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The GMS Magazine Podcast Episode 104–The Nazi Occult and Star Wars RPG reviews

This episode brings two reviews. One about a game I have been looking forward for a long, long time, and another about a book I wasn’t expecting to enjoy!

And also some announcement about our 3rd anniversary. On the 21st of July G*M*S Magazine will turn 3 years old. It’s been a long time now and the site has now more than 1500 news, reviews and articles and things keep coming and changing. And some changes to come. But first a pretty huge giveaway with quite a few role playing games and boardgames.

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Tips on creating moments of high drama in an RPG

It might sound like a bad thing to say but let’s face it; a lot of roleplaying games are really two-dimensional. You have sword fights, defeat the monsters and bad guys, solve mysteries and blast about in high-spec ships popping bolts of light at the enemy. There’s magic and explosions and lasers and bombs and monsters and…. that’s pretty much it.

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UK Games Expo Seminar: Write your own Roleplaying Game

Pretty much any and every roleplaying gamer has, at some point, wanted or thought about write an RPG. And most

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The GMS Magazine Podcast Episode 103–Obatron Productions with Vickey and Robert Beaver

This episode brings you an interview with Vickey and Robert Beaver from Obatron Productions.

You might know Vickey as she is a regular in the show and co-hosts the RPG episodes, but I wanted to have them both to talk about their company and recent Kickstarter for their Savage Worlds campaign setting Tunse’al.

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The GMS Magazine Podcast Episode 102–I Am Zombie with Mark Rein-Hagen

It is no secret that I like zombies. If they were real, I’d pet them. However, even I must admit that in the last few years they’ve been done to death and even the latest TV series based on successful comic books use them as a means to study human relationships and introspection, not as a credible enemy unless they’re for opportunistic plot advancement.

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Andrew Hackard, from Steve Jackson Games, at the UK Games Expo

Steve Jackson is one of the most famous names in gaming. Two extremely influential game designers and entrepreneurs share the name though they live on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Therefore having someone at the UK Games Expo who could give us a glimpse into what it is like to run the company that brought us Munchkin, GURPS and many others was a real treat.

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The GMS Magazine Podcast Episode 99–Game Knights with Javier Palenzuela

Gaming can manifest in many ways and it can make us do some very strange things, like web series.

We have had other web series in the past when we had Joanna Gaskell for an interview about her web series, and now we have another producer with a very different offering.

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Arrows of Indra is now available in print

Arrows of Indra is an RPG based on the original and most popular fantasy roleplaying rules; for old-school heroic fantasy

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The GMS Magazine Podcast Episode 94–Shadowlands with Chris Merwin

Although not everyone is keen on Kickstarter, it can’t be argued that it has helped a lot of projects that otherwise wouldn’t have seen the light of day.

Whether that is a good thing or not, depends on how much you like those products and whether those products are out already or not.

Shadowland is a weird mix of both circumstances.

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The GMS Magazine Podcast Episode 92–Crit Juice!

In this rather awesome episode, I bring you Matt Buchholtz, the second more difficult to pronounce surname I’ve ever had in the podcast, and the first member from the Crit Juice actual play podcast to come and talk to me.

Crit Juice is a actual-play podcast with a difference or two, though.

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