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Gaming on the Frontier

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Gaming on the Frontier - Our podcast covers the gamut of roleplaying topics from how to handle time travel in your game, playing extreme characters, to topics that every GM ought to know.
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Episodes

Episode 219: Tools for Better GMing Part 1

The team talks about how to make your game better using new resources. Everything from physical to virtual to multimedia to social media. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Tri Tac Games!

Apr 14, 20141 hr 2 min

Episode 218: Power Centers 2 part 3

This week we finish offering examples of civilizations or powerful groups your IDET explorers may run into on the Fringepaths. Trav presents his power center: the Kanedians.

Apr 07, 201455 min

Hard Wired Hinterland Actual play 4/1/2014

A bonus episode with a 3 hour session of Hardwired Hinterland. Please see our previous podcast Tri Tac Games Podcast episodes on the Hardwired Hinterland game for more information on this great game setting or go to TriTacGames.com Our cast: Officer Dan McCoy - mall cop turned pilotBen Reiher - army corp of engineersProfessor Silas - weird science scientist and inventorZach - Historian who is pretty good with a rapierBig Sambo - intelligent polar bear who used to be the state executioner of the ...

Apr 02, 20143 hr 5 min

Episode 217: Power Centers 2 part 2

This week we continue to offer examples of civilizations or powerful groups your IDET explorers may run into on the Fringepaths.

Mar 31, 201449 min

Hard Wired Hinterland Actual play 2014_03_25

A bonus episode with a 3 hour session of Hard Wired Hinterland. Please see our previous podcast Tri Tac Games Podcast episodes on the Hardwired Hinterland game for more information on this great game setting or go to TriTacGames.com Our cast: Officer Dan - mall cop turned pilotBen Reiher - army corp of engineersSilas - weird science scientist and inventorZach - Historian who is pretty good with a rapierBig Sambo - intelligent polar bear who used to be the state executioner of the island, Little ...

Mar 31, 20143 hr 4 min

Episode 216: Power Centers 2 part 1

this week we return to our discussion about fringeworthy power centers: other cultures on the Fringepaths that IDET may have to challenge. Each host presents his example of a power center and how IDET will have to deal with it.

Mar 24, 20141 hr 2 min

episode 215: Cloisters part 2

This week we finish our discussion/review of the new Tri Tac game, Cloisters. A post apocalyptic setting for any game system. We continue our discussion of the interesting survivors and how to deal with them.

Mar 17, 20141 hr 12 min

Episode 213: Detecting Banes part 2

This week we continue to examine specific examples of supernatural creatures, the medusa sisters and Evil ghosts, for what kinds of banes would hurt or banish them. Finally we suggest example movies to use for bane detection and just good fun.

Mar 04, 201454 min

Episode 212: Bane Detection in Bureau 13

We've talked about banes before. They are the special weaknesses that most supernatural creature have. Knowing them and how to trigger them can spell the difference between defeating the supernatural threat and being lunch. This week we begin our discussion on how to detect and deduce these weaknesses.

Feb 24, 201454 min

Episode 211: Power Centers part 2

This week we continue or discussion of how to handle first contact with competing exploration and expansion groups.

Feb 17, 201454 min

Episode 210: Power Centers part 1

This week we return to Fringeworthy, although the subject matter is true of all contact with another powerful group. We explore what happens when you mean a competing exploration and perhaps imperialistic group that may be superior to your own in technology or tactics.

Feb 10, 201456 min

Episode 209: Resolutions

Wasn't it christmas just last week? So now we have to make plans for the next year. How can we make our gaming experience even more awesome than it is playing tri tac games products?

Feb 03, 201457 min

Episode 208: 2013 Christmas Special Part 2

This week we present part 2 of the 2013 Christmas episode. We talk about what it would be like to bring back the ultimate technology from the Fringepaths and how that would affect society.

Jan 27, 201447 min

Episode 207: 2013 Christmas Special Part 1

This week we present part 1 of the 2013 Christmas episode. We talk about what it would be like to bring back the ultimate technology from the Fringepaths and how that would affect society.

Jan 20, 20141 hr

Episode 204: Norlanders Part 3

This week we conclude our visit with the Norlanders: A viking culture that was the only one left after a plague eliminated all the rest of the cultures on the planet south of them. Be watching next week for our Christmas episode!

Dec 23, 20131 hr 8 min

Episode 203: Norlanders part 2

Your faithful editor had a back injury last week so I've not been able to edit the podcast as I would like. So again a short episode with not much editing. I'm better now and the episode on sunday should be back to the normal length and quality.

Dec 17, 201329 min

Episode 202: Norlanders part 1

Sorry about the delay and the short episode. I hurt my back this weekend and couldn't edit as much as I would like. I'll make it up on the closing part. This week we talk about another Fringeworthy player character race, the Norlanders. They are the decendants of the northern tribes that were the only survivors of a world wide plague.

Dec 10, 201333 min

Episode 200: Wait til you see what's coming part 1

Amazing. We've reached episode 200!!!! Richard Tucholka joins us for a great reveal of what are Tri Tac Games plans for the next 2 years. Be sure to listen to the end. We ask Richard some questions about his games and get some surprising answers. Update: A correction. AnCon is May 1-4, 2014 in Hudson, Ohio.

Nov 24, 20131 hr

Episode 199: Tim Kask part 2

This week we finish our interview with industry insider, Tim Kask. Sorry about the short length. We don't always know how long an episode will end up when you start to edit. tune in next week for the 200th episode. We will be revealing secrets that we have never published. Stuff only whispered in the back of cars at 3 AM on the way back from cons.

Nov 18, 201336 min

Episode 198: Tim Kask

This week we have the worthy Tim Kask telling us about a great new set of products that would be great enhancements and adventures to your Tri Tac gaming, especially Fringeworthy and Weirdzone. Tim was the first TSR employee, an editor of the gaming magazine Dragon, and a lead designer for many many products over the years. Recently he has started a new company when he isn't writing for Gygax magazine and has produced the products mentioned above. Listen carefully for a wealth of gaming anecdote...

Nov 12, 201346 min

Episode 197: Cyberpunk part 3

This week we finish our examination of the cyberpunk gaming genre with the aide of the inestimable Jay Libby!

Nov 04, 201355 min

Episode 196: Cyberpunk part 2

This week we continue with our guest Jay Libby of DillyGreenBean Games to find what is so awesome about cyberpunk.

Oct 29, 201345 min

Episode 195: Cyberpunk part 1

This week we are joined by Jay Libby who helps us understand how Cyberpunk can be so much more than what it has been before.

Oct 22, 201351 min

Episode 194: SF Adventues in Fringeworthy part 2

This week we finish our discussion on how to run a SF adventure in Fringeworthy and not ruin your campaign. We finish discussing types of SF adventures and what we think should be in a adventure worthy of the name SF.

Oct 14, 20131 hr 6 min

Episode 193: SF Adventues in Fringeworthy part 1

This week we explore why making science fiction adventures is so much more challenging than fantasy or post apocalyptic. We break down these type of adventures and show how to succeed with them.

Oct 07, 20131 hr 1 min

Episode 192: New Gear

This week we finish our return to packing for success as we review the new technologies that have emerged as real products or in development which could make a real tactical difference in your Fringeworthy, Bureau 13, or Hard Wired Hinterland game.

Sep 30, 201355 min
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