Podcasts to Inspire or Entertain

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Posted by DiceDuke
11/26/2015 10:01 am 		#1

I'm a huge fan of podcast listening and I'm always looking for good gaming, literary, or generally geeky podcasts. A few recommendations if you haven't stumbled across them already.

StarShipSofa has a 3 part Moorcock story called Black Petals that I always thought would make a great adventure. It starts here http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2011/05/31/starshipsofa-no-191-michael-moorcock/

https://librivox.org/  does audio stories that are in the public domain so there is a good selection of  Howard and Lovecraft. If you haven't checked it out already, Librivox is done by volunteers so the recordings are of varying quality but worth listening to.

How about you, what are you listening to? Thanks!

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Posted by joseph
11/26/2015 11:56 am 		#2

Yeah, I have a long commute and listen to a lot of podcasts and audio books. Starship Sofa and it's affiliated podcasts are great and have some readings of rare pulp tales.
Librivox is great for audio books - there's a ton of Burroughs, Lovecraft, Howard, Rohmer, Norton, MR James, Blackwood, the list goes on.

I listen to a number of other podcasts as well - Cromcast, RFI, Spellburn, Good Friends of Jackson Elias, Save or Die, Kevin Smith's casts, Hardcover History (and other history podcasts)... more...I can't even recall all of them right now!

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Posted by DiceDuke
11/28/2015 3:33 pm 		#3

Thanks Joseph, there's a few there I need to check out. Cromcast looks promising. Seems to be similar to the hppodcraft, which is excellent by the way.

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Posted by Mortificateur
11/29/2015 1:58 am 		#4

Holy shhhh. I've been missing out! I have listen to my first podcast this week. You guys probably know about Roll for initiative.

How about I ask you guys for a personal Top 5 (or 10) podcast? I've been listening while at work for the past couple days when there's none of my cooks around mwahaha!

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Posted by DiceDuke
11/29/2015 11:09 am 		#5

I would call this my "Hot 5." Ones that, at the moment, are must listen to's. Not necessarily in the strictest of orders:
5.) The Adventure Zone http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone An actual play podcast where the very funny McElroy brothers, from the podcast "My Brother, My Brother, and Me," play D&D with their dad. I think they are playing 5E, but they are really not big on rules.
4.) Sword and Laser http://swordandlaser.com/  A sci-fi and fantasy book club podcast.
3.) The Two Headed Nerd. http://twoheadednerd.com/ I have to throw a comic book podcast in here. These guys are knowledgeable and humorous, and they keep it under an hour, something comic podcasts seem to have a hard time doing.
2.) GamersTable http://gamerstable.com/ Can't say enough good things about this one. They have a large cast but, keep talking over each other to a minimum. They come out weekly, for something like 5 years now, and still have something fresh and interesting to say about our hobby. Plus, in my opinion, their actual play podcasts are the BEST out there. Be sure to check out their "Tower of the Ape" actual play set in the the Conan RPG universe.
1.) Save or Die http://saveordie.info/ This cast has gone through some changes since it started out, but right now they are just hitting it out of the park, for me anyways.

Hope you find something you'll enjoy listening to there! 

Last edited by DiceDuke (11/29/2015 11:12 am)

"...only a shadowy conception of the future and of his own emotional make-up saved him from being a man without imagination, a dangerous dullard."  -the Gunslinger, The Dark Tower I
 
Posted by Mortificateur
11/29/2015 12:22 pm 		#6

Thanks a bunch! I'll check those out right away.

 


 
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