RPG Storytime - The Podcast

I've been enjoying making RPG Storytime so much that I want to make it portable for people to listen to it.  That means doing it as a podcast so people can listen to it in cars on their way to work, and in the office...

Of course, that sort of changed during the time of Covid, when everyone ended up staying at home.  But I was told people still listen to podcasts at home, so I launched the channel anyway.

RPG Storytime takes the stories that were generated in role playing games and turns them into narrated stories, much like audio books or radio dramas.  The podcast can't use images and has fewer sound effects than the Youtube version, but it provides a sort of atmosphere through its radio feel.

You can find the channel and all the episodes here: https://rpgstorytime.buzzsprout.com/

I hope you enjoy it, and happy gaming everybody!

RPG Storytime - Star Wars

One of my favorite projects to work on is RPG Storytime.  It's where I take stories generated out of role playing games and turn them into narrated videos with music, sound effects, illustrations, and miniatures.

The latest campaign is an epic sized Star Wars one where we follow all the characters within a pair of sectors.  We use all the Star Wars games made by FFG that involve miniatures.

The webisodes that came out at the end of last year are from my favorite part of this story.  In it, a woman named Ellor Sundown is hunting the man who experimented on her, an unnatural Force wielder named Rixar Traln.

The beginning of the story is below:

 

Dirty Old War - Pictures from Vietnam

Dirty Old War released earlier this year.  In it, I tell the stories of various people who lived through the Vietnam conflict.  A few of these people shared their photographs with me, allowing me to use them in the book.  These are some examples.

Lance Block:

   

Glen Bailey:

   

Dirty Old War - Tales of Vietnam

Dirty Old War tells various stories of people's lives during the conflict in Vietnam. Rather than talking about the politics or the big picture, it tells of individuals whose lives were affected irrevocably.

I chose to write this book when I got to know people who had been there and began to hear their tales. I learned quickly that the war was far more complex than is usually discussed.

Dirty Old War is now available on Amazon, and you can find it at: https://amzn.to/3qf4jHU

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Disappeared for a While

"Well... I'm back."

The immortal words of Samwise to close out The Lord of the Rings.  It seems those are my constant words here on Blogger as I swing between intending to continue blogging and wanting to give it up.

To be honest, I would rather leave blogging behind as I'd rather be writing my books rather than talking about them.  I believe that the main reason a lot of people don't fulfill their dreams of writing is because they're so busy doing everything around it rather than doing the writing itself.  Blogging is one of those distractions.

However, it is good to tell people about what's going on and provide behind the scenes looks, so here I am once again.  (Plus, it seems that there are a few more people reading my blogs now, so here you go.)

My time during Covid has been used intensely to get through projects and release them.  Millions of people out there have been captive audiences for a while, so there will never be a better time to provide entertainment.

As such, I've made more videos for Bandwagon Games, started a podcast for RPG Storytime, finished my book on Vietnam, gotten most of the way through the latest Relic Worlds book, and built a little studio in which to do everything.

I'm going to be posting about all of this over the next few weeks, so I hope you enjoy it.  Take a look at the links and you'll see the results of all my hard labor.

Enjoy!