Epoch Iteration 17 - I Bought a Monster

RECORDED LIVE AT CONCAROLINAS 2015!

Kent and I met up at ConCarolinas to do a live podcast this year, marveled at the fact that the room was nearly empty and practically gave up hope. Then, as we were getting ready to pack it all in, we were bolstered by the arrival of a single audient (quite possibly by accident), so we decided to do an Epoch Iteration with her.

So here's that. Enjoy!

LINKS

ConCarolinas

Extra-Life, Team Intelsat

Sabrina's DeviantArt Site

Tenebrous

CypherCaster Magazine, Issue 001

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Epoch Iteration 16 - Running and Screaming and Giant Frogs

For the first time, we have a guest on an Epoch Iteration! Author Eden Royce returns to talk about her upcoming novella release, Containment 2: Unleashed, a good portion of which takes place in our own Hell Noir setting. She also reads an excerpt from the book! In addition, we talk a bit about RPGs (as usual) and recent losses in the worlds of sci-fi and fantasy entertainment.

LINKS

Eden Royce

- Web Site

- Blog

- Facebook Author Page

- Twitter

Containment Part 1 on Amazon Kindle

Charles White of Fabled Environments (whom you may remember from our Epilareus episode) is running a new Kickstarter: Wild West Floor Plans. Check it out!

In this Iteration, Jim also mentions he will be appearing as a guest at ConCarolinas 2015!

RECOMMENDATIONS

Jon recommends The Martian by Andy Weir.

Jim recommends The Film Reverie Podcast.

Also Mentioned in this Iteration:

Center Lovell Inn Contest
The Vampire Chronicles
Gator People
D&D / FATE
Giant Frog/Toad
Deadlands / The Flood / Deadlands Noir
Dawn of Worlds
"Keep watching the skies!"
Terry Pratchett
Leonard Nimoy
Discworld / Star Trek
xkcd Tribute
MACE
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
"Excellent"
Water on Ganymede
Stephen Hawking
Lizard People
Ewan McGregor / RAF / Colin McGregor
Majel Barrett

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Epoch Iteration 15 - Collating Data Between Our Various Selves

Nope, we're still not dead. Listen in as we talk about recent events, the current state of affairs, upcoming releases and how to get rich using time travel. We also read listener feedback!

Believe it or not, ACTUAL EPISODES ARE COMING SOON!

LINKS:

Think Baby Names

Jim's interview with Storium's Stephen Hood

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Kent recommends the Fairy Behind the Door Kickstarter project (ENDS AUGUST 2nd, 2014!). Jon recommends the Monster Hunter series by Larry Correia. Jim recommends The Big Red Couch, an RPG brainstorming podcast from New Zealand.

Also Mentioned in this Iteration:

Loitsu
24
Jennisodes
D&D Basic Rules
TableTop Day
Doctor Who / Blinovitch Limitation Effect
Reddit Worldbuilding
Storium
Suspended Animation Trials
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Dragon*Con
World of Warcraft
Good Night and Good Luck / Strength and Honor

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Epoch Iteration 14 - Kobolds & Super Heroes

A quick Iteration to talk about our guests' upcoming projects!

Image courtesy of Imgur

LINKS:

Eloy Lasanta's Kickstarter for Third Eye Games, AMP: Year One, can be found HERE.

Wolfgang Baur's projects for Kobold Press, Deep Magic and The Kobold Guide to Magic, can be found HERE and HERE.

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Epoch Iteration 13 - A Frozen Wasteland

This Iteration was recorded on Groundhog Day! We talk about the recent Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon (which seems to have repeated itself) and read listener feedback.

Image courtesy of Imgur

LINKS:

The Walking Dead comparison page can be found HERE.

Jim's story was published in Tales from the Front, available at Amazon and DrivethruRPG.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Jon recommends the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch.

Also mentioned in this Iteration:

Punxsutawney Phil
Eloy Lasanta / Third Eye Games
The Walking Dead
Polar Vortex / Sharknado
Kaiser's Gate / Savage Worlds / True20
SHIELD
Final Fantasy
Doctor Who
The Dresden Files / Hot Fuzz
The Met

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Epoch Iteration 12 - We Demand Sanitation Ninjas

We are not dead! In this Iteration we go off on many a tangent about D&D, Doctor Who and conventions in addition to reading some listener feedback.

Image Courtesy of Imgur

LINKS:

Scaldcrow Games' Worlds of Pulp (DrivethruRPG, Kickstarter)

AetherCon

The Probably Questionable Podcast

Kent's Extra-Life team, Team Intelsat

Jim's appearances on RPGRoundtable (Episode 1: Audio, YouTube) (Episode 2: Audio, YouTube)

Jim's appearance on Happy Jack's RPG Podcast (Audio, YouTube)

In the Bloodstream: an Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Horror
(Jim's story in it is titled "Lady of the Manor")

RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends the TV show Parks and Recreation. He also recommends Agent to the Stars and Redshirts, both by John Scalzi.

PROMO: Ideology of Madness - Ghosts of Reignsboro AP Podcast

Also Mentioned in this Iteration:

Wired Images
Dragon*Con
D&D 2nd, 3rd & 4th Edition / Epic Destiny
D&D Next / Against the Giants
Dresden Files RPG
MACE
Davey Beauchamp
Parsec Awards / Sylvester McCoy
The WEIRD Show
Doctor Who / The Day of the Doctor / The War Doctor
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Final Fantasy
Creative Commons
Sin City
Fig Newtons
Principia Mathematica
Bacon Cat
Wil Wheaton
Douglas Adams
Old Man's War
Thanksgivukkah

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Epoch Iteration 11 - Find a Naked Singularity

In this Iteration we talk about recent events, read listener feedback and go off on many a tangent. 

Image Source: Northern Arizona University

You can find Jim's other podcast, Transmissions From the Ninth World, HERE.
You can find Kent's video podcast at the Distorted Order site, HERE.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends the comic Fables and the book Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Jim recommends the book The Reckoning: the Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl and the game Dungeon World.

Also Mentioned in this Iteration:

Steel-Toed Shoes
Mythbusters
ENNie Awards
Monte Cook / Numenera
GenCon
Dragon*Con
Pacific Rim
Ron Perlman / Sons of Anarchy
Guillermo del Toro / Hellboy
Charlie Hunnam
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / Legolas
Matthew Wayne Selznick
WotC / Paizo
Gern Blanston / Steve Martin
Bill Willingham / Scourge of the Slave Lords / Vault of the Drow
Vertigo
Mentat
Christopher Marlowe
Ken & Robin Talk About Stuff / Kenneth Hite / Robin D. Laws
Castle Amber (X2)
FATE Core / FATE Accelerated / FATE Core Kickstarter
Naked Singularity / Andromeda

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Epoch Iteration 10 - Walk the Fire

Another quick Kickstarter-related Iteration this time. Upcoming guest David Sobkowiak talks about an ongoing Kickstarter campaign for Walk the Fire, a shared world sci-fi anthology series. Check it out HERE.

And stay tuned at the end for outtakes from Episode 19!

Mentioned in this Iteration:

David Sobkowiak
John Mierau
Twin Peaks
Texas Instruments
Brian Aldiss / Helliconia
Game of Thrones / World of A Song of Ice and Fire
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Man in the Moon
J.R.R. Tolkien / Middle Earth Languages
Goldilocks Zone
Slurpee

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Epoch Iteration 9 - Throw Yourself at the Ground and Miss

We discuss recent strange turns of events related to the podcast. We also go back and talk about some listener feedback we neglected to cover earlier. (This show was recorded in late February.)

The fateful promise Jim made in the Comments section of the FATE Core Kickstarter update can be found HERE.

Brennan Bishop's Storm Battalion Indiegogo Project is HERE.

Eden Royce's Dark Fantasy Voodoo Story "Rhythm" Appears in the February 2013 issue of the Siren's Call E-Zine - currently available for free download!

Kent's new podcast appears on the Distorted Order web site. His sponsorship page for Extra Life can be found HERE.

Volume I of Matthew Wayne Selznick's Worldbuilding for Writers, Gamers and Other Creators can currently be found HERE on Amazon.

RECOMMENDATION: Jon recommends the web comic Snow by Night.

Mentioned in this Iteration:

Dragon*Con
D&D Next Playtest
Gen Con
FATE Core
Third Eye Games / Eloy Lasanta
Eden Royce
Douglas Adams / Flying
Santa Claus: The Movie / NORAD Tracks Santa
Doctor Who
Kickstarter / Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple / Deadlands Noir
Game of Thrones 
Reddit Worldbuilding Community
Matthew Wayne Selznick

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Epoch Iteration 8 - The Internet Stares Long Into You

We ramble on about recent events, continue pondering the apocalypse and pine away after movies and kickstarters.

Mentioned in this Iteration:

Asteroid Meme
Maya / 2012 Apocalypse / Maya Calendar
Apocalypse List
Jeane Dixon
Apophis / Apophis
Clint Black
Dragon*Con
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Metaverse
Ready Player One
The Hobbit / The Hobbit
The Tolkien Professor
Sylvester McCoy
Hell Noir / Gregory Weir / Eden Royce
Hard Magic
D&D Next
Fate Core / The Dresden Files RPG
Atomic Robo
Matthew Wayne Selznick
JJ Abrams / Star Wars Sequel Trilogy / Star Trek 

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Epoch Iteration 7 - Release the Christmas Bears!

We talk about current events, make announcements, discuss feedback and develop a strange fascination with spices and animal attacks.

The Worldbuilding Subreddit Jon mentions can be found HERE.

You can find the Transmissions from the Ninth World Podcast HERE.

Andante's link for the wiki entry on Dejima is HERE.

And Scott Roche's Indiegogo campaign for his upcoming anthology, The Way of the Gun, can be found HERE.

Mentioned in this Iteration:

Catfish Attack
Trident
Dolphins Leaving Earth
D&D
Christmas Town USA
The Dresden Files / Cold Days
Reddit
Transmissions from the Ninth World
Monte Cook / Numenera
House Greyjoy / A Song of Ice and Fire
Dejima
Ellis Island
Tachyon
Matthew Wayne Selznick
Scott Roche
Indiegogo
Mur Lafferty / Jared Axelrod
A Fistful of Dollars / Seven Samurai
Way of the Gun

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Epoch Iteration 6 - Help the Walking Eye

A quick iteration discussing the fire that happened recently at the home of two of the hosts of the Walking Eye Podcast.

Here is a link to the ChipIn fund that's been set up to help them out:

http://ortiz.chipin.com/kevin-weiser-and-jen-dixon

Give to it if you can! Please help spread the word!

Mentioned in this Iteration:

The Walking Eye Podcast
RPGPodcasts.com

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Epoch Iteration 5 - Wondrous Feedback

We read listener feedback, freely toss around Avengers spoilers like they're Halloween candy, and acknowledge the wonders of video game exhaustion.

The plant growth time-lapse video discussed in the episode can be found HERE.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Jim recommends Achtung Cthulhu! - Zero Point Part 1 - Three Kings and the History of Rome podcast. Jon recommends Death Throes of the Republic, Wrath of the Khans, and The Immortal Iron Fist Vol 2: The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven.

Mentioned in this Iteration:

Skype
The Avengers
Agent Coulson
SHIELD Series
The Hunger Games
Tyler Perry
Extra Life
Pong
Space Invaders
Borderlands 2
Saints Row
SWTOR
Starcraft II
Children's Health Care of Atlanta Pediatric Hospital
MACE
Savage Worlds
Fiasco
Achtung! Cthulhu
Modiphius
Call of Cthulhu / Chaosium
Realms of Cthulhu / Reality Blurs
Trail of Cthulhu / Pelgrane Press
DrivethruRPG
King Arthur (Welsh Legend)
Roman Empire
Alexander the Great
Star Trek / Bread and Circuses
The History of Rome
Hardcore History
Genghis Khan
The Gutter Skypes
Monkeys Took My Jetpack
Young Frankenstein
"But I can't say Sylvester, George."
Abraham Lincoln (Assassination)
The Warriors
The Anabasis / Xenophon
The Immortal Iron Fist
Mortal Kombat
Galaga / "That man is playing Galaga!"
The Computer is Your Friend


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Epoch Iteration 4 - Dragon*Con Post-Mortem

We talk a little about show notes, read listener feedback and then talk for quite a while about what we did at Dragon*Con 2012!

In October, Kent will be participating in the charity Extra Life - check it out!

RECOMMENDATION: Jon recommends the web comic Clockworks.

My most surreal moment at Dragon*Con 2012.

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Epoch Iteration 3 - Not Going to GenCon

We may not have made it to GenCon, but we *will* be at Dragon*Con! We touch a bit on that, recent feedback, upcoming episodes, World of Warcraft, The Dark Knight Rises and more!

UPDATE - HERE is the worksheet I (Jim) use to track information as an episode progresses. (Sorry about the delay in getting it up here - PDFCreator conked out on me and I didn't have a chance to redo it until after Dragon*Con.)

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Epoch Iteration 2 - The Michael Rohan Memorial Fund Charity Bundle

A quick announcement about a charity bundle that upcoming guest Charles White of Fabled Environments has helped put together. It's $12.00 for nearly $300 worth of gaming PDFs and it will only last until the end of July! Links are below - check it out!

The Michael Rohan Memorial Fund Charity Bundle at DrivethruRPG.com

Fabled Environments' Info Page on the Bundle

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Epoch Iteration 1 - Recapturing Life Pieces

Here's a new thing - a show-between-the-shows! Just some announcements, listener feedback and general banter to tide folks over until the next full setting-creation episode is released.

Recommendations: Jon recommends Brave and the Crankcast. Jim recommends Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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