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WARNING: The Independent Insurgency is an "explicit" podcast.

This episode is 18.4 MB big and 20:08 long.

In this Talk To Me Now episode I talk to Ron Edwards of Adept Press and The Forge about a recent trend in indie game design: two-player games and single protagonist games. The two are not necessarily synonymous. This came out of my observation/contention that most fiction is about single protagonists, but most RPGs are not. We mention a load of games, and you can find info on them here:

Ron's own Trollbabe, S/Lay w/ Me, Sorcerer & Sword, and Spione
Kevin Allen Jr.'s Sweet Agatha
Julia Bond Ellingboe's Tales of the Fisherman's Wife
Seth Ben Ezra's Showdown
Tim Koppang's Mars Colony
Emily Care Boss's Breaking the Ice
Ben Lehman's The Drifter's Escape and Clover
Matt Weber's Showdown

The outgoing song on this episode is The Arrivals Gate by Ani DiFranco from the album To the Teeth. I spent a lot of time in airports on my way back from Gen Con.

Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/
Direct download: independent-insurgency-031.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:32 PM
Comments[4]

    Could the "non-indie" two player game that Ron was talking about in the beginning have been the "Ghost Dog-Way of the Samurai" game published by Guardians of Order?

    posted by: Hans Otterson on Sun, 8/30 06:02 AM EDT

    I'm not sure, I'll ask him.

    posted by: Robert Bohl on Sun, 8/30 09:47 AM EDT

    Ron confirmed for me in email that this was, indeed, the game he was thinking of.

    posted by: Robert Bohl on Sun, 8/30 03:26 PM EDT

    Hey Rob, I wasn't sure how to contact you and this seemed the best (?) way. Just putting my drop in the bucket: have you thought about doing an interview with Ron about Sorcerer? I would love it.

    posted by: Hans Otterson on Sat, 5/29 03:42 AM EDT


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