AGC 173 May 23rd 2013 (Licensed for Eight Years) (1:10:00)

With Mark Kinney, Carol, and Mags. What we've been doing and why things have been weird, dealing with real life, and games and Kickstarters. Carol's List of the last eight year's highlights. Licensed Games. Why don't they do better? Property protection and fan creation. And aside into the Jayne hat controversy. What are you licensing, exactly? Disappointments and favorites.


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Cards Against Humanity
Machine of Death (Kickstarter)
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
RPGs Are Evil (Kickstarter)


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AGC's DriveThruRPG Picks for this episode!
Mark:Hideous Creatures: Deep Ones (Pelgrane Press)
Also:Ken Writes About Stuff Subscription (Pelgrane Press)
Carol:Dresden Files RPG: Your Story Kindle/Nook (Evil Hat Productions)
Also:Dresden Files RPG: Our World Kindle/Nook (Evil Hat Productions)
Mags:Spaceship Zero: Slave Ship of Despair (Green Ronin Publishing)

AGC News May 9th 2013 (24:06)

With Mark, Carol, and Mags. Origins Awards nominees announced. The end of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. Hobby game growth! 2013 Mensa Select winners! The return of Cheapass Games! A number of National Museum of Games notes throughout the show. The Fluxx boardgame? Massdrop. Steve Jackson's Shareholders report -- Munchkin and the coming Car Wars Kickstarter! A new Battlestar Galactica expansion! Pat Robertson takes shots at D&D again. Robotech RPG Tactics! Osprey goes steampunk? NYU free game courses this summer!


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Origins Awards Nominations for 2013 (GAMA)
Robotech RPG Tactics (Kickstarter)

AGC 172 April 22 2013 (Conglomeration 2013 Almost Live!) (37:53)

(Mark knows he says 171 in the intro. He was confused.)

With Carol, Steve, the GameKnights, and Guests: Ian "Lizard" Harac and Sean Patrick Fannon! Mark and Marsha had other commitments and couldn't make it, but as they say, the show must go on, and so they left Carol in charge...wooo boy. And let me apologize for the sound inconsistency in the first few minutes - I had some mixing board issues (it was totally a ID10T error, nothing wrong with the equipment). Listen to the introduction of a fledgling game company, and the panel's take on how smartphones, tablets and virtual tabletops impact the hobby. Listen to just a fraction of what ConGlomeration 2013 has to offer: Panels, entertainment, and our amazing guests! Become an attendee and see it live in 2014!


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ConGlomeration
Apex Magazine
Blackwyrm Publishing
Evil Beagle Games
Mr. Lizard
The Nerdy Times
DriveThruRPG

AGC Interview 23 (Apotheosis Drive X) (29:57)

Mark, Carol, and Mags talk to David Hill from Machine Age Productions about their upcoming game (currently in Kickstarter!), Apotheosis Drive X! And a few other things get bandied about, too...


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Machine Age Productions
Apotheosis Drive X Kickstarter
David Hill's Google+
Mobile Frame Zero


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AGC News March 19th 2013 (47:09)

With Mark and Carol, Mags is recovering from one of the plagues being passed around the office. Hasbro cuts jobs, Amazon reinstates "Spots The Space Marine", WoTC wants to "Ignite your spark" with the 2014 Magic Core Set, while also getting ready to reprint D&D Classics, ElfinWerks releases three new games, media-licensed properties hit the board game world in force, including Walking Dead, True Blood, Firefly and The Princess Bride! More Cardfight!! The Stand Up Challenge Cup is coming! WizKids has more new releases, including an endeavor with Paizo for Free RPG Day, and an unusual HeroClix set. Fantasy Flight is bringing out an Expansion for Descent as well as a supplement for "Anima: Beyond Fantasy," and they are getting closer to the release of their first Star Wars RPG Rulebook! Look for Pathfinder in your library! WoTC releases conversion notes for D&D Encounters, and Games Workshop's profits are up even as their CEO is out the door. See the trailer for "Ultramarines", recently released!


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Amazon Reinstates Hogarth's Book
Cryptozoic Readies New 'Walking Dead Board Game' For September
'Mystic Warlords of Ka'a' From 'The Big Bang Theory'
Cardfight!! Vanguard' Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013
Firefly: The Game' Board Game
The Princess Bride Board Games
New 'Wonder Pack' for '7 Wonders'
Three New Games from ElfinWerks
WizKids Unveils 'Trains and Stations'
Labyrinth of Ruin
Pathfinder in Libraries
D&D Next' for 'D&D Encounters'
Star Wars: Edge of Empire Core Rulebook
Prometheum Exxet: The Supernatural Artifacts
Paizo & WizKids Team-Up to Unleash Goblin Horde
NECA Gets 'Hello Kitty' License

AGC Review 8 (FATE Core) (22:20)

Carol looks at the recent iteration of FATE Core. A lot of it is general FATE information that has been out there since Sprirt of the Century, with a little insight to the upcoming book.


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FATE Core (Evil Hat Productions)
FATE Core (Kickstarter)
FATE Core Google+ Page
FATE Core Yahoo Group


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AGC News February 1st 2013 (59:23)

With Mark, Carol, and Mags. Chaosium's Lynn Willis and Upper Deck's Richard McWilliam pass. Barnes and Noble closings coming after a lean holiday season (other than geeky stuff, that is). Pick a new Monopoly Piece. Pandemic Second Edition! Arcane Wonders Mage War releases. Cryptozoic's ROFL! Z-Man getting Terra Mystica. The Mayfair Cavalcade (Catan expansion, Road Rally USA, and Five Points: Gangs of New York)! Asmodee's Serenissima and River Dragons! Gamewright's Forbidden Desert! The Fantasy Flight Cavalcade (Letters From Whitechapel and an updated Game of Thrones LCG). Cardfight!! Vanguard sneak preview events! Shadowrun plans! Champions Complete! The Return of D&D PDFs, and the networks issues that followed (Full Disclosure: AGC is a part of the DriveThruRPG Affliate Program). Numinera coming to video games! Bioshock Infinite HeroClix! The Kickstarter Free-For-All. Toy Vault making Firefly stuff (including games)! Can you really master games? ICV2's Notables for 2012.


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Lynn Willis' Call of Cthulhu Design Notes (Yog-Sothoth.com)
Monopoly Facebook Page
D&D Classics
FATE Core (Kickstarter)
Rebuilding ENWorld (Kickstarter)
Pathfinder Online (Kickstarter)
Funding The Dream Podcast
DiceCards (Kickstarter)
Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls (Kickstarter)
Cortex Plus Hackers Guide (Kickstarter)
Thematic FATE Fudge Dice (Kickstarter)
University of Louisville USLI High Powered Rocket Kickstarter
Complex Dynamics in Learning Complicated Games (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)