While some may have run games like this since they were children, Ben Robbins fleshed out the nuances of what he eventually called The West Marches. Matt Colville had a great youtube video about it so we wanted to bring it to your attention because it sounds super sexy. That last part was Brett.

Announcements

Evercon

Random Encounter

Feedback from episode 162 includes a post by Jason.

Stephen Dragonspawn leaves a voice mail.

William Arnold posts on G+ about changing the length of his game sessions.

Tony Baker asks on G+ poses a question about taking your campaign from idea to 20th level.

Sky Slayton, what a freaking cool name right? Asks about scifi settings.

Die Roll

Brett

• Brett’s Warhammer Campaign G+ community for notes and inside info – Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll send you an invite.

Sean

• Jason Hobbs runs for Gauntlet Con. View his olive game on the youtubes
• Why a West Marches campaign needs a town – by Tavis Allison
• Ben Robbins
  • West Marches idea
  • Microscope
  • Kingdom

Listeners

• Charles White lets us know about Monster Hunters Club kickstarter for the Savage Worlds rpg. The book is designed to immerse you in a world inspired by ’80s kids’ adventure and horror films, television, and novels like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Goonies, The Monster Squad, The Lost Boys, Fright Night, It, Super 8, Stranger Things, and many more.
• Edwin Nagy is involved with Frog God Games’ Extra Life event
• Kevin Lovecraft Roll For Your Party is an excellent web-based dice rolling app that you can pair up with G+ Hangouts if you prefer to not use Roll20. It supports trad dice as well as Fudge, DCC dice (click the Funky Dice selector) and cards. 

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