Episodes
Friday Mar 22, 2019
#104: Skinwalker Ranch, A Secret Frequency
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Mike takes listeners on a journey to Skinwalker Ranch, a real world location of urban myth that may inspire your horror games.
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Friday Mar 08, 2019
#103: Cyberpunk Night City LARP (Special Guest Matt Webb)
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Mike, Chris, and Chigg are joined by Matt Webb of Jackalope Live Action Studios to discuss the upcoming Cyberpunk: Night City LARP! Matt explains the vision for the live action game, the unique venue they've chosen, and the incredible rules and set design that will make Cyberpunk come alive.
Cyberpunk: Night City will take place May 24-25, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas and on The Net. Be sure to grab your tickets for this unique event at: http://cyberpunk.jackalope-larp.com/
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Friday Mar 01, 2019
#102: Cyberpunk 2020 / 2077 / Red RPG Setting (Special Guest Matt Webb)
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Mike, Chris, and Chigg are joined by LARP luminary Matt Webb to explore the setting basics of Cyberpunk 2020. This classic roleplaying game codifies the character roles of game structure of cyberpunk gaming decades later, and holds up as an entertaining and challenging roleplaying experience. The team discusses the setting's style, Night City, corporations, and edgerunner characters, while teasing future episodes on the Jackelope Cyberpunk: Night City LARP and a review of World of Future Darkness.
Cyberpunk: Night City will take place May 24-25, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas and on The Net. Be sure to grab your tickets for this unique event at: http://cyberpunk.jackalope-larp.com/
Darker Days is testing out a new format, please let us know what you think!
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Friday Feb 22, 2019
#101: Kindred of the East Character Creation and Hot Takes
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Following the exploration of Kindred of the East's setting last week, Mike, Chris, and Chigg create a Kuei-Jin player character, Mapuana, and discuss the character creation process and rules for this sourcebook. Spoiler Alert: Chris and Chigg like the game better after learning the rules. :p
Darker Days is testing out a new format, please let us know what you think!
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Saturday Feb 16, 2019
#100: Kindred of the East RPG Setting
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Join the Darker Days team for Episode #100! Mike, Chris, and Chigg tackle the most hotly demanded book from the past 99 episodes... Kindred of the East! The team focuses solely on Kindred of the East's Middle Kingdom setting, exploring the monstrous creation of the Second Breath, the stabilizing nature of the Dharmic Paths, and ponder what the intended game structure is supposed to be. Get ready for some crossover discussion, with a lot of ideas thrown around for Vampire, Mage, Wraith, and Mummy.
Darker Days is testing out a new format, and next week's episode will include a detailed Kindred of the East character creation. Please let us know what you think of the new format.
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Friday Feb 01, 2019
#99: Danielle Lauzon on Developing Chronicles of Darkness
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Live from PAX Unplugged, Mike is joined by Vampire: the Requiem developer Danielle Lauzon! The two discuss the growth of PAX, the resurgence of Vampire: the Requiem, Danielle's extensive resume, and some of her rad upcoming work for Chronicles of Darkness, particularly for Mage: the Awakening!
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Friday Jan 18, 2019
#97: The Annual Dragonmeet Coffee Bar Special
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Chris was at Dragonmeet 2018, in London last December, a day after getting back from Boston, and he sat down with Onyx Path Publishing freelancers and developers David Brookshaw and Christopher Allen. They chat all about the releases coming up, plus some more exclusive information for Mummy: the Curse 2nd Edition and Deviant: the Renegades.
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Monday Oct 01, 2018
#91: World of Darkness: Chile
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Chigg and Mike sit down with star storyteller, Joe! A moderator of the World of Darkness Discord and a luminary of the Chilean gaming scene, Joe explains the history of roleplaying games in his country and how World of Darkness exploded on the scene in the mid-2000s.
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Thursday Jul 26, 2018
#90: Ascension Night (Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition Actual Play)
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
London is burning and they're on the run. Destitute, low on blood, and out of gas, four kindred escape the Second Inquisition only to find themselves shunned by the cloistered Camarilla of Manchester. But after their new haven is burned down by a rival coterie, these neonates show the city that they messed with the wrong bloodsuckers.
Join the full cast of Darker Days Radio for the very first live play of Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition! We explore Manchester by Night, explain and demonstrate the finalized rules of V5, and, if luck would have it, escape our Ascension Night alive.
Time Stamps:
00:02:00 - Character Introduction
00:05:12 - Setting Introduction
00:10:55 - Actual Play
If you can't make it to Gencon, and want to talk about V5 on release day, then come drop by our Twitch Channel!
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Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
#89: Death Is Not The End
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
From a tomb beneath the frozen wastelands of Sweden, Karim Muammar and Matthew Dawkins of White Wolf Entertainment join Mike and Chris to give an overview of Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition (still available for preorder from Modiphius).
Karim is the chief editor, and has developed the new systems that are in the undead heart of V5.
Matthew Dawkins (recently announced as Senior Community Director for White Wolf) is one of the writers on V5, following up his work with Onyx Path Publishing on Beckett's Jyhad Diary.
Time Stamps:
00:02:40 - World of Darkness News
00:05:10 - Who Are Karim and Matthew?
00:14:45 - V5 discussion.
Also stay tuned for our Vampire the Masquerade 5th actual play recording - Ascension Night.
If you can't make it to Gencon, and want to talk about V5 on release day, then come drop by our Twitch Channel!
Find out more about White Wolf, Vampire 5th edition and the World of Darkness over at the Ask Me Anything, with Jason Carl.