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Gamer+ News August 3, 2020

Tonight on the Related To Geeks Podcast we will talk about Dungeons &
Dragons as represented in other media like movies, television, books,
and music. This is an open game chat and everyone is welcome. The
Related To Geeks Podcast will be held at 9:00 PM Central in the
gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord.

The Related To Geeks Book Club podcast about Brandon Sanderson's
"Warbreaker" has been posted.

https://anchor.fm/relatedtogeeks/episodes/Related-To-Geeks-Book-Club--- Season-1--Episode-7---Warbreaker-ehi53j

Alan made a couple of announcements about his Chronicles Of Ember
Starter Set that should be available now. This looks like a good way to
get into this cold, dangerous, fuzzy RPG. If you like games where you
actually get scared The Chronicles Of Ember is for you.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2377

And added to Links:

https://gamerplus.org/links

Here's an interesting Youtube channel called Tabletop Bellhop, your
cardboard concierge. Interesting videos about all kinds of tabletop
gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCez3_cu7peTRAcb1ZJF4j5A

If you haven't read Order Of The Stick you've got hours of fun in front
of you.

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html

Let me know what's new in your world of gaming. Message, email, or,
best of all, post about what you've been doing at Gamer+.

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@curators.mixremix.cc
hairylarry@gmail.com

Gamer+ News June 22, 2020

Tonight, at 9:00 PM Central, on Inspired Unreality we will be talking to Vivian Heyl about family games, how to play DnD with kids, expecially your kids. Please join us in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. Inspired Unreality is an open game chat. Everyone is welcome.

Last week at the Related To Geeks Book Club Megan and I talked about "Circe" by Madeline Miller. We both liked "Circe" and we're going to read Miller's earlier book "Song Of Achilles", another fantasy novel based on Greek mythology.

Then we decided on the books for the next three months.

July 20 - Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
August 17 - Armada - Ernest Cline
September 21 - Gilgamesh

The Brandon Sanderson book is licensed Creative Commons. Sanderson discusses what this means here.

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-rights-explanation/

"Warbreaker" is available for free download on unglue.it. Mobi, epub, and pdf formats are available.

https://unglue.it/work/7775/

I've done a lot of work on the Related To Geeks website, integrating it into Gamer+ and reposting photos and links to Gamer+.

Here's the photos.

https://gamerplus.org/photo/userphotos/relatedtogeeks

Here's the links.

https://gamerplus.org/links

And here's the website.

https://relatedtogeeks.com/

I also posted a Related To Geeks Podcast about House Rules.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2282

Join us tonight on Inspired Unreality. It's going to be a good discussion.

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com

Gamer+ News June 1, 2020

Tonight on Inspired Unreality it's the Related To Geeks Podcast. We will be discussing "Podcasts and Vlogs - producing audio and video for the internet", in the gamerplus chat rooms at Tenkar's Tavern on discord. Inspired Unreality is open game chat. Everyone is invited to participate.

In two weeks we will host the Related To Geeks Book Club. Our book for June is "Circe" by Madeline Miller. Because it takes most of us more than a day to read a novel I try to make announcements in advance. For more about the Related To Geeks Book Club and to make suggestions for our upcoming reads here's the link to the group.

https://gamerplus.org/groups/28

I enjoyed the Circle Of Worldbuilders Masterclass. I didn't have time to
tune in on Sunday but they will be posting the whole class and the notes for people to view/read on their own time.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2221

More pictures in Tabletop Inspiration. Have you ever played The Battle For Wesnoth fantasy adventure video game? Well not only is it a great game but there's a lot of fantasy art made available under Creative Commons or GPL licenses. Enjoy!

https://gamerplus.org/groups/35

Please forward this newletter to your game playing friends. Stay in touch and stay creative.

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com

Gamer+ News April 6, 2020

Inspired Unreality hosts the Related To Geeks Podcast tonight at 9:00 PM Central. We will be in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. If you have never been on Tenkar's Tavern I have an invite for you on the Gamer+ website.

https://gamerplus.org/

Check out Carl's Adventures in 3D Printing. He's scaling his miniatures and painting them. Lookin' Good.

https://gamerplus.org/photo/useralbum/CarlHeyl/83

I moved my 3D printer into my office and I've printed a few new miniatures too. It only took a moderate amount of carpentry work to fix the table for the printer.

FollowMeAndDie has started a Twitch stream for his Roll20 For The Absolute Beginner videos.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2151

Join the conversation at Gamer+. Make a comment or start your own topic. Let us know what you've been doing.

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com

Gamer+ News January 20, 2020

Tonight! On Inspired Unreality! It's the Related To Geeks Book Club.

We are reading "The Tower Of The Elephant" by Robert E. Howard. One of the first Conan stories.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html

There's still time to read it. It's a short story.

Coming up in February and March we will read.

February 17 - Little Brother by Corey Doctorow
https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

March 16 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Available on Overdrive and at libraries and booksellers everywhere.

If you have ideas about what you want to read after that we have a group for that.

https://gamerplus.org/groups/28

You are invited to join and participate.

Imspired Unreality is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. It's a book club and a podcast so we will be recording.

We posted two podcasts last week recorded on Inspired Unreality.

Related To Geeks - 2019 Geek Agenda
https://anchor.fm/relatedtogeeks/episodes/Related-To-Geeks---Season-2-Episode-5---2019-Geek-Agenda-ea77l4

Ask The Glen anything (about cyberpunk)
https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/ea9k16

Back at work organizing If You Play You Win actual play podcasts. Spark wants to run a game. Anyone else?

https://gamerplus.org/groups/26

I now have three Mini Zines up at DriveThruRPG/Fiction. "Just Quest" is a very minimal OSR rule set. "Chaos In The Eye Of God" and "Yon Rogar’s Hat" are super shorts. They're free on DriveThru and on my Mini Zines website.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/15994/MiniZines

https://www.drivethrufiction.com/browse.php?author=Larry%20Heyl

http://minizines.cc

What have you been doing? Let me know. Let us all know. Post your links to Gamer+ and I'll include your project in Gamer+ News.

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com

Links for If You Play You Win.

file area

http://guitarshowdown.com/hll/public/ea2f45

whiteboard

https://www.webwhiteboard.com/board/8vztc54q

Here's an invite link to Tenkar's Tavern on Discord.

https://discordapp.com/invite/Dqz3VmT

Discord runs on everything, PC, Mac, Linux, Android, and IOS. Install Discord and then take the invite link. When you are in Tenkar's Tavern leave a message in the Common Room. You should be validated in about 10 minutes. You cannot leave a message in the gamerplus rooms until you are validated.

Questions or problems? Message me on Gamer+.

https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry

You can join us anytime to play or listen. The game starts at 7:00 Eastern/6:00 Central.

Thanks

Our first If You Play You Win actual play podcast will be held Friday, October 25 at 6:00 pm Central, 7:00 Eastern. RobboG will be running a one off in his new game, Universe Unleashed. Here's a link to the pregens and rules.

http://guitarshowdown.com/hll/public/e015bf

Players will find everything they need to know on pages 3-6 of the Universe Unleashed pdf.

If you pick and name your character post a reply here or message hairylarry or RobboG so we will know what's happening.

It's also fine to jump in tomorrow if you can. That's why we're using pregens.

I will be playing Constant Comment, in the support division, and I'm a hacker.

I'm looking forward to a new experience tomorrow night.

Thanks

The RSS Feeds in the footers are blogs, vlogs, or podcasts by gamers on Gamer+. If you click on Podcasts you get a feed of only Podcasts. At the bottom of the Blogs page is a feed of only blogs.

The real gem in this lot is the link to View last 60 items here in the footer on ever page. This is a great way to find a bunch of recently posted gaming info.

If you have a blog, vlog, podcast, or anything else with an RSS feed let me know and I will add it.

Message me on my profile - hairylarry

Thanks

If You Play You Win rescheduled to Friday, November 1.

If You Play You Win - Gamer+ Actual Play Podcast

Friday, November 1, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Central in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern.

DM Draklorx(Kier) - gamerplus.org/user/Draklorx

We'll be playing: Star Wars: Edge of the Empire

The module is the beginner game adventure called: Escape From Mos Shuuta

You are a group of outer rim fringers made up of bounty hunters, smugglers, explorers, and expatriates who have all run afoul of the crime lord, TEEMO THE HUTT! Trapped in the space port Mos Shuuta on the desert world of Tatooine you are running out of time and options, and need to get off of this planet fast! As luck would have it, a Trandoshan slaver by the name of Trex has recently docked his ship the Krayt Fang, and you wouldn't feel too bad about relieving the slaver of his ship. During a chase through the streets with Teemo's henchmen you duck into a Cantina and have only a few moments before they come in after you with their blasters ready.

You do not have to preregister to play. Anyone can jump in anytime. But if you want to preregister you can. Then you can choose your character from pregens. decide on your name, and be ready to go, blasters blazing.

You can peruse the pregens here. If you want to pick a character to play let me know. Message hairylarry at Gamer+ or email hairylarry@deltaboogie.com.
http://guitarshowdown.com/hll/public/3d25dc

Gamer+ News September 23, 2019

Inspired Unreality open game chat is tonight in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on discord. Our starting topic will be d6 systems and Open D6. If you play d6 please join us. We need some expertise. We start at 9:00 pm Central.

We recorded Inspired Unreality last week and made a podcast called "Ask Mr. Welch aka TheGlen Anything (about gaming)". This is our first Gamer+ podcast and you can listen here.

anchor.fm/gamerplus

Some of the chat was about the art for the Mystara Players Handbook and Glen displayed the art on Discord while he discussed it. Of course, you can't see the art in the podcast so I am going to make a video slide show of that part of the episode so you can watch and listen at the same time just like we did.

You can download the Mystara Players Handbook here.

glen.stelio.net/

We are also planning an actual play podcast called "If You Play You Win". Our first session will be on Friday, October 4 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm Central. Draklorx will be running Escape From Mos Shuuta in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. More info here.

gamerplus.org/blogs/54

And here's a link to the character sheets and a map.

guitarshowdown.com/hll/public/3d25dc

Speaking of d6 games here's a link to FollowMeAndDie's blog post called "A New Found Appreciation For The 2d6 Table".

followmeanddie.com/2019/09/21/newfound-appreciation-of-the-2d6-table/

He also discusses this on his podcast.

anchor.fm/follow-me-and-die/episodes/Episode-159---Saturday-Scrawl---Newfound-Appreciation-Of-The-2d6-Table-e5fsun

And of course there's more great stuff like this at Gamer+.

To browse or join go to gamerplus.org

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com