Critical Hit #10: The Exilarchy of Cogs

Annoying Gaming Habits, and How to Deal with Them

Tabletop roleplaying games, as well as LARPs are exercises in social contracts. Whenever a group of people sit down to play they all have to agree on the system, the arbitration of said system and on hundreds of unspoken rules. Of course, in this hodgepodge system there's always room for someone to start rocking boats, rattling cages and tipping over cows.

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By: Stephen Schleicher | August 29th, 2009

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This issue: The crew arrives in the Skeleton Towns, and take a journey down a mine shaft. What will they discover inside? Another exciting chapter of Critical Hit!

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8 Responses to “Critical Hit #10: The Exilarchy of Cogs”

Ricco:

August 29, 2009 at 7:31 pm

Wait, is the official name of the party “Torq and the Torquettes” now!? Orem’s parents will be so proud when they hear he’s part of said group :)

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lifeisaglitch life:

August 29, 2009 at 10:22 pm

I came for the funnel cake and stayed for the Oz (no, the tiny dude from Buffy)references.

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Matthew Peterson:

August 30, 2009 at 12:21 am

I just realized that Torq said “retinue.”

That’s hysterical, for some reason…

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John Morales AKA Uglyhooker:

August 30, 2009 at 12:36 am

I love these!!I’m excited!!!

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Matthew Peterson:

August 30, 2009 at 12:44 am

Wanna play “Where’s Bender?”

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Rob:

August 31, 2009 at 9:04 am

Loved the new episode!! Torq is cracking me up. I can definitely feel for Rodrigo when the group starts veering off on a tangent. When I DMed I found it hard to not get frustrated when the group was losing focus. Keep up the good work Rodrigo!

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Duncan:

September 1, 2009 at 3:53 am

I’m really enjoying these 4e podcasts. But, you ought to look into the updated rules for skill challenges (http://wizards.com/dnd/files/UpdateDMG.pdf) – the DCs are different, and players don’t take turns in initiative order (I guess to encourage group thinking) The mine descent could’ve been a bit more eventful, even just simple things like “there’s a shaft, 10 feet across: jump over it, climb down it, or creep round the edge?” to prompt skill usages.
But on the whole I love this kind of live session RPG podcast.

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riccardo:

September 2, 2009 at 3:40 am

Hi,

thanks a lot for this, i am really enjoying the series.

Why don’t you guys post as well the Character and monster sheet at the end of each podcast? This could help a bit more the new players.

Thanks
Riccardo

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