The madness of August has passed, so we’ve finally gotten the chance to edit and put up our follow-up discussion about Jen’s LARP experience. Kevin and Jen are joined by Clyde Rhoer of Theory from the Closet and Jim Ryan from The Great Debate to discuss some of the finer points of our previous episode. Clyde brings his experience running a large troupe (Non-Camarilla) game Back In The Day and Jim is a current Venue Storyteller in Charlotte, North Carolina. We discuss the Cam’s similarities to cults, as well as a few other behaviors and quirks of this particular brand of LARP.

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Jen and Kevin regale Brandon and CJ with many the tales of drunken debauchery and gaming that was GenCon 2010. This was Jen’s first GenCon, Kevin’s second, and both had a pretty amazing time. Many cool people were met, and awesome games were played. If this doesn’t sell you on GenCon next year, I don’t know what will!

Relevant Links

• Star Trek Episode with a shock collar
• NPR
• 500 Point Purity Test
• !
• Ryan Macklin
• Monte Cook
• Robin D. Laws
• Will Hindmarch
• Kenneth Hite
• Skol Vodka
• The Podge Cast
• Bear Swarm
• The Brilliant Gameologists
• Apocalypse World
• Graham Walmsley
• The Jank Cast
• Steal Away Jordan
• Remember Tomorrow
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• Misspent Youth
• Not Roleplaying in Role Playing Episode
• Warhammer
• This Modern Death
• Skeptical Gamers
• Island Dwarfism
• Cargo Cults
• Cryptozoology
• EMF Detectors
• EVP Recording
• Indiana Ghost Hunting Society
• White Wolf
• TF2 Spy
• Eddy Webb
• Lords of Acid
• Magic: The Gathering
• Settlers of Catan
• Dominion
• Speed Dating
• Geek’s Dream Girl
• King Crimson
• Pen & Teller: Bullshit!
• Steve Kenson
• Daniel Solis
• SageFight!
• John Harper
• Robert Bohl

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Jen took a camera with her to GenCon this year, and boy howdy did she ever make use of it. We’ll be posting TONS of little videos over the next few weeks.  The big release, though, was One Cool Thing I Saw At GenCon, a tradition started by Jason Morningstar.

Behold!

. Keep an eye out for more videos to come!

Kevin and Jen got the chance to hear Luke and Jared’s GenCon panel on the fundamentals of game design. It was a very interesting and entertaining discussion. Many thanks to Sorencrane for letting us record it for them! Hope you all enjoy it.

Relevant Links

• Luke’s Games
• Jared’s Games
• Storygames
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Rage Quit
• Dollar Auction
• Starcraft
• Fog of War
• Candyland
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• The Magic Circle
• Bunny Hopping
• Steal Away Jordan
• Memoir ’44
• Axis and Allies
• Warsaw Ghettos
• Jungle Speed
• 80th level pacifist WOW character
• Sim City
• The Sims
• Rules of Play

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