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-Matt

We go over our weeks and talk about the recent BSG episode. I talk about our up coming LAN party and how I have been playing some FPS games for the first time in a long time.

We start in on our main topic, the Character Builder. We go over our first impressions and do a walk through of creating a character.

Check out the demo for the Character Builder here.

This episode runs 72 minutes. Leave a comment below or visit the forums if you want to talk about the episode. Send any emails to podcast@runningdtw.com.

Banter:
How our holidays went.
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Battlestar Galactica and Supernatural returning soon.

Topic:
We discuss different terrain features you can add to your encounters to add variety to your basic battleground.

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Season 4.0 is out now, and it is available at many fine establishments. If you are dieing to get into the series then there is an amazon specific bundle that contains seasons 1 through 3 ine a nice little package. You can snag it at amazon or target only apparently.

Don’t forget, that in less than two weeks the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica will air on the Sci Fi channel. It retuns on the 16th of January to be exact, that’s a Friday by the way. In the meantime you can watch their 10 part webisode series, which isn’t bad at all. 

If you need to catch up on the last few episodes of season 4.0 before you watch 4.5 (aka The Final Episodes) then you can hit up Hulu if you don’t feel like buying season 4.0. Besides, Hulu rocks. Seriously, they’ve become better than I remember. Keep on truckin’ Hulu.

Well, that’s all the news for now. Have fun kids.

-Jason-

P.S. If everything goes right, you may have a new podcast come Monday.

In the meantime a new article has come out from Wizards regarding the next new class from the players hanbook 2. If you read carefully, you might have noticed this class listed in the minotaur article. That is now 3 out of 4 roles with the primal power source. In case you’ve forgotten you have the druid for controlling, barbarian for striking, and now this class for defending. There weren’t a lot of nature based classes before, back in the 3.5 ed days, and I really wonder exactly what they’ll use for the leader class role. Hmm… speculation time!

We talk a lot about TV shows and just in case you might have forgotten, a lot of them are finally in swing again after the holidays. Namely: House M.D., Dexter, Sanctuary, and the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Now these are really only the shows I watch heavily and almost religiously for some.

I’d talk about exactly what I’ve come to love and hate about the Clone Wars series, but I’ve been talking too long already.

Have fun kids.

-Jason-

We start out talking about the 4th season of Battlestar Galactica, where Jason gets on the subject of the anatomy of male Cylons…  We also talk about some recent video game releases including Fable 2 and Saints Row 2.

On topic we start out talking about the Swordmage from the Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide. We briefly cover this new Defender from the Arcane power source.

Next up we talk about the Artificer playtest article from the July issue of Dragon magazine. We talk about our experiences with the Artificer from 3rd edition and our impressions of how the class is looking for 4th edition as a Leader from the Arcane power source.

Last, we look at the Barbarian play test from the October issue of Dragon magazine. This Striker from the new Primal power source has both Jason and myself wanting to roll one up to test out.

This episode comes in at about an hour. To discuss this episode or anything else, head to the forums or email us at podcast@runningdtw.com

We change it up a little this week and start out with some banter talk. We talk about, Mario Kart DS, Battlestar Galactica, the Dresden Files, Pineapple Express, the Clone Wars movie, and the new James Bond coming out later this year.

Our topic of the week is Battlemats and Minis.   We discuss the various options we have used over the course of our gaming. We also discuss the importance of using a battlemat in Dungeons and Dragons through the various editions of the game.

We get a little off topic in a few places, but manage to bring it back around to topic.

Episode runs about 1 hour. Head to the forums or email us to discuss this episode or anything else.

-Matt