WADY 19: Hindsight Spotlight: Fallout, Finding Inspiration, and Sword & Sorcery

Jun 6

Welcome to Episode 19 of We Aren’t Dead Yet, a podcast throwing magic missiles into the ttrpg, gamer and speculative fiction sphere and seeing whether we come out alive at the end.

Every Thursday will be WADY Day, a celebration of something gamer, literature or culture shocking with three friends who found each other online via World Anvil and went “Hey! Let’s talk”. We found out we all have a lot to say and different approaches to the same questions.

We have a veteran Dungeon Master, an award winning World Builder & Media Producer, and a bestselling cyberpunk + mythpunk author, here to snark, speak and speculate on fiction, creative professions and games.

Today’s episode… Hindsight Spotlight: Fallout, Finding Inspiration, and Sword & Sorcery!

In Hindsight Spotlight, we take a look at media that struck a chord. Whether it's worldbuilding, a particular character, or even a sequence of camera shots, this content stuck out to us as something to chat about, recommend, or praise. This episode, Emily goes full fan girl on the Fallout series and starts speculating about the cosmic horror elements of the setting, Sapha discusses their interpretation of inspiration and how to write fantastic fiction without scraping your favorite media, and Dazz begins a discussion on Sword & Sorcery decades in the making. We’ll see you next week with a closer inspection of the Sword & Sorcery genre with Dazz!

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