BAMF RPG and Comics Podcast

Publisher Roundtable talks Achtung Cthulu, Thunderbirds, Sleeper and Extreme Earth

Chris Birch of Modiphius Press tells us about their upcoming plans for Achtung Cthulu, Thunderbirds and other projects.

Also - congrats to Modiphius for getting the rights to produce Conan RPG

Jon Gibbons of Fainting Goat Games is on hand to talk about Extreme Earth

Ben Counter of Death Spiral tells us about the Sleeper RPG Kickstarter 

Best and Worst of 2014 - and the Bamfsies awards are announced

In this episode, we talk about the Best/Worst of 2014 in comics. And we announce the winners of the Bamfsies awards for the best in Superhero RPGs from the last year (or so).

Chuck Rice, Steve Kenson, Jason Tondro, Chris McGlothlin and Ade Smith join us.

At the very end of the podcast, Steve and Chris give us some details about what 2015 holds for ICONS and Mutants and Masterminds.

You can get a complete list of the Bamfsies winners and details on the prize giveway here.

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Base Raiders Actual Play

Ross Payton stops by to run us through a demo session of his awesome Fate-powered game Base Raiders.

This game was an absolute blast to play and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Apologies to Ross for not getting the podcast up in time to help promote the Fate Bundle of Holding with Base Raiders.

Note that we are now on Patreon? If you enjoy the podcast please give us a hand.

Extreme Earth Actual Play with SUPERS! Part 3 - Finale

This is the conclusion of our Extreme Earth actual play using the SUPERS! Red rules. Walt Robillard once again GMs.

Extreme Earth with SUPERS! Part 2

Here's part two of our Extreme Earth adventure with the SUPERS! Red rules. Walt Robillard GMs

Extreme Earth Actual Play with SUPERS! Part 1

We recently did an Extreme Earth adventure using the SUPERS Revised Edition rules. Walt Robillard was our GM. Several of us on the EE team provided the characters for this Wolfpack Mission.

Note that we're actually playing through the adventure that will be provided in the main EE book. So - it's kind of like a preview

Triumphs and Tragedies of Indie Comics Publishing

This week we have an irreverent look at indie comics publishing as our Algonquin round-table climbs over each other to enthusiastically embrace the triumphs and tragedies of comics publishing

Our roundtable includes:

Ray-Anthony Height creator of Midnight Tiger (now available on Comixology)

Vito Delsante writer of Stray and World War Mob (which we agreed not to mention:) )

Sean Izaakse - artist of Stray

Charlie McElvy - writer of WatchGuard

Walt Robillard - publisher of Heroic (which is having a Kickstarter now for issue 2)

WW2 Roundtable - featuring Night Witches by Jason Morningstar

Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit games joins us to talk about Night Witches - his new rpg about Soviet airwomen during World War Two, flying daring night time bombing missions in biplanes.

We take the opportunity to talk about WW2 in all kinds of media (games, movies, etc) and why it seems like we can't get enough of the "Good War"

Chuck Rice, Jason Tondro, Walt Robillard and Green Ronin's Chris McGlothlin (author of Golden Age for Freedom City) join us for this lively (and, at times, heated) conversation.

You can check out the (now finished) Kickstarter for Night Witches here.

You can learn more about the Uber comic here.

And more about the Max Manus movie here.

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II is available here.

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As a special bonus here in the show notes, we've got Jason Morningstar's WW2 filmography, sorted by area

JAPAN

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, Yasujirō Ozu, 1941

Stray Dog, Akira Kurosawa, 1949

CHINA

Devils on the Doorstep, Jiang Wen, 2000

Lust, Caution, Ang Lee, 2007

GERMANY

Europa, Europa, Agnieszka Holland, 1990

Downfall, Oliver Hirschbbiegel, 2004

Germany, Year Zero, Roberto Rossellini, 1948

NORTH ATLANTIC/MEDITERRANEAN

Das Boot, Wolfgang Petersen, 1981

NORWAY

The Last Lieutenant, Hans Petter Moland, 1993

UNITED STATES

The Best Years of Our Lives, William Wyler, 1946

SOUTH PACIFIC

The Thin Red Line, Terence Malick, 1998

Fires on the Plain, Kon Ichikawa, 1959

SOVIET UNION

The Cranes are Flying, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957

In Flight are the Night Witches, Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, 1981

BYELORUSSIA

Come and See, Elem Klimov, 1985

ITALY

Roma Città Aperta, Roberto Rossellini, 1945

Paisà, Roberto Rossellini, 1946

Il generale della Rovere, Roberto Rossellini, 1959

Four Days of Naples, Nanni Loy, 1962

Italiani Brava Gente, Giuseppe De Santis, 1965

NORTH AFRICA

El Alamein - linea del fuoco, Enzo Monteleone, 2002.

POLAND

A Generation, Adrzej Wajda, 1955

Kanal, Andrzej Wadja, 1956

Ashes and Diamonds, Andrzej Wajda, 1958

FRANCE

Jeux Interdits, Rene Clement, 1952

BRITAIN

Dark Blue World, Jan Sverák, 2001

Hope and Glory, John Boorman, 1987

FINLAND

The Cuckoo, Aleksandr Rogozhkin, 2002

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

The Shop on Main Street, Ján Kadár, 1965

Closely Watched Trains,  Jiří Menzel, 1966

Želary , Ondrej Trojan, 2003

After Zombies Actual Play

Chuck Rice stops by to take us through a demo session of After Zombies - his in-development RPG.

Walt Robillard, Ade Smith and Jon Gibbons are the intrepid party of survivors trying to cope in the wasteland of the zombie apocalypse.

Game was a lot of fun and we're very eager to see this released. Maybe somebody we'll even get our schedules to line up so we can do a second session :)

Here's the After Zombies Facebook page

And here's the After Zombies G+ page

BTW -  If you're using an iPhone, you can use it to visit http://mikelaff.podbean.com/mobile and then add the podcast as an web app on your iPhone.

BAMF talks about when comics tackle 'serious issues' and the new comic Stray

On this very special episode of the BAMF podcast, we talk about "relevancy comics" - ie when superhero comics weigh in on social issues and how it's been done well sometimes and perhaps not so well at other times.

Also we hear from artist Sean Izaakse and writer Vito Delsante all about the new comic Stray - which is something of an homage to the Speedy/Nightwing sidekicks of yore and Vito's other project: World War Mob (which is a great comic you should be reading)

Jason Tondro, Walt Robillard and Ennie Award winner Christopher McGlothin co-host. 

AND - Chris fills us in on his upcoming villains project for the Mutants and Masterminds RPG.

Stray Facebook group 

Stray preorder page 

Hard Travelling Heroes 

Mutants and Masterminds page 

BTW -  If you're using an iPhone, you can use it to visit the http://mikelaff.podbean.com/mobile and then add the podcast as an web app on your iPhone.