Friday, January 15, 2016

The CVG Actual Play & Community Theater Podcast 009 - The "Baker Street" One-Shot: The Adventure of the Empty Warehouse!




Episode 9 of The CVG Actual Play & Community Theater Podcast is up and in stores near you (i.e. iTunes)!  

Remember: it's on a different feed from The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue, so you will need to subscribe to this feed separately if you're into it!


The game this time is a one-shot of Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes from Fearlight Games!

It's The Adventure of the Empty Warehouse!

Be sure to listen to game designer Bryce Whitacre appearing on Episode 16 of 
The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue.

Ladies & Gentlemen...
Sgt. Biggles McGillicudy!











Never f*** with an antiques dealer

Music:  "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #016: Baby Please Come Holmes!

Episode Sixteen of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.  

We've got a three-pipe pod for you this month and it's all about mysteries and Holmesian gaming!

0:00:00 Intros
0:01:10 The Up Front: On the Tyranny of Excellence and Just Watching The Damn Movie Already
0:04:57 The Interview:  Game designer Bryce Whitacre clues us in on Baker Street, muses why Sherlock is a cultural touchstone, and takes on the Geek-del Test!

0:29:26 The Roundtable:  Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack discuss mysteries in RPGs, steal a time-honored podcast game, and bear witness to a drive-by gifting...
2:04:29 The Community Calendar and
 The Monthly Marathon: I'm still stuck in Season Two of Twin Peaks, but I'll start watching Dune right away too

2:08:39 Outro & Credits

Some Show Notes and Links!

Catch 22

The Village


Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes from Fearlight Games


Also by Bryce Whitacre:  Colonial Gothic: The Defeated Dead


Go read some Sherlock Holmes!


More on Sidney Paget


221B Baker Street (The Boardgame!)


Gumshoe


Call of Cthulhu


Coffins & Tombstones


Why not get your Jeremy Brett on?  Or maybe your Benedict Cumberbatch or your Robert Downey Jr.?


More on Jack The Ripper


Check out the Baker Street RPG Google Group and Fearlight Games Facebook Page!


Reach out to Bryce directly here!


A search for Detectives!


Obsidian Portal


Delta Green


Conspiracy X


Paranoia


Tunnel and Trolls






Speak Friend and Enter...

Clue as simple as a candle


Star Trek 3D Chess  (See the rules here)


Young Sherlock Holmes


The Philo Vance Mysteries


And now a round of One True Three from the Tell 'Em Steve Dave podcast...


Check out the original game here!


Based on our own One True Three stories, it appears the CVG staff has some generalized authority issues...






























Good old fashioned pancakes!

The Dresden Files

Dave Robicheaux


Longmire


Ladies and Gentlemen, Dixon Hill:


Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe


Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons


Murder by Death


Nemo: Heart of Ice by Alan Moore


Adventures in Oz:  Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond The Yellow Brick Road by F. Douglas Wall and Amanda Webb


Here's the Atomic Array all about Adventures in Oz


The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "sleigh bells.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Smashing #1.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Noncommercial license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Musical Snow Globe - We Wish You A Merry Christmas", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.


My kind of detective...