In which Matthew & Steve discuss modern Archeology and how the reality compares to the depiction of Archeology and Archeologists in movies, TV, and books. We go on to discuss some of the controversy that Archeology can lead to, and finally, we discuss how to apply Matthew’s understanding of the ways that human societies develop and express themselves to create more nuanced fantasy races.
These are the four (4) questions that Matthew enumerated during the episode:
- What is their environment & resource base?
- What are their settlement patterns?
- What is their social organization?
- How does their religion interact with all of these things?
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Jeb and I are attending Fear the Con 5 on the Fourth and Fifth of May, 2012 in St. Louis, MO. There will be no regular episodes until we get back, but we will be recording something while there and updating our twitter feed with photo’s and commentary. Follow @PftDCast for the updates.
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Jeb and Steve are back on the mic’s! They talk about Kickstarter and what’s perhaps the new Golden Age of RPG’s with the bloom of indie games, game ideas, and direct funding of indie books in print. Then Jeb makes a painful confession – system just might matter! Then we discuss adapting RPG setting books, and finally discuss idea fatigue. What causes it, and perhaps, how to push through it.
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In which Doug, the creator of a new Sci-Fi RPG system currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.com, discusses his game Parsec.
Now, fully funded!
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Two brief interviews, one with Tresi on how “Burning a Character” in Burning Wheel works. Another with Colen McAlister, of Lone Wolf Development, on Hero Lab; their software tool for GM’s and Players.
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In which Steve interviews Michael about his gaming and programming past, hears a description of “RPG Toolkit” and then discuss his latest release for the iPhone, Narratavius.
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In which Jeb and Steve re-record the lost episode about different ways for generating player character’s, both methods and the source for character ideas.
MICE:
- M – Milieu
- I – Idea
- C – Character
- E – Event
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Jim and Steve discuss the current crop of Fall TV shows. Then we discuss how to maintain the separation between kid-friendly and adult themed story telling.
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Steve interviews Mac Almy and they discuss physics and how real physics relates to rpg’s, movies, and TV.
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