Holy cow, I just listened to this episode and Logan Howard spent most of his time talking about my Session Zero zine!! Thanks Logan, I’m speechless!!!!!!!!
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After a short hiatus, I’m pleased to present Episode 47 of Discern Realities! In this deluxe episode, we are joined by some special guests: Stephen Karnes, the winner of our Shrine Contest, and the runners-up, Logan Howard and Daniel Fowler. We talk about their entries in the contest, the Wizard’s Ritual move, pitfalls when running the game for new players, Brian Holland’s Session Zero zine, and more!
Enjoy!
Can’t wait for your next issue! I hope we can inspire more Dungeon World Tavern members to create exciting new DW zines.
Congrats! I especially enjoyed your first issue. The Princess Bride is one my favourite books and movies. Your zine has given me a nice model for bringing my own favourite things into my games 🙂 (In other zine related news I run a zine shop called Tiny Boat in Newcastle, Australia). Hope you’re healing up well! L
Lu Quade Wow! A zine shop?! That sounds so cool! Tell me more about it. I was part of an effort to make zines more prominent in the bookstore I used to work for and, except for a few creators, we hardly had the response we wanted. I was pretty disappointed.
I thinks zines are so dynamic and immediate in a way that more curated publishing fails to be. How were you able to translate that for your customers?
Hi Logan (and Brian too seeing as it’s your thread! hehe). I literally JUST finished listening to your ‘The Cliff of Shuachi’ piece. It was actually really beautiful.
Yeah, the zine shop is a pretty fun project. It’s a not for profit venture, alongside an art space (and supported by other work I do too).
I was lucky enough to get offered a shopfront, and Newcastle hadn’t had a zine shop for a few years so I thought i’d try get one going. We have a pretty good selection of local zines for sale (but i’m thinking of trying to start a yearly prize to encourage more!!). We also have a bunch of other Australian zines and are starting to get more from further abroad: also a library of heaps of zines that stay in the space.
I think Newcastle has a lot of artists, musicians and writers for its size so that might mean it’s capable of supporting such a thing!? But yes, part of the mission is to translate the dynamism and immediacy of zines to people and try create a bigger audience for them. 🙂
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Lu Quade I wish you well in your venture! Do you have a zine of your own?
Thank you for the kind words about my shrine contest entry. I find that when you look at gaming, and fantasy in general, there’s a tendency to make faith into just another form of magic or a parlor trick. Part of my thinking in creating the Cliff of Shuachi was to make it something very personal and challenging.