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SUMMARY This is a special episode that goes over the history of how Adventures in Erylia got started. We talk about how the group formed, how we got into D&D as a whole, and how things changed (pretty quickly) from a home game into being an actual play podcast. Check the bottom of the show notes for breakdown of topics. SHOW SPONSORS This episode is brought to you by Gabe and Jeff, over at Inter-Party Conflict, Fred on Fyre, Evora Dawn, and Pwrful Condor. If you'd like to join them in supporting the show, consider joining our Patreon. SHOUT OUTS GonnaGeek Network – During our hiatus, Adventures in Erylia was given the opportunity to join the GonnaGeek Network. Damian has been close with a few shows form the network for a few years now and we were more than happy to accept the offer when asked. GonnaGeek features many shows of various geeky topics. If you want to keep up with general geeky news about tech, gaming, and space, then check out the Official GonnaGeek show. Across the network you will also find shows that cover podcasting, comic books, and TV show fan podcasts. CAST Damian Chris Christa Chantalle Caitlin JOIN THE GUILD If you like what we have been doing, consider joining our Patreon. You can donate monthly to show your support and help us cover our operating expenses, as well as potentially fund upgrades and other media going forward. Have Discord? Want to hang out with the cast? Maybe even get in a game with us? Join us on our Discord! MUSIC If you'd like to know more about the music featured on the show, check out our Music Page. The background ambience for this episode was the Library by Michael Ghelfi. Topics Since this is a bit of a special episode going over the history of how Adventures in Erylia got started, in lieu of our usual show notes, you can use this topic list as a reference to timestamps around where we cover a certain topic. Introduction (1:06) Joining the GonnaGeek Network (2:44) How We All Met (5:05) Lack of Friends and the Start of (BOARD) Game Night (5:31) Retail Brought Us Together (6:46) Christa Came Along to Color (7:29) Chantalle Gets Roped In (7:46) Caitlin and Chantalle Bond Over Minecraft (8:32) The OOG Group (9:48) Christa's Favorite Game is Yahtzee (10:33) Christa Rolls the GOAT (11:43) Critters Unite (13:40) It Really Was About Board Games (14:25) Chantalle Isn't Even Involved in D&D Yet! (15:13) I DM'd For Five People?! (15:29) Pour One Out for Pavel (15:42) Chantalle Was JUST Here for Board Games (16:54) The Moment A Character Was Made, Christa Was Hooked (17:47) To Put A Date On Things (18:06) Both Campaign Have an Arc Before The Podcast (18:22) How We Roped Chantalle In (18:42) She Wasn't Even Driving Yet! (19:10) They Weren't Even Here for Her First Chartacter (20:19) Why The Mieveht Story Came First (20:43) The OOG Group Had to Take a Break (21:09) It Was a Filler (22:23) They Aren't BAD People (23:42) Free Meat! (25:29) Brand New Role Players! (27:08) Originally Planned as A Learn Along Show (27:20) The History of Chris (27:51) Damian Started TTRPGs With Pathfinder (30:14) Critical Role Is an Investment (31:04) Erylian Critters Switch Sides (31:38) Christa Out D&D's All of Us (32:52) From Turn Off, To Turn On (33:17) Chris Was New To 5E (34:02) If You Know Us and Not Critical Role, Let Us Know! (34:57) Keep Expectations in Check (35:43) Christa Was Terrified (36:05) The Death of The OOG Campaign and the Birth of AinE (37:03) We Started Recording For Our Own Sake (37:20) Upgrading To The Blue Yeti, That Was A Mistake (38:49) A Little Bit of Stage Fright (39:28) We're Actually Mostly Theater of the Mind (40:49) This Was NEVER a Podcast (42:06) I'm Editing This, Can I Put It Online? (42:46) Dungeons & Randomness Was a Key Inspiration (43:36) Adventures in Erylia Begins to Bloom (44:00) Glass Cannon Made Us Care About Quality (44:35) In The Early Days, There Were Minimal Edits (45:16) Self-Learned and Self Taught (45:34) Damian Reveals Prior Experience (45:46) Things Were Very Raw. Too Raw For Today (48:17) Pre-Podcast Erylian Epic Exists, It Will Never See The Light of Day (48:34) Used Audacity for YEARS (48:53) Always Keep Improving (49:03) Our Gear Progression (49:28) The Ongoing Project of Remastering Old Episodes (51:26) What About Nicer Mics??? (52:46) 2020 Was A Wormhole (53:09) The Difference Shock Mounts Make (53:37) Building the Audio Library (54:04) Just Show Up And Let Me Put A Mic In Your Face (54:55) It Really Is Five Friends Sitting Around A Table (55:43) We've All Grown Over Time (56:17) Christa, The Most Mic Conscious of Them All! (56:55) Experiences Before Podcast (57:34) Caitlin – Elementary School Pageants (58:06) Chantalle – Ballet and Stage Performance (58:36) Chantalle's Thoughts on Playing a Character (59:34) Are Your Characters Extensions of Yourself? (1:00:10) Chantalle – It Is An Opportunity To Be Someone Else (1:01:12) Christa – Willow Is Almost So Opposite It Is Difficult (1:02:30) Christa – Ariel Is Much More Christa (1:03:13) Chantalle – Characters Can Grow Beyond What You Expected (1:03:47) Chris – Started As A Leader Type To Drive The Story (1:04:56) Caitlin – Struggles Creating New Characters (1:05:43) Caitlin – Trying To Leave Your Comfort Zone Doesn't Always Work (1:06:27) Reminiscing The Lost Arc Of The Erylian Epic (1:07:35) Introducing A Character With A Goodbye (1:12:12) The Inter-Party Relationships of The Erylian Epic (1:13:02) Outro And A Peak Of What's To Come (1:20:20)
For those who like our technical episodes, you're in luck! Due to listener request, this week we run down a whole bunch of things to pay attention to when shopping for Headphones or In-Ear Monitors (IEMs) and then share our knowledge and experience with some models about these. In this week's Better Podcasting Download we talk about the debut of Periscope Audio and share our experience testing it this past week during the live recording of Official GonnaGeek.com Show. During the Better Podback we take listener feedback including answering the question from a listener about how Stephen multi-tracks his Skype participants locally. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/betterpodcasting, you can follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/betterpod or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at http://www.betterpodcasting.com. Happy Podcasting This podcast was recorded on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - Streamed Live to http://www.Geeks.Live. Audio/Video Production by Stephen Jondrew of GonnaGeek Productions, proudly Canadian. Find full episode information including links referenced in this episode at http://www.betterpodcasting.com/147/
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Have you ever wondered how to start a successful podcast? In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we welcome Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer a.k.a. SP from the (http://gonnageek.com) on the show to talk all things Podcasting and all things Geek! If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our (http://teachercast.net/contact) and let us know how we can help you today! How to Start a Successful PodcastHow do you describe the term podcasting to those who don’t know what a podcast is? (RSS) What should we be thinking about when planning a new podcast? Topic / Content (https://www.teachercast.net/blog/podcasting-blogging-editorial-calendar-template/) EquipmentUse your Phone when starting out AT2005 USB / XLR (https://www.teachercast.net/product/B007JX8O0Y/US/teach00-20/?cart=y) AT2100 USB / XLR (https://www.teachercast.net/product/B004QJOZS4/US/teach00-20/?cart=y) Podcast EditoriMovie Final Cut Movie Studio Platinum (https://www.teachercast.net/product/B00HRQB216/US/teach00-20/?cart=y) Website Podcast Websites (http://teachercast.net/pw) WordPress.com (http://WordPress.com) Google Sites (http://sites.google.com/new) Hosting PodBean (http://podbean.com) Audience Graphics Canva (http://canva.com) Google Slides (http://slides.google.com) Google Drawing (http://drawing.google.com) Pixelmator (http://Pixelmator.com) Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop / Lightroom) (http://adobe.com) Affinity Photo (https://www.teachercast.net/product/3836245906/US/teach00-20/?cart=y) PowerPoint Audio or VideoStart with Audiomuch easier less resources needed faster to export Use Hardware Audio Recorders Streamed live or recorded Budget Integrity Building an audienceDon’t stress over your numbers IAB compliant stats Keep your goals in front of you … not your downloads Grow your community …. Ask for feedback Finding the right podcasting topic How do you survive podcasting with a cohost?You fire them Pop CultureStar Wars Marvel Transformers Follow our PodcastThe TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network | @TeacherCast (http://www.twitter.com/teachercast) @PodcastingToday (http://www.twitter.com/podcastingtoday) Follow our HostJeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury (http://www.twitter.com/jeffbradbury) About our GuestsStephen JondrewI’m a new media creator with a history of creating podcast, video and website content. I currently produce two video shows (The Official GonnaGeek.com Show and Better Podcasting) and run GonnaGeek.com, which features geek content including its own Podcast Network. http://stephenjondrew.com/about/ (http://stephenjondrew.com/about/) Stargate PioneerStargate Pioneer, or “SP” as he likes to be called, is a Science Fiction and Space aficionado, comic book universe fan, amateur drone pilot-adventurer, and hobby podcast mentor and advocate. Inspired by early television scifi and NASA missions SP strove from his early teens to work in the space industry and ultimately earned an advanced degree in Astronautical Engineering. Having achieved career success in Aerospace for decades SP became enamored with early podcasting after receiving an original iPod Nano as a gift. SP enjoyed the commercial free niche content that you could not find anywhere else at the time including Satellite Radio. SP finally caught the podcasting bug on New Years Eve of 2010 and hasn’t looked back since having created three podcasts, taken over producing two additional shows, and cohosting another. He applied his professional training to the craft, absolutely enjoyed everything about podcasting, and put himself to task to learn as much as he could about podcasting from the production side to hosting to hardware to content creation. Five years into podcasting SP noted a gap in the podcasting space for the next...
In this SPECIAL EPISODE, GonnaGeek Network’s Official GonnaGeek.com Show crosses-over with GFQ Network’s Tech News Weekly (aka Sunkast’s tech news show that he’s been doing since 2010) to run down the latest tech news happenings including Google Assistant coming to Chrome OS, Amazon releasing a whole ton of Echos, SpaceX flying people to Mars by 2024, Twitter increasing the character limits and a whole bunch more. Of course, we’ll also add a dash of GonnaGeek.com Show flavor with SP giving his first thoughts after using his Apple iPhone 8 Plus for a couple weeks.
In this SPECIAL EPISODE, GonnaGeek Network’s Official GonnaGeek.com Show crosses-over with GFQ Network’s Tech News Weekly (aka Sunkast’s tech news show that he’s been doing since 2010) to run down the latest tech news happenings including Google Assistant coming to Chrome OS, Amazon releasing a whole ton of Echos, SpaceX flying people to Mars by 2024, Twitter increasing the character limits and a whole bunch more. Of course, we’ll also add a dash of GonnaGeek.com Show flavor with SP giving his first thoughts after using his Apple iPhone 8 Plus for a couple weeks.
In this SPECIAL EPISODE, GonnaGeek Network’s Official GonnaGeek.com Show crosses-over with GFQ Network’s Tech News Weekly (aka Sunkast’s tech news show that he’s been doing since 2010) to run down the latest tech news happenings including Google Assistant coming to Chrome OS, Amazon releasing a whole ton of Echos, SpaceX flying people to Mars by 2024, Twitter increasing the character limits and a whole bunch more. Of course, we’ll also add a dash of GonnaGeek.com Show flavor with SP giving his first thoughts after using his Apple iPhone 8 Plus for a couple weeks.
In this SPECIAL EPISODE, GonnaGeek Network’s Official GonnaGeek.com Show crosses-over with GFQ Network’s Tech News Weekly (aka Sunkast’s tech news show that he’s been doing since 2010) to run down the latest tech news happenings including Google Assistant coming to Chrome OS, Amazon releasing a whole ton of Echos, SpaceX flying people to Mars by 2024, Twitter increasing the character limits and a whole bunch more. Of course, we’ll also add a dash of GonnaGeek.com Show flavor with SP giving his first thoughts after using his Apple iPhone 8 Plus for a couple weeks.
This week, Cody Gough of Game/Life Balance U.S. is joined by special guests Andrew “AC” Yoshimura of Game/Life Balance Australia and Chris Ferrell of the All Things Good and Nerdy and Official GonnaGeek.com Podcasts for...
You all might of noticed that there was no live show this week, but have no fear we do have some great new ATGN nonsense for you. Chris put together a short show with some news from the past week, and then we give you a taste of one of the other shows on this network. This week we take a look at the latest episode of the Official GonnaGeek.com podcast. We hope you enjoy the preview at one of the other great network shows. Have no worries, we will be back next week with a brand new episode of All Things Good And Nerdy with our entire cast.