Episode 38: The Prolific John Snead!

In which Dixie and Eddy talk to John Snead about his long and varied career. Seriously, he’s done so much.

• We are not the Green Ronin podcast!
• The intimacy of the RPG industry
• Dixie and Eddy fight for legend status
• Killing people with kindness
• Redlining and whether green is a rude color
• John’s start with Lion Rampant
• Blue Rose first edition
• The freelance life vs a career in cultural anthropology
• Working on and developing Trinity Continuum: Aeon
• Adding and updating representation
• Excited about sci-fi
• Eclipse Phase
• Changeling the Lost
• Mage the Awakening
• Turning down work and doing small workloads
• Writing magic systems
• Awkward silence!
• Writing Exalted charms and rolling lots of dice
• Writing fiction and hiding your inspiration
• How the industry is changing
• Shout out to Danielle Lauzon!
• History of the Storypath system
• John wants to work on his own games
• We discuss putting Matthew in a box
• More John stuff we didn’t even get to
• Toying with the idea of repeat guests
• We’re close to our 50th episode!

LINKS

• There are just SO MANY projects, so here’s a link to all of John Snead’s work on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=&author=john+snead&artist=&pfrom=&pto=
• Trinity on Backerkit: https://trinity-continuum-aeon-rpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Also, a list of all the magic systems John worked on:
1 Ars Magica 3e: Shamans – Shamanism
1 Nephilim: Liber Ka – Sorcery
2 Conspiracy-X 1e: Forsaken Rites – Sorcery & Alchemy
4 Ars Magica 4e: Hedge Magic – (Ascetics, Cunning Folk, Natural Magic, & Spirit Masters)
1 Star Trek (LUG): The Way of Kohlinar: Vulcan Psi
1 Dying Earth RPG – Magic system
2 Buffy: The Magic Box – Magic & Weird Science
1 Exalted 1e: Player’s Guide – Dragon Kings Magic
1 nWoD: Immortals – Purified powers
2 The Mistborn RPG – Allomancy & Ferruchemy
1 Laundry Files RPG – Mythos Sorcery
1 Eldritch Skies – Mythos Sorcery
2 BRP: Enlightened Magic – Enlightened Sorcery & Enlightened Alchemy
1 Mythras: After the Vampire Wars – Half-Fae Magic
1 Reign 2e: Clockwork Sails – Clockworkers (soon to be published)