Arnie Niekamp on Designing Improv Games
Dragon Talk - 03/21/2019
Dragon Talk hosts Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito talk about meta-gaming anxiety before they speak with Arnie Niekamp, creator and host of Hello from the Magic Tavern. The conversation with Arnie flows from game design, to improv comedy and dungeon mastering before getting into how the podcast Arnie hosts from the magical world of Foon was created.
In Lore You Should Know: Chris Perkins goes into more detail on the Dead Three - Bane, Bhaal, Myrkul.
Dragon Talk - 03/21/2019
Here’s a guide to when each segment on the podcast begins:
00:00: Intro with Greg Tito & Shelly Mazzanoble
15:32: Lore You Should Know with Chris Perkins
42:24: Interview with Arnie Niekamp
1:39:00: Outro with Greg Tito & Shelly Mazzanoble
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Arnie Niekamp
Arnie Niekamp hosts the totally improvised comedy podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern, a weekly chat show from a magical world. He's also a video game designer at Jackbox Games, where he's directed Drawful, Trivia Murder Party, Fakin' It, and many more.
Greg Tito
Greg Tito has had weird and long career as an Off Broadway stage manager, a playwright, a theater carpenter, a secretary, an RPG designer, a games journalist, and now a PR/Marketing person. He has loved Dungeons & Dragons ever since 1985 when he found an old copy of the AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide on his brother’s bookshelf and he honed that love of fantasy storytelling in the dark streets of Sasserine by way of the Upper West Side gaming group he joined in 2004. He moved his family (wife + two young kids) to Seattle in 2015 to work on D&D and he’s never looked back.
Shelly Mazzanoble
Shelly Mazzanoble will always play a magic-user. There. She said it. Enough pretending to want to break out of her comfort zone. She’s a magic-user. She’s also the brand lead for Avalon Hill and loves talking about that one time she played Diplomacy and SOMEONE (okay, it was Ben Petrisor) stabbed her in the back and took over her beloved Russia. If you enjoy tales of sorcery, board game upheavals, and reasons her 3 year-old is crying (HINT: She tried to make him eat a Nutella crepe), find Shelly on Twitter and Facebook.