Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera Podcast! This week we follow up on our serial character analysis by presenting the narrative story based on the Dungeons and Dragons character we created. We’ll also present a character narrative from another of Cody’s players, which leads into a discussion of how role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons can be a great way to express creativity. We expand on the use of outside limits and rules to force innovation in our writing. We also discuss how Dungeons and Dragons gives writers an avenue to share their work with the world, and make some money, through initiatives like Wizard’s of the Coast’s DM’s Guild.

Backyard Space Opera Podcast is all about low budget science fiction, micro budget filmmaking, and independent science fiction and fantasy media creation. We live in a golden age where technology allows almost anyone to make and distribute high quality science fiction movies right in their own backyards. We’ll be discussing the trials and tribulations of micro budget filmmaking and how we can use classic techniques like stop motion animation and practical special effects in conjunction with the newest computer programs to get the best of both worlds. We’ll review other filmmakers low budget science fiction efforts and take lessons to apply to our own genre filmmaking. We’ll discuss all aspects of production and distribution like screenwriting, costume creation, special effects, props and even marketing. We’ll also be presenting audio narrations of stories from up and coming independent science fiction writers.