Roll 2d6
Adam and Nate talk about games, gaming, and gamers
Host: Adam and Nate
Website: http://www.roll2d6.com
Two long-time gamers, Adam and Nate, talk about games, gamers, and gaming. We cover many different kinds of non-electronic games: board games, RPGs, wargames, CCGs, and other games, as well as the gaming culture in general.
| Episode Name | Release Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kublacon! | 05/23/2008 | Just a quick note to mention that Nate and Adam will both be attending Kublacon this weekend. Adam is running two games of Gutshot, an Old West shoot-’em’up game, on Friday and Sunday. We’ll be doing a post-Kublacon show in a few weeks. Just like every year, I’ll be taking... |
| Episode 20: Babylon 5 Wars | 04/07/2008 | In the first part of a four-part series on Star Trek-based tactical starship combat games, we discuss the late Babylon 5 Wars, and how we’ve found ways to play it as a Star Trek game. I discuss a bit of the history of the game and then go into excessive detail about how the [...] |
| Episode 19: Gunslinger | 12/15/2007 | In this episode, Nate and Adam follow Marty McFly’s lead, and go back in time to the Old West to cover Avalon Hill’s 1982 classic Gunslinger. We go over how we found the game, what it’s like to play it, and describe how playing Gunslinger led us to re-interpret some Western... |
| Episode 18: KublaCon 2007! | 06/26/2007 | In this episode, Nate and I discuss all the games we saw and played at KublaCon 2007, and make some attempt to remember what they were all about. As usual, I took lots of pictures and made a Flickr photoset of them. Check out the pics and you can follow along as we [...] |
| Kublacon! | 05/24/2007 | Just a quick note to mention that we’re going to be at our favorite Bay Area game con again this weekend — Kublacon! Just like last year, I’ll be taking pictures and live-uploading them to the Roll 2d6 Flickr account, so subscribe to the RSS feed and you can see the pictures as... |
| Episode 17: Champions! | 05/24/2007 | This time we explore the depth’s of Nate’s superhero fantasies with a journey deep into Champions, the Hero System superhero RPG that allows for free-form creation of any kind of superhero. We go over the history of the game system and Nate’s experiences with it, and briefly... |
| Episode 16: Game Modding | 03/02/2007 | What is game modding? It’s when you make a change to the physical components of a game you own, and that becomes the way you play the game from that point on. It’s something many gamers do for their games and it can add a lot more fun, or make a problematic game [...] |
| Episode 15: Chez Geeks, Greeks, and Goths | 01/12/2007 | Coming to you from a rift in the space-time continuum, Adam and Nate discuss Steve Jackson Games’ “Chez” series of card games. We talk about the similarity and differences in the line, and our experience playing them. Here’s the line-up: Chez Geek Chez Geek 2:... |
| Episode 14: Carcassonne and Accessories! | 11/06/2006 | In this episode, Adam just can’t stop talking about some of his favorite gaming accessories such as dice towers and gaming stones, and he even gives out some game-related crafting tips. Then, Nate discusses a well-known German game that both of us just played recently for the first time:... |
| Episode 13: Star Trek RPGs! | 09/08/2006 | Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, an episode about the history of Star Trek licensed RPGs. We go through the early Star Trek games, discuss the two different licensed Star Trek universes out there, and talk about our own memories of playing some of these RPGs. What happens when... |