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Monday, August 31, 2009

AGCExtra 31 September 1st 2009 (Talismania Revised Part 1) (28:07)

With Chris Heim and Logan Masterson. A look at Talisman over the years, and the upcoming Frostmarch expansion.


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

AGC 110 August 25 2009 (Words From GenCon 2009) (1:44:31)

With Mark Kinney, Carol, Mags, and Ben Balestra. We're big on interviews and such this time. Mark talks to Tom Morgan-Jones and Andrew Sheerin of Terror Bull Games about War On Terror and Crunch. Games You May Never Have Heard Of: PS238! RPG Buffet: Unknown Armies! Mags talks to Jay Tummelson of Rio Grande Games, with special note about Dominion. Mark interviews Rob Boyle and Brian Cross from Catalyst Game Labs about Eclipse Phase. Mags talks to James Sutter of Paizo Publishing about Pathfinder. Mark talks to Mark Purvis from Wizards of the Coast about what's new with Magic: The Gathering (and Mark ended up really enjoying Planechase a lot), and Carol talked with Bill Slavicsek and Andy Collins about keeping the legacy of D&D going while still creating new content, opening up the hobby, and what's coming up for D&D and Star Wars.


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Terror Bull Games
War On Terror (Terror Bull Games)
Crunch (Terror Bull Games)
PS238 (Hero Games)
Unknown Armies (Atlas Games)
Rio Grande Games
Dominion (Rio Grande Games)
Eclipse Phase (Catalyst Game Labs)
Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing)
Magic: The Gathering (Wizards of the Coast)
Wizards of the Coast


Promos
Brilliant Gameologists
The Game Master Show
Narrative Control


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Thursday, August 20, 2009

AGC News August 20th 2009 (6:37)

With Mark. Thanks for the ENnies support! GenCon in Indinapolis through 2015! ENnies winners (to be gone over in loving detail later), and Dominion snags the Diana Jones Award! The return of Space Hulk! Warmachine comes to consoles and PCs near you! Pathfinder's open document, and D&D news (Dark Sun, y'all)!


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2009 ENnies Winners
Dominion (Rio Grande Games)
Space Hulk (Games Workshop)
Privateer Press (Warmachine)
White Moon Dreams
Pathfinder Reference Document (Paizo Publishing)
Pathfinder Conversion Guide (Paizo Publishing)
Wizards of the Coast 2010 Schedule


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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Victory, and Other GenCon Stuff

It's a good weekend so far.

Last night, for those who haven't heard by other means, All Games Considered won the Gold ENnie Award for Best Podcast, and I got to make a very deer-in-headlights speech. We also congratulate the Silver winner, Order 66!

I also got to spend a little time with Carinn and Sean, and survey the exhibition hall. Today and tomorrow, it's demos, interviews, and a little shopping.

Thanks again to everyone who showed support and voted for us; we appreciate it more than you can imagine.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

AGC 109 August 6 2009 (Keeping Your Head Above Water) (1:30:16)

With Mark Kinney, Carol, Mags, and Steve. Mark does a bad edit to cover a messed up reference to the recent flooding. Up for a Parsec! Interview with Ross Watson of Fantasy Flight Games about Rogue Trader. Carol talks about Cartoon Action Hour Season 2, and Mark looks at XDM: X-treme Dungeon Mastery. Mags-The-Axe School of Game Mastering: Improvisation! Secret Life of Girl Gamers returning soon, and Mark may get to accept any ENnies for Hellas on Khepera's behalf. Feedback. GenCon wishlists. We now have a Facebook fan page.


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Rogue Trader (Fantasy Flight Games)
Cartoon Action Hour: Season 2 (Spectrum Games)
XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery
Poulti's 36 Plots
Secret Life of Girl Gamers
All Games Considered on Facebook


Promos
Ninjas vs Pirates
Zero Fortitude
Solid Symbols
Hamishakia
This Just In From GenCon
Adventures of Indiana Jim


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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

AGC 108 July 28 2009 (Props, Soundtracks, and Personal Effects) (1:28:23)

With Mark Kinney, Carol, and Mags. Allergy issues! The ENnie nomination (Go vote!) and Mark's thought of a YouTube promo. Interview with J.C. Hutchins about Personal Effects: Dark Art and it's associated transmedia experience (with a "This Is Your Life" moment for good measure). Props in your game. What is a "prop?" Serendipity in prop-making. When props go bad. Cartier to Conan. Pictures and music. Campaign credits. Playing with the phone. The CONET Project. Mark's reason for not working on Arcadian Gate right now: participating in Tales of the Children. Feedback! VOTE!


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J.C. Hutchins (Personal Effects: Dark Art and 7th Son)
Homemade Cthulhu items
Free-to-download prop documents from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society
Free "Horror" Fonts
Make Your Own Fonts (Lifehacker)
Newspaper Clipping Generator
Airplane Ticket Generator
Fake Magazine Cover Generator
Old Photo Generator
Generator Blog
Authentic Magical Tomes
Midnight Syndicate
RPGNow Music Search
Overclocked Remix
CreativeCommons.org
Archive.org
CONET Project (Wikipedia)
Free Sound Project
Sound Jay
A1 Sound Effects
Free Sound Files
Sshhtt!!!
My Sound F/X Zombie section
And their scary/creepy section
SoundTransit
Interview with Real Life Mystics
That Helicopter Mark Was Talking About (Wikipedia)
Dread


Promos
This Just In From GenCon!
Accent Your Character (Pulp Gamer)
Canon Puncture
Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
Geek Acres
Tales of the Children


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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Today the ENnie, Tomorrow the Parsec!

I've just found out that All Games Considered is now a finalist for the 2009 Best Gaming Podcast Parsec Award. I can't tell you how much of a thrill it is to be so recognized in a single year, and we're looking forward to seeing what happens. I don't know if any of the crew will be at Dragon*Con this year for the ceremony, so we'll have to see what happens there. This has been a great year for AGC, and even if we don't win, the nominations must mean we're doing something right at last.

The Parsec Awards, though, were founded by Mur Lafferty, Michael R. Mennenga, and Tracy Hickman back in, oh, 2006 I think, to recognize excellence in speculative fiction podcasting.

Our fellow finalists are:
Brilliant Gameologists (I swear, these guys are our nemeses or something! ;) )
City of Heroes Podcast
The Game Kennel
The Podge Cast

Congratulations to all! You can find all the finalists for 2009 here!

Friday, July 24, 2009

ENnie Polls Are Open!

The ENnie Award polls are now open until August 1st. Please be sure to remember us when you cast your vote, and thank you!

Go vote here!

Thursday, July 23, 2009

AGC News July 23rd 2009 (9:38)

With Mark, Carol, and Mags. Crafty Games helping get gamers together. Timestreams launch kits for retailers. The Ultimate GMs Screen II! Herolab support for Cortex System! Martin Ralya at Gnome Stew gets a preview of Geist: The Sin-Eaters! Games Unconference at NeonCon, with Eric Mona giving the Keynote Address. Also find the Camarilla's Southwest Region Featured Game there!


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Crafty Games (Spycraft 2.0)
Pen and Paper Games
Obsidian Portal
Lonely Gamer Network
Timestreams (Bucephalus Games)
Timestreams Retailer Pack Information (Bucephalus Games)
Ultimate GMs Screen II (Fat Dragon Games)
Herolab (Lone Wolf Development)

Geist: The Sin-Eaters Preview: Running Geist (Which Is Not Wraith) (Gnome Stew)

NeonCon
NeonCon Games Unconference
NeonCon Camarilla Activities


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Thursday, July 16, 2009

AGC News July 16th 2009 (ENnies Special) (42:10)

With Mark and Mags. Our nomination for the ENnie awards, and our fellow nominees! Signal Fire Studios and Metamorphsis Alpha. Vox. Warhammer: Invasion LCG. Revolution! Our ENnies picks, such as we can make them. Nominations still open for Publisher of the Year until July 19th, and voting begins on July 24th!


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Signal Fire Studios (Metamorphosis Alpha)
Vox (Aethereal Forge)
Warhammer: Invasion (Fantasy Flight Games)
Revolution (Steve Jackson Games)
The ENnie Awards


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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

AGC 107 July 14 2009 (Big Damn Review: Electic Boogaloo) (1:22:14)

With Mark Kinney and Mags. Our 4th of July. Mark saw Up (good movie), then goes on to talk about Citadel of the Corruptor. Mags follows up with In Search of Adventure. Mark decides to go into Age of Cthulhu: Death at Luxor. Ben went to Origins and picked up Hackmaster Basic. Reminiscing about HackMaster (and Mark makes a small misstatement). Mark looks at Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies. Mags discusses the Scion Companion. Mark brings us around to Apocalypse Prevention Inc. What is the plural of apocalypse? The apocalypic angle on Forgotten Heroes, and a glance at Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens. Feedback, including a nifty pun!


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DCC 61: Citadel of the Corruptor (Goodman Games)
In Search of Adventure (Goodman Games)
Age of Cthulhu: Death in Luxor (Goodman Games)
Hackmaster Basic (Kenzer and Company)
Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies (Evil Hat/Atomic Sock Monkey Press)
Scion Companion (White Wolf)
Third Eye Games (Apocalypse Prevention Inc)
Forgotten Heroes: Fang, Fist and Song (Goodman Games)
Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens (Goodman Games)
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society


Promos
White Wolf BlogCast
The Babylon Podcast
Into The Dark
GenCon Events (Pulp Gamer)
Canon Puncture


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Monday, July 13, 2009

We've been nominated!

We here at All Games Considered are proud to announce our nomination for Best Podcast in the 2009 ENnie Awards! There were a lot of great podcasts in the running, and so many nominated as well, so we're all very excited to be recognized in this manner.

So congratulations to our fellow nominees as well, and I hope to see you all at GenCon this year!

2009 ENnie Award Nominations

Our Fellow Nominees:
Brilliant Gameologists
Order 66
Return to Northmoor
The Voice of the Revolution

Thursday, July 09, 2009

AGC News July 9th 2009 (18:28)

With Mark and Mags. Origins Award Winners! Dominion also wins Spiel de Jahres! Upper Deck announced licensing with Marvel! XDM Release! What's happening to Midnight? And what's this about a movie? Return of the Windhammer Prize! Grind! Blood Bowl going to PC and portable gaming platforms! Players Handbook III release date! Adventure Games Publishing Wedding Celebration Sale!


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Origins Award Winners (Critical-Hits)
Hyborian War (Reality Simulations Inc)
Magic: Shards of Alara 1 (Wizards of the Coast)
Say Anything (North Star Games)
Tour De Lovecraft: The Tale (Atomic Overmind Press)
Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons Vol 2 (Devil's Due Publishing)
Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars (Wizards of the Coast)
Classic Battletech: Tactical Operations (Catalyst Game Labs)
d-Total (Gamescience)
Serenity Adventures (Margaret Weis Productions)
Mouse Guard (Archaia Studios)
Dominion (Rio Grande Games)
Pandemic (Z-Man Games)
Flames of War Firestorm Campaign
Fauna (SdJ Nominee)
Finca (SdJ Nominee)
Fits (SdJ Nominee)
Ted Cheatham Origins Video
XDM: X-treme Dungeon Mastery
Schlock Mercenary
Gamer Dome Spots The Vanishing Midnight
Midnight Chronicles
2009 Windhammer Prize
2008 Windhammer Prize Winners
Grind (Privateer Press)
Blood Bowl
Blood Bowl PC Download Purchase
RPG Examiner interview with Aldo Ghiozzi
Adventure Games Publishing Wedding Sale (While Applicable)


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Thursday, July 02, 2009

AGC 106 June 30 2009 (Your Cheating Heart) (1:17:17)

With Mark Kinney, Carol, Mags, and Steve. Mark goes into a little more detail on HyperiCon and shows the panel his copy of Personal Effects. Carol talks about Living Labyrinth. What is cheating, and why would someone cheat? "Allowed" cheating in Illuminati and Kill Puppies For Satan. GM cheating and "fudging." How do you confront cheating at the table? Cheating methodologies. Point fudging. Fun with movement. Hidden resources. Notes and knowledge. Cheating with cards, from shuffles to messing with the draw. A trivial aside on card counting and various accounts of the MIT Blackjack Team. Dice rolling methods. Hard to read dice. Non-standard and weighted dice. Would you believe microwaved? (And how about a Mythbu... er, we mean Legend Smashing episode?) Mark brings up Wolfram Alpha, and throws a shout out to Kicked in The Dicebags. It's time to get us back in the spotlight, listeners!


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HyperiCon
Personl Effects: Dark Art
Living Labyrinth (Bucephalus Games)
Illuminati (Steve Jackson Games)
Kill Puppies For Satan (Lumpley Games)
The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming (Steve Jackson Games)
Wolfram Alpha
Kicked In The Dicebags


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WIP
Gamer's Haven
Order 66
The Jesus Geeks


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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

AGC News June 25th 2009 (13:12)

With Mark, Carol, Mags, and Steve. Cubicle-7 announces an October 2009 release for Doctor Who RPG. Core Mechanics making an "I Am A Gamer" Audio Montage. Hasbro liscensing it's properties for clothing (with a few ideas from us). Fantasy Flight Games launches it's Warhammer PDF line. Wizards of the Coast announces it will take Paypal for DDI subscriptions. Michael Fiegel launching a 4-episode column on the development of Hellas. An interesting article about LARP. Mutant Chronicles movie comes to SciFi -- er, we mean Syfy.


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Cubicle-7 (Doctor Who)
ICV2 Doctor Who Article
Core Mechanics "I Am A Gamer"
Fantasy Flight PDF Announcement
Hellas: From Alpha To Omega Part 1
LARP Article
Mutant Chronicles: The Movie


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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

AGC 105 June 16 2009 (Catching Up) (58:47)

With Mark Kinney. Due to scheduling problems, the Cheating episode will be next time. And speaking of schduling, Tuesday is the new official release day for AGC episodes! From HyperiCon, Chris Heim brings us the return of Gaming For Cheap Bastards: DIP-Styx (with Matt Wallace along for the ride). Catching up with the RPG Buffet, with the entries from January (Farscape) and April (Spycraft).

January Recipe:
In January, the RPG Buffet welcomed the new year with what Brandon calls "brinner"--breakfast for dinner!

Breakfast is easy, quick, and cheap, and having it for supper makes a nice change of pace. But sometimes time constraints keep you from preparing your favorite breakfast dishes. Thus, the RPG Buffet presents Make-Ahead Scrambled Eggs!

This recipe is a wonderful time-saver on holiday mornings--or on busy days when hungry gamers are expected over! Make it the night before, then just reheat when it's time to eat.

Ingredients:

12 eggs
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 Tbsp. butter
1 cup sour cream
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1/8 tsp. white pepper
1/2 tsp. salt

Preparation:
Beat eggs with cream in a large bowl. Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat. Pour eggs into skillet and cook, stirring frequently, until eggs are scrambled and just set, but still moist.

Remove pan from heat and stir in sour cream. Spread eggs into a greased 12x7" glass baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese. Cover tightly and refrigerate overnight.

When ready to eat, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover the baking dish and sprinkle eggs with pepper and salt. Stir gently, then bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until cheese is melted and eggs are hot, at least 140 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer.

8 servings.

(Recipe from About.com)

And April:
Since we were doing a fantasy espionage game, we decided to do a cocktail party theme, with a supper consisting of appetizers. After all, James Bond always seems to wind up at a cocktail party, doesn't he?

Hummus is a delicious alternative to dip to bring to any party, and Brandon provided us with homemade:

INGREDIENTS

2 cups canned garbanzo beans, drained
1/3 cup tahini
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
2 cloves garlic, halved
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pinch paprika
1 teaspoon minced fresh parsley

DIRECTIONS

Place the garbanzo beans, tahini, lemon juice, salt and garlic in a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Transfer mixture to a serving bowl.

Drizzle olive oil over the garbanzo bean mixture. Sprinkle with paprika and parsley.

Misty gave us one of her favorites, bacon-wrapped crackers:


Ingredients:

Club Crackers
Thin Sliced Bacon
Grated Parmesan Cheese (fresh or canned…I recommend fresh)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 250 degrees.

Lay crackers face up (as many as you want) on cookie sheet. Scoop about 1 tsp. of grated parmesan cheese on to each cracker.

Cut your package of bacon in half and carefully (so cheese does not fall off), wrap each cracker with a slice of bacon, completely covering the cracker (it should fit snugly around the cracker).

Place the bacon-wrapped crackers on to a baking sheet that has a rack on it.

Place in 250 degree oven for about 2 hours.

And, for you Bond-purists out there, here's the recipe for James Bond's favorite scrambled eggs. This recipe appears in 007 in New York, a short story by Ian Fleming that was published in the US edition of Thrilling Cities and can now be found in the recent Penguin re-issue of of Octopussy and The Living Daylights

For four individualists:

12 fresh eggs
Salt and pepper
5-6 oz. of fresh butter.

Break the eggs into a bowl. Beat thoroughly with a fork and season well. In a small copper (or heavy bottomed saucepan) melt four oz. of the butter. When melted, pour in the eggs and cook over a very low heat, whisking continuously with a small egg whisk.

While the eggs are slightly more moist than you would wish for eating, remove the pan from heat, add rest of butter and continue whisking for half a minute, adding the while finely chopped chives or fines herbes.

Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearance only) with pink champagne (Taittinger) and low music.


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Personl Effects: Dark Art
DIP-Styx (1km1kt.net)
Matt Wallace's Site/Kill The Feed
Crafty Games (Spycraft 2.0)


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Hidden Grid
Icosahedrophilia
International Detective Dragons From Outer Space


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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

AGC 103 May 16 2009 (4 Years and Over The Edge) (2:09:16)

With Mark Kinney, Carol Mags, and Ben Balestra. 4 years of AGC! Champaign Mishaps and Caviar... no, I'm not going to belabor the parody any more than that. Spoiler Free Star Trek thoughts, from those who had seen it at recording time. Mark's Birthday haul, including Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies. Origins Award nominees announced, as well as the Mensa Mind Game winners. Bioware and Green Ronin team up to bring us the Dragon Age RPG. Free Obsidian Twilight PDFs for giving blood? Supplements coming for Apocalypse Prevention Inc! Zero Fortitude needs reviews! Call for Origins coverage. Fringeworthy is back, in d20 Modern form! Interview with Bruce Sheffer about Fringeworthy. Mark talks Over The Edge! Convention Gaming Part III (and officially kicking off the Mags-The-Axe School of Game Mastering segment)! Origins Picks, a little feedback, and a new community!


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Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (Atomic Sock Monkey Press/Evil Hat)
2009 Origins Award Nominees
Mensa Mind Games Award Winners
Dragon Age: Origins (Bioware/Green Ronin) Go to "Game Info/Pen and Paper
Give Blood for Obsidian Twilight
Demon Codex: Lochs (Third Eye Games)
Zero Fortitude
Fringeworthy (Tri Tac Games)
Tri Tac Games Forums
Over The Edge (Atlas Games)
On The Edge (Atlas Games)
D-Total (Gamescience)
D-Total (Gamestation.net)
NachtMedia's Ning Site


Promos
The Game Master Show
Podictionary
The Canon Puncture Show


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