Featured in this episode:
- Gaming advocacy news, including many articles on Gary Gygax in the mass media
- A segment on suggestions for creating an "RPG idea mining notebook" to help brainstorm ideas for plots, stories, characters, and other elements of roleplaying games.
Due to length, the show notes for this episode are in comments.
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THE ESCAPISTCAST EPISODE 01 - SHOW NOTES
Air date: 03/31/08
Title: Tips & Tributes
Links to articles and other items mentioned in the program:
Stephen Colbert tribute: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=156302
CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html
CNET - http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885688-7.html?tag=nefd.top
NPR - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87901434&ft=1&f=1001
FARK: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3443526
Wired logo contest: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/wired-readers-s.html
Time.com articles: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1719341,00.html
http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/2008/03/gary_gygax_19382008.html
http://www.time-blog.com/tuned_in/2008/03/what_dd_did_for_tv.html
http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/2008/03/exploding_runes_a_roundup_of_g.html
Freaks & Geeks: http://imdb.com/title/tt0193676/
final episode clips on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hJAGxAeV7YU
Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/tributes-to-gary-gygax-dungeons-dragons/
Newsweek: "Magic's Kingdom": http://www.theescapist.com/newsweek.htm
"So Long, Dungeon Master" - http://www.newsweek.com/id/119782
(Time slammed tabletop gamers by calling them “dateless dweebs,” not Newsweek – see http://www.theescapist.com/advocacy99.htm)
New York Times: "Geek Love" - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html
ABS-CBN: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=111238
National Post: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/03/11/a-message-from-a-hardcore-dungeons-amp-dragons-veteran-quot-people-can-t-appreciate-how-high-gygax-expected-us-to-strive-quot.aspx
Atlanta Journal Constitution: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/05/OBIT_GYGAX.html
Steve Jackson Illuminator: http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?y=2008&m=March&d=5
Facebook Gygax tribute group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10857697050
The RPGSite: "GaryCon Across the Globe" - http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9322
Penny Arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04
Order of the Stick: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html
Full Frontal Nerdity: http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2008-03-06
XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/393/
Sword's Edge Publishing:
www.swordsedgepublishing.ca
Christian Children's Fund: www.christianchildrensfund.org
Gygax Podcaster tribute: http://bearsgrove.com/2008/03/31/gary-gygax-memorial/
MIT students build giant d20: http://laughingsquid.com/mit-hackers-pay-tribute-to-gary-gygax-with-giant-20-sided-die/
WoW patch dedication: http://www.2404.org/news/4150/World-of-Warcraft-v2.4.0-Patch
Huffington Post: "The Real Problem with Reverend Hagee" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-real-problem-with-rev_b_89580.html
Politics as she is played with 3d6: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/03/politics_as_she_is_played.html
The View: Dealing with bipolar disorder is a constant battle - http://www.bellevilleview.com/stories/032008/loc_20080320009.shtml
SECOND SEGMENT
RPGnet: www.rpg.net
The RPG Site: www.therpgsite.com
The Forge: www.indie-rpgs.com
The Big List of RPG Plots: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/plots.htm
(PDF version: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/free/biglist.zip)
Dr. Rotwang!'s Adventure Funnel: http://xbowvsbuddha.blogspot.com/2006/10/adventure-funnel.html
Greg Stolze's "How To Run Roleplaying Games" and "How To Play Roleplaying Games":
http://www.gregstolze.com/HowtoRun.zip
http://www.gregstolze.com/HowtoPlay.zip
Robin Laws' "See Page XX": http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=50677&src=OldPageXX
RoleplayingTips: www.roleplayingtips.com
“Motivating Yourself As A GM”: http://www.roleplayingtips.com/readissue.php?number=391
Hi,
this was a good podcast. I especially enjoy hearing what is in the news regarding rpg's. The tips are welcome too. Except the Stolze links appear to be broken.
I'm looking forward to see how the Kids and RPG's thing goes. I have 3 and would like to see them eventually do some gaming too.
I finally sat down and tried to track down and print out everything you listed from your GM's notebook. I discovered that Dragon issue 184 with the "7 Sentence NPC" article appears to be available for order from Paizo at:
http://paizo.com/dragon/products/issues/1992/184
I haven't ordered the issue yet (can't decide if it's worth $15 for the one article), so I don't know for sure that it's available.
Also, many of the links seem to have spurious characters at the end which are making the appear to be broken. When those characters are removed, however, the links work fine.
Game on!
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