A Geek Tragedy

Not long ago we made the journey to Cheltenham to attend the Fantasy Forest, specifically as part of the brand new Post Apoc section, “The Wastes”. Needless to say: We had a LOT of fun; so much so in fact that when we got back we spent several hours, accidentally, shooting the breeze about how incredible our experiences were. Whilst we were there we also managed to record a pod in front of a small...

Join Stephen, Mark and Holly as they welcome our first ever guests on to the pod! Lee and Mark from Molinarius Games, we speak to them about their geekdoms, Shoal, Ocean Pods and Time Troopers among their other games! We had a great time and a laugh with these two wonderful and wholesome folk! After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay...

The Podcasters have returned to the rooms in their homes where they record in an attempt to rescue the final episode of Star Wars content from the clutches of the excellent music of Jon Williams. Which they could talk about forever but have moved onto books and Disney. Little did Mark know that the author TIMOTHY ZAHN had secretly written a best selling trilogy of books in the 90’s nor that the Cl...

In this very warm episode, the trio return to discuss more things Star Wars! Today we dive head first into the world of music and the affect it has on the scene and the audience and how this effected our rather moist trio! After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics, tv and books, thr...

Grab your helmets and Light Sabres! Our Trio of Geek Tragedist are launching themselves with full force into the world of Star Wars! This week we look into what inspired George Lucas and how the franchise grew from the original three films. After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics,...

This week our trio of Geek Tragedist are back diving into the eldritch, mind bending and insane inducing work of HP Lovecraft. After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics, tv and books, three geeks have gathered in one place to talk about the world they live in. Join Mark Cordory, Hol...

This week our trio of Geek Tragedist dive into the eldritch, mind bending and insane inducing work of HP Lovecraft. So much was talked about this became a two part episode! look out next week for Necro-nomi-nomi-con! Part Deux After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics, tv and books,...

Join us for this very special episode as Stephen and Holly Properly discuss with Mark their recent trip to the Games Expo at Birmingham! With special interviews from Questiny & Molinarius Games After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics, tv and books, three geeks have gathered in...

After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics, tv and books, three geeks have gathered in one place to talk about the world they live in. Join Mark Cordory, Holly Properly, and Stephen Canfield as they discuss everything that makes up their Geek Tragedy. In this episode the trio discuss...

After a lifetime spent gaming, larping, writing, prop building, film making, roleplaying, coding, cosplay, convention wandering and indulging in films, comics, tv and books, three geeks have gathered in one place to talk about the world they live in. Join Mark Cordory, Holly Properly, and Stephen Canfield as they discuss everything that makes up their Geek Tragedy.

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall!! In this episode our hosts jump into the world of boardgames! taking a look down memory lane at their first and favourite boardgames! This episode was recorded live on Twitch on 10th Nov 2022 and we record our episodes live every Thursday at https://twitch.t...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall!! In this episode our hosts our hosts discuss all things unexpected that have occured in larps and games!  This episode was recorded live on Twitch on 3rd Nov 2022 and we record our episodes live every Thursday at https://twitch.tv/the_rising_of_chicaner...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall and Special Guest Ed!! In this episode our hosts with a brief hello from our special guest Ed! They are talking about what a pop up LARP is and what it takes to run one!  This episode was recorded live on Twitch on 27th Oct 2022 and we record our episode...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall and Special Guest Ed!! In this episode our hosts jump back into the world of Character Creation with Ed and take Ed through the interesting method of Stephen's character creation for his own D&D campaign which is a different method from your traditional D...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall! In this episode our hosts dive head first into the world of Character Creation and World Creation for different roleplay games and how different systems can have varying styles of generation from the standard "make a character and go" to "collab together to...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall! In this episode our hosts continue the conversation around tabletop and LARP and look and the origins This episode was recorded live on Twitch on 6th Oct 2022 and we record our episodes live every Thursday at https://twitch.tv/the_rising_of_chicanery which i...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall! In this episode our hosts continue the conversation around tabletop by turning back the clock on their early years of tabletop roleplay and how that influenced their LARPing career or in the case of one of our hosts, how LARPing introduced them to tabletop r...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall! In this episode our hosts turn back the clock on their early years of tabletop roleplay and how that influenced their LARPing career or in the case of one of our hosts, how LARPing introduced them to tabletop roleplay!  This episode was recorded live on...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield, Mark Cordory and Holly Goodall! In this episode our hosts reflect on the first of three special Tharinos events of the Chronicles of Daer Akmir (Rising of Chaos) which we manage to drive the wonderful Mark to!  This episode was recorded live on Twitch in August 2022 and we record our...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield and Mark Cordory with regular guest star Holly! In this episode we cover a very important topic of looking after your mental health before, during and after a LARP event. Please note that this episode contains advise from personal experiences and we are not mental health professionals.&nbsp...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! Join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield and Mark Cordory with regular guest star Holly! In this episode we continue with the theme of the week in our new season with general catch ups, Holly's Kate Bush fact of the week and the main topic! We discuss kit and costuming for Post Apocolyptic LARPs! how to think about putting your co...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill! We are back in style! with a fancy addition to our name [#notbandwagon] join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield and Mark Cordory, Regular "Alan Davis" Holly Goodall and a very special guest! Co-Founder of Dumnonni DAVE OLIVER!  In this episode we divert from our usual format for an wonderful interview conversation with Dave,...

Welcome to The Rising of Conversation Season 2: LARPing up that Hill!  We are back in style! with a fancy addition to our name [#notbandwagon] join our usual hosts: Stephen Canfield and Mark Cordory with regular guest star Holly! In this episode we kick off the new season with some chatter about the direction of the podcast, kate bush and the main topic! We discuss kit and costuming for fanta...

Welcome to Welcome to The Rising of Conversation where we talk all things LARP! SEASON 1 FINALE!  In this episode we have our hosts: Stephen Canfield and Mark Cordory with regular guest star Holly! In this episode we discuss Species and Archetypes that we play in larp, how they develop for the worlds that are created and looking into how they evolved over the last 40 years, from fantasy races...

Welcome to Welcome to The Rising of Conversation where we talk all things LARP! In this episode we have our hosts: Stephen Canfield and Mark Cordory with regular guest star Holly! In this episode we discuss the many genres of larp! how larp started with just one theme and has branched off into many different genres and subgenres, from fantasy to post apoc, sci-fi to real life american sim?! This e...