This is quite possibly the most pointless and meandering show we have ever recorded. So why are we releasing it? Because these bonus episodes never come with a quality guarantee! This show is primarily our follow-up to the ladies podcast (episode 10), but we also talk about our ideas for future "special" episodes.
Since several people have asked about the cons we'll be attending,
we start episode 11 with our convention schedule.We then pause to talk about our first two
episodes which seem to have offended a few first-time listeners.While we won't take them down, we do suggest
you start listening at later episodes instead. Chris sent us an email about judging morality by periods in
history, which we discuss.We also
respond to an email from Harping Mick who requested our detailed views on
LARPing.Finally, we offer some advice
on surviving a campaign's dreaded first game and then close out by listing a
few of our favorite "game killers". Hosts: Adam, Chad,
Dan, John
The third bonus episode -- and the final one on this topic, at least for now -- is a discussion of the internet-related tasks that go into making a podcast. We talk about posting the show online, getting listed in podcast directories, and so on. This episode was recorded several weeks ago, but I was a bit slow getting it posted, so expect some "dated" comments.
After listening to all three bonus episodes in this series, I think I'd like to re-record these at some point, making them more complete and more serious. We've learned quite a bit even in the short time since these were recorded. We made these episodes because people asked us how we made our show, not because we considered ourselves particular experts on the subject.
Also, a reminder to everyone that we do not edit these episodes for quality, so expect a lot of background noise and other screw-ups that don't normally appear in our shows.
Episode 10 is an anomaly for our show.For this one episode, we turn over the mics
to our wives.They give us a woman's
perspective on gaming and what it's like to be a non-gamer married to a gaming
dork.
If this is your first time with Fear the Boot, please be
aware that this is not the normal format for our show.If you're looking to see what this show is typically like, we recommend you go back and listen to episode 9 first.
As you may have noticed, our forums seem to come and go from one moment to the next. My webhost has told me there's another database running on our server that has some runaway scripts. Supposedly, those scripts keep bringing the server down and they're working to fix the problem. Hopefully this will pass soon.
Though this is ultimately beyond my direct control, I still apologize for the inconvenience or annoyance this is causing our listeners.
After a really messy conversion, the forums are now up and running on the new hardware. Unfortunately, we had some database problems after the conversion, so we had to roll back to an older copy. A bunch of posts and users got lost because of that rollback. I apologize for that, and even if this new hardware is no better than the old stuff, this migration was such a cluster that I have no interest in moving again.
If you lost your user account due to this rollback, I hope you'll come back and join us a second time!
We're in the middle of our site migration right now (see previous post). The good news is that our web content was migrated flawlessly. The bad news is that our database migration has hit a hitch. I'm working with tech support to get this straightened out. In the meantime, the forums and resources section will be temporarily offline. We should have this worked out by tomorrow morning!
The content of our website is divided between two hosting companies. The blog and media files are on Liberated Syndication, but the forums, resource page, and the domain itself are located with a standard webhost.
We've been having some problems with that second host. We're on a shared server there, and it seems our current location is exceptionally lagged out. I'd wager we're sharing the box with someone that generates enormous amounts of traffic during the day. To remedy this, the host has agreed to move our site, but any content located there may disappear for a few hours.
If you attempt to use our site and get errors, please just check back in a little bit. To reach our media files during that downtime, you may want to go directly to our Liberated Syndication site since the primary domain will be busted.
http://feartheboot.libsyn.com
I apologize for any inconvenience this causes. We'll have it resolved soon! And when we do, our forum users should (hopefully) be enjoying much faster page loads.
We were down a host for this episode, and a bit more serious
than normal, but we still covered a lot of good information.
The episode starts with a discussion of the overuse of
setting in some campaigns, followed by our musings about D&D alignment, character
behavior, and real-life violence around the gaming table.We struggle with the age-old question of
"tail or wings" and then finally (having promised this for many
episodes) bash out our opinion of the d20 system.
We conclude with an email from a listener and some advice
for unusually large or small roleplaying groups -- including the possible use
of multiple GMs to co-manage a game.
We start this show by discussing various character- and player-related problems that can occur during a roleplaying game. Topics include Adam's difficulty naming his characters, deciding between 1st and 3rd person RP, ridiculous inventories, and dealing with "setting lawyers". The last half of the show is spent discussing the design and exceution of combat encounters, as well as handling the positive and negative consequences that follow.
* FYI, the "two sets of keys" comment was just a figure of speech. None of the hosts actually does anything like that.
