EPISODES 1 2 3 4 5 6 6b 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
EPISODE 1- Where it Began
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This week I talk to my parents and mine some of their recollections about my early foray into roleplaying. In the process my Mother calls my friends and I stupid and my Father illustrates how little he cared for my safety. After I recover from all the unpleasantness I give a review, (more a love letter really) about Chris Howard's Project Twilight.
Date: February 20th 2012 Guests: Steve and Phyll Hodges Topics: My early rolepaying life, Project Twilight Time: 37:08
Show Notes:60 Minutes Documentary
EPISODE 2- Karen & The Oakland Gaming Scene, Sittin' in a Tree...
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This week Karen Twelves goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about Fiasco, Dogs in the Vineyard and dating at your gaming table before Karen gets all mushy and sends a love letter to the Oakland Gaming Scene.
Date: February 27th 2012 Guests: Karen Twelves Topics: Inside the Roleplayers Studio, Dogs in the Vineyard, Fiasco, conventions, meeting gamers and much more. Time: 01:00:51
Show Notes: Karen Twelves (middle), Karen's Twitter, Pathfinder, Smallville, Eclipse Phase, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games); Apoclypse World, Traveller (current), Dogs in the Vineyard, Midsummer Mischief Background, Questionaire & Event report, P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster (Starring Hugh Laurie a.k.a. House), Hackmaster, Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus, Dundracon, Old World of Darkness, Spirit of the Century, Endgame Oakland, Big Bad Con, Dead of Winter
EPISODE 3- EXTERMINATE!
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This week Keely Taylor goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about one-shot Cthulhu, marrying a gamer and how Daleks deal with stairs.
Date: March 5th 2012 Guests: Keely Taylor Topics: Inside the Roleplayers Studio, Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, marrying a gamer, all-girl groups, competitive roleplaying, and adversarial GMs, and Daleks. Time: 00:52:13
Show Notes: Keely Taylor (left), Keely's Twitter, D&D 3.5 archive, Call of Cthulhu, Doctor Who Rory Williams Doctor Who RPG- Cubicle 7 Doctor Who RPG- FASA Old FASA version on eBay Time Lord- Free Doctor Who RPG Levitating Dalek.
EPISODE 4- Fantasy Football
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This week Sean Nittner goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about things... so many things.
Date: March 12th 2012 Guests: Sean Nitner Topics: Inside the Roleplayers Studio, Big Bad Con, Narrative Control, catharsis, and punching dragons. Time: 01:52:13
Show Notes: Sean Nittner, Sean's Twitter, D&D 4th ed., D&D 5th ed., Gnomes, Choose your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft, Interpretive Dance, Prime Time Adventures, Apoclypse World, Dungeon World, The Morning After, The Day After, Burning Wheel, Oriental Adventures, Splat Books, Magic the Gathering, seannittner.com, Apocalypse Galactica, Dead-World, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games); A Song of Ice and Fire (I assure you this is the official site...), Sorceror- Ron Edwards, Burning Wheel GM Screen Panels, Peter Pan (1953), Happy Gilmore, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, Firefly, Star Wars, Starship Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, Deadlands, Geek Social Fallacies, Big Bad Con, Speck- Conventional Lover From the album: Working as Intended, Re: Your Brains From the Album: Thing a Week 2 (scroll down), Evil Hat, Josh Roby Games, Fantasy Football, Burning Empires, Narrative Control, Have Games Will Travel Podcast, Sons of Kryos Pocast, Durham 3 Podcast,
EPISODE 5- Lost & Dying of Cold
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This week Chris Bailey goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about Mage, Harn and about the part roleplaying played in the process of his coming out.
Date: March 19th 2012 Guests: Chris Bailey Topics: Mage, Harn, Gay gamers, catharsis. Time: 01:55:46
Show Notes: D & D 1st Edition, RuneQuest- Wikipedia entry, Raymond E. Feist- Magician (official site), Classic Rolemaster, Palladium, Classic Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, FUGSOC- (now SAGA) University if Canterbury Roleplaying Club, Mage the Ascension, The Empire of the Petal Throne, HeroQuest, Joseph Campbell Foundation- the Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Iron Wind- Rolemaster Supplement, Life under a Camel, Hâ:rn- Wikipedia entry (you'll have to decide for yourself who owns it), The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Faerie Tale, Sheri S. Tepper- Jinian Footseer novels, Highlander- In America, watch the "Director's Cut" if you can, Mage the Awakening, Vampire 20th Anniversay Edition
EPISODE 6- Silencing the Lambs
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This week I talk with Ethan Mason, a roleplayer to be. We talk about roleplaying in general, setting a good foundation for building a character and the transition from computer RPGs and MMOs to roleplaying of the sort that at one timet needed no further qualification.
Date: March 26th 2012 Guests: Ethan Mason Topics: Creating character backstory, MMOs and RPGs initial impressions and anticipation. Time: 01:12:53
Show Notes: Buldur's Gate, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, World of Warcraft, Theatrix, Classic Rolemaster, Elder Scrolls V: Oblivion The Silence of the Lambs The Silence of the Lambs (Film) Lethal Weapon
EPISODE 6B- A Nice Chiante
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Time: 00:20:43
EPISODE 7- A Little Suffering is Good for the Soul
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This week's episode is the second part of a series with Ethan Mason. He shares his impressions after playing his first game and we investigate some directions to follow and some possible techniques to employ for putting together his first game.
Date: April 2nd 2012 Guests: Ethan Mason Topics: Reflections on initial foray into roleplaying, putting together a story & structuring a game session. Time: 00:59:55
Show Notes: Victoria, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, D & D 1st Edition, Classic Rolemaster, Gurps, Palladium, World of Warcraft, D&D 3.5 archive, Splatbook, Old World of Darkness Michael Crichton Buldur's Gate,
EPISODE 8- Waiting to be King
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This week Farrel Foster-Lynam goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about Game of Thrones, Fiasco, Fatal and Hans Gruber goes toe to toe with Hannibal Lecter in a battle of the great bad guys.
Date: April 9th 2012 Guests: Farrel Foster-Lynam Topics: Fatal, fiasco, Hans Gruber, Hannibal Lecter, L5R Time: 01:16:32
Show Notes: D & D 1st Edition, D&D 4th ed., Legend of the Five Rings, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games); D&D 5th ed., Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, The Way of the Scorpion, The Godfather, Blood & Honor, Gygax on Roleplaying, F.A.T.A.L., South Park, Deadlands, seannittner.com, Classic Rolemaster, World of Warcraft, Firefly, Serenity, Mage the Ascension, Masters of the Universe, Star Wars, The Wire, The Wire (Wikipedia), Hârn- Wikipedia entry (you'll have to decide for yourself who owns it), Ian Edginton- Leviathan, Hannibal Lecter, Order of the Stick, Hans Gruber, A Song of Ice and Fire (I assure you this is the official site...), WSJ Gentzlinger Article
EPISODE 9- If Rubberbands Were Food
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This week David Rankin goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about Chatrup, Lu Bu, L5R and the line between writing fiction and writing a game your players can interact with.
Date: April 16th 2012 Guests: David Rankin Topics: L5R, Underground, Hârn, and playing girls Time: 01:16:32
Show Notes: Original Fighting Fantasy RPG, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Legend of the Five Rings, Hârnworld- Rethem, Hârn- Wikipedia entry (you'll have to decide for yourself who owns it), Twilight 2000, Ken Follett- Masterclass, Middle Earth Roleplaying- M.E.R.P., AD & D Second Edition, Classic Rolemaster, Old World of Darkness Streetfighter Roleplaying, Underground, Syndicate, To the Faithful Departed, James Bond's Big Mouth, Aberrant, The Gamers- Pt. 1 (contains bend bars/lift gates joke... somewhere.), Lone Wolf and Cub, Mage the Ascension, Shogun's Palace- Nightingale Floors, Lü Bu, Thanos, Arcade Fire- Wake Up (lightning bolt lyric), Unholy Trinity of RPGs- F.A.T.A.L., Sorceror- Ron Edwards, James Bond
EPISODE 10- The Heavy-set Man Speaks
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This week Donald Gardner goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about how aliens ruin everything, John Wick and product art.
Date: April 23rd 2012 Guests: Donald Gardiner Topics: Watchmen, 7 Seas, Aliens spoiling everything, and art Time: 01:19:07
Show Notes: Mad Max, D & D 1st Edition, Dragon Magazine #57 Contains modern monsters article I referenced as does Best of Dragon #5, Hockey Picture, The Mystery of Chimney Rock, Fighting Fantasy, D&D 4th ed., Eberron, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games), Planescape, Tony DiTerlizzi, The Sandman, Dave McKean, The Illustrated London News, Wikipedia Commons- Illustrated London News, Torg, 7th Sea, Die Kreuzritter, Mage: The Awakening, Higlander 2: The Quickening, 4ed Dungeon Master's Guide, Blood & Honor, Legend of the Five Rings, Red-headed Step Child, John Wick- Houses of the Blooded, John Wick- Cat, FATE, Spirit of the Century, D&D 3.5 archive, Project Twilight, Yentl, Tootsie, White Chicks, Geek Social Fallacies, Hârn- Wikipedia entry (you'll have to decide for yourself who owns it), Twilight 2000, Classic Rolemaster, Star Wars IV- A New Hope, Star Trek, The Joker, Ozymandius, Watchmen- Comic, Watchmen- Film, Theatrix, James Bond, Amber's Nine Princes, Amber Diceless, Star Wars RPG (West End Games version), Whose Line is it Anyway
EPISODE 11- I ♥ Lex Luthor
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This week Tim Brannan writer of Ghosts of Albion and contributor to many other roleplaying works goes "Inside the Roleplayers Studio". We talk about… so many things. Just look at those show notes!
Date: April 30th 2012 Guests: Tim Brannan Topics: everything Time: 01:22:38
Show Notes: Tim's Blog, Ghosts of Albion- BBC web series, Ghosts of Albion- RPG, John Holmes- D&D Editor (1977 edition), Tom Moldvay- D&D Editor (1981 edition), D & D 1st Edition, Monster Manual (Sutherland Cover), 60 Minutes Documentary, Classic Traveller, Star Wars, Doctor Who RPG- Cubicle 7, Chill James Maliszewski's excellent retrospective review, Chill- Vampires in Tim's own words, AD & D Second Edition, Ravenloft James Maliszewski's again, Witchcraft, Witchcraft FREE!!!, Old World of Darkness, Wizards of the Coast, Classic Rolemaster, Mage the Ascension, Eden Studios' Unisystem, Buffy RPG, Angel RPG, Conspiracy X, D&D 3.5 archive, D&D 4.0, Gurps, Skills and Powers- 2ed, Munchkin, Epic Level Handbook Identified purely for the purposes of tipping off The Internet Police. YOINK!, Splat Books, The Wizards Handbook, Forgotten Realms, Cthulhu by Gaslight, Labyrinth Lord, Spellcraft and Swordplay in Tim's own words, da Vinci Quote, Daguerreotype Photography, Baskerville 1785 font, Christopher Golden, Amber Benson, Andrew Peregrine's work on drivethrurpg.com, George Vasilakos, Charles Darwin, Spiritualism movement, Sherlock Holmes, ack the Ripper, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, American Civil War, Lytton Strachey, Klingons, Old WoD Verbena, Victoriana, Mage the Awakening, Vampire the Masquerade, Ley Lines, Hârn- Wikipedia entry (you'll have to decide for yourself who owns it), Twilight 2000, Lex Luthor, War of the Worlds, Predator, Ghostbusters, Batman
EPISODE 12- Into the Steam Tunnels
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This week James Maliszewski freelancer extraordinaire and self identified Grognard goes inside the Roleplayers Studio. We talk about sci-fi, Gary Gygax and writing inspiration.
Date: May 7th 2012 Guests: James Maliszewski Topics: Gary Gygax, the old school gaming renaissance, Unearthed Arcana and Moriarty. Time: 01:08:26
Show Notes: Grognardia James' Blog/Company site, Atlas Games, Game Designer's Workshop now defunct, White Wolf, Green Ronin, GURPS , Classic Traveller, Buy Thousand Suns, Pyat's Fortress- Pt. 1 steam Tunnel documentary, Pyat's Fortress- Pt. 2, John Holmes- D&D Editor (1977 edition), Dungeon Boardgame, 60 Minutes Documentary, Gamma World, Gamma World James' retrospective, Boot Hill James' retrospective, Gangbusters James' retrospective, Star Frontiers, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica (1978), Fighting Fantasy, Champions, D&D 3.5 archive, D&D 5th Edition Announcement, Gary Gygax's DMG, Gary Gygax's PG, Basic D&D Sets, Gygax on Roleplaying, Classic Rolemaster, Twilight 2000, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games), Unearthed Arcana an expansion of James' answer to "What game or supplement would you casuse to cease to exist?", Splat Books, Goodman Games, , Joseph Campbell Foundation- the Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Sorceror- Ron Edwards, The Silence of the Lambs, H Beam Piper, Professor Moriarty, Magneto, Whose Line is it Anyway, RuneQuest- Wikipedia entry
EPISODE 13- We Did Podcasting
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This week Zak Smith, artist, Porn Star, Star of I Hit it with My Axe and author of the excellent universal city resource Vornheim goes inside the Roleplayers Studio. We talk about the "Old-School Gaming" renaissance, music, voicing girls and linear storylines.
Date: May 14th 2012 Guests: Zak Smith Topics: Doing girl voices, D & D 5th, Box-text modules and art. Time: 01:33:18
Show Notes: Vornheim, Zak's art, I Hit it with My Axe, D & D 1st Edition, Shadowrun Kickstarter, Shadowrun Catlyst, Rifts, Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, Chaos, Twilight 2000, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games), Theatrix, Vampire the Masquerade, Old World of Darkness, Telnet, Fugazi, Bad Brains, Western, D&D 4e, Google Plus, Call of Cthulhu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Labyrinth Lord, Mike Mearls, Monte Cooke, Lingua Franca, CR Greathouse, Inside Baseball, Stormbringer, Realm of Chaos- contains references for Slaves to Darkness and The Lost & the Damned, The Necronomicon, Eldar, How Dragonlance Ruined Everything, Loom of Fate, Chicago by Night, D&D 5th Edition Announcement, Dwarfland developers Blog (Sift for specifics), Classic Rolemaster, ConstantCon, Zak Smith's G+, Joan Rivers, Monty Python, Burning Wheel, Carcosa, Apocalypse Now, Adventure Time, Home Movies, Firefly,& nbsp; The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, The Wire (Wikipedia), Lex Luthor, Superman, Hannibal Lecter, The Joker, Ming the Merciless, Tiamat, Tiamat- D&D Version, Demogorgon, Demogorgon-D&D Version, Enuma Elis, The Shawshank Redemption, Deadlands, Dread
EPISODE 14- They Don't Know What I Don't Know
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This week Satine Phoenix, artist, D&D Melt maven and Star of I Hit it with My Axe goes inside the Roleplayers Studio. We talk about girls in games, extra long hugs and the weather.
Date: May 21st 2012 Guests: Satine Phoenix Topics: Plugs, drugs and extra-long hugs Time: 02:08:11
Show Notes: Satine's website, D & D Melt, Women of Geekdom Calendar, Shauncastic Podcast, PoPcycled baubles, Chloe Dykstra, Press Heart to Continue, Kerrigan- Starcraft, Labyrinth of Jareth, D & D 1st Edition, Cyberpunk 2020, Call of Cthulhu, Dark Sun, Eberron, Fiasco (Bully Pulpit Games), Theatrix, Keith Baker, Keith Baker's Blog, D & D Minis, Gygax on Roleplaying, Chainmail, David Lynch, Tiefling, Pelor, Monster Manual (Sutherland Cover), D&D 4e, Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, Necromunda, Robo Rally, The Transporter, The Secret of Nimh, Ferrari, Classic Traveller, Monte Cooke, David Mack TED Speech, TSR, The Mystery of Chimney Rock, Fighting Fantasy, Lucky Books, Star Wars Question and Answer Book about Space, Starship Traveller, Star Wars (New-ish), Star Wars, D&D 3.5 archive, Dragon Age, i The Dungeons Of The Slavelords, World of Warcraft, Living Forgotten Realms, Elmore Art, GenCon, I Hit it with My Axe, Smart Car, Indira Ghandi, Margaret Thatcher, Fringe, Imagining Ten Dimensions, Lex Luthor, Superman, Hannibal Lecter, The Joker, Hans Gruber, Predator, History is written by the victors, Jet Li, Cheetos, Geek Social Fallacies