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

[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.

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[Silent Hunter UK]

Originally Posted by 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....

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 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?

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by 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.

Fallout 4! *gibber* *drool*