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The strange excitement of costuming Unhallowed Metropolis

If you’ve listened to part 1 of our latest Unhallowed Metropolis game, you’ve undoubtedly heard me geeking the hell out about some 19th century costuming book. In case your interested where all of the costume inspirations came from, check out the full book on Archive.Org Fancy Dresses Described: Or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls….

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Be Productive in November!

Most of you are probably aware of the infamous NaNoWriMo – where insane writers take it upon themselves to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. I can call them insane, because I count myself among them this year! But did you know there’s a similar event in November specially for game designers? Say hello to…

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Post-Sandy Fandible Check-in

As most of our listeners and readers know, the Fandible crew is based in New York City. While there was some devastating damage to the City, all of us here at Fandible made it through unscathed. Our biggest concern at the moment is whether we’ll be able to get together on Saturday as usual! Keep…

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Using player input in your game: Behind the scenes of Supernatural If These Walls Could Talk

I’ve been sitting on the basic story for Fandible’s latest game since May, when Billy and I visited Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. It’s an eerie place, perfect for setting a ghost story. And as described at the end of the podcast, there was a plaque in the prison that took a starring role for…

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Proper Endings: Mass Effect and Tabletop Roleplaying

As you may or may not have heard these last couple of months, there has been some dissatisfaction with the ending of a certain popular Science Fiction RPG video game. What was suppose to be the game’s grand opus to end a popular franchise became a blade that divided the community and created a tide…

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Very Late October news

So, in hindsight, posting something like this in the middle of October is not the best timing, but the rules of podcasts are not for mortal men!!!! Plus, you know, things to do and all that. Since it is October, the Fandible crew has decided to run the unusual thing of posting what games we…

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Review of Revolution: The Importance of Characters AND Setting

So I was watching NBC’s newest attempt to rekindle the fire that Lost was able to ignite in the populace. This attempt is Revolution, and for those that don’t know about it, the gist is that the world fifteen years ago had something occur that stopped all electronics. So, as usually occurs when people lose…

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Respect and Humor

I don’t know who said it (Lord knows it would take me an entire Google search to find out!) but the phrase goes like this: “If you want an unoffensive joke, then one guy and and another guy go into a place. That’s it.” (Ed. note from Angela: That joke’s sexist! Why couldn’t a woman go…

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