The Secret Lair

The overlords are joined by Chris Perrin, formerly of the Canon Puncture podcast, currently of Echoes from the Rifts® and Game Cryer. There is no sign of the fabled “third Chris” (or “fourth [K/Ch]ris”, depending upon which fables you subscribe to) but that is almost certainly not because the final Chris took a wrong turn while wandering unescorted through the well-lit halls of The Secret Lair and stumbled across an experimental, non-photosensitive grue. That sort of thing simply doesn’t happen around here.

Promo: Fried Green Zombies by John Allen at Podiobooks.

Discussion: The Hatfields and The McCoys (AKA, Traditional Gamers vs. Story Gamers)

• The Overlords tend to be Traditional Gamers. Everything is conducted in the dark through a hole in the sheet.
• Perrin plays both sides of the fence. “A plague,” says he. “A plague ‘pon both your houses!”

Games We Mention

• Spirit of the Century (Evil Hat Productions)
• Prime Time Adventures (Dog-eared Designs)
• Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing)
• Savage Worlds (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
• Mutants & Masterminds (Green Ronin Publishing)
• Burning Wheel (Archaia Studios Press)
• Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast)
• Contenders (Prince of Darkness Games)
• The Storyteller System (White Wolf)
• WarHammer Fantasy  (Fantasy Flight Games)
• Polaris: Chilvaric Tragedy at Utmost North (These Are Our Games)
• A Flower for Mara, Dirty Secrets, and Legends of Alyria (all by Seth Ben-Ezra)
• With Great Power… (Incarnadine Press)
• Inspectres (Memento Mori Theatricks)

Podcasts We Mention

• Fear the Boot
• Sons of Kryos
• Canon Puncture
• Voice of the Revolution
• Theory From the Closet
• Master Plan
• Dragon’s Landing

…And Other Stuff

• The Forge
• Scott Sigler. Wait. What the hell? How did he get in here?
• GenCon
• Origins Game Fair
• Ron Edwards (System Does Matter)

Song: “Rich Fantasy Lives” by Rob Balder.

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• Our theme music is “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Jonathan Coulton. Backmasking? What backmasking?

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• How should we celebrate Overlord Miller’s return? http://is.gd/sp8s Please note that “Surprise Firing Squad” is not an option. #

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• The Secret Poll has been posted. By what means should Overlord Miller return to Cleveland? http://is.gd/r0zk #
• It’s official: @Nycteris is our new Minister of Secrets and Subterfuge. You may ask her how she gained the post, but she’ll never tell. #

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• The Secret Quiz has begun. Here are the rules: http://is.gd/pK40 Here is the first question: http://is.gd/pK4q #
• I’m told that the Temporal Shifter will not be repaired for a week. Until then, every day at the Lair will be Monday. Today I hate Science. #
• A collaborative fiction experiment has begun, courtesy of Dr. @blob. http://is.gd/pSty #
• Ctrl-Z. Undo. Undo. Come on, undo already. Undo! UNDO! #
• Quick announcement: The development and quality assurance teams on Project: Vaporizor are hereby terminated. Also: duck and cover. #
• @blob Reassign the affected henchmen to the textiles lab and have our botanists begin work on a fast-replicating mulberry clone immediately. in reply to blob #
• @blob Leave Botany on the SDS and give the mulberry to Biogenetics. Tell them they’ll all get new silk ties if they’re done by Thursday. in reply to blob #
• @blob And if Dr. Holland gives you any problems tell him we’ll slate that bio-restorative project he’s been harping about for third quarter. in reply to blob #
• I’m leaving for the day. Molecular disruptors are armed and in active scanning mode. If you must pass my office door, do so at a brisk pace. #
• Can anyone tell me just this “quantum defibrillator” is for? And does it have anything to do with the wormhole on sublevel twenty-three? #
• We won’t know whether our April Fool’s prank—going back in time to change the date of April Fool’s Day to April 2nd—worked until tomorrow. #
• Question 2 of The Secret Quiz (Week 1): asked and answered. @blob leads the pack, but Question 1 is still unclaimed. http://is.gd/pK4q #
• You may have gotten the last laugh, but know this: we got the first laugh. Why? Because we THINK FASTER than you do. #
• Oops. #
• Well, at least we know what happened to the dinosaurs now. We should probably mothball this current project. #

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