Brilliant Gameologists

We’re back from GenCon! It’s taken a while to recover. We fully admit to being the last podcast to put out their GenCon recap, but hopefully it was worth it.

We talked about quite a few products in this episode:

Favorite Publishers:

Cam Banks and Jamie Chambers from Margaret Weis Productions

Pelgrane Press with Robin Laws for the Gumshoe System

Fantasy Flight Games for Grimm

Paradigm Concepts for Witch Hunter: The Invisible World

McNeil Designs for Reader’s Digest vocab game

Dark Matter for Epic RPG

Interesting Buys:

Mispent Youth by Robert Bohl

Factions at War by Other Court Games

Cool People:

Luke Meyer from The Podgecast

Daniel Perez from The Gamer Traveler and The Digital Front

Rob and Fraser from The Accidental Survivors

NPH

The Brilliant Fanologists!

The ENies:

We gave the prepared statement:

“The ENnies need to make serious format changes if they’d like to be taken seriously as an award.”

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Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

• Listened to a couple of songs- Mirah’s The Garden and Robyn’s Cobrastyle.  Have nothing to do with anything, but they got us in the mood.
  

Icebreaker:

• The Olympics!  We’re big fans and discuss our favorite events.  Meg reminds everyone she has a vag.

Review Guidelines:

Good, Bad, Wintry Mix

• Good:
  • Elegant
  • Fuckin’ A
  • Fiddly Bits
• Bad:
  • Idiot
  • Full of Crap
  • Asshole

Our rating scale is:

• 1= If you are only going to buy 1 book, get this one.
• 3= If you are going to buy 3 books so you have a “main game” plus a fun pickup, this is the book for you
• 10= If you are going to get 10 books for a bit more variety, get this one
• 0= Don’t buy it.

Best Writing:

Nominees:

• Changeling: The Lost, White Wolf Publishing
• Monsters and Other Childish Things, Arc Dream Publishing
• Two-Fisted Tales, Precis Intermedia
• Grimm, Fantasy Flight Games
• Trail of Cthulhu, Pelgrane Press
  • Honorable Mention:  All Tomorrow’s Zombies!, Eden Studios

The Good:

• Trail of Cthulhu: Elegant, Fuckin’ A writing, and some really good Fiddly Bits.  Rating: 1
  
• Grimm: Fuckin’ A.  Rating: 3
  

Wintry Mix:

• Monsters and Other Childish Things: Some Fuckin’ A, but Full of Shit too.  Rating: 10
  

Bad:

• Changeling: The Lost: Idiot, Full of Shit, and Asshole.  Rating: 0
  

Can’t even Review:

• Two-Fisted Tales: This should not have been in this category.  Not good nor bad.  Just like the writing in every other book. Rating:10

Best Rules:

Nominees:

• Aces and Eights, Kenzer & Company
• Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition, Wizards of the Coast
• Witchhunter:  The Invisible World, Paradigm Concepts
• Epic Roleplaying Game Manual, Dark Matter Studios
• Trail of Cthulhu, Pelgrane Press
  • Honorable Mention:  Traveller, Mongoose Publishing

Good:

• Aces and Eights: Fiddly Bits.  So so so many fiddly bits. Rating: 1
• Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition: Fuckin’ A and Elegant. Rating:1

Wintry Mix:

• Witchhunter:  The Invisible World: Fuckin’ A, Fiddly Bits, but also Asshole. Rating:3
• Trail of Cthulhu: Wish the game had been “completed”.  Fuckin’ A, Fiddly Bits, but also Asshole. Rating:1

Bad:

• Epic Roleplaying Game Manual: Needs refinement and an overhaul.  Not fair to review at this time. Rating:10

Best Game:

• Aces and Eights, Kenzer & Company
• Og, Firefly Games
• Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition, Wizards of the Coast
• Monsters and Other Childish Things, Arc Dream Publishing
• Witchhunter:  The Invisible World, Paradigm Concepts

Good:

• Aces and Eights: Fuckin’ A, Fiddly Bits, Elegant. Rating:1
• Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition: Elegant, Fuckin’ A. Rating:1

Wintry Mix:

• Witchhunter:  The Invisible World: Elegant, Full of Shit. Rating:3
• Monsters and Other Childish Things: Fuckin’ A, Asshole. Rating:10

Bad:

• Og, Full of Shit, Asshole. Rating:10

Product of the Year:

• Aces and Eights, Kenzer & Company
  • Josh and Zeke hope this wins.  Rating: 1
• Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition, Wizards of the Coast
  • Meg hopes this wins: Rating: 1
    
• The Savage World of Solomon Kane, Pinnacle Entertainment Group
  • Rating: 1
• Grimm, Fantasy Flight Games
  • Rating: 3
    
• Witchhunter:  The Invisible World, Paradigm Concepts
  • Rating: 3
    
• Monsters and Other Childish Things, Arc Dream Publishing
  • Rating: 10
    
• Changeling:  The Lost, White Wolf Publishing
  • Rating: 0
    
• Pirate’s Guide to Freeport, Green Ronin Publishing
  • Didn’t get the product in time to review
• Pathfinder #8: Seven Days to the Grave, Paizo Publishing
  • Didn’t review.  Didn’t get enough “notice” to deserve this category
    
• Traveller, Mongoose Publishing
  • Not interested.
    

News:

1. Reminder: The Brilliant Gameologists are leading 3 seminars at GenCon! If you’re going, you won’t want to miss it.

Gamers in the Press: Blogs, Podcasts, and Print at GenCon

http://www.pulpgamer.com/gencon/

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