Episode 25 - Western Evolution

Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent
Guest: Scott Roche

Our latest world is a mashup of the Western, Sci-Fi and Horror genres with a slight touch of Steampunk thrown in for flavor. Not long before the turn of the 20th century, a group of scientists led by Nikola Tesla are caught in a war. To one side are the carriers of a lycanthropic virus - some want a cure, but others want only to take advantage of their newfound transformations. To the other are hordes of dead soldiers reanimated by the US government. Some say it's only a matter of time before the whole thing erupts into a second Civil War.

Want to find Scott online? Here ya go:

Blog - http://www.scottroche.com/blog/
Fiction - http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Roche/e/B004KS1U6Q
Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/scottroche
Twitter - https://twitter.com/spiritualtramp

Also mentioned in this Episode:

Leper Colony
Being Human
Frankenstein
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Nikola Tesla / Colorado Springs
Werewolf Belt
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Thomas Edison / Tesla vs Edison
Apache / Geronimo
Deadlands
Hypochondria
Hulk
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Apache Wars
Fort Apache
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Mark Twain
Boris Karloff
Mike Mignola
Topsy the Elephant
Washington Monument / Arlington National Cemetery
Battle Droids
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Ulysses S. Grant / George Armstrong Custer
Teddy Roosevelt / Rough Riders
Browncoats
Giant Mechanical Spider
Super 8
Area 51
Fargo
Difference Engine / Guglielmo Marconi
Magneto / Homo Superior / New Mutants
Nietzschean Superman / New Gods / Herculoids
Promethean: The Created
Transformers
Boomstick
Evolutionary War

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Episode 5 - The Civil Engagement

Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent

We tackle the Superhero, Steampunk and Historical Fiction genres all at once by leaping into a world in which the Civil War is being fought not only with armies, but with strange technology and stranger heroes. Find it in the wiki here.

Recommendations: Jon recommends World War Z by Max Brooks. Jim recommends Matthew Wayne Selznick's World Building series.

00:00 Tomfoolery
00:22 Mr. Rogers / HAL 9000
00:55 Introduction
01:32 Recommendations / World War Z
03:10 Matthew Wayne Selznick
04:07 Deciding Genre
04:38 DC / Marvel
05:09 The New Gods
05:16 Green Lantern / Superman / The Flash
05:24 Thor / The Incredible Hulk / The Silver Surfer / X-Men
06:10 Deciding Superhero Power Level & Geographic Scale
07:15 Gambit (Remy LeBeau) / Rogue
07:33 The Civil War
08:34 Hat with Gears
09:27 Confederate Ironclads / Submarines
10:34 Washington, D.C. / Richmond, VA
11:20 Creating Characters
12:44 Kentucky Fried Chicken / Colonel Sanders
13:27 Snow Crash
13:45 Captain America / Golden Age of Comics
14:13 Professor X
15:23 Dime Novel
15:46 Battle Hymn of the Republic
17:16 Batman
17:42 D&D / Cavalier / The Cavalier
18:25 Colt Dragoon
18:55 Sergeant Major
20:08 Benjamin Franklin
20:19 Q / Futurama
21:28 Fu Manchu
22:20 Abraham Lincoln / Pinkerton Detective Agency
22:41 Allan Pinkerton / Secret Service
23:22 Locations
23:52 Georgetown, SC
24:09 Tuskegee Airmen
24:28 Deadlands 
31:13 S.H.I.E.L.D.
32:28 Tuskegee, AL
34:09 Percy Jackson / Ares
34:54 Poseidon
35:16 Leonidas / Menelaus
35:46 Odysseus
36:08 Ulysses S. Grant
36:20 Captain Nemo
38:44 Geomancy
39:58 Acadians
42:11 Joan of Arc
43:30 Catching Up on Names
45:05 Gone With the Wind / Scarlett O'Hara / Vivien Leigh
46:15 Geomancers
46:44 Butte
47:32 Ursa Major
49:18 Highlander
50:18 Conclusion & Outro

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