Kevin sits down with a few of his ladyfriends to discuss Feminism, Sexuality, and Identity politics at the gaming table. Feminist blogger Nora Last, podcaster Tori Brewster, and game designer Elizabeth Sampat talk with Kevin about all the different ways these topics effect them as gamers, along with a few tangents into some general feminism topics.

Relevant Links

• Nora’s Blog
• Self-Critical Hits
• Two Scooters Press
• Apocalypse World
• Burning Empires
• Leverage System
• Dora the Explorer
• Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
• Star Wars: Dark Empire (the force power was “Force Storm”)
• Storygames thread about gender pronouns in game design
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• Gender-Neutral Pronouns: Ze / Hir
• Misspent Youth (the MY game I’m referring to was actually TWO GenCons ago, 2009)
• Rob Bohl
• Non Binary / Gender Queer
• Slut Shaming
• Steal Away Jordan
• Fiasco
• Dreamnation
• Dragon Age 2 rigmarole
• / PA Strip about it
• Privilage
• CIS
• Transsexual
• Asexuality
• Mike Krahulik
• Jerry Holkins
• PAX
• Geek Girl Con
• Feminazi
• Rush Limbaugh
• Patriarchy
• Baserape
• Rape Culture
• Heteronormative
• Self-Critical Hits: Smash the Patriarchy episode
• “More Than Just a Joke” Study
• Vincent Baker
• Blowback
• RPG Girl
• Emily Care Boss
• Pirate Jenny

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music provided by 

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Kevin, Troll, and Jen talk about some of their favorite characters in their roleplaying past, why they like them, and what kind of different experiences those characters produced. This episode represents a new content category for The Walking Eye. Some of our episodes we’d like to put out there, but aren’t quite up to snuff for the full feed, so we’re making a separate”bonus content” department that is available if you’d like to download, but won’t be on the primary feed.

Relevant Links

• Mary Sue
• Might and Magic III
• Vampire
• Malkavian
• Mage Blade
• Arcana Evolved
• The Quintessential Rogue
• Deadlands
• Shadowrun
• City of Heroes
• Warhammer 40,000
• Poison’d
• ““
• Weapons of the Gods
• Pecha Kucha /
• Paranoia
• Lord of the Rings
• Gnolls
• ICONS
• Jen’s LARP experience
• Robert McCammon
• Wendigo

Crunchy Bits!

• The Walking Eye Bonus Episode 1: Let Me Tell You About My Character!
• Intro and Outro music by 

Who wins the Superboy/Kid Flash race? Who declares herself a “story vampire”? Who dances the Tango of Death? These questions and more will be answered in this exciting episode of the TWE Comics Cast!

Comics discussed:

• Brightest Day #21, 22
• Green Lantern #63, 64
• Batman, Inc. #3, 4
• Detective Comics #875
• Legion of Super-Villains Special #1
• Legion of Super-Heroes #11
• Adventure Comics #524
• FF #1
• Secret Warriors #25
• Captain America #615.1
• Superboy #5
• Action Comics #899

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music: Pixelguru by Subatomicglue.

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A while ago Kevin stumbled across Chris Chinn’s “Deeper in the Game” blog and quickly became a fan. Chris discusses a lot of interesting topics and puts a lot of thought into each post. One entry in particular caught his attention: The Same Page Tool. This was a tool RPG gamers can use before playing a game to make sure everyone is on the same page for what they expect out of this game, with these people. Kevin, Jen, and Troll had just been in a Mutants and Masterminds game with a new GM, and it became very obvious after just one session that we were not all on the same page. We go through the Same Page Tool question by question and discuss the implications of each question, using the aborted M&M game as an example of how it could help.

Relevant Links

• Deeper in the Game/Same Page Tool
• Mutants and Masterminds
• Tom Moldvay
• Competitive D&D
• Our Apocalypse World Coverage
• White Wolf
• Paranoia
• Weapons of the Gods
• Neverwinter Nights
• Gary Gygax
• Burning Wheel
• Deadlands
• Progress Quest
• “Stay A While, and Listen!”
• Zombie Cinema
• Traveller
• 3:16
• Arcana Evolved
• Mouse Guard
• GURPS
• Rifts
• Burning Empires

Crunchy Bits

• Intro and Outro music by 

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Kevin and Troll sit down with D. Vincent Baker to discuss some of the nitty gritty of Apocalypse World. We talk a fair bit about the philosophy behind Moves, and the inspirations for Apocalypse World. A small note on the audio quality: Vincent’s microphone seems a bit unreliable, so some parts of the interview were very quiet. Kevin tried to amplify and salvage it as best he could, but the result might be a bit annoying in some parts. Apologies for that. It might be best to listen to this interview w/ headphones.

Relevant Links

• Apocalypse World
• Vincent’s Blog
• Ars Magica
• Forgotten Realms
• Shieldmeet
• Otherkind
• Emily Care Boss
• Meguey Baker
• Shadowrun
• Prime Time Adventures
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Paranoia
• Kill Puppies for Satan
• Cormac McCarthey
• Elmore Leonard
• John Harper’s Blog Post about Seize By Force
• Shreyas Sampat
• John Harper’s Blog Post about Authority in Custom Moves
• Battle Babe Example 1 (Doomsday)
• (Steel Dawn)
• Battle Babe Example 3 (The Road Warrior)
• Firefly
• Original Apocalypse World Cover
• PAX
• GenCon
• Christian Kelly
• Sight for Sore Eyes Charity
• Human Contact
• Monster Hearts
• Sage Latorra
• Tony Dowler
• Dungeon World
• Clyde’s Interview with Vincent (GenCon 2010)
• Storming the Wizards Tower
• The Dragon Killer
• Round-table with Joshua, Vincent, and Rob
• Mars Colony
• Graham Walmsley

Crunchy Bits

• Intro “The Day the World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
• Outro “Livin’ on the Edge” by Aerosmith

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