This show features a Radio Active first as I do a game and music review of the same product: Wizards of the Coast's Sharn: City of Towers for the Eberron campaign setting. The show has a ton of listener feedback from Radio Active #34, as well as a review of the Vintage Gamer podcast, a discussion of the 95 Theses of Geek Activism and a link to a conversation between two famous geeks: Zack Braff of Scrubs and Garden State fame and Kevin Smith, known for his films Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma.
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Show Notes
- Intro
- "Cut to the Chase" track from the rpg sourcebook of the same name.
- Nuketown News
- New Content:
- Soar to Musical Heights with Superman Returns
- Welcoming the Space Opera Renaissance
- New Writing:
- Battlestar Galactica CCG Review on SCIFI
- KODT #115 – d20 Adventures, KODT #116 – Serenity RPG
- New Comments:
- Good feedback on the last show – folks liked the Arkham Horror review, and I’m looking to do another one soon. I think they’ll correspond (surprise, surprise) with our monthly board game sessions.
- Jim from the Vintage Gamer suggested checking out the The Mad Three of Gamer: The Podcasting’s new how-to vlog and Scott Nielson’s Board Gaming with Scott vlog in which he runs through the rules and pieces of different games on camera.
- Meanwhile Jason of Random Signal suggested the Durham 3 podcast, which features a group of players who chat about issues in gaming, then pause to play their game, then do a round up afterwards. Sounds like a cool idea
- Promo: Bear's Grove Promo
- Sites of Note
- The Vintage Gamer
- Reviews of classic board, card and role-playing games by Jim Van Verth, who's married to Mur Lafferty of Geek Fu Action Grip. Reviews games such as:
- The book-vs.-book Ace of Aces
- The ancient strategy game M.U.L.E.
- The board game Acquire.
- The board game Fury of Dracula
- http://www.thevintagegamer.net
- 95 Theses of Geek Activism
- http://www.scienceaddiction.com/2006/07/23/95-theses-of-geek-activism/
- Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by the manufacturer, you are a hacker. If you build things out of strange, unexpected parts, you are a hacker. Reclaim the term.
- The true enemy is the line: “If you haven’t done anything wrong, what do you fear?”
- Treating your customers like criminals- or potential criminals- will turn customers away.
- Zach Braff interviews Kevin Smith
- http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429&n=2
- Talk about building a fan base, exploiting the internet.
- Promo: GOBLIN Gaming Network
- Game & Music Review: Sharn: City of Towers
- By Keith Baker and James Wyatt
- 192 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
- Buy it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786934344/nuketown
- The Game Review
- Eberron is Wizards of the Coast's pulpy, noir-inspired campaign setting for Dungeosn & Dragons
- Sharn: City of Towers details the setting's largest metropolis. It describes over 100 city districts, a dozen new guilds/organizations, loads of NPCs, extensive maps.
- Good book for anyone running an Ebberon campaign, giving enough information to run a half-dozen campaigns in the city, or to provide a base of operations for a world-spanning one.
- Also good for DM's looking for inspiration for their own urban campaigns, or for a resource that they can lift whole locations from. Eberron isn't so different from normal D&D that the content in this book can't be used elsewhere with a few tweaks.
- No index, which is its single greatest fault. All RPG books need indexes! But fortunately you can download the index from Keith Baker's Web site:
- The Music Review
- Created by David Davidson of d2world (http://www.d2world.com)
- In fairly unique twest, the book ships with a nine-track CD designed to set the mood for Eberron. The tracks are
- Eberron Soundtrack Sample Tracks:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20040912news - Cut to the Chase (5.6mb mp3/zip)
- Sharn: City of Towers (6.1mb mp3/zip)
- Exploring Xen'drik (5.3mb mp3/zip)
- Good mix of adventure and mystery, with a little bit of the exotic mixed in. While it's obviously aimed at Eberron (and somewhat strange that it didn't ship with the campaign setting book) most of the tracks could be used anywhere.
- Looking for more gaming music? Goodman Games and Midnight Syndicate will release “The Cage of Delirium” as part of their Dungeon Crawl Classics later this month. Check it out at http://www.goodman-games.com/5033preview.php
- Outro
- Promos wanted! Send them to nuketown@gmail.com (quick, before the caffeine wears off)
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