You should quickly realize this episode isn't quite right. This is part of a promotion that's being done between a dozen gaming podcasts. One week in September, each show will be run by the hosts of a different show. The strangers you're hearing on Fear the Boot are Mick and Rae from Misfit Brew. In this show, Mick and Rae talk about RPGs, focusing on Rae's impressions of the hobby as a non-gamer.
If you want to hear your "home team" FTB hosts, you can find us over at the Roundtable. For a direct link to the show we did for them, click right here.
A big thanks to Mick for hosting this show and letting us host one of his! And let me wrap this up by giving you the relevant links for Mick and Rae...
Before every show, we go through a dysfunctional routine which we describe at the start of this episode. We also talk about the market penetration of podcasts in the gaming community and one of the few fixtures of gaming life we haven't yet discussed: junk food!
Our main topic is evil characters and evil parties, though we didn't realize just how big the subject was until we started talking about it. This is one we might revisit in more detail at some point in the future.
At the end of the show, we announce our next contest. This one is the exact opposite of our "freak show" contest. To enter, head to our forums and look for the "contests" topic area. In 500 words or less, give us a deep and interesting character whose race/class is as boring as possible. We want to demonstrate that interesting characters have nothing to do with concept, so blow us away with your secretaries, garbage collectors, farmers, and the like! The prize is a $30 gift code for GeekLabel.com.
About a week ago, I was invited to join the guys from Fist Full of Comics (http://www.fistfullofcomics.com) in an interview with the creators of the World of Warcraft TCG. If you'd like to hear that interview, you can find the MP3 here...
In episode 18, we declared a particular character as the winner of our "freak show" contest. However, the winner declined the prize and, due to some technicalities, may not be eligible anyway. The prize therefore goes to Mister Plug with his living marionette. If you haven't read his character, you can find it in the "Contests" area of our forum.
Congratulations, Mister Plug! We'll be emailing you a confirmation shortly!
Just as I promised on the forums, here's a bonus episode to go hand-in-hand with episode 18!
We intended to make this bonus episode about our take on where Battletech went wrong. However, we ended up on so many tangents that the show is really more about where creative endeavors in general go wrong.
As you probably know by now, these bonus episodes are neither edited nor quality controlled. So if this is your first time here, please check out a regular episode to find out what our show is really like.
In this show we cover some fond memories of FASA product catalogs, name the winner of our "freak show" character contest, offer our thoughts on card games, kick around some settings we wish had their own roleplaying games, and offer our thoughts on the use of electronic devices to aid your games.
Our next regular episode will be posted tonight (Wednesday night). I apologize for how late the show iwas this week. When we started FTB, our intention was to release the shows late Sunday night, with people picking them up Monday morning. Lately, we've consistently missed that target. Rest assured we're were on some changes in the way we produce the shows to correct this problem.
I want to remind everyone of the contest we're running right now. You can find details in this episode, the show notes for episode 16, or our forums.
Continuing a topic we started in bonus episode 7, we spend some time talking about spaceship combat in roleplaying games. Then we offer some insight and advice about running your game in an established setting with a single, pervasive storyline.
We're probably just as opinionated about video games as we
are roleplaying games, but the former just isn't what this podcast is
about. However, for this bonus episode, we decided to talk only about
video games.
You guys know the drill. These bonus episodes are not edited or formatted,
so the quality of our normal shows isn't really there. We just make these things for fun.
