Hosts: John Kelly, Todd, Timo, Lexx, Scott In which we discuss our facial hair. Scott is big in China and loves the North. Lexx doesn’t know geography. Todd went to a wedding. JohnKelly is moving. Scott and his gravy-tas. JohnKelly is balding ugly. Timo has been doing martial arts (badly) as long as JohnKelly has [...]
Episode 62: Secrets in Gaming Hosts: Timo, Scott, Majdi, Megan I think Timo is trying to tone down the creepy. . . instead he’s creepier. Megan’s Show How did they end up talking about being naked in public bathrooms? God there is a lot of poop talk. . . Main Topic: Secrets in gaming Don’t [...]
When I GM’d BASH, I decided to give my players a sort of “works cited” page, that included the movies and comic books I was drawing on for inspiration (The Dark Knight, Ex Machina, Watchmen, and the new Batwoman run being prime examples). As I run Dust Devils right now, it’s occurring to me that [...]
Episode 61: GenCon 2010 Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Timo, Lexx, Megan with a special message from Todd Megan’s First GenCon Lexx’s Tenth GenCon Timo’s Seventh GenCon Lots and lots of mentioning of games/stuff that we played and/or bought at GenCon. Including: Misspent Youth, Fiasco, HoboCon, Free Market, Iron Tyrants, The Adventure Burner, PARP: Photo Action Role-Playing [...]
We’re playing Unhallowed Metropolis right now. Rob is the GM. He just said the phrase “beautiful Chinese robot assassin.” That’s all. Edit: we have managed to say the phrase “beautiful Chinese robot assassin” (or some variant, like “sexy Chinese robot assassin, beautiful Chinese android assassin,” etc.) about 100 times already and we’ve only been playing [...]
Traditional DMing versus “Playing to Find Out What Happens”
The following is a striking example of the difference between “traditional” GMing and something coming out of the indie stables. The game is Apocalypse World. The Colonel is the Hardholder, the guy who runs this little bastion of humanity in the mess that the world has become. it’s a big market built out of the [...]
Holy crap is this insane. It’s like the entire A-List cast involved owed someone some kind of crazy favor. Edit: I’m still watching it. It just gets worse. Everything about it is embarrassing. They combine CGI and regular animation in the most hamfisted way possible. It might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I [...]
The following is a blog post written by Ben, one of our original hosts about the game misspent youth. You can find his blog here. —– There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem this year I am going to make it through this year if it kills me –The Mountain Goats, This Year At [...]
Hosted by Timo Through the vagaries of the interwebs, Julia Ellingboe found our episode about Race and our mention of her game, Steal Away Jordan. We invited her to share her intention and opinion about the game in that context, which allowed me to also pick her brain on other topics related to her games [...]
So Gencon is over. I didn’t make the whole thing because I’m buried under a metric ton of work which is sucking my will to live, but the con was, nonetheless, a blast. I played: 1) My Life With Master. Master (in this case, Mistress) won. Hardcore. 2) Misspent Youth, which was FANTASTIC. Expect more [...]
First, if you haven’t listened to the cast on race in gaming, scroll down and listen to it. I’ll wait. Got it? Good. Secondly, before you even think about reading my thoughts on the subject, read this excellent post from io9 about N.O.C. (nerds of color). Still here? Okay. Okay… so I was at a [...]
Review Episode 4: Shocked Bashful Hosts: Megan, Scott, Timo, Todd, Reek Banter: What we did last night, Happy Undeath Day Gary Gygax, Reek’s delicious delicious energy, GMless Game day: Fiasco, Zombie Cinema, Shab-Al-Hiri Roach (0:56) Review: Shock by Joshua AC Newman (5:00) What is a Shock: Immortality through cloning (6:00) Source material/Similarities for our game: [...]
Episode 60: Independent Games Hosts: Todd, Megan, Scott, Rob, Timo Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Or, if you’re us, you chew over the gristle of a topic like independent games for an hour on Sundays. More fritter than waste, but [...]
Episode 59: Race in Gaming Hosts: Scott, Vak, Majdi, Lexx, Megan, Timo Possibly one of the more serious conversations we had. Which we at times address with a bunch of juvenile and offensive humour, but hey, that’s what we term “quality” around here. We had some problems with Vak and Majdi’s mike, so their levels [...]
Episode 58: Gaming Social Graces Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Megan, Majdi, Reek, Todd Hello, delicious friends! A little note to tell you that your episode is being delivered by Timo this week, because John Kelly might in fact be a punk ass-chump (note the hyphenation). The scientific study has only now received it’s funding, so we [...]
Happenstance is a funny thing. The building where my office was until last month is in the process of being torn down. All the other graduate students and professors were emptying out their offices of unwanted books so that they didn’t have to carry them in the move to a new building. As such, tables [...]
Episode 57: Historical Gaming Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Lexx, Scott, Megan, Juan The Under-boob discussion The LOST Jank Cast Episodes Stone Mountain Main Topic: Historical Gaming Colonial Gothic God Like Cold City/Hot War Unhallowed Metropolis Black Cadalics Rants JOHNKELLY: Little Shop of Horrors (more details bellow) Timo: A War Zone Lexx: Congratulations Twilight Scott: Steve the [...]
Episode 56: Pulling your weight Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Todd, Megan, Lexx Lots of banter including:Dentist, Orcus, Comic Shop stories, bad audio, food stories, Google SketchUp, Let me Google that for you Main Topic: Pulling your weight within a group Mechanical vs. Backstory Spirit of the Century BASH Rants Todd: The Dunkin Donuts Breakfast Sandwich JOHNKELLY: Thursday [...]
I give up, I really do. What is it about Vincent Baker’s work that turns me in to a giggling fanboy? In general, I have little patience for fanboyism. To me the term evokes a sort of blind and arbitrary ardour for something. A kind of nerdish religious fundamentalism that brooks no critical analysis or [...]
Via Apocalypse world, I heard tell of a thing called Echo Bazaar. A sort of online game, played through your browser using a twitter account, of life in subterranean London after it was stolen by giant bats. You start off escaping from prison and try to make your way in this fanciful world. It’s pretty [...]
Episode 55: PvP -Special Edition- Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Majdi, Lexx, Scott, Vak, Reek Happy Birthday Reek (hurray!) Thanks Jason Reek caused the apocalypse/the scene from the first Ghostbusters Main Topic: Player vs. Player combat JOHNKELLY can’t host episodes Lexx, the word is Gank not Yank Rants JOHNKELLY: Raid. Mud. Water. Fuck you Reek. Majdi: Tumblin’ Dice! [...]
R.I.P. Brother Caleb Abernathy. (Absentee) father, (former) husband, Watchdog, and a real bastard. In our Dogs game last night, my character Caleb Abernathy bit the dust in a most spectacular way. It’s hard to die in that game and I made a pretty unlucky roll to achieve such a fate. Caleb might be one of [...]
Episode Fifty Four: NPCs -Special Edition- Hosts: Timo, Todd, Scott, Megan, Lexx Free RPG day SciFan Main Topic: Interesting NPCs What we like in NPCs Player Created NPCs The World Chicken & The Goblin Baby Rants Megan: Netbooks in the store Scott: Dragon Ages Todd: Bar Trickery Timo: Facebook, It’s not you, it’s me Reek: [...]
So there are some quality issues with fifty-three that are being sorted out. In the meanwhile, episode fifty-three has been severely delayed. Sorry about that guys, hopefully we’ll get it out soon.
So we began our game of BASH this past weekend, and I think that it went pretty well, overall. What I really wanted to do was create a fairly open world superhero game which was based on my own, personal, academic and political interests (social movements, corporate malfeasance, journalism, partisanship, post 9/11 paranoia, etc). BASH [...]
Spooky Outhouse Showcase Episode 6: Actual Jank Walking Podge Play
EDIT: yeah, so the thing I posted before was idiotic and informed more by my sleepiness than actual desire to share about content. Spooky Outhouse, the collective of podcasts (or whatever they call themselves) of which we are willing member-sheep sets up their showcase on a somewhat regular basis. The idea is to get together [...]
Episode Fifty Two: Backstory -Special Edition- Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Majdi, Scott, Megan, Todd, Lexx, Timo If you are listening to this, then it might mean that you are trying to listen to Episode Two of the Jank Cast. However, we have replaced the first six episodes with episodes fifty-one through fifty-six in order to give a [...]
Episode Fifty-One: Defend Your Game -Special Edition-
Episode Fifty-One: Defend Your Game -Special Edition- Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Majdi, Lexx, Scott, Megan, Timo If you are listening to this, then it might mean that you are trying to listen to Episode One of the Jank Cast. However, we have replaced the first six episodes with episodes fifty-one through fifty-six in order to give a [...]
So Lost is over, and without getting too far into spoiler territory, I would say it was a highly emotionally satisfying ending, without being a particularly intellectually satisfying ending. In other words, it was the exact opposite of the ending to, say, The Dark Tower series. That got me thinking about what the difference is, [...]
A friend of mine sent me this. I actually really appreciated that story. I sometimes struggle with what it is that makes someone a “good role player.” I don’t think that characters HAVE to keep things that characters wouldn’t know secret from the other players, as in the story, but the reveal there would have [...]
As you’ve probably heard, Dio died yesterday at 67 years young. This is actually probably the saddest I’ve ever been about a celebrity dying, to be honest. When you’re a nerdy sixth grader into music and fantasy and you flip on the TV and see this you’re sold forever. I had the pleasure of seeing [...]
Episode Fifty: Jank-tastic Anniversary While this is one of our normal episodes it does not follow our normal format. This is little to no discussion this episode. We wanted to take a week to celebrate reaching 50 episodes so we invited members of our community here at Chicagoland Games to join in on the podcast. [...]
Okay, this is pretty cool. The guys at Spooky Outhouse Productions did this last year where they had a survery for Podcast listeners. Here are last year’s results: http://showcase.spookyouthouse.com/archives/6 And here is the survey for this year: http://rpgpolls.com/index.php?/fill/survey/14 Please take the 2 minutes to fill it out truthfully.
Episode Forty-Nine: Jank Swarm! Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Todd, Timo, Lexx, Reek, Rob, I am Paul So…banter? Which leads to…Amish parties are the best! The Bear Swarm! Main Topic: Gamer Communities Scott’s southern tales (Dueling banjos) Introducing people to Gaming Reek’s Metaphore Rants JOHNKELLY: The Gyros Place Scott: Duck Blood Soup Todd: Depressed Friends Timo: Dogs [...]
Here is a tool provided by S. John Ross, the writer of Risus. It’s a list of plot points and hooks that can be used as inspiration for prepping a game, written in an engaging and entertaining style. He even gives some pretty nifty advice at the end.
So a week or so ago I ran a game of 3:16 at the store. If you don’t know anything about 3:16, it’s basically Starship Troopers the RPG with a real stripped down rules system. Here are my thoughts on the game: 1) It was super fun. 3:16 is a really streamlined system designed to [...]
Mist-Robed Gate. This was released in 2008 or so. I’d heard it was interesting, so I just got around to reading about it. Game about hearbreak ridden wuxia stories, like Hero, or Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, or House of Flying Daggers; Check, and very cool. Was created by a request for “a game like exalted [...]
Hello Loyal Jank Cast Listeners! As you know we are quickly approaching episode 50! We just released episode 48, we have a special episode 49 coming up, and after that is our even specialer Episode 50. For this episode we are requesting rants from our friends and listeners. If you have the means to record [...]
Episode Forty-Eight: SUPERJANK! Hosts: Lexx, JOHNKELLY, Nico, Majdi, Allan Shark Attack 3: Megaladon Main Topic: Super Heroes Are they Relevant? Escapism The Watchmen Civil War What is a Super Hero? Superhero Gaming Allan Arrives!!! Wish Bone Allan’s System of Choice Rants Nico: Woah, woah, woah Majdi: Alternate Universes JOHNKELLY: Dresden Files: Changes (no spoilers) Lexx: [...]
Interview with Vincent Baker at Walking Eye Podcast
The Walking Eye guys did an interview with Vincent Baker after playing In a Wicked Age, Poison’d and Dogs in the Vineyard. It’s a great, engaging interview. Nice job, guys!
Important conflicts, and when to engage the machine
A lot of the "Play" in RPG comes from the use of dice, or some other sort of fate system to discern the outcome of events in game. But learning when to use those mechanics and when to just let things happen can be a very important skill.
Episode Forty-Seven: Let’s Talk Hosts: Timo, JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Todd Timo has no hosting control Timo hates banter Fiasco The Roach Main Topic: Talking Critically about the Game Lots of Metaphors: Baseball, Art, Pie Rants Lexx: Gaming with an Agendy JOHNKELLY: The Roach Timo: Hay Fever Todd: Rants You have been listening to The Jank Cast, [...]
Sweet? I like the Angel comic, even though it often looks like it was drawn by someone attempting to make fun of the actors on the show. Man do they look goofy and deformed. Overall, though, the plots and story arcs have been interesting. Having said that, the sheer ability of anyone to fuck up [...]
Episode Forty-Six: Game Proposal Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Majdi, J.P. CodCon Battletech Pods Disney Quest Topic: Proposing a Game to a Group Tag lines, “Magic Guns all the elves to shoot with them!” White Wolf, according to Majdi, Totally not emo. Timo’s face Houses of the Blooded Green M&Ms make you hornier Rants Majdi: White Wolf [...]
Tonight Timo, Reek, and myself played Fiasco and it was AMAZING. I’m sure we’ll do a full post mortem on the cast this weekend, but I promise you: this is a game to watch. It inspires fantastic storytelling, has a great mechanic, and, what’s more, might be the single best “pick-up” game I’ve ever played [...]
Gaming is 244% inspiration and 304.7% perspiration – Spiro Agnew
Where do you get your inspiration from as a GM? This could obviously be a whole, huge cast topic sometime (and I hope it will be!) but it occurred to me, after the discussion of music in the last episode, that a sizable chunk of my inspiration as a GM is culled from music I [...]
Interview 5: Ryan Macklin on The Dresden Files RPG
Interview 5: Ryan Macklin on The Dresden Files RPG Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Todd Ryan Macklin is from Evil Hat Productions and is the Main Production Manager for the upcoming Dresden Files RPG (to be fully released on June , 2010). The interview was recorded in early January. However Ryan’s introduction was lost after JOHNKELLY got [...]
Episode Forty-Five: Set the Mood Hosts: Todd, JOHNKELLY, Nico (aka Mr. Johnson, like the cock), Majdi, Lexx, Timo Doctor Who Season 5. AMY POND IS HOT! It’s Easter! So there are Easter Eggs in this episode. Main Topic: Ambiance Sorcerer Rob is creepy as fuck. Catholic Joke #1 Catholic Joke #2 LARPing Music in Games [...]
Episode Forty-Four: Consequence in Game Hosts: Scott, JOHNKELLY, Timo, Todd, Majdi, Lexx It’s the Jank Cast’s 1 year anniversary (not mentioned) Todd is editing (not mentioned) Pro-Champion/Woody Confusion about a story. Hot Chip’s ‘I Feel Better’ Majdi: Role-Player and LARPer JP: I did it when I was 14! Main Topic: Consequences in Game Part 1: [...]
Fiction and Mechanics: what limits a players action
A lot of the time, we seem to treat mechanics are the basis of what is or is not possible in a game: if there's a rule that let's me do this, then I can do it. But in the end, it's really the fiction, the story-so-far that tells us what we can or cannot do.
I. Love. Dread. I really do. It’s incredible. I played for the second time tonight and it was fantastic. I love Jenga, I love role-playing, two great tastes, eh? It got me thinking, though… Can you make Jenga pulls “in character.” It’s hard to roll dice in character, but on some level, the Jenga mechanic [...]
Episode Forty-Three: PC/NPC Interactions Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Todd, J.P., Lexx, Dylan Chuck Challengers: Pat and Dal What have we played this week? Magic!, Sorcerer, Supernatural. Magic! the Gathering Food is priority number 3. Dylan sucks at every game he ever plays. Main Topic: PC/NPC Interactions Dylan Arrives SotC Ravenloft Consider Yes Sorcerer Rants Lexx: Magic! [...]
So we get a decent amount of spam comments on our blog here at the Jank Cast but today I found one so incredible that I couldn’t not share it. I found your Blog when I was searching for cthulhu and I need to say, you do a really good job. You article helps me [...]
1) “I Hit It With My Axe,” the new webseries by the “Playing D&D With Porn Stars” people begins today. Watch it here. 2) Hopefully, I’m not the only person who’s watched Lost and thought it felt like someone’s totally awesome campaign of some sweet storytelling-game turned into a TV show? -Todd
First off, the aforementioned kings of geek metal, Slough Feg are coming to Chicago on April 1. If you’re in the area, you should check it out. I’ll be there, and hopefully I’ll post a review, pictures, or something right here. Now, on to the real topic… Hopefully, we can do this topic some justice [...]
MST3K and Haikus- Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together!
MST3K Haikus And, in case you haven’t seen it… Nic Cage as Everyone! I have some actual content coming today or tomorrow. Until then, enjoy those links. -Todd
Episode Forty-Two: Archetypes Host: JOHNKELLY,Rob, Scott, Justin, Todd (he Aces!), Wu Fang (Lexx), Timo Flash Gordon John…Kelly: Savior of the Universe! What we played this week? Apocalypse World (A Po Wo), Sorcerer, Supernatural, Starblazer Adventures, Dungeons and Dragons The Jank Blog (The Jlog) Nico update: Nico loses again. The Wire, Snatch Spartacus/Caligula Canada (colour) Main [...]
First, the wonderful nerd blog io9 posted this. As someone whose free time revolves around metal and gaming, I wanted to comment. First off, I’m going to suggest gaming ambiance for an upcoming cast episode. Music will be in that episode. Stay tuned for that. Generally, I think music at the table is great. There’s [...]
In my previous post (see below) I blamed it all on system. Most systems encourage character investment/building, and have mechanics which don’t lend themselves to single, grand heroic gestures. Timo’s comment got me thinking, though. While that’s all true, this is also about both the players and the GM contributing to a certain kind of [...]
…is by porn stars. Be ashamed, nerds. My question: does this site do more to dispel myths about role-players or porn stars? Either way, get on board. It’s a sweet blog. -Todd
(NOTE: So we’ve been talking about adding some blog content on the Jank Blog here, so this website will now have both the weekly podcast AND various text-only thoughts by the cast members in between podcasts. Let us know if you hate it. The content here will be crossed with the content at chicagolandgames.com ). [...]
Episode Forty-One: Why? Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Todd, Timo, Lexx JOHNKELLY is back. Star Trek the MMO. None of us played RPGs. What. The. Fuck. Upcoming… Starblazer, Apoclapse World, Sorcerer Nico, Timo is sorry. The rest of us laugh at your pain. J.P.’s mom uses hex bags Main Topic: Why do we game? Gaming over writing [...]
Episode Forty: JOHNKELLY!!!!!!!! Hosts: Timo, Allen, Scott, Lexx, Todd Edited by: JOHNKELLY BTW: They didn’t plug the mixer in. (01:30) JOHNKELLY is sick. (02:00) What we played this week: Doctor Who, Starblazer Adventures, Furry Supernatural, Apocalypse World, Bayonetta (05:00) Ron Edwards, Little Ronny, and the forum topic that inspired our topic (06:30) The Forge (10:00) [...]
Episode Thirty-Nine: Not in my House! Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Scott, Nick (01:00) Lexx is at Capricon (01:50) Happy Chinese New Year, Valentines Day and Unattached Drifter Christmas (02:30) Supernatural (Chicagoland’s Living Game) (05:30) What we played this week: Supernatural, Little Fears: Nightmare Edition (06:30) Shout out to Valentines Day: Masturbation Jokes (07:00) Main Topic: Gaming [...]
Interview & Review: Little Fears Interview with Jason Blair, designer of Little Fears and Little Fears: Nightmare Edition Interview: JOHNKELLY and Lexx (36:30) Review of Little Fears: Nightmare Edition Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Rob, Lexx You have been listening to The Jank Cast, copyright 2009 under the creative commons license. You can find out more about us [...]
Due to the drunken Super Bowl weekend haze we managed to overlook recording an episode. So Episode Thirty-Nine is going to be delayed until next week. However this gives us a chance release some awesome stuff! Are you excited?!?! I am!!! Can’t you see how many exclamation points I’m using?!?! This week we will be releasing two [...]
Episode Thirty-Eight: ADMs Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Rick (Mustashio), Lexx (00:30) Degrees of Gayness (01:00)Who is Rick? (02:30) What we played this week: Supernatural, Lexx LARPed, Left 4 Dead 2, Bayonetta, Kafka , Dungeon Lords, Les Miserables: the Arm Joe (03:15) Cloak, and the other good things about Marvel (07:30) Main Topic: Adversarial GMs (18:00) Knights of [...]
Episode Thirty-Seven: Where are you Character? Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Allen, J.P. (00:05) Lexx is dead….not really but he should be. (00:45) What we played this week: Starblazer Adventures, Dungeons and Dragons 4E, Serenity, Supernatural, Bayoneta, Dragonage (02:00) Traditional Gaming Spaces (05:30) Stubbs the Zombie (07:00) Main Topic: Where is your character? (07:50) “I can edit [...]
Episode Thirty-Six: Mechanical Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Kevin, Allen, Todd, Timo (01:20) The Walking Eye (02:00) Des Moines, Iowa (03:40) What did we play this week: Mouse Guard, Batman: Arkham Asylum, D&D 4th Edition, Battle Raper 1 & 2, Spirit of the Century, Supernatural (04:50) What’s wrong with Japan? (09:30) The JOHNKELLY Filter (10:00) The Main [...]
Episode Thirty-Five: Random Encounter! Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Timo, Scott, Todd (01:30) What We Played This Week (02:00) Todd’s Starblazer Adventure’s Game (03:00) J.P.’s Podcast: Unwanted Opinion (11:45) JOHNKELLY’s Supernatural Game (13:00) Full Metal Alchemist (14:15) Main Topic: Creating Interesting Encounters (15:40) Pandas & Koala & Second Edition D&D (16:30) Fear the Boot (17:30) Defining Encounters (48:00) Dresden [...]
Episode Thirty-Four: To Game or Not to Game? Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Allen, Juan, Timo (00:00) “I love short hair Lexx.” (01:55) Allen’s intro (03:00) Timo comes in late (03:15) Juan’s intro (05:45) What did you game this week? (06:00) The Slanket (aka Snuggie) (06:45) Supernatural RPG (08:30) Assassin’s Creed 2/Half Life (12:30) Shard/Furry Discussion (16:15) [...]
Episode Thirty-Three: Preparation GM Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Todd Sponsor: Chicagoland Games (Located at 5550 N. Broadway Avenue, Chicago, IL ) (00:05) Jank is a Dork Word, our new Theme Song (01:30) The Episodes first high five (01:35) Lexx calls out gamer to come to Chicagoland Games on New Year’s Eve (02:00) Holiday Discussion/Canada (04:25) MAIN TOPIC: GM Preparation [...]
Episode Thirty-Two: Kicked in the Jank Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Timo, Jonathan Special Host: Jonathan from Kicked in the Dicebags Epimas Main Topic: DMs Having fun with Crappy Players Jonathan’s Asshole Group Call of Cthulhu Rants Our Rants section contains extra explicit material. We highly suggest you do not listen if you are bellow the age of [...]
Alright, if you have a good Christmas/Holiday gaming story or you just want to rant about Christmas send them to feedback@jankcast.com in mp3 format, no longer than 2 minutes long. They will be featured on a special Christmas episode to be released this holiday season.
Episode Thirty-One: Pass the Stick Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Scott, Todd, Timo SEVEN DEADLY SAINTS by Power Wolf Bat Boy the Musical Main Topic: Story Games Lexx gets academic. Spirit of the Century Sorcerer Dogs in the Vineyard Rants Scott: Cody, this one’s for you Todd: DM railroading Timo: No. JOHNKELLY: Clowns J.P. (replacing Lexx): Story [...]
Episode Thirty: Attack of the Walking Eye!!! Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Lexx and Kevin Special host: Kevin Weiser from The Walking Eye Podcast Dresden Files RPG The Blue Snowball Kicked in the Dicebags Episode 36 Main Topic: GM preparation in Story Driven Games Discussion of the difference between a Story Game and a Story Driven Game Spirit of [...]
Episode Twenty-Nine: Bad Gamer Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Dylan, Lexx V3 = Awesome. ChiTag = Awesome. Paranormal Activity Main Topic: Bad Gamer Traits Rants Lexx: Game Companys JOHNKELLY: A Very Potter Musical Dylan: Indiana/Spiritual Pastafarianism End with a slap. The Jank Cast is copyright 2009. Feel Free to use our content in any non-commercial way. All our [...]
Episode Twenty Eight: New Groups Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Justin, Scott, James Hero Lab Contest: Send in a backstory for either a Fantasy, Sci-Fi and/or Anthropomorphic to win a copy of Hero Lab. 1000 word maximum. Contest ends: 11/22 Shard V3 on November 21, 10 am to midnight: JOHNKELLY is running Black Cadillics, Dogs in the [...]
Episode Twenty Seven: You Lose Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, Scott, John Scott is back from China! We beat Ghost Stories. Hero Lab Contest: Send in a backstory for either a Fantasy, Sci-Fi and/or Anthropomorphic to win a copy of Hero Lab. 1000 word maximum. Contest ends: 11/22 Main Topic: When is it okay to lose? RPG.net [...]
Since we started the Jank Cast has been releasing our episodes on Sundays between 9 PM and Midnight. However, since we record our content on Sundays, in fact, the Sunday we release it on, I usually end up spending the entire day editing after recording. From now on you will get our weekly episodes on [...]
Episode Twenty Six: Vamps Hosts: JOHNKELLY, J.P., Lexx Out mixer is broken. Forgive our sound quality for this week and the next few weeks. The Walking Eye Hero Lab Contest: Send in a backstory for either a Fantasy, Sci-Fi or Anthropomorphic to win a copy of Hero Lab. 1000 word maximum. Contest ends: 11/22 Win [...]
Episode Twenty Five: Second Chance Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, Dylan, Lexx, Mike the Pro-Champion Our quality this episode is pretty bad beacuse our mixer broke. Please forgive us, it’ll be better by next episode with any luck. Buy our new T-Shirts or Beer Stein! Or buy the expensive one so we can buy bling! Hero Lab [...]
An interview with Steve Townshend RPG Meetup Chicago set up this event, special thanks to Nate Here is a list of questions that Steve was asked: 1. Tell us about your history in playing D&D. 2. Tell us about your writing background. 3. How do you bring your writing style into your campaign? 4. What [...]
Episode 24: th Edition Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, The Great Old One (Scott), Lexx JOHNKELLY’s most romantic date ever Come January something will happen at Chicagoland Games. Timo was gone, now he is back. Main Topic: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Initial Impressions Rants Timo: “I missed GenCon!!!” Scott: Overly Complex Game Systems Lexx: Veteran Players [...]
Episode Twenty Three: point five Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Lexx, Brandan Contest Winners: Brandan (Pirate Killing Ninja), Mike (Pro-Champion) Brandan made Dragon Ball Z characters for Arkham Horror. Mike composed a wonderful ballad for the Jank Cast which will soon be our theme song. What did we play this week? Aces and Eights, Battlestar Galatica, Battle [...]
Hosts: Lexx, JOHNKELLY, Scott, Sex E. Beast (J.P.), Woody What Games did we play this week? D&D 4E, Ghost Stories, Battlestar Galatica, Space Hulk, Warhammer 40K Main Topic: Dungeons and Dragons Discussion part 1 Woody replaces J.P. We talk about Dungeons and Dragons, what it means to us, how we were introduced and how it [...]
Episode Twenty One: ? Hosts: JOHNKELLY, J.P., Dylan, Lexx, Ben Question Contest Answers!!! We answer questions from our first contest. Rants Ben: Shut up JOHNKELLY: Microwaves J.P.: Belief Lexx: Yuzong Vong Dylan: Why I gotta be intelligent? The Jank Cast is copyright 2009. Feel Free to use our content in any non-commercial way. All our [...]
Episode 20: GenCon Wooooooooo Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Scott, Lexx We reached 20 Episdoes! We didn’t mention this in the episode! Both the Arkham Fanboy character contest and the Jank Cast Lyrics contest will end on August 30th at midnight. Send entrys to contests@jankcast.com Chicagoland Games, V3 Gaming Convention and Spooky Outhouse are mentioned in the Fan [...]
Episode Nineteen: GenCon MFers! Hosts: Lexx, JOHNKELLY, Scott, Dylan This is our most professional episode yet. Hells to the yeah. Supernatural What do you want to do at GenCon? Scott - Battle Tech, Legend of the 5 Rings RPG, Dominion Intrigue, Battlestar Galatica Pegasus, DAWG! and Hack Master, and mad roll some dice JOHNKELLY – [...]
The Jank Cast Episode Eighteen: Hi, My Name is… Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Kevin, Lexx, Scott Yay Scott is back from China! Jank Cast Contest #1: Make a Jank Cast Contest #2: Come see D-9 at GenCon with us! For more info e-mail me at johnkelly@jankcast.com What games have we played this week: Star Wars Saga Edition, [...]
Episode Seventeen: The Villian Cast Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Tom, Dylan, Lexx, Reek, Autumn A bit about Tom A bit about Timo Games we played this week: Serenity, Call of Cthulhu, Spirit of the Century, Dugeons and Dragons, and modeling. 1d20: JOHNKELLY (12), Tom (2), Lexx(7), Reek(6), Autumn (13), Dylan (3) Main Topic: Villians Lexx insults Christianity [...]
Review Episode Three: Battlestar Galactica the Board Game Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx Battlestar Spoilers through Season 3, Episode 6 Chicago Boardgames Meetup Group. Go Nate! The @Spot Cafe Battlestar Galactica The Pegasus Expansion Middle Earth Quest Enjoy the Game & Go Roll some dice! The Jank Cast is copyright 2009. Feel Free to use our content [...]
Corey Konieczka from Fantasy Flight Games at the @Spot Cafe Special thanks to Nate and the Chicago Boardgames Meetup Group for setting this whole shindig up! Massive Apologies for the poor sound quality and the sound of people making delicious drinks and food. Part One: Fantasy Flight & Corey Konieczka General The Questions How did [...]
Episode Sixteen: The Felony Cast Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Lexx, J.P., Woody Jank Cast Contest #1: Send lyrics for a Jank Cast theme to contests@jankcast.com to win a $25 gift certificate and the chance to punch JOHNKELLY Jank Cast Contest #2: Send a set of Arkham Horror characters to contests@jankcast.com to win a $25 gift certificate, an [...]
The Jank Cast Episode 15: TV taught me to Game Hosts: JOHNKELLY, Timo, JP, Autumn, Scott Jank Cast Contest #1: Send lyrics for a Jank Cast theme to contests@jankcast.com to win a $25 gift certificate and the chance to punch JOHNKELLY Jank Cast Contest #2: Send a set of Arkham Horror characters to contests@jankcast.com to [...]
