Ryan talks with Jason Morningstar & Steve Segedy of Bully Pulpit Games, about The Shab-al-Hiri Roach and the design & production issues with making a role-playing game that involves a custom deck of cards. Ryan also talks about changes he's planning on making with the format of Master Plan, brings back his Design Watch segment for a brief moment and talks about how to find two things: him at GenCon and other podcasts on the Internet.

Bully Pulpit Games Interview

• Bully Pulpit Games
• The Shab-al-Hiri Roach
• Grey Ranks
• The Roach Returns
• Mad Irishman Productions
• Alphagraphics
• Lulu

All these games should be available at GenCon at The Forge Booth/Indie Press Revolution (booth #1739).

Design Watch

• Daniel Solis' single-blog-post summary of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
• All of his blog posts tags as "Do"
• Stargate SG-1 (Wikipedia)
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Buddhism (Wikipedia)
• Dear Abby (Wikipedia)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Wikipedia)

Other Mentions

• RPGPodcasts.com -- A directory of audio and video shows about role-playing games and other games, all freely available on the Internet.
• Forum post about finding me at GenCon, which includes some of the podcaster panels, the Ashcan Front, and the Gaming Podcasting Party on Saturday night.
• Goblin: The Gaming Broadcast Network
• Have Games, Will Travel
• The Voice of the Revolution

Running time: 29:37 / File size: 20.3 MB

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Mike Sugarbaker & Paul Tevis sit down with Ryan at Go Play Northwest on Saturday evening and talk about the design collective they've put together. Paul & Ryan talk about playtesting at the convention, and all three talk about how they've set up the collective and what they've been getting out of it.

Master Mines

• The website
• The mission statement & rules
• A Penny for my Thoughts by Paul Tevis
• Know Thyself by Ryan Macklin
• Outside Men by Mike Sugarbaker
• Kingdom of Nothing by Jeff Himmelman

Master Mines members podcasts:

• Mike Sugarbaker: OgreCave Audio Report
• Paul Tevis: (ENnie Award nominated) Have Games, Will Travel & The Voice of the Revolution
• Daniel M. Perez: The Gamer Traveler
• Jeff Himmelman: Gamer: The Podcasting
• Chris Perrin/commondialog: Canon Puncture
• and, of course, my own Master Plan

Other design collectives (all on WordPress):

• Secret Wars
• HQ Unicron
• Splitting the Party

Other mentions:

• Finis: A Book of Endings to Give People New Beginnings
• Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill (wikipedia)
• Ashcan Front
• Wordpress
• Go Play Northwest
• Endgame Minicon
• Game Chef
• Skype
• The Butcher Block
• The Durham 3

Running time: 29 minutes, 02 seconds / File size: 27.2 MB

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