” incident refers to a tale in Arthurian legend where, because it was foretold that he would be slain by a baby born in May, Arthur sent his knights to kill all of the babies born in that month. Same thing happened during the Trium War and babies with Silver Blood. Basically, a Lothasian ritual of naming was changed to add a part that would detect Silver Blood, and if any of the Lothasian priests discovered a child with silver blood, they would report this up the chain of command and the child would be found and put to death. This was all part of the Trium Duke’s protectivist paranoia.

Because Seauclaire is many-souled, only one of her souls is Demonic, and one other is Silver Blooded, the rest are not. This is how she has hid her essential nature from others. It is also how she avoids being charmed or enchanted: if she senses that someone is trying to charm her, she switches personas and immediately becomes someone different, someone who is not charmed.

Feedback

Godzilla Gaming Podcast

Music Music from this episode is “Good Morning” by 2-RD

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And it wasn’t even planned. I mean, I hadn’t planned on going there tonight. But one thing lead to another, and she kept picking up on these threads of clues, and things kept lining up just right.

So now her character’s father (a major arch-enemy) and the Mad Uncle Duir (a tyrant ruler of the Celtic-like island nation of the Wyrmarc) are both dead, and that means a crapload of changes for the whole game. Like, this triggers a sub-plot of “retaking the Wyrmarc Nation” and finally puts to rest the threat that Seauclaire would be killed by the other half of a two-part death blood-curse her father had put on her.

Massive gaming goodness. More in the next podcast - definitely going to do a Game With Me segment.

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It’s not too late if you want to game with me at Dragon*Con

I’m going to be on a panel Friday evening at Dragon*Con, come and see me at the Gaming Podcast panel run by Jim Van Verth from The Vintage Gamer Podcast

I am really enjoying the stuff coming out of GenCon Almost Live

Forums are at http://forum.bearsgrove.com

Music: Pachelbel’s Canon for Strings by Steven Kreinberg

Download the podcast here

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Go to http://forum.bearsgrove.com for all your Forum needs.

Each episode will have a Episode Feedback thread posted for it.

More forum groups will be created as days go by.

Register for your user access today!

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