Podcast with Frank Frey: Monday, June 22 at 9:00pm in EDT

[kato13]

PCAGZ Ep. 46 Twilight: 2000 Ask Frank Frey
Monday, June 22 at 9:00pm in EDT
Live Webcast

From this facebook post
https://www.facebook.com/events/879325398794606/

You can post questions (I assume more generic ones will get asked as not everyone knows the ins and outs of T2k like we do)


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You can find our blog here http://pcagz.com/ or http://podcastatgroundzero.com/

[Raellus]

Hey, nice find Kato! I just posted a question that I think a lot of us around here have: Basically, are there any unreleased T2K nuggets floating around out there?

P.S. I made sure to give a shout-out to the forum in my post.

[Targan]

Excellent.

[Jason Weiser]

Podcast went very well, and they hit a lot of questions. It was good to get mine answered, especially the SAN rules proposal for T2K and finding out Frank was a 2.0/2.2 fan. I still like the v1 background better though!

Poor Matt had his manhood and belief in god questioned (jokingly) because he didn't want to hear about Fallout 4. Is it wrong I could care less about it too? I just don't play a lot of video games....

But it was interesting to hear insights about New America, naval power in T2K, and the Mexican invasion of the Southwest. (just to name a few points). I wish Loren Wiseman would meet with the guys. It would be interesting to hear his viewpoint, and I know he comes by occasionally.

It was also nice to hear Frank answer questions about sources. I really should have asked him what he does think about all the fan efforts (be it DC Working Group, or other items)? Should have asked that.

[Silent Hunter UK]

When will this be available for download?

[Jason Weiser]

Silent Hunter,
Go to the Blog, they had a link of the whole show up that night...I assume (but don't know for sure) that it can be downloaded via right click....

[Anna Elizabeth]

Oh, very cool I'll listen to this with interest. :)

I don't play Fallout either.....there is only so much time to do anything, and I just play Star Trek Online anymore.

[Olefin]

Podcast went very well, and they hit a lot of questions. It was good to get mine answered, especially the SAN rules proposal for T2K and finding out Frank was a 2.0/2.2 fan. I still like the v1 background better though!

Poor Matt had his manhood and belief in god questioned (jokingly) because he didn't want to hear about Fallout 4. Is it wrong I could care less about it too? I just don't play a lot of video games....

But it was interesting to hear insights about New America, naval power in T2K, and the Mexican invasion of the Southwest. (just to name a few points). I wish Loren Wiseman would meet with the guys. It would be interesting to hear his viewpoint, and I know he comes by occasionally.

It was also nice to hear Frank answer questions about sources. I really should have asked him what he does think about all the fan efforts (be it DC Working Group, or other items)? Should have asked that.

sounds like it was very interesting - and love to see what he said about naval power and the Mexican invasion

should have posted something about where the extra tanks came from in Iran in the RDF sourcebook (as compared to the numbers in the US Army sourcebook) - be nice to see if they were ones sent from Europe along with the manpower reinforcements

[Draq]

Don't worry, I'm excited about fallout 4 enough for everyone. But then again, I've been playing fallout since fallout 1. But I would love to have a t2k game going too. They're both post apoc, but that's where the similarities start to separate.

[.45cultist]

Oh, very cool I'll listen to this with interest. :)

I don't play Fallout either.....there is only so much time to do anything, and I just play Star Trek Online anymore.

I do Fallout New Vegas with nexus mods and State of Decay. The State of Decay is inspiring my T2013 and T2K2 zombie notes.

[Adm.Lee]

I was happy to hear my question got answered, too, on his sources for Polish history.

Yeah, I also didn't care to listen to the 10 minutes at the beginning about a videogame I'll never play.

I thought today (while demolishing a wall at work) about his desire for some kind of Sanity rule, and I think I have 2 objections to such a rule.
1) When I played a lot of T2k-- that is, the '80s-- my player base and myself were all high school or college kids, with little experience/awareness/knowledge of mental trauma and its results. Given the sometimes light-hearted way in which we played it, I can see our games turning into something like a game of Paranoia (which we also played a lot in the 80s).
2) Currently in my middle-aged state, I am sometimes brought low by thinking about the waste and losses that the T2k setting would bring about. Since becoming a father, I've become a lot less tolerant of gory death scenes in films/TV/media, and my games are perhaps a little more sanitary. Having to add up the mental degeneration of PCs and NPCs from witnessing so much death and destruction, I don't think I would play the game anymore.

It's a realistic and useful and understandable addition to the setting, but (to me), sanity rules would detract far more from the playability of the setting.

IMO. YMMV.

[Raellus]

I was surprised by Glancy's shout-out to my "Viking" real-name about 15 minutes in. My first and last name are indeed Norwegian, but I don't speak the language and I've never been to the Old Country. Headquarters and General Pain are our resident authentic Norwegians. Still, I appreciated being recognized as a fan creator of T2K materials.

[Matt Wiser]

Well...that went okay. Yeah, I could've cared less for that twenty-minute plug for Fallout 4: a game franchise I do not play, don't care for, and could care less what new version is coming out.

That said, people's questions were answered, and mine got their share of attention. The Naval war, the invasions of Alaska and the Southwest, and those modules that were in work but were not released for whatever reason.

Frank also talked about what he got wrong, and the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism was one. Everybody thought that after Khomeni kicked in Iran, they would mellow out. Well, they didn't.

His discussion of Black Madonna was also good, ranging from the catacombs beneath the Jasna Gora Monastery to a discussion about Capt. Molly Warren and her habit of summarily executing any Russians who fall into her hands. "Everybody's favorite Captain," Frank said.

All in all, an interesting discussion.

[Raellus]

I love me some Fallout. Fallout 3 was the last platformer that I finished and it's in my top five videogames of all time. But yeah, I was like, "let's get on with this- I came here for T2K!".

There's was also a fair bit of rehashing discussion from Frank's last appearance on the podcast (e.g. Cpt. Molly Warren).

[Olefin]

very interesting time indeed - listened to a lot of the blog tonight - he had a bunch of great info indeed

never had heard of the MiG Mountain scenario he talked about - or having the USS Jacksonville (Los Angeles class SSN) being part of the US forces in the RDF Sourcebook (which would be an interesting addition) with a brand new reactor core and fully fueled up

and like how he has the US and the French stomping the LRA in Uganda as part of Lions in Twilight - that is something I have foreshadowed in my East African Sourcebook with how the LRA has managed to piss off both the US and the French - and it definitely felt good when I heard Frank answer that question on what source books he wished had been written and he immediately said "Kenya"

and six 16 inch shells hitting the Kirov from one salvo - kiss it goodbye Ivan!

and War of the Everglades, the Last University and the Key West Naval station scenarios that were mentioned that Tom Mulkey was working on - damn love to see those

and hearing that Frank is actually thinking of posting MiG Mountain so we can enjoy it - damn very nice!

[Targan]

Don't worry, I'm excited about fallout 4 enough for everyone. But then again, I've been playing fallout since fallout 1. But I would love to have a t2k game going too. They're both post apoc, but that's where the similarities start to separate.

Fallout 4! *gibber* *drool*

[sglancy12]

Thanks for tuning in, fellas. We really appreciated the questions we got from this site, which I still consider to be the premier place on the internet to go for Twilight:2000 discussions and fan generated content.

I too hope we can convince Frank to distil "Mig Mountain" into a playable scenario. That, for me, is that is most missing- small, fan-generated scenarios like the sort we used to find in Challenge magazine.

I certainly hope that the teasing about Fallout was taken in good humor, not the least because it was so ridiculously over the top.

And I hope that those of you who are fans of post-apocalyptic games, movies, and fiction will check out other episodes that may be of interest and even suggest topics that we can use on the show.

A. Scott Glancy, co-host of Podcast at Ground Zero.

[Olefin]

Thanks for tuning in, fellas. We really appreciated the questions we got from this site, which I still consider to be the premier place on the internet to go for Twilight:2000 discussions and fan generated content.

I too hope we can convince Frank to distil "Mig Mountain" into a playable scenario. That, for me, is that is most missing- small, fan-generated scenarios like the sort we used to find in Challenge magazine.

I certainly hope that the teasing about Fallout was taken in good humor, not the least because it was so ridiculously over the top.

And I hope that those of you who are fans of post-apocalyptic games, movies, and fiction will check out other episodes that may be of interest and even suggest topics that we can use on the show.

A. Scott Glancy, co-host of Podcast at Ground Zero.

LOVE to see MiG Mountain for sure!! Wish someone had those other scenarios that got mentioned too - Last University, Everglades War - love to see those finally see the light of day

Scott - any way you could send Frank the stuff that Raellus and I did on Kenya? Not sure if he ever saw the fanzine article that Raellus did on the 173rd - bet Frank would love to see that

[sglancy12]

I'm pretty sure Frank occasions this forum now and again. But I'll pass it on.

As for "Warriors of the Everglades," "The last University" and "The Mad Woman of Miami," I have a phone-book-sized pile of photocopied printouts (from a dot-matrix printer) that Tom Mulkey gave me back in the late 1980s, early 1990s. It's all about his campaign setting in Florida. I will see what I can do about scanning some of this stuff and releasing it... if I can find time between my other professional gaming projects.

Of course, there is the Mulkey estate to consider. He had a wife, a daughter and (I think) a son. I'm not sure how they would feel about that. As long as I'm not charging money, I think I'm good to go. The papers were a gift from Tom and I bet he'd love to know that people were still enjoying his work twenty years later.

A. Scott Glancy, co-host Podcast at Ground Zero.

[Silent Hunter UK]

Silent Hunter,
Go to the Blog, they had a link of the whole show up that night...I assume (but don't know for sure) that it can be downloaded via right click....

Not available for audio download yet; just as a YouTube stream at the moment. I prefer to listen to podcasts on my commute, so I'll wait until it's up.

[Jason Weiser]

I'm pretty sure Frank occasions this forum now and again. But I'll pass it on.

As for "Warriors of the Everglades," "The last University" and "The Mad Woman of Miami," I have a phone-book-sized pile of photocopied printouts (from a dot-matrix printer) that Tom Mulkey gave me back in the late 1980s, early 1990s. It's all about his campaign setting in Florida. I will see what I can do about scanning some of this stuff and releasing it... if I can find time between my other professional gaming projects.

Of course, there is the Mulkey estate to consider. He had a wife, a daughter and (I think) a son. I'm not sure how they would feel about that. As long as I'm not charging money, I think I'm good to go. The papers were a gift from Tom and I bet he'd love to know that people were still enjoying his work twenty years later.

A. Scott Glancy, co-host Podcast at Ground Zero.

Scott,
I think dropping them a line with a proviso that it will be made available free (with a few words of introduction and dedication by them, perhaps) and I think honor would be satisfied?

[Jason Weiser]

I also think, and maybe this is just me...but Scott, you have Raeford and Olefin's efforts vis a vis Kenya. Perhaps it might be fun to make it as a free PDF release under the aegis of your organization?