I'm not taking any applicants just yet, because I want to see how the LARP round table goes. But presuming it works out OK -- and is well received by the community -- we'll be following this up with listener round tables on indie games and non-US gaming culture.

There were several people that applied for the LARP round table that I'm really hoping will come back for one of the other subjects.

If you are looking for people for a roundtable on gamers that are in no way, shape, or form extraordinarily interesting let me know!

Actually, I fit that perfectly as well, you're pretty much done looking for people for that round table

The Theatre/Roleplaying episode you did with Mikey should have been a round table, I would have beg/borrowed/stolen to get in on that conversation.

*shrug*

my only talent is being able to make fun of Chris for being old so I doubt that qualifies.

I'd be in on a round table episode of Writers and how skills learned writing fiction can contribute to role playing and, what I've found to be more true, the way role playing can influence your writing.

This. I've known a lot of people, including myself, who either got started writing because of RPing, or got started RPing because of writing. I'd even be down for contributing to said round-table if you saw fit to do it.

For me, I've found that the as a DM learning to set up situations and have no control over what the PCs do helps teach you as a writer to take your hands off and let the characters motivations dictate what happens. As a PC, I've found that challenging yourself to play IC teaches you to write that way as well.

Agreed. I'd also go so far as to say playing a variety of PCs, variety as in different backgrounds, world settings, personalities, etc. forces me to view a problem/event from not just my perspective, but from the PC in question's perspective, making the world and the plot more than just a series of check boxes. In so doing, I can write more effectively and avoid a 'group think' problem of all these different characters just magically agreeing with each other because that's what advances the plot. Or worse, they don't agree and the plot ends because no one's willing to work together under any circumstances; now there's just a different plot, but the story is still compelling and there's still creative process there.

The game I'm running at fear the con is loosly based on a fiction that I had written. Approaching it from a game perspective has helped me flesh out the motivations and actions of my characters quite a bit. It has really helped me to grow the setting of my fiction.