Dec 7, 2008
WARNING: Instances of very
strong language may offend some listeners.
Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast
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1. Geek Week
Fraser wants you to know all about The Midnight Charity Project. We are in the season of
giving!
Without the Monarch Comics Briefing, Fraser wouldn't know
what's going on in comics, and he certainly wouldn't know that
Warren Ellis is writing the
Astonishing X-Men. Fraser follows Immortal
Iron Fist
faithfully, and
he really enjoyed Northlanders.
If anyone cares,
Fraser's True20 Vikings campaign journal is on line. He'll try to keep that
up to date. A couple of articles already exist.
Chuck's working
on an RPG using the setting from his web-novel, Hellstrom Voyage.
The conversation
continues at Narrative Control.
2. Feature - Getting Modernized
With a tip of the hat to Dave!
To get out of print games, Chuck recommends Noble Knight.
Listen to the
novel, Heart
of the Hunter.
3.
The Hook
So,
let's say we know we have a player who digs superhero comics, a
player who digs Indiana Jones, and a player who digs James Bond. All are great modern concepts, and if you
mash them up, you might be able to entice all three players into a
modern game. Let's call it "Planetary Jones, International Men of
Mystery."
Planetary is a comic by--you guessed it--Warren Ellis
that follows a group of "Archaeologists of the Impossible",
tracking down the world's secret history. They are also
superheroes, but not the kind with colourful costumes. That hits
our superhero quotient. We're going to change Planetary and turn them into a group of super-spies in
the 1950s, possibly even run by MI-6--very James Bond. This
team goes up again a resurgent Nazi threat based in Argentina that
is trying to acquire occult items of power in order to create an
unstoppable army and usher in the Fourth Reich. And there we have
our Indiana
Jones angle. You could even fashion the Nazi menace as a kind
of riff on SPECTRE or SMERSH, to further the JB quotient.
And,
of course, their first mission might be the team trying to
recover the Blutfahne.
The
History of Rome Returns!
I've
spoken about the History of
Rome podcast before, and when I did, the updates
stopped coming. I hope I'm not jinxing this by letting you all know
there are new episodes, and they are maintaining the level of
quality I remember. The website has moved to thehistoryofrome.typepad.com.
In
case you didn't know, the History of
Rome is a weekly podcast tracing the history of the
Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending
(someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the
Western Roman Empire.
That
website again is thehistoryofrome.typepad.com
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