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Cast : Rob, Mike, Matt, and Jacob
Music : “Wrecking Ball” and “In Vain” by 137 found via Music.Podshow.Com
Sponsors : Meta-Games Unlimited
Topic : Death at the Table
Bear Swarm is a member of Spooky Outhouse Productions.

17:00 : WoW Expansion
18:50 : Mass Effect
19:10 : Vampire Bloodlines
20:00 : Jagged Alliances 2
20:35 : Arkham Horror
21:40 : Silent Storm
27:00 : Pontiac G5
31:05 : Guns and Roses
33:10 : Walmart Employee trampled
34:00 : Munich **Spoilers**
41:00 : After Munich Spoilers
42:30 : Bear Swarm begins discussion of Death at the Table
47:00 : Paranoia
49:00 : Dungeons and Dragons
62:00 : Wraith

Shoutouts
Mike: Instructables
Jacob: Vampires Bloodlines
Matt: Arkham Horror
Rob: The Road

 

 Episode 34 - Death at the Table [84:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cast : Rob, Mike, and Matt
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Transition Music : “Sore Spot” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Sponsors : Meta-Games Unlimited
Topic : Matt’s 4th Edition D&D Game

04:45 : Babylon AD
06:30 : Tropic Thunder
07:30 : Supernatural
08:50 : SUPERNATURAL SEASON 3 SPOILERS GALORE! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
11:05 : Alias
22:20 : SUPERNATURAL SEASON 3 SPOILERS OVER! YOU MAY SAFELY LISTEN!
22:35 : Army of Two
27:20 : Topic discussion begins. The Bear Swarm cast discusses some details of their latest game.
29:10 : Group Template from Fear the Boot
40:20 : Houses of the Blooded
52:10 : Indy Press Revolution
52:50 : The Unit

Shoutouts
Rob: Houses of the Blooded
Mike: Mass Effect
Matt: Evilbastard

 

 Episode 22 - Matt's 4th Edition Game [53:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cast : Rob, Mike, Matt, and Ross
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Transition Music : “Sore Spot” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Sponsors : Meta-Games Unlimited
Topic : 20 Episodes And Counting

04:30 : The Venture Brothers
04:50 : Burn Notice
05:45 : Supernatural
06:25 : Mike’s Obsidian Portal Wiki for Mass Effect: Blackwell
08:40 : Bear Swarm cast rant about Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
13:00 : Anim5 is the host of Intergalactic Detective Dragons From Outer Space
13:40 : Call of Duty 4
13:50 : The Prestige, Stardust, Black Hawk Down
14:25 : The Force Unleashed
15:05 : God of War
16:05 : Topic discussion begins.  The Bear Swarm cast celebrates their 20th episode, and discusses their experiences and expectations regarding podcasting.
16:55 : Waffle House
18:20 : World Wide Wing Night with Fear the Boot
23:40 : Guitar Center
23:45 : Springfield Music
28:50 : Spooky Outhouse
31:40 : Ross Payton from RPPR
35:35 : InSpectres
36:35 : Gen-Con
38:55 : Mike Mearls
41:50 : Urban Dead

Shoutouts
Rob: Call of Duty 4
Mike: Bioware
Matt: American Olympians, because he’s lame
Ross: Raillery

 

 Episode 20 - Your Mom [48:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cast : Rob, Mike, Matt, and Beezley
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Transition Music : “Sore Spot” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Sponsors : Meta-Games Unlimited
Topic : Luck-balancing mechanics in tabletop gaming

04:20 : On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, from Penny Arcade
07:35 : Comix Zone
08:20 : Age of Conan
14:05 : Fallout
15:20 : A Hunger Like Fire and Marriage of Viciousness and Virtue, by Greg Stolze
15:45 : Blood In, Blood Out by Lucien Soulban
16:25 : Games Workshop
21:45 : Munich
23:10 : The swarm is set to gain another bear.
25:55 : Battlestar Galactica
26:10 : Mike’s Mass Effect campaign portal
27:30 : Grand Theft Auto IV
27:35 : Equilibrium
28:05 : The Strangers
29:00 : 16 Blocks
29:10 : Mos Def
29:30 : Zombies!
31:15 : Resident Evil: Extinction
32:05 : Order of the Stick board game, and the associated comic
32:55 : Tannhauser
33:05 : Rock Band
33:25 : Tsui Hark’s Vampire Hunters
36:45 : Topic discussion begins. The Bear Swarm cast discusses various luck and luck-balancing mechanics in different game systems
37:30 : Eberron
38:40 : Savage Worlds
38:55 : Skies of Glass, from the guys at Fear the Boot
40:15 : Warhammer
42:20 : World of Darkness
44:45 : Legend of the Five Rings
45:25 : Star Wars SAGA
47:25 : Unhallowed Metropolis
56:10 : CyberPunk 2020
58:25 : Fireborn
01:02:00 : WarMachine and Hordes

Shoutouts
Rob : Spirit of the Century & Carl @ Meta-Games
Mike : Solomon Birch
Matt : Jacob’s wife, Megan
Beezley : Iron Man

 

 Episode 9 - An Interesting Fact [81:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cast : Rob, Mike, Matt, & Beezley
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position: by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Sponsors : Meta-Games Unlimited
Topic : Character Backstories

01:10 : Official sponsorship! Mega-Games Unlimited
02:00 : Jolt Cola
02:25 : Battlestar Galactica
02:40 : TiVo
02:45 : Dresden Files
03:20 : Mass Effect
03:25 : Earth 2
04:40 : Dresden Files Audiobooks
04:55 : James Marsters
05:05 : WarMachine
06:00 : Grand Theft Auto IV
06:30 : Supernatural
08:35 : Raymond E. Feist
09:50 : Starship Troopers
12:20 : Iron Man
12:25 : Forbidden Kingdom, Street Kings
16:05 : Shin Chan
20:25 : Jim Butcher
21:30 : Gen Con
22:15 : Stephen King
22:50 : Harley Davidson
23:15 : Yamaha
25:05 : World of Darkness: Innocents
27:05 : Topic discussion begins. The Bear Swarm cast discusses PC backstories and their importance.
33:15 : Savage Worlds, Dogs in the Vineyard
42:15 : All Flesh Must Be Eaten
49:35 : Group Template from Fear the Boot
01:11:30 : Skies of Glass

Shoutouts
Matt: Riad
Rob: Brucie Kibbutz
Beezley: Sonic
Mike: Raymond E. Feist

 

 Episode 5 - Go America!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cast : Mike, Matt, Rob, Beezley, Jacob, Dan (partial)
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position: by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Topic : Campaign design

00:55 : Meta-Games Unlimited
01:35 : Murlocs
01:50 : RPPR
02:10 : Henry Rollins
03:55 : Family Guy
05:05 : WarMachine
05:50 : Battlestar Galactica
06:40 : NetFlix
11:10 : Shin Chan
12:35 : Urban Dead
13:05 : Supernatural
13:20 : Hibachi
14:55 : Forbidden Kingdom
17:55 : World of Warcraft
18:10 : Silver Dollar City
19:10 : College of the Ozarks
22:00 : Dresden Files
22:25 : Mass Effect
22:45 : Tabula Rasa
23:15 : Hordes
24:45 : Assassin’s Creed
26:00 : Breath of Fire
26:35 : Lost Odyssey
33:20 : Eberron
36:20 : Training Day
36:35 : Legend of the Five Rings
41:20 : Fear the Boot and Skies of Glass
46:15 : Scion
52:15 : Warhammer 40k and Games Workshop
57:05 : Dragonlance
57:15 : Record of Lodoss War
57:35 : Warlord and AEG
59:35 : Big Eyes, Small Mouth
01:06:15 : Sins of a Solar Empire
01:08:00 : Confrontation - It’s in French, so enjoy
01:20:25 : Glen’s Deviant Art Gallery
01:22:20 : Critters

Shoutouts
Jacob: Burn Notice
Beezley: His mom
Rob: The Warriors
Dan: Glen
Matt: Earth 2
Mike: Cities of the Underworld

 

 Episode 4 - You could be Gambit [85:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Editor’s Note: I WIN!

Cast: Rob, Mike, Matt, Kirk, Jacob
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position: by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Topic :NPCs and their role in gaming

01:05 : Meta-Games Unlimited
02:55 : Dresden Files, specifically Small Favor
03:45 : Battlestar Galactica
04:10 : Mass Effect
04:20 : Jolt Cola
04:30 : Supernatural
05:15 : Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
05:35 : 88 Minutes with Al Pacino
05:50 : Doomsday
06:00 : More covering our asses with TiVo
06:05 : Sins of a Solar Empire
06:40 : World of Darkness
06:45 : Urban Dead
07:05 : Firefox
09:30 : Eberron
09:45 : Ghostbusters 2
12:05 : Chowder
12:10 : Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends
12:20 : Cartoon Network
12:25 : Discovery Channel, History Channel, Comedy Central
12:35 : Cops!
13:20 : Reno 911
14:25 : Rob’s Dresden Files game
17:30 : WarMachine
19:15 : Mike drives a 2007 Toyota Yaris. Now the stalkers know.
23:00 : Topic discussion begins. The Bear Swarm cast talks about NPCs and their role in gaming. Again, Mike fails to keep his mouth shut.
27:25 : Rob is referring to monomyth, also called the Hero’s Journey.
44:15 : Faerun

Shoutouts
Jacob: Patricia Briggs
Kirk: Arby’s
Matt: Battlestar Galactica
Rob: Urban Dead
Mike: Megan, Jacob’s wife

 

 Episode 3 - Who Gets the Last Word [58:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Editor’s Note: Mike writes the show notes. I think his “funny” commentary on our show is a waste of time. If you’re in agreement (or disagreement for that matter) leave a comment on this page (http://www.bearswarm.com/episode-002-we-record-this) to let us know. I managed to steer control of the first couple episodes to a more link-oriented style, but Mike takes direction about as well as a six year old hopped up on Pixy Stix.

Cast : Rob, Mike, Matt, Beezley, & Jacob
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position: by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Topic : Using Established Settings in Role-Playing

01:30 : Bear Swarm recording, as always, is done at Meta-Games Unlimited in Springfield.
02:40 : The Group Template is an RPG tool available from the guys at Fear the Boot
03:30 : Beezly is playing Oblivion, the poor bastard.
03:55 : Splinter Cell gets dissed… maybe lauded… who knows.
04:05 : Beezly made it to the 3rd disk of Final Fantasy 7 in a day. Hardcore.
04:40 : We cover our asses with TiVo again.
04:55 : Beezly watched like half of Sweeney Todd. Good job.
07:10 : Rob recently saw Street Kings.
07:20 : Rob also went to see a local 80’s tribute band, Machine Gun Symphony.
08:30 : Mike has been playing lots of Sins of a Solar Empire.
09:00 : Mike, Rob, and Jacob all recently finished the newest Dresden Files novel, Small Favor.
09:30 : Jim Butcher sucking-up commences.
10:40 : Life would be sweet if it was more like Ghost in the Shell.
13:10 : Rob got Taco Bell, but has no idea what the hell happened to it.
15:10 : Rob looks like a white Castro in his hat.
16:20 : Rob went to the Borders at the mall to buy My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, because Barnes & Noble didn’t have it.
16:55 : Rob can’t find Many Bloody Returns. Help!
22:00 : New Bear Swarm show format is discussed.
22:35 : Rob comes without the proper music, and tries to do the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly theme with his mouth to cover for it.
23:20 : Show topic is introduced by Matt. Mike can’t keep his mouth shut long enough for Matt to get through it, though.
24:05 : Mike is working on a Mass Effect conversion in the Savage Worlds system, and Rob is working on a Dresden Files game using the World of Darkness.
24:10 : There is a Dresden RPG coming out soon, but Rob is impatient.
25:10 : Obligatory Star Wars RPG discussion. We apologize.
28:40 : Iron Kingdoms is a valid “outside source”
29:15 : Chainmail is from the 70’s.
30:40 : Jacob has used “Iron Worlds” to run games before. Nobody else knows what the hell it is, and neither Mike or Rob can find its existence on the internet. Jacob must be lying.
30:55 : Jacob’s also done Serenity.
31:05 : StarCraft, too. Apparently he loves Sci-Fi.
32:45 : Ghostbusters in the Vineyard. Rob is clever.
34:15 : Matt ran All Flesh Must be Eaten. Once.
35:15 : Mike put the Elric Brothers into his Iron Kingdoms game.
36:15 : Mike also stole like half the cast of Battlestar Galactica for his Mass Effect game. What a hack.
36:45 : Edward James Olmos IS awesome. Any arguments? Didn’t think so.
37:35 : Jacob plays a fair amount of BattleTech.
38:35 : Mike think she talks about this CyberPunk campaign a lot.
38:50 : Sean Bean is cool. He was in Ronin and Equilibrium.
40:10 : Vinny Jones scares us. Rightfully so.
40:30 : Danny Trejo is typecast as hell.
41:45 : Rob based an L5R character on Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
43:40 : Rob ran a game based on a song by She Wants Revenge.
44:55 : Beezly based a character on a Rammstein song.
45:15 : Mike has an idea for a Dogs in the Vineyard town based on a Ludo song.
46:05 : Johnny Cash rules.
50:25 : Jacob has written a couple Knights of the Old Republic-style games.
1:02:40 : Mike is such a nerd that he roleplays ALL THE TIME, even while playing board games like Prince of the City.
01:03:30 : Risk would be a pretty cool way to create a campaign world.
01:04:20 : Monopoly RPG.

Shout Outs
Mike: Real Life webcomic
Matt: Battlestar Galactica
Rob: Guinness and Jagermeister
Jacob: Subway
Beezly: Jim Butcher

 

 Episode 2 - We Record This [66:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cast : Rob, Mike, Matt, Dan, & Kirk
Also Heard - Beezley
Intro Music : “Haters” by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Outro Music : “Position: by Sore found on www.podsafeaudio.com
Topic : Use of GM Fiat

02:45 : Rob referenced Penny Arcade
03:25 : Beezley mentions Gir & Red vs. Blue
03:30 : Rob mentions Matt’s Fear the Boot ass kissery
09:00 : Kirk doesn’t know what Hibachi is
10:10 : Rob references Venture Brothers
10:30 : Mike mentions Burn Notice
10:45 : Rob mentions Heroes
11:00 : Kirk mentions the Dresden Files
11:30 : Kirk’s reading: David Eddings, Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson, Dragonlance
12:00 : Mike should be reading: Priest
13:00 : Matt’s reading: Savage Worlds, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Call of Cthulhu & Skies of Glass
13:45 : Beezely reads: Mike’s upcoming Mass Effect game
13:30 : Rob’s reading: Mass Effect: Revelation and should be starting Eisenhorn soon.
14:45 : Rob mentions Dark Heresy
14:45 : Rob mentions Battlestar Galactica
15:30 : Rob covers his ass with TiVo
15:45 : Kirk brings up Final Fantasy
16:55 : Rob mentions Knights of the Old Republic
19:45 : Final Fantasy evolved into Final Fantasy Tactics
20:10 : Rob brings up Assassin’s Creed
20:55 : The Bear Swarm cast discusses the use of GM fiat
30:30 : Kirk mentions the 50 Fathoms Campaign Setting
33:45 : Rob mentions Sylar, the main villain from Season 1 of Heroes.

Shout Outs
Rob: Snickers Charged Bar
Mike: Obsidian Portal
Matt: Wife’s aunt Abby and her new husband Chad
Kirk: Popeye’s Chicken
Dan: Jacob’s wife; Megan

 

 Episode 1 - Universal Catalyst for Awesomeness [49:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download