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This episode: The party wakes up in a strange place, and meet the Resplendent Tiger. Also the crew takes a moment to give advice to a listener whose parents forbid the game. [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/critical_hit_50.mp3[/podcast] Direct Download RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

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Tabletop role-playing games, as well as LARPs are exercises in social contracts. Whenever a group of people sit down to play they all have to agree on the system, the arbitration of said system and on hundreds of unspoken rules. Of course, in this hodgepodge system there’s always room for someone to start rocking boats, rattling cages and tipping over cows.

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Press Release Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with DC Comics and will be releasing the DC ADVENTURES RPG book this August. The game is based on Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds, the leading super-hero RPG in the tabletop gaming world. “It is DC’s 75th anniversary this year and I’m delighted we can help celebrate it by bringing the DC Universe back to the roleplaying hobby,” said Green Ronin President Chris Pramas. “The team-up of the DCU and the creators behind Mutants & Masterminds will create an unstoppable force of great gaming!”

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This episode: Are you up for a total party kill? The Game Master is. Let’s see if he gets it or not. [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/criticalhit_49.mp3[/podcast] Direct Download RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes Take the jump to see images from this week’s episode.

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If you were wondering when Marvel would step up and deliver their own massively multiplayer online game to counter DC’s DC Universe Online, then cast your gaze upon the trailer for the Super Hero Squad MMO.

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Sony Online Entertainment and DC Comics have released a new group of character images from the upcoming DC Universe Online MMORPG.  If you want to see what the a big bad like Black Adam looks like under the eye of Jim Lee, then take the jump for the complete gallery.

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This episode: The battle rages on as man (and 3/4 orc, and dogboy) take on dinosaurs…ON THE MOON! [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/criticalhit_48.mp3[/podcast] Direct Download RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

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I have always been amazed at how isolated tabletop gaming groups can be. Since I started role playing I have met people who have never played anything other than second edition D&D, likewise I’ve seen groups who play Vampire LARP exclusively. There is very little in the way of a unifying culture for gamers, whereas every sci-fi enthusiast has probably seen an episode of Star Trek there are gamers who have never played a game of Dungeons & Dragons. This, in and of itself, is not an issue, the problem is that, as with all isolated pockets of society, myths…

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Sony Online Entertainment unveiled the next character to show up in the DC Universe Online game.  Power Girl should give some fanboys reason to stick with the good guys and align themselves with the likes of Kara Zor-El. Take the jump for the complete gallery.

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This issue: Rodrigo recounts his adventures to the lands to the North and his many epic battles with other Planeswalkers. [podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/majorspoilers/majorspoilers_180.mp3[/podcast] Direct Download Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed Podcast Alley Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

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This episode: The group lands in a strange town, and everyone is acting strangely… How odd is that? http://media.libsyn.com/media/majorspoilers/critical_hit_37.mp3 Direct Download RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

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