Darker Days Radio

Ep5 - Chris Handley (he/him), Kennedy (They/Them), and Michelle Freel (she/her) talk with Crystal Mazur (she/her/mx) about Impostor Syndrome. They discuss what Impostor Syndrome is, why creatives feel it more often, how rejection sensitivity dysphoria compares to it, and ways to help move forward when you have Impostor Syndrome. 

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You can find the link to our show notes HERE

Guest Social Media

Kennedy

• @JKmyth 

Chris Handley

•  @kris_ether

Michele

• Michelelee.net or @theothermichelelee

Articles - 

Psychology Today 

Impostor Syndrome Study 

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Chris chats with Crystal and Jeff Mueller about The Black Ballad, a new 5e epic adventure and setting from Storytellers Forge. The Black Ballad is a thematic successor to The Red Opera which features many of the same writers, and also like it, The Black Ballad draws inspiration from the music of DiArmate.

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You can back The Black Ballad here!

Mike and Chigg recommend their favorite dark fantasy RPGs! With all the hullabaloo going on in the industry, the duo decide it's time to give other games some air time and hopefully inspire folks to try other games.  

Main Show: 00:02:45

Games Discussed:
Accursed
Band of Blades
Earthdawn
Call of Cthulhu
Dark Ages Vampire
Cthulhu Invictus
Legend of the Five Rings
Mork Borg
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
...and another mystery game!

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Ep5 - Monica Valentinelli (she/her) talk with Crystal Mazur (she/her/mx) about her career, how she got into writing, her development process, her inspiration in her stories, and her overall writing process. They further talk about community building, communication and how that impacts freelancing. 

Editing Note: We recorded this with a winter storm raging around us. The internet on both tracks cut out at various times, and some of our sentences were clipped. I apologize for this and did my best with sound editing. 

If you haven’t listened to our previous episodes, please do so! 

Getting Started In the RPG Freelance Industry

Writer Pay and Negotiations 

Bonus: Gencon Freelance Mentorship Panel LIVE recording

Writer Contracts and NDAs

Bonus: Zack and Skeeter’s Publishing Panel at Gamehole Con

The Writing Process

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You can find the link to our show notes HERE

You can find the Kickstarter for Cool Name RPG HERE

Guest Social Media

Monica Valentinelli
@booksofm
https://booksofm.substack.com/

Apex Magazine: https://apex-magazine.com/back-issues/issue-135/

Link.tree with all my links: https://linktr.ee/booksofm

Link for Egypt: https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-monica-to-egypt

Apex Workshop: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/collections/online-workshops

Rambo Academy Workshops: http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/upcoming-online-classes/

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Chris is joined by Mike, to look at the lord of fate and sorcery, Tzeentch, and how to portray characters beyond the typical stereotypes we expect from the Warhammer Worlds.

 

Ep4 - Rick Heinz (he/him) and David Whitworth (he/they) talk with Crystal Mazur (she/her/mx) about the writing process. We discuss where we draw ideas from and how we keep them for the future, different types of writing, outlining styles, redlines/developer notes, writer's block, writing pitches, and our takeaways from the episode. 

Content Warning: Discussion of cockroaches swarming

Editing Note: Unfortunately, David’s internet went out toward the end of our discussion. I have edited out all the long, awkward silence in the recording, so it is just Rick and I speaking for a while. David rerecorded his ending portions, which I added in so that the sound quality may be different. 

If you haven’t listened to our previous episodes, please do so! 

Getting Started In the RPG Freelance Industry

Writer Pay and Negotiations 

Bonus: Gencon Freelance Mentorship Panel LIVE recording

Writer Contracts and NDAs

Bonus: Zack and Skeeter’s Publishing Panel at Gamehole Con

Please use the hashtag #TTRPGFM on social media when sharing

You can find the link to our show notes HERE

Guest Social Media

Rick Heinz
@crankybolt (on tiktok, twitter)
www.Rickheinzwrites.com

David Whitworth
@thedrunkenstor1
The Drunken Storytellers Podcast (where ost podcasts are)
Science paper 1: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2112/2112.04993.pdf
Science paper 2: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210

Hive Mind Games: https://www.hivemindgames.co.uk/ 

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Mike and Chigg decide to talk about aspects of horror in Shadowrun! This classic fantasy cyberpunk mashup is filled with tropes, underlying themes, and some culturally insensitive content. Get ready for some laughs and nostalgia!

Main Show: 00:07:45

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Gamehole Con Live Recording - Zack Glazar (Frog God Games) and Skeeter Green (Skeeter Green Productions) host their annual Publishers panel with guest Crystal Mazur (she/her/mx). They discuss what it's like being a publisher in TTRPGs, some of the things you need to know as a publisher, and how freelancing fits into that puzzle. Audience questions are also answered at the end of the episode. 

This is a live recording, so some parts may be harder to hear. 

 

If you haven't listened to our previous episodes please do so! 

Getting Started In the RPG Freelance Industry

Writer Pay and Negotiations 

Bonus: Gencon Freelance Mentorship Panel LIVE recording

Writer Contracts and NDAs

Please use the hashtag #TTRPGFM on social media when sharing

You can find the link to our show notes HERE

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Chris and Crystal review the relic from the future, The Chimeric Herbarium by the Zoetica Ebb, which explores the strange, exotic, and rather deadly, plants that exist on a world many light years away.

The Chimeric Herbarium is a coffee table art book collecting the work of Zoetica Ebb, which, while being a collection of her art, is also filled with details and discussions of alien flora that would not be out of place in fantasy and sci-fi RPGs.

 

Episode Corrections:

The dresses modelled by Ulorin Vex that feature Zoetica's designs were not made by PlastikWrap, but rather facilitated by Adriana Fulop, owner of Plastik Wrap. The digital art was created in conjunction with Peachthief.

 

Chris also briefly reviews the Mörk Borg compatible grim-dark sci-fi RPG, Vast Grimm, a suitable candidate for using the ideas presented in the Chimeric Herbarium.

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Mike and Dave discuss real world divination, ranging from tarot to geomancy and sacrifices. David is lead author on the new system agnostic RPG book An Eye to the Void, now on kickstarter!

Games discussed include:
Warhammer 40,000
Vampire: the Masquerade
Mage: the Awakening
Dark Ages: Fae
Engel
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

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