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Despite the holidays, Episode Alpha 57 is here for your listening enjoyment (and gaming enrichment, too, of course!)

Quite a few links came out of this week’s News and Shnotes section:

• Congratulations to the Sci-Fi podcasts who won Parsec awards:

• Variant Frequencies - Best Fiction Short - http://www.variantfrequencies.com
• The Seanachai - Best Fiction Long, Best Fidction (Non-Speculative)
• The Secrets by Mike Stackpole - best Writing podcast
• Planet Retcon - Best audio Drama (long)
• The Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd - Best Audio Drama (Short)
• The Future and You Best News Podcast

• New RPG & Geek News podcast The Head Games Podcast
• Gaming Podcast Coverage of DragonCon
• Wyrmul created a backup Link Wiki for us
• ShaunCon - November 16-19 in Kansas City
• New D&D Podcast from WotC
• Pleasure Prison of the B’thuvian Demon Whore
• Blood & Guts - In Her Majesty’s Service v2
• Dragavan from the message boards has released a new card game called Lootin’ Wizards that looks like a lot of fun.
• Politically Incorrect Games sent us a couple more new releases to look at:

• Iron Gauntlets Fantasy Roleplaying

• Steampunk Musha victoriental Adventures - an Alternate Setting for Iron Gauntlets
  -2 new types of magic, steamwork and clockwork items (including a playable clockwork character race), new races, new beasts, a complete world setting (Rosuto-Shima) that can be dropped into any existing campaign world regardless of technology levels.

• Chupacabra Sighting! - - Thanks to Charles for this sighting

We cover some fantastic Worldbuilding and Campaign management in the Frugal Gamer. And the links are . . .

• From Reijin - A bunch of GM prep resources he found on the web. Instead of listing them, I’ll point you to this post on the forums.
• Hidden Way has a ton of great stuff, and here’s just a sampling:-

• Adelfarn
• After Earth
• Book of Beasts (which leads to several other interesting netbooks)
• Tons of Hero Links
• A very complete section of world building links

• From MrWhite - World Building on Wikipedia
• From King Beast - 2 great graphical mapping resources - GM’s Parlor and RPG Map Share
• Festivus has created a campaign tracking spreadsheet for d20 games. There is an excel version and a google spreadsheets compatible excel version
• From the Dungeoneer - Bryce 3d modelling software - Free thru Sept 6 ( so get it quick! )
• From shaylon - Player’s Guide to Ed Greenood’s Castlemourn free at DriveThruRPG

Now, it’s your turn: we’d love to resurect the Hook of the Week, and we want to hear your ideas! If you have ideas from any of the Adventure Styles, then send us an Odeo, voicemail or email!

Have a fantastic week!