Harmontown

Highly recommended podcast! When I first listened to it I went from the very first episodes right to their lastest one, totally worth it! I'll try and expand on this this weekend.

RockRosen wrote:

RockRosen wrote:

Wow (unless you started listening to it right in the beginning of the podcast's existence). How long is one episode? I haven't watched it yet, but saw the trailer to the Harmontown movie - anything you've seen, seems like it's out?

Lahm wrote:

Oh and the episodes are quite long, I think 1 hour and a half to 2 hours, it took me a long time to listen to them all. They did that documentary from recordings from a set of live shows around the USA they did I think a few years ago now, it has taken sooo long to get the documentary out. I didn't have a chance to watch it yet, but I'll definitely will.

(moving the discussion about McHale to a thread of his own)

Wow that is long. There's hundreds of episodes too, so I don't really think I'll be listening in from the beginning hehe.. Which year did it start?  Ah yeah, think I saw something about 2013.

Yes it would be a lot of time, I catch them around episode 70 or so I think and took me a few months to catch up! In the first episodes they talk about having been doing that thing but without recording and thus making it a podcast for a year before they started recording officially.

There's not a fixed subject as far as I know. Dan brings some sort of notes on his iPad or iSomething and uses them as topic guide, but most of the times they just flow with the show, maybe someone in the audience has something to say and they follow up on that thought. There's also no fixed list of guest / co-hosts: Dan is always there, and Jeff Davies as "comptroller". But many times other friends of Dan's show up as co-host when Jeff is unable to be on the show. Dan's fiancée (now wife since a few weeks ago) Erin McGathy also takes part pretty often, as does Dungeon Master Spencer Crittenden. But the rest of the show, no clue whatsoever!

Yes it's a role-playing game. You are given (you get to pick certain traits) a character with said abilities, skills and equipment, and you have to interact with a fantasy environment designed by the Dungeon Master, where you'll be required to accomplish some missions. There are few other charcters played by people in your side/band/team, and the enemies are usually played by the Dungeon Master. It's turn-based and every action/move would be successful or not depending on your base abilities and die-derived chance. You are informed by the Dungeon Master about the fate of your character's actions. It sounds like incredible fun time activity but I've never got any chance of playing it :S

RockRosen wrote:

Hm okey. Not that I've played world of Warcraft but sounds a bit alike?

I guess since both involve role-playing and I think you get certain characteristics and easier evolution towards one type of strength or the other, but I've never played WoW so I can't really say for certain.