Theory From the Closet

Show056: Reincorporation with Ryan Macklin

This is a long show, about Two hours and Twenty minutes. It served as a way for me to have my Gen Con talk with Ryan, as I didn’t have that opportunity this year. We talk about reincorporation, niche protection, and what a Roleplaying game is. Part of this show is a follow up to Ryan’s previous show about reincorporation. There were some moments when I forgot I was being recorded and was playing with a pen, and a clickable eraser, sorry about that.

Show055: Homosexuality and RPG’s

Man this was difficult. Alexander talked to me about discussing homosexuality in RPG’s at least two years. Gen Con 2008, we got together twice and talked, but I somehow lost, or destroyed both recordings accidentally. So that’s what brings us to sitting down to talk via Skype, because I didn’t end up doing any recordings at Gen Con this year. I think I only played one game at Gen Con, where I fell asleep. There was just too much catching up in the short amount of time I was there.

This recording itself was difficult because I had echo during the whole thing which makes it difficult to think and speak. So if there are more pregnant pauses then normal, that’s why.

Show054: Interview with Judd Karlman

Holy wow! This is from Gen Con 2008 and I thought it was lost. Well it was lost, but now it’s found. It’s a bit rambly, I didn’t have an outline which was par for the course for 2008. As always this post is the last thing I do, and I’m cranky, and want to be done. Maybe more notes later.

Later:
This was a good time to find this interview. I am facing the same thing Judd was/is at this years Gen Con, as I wanted to be done with SKMaV by now. Although no one harangued me, so maybe folks are happy not to see it. Heh. I’m still anxious to see what Judd comes up with for 1stQuest, it seems like it will hit many of my interests, kids, coming of age, low points of contact, clear flags, etc. I think it’s a decent interview considering I had no pre-done questions at all.

Show053: Interview with Fred Hicks

This is a great episode that is marred because of me not being prepared. I thought I had a program to record Skype, but I bought it over two years ago, and have since wiped my windoze box so it was no longer installed. Fred had his recorder, so I recorded myself locally with my portable recorder, but it ran out of batteries about an hour into the recording. That left us with Fred recording both our voices and that doesn’t always work well as you hear later in the episode.

Fred and I were talking about having this discussion a year ago, but my back injury prevented me from having a chance to meet him in person this year. The one con I can get to this year, other than Forge Midwest, Fred couldn’t get to… so we Skyped it.

Links:
The post we refer to is here.
Don’t Rest Your Head is here in PDF, dead tree, and dead tree + PDF bundle, just in case you don’t already own the game.

Show052: Live interview with Vincent Baker

Here’s the Live Show. Man this was hard for me. I was cutting in and out,  my interviewee was across space and time, and I had a hard time focusing on the conversation, and paying attention to a chat box. On the plus, it was really cool to have live interaction with listeners. I’d like to make this standard operating procedure, but perhaps not through talkshoe.

What did you think?

This is cut and pasted from a post I made on story-games, anyway….
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I’m planning to do an interview with Vincent Baker on Saturday May 30th 9:30 PM (21:30) eastren, 8:30 central, 01:30 GMT. The plan is to take questions, we’ll be focusing mainly on Creative Agendas (GNS), but there might be some clouds and boxes questions, and perhaps a few other things. I don’t want questions here. I want to hear peoples voices. More about that later, but for now if you are interested you can look for Clyde Rhoer on Facebook, or follow radiofreeclyde on Twitter.

The plan right now is to use Skype. I can’t include a bunch of people as there is no control over who can talk, every person you add seems to increase the editing difficulty tremendously. I’ll announce via twitter and facebook when we’ve started talking, and again when were ready to start taking questions. Questions should be about Creative Agendas as that’s the focus of the show, if this works out perhaps sometime in the future we can talk to Vincent about something else.

Now if I can get it figured out and Vincent is okay with it, I’d prefer to use Talkshoe.com, as that would allow everyone to listen via streaming, and perhaps have more cogent questions.

This isn’t intended to be an argue with Vincent (or Clyde) show, you can do that later on the internet via whatever methods you normally employ, so approach this positively please.

Show051: Interview with Chris Perrin and Clyde L. Rhoer

This show was recorded at Gen Con for Cannon Punture by Chris Perrin. Chris recently left Cannon Punture on good terms, and I checked in with him to see if Cannon Punture had the audio of this show and planned to run it. When I found out he still had the file I asked him if I could run it. Chris and Rich both gave me permission, so here it is.

This is an interview about my ashcan, Silence Keeps Me A Victim, and Chris’s ashcan, Messiah. We go off the path a bit, but not too far.

Show050: Interview with Eero Tuovinen

Here is possibly the last of my Gen Con recordings. (I’m still searching for one.) This was with Eero Tuovinen, one of the three folks behind Arkenstone Publishing, and creator of Zombie Cinema, and Solar System. My questions were a little less focused than what I’d like, but I was really curious about what the Nordic roleplaying scene was like. It seems like half the interest in my game comes from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. I don’t think the show is bad, I just think I wasn’t prepared enough with interesting questions. I feel like there was something I wanted to dig at that I was unsucessful at bringing to the surface. Anyway, Eero has a lot more to say about roleplaying things if you read his blog

The Creative Agenda show will be next Monday, as I need more time. Presenting it correctly is tricky, and it seems that I keep getting dragged into making the show deeper and deeper. So much so I’m worried about presenting too much and losing people.

Creative agenda is a lot more complicated than the other theory shows I’ve done. It’s going to be an additional day.

Show049: Interview with John Wick

This is an interview I did with John Wick at Gen Con 2008. We talk about his new game, Houses of the Blooded, Legend of the Five Rings, torture-porn, and some of his thoughts about game design, and actual play.

I couldn’t get the volume correct on this one with out adding aliens and spaceships, so it may be a bit quiet. We also have vacuum cleaners, and the very efficient hotel staff once again. Someday I’ll learn they make signs to prevent that.