Pintas y Dados - El podcast

Una de las cosas más gratificantes de ser un Dungeon Master es ver como toda la preparación previa al juego resulta en una historia divertida y asombrosa a la hora de jugar. El proceso que cada DM sigue para prepararse y escribir la historia antes de contarla difiere de DM a DM. A algunos nos gusta improvisar, a otros nos gusta planear todos y cada uno de los puntos de la historia, otros lo planean pero dejan que la decisión dependa de una tirada de dados… En fin, todos tenemos nuestro “librito” que seguimos a la hora de correr nuestros juegos.

Por otro lado, una de las cosas más gratificantes de ser un jugador de DnD, es que tu Dungeon Master no te mate.

HAH!!

Pero no hay nada mejor que encontrarse con tus amigos luego de un juego y hablar sobre lo cool que fue el juego, o las diferentes formas en las que podemos correr otro juego la próxima vez que nos toque ser DM.

Con esto en mente, dos amigos y yo nos pusimos de acuerdo para crear “Pintas y Dados”.

Pintas y dados, el podcast, es básicamente una ventana en la que Fernando, Moisés y yo les hablaremos sobre varios aspectos de nuestro hobby favorito: Los juegos de Rol. Hablaremos de Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Fate, Numenera, Legend of the 5 rings, y muchos otros sistemas de juego, mientras comentamos sobre los monstruos, las reglas, las historias y las ideas que pasan por nuestras mentes a la hora de preparar una sesión de juego. Todo esto mientras nos tomamos una que otra pinta :) .

Además de esto, con la ayuda de nuestro grupo de amigos, grabamos varios juegos de rol que presentaremos como una historia en episodios. Así como cuando nuestros padres escuchaban radionovelas? bueno, así mismo solo que con nerdos, dados, sin guiones, y un humor mucho más cuestionable.

El día de mañana (29 de Junio) presentaremos nuestro primer episodio, gracias a nuestros amigos de Patacoins, ustedes, mis muy estimados lectores, podrán encontrar el podcast en el sitio de patacoinstv.com y así también en iTunes y cualquier aplicación de podcasts en Android (yo uso Podcast Republic, es gratis, soy pobre)

También si tienen alguna pregunta, o algún tema que les gustaría que comentemos en el podcast nos pueden escribir a pintasydados@gmail.com, o encontrarnos en twitter como @Pintas_y_Dados y en Instagram como pintasydados. En un futuro grabaremos un capítulo con sus preguntas y comentarios, asi que envíennos todas las ideas que quieran escuchar en el podcast!

Estamos muy entusiasmados con este proyecto y esperamos que les guste lo que tenemos preparado para ustedes.

Cheers!

Julio

G.I.F.T.E.D.

It started with an accident, as many of these stories do…

It was a rainy night and the bus was full of people. The driver had taken an extra shift, those new school books weren’t going to pay for themselves after all, so he needed to put in all the extra hours he could… He needed to provide, he had to give his son a proper education and make sure he’d never have to work graveyard shifts like his old man…

The truck hit him out of nowhere… in just a few seconds he wondered if he had passed a red light, had he fallen asleep on the wheel? or maybe the other driver had, he wasn’t sure. The horrified screams of his passengers mingled with his own as he thought about his son and his dog, who were the only family he had left. The bus bounced on its side and he felt one of his ribs crack under his own weight on the safety belt of his seat, it tumbled twice and just as it seemed it would hit the side of a building… it stopped.

It was as if all of the impulse behind the rolling bus had simply come to a halt, the driver, who was bracing himself for a big impact, slowly opened his eyes, and to his amazement, the bus seemed to be floating in midair, suspended by an eerie light that seemed to glow with a violet aura. Not only was the bus suspended in midair… but also the shattered glass, the passengers’ bags, and the passengers themselves were suspended as if gravity had sort of forgotten about them. The driver, now breathing heavily sat still for a moment, not knowing what to do, until he finally tried looking at his rearview mirror.

Floating amongst the debris and the injured passengers, a little girl with a bowl cut, a purple flower dress and mismatched sneakers was shaking and sobbing. Her eyes glowed with a light that matched the color of the energy that seemed to be holding up the bus and its passengers.

"W… wha… what’s happening? I… where’s my momma?”

The media were all over the news like rats on peanut butter, trying to find out who the girl was, where she lived, why her mom had taken her away from her father’s home that night, and how she had managed to develop what they were now calling a *gift*. After a few days of open harassment by the press and the public, the girl and her mom were accepted into a variation of the “witness protection program”. This government-appointed program was later dubbed the “Gifted Individuals Protection Service” or GIPS. As if acting on a chain reaction, many cases of “gifted” people, mostly children, began appearing in cities all over the country, seemingly without a clear reason and with abilities that ranged from the seemingly harmless to others that could constitute a sizable threat to the world’s population if left unchecked.

As time passed, these individuals and their families started asking for a chance to re-insert themselves into normal life. They weren’t asking for any type of special treatment, just a chance to have a life outside the walls of the pseudo-prison they were living in. After much deliberation the central government appointed a task force, dubbing it the Gifted Individuals Federal Training and Education Department, G.I.F.T.E.D. they would oversee the development of a network of facilities around the country, one in each major city, where they would train and supervise gifted people's actions so as to better assess a way in which these individuals could contribute to society's advancement.

As time passed the Department served to help these gifted individuals to find their place in society either by giving them jobs that suited their special abilities, or by helping law enforcement deal with others who used their powers to break the law. Not everyone who found themselves gifted with superhuman abilities accepted to be taken into G.I.F.T.E.D., and some of those who did not find themselves the recipient of a “gift” took up the vigilante mantle anyway, each having their own reasons to fight crime in their own way. Some of these “superior individuals” have been known to work alongside with the members of G.I.F.T.E.D. Their work, however, is not recognized as official.

As of today you find yourself assigned to the city of Westfall, a place where the police finds itself constantly outnumbered by street gangs and the gifted villains who run them. The city council finally agreed to approve a sizeable part of its budget in order to bring in some help from G.I.F.T.E.D. in hopes of lowering the city’s crime rate.

You now stand in front of the greatest challenge you've ever had in your entire life...

Will you make a name for yourself as one of the greatest heroes of all time? Or will you fail to leave your mark, like many others before you?

Roll the dice and see what FATE has in store for you!