The Bear's Grove Podcast

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.

 

 Bear's Grove 33: DragonCon and Modules: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I’d like to offer an official Bear’s Grove Congratulations to the Ennies Winners from the Goblin Broadcast Network, Have Games, Will Travel by Paul Tevis and Yog Radio with Paul (of Cthulhu) Maclean, Fin (Gerout) Patterson, and Neil (N-kun) Young

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

 

 The Bear's Grove Special Edition #2: Ennies Awards 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Check out the new face of Goblin at http://gbncom.com

Let us know what you think!

The Ennie Awards have announced their Podcast Nominations!

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

Please enjoy Episode 32 of The Bear’s Grove.

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!

 

 The Bear's Grove Episode 32: Movies and JC Hutchins: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Please enjoy The Bear’s Grove #31.

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?

 

 The Bear's Grove Episode 31: Natural Chargen and Secrets: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

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

 

 The Bear's Grove Episode 30: One-Shots and Urban Fantasy: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

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!

 

 The Bear's Grove #29: Timing and Lyrica Magic: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here is a brief update on what’s been up with me. Thanks for hanging in there!

 

 BearsGrove Update: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hey, did you know I have a podcast fiction podcast?

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