Media Catch-Up: Television

We’re back and we’re sucking at the glass teat again. Like all lazy creative types, we watch a lot of TV and try to convince ourselves it’s research. There certainly is a lot that the structure of modern television can teach us about roleplaying games. Absorb too much, however, and you may find that your games become riddled with adverts for erectile dysfunction pills. Maybe not the kind of healing potion your party is looking for… Main Topic: Media Catch-Up: Television After the positive reception to our short run of lockdown specials for our Patreon backers last year, we thought it might be fun to carry the format into the occasional regular episode. This time, we each discuss some of the television we’ve been watching recently and how it’s informing our gaming lives. Even though none of the programmes we discuss are horror, we still manage to find plenty to borrow for Call of Cthulhu. Once again, the pandemic means we recorded this episode remotely. Chatting over Google Meet is like watching each other on television, only with worse scripts. Links Things we mention in this episode include: * Patreon Lockdown Specials* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* Star Trek: The Next Generation* Star Trek: Discovery* The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe* Cheers* Supernatural* Buffy the Vampire Slayer* Walker in the Wastes* Masks of Nyarlathotep* The X-Files* Hot War* World of Darkness * The Wire* David Simon* Kult* Sicario (2015) * Justified* Elmore Leonard* Pronto by Elmore Leonard* Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard* Raylan by Elmore Leonard* “Fire in the Hole” by Elmore Leonard*