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Radio Active #100: The Golden Age of Online RPGs

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On Radio Active’s 100th episode I talk about Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, a shoot-and-loot video game based on the Borderlands franchise, go on a solitary, geeky retreat to work on RPG and podcast projects, and contemplate the golden age of online role-playing games.

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  • Radio Active’s 100th Episode
    • It finally happened – Radio Active hit episode 100!
    • The first episode launched on March 14, 2005
    • That was 18 years ago. Heck, I didn’t even have two kids when this launched (Star Girl was 2; NeutronLad was still a year away).
    • Feels good to finally hit this milestone, so many years later.
    • Will it get to 200? Time will tell.
    • Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
      • A Dungeons & Dragons-inspired spinoff to the Borderlands franchise.
      • Same basic mechanics (guns, lots of guns) with fantasy trappings as Tiny Tina runs you through her Bunkers and Badasses campaign.
      • There are some new mechanics – spells instead of grenades and a variety of melee weapons.
      • Plus a bunch of fantasy-inspired classes – e.g. Spellshot, Spore Warden, Stabbomancer, Graveborn
      • If you like guns and loot, then this is for you. Take your brain off the hook and blow stuff up.
      • And hopefully, I’ll get to play it online – the game is cross-platform, so it’s possible to play with folks on PCs, Xboxes, and PlayStations.
      • A Geeky Retreat
        • After dropping my daughter off at college in January, I went to my in-law’s lake house and hung out for a few days by myself (well, Hank was there).
        • Spent three days working on geeky projects
          • Recording episodes of Radio Active
          • Prepping for a Cyberpunk RED campaign
          • Prepping for a new Dungeons & Dragons campaign
          • Watching movies
          • Reading comic books
          • Staying up as late as I want and sleeping in as long as I want
            • (though I didn’t go totally crazy; I generally got to bed between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.)
            • Great way to reset my brain after a stressful fall.
              • Golden Age of Online RPGs

              A Golden Age amidst the Pandemic

              • COVID-19 is terrible. The impact of the pandemic on the world, our country, and my community was also terrible.
              • There have been a few upsides … and one of them has been role-playing games.
              • During the pandemic, fewer kid activities meant more time to game online. And that meant reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.
              • After the pandemic … I’ve got a kid in college and many of my kid-related obligations are winding down. I stayed in touch with my online gaming friends, and we’re contemplating new games.
              • As a result, I’m playing more RPGs – and more different kinds of RPGs – than I have since the early 2000s.

                • Past Campaigns

                • Brindlewood Bay
                • Army Corps of Engineers: Special Operations (Fate)
                • Tales from the Loop
                • Scum and Villainy
                • GURPS Fast & Furious (GURPS Lite, alternate Wednesday)
                • Chroniclers (D&D, Sundays)

                  • Current Campaigns

                  • Scales of Truth (D&D, alternate Wednesday)
                  • Star Wars: The Old Republic (a home-grown D&D 5e/Saga Edition mash-up)

                    • Future Campaigns

                    • Cyberpunk RED @ Lair of Secrets (Thursdays)
                    • Elemental Apocalypse with the Blackrazor Guild (Sundays)

                      • What works with online games

                      • Anyone, anywhere can play.

                        • What doesn’t work with online games

                        • The downside to anyone, anywhere is that time zones are hard.
                        • Yet another online meeting. Even if this one has dice.
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