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Hosts: Clayton, Beth, KP, KD, Jordan, Nina

In this episode we talk about sexism and racism.  Can it be done respectfully? Can you make a setting that reflects real world culture and diversity without making it offensive?

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Hosts: Clayton, Jordan, Lanina, Nina, KP

In this episode we discuss systems and subsystems that just don’t work and things that are so hard to get “right”

In this episode we reference

• Chuck’s Eclipse Phase Wiki
• Eclipse Phase Character Creator

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Hosts: Clayton, KP, Nina, Hayley, Lanina

In this episode we discuss what is wrong with the way in which roleplaying games and gamers are portrayed in pop culture.  Also, there is a lot of hate for The Big Bang Theory

Things we watched either the entirety or clips from:

• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
• Mazes & Monsters
• The X-Files Season 5 Episode 3: Unusual Suspects
• Freaks & Geeks Episode 15: Discos and Dragons
• The IT Crowd Series 4 Episode 1: Jen the Fredo
• Fear of Girls Episode 1
• Community Season 2 Episode 14: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
• The Big Bang Theory Season 6 Episode 23: The Love Spell Potential
• Gravity Falls Season 2 Episode 3: Dungeons, Dungeons, and more Dungeons
• Stranger Things

Other things we discuss and reference:

• Big Bang Theory with Ricky Gervais Laugh Track
• Dark Dungeons The Movie
• Atari games buried in the desert, including E.T.
• LARPs: The Series
• Dames & Dungeons
• HarmonQuest
• TITANSGRAVE
• Adventure Zone
• The Adorkable Misogyny of the Big Bang Theory by Pop Culture Detective

Also, I utilized this Robot Voice Generator

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Hosts: Clayton, Nina, KP, KD, Lanina

Guest Host: Kenneth

Things we reference in this episode:

• The proper way to deal with the problem of cell phones at the table
• The Usual Suspects, directed by Brian Singer

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Hosts: Clayton, KP, Hayley, KD, Lanina, Jordan

In this episode we discuss the methods we use and the inspiration we draw from when we create a campaign setting

Things we mention in this episode are:

• Midnight Syndicate – Their music is available on Spotify
• Discography of Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor
• Discography of This Will Destroy You
• Discography of Mooncake
• Mount Everest Special – Ernest Hemingway’s sandwich, For Commanders Only

Clayton’s litany of questions when designing a campaign setting:

• What System?
• How long is this campaign going to last?
• Why make a new setting?
• What is different about the setting?
• What is the scale of the start of the campaign vs the end of the campaign?
• How long are the PCs going to spend in any particular place?
• (If fantasy or sci-fi) what races are available?  How prevalent?
• How fantastic? How “realistic”?
• What do you expect from this fantasy campaign? What is your idea of fantasy? How is magic involved/how prevalent?
• What has been established?  Are there wizards, haughty elves, dragons, etc. What fantasy memes, tropes, etc are we going to follow?
• How must the System be changed to accomplish this
• Shorten the pre-game information that the players need to know down to 10 bullet points.