The Beer and Pretzel Podcast

The Beer and Pretzel Podcast

One-shot actual play podcast that covers a new ”beer and pretzel” RPG each time. We play it, review it, and interview the game‘s writer in this podcast that introduces new RPGs. A part of the Butwhytho. Episodes out Fridays at 10 am

Episodes

April 7, 2023 28 mins

Austen interviews Karl Druid about his Acid Western Mork Borg hack Frontier Scum. Listen as we talk game design and inspirations for this game's world. 

Follow Karl on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/makedatanotlore

Find the game at: https://frontierscum.com/

 

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December 23, 2022 52 mins

Meet the Murder Mavens of Brindlewood Bay! These old gals are in the final round of The Great Brindlewood Bay Bake Off competition, and when the show host dies, it's up to these crazy ladies to solve the case! 

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November 25, 2022 68 mins

Meet the Murder Mavens of Brindlewood Bay! These old gals are in the final round of The Great Brindlewood Bay Bake Off competition, and when the show host dies, it's up to these crazy ladies to solve the case! 

This will be a two-part episode so tune in next week with our session finale!

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October 14, 2022 42 mins

The Beer and Pretzel Podcast sit down to discuss playing the text-based rpg Alice is Missing by Spenser Starke. 

Alice is Missing can be found at: https://www.huntersentertainment.com/alice-is-missing

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Listen along as this gang of pirates probably drinks too much grog outside the game in roleplaying our characters for Pirate Borg! 

In the Curse of Skeleton Point, three pirates wash ashore on an island full of horror and mystery and try to figure out what happened to the Governor's missing daughter. That is if they can make it to the castle...

     

 

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Listen along as this gang of pirates probably drinks too much grog outside the game in roleplaying our characters for Pirate Borg! 

In the Curse of Skeleton Point, three pirates wash ashore on an island full of horror and mystery and try to figure out what happened to the Governor's missing daughter. That is if they can make it to the castle...

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Listen along as this gang of pirates probably drinks too much grog outside the game in roleplaying our characters for Pirate Borg! 

In the Curse of Skeleton Point, three pirates wash ashore on an island full of horror and mystery and try to figure out what happened to the Governor's missing daughter. That is if they can make it to the castle...

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Listen along as this gang of pirates probably drinks too much grog outside the game in roleplaying our characters for Pirate Borg! 

In the Curse of Skeleton Point, three pirates wash ashore on an island full of horror and mystery and try to figure out what happened to the Governor's missing daughter. That is if they can make it to the castle...

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Austen drinks too much and tries to record a podcast...

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Austen review's the newest stylized heavy metal rpg Hell Night in this week's review episode. 

Listen to the original interview between Austen and Hell Night creator Gavriel Quiroga at:  https://thebeerandpretzelpodcast.podbean.com/e/neurocity-warpland-hell-night-discussion-with-gavriel-quiroga/

You can pick up this rpg for yourself at: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/399162/HELL-NIGHT

Join Austen's d&d open world/sandbox camp...

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We return from our mid-season break with another solo rpg actual play—this time with the Jurassic Park-inspired survival game Clever Girl by Matthew Graveleyn. 

Listen as Austen plays as Jason, night crew for Dinoland, as he tries to survive alone in the park with raptors surrounding him...

Clever Girl Human and Raptor edition can be found at: https://mr-matthew.itch.io/clever-girl

Music by the Fiechters. 

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Austen and Travis review every short film from the acclaimed third season of Netflix's Love Death + Robots. 

Did you agree with our rankings? 

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June 7, 2022 63 mins

The Beer and Pretzel Podcast plays a tropical-themed adventure of Fiasco in this week's episode. Listen as a shipwrecked crew (and pirate) try to find a way off a deserted island, dealing with curses, angry gorillas, and the locals along the way. 

Follow us on social media to stay updated for future episodes! 

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June 3, 2022 57 mins

The Beer and Pretzel Podcast plays a tropical-themed adventure of Fiasco in this week's episode. Listen as a shipwrecked crew (and pirate) try to find a way off a deserted island, dealing with curses, angry gorillas, and the locals along the way. 

Act 2 is out next week. 

Follow us on social media to stay updated for future episodes! 

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May 31, 2022 32 mins

The Beer and Pretzel Podcast create their characters and relationships for the classic indie rpg Fiasco. 

Come back Friday for part 1/2 of our Fiasco actual play series! 

Follow us on social media to see our Hawaiian shirt group photo! 

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Austen and Travis review two of the latest piece of Marvel media with an in-depth look at Moon Knight, and the recent Dr. Strange movie. We discuss why these latest properties don't land for us. 

Comic of the week: Ice Cream Man. 

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In this week's newest episode, Austen and Travis finish playing the two-player rpg Partners by Steve Dee. 

Welcome to "Miami Knights", the tv's newest and grooviest buddy cop show about a retired detective turned nightclub owner, and the youngest cop to become a detective in the Miami police force's history. Together they will investigate a murder that took place right outside the nightclub. 

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In this week's newest episode, Austen and Travis play the two-player rpg Partners by Steve Dee. 

Welcome to "Miami Knights", the tv's newest and grooviest buddy cop show about a retired detective turned nightclub owner, and the youngest cop to become a detective in the Miami police force's history. Together they will investigate a murder that took place right outside the nightclub. 

 

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May 10, 2022 46 mins

Austen plays Blurred Lines, the Giallo film inspired solo rpg by Guilherme Gontijo. Austen plays a photographer who is being stalked by a leather-gloved killer whose schtick is plucking out his victim's eyeballs with a fishing hook, and strangling them with the fishing wire in Montpelier Vermont. 

Link to where you can find Blurred Lines: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/388750/Blurred-Lines--Giallo-Detective-Solo-RPG

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