In this episode, we all disagree about what roll-playing vs. role-playing is. In the Three Parter, Ethan forgets what he wants to talk about, Jeremy does a three part PDF review with The Gamer’s Cookbook, … And Our Tummies Growled, and briefly touches on Magic of the Old West, Strongholds I: The Basics, and Bride of Portable Hole, and Nathan talks a bit about Champions Online: Free For All.
Total Running Time on this episode is 94 minutes.
About The Gamer’s Cookbook
Gamers have a bad habit of stuffing their faces when they game, and most of what they use for stuffing is junk food. And when they do eat something remotely considered a decent meal, they tend to go for expensive take-out; pizza, hoagies, cheesesteaks, chinese, fast food, etc.
This short cookbook provides you with a small selection inexpensive recipes that most gamers seem to like. Along with being cheap (costing between $0.82 and $3.00 per person to prepare), these are mostly easy to make, if not fast to prepare, with most of them taking less than a half hour to prepare. Best of all, it isn’t the greasy, fat-filled, high-calorie dietary nightmare they usually consume.
Just remember, before attempting any of these recipes, make sure you have an appropriately large pot, something along the lines of 12 to 15 quarts. Otherwise, you may find a tendency to end up with a few servings being fed to your stove and counter. These recipes have been taste tested and found suitable for use on all forms of starving artists, underfed college students, tabletop gamers, youth athletic teams, and some small military units.
This product is a test marketing product designed to test the market interest for this sort of product.
One final note. This is written by a US resident and uses ingredients common here in the United States and Canada. Don’t foolishly assume any cookbook available online is written according to ingredient availability at your own local grocery store. I have enough bad reviews by residents of other continents angry that they made such an assumption and bought a cookbook they can’t use.
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About … And Our Tummies Growled
Being hungry isn?t fun, whether it’s a character or a player. Unfortunately, you can?t just say ?I eat my rations? and be done with it. That’s where this cookbook comes in.
Getting together with a group of friends to game is just like any other activity – food almost always gets involved. Many game sessions run after work, during some meal time, or you simply like to snack while you play. This cookbook is a collection of recipes the author has used for her own gaming sessions and other casual entertaining. There are 35 recipes, one per page, and many have suggestions for variations on the dish.
All the recipes in …And Their Tummies Growled are designed to be cooked quickly the day of the game, in a crockpot, or can be done in advance when you have more time. Some of them actually taste better the day after they?re made. None of them require fancy equipment (unless you call a crockpot, food processor or a blender fancy), nor do they have complicated techniques. Additionally, each recipe should cost $3 or less per person, if you buy inexpensive or on sale ingredients.
…And Their Tummies Growled is compatable with Acrobat Reader 4.0, and comes in a zip file containing the recipes and two versions of the cover (one in full color, the other greyscale) in seperate PDF’s.
The 10 page demo is compatable with Acrobat Reader 5.0, and contains the greyscale cover, table of contents, introduction and four recipes.
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About Magic of the Old West
Cowboys who rely on magic often have their own needs that cannot be met by otherwise more commonly recognized weapons and other items. “Magic of the Old West” includes a variety of magical firearms and accessories to help add flavor to cowboy heroes as they gain levels and power.
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About Strongholds I: Basics
Why have a stronghold? Your character works hard for his money – plundering tombs, killing things and taking their stuff, accomplishing dangerous feats of derring-do. So why would he spend his money on a building rather than on a shiny new suit of armor or a magical sword?
A stronghold gives you benefits which are designed to be equal to or superior to the equivalent expenditure in arms and equipment. These benefits grant you resources, bonuses, powers, and abilities which directly affect you, and which make your tomb-raiding easier.
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About Bride of Portable Hole
Bigger and Better Don’t let anyone else tell you different, it’s as you always suspected in your deepest fears. Size matters, and there’s no denying it. That’s why the peeps over at EN Publishing have upgraded and enlarged the Portable Hole Full of Beer, and are re-releasing it as Bride of Portable Hole: The Book of Neurotic Fantasy. We’ve combined the contents of Ambient Inc.’s 2002 ENnie Award-winning Portable Hole Full of Beer: this product contains no alcohol with EN Publishing’s 2003 sequel, Son of a Portable Hole, updated the stats, and added new content to create this daunting, Anatomically Over-Endowed PDF with 174 pages of hilarious content! Bride of Portable Hole- The Book of Neurotic Fantasy includes:
* The Eric and the Dread Gazebo story, and stats for the Gazebo itself
* Librum Perflagitiosus Equitis: The Book of Very Shameful Cavaliers with 18 Prestige Classes and an NPC class. New content includes the Twit, The Pony Girl, and the Flunky.
* Ye Mighty Book o’ Feates: 24 Feats including new content from the upcoming ENArmoury: Chainmail Bikini Encounters: Return to the Orc and the Pastry, Revenge of the Orc and the Pastry, Himover the Flaming Poodlemancer of Underdark, The Lost Penguin Colony, Deus Ex Machina, and the Elemental Plane of Candy
* Monsters & Templates: The Flumphonomicon, Monsters of the MetaGame, and Templates. Includes the addition of the Cyclopean Breech Serpent
* Equipment and Alchemy: Yee Mighty Sporting Goodes Shoppe, Better Living Through Chemistry and d20 Drinking Games return, bringing with them an exerpt from the Chainmail Bikini, Bed, Body & Boudoir, and Devious Drinks. Reviews: WotC’s Academically Speaking & FFG’s Romance & Relationships are joined with Reality Check (D&D TV Shows), and the Bestiary of Oozes
* Spells: 35 spells, including the new Summon Mojo, Power Word, Dye and Power Word, Sea
* Magic Items: A Portable Hole Full of Loot contains 14 pages of magic items, and is in the good company of Magic WeaPuns (new), The Half-Mad Magic Shoppe (new), Items of Love & Romance, Migical Vestments of the Loins, and Leo’s Tiny Chariot
* PickUp Lines for Horny Gamers makes its first appearance, as do the rules for Beaver Hunt.
* Beaver Hunt: Join an international elite strike force to combat the Maple Syrup Conspiracy, one pelt at a time with this new card game.
New content, new layout, new art. Download your copy now! Inside the .zip file you will find two PDFs:
1. Bride of Portable Hole, complete with extensive bookmarks for your viewing pleasure 2. Beaver Hunt Cards
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About Champions Online: Free For All
Champions Online is a Free to Play, with optional subscription, superhero-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game by former City of Heroes/Villainsdeveloper Cryptic Studios based on the Champions license. The game’s rules and setting are loosely based on the HERO System ruleset. The game has as yet only been released for the Microsoft Windows platform. An Xbox 360 version of the game was in development, but was confirmed as canceled in March 2010.
The game was originally available to paid subscribers only, but this changed when its new “Free-to-Play” design was launched on January 25, 2011.