* World Wide Wing Night 5 on November 8th! You can find the details for the St. Louis location here. If you're not in St. Louis, you can find a list of gatherings in other cities here.
* Fear the Con 2 on March 6th and 7th! What details we have can be found on the Warhorn site or our forums.
* The Warhammer Online guild is going strong. You can find the details here.
* World Wide Wing Night 5. You can find details here.
* Email addresses for all hosts are back.
* This is the last week for the GM profiles! Be sure to get yours in!
* Why is self-destruction a constant in all of John's characters?
* Fear the Con 2 is set to go! It's on for March 6th and 7th. Same location. Expect the sign-up site and other details in the near future. If you want to volunteer or just sound-off on the con planning, visit the forums here.
* Why we create characters the way we do.
* How the visual element of a movie can affect your experience of a book. I managed to track down the Harry Potter audio spoof John was talking about. WARNING!!! This is extremely not safe for work!!! Click here at your own risk. The Harry Potter 6 trailer, however, is perfectly safe.
* The episode 115 tutorials are NOT available on CD. We're having problems getting CafePress to process the sound files properly. However, if you want to create your own CD, we've compiled the MP3 files in a CD-ready format (intro music removed, etc) in a zip file that you can download here.
* World Wide Wing Night 5 on Saturday, November 8th is coming up soon. You can find details here.
* Our Warhammer Online guild is doing unexpectedly well! Join us on the Order side of the Thorgrim server. More information can be found here.
* What percentage of roleplaying books you own have you actually read?
* Should players be familiar with the games they're playing or expected to do any work outside of the game?
* Getting out of your character ruts and separating your own traits from those of your character.
* The episode 115 tutorials are NOT available on CD. We're having problems getting CafePress to process the sound files properly. However, if you want to create your own CD, we've compiled the MP3 files in a CD-ready format (intro music removed, etc) in a zip file that you can download here.
* World Wide Wing Night 5 on Saturday, November 8th (not 18th) is coming up soon. You can find details here.
* We've started a Warhammer Online guild, Order side, on the Thorgrim server. You can find details on our forums.
* Chris pulls out Pulp Dungeons from the gamer closet.
* The new portal is still on its way and should be up soon.
* If you're going to be at Gencon, there's a get-together for FtB listeners being planned. Be sure to stop by the forum thread and be counted so we can get a venue of the appropriate size.
* John's acceptance speech from the Robin D. Laws award can be found here.
* A shout-out to Halbert for giving Dan a code for an item in Age of Conan!
* How our review show won't be a review show. If you want to start getting ready for that show, the first two topics we'll be discussing are Frank Miller's graphic novel, Dark Knight Returns, and the RPG, Justifiers. (Our forum user, JamsTheHobbit, provided us with a link to a Savage Worlds conversion you can find here.)
* Running a roleplaying game with young children present. The foam dice Dan describes are item #10966 in this catalog.
* How not to get the ladies to join your roleplaying game.
* "Choose your own adventure" books that play like RPGs.
* The rational place for gamer shame. (For anyone that's confused by Chad's use of the word, "hoosier," it's local slang that has nothing to do with Indiana University athletics.)
* If you're interested in joining our Age of Conan guild, you can find all of the information here.
* Deciding on -- and handling -- the amount of party in-fighting you want in your roleplaying game.
WARNING: This version of the interview contains uncensored language. If you wish to get a "clean" version of the interview, it is available on the feed.
Below is a link to download the interviews Chad did with the Fear the Con attendees. WARNING: These interviews contain unedited, explicit language! So please use discretion when playing them!
* Episode 100 is coming up next. If you have any questions for that show, please send them quickly to Dan or Luke. Also, there may be only a bonus episode since, since 100 will take two weeks to prepare.
* Don't forget Diecon, particularly if you're into Warmachine.
* The end of Living Greyhawk and start of Living Forgotten Realms.
* Playing a robot in a roleplaying game.
* Comparing point-buy and random rolling for RPG character creation.
* For episode 100, we'll be taking your questions about our views, hosts, or anything else you want to talk about. So please send your questions to Luke or Dan!
* If you're in the St. Louis area or interested in Warmachine, don't miss Diecon at the end of May!
* This past week, Dan was a guest host on two shows. The first is the Gamer Traveler episode in which Dan discusses his cruise. The second is Kore News with Walt Snider. If you'd like to discuss the topics on Walt's show, be sure to visit his forum!
* Karla talks about how many chairs have been destroyed in this house, and Luke recants.
* Drawing your players into the start of a roleplaying game campaign.
* Designing races for your RPG. And don't miss this segment's objection!
Hosts: Dan, John, Karla (briefly), Luke, Matt, Tex
* Dan and John will be in New York this weekend for I-Con 27! While there, Fear the Boot will be receiving the Robin D. Laws Award for Excellence in Gaming.
* If you're in the St. Louis area or a big WarMachine fan, please stop by Diecon in late May.
* If you're interested in helping start a con in or around Richmond, VA, please check out this site!
* John and Dan will be I-CON 27 in New York, April 4 - 6.
* Skies of Glass, Tier 1, will be released as a PDF document when the next episode drops.
* Ah, the Dragonlance episode. Be sure to check out Trampas' podcast, Dragonlance Canticle.
* We would like to thank the following folks for supporting Fear the Con...
Stacey and Margie for their work on concessions CJ, Karla, and Kim for taking care of admission and door prizes Tony Mast for Fear the Froot AlexH Chris Engler Martian Bob Sawtooth
12 to Midnight Atomic Earth Catalyst Games Gamer Ground Pinnacle Polymancer magazine White Wolf
the St. Louis warmachine community
...and most of all, the excellent gamers that showed up to make this con work!
* What we learned from running this con. We think this information could help out anyone that's interested in running a con or just curious what goes on behind the scenes.
* Dan's taking a trip to Miami while failing to organize his trip to Gencon.
* Fear the Con on March 8th! Don't forget World Wide Wing Night at Side Pockets the Friday before, eye exams from Luke the Sunday after, and Fear the Froot during the event.
* D&D isn't an RPG...?
* Yet another game derailed by a failure of the group template. We also offer some advice on meshing subplots with your main plot.
* Converting settings across or into rules systems. If you want to see the picture of Chad we mention, the original (potentially not safe for work) is here. The modified picture (safe for work) is here.
WARNING: The content of this episode is a little more coarse than usual.
* BJ's Liquo store...?
* How Valentine's Day has destroyed this episode.
* Fear the Con on March 8th! Don't forget World Wide Wing Night at Side Pockets the Friday before, eye exams from Luke the Sunday after, and Fear the Froot during the event.
* The Hobbit and other classic books.
* The evolution of arcade games and how that got us thinking about the evolution of roleplaying games.
WARNING: The content of this episode is a little more coarse than usual.
* Contrary to what Luke thinks, Furreals are not sexual.
* Fear the Boot PSA #2. Here is the relevant link.
* Join us for Fear the Con on March 8th! Don't forget to donate to Tony Mast's Fear the Froot. And we hope you'll join us for World Wide Wing Night the Friday night before the con and the eye exams at Meyer Eye Care the Sunday after the con.
* The Warhammer 40,000 RPG.
* Joseph Campbell's "hero's journey" and its relevance to running a roleplaying game. Since Tex did so much research, we'll provide a short bibliography of his sources...
* Skyrocket reminds us of a major perk of the FLGS: the dice bin.
* Is it possible to cheat in dice rolling with pure physics?
* Fear the Con is still coming up on March 8th, and don't forget Tony Mast's Fear the Froot effort! Please send an email to Luke if you're interested in volunteering to help out at the con.
Since we're releasing a bonus episode in place of the regular episode this week, I'll at least give the show notes in the usual format. Also, we'll be back to a regular episode next week!
* Skiing. * Luke's musical aspirations. * Fear the Con. * Fear the Froot, sponsored by Tony Mast. * Cartoons. * Comic books. * A little bit on the future of Fear the Boot.
* If you want a Fear the Boot hoodie, you can find them here. Be sure to type "feartheboot" (without the quotes) in the coupon field. This offer may be for a limited time only, so if you want it, get it fast!
* Luke's Chromehounds group, Iron Tyrants. Friends lists for PS3, Xbox Live, and Wii.
* Dealing with "that one player" in your roleplaying game.
* Dan's bad gaming story...finally.
* Fear the Boot on Fanboy Smackdown doing an episode about Top Gun. FAIR WARNING! This episode was done at Gencon before we made our promise to lay off certain kinds of language and insulting certain people groups.
