Completely Conspicuous 605: Playing the Role
Completely Conspicuous
English - January 25, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSociety & Culture conspicuous culture pop sports completely jay kumar music news rock Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, I'm joined by guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the resurgence of role-playing games.
Show notes:
- Recorded in Salem, Mass.
- Last time we recorded for the show was two years ago
- Time is passing quickly
- Jay: Going into the office once a week now
- Matt: It was an extrovert's world for a long time
- Matt's still writing YA books
- Matt has been running Dungeons & Dragons games since pandemic started
- Unprepared for the number of people who wanted to jump in
- Matt: Didn't have enough friends to play in high school
- Was going to start doing it for corporate retreats when COVID hit
- A legal dispute over licensing with Hasbro
- Jay: Was a total comics nerd in high school
- D&D made a comeback thanks to Stranger Things
- A D&D movie is coming out with Chris Pine
- Tom Hanks starred in Mazes & Monsters, a "Satanic panic" movie about D&D
- Stopped buying comics when there were bills to pay
- Matt: Plenty of non-D&D role-playing games are popular
- Played Vampire: The Masquerade in the '90s
- Matt does a podcast called The Ravenfolly Institute that follows D&D campaigns as they happen
- Matt's super-productive in his spare time
- Working on an "adult" gritty fantasy book
- Book industry is in "dire need of reform"
- The first of Matt's books is getting an audiobook
- Struggling to get through Dune (the book)
- Matt's learning how to play a Dune role-playing game
- Listens to a lot of RPG podcasts; helps you learn the game
- D&D has had peaks and valleys of popularity since the mid-70s
- On its 5th edition; went back to older style but streamlined
- The stigma of being a nerd is gone now
- Board games in general have become popular again
- You get what you put into playing RPGs
- A lot of mystery-themed games
- Matt: Storytelling is storytelling, whether it's books or RPGs or podcasts
- Matt's the D&Dealer
- Gotta have the "math rocks"
- Also does sister podcast Characters & Class
Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
This week, I'm joined by guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the resurgence of role-playing games.
Show notes:
- Recorded in Salem, Mass.
- Last time we recorded for the show was two years ago
- Time is passing quickly
- Jay: Going into the office once a week now
- Matt: It was an extrovert's world for a long time
- Matt's still writing YA books
- Matt has been running Dungeons & Dragons games since pandemic started
- Unprepared for the number of people who wanted to jump in
- Matt: Didn't have enough friends to play in high school
- Was going to start doing it for corporate retreats when COVID hit
- A legal dispute over licensing with Hasbro
- Jay: Was a total comics nerd in high school
- D&D made a comeback thanks to Stranger Things
- A D&D movie is coming out with Chris Pine
- Tom Hanks starred in Mazes & Monsters, a "Satanic panic" movie about D&D
- Stopped buying comics when there were bills to pay
- Matt: Plenty of non-D&D role-playing games are popular
- Played Vampire: The Masquerade in the '90s
- Matt does a podcast called The Ravenfolly Institute that follows D&D campaigns as they happen
- Matt's super-productive in his spare time
- Working on an "adult" gritty fantasy book
- Book industry is in "dire need of reform"
- The first of Matt's books is getting an audiobook
- Struggling to get through Dune (the book)
- Matt's learning how to play a Dune role-playing game
- Listens to a lot of RPG podcasts; helps you learn the game
- D&D has had peaks and valleys of popularity since the mid-70s
- On its 5th edition; went back to older style but streamlined
- The stigma of being a nerd is gone now
- Board games in general have become popular again
- You get what you put into playing RPGs
- A lot of mystery-themed games
- Matt: Storytelling is storytelling, whether it's books or RPGs or podcasts
- Matt's the D&Dealer
- Gotta have the "math rocks"
- Also does sister podcast Characters & Class
Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.