BardQuest Empire
Fajer Al-Kaisi and Erik Jensen talk DnD and storytelling (and get weird) with creative professionals.
Episodes
FINAL SHOW OF THE SEASON! Wherein we discuss Anthony's work on "Star Trek: Discovery," our formative years as artists and players, how DnD has evolved over time and why rogues always wind up being the sassy one. Plus we talk mycelium network and how all nature is connected! ALSO we almost stat Jackie Gleason.
Wherein we discuss FARCRY 6 with one of its lead designers Dominic Laforge! We dig into game theory and the interplay between video game world design and table top role playing games. Also how your hero is only as interesting as your villain, how Dm and player skills turn into career skills, and how the players actions and experiences help to shape the game masters world.
Fajer and Erik interview Omar Metwally, wherein we discuss DnD on your resume, how the party inevitably adopts a goblin (R.I.P. Pickles), how humans are secretly furries, how imagination is a muscle, and in which we apply the DnD alignment and class system to our work.
In this episode of BQE we have an awesome talk with REAL LIFE MULTICLASSER and our local Twenty Sided Store owner, Lauren Bilanko, about making your TTRPG's accessible, nerding out, wrangling DM’s, gaming in the 20th century, and how the ghost of Gary Gygax moves and inspires us all.
This episode our guest is THE WALKING DEAD's Chief Content Officer and Executive Producer Scott Gimple! CERTAIN RUMORS ARE CONFIRMED! And other gems discussed! Among them: myth-making as world-building, how to rage quit in DnD, gaming furniture that taunts us, comics as a gateway drug, and the rarest commodity of all: the time to play in a busy schedule.
We talk with Dramaturg / Artistic Producer (and occasional tiefling) Jesse Alick about dramatic player characters, Star Trek’s Kobayashi Maru, impossible choices, hurtling asteroids, and Prof X’s alignment. We also maybe possibly get carried away with the sound effects board.
A deeper dive with Mike Daisey in which we discuss: hoarding monster parts, that one player in every party (you know the one) and how to handle medieval fantasy physics. Also the rarely used level 0 characters creation session!
Fajer and Erik interview master storyteller Mike Daisey about the embarrassment of being a real-life bard, post-apocalyptic RPG’s and “weapons speed” rules that everyone ignored in the 80’s.
Erik and Fajer interview Orange is the new Black's Joel Marsh Garland on embarrassing community theater, home brew dungeons and dragons, and his up coming role in Joe Exotic.
Actor-Writers Fajer Al Kaisi (The Report, Magic the Gathering) and Erik Jensen (Walking Dead, Mr. Robot) talk Dungeons and Dragons and storytelling in the premiere of BardQuest Empire.
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