Wed, 10 June 2009
PLEASE NOTE: The audio on this episode is CRAP. Don't judge the podcast by the audio quality here. It improves significantly with episode 2.
[1hr 6min] Season 2 kicks off with a "digital delve" into the topic of D&D Insider, PDFs, conventions, and some retail store community basics. Our sound on this was a little wonky -- a combination of Skype and the tendency of Fred's laptop fan to randomly scream at "heavy whirr" levels in the background. All timestamps very approximate. 1 min - Fred and Chris talk about WOTC's decision to take their PDFs off the market. 7 min - Fred talks about the Evil Hat PDF philosophy 13 min - Fred finally gets to the Evil Hat PDF Guarantee 18 min - Catalyst games is trying to get PDFs and retailers working together too 19 min - A bad economy is an opportunity. It's time to innovate. 20 min - Loop back around to D&D again: how has D&D Insider (DDI) affected the picture? 31 min - Wrap-up on the PDF/DDI topic. Send us your thoughts! 32 min - Chris is going to Origins, but Fred isn't. He has a good excuse. 34 min - IPR isn't going either 38 min - Let's give the Forge booth its props: it wasn't easy 40 min - What's the future of Origins? 41 min - Dreamation/Dexcon: East Coast awesome, but not really a big con 42 min - Actual predictions about Origins get made; then we sing its praises 49 min - Wrap-up on the predictioneering 51 min - Let's talk about mini-cons: Good Omens is coming to Endgame in July 53 min - Endgame's minicons in general 54 min - So let's talk about mini-con how-to's for retailers... 55 min - ... only not, because we need to talk about community-building first. 59 min - "A clean, well-lit place to play" 61 min - Going beyond the physical 62 min - The trap of distribution. It's not the one you're thinking of. 64 min - It's all about communication ... and it looks like mind control will be the topic of the next show. 65 min - Cliffhanger wrap-up! |