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Every Person, or Group, or even Empire is made up of stories, those they’re told, and those they tell themselves; Change the story, and you change THEM.
What Terrible Secret Lurks In The Heart Of The Canadian Wilderness?
And Possibly In The Heart Of Every Canadian?
A group of friends journey through a crumbling MMORPG to fulfill one last Quest.
There’s no risk here, but your boss isn’t going to be happy about all the work you’re missing, and Mom’s basement just isn’t as cosy as it used to be.
If your lives, actions, and very thoughts are being controlled by a bunch of ‘Players’ of an ‘RPG’, the very least they could do is PAY ATTENTION!!
Baker Street Irregulars
“Please sir, I want some more”
Shadowrun (wikipedia)
Shadowrun – Catalyst Game Labs
Doctor Who
A Christmas Carol – This is the “Flying Shark Christmas Special” Craig ruined for you all ~ T. Jones
Deep Space 9
Garrak (DS9 Character)
Timewatch – Pelgrane Press
The Doctor Who Roleplaying Game – Cubicle 7
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure + Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Jim C Hines
Craig had the author right, and … not much else.
The series is Magic Ex Libris, and the first book is Libriomancer
TORG (wikipedia)
Torg Eternity – Ulisses Spiele
Aesop’s Fables
Epicurus the Sage
Masks – Magpie Games
Nickelback
I’ll link to Nickelback, under protest. No damn way I’m linking to The Beiber ~ T. Jones
Hollow Earth Expedition – Exile Game Studio
Polybius Videogame Myth
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
Headspace – Green Hat Designs
Night Witches – Bully Pulpit Games
Masquerade, by Kit Williams
Digimon
The show Craig was rambling on about was probably Digimon Adventure 02 ~ T. Jones
IT, by Stephen King
Dreamcatcher (movie)
Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple – Evil Hat Productions
Mogworld and Jam, by Yahtzee Croshaw
GURPS – Steve Jackson Games
Pathfinder – Paizo
Dungeon World – Sage Kobold
Savage Worlds – Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Redshirts, by John Scalzi
Better Angels – Arc Dream Publishing
“Big Red Couch at Gen Con 2018” posts on the Fear The Boot forum
Craig’s idea sounds a lot like how Mongoose’s edition of Runequest interpreted Heroquesting. Heroquesting involves taking on the mantle of gods and reenacting elements of myth for material benefits. In the Mongoose editions (actually I think it might have been in the massive amounts of source material written for earlier editions) it was established that, because the gods existed outside of time, changing things in your reenactment could actually retroactively change how the myth played out for the gods.
There was a group in Mongoose RQ called the God Learners who were trying to change the nature of reality through targeted Heroquesting. Worth noting: Earlier and later editions of Runequest are set near the end of the 3rd Age of Glorantha, with the 2nd Age being lost to confusion and chaos; the God Learners aren’t around. Mongoose Runequest is set in the 2nd Age.
(craig finally gets his email sorted out so that he actually receives updates on website comments)
Hi Tim,
We included this in episode 97 – Never having played Runequest, I’m hoping we, or more specifically I, did it justice.
I’m not exactly an expert; I’ve just read some of the books. I wouldn’t rely on *me* doing it justice!
“Read some of the books” vs. “Is a subject matter expert”
I mean, they’re more or less the same thing, really.