Save vs. Awesome
We just got back from Vegas. And now Dale wants to change the location of our breezy spy caper game. Plus, we got an email from someone who wants us to switch to Dubai. So we revisit the topic of location.
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We embark on a bold new experiment this week: creating a campaign from scratch. We talk about our likes and dislikes, drag out some ideas, make sure to tell each other our safewords, and create some sort of campaign from whole cloth.
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We’ve already done the best of the decade, so let’s rewind a bit and touch on the best geek media of 2009. It was a banner year - no, who are we kidding? 2009 was adequate. We express our adequateness of the year.
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It’s been over for weeks. We’re not that well informed about what happened there. But that doesn’t stop us from talking about it! We also talk about Torchwood and Futurama.
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We geek out over sci-fi television.
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Everyone loves lists. So we made one of our Top 20 Geek Things in 2008. Mark becomes angry when Jim and Chris nominate non-geek things to the list, even though Mark himself nominated lots of non-geek stuff. Dale waffles on how he would rate things. It’s nothing but a big, dumb argument. Think of something [...]
A variety of topics are discussed, starting with everyone’s favorite topic: girls. We rate our top five Women of Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Dale misunderstands the directions and Mark embarrasses himself by not getting Dale’s references. Then, we talk about alternate history games, which Chris keeps insisting on calling “alternative” histories.
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It’s the first episode of THACO and we start out in grand form. To kick off, we talk about our Critical Hits and Critical Fumbles tables. Everyone submits one Hit and one Fumble and then we go around the table taking suggestions for others. Finally, we rank our selections in some sort of order. It [...]