Radio ISB #002
Reactions to the first one were pretty positive, so prepare your speakers for a punch in the face:
Radio ISB #002 is On The Air! (Rocking out for 15 minutes at 64kbps, for a trim 7 MB filesize)
Topics for today include how to boost your self-esteem in one easy step, Matt Fraction's Rex Mantooth!, and a look at the DC Universe RPG's Swamp Thing supplement.
I don't know if I'm going to keep doing these weekly--or really if I'm going to keep doing them--but I'm definitely in for at least one more. And as you might guess, it'll be a Christmas Special.
Show Notes:
The Annotated Mantooth!
on Amazon.comMike "Sugarbear" Sterling's Progressive Ruin (and my favorite of his recent posts)
Update! Sterling also took a look at the Swamp Thing RPG a few years back. He couldn't believe it either.
The Music:
Intro: The Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)
Break: Art Brut - Good Weekend
Outro: Manic Street Preachers - P.C.P.
posted by Chris Sims at 12/08/2006 11:59:00 PM
8 Comments:
Loved the podcast, Chris!
As a big fan of the DCHeroes RPG (not the DC Universe RPG, there is a distinction...), I own almost everything ever made for both 1st and 2nd edition of the game. I even still GM a campaign based on the post-Crisis 80s DCU (even went so far as involving the characters in the ridiculous Millenium crossover, in our version, they're the ones who kept Extrano from killing himself - and pretty sorry about it too - and stole Booster Gold's thunder - a recurring theme - meh it was a good excuse to kick Manhunters in the face)... Where was I?
Oh yeah, I do own the Swamp Thing supplement, but not being a fan of Choose Your Own Adventure (TM), I never read it. (The stats for Swamp Thing villains and friends is fine though.) I dug it out because I couldn't believe what you were saying. It's all true folks. God, I wish it weren't. I still don't know if I'm gonna pawn that watch...
Looking through my collection, Ray Winniger is responsible for a number of adventures. There's a pretty good Justice League International vs. Wotan + Abnagazar, Rath and Gast that all ends in Batman's head, though the puzzles to get to the end are a little ridiculous.
There's an ok Outsiders vs. Kobra story taking place in Hollywood. When I say ok, I mean lame.
And I have an unread Watchmen adventure called Taking Out the Trash, which I'm not afraid to look at in case it's literally what it's about. I haven't been that unsettled by a Swamp Thing story since The Anatomy Lesson...
12/09/2006 11:53 AM
So is the Swamp Thing supplement in question actually a DC Heroes RPG supplement, or DC Universe?
DC Heroes did have some good ones, and on awfully obscure topics, sometimes. IIRC, the Hex! (Yes, based on the Jonah Hex post-apocalypse thing) solo adventure was actually pretty good.
The Ambush Bug adventure is almost as awesome as the Ambush Bug comics, and introduced my favorite rules modification - that instead of the 5 or 6 Villain Motivations listed in the rules, they can better be broken into two:
1. Villains who say "Bah!"
2. Villains who don't say "Bah!"
12/09/2006 12:42 PM
Glad you got Mantooth Fever, Chris! I think it's the funniest thing Fraction's ever done, though that "please don't let me die at the hands of cutesy little robots" comes close.
12/09/2006 2:46 PM
Hi Dave,
It IS DCHeroes, came out just before the Magic Sourcebook, IIRC.
And you're right. Ambush Bug - Don't Ask! is bar none, THE DCH product. You don'T have to be a gamer to enjoy it.
Where else can you get kid versions of Deadman and the Spectre? Love that thing. In fact, it guaranteed that I would be all the DCH stuff I did.
Have yet to run it though... I think it may tend to be lost a little on players who aren't has knowledgeable of the DCU (that's why I'm setting up Deadman, et al in pre-games).
12/09/2006 4:01 PM
Wow. I thought me and my nerd frirnds were the last people alive still playing DC Heroes. Great system. We've actually got a current game going on set in Louisville, KY. As you might imagine, several of the villains are indeed redneck methheads.
Awesome cast by the way, Sims. Keep this up and I might have to start breaking the 'no-internet rule' at work just to hear your dulcet tones.
12/09/2006 7:58 PM
Hi. Does anybody have a link to share Magic Sourcebook?
1/28/2007 2:03 AM
I had been waitiing for this for a long long time. I even thought I was never gonna get my dream. Radio ISB will be so succesful, I'm sure about that.
5/20/2011 10:25 AM
I had been waiting for this for a long long time. I even thought I was never gonna get my dream. Radio ISB will be so succesful, I'm sure about that.
5/20/2011 10:25 AM
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