Geekerati Radio

Last Episode, I discussed an unpublished Superhero game that I wish had been released by Wizards of the Coast in the mid-2000s. Today, I’d like to follow that up with a bit of gaming history with a post about a truly unique Super Hero role playing game and how I came to find a copy in the "out of print" bin at a local game store. To hear more, visit  geekeratimedia.com

This episode features two Tiny d6 Role Playing Game system interviews. The first interview is with Alan Bahr of Gallant Knight Games who discusses Beach Patrol, Tiny Supers, and the overall Gallant Knight Games catalog. The second interview is with John D Payne and Gregory Israel of the Micronomicon Kickstarter Project, a collection of spells, archetypes, and Micro-Settings for the Tiny Dungeon Se...

I’m a huge fan of superhero roleplaying games. It is my favorite genre to play in and I’m constantly on the look out for new games in the genre. I’ve frequently stated that there was a time when I owned every superhero game on the market. That’s no longer true, but I do own a lot and a lot of them are very interesting. Tobias Radesäter’s Supercrew definitely falls into the interesting category.

In this episode, I discuss Robin D Laws article " Four Players and a Murder Hobo " that was published on Pelgrane Press's website in 2016. While I believe that Robin is one of the best writers of game master advice in the history of table top gaming, I think he missed a key factor in this article. Yes, the article is 8 years old, but the dilemma it presents is still salient.

This episode is a discussion of the long out of print Flash Gordon and the Warriors of Mongo role playing game. It was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited and written by FGU publisher Scott Bizar and Lin Carter and is likely the first licensed role playing game. Though the game was published in 1977, it is very different from D&D and other role playing games at the time. And an interesting D&...

Doc Wyatt and Gavin Hignight are the co-owners of Wandering Planet Toys a small action figure company that is releasing some very exciting lines of action figures. Their first foray into the field was a line of The Prisoner action figures and they are following it up with a new Nancy Drew action figure Kickstarter campaign. I chat with them about their inspirations and why they think Nancy Drew is...

Lou Anders visits Geekerati Media to discuss Sword and Sorcery Fiction. Anders edited an excellent compilation of new Sword and Sorcery Fiction and is the author of a fun young adult series in the genre called Throne and Bones. In this interview, we touch on a definition of Sword and Sorcery and Anders provides several recommendations for readers who are interested in what's happening in the genre...

Film and Television Writer and Producer Doc Wyatt (Napoleon Dynamite, Iron Man Armored Adventures, Spider-Man, Ninjago, and Much More) stops by the Geekerati Discord Server to share his recommendations for cartoons that are worth binging during the Covid-Quarantine... and when it's over. This interview is followed by our monthly Book Review from Colleen Watts Carson and Randy Delgado's pop culture...

In this episode of Geekerati Radio, we've got some very interesting segments for your listening pleasure. In our main segment, Jared Daniel Nielson from World of Game Design discusses the republication of a rare “70s California Style D&D” game supplement called The Manual of Aurania and plans for a new edition. In her Critical Hits and Misses segment, our resident literature reviewer Colleen W...

Christian Lindke and Keith Baker discuss the new rule book for the now classic Eberron setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, as well as Keith's upcoming card game inspired by the Adventure Zone podcast. It's a great conversation that touches on some of the design decisions required when updating a setting for a new edition of a game, as well as going into many of the things tha...

Jim Pinto is an experienced and influential game designer who has some thought provoking opinions about the state of the art in role playing games. One of his opinions is that as D&D has evolved as a game, that the role of game master has become more like "work" and less like "play" and that there is an imbalance in player expectations and game master responsibilities. We discuss this phenomen...

Chris "Doc" Wyatt is a television executive producer who has worked on a wide variety of animated shows ranging from Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Spectacular Spider-man to Stretch Armstrong and Super Dinosaur . His latest work is a comic book entitled Alien Bones, a book about alien dinosaurs, pirates, and...THE END! 

This episode, we are joined by master game designer Greg Gorden who discusses the latest Torg Eternity products and his thoughts on role playing game design. Gorden's work has ranged from the James Bond 007 and DC Heroes Role Playing Game to 4th Edition D&D, Deadlands, Earthdawn, and Torg. His designs have innovated the rpg scene on several occasions and we were lucky enough to have him stop b...

In our Interview Segment we are joined by Loryn Stone and Scott Zillner of Toy Wizards to discuss California Convention Culture from Toon Con and Powermorphicon to Comic Con and everything between. Loryn and Scott host a premiere website on toy collecting and run several excellent conventions in Southern California. Christian Lindke and David Nett discuss how to run engaging mysteries in your role...

Geekerati was founded in 2007 and streamed 160 episodes before going on hiatus in 2014. It was meant to be a brief hiatus as the Geekerati panelists coordinated their busy schedules, but it ended up lasting almost five years. With this episode Geekerati returns with new Bi-Weekly prerecorded episodes with new guests and new segments. We are proud to relaunch with an interview with our friend Dom Z...

 The early days of Superhero themed role playing games are a case study in innovation and collaborative design. A couple of years ago on Geekerati Media I demonstrated some of the influence that Superhero 2044 influenced the Champions roleplaying game’s combat system, but the Superhero 2044 rule book wasn’t the only thing to influence the Champions system. A key influence was Wayne...

On October 15, 2007, Jeff Mariotte visited our show for a short 15-minute interview that helped us kick off a conversation about Vampire movies and television shows, as well as other nasty things that go bump in the night. Jeff Mariotte is a former editor-in-chief at IDW Comics and the co-author of two published 30 Days of Night media tie-in novels, Rumors of the Undead and Immortal Remains . In t...

In this episode, the Geekerati panel chats with Professor Richard Scott Nokes about representations of Medieval life in popular culture. We pay particular attention to television and film in part two of the episode. Dr. Nokes is a professor of medieval literature at Troy University.  Dr. Nokes enjoys reading, film, and all things medieval and he was a wonderful guest. We had some bandwidth is...

In 2007, GEEK MONTHLY magazine published their Geek Quiz article which readers could use to measure how deep their geek goes. We used that quiz as a way to launch a conversation and then proceeded to stump one another with a series of trivia questions. We all thought we would do well with each others' questions, but alas and alack we were wrong. In the overtime, we continue our discussion of the F...

Listen to this blast from the past as the Geekerati panel discusses Win Scott Eckert's book Myths for the Modern Age and the long lasting legacy of pulp fiction. It's a conversation about John Carter of Mars, Tarzan, Doc Savage, The Shadow, French Pulps, and Dashiell Hammett. Who could ask for more?

On August 27th, 2007 we were visited by author, editor, and game designer James Lowder to discuss Hobby Games: The 100 Best . It's been over 10 years since the episode aired, but Hobby Games remains one of the best starting points for people interested in the table top gaming hobby. The episode also included recommendations from the Geekerati panel regarding film, tv, books, games, and comics.&nbs...

We all have opinions about shows that should be remade, comic books that should be made into films/tv shows, or about how movies and shows missed the mark in adapting our favorite properties. In this episode, the geek panel discusses their own favorite old school IP that they think should be brought to the screen.

Shawna Benson takes the helm this episode and after a couple of technical glitches (dead air is the devil) discusses things that we think are Treasures that many people think are Trash. The hosts hope that you will come to love some of these things too. Such is the plight of the geek!

Our panel of resident geeks discuss alien invasions in film, television, and games.

Before Alphas , before Fatman Beyond . and long before Treadstone , Marc Bernardin was a guest on the Geekerati Radio show. He discussed his transition from comic book journalist to comic book writer. At the time of the episode, Marc had just recently written the HIGHWAYMEN and MONSTER ATTACK NETWORK comic books.