2009-08-27 Podcast Update

MJ Harnish writes about his Bi-annual RPG Podcast Round-up. Let me go through my podcasts as well... Most of them are about roleplaying games, obviously.

MJ Harnish

Bi-annual RPG Podcast Round-up

I usually listen to podcasts on my portable audio player, so I’m fine with low information density. If I’m at the computer while they’re playing, I will sometimes listen to a show two or three times in a row. That also means that I don’t care about video content.

I think that most interviews are sort of ok when they’re about the person behind a product. I find interviews with people trying to sell their product lame because we’re neither getting critical questions nor a review. It’s just advertising. I prefer a people story.

But now, on to the list:

All Games Considered – I was unsubscribed for a while but resubscribed as it got nominated for the Ennies 👌
Atomic Array – the hosts are funny, but the games they talk about are often not games I’d enjoy, sometimes it’s a bit heavy on the marketing :yellow:
Brilliant Gameologists – not being a native English speaker, I was surprised by the “raunchy humor and sexual innuendo” as MJ Harnish puts it; I guess I stay subscribed because I treat it as a curiosity :yellow:
Fear the Boot – at the moment John is back, so it’s funny enough; I don’t care for Battletech but at least some of the hosts are with me, haha; I really liked the various DM styles they presented a while back :green:
Green Ronin Publishing Podcast – I’m interested in the company even though I play none of their games; I liked the few they did, specially the one about their favorite games; they hardly ever publish new episodes but I don’t mind :yellow:
Have Games, Will Travel – short episodes, the games not quite my style, I find monologues less entertaining than a group chat :yellow:
The History of Rome – historical stuff; awesome – also consider 12 Byzantine Emperors :green: ☆ ☆ ☆
In Our Time – science and history, awesome BBC4 stuff :green:
Kobold Quarterly – I guess this feed was replaced by the Open Design Podcast? :red:
Midnight’s Lair – hasn’t published in a long time; I don’t even know what it was about anymore :red:
Open Design Podcast – short segments by Monte Cook and others; I like it; doesn’t publish too often :green: ☆
Order 66 – haven’t heard anything, yet; I subscribed because of the Ennies :question:
Pulp Gamer Inside Track – they had some interesting interviews in the past :yellow:
RPG Circus – an interesting mix of topics; I’m often on the brink of sending in an audio comment; very new :green: ☆
Sons of Kryos – I loved them but then they switched to video and I can’t watch videos while walking or riding public transport; I don’t think they ever produced more than one video episode? Listen to the archives if you haven’t! Also note that Judd Kalrmann has appeared on the Cannon Puncture Show occasionally :llap: ☆
The Canon Puncture Show – currently one of my favorite shows; I really like how they pick some of the recent RPG blog posts and discuss them – I can immediately relate since most often I’ve read the same articles and have my own related thoughts :green: ☆ ☆
Thinking Allowed – usually two interviews relating to recent books published; not quite sure whether I like it :red:
This Just In… From GenCon – I listened to it while GenCon was going on :yellow:
The Voice of the Revolution – hear about new indie games since I don’t read any of the fancy forums (Story Games? The Forge?)
2d6 Feet in a Random Direction – if they’re not talking too much about the shop, I enjoy the show very much 🙂 – they made me buy Mongoose Traveller :green: ☆
3.5 Private Sanctuary – I don’t really like the class features where they delve into the rules, but I found it to be a cool source of thoughts on Pathfinder :green: ☆ ☆

All Games Considered

Atomic Array

Brilliant Gameologists

Fear the Boot

Green Ronin Publishing Podcast

Have Games, Will Travel

The History of Rome

12 Byzantine Emperors

Pulp Gamer Inside Track

RPG Circus

Sons of Kryos

The Canon Puncture Show

Thinking Allowed

This Just In… From GenCon

The Voice of the Revolution

2d6 Feet in a Random Direction

3.5 Private Sanctuary

Unsubscribed* stuff still hanging around in my list: Dragons Landing, Gamer’s Haven, Geek Girls Rule!, Godzilla Gaming Podcast, Hackerfunk, The Podge Cast, !SanD Worldbuilding 101, The Tome Show, TrapCast. Maybe if someone convinces me that they changed a lot, I’d resubscribe?

Older lists → 2009-05-14 Podcast Summary.

2009-05-14 Podcast Summary

Update*: I forgot to list the Canon Puncture Show!! Oops! :cry:

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Hey, just out of curiosity - you listed Canon Puncture as a show you listen to in your post from May, but it isn’t in your August update (except in your mention of Judd). We hope you haven’t stopped listening to us - but if you have, feel free to let me know why, and maybe we can bring you back.

– Mick Bradley 2009-08-27 19:25 UTC

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Yikes, this is an oversight! I fixed it: The Canon Puncture Show is one of my *favorites*! 😄

I’m also looking for podcasts to server as inspiration for my upcoming Traveller game. Does anybody have a suggestion?

– Alex Schroeder 2009-08-27 21:53 UTC

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Wow, thanks, Alex. We appreciate your very kind words. We’ll try to keep it up!

– Mick Bradley 2009-08-28 14:19 UTC

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As always, thanks for listening. Good note about the shop talk, and glad you found our discussion of Mongoose Traveller to be interesting and useful!

– Brian Isikoff 2009-09-13 17:17 UTC

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