Geekerati Radio

Last Episode, I discussed an unpublished Superhero game that I wish had been released by Wizards of the Coast in the mid-2000s. Today, I’d like to follow that up with a bit of gaming history with a post about a truly unique Super Hero role playing game and how I came to find a copy in the "out of print" bin at a local game store.
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This episode features two Tiny d6 Role Playing Game system interviews. The first interview is with Alan Bahr of Gallant Knight Games who discusses Beach Patrol, Tiny Supers, and the overall Gallant Knight Games catalog. The second interview is with John D Payne and Gregory Israel of the Micronomicon Kickstarter Project, a collection of spells, archetypes, and Micro-Settings for the Tiny Dungeon Second Edition Role Playing Game.

Our regular review segment Something Old and Something New discusses the Beach Patrol and Tales from the Floating Vagabond Game.

New this episode is our Dungeons and Dilemmas segment, a bi-weekly discussion with Game Master extraordinaire David Nett.

Join us as we Geek out about games and fiction in this weeks episode.

I’m a huge fan of superhero roleplaying games. It is my favorite genre to play in and I’m constantly on the look out for new games in the genre. I’ve frequently stated that there was a time when I owned every superhero game on the market. That’s no longer true, but I do own a lot and a lot of them are very interesting. Tobias Radesäter’s Supercrew definitely falls into the interesting category.

This episode is a discussion of the long out of print Flash Gordon and the Warriors of Mongo role playing game. It was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited and written by FGU publisher Scott Bizar and Lin Carter and is likely the first licensed role playing game. Though the game was published in 1977, it is very different from D&D and other role playing games at the time.

And an interesting D&D connection is that if you are familiar with Appendix N, Lin Carter edited about half the stories featured there and it’s interesting to see what he thought a role playing game should look like.

Doc Wyatt and Gavin Hignight are the co-owners of Wandering Planet Toys a small action figure company that is releasing some very exciting lines of action figures. Their first foray into the field was a line of The Prisoner action figures and they are following it up with a new Nancy Drew action figure Kickstarter campaign. I chat with them about their inspirations and why they think Nancy Drew is a perfect fit for a line of action figures.

Lou Anders visits Geekerati Media to discuss Sword and Sorcery Fiction. Anders edited an excellent compilation of new Sword and Sorcery Fiction and is the author of a fun young adult series in the genre called Throne and Bones. In this interview, we touch on a definition of Sword and Sorcery and Anders provides several recommendations for readers who are interested in what's happening in the genre right now.

Film and Television Writer and Producer Doc Wyatt (Napoleon Dynamite, Iron Man Armored Adventures, Spider-Man, Ninjago, and Much More) stops by the Geekerati Discord Server to share his recommendations for cartoons that are worth binging during the Covid-Quarantine... and when it's over. This interview is followed by our monthly Book Review from Colleen Watts Carson and Randy Delgado's pop culture review.

In this episode of Geekerati Radio, we've got some very interesting segments for your listening pleasure.

Looks like our reviews have a Robert E Howard-ish theme this month, fitting given his January Birthday, as in Randy’s Reviews our video game and comic book reviewer Randy Delgado gives his thoughts on the recent Savage Avengers Trade Paperback.

Christian Lindke and Keith Baker discuss the new rule book for the now classic Eberron setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, as well as Keith's upcoming card game inspired by the Adventure Zone podcast. It's a great conversation that touches on some of the design decisions required when updating a setting for a new edition of a game, as well as going into many of the things that make Eberron so special.