The Square One Podcast

SQUARE ONE PODCAST SHOW NOTES
Episode: 2
Air Date: Octo­ber 7, 2007
Sub­ject: Gen­res of role-playing games

Links to RPGs and other sites men­tioned in the episode:

Fan­tasy RPGs
Dun­geons & Drag­ons: www.wizards.com/dnd
Earth­dawn: www.earthdawn.com
Tun­nels & Trolls: www.flyingbuffalo.com/tandt.htm
Burn­ing Wheel: www.burningwheel.org
Mazes & Mino­taurs: storygame.free.fr/MAZES.htm (Note that Bill mis­tak­enly says “Mazes and MONSTERS,” rather than “Mazes and MINOTAURS” at one point.)

Hor­ror / Mod­ern RPGs
World of Dark­ness: www.white-wolf.com/worldofdarkness
Call of Cthulhu: tinyurl.com/2jyzfa

Super­hero RPGs
Mar­vel Super Heroes: www.marvelrpg.com
Cham­pi­ons: www.herogames.com
Capes: www.museoffire.com/Games
With Great Power: tinyurl.com/2vy9h5
Truth & Jus­tice: www.atomicsockmonkey.com/products/tj.asp

His­tor­i­cal RPGs
Spirit of the Cen­tury: www.evilhat.com/home/?page_id=103
Adven­ture!: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%28role-playing_game%29
World of Dark­ness his­tor­i­cal set­tings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wolf,_Inc.#Historical_variants
GURPS Source­books: www.sjgames.com/gurps
Grey Ranks: Bully Pul­pit Games RPG.net entry
GURPS Alter­nate Earths: www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/AltEarths/ — www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/altearths2/

Sci-Fi RPGs
Trav­eller: www.travellerrpg.com — www.sjgames.com/traveller
Star Wars d6: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_role-playing_game_(WEG)
Star Wars d20: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Roleplaying_Game_(Wizards_of_the_Coast)
Star Wars Saga: www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/rpgsagaed
Seren­ity: www.serenityrpg.com
Burn­ing Empires: www.burningempires.com
Gamma World: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_World

Unclas­si­fied RPGs
Torg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torg
Prime Time Adven­tures: www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html

Cross-Genre RPGs
Shad­owrun: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun
Dead­lands: www.peginc.com/games

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION SECTION
Be sure to visit our other sites and projects:

Sam Chupp
The Bear’s Grove Pod­cast: www.bearsgrove.com
Drag­onkin Pod­cast: dragonkin.bearsgrove.com
Heart of the Hunter: www.heartofthehunter.com

Bill Wal­ton
The Escapist: www.theescapist.com
BeQuest: www.theescapist.com/bequest
The Young Person’s Adven­ture League: www.theescapist.com/ypal

Miranda Thomas
The Sig­nal: http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/
Fire­fly Talk: Fire­fly Talk
The 9th: Heroescast http://www.heroescast.com/

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