Speaker 1: A there gang, great unclean one here. Wanted to take
a few moments to give you a bit of a
state of the union about the Channel and how things
are going since we are now done with twenty twenty
four and jumping into twenty twenty five. I've tried to
do this over the last couple of years, but haven't
been very good at staying consistent, but hopefully we can
change that. So just wanted to kind of let you
guys know what's been going on with the show and
some of the things we have planned for the new year,
kind of just give you an overall feel for what's
going on behind the scenes here. I mean, if you
keep up with our Patreon, I do monthly posts for
all members, including free members, so you can kind of
get an idea where we're at with everything. But you
probably heard me talk about various things throughout the last
about some of our plans. I just want to kind
of let you know what's going on, So if you
aren't aware at this point, the channel has grown a
bit as far as some of the help I'm getting
after gen Con this year, Scar John, Adam and Aaron,
who've been on the Channel now for over a year,
year and a half as CAST and GMS have all
kind of joined forces with me and are now officially showrunners.
So they are helping me with various things on the show,
running and planning different podcasts and shows we're going to
have on the channel, along with different ideas we have
to keep growing the channel. And you know, now that
I've got some help here, I can spend less time
doing some of the work and focus on other work instead.
So it's helping me plan for what's going to be
in the future. But yeah, so you'll see it on
our discord. They've got showrunners. So if you have questions
about anything and I'm not around, those definitely the guys
to ask and you can expect to see them definitely
in more GM roles as we add more shows to
the schedule. So that's pretty awesome. And speaking of shows,
that's kind of where I want to start with first.
So we're currently running our Alien Frontier War campaign and
we are now in Act three, near the tail end
of the campaign. We still have a couple missions left,
probably gonna last a few more months, I think, probably
two to four months at least, but once that is done,
we are well. I'm gonna be taking a bit of
a break from running games on the channel, so you
can still expect every Friday we're gonna release our Alien episodes,
and every Saturday you can join us for a live
stream and then we'll have the episodes out you know,
after that. But at Aaron, I'm sure Aaron Adam is
recording an RPG called Heart, which they started a few
weeks ago. I'll be a short little campaign and that's
gonna probably release after Alien is done, or maybe alongside it.
So we have multiple shows again, you know, now that
Aaron's Blades in the Dark campaign is over, we're kind
of back down to one show, but we're eventually going
to have multiple shows consistently throughout the week to help
keep growing the channel and give you guys more to
listen to and enjoy throughout the week. But as I said,
I'm going to be taking a break from GMing. It's
been over four years straight since I started the show,
and you know, I just I just need a little
bit of time to focus on other stuff on the channel.
And having to run you know, the month the weekly game,
plus the monthly game. There's a lot of planning, you know,
even though I am running pre pub blush campaigns. For
the most part, the Warhammer Monthly Game is of my
own cre creation, and anyone who's a GM knows there's
a lot of planning that takes place, and I try
really hard, especially with Alien, to try to bring in
the character stories into you know, the main plot, and
really make things make as much sense as I can,
and really, you know, try to build our NPCs and
the world, and it takes a lot of work, and
especially with my full time job just absolutely ringing us
dry the last couple months, sometimes it's a lot to
deal with. So I spend a lot of time on
the show on my free time, and it'd be nice
to get a little bit of that back and focus
on other things too. But so once we are done
with Alien, Adam is going to jump back in the
GM seat for our very first ever second season of
a show here on the Channel. He's going to be
returning to Shadow Run with Paydata season two, with the
original cast reprising their roles. I've decided I'm not going
to be playing in that, So if you were a
fan of Knuckles, sorry, but I'm not going to be
in that. I did enjoy the game, it was fun,
but I'm not crazy about Shadow Run. It just doesn't
interest me enough to actually want to play, and I
would much rather just have some of my time back
and maybe work on some other things on the show
or even outside the show. So I'm not sure if
Adam's going to get another player to have a full
group of four, but you can expect Scar, Sean, and
Aaron back as their characters. For myself, I do plan
on getting the gang back together so that we can
continue the cinematic scenario for Blade Runner Fiery Angels after
we finished Dreams, probably about two years ago at this point,
but something I've been wanting to get to into a lot.
We were going to try to do it this past summer,
but schedules just didn't work out. You know, going to
have the whole cast back, hopefully, so Kyle, Tyler, the Frog,
and Sean. The biggest thing is Tyler's work schedule is
all over the place. He claims that in the new
year things should be a little less hectic. So hopefully
as we wind down with Alien, I'll find a chance
to record that. You know, I don't expect it to
be a couple episodes, but something I really want to
get it back into I really enjoyed Blade Runner, and
I still think our first Blade Runner game is one
of the best things we've made so far, so I'm
really looking forward to exploring that more. Meanwhile, over on
the Neon Swamp obviously if you if you aren't aware of,
the Neon Swamp is now part of Dragon's Greed thanks
to Scar and I's alliance after gen Con, he's become
a real pivotal part of the show here and even
better friend. I wish you didn't live in Texas. I
wish he was closer by because I'm sure we'd be
spending a lot of time together. But you can expect
him to, you know. Now that the holidays are over,
we're getting back on schedule. We're catching up on editing.
But the main thing with that you can expect from
Scar is his Monday night and Friday night streams. So
on Monday night currently every other Monday night, he's been
doing a bunch of one shots, and that was to
test a bunch of different systems and see what the
group liked and then decide on which system they wanted
to play a full campaign with. So they are going
though they've decided they're going to be playing Lancer, which
is like a Gundam Wing style RPG or a mech
pilot in you know the future. You need go orbital,
go go on the ground, you know, planet side. And
they did like episode like zero, their session zero a
week or two ago, and they just did episode one
this week, which was the last week of December, so
we're gonna eventually have that out as well, so that'll
be going on. They're going to try to shoot for
every Monday, you know, if everybody can make it, but
if nothing else, they'll stick with the ever every other
Monday just depends on everybody's schedule and when time permits,
But if they can play on a weekly basis, they will,
and then jump back to every other Monday when they can,
and then on Friday nights. Scar has been running a
dead Lands campaign some you know wild West Action. He's
been running that for a while on the Nance Swamp
before we joined forces, and his group just finished a
big story beat and they're starting basically like a new chapter,
a new arc, and so we decided that was when
we were going to introduce dead Lands to the Channel.
So he's done two or three episodes at this point,
he's got a lot of editing to catch up on,
but you can expect that pretty much every Friday, except
for when we record our monthly Patreon game, which is
usually the last Friday of the month, but he'll let
you know you know when they're going to be recording.
But yeah, every Friday night, both Friday and Monday nights
eight thirty pm Central time is when we do the
recordings for that, and Saturday night eight thirty pm Central
as well for the alien stuff or whatever I happen
to be running. So yeah, expect Dead Lance and Lancer
to become a part of the regular scheduled programming. If
you miss the streams, no worries. We are going to
be releasing everything as audio on our podcast and as
video on the YouTube, so we can catch stuff later
on once we're caught up with all of our editing.
We're hoping to keep that at a you know, weekly
or bi weekly release pace for you guys, so hopefully
when everything is running the way it should be, we
should have two to four shows every week for you.
So that's the plan, is to give you guys some
more and help grow the channel that way. Other things
other news I've been working on a website for the show.
We decided that we'd like to have a place to
send everybody for everything about the show, rather than posting,
you know, ten different links for the Facebook, the YouTube,
the spreaker, the Twitch, the Patreon, the discord. It's all
going to be in one place, and then we can
just link the website. You can find everything there. It'll
probably be pretty simple to start off. You know, we'll
have all of our social links. It's going to have
you know a little bit about us and how to
contact us, and then of course list of the cast
and a list of all of our shows with appropriate links.
And as we add things on, we do eventually want
to add some hobby stuff on there. Adam thought I
should start sharing some of my hobby experience as far
as projects I've been painting. You know, I still play,
or at least paint and collect Warhammer and forty K
and miniature stuff and board games you know, regularly, to
like to make that part of the channel as well
as things go on, you know, and as we've mentioned before,
hopefully in the future we're going to add some board
game and miniature game stuff to the channel, so you know,
that'll be cool as well. So eventually we want to
have some merch as well, some swags as we say it.
But you know, baby steps, you guys know me. I
like to add a little bit at a time, get
it part of the regular schedule, you know, part of
the regular routine, and then kind of build an add
on to that. So, you know, we started with audio,
then we added that to YouTube. Now we're adding actual video.
Now we're adding actual streaming. Starting to get the hang
of that, So just keep adding more and more, you know,
and eventually, you know, we'll see what's going on. The
other reason I want to take a break from GMing
a weekly show is planning what's going to come the
rest of the year. I really really still want to
add either board game actual plays or miniature game like
battle reports, especially for Warhammer the Old World, and I
need to take some time to focus on that, start
looking at different equipment, cameras and stuff like that, and
hopefully finally start putting our Patreon money that we've been
stashing away in our ad money to good use and
get some equipment. So that's a big focus on mind
this year. Hopefully by the second half of the year,
maybe we'll have some stuff recorded and we can start
excuse me, start releasing things. But we'll see. You know,
there's a lot of moving parts. There's only only so
many hours in a day. Unfortunately. The other thing is,
you know, we've got our five year anniversary coming up
next year, and that's something I want to make really
special too. I've been talking a little bit with Sean
about some ideas. I have probably bring that to the
rest of the group soon, but you know, I figure
we need to plan ahead. Unfortunately, this year is the
past year, with my divorce and moving to a new place,
a lot of things were last minute, you know, having
to just put things together when I could, and you know,
I would rather have things planned out. You guys know,
I don't like shooting from the hip, especially with the
schedule and things like that, so I don't like to
be scrambling last minute. I like to have things planned
ahead of time, even if it's months or weeks ahead
of time. It makes me feel a little bit better.
So that's hopefully the plan here. Website should hopefully be
sometime this month January. I was hoping to have it
ready for the new year, but it took a lot
longer than I expected and had to face some harsh
but fair criticism that Scar gave me that helped me
hopefully put the website in the right direction and make
it look a little less dated. So it kind of
sucks because I spent a lot of time on stuff,
but these things happen. You gotta be able to take
some criticism, especially when it's constructive stuff, you know, and
have some outside help there. So hopefully that'll be soon,
and when it is, you will all be the first
to know. Other changes, We're going to have a little
bit of changes to our Patreon. So we've had the
Patreon now for I think about two years, give or take.
And the main thing we want to do is just
add a little bit more bang for your buck and
add a little bit more content, specifically to our middle tier,
which is four bucks a month. It's called Dragonling. That's
our least popular tiers. Either people are in on the
two dollars a month tier and they're a whelp just
want to help support the channel, or our big one
is eight dollars a month the Great Worm, where you
get our monthly actual play series that's exclusive to the Patreon,
and some other stuff. But yeah, we want to see
all the tiers be enjoyed. You know, we don't. We're
not just here to you know, get everyone signed up
at the highest tier, although we do appreciate our patreons
that are there, it's very cool of you, but we
want to make every tier appealing for whatever your situation
might be. So we want to give you guys options.
So with that in mind, the main thing is that
we're going to be adding a new monthly show that
Aaron is going to be hosting that we've dubbed worm Talk,
and this is going to be basically a talk show
style show where Aaron is going to host and have
usually one to two guests on every month, probably like
sixty ninety minute episodes where he discusses a variety of
RPG topics with whatever guests he has on there. Guests
will be you know, past and current cast of the show,
but also looking to get some special guests on there.
You know, Adam, I think I saw this year he's
done a really great job of getting some interviews with
game designers from some of the games we've played, like
Eat the Reich. And now that Adam is actually working
for Catalyst as a writer, his networking continues to expand,
so he's bringing a lot of cool stuff to the
show that we're really excited about. And yeah, so hopefully
we'll have some special guests on there as well, or
maybe even some some fans or Patreon members or just
other people out there in the RPG community. So we
just recorded our first episode this Sunday, which is all
about horror in RPGs. You know, some tips on how
to do it or how to implement it, what makes
good horror, why like horror, and then we all share
a few actual horror stories from our RPG days as
well with games that we've played in or ran and
some of the nightmares there. So yeah, the idea is
to give you guys something else to listen to. It'll
be available both in audio podcast form and in video
as well, so you can choose your you know, which
way you want to enjoy that. And that's going to
be available for middle tier end above. It's probably gonna
be a couple other things we might add here and there,
but that's the main thing that I know we're doing
for sure, and you know, as always, as time goes on,
now that I've got more hands helping, we can add
more stuff. So that's the big one there. But if
you want more information, check out the Patreon. You know,
we appreciate any support you can give us. All the
all that we get there goes towards helping run the show.
You know, we've got hosting fees every year on spreaker,
and you know we've been using it now to start
getting some equipment. It's going to help pay for the website,
so you know, it's stuff like that, and you know
we've been saving it to eventually help expand the show
and you know, maybe one day be more than just
another fish in the pond, as they say, But we'll see,
we'll see where that goes. But check it out over
on the Patreon if you want anything there. I also
usually do a monthly post at least to let you
know what's going on with the channel, and you do
not have to be a paid member for that. You
can be a free member. So if you want to
hear a little bit of this kind of stuff every
month with what's going on where we're at with all
of our various projects, that's a good place to check
it out. Sometimes we do polls, you know, about upcoming
shows or various gaming stuff. That we're up to, so
check that out. Also, be sure to check out Discord
if you're not already. We're starting to build a nice
little community there. We've got an area where you can
find other gamers and you know, we got a nice mix.
We've got some people overseas, UK and Sweden and Germany.
You know, you guys know a lot of our Patreon
members are from overseas and they've even been on our shows.
We're trying to implement stuff for our Patreon members to
participate it in the channel, help give them more bang
for their books. So you've probably seen it a little
bit of that with some of our Alien episodes and
our Christmas special that we just released too, So checks
out over there. And we've also opened up a channel
on the Discord where you can share hobby projects. So
if you're like me and you're into the miniature painting
or painting minis for your RPGs and things like that,
or building boards, whatever it may be, swing on by
and share what you got. I'd love to see it,
and we'd love to feature it and talk about it more.
The last thing I really want to talk about is
the much discussed Warhammer Fantasy death match. I've been mentioning
for like the last six to eight months that Kyle
has been putting together. It is finally coming together. It
is real, it's happening. Had a night long conversation with
Kyle this past week and we're putting the final touches
on everything. So this month, January, we plan to have
all the pieces put in place. We're gonna have all
the characters very well, basically we're gonna do We're gonna
have a death match, a gladiatorial death match, very similar
to what we did in Gallows Geis. If you haven't
checked that out, check that out in chapter four when
they're a nun shortly after Kyle joins the podcast and
the show, he ends up in a gladiatorial pit fight
to the death. And we're gonna basically do that. We're
gonna keep it in the continuity of Gallows Geist that
we created in our little Warhammer World, our very favorite
which elf, the dark Elf, Camora blood Veil, is gonna
be making an appearance. We're gonna see a little bit
what she's been up to since Gallows Geis. But the
idea is we're gonna have a sixteen fighter ornament brackets
one on one and it'll be a deathmatch, last man
standing or last woman standing, and we're going to have
different players play each of the fighters. So this month,
Kyle and I are putting the finishing touches on the characters,
getting him into foundry, getting some artwork done, and then
we're sending out invites so you can expect a lot
of cast throughout the years from the show, and we're
going to probably open that up to some Patreon members
as well so we can get some more community involvement.
And the idea is to have short, like twenty to
thirty minute episodes that just focus on each individual fight.
We're going to record those each individually and then put
them together to make a really cool show. Kyle wants
to do a little bit more kind of audio editing
as far as sound effects and things like that, so
we'll see. I told him that's a lot to do.
It's a big responsibility, but this is his baby, so
we will at least. The plan is to have everything
in place this month, and then in February, once we
have our invite list built, we're going to do a
lottery to let people to decide who gets to pick
their Fighter first, and then we'll do a lottery to
figure out what the brackets are going to be for
Round one, with the hopes of recording in March and
then eventually releasing these episodes on the channel. So there's
a lot of work going into it, but we're going
to try to make it a little bit more fun
and goofy, kind of like a little bit like Blood Bull.
If you've played any of the video games Jim and
Bob the two announcers, or if you've read any of
the lore, there's a bit of humor there which is
present in Warhammer as well that we're going to do,
and Kyle and I are actually going to act as
the hosts. It's a Dwarf and Elf duo, so expect
a little bit of kind of Jim and Bob in that.
And yeah, you know, we'll have ads from sponsors in
the war World and goofy stuff like that, but also
bringing to you the grim dark that only Warhammer can
so that'll all be coming up hopefully later this year
as well. So it's a lot. I've been talking for
a while here, more than I thought, but I wanted
to get this out as the New year starts and
let you guys all know where things are heading and
what we have planned. Expect to see me at a
Depticon again this year. First year. It's going to be
in Milwaukee to a new venue, be running some Alien
again just a little bit. I'm not going crazy. I
actually want to enjoy the con this year, but I
am to run a couple sessions of Alien, so check
that out as the event registration starts I think in
a week or so. Let's see. Let me just check
really quick here for you guys. Registration opens January twelve,
which is a Sunday at twelve pm Central, So check
that out. I'm running a few games I think Thursday
Friday Saturday from ten to two single shot, one shot adventure,
play some Colonial Marines, and yeah, check that out. If
you want to hang Eric is gonna be there as well.
You've seen him on a couple of our shows. We're
gonna be hanging out with him hopefully. And yeah, if
you always want to wanna catch up and hang out
or just talk shop, We're always down for that. And
then we will be returning to gen Con in force
as Dragon's agreed again. Still deciding what I'm gonna run,
but I think I might switch it over from Alien
to something else, just because there's so many other games
I want to play, but really looking at Blade Runner
and Walking Dead right now. We'll see and the rest
of the gang will be there right now. Adam, Aaron Shawan,
and Scar all planning join me again and run a
whole bunch of games. So we got event submission coming
up this Sunday, So we'll have more news for you
guys in the next month or two. Is that I'll
get sorted out. But yeah, we got a lot going on,
a lot planned, and I just really wanted to let
you all know, you know what's going on and how
much we appreciate everybody's support, you know, whether you're just
a listener, you've given us a like, a subscribe, drop
a comment. Sorry, we don't respond to comments as much
as i'd like to. It's just another one of those things.
There's a lot going on, but I do read as
much as I can. I respond when I can. If
you're a Patreon member, we really really appreciate that too.
Like I said, we've been stockpiling our cash for some
of the things we plan to do to help expand
the channels. So whatever it is you do. If you're
just part of the community, you subscribe, you like all
that stuff, it really helps. It means a lot to us,
and it helps us hopefully make this show more than
just a side project and more than just a hobby.
Hopefully one day. But if not, it's still been a blast.
We're still really enjoying it, and we got a lot
of cool stuff we want to share with you, a
lot of more stories we want to tell as well.
So here's to twenty twenty five. Hopefully it's less of
a dumpster fire than twenty twenty four, but time will
tell on that if nothing else. I'm not going through
divorce anymore, so there's that right anyway. Thank you all
so much, really appreciate it. Love you guys, You're all awesome.
Love having you by. Stop by the stream too. I'd
love to just hear more people in chat you get
a little bit more audience participation. But yeah, that's enough
for me. So we will see you next time. Check
out all of our shows and we'll have more news soon.
But thanks again so much, and I will you all
on the flip side, same time, same place, nighty night.