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Star Wars & Suicide Squad! – Radio Show / Podcast Episode 29

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Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 12/12/2015:
Star Wars & Suicide Squad!

Highlights: Guest host Bill Brackeen talks Star Wars (including why is Boba Fett so popular and how Star Wars has changed movies) and the Suicide Squad comic book and movie.

Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1:05 PM Central on 96.5 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be heard online at http://965fmtheanswer.com and on the Tune In Radio app and iHeart Radio apps. Call in at 501-823-0965 or tweet @ShanePlays during the show!

Like what you hear?
Support Shane Plays Radio on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays

KryptonRadio1Shane Plays is carried on Krypton Radio!
Krypton Radio is SciFi for your Wifi.
http://kryptonradio.com/

Listen to the Shane Plays podcast on iTunes and Stitcher (and other fine podcast directories) after the live show.

Podcast Episode Direct Download:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/shaneplays/Shane_Plays_12-12-15_podcast.mp3

Listen Here via Embed:

SHOW NOTES

NEWS ITEMS

Imagine Games charity “DM for a Difference” RPG day December 12th
https://www.facebook.com/events/1655602984696006/

Star Wars The Force Awakens Countdown: 5 days

GUEST HOST BILL BRACKEEN:

Collectible Star Wars figures prices. Which figure is worth $18,000???

Various Star Wars items and musings.

Why is Boba Fett so popular?

How Star Wars has changed movies. Is it positive or negative?

Controversy! Who would win: Starship Enterprise vs. Imperial Star Destroyer?

Stormtroopers vs. Red Shirts. What universal law wins out?

Suicide Squad (the comic book and the movie).

An overview of comics scribe John Ostrander’s work. John was scheduled for our guest this weekend but couldn’t make it so we are working to reschedule him soon!

 

NEXT WEEK:

Game Goblins and gaming Christmas gift ideas.

http://gamegoblins.com

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Classics Illustrated Comics Exhibit Gallery

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This past weekend we went to the Christmas lighting ceremony at the Arkansas State Capitol building and saw some cool lights and fireworks and chatted with Judge Reinhold (no, really). In the building were a really impressive giant Christmas tree and just generally excellent and tasteful Christmas decorations. And then…

Lo and behold, in the midst of it all and completely unexpected (much like the Spanish Inquisition) was an exhibit of Classics Illustrated comic books. Here’s some photos for your entertainment and edification.

(If you’re not familiar with Classics Illustrated as both a big part of comic book history and basically rescuing students beyond counting from having to actually read the book for the test, this Wikipedia article is here for you.)

And just for the heck of it, here’s a photo of the fireworks:

arkansas capitol fireworks december 2015

Sword Coast Legends

Let’s Play Sword Coast Legends Story Mode #14

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This episode: Cultists, demons, shopping, and a trip to the Luskan slums. Brannor gets a sweet weapon.

This a let’s play of the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends.

Set in the lush and vibrant world of the Forgotten Realms, Sword Coast Legends offers an all-new way to enjoy the time-tested magic of playing Dungeons & Dragons as a shared storytelling experience. With a deep narrative developed by a team of long-time industry veterans and a partnership with Wizards of the Coast, the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends brings the world of Faerûn home like never before.

https://swordcoast.com/

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Comic Books & Geeky TV Shows! – Radio Show / Podcast Episode 28

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Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 12/5/2015:
Comic Books & Geeky TV Shows!

Highlights: Geek news; Shane wings it on comic books and geeky TV shows when his guest doesn’t show (first time for everything).

Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1:05 PM Central on 96.5 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be heard online at http://965fmtheanswer.com and on the Tune In Radio app and iHeart Radio apps. Call in at 501-823-0965 or tweet @ShanePlays during the show!

Like what you hear?
Support Shane Plays Radio on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays

KryptonRadio1Shane Plays is carried on Krypton Radio!
Krypton Radio is SciFi for your Wifi.
http://kryptonradio.com/

Listen to the Shane Plays podcast on iTunes and Stitcher (and other fine podcast directories) after the live show.

Podcast Episode Direct Download:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/shaneplays/Shane_Plays_12-5-15_podcast.mp3

Listen Here via Embed:

SHOW NOTES

NEWS ITEMS

Imagine Games charity “DM for a Difference” RPG day December 12th
https://www.facebook.com/events/1655602984696006/

Games Awards 2015: Game of the Year is Witcher 3
List of winners from Screenrant:
http://screenrant.com/the-game-awards-2015-winners/

Hideo Kojima was not allowed to come to The Game Awards by Konami lawyers
http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/03/hideo-kojima-was-not-allowed-to-come-to-the-game-awards-by-konami-lawyers/

(cool award statues from WETA by the way)

The Game Awards 2015 statue designed by WETA

I wanna fly, but my wings is short, mayn

London Celebrates The Monty Python Reunion By Putting A 50-Foot Dead Parrot In Potters Field Park
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3033103/london-celebrates-the-monty-python-reunion-by-putting-a-50-foot-dead-parrot-in-potters-field

The new Batman vs. Superman trailer is out,
gives away too much in my humble opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fis-9Zqu2Ro

Peter Jackson to Direct an Episode of ‘Doctor Who’ | Krypton Radio
http://kryptonradio.com/2015/11/30/peter-jackson-to-direct-an-episode-of-doctor-who/

Dragon’s Lair movie team cancels Kickstarter, shifts to Indiegogo
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/25/9800578/dragons-lair-kickstarter-indiegogo-campaign
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dragon-s-lair-returns#/

This Animated Star Wars The Force Awakens Poster Is a Trippy Nightmare | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/star-wars-force-awakens-animation/

Star Wars The Force Awakens Countdown: 12 days

GUEST: 

Frontline Gaming was scheduled to talk about their store and Warhammer 40K, but they didn’t make it so Shane winged it and talked about comic books he’s reading and geeky TV shows he’s watching or wants to watch.

Comic Books:

  • DK III: The Master Race
  • Secret Wars
  • Green Lantern / Star Trek crossover series

Mitch Breitweiser is showing a lot of behind the scenes of his comic book art process on Instagram re: his Futurists series.
https://www.instagram.com/mbreitweiser/

TV Shows:

  • The Man in the High Castle
  • Into the Badlands
  • The Walking Dead
  • Agents of SHIELD
  • Supergirl
  • Flash / Arrow crossover

TWEET OF THE WEEK:

@KurtBusiek: blue skies from pain
(lyrics from Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here)

NEXT WEEK:

Guest host Bill Brackeen and comics scribe John Ostrander.

Sword Coast Legends

Let’s Play Sword Coast Legends Story Mode #13

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This episode: Mystery solvin’ like Scooby Doo and the gang, a merchant with good “herbs”, a peg leg, and a haughty elf lends his aid. Plus a secret basement.

This a let’s play of the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends.

Set in the lush and vibrant world of the Forgotten Realms, Sword Coast Legends offers an all-new way to enjoy the time-tested magic of playing Dungeons & Dragons as a shared storytelling experience. With a deep narrative developed by a team of long-time industry veterans and a partnership with Wizards of the Coast, the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends brings the world of Faerûn home like never before.

https://swordcoast.com/

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Let’s Play Serpent in the Staglands #22

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This episode: Archers rock in SitS, a tough native guard captain, and more puzzles and clues in the Hallowed Grove.

Join Shane as he plays through a hardcore computer RPG that has the mechanics and style of a 90s CRPG, and that’s just dripping with beautiful atmosphere!

Thanks for watching!

About Serpent in the Staglands:

A true role-playing adventure.

A campaign within the world of Vol, a fully realized setting inspired by the late bronze age in a Transylvanian landscape, with unique politics, races and gods steeped in history. Featuring a chosen party of five, you role-play Necholai, a minor god of a celestial body who descends to the Staglands for a moonlit festival only to find the way home blocked and immortality slipping away. Seeking answers and aid, you take on a mortal body and the guise of a traveling Spicer. This isn’t a story of good and evil, saving the world or being a hero, it’s about intrigue and your adventure of survival in a harsh land.

Buy on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/game/serpent_in_the_staglands?pp=6a3236f5f213960de5c415fd15c6d1cb5a46d04e

Buy on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335120/

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Good & Bad Computer RPGs! – Radio Show / Podcast Episode 27

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Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 11/28/2015:
Good & Bad Computer RPGs!

Highlights: Roundtable discussion of “what makes a good computer RPG?” with Matt Barton, Johnny Wood & Felipe Pepe; geek news.

Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1:05 PM Central on 96.5 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be heard online at http://965fmtheanswer.com and on the Tune In Radio app and iHeart Radio apps. Call in at 501-823-0965 or tweet @ShanePlays during the show!

Like what you hear?
Support Shane Plays Radio on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays

KryptonRadio1Shane Plays is carried on Krypton Radio!
Krypton Radio is SciFi for your Wifi.
http://kryptonradio.com/

Listen to the Shane Plays podcast on iTunes and Stitcher (and other fine podcast directories) after the live show.

Podcast Episode Direct Download:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/shaneplays/Shane_Plays_11-28-15_podcast.mp3

Listen Here via Embed:

SHOW NOTES

NEWS ITEMS

Arvan Eleron (AKA fantasy author and Twitch streamer Gregory A. Wilson) streams a special D&D event with author friends and living legend Ed Greenwood!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG8SKANyTPA

Two part Matt Chat interview with my friend Johnny Wood re: his classic, multiplayer Ultima project
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpepiz_Lvc
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBIkVMqAYk

Centipede creator Dona Bailey teaches at UALR in Little Rock
She was the only woman in the arcade division at Atari in 1980.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/centipede-creator-teaches-at-ualr/Content?oid=4175309

Weird Al Yankovic Gets Animated on Teen Titans Go!
http://www.tvinsider.com/article/55369/weird-al-yankovic-gets-animated-on-teen-titans-go-video/

Arcade champion Billy Mitchell loses case against cartoon portrayal
Judge declares Mitchell is not a ‘giant floating head,’ contrary to belief
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/24/9792472/billy-mitchell-regular-show-court-case

Legends Of Tomorrow Premiere Date Announced, New Trailer Released
Premieres January 21st on The CW
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/11/25/legends-of-tomorrow-premiere-date-announced-new-trailer-released/

Captain America: Civil War trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdV-lxRPFo
-Most interesting thing for Shane was a glimpse of the Black Panther

Star Wars The Force Awakens Countdown: 19 days

GUEST: WHAT MAKES A GOOD COMPUTER RPG?

Roundtable discussion of “what makes a good computer RPG?” with Matt Barton, Johnny Wood & Felipe Pepe.

Matt Barton’s Matt Chat YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE98xefVUXmbvQfe-wNS8oA

Johnny Wood’s Classic Multiplayer Ultima Project:
http://www.shatteredmoon.com/?page_id=9

Felipe Pepe’s CRPG Book Project:
https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/

 

TWEET OF THE WEEK:

@roleplayingtips: Something one of my players said: “The most important thing I’ve learned from D&D is that the best AC is somebody else’s AC”

NEXT WEEK:

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Frontline Gaming and Warhammer 40K.

Frontline Gaming: http://www.frontlinegaming.org/

Frontline Gaming on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/frontlinegaming_tv

Games Workshop Warhammer 40K: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Warhammer-40-000

Sword Coast Legends

Let’s Play Sword Coast Legends Story Mode #12

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This episode: Gongs, spiritual booze, chants and rolling pins. No, really.

This a let’s play of the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends.

Set in the lush and vibrant world of the Forgotten Realms, Sword Coast Legends offers an all-new way to enjoy the time-tested magic of playing Dungeons & Dragons as a shared storytelling experience. With a deep narrative developed by a team of long-time industry veterans and a partnership with Wizards of the Coast, the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends brings the world of Faerûn home like never before.

https://swordcoast.com/

Post-Apocalyptic Authors! – Radio Show / Podcast Episode 26

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Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 11/21/2015:
Post-Apocalyptic Authors!

Highlights: Authors P.R. Principe (Omega Plague: Collapse) and Thomas Kroepfl (ZWD: King of an Empty City); geek news.

Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1:05 PM Central on 96.5 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be heard online at http://965fmtheanswer.com and on the Tune In Radio app and iHeart Radio apps. Call in at 501-823-0965 or tweet @ShanePlays during the show!

Like what you hear?
Support Shane Plays Radio on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays

KryptonRadio1Shane Plays is carried on Krypton Radio!
Krypton Radio is SciFi for your Wifi.
http://kryptonradio.com/

Listen to the Shane Plays podcast on iTunes and Stitcher (and other fine podcast directories) after the live show.

Podcast Episode Direct Download:
http://shaneplays.libsyn.com/post-apocalyptic-authors-nov-21-2015

Listen Here via Embed:

SHOW NOTES

Sword Coast Legends giveaway: Shane is giving away a copy of the D&D computer game Sword Coast Legends! Make tweet mentioning “Sword Coast Legends” to Twitter at @ShanePlays or a comment on the Sword Cost Legends giveaway post pinned to the top of the Shane Plays Facebook page. Winner randomly chosen  Monday, November 30th.

NEWS ITEMS

New Patreon supporters – the Shane Plays news staff gets a $.03 an hour raise!

Shane finally watched Terminator Genisys – what did he think?

Speaking of The Terminator, Arny himself was at a Wal-Mart in NW Arkansas and had some photos taken with the Terminator Genisys display and buying camo and pajamas
https://www.facebook.com/ArkToday/photos/a.298392666898924.70079.292166570854867/929538447117673/?type=3

Arnold Schwarzenegger at Northwest Arkansas Walmart

Yep, You Can Play Dungeons & Dragons in VR Now
http://gizmodo.com/yep-you-can-play-dungeons-dragons-in-vr-now-1742710641

Shane’s friend Keith’s Fallout 4 character is rocking the Wasteland in his skivvies:

Keith Fallout skivvies 1

Keith Fallout skivvies 2

Chris Avellone talks Fallout 3 that never was, including pen & paper origins http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/16/9746264/fallout-3-van-buren-chris-avellone-nyu-practice-2015

Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival introduces a new host
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/17/9749524/mystery-science-theater-3000-revival-introduces-a-new-host
-Also hit $2M kickstarter goal in 6 days
-Does not include former cast members Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett or Mike Nelson

Star Wars:
Star Wars Battlefront: review aggregate
Xbox One: 75, PS4 & PC: 72
http://www.metacritic.com/search/all/star%20wars%20battlefront/results
How many people did Luke Skywalker kill? Let us count them all.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/17/9749204/luke-skywalker-kills-supercut-video-vader
Star Wars: The Force Awakens countdown: 26 days!

GUEST: LITTLE ROCK AUTHORS P.R. PRINCIPE & THOMAS KROEPFL

Shane Plays authors PR Principe Thomas Kroepfl Guest Promo Banner

omega plague collapse by PR Principe

Omega Plague: Collapse by P.R. Principe on Amazon.

ZWD King of an Empty City by Thomas Kroepfl

ZWD: King of an Empty City by Thomas Kroepfl on Amazon.

NEXT WEEK:

What makes a good computer RPG?

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Let’s Play Serpent in the Staglands #21

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This episode: Cave clearing and puzzles in the Hallowed Grove.

Join Shane as he plays through a hardcore computer RPG that has the mechanics and style of a 90s CRPG, and that’s just dripping with beautiful atmosphere!

Thanks for watching!

About Serpent in the Staglands:

A true role-playing adventure.

A campaign within the world of Vol, a fully realized setting inspired by the late bronze age in a Transylvanian landscape, with unique politics, races and gods steeped in history. Featuring a chosen party of five, you role-play Necholai, a minor god of a celestial body who descends to the Staglands for a moonlit festival only to find the way home blocked and immortality slipping away. Seeking answers and aid, you take on a mortal body and the guise of a traveling Spicer. This isn’t a story of good and evil, saving the world or being a hero, it’s about intrigue and your adventure of survival in a harsh land.

Buy on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/game/serpent_in_the_staglands?pp=6a3236f5f213960de5c415fd15c6d1cb5a46d04e

Buy on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/335120/