Dread: It's like 80's night, with Zombies!

You never know what sort of concepts will set your players off and during this game session I found out one such "button" for one of my on-again-off-again gaming groups: Zombie Apocolypse...in the 80s!

The moment they heard this the radio was tuned to an all-80's channel, hair was tousled...costumes were worn. I was frightened.

The game was Dread (a jenga-based, horror rpg) and I was trying it out with something fairly simple and straightforward and I set it in the early 80s to take advantage of Cold War paranoia...I did not know what I was getting myself into.

You can listen to the game here

Still on the lookout for playtesters for Battle Royale!

Podcast of Magnitude: part 1

So here's part of the recording from the game last Sunday. I'm splitting the audio into chunks to help speed things up. This is the first part of the game where we wait for everyone to show up and then battle a giant rust monster in the jungles of Xendrik. By the way if you want to skip straight to the gameplay that starts about 20 minutes in. 

I've made some effort to bleep the dialogue but it's always possible some profanity slipped through so be warned if that's something you find offensive. I also apologize for the fan noise in the background. In future I'll try and make sure we don't have that in the same room as we are. 

Here we go!

Order of Magnitude Sound!

In preparation for plans to record playtesting for PDQ-Fu I've done some experimental recording with the Order. Although the cheap microphone I purchased for this turned out to be amazingly bad at picking up anything I did find that the tiny, built-in microphone for my mp3 player is actually fairly impressive. 

So, just to share here's a snippet (ran out of memory storage on the player) of our last game session. You'll get to see what I have to put up with. Just a word of warning there's some swearing. This is my first attempt at any audio editing so hopefully I'll learn bit by bit how to make higher quality recordings for the future.

Click here for the madness