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

[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.

[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!