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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 99: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4

Once more into the breach, adventure fans! Episode 99 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast presents “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4,” played on August 14, 2010! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. This episode features the following segments:

  • Weighing Anchor: Chris Tulach of the RPGA calls for your initiative roll.
  • The Staging Area: I briefly summarize the campaign backstory (referring listeners to the “Story Thus Far” recap episode for a more detailed history of the campaign), giving a more extensive summary of “Well Met in Markathesh” and parts 1–3 of “The Valley of the Shadow of Death.”
  • The Weather Report: The guardians of the Shadowgate attempt to repel the PCs … violently.
  • The Prop Shop: I describe the miniatures that I used to portray the Shadowgate’s guardians (see below for pictures). These minis are my Noble Knight picks of the episode.
  • Sea Shanties: This episode features the following theme and background music, used by permission of the copyright holders:

Apparently I haven’t downloaded the photos of the Shadowgate guardians from my digital camera yet. When I get a chance, I’ll put them right here.

I hope that you enjoy(ed) listening to “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4,” and that you’ll join us when the adventure concludes in “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 5″! I plan to publish part 5 after the weekend, in order to give the players a chance to record any shout-outs they wish to put into episode 100!

I forgot to mention this in the audio, but if you shop at DriveThruRPG between now and September 10 (my brother’s birthday), enter the coupon code DTRPGAugust2010BlogPCast to receive a 20% discount on all products from the following publishers:

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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 100: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 5

I fell a couple of days behind schedule, adventure fans, but here for your listening pleasure is the monumental, historic 100th episode of the Icosahedrophilia podcast, presenting “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 5,” played on August 14, 2010! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. This episode features the following segments:

  • Weighing Anchor: I call for your initiative roll myself on the occasion of this 100th episode.
  • The Staging Area: I briefly summarize the campaign backstory (referring listeners to the “Story Thus Far” recap episode for a more detailed history of the campaign), giving a more extensive summary of “Well Met in Markathesh” and parts 1–4 of “The Valley of the Shadow of Death.”
  • The Weather Report: The explorers emerge victorious from their clash with the Shadowgate guardians.
  • The Prop Shop: I briefly report on my use of DM Toolkit, an iPad/iPhone app by Brad Talton for Level 99 Games, to run this adventure. Brad has also graciously provided me with three coupons for free copies of DM Toolkit, which I will pass on to the first three listeners who request them. For those of you who prefer lower-tech solutions, my Noble Knight pick of the episode is the GameMastery Combat Pad Initiative Tracker by Paizo.
  • Sea Shanties: This episode features the following theme and background music, used by permission of the copyright holders:

I hope that you enjoy(ed) listening to “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 5,” and that you’ll join us when the campaign continues in “The Nameless City, Part 1″!

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Tome Ep 147: Dark Sun

Dark Sun is out for 4th edition and as Matt James puts it, “this is not your momma’s D&D”. Dark Sun is a post-apocalyptic D&D brought to you in two WotC game books, the Campaign Setting and the Creature Catalog. I brought in Matt “Mike” James and Samuel Dillon to help review the books.

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Gamer’s Haven Episode 72 – Gen Con Autopsy

Welcome back to another episode of the Gamer’s Haven Podcast.  In this episode, Ethan and special guest Tracy Barnett (Rolling20s on the forums), who was at Gen Con promoting the Troll in the Corner blog, talk with Jeremy and Nathan about their escapades at Gen Con.  In the Three Parter, Ethan gives us a Gamer Story from his first ever Gen Con, Jeremy Reviews the Hellfrost Bestiary for Savage Worlds from Triple Ace Games and pubished by those fine folks at Cubcile 7, and Nathan talks Zombie Dice from Steve Jackson Games.

Enjoy our Gen Con 2010 Gallery as well!

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Running Time on this Episode is 81 minutes.

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Icosahedrophilia Podcast 99: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4

Once more into the breach, adventure fans! Episode 99 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast presents “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4,” played on August 14, 2010! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. This episode features the following segments:

  • Weighing Anchor: Chris Tulach of the RPGA calls for your initiative roll.
  • The Staging Area: I briefly summarize the campaign backstory (referring listeners to the “Story Thus Far” recap episode for a more detailed history of the campaign), giving a more extensive summary of “Well Met in Markathesh” and parts 1–3 of “The Valley of the Shadow of Death.”
  • The Weather Report: The guardians of the Shadowgate attempt to repel the PCs … violently.
  • The Prop Shop: I describe the miniatures that I used to portray the Shadowgate’s guardians (see below for pictures). These minis are my Noble Knight picks of the episode.
  • Sea Shanties: This episode features the following theme and background music, used by permission of the copyright holders:

Apparently I haven’t downloaded the photos of the Shadowgate guardians from my digital camera yet. When I get a chance, I’ll put them right here.

I hope that you enjoy(ed) listening to “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4,” and that you’ll join us when the adventure concludes in “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 5″! I plan to publish part 5 after the weekend, in order to give the players a chance to record any shout-outs they wish to put into episode 100!

I forgot to mention this in the audio, but if you shop at DriveThruRPG between now and September 10 (my brother’s birthday), enter the coupon code DTRPGAugust2010BlogPCast to receive a 20% discount on all products from the following publishers:

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What’s in the (fortune) cards?

Having spent far too much time today reading and reacting to other people’s opinions about the forthcoming fortune cards for D&D from Wizards of the Coast—including opinions from people who don’t play D&D 4e and just see another opportunity to bash WotC—I hereby embark on writing a blog post on the topic. I really should spend my time in better ways, such as getting episode 99 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast out the door. However, I feel a need to vent a little, and to speculate wildly about why some D&D aficionados have such a strong negative reaction to them.

For those of you who don’t already know, the WotC contingent announced at GenCon that WotC would publish, in the first quarter of 2011, a new product called fortune cards. Fortune cards will be sold in booster packs like the Gamma World mutation cards; each card will allow a player to influence the in-game action in some way. As far as I know, WotC has not publicly previewed any of the actual cards. However, imagine that card effects would be buffs, debuffs, and little effects like, “An enemy stumbles over loose rubble; slide the target one square.” Fortune cards add randomness, a kind of “fog of war,” to D&D encounters (with a lower-case e). In a typical use case (from early in the product’s life cycle), each player would bring a sealed booster pack of fortune cards to a D&D session. During that session, the player could use the cards in that pack to affect the action at the table.

Some of the D&D players—and non-4e-players who love to opine about 4e—who post on ENWorld and the Wizards Community forums have gone ballistic, or perhaps apoplectic.

Calm down, people.

As Matt James (I think) and others have pointed out in their tweets today, if Gary Gygax had put fortune card effects on a random table in the AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide, such tables would be part of the treasured shared nostalgia informing the gaming experience for those of us who cut our gaming teeth on white, blue, or red-then-blue boxed sets in the 1970s and early 1980s. Let the manufacturers of Magic: The Gathering print them on cards and randomize them dicelessly, and it’s like the Abyssal Plague has already reached pandemic levels. I shall now attempt to diagnose this hysteria, relying solely on my own intuitions and guesses about gamer psychology.

Folk who already love to hate 4e love to hate every innovation that relates to 4e, so I’m not really going to address that segment of fandom. Those players—and may their gaming experience of choice give them many hours of great fun—have already removed themselves from the 4e target market, and most of them aren’t coming back … unless, perhaps, the more 3e-like class builds in Heroes of the Fallen Lands (etc.) draw some of them in.

Among folk who actively play 4e, I can imagine that DMs might object to the loss of control that fortune cards represent. Fortune cards put part of the story in the players’ hands. “What do you mean one of the monsters hears a sound behind it, gets distracted, and takes a –2 penalty to its next attack roll? I’m the DM! I’ll say what sounds are in the area and how they affect my precious monsters!” (If you read that previous sentence aloud, try to make your voice sound like that of Napoleon the bloodhound from The Aristocats.) The obvious answer to such DMs is, “If you don’t want fortune cards at your table, don’t allow them at your table.”

I’m afraid it’s not quite that simple, however. The fact that fortune cards will be an official D&D product published by Wizards of the Coast—an official product with actual mechanical consequences, unlike D&D MIniatures or Dungeon Tiles—may lead some DMs to fear a sense of “player entitlement.” I’m privileged to play with a group that exhibits a high level of DM empowerment; even when I adjudicate the rules incorrectly, my group usually goes along with it at least until the next potty break, instead of bogging the game down in rules lookups. And the players in my campaign are great about taking the “it’s your world” attitude with regard to what’s in the world and what’s not. One of the players, Steve, runs a warforged barbarian, but if I had said, “No, there are no warforged in my campaign world,” he probably just would have said “Bummer” and run a dragonborn or half-orc barbarian instead. However, I can imagine players who use WotC’s new-with-4e “everything is core” sensibility as a lever to try to force a DM to accept something the DM doesn’t want in his or her world. “You have to let me play a minotaur! It’s a standard race right here in Player’s Handbook 3!” Anxiety about feelings of player entitlement might be one reason that some 4e DMs who don’t want to use fortune cards don’t find “if you don’t want them, don’t use them” to be an unsatisfactory answer.

By the way, the kind of extreme control over the world represented by the attitude described above seems to me to run counter to some of the best DMing advice that I’m hearing these days on my favorite 4e-centric podcasts and blogs. Of course, there’s probably a selection bias operating here, but so many of the sources to which I look for DMing tips recommend giving players more, not less, control over the campaign world, specifically as a way to get the players more invested in the world and more invested in role-playing. Some of my players seemed a little confused in a recent session when they wanted to know whether the town they were visiting had a certain kind of establishment. My response was “Should there be, in a town this size?” After a few moments of silence and a tentative, “Uh, I think so,” I responded, “Okay. There is!” (These are not exact quotations, of course, just the gist of more or less how I kind of remember the conversation. You can hear the exact exchange on the podcast.) If fortune cards give players a little bit of control over the terrain, the weather, or even the monsters’ actions, I actually see that as a good thing.

A different kind of sense of player entitlement might explain why some 4e players would object to fortune cards. You might think that players would enthusiastically embrace more control over the story world. Sure, but players also embrace control over their money, and no player wants to be told that he or she must spend $3.95 per session on “accessory X” (unless “accessory X” is pizza). Some players may fear that their DMs will require sealed packs of fortune cards, thus imposing a kind of “entry fee” on even home games of D&D. Again, the only reasonable entry fee for a home game of D&D is bag of the DM’s favorite snack food.

Most of you who read the previous paragraph will already have thought of the obvious solution: the DM should allow, but not require, fortune cards. Despite the common-sense appeal of this proposal, it introduces another reason that enthusiastic 4e players might reasonably object to power cards: power balance among PCs. If Joe can afford $3.95 per week or fortnight or month or however often his group plays, but Jim can only afford $3.95 every other session, and Jack really doesn’t want to lay out the $3.95 at all, we have reached a point where you can buy, with real-world money, a mechanical advantage in-game … and many players will find that most distasteful.

Personally, I like the idea of fortune cards, but I would have preferred a different implementation. As the DM for my group, I would gladly purchase a deck of fortune cards to deal out to players at appropriate times. I’m less excited about the random booster scheme, but still very interested in finding a way to use fortune cards at my table in a way that bypasses the potential player frustrations described above.

As always, the comment thread is open for your thoughts.

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#40 The Power Source – Demons Don’t Make Sense!

#40 The Power Source – Demons Don’t Make Sense! – Join Jared Glenn, Jared Baker (aka Ted), Tim Franzke, and Andrew Weyandt as they discuss Allurian Game Day, the Demonomicon, and Dead Gods!

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Gamer’s Haven/Troll in the Corner Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 11

Tracy from the Troll in the Corner, a fine and upstanding gaming blog, was on hand at Gen Con to team up, Wonder-Twin-Style, to cover more ofGen Con 2010!  In this episode, Tracy takes to the demo and play tables with a demo of Kill Ball from Travesty Games and a short delve into Pathfinder.

Running time on this episode is 44 minutes.

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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 98: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 3

Episode 98 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast is here, adventure fans, to present you with “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 3,” played and recorded on August 14, 2010! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. This episode features the following segments:

  • Weighing Anchor: Jeff Greiner, host of the Tome Show, calls for your initiative roll.
  • The Staging Area: I briefly summarize the campaign backstory (referring listeners to the “Story Thus Far” recap episode for a more detailed history of the campaign), giving a more extensive summary of “Well Met in Markathesh” and parts 1–2 of “The Valley of the Shadow of Death.”
  • The Weather Report: The adventurers defeat Gnash and his crew, then turn their attention to the Shadowgate—ultimately summoning and provoking its undead guardians.
  • The Prop Shop: I describe the prop that I used to allow the players to interact physically with the runic cubes, and announce the winner of the runic cubes contest. (Nathaniel, if you’re reading this, please contact me with your postal address so I can send your the prize!) Since solving the puzzle required the players to use the power of their minds, I make Psionic Power by Wizards of the Coast my Noble Knight pick of the episode.
  • Sea Shanties: This episode features the following theme and background music, used by permission of the copyright holders:
    • “Racing the Wind” and “Gallows Jig” from the album Phantoms of the High Seas by Nox Arcana, ©2006 Monolith Graphics
    • Desert Battle” by Erika Lieberman, ©2009 Sonic Legends
    • “Spirit of the Rainbow Serpent” by Terry Oldfield, from the album Australia: Twilight of the Dreamtime, ©1994 by New World Music

Here are the PCs’ guess as to the Shadowgate runic cube sequence, along with the “key”:

The PCs’ guess The correct sequence

I hope that you enjoy(ed) listening to “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 3,” and that you’ll join us when the adventure continues in “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 4″!

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August 23rd, 2010 | Category: Icosahedrophilia | Leave a comment

Gamer’s Haven/Troll in the Corner Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 10

Tracy from the Troll in the Corner, a fine and upstanding gaming blog, was on hand at Gen Con to team up, Wonder-Twin-Style, to cover more ofGen Con 2010!  In this episode, the Gamer’s Haven and Troll in the Corner are proud to present an audio recording of the ENnies Award Ceremony!

Running time on this episode is 121 minutes.

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August 22nd, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Leave a comment

Tome Ep 146: GenCon Interviews

Interviews with Mike Mearls, Rodney Thompson, and Rich Baker all from Wizards of the Coast about D&D Essentials, Gamma World, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, and oh so much more. Special thanks to Quinn Murphy, Mike Shea, and Fist Full of Comics and Games for being my helpers on this episode!

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August 22nd, 2010 | Category: The Tome Show | Leave a comment

Gamer’s Haven/Troll in the Corner Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 9

Tracy from the Troll in the Corner, a fine and upstanding gaming blog, was on hand at Gen Con to team up, Wonder-Twin-Style, to cover more ofGen Con 2010!  In this episode, Tracy has a candid talk with none other than Eberron creator, Keith Baker.

Running time on this episode is 45 minutes.

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August 21st, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Leave a comment

Gamer’s Haven/Troll in the Corner Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 8

Tracy from the Troll in the Corner, a fine and upstanding gaming blog, was on hand at Gen Con to team up, Wonder-Twin-Style, to cover more of Gen Con 2010!  In this episode, Tracy (and occasionally Ethan) talks with:

Running time on this episode is 53 minutes.

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August 20th, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Comments are closed

Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 97: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 2

Let the good times—and dice—roll, adventure fans! Episode 97 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast presents “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 2,” played and recorded on August 14, 2010! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. This episode features the following segments:

As best I can recall, here are the goblins and hobgoblins that I used to stage the fight:

And here are front and rear photos of Gnash and Kuurog:

I hope that you enjoy(ed) listening to “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 2,” and that you’ll join us when the adventure continues in “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 3″!

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Gamer’s Haven Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 7

Wrapping up our coverage of Gen Con 2010, Ethan managed to sit in at the Hamlet’s Hit Points Seminar hosted by Robin Laws, Jeff Tidball, and Will Hindmarch where they talked about the genesis of the book, Hamlet’s Hit Points.

About the Seminar

What do Dr. No, Casablanca, and Shakespeare have to teach us about making the stories in our RPGs awesome? Roleplaying design authority and virtuoso Robin D. Laws (Gumshoe, Feng Shui) has figured it out and presents his new approach for analyzing stories with an eye toward improving your game. Figure out what went right and what went wrong at last week’s session, and learn how to make next week’s game unforgettable. Bring your questions!

About Hamlet’s Hit Points

Hamlet’s Hit Points presents a toolkit that helps make storytelling in any RPG easier and more fun by classifying story beats and letting you track their ups and downs from hope to fear and back.

Armed with these tools, you’ll be equipped to lay compelling track for an emotional roller-coaster that will keep everyone at your game table involved, excited, riveted.

In these pages, you’ll find definitions of nine critical story beats. You’ll read about the relationships between those beats. You’ll also find complete analyses of three stories you know already—Hamlet, Casablanca, and Dr. No—to show you how the system works.

Written with roleplayers in mind, Hamlet’s Hit Points is an indispensable tool for understanding stories, in games and everywhere else.

About Robin Laws

Writer and game designer Robin D. Laws is the author of six novels, including Pierced Heart, The Rough and the Smooth, Honour of the Grave and Freedom Phalanx. His best known roleplaying game designs areFeng Shui, The Dying EarthHeroquest and the various GUMSHOE games, including The Esoterrorists and Mutant City Blues. He was co-designer of the Shadowfist collectible card game and a contributor to theKing of Dragon Pass computer game. Not to mention a shelf-groaning oodle of other game products. His potato salad is even better than your mother’s. Just ask anyone who’s tasted it.

About Will Hindmarch

Will Hindmarch is a Chicago-born freelance writer and designer with dozens of credits as an author, developer, and graphic designer. From 2004-2007 he was the developer of the flagshipWorld of Darkness Storytelling Game,Vampire: The Requiem. Prior to that he designed numerous d20 System titles for several publishers, like Fantasy Flight Games, and served as developer of the cult-favorite action-movie RPG, Feng Shui, from Atlas Games. He has worked on numerous products honored with ENnie and Origins Awards, and designed theOutie Award-winning and fan-favorite book, the Requiem Chronicler’s Guide.

Will is a proud contributor (in excellent company) to the book, Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, available from MIT Press. In addition to game writing, he is a contributor to The Escapist and Atlantamagazines, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He used to write small-house plays, small-press comics, and award-winning poetry. Lately he’s experimenting with short fiction and spec teleplays.

Do not talk to him about zeppelins or we will be here all day.

About Jeff Tidball

Jeff Tidball is an Origins Award–winning andDiana Jones Award–nominated writer and game designer working professionally since 1996. He took a break from full-time game design from 2000–2002 to earn an MFA in Screenwriting from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Jeff’s proudest creative accomplishments arePieces of Eight, a pirate-ship-combat game played with minted coins and no table, and Gravity, an unproduced feature screenplay available by request from Charlie Gogolak at Benderspink.

Jeff has worked in-house for Atlas Games as its Director of Creative Development, for Decipher as its The Lord of the Ring Roleplaying GameLine Developer, for Tomo Software as its Lead Game Designer, and forFantasy Flight Games as its Vice President of Product Development.

Now, Jeff works freelance for a wide variety of publishers, and is pretty sure he isn’t meant to have a boss. In the past, he’s done work forChaosiumEden StudiosGreen RoninSteve Jackson Games,White Wolf Publishing, and others. He has served as the line developer of the tabletop RPGs Ars MagicaFeng Shui, and Decipher’s The Lord of the Rings RPG. He has written for The Escapist, and until it went south, he was a regular contributor to Games Quarterly Magazine.

Total running time on this episode is 61 minutes.

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August 19th, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Comments are closed

Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 96: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 1

It’s an exciting day, adventure fans! This hasn’t happened since episode 1—in episode 95 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast, you’ll hear actual play published only a few days after the actual game session! Episode 95 presents part 1 of our adventure “The Valley of the Shadow of Death,” played and recorded on August 14, 2010! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. This episode features the following segments:

Here’s how the table looked when the players arrived for the session:

And here’s a photo illustrating how we show miniatures on mounts, using small bits of museum putty and 50mm miniatures bases:

I hope that you enjoy(ed) listening to “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 1,” and that you’ll join us when the adventure continues in “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 2″!

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August 19th, 2010 | Category: Icosahedrophilia | Comments are closed

Gamer’s Haven Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 6

Fantasy Flight Games holds a special seminar each year where they talk to their fans about what’s going on behind the scenes at Fantasy Flight Games.  In their Fantasy Flight Games In-Flight Report seminar that Ethan attended, they did just that – talked to the fans of their product lines and answered questions concerning upcoming releases.

Total running time on this episode is 95 minutes.

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August 18th, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Comments are closed

Tome GenCon Special – Spin a Yarn

Ed Greenwood spends two hours asking the audience for suggestions which he promises to spin into a Forgotten Realms story to be published later. Watch out, Ed is a dirty man…and he encourages a foul minded audience. Enjoy!

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August 18th, 2010 | Category: The Tome Show | Comments are closed

Gamer’s Haven Special Edition – Gen Con 2010 Coverage Part 4

Ethan’s lovely assistant (and girlfriend) Celine attended the Copyright & Fair Use with Eric J. Mersmann & Don Bingle at Gen Con 2010.

About the Seminar

When can you quote your favorite poem or song? When can you write an “authorized” sequel? What is the status of fan fiction? Do you have rights in ‘shared world’ fiction? How can you protect your own work? Is it safe to send your novel to a publisher? What are the limits of fair use? What do you own? We’ll cover what every author should know with respect to copyright in literary works. A must for serious writers.

You can visit this website for more information.

Running time on this episode is 67 minutes.

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August 17th, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Comments are closed

Gamer’s Haven Special Edition – An Interview with Ben Gerber from Troll in the Corner and Creator of The World of Aruneus

Ethan had the chance to sit down and speak with Ben Gerber, the mastermind behind the Troll in the Corner blog, and the now forthcoming Aruneus Campaign Setting for the Pathfinder Roleplaying System.  They talk a bit about the background behind Aruneus, what’s coming up with Troll in the Corner, and a bit about joining forces.

Ben was also gracious enough to give us a new, never-before seen sneak peak at the World of Aruneus.  In his own words, “Archers.  Gotta love ‘em.”

Be sure to check out Troll in the Corner, who is now a co-member over in our forums by-the-way, and take a bit of a stroll over to the Aruneus section of RPGNow.  After you’ve digested all that, and if you’re feeling at least a bit generous, go ahead and throw some support their way via their Kickstarter Aruneus Project.

Total running time on this episode is 35 minutes.

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August 17th, 2010 | Category: Gamer's Haven | Comments are closed

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