And yes, I fully admit it. I dig Paizo like an archaeologist on meth with an electric shovel.Well, I dig Paizo like Iggy Pop with a broken rake and a head full of LSD after his house burned down.
(true story, folks)
That's tough to beat!
And it's not sometimes...
Well now *I* feel warm and fuzzy inside. <:) Thanks, Craig.
I forgot to ask... what's the deadline for the contest?
You just have to get it in before September 4th.
Mind Storm Labs returns to the Array for our !
Mind Storm labs just released The Encountered, Vol. 1, a monster manual for the Alpha Omega RPG, which we featured on Atomic Array 012. We met up with them at Gen Con and were blown away by the quality of this new book.
Special Discount For Atomic Array listeners:
$15.00 off Alpha Omega & The Encountered!!!
Discount Code: “Atomic”
New World Science & Engineering Commission (NWSEC): The Alpha Omega community site has a setting wiki, a collaboration section where players and GMs can rub shoulders, an internet player finder, and much more. You can even follow the ongoing exploits of NWSEC field operatives, such as the intrepid Roger Traffler.
Mind Storm Labs: Mind Storm Labs.com
Mind Storm Twitter Feed: @MindStormLabs
Alpha Omega RPG: Alpha Omega the Game.com
New World Science & Engineering Commission (NWSEC): NWSECom.com
Roger Traffler Twitter Feed: @RogerTraffler
Are you a freelance author or artist? Feel free to contact Mind Storm Labs at info@mindstormlabs.com for information about how you can contribute to Alpha Omega.
Ed’s Pick: Mimic
Rone’s Rant: “Plastic Surgery Addicts”
Want to learn more about the Alpha Omega?
• Atomic Array: The Encountered, Vol. 1 (Atomic Array 030)
• Atomic Array: [http://atomicarray.com/alpha-omega-aa012]Episode 012: Alpha Omega[/url]
• Gamer Dome: Interview with Roger Traffler of the NWSEC
• Mad Brew Labs: AO: The Evolution of Sci-Fi Roleplaying
• Gnome Stew: Alpha Omega: How to GM this New RPG
• RPGAggression: Rudis Review: Alpha Omega
• Mind Storm Labs: Alpha Omega Core Rulebook (Sample)
• Mind Storm Labs: The Encountered, Vol. 1 (Sample)
<-- LOOGOUT, a hyperlink that'll suck you into another reality!
BlackWyrm recently released , an rather humorous introductory adventure for HERO System 6th Edition, from HERO Games. This adventure has more hooks than a fishing supply warehouse during a one-handed pirate convention. We asked author Michael Satran, who you may remember from our Foxbat for President episode, to come on and talk about it.
We play the winning voicemails from our signed copies of giveaway.
BlackWyrm Games: blackwyrm.com
HERO Games: herogames.com
Ed's Pick: TRON
Rone's Rant: "Never-Wrongs"
Want to learn more about War of Worldcraft? Read on...
*Atomic Array: War of Worldcraft (Atomic Array 031)
*Game Cryer: Review by Chris Perrin
*allgeektout: What Makes War of Worldcraft Worth It
*Dungeon Brew: Dungeon Brew Review
*Apathy Blogs: Online Heroes
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So, on the way to see "9" (a great movie by the way), I was finishing up listening to the Atomic Array, which featured another awesomely wacky adventure from Mr. Satran. My son was thoroughly entertained by your podcast too. Then, you announced the winners of the signed Pathfinder Roleplaying Game book, and I thought, "Cool, I can't wait to hear the neat ways the winners came up with to kill an elder wyrm." And then I was stunned to hear *my* goofy slumber party entry. I believe I said, "Holy crap, that's my entry!"
So, thanks, you made my son's day and my week. :)
So, on the way to see "9" (a great movie by the way), I was finishing up listening to the Atomic Array, which featured another awesomely wacky adventure from Mr. Satran. My son was thoroughly entertained by your podcast too. Then, you announced the winners of the signed Pathfinder Roleplaying Game book, and I thought, "Cool, I can't wait to hear the neat ways the winners came up with to kill an elder wyrm." And then I was stunned to hear *my* goofy slumber party entry. I believe I said, "Holy crap, that's my entry!"
So, thanks, you made my son's day and my week. :)
That was you! Congrats, taig! Incredible.
There were many great entries and the judging for this contest was, for me, harder than any other. However the imagery your entry conjured was so fun, so absurd, and so unique that it really stood out.
One signed Pathfinder Corerulebook coming your way. Wear it well! (Makes a great bullet-proof vest)
Ah, the slumber party one! Heh-heh.
Rone, I caught up on 30 and 31 this morning.
Dangit, my image of you has now been seriously messed with! How many seconds did it take you to go from helpful hippie to psycho hippie avenger?
BTW,
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How many seconds did it take you to go from helpful hippie to psycho hippie avenger?
I think one, maybe two seconds. I didn't realize it was Ed until Rone had already taken off after him. I seriously thought they were just goofing off until Rone came back over to the planter I was sitting on totally shattered that he might have injured a friend.
I'm still keeping my limbs tucked in. If it took him that long to realize it was Ed, who knows how long it would take him to realize it was me.
To Rone's credit, Ed was wearing some pretty jock-ish sunglasses and the bus had tinted windows, so the only cue was the mouth/jaw area of Ed's face.
That is kind of you to say.
I was hanging out with Ed and Lou and their families yesterday and when Ed saw me with my arm in a sling he thought it was a joke having something to do with the bus incident. I think it'll be a lifetime before I live that one down. <:)
Mairkurion, don't worry. I'm mostly harmless (though my foes are mostly armless).
Well...now I am CONVINCED that there is a reason that blind people don't like you, but you just don't want to share the humiliating truth behind it...
;-P
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To Rone's credit, Ed was wearing some pretty jock-ish sunglasses and the bus had tinted windows, so the only cue was the mouth/jaw area of Ed's face.That is kind of you to say.
I was hanging out with Ed and Lou and their families yesterday and when Ed saw me with my arm in a sling he thought it was a joke having something to do with the bus incident. I think it'll be a lifetime before I live that one down. <:)
Mairkurion, don't worry. I'm mostly harmless (though my foes are mostly armless).
OK. I have to ask--why was your arm in a sling? I've got to imagine there's a story there.
He beat up a blind person so severely he injured his arm. I'm tellin' ya, man, this whole "I'm a nice guy who helps LOLs across the street and people with vehicle breakdowns" was just a carefully crafted image, a facade over pure long-haired rage!
Good call, Cap'n.
Good lookin' out Cpt!
Mairkurion, you've cracked me up multiply tonight. And it's deaf people who seem put off by me. Blind people actually like the way I never shut up... they use my neverending blather like a lighthouse for the purpose of navigation.
And taig, as for the mystery of the wounded wing, near as I can figure it's a repetetive stress injury from typing and podcast mixing in less than ergonomically sound ways. Despite vision not being a problem, I've been typing with the laptop closer to my face over the last year, and this causes me to type close... real close, like with Tyrannosaur arms close.
It's been getting slowly worse over the last five month it's so bad now that I've taken to trying a few different slings and wearing heating pads regularly. My problem is that the second it stops hurting I go right back to lifting heavy objects and other sure signs of incurable daftness.
Aw crap!
I was doing three things at once--I meant to type DEAF! Well, now I'm too disappointed to be comforting...try me again tomorrow. Humph!
My problem is that the second it stops hurting I go right back to lifting heavy objects and other sure signs of incurable daftness.My wife would say that's a gender-specific issue.
I hope you get on a more permanent mend.
Thanks. :)
Yeah, the man gene ain't no none be too bright sometimes. No it don't be not, it don't.
Aw crap!
I was doing three things at once--I meant to type DEAF! Well, now I'm too disappointed to be comforting...try me again tomorrow. Humph!
After all this hugely anticipatory build-up, this ought to be the most profound comforting the world has ever known.
Pats Rone gingerly on the arm.
There, there...it'll be all right.
LOL
That was breathtaking!
Patrick Kapera, Alex Flagg and Loren Dean from Crafty Games hop aboard the to talk about their new rule book , and their new zombie adventure sure to scare the wits out of your players (unless your players always lacked wit, in which case they’ll just soil themselves).
Did Crafty give Atomic Array listeners a special discount? Is there another giveaway? Do we announce the winners to a previous giveaway? But of course, of course, of course.
Ed’s Pick: Lord of the Rings & Led Zeppelin
Rone’s Rant: “Bearers of False Witness”
#moonstew on TweetChat: http://tweetchat.com/room/moonstew
Want to learn more about Fantasy Craft? Read on…
• Atomic Array: Fantasy Craft (Atomic Array 032)
• Game Cryer: Review by Chris Perrin
• Questing GM: Questing with Fantasy Craft
• allgeektout: What Fantasy Craft Has to Offer
• Campaign Mastery: Mine Fiction for Campaign Qualities
• Emerson’s Bookshelf: Fantasy Just Got Crafty
• Critical Hits: Critical Review
• Fear the Boot: Fear the Review
• Gnome Stew: What Fantasy Craft Brings to the Table
• Uncle Bear: Fantasy Craft Chargen
• Flames Rising: Dark FantasyCraft Review
Patrick Kapera, Alex Flagg and Loren Dean from Crafty Games hop aboard the to talk about their new rule book , and their new zombie adventure sure to scare the wits out of your players (unless your players always lacked wit, in which case they’ll just soil themselves).
Did Crafty give Atomic Array listeners a special discount? Is there another giveaway? Do we announce the winners to a previous giveaway? But of course, of course, of course.
Ed’s Pick: Lord of the Rings & Led Zeppelin
Rone’s Rant: “Bearers of False Witness”#moonstew on TweetChat: http://tweetchat.com/room/moonstew
Want to learn more about Fantasy Craft? Read on…
• Atomic Array: Fantasy Craft (Atomic Array 032)
• Game Cryer: Review by Chris Perrin
• Questing GM: Questing with Fantasy Craft
• allgeektout: What Fantasy Craft Has to Offer
• Campaign Mastery: Mine Fiction for Campaign Qualities
• Emerson’s Bookshelf: Fantasy Just Got Crafty
• Critical Hits: Critical...
So many good things out now!
<Brain explodes>
Brain explodes.
Don't worry...
"Aberzombie... clean up in aisle five..."
Can't wait to listen to this one! :)
For once work can't come soon enough! ;)
If anything I've ever done while on this Earth has made it any easier for but one person to more easily suffer through part of a work day, I can die content.
Just had the chance to listen to #032, and I'm diggin' the Rollins reference. Props, Ed!
Rollins plays a bad bad man on this season of Sons of Anarchy on FX channel. It's only two shows in thus far, but he's already managed to be the creepiest thing that's ever been on a show full of bikers, gangs bangers, drug abuse, porn sets, graphic murders and white supremacists. Really good casting choice. He's intense.
Just had the chance to listen to #032, and I'm diggin' the Rollins reference. Props, Ed!
I dragged my copy of Art to Choke Hearts off the shelf this week. Pretty good book, if you like Rollins's written stuff.
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Just had the chance to listen to #032, and I'm diggin' the Rollins reference. Props, Ed!I dragged my copy of Art to Choke Hearts off the shelf this week. Pretty good book, if you like Rollins's written stuff.
Good s*~%. Adam Daigle actually sent me an old "Pissing in the Gene Pool" T-shirt about a year ago, along with a copy of "Live at McCabe's".
I have copies of Get in the Van, Solipsist, Do I Come Here Often?, Black Coffee Blues, and A Dull Roar, and I have Eye Scream and a few others on order.
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Just had the chance to listen to #032, and I'm diggin' the Rollins reference. Props, Ed!Rollins plays a bad bad man on this season of Sons of Anarchy on FX channel. It's only two shows in thus far, but he's already managed to be the creepiest thing that's ever been on a show full of bikers, gang bangers, drug abuse, porn sets, graphic murders and white supremacists. Really good casting choice. He's intense.
Sons of Anarchy is one of the few shows on television that I would actually watch. Well, if I had a TV.
Enjoyed the latest, per usual. Too tired to remember anything in particular though, which sounds bad, but is just how blasted my mind is right now. Darn thinkin' and communicatin' all day. (Listened while washing up, shaving, etc this mornin'.)
I agree
*looks around confused*
Enjoyed the latest, per usual. Too tired to remember anything in particular though, which sounds bad, but is just how blasted my mind is right now. Darn thinkin' and communicatin' all day. (Listened while washing up, shaving, etc this mornin'.)
Nice of you to say. Thank you, sir. :)
I agree
*looks around confused*
Tough day for everyone?
Tough day for everyone?I agree
*looks around confused*
*hugs The Jade*
*sobs a little*
Wait...I'm starting to remember things. I'm making a practice now of going up to people and saying things like, "It's a quarter to 4, remember that you saw me here now" and stuff like that.
Also, was it just me, or were the FantasyCraft peeps really playing down that they were building off the 3.5/d20 system? And if so, why?
Man, I really need a nap.
Also, was it just me, or were the FantasyCraft peeps really playing down that they were building off the 3.5/d20 system? And if so, why?
Man, I really need a nap.
I asked Patrick and Alex about that, myself. Basically, they told me that they try really hard not to tell people why not to buy other games - they prefer to focus on their own. That seemed to mean, in practice, that they shied away from mentioning the OGL or any other system for that matter.
I wouldn't read too much into it, other than that the Crafty Games guys are nice and don't want to find fault with the competition.
Thanks, Ed. It struck as odd, but they sounded like good guys, and since you vouch for them, I will discount any association they may have with that Rone guy from steering my judgment the other way...
Miskatonic River Press has been kicking out some great Cthulhu products. We asked publisher Tom Lynch to speak with us about his latest release.
Cthulhu-Lou is a big fan of our show (he likes anything that brings pain to the masses) and whenever we have a mythos product on, he calls in to rattle publishers.
Miskatonic River Press: http://www.miskatonicriverpress.com/
Special Discount For Atomic Array listeners: $5.00 off Our Ladies of Sorrow!
Discount Code: “atomic”
The first 20 purchasers also get a free copy of Lovecraftian Tales from the Table on DVD!
Ed’s Pick:The Others
Rone’s Rant: “Bad Relationships”
Want to learn more about Our Ladies of Sorrow? Read on…
Atomic Array: Ladies of Sorrow (Atomic Array 033)
Game Cryer: by Chris Perrin
All Games Considered: A More Intimate Horror
Apathy Blogs:Modern Maidens of Myth
Critical Hits: Modern Gaming Scary Women
Gnome Stew: Matthew Neagley
Bartleby:Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
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Ed, I dismissed "The Others" as another atmospheric ghost story movie that seemed popular around that time, so I never watched it. I'll have to check it out.
Rone, I liked your rant, even though it was less of a rant, and more of a "Hey, kids. Your uncle Rone made some mistakes, and he doesn't want you to go down the same road. So listen up." It was very heartfelt, IMO.
Good show, guys!
I really liked The Others, I'll be curious to hear what you think.
Thanks for checking it out (past or future tense), guys.
This was a fun episode. Best easter egg yet in my opinion, after the theme music plays out. Tom Lynch sang 'Feelings' while alone but I got it recorded and turned it into something. I hope he forgives me. <:)
BTW, I truly appreciate you folks so often taking the time to give me your impressions on the show. If not for you I'd be flying blind out here with no sense of what was ever working and why. Podcasts can be a very insular artistic experiment, and that can put you further from the reward you're really looking for, that of knowing you entertained someone.
Ed, I dismissed "The Others" as another atmospheric ghost story movie that seemed popular around that time, so I never watched it. I'll have to check it out.
Rone, I liked your rant, even though it was less of a rant, and more of a "Hey, kids. Your uncle Rone made some mistakes, and he doesn't want you to go down the same road. So listen up." It was very heartfelt, IMO.
Good show, guys!
I saw The Others in a theater and quite liked it. My only grievance was just how de rigueur the theme was at that very time in cinema, so I'm with you on that point completely. Still, I thought it rose above its commercial timeliness.
I'm really glad you enjoyed my rant that was not quite a rant. I knew I was headed into different territory but there were just some things I felt needed to say on the subject. I was afraid I jumped a curb with this one and that people might be turned off by just how committed I was to a deeply emotional focus.
Having to think up stuff that annoys me every two weeks is sometimes annoying. Hey, my next rant! These stupid rants themselves! ;)