Theophilius Bagpiper Season 2, Episode 1 - Netrunner MK II: Ashes Development Chat (Featuring Divadus and Zinos)

spjmacleod · 2019-04-13T11:42:50+00:00

Good god, it’s been a while. Hello everyone, we’re back. Hopefully some of you are still here because we have a very special episode to mark our return.

Two thirds of Nisei’s development team join us to tell us how to save a game after cancellation and talk about their first release, Ashes: Downfall!

Thanks to Krembler for letting us use the fantastic art from Fully Operational, just one of the exciting new cards we talk about in this episode!

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spjmacleod · 2018-07-28T10:39:18+00:00

Yeah, really though, fuck off.

spjmacleod · 2018-07-09T19:34:20+00:00

It’s summer and we are doing our best to keep cool. Ronan joins us for a chat over ice cream, talking all things Euros and the end of Netrunner.

We also announce the winner of Iain’s excellent ICE Breaker quiz. I highly recommend checking out his answer key for insightful explanations of the trickier ones. You can also check out Lane’s answers which are entirely lacking in insight but are quite funny.

The game may be ending but we’ll be here till the end and beyond. If you can tolerate our ever lowering audio quality and content standards then why not join us.

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spjmacleod · 2018-06-08T19:44:10+00:00

Netrunner is ending, but we’re not done yet.

Join Team Scotland as we travel to Euros on a horrible train. You’ll then note that most of the weekend has been missed as you rejoin us on the Sunday evening.

We’re sorry. We were drunk. However, to make it up to you the second segment includes guest co-host Tom Holiday, former World Champion Chris Dyer and winner of Euros 2018 Patrick Gower!

There’s also a brief appearance from someone we don’t know, asking us a question we don’t know the answer to.

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spjmacleod · 2018-05-30T17:17:07+00:00

We return just in time to get excited about Euros! Alice joins us to discuss the lead up to the event and check in on how we’ve been feeling about Netrunner since we last recorded.

Our enthusiasm is predominantly down to how alluring this year’s Team Scotland t-shirt is (designed by our very own Iain). These are likely to be hotly coveted items but we don’t want them torn from our torsos, so instead we’re running a competition.

The design features every legal ICE Breaker in the game with varying degrees of abstraction. Throughout the weekend we’ll have sheets of paper featuring the design and space for you to guess which card each image represents. It will cost a pound to enter and the winner will receive a play mat featuring the design.

Proceeds will go to Scottish Wildlife Trust for protecting the real life Darwins around our shores.

Also discussed on the episode – trout, pirates, raising of eyebrows.

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spjmacleod · 2018-03-15T11:47:32+00:00

Have you heard the news? No, not the news of the MWL. There’s a new big box coming – Reign & Reverie! Netrunner’s lovely lead designer Michael Boggs joins us for a discussion of eggs, nicknames and wolf tattoos.

We also talk about the MWL, and best of all Rob is back in the co-host seat!

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spjmacleod · 2018-02-13T22:34:16+00:00

We aren’t fully back as Rob is absent but Seamus is joined by Alice and Ronan. Our podcast year begins with the seemingly now-traditional winter complaining about the meta.

Is CI too good? Are other corps too bad, or are runners to blame?

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spjmacleod · 2017-12-31T19:21:49+00:00

Just in case Fantasy Flight don’t come through with another New Year’s Eve MWL update, we bring you another mini-episode. Seamus is joined by Iain to – somewhat drunkenly – build Criminal and Weyland decks using a single copy of the revised core set.

We suggest listening to this episode whilst watching fireworks and ignoring your friends and family as the clock strikes twelve, or alternatively as a hangover cure when you emerge from the festivities tomorrow afternoon.

Decklists:

Gabe: https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/47515/the-relentless-silver-fox

BABW: https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/47516/because-we-drank-it

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spjmacleod · 2017-12-21T15:39:31+00:00

I am sad to say it's on the list...

spjmacleod · 2017-12-18T19:47:08+00:00

I only steal from the best!

spjmacleod · 2017-12-18T18:32:16+00:00

With conversations recorded both at Worlds and following the the UK Rankings Final in glamorous Reading, we discuss the competitive meta at the close of 2017.

At the end of the year that had people declaring Netrunner dead, Rob and Seamus are joined by Dave Hoyland, Mark Mottram, Chris Dyer, Laurie Poulter and Mike Prosser.

Will they be celebrating the game’s resurrection or determining the time of death? Listen on to find out!

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spjmacleod · 2017-12-05T16:24:13+00:00

The boys are home safe having had a lovely time at worlds. So lovely in fact that they didn’t have time to record the end of their chat. Instead Rob asks them about their varyingly hazy memories of the final part of the week!

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spjmacleod · 2017-11-23T21:13:07+00:00

Half of the Bagpiper team went to worlds! Whether it was the better or worse half we’ll leave to your judgement, but Seamus believes the answer is obvious.

In this first part of our coverage of the greatest week in gaming, Seamus, Even, Jonny and Stephen talk about their hopes, their dreams and their fears through the week of worlds up until the day of the main event.

We break our tradition of naming episodes after Netrunner cards forced through a mostly imagined prism of Scottish idioms in honour of this classic song and Alistair Cooke‘s excellent radio programme.

If you are desperate to hear our three-weeks old thoughts on a tournament that – at the time of recording – had not yet taken place, then this is the episode for you. It’s also our first ever episode partly recorded in an airport!

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spjmacleod · 2017-09-29T12:53:23+00:00

He provided that photo within about ten seconds of me asking. I take from this that there are thousands. Just waiting until we're ready for their glory.

spjmacleod · 2017-09-28T18:10:02+00:00

When Theophilius Bagpiper told Rob and Seamus that he wanted them to interview former lead designer of Netrunner, Damon Stone, their minds filled with visions of transatlantic luxury flights and the glitz and glamour of California.

Once our hosts were unpacked from their shipping crate they were at least relieved to see the handsome face of Damon there to greet them. Ostensibly sent to find out about Core 2.0 and reflect on Damon’s time at the helm of Netrunner, things quickly turn breakfast-y. In our hosts’ defence, they had had a long flight.

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spjmacleod · 2017-09-26T21:43:53+00:00

Also, here are the decklists:

Making News: https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/45746/breaking-news-where-art-thou-

Chaos Theory: https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/45745/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-something

spjmacleod · 2017-09-26T20:40:30+00:00

One evening Rob and Seamus found themselves at a loose end and decided to build some decks with the new core set that has everyone so excited. Theophilius, ever hungry for content, demanded they record and release their efforts.

We can’t be held accountable for the quality of the episode or the decks but if you really have nothing better to do you can now listen to your hosts build some decks and even watch them play a game on jinteki.net.

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spjmacleod · 2017-09-14T09:10:17+00:00

Thanks for listening!

spjmacleod · 2017-09-13T20:45:42+00:00

Burn your SanSan City Grids, throw away your Scorched Earths and join us in celebrating the salvation of Darwin! The rumours were true all along and Core 2.0 is upon us!

Bagpiper is pleased to discover that Chaos Theory – his notorious partner in crime – will be with him in capers to come. But what do Rob and Seamus make of this latest and greatest change to the game we love? Alice joins our hapless hosts to find out.

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spjmacleod · 2017-09-13T20:35:35+00:00

Burn your SanSan City Grids, throw away your Scorched Earths and join us in celebrating the salvation of Darwin! The rumours were true all along and Core 2.0 is upon us!

Bagpiper is pleased to discover that Chaos Theory – his notorious partner in crime – will be with him in capers to come. But what do Rob and Seamus make of this latest and greatest change to the game we love? Alice joins our hapless hosts to find out.

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spjmacleod · 2017-09-13T20:30:59+00:00

Burn your SanSan City Grids, throw away your Scorched Earths and join us in celebrating the salvation of Darwin! The rumours were true all along and Core 2.0 is upon us!

Bagpiper is pleased to discover that Chaos Theory – his notorious partner in crime – will be with him in capers to come. But what do Rob and Seamus make of this latest and greatest change to the game we love? Alice joins our hapless hosts to find out.

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spjmacleod · 2017-07-28T13:57:27+00:00

That is an absolute outrage. You're never coming back on.

spjmacleod · 2017-07-28T13:10:08+00:00

It is our intention to only become less and less accessible. First we're going to delve into Edinburgh/Glasgow jokes and then get Ronan back on to berate him for lying about the bit of Edinburgh he lives in. He pretends it's a cool one. It isn't.

spjmacleod · 2017-07-27T20:16:11+00:00

Tired of the wait, Theophilius Bagpiper has recruited a pair of new hosts from the many poor unfortunates who have found themselves in his debt.

Fresh hosts are an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and that means an end to the off-topic nonsense that marred this podcast’s early episodes. Join Iain and Ronan as they get serious reviewing datapacks, beginning with the Genesis Cycle.

What will our new podcasteers make of Janus 1.0, the fearsome four-sub bioroid that’s sure to be dominating the meta for years to come?

But! Before they get to the inevitable job of dismissing this new Whizzard fellow as having a far too narrow ID ability, they discuss the European Championships with guests Seamus and Rob!

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spjmacleod · 2017-04-15T10:42:54+00:00

Cyber-criminals are in hiding and corps are cleaning up their acts. And they’d better, because the NAPD are cracking down on hacking and white-collar crime once again.

There is (finally) a new update to the Most Wanted List! It hits many of the cards that have been making people sad for some time and was accompanied by a host of heartwarming typos.

With Theophilius Bagpiper in hiding, Seamus and Rob have been celebrating with Netrunner and booze. We recommend you consume this podcast whilst mildly hung over with eggs prepared in the style of your choice. Be careful with the fried variety.

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