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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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Posted February 04, 2010
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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.