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WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners.

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Viral Holocausts like The Stand, Jeremiah /Star Trek OS: Miri, The Last Man, 12 Monkeys, Omega Man /I am Legend

Monster Apocalypses like Reign of Fire

Mystical (Nuclear?) Holocausts like the Dark Tower

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The GenCon Wrapup
Some of the awesome crews we met belonged to the following, in alphabetical order:

The Basics of the Game
Brilliant Gameologists
Canon Puncture
The Digital Front/Gamer Traveler
Fist Full of Comics And Games
Gamer's Haven
Order 66
The Podgecast
Pulp Gamer
This Just In From Gencon

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1. News & Views
Need rules for playing with your green and tan plastic army men? Combat Storm may have what you need.

Chris reveals the Supernatural Season 4 details

Hidden Nazi bunkers found intact after more than 50 years.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog no longer available free, but if you have access to it, there's always Hulu. And if you're going to be running a Dr. Horrible campaign using Supers20, you may want to read a review.

Bring the Pain! (Ray).

Barnett R. Rubin is shocked, shocked to learn that that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) appears to be supporting insurgents and terrorists in Afghanistan.

Choson, the RPG, now appearing on the forums.

Head on over to the Tome Show for all your D&D info needs.

2. Feature: Garden Variety "Monsters"
Rob's Obscure Pop Culture Reference #265.
First Appearance of Henry Pym; The Man in the Anthill.
Fraser's old! The first sci-fi movie he saw was Them! (Fraser notes: while I am old, I saw Them! on TV, not in the cinemas.

Relevance? Intelligent discourse? Insight? If these things are not important to you, check out the Podgecast.

3. Inspiration Time
Arachnophobia
Kingdom of the Spiders
Phase IV
Willard (1971) remade in 2003 with Chrispin Clover, and there's a sequal Ben, for which Michael Jackson sang the theme song.
Star Man's Son
Deadly Creatures and Bad Mojo
Crazy Old Ladies and their rats
The Indiana Jones trilogy

4. Gear Locker
Lots of stabby things

5. Podcast News
The Podgecast
A show about movies, music, books, games, and whatever's on their minds. Luke, Adam, Matt and Joe pontificate and spout opinion as though fact, and it rocks. Get ready for a good time and plenty of laughs. There might actually be something useful in there as well. Find it all at podgecast.com.

IFC News
From the Independent Film Channel comes the IFC News podcast. With hosts Matt Singer and Alison Willmore, the IFC News podcasts talks movies, and the talk is usually pretty interesting. Maybe not geeky, per se, but if you love movies, you'll likely enjoy this podcast. You can find it at feeds.feedburner.com/ifcnewspodcast

6. Feedback

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Thanks Rob for taking care of this!

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News & Views

• West End Games is for sale, triggering a firestorm of discussions from the ill-informed on various RPG message boards, like here and here.
• Open Office now has a PDF editor, though it is still in beta development. Take a look here.
• We're late to the game in wishing Stan Lee a wonderful 85th birthday. 'Nuff said.
  

Feature: Modern²⁰: A Review

Why did Chuck Rice write Modern20? To make a pantload of money, of course!

Inspiration Time

The Shield: Season 5 and Season 6: An ambitious, mentally unstable IAD officer is after Vic in Season 5 and the death of a member of the Strike Team turns them against each other in Season 6. Some of the best TV ever and easily one of the 5 best cop shows of all time.

The Losers: Comic book from Vertigo/DC Thanks to BrianK on the boards for mentioning this back in the discussion on Episode 26: Finding Inspiration.

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1. News & Views
Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms and yet more! Don't forget to read the comments.

We're going to Gen Con. Check out our schedule. Make sure you email us if you want in on one of our games.

Supers20 is almost out! Also, the Dispatch is going weekly again for at least 6 weeks in honor of Supers20 release!

FFoCaG - Official Contest: Burn Notice Season 2

Chinese Cops get Segways . . . no longer so intimidating

Go-Play Ottawa a GO for July 26.

Welcome back Walt/kroh!

The Wandering Geek podcast is up for an Ennie! Head on over to support Curt in his quest for glory.

2. Feature: Real Crime
Our previous episode about player characters as criminals, which we called Criminal Intentions.
Mafia
Murder Inc
Yakuza

Play like you've got two with the Brilliant Gameologists.

3. Inspiration Time
Current situation in Zimbabwe
The Departed
Infernal Affairs
Ross Kemp On Gangs

4. The Hook
Undercover: The PCs are cops tasked with infiltrating a dangerous criminal organization. How can they work their way up the ladder while maintaining their integrity? Ordinary complications, like family problems, can play a big part in a campaign like this, since the PCs will have the added complication of a secret identity--trying to keep their assignment and their home life separate.

5. Podcast News
A. The Material World looks at Tunguska
On the 30th June 1908, a huge fireball hurtled towards the Tunguska River region of Siberia. The explosion that followed was as powerful as 1000 Hiroshima bombs and knocked down an estimated 80 million trees. But 100 years later scientists are yet to find an impact crater or tell-tale meteorite remains. So what happened?

The Material World is a BBC Radio podcast. In this episode, Host Quentin Cooper is joined by Dr Phil Bland and Gareth Collins from Imperial College London to find out. You can learn more at the website.

B. Brilliant Gameologists
In their own words, Brilliant Gameologists is a podcast about tabletop games and the people who play them. Helping you play like you have to, play like you have to and play like you have two.

For my two cents, the BGs are fun and enjoy using language that is less than family friendly, like some other podcast I know . . . and possibly participate in. They understand LARPing is all about hitting on hot gamer chicks and has no other value. Me like.

You can find them at: brilliantgameologists.com/

6. Feedback

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1. News & Views
Erik Wujicik died on June 7. The first RPG Rob ever purchased was TMNT and Other Strangeness!

The Air Force wants botnets of MASS DESTRUCTION!

4e, 'nuff said

Accidental Survivors RPG development forum

Chris Davies 4e review

Is it @$$ kickin' time? Get down and dirty with some Action Maneuvers!

2. Feature: Conspiracies
MKUltra
Skull and Bones
Montauk Project
MJ12
That Government Warehouse!

Get those buttery-smooth Ts from Geeklabel.Remember: these are not magic t-shirts.

3. Inspiration Time
The Manchurian Candidate
The X-Files
Metal Gear Solid
Planetary

4. The Hook
OpCom VULTURE

The PCs are drawn into a trip or mission to the town of Iana Sarat in Mondovia, a fictional state in Eastern Europe. If they are military or spies, they are assigned to a mission, if they are private individuals, they are either hired to escort a subject they will meet there, or the NPC is a friend or other acquaintance that calls on their aid.

Stories of lights in the skies and unexplained explosions the previous night meet the PCs. They meet Piotr Korensky, who is their contact. He indicates a belief that they are a “recovery team� with “Vulture.� He passes on a map and coordinates some 40 kilometres south west of Iana Sarat. Before he can explain any further, he is assassinated by a rifle shot.

The shooter, if captured, carries a letter stating “Provide assistance to RAVEN acting under orders. Recovery operation underway. OpCom VULTURE may intervene. RAVEN is to terminate this threat.� It is only signed “Majestic�

The map leads to a valley in the mountains where a strange aircraft has crashed. The occupants are not human. Here, the PCs meet Devoe, and he explains that they have been sent here through the machinations of Operational Command VULTURE, a secret military command created by elements of NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the 1960s to oppose the Majestic 12 conspiracy. Vulture adapts and then spreads alien technology, preparing to battle the aliens who have infiltrated Earth societies through the help of Majestic.

The PCs are now caught in the middle of the battle between the conspirators of Majestic 12 and OpCom VULTURE, possibly the saviours of humanity. Devoe can act as their contact and feed them information. But since this is the shadowy world of black ops and conspiracies, is VULTURE or Devoe really who they say they are? Is Majestic 12 really the threat Devoe states it is?

That’s up to you.

5. Podcast News
A. Penny Arcade + PvP + 4e = Good Times!

The folks at Penny Arcade and PvP sat down with WotC's Chris Perkins to play 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons (for some of them, it was their very first game of D&D). How did it go? Well, they recorded the entire session—which WotC is offering in episodic podcasts, along with comics commemorating the game!

You can find the podcasts at the Wizard's site. And don't forget Downloadable Content, PA's podcast.

6. Feedback

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1. News & Views
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in production, starring Jake Gyllenhal

Play by post on ForgedRPG: Agents of LEET: Operation Sticky Fingers.

Jon Favreau is a D&D geek

Go Play Ottawa

Interview with me up at Fist Full of Comics and Games

Sneak peek at serial fiction for Mundus Novit

Need the basics? The Basics of the Game has got you covered.

2. Feature: Grim & Gritty
My article on grim & gritty fantasy roleplaying called Getting Medieval: Grim & Gritty at Sword's Edge
The "discussion" thread on grim & gritty.

For more role-play-y podcast-y goodness, head on over to Role Playing Public Radio.

3. Inspiration Time
Star Wars
The Watchmen
Angel
Firefly
Casablanca
Blade Runner
the Immortal Iron Fist
Get Shorty

Chris Miller is digging on The Failed Cities Monologues by Matt Wallace. Also check out Variant Frequencies, and the Next Fix.

4. Feedback
Nightmask
Warren Ellis on Twitter

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We're not going to be using ODEO any more as they have fracked up a couple of message, the most recent from Ken Newquist at Nuketown Radio Active. If they ever get their act together, we'll use them again.

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1. News & Views
Christophe Gans set to direct Onimusha

Marvel announces 4 new superhero movies for 2010-2011

4E GSL, restrictions on a product line basis as per articles at En World and WotC

Twiddla, an internet whiteboard that could be used for gaming. Thanks Ken at Nuketown!

Covert Forces Redux is available as a POD from SEP's Lulu store.

Check out Nuketown Radio Active. All the cool kids are listening.

2. Feature: Keeping Your Players Invested

Finished with us? Try Wapcaplets.

3. Inspiration Time
Sandman
The Dreamland Chronicles
Tin Man
New Teen Titans Archive Volume 1
Dark City
and
Chuck was wrong about the successful lawsuit against the Wachowskis. Still, we can dream.

4. the Hooks
Chuck brings us Asylum seekers:
Got a campaign that’s getting a bit predictable? Tell your players you'd like to try a one-shot with new characters set in an asylum. Over the course of the adventure, the players will slowly begin to realize that the characters they're playing are their standard characters from the ongoing campaign, who have been drugged, supplied with fake identities, and deposited in a home for the criminally insane as a convenient way for the villain to rid himself of his enemies.

Worse, the players are inside with many former enemies.

And from Chris, Exdreamas Machina:
Nazi's have recently started infiltrating the dream lands in order to probe the dreams of leading scientists around the world. The characters are part of a rival British organization called ESPionage (Necroscope rip-off) they are pressed with entering the dreamlands to prevent the Nazi's from stealing the secrets of inventors and at the same time securing those ideas for themselves.

5. Feedback

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1. News & Views
People, Places, and Things: You are Here from Second Rat Games

Yo Joe! Pics from the upcoming G.I. Joe movie were here, but they've been taken down. You can read some reactions in this thread. Also, check out what IMDB and Wikipedia have to say.

The 4E rumour mill is soldiering on. After you've scoffed at our uninformed opinions, you can head on over to check out information at WotC and in this thread and this thread at EN World

Check out Have Games, Will Travel

2. Feature: Finding Inspiration
The Article and . . .
The Thread it inspired!

Need more podcasts? Goblin: the Gaming Broadcast Network has got them!

3. The Hook
The situation that inspired the Hook

4. Podcast News
A. The History of Rome
A weekly podcast hosted by Mike Duncan 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.

Found at thehistoryofrome.blogspot.com/.

5. Feedback

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1. News & Views
Arkham Horror
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
Bell Sympatico sucks

Pulp Gamer: Out Of Character

2. Feature: Franchise Fiasco
d20 Modern
Spycraft
GURPS
Buffy
Ronin
Gnoll Pimp
Demon Bartender
Google Earth
Google Maps

RPGPodcasts.com

Geeklabel Radio

3. Inspiration
Ronin
The Dark Tower series
Deadlands
Secret War
Black Hawk Down
the Ghosts of Medak Pocket

4. The Hook
the Long Kiss Goodnight

5. Podcast News
A) Wapcaplets
Recorded by Chris Engler, a gamer living near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Wapcaplets is an audio-blog of his opinions and thoughts on gaming. Episodes will come out at least once per week and be around five minutes in length. If you're looking for gamer talk in bite-sized chunks, Wapcaplets might just be for you. Wapcaplets can be found at wapcaplets.podbean.com. If you're wondering about the term Wapcaplet, it's all explained at the site, so go have a look.

6. Feedback
Check out the info on Elseworlds, pointed out by asylum643 on the boards.

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7. Pimpage Zone
The gang over at Fist Full of Comics and Games have been giving Chuck the love . . . in a manner of speaking. Just go and see what I mean. There's something to read and something to listen to.

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1. News & Views
PCGen v5.13.12 (Beta) released! Release notes here.

In memory of the late E. Gary Gygax, Sword’s Edge Publishing will be donating its revenues from March and April to the Christian Children’s Fund, a charity to which his family has indicated Mr. Gygax was much endeared.

The Escapistcast

2. Feature: Franchise Fiasco
Get read for the flood of links! Stand well away from the screen.

Brotherhood of the Wolf
d20 Past
A Mighty Fortress
Witchhunter
Savage Worlds of Solomon Kane
Chuck's Web novel, Hellstrom Voyage
Patrick O'Brien
Master and Commander
Last of the Mohicans
Louisbourg
Beast of Gévaudan
His Majesty's Dragon
William Walker
Filibusters/Freebooters
British East India Company
Zulu
The Thing (and the original)
HP Lovecraft
Sir Richard Burton (the explorer)
First Footsteps in East Africa
Mountains of the Moon
Mutants and Masterminds
DC Universe
Gotham by Gaslight
Deadlands
Transcontinental Railway (Canada)
Wormhole
Sewers of Paris
Steampunk Musha
Crimson Skies
Saving Private Ryan
Dog Soldiers
An American Werewolf in London
The Keep
Operation Jedburgh and the adventure from Empty Room Studios

Game Bag Review Show

3. Inspiration
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Difference Engine and the In Our Time episode with Ada Lovelace
Tunguska Event
Cast a Deadly Spell
Arrowsmith
Flyboys
Public Enemies
The Imperial Age line from Adamant Entertainment, specifically London, British India and the Gamemaster's Guidebook to Victorian Adventure
The Anubis Gates

4. The Hook
One explanation of the Tunguska Event
Tesla (and the David Bowie reference)
Rasputin
Hellboy

5. Feedback
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6. Pimpage Zone
Don't forget to check out Defcon 1.

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1. News & Views
D&D 4e gets some play at the D&D Experience. Chuck says: "It doesn't suck!"

Dreamwalker: Revised. Initial thoughts, very cool and interesting. More later.

Steven Brust's free Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom.

Gryphcon at the University of Guelph in Southwestern Ontario. Jeff Dunnett needs volunteers!

The Secret Lair

2. Feature: Franchise Fiasco
The Unit: add some vampires and werewolves for the Night Unit.

The Untouchables: add magic and rogue thaumaturges (say that three times fast) and you have the Uncharmables.

Spooks: add the supernatural and you've got Spooky.

Stargate: it's the 1880s, it's on Captain Nemo's island, and Earth is threatened by the hi-tech and/or magical denizens beyond it. This one didn't get a name.

International Detective Dragons from outer Space

3. Podcast News
A. FFoCaG, Your Source for Star Trek News!
FFoCaG has been accepted into Paramount Pictures webmaster program campaign for the upcoming Star Trek feature film being released 12.25.08. The guys at FFoCaG will be getting first hand news and information directly from Paramount to report via their website with other opportunities available down the pike as the release the date draws nearer.

Paramount is also tracking traffic between their site and the official Paramount site for Star Trek, so if you want to visit the official Paramount Star Trek site, do it through www.fistfullofcomics.com/st. If you want the latest news, visit www.fistfullofcomics.com/startrek.

B. The Secret Lair: not so secret anymore!
Chris and KJ who were two of the regular hosts on the late Roundtable podcast from the House of the Harping Monkey are back with the Secret Lair. These two villains crouch like spiders in their lair, waiting for the unwary. Ken Newquist, he of Nuketown Radio Active, has been captured and interrogated in episode 6. None can say who might be next. Perhaps you!

C. The Game That May Be: Mick just couldn't keep away
And the final piece in the Roundtable podcast puzzle has broken cover. Mick Bradley is soloing in the podosphere with The Game That May Be. In Mick's own words: What kind of roleplayer do I want to be? What kinds of games do I want to play, how do I want to play them, and who do I want to play them with? What tools are available to help me figure all that out, and to help me get where I want to go? Exploring the answers to those questions is what this site is about. It's my ongoing chronicle of my roleplaying life. Here's where I ponder, wonder, dream, wrestle, steal, and share. If you're interested, come along.

You can find Mick at harpingmonkey.com/tgtmb.

4. Feedback
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Actual Play 2: Electric Boogaloo

This episode continues the actual play session that began in episode 22. If you have not listened to episode 22, please do so before listening to this episode. This episode has only been minimally editted and is not a regular Accidental Survivors podcast episode.

I don't think I wrote episode enough. Episode episode.

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1. News & Views
Gencon files for Chapter 11, with comments from Peter Adkison.

Sword's Edge Publishing interview at the Monday Monkey News.

Mundus Novit will be released from Dark Quest Games.

Fantasy Flight Games gets the Warhammer rights. More info from the FFG website.

Christian Bale in the next Terminator movie.

Star Trek News from Fist Full of Comics and Games

2. Feature: Actually Playing
You'll need the factory map!

This adventure was written during the recording of Episode 21: Writing An Adventure.

On Board Games

3. Feedback
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This time, it's all about the Feature!

You'll need the map!

Once you're done with us, why not give a listen to:

Canon Puncture
or
Fist Full of Comics and Games

2. Feature - Writing An Adventure
The adventure is based on Ong Bak by way of Big Trouble in Little China, doing some martial arts mayhem in honour of Chuck's new product Martial Arts 20 for Modern 20. Inspiration for the adventure design from:

Kwai Chang Caine
Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu
Tony Jaa
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Immortal Iron Fist
Raiders of the Lost ArK
Dozer from the Matrix
Jayne Cobb
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Universal Soldier
Hard Target
Episode 2: Kung-Fu Fighting, our martial arts episode.

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1. News & Views
RPG Podcasters

Marvel Digital Initiative

Walt Simonson doing the World of Warcraft Comic

the Wandering Geek

2. Feature - Starting a New Campaign
Access Denied
Crit or Miss associated with the Dragon's Landing Inn.
EN World message boards and the Gamers Seeking Gamers forum
Gleemax from Wizards of the Coast
Meetup.com and the the Central San Diego Role Playing Gamers Association mentioned in our feedback episode
the Groovecast podcast
Open RPG: use it or Chris from RPG Objects will drop the hammer on Chuck.
Fantasy Grounds
The Group Template and the Group Cohesion episode
Google Calendar
Star Trek: The Next Generation
X-Files

Master Plan

3. Inspiration Time
Fireflypilot
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4. Podcast News
A. Master Plan

Master Plan is an podcast on the subject of game design and the art of ideas, particularly for role playing, card and board games. Hosted by freelance writer Ryan Macklin, the podcast comes out at least once a month. You can expect interviews with game designers -- both professional and amateur -- as well as advice and news about game design.

Check it out at masterplanpodcast.net.

B. Happy Birthday Tome Show!
The Tome Show has turned one year old, and I didn't even send a card! It's up to 34 episodes, so I guess it's a bit more regular than us. Maybe more fibre in the diet of pure D&D. For those of you not in the know, the Tome Show is a Dungeons and Dragons news, review, and interview show. Jeff, the Tome Host, and the Tome Reporters tell you about what is going on in the world of D&D. You can find it at www.thetomeshow.com.

6. Feedback
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The article I wrote for Sword's Edge based on Guns, Germs, and Steel which I called Magic, Germs and Steel

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1. News & Views
Heroes, Season Two

It's Vishnu, baby! Er, whoops, I meant it's Vishnu baby

The Unit Season 3: as long as we can kill terrorists and protect country singers, you can have your shadow government.

Music file sharers buy more CDs

Radiohead releases new album on line

All Games Considered

2. Feature - Campaign Design
Sliders

Fantasci

The Postman, novel and movie

The Handmaid's Tale, novel and movie

Stargate, movie and TV series

Firefly

Groovecast

3. Inspiration Time
Lost for its "firm" continuity
X-Files for its "loose" continuity
The Bourne movie series, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum
Justice League/Justice League Unlimited TV series

4. The Hook
This week, I want to provide a hook to lead into a gritty, conspiracy campaign. It's shamelessly stolen from the first two episodes on the new season of the Unit.

The characters belong to a special operations force, perhaps Delta, perhaps JTF-2 or the SAS. They might even belong to something blacker, like the Increment or the CIA Special Activities Division. On their first adventure, they are tasked with escorting a spook on an "interdiction" mission against a drug kingpin's complex. The target doesn't look very drug complex-like—in fact it looks like a very nice home with large grounds. During the mission, the team is confronted by an individual whom the spook shoots. The spook searches the place and cracks a safe, all the time deflecting questions from the team—if they ask any.

On return, the team is called before a government oversight committee. It turns out, the “drug kingpin� was the defence minister of a government on poor terms with the PCs' government. Their superiors deny any knowledge of the mission, indicating that the team went rogue. The PCs are hung out to dry and it looks like they are going to do prison time. Their commanding officer, who was left out in the cold as much as the team, orders them to evade arrest and go underground. He's going to take the heat and the PCs need to figure out what is going on.

The truth is that the team have been chosen to take the fall for an operation undertaken by a shadow government conspiracy. The mission was an intelligence operation to retrieve important information from the unfriendly government that the conspiracy feared might be used against them. That information could lead the team to the people behind the conspiracy, could clear their names, and ensure their CO doesn't end up in prison.

The campaign has the team following clues and getting closer and closer to the heart of the conspiracy. Finally, they are able to take out the heads of the conspiracy. Like a snake, the shadow government dies, but the team can't go back out into the open after that. They become an arm's length black ops team, contractors for their government, doing dirty-work but only when they are sure the aims are righteous. It's kind of like the Unit meets the A-Team.

5. Podcast News
A. The End of the Round Table and Misfit Brew

The House of the Harping Monkey is a little bit quieter and less crowded with the demise of two much-beloved podcasts, the Round Table and Misfit Brew. Mick Bradley was involved in both, and with him on the Round Table was Chris Miller and K J Johnston. The Round Table especially will be missed, though Misfit Brew was a great podcast, the Round Table was one of my 'must listen' podcasts. I wouldn't put it in a queue to listen to, I would listen to it as soon as I downloaded it. It's a sad day, but all the participants will be visible in the Podosphere and in the RPG community. Maybe we can actually coerce them onto the Accidental Survivors at some point.

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1. News & Views
Check out Chuck Rice's new ransom/fundable project: Fantasci

Worldwide D&D Game Day

Scientists developing techniques to steer hurricanes

Dragon's Landing Inn

2. Feature - A Year's Retrospective
And there's a lot of talk about us.

d20 Action Maneuvers

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6. SEP News
Fraser sold another story, this time to Black Gate. Black Gate is a major market, and one that Fraser has been trying to crack since 2000.

With Christina (his daughter) taking up so much of his time, and wanting to focus on his fiction writing, Fraser is putting Sword's Edge Publishing on hiatus. The products will remain available at Your Games Now and Steve Jackson Games' e23. Support SEP and support this podcast.

The deal for Mundus Novit: the Changed World fell through as Silven Publishing closed up shop, but Fraser is polishing it up and seeing about a partnership with another publisher to get it out.

Rob has spawned again. Soon the Wakefield brood will blot out the sun!