Rpg Fan's Random Encounter

We're back with the regular party and ready for another Random Encounter! Rob, John, Stephen and Zack sit down and discuss Lord of Arcana, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Dragon Age: Origins, The World Ends With You, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Final Mix, and more, as well as the latest news from Square Enix's First Production Department Premier event. Featuring: Robert Steinman, Stephen Meyerink, John McCarroll and Zachary Pintchik

A quintet of RPGFan editors present... a soundtrack spectactular! With John and Zack away for the week, Pat, Dennis and Derek join Rob and Stephen for a lengthy discussion on their favorite RPG sountracks. Sure, they talk about games as well (and boy do they talk about a lot of them), but haven't you always wanted to learn about obscure soundtrack terminology? Games Discussed: Back to the Future: The Game, Winter Voices, Rune Factory 3, Cthulu Saves the World, Final Fantasy XI, Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!, Persona 3 Portable, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, 9 Person, 9 Hours, 9 Doors, Reccetear: An Item Shop's Tale, Phantasy Star Portable 2, The Witcher, and more! Featuring: Robert Steinman, Stephen Meyerink, Patrick Gann, Dennis Rubenshteyn and Derek Heemsbergen

Join the editors of RPGFan for an extra-long end of the year episode of Random Encounter. In this episode, we discuss the new DLC for Fallout: New Vegas, Infinity Blade, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, The Silver Lining, Back To The Future: The Game, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and more, as well as cover the metric ton of news that has come out in the past month. Stay tuned at the end of the show for our crazy RPG predictions for 2011! Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll, Stephen Meyerink and Zachary Pintchik.

We're back to four party members for the first time in over a month, and we've got plenty of games to talk about. Bryan brings some more iOS games to the table with The War of Eustrath, Scarlett and the Spark of Life, and Shining Force, while Rob, John and Zack get deeper into 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors before launching into a discussion of portable RPGs and why we love them. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll, Bryan Grosnick, and Zachary Pintchik

It's another handheld-heavy week as the editors of RPGFan come together once again to discuss the entrancing 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, the conventional Chaos Rings, and the down-right confusing Knights in the Nightmare. We also talk about "RPG Fatigue" - what it means and how to beat it - and bring you the latest in RPG news. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll and Zachary Pintchik

Podcast Newbie Bryan Grosnick saves the day as another regular goes down for the count, bringing with him news from the handheld front of Ys 7, Crimson Gem Saga, Ash and more. Throw in a hint of Fallout: New Vegas, some long tangents, and a discusssion of the expansion of the RPG genre and you've got yourself this week's Random Encounter. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll and Bryan Grosnick

With one of our party members down for the count, can our three remaining editors win this Random Encounter? Join us as we talk about Fallout: New Vegas, Temple of Elemental Evil and rules compliancy, as well as the latest in RPG news. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll and Zachary Pintchik

This time on the Random Encounter we discuss Phantasy Star Portable 2, Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, 3D Dot Game Heroes, and the recent re-releases of the Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale... so far) on GOG.com, as well as the latest news in the world of RPGs. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll, Stephen Meyerink and Zachary Pintchik

How many chronicles could a Valkyria Chronicle chronicle if a Valkyria Chronicle could chronicle chronicles? How much fun could it be to run an RPG item shop? Is Darkdeath Evilman really evil? And what exactly is a Rorona? Join the editors of RPGFan.com as they discuss Valkyria Chronicles 2, Recettear, ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman, Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland, and the first batch of news fresh from Tokyo Game Show 2010. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll, Zachary Pintchik and Patrick Gann

In which our trusty heroes discuss Ys 7, Nier, indie-JRPG Recettear, and The World Ends With You, which leads to a discussion of player control and AI in RPGs. After the end of the show Rob talks about his unpleasant experience with Sony's Customer Service department. Featuring: Robert Steinman, Dennis Rubenshteyn, Neal Chandran and Zachary Pintchik

The latest episode of your friendly neighborhood podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. We discuss all sorts of things that are not StarCraft 2, like Arc Rise Fantasia, DeathSpank, Dragon Quest IX, and share our thoughts on random encounters (the mechanic, not the podcast). We definitely do not make any StarCraft 2 references or talk about Mass Effect 2 again, though. Download and listen now! Random Encounter: Better when you see it coming. Featuring: Robert Steinman, Stephen Meyerink, Zachary Pintchik and John McCarroll

This week's episode of the podcast includes discussions on the following RPGs: Half Minute Hero, Magic: Clash of Heroes, Mass Effect 2 (again?!), the possibilities of RPGs on Kinect, Eschalon: Book 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Dragon Quest IX, and a whole lot of news. Our show for this week features: Robert Steinman, Dennis Rubenshteyn, Zachary Pintchik and Kyle Miller.

This week's episode of the podcast includes discussions on the following RPGs: Lunar Harmony of Silver Star, Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy XIII, Dragon Quest IX, Persona 3 Portable, Tales of Innocence, Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age II. Our panel also chimes in on the topic of difficulty in RPGs. Featuring: Robert Steinman, Dennis Rubenshteyn, Derek Heemsbergen, Stephen Meyerink, Zachary Pintchik

Join the editors of RPGFan.com as we talk about the (at the time) unreleased Persona 3 Portable, import Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, and more. Ready to hear John ramble on about how he liked playing as a girl in Persona? Featuring: Rob Steinman, Ashton Liu John McCarroll, Zack Pintchik, Stephen Meyerink A special thanks to Alexi Windler for his work on composing the intro theme song for our podcast. If you like his work, here are his coordinates: AIM: electr0ph0nic E-mail: alexiwindler@gmail.com Music Myspace: myspace.com/alexiwindler

We've got a special edition of Random Encounter for you this week. Instead of our regular podcast format, this edition is all about the E3 show. Our host Rob welcomes 3 of our editors who went to E3 and they talk about what they saw, what they liked and what they hated about the various RPGs at the show. Featuring: Robert Steinman, John McCarroll, Kimberley Wallace, Liz Maas A special thanks to Alexi Windler for his work on composing the intro theme song for our podcast. If you like his work, here are his coordinates: AIM: electr0ph0nic E-mail: alexiwindler@gmail.com Music Myspace: myspace.com/alexiwindler

This week, our podcast team welcomes RPGFan editor Neal Chandran as a guest and discuss among many other subjects, their RPG pet peeves. Featuring: Robert Steinman, Dennis Rubenshteyn, Zack Pintchik, Neal Chandran Questions? Comments? Send an email to Rob: palerobbie@gmail.com

Over the years, RPGFan has tried to keep itself up with the times by adding new things such as a Twitter account, a Facebook page and... errr... that's about it actually. Ok, so maybe we haven't kept up with the times as much as we'd like to but rejoice because today marks a big step in RPGFan's history as we celebrate the launch of our first ever Podcast which we aptly named Random Encounter. Keep in mind that this could be considered a pilot, a test run, a trial, a beta version, well, you get the idea. We feel that the best way to improve our podcast is to have our readers listen to our trials and send us their comments, suggestions, praises, insults or whatever else they want to say about it and then we'll use that to try and improve it with every subsequent episode. For example, expect to eventually hear a theme song for our podcast. We're still trying to find our chemistry and we'll be trying out several editors over the coming weeks to try and find a definitive team for the podcast. We're probably looki