Episode 260 – recovering a game
by Dan Repperger
* (0:30) Dan got his copy of Impotent Nerd Rage by Mikey Mason.
* (1:40) The Power 16 III is now up and running! You can vote here. Round one will end at 6:00pm Central time on March 20th.
* (3:54) We’re proud to announce the release of the Narratavius app — written by Michael Ham and horribly mispronounced by Dan — featuring a Skies of Glass story by Chris.
* (7:02) Documentaries, comedies, and other entertainment that focuses on RPGs. The distinction between those that look at the hobby versus using RPG intellectual properties. What effect (if any) they have on non-gamers. What we’d like to see from such efforts.
* (30:39) Recovering a game after a long hiatus. The importance of desire, energy, and initiative. Getting people back into the flow. Why the players likely need to contribute more than the GM.
Hosts: Chad, Chris, Dan, Pat, Wayne
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A few weeks late and a dollar short but… watch Role Models. It’s a mainstream comedy that portrays LARPing. It does have many stereotypical characters but the overall portrayal is ultimately positive. Also it’s funny as hell.
I think the most even handed of media portrayals comes from Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. It used 4th Edition, and was fairly innocuously dropped into the episode.
We’ve come a long way from Mazes and Monsters but there’s still a lot of media bias that I strongly believe is shaping perception.
DR