Avast there landlubbers! Pirates on the port bow!

The hero's journey: Alex Aguila, from humble beginnings as co-founder of Alienware (!) to the heady heights of writing a competition winning Alien adventure!
To celebrate our 150th episode (by some ways of counting) we launch a competition to write a whole adventure in 1500 words, and talk to Alex Aguila, who has already done it, about his life in gaming and Year Zero Engine plans

00.00.40: Introduction
00.03.36: Thank you to our new patrons: Wil Logsdon and Aaron Silverman
00.05.19: World of Gaming: ZineQuest; The One Ring KS, Xanadu - Nibiru Expansion; Traveller Mercenary set;  Alien Colonial Marine Operations Manual delay; Alien Dead Sea; Alien: The Colony
00.35.18: 150th episode - reflections and a competition
  • Choose any Free League game in English
  • Write an adventure for it in English in 1500 words or less (about two sides of US letter paper)
  • Send it to our email
  • You retain all the intellectual rights to your work
  • The prize is a £50 (or local equivalent) voucher for Drive Thru RPG
00.49.21: The Syndicate
01.05.13: Player in the Hamam: Alex Aguila tells us about his life in gaming, founding Alienware, selling Alienware, founding Firelock Games, publishing Blood and Plunder and more, and plans for two Year Zero Engine RPGs
01.44.00: Coming next and goodbye

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Creators and Guests

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Host
Dave Semark
Dave is co-host and writer on the podcast, and part of the writing team at Free League - he created the Xenos for Alien RPG and as been editor and writer on a number of further Alien and Vaesen books, as well as writing the majority the upcoming Better Worlds book. He has also been the Year Zero Engine consultant on War Stories and wrote the War Stories campaign, Rendezvous with Destiny.
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Host
Matthew Tyler-Jones
Matthew is co host of the podcast, as well as writer, producer, senior editor, designer and all round top dog. He was also been involved a couple of project for Free League - writing credits include Alien RPG, Vaesen: Mythic Britain and Ireland, and Vaesen: Seasons of Mystery as well as a number of Free League Workshop products.
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