Opening Turn: Recent Episodes
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It is interesting to have an experience so transformative as to give one the impression of seeing the future within the present. Usually, this involves seeing a part of the world in some profoundly different way than one is accustomed to seeing it. In the age of rapid incremental technological progress, oftentimes we forget whatContinue reading
Welcome to Character Banter, the second major podcast series from Opening Turn! For this series, I am joined by Adrian, Aria, and Karl as we discuss current topics in all forms of gaming as well as historical topics from all areas of our experience! Episode 1: Beginnings This is, right now, largely experimental and representsContinue reading
Much like anxiety, depression as a mental health consideration has entered the public consciousness to a greater degree in the past couple of decades than it has in the more distant past. Also, similarly to anxiety, it is obvious that depression has existed in humans for much longer than we have had the words toContinue reading
Hey everyone! Here is Episode 5 of the Opening Turn Podcast! This is the final in a five-part series about the creation, writing, planning, and running of live action roleplaying events. In this episode, Riley Seaman and I bring together all the concepts we have been exploring in our previous installments and give a rundownContinue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’ve just started a new job, and it seems like all your training and schooling that you may have gone through before didn’t quite prepare you for the specific expectations that you are faced with in this new environment. Perhaps you’ve been working somewhere for awhile andContinue reading
Hey everyone! Here is the (slightly late) episode 4 of the Opening Turn podcast! This is the fourth in a five (or more!) episode series over live-action roleplaying. Here, Riley Seaman and I talk about various game mechanics and how they support the overall feel of the game and the environment that the players areContinue reading
Anxiety has been something that I have had to deal with throughout my life. It was there even before I knew what anxiety was, or that it wasn’t something that everyone felt, or even what the full extent of my reactions to it could even be. I’ve written about it before, but I wanted toContinue reading
Hey everyone! Episode 3 of the Opening Turn Podcast is contained within! This episode is part three of the five-part series over live action roleplaying. In this episode, Riley Seaman and I talk about building an accepting community, managing a project, and working with the people being brought on to a project to help withContinue reading
Hey everyone! Time for Opening Turn Podcast Episode 2: Cow Tools! This is also the second episode in a series that my PAX South co-panelist, Riley Seaman, and I recorded regarding the ins and outs of getting started in Live Action Roleplaying. This episode focuses a bit more on generalized roleplaying and plotwriting concepts suchContinue reading
It can be said that the stories that we experience are one of the primary things that allow us to grow as humans, because they let us experience things that are outside of our direct base of knowledge. This is the reason I think that video games can be a very important narrative tool. WhenContinue reading