http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com Season 2: Fred Hicks (publisher) and Chris Hanrahan (retailer) talk about gaming, the hobby industry, marketing, customer service, retail, and more. en Copyright by Evil Hat Productions, LLC. roll@evilhat.com (Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan) Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:53:00 GMT 180 Evil Hat's In-House Podcast evil hat, rpg, gaming, dresden files, spirit of the century, don't rest your head http://libsyn.com/podcasts/thatshowweroll/images/thwrlogo-small.jpg http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490118#
All timestamps very approximate.

1 min - Fred and Chris talk about WOTC's decision to take their PDFs off the market.

7 min - Fred talks about the Evil Hat PDF philosophy

13 min - Fred finally gets to the Evil Hat PDF Guarantee

18 min - Catalyst games is trying to get PDFs and retailers working together too

19 min - A bad economy is an opportunity. It's time to innovate.

20 min - Loop back around to D&D again: how has D&D Insider (DDI) affected the picture?

31 min - Wrap-up on the PDF/DDI topic. Send us your thoughts!

32 min - Chris is going to Origins, but Fred isn't. He has a good excuse.

34 min - IPR isn't going either

38 min - Let's give the Forge booth its props: it wasn't easy

40 min - What's the future of Origins?

41 min - Dreamation/Dexcon: East Coast awesome, but not really a big con

42 min - Actual predictions about Origins get made; then we sing its praises

49 min - Wrap-up on the predictioneering

51 min - Let's talk about mini-cons: Good Omens is coming to Endgame in July

53 min - Endgame's minicons in general

54 min - So let's talk about mini-con how-to's for retailers...

55 min - ... only not, because we need to talk about community-building first.

59 min - "A clean, well-lit place to play"

61 min - Going beyond the physical

62 min - The trap of distribution. It's not the one you're thinking of.

64 min - It's all about communication ... and it looks like mind control will be the topic of the next show.

65 min - Cliffhanger wrap-up!
]]> podcasts Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:53:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490118# roll@evilhat.com 01:06:12 gaming, game industry, rpgs, publishing, marketing, customer service That's How We Roll Season 2 - Episode 1 - The Digital Delve Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=488377# That's How We Roll in the coming months. With season 2 of THWR on the horizon, it's time for a reroll.
]]> podcasts Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:27:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=488377# roll@evilhat.com 00:18:14 That's How We Roll Season 2 - Episode 0 - Time For a Reroll Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=372931# 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.

Part 2 of this conversation veers off of Evil Hat specifics (mostly), taking a walk through all number of topics, including a shared love of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons. ]]> podcasts - out of town Mon, 1 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=372931# 00:36:37 evil hat, spirit of the century, d&d, 4e That's How We Roll Out of Town #3: House of Hanrahan, Part 2 Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=372929# 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.

Part 1 of this conversation focuses mostly on Evil Hat things -- though in the House of Hanrahan, things do tend to get a bit random here and there...
]]> podcasts - out of town Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:33:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=372929# 00:46:07 evil hat, spirit of the century, don't lose your mind That's How We Roll Out of Town #2: House of Hanrahan, Part 1 Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=363322#
On this episode, we sit down at Origins 2008 with "Have Games, Will Travel" podcaster Paul Tevis to talk about the value of ending things.
]]> podcasts - out of town Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:51:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=363322# 00:23:01 evil hat That's How We Roll Out of Town #1: Endings, with Paul Tevis Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=339804# Dresden Files RPG, as well as a discussion about differing perspectives on Vincent Baker's In a Wicked Age.
]]> podcasts - under the hat Fri, 16 May 2008 01:13:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=339804# 00:32:44 dresden files rpg, jim butcher, evil hat That's How We Roll Under the Hat #4: The Mayor of Las Vegas, Part 2 Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=336154# ]]> podcasts - under the hat Mon, 5 May 2008 19:05:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=336154# 00:45:38 evil hat, rpgs, insider chat, industry, dresden files, spirit of the century That's How We Roll Under the Hat #3: The Major of Las Vegas Part 1 Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=333841#
No show notes for the moment!  In the interests of putting out something super-current, Fred's skipping that part for now.  We're podcasting without a net, baby!
]]> podcasts - under the hat Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:31:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=333841# 01:08:36 evil hat, rpgs, insider chat, ipr, industry, dresden files, spirit of the century That's How We Roll Under the Hat #2: That's How We Roll 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction (GTS Wrap-Up) Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=306591#
If you've ever wondered what's going on "under the Hat", here's your first peek.  Have a listen.
]]> podcasts - under the hat Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:49:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=306591# 01:11:33 evil hat, rpgs, insider chat, mush, mushing, dresden files That's How We Roll Under the Table #1: Evil Hat Convocation Roundtable Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=304503# did follow this but did not make for good radio -- lots of silent scratching on character sheets and such.  So our next episode will carry a snippet of play from the first session.  Stay tuned!
]]> podcasts - at the table Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:08:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=304503# 01:04:21 evil hat, rpgs, fate, actual play That's How We Roll At the Table #3: Faith, Faces & Fingerprints Setting Creation Part 3 Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=303879# Faith, Faces, & Fingerprints setting creation session.  Unlike the first recording you heard, this gets into the "main sequence", where a sort of organic "freeform round-robin" question and answer session gives everyone a chance to get their priorities for the setting baked into the details.

This worked pretty well. The idea of folks who've answered questions taking a coin that prevents them from answering further ones definitely helped to make sure everyone got a chance to contribute; but we exercised a liberal "embellishment policy" that gave room for some enthusiastic discussion of the answers that were offered.
]]> podcasts - at the table Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:47:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=303879# 00:50:59 evil hat, rpgs, fate, actual play That's How We Roll At the Table #2: Faith, Faces & Fingerprints Setting Creation Part 2 Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=301994# Escape or Die! at Dreamation 2008.  You may recognize podcasters Remi Treuer (of the Durham Three) and Rob Bohl (of the Independent Insurgency) as two of the player voices.

Escape or Die! is currently in playtest and has a few hurdles to cross before publication, but you should be able to get a pretty good idea of how it plays from listening to this.  The idea is simple: you're in a highly lethal escape movie where the only options are, indeed, to escape or die.  The catch with the game is that it's run on the clock, putting a lot of pressure on players to narrate circumstances and push their characters forward quickly before their doom catches up with them.  In play, this makes the game almost a "real-time RPG", in that it lasts about as long as the movies it emulates.

Like a big dork, I turned off the recorder before I got a bunch of feedback from the folks who played -- but I got a chance later in the weekend (unrecorded) to put a few of their suggestions into practice to good effect.
]]> podcasts - in the lab Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:28:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=301994# 02:04:46 evil hat, rpgs, playtest, in the lab, escape or die! That's How We Roll In the Lab #1: Dreamation 2008 Escape or Die! Playtest - Complete Session Yes http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=299651# ]]> podcasts - at the table Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://thatshowweroll.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=299651# 01:08:08 rpgs, evil hat productions That's How We Roll At the Table 001: Faith, Faces & Fingerprints Setting Creation Pt. 1 Yes