Podcasts about Icewind Dale

In which Ol' Artie kills some people he didn't really need to and we meet Harkle Harple.

The battle with the massive black dragon construct made of chardalyn rock comes to its conclusion on the snowy plains of Icewind Dale in the party's deadliest encounter to date. If you like this episode, please like and subscribe to support us. Feel free to comment if you want to know more about our characters or have any suggestions. You can also visit us at www.perilouspursuits.com for more streaming options and links to all our other adventures.

The Paladin is so cool. Gods I love him. Them? Maybe. Also what is this Mythallar thing? It seems to be the key between Auril conquering Icewind Dale and our heroes prevailing against her. Truly I hope our heroes can figure things out before it's too late. Max Hedman, can you play me something that will make me feel less anxious about everything?Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat.

In which we meet a person with an ordinary name. And some weirdos. 

In which Nadia, James, and I wonder about some stuff in Streams of Silver.

Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows, GemRB now plays Icewind Dale 2 from start to end, war stories from GOG's Linux adventure, Sonic on the PS1, and the Intel Arc B570 is all over the place.

In which we finish the Crystal Shard!

Who better to write Worlds and Realms, an immersive travelogue/retrospective of the worlds and planes of the D&D multiverse, than Adam Lee? Adam has been involved with most of the memorable books produced in the 5e era, from Icewind Dale to Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. In our interview he shares his own experiences with D&D, his views on Mordenkainen, and which plane he'd visit first, among other things. Take a look at Adam's current endeavors here. Connect with us: teachersinthedungeon on Instagram and Facebook, @dungeonteachers on X, and teachersinthedungeon@gmail.com

In this one, Nadia and I discuss the the first three of the last 6 chapters of the Crystal Shard, and the dwarves get their murder on. And, uh, things get a little blue.

James and I power through. As does Wulfgar.

In which just James and I discuss a bunch of scrappin'.

More fighting! Some of it political!

We're back, baby! And we're talking fights!

In which a really cool weapon gets smithed. And a friendship is forged. And details are hammered out!

In which the Barbarians get whatfor at the Battle of Bryn Shander... and other stuff happens too. 

More of the Ten Towns and a little more of Akar Kessell.

The time has come for the Unbroken to come face to face with The Frostmaiden in combat. Will they survive, or will the Rime continue to keep Icewind Dale in its frosty grasp? This session's natural 20 shoutouts go to The Silver Key Lounge. Located in Mesa, Arizona, this Lovecraftian themed speak-easy  is filled with gaming tables, 600+ board games, craft beer, specialty drinks and (now) Silver Key Subs! The Silver Key Lounge is now serving sandwiches, wraps and salads all the way up to 10pm. Come join an amazing table top gaming community at the Silver Key Lounge. ⁠www.thesilverkeylounge.com Music by Alexander Nakarada

In which we go to the cold lands of icewind dale

This week on the Super Fun Time Trivia Podcast we discuss the beauty of Kenyan Prisons, if its sexy to have a man bite your adams apple off, and how to avoid getting double pink eye from strange dutch love making moves. Music Round: Let It Rain Patreon: Super Fun Time Trivia Facebook: superfuntimetrivia Instagram: superfuntimetrivia Twitter: @sftimetrivia Email: superfuntimetrivia@gmail.com Intro Music By David Dino White. Welcome to Super Fun Time Trivia: The known universe's only live improv comedy trivia podcast. Free pub trivia questions this week for you to steal... Round 1   1) According to Hoobastank, what is the reason to start over new? 2) What 7 letter c word is defined by meriam webster as to secretly help someone do something dishonest or illegal?   3) Rutger Hauer played Roy Batty in what 1982 neo-noir science fiction film?   4) True or false, The “Bloody Mary” mirror game is based on Queen Mary I, who bathed in the blood of virgins to stay youthful? 5) Which of the following is NOT a Stanley Quencher colorway? A) Peridot Glow B) Red Flannel C) Champagne Ombre   6) Only two players have ever scored 50 or more points in a playoff game seven, Jayson Taytam and who? 7) What type of Dragoon was a Playstation 1 rail shooter where Keil Fluge becomes the rider of a dragon?   8) China's Huang Ho River translates to what colour in English? 9) If clothing has a circle with a cross through it, it means you shouldn't do what specific thing? 10) What is Vince Vaughn's character's first name in the 2004 film Dodgeball? Round 2   1) Similar to a romance, what is it called when actors engage in a real world romance for the duration of a television show? 2) What operating system that drove Microsoft's 1980s growth was bought from programmer Tim Paterson?   3) According to Crayola.com, what is the smallest size of Crayola box that has a built in sharpener? 4) In which of the following cities were potions of National Treasure filmed? A) Los Angeles B) Bozeman C) Moab   5) What country touches both Colombia and Costa Rica?   6) Guess the film based on song lyrics "I've been staring at the edge of the water / 'Long as I can remember, never really knowing why."   7) True or false, Kenya has a 4 year prison sentence or $38k fine for anyone caught making, selling, or importing grocery style plastic bags? 8) Which of the following is one of the playable factions in the deckbuilding video game Monster Train? A) Immortallis B) Wurmkin C) Flayed Princes   9) In what decade did the Atlanta Flames move to Calgary? 10) Christophe Faveau poisoned his son's opponents with anti anxiety medicating, causing drowsiness, resulting in at least one death. What sport was his son in? Round 4   1) What was the name of German serial killer Fritz Haarman, who murdered young boys and then sold their meat to hungry people? A) The Dresden Monster B) Hanover Vampire C) The Hamburg Butcher   2) What author had a hit with the Icewind Dale trilogy starting in the late 1980s? 3) How many teams are in the NFL as of March 2024? 4) True or false, popcorn kernels pop in two different shapes, butterflies and mushrooms, and most movie theatres use Butterfly style? 5) What two colours is the checker board on the flag of Croatia   6) With regards to dye colours, what colour is Dutch Pink?   7) In which year did Google fully integrate street view into Google Earth? 8) What is the first name of Chucky's love interest in the film Bride Of Chucky? 9) What goddess of wisdom was said to have sprung forth fully grown from the brain of her father Zeus?   10) In which decade did turn indicators become amber for the first time, formerly white, causing ‘turmoil'?

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This week on the Super Fun Time Trivia Podcast we discuss Laker Lager inventing the hangover, how Red Delicious is the least delicious type of apple, and how Hungary invented ouchies in your stomach from not eating. I've also started adding the written questions to episodes starting this week, hoping to increase our internet presence. Feel free to steal them for your own trivia, but if you're gonna steal an entire round, please make sure you mention our podcast, or I'll send Kevin to hunt you down and give you the old Greyhound Special. Music Round: Dreamer Patreon: Super Fun Time Trivia Facebook: superfuntimetrivia Instagram: superfuntimetrivia Twitter: @sftimetrivia Email: superfuntimetrivia@gmail.com Intro Music By David Dino White. Welcome to Super Fun Time Trivia: The known universe's only live improv comedy trivia podcast. Free pub trivia questions this week for you to steal... Round 1   1) According to Hoobastank, what is the reason to start over new?   2) What 7 letter c word is defined by Meriam Webster as to secretly help someone do something dishonest or illegal?   3) Rutger Hauer played Roy Batty in what 1982 neo-noir science fiction film?     4) True or false, The “Bloody Mary” mirror game is based on Queen Mary I, who bathed in the blood of virgins to stay youthful?   5) Which of the following is NOT a Stanley Quencher colorway? A) Peridot Glow B) Red Flannel C) Champagne Ombre   6) Only two players have ever scored 50 or more points in a playoff game seven, Jayson Taytam and who?   7) What type of Dragoon was a Playstation 1 rail shooter where Keil Fluge becomes the rider of a dragon?   8) China's Huang Ho River translates to what colour in English?   9) If clothing has a circle with a cross through it, it means you shouldn't do what specific thing?   10) What is Vince Vaughn's character's first name in the 2004 film Dodgeball? Round 2   1) Similar to a romance, what is it called when actors engage in a real world romance for the duration of a television show? 2) What operating system that drove Microsoft's 1980s growth was bought from programmer Tim Paterson?     3) According to Crayola.com, what is the smallest size of Crayola box that has a built in sharpener?   4) In which of the following cities were potions of National Treasure filmed? A) Los Angeles B) Bozeman C) Moab 5) What country touches both Colombia and Costa Rica?   6) Guess the film based on song lyrics "I've been staring at the edge of the water / 'Long as I can remember, never really knowing why."     7) True or false, Kenya has a 4 year prison sentence or $38k fine for anyone caught making, selling, or importing grocery style plastic bags?   8) Which of the following is one of the playable factions in the deckbuilding video game Monster Train? A) Immortallis B) Wurmkin C) Flayed Princes 9) In what decade did the Atlanta Flames move to Calgary?   10) Christophe Faveau poisoned his son's opponents with anti anxiety medicating, causing drowsiness, resulting in at least one death. What sport was his son in?   Round 4   1) What was the name of German serial killer Fritz Haarman, who murdered young boys and then sold their meat to hungry people? A) The Dresden Monster B) Hanover Vampire C) The Hamburg Butcher   2) What author had a hit with the Icewind Dale trilogy starting in the late 1980s?   3) How many teams are in the NFL as of March 2024?   4) True or false, popcorn kernels pop in two different shapes, butterflies and mushrooms, and most movie theatres use Butterfly style?   5) What two colours is the checker board on the flag of Croatia     6) With regards to dye colours, what colour is Dutch Pink?     7) In which year did Google fully integrate street view into Google Earth?   8) What is the first name of Chucky's love interest in the film Bride Of Chucky?   9) What goddess of wisdom was said to have sprung forth fully grown from the brain of her father Zeus?     10) In which decade did turn indicators become amber for the first time, formerly white, causing ‘turmoil'?

In this week's episode, I answer a reader's question about whether or not I will use KDP's new Virtual Voice program to create AI-narrated audiobooks. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of DRAGONSKULL: SHIELD OF THE KNIGHT (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store: SPRINGSHIELD The coupon code is valid through April 30th, 2024. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Update Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 196 of the Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is April the 12th, 2024 and today we are talking about whether or not I will use Amazon Virtual Voice to produce audiobooks. Before we get to our main topics, we will have Coupon of the Week, some writing updates, and then a few random questions from readers. First up, let's do Coupon of the Week. This episode will go live on Tax Day in the US, so let's have a discount on an audiobook. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Shield of the Knight, as excellently narrated by Brad Wills, at my Payhip store. That code is SPRINGSHIELD and that is SPRINGSHIELD again and that of course will be available in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through April 30th, 2024, so you need a new audiobook for spring, we have got you covered. Now let's have some updates on my current writing projects. I am very nearly almost done with Wizard-Thief. I'm hoping to finish up edits shortly and actually publish it on either April the 15th or April the 16th. So when this episode goes out, I may be publishing it literally as you are listening to this. This book, like Half-Elven Thief, will be available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. Next up, my next main project after Wizard-Thief is published, is going to be Cloak of Titans, the 11th book in the Cloak Mage series. It's not the end of the series; I'm planning that there's probably going to be about 15 books with four more after this one. But we are going to be blowing up a lot of the subplots in this book. So while this is not the end of the series, it will definitely have the feel like the end of a lot of plot arcs. I'm 22,000 words into it, and if all goes well, I'm hoping it will be out sometime toward the end of May and will be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and Payhip. In audiobook news, recording is underway for Ghosts in the Veils and if all goes well, that should be out sometime toward the end of May. So those are the updates on my current writing projects. 00:02:09 Reader Questions and Comments/Question of the Week Before we get to the Question of the Week, let's have a couple of unrelated questions from readers. Cameron wrote in to ask: I'm just interested in knowing how the name Calliande came about and does it have any meaning? I originally thought up the name Calliande because I wanted a unique and distinctive sounding name for the character, and so I was looking at various French and Welsh names that started with C and were about that length. I was rearranging the letters and swapping the vowels out and I came across that name and I thought, you know, that works, we're going with that. Amusingly, when I first wrote Frostborn, in my head it was pronounced Callian-DAY. But then when I did the first couple of Frostborn audiobooks from Podium way back at the end of the 2010s, Steven Crossley, the narrator pronounced it Calli-AND and ever since then, because that's where the direction he went, the official pronunciation has been Calliande and that's been the way it's been pronounced in all subsequent audio appearances of that character. Our next question is from Scott, who asks about a screenshot of the PC game Pillars of Eternity I posted on Facebook the other day. Scott says: that's on my Steam Wish List, but I haven't gotten to it yet. What do you think of it? I like it. I am enjoying it. I've had it since 2014, but I've decided the time has finally come to buckle down and finish it. If you played the original Baldur's Gate back in the ‘90s or Knights of the Old Republic or Icewind Dale or Planescape: Torment back in the ‘90s, then you will enjoy Pillars of Eternity. It's definitely worth playing. It's also an old enough game now that should work on most systems, and if you have Xbox Game Pass, the game's owned by Microsoft now, so you have Xbox Game Pass so you can play it as part of your subscription on your Xbox. Now it's time for Question of the Week, which we ask to have interesting discussions and maybe find out some good suggestions for things we might not have thought of otherwise. And so this week's question: if you listen to podcasts, what podcasts do you listen to most frequently? No wrong answers, obviously. MacKenzie says I have four podcasts on consistent subscription: The Art of Manliness, The Black Pants Legion, A Delta Green actual play podcast (content warning for very dark humor), and of course The Pulp Writer Show. Thanks, MacKenzie. Maaike says: currently just one, Kick in the Creatives posted by Sarah Busby and Tara Roskell. Through them I discovered a few more, but I haven't really found the time to really listen to them just yet. I don't know whether I can write or not, but I do know I can draw and paint, so that's what I'm focusing on. Thinking of doing NaNoWriMo though to see how my writing is. It's definitely worth trying NaNoWriMo just for once for the experience so you can see how you enjoy it or not. Michael says only two regularly, The Pulp Writer Show (thanks, Michael!) and the Legend of the Bones, which is an epic, gritty D&D solo play narrative where the dice rule. Perry says The Pulp Writer Show (not sure if you've heard of it) and The Self-Publishing Show (currently on episode 33 of 400 plus). Anne Marie says Cabinet of Curiosities by Aaron Mahnke. Jesse says: mostly Critical Role. Justin says: I didn't start listening to podcasts until I went full time with my current job in 2021. I listen to a bunch now, but most of my regular listens are The Glass Cannon Network, What Culture Wrestling, What Culture Gaming, and Adeptus Ridiculous. It's interesting how I actually haven't heard of most of these podcasts, which I guess goes to show how diverse and widespread the podcast ecosystem is, where if you have a podcast that can be very famous in a specific niche, it might be like THE podcast in that niche, but anyone who's not familiar with that particular subject of interest may have never heard of the podcast. For myself, I did not really start listening to podcasts until 2019, which is when I started listening to some of the self-publishing ones. In the past few years. I have also discovered retro video game podcasts. In that time, I've mostly listened to The Sell More Books Show and the Remember The Game podcast about retro video games, which is quite funny (but it does have some foul language, so if you check that out, be aware of it). 00:06:40 Main Topic: Amazon Virtual Voice Audiobooks Now on to our main topic of the week: Amazon Virtual Voice audiobooks. This was prompted by a question from Reader PML, who wrote in to ask: several of my favorite authors have opted to use AI Virtual Voice to release some of their older titles in audio format. I emailed you a while back hoping for more audio releases for Caina and Nadia. You indicated that audio publishing is expensive and you preferred to release the titles that were not short in length. I totally understand, but I wondered if you have considered releasing your back titles using Virtual Voice. The performance is not bad and I would really enjoy listening to all the books featuring Caina and Nadia. I don't know what the pricing scale is, but it's probably quite a bit less than a live reader. So thank you, PML for that question and for listening to all those audiobooks. If you are not familiar with the term, Virtual Voice is Amazon's new program for creating AI narrated audiobooks. Will I be using Virtual Voice to turn some of my older titles to audiobooks? No. Why? So there's three levels to my answer here. One, is it ethical to use AI for audiobook narration? Two, is AI narration good enough for audiobook narration? Three, does this help visually impaired listeners? I should mention that I have in fact experimented quite a bit with AI narrated audiobooks. Part of the reason I did this was because I wanted to understand the technology so I had an informed opinion about it. Google Play beat Amazon to the punch about two years ago, and I experimented with turning the Silent Order series into audiobooks with their technology, since I don't think the Silent Order series sells well enough to support audiobooks. After that experiment, I didn't think the AI generated audiobooks were good enough to sell in good conscience and just because you're selling something doesn't mean anyone will buy it. More on that to come. So instead, I put those AI narrated audiobooks on YouTube for free. That said, I did turn on AdSense for the audiobooks, so I made a satisfactory, if small bit of money from YouTube ads in 2023. Overall, the response from people who listen to those audiobooks seemed to be that they loved the story (thanks, everyone!), but they hated the artificial voice. Like if they had actually paid for it instead of listening to it for free on YouTube, I could just imagine the complaints. I think a lot of the authors who create Virtual Voice audiobooks and audiobooks using similar products from Google Play or other companies will be disappointed by the response they get for those audiobooks. Like I've said before, audiobooks are basically self-publishing on hard mode. But if you're coming to the market with an AI generated audiobook, it will be even harder to sell than one voiced by a human who knows what he or she is doing. So with that sort of background in mind, let's go on to the details for the answer to my question. One: is it ethical to use AI for audiobook narration? Ethics in AI is a bottomless quagmire of an Internet discussion. Overall, in my personal opinion, I think AI technology creates vastly more problems than it solves and is really nothing more than a very fancy autocomplete. I also suspect there's a bit of a speculative bubble to AI technology like there was with cryptocurrency and NFTs. For a while, all the Galaxy Brain influencer people thought crypto and NFTs were the future, and then the bubble burst and a significant portion of everything connected to crypto and NFTs turned out to be a big old scam and all the Galaxy Brains migrated over to touting AI. I suspect a lot of the AI technology rushed out now has the same speculative bubble effect and when the bubble bursts, some companies are going to be out billions since they spent all that money building infinite crap generators. A lot of people are rushing to shove AI into stuff because it's trendy and not because it's useful, like how (this is a 100% true story), the Washington State Lottery decided for whatever reason to put an AI image generator on its site, which it had to pull down hastily when that image generator started creating deepfake nude images of its users. It is also amusing how some of the really pro-AI Galaxy Brains like to say that the US needs to develop AI or else the Chinese will get it first, as if having an infinite crap generator to make deepfake nudes will somehow determine geopolitical dominance in the 21st century. But all that said, I don't think AI is going to go away. The US courts seem (so far at least) consistent in their opinion that AI is in plagiarism but isn't copyrightable, and there's a wide range of useful activity in the not copyrightable but not plagiarism space. This might change if something gets all the way up to the Supreme Court or if Congress passes some legislation on that or the EU  puts out new regulations that the companies have to follow because the EU is such a big part of their market. But for now, that seems to be the position. AI can do useful things that crypto and NFTs can't. Like for example, suppose you're applying to 40 different jobs and you can use ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot to crank out 40 different customized cover letters for your job applications. Given how messed up the job market is at the moment, I could hardly blame someone for doing that. And you see examples of people using generative AI not to create artwork, but to handle data processing type chores (like the cover letters) in clever ways that don't seem to cross any moral or ethical boundaries. So I suspect everyone will have to examine their own consciences and decide where their own line is for generative AI. For me, I decided I'm not going to sell anything that I didn't make myself, or in the case of an audiobook, was made by a human I hired. If I'm selling something, it was 100% written by Jonathan Moeller or 100% narrated by a human I hired, and the cover image doesn't include any AI generated art elements. This is also true of books and stories I give away for free, like my permafree series starters. That's where I've decided my line is going to be with AI usage. I have used AI images for Facebook ads, since ads are low resolution anyway and you often have to change out the image every week or so. Ad images are essentially disposable, and I've heard people say AI art is also disposable, so why not use the disposable products of AI art for ad images? Number two, is AI narration good enough for audiobook narration? All of my criticisms of AI aside, AI voice or Virtual Voice isn't a new technology. It's just improved text to speech synthesis technology and text to speech has been around since the late 1960s. The AI part just makes the synthetic voice sound closer to an actual human voice than the more obviously artificial tones of older technology. It's also pretty good at imitating the real human voice by now, which is why you can go on YouTube and see comedy videos of President Biden trying to make his way through Skyrim or something. Is this AI narration good enough to support creating a paid audiobook? Well, kind of, sorta. It's good enough now that it creates a near perfect imitation of a human voice. The trouble is that the voice is so perfect that it triggers the uncanny valley effect, which is when you encounter something that almost seems human but isn't. It's also really bad at emotion. The best narrators make it sound like they're telling a story, and that means varying the emotion of the voice at appropriate times, even if you're not trying to create a distinctive voice for each character. Text to speech simply isn't very good at that. That's part of the reason I won't use Virtual Voice. I don't feel the end product is of high enough quality to sell. Give it away for free on YouTube? Sure. But sell? Definitely not. It would be good enough for very dry nonfiction things like legal casebooks, geological and oil surveys, that kind of thing. A nonfiction book that required varied emotion like a war memoir, for instance or comedic travelogue would not work at all well with AI narration. And finally, number three: does this help visually impaired listeners? While I don't want to use AI nourish and create paid audiobooks, I would like to see the technology become more ubiquitous and more integrated with ereader apps and operating systems. I think the mission of technology is to help us overcome or ameliorate the inherent frailties of the human condition. That is the best and most ethical use of technology. So I would like to see AI narration eventually become just a button in the ereader app for visually impaired listeners. Like you hit the read aloud button and then the computer reads to you in a voice of your choosing. You'll still have the option to buy a human narrated audiobook if available, but the option to have the device read to you would be there if you want or need to use it. We're already kind of there, technology-wise. All the major operating systems for computer and mobile have read aloud functions. It's just not implemented consistently across the platform and the voices aren't always very good. I won't use Virtual Voice or AI narration to create any audiobooks for sale. Unless something drastically changes in the field, I don't think I'm going to change my mind on that, though of course anything is possible. In the spirit of full disclosure, as of right now (as of this recording on April 12th 2024), I have agreements with four different narrators to produce four different audiobooks, so I think I am literally putting my money where my mouth is. So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

A brand new season with brand new characters and — get this — a BRAND NEW CAST-MATE?!?! We at Modular are so so delighted to introduce you to Jenna! We are also delighted to introduce you to this new, darker story. What mysteries will await us in Icewind Dale? I'm just shivering with excitement (and cold)! Max Hedman, get your snow gear on and make sure your instruments are well insulated! Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat.

Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton finally decide to start an actual book club and begin their own epic quest to read the entirety of The Legend of Drizzt series of fantasy novels by R.A Salvatore. Starting in chronological order, our host set off with 'Homeland', the first book in The Dark Elf Trilogy, a prequel to The Icewind Dale Trilogy. Published in 1990, 'Homeland' follows the story of Drizzt from around the time and circumstances of his birth and his upbringing amongst the drow (dark elves). From the blurb of 'Homeland':"Travel back to strange and exotic Menzoberranzan, the vast city of the drow and homeland to Icewind Dale hero Drizzt Do'Urden. The young prince of a royal house, Drizzt grows to maturity in the vile world of his dark kin. Possessing honor beyond the scope of his unprincipled society, young Drizzt faces an inevitable dilemma. Can he live in a world that rejects integrity?"Check out Hamilton's 'My First Party' Indiegogo campaign!Book discussed: 'Homeland' by R.A Salvatore, published in 1990.Consider using our affiliate link when using DM's Guild!#SupportyourFLGSCredits The DM's Book Club is hosted, recorded, edited, and produced by Fiona Howat (@WAIR_Podcast) and Hamilton (@TheDragonDM). The DM's Book Club Logo was designed by Sam Robins (@Bobhatstand).The theme music is 'The Story Unfolds' by Jingle Punks.Get in touch!Email: TheDMsBookClub@gmail.comTwitter: @TheDMsBookClubLinktr.ee: DMBC#DMsBookClub

In this week's episode, I take a look at different models of ereader devices and try to determine which is the best one. I also reflect on the experience of watching the Super Bowl for the first time in several years. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE RAZOR as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE RAZOR for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: WINTERRAZOR The coupon code is valid through March 1st, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to break up the winter doldrums, we've got one ready for you! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 188 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February the 16th 2024 as I record this, and today we are looking at the best ereader devices. I also talk a little bit about what it was like to watch the Super Bowl for the first time in like 20 years. Just a little word of warning, there is some fairly substantial construction noise going on the street outside that may intrude in the background. Additionally, yesterday the computer I use for recording for received a Windows Update that messed it up rather severely, and the processor is constantly maxing out, which means it makes a loud fan noise. So if you hear hissing noise in the background, that is what is happening. I just haven't had time to fix it yet, so between the construction noise and that hissing noise, we are going to have an adventuresome podcast today. Before we get to our main topics, let us do Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon is going to be for the audiobook of Ghost in the Razor, as excellently narrated by narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of Ghost in the Razor for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: WINTERRAZOR. That is WINTERRAZOR and that will be included in the show notes. That coupon code will be valid until March 1st, 2024. So if you find yourself needing an audiobook to break up the winter doldrums, we've got one ready for you. Now let's have some updates on my current writing projects. I'm pleased to report that Sevenfold Sword Online: Leveling, the second book in my LitRPG series, is now out and you can get it at Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. After a year's worth of sales data from the first book, I have concluded that LitRPG really does seem to perform best in Kindle Unlimited and audio so that is where it's going to go. It's currently in Kindle Unlimited and hopefully we should have audio in a few months, but we'll see how that works out and remind you that it's at Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. I'm not sure how long the series is going to be. I am leaning towards making it a trilogy and wrapping it up with the next book, but we will see how Leveling performs for the first 30 days it's out in the marketplace and maybe it would merit becoming a longer series, but if it sells at the level I expected it to, I think it will probably be trilogy. My next big project will be Ghost in the Veils, the second book in the Ghost Armor series with Caina, and I am 8,000 words into that, putting me on Chapter 2 and hopefully that will come out towards the end of March. It does need to come out before April because that's when I have a recording slot scheduled for it, so it does need to come out by then, so it's going to come out by then. I'm also about 26,000 words into Wizard Thief, the second book in the Half-Elven Thief series, and hopefully that will come out fairly quickly after Ghost in the Veils comes out. I am also writing the outline for Cloak of Titans, which would be the eleventh Cloak Mage book, and that will be my main project after Ghost in the Veils and Wizard Thief are out. In audiobook news, recording is underway for Shield of Storms, and hopefully that should be out in March sometime, but we will see how things go. 00:03:17 Reader Comment Before we get to our main topics, let's have a comment from a reader. James says: having just finished the Dragonskull series while waiting for Cloak of Titans, I thought how great it would be if there's a short story about Gareth's return home with Niara would be. His mother's reaction would be precious. Just starting on the Sevenfold Sword series. I love all your books and you have totally taken over my Kindle. Thanks, James. I am glad you have enjoyed all those books. In answer to your question, that is a fairly major part of the plot in Shield of Storms, where Gareth and companions return home. Just the difference is in the Shield War series, Gareth and his friends aren't the main characters. They're supporting characters and Ridmark is one of the main characters.   00:03:57 Thoughts on the 2024 Super Bowl Now let's talk about something a bit uncharacteristic: The Super Bowl. I did something I haven't done since the early 2000s, and I watched the entirety of The Super Bowl last week. The reason I did that was that some family members wanted to watch it, and I had no objection. So I watched The Super Bowl. Though to be fair, when I say watched, what I really mean is I had it on in the background while playing Icewind Dale on my iPad for the most part, along with some Skyrim on my Switch. I admit that when I was younger and more insufferable, I would make a point of refusing to watch The Super Bowl. Then I realized such an approach was self-defeating. Professional football is no better or worse than any other form of recreation. Additionally, connecting with people socially is not among my strengths, and very often sports discussions are the low hanging fruit of easy social engagement. That said, I don't exactly pay close attention to professional sports, so here is what I found interesting about The Super Bowl as an outsider, so to speak. I think an observer completely unfamiliar with American culture and professional sports, upon watching The Super Bowl, would conclude it was a 3 1/2 hour block of commercials infrequently broken up by two-minute clips of football. That said, the Christopher Walken commercial was the funniest one and also the one with Dunkin' Donuts. The NFL may not be a cartel in the strict legal definition of the term, but we all know it's totally a cartel, which is a pretty sweet position to be in because you have massive corporations like Apple and Verizon shelling out big bucks. So it's the Apple Music Halftime Show or the Verizon Pregame Show or whatever. I do think from an objective viewpoint that it is rather surprising that football became the predominant sporting event in America. And I think the reason has to do with the football commissioners rather foresightedly seeing the potential of broadcast television in the 1950s and the 1960s. American football, if you look at it from the outside, is this really weird mutant form of rugby with a lot of arcane terminology and non-intuitive rules, and compared to soccer or basketball, it's just a very slow and plodding game. There's 15 seconds of action and then everyone stands around for two or three minutes. It's time for a commercial break, brought to you by Verizon. Soccer and basketball are much faster paced If American football is the imperial system, then European football/soccer is the metric system that everybody else in the world uses. I suspect to really appreciate American football, you have to get into it as a child and grow up with it so all the weird rules become second nature, which is probably why the NFL embraced Taylor Swift so much this year, which did annoy some long-term NFL fans who are not fans of Swift's music. I don't really have an opinion on Taylor Swift one way or another, since I mostly listen to computer game soundtracks, that is my preferred musical genre. But like I said above, I think to really appreciate American football you have to grow up with it. Football doesn't quite have the cultural hegemony it had in the ‘80s and the ‘90s. It's still massively popular, but more and more parents are keeping their kids away from playing it because of the danger of long-term head injuries or because of all the many sketchy things the NFL has done over the years. Though, to be fair, it's not like FIFA is a paragon of business ethics either, so you have more young people who don't grow up with it and therefore can't be bothered to pay attention. But Swift is popular with the young people, and the NFL desperately wants more of the young people watching the games. I don't think the Super Bowl or the NFL season is scripted in advance, but I can definitely see how people come to that conclusion, partly because the NFL's broadcasts are so slick and media savvy that they feel like they should be scripted. I think it's mostly because the human brain has this tendency to see systems and order where there is in fact, nothing more than chaos. Though this year's Super Bowl game was so dramatic, with the Chiefs squeaking out a win in overtime, that it feels like it should have been written in advance. Finally, are football and professional sports the modern “bread and circuses” like they had in the Roman Empire? Maybe. But if they are, is that necessarily even a bad thing? If you look at history, every large civilization has had games and public spectacles as part of the maintenance of social and public order. Some aspect of human psychology really seems to require it. There's lots to criticize about the NFL, but it's certainly better than a lot of the stuff the Romans got up to or early medieval tournaments, which were mock battles that sometimes escalated into actual battles that turned into actual local wars. Perhaps modern professional sports or a more efficient and usually more bloodless method of public spectacle. So I don't really have any grand conclusions here, just observations from an outsider's perspective made while watching the Super Bowl and mostly playing Icewind Dale on my iPad, though I am pleased to report that in Icewind Dale during The Super Bowl I defeated an ogre with a bunch of Level 1 characters and my thief and my cleric both leveled up during the game. When I talked about this on my Facebook page, my readers had some good comments, so I thought I'd read a few of the few of few of them here.   00:09:11 Reader Comments on the 2024 Super Bowl Our first comments from William, who writing from the perspective of someone in the UK, says: I've seen the Super Bowl described as one of the great shared cultural experiences of the US and one of those times you can enjoy American football even if you're not really into the sport otherwise. It's one of those times you get together with family acquaintances you have few, if any common interests with. I think that's true and that's some good insight there. An opposing comment comes from reader named Mary, who says: I grew up breathing NFL. My sons played football through high school. As an adult, I watched consistently until I moved to an area without many services. Went four years without TV. Ordered a new streaming device and service. I hoped to bring some of those great memories forward. My goodness, what a disappointment. The commercials are heavily pharma-based or bad food. Gambling is another frequent advertisement. You're correct, the advertising is the point. I spend most of my free time reading, a much more immersive experience. Cancelled my service today with relief. So we can also see that the emphasis on ads during The Super Bowl and I think during regular football games as well, really does turn off some viewers. I definitely approve of reading as someone's main form of recreation, though I admit that might be a bit of self-interest on my part. 00:10:24 Main Topic: Best ereaders for 2024 in the US Now let's continue on to our main topic: the best ereaders available for 2024 in the US market. A couple of notes before we start. This is not sponsored. There are no affiliate links here. I'm not getting paid for anything I say here and these are just my opinions and research we are talking about on the show today. Because technology changes so quickly, I want to emphasize that this is current information or current information to the best of my ability as of February 2024, and since I'm based in the US, this mostly applies to the US market. It's definitely a good idea to do your own research when you're buying an electronic device, especially regarding specs, and especially if you have very specialized needs. The information was pulled together with a lot of help from my podcast transcriptionist by combing through user reviews and looking at testing from popular magazines such as Consumer Reports, Wired, PC Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and similar magazines. So I suppose we should start with the obvious question. Why have a dedicated ereader when you can easily read ebooks on your phone or tablet? An ereader does have several advantages that you don't get with a phone or a tablet. For one thing, it's lighter. It's easier to use with one hand, which, depending on the size of your tablet or phone, may be impossible. It also helps with eye strain if you're using a dedicated grayscale ereader. It doesn't have a backlight or it has a much weaker backlight than a tablet or phone will have, and therefore it is generally easier on the eyes, though that can vary from person to person. And it can also help you to focus on reading and minimize distractions, because if you're reading on a tablet or a phone, you might get a lot of notifications coming in from text messages or emails or social media and all that, all of which can pull you out of the book you are trying to read. So if you are a serious reader and you don't mind reading ebooks, it can be definitely worth your while to have a dedicated ereader. So let's look at the most popular model of ereader, which of course in the US and several other countries is the Amazon Kindle. In general, Kindles are superbly integrated with the Amazon ecosystem, but they generally don't work well with non-Amazon or non-Kindle products. I've run into that a few times myself on my Payhip store (which hopefully you will visit soon to get your discounted copy of the audiobook of Ghost in the Razor). I often have to include several different kinds of file formats to work with whatever generation of Kindle people might be using. Additionally, if you use your local library's ebook service and they use Libby, not all Libby books are available for Kindles. A couple of times I've run into that, where I want to check out an ebook from Libby and it turns out that it's not available for Kindle, which is kind of disappointing because then you have to read it on your phone, which defeats the purpose of this episode. For specific Kindle models, the Kindle Oasis seems to be the high end one, and because it has the strongest backlight, it is considered generally best for reading at night. The Kindle Paperwhite seems to be overall the best reviewed and most popular model. It is lightweight. It weighs less than half a pound and it is waterproof. It has strong reviews from many review publications like Wired and Good Housekeeping and has a major fan following. Finally, the perhaps most esoteric Kindle ereader would be the Kindle Scribe. It's the biggest one, designed for note taking. So that's something that interests you that might be worth investigating, though it would be harder to hold the Kindle Scribe with one hand. After the Kindles, probably the most popular model of ereader in the US is the Kobo family. I'm a big fan of Kobo. Most of my books are available on Kobo, and most of them are also in Kobo Plus, their subscription program. In general, Kobos are best for people who do a lot of side loading, which involves taking ebook files and loading them manually onto your device and people who want a lot of customization. The one weakness of Kobo is that we're not entirely sure how well it will work with the various library services. The OverDrive app is being retired in favor of Libby and Kobo relies heavily on OverDrive because Kobo's parent company, Rakuten, used to own OverDrive for a while until they sold it off. So with OverDrive going away in favor of Libby, it's sort of an open question how well Kobos will integrate with library services in the future. Additionally, it's important to note that audiobooks and magazines from Libby are not presently available for Kobo devices. Hopefully that will change in the future, but that is the case right now. For specific models of the Kobo, Eclipsa is considered the best for people who like to take notes and annotate the actual pages, and it has the feature where you can convert handwriting to type text and then export those notes to Dropbox. The Kobo Clara model is the budget option that still has waterproofing, which is different from the Kindle base model, which doesn't. The Paperwhite does. I don't think the Oasis has waterproofing, but the Kindle Paperwhite does. If you are one of those people who likes to read in the bath and you drop your ereader, hopefully it will survive the immersion till you get it out of the water. Clara does have that waterproofing feature. The most popular model seems to be the Kobo Libra and it's best for those who are not locked into the Amazon ecosystem or another specific vendor. It has a very loyal cult following. It has physical page turn buttons, for those who prefer that feature, and it is highly regarded for its screen clarity. It also has very good battery life, which again is one of those strengths of ereaders over phones and tablets, which tend to be charging every other day, especially because the Libra settings allow you to easily shut off the Wi-Fi, dial back the lighting, and so forth to extend the battery life. So Kindle and Kobo are the big ones, but there's a couple others we should address. One of them is the Nook Glowlight, which is the current ereader available from Barnes and Noble. The tricky part with Barnes and Noble is that while they do have ebooks, it is not really a priority for the the company's current management, which has chosen to focus primarily on physical bookselling and which has apparently kept Barnes and Noble from going bankrupt. So good thing. But they're not hugely as interested in ebooks as they used to be. The Glowlight is best for those who have a lot of Barnes and Noble gift cards to use, since that's a popular present or who already have a lot of ebooks from Barnes and Noble. Unfortunately, it does not integrate very well with public library software like Libby. It can be done, but it is a lot of work and not nearly as easy as it is with the Kindle or the Kobos. And there are complaints of system problems like it's difficult to set up or prone to freezing. Another popular but niche ebook reader is the Onyx Boox Tab, which is a tablet with a color E ink display and the picture quality resembles color newspapers (for those of you who are old enough to remember when newspapers had color pictures). It has a loyal cult following, especially with comics and manga readers, and it has good note taking features. However, the big weakness is it is expensive and costs around $600.00 USD. Now, while we've mostly focused on dedicated ereaders, the truth is that tablets can in fact be very good ereaders if you know what you want and you know what you want to use them for. The advantages tablets have over ereaders is that they are more versatile than ereaders. And if, like nearly all of us, you are on a budget and limited what you can spend, which, let's be honest, is true of everybody, it may make more sense to buy a device that can do many things instead of an ereader which can do just one thing. Tablets are also good for those who aren't committed to a single source for their ebooks. You can easily download apps for all of the main ebook stores on an iPad. You can have the Kindle app, the Barnes and Noble app, the Kobo app, and a bunch of library services such as Libby and Hoopla, and you can enjoy them all on one device. Tablets are also good for those who enjoy reading manga or magazines often because if you have a color display, you can see the illustrations that come in a magazine or an ebook that has a lot of color illustrations, like a technical manual or a history book that has a lot of color plates, and the larger screens minimize the need for constantly zooming text. This is something I have done myself. I have a Kindle Fire HD-10 and I also have a bunch of various PDFs I bought from the Pathfinder company from a Humble Bundle and it's a lot easier to read PDFs in color on a Kindle Fire than it is on a dedicated ereader because you can move around the page easily. The screen is big enough you can see most of the text. You can see all the illustrations in color. It's really nice. So let's take a look at the specific families of tablets and nowadays, for all practical purposes, there are three major tablet families. The first and the most successful one is the iPad. Everyone knows what the iPad is. It's the best device for those who want to use it for web browsing, media use, and ebook reading. The iPad Pro models are rather overpowered for normal reading and web browsing and media use. They're also quite a bit more expensive. The base model iPad is the cheapest it's ever been. I think as of right now, as of this recording you get a base model iPad for about $329, which while a lot of money, is still significantly cheaper than has been in the past. And it also is a very capable device that can do everything we've listed above. The second major family is the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is generally well regarded and is the iPad's chief competitor, and it gets high reports for reliability and performance from all the reviews. You get access to the full Google Play Store so you can install a bunch of apps and you can get all the different ereader apps and all the different library apps on Samsung Galaxy Tab. The third major tablet family is Amazon Fire tablet line. I have one and I'm quite happy with it. It's better for those who play games or watch videos heavily, since it's very strongly tied into Amazon's media ecosystem. So it does make a pretty good portable video player if you are tied into Amazon's Prime Video ecosystem. It's not as convenient for sideloaders, and the biggest weakness of the Amazon Fire is that you only have access to Amazon's curated App Store. You don't have access to the full Google Play ecosystem, which is a lot bigger and more vibrant than Amazon's App Store. Very often you will find popular Android and iOS apps that are available for regular Android tablets like the Samsung Galaxy or for the iPad are just not available on the Amazon Fire. So I'd say overall that's it's biggest weakness. It is possible to install the Google Play Store on the Amazon Fire, though, it does take a bit of finagling, and given the rumors that that Amazon is planning to develop its own operating system for its Fire tablets, that option may go away in the future. So that is something to bear in mind. And I thought it would be interesting to wrap up the show by sharing what I personally use for ereading and what my podcast transcriptionist personally uses for ereading, since she did most of the research for this episode and helped me pull it all together. The transcriptionist's favorites that she likes are the Kindle Paperwhite for outdoor reading. It's easier than eyes on the eyes than the tablet screen. She prefers the iPad for magazines and books with lots of color photographs, like cookbooks. For myself, I do most of my reading on a Kindle Oasis that I bought before COVID broke out in 2020, which, given the amount of reading I did during COVID, turned out to be a really good investment. After four and a half years, it's still going pretty strong and I'm hoping to keep on using it for several years to come. For a tablet, I have an iPad that I use pretty regularly. I do some reading on it when I have some with a lot of photographs, though for most color reading I have a Kindle Fire 10 that I got for editing because in my final stage of editing my books, I use it to read the book aloud to catch anything weird and hopefully fix any lingering problems, but it's also really great for viewing full color PDF files because you can load the PDFs on the Kindle Fire and then they show up in your library. It's very easy and convenient and smooth to read them on the Kindle Fire HD-10. So that is what I personally use for ereading. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes of the show with frequent transcripts on https://thepulpwritershow.com. Speaking of transcripts, I'd like to once again thank my transcriptionist for helping me to do the research for this episode. So if you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Severed SonsThe Calm Before The StormEpisode 71The Sons send messages to their allies across Icewind Dale.Severed Sons proudly supports Tabletop News , your official stop for all things Tabletop!Visit our Linktree!Thanks to Wizards of the Coast, Roll20, DnD Beyond, Monument Studios, and thanks to Syrinscape! Theme Music by Ron MurphyBecause Epic Games Need Epic Sound!Episode CreditsRon Murphy – DM, @ron88keysRBDMThe Severed Sons are:Spitz - Claire Clauson, @femmeslothDonaar – Paul Gary, @thepaulgaryFang – Ross Griffin, @griffRMThe Tortle – Josh Helgeson, @joshinaround88Trax – Zach Burrell, @zachburrell10Special guest, Jaiden Ramirez, @foxtrotfallout as Lambda.Follow us on Twitter at @SeveredSonsDnD!Join our Discord! Join our Patreon!Now you can support us through Buzzsprout as well!Give us a review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Spotify,  GoodPods or on our Twitter page and we'll read it on the air.  Stay frosty! Support the show

The Pathwalkers head to Auril's island to try to end her curse over Icewind Dale. Join us on Patreon and Discord to support the show! Everything helps! Thanks to all of those who already help keep the show going! www.patreon.com/wereratstudios discord.gg/w3F2bZC67F

After defeating the violent leader of the Wolf Tribe, the Pathwalkers visit their friends and family around Icewind Dale. Join us on Patreon and Discord to support the show! Everything helps! Thanks to all of those who already help keep the show going! www.patreon.com/wereratstudios discord.gg/w3F2bZC67F

The final battle for the Icewind Dale in underway! What challenges will the party face in this frozen wasteland? And will they emerge victorious?Welcome to the WMSB Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramTikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The party is recruited to undergo a mission to an abandoned fortress, will they find the treasures they seek? Or does the Dale hold more horrors for our heroes?Welcome to the WMSB Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramTikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The fight for Ten-Towns begins! Will the group prevail against the dragon? Or will the might of the Icewind Dale prove too much for our adventurers?Welcome to the WMSB Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramTikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pathwalkers make their way to the abode of the goliaths in order to help stabilize Icewind Dale as the threat of the Frostmaiden looms. Join us on Patreon and Discord to support the show! Everything helps! Thanks to all of those who already help keep the show going! www.patreon.com/wereratstudios discord.gg/w3F2bZC67F

Exhausted and running out of time, our adventurers rush to find a way to stop the dragon, but at what cost to the people of Ten-Towns?Welcome to the WMSB Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramTikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The party delves deeper into the fortress of the Sunblight, what horrors await them within?Welcome to the WMSB Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramTikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Heading into the Dale, the party ventures to the fortress of the Sunblight and the dangers that await within.Welcome to the WMSB Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramTikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having vanquished a foe, the party now must locate an even bigger enemy... THE SUNBLIGHT!!!Welcome to the WBSM Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramReddit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Once again our heroes leave the Dwarven Hold to set out into the vast cold and darkness. Luckily there's one more stop off of civility. What will happen in the biggest city in Icewind Dale? Well grab a snack, get comfy, and let's find out. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sqlr/support

In the dark of the Icewind Dale, four unlikely heroes must stand and face the bitter cold of the Frostmaiden.Welcome to the WBSM Field Trip! A mini campaign run by our fearless on-again-off-again player, Wil Moon! Join along with Matt, Matt, Scotty and our Forever DM Kalvin as they embark on a scary good time in the Icewind Dale!(As a note, there are some audio issues we would like to apologize for... editing can be hard sometimes.)(And there is mention of a video version on youtube, that too we would like to apologize for... keep an eye out for that coming soon!)The Wild Magic School Bus Podcast is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Fantasy violence, language, adult themes and other subject matter that could be triggering to individuals are present in each episode. Listener discretion is advised.Huge thank you to all the creators who make the music you hear possible, check them out below!Michaël Ghelfi StudiosTabletop RPG MusicKevin MacLeodArtlist Music Intro and Outro song:Whimsical Journeyby Rotem MoavWatch or Listen to each episode on YouTube!Follow us on our socials! TwitterInstagramReddit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Ten Towns of Icewind Dale are reeling from the attacks. The Pathwalkers now must help rebuild and plan against future invasions. Join us on Patreon and Discord to support the show! Everything helps! Thanks to all of those who already help keep the show going! www.patreon.com/wereratstudios discord.gg/w3F2bZC67F

We recap our adventure, host giveaways, and discuss fun trivia stats. This episode was streamed live on YouTube on January 19, 2023 at www.YouTube.com/@Roguewatson.   Recap posted at www.Roguewatson.com,  Original character art by Jimmy McClure https://www.instagram.com/eyrunejahl/,  Music by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html,  Support the channel at https://www.patreon.com/Roguewatson.

The final Crafting stream for Rime of the Frostmaiden! AMA as we discuss the campaign ahead of our final Epilogue & Recap stream. This Crafting session was originally streamed on May 15, 2023. Music by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html, Support the channel at https://www.patreon.com/Roguewatson.

The Battle for the Mythallar unfolds as the Frostmaiden arrives with her endless army of winter. This episode was streamed live on YouTube on May 12, 2023 at www.YouTube.com/@Roguewatson.   Recap posted at www.Roguewatson.com,  Original character art by Jimmy McClure https://www.instagram.com/eyrunejahl/,  Music by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html,  Support the channel at https://www.patreon.com/Roguewatson.

Behind-the-scenes, DM-only live stream of building and preparing Session 90 of our weekly Icewind Dale Rime of the Frostmaiden D&D campaign.  HUGE SPOILERS! No players allowed!  This Crafting session was originally streamed on May 11, 2023. Music by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html, Support the channel at https://www.patreon.com/Roguewatson.

Our adventurers head into the basement of the Arcshine to investigate why the magic is failing on campus. They'll learn lessons about shaking things, about the pipes, and about the various types of shuffling. Join students Thadward Castellan (Matt Smith), Manny McQuaid (Ben Renfro), Dickson Scyder (Brad Richards), and Milo Yishithris (Brad Renfro) on their adventures at the Arcshine. Catch up on previous episodes at www.deathsavingbros.com.Get even more Death Saving Bros content by becoming a supporter on Patreon.Follow us on Twitter and other social media @DeathSavingBros or visit our website.Shop for official Death Saving Bros merchandise on Redbubble to get t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more.The songs “Something Amiss” and “The Specialist” are copyright Will Savino and the Music d20 project. The song "Icewind Dale" is by Ela Morana. These tracks are used with permission. All rights reserved.

These three books introduced the world to the amazing and complex character known as Drizzt Do'Urden as well as other favorites like Catti-brie, Bruenor Battlehammer, Wulfgar and even Regis. We find out what adventures The Companions of the Hall gets themselves into as we continue our lore dive into The Legend of Drizzt! Keys from the Golden Vault physical/digital bundle preorder DMs Guild Corner of the Week: Player Primer: Icewind Dale Equip your own adventures: D&D 5th Edition Starter Set: https://amzn.to/2WgZX6O  D&D 5th Edition Players Handbook: https://amzn.to/3iRtcH4  D&D 5th Ed Monster's Manual: https://amzn.to/2Eeh8Qp  38 Fantasy Miniatures: https://amzn.to/34kh6kX  Awesome Looking Dice Sets: https://amzn.to/3aHFwpM Links: Fandom University - Sergio's OTHER nerdy podcast! Multi-episodes arcs deep-diving into various nerdy topics **SEASON 1 NOW COMPLETE** NoSleep Podcast - online and on Twitch, a horror fiction podcast Mary helps work on Talk D&D and join the Robots Radio fam: Discord: discord.gg/JXKfVhM  Stay plugged in on Twitter: twitter.com/dndlorecast  Send us a note! Email: dndlorecast@gmail.com  Get a cool shirt, hat, or hoodie, and support the show: DnD Lorecast Merch ROBOTSRADIO.net - Smart Shows for Interesting People. Explore all the awesome shows on the network. Music: Dangerous by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3587-dangerous License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Halfling's Gem, chapters 24 & 25. Third book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. The Halfling's Gem was written by R.A. Salvatore. The Copyright is owned by Wizards of the Coast and it is 100% their Intellectual property. Read by Russell Johnson. Contact Info: russelljohnson3000@gmail.com

The Halfling's Gem, chapter 23. Third book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. The Halfling's Gem was written by R.A. Salvatore. The Copyright is owned by Wizards of the Coast and it is 100% their Intellectual property. Read by Russell Johnson. Contact Info: russelljohnson3000@gmail.com

The Halfling's Gem, chapter 22. Third book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. The Halfling's Gem was written by R.A. Salvatore. The Copyright is owned by Wizards of the Coast and it is 100% their Intellectual property. Read by Russell Johnson. Contact Info: russelljohnson3000@gmail.com

The Halfling's Gem, chapter 21. Third book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. The Halfling's Gem was written by R.A. Salvatore. The Copyright is owned by Wizards of the Coast and it is 100% their Intellectual property. Read by Russell Johnson. Contact Info: russelljohnson3000@gmail.com

The Halfling's Gem, chapter 20. Third book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. The Halfling's Gem was written by R.A. Salvatore. The Copyright is owned by Wizards of the Coast and it is 100% their Intellectual property. Read by Russell Johnson. Contact Info: russelljohnson3000@gmail.com