Bedrock Podcast

I do a late-night episode of Strange World of Songling. I talk about some of my ideas for making the setting work as an afterlife following player character deaths.   The music introduction was Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, transcribed for violin and piano by M. Press; Source: The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org in the Goldstein string duo directory.; Creator: Roxana Pavel Goldstein (violin) and Monica Goldstein (piano);License: The license information states that this file is "available for free download subject to the EFF OAL" (Open Audio License), which in turn is interchangeable with the CC-BY-SA-2.0.  

I talk about the story "Candidate for the Post of City God" from Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio. This is part of a series of podcasts where I will build a setting for our game Strange Tales of Songling. This first podcast is more about the foundational premise of the setting. Each episode will cover one, maybe two, stories and use that as inspiration. 

We talk about Demonic Toys, something between Child's Play and Rosemary's Baby.  Music from Part of Twelve Pieces for piano, op. 40 No. 9, Valse in F-sharp minor under the Creative Commons License:  Tschikovsky Op. 40 Copyright: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Source: http://aux.incompetech.com/royalty-free/op.40_waltz.m4a from http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/piano.html License: CC-BY 2.0 {{CC-BY-2.0}}  

We talk about The Exorcist III, a blend of crime thriller and the supernatural.  We mention this re-review from Red Letter Media during the episode. 

We talk about an absolute classic: Rosemary's Baby. In this episode we furiously debate whether the events are real or just going on in Rosemary's mind. 

We talk about chapters nine and ten of the Ravenloft Realm of Terror Boxed set: Spells in Ravenloft and Magic Items in Ravenloft. 

We kick off a month of demons and the devil with Night of the Demons. 

The mists of sleep descend on Brendan and threaten to spirit him to the Nightmare Lands as we talk about chapters dealing with fear and horror checks, curses, Vistani and more. 

We talk about the 80s classic Return of the Living Dead. 

We venture into Spaghetti Westerns, and talk about the classic Sergio Leone film Once Upon a Time in the West. Find out how this relates to wuxia. 

Joel and I terrorize you with our opinions about the Ravenloft Realm of Terror Boxed set. In this episode we cover chapters 1-3. Joel has never read or played Ravenloft before and I am a long-time Ravenloft GM, so we thought we'd have an interesting discussion about it from two very different perspectives. 

We continue out zombie-month viewing with 28 Days Later. 

We talk about the 2002 film Resident Evil, Starring Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez. 

Jeremy and I talk about the film Swordsman and the Enchantress, a 1978 wuxia movie starring Ti Lung and directed by Chor Yuen, and talk about the book on which it was based: the Eleventh Son. You can find our own wuxia RPG, Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades in both print and PDF.  Music by Pipa Playing Witch. 

We celebrate Zombies this month, starting with Night of the Comet, a 1984 film directed by Thom Eberhardt.  

We discuss the 1970 Chang Cheh movie The Wandering Swordsman, starring David Chiang and Lily Li-Li. It features a care-free protagonist who gets embroiled in a plot to rob an escort caravan. It is notable for its use of lightness martial arts. We also managing crimes in campaigns, low-ranked fodder, escorts, and the use of wanted posters.  Jeremy has a new cyberpunk cultivation novel coming out. To pre-order check out Heretic Peacekeeper on Amazon. 

In this episode we argue that metal genres should not be defined in reverse. We also discuss how reaction videos have given broader appeal to heavy metal classics.  This episode was provoked by the Banger TV Doom Metal Debate. 

We answer some question about Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades and talk about adventure structures and our GMing styles.  Music by Pipa Playing Witch. 

We discuss an interesting science fiction horror blend from the 90s: Event Horizon, and one of us doesn't survive. 

In the movie, Lifeforce, space vampires come to earth, to make love and war.