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Fandible 2015 Geeky Gift Guide

Whether you’re looking to find a gift for that special someone, or doing some self-care with retail therapy, ’tis the season for shopping lists. Welcome to the Fandible 2015 Geeky Gift Guide. Make sure you read all the way to the end for an opportunity to help fund your upcoming shopping spree!

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Comedy and the Podcaster

Podcasting is truly the people’s tool for reaching out to the world. All a person needs is a mic, a computer and some recording software and they can unleash their mouth-sounds onto an unsuspecting populace. Hell, the mic comes with the computer and the software is found on the internet for free, so I guess the required gear is: Computer, mouth-sounds.

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The Dice of Despair

I am, in general, not a superstitious person. I don’t mind black cats, broken mirrors (beyond the obvious “well shit I have to pay for that”) and I don’t believe that cracks that I walk on have anything to do with my mother’s chiropractic health. I believe firmly that science and reasonable deduction can explain anything, from the strangest occurrence to the weirdest of situations. With this in mind, I would like to posit the following: I have been cursed, but I may have found a way to rid myself of this otherworldly affliction.

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Niche Stuffing – How To Balance the Party

So you join a game and someone’s already playing the character you made? Here are some of Billy’s thoughts on the concept of ‘dick stepping’… or… uh… niche stuffing.

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Fandible Picks of the Month June 2015

Welcome to the newest Fandible feature – Fandible Picks of the Month! Every month, members of the Fandible crew will tell you about the newest and coolest things we’ve discovered, sharing the wealth with you. Keep reading for new music, podcasts, TV shows, books and movies to look out for.   Fandible Picks of the…

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Genre Savvy Characters Must Die

Is the genre savvy character a useful plot device, or just a tool? When does the character outlive their usefulness and become more of a liability to good story telling than anything else?

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The Creative Gamer’s Dilemma: When Tabletop Isn’t Enough

tabletop roleplaying offers a wide variety of avenues for creativity. Character backgrounds are an exercise in story construction, actual gaming a method of improvisational acting, game mastering a means of planning, and reacting to dice rolls is an experiment in anger management and grief counseling. These are tangible benefits of skills one can develop by engaging in tabletop gaming. But like all good things, there are limits to its benefits.

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GTRT Ep 14: Giving Players Agency, Literary RPG’s, and RPG frustrations

5 geeks, one roundish table. In this week’s Geeky Topics Round Table, we talk about how to give players agency, what literary works would we make a rpg, and RPG frustrations.

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