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PGOC 102: Another Good Show

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PGOC 102: Another Good Show

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We start out today's show with Jess Hartley's One Geek To Another audio segment. Be sure to check out her blog for the written version. Out of the Box strikes a deal with Sonic. Catan makes the wall street journal. The second first game master's conference is just around the corner. It sounds a bit like a bank name, doesn't it?

Some games and other products we talked about include Knights of the Dinner Table, Sonic Legends, Summerland, Eve: Conquests, Rise of Empires, The Supernatural RPG, and Ninja Burger.

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From: Brian – February 7,2010 at 2:12 pm

I heard you plug a bunch of BLOGS this time, but I don't see the links to the RSS feed. Constructively, you can interpret that as, Can you please put a link to your repective Blog RSS feeds for us technically-savvy yet inherently lazy people who want to read them. I read Jess's blog, by the way.

Thank you for your Straight Talk, Jess Hartley. One Geek, taken broadly, can apply to a variety of personalities. In general, I label people geeks temporarily if they blather on about a topic dear to them beyond the level of detail required for the conversation. Simply put, they geek out on their own personal topic. While I actually enjoy that aspect of people; I get genuinely interested in other people's strong points, there is an appropriate balance. Providing the average geek-who-wishes-to-be more-than-Just-a-Geek examples in order to learn appropriate boundaries helps us all to understand ourselves and each other.

I was thinking of the nomadic RPG style that you discussed in conjunction with Supernatural. This is very similar to the episodic style of 80's action shows like the A-Team or Knight Rider. This is a powerful plot tool for the GM that it seems we have gotten away from because our TV entertainment provides us a more serialized story -- see 24, Heroes, Lost. I have found that after a three or so "episodes" the players start to speculate on the connections and feed those back to the GM.

From: Jason – February 8,2010 at 12:27 pm

Great insight as to the 80s episodic show. Of course the original "road show" was Route 66, and before that, Wagon Train.

From: Erika Lieberman – February 15,2010 at 9:07 am

Thank you for your great review of Sonic Legends! If you do want to do an episode based on mood music for RPG's, let me know. I'd love to help in any way I can. :)

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