Peanut-Butter & Jelly, Chicken & Waffles, both ingenious combinations! So why not Guns & Wizard Hats? Well I might have a few reasons. This week, Scott and I gnaw on an interesting article by Wired's Chris Kohler regarding Ray Muzyka's and Cliff Bleszinski's RPG/Shooter portents. We touch on such topics as big-ass swords, stat tracking, and the troublesome word that is "genre." As always, you'll find the original article in the sow notes. Also, your thought are always fascinating; you should leave them in the comments section below.

Some discussion starters:

• What risks do developers running adding genre elements from RPGs into Shooters?
• Are their some genre elements that are incompatible?
• What RPG elements would you add to existing genres, if any?

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Show notes:

• Run time: 29 min 57 sec
• "BioWare's Muzyka: Line RPGs, Shooters Blurring" by Chris Kohler, via Wired
• Music provided by Brad Sucks