Comments on: Writing Excuses Episode 31: Talking RPG and Game Writing with Steve Jackson

By: Writing Video Games

Writing Video Games — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:23:42 +0000

[...] might want to give this episode of the Writing Excuses podcast. "Not all who wander are lost" – J.R.R. Tolkien [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:47:45 +0000

@Admin, the link still times out for me, thanks for the effort though.

@Mike Barker, thanks.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:17:00 +0000

Sorry haven’t had a chance to call yet, I’ll do that in the next day or two.

But, since it’s in my nature, I want to test one more thing. Try this link monkeysloth.net/write/wp-content/uploads/Writing_Excuses_Episode31.mp3

That’s the actual, non-directed url for writing excuses content

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:02:44 +0000

I have also been unable to download episodes 29, 30, and 31. I have tried both “save as” on the mp3, and using Itunes podcasts. Both of them die a few minutes through, no matter what time of day it is. I hope this gets fixed soon- thank you for looking into it!

By: Mike Barker

Mike Barker — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:44 +0000

Chris, James, anyone else — send me email, and I can send you the file.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:16:00 +0000

Since we’re all waxing nostolic for Car Wars (yep, me too!), I’d also like to remind folks of the “Uncle Albert” effect: if you didn’t have the latest game suppliment there was no way to remain competitive. This was much more of a problem with strategic games like Car Wars and Star Fleet Battles.

However, most RPGs also suffer from this. Characters generated from the “core” rule books were not necessarily as cool as characters made from world-specific or class-specific expansions.

If the player characters are the “actors” in the game’s “play” then the GM needs to be a careful scenic director and prop master!

By: Mike Barker

Mike Barker — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:33:09 +0000

Rough notes

http://mbarker.livejournal.com/84059.html

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:41:57 +0000

Would love to hear these latest podcasts, but have found I am unable to download them any longer.

By: Guerry

Guerry — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:21:18 +0000

This podcast took me back. Some of my earliest writing efforts were for AD&D modules that I cooked up years ago. One of them still bounces around in my head from time to time. I always intended to prep them for submission, but didn’t follow through.

Honestly, upon returning to writing a while back, I’d not considered taking this angle. Some of my friends on livejournal do writing for games. Heck, Rhianna Pratchett, Terry’s daughter, writes for games.

Perhaps I should look up submission guidelines…and stop thinking so narrowly.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:08:16 +0000

Just wanted to pitch in that I’m still suffering the same problems as Skippy. Also the older episodes which downloaded fine earlier, now show the same problems.

I tried using another computer, but with the same result.

Thanks for looking into it though, I really miss the podcasts