Ryan tries his new format out with an episode talking about the Siren Call of Cool. He talks about how he's had to deal with problems around cool ideas he's had and thought he had with Know Thyself, and how the sort of problems you might have to deal with when it comes the confidence in your design and dealing with playtesters and people you talk with about your game. He apologizes for the roughness in the editing, but he had to push this out before leaving for GenCon.

Know Thyself

• Master Mines posts
• Card Deck
• Ashcan Front
• Game Chef
• Some notes for my next idea, "Flood: Apocryphal Roleplaying"

Games Mentioned

• Spirit of the Century
• PDQ Core Rules
• Truth & Justice
• Zorcerer of Zo
• Dead Inside
• Questers of the Middle Realms
• Ninja Burger RPG 2nd ed.
• Beast Hunters
• Hero's Banner
• Agon
• Polaris
• Full Light, Full Steam

Other Mentions

• Finis
• Battlestar Galactica (wikipedia)
• Go Play Northwest
• Endgame Minicon
• Nerdly Beach Party
• Have Games, Will Travel
• Sons of Kryos
• Theory from the Closet

Running time: 27:48 / File size: 20.3 MB

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Ryan talks with Jason Morningstar & Steve Segedy of Bully Pulpit Games, about The Shab-al-Hiri Roach and the design & production issues with making a role-playing game that involves a custom deck of cards. Ryan also talks about changes he's planning on making with the format of Master Plan, brings back his Design Watch segment for a brief moment and talks about how to find two things: him at GenCon and other podcasts on the Internet.

Bully Pulpit Games Interview

• Bully Pulpit Games
• The Shab-al-Hiri Roach
• Grey Ranks
• The Roach Returns
• Mad Irishman Productions
• Alphagraphics
• Lulu

All these games should be available at GenCon at The Forge Booth/Indie Press Revolution (booth #1739).

Design Watch

• Daniel Solis' single-blog-post summary of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
• All of his blog posts tags as "Do"
• Stargate SG-1 (Wikipedia)
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Buddhism (Wikipedia)
• Dear Abby (Wikipedia)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Wikipedia)

Other Mentions

• RPGPodcasts.com -- A directory of audio and video shows about role-playing games and other games, all freely available on the Internet.
• Forum post about finding me at GenCon, which includes some of the podcaster panels, the Ashcan Front, and the Gaming Podcasting Party on Saturday night.
• Goblin: The Gaming Broadcast Network
• Have Games, Will Travel
• The Voice of the Revolution

Running time: 29:37 / File size: 20.3 MB

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