Crucible of Realms

A quick Iteration to talk about our guests' upcoming projects!

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Eloy Lasanta's Kickstarter for Third Eye Games, AMP: Year One, can be found HERE.

Wolfgang Baur's projects for Kobold Press, Deep Magic and The Kobold Guide to Magic, can be found HERE and HERE.

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Hosts: Jim, Jon & Eden

Guest: Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games

We create a future Earth in which some of the human population have begun to evolve into beings of light. These new types of humans have made significant gains in equality, but there are always those who refuse to accept them, and some who even seek their destruction!

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Eloy's podcast, Rolling 20s, can be found HERE. You can also visit his own site and the site of his company, Third Eye Games.

Eden Royce's author site can be found HERE.

Gatorade

Paranoia

Douglas Adams / Hooloovoo

Cocoon

Green Lantern / Emotional Spectrum Rings

Battlestar Galactica

The Speed of Light

ROYGBIV

Red Dwarf / Hard Light

Superman vs the Elite / All-Star Superman / Lex Luthor

Star Trek

Singularity

World of Warcraft

Firefly

Dr. Manhattan

Green Party

Black Panthers

Cloud City

Iron Man 

Nyan Cat

Whig Party / Bull Moose Party

Thesaurus.com

Terminator

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This Iteration was recorded on Groundhog Day! We talk about the recent Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon (which seems to have repeated itself) and read listener feedback.

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The Walking Dead comparison page can be found HERE.

Jim's story was published in Tales from the Front, available at Amazon and DrivethruRPG.

Jon recommends the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch.

Punxsutawney Phil

Eloy Lasanta / Third Eye Games

The Walking Dead

Polar Vortex / Sharknado

Kaiser's Gate / Savage Worlds / True20

SHIELD

Final Fantasy

Doctor Who

The Dresden Files / Hot Fuzz

The Met

DOWNLOAD EPOCH ITERATION 13 - A FROZEN WASTELAND

We are not dead! In this Iteration we go off on many a tangent about D&D, Doctor Who and conventions in addition to reading some listener feedback.

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Scaldcrow Games' Worlds of Pulp (DrivethruRPG, Kickstarter)

AetherCon

The Probably Questionable Podcast

Kent's Extra-Life team, Team Intelsat

Jim's appearances on RPGRoundtable (Episode 1: Audio, YouTube) (Episode 2: Audio, YouTube)

Jim's appearance on Happy Jack's RPG Podcast (Audio, YouTube)

In the Bloodstream: an Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Horror

(Jim's story in it is titled "Lady of the Manor")

RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends the TV show Parks and Recreation. He also recommends Agent to the Stars and Redshirts, both by John Scalzi.

PROMO: Ideology of Madness - Ghosts of Reignsboro AP Podcast

Wired Images

Dragon*Con

D&D 2nd, 3rd & 4th Edition / Epic Destiny

D&D Next / Against the Giants

Dresden Files RPG

MACE

Davey Beauchamp

Parsec Awards / Sylvester McCoy

The WEIRD Show

Doctor Who / The Day of the Doctor / The War Doctor

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Final Fantasy

Creative Commons

Sin City

Fig Newtons

Principia Mathematica

Bacon Cat

Wil Wheaton

Douglas Adams

Old Man's War

Thanksgivukkah

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Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent

Guest: Charles White of Fabled Environments

 

We create a fantasy city where the holy orders are involved in almost every level of society. The various factions of Epilareus are each guided by their religion, and it is up to the king to keep everything moving along and prevent the various orders from seizing too much power. All while seeing to the needs of the populace and protecting them from invasion.

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Fabled Environments' products can be found on DrivethruRPG.

Poseidon
Pantheon / The Pantheon
Sandman / The Endless
Theocracy
George RR Martin / Faceless Men
The Fates
Forgotten Realms / Forgotten Realms Deities
Lankhmar
Mongols
Constitutional Monarchy / Parliament / Primogeniture
Constantine
Artificial Island
Colossus of Rhodes / Lighthouse of Alexandria
Commune / Collective
Ganesha
Necropolis
NCIS
Thanatology
Parliament / House of Lords / House of Commons
Plebeian Council
The People's Court
Illyria
Behind the Name / 20,000 Names
Rudolph Valentino
Ophiuchus
Monsignor
Eberron / The Sovereign Host / The Dark Six
Kris

 

DOWNLOAD EPISODE 21 - EPILAREUS

In this Iteration we talk about recent events, read listener feedback and go off on many a tangent. 

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You can find Jim's other podcast, Transmissions From the Ninth World, HERE.

You can find Kent's video podcast at the Distorted Order site, HERE.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends the comic Fables and the book Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Jim recommends the book The Reckoning: the Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl and the game Dungeon World.

Steel-Toed Shoes
Mythbusters
ENNie Awards
Monte Cook / Numenera
GenCon
Dragon*Con
Pacific Rim
Ron Perlman / Sons of Anarchy
Guillermo del Toro / Hellboy
Charlie Hunnam
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / Legolas
Matthew Wayne Selznick
WotC / Paizo
Gern Blanston / Steve Martin
Bill Willingham / Scourge of the Slave Lords / Vault of the Drow
Vertigo

Mentat
Christopher Marlowe
Ken & Robin Talk About Stuff / Kenneth Hite / Robin D. Laws
Castle Amber (X2)
FATE Core / FATE Accelerated / FATE Core Kickstarter
Naked Singularity / Andromeda

DOWNLOAD EPOCH ITERATION 11 - FIND A NAKED SINGULARITY

Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent

Guest: THE Jim Harris

 

In this episode, we create a Steampunk / Victorian Fantasy mashup setting. As the British Empire rolls out its engines of industry, the indigenous populations of its colonies call upon ancient magics to drive them out! Meanwhile, the Druids watch and wait and a sinister figure playing all sides against each other watches from the shadows... 

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RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson.

Steampunk
Ornithopter
The Da Vinci Code
British Empire
Boxer Rebellion
The Royal Society
The League of S.T.E.A.M.
Ghostbusters
Druid
Oxford University
Bursar
National Geographic Society
Wicker Man
Glastonbury
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
D&D Druid
Field Marshal Kitchener
Gaia
The Green Man
Cernunnos
Celtic Pantheon
Brigid
Arithmancy
Yog-Sothoth
Cthulhu
"The only winning move is not to play."
Boudica

DOWNLOAD EPISODE 20 - SORCERER'S GAMBIT

Another quick Kickstarter-related Iteration this time. Upcoming guest David Sobkowiak talks about an ongoing Kickstarter campaign for Walk the Fire, a shared world sci-fi anthology series. Check it out HERE.

And stay tuned at the end for outtakes from Episode 19!

David Sobkowiak
John Mierau
Twin Peaks
Texas Instruments
Brian Aldiss / Helliconia
Game of Thrones / World of A Song of Ice and Fire
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Man in the Moon
J.R.R. Tolkien / Middle Earth Languages
Goldilocks Zone
Slurpee

DOWNLOAD EPOCH ITERATION 10 - WALK THE FIRE

Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent

Guest: Matthew Wayne Selznick

 

Finally, a new episode with actual world-building in it! Though in this episode, we go about it a little differently. Our guest, creator Matthew Wayne Selznick, walks us through the process of building a truly habitable planet, as detailed in his book World-Building for Writers, Gamers and Other Creators, Volume One: Star, Planet, Moon. We develop the world, and from there we brainstorm up a sentient species with a primitive culture.

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During the course of recording, we found a pretty cool site about language: Edenics.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends SimEarth.

Brave Men Run / Brave Men Run Podcast Novel
7th Son / 7th Son Podcast Series

Anyman: The John Smith EP
Tee Morris
Vulcan
Io
Torus / Hypercube
Shelob
Semaphore
Pueblo
Gila Monument
Opluridae
Spore

DOWNLOAD EPISODE 19 - PTEMOS

We discuss recent strange turns of events related to the podcast. We also go back and talk about some listener feedback we neglected to cover earlier. (This show was recorded in late February.)

The fateful promise Jim made in the Comments section of the FATE Core Kickstarter update can be found HERE.

Brennan Bishop's Storm Battalion Indiegogo Project is HERE.

Eden Royce's Dark Fantasy Voodoo Story "Rhythm" Appears in the February 2013 issue of the Siren's Call E-Zine - currently available for free download!

Kent's new podcast appears on the Distorted Order web site. His sponsorship page for Extra Life can be found HERE.

Volume I of Matthew Wayne Selznick's Worldbuilding for Writers, Gamers and Other Creators can currently be found HERE on Amazon.

RECOMMENDATION: Jon recommends the web comic Snow by Night.

Dragon*Con
D&D Next Playtest
Gen Con
FATE Core
Third Eye Games / Eloy Lasanta
Eden Royce
Douglas Adams / Flying
Santa Claus: The Movie / NORAD Tracks Santa
Doctor Who
Kickstarter / Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple / Deadlands Noir
Game of Thrones 

Reddit Worldbuilding Community
Matthew Wayne Selznick

DOWNLOAD EPOCH ITERATION 9 - THROW YOURSELF AT THE GROUND AND MISS