Minions of the X-Com Master

Thanks to regular listener Señor Mencken for sending in this great photo. He outfitted his hard boiled team of bug stompers from the game X-Com with monikers to match all of the hosts of the podcast! Very cool, thanks again Dave!

Technical Difficulties: It's All Part of the Show

That is a HUGE spider!

Often we have joked about how here at Minions Headquarters it's not the polished, professional product most other "good" podcasts strive for.  We're down and dirty, record fast and loose, and in the end we hop there's a bit of a niche out there for putting you at the game table on your random game night, hanging out with your buddies, having a drink, and rolling some dice...all vicariously through the podcast itself.

Even with the admitted lack of professionalism, there's even standards that aren't good enough for us.  You see, we though that the "four channel" mode on the recorder was a good idea.  We figured, four channels has to be better than two channels, right?

Wrong.  When the Zoom H2 recorder is in four channel mode it automatically converts sound files to .WAV type files, recording MP3s (like we have always done) is impossible.  .WAV files are limited to a maximum of about three and a half hours after which it stops recording and technically starts a brand new file to pick up where the old one left off with "several tens of seconds of lost audio".  We are fairly certain that the last half dozen or so podcast episodes suffered from this problem causing some very severe "cliffhanger" moments in the actual play. 

The bad news is that almost all of these recent episodes are cut off at the end, losing up to thirty to forty-five minutes each.  One episode isn't cut off but that was because it was a short episode anyway.  The good news is that we figured this problem out before it got too out of hand and starting with episode #67, we should be back on track. 

I suppose there is a ghost of a chance that there are some "tail end" clips on the device we didn't think to look for where it rolled over, but we may have to just bite the bullet and count our losses.  So, whereas we may indeed play fast and loose, we still try to at least keep the technical side of things in the clear.  Sorry for the cliffhangers friends, we're now good to go!

Episodes 61-65: Bunches of Pathfinder and Some Dark Heresy

T-Bone; GM and Big Sandwich Afficionado

Episodes 61-65: iTunes

Episodes 61-65: Non-iTunes

Hosts:  Everybody but the Auxiliary Minions

Five episodes!  Five!  Who's been running this ship?  Is the captain dead at the wheel?  Nobody knows!  I know, I guess, since I'm the guy who is responsible for the web presence to accompany the podcast.  Obviously I've bee a bit slacking, what have we been up to though?  I suspect many of you automatically subscribe to the show, so you're really not waiting on these posts to go and get your episodes, but still, it's nice to have if for nothing other than posterity.  Let's start with the first of the bunch:

Episode 61:  We finally conclude the Mass Effect story arc using the Rogue Space rules!

Episode 62:  We make characters for a new, mid-week Pathfinder Fantasy RPG!

Episode 63:  We throw those freshly made Pathfinder characters into Rise of the Runelords!

Episode 64:  SHEER MADNESS!  In addition to Pathfinder we start a new Dark heresy campaign!

Episode 65:  More Pathfinder campaign hijinks in the Rise of the Runelords adventure path!

Wow!  As you can see, we've been busy, and that's just what's been dropped to the feed.  We also have an episode #66 ready to go in the can that will be even more Pathfinder goodness.  Hopefully I'm back on track now and when it goes live I'll be here to give it its own post like we should be doing.  Until then, rock on!

Elf on Elf Action

Where are the heroes?  Where's the latest podcast?  All in due time my friends!  I must say, and with Duck Sauce's own admission, that at least two episodes are forthcoming due to "guilt" and "sloth".  Duck Sauce's own words, I swear, err more or less!

We just wrapped up episode 63 and it was an all-Elf party romping through the Rise of the Runelords adventure path for the Pathfinder RPG.

We also have the last episode of the Mass Effect story arc soon to be aired as well as the character creation/bull session of the aforementioned Pathfinder campaign. 

So not only have we not forgotten you, we've got a whole lot of episodes ready to unleash!  Until then, enjoy!

-Gyro

Episode 60: Schemes and Plans for 2013

Episodes 60: iTunes

Episodes 60: Non-iTunes

Hosts:  Duck Sauce, T-Bone, Chick-o-Sticks, Biscuit, and Americano

In what seemed to be an aimless, meandering episode the hosts pull it together and get some concrete plans for the podcast down on paper for 2013.  Plans are made, schedules are set, hemming and hawing ensues.  There's a little 'Around the Horn' thrown in there for good measure.  Enjoy!