Players & Creators

The Dungeon Master: Why I Do It & What I've Learned

In this episode, I talk about my journey into entering the dangerous and exciting world of street fighting...I'm mean the safe and fun world of being a Dungeon Master! I talk about the moment I realized I could maybe do this crazy thing, why drove me, why I contnue to do it and what I continously learn from the process!

Here are some resources that I have used as well as some links of things I mentioned in the episode!

Players and Creators Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/playersandcreators/ 

My Post on LARPing as a POC 

Basic Tips for a Novice Dungeon Master: https://geekandsundry.com/basic-tips-for-a-novice-dm/ 

Game Master Tips (Geek & Sundry Youtube series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XikjjQok5Y 

Critical Role: https://critrole.com/ 

What inspired me to DM or Why I heart Matt Mercer

Hey everyone! The new episode of Players and Creators is (finally) here! In this episode, your lost, wayward host talks about the change in format, what brought the passion back to his gaming (hint: It's Matt Mercer), and what you can look forward to in coming episodes!

Links:

Critical Role : www.critrole.com 

Critical Role Stream : https://www.twitch.tv/criticalrole 

Matt Mercer DM Tips : https://geekandsundry.com/tag/matt-mercer-gm-tips/ 

D&D Starter Set : http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/rpg_starterset 

Old Man Yells at the Sky: Our Community

The Old Man takes a few minutes to talk about how he feels about what's happening in the world today and how it affect our community.

Remember to love and support each other and don't dream it, be it.

Episode 30: Interview with the creators of Lost Colonies LARP

Being intermediate as we are, we relish the fact that we are surrounded by such creative and talented people. The folks of Lost Colonies LARP are no exception to this.

You'll hear them discuss their gaming history as well as their motivations to create a game that cross a number of genres and still has the flair of live action role playing that a lot of LARPers enjoy!

Not only that but they are some of the most creative and open people you're ever going to meet!

We encourage you to not only listen to this epsiode for their awesomeness but to learn more and eventually get your @$$ to Lost Colonies LARP!

 

Their Grand Opening Even will be:

Grand Opening Event

October 12, 2018 Prince William Forest Park - Camp 5 17425 Mawavi Rd. Triangle, VA 22172

More information and tickets can be found at https://lostcolonieslarp.com/events/index.html

Bonus Track 22: The Music of Kindred Crow

In Episode 28, we interviewed two amazing folks from the folk pagan band, Kindred Crow. They shared two amazing songs with us, Shifter and The Green Door. We wanted to make sure that everyone got a chance to hear their wonderful sound.

If you'd like to get to know these folks and how they are an integral part of our community, we recommend you listen to Episode 28. If you just want to hear some of their music, take a listen to this bonus track.

Their album came out not too long ago. Support them by downloading their music today at kindredcrow.com . And if you're local to the Virginia/Maryland/Metro DC area, you can also learn where to see them live! 

Again, we wouldn't have learned anything about these amazing folks without the help of Lost Colonies LARP!

Old Man Yells at the Sky: Indigenous Voices in Pop Culture

In a follow up to our Cultural Appropriation episode of Old Man Yells at the Sky, our friends at Inside 254 podcast have shared with us some amazing content!

 

To refresh your memory, our guest for that show was Dr. Amanda Morris. She visited New Mexico recently and sat with Dr. Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo), self-described indiginerd poet, educator, activist, comic creator and owner of Native Realities Press, co-owner of Red Planet Books & Comics, and founder of Indigenous ComicCon.

 

He discusses the need and steps taken to help decolonize pop culture and make the voices of indigenous writers, artists and others equally heard within our culture.

 

Thank you to Dr. Morris for allowing us to share this interview with you and Dr. Francis for the work he's done so far and sharing it with all of us.

 

Indigenous ComicCon Info:

November 2 - 4, 2018

Isleta Resort and Casino

Albuquerque, NM

https://www.indigenouscomiccon.com/

Episode 29: MicroCon1 Interview with Maury Brown

We're always constantly amazed at the caliber of people that actually say, "Sure, I'll talk to you intermediate guys!." This interview is no exception. Maury Brown is the creator of the Wizarding College LARP: New World Magischola as well as Learn LARP. The amount of work and creativity to put all this together and be an educator blows our mind but somehow she does it and discuss how during our sit down!

 

Once more, thanks to Lost Colonies LARP for orchestrating the group of amazing folks to sit with us!

 

You can find all of the things we discussed here:

New World Magischola: https://magischola.com/

Learn LARP: https://learnlarp.com/

And if you like the Wizarding College, maybe you may enjoy Wizard Jail? They may be sold out for this year but check it out anyway:

Inside Avernus: https://magischola.com/inside-avernus/run-1/

Episode 28: MicroCon 1 Interview with Irene Glasse & Chris Kackley of Kindred Crow

Our second interview from MicroCon is with two amazing folks from the pagan folk band Kindred Crow; Irene Glasse and Chris Kackley. They talk about their musical history and how they came to be involved in the gaming community. Specifically how they came to be involved with and are doing special projects with Lost Colonies LARP.

 

And as very special musical guests, they graced us with some of their songs! They are amazing folks with incredible talent!

You can find their new EP "The Mugwort Incident" and all of their dates and content on www.kindredcrow.com

 

Once you hear their music, it's a pretty good bet you'll want to hear more from them.

 

Link from Intro:

World Anvil World Building for Game Masters: www.worldanvil.com

Bonus Track 21: The Mystery of the No Episode Week

So as some of you may have noticed, there was no episode last week. There have been some changes, some not so great but others pretty damn good, going on behind the scenes.  Old Man breaks down those changes and what to expect for the coming year!

Episode 27: MicroCon 1 - Interview with Mike Young

Our good friends from Lost Colonies LARP hosted us in June for what became known as MicroCon! We met a slew of amazing people and they even talked to us!

 

One of those amazing individuals was Mike Young. Mike has written, created and published gaming materials in many forms over many years! There's a good chance you've played a game that Mike has had some part of creating or publishing as we found out while we chatted!

 

He discusses his past creations and some of his more recent work with us! This is the first part of the MicroCon series we will be putting out over the next few weeks!

 

You can find more info about Mike Young at the following places:

Mike Young, Insane Game Designer: http://www.interactivitiesink.com/ 

Mike Young, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Young_(game_designer) 

The Book of LARP : https://www.amazon.com/Book-LARP-Live-Action-Playing/dp/097083568X 

A Grandiose Disaster : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndpaoletta/a-grandiose-disaster 

Compendium of North American Cryptids & Magical Creatures: https://www.amazon.com/Compendium-American-Cryptids-Magical-Creatures/dp/1945097000