Book 54 of the Lost Chapters is now available: Colby Dauch of Plaid Hat Games joins Craig and Russ to talk about the PAX 2013 Panel.

Click here to view the full Lost Chapter collection.

 

We've got a handy app for both iOS and Android.  We hope this makes your D6G listening experience even easier and more fun!  

 

The app gives you the following abilities:

• Access to our full catalogue! Our show has gotten so big that all our episodes can't fit in our RSS feed anymore.  But no worries, the app has every episode we've ever done.
• Start streaming a show live the moment it goes live, even if you're on the road.
• Don't want to stream? No problem. Star an episode and it downloads to your device for playback even if in airplane mode.
• Easy to read show notes while playing.  Need to jump to the second segment? Just check the notes and slide the bar.
• Per episode Extras like downloading the show image, easy to follow links, and more
• Easy to contact us: Quick links for our voice mail, email, twitter, etc.
• Lost Chapter episodes, bonus episodes, and main show episodes all in one convienent place.
• Easy to use search feature.  [iOS only] Did we ever review Shadows Over Camelot? Just type in shadow at the top of the app and hit search!

 

To get started just search for "The D6 Generation" in either the iTunes app store or the Amazon Appstore for Android.  

 

Did we mention it's free?

Hope this holiday season finds you and your family happy and healthy.

Craig has been hard at work adapting the X-Cam system for Dystopain Wars.  And our local gaming group has been testing all the crazy missions for weeks.

Here are the results.  We've got documents covering full Dystopain Wars X-cam rules, missions, and you can even see how our local league is doing.

Check out hese links:

• Dystopian Wars X-Cam Rules
• Dystopain Wars X-Cam Missions
• Example of X-Cam tracking Sheet (New Hampshire playgroup) 

Happy Gaming!

Ken, the host of This Week in Wargaming (TWiW), was kind enough to invite Russ and TWiW founder Troy on the show to discuss the new tech hotness: The iPad.  Specifically, how will the iPad effect the gaming hobby?  Will it change how we play games, track rules, and manage our books?

Several of the folks involved with the D6G Team have recently taken up blogging in their spare time.

If you'd like to see what they're blogging about, here is a handy list of links.

D6G Team

Craig's Blog: Link

Raef's Blog: Link

Russ's Blog: Link

Contributors 

Nicole's Blog: Link

Owen's Blog: Link

Ken's Blog: Link 

 

And don't forget our D6G Twitter and Facebook:

D6G Twitter: Link

D6G Facebook: Link

Special thanks to listener Bill Roberston who sent in the following details about our rating system and how the re-rolls really stack up.

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No, I'm not a math nerd.  I was forced to take statistics in school,
and that included a healthy dose of probability.  The first part of
most probability courses covers the binomial distribution, which tells
you if you try something a bunch of times, what are the odds that 1
try will succeed, or 2 will succeed etc...

My little gamer mind immediately latched on to this, and only this,
part of the course!

For example, if I want to know the chance of a 3+ with a reroll.  I
first start with a google search for binomial calculator.  Next, plug
in 2 tries with a .67 success chance.  Calculate the result and ask it
to tell me the chance of getting 1 or more successes.

So out of curiosity, I used the web calculator to figure out all of
the d6 with a reroll values and ranked them together with the
single-roll odds.  This is the one I used.
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/applets/binomialdemo.html

2++ = 97%
3++ = 89%
2+  = 83%
4++ = 75%
3+  = 67%
5++ = 56%
4+  = 50%
5+  = 34%
6++ = 31%
6+  = 17%

+ = w/o a reroll
++ = with a reroll

I don't use it very much, but its very handy when coming up with house
rules to see what the effect of multiple rolls would be.  Or, if I
feel like a baby, I use it to see how fast animosity will screw my Orc
army as it gets larger.

Cheers!

We're very excited to be attending GenCon Indy 2009 this year!  If you want to catch up with us there, OR if you want to see the latest news as we find out about it:

1) Follow our Twitter feed.  We'll send out Tweets throughout the weekend on where we are, where we're eating, and if we've suddenly got time to run a game of Werewolf or something.  We'll also be Tweeting and posting pics of hot news events throughout the show.  Even if you can't make it to GenCon, we'll keep you in the loop.  Our Twitter Feed: The Official D6G Twitter Feed.

2) Visit our "Intro to Podcasting" seminar on Thursday, August 13th, at 2pm.  We're event ID SEM0905958 location: Westin: Caucus.  We'll definitly all be there, so it's a great chance to catch us in one spot. 

We hope to see you there.  And don't forget if we see you with a D6G TacCom button or other D6G Merchandise we'll hook you up with a little D6G goodie you can only get by meeting us in person!

Due to the D6G team trip to GenCon Indy 2009, we're going to delay Episode 38 one week.  It would normally air around Monday, August 17th.  Instead Episode 38 will go live near Monday, August 24th.

This also means the shout out auctions for for Episode 38 will be delayed.  These would normally be up now.  Instead the shout out auctions for episode 38 will begin Monday August 10th and run 7 days.

Thanks for understanding and we look forward to sharing our GenCon discoveries with you soon.

Well, it took a bit but now all of the incredible amount of stuff that Paul over at The View from the Turret donated to the show are up on ebay. 

There's all kinds of crazy stuff from a Flames of War intelligence book to buildings to Federation starships to Imperial Guard.  There's even a copy of the boxed game "Frontiers."

Nearly all of it is in mint condition and remember that all proceeds go to help fund the D6G trip to GenCon 2009.

To check out the listings, click here.