Friendship & Firelight

I hope you like tree punks, punks. Keith tells a genre-defining tale of a steampunk detective, James Dashing, and his harrowing encounter with a group of young ruffians. Then, we get angry. And... you'll probably still like us when we're angry, even though we take to task the unnecessary sequels, seasons, and reboots of superhero movies and a beloved anime.

This week, in the Dungeonmaster's Basement, we talk about starting a new campaign, and the challenges and successes we've had therein. Then, we talk about travels and locales. What journeys, locations, and vehicles bring to the feel of a fiction piece.

It's our most shameful episode ever! First, Dani admits to having a secret longing for airsoft, and the other hosts do their best to talk her out of it... kind of. Then, we talk about movies from that most ridiculous of decades, the 80's. From Judge Dredd, to- Wait, that was a 90's movie? FUUUUUUUUUUUU

This week, we discuss crafting mechanics in video games, in our Critical Condition segment, and spend a lot of time complaining about the state of video games in general. Then, we talk about music, which is maybe a bit too broad to have any real meaningful discussion about. That is, until someone says the words "Ted Cruz, Zodiac Killer", and all sanity swiftly ducks out of the conversation. Shit gets pretty wild, yo.

This week, we bring back our segment Mechanic Mechanics, and try to figure out how automatic firearms should work in roleplaying games. Then, we talk about board games. How many game pieces is too many? Only one way to find out!

This week, our orphan finally gets adopted. That's right, we're bringing back the Star Wars segment, so that probably means we should give it a name. Then, we talk about our non-fiction areas of nerd interest, and strangely enough, we spend most of the conversation talking about magic and robots anyway.

This week, we talk about the Star Wars animated series, in a segment which shall forever go unnamed. Like a dirty, dirty orphan. Then, we discuss nerd culture that sets a great tone. Apparently, when we try to think of fiction that delivers the most impactful ambient emotion, the main thing that comes up is 90's cyberpunk. We apologize for nothing.

Hey, Matthew's back this week, but that didn't stop us from including our guest host, Mika Cave, in our weekly discussion. We go back, yet again, to the Dungeonmaster's Basement, where we discuss our roleplaying comfort zones, and give some sage advice to Mika, who is himself a young, burgeoning DM. Then, we talk about our favorite cartoons, and Stephen Universe sparks an in-depth discussion about trans representation between Dani and Mika.

We've got a guest host this week, and he's an expert on space! Caleb Boswell joins Keith and Dani to discuss D&D, and the new Star Wars movie.

Adam Sandler is a cowboy now? Goddamn it, why? We 'watched' The Ridiculous 6 and we 'review' it in our new segment, Realviews. Then we talk about villains, and we learn which movie makes Keith go into a Dani-level berserker rage.

This week, in the Dungeonmaster's basement, we talk about the gamemastering projects we're currently working on. Keith talks about writing the world around his dating sim, Matthew talks about roping new players into the terrifying world of CoC, and Dani mentions a new campaign with details too secret to discuss. Then, we talk about megagames. What are those? Well, they're like games, but bigger. We discuss a LARP-based megagame that Dani is developing, and the implications of bringing such a huge project to fruition. Is it weird that we're doing an entire episode about things that most of our audience will likely never experience? Probably.

Good news for this week, Dani has a fever, and it makes the bulk of the episode appropriately surreal. For example, we talk about the worst possible genres of music across all realities, and it somehow digresses into a conversation about showering with Keanu Reeves. Then, we discuss claymation movies. Are they great, or just really creepy? Probably both?

We've just released the first episode of our Undertale let's play! Find it on youtube, or on our website, http://fnfpod.com/index.php/category/videos/

We do an extra-long Main Discourse this week, where we talk about the Legend of Zelda series of video games. We discuss the games we've played, and the influence of the series, then we just go to town on Skyward Sword and unload years worth of pent-up criticism. All we can say is, bring a parachute.

It's time for another in-person recording! And that means the nonsense is as thick as ever, as we discuss the Legend of the Gobbler, and the true history of the Wawa convenience store. Then, a mysterious pounding sound in the background prompts a discussion of zombies. Their mythology, their place in pop culture, and how we'd revitalize the decaying genre.

This week, we introduce another new segment. We're calling it Mechanic Mechanics I guess, and we discuss the differences between melee and gun based LARPs. Then we talk about fantasy anime. What series we like, what series we don't, and how did murder helmets get past R&D?

This week, we introduce our new segment, The Dungeonmaster's Basement, where we discuss all aspects of running an RPG. Keith has a new idea for a DnD campaign, and it's a little... different from what he usually writes. Then, we talk about the video games from our childhood that influenced us the most, and made us into the nerds we are today.

This week, we have another Critical Condition, looking at the recent episodes of Adventure Time. But honestly, we spend most of the segment talking about how much we all love Adventure Time. So maybe we're not very good at Critical Condition. Then, we talk about the recent changes to the game Warhammer, with its 'Age of Sigmar' update. Are they killing the franchise? They sure have made some questionable choices, which we discuss at length. Also, check out our let's play of Undertale on youtube! It comes out this Friday, November 20 (tentatively). It is a game we all really love, so we have a ton of fun, and you'll probably get to hear us all cry a whole lot.

Dani was real busy this week, so we didn't have time to record a full episode. Even so, we pack more segments than we have ever attempted into this short, delirious conversation. Nothing more to say except... Taco Batman?

In this week's episode, we discuss The Babadook in Critical Condition. We're not saying it's a bad movie, in fact, it's really good. But could it have been better? Then, We talk about highbrow, smarty-pants culture, and when it gets too deep for us.