Posts Tagged ‘Gen Con’
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Show060: Interview with David Wesely
I spent so much time trying to fix the sound on this one… at least 24 hours total. It either can’t be done well, or is beyond my ability. Which sucks as this was the interview I was most excited about, from Gen Con. Major David Wesely, Ret., is the guy who Dave Arneson credits with inventing the idea of the Roleplaying Game. It was so very interesting to hear about stuff that was going on before I was born to make this thing I’m fascinated with today. It’s interesting to see how closely our beginning was tied to LARP.
I think it is worth the effort of having to concentrate to focus on what is being said over the background noise.
Tags: Gen Con, Gen Con 2010, LARP, Major David Wesely Ret
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Tags: Apocalypse World, Dogs in the Vineyard, Gen Con, Gen Con 2010, Inhuman podcasts, Interview, Interviewing techniques, Theory, Vincent Baker
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Gen Con recaps seem popular; I want to be popular, so I wrote this post full of name-dropping for you. Warning: I add the letter s to words that don’t need it to be internet cute. Also there are inside jokes and mystic writings. You’ve been warned.
This year my back wasn’t completely ruined, so I got to do the full Gen Con experience, as opposed to last years 24 hour experience. This means I got a couple interviews, a couple of games in, and lots of hanging out. It was a really good experience, and as always I feel more charged up about gaming and podcasting. On to the diary form of the post!
Wednesday:
This is the day I left. 3 to 4 hour bus trip to Chi-town’s Union Station spent mostly staring out the window. From Union Station I was scheduled to take the Amtrak to Indy, which dumps you right by the convention center. This is where probably the coolest thing happened for Gen Con. I met up with the inventor of role-playing, Major David Wesely, Ret., and his friend, The First Dwarf, Ross W. Maker. I conducted a interview with David, for just under two hours on the Amtrack, and we talked much of the way to Indy. It was really awesome to get insight into our hobby from back before I was born. I arrived in Indy at was technically Thursday, so….
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Tags: Gen Con, Gen Con 2010
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
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.
Tags: ashcan, Ashcan Front, Cannon Puncture, Chris Perrin, Clyde L. Rhoer, enemies, Gen Con, Gen Con 2007, Interview, Messiah, Silence Keeps Me a Victim
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Show047: Interview with Ron Edwards
Here’s an interview with Ron Edwards that I recorded at Gen Con 2008. It’s about half the time of the first interview I did with Ron, but still packed full of interesting information. In this show he corrects some info I’ve given before, plus we discuss Creative Agendas, and Actual Play. Then we discuss GM-ing in a Narritivist game via 4 types of responsibility needed for play; Descriptional Authority, Content Authority, Situational Authority, and Plot Authority.
Ron also mentions posts by Frank T, and Frank Tarcikowski. As you can see there’s a lot of posts to go through… I just don’t have the time to dig, but at least I can point towards the right direction.
I also needed to remove the fridge noise, I couldn’t hear it live, hopefully it won’t flip Macklin out and make him kill things.
Tags: content authority, creative agenda, descriptional authority, Gen Con, Gen Con 2008, Interview, narrativism, plot authority, Ron Edwards, situational authority
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Show045: Interview with Justin D. Jacobson
Here’s the second interview from Gen Con. I think there’s about Five more. This is with Justin D. Jacobson from Blue Devil Games, and One Bad Egg, and the creator of the well written Bullseye ashcan. You’ll likely hear me talking about Bullseye in Janurary via… well… via something secret.
In this show, we talk about licenses, what they are, and why you might want to use them. I find this interview interesting looking back as it is from before the public unveiling of One Bad Egg, which is something Blue Devil Games, and Evil Hat Productions, put together to sell 4th edition D+D products and insulate their main products from the GSL. Definitely some interesting stuff here. However we don’t just discuss the GSL, but the OGL, the d20 SRD, Creative Commons, The Bullseye License, and the Amagi License.
This is another one where I was not adequately prepared, so you’ve been warned. Thanks to Justin for going above and beyond to make this happen.
Tags: Blue Devil Games, Bullseye, Gen Con, Gen Con 2008, Justin D. Jacobson, One Bad Egg
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Show028: Interview with Jason Walters
This is the last of the Gen Con interviews, and the last of the Ashcan Front interviews to boot. I talk with Jason Walters about his game, “You Brought This On Yourself,” a game based in Slasher film fiction. I recorded this Gen Con Sunday, and I think we could have gone a bit longer but I was trying to get done in time to also meet Kevin Allen Jr. I think. I didn’t make it. It’s a shame as I think we were just starting to move to some interesting territory. Although I do believe there is some really interesting stuff in the interview especially when Jason hits on different deconstructions of slasher movies. I know I had never really considered them very deeply until after talking with him.
Tags: Gen Con, Gen Con 2007, Hero Games, Interview, Jason Walters, You Brought This on Yourself
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Show025: Interview with Ron Edwards and Vincent Baker
I’m going to do notes and links for this one tomorrow, but I wanted to get this out so I could listen to it at work tonight.
Tags: Dogs in the Vineyard, Forum moderation, Gen Con, Gen Con 2007, Interview, Kill Puppies for Satan, Ron Edwards, Sorceror, Spione, Vincent Baker
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