Podcasts about cugel

Avant l'écoute de votre podcast, n'oubliez pas que vous pouvez nous envoyer vos remarques, bafouilles, épées vorpale et malédictions sur le répondeur d'Entre ! Geek à l'adresse causmicbeast@gmx.frPoint d'espace dans cet épisode, point de dimensions douteuses. Juste une petite discussion cosy avec un écrivain professionnel de jeux de rôle, vieille connaissance de CausmicBeast (oui quoiqu'il arrive il continue de parler de lui à la troisième personne), j'ai nommé Aldo, dont l'identité aura un jour été Pénombre https://www.legrog.org/biographies/aldo-penombre-pappacoda et vous pouvez le suivre sur son blog https://casualdo.wordpress.com/ où il se décrit comme “expert en rien mais parle un peu de tout”C'est justement d'un peu dont nous avons discuté ce soir là, l'excuse en étant “Ladyhawke, la femme de la nuit” de 1985 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/ , un film de Richard Donner https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001149/?ref_=tt_ov_drA l'origine de la rencontre avec Aldo était un petit forum francophone https://www.shadowforums.com/forum/11 , parlant de Shadowrun et d'un petit fanzine “Laser de Lune” https://www.shadowforums.com/cyber-espace/spip.php?rubrique5Pour connnaitre une bonne partie de ses travaux mais il y en manque https://www.legrog.org/biographies/aldo-penombre-pappacodaParlons un peu de Ladyhawke et de fantasy.Un petit coup de synopsis mais surtout une petite bande annonce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwsc0S7-XWALa fantasy dans les années 80, ce sera d'abord en 1981 Excalibur de John Boorman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QR6_17mn5s pour le petit trailer et pour écouter du Carl Orff dans son Carmina Burana https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana_(cantate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adrw-zxiTe4Mais si vous préférez l'héroic fantasy avec des barbares huilés et mono syllabique en 1982, nous avons Conan le barbare https://youtu.be/0zoh0gQCu6k?si=dLR58aGLjQ-vWsMl avec Basil Poledouris https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_PoledourisN'oublions pas Willow en 1985, un cabotinage de Ron Howard https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096446/Toujours dans les années 80, Legend de Ridley Scott (1985), oubliez un certain Tom Cruise mais encensez un Tim Curry https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/ exceptionnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5yqP2pMbELa fantasy classieuse avec David Bowie, Labyrinth https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369 de 1986, un film de Jim Henson https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001345Oui ok, nous avons oublié de citer Dark Crystal dans notre liste https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791 mais nous nous rattrapons en citant une incongruité Krull (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndpV6qfQJVwN'oublions pas la barbare exploitation avec Dar l'invincible https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630 et un nanar italien “The Barbarians” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092615/ (et on égratine au passage Star Crash https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946 et Flaaaaaaaaaaassssshhhhhhh Gordon https://youtu.be/LfmrHTdXgK4?si=SPfTxTgW2mQ3PPcQ )Sorti de ça et de l'adaptation de Ralph Bakshi https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bakshi (1978, quand même) et de Tygra, la glace et le feu https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085542/ du même Bakshi, pas grand chose au cinéma pour les fans de fantasy… mais restez la lecture (vous le voyez arriver le bibliothécaire)Poul Anderson : https://belial.fr/legacy/a/poul-anderson/trois-coeurs-trois-lionsFritz Leiber : le cycle des épées https://www.babelio.com/livres/Leiber-Le-cycle-des-epees-Integrale/1143595Une bonne partie de Jack Vance https://mnemos.com/livre/la-terre-mourante/ pour la Terre Mourante autour de Cugel l'astucieuxLord Dunsanny la fille du roi des elfes https://www.babelio.com/livres/Dunsany-La-fille-du-roi-des-elfes/149131990 : deux jalons en fantasy parce qu'on avait pas grand chose :Hercule développé par sam Raimi 1995 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_(s%C3%A9rie_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vis%C3%A9e,_1995) et son dérivé (mais bien meilleur ) Xéna https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xena,_la_guerri%C3%A8re Le reste étant du Star Trek et du Babylon V… et restera dans l'histoire Pour le fan de fantasy : reste le jeu de rôle avec son histoire et tous ses jeux et Lorraine oblige voici un lien de conférences de l'université de Lorraine https://ultv.univ-lorraine.fr/search/?q=jeu+de+r%C3%B4le Y a bon ! Après l'éléphant dans la Pièce de LadyHawke … la musique qui … qui divise pour le moins et dont nous vous mettons le générique du film https://youtu.be/BY7TNQZGSSs?si=anLS4i9Wz5W2QQZl The Alan Parsons Project, d'abord le groupe https://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/timeline mais aussi dans la langue de Stéphane Bern https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alan_Parsons_Project et si vous voulez tendre une oreille https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOANtcwoFl_Hm02fMWVIgGg pour la partie jusque 1990 et https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBExC8XzPQPeS2naG4F3p2Q post 1990 Pour une fois, vous n'aurez pas de description de 6 pages car comme le dit Aldo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read ou en français https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Trop_long …. donc un tout petit pavé pour vous donner quelques informations. Pour Pfeiffer, Hauer, Broderick … ma foi, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/ reste toujours un bon point de départBonne écoute, encore merci à mon vieil ami de m'avoir accompagné de la nuit à la lumière ou vice versa, on se retrouve bientôtN'oubliez pas que vous pouvez nous envoyer vos remarques sur Ladyhawke à l'adresse causmicbeast@gmx.frPour clôturer l'épisode, vous pourrez vous régaler avec The Cask of Amontillado, tiré du 1er album de The Alan Parsons Project (est ce qu'on vous a dit que c'était bien) https://youtu.be/vT0YZLES8DM?si=r-dWJwPsxQ1e7j9S /_/꒰ ¯ᴥ⁠¯ ꒱

Cugel the Clever

Brad Kerr joins us to discuss Jack Vance's "Cugel's Saga", virtual tabletops, Brom, pompous vocabulary, whimsical characters, world-class worldbuilding, being nickel-and-dimed by the boss, moving from one grift to the next, interesting mounts, making monsters more mysterious, D&D 4E, being your own boss, and much more!

2023 is almost here and fashion/design influencer John Cugel is here to help you elevate your wardrobe and interior design for the new year. John shares his experience attending an all-boys school, his love for J Crew and the staples everyone needs for their living space. We hope you all have a fantastic new year and we'll see you on Jan. 19!

Jason Cordova joins us to discuss Michael Shea's "A Quest for Simbilis”, Powered by the Apocalypse games, the correct pronunciation of Cugel, gothic horror, the publishing world in the 1970s, Lovecraftian horror fiction, high stakes games of strip poker, moving from absurdity to horror in an instant, crunchier traditional game systems, comedic hijinks, high fantasy vs sword and sorcery, fantasy fiction in the 80s and 90s, and much more!

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Segundo episodio de mi podcast confesional/editorial al que añado recomendaciones literarias y cinematográficas ya que, seamos realistas, no todo puede ser objeto de sesudo análisis. Hoy os hablo de mi creciente obsesión con Jack Vance y su personaje Cugel el Astuto y de un programa doble inesperado con la maravillosa Virginie Efira. 😍 Veamos si puedo mantener esto cada semana, quién sabe?Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Todo es Rock And Roll Podcast. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/14610

Après le flash-forward à la Lost que fut le numéro d'août, Loris et Steve reviennent dans le passé avec un numéro spécial « Jeux medfan de vieux ». Au sommaire de ce numéro : Introduction (00m – 3m) Les actualités : Sombre HS4, Consent in Gaming et Nahui Ollin (3m – 22m) Retour dans le passé (par Steve) : Comment Dying Earth réinventait la relation MJ/joueurs ? (22m – 59m) Retour dans le passé (par Loris) : Donjons et Dragons 0 et les tables ouvertes (59m – 1h35m) Nos lectures du moment (1h35m – 1h48m) Mentionnésdans ce numéro SombreHS4 (http://www.terresetranges.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1166) Consentin Gaming (https://www.montecookgames.com/consent-in-gaming/) NahuiOllin (https://www.nosolorol.com/es/blog/1469-nahui-ollin) DyingEarth (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/dying-earth-la-vieille-terre)etles suppléments Le Compendium des Avantages Indispensables de Cugel(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/dying-earth-la-vieille-terre/compendium-des-avantages-indispensables-de-cugel-fr) et le Kaiin Player'sGuide (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/dying-earth-la-vieille-terre/kaiin-player-s-guide-en) Donjonset Dragons(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/donjons-et-dragons) etles suppléments Le Temple du Mal élémentaire(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/ad-d-greyhawk/t1-4-temple-du-mal-elementaire-fr), TheKeep on the Borderlands(https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17158/B2-The-Keep-on-the-Borderlands-Basic), Tomb of Horrors(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/ad-d-greyhawk/s1-tomb-of-horrors-en) et In Search of the Unknown(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_Unknown) Explorateursde l'inconnu(http://www.lulu.com/shop/nicolas-dessaux-and-brian-fiscus-and-salvatore-macri/explorateurs-de-linconnu/paperback/product-21473377.html) MacchiatoMonsters (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/macchiato-monsters) DelvingDeeper(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/delving-deeper) Mazeof the Blue Medusa(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/generique-medieval-fantastique/maze-of-the-blue-medusa-en) LesIndes fourbeshttps://www.editions-delcourt.fr/serie/indes-fourbes.html) LeCycle des Epées(https://www.livredepoche.com/livre/lankhmar-le-cycle-des-epees-9782253189695)et sa plus récente adaptation rôliste(https://www.black-book-editions.fr/produit.php?id=4767) Agôn (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/agon/agon-fr ) et Agone (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/agone ) ainsi que la revue Le Souffre Jour (http://www.souffre-jour.com/ )

Après le flash-forward à la Lost que fut le numéro d’août, Loris et Steve reviennent dans le passé avec un numéro spécial « Jeux medfan de vieux ». Au sommaire de ce numéro : Introduction (00m – 3m) Les actualités : Sombre HS4, Consent in Gaming et Nahui Ollin (3m – 22m) Retour dans le passé (par Steve) : Comment Dying Earth réinventait la relation MJ/joueurs ? (22m – 59m) Retour dans le passé (par Loris) : Donjons et Dragons 0 et les tables ouvertes (59m – 1h35m) Nos lectures du moment (1h35m – 1h48m) Mentionnésdans ce numéro SombreHS4 (http://www.terresetranges.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1166) Consentin Gaming (https://www.montecookgames.com/consent-in-gaming/) NahuiOllin (https://www.nosolorol.com/es/blog/1469-nahui-ollin) DyingEarth (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/dying-earth-la-vieille-terre)etles suppléments Le Compendium des Avantages Indispensables de Cugel(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/dying-earth-la-vieille-terre/compendium-des-avantages-indispensables-de-cugel-fr) et le Kaiin Player’sGuide (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/dying-earth-la-vieille-terre/kaiin-player-s-guide-en) Donjonset Dragons(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/donjons-et-dragons) etles suppléments Le Temple du Mal élémentaire(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/ad-d-greyhawk/t1-4-temple-du-mal-elementaire-fr), TheKeep on the Borderlands(https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17158/B2-The-Keep-on-the-Borderlands-Basic), Tomb of Horrors(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/ad-d-greyhawk/s1-tomb-of-horrors-en) et In Search of the Unknown(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_Unknown) Explorateursde l’inconnu(http://www.lulu.com/shop/nicolas-dessaux-and-brian-fiscus-and-salvatore-macri/explorateurs-de-linconnu/paperback/product-21473377.html) MacchiatoMonsters (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/macchiato-monsters) DelvingDeeper(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/delving-deeper) Mazeof the Blue Medusa(http://www.legrog.org/jeux/generique-medieval-fantastique/maze-of-the-blue-medusa-en) LesIndes fourbeshttps://www.editions-delcourt.fr/serie/indes-fourbes.html) LeCycle des Epées(https://www.livredepoche.com/livre/lankhmar-le-cycle-des-epees-9782253189695)et sa plus récente adaptation rôliste(https://www.black-book-editions.fr/produit.php?id=4767) Agôn (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/agon/agon-fr ) et Agone (http://www.legrog.org/jeux/agone ) ainsi que la revue Le Souffre Jour (http://www.souffre-jour.com/ )

John Cugel '20 has performed all over the Cleveland area in a variety of shows. He talks with Steve about playing a lead role in Footloose at Magnificat, working with professional actors, and what the future may hold. Produced by Steve Zucca '20

The Eyes of the Overworld (Ace Books, 1966) marks Jack Vance’s return to the Dying Earth setting after a break of 15 years. The book is a fix-up of the stories “The Overworld”, “The Mountains of Magnatz”, “The Sorceror Pharesm”, “The Pilgrims” and “The Manse of Iucounu” all of which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction between December 1965 and August 1966. To these stories Vance added a second chapter “Cil” to expand the book to novel length. The Eyes of the Overworld is contains many elements of the picaresque novel, from its episodic structure, generally satirical nature, and most importantly its roguish or even outright villainous protagonist Cugel, a man of no particular standing who ultimately never learns anything or changes his essential nature, despite his world-spanning journey and many travails. After The Eyes of the Overworld Vance once more took a long hiatus from the Dying Earth before returning again to the setting in the mid-1980s with Cugel’s Saga (1983) and Rhialto the Marvellous (1984). The Dying Earth books remain Vance’s most recognizable works, even lending their name to an entire subgenre of science fantasy, although the evolution of the subgenre can be traced back at least through Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique cycle and William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912).

Roger Zelazny stated that he wrote Jack of Shadows as a “first draft, no rewrite”, which might account for the occasionally elliptical nature of the narrative. Any lack of cohesion in the plotting is compensated for by the dark majesty of Jack AKA Shadowjack’s world. Zelazny is clearly echoing Jack Vance’s Dying Earth stories here, at least in the weirdness of the creatures and landscapes of the darkside if not in the playful ornateness of Vance’s prose. Jack of Shadows also emphasizes the interplay and conflict between magic and science, and the borderline immortality/superhumanity of its protagonist, themes that would play out in many of Zelazny’s other works such as The Lord of Light and The Chronicles of Amber. Jack of Shadows was originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1971 and was immediately reprinted in hardcover by Walker & Company, followed by a paperback edition from Signet in 1972. Jack of Shadows was well-received from first release, garnering Hugo and Locus Award nominations in 1972--it did not achieve the lasting popularity of The Chronicles of Amber or many of Zelazny’s other books however, and was out of print for over 25 years until it was recently reprinted by the Chicago Review Press in 2016. Gary Gygax wrote in issue #2 of The Excellent Prismatic Spray (2001) that Jack Vance’s Cugel the Clever and Zelazny’s Shadowjack were the greatest influences on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons thief class as described in the The Players Handbook (1978). The thief’s abilities as written though are rather mundane and have a low probability of success for beginning characters. If the thief’s skills are re-imagined as being a quasi-mystical version of Jack’s powers, then even a 10% chance of utterly disappearing into shadows becomes a very powerful ability indeed! Of course, Jack as he appears in Jack of Shadows is not a mere skulking footpad but a magician of unsurpassed power, so it makes sense that he was written up as such in Wizards (1983), part of Mayfair Games’ Role Aids line of unofficial Advanced Dungeons & Dragons supplements. It’s worth noting that although a thief-type class is considered core to Dungeons & Dragons today, the class was not included in the original 1974 box set and only made its first appearance in the first D&D supplement Greyhawk (1975). In some gaming circles this has kicked off a 40+ year debate over whether the thief deserves to be its own character class or if being a thief is properly a role that all adventurers play….

Special guest Gavin Norman (author of The Complete Vivimancer and Theorems & Thaumaturgy) joins us to discuss Jack Vance‘s The Dying Earth! Jack Vance originally wrote the loosely connected stories that comprise The Dying Earth while serving in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. Vance’s fiction had started appearing in pulp magazines as early as 1945, and The Dying Earth marked his first book publication when it was released in digest-sized paperback in 1950 by Hillman Periodicals, best known as a comic book and magazine publisher. The Dying Earth appears not to have been particularly successful at first, as it was not reprinted even as Vance’s career went on an upswing in the late 1950s & early 1960s. Hillman ceased publishing in 1961 and Lancer Books snapped up The Dying Earth, reprinting it in paperback in 1962 with a cover by the ever-versatile Ed Emshwiller depicting the denouement of the story “Ulan Dhor”. The Dying Earth did well enough that Lancer kept it in print until they went bankrupt in 1973, by which time its reputation was such that it has remained in print to this day through a series of different publishers. No doubt the continued success of The Dying Earth led Jack Vance to revisit the setting starting in the mid 1960s. These new stories that would eventually be published as The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), followed by the post-Appendix N books Cugel’s Saga (1983) and Rhialto the Marvellous (1984). Gary Gygax wrote in issue 2 of The Excellent Prismatic Spray (2001) that he first became a fan of Jack Vance after reading The Big Planet (1957) in the pulps in the early 1950s and then was “absolutely enthralled...as no work of fantasy had done for a long time” with the publication of The Eyes of the Overworld in 1966. The Dying Earth further cemented Gygax’s love of the setting. When it came time to devise a magic system for Dungeons & Dragons, Gygax felt that a “Vancian” system of memorized spells that are expended when cast and that then must be re-learned before casting again was the best way to provide flavor and balance the magic-user against other classes. The Enchanter series by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt would provide the situational pre-conditions for spellcasting in D&D, but these spell components were often glossed-over, as Gygax laments as early as 1976 in issue 6 of The Strategic Review, the predecessor to Dragon magazine. Oddly, D&D’s publisher TSR appears never to have tried to license the Dying Earth setting even though Gary Gygax remained a huge fan of Jack Vance and actually had significant contact with him after Dungeons & Dragons took the world by storm. The first time gamers would get to officially adventure in the Dying Earth was with the publication of Pelgrane Press’ The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game in 2001. Goodman Games has since licensed the Dying Earth setting for its Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game, with a target release date of late 2017.

Mike Spencer Bown - 193 countries Mike is a true traveler and explorer, who over a twenty plus year time period has traveled to every country in the world. Mike shared with me some incredible travel tales, including a road trip with a nun in a war-torn, African country.   Mike has been on the road for over twenty years, exploring and discovering the remote corners of our planet.  He travels slow and espouses a simpler lifestyle with all of his belongings in one bag.     More about Mike Spencer Bown:   Born in: Canada Passports from: Canada Favorite travel book:  I like old Jack Vance fantasy travel books such as The Dying Earth and Cugel’s Saga.  Also, early travel accounts such as the First Footsteps in East Africa.   Favorite travel site:   I’m kinda old school, not a big user of the internet. I don’t travel with electronics, not even a phone or camera. Must carry: Mosquito net, a Swiss Army knife, Flagyl (for Giardia) and Coartem ( for Malaria).  I bring a collared shirt for embassy visits.  I also bring an outfit similar to what an NGO or U.N. inspector would wear, including clipboard for impersonating officials to get past roadblocks. And finally a journals for writing in. Favorite food: Any kind of exotic fruit or fish. Favorite drink:  Soursop juice.  Chinese whisky with ‘special’ herbs. Favorite Airline:  The cheaper the better. For example, I liked those old Tupolev flying in Iran. Favorite Hotel:  I like to find one that used to be the best hotel in the city, but say, in the 1920s, and nothing has been done to upgrade or refurbish it, so it's a charming semi-ruin, in the $5 to $10 a night range. Facebook   mike.s.bown       About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who’ve spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter’s Dance, written, performed, and provided by Mundi. About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: Hit The Road: India, 7000 KM To Go, and Photos From Chernobyl.  He is the producer of two travel documentaries: Hit The Road: India and Hit The Road: Cambodia.   Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has traveled so far and keep up with his journey at GlobalGaz.com How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask! The United Nations states that there are 193 member states. The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are 225 countries and territories. The Century Club states that there are 324 sovereign nations, territories, enclaves, and islands. The Most Traveled Person states that there are 875 unique parts of the world. The Best Traveled states that there are 1281 unique places in the world. Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. Disclaimer: I will earn a fee if you order from Amazon/Agoda.