015: Back to Normal (aka Random)

Episode 15

We are back to the regular podcast after a few weeks of Cthulhu, but we will continue to mixup the regular podcast and RPG as we move forward.  In this week's episode, we talk Sandy Petersen's AMA, Cthulhu Wars, some modern warfare in DVG's Warfighter, random tangents to the Legacy of Kain series, while also covering new games T.I.M.E. Stories and Pandemic Legacy.  Drop us a comment and leave a review.  Thanks for listening!

00:50 - Sandy Petersen, Cthulhu Wars, horror games
17:02 - Warfighter
27:06 - Kickstarter Updates, Denis Dyack
33:50 - Legacy of Kain, Cinematics
41:30 - Movies & TV
48:08 - T.I.M.E. Stories, Time Looper
55:56 - Pandemic Legacy, Cthulhu Actual Play thoughts
1:03:13 - Final Thoughts

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Actual Play 002: Horror on the Orient Express - London 2

HOTOE Episode 2

Join us for Episode 2 of the Horror on the Orient Express Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign as we find the investigators stranded on the mysterious Doom Train.  Please send us some feedback or leave a comment.  Thanks for listening!
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Music from Sense Impacts by Chad Fifer and Horror on the Orient Express by Alex Otterlei
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Actual Play 001: Horror on the Orient Express - London 1

HOTOE Episode 1

It's finally here!  Out of Space Games brings you Horror on the Orient Express, a Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign, the actual play podcast.  Join us as we officially begin our adventure in 1920s London, but we can guarantee you it won't stop there.  Follow our brave investigators lead by their keeper Jay and find out what perils lie ahead.  Thanks for listening!
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*Note: Don't read the time breaks below if you don't want anything spoiled.

01:29 - Special Abilities
07:10 - Scenario Background
15:35 - The Professor
17:58 - The Job
26:14 - The Room
40:22 - Police Station
44:21 - The Shop
53:17 - The Association
58:34 - The Hotel
1;00:38 - The Dinner
1:07:57 - The Toy
1:20:15 - Credits

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014: Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu Actual Play Episode: 000

Episode 14

RPG character creation starts at 25:10.

In this week's episode, we discuss one of our favorite horror writers as we approach Halloween.  In addition to talking Lovecraft the man, we also discuss the mythos in general and a bunch of games and influences his work has inspired.  At the end, we finally start our Call of Cthulhu RPG by rolling some characters and filling in the backstories for our brave investigators.  Listen to the process of character creation and the hilarity when appearance rolls go bad.  Thanks for listening, and join us next time for the exciting start to our campaign!

00:50 - Intro to Lovecraft
16:48 - Mythos Board Games (Arkham Horror, Cthulhu Wars, Delta Green)
25:10 - Call of Cthulhu Character Creation
49:20 - Character Intros
56:26 - Final Thoughts

*Note: Some audio issues this episode
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013: The Unlucky One

Episode 13

Welcome to the unlucky episode... whatever that means.  We kind of go off the cuff and talk about a wide variety of topics from games to tv, kickstarters to movies in a jam packed episode full of discussion.  Some of the bigger topics we cover are Space Cadets: Dice Duel, the upcoming Spaceteam board game, a ton of Kickstarter arrivals including Kingdom Death: Monster, Warfighter Wave 2, and Coven.  In other media, we venture to Suicide Squad movie talk, the Marvel TV/Netflix universe, Resident Evil movies, The Flash before moving to TV reboots including Prison Break, X-Files, and Heroes Reborn.  Thanks for listening!

00:42 - Apologies and updates
02:00 - Space Cadets: Dice Duel
15:15 - Spaceteam Kickstarter
20:00 - Kickstarter Arrivals
29:45 - More Kickstarters
34:26 - Comic/TV talk
43:06 - TV Reboots
56:05 - Video Games, Shout Outs, Final Thoughts

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012: Zephyr Smorgasbord

Episode 12

Out of Space Games had the opportunity to demo an upcoming board game called Zephyr: Winds of Change from The Portal Dragon, and have plenty of thoughts and feedback, including a live session with one of the game's creators!  We move from there to digital card games and Hearthstone before diving back into deck building games, starting with an odd one called Barbarossa.  We end with some discussion regarding the newly released Journey: Wrath of Demons from Marrow Production.  No overall theme for this episode, but there's plenty of content and topics.

Note: we do still have some technical issues that are affecting audio quality, but are working on fixes.  Thanks for listening!

01:30 - Zephyr: Winds of Change
04:01 - Zephyr Live Impressions/Interview
14:11 - More Zephyr talk
27:36 - Hearthstone, Star Wars Card Trader
38:32 - Wizard World Con, Barbarossa DBG
47:59 - A games we're picking up (Legendary Encounters: Predator, Arctic Scavengers, Shadow Hunters)
51:15 - Journey: Wrath of Demons
1:04:10 - Final Thoughts

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011: It's Asymmetric

Episode 11

We discuss one of the really cool genres and exciting franchises as the Out of Space Crew talks about asymmetrical games!  Starting off with one of our favorite board games called Tomorrow before moving to the modern-day classic Cthulhu Wars, we end with Aliens vs Predator talk, both video and board game versions.  Not a ton of topics, but we get to dive deeper in each one.  Thanks for listening!

00:55 - What is asymmetrical?
08:07 - Tomorrow
16:49 - Cthulhu Wars
25:33 - Aliens vs Predator 2 PC
40:03 - Aliens vs Predator Board Game
49:25 - Quick Hits and Final Thoughts

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010: Gen Con New Editions

Episode 10

We bring it back to games with one of the biggest gaming conventions out there: Gen Con!  While none of the crew attended this years con, we did have a few friends go and followed the hottest tabletop news during the whole weekend.  In this short(er) recap episode, we cover a few games we found interesting and discuss some of the bigger news to come out of the show.  Leave us some feedback, and thanks for listening!

01:23 - Fantasy Flight Games
10:00 - Portal
15:02 - Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
21:04 - Zephyr: Winds of Change
23:13 - The Gen Con Experience, Call of Cthulhu
29:35 - Quick Hits and Final Thoughts

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Polygon article: http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/3/9089959/gencon-best-new-board-games-2015

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009: Comic Con in Space

Episode 9

San Diego Comic-Con was last week, so we take the opportunity to talk about all the new trailers and movie news from the show including Marvel, DC, zombies, and Star Wars.  Don't worry, we also spend some time discussing gaming as we finally sit down to play some 'outer space' themed board games, giving impressions of Chaosmos and Star Trek: Fleet Captains.  We also talk about board game news with the weird release of Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers and the upcoming Attack on Titan board game.  Next time, we are back with a plethora of board games as we get excited for Gen-Con.  Thanks for listening!

00:50 - The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman
09:13 - Evil Dead
14:18 - Star Wars
18:50 - Deadpool
23:47 - Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse
27:24 - Batman vs Superman
32:47 - Suicide Squad
38:39 - DC Animated
41:49 - Chaosmos
51:31 - Star Trek: Fleet Captains
57:32 - Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers
1:00:50 - Attack on Titan
1:03:24 - Tokyo in Tulsa, Final Thoughts

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008: Jurassic Nostalgia

Episode 8

It's the summer of nostalgia with a ton of movies and games hearkening back to our favorite childhood memories.  This week, the Out of Space Crew talks nostalgic board games, video games, and movies, along with some historic Kickstarter news.  We start with E3 announcements of an FF7 remake and Shenmue 3 along with a Fallout and Halo sequel before moving to the blockbuster movies of Jurassic World and Mad Max: Fury Road.  Of course we squeeze in board games as well, looking back at an old Lost World Board Game, and rewind a few years as the FTC has just ruled on an early Kickstarter scam with The Doom that Came to Atlantic City, and finally discuss the newly launched Zombicide: Black Plague.  Our longest episode yet, but packed full of gaming goodness.  Thanks for listening!

01:32 - FF7 Remake
05:37 - Last Guardian
08:30 - Shenmue 3
12:40 - Star Wars Battlefront
18;14 - More E3
28:30 - Jurassic World
42:25 - Jurassic Video Games
45:54 - Mad Max
50:19 - Lost World Board Game
58:50 - Kickstarter FTC Ruling
1:11:31 - Other Kickstarter Mishaps
1:17:48  Zombicide Black Plague
1:24:46 - Final Thoughts

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007: Geeking Out in One Direction

Episode 7

This week we branch off a little bit into geekdom, exploring comics, video games, tv, and movie culture while still discussing fun games, rpgs, and kickstarter news.  We cover a wide variety of topics including Vertigo's Sandman series, Star Wars (movies and games), more Attack Wing, Call of Cthulhu, the Bloodstained Kickstarter from the creator of Castlevania, Chaosmos, Marvel and DC movies, and end with some Star Trek.  Thanks for listening!
00:37 - Sandman
04:30 - Star Wars
07:24 - Attack Wing
17:35 - Call of Cthulhu RPG
30:48 - Bloodstained Kickstarter
35:11 - Chaosmos
39:43 - Superhero shows and movies
53:28 - Star Trek
1:01:26 - Final Thoughts
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006: Teaching and Learning Games

Episode 6

The best way to get people excited for gaming is to teach them games, but there are many different ways to go about it.  The Out of Space crew talks about their teaching methods, a recent convention experience where we demoed games, and talk a little about our own gaming journey.  Some games we discuss in the episode are Hive, HeroClix, D&D Attack Wing, Boss Monster, Guns of Gettysburg, along with some gaming news and Kickstarter projects.  Thanks for listening!

02:48 - Our gaming history, RPGs to board games
09:45 - Hive, Demoing at Conventions
14:52 - D&D Attack Wing
21:26 - Teaching games, Dean's gaming history
30:19 - Reddit responses
38:30 - Boss Monster & next steps
49:44 - More teaching
52:09 - News and Kickstarters

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005: Licensed to Play

Episode 5

Our first podcast with our new equipment, the Out of Space Crew talks licenses; our favorite licensed games, unlicensed games that would be better with a license, and maybe a few licenses that we wish we could make ourselves. We cover games such as Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game from Upper Deck, Stay Away! from Escape Studios, Game of Thrones LCG from Fantasy Flight Games, Resident Evil DBG from Bandai, Inception Solo PNP, and many more.  Thanks for listening!

00:52 - Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game
12:42 - WizKids (HeroClix, Attack Wing, Dice Masters)
17:25 - Resident Evil Deck Building Game
26:33 - Game of Thrones
35:34 - Stay Away!
42:46 - Inception Solo PnP
47:32 - Some dream licenses
58:12 - Public domain licenses
1:00:23 - Final thoughts

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004: Live Coop & Improved Audio!

Episode 4: Playing Together


The Out of Space Crew is together for the first time, with Sean finally in town from the west coast.  In Episode 4, we talk about cooperative board games, ranging from the disaster classics Pandemic and Flash Point to dice rolling with Elder Sign, Arkham Horror, and the infamous D-Day Dice.  We round out the discussion with some Ghost Stories action as well as some xenomorph talk as we take on Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deckbuilding Game.

Next episode, look for vastly improved audio (with our new setup).  Thanks for listening!

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003: Party time!

Episode 3


In this episode the Out of Space crew discusses popular party and social games such as Cards Against Humanity, We Didn't Playtest This At All, some digital games like Space Team, Heads Up, and other various gaming news.

We tried a different audio setup this time with varying levels of success, but currently working on a more permanent upgrade to our equipment.

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002: Thunderstarter

Episode 2


In which we discuss the Thunderbirds kickstarter, general Kickstarting strategies/logistics, the draw of established designers and art, and Thunderbirds itself.

We eventually talk a bit of game design and introduce our own game-in-progress, The Heist, and some of the process behind the scenes.

Finally, we close with a discussion about the Call of Cthulhu RPG, with emphasis on running a scenario as a keeper and what to look out for when crafting a night of memorable horror.

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001: Kickstarting

Episode 1


The pilot episode for our podcast, in which we introduce ourselves, discuss gameplay and impressions of Cthulhu Wars from Petersen Games, and a few Kickstarter projects to finish it off.

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