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Collateral 25 - A Century's Crucible

This episode is the fourteenth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

The Eighteenth Century

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Collateral 24 - What Is It Good For?

This episode is the thirteenth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Advice, what is it good for?
You can thank Fezzwick for this one.
Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, and his novels Tigana, and the Sarantine Mosaic.

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Collateral 23 - And All For One!

This episode is the twelfth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

The Seventeenth Century

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Collateral 22 - Highland Pony Express

This episode is the eleventh of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Wars of Scottish Independence - 1314 to 1329
A History of Scotland by J. D. Mackie
Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603 by W. Croft Dickinson
The Lion in the North by John Prebble
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
Freedom's Sword by Peter Traquair
Robert the Bruce by Ronald McNair Scott
The Black Douglas by I. M. Davis
And, the Declaration of Arbroath, a rather important historical document.

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Collateral 21 - the Black Douglas

This episode is the tenth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Wars of Scottish Independence - 1305 to 1314
A History of Scotland by J. D. Mackie
Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603 by W. Croft Dickinson
The Lion in the North by John Prebble
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
Freedom's Sword by Peter Traquair
Robert the Bruce by Ronald McNair Scott
The Black Douglas by I. M. Davis

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Collateral 20 - Not Such a Brave Heart

This episode is the ninth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Wars of Scottish Independence - 1296 to 1305
A History of Scotland by J. D. Mackie
Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603 by W. Croft Dickinson
The Lion in the North by John Prebble
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
Freedom's Sword by Peter Traquair
My Braveheart Rant, for anyone who cares
And, the Declaration of Arbroath, a rather important historical document.

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Collateral 19 - Getting Medieval

This episode is the eighth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

The Middle Ages
War in the Middle Ages by Philippe Contamine
A Brief History of Medieval Warfare by Peter Reid
The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
Men in Arms: A History of Warfare & Its Interrelationships with Western Society by Richard A. Preston and Sydney F. Wise (Fourth Edition)
Medieval Military Technology by Kelly DeVries
Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph & Frances Gies

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Collateral 18 - The Denizens of Freeport Part 1

This episode is the first in a series of Collateral episodes which will recap our group's game in Green Ronin's setting of Freeport, using Fantasy Flight Games' Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay system. We'll talk a little about the game, and then talk a little about our experiences running and playing in a sandbox campaign.

The Denizens of Freeport wiki can be found here.

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Collateral 17 - Complementing Augustus

This episode looks at inspiration for player character parties in which characters have complementary specialties.

Some discussion of the roles of Agrippa and Maecenas in the rise of Augustus can be found in A History of Rome by Michael Grant.

The best Musketeers movies ever were those directed by Richard Lester, starting with the Three Musketeers.

If you have a stout heart, brave the Accidental Survivors first attempt at podcasting when we talked about In Game Bonding.

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Collateral 15 - First Citizen

This episode is the seventh of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Rome - The Principate
The Roman Army At War by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Exploratio: Military And Political Intelligence in the Roman World by
The Roman Army by Pat Southern
A History of Rome by Michael Grant
The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage by Terry Crowdy
The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan
Rome and the Barbarians audio lectures by Kenneth Harl (thanks David!)

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Collateral 15 - Hail Caesar!

This episode is the sixth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Rome - The Civil Wars
The Roman Army At War by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Exploratio: Military And Political Intelligence in the Roman World by
The Roman Army by Pat Southern
Men in Arms: A History of Warfare & Its Interrelationships with Western Society by Richard A. Preston and Sydney F. Wise (Fourth Edition)
The Roman Soldier's Handbook: Everything A Beginner Soldier Needs To Know by Lesley Sims
The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage by Terry Crowdy
The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan
Rome and the Barbarians audio lectures by Kenneth Harl (thanks David!)
Rome the HBO mini-series

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Collateral 14 - The Power of Rome

This episode is the fifth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Roman Republic and Carthage
The Roman Army At War by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Exploratio: Military And Political Intelligence in the Roman World by
The Roman Army by Pat Southern
Men in Arms: A History of Warfare & Its Interrelationships with Western Society by Richard A. Preston and Sydney F. Wise (Fourth Edition)
The Roman Soldier's Handbook: Everything A Beginner Soldier Needs To Know by Lesley Sims
The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan
Rome and the Barbarians audio lectures by Kenneth Harl (thanks David!)

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Collateral 13 - It's All Greek To Me

This episode is the fourth of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Classical Greece
The Ancient Greeks by Nicholas Sekunda from Osprey
The Spartan Army by Nicholas Sekunda from Osprey
Complete Idiots Guide To Ancient Greece by Eric Nelson
Men in Arms: A History of Warfare & Its Interrelationships with Western Society by Richard A. Preston and Sydney F. Wise (Fourth Edition)
Early Greece by Oswyn Murray (Second Edition)
Anabasis by Xenophon

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Collateral 12 Additional - Mycenean Troop Types

This episode is an addendum to the third of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games. This section was edited out as I was really discussing troop types rather than character inspiration. For a discussion of a military game in the Mycenean age, check out Collateral 12 - Launching a Thousand Ships

Mycenaen Age
The Mycenaeans c.1650–1100 BC by Nicolas Grguric from Osprey

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Collateral 12 - Launching A Thousand Ships

This episode is the third of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Mycenaen Age
The Mycenaeans c.1650–1100 BC by Nicolas Grguric from Osprey
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Mentioned in the podcast
Reign
Birthright
My Viking Campaign
My Mycenaen Age Idea
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer

Troop Types
I edited out my first attempt at the PC section of the podcast, because it became a Mycenean troop types discussion. However, if you are interested in hearing that, it's here.

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Collateral 11 - It's An Antique (Army)!

This episode is the second of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games.

Egypt
New Kingdom Egypt by Mark Healy from Osprey

I refer to "Numidians" in the podcast. I had meant Nubians. My reference to Kush was correct, however, the Kingdom of Kush was part of Egypt certainly at the time of the Hyksos, and during the early New Kingdom as well.

I told you I wasn't an expert!

Assyria
The Ancient Assyrians by Mark Healy from Osprey
Judgment at Nineveh Episode 17 of Hardcore History by Dan Carlin

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Collateral 10 - Military Solutions

This episode is the first of a series looking at military campaigns and inspiration for role-playing games. This episode considers some of the problems with military campaigns in RPGs and their possible solutions.

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Collateral 09 - Always Have A Contract

Links
Hey, writers, you may want to invest in some kind of guide to legal matters, like this one.

There are books for artists, too, like this one.

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Collateral 07 - Nikola Tesla

Links
Nikola Tesla on Wikipedia

Alternating Current

The Radio

Tesla Coil

the Tesla

Induction Motor

And, the Death Ray

In popular culture, we've got the Prestige, Atomic Robo, JLA: Age of Wonder, Five Fists of Science, and many others.

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Collateral 07 - True20 Review

Links
Accidental Survivors True20 Review

Viking True20 Campaign

True20 Revised Edition

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Collateral 06 - Publishing is Not a Prize

Links
RPG Podcasts

RPG Bloggers

Monte Cook

Chris Pramas

My Blog

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Collateral 05 - System vs. Setting

Links
Inspectres

the Gumshoe system

True20, a version of the d20 rules. You can find the Revised Edition here.

Spycraft 1st Edition was adapted from d20, so its kind of like D&D Espionage.

Savage Worlds, look for the Explorer's Edition if you can.

Burning Wheel

Reign

Articles on System and Setting from Unclebear.com: Setting Matters, and When System Matters.

Episodes on Pulp Gamer: Mechanics Matter, and More on Mechanics.

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Collateral 04 - First Game Considerations

Links
If you are in the Ottawa area, check out Go-Play Ottawa.

Dark Canary 's thoughts are in the Episode 01 -Finding a Group thread at the Accidental Survivors forums.

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Collateral 03 - Research

Links
You can thank BrianK on the Accidental Survivors forums for this particular topic.

Adventures of the Ottawa Warband an actual play podcast for my Vikings True20 campaign.

PBS' Monster of the Milky Way, a great black hole documentary.

Slayers, the kind of fantasy that needs no research.

The blog post about my research is here.

Global Security

FAS

Jane's

Books like The Physics of Star Trek could be useful in your SF campaign.

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COLLATERAL, THE NEW SHOW FROM THE ACCIDENTAL SURVIVORS, JOINS WAR PIG RADIO LINE-UP.

25 FEB 2009: The Accidental Survivors, www.accidentalsurvivors.com/, have launched a new show called Collateral. A concentrated burst of the inspiration and opinion listeners have come to expect from the Accidental Survivors, Collateral is a weekly podcast on role-playing game related topics. Unlike the Accidental Survivors podcast, Collateral will cast further afield than just modern gaming. Any topic connected to role-playing games is grist for this mill.

Collateral is available online and will also be featured as a regular program on War Pig Radio, www.warpigradio.com/, the internet radio station for gamers.

ABOUT THE ACCIDENTAL SURVIVORS: Beginning in September of 2006, the Accidental Survivors have brought their diverse perspectives to topics relating to role-playing games in the modern genre. With advice, interviews, and reviews, the Accidental Survivors cover the modern gaming scene. POC: Fraser Ronald, accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca.

ABOUT WAR PIG RADIO: War Pig Radio broadcasts game-related programming 24 hours a day. War Pig is available online, through syndication on gaming websites and blogs, and is played over the speakers at a growing number of local game retailers. POC: Ed Healy, warpigradio@gmail.com.

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Collateral 02 - The Pre-Game Meet

Business
Thanks to kroh and dej48 for listening and commenting

Look for us and other great podcasts on Warpig Radio. Thanks to Ed from Atomic Array and Dan from Fear the Boot for their efforts.

Links
My campaign journal up on Sword's Edge Publishing with the article on The Meet.

Adventures of the Ottawa Warband an actual play podcast for my Vikings True20 campaign.

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Collateral 01 - Finding a Gaming Group

Business
Walt Robillard won the Accidental Contest with his proposed campaign setting "X-Roads Chronicles. Congratulations Walt and great work!

Links
The campaign journal up on Sword's Edge Publishing.

You might want to subtly indicate your gamer tendancies in social networks like Facebook.

Meetup is a useful resource. You might be able to join a group like the Toronto Area Gamers or even just to contact people looking for games.

Forums like EN World and RPG Net often have link up services like Gamers Seeking Gamers or Gamer Gatherings.

Look for forums local to your area. The Accidental Survivors forum is focused mostly on Kitchener-Waterloo gaming.

Online classified services like Kijiji often have local listings.

Look for gaming stores or comic stores in your area.

Universities often have gaming or SF clubs, like Watsfic.

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