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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 19, 2017 12:58:14 GMT -5
We boomers, aka "the first TV generation," were among the last to be challenged by "the theater of the mind" that was popular radio drama and comedy. As Gygax said in his columns for the Crusader magazine (and Stan Lee has said since at least 1963) these and the pulps supplied much of the meat for our childhood pretend games which eventually evolved into tabletop RPGs because somebody tore down all the abandoned shacks and woods where we adventured. Since I still use Old Time Radio for inspiration, plot devices, and vocal characterization (Every evil sorcerer should sound like Frank Readick, the pre-Welles Shadow.) I thought the younger gamesmasters of today might sample a "new" source of inspiration, from which one can steal boldly because contemporary players will rarely anticipate the sources. Here are a number of varied OTR freebie downloads. www.rusc.com/old_time_radio_downloads.aspx |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jun 19, 2017 13:07:10 GMT -5
I love old time Radio, just like I loved to hear my father and grandfather and uncles tell stories, hundreds if not thousands of them. Wish I could remember them all, but no one seems to want to hear them anymore.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jun 19, 2017 13:14:46 GMT -5
I love old time Radio, just like I loved to hear my father and grandfather and uncles tell stories, hundreds if not thousands of them. Wish I could remember them all, but no one seems to want to hear them anymore. One of my favorites The Aldrich Family and as a little kid I loved the movies. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 19, 2017 15:03:36 GMT -5
That's the voice I have used for my first level characters!
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Post by Admin Pete on Jun 19, 2017 17:57:47 GMT -5
That's the voice I have used for my first level characters!  Mom or Henry!!??  |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 19, 2017 18:25:29 GMT -5
There were times when the difference was minor. (Pun intended.)
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Post by robkuntz on Jun 21, 2017 3:24:34 GMT -5
The verbalized> to imagining became replaced by the hot medium of the visual where we already see what is represented for us. Big difference; and one of the reasons why superficial imaging in our society rules to this day; and also why images created by others (rather than by ourselves) have been adopted as part of the personal self.
(I have explained this, in part, in a chapter to MY BOOK, "Images of Fantasy and Fact").
Good mention Mr. Mormonyoyo...
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Post by Irish Warrior on Jun 21, 2017 9:40:34 GMT -5
Old time radio was great and was much loved in the days before television. I remember listening to the radio picturing in my mind, the same as I did when my dad, granddad and uncles told stories. You could see it all in your mind and it was glorious. To a large extent a lost joy these days.
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Post by ripx187 on Jun 22, 2017 19:06:33 GMT -5
I love the radio, specifically the AM Dial. Sometimes you can find rebroadcasts of old shows, HAM is really good about it, but one can find these gems sprinkled here and there around the web. My favorite, by far, was always Coast 2 Coast AM back when it was hosted by Art Bell. He originally was just another political talk jock with a good set of pipes, but one day, he decided to start talking about this UFO he saw in the desert. He began dedicating a show once a month to the paranormal, and then once a week, but eventually it was every night. SCARY stuff! Whispered into the radio, just above that AM buzz and whine. As soon as the sun went down, you'd turn on the radio and there he was, taking callers who reported ghost stories, time travelers, secret messages encoded into rock music, abductions and horrifying surgeries are done against our will, shadow people living among us, creatures lurking in the woods just outside of town.
The images which one gets in their mind while listening can be intense, there you are, sitting outside of a trailer alone in the Desert, the Kingdom of Ni. Watching the night sky, sometimes seeing strange lights and wondering if these are secret government planes from the nearby Air Force Base, or something else? You drop your drink when a light lowers and you see that it isn't a plane, but a saucer. The hatch opens and the sounds of some weird rock music are issuing from the ship when a little gray man comes out, wearing an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and drinking a beer. He smiles at you and asks, "Hey! Wanna take a ride?"
Well? Do you?
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 22, 2017 20:45:41 GMT -5
With a drunk? I haven't survived too many near-deaths to throw my life away at this point. Why I haven't seen "the Jolsen Story" yet!
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Post by Robert the Black on Jun 27, 2017 13:48:24 GMT -5
The verbalized> to imagining became replaced by the hot medium of the visual where we already see what is represented for us. Big difference; and one of the reasons why superficial imaging in our society rules to this day; and also why images created by others (rather than by ourselves) have been adopted as part of the personal self. (I have explained this, in part, in a chapter to MY BOOK, " Images of Fantasy and Fact"). Good mention Mr. Mormonyoyo... What is the time line for publishing this book? How pages is it projected to be? |
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Post by mao on Jun 27, 2017 18:16:09 GMT -5
I actually heard an old time radio drama on the radio in the 70s, It was about Mole People, Thats all I remember, I think it might have been on the News radio station.
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 27, 2017 21:52:17 GMT -5
Please do check the link I gave, and/or google "OTR downloads." They're everywhere.
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Post by robkuntz on Jun 28, 2017 6:17:22 GMT -5
The verbalized> to imagining became replaced by the hot medium of the visual where we already see what is represented for us. Big difference; and one of the reasons why superficial imaging in our society rules to this day; and also why images created by others (rather than by ourselves) have been adopted as part of the personal self. (I have explained this, in part, in a chapter to MY BOOK, " Images of Fantasy and Fact"). Good mention Mr. Mormonyoyo... What is the time line for publishing this book? How pages is it projected to be? Hi Robert--I have about 170,000 words written on A New Ethos in Game Design it with no projected date as yet for its publication. I am in the middle of writing two other books on D&D and designing a board game--must pay the bills. I sampled a tiny part of it in "Dave Arneson's True Genius" wherein that chapter heading (as I referenced above) is noted. |
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Post by Maximum Forest Ranger on Jun 28, 2017 9:21:22 GMT -5
What is the time line for publishing this book? How pages is it projected to be? Hi Robert--I have about 170,000 words written on A New Ethos in Game Design it with no projected date as yet for its publication. I am in the middle of writing two other books on D&D and designing a board game--must pay the bills. I sampled a tiny part of it in "Dave Arneson's True Genius" wherein that chapter heading (as I referenced above) is noted. So is A New Ethos in Game Design 70% done or closer to 90% or more or less done? is it being published first or is one of the other books going to be published first? Or is the board game first? Do you have titles? I went to your website for Three Line Studio but there are no updates or things in progress page that I found. Why don't you start a thread here in your forum where we can post questions, and you could pick out the best questions (all your choice) and then as you have time jot down your answers and then publish it on your site (or add it to one of your books even) as a collaborative interview (multiple interviewers and one (or more) interviewees. I know from reading your stuff that your wife is your partner. Maybe we could pose questions for her too. |
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Post by robkuntz on Jun 28, 2017 10:38:31 GMT -5
Hi Robert--I have about 170,000 words written on A New Ethos in Game Design it with no projected date as yet for its publication. I am in the middle of writing two other books on D&D and designing a board game--must pay the bills. I sampled a tiny part of it in "Dave Arneson's True Genius" wherein that chapter heading (as I referenced above) is noted. So is A New Ethos in Game Design 70% done or closer to 90% or more or less done? is it being published first or is one of the other books going to be published first? Or is the board game first? Do you have titles? I went to your website for Three Line Studio but there are no updates or things in progress page that I found. Why don't you start a thread here in your forum where we can post questions, and you could pick out the best questions (all your choice) and then as you have time jot down your answers and then publish it on your site (or add it to one of your books even) as a collaborative interview (multiple interviewers and one (or more) interviewees. I know from reading your stuff that your wife is your partner. Maybe we could pose questions for her too. The two books I am doing are in cooperation with another outfit and the first should be announced in a few months as I am 1/3 finished with it. The board game is being done for LUCCA Comics and Games and is almost completed, so none of these three are TLS projects; New Ethos is, in my estimation, 60-70% complete, but due to its different topical sections (3) and the diagrams, and its sheer size, it has to be printed out at this point and the chapters hand-edited/organized, something I cannot do with a 21" computer screen, and then the whole corrected for content and ordering of the chapters and then re-inputted. It's a massively complex project which I sourced a bit with DATG. DATG has been an underseller in our view, so we are in no rush with New Ethos and are considering different approaches to getting it published and recognized in the future. I would be willing to answer any questions in my forum on any of my past or future works, and I believe I have a sub-forum for that. Thanks for the interest! |
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