Happy New Year!

It's happened, everyone! We've been making this podcast for a year. A whole year! (Give or take a few days, yadda yadda.) It's crazy. Looking back at older episodes, I remember discussions we had where I honestly felt like we had a pretty good handle on podcasting and where the show was going and so on, but then I look back and that was like episode eight or something. It's crazy how far we've come!

This episode brings back an old friend- Justin from Crit Academy! He was kind enough to help us ring in the new year as we go through a handful of my own discussion questions I posted to Facebook and Twitter and Reddit in 2017. We get into some fun discussion about characters, games, gods, monsters, wishes, dead celebrities, the whole gamut. So come along for the ride!

I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to all of our listeners over the past year, and more importantly, all of the contributors who have sent in questions, items, and stories for us to discuss. We wouldn't have a podcast without all of you, so thank you so much! You all are so great and we here at the podcast appreciate each and every one of you.

So have a great year. :-)

Episode 50: New Year's Podcast

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Questions answered this episode:

1. What's your favorite magic item?

2. What is your favorite class to play, and why?

3. Aside from D&D, what tabletop roleplaying games have you played?

4. What gaming podcasts, if any, do you listen to?

5. What do you consider the best alignment, and why?

6. Does your group keep track of things like food/water, carrying capacity, and cost of living? How do you feel about it?

7. Have you (or has your DM) ever twisted a Wish spell against the player? What was the Wish, and how did you twist it? Also, why did you twist it?

8. What mythological creature would you like to see in a tabletop game?

9. PCs meeting/fighting gods. Yea or nay?

10. What is your LEAST favorite magic item?

11. What movie would you like to see made into an RPG? Conversely, what RPG would you like to see made into a movie?

12. What is your ideal group size?

13. What is your favorite D&D-themed video game, and why?

14. If you could play the tabletop game of your choice with anyone, living or dead, what would you play and who would you play with?

15. How long are your play sessions? Is that ideal, or would you rather they be longer or shorter?

16. Seating and snacks. What makes for a good, comfortable gaming environment?


17. What is a character class or archetype that you never play? And why do you never play it?

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Roleplaying Games mentioned in this episode:

Mutants & Masterminds

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness

The Mountain Witch

Dogs in the Vineyard

Pathfinder

Correlya

GURPS

Gamma World

Gateway

13th Age

Fate Accelerated Edition


Podcasts mentioned in this episode:

Crit Academy

D&D Character Lab

Adventures in Erylia

Hearty Dice Friends

The Film Reroll

The Adventure Zone

Retronauts

The Short Game

Anything from the Duckfeed.tv network (Watch Out For Fireballs!, Abject Suffering, Check It Out, Comrade, Bonfireside Chat, Days of Future Cast, and Monster in My Podcast in particular)

Godsfall


Other noteworthy links:

Jzadirune, an abandoned gnomish city from the Shackled City adventure path

Scylla and Charybdis, an encounter from The Odyssey by Homer

Shadow of the Colossus, an open-world game where you fight exclusively gigantic boss enemies

Discworld (and the World Turtle) by Terry Pratchett

Groundhog Day, an amazing movie starring Bill Murray

Arrowhead of Total Destruction (a schematic for a weapon involving an arrow, a bag of holding, and a portable hole)

Eragon, a book series by Christopher Paolini

Monkey Island, a game series where swordfighting involves learning insults and comebacks

Neverwinter Nights, a computer game using the D&D ruleset by Bioware

Jim Varney, actor who played the unforgettable TV & movie character Ernest

Garry Kasparov, world chess champion

The Death Knight's Squire, a solo D&D adventure from Dungeon Masters Guild

Now & Later candies, my go-to candy when I was in high school

A photo of the actual fridge in my basement

Dragonball Z