Paul Tevis
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ENnies
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-award winning podcaster whose shows Have Games, Will Travel and The Voice of the Revolution discuss games, game design, and gamer subculture. He is an active participant in this subculture, and is a recognizable figure at many of its conventions
Convention (meeting)
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. He has released his own game, A Penny for My Thoughts, in the summer of 2009 through Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions
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Tevis began his career in gaming as a Man in Black
Men in Black
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for Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games
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, demoing games from their catalog at conventions. He has also worked for Atlas Games
Atlas Games
Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games. Its current president is John Nephew.Games published include:...
in a similar capacity.
Have Games, Will Travel
Tevis' original podcast, Have Games, Will Travel has run for more than one hundred episodes since the first in July 2005. A typical show features Tevis' reviews of a handful of games. Some episodes are themed, exclusively discussing wargamingWargaming
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, reviewing all the new games premiered at a recent convention, or the like. HG,WT is also known for its convention recaps which offer an overview by Tevis of his experience at the convention. Many of these feature interviews with prominent designers or authors also attending.
Have Games, Will Travel won an Ennie for Best Podcast of 2007, the first year that the category existed. Tevis is often cited as an inspiration for other beginning podcasters, and his reviews reach and advise a not-insignificant audience of gamers.
In Episode 111, released on June 23, 2008, Tevis announced that he would no longer be releasing full-length episodes of Have Games, Will Travel, though he would still be releasing the shorter For a Few Games More segments. His final episode of HG,WT: For A Few Games More was episode 50 released January 1, 2010.
A Fistful of Games
Tevis maintains a "companion" blog to Have Games, Will Travel, where he presents his session overviews of various games. This blog can be considered his repository of data, while HG,WT is his findings and commentary.The Voice of the Revolution
In October 2006, Tevis began a new podcast with Brennan Taylor of Indie Press RevolutionIndie Press Revolution
Indie Press Revolution is a sales network that acts as a fulfillment house for publishers of indie role-playing games. It was founded in 2004 by Ed Cha of Open World Press and Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. IPR represents over 100 author/publishers involved in role-playing games...
. The Voice runs concurrently with HG,WT, and is a house organ
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of IPR. The podcast presents updates on new products available and features reviews, interviews, and game design advice. Paul stopped co-hosting Voice of the Revolution with episode 36 in October 2009.