The Independent Insurgency
Interviews from the world of independent tabletop roleplaying game design with RPG writer Robert Bohl.
Host: Robert Bohl
Website: http://independentinsurgency.com
Join roleplaying game designer Robert Bohl as he interviews independent RPG designers about their designs, publishing experiences, and process. (Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/ )
| Episode Name | Time | Release Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 16: Judd Karlman on Robert Bohl on Misspent Youth | 59:45 | 08/10/2008 | In this episode, Judd Karlman, writer of The Dictionary of Mu and my guest on my first episode, was kind enough to interview me about my game, Misspent Youth. Misspent Youth's tagline is "Teenage rebellion in a fucked-up future" and is a game about friendship and standing up to... |
| Episode 15: Elizabeth Shoemaker on It's Complicated | 58:50 | 08/03/2008 | In this episode, I speak with Elizabeth Shoemaker of Dissolute Games/Two Scooters Press about her game of quirky dysfunctional relationships, It's Complicated. Elizabeth is a good friend of mine, someone I feel lucky to be sharing the Play Collective booth with at Gen Con Indy 2008. It was a... |
| Episode 014: Ben Lehman on XXXXtreme Street Luge | 1:01:43 | 07/14/2008 | In this episode I talk with Ben Lehman of These Are Our Games (aka TAO games). We touch on his game about the lives of microcelebrity extreme athletes, XXXXtreme Street Luge, while conducting a wider-ranging discussion about microcelebrity of another kind, playtesting, ashcanning, and... |
| Episode 013: Jason Morningstar on Grey Ranks | 57:35 | 06/12/2008 | In this episode, I talk with Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games about Grey Ranks. Grey Ranks is a game about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis in World War II (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). In the game, you play teenage kids (roughly the equivalent of the... |
| Episode 012: Anna Kreider on Thou Art But A Warrior | 56:45 | 05/29/2008 | In this episode, I speak with Anna Kreider about her supplement for Ben Lehman's game Polaris, Thou Art But A Warrior. Thou Art But a Warrior is a game where your Muslim knights seek (ultimately, in good Polaris style, in vain) to fend off Christian crusaders. We recorded this on the first... |
| Episode 011: Kat & Michael Miller on Serial | 58:55 | 05/14/2008 | In this episode I talk with Kat and Michael Miller about their upcoming game, Serial. Serial, which will be published by Incarnadine Press, is a game based on true crime investigations of serial killers. The game is careful to focus most of the interest on the victims of these... |
| Episode 010: Vincent Baker on kill puppies for satan | 1:01:48 | 05/01/2008 | In this episode, I interview Vincent Baker of Lumpley Games about his first published roleplaying game, kill puppies for satan. This was kind of a silly one, as many of the questions I'd ordinarily ask a little weird in this context. You'll see. This episode is 01:01:48 long and 84.8... |
| Episode 009: Michael O'Sullivan on Criminal Element | 1:03:51 | 04/17/2008 | In this episode, I talk to Michael O'Sullivan of Full Motor Productions about his heist game, Criminal Element (whose development version is currently available as a free download). This is the first show I've done from my home and I was very grateful to Michael for coming up... |
| Episode 008: Brennan Taylor on Mortal Coil | 56:55 | 04/03/2008 | In this episode, I speak with Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games about his game, Mortal Coil. As Brennan is also a co-owner of Indie Press Revolution, we also discuss a bit about how that business works and what implications there are for him as a client and owner of IPR. This... |
| Episode 007: Rob Donoghue and Fred Hicks on Spirit of the Century (plus a little Dresden Files) | 1:07:40 | 03/21/2008 | On this show I interviewed Rob Donoghue and Fred Hicks of Evil Hat Productions about Spirit of the Century. We also touch on some previewey stuff for the Dresden Files RPG as well. This episode is 93 MB big and 1:07:40 long. 00:01:47: What Spirit of the Century... |