From Dice Rolling to Novel Writing With Danie Ware (Part One)

Thu Jul 29 2021

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This month we are back at the same place (a really nice spot in Herne Hill that I highly recommend) with a different guest.

Meet Danie Ware, tabletop RPG enthusiast, marketing specialist, Forbidden Planet London Megastore veteran and author of many novels including:

The Ecko Saga
Several instalments of the Adepta Sororitas series
Children of Artifice

See you next month for the final part of this interview.

In the meantime, feel free to check my game "Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying" and the growing number of one-page RPG translations available on The Rolistes Itch store.

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Music

Theme song: “Solta o Frango” by Bonde Do Role
“Everybody” by Fidel Cutstro
“Little girl on Her Planet” by SMinky
“Voice In My Head” by The Love Me Nots
“War Is a Bitch” by Special Moments
Available for free download at http://freemusicarchive.org/

Logo

The Rolistes Podcast brand new logo by Rollin Kunz. Please check his excellent work at https://www.rollinkunz.com.

Merchandising, including t-shirts, and EVEN FACEMASKS with the logo and more cool “The Rolistes Podcast” art by Rolin Kunz is available via our TeePublic store.

Tabletop RPGs & games

"The Warlock of Firetop Mountain" single-player gamebook by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
"Cyberpunk" by Mike Pondsmith for R. Talsorian Games Inc.
"Nephilim" by Frederic Weil for Chaosium, which you can find out about in "Episode 20 - Nephilim with Mira, Willem & Rob"
"Legend of the Five Rings" by John Wick for
"Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay" by Cubicle 7

Mentioned events, books, movies, plays, video games,
magazines, podcasts and TV shows

"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by high fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson
Invisibilia (not This American Life as I thought), podcast which included an episode titled "Being With People Like You Offers Comfort Against Death's Chill" dedicated to an Indian retirement village in Florida
"A Clockwork Orange", novel by Anthony Burgess
"The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" novel by Neal Stephenson
"Adepta Sororitas", novella series by several authors including Danie Ware
"Saga of Pliocene Exile", series of speculative fiction books by Julian May
"Izekai",Japanese genre of light novels, manga, anime and video games such "Sword Art Online" or "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World!"
"The Lord of The Rings", movie trilogy by Peter Jackson
MCM London Comic Con, convention where "Episode 33 - That Time Critical Role Ruled MCM London Comic Con" was recorded

Businesses, Places, Shops, Organisations & Personalities

Jon Hodgson, artist and founder of Handiwork Games who was my guest on "Café Rolistes - Episode 155"
Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, game designers
Forbidden Planet Megastore, London-based comics and game shop
Allders, department store in Croydon
Andy Remic, British author of thrillers, science fiction and military science fiction
Satine Phoenix, tabletop RPG streamer and designer who was our guest in
Andy Serkis, actor, producer, director and motion capture artist