Brilliant Gameologists

Note:

In celebration of our second “quarter” we are changing the format very slightly of the shows. Can you spot the difference?

Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

• Walking on Air
• This is Halloween
  • In Japanese (stumbled on this one)
  • In Russian (we think this is the creepiest. Some of the voices are really scary, especially the creature under the stairs)

Our Fears

• Whale captured on video –Meg admits to her paranoia of whales. This video she had to watch through her fingers.
• Oarfish- They just shouldn’t be. Freaky.
• Parasites- Josh. He’s infected.
• Zombies- Zeke. He’s prepared, are you?

1. Cthulhonic

• Cthulhu Mythos
• Chaosium’s Call of Cthulu
• Meg’s fear of sea creatures comes in here.

2. The Undead

• Halloween (a poster on our forum)’s excellent post about “contrasting for horror”.
• 28 Days Later
• Cell by Stephen King
• Serenity
• Terminator

3. The Siren

• The Mythological Siren
• Dracula
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Firm
• Star Wars

4. Sidhe

• The Celtic Sidhe
• The Borg
• The cenobites
• The Predator
• The Gripping Hand
• Ghosts

5. Nature

• Jaws
• Razorback
• The Perfect Storm
• Killer Bees
• Cujo
• The Happening totally sucked
• Those freaky whales!

6. Technological

• The Ring
• Security Systems gone awry
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Midnight Meat Train

7. Madness

• The Creepy Events Thread @ WOTC
• The Creepy Events Thread @ BG
• Possessions
• Sixth Sense
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Werewolves

8. Odd

• Parallel Worlds
  • Sound of Thunder
  • Sliders
  • Knee Penises
• Stepford Wives
• The Matrix
• The Lottery
• Lost Boys

9. Primal Horror

• Jersey Devil
• Windigo
• Kelpie
• Spring-heeled Jack
• The Black Dog

Bonus!

• We each list our scariest creatures that weren’t mentioned.

Reminders-

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Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

• YouTube Video- 30 minutes of 90’s Cartoons

Icebreaker:

• Favorite TV show opening songs and scenes.

Douchebag of the Week:

• The Braggart

Main Topic:

Scope and Boundaries

• How wide or deep should you go?
• Meg’s analogy: Establishing Shots from movies/ TV
• Kinds of groups you can be in an RPG
• Published Campaign worlds
• Media Worlds (Star Wars and Superheroes)
• Historical Settings
• The problem with Forgotten Realms
• What to do with this huge world setting

Promos:

Gamers in the Press: Blogs, Podcasts, and Print at GenCon

http://www.pulpgamer.com/gencon/

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The subtitle of this episode should be “Trope on a Rope”. We go into tropes of grit, exampes of grit and how to insert and inflict grit into your game design.

The follow up title should be “The Episode That Was Totally Cursed”. Several crashes meant a lot of this episode was lost several times. The re-records will do, but man did we have some funny shit the first time around. It also crashed during editing. At least it’s appropriate that the game on grit was tough, brought us to our wit’s end, and was truly just about survival.

The audio on this one is different than others too– we recorded in mono instead of stereo as an experiment requested from our Audio Engineer. I also “levelated” it afterwards, so please provide feedback!

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This time the gameologists look at some settings that do not have strong systems and talk about how to play in them.

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Love a particular setting? Listen as the Gameologists will help you decide which system is best suited to fit that setting.

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