Geeky Voices Carry: Recent Episodes
Christopher Helton
Geeky Voices Carry is a podcast featuring Christopher Helton, Stacy Dellorfano, David Rollins and Josh Thompson talking on a variety of geeky topics. Recorded live on a bi-weekly schedule, the podcast is made via G+ Hangouts and then recorded to MP3.
The Rifts episode of Geeky Voices Carry. In this episode we talk about Palladium Games, the Rifts RPG and our upcoming Rift campaign. We are all excited to be starting our campaign in another week. While David has played Rifts before, back in the 90s, and I've run other Palladium Games, Josh and Stacy have never played the game, or encountered the love (and hate!) for the system that is out there. True, we have some issues with the book's presentation but the system itself has us excited to play.
The group creates another Wandering Topics Table and the discussion is randomly determined. Come listen to hear what topics they tackle, and how they weasel their ways out of answering some of them!
The Crowdfunding episode! Among other topics we talk about the crowdfunding craze in tabletop gaming, the good, the bad and the ugly of it. From late to missing projects, along with the cool stuff that has come about because of this as well.
In this episode we introduce the Wandering Topic Table, a table of six topics of discussion that we used to randomly determine what we would talk about. The theme of the table was "Origins," so we talked about the first genre movies that we had seen, how to introduce a new person to gaming and advice for starting GMs...among other things.
This is our "BIG MEDIA" episode, where we talk about "geeky" properties like comics and genre books being adapted to television and movies. We talk about adaptations that we really liked, and things that we didn't like so much. We also talked about Orson Scott Card and the Ender's Game movie, and how none of us had a problem with boycotting it over Card's heinous opinions.
In the Something Cool segment we talked about the upcoming ConTessa Indie-Go Go campaign, the Tomorrow People TV show and the Corporia Kickstarter.
There are spoilers, foul language and opinions contained herein, so listener be warned.
In the second episode of our podcast we talk about open versus closed development of tabletop RPGs, design flaws in 90s simulationist RPGs, as well as a few other random things. Near the end David and I natter about the new Tomorrow People show for a bit.
Our first ever podcast! Join Christopher Helton, Stacy Dellorfano, David Rollins and Josh Thompson as we discuss a number of geeky topics in our bi-weekly podcast. In this episode we talk about tabletop role-playing, game design and each of us talks about Something Cool that we saw, heard or read in the last couple of weeks. It is an informal and casual discussion that we record live via G+ Hangout.
You can watch the video version of this here: youtu.be/MCtqhqdl54U
There may be spoilers and speculation about future stories on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, so if those sorts of things bother you, this might not be the podcast for you.