D6G Episode 39: Chaos in the Old World detailed review & GenCon Awards

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4.8 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2009

⏱️ 221 minutes

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Summary

Chaos in the Old World from Fantasy Flight games lets players take on the roles of the gods of chaos in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy world. The D6G crew wade through the blood, pus, magic, and debauchery to let you in on the details of the first new WHFB board game in over 10 years. But before all that. We MENTIONED GenCon awards back in Ep 38, but promptly didn't include the segment. Now it made it into the show! Hear what Raef, Craig, and Russ nominated and selected as winners of the awards that each has created to represent the kinds of things they look for in gaming. All that and our usual 'not too horrible' humor, with features such as: - When Wives Attack - The Hollywood Minute - The Score- Listener feedback- & More If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: . The following fine organizations help make this show possible: , on behalf of friendly, professional gaming stores everywhere. ==Quick Reference== The News with Sea of Blood: 1hr 7 min GenCon Awards: 1hr 21min Hollywood Minute: 1hr 16min When Wives Attack: 1 hr 43 min The Score: 2 hr 14 min Chaos in the Old World: 2 hr 20 min Discussed in the show: Chaos Dwarf Fan Army Book: Russ's Painted Battlelore Figures: When Wives Attack Blog: Craig's Blog: Wargamer Radio Network: Pulp Gamer Network:

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0:00.0	This is the D6 generation.
0:11.8	With your hosts, Craig Galant.
0:14.6	Little thing I like to call a joke.
0:16.5	Russ Wakeland.
0:17.6	I'd put the little white handkerchief on my head and go,
0:20.2	Oh, my brain heads!
0:22.7	And Rafe, uh, Hollywood, Granger.
0:26.9	H.D. is in the house.
0:28.9	With contributions from our lovely wives.
0:33.0	He cheated, cheater, cheater, cheater, wester.
0:35.1	You guys have to know the rules before you play him.
0:37.7	And our loyal listeners.
0:40.6	Drago, Drago, Drago, we made you out of few.
0:44.6	Welcome to another edition of Rapid Fire, the roundtable discussion of all things gaming,
0:48.5	coming at you with the slow, inevitable speed of sweet, sweet corruption.
0:52.3	Today's edition is brought to you by a mysterious stranger who left the following message. Happy birthday, our Canadian friend. We wish you all the best on the opposite side of the world. It's sad that our time together was so short. P.S., your painting has no soul. I'm Geekley McNardigan, your host. Today, as always, our panelists are Roskultaker-Waakland. Howdy-ho? And Rief, Grandpa Ergel Granger.
1:12.6	Let's begin. Issue number one. Chaos typically refers to a state lacking order or predictability. In many ancient cultures, it referred to the initial state of the universe, and by extension, space, darkness, or abyss. It is used in mathematics and science to refer to a very specific kind of unpredictability,
1:10.9	and informally to mean a state of confusion. In popular culture, the word can occur with all three meanings. Its gaming connection to evil can primarily be attributed to the Dungeons and Dragons character alignment, chaotic evil, denoting the worst of the worst, despite the fact that even in that game system,
1:45.0	chaotic did not in and of itself refer to evil.
1:48.0	Question.
1:49.0	What is the best example of a concept whose meaning is wildly different between the gaming
1:53.2	context and the real world context?
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