* A reminder that some domains stuff our emails into your spam folder.

* Giving back to the boot.

* Based on a voice mail from a listener, we ponder whether our game plots change to reflect our current position in life.

* Building martial accuracy in your RPG.

* Designing marco setting for a role-playing game.

* Skies of Glass Q&A 

Hosts: Adam, Chad, Dan, John

There are two resource documents for episode 31.  I'm still putting the finishing touches on them, but they should be up by the end of today (Wednesday).

To save myself the weekly struggle of presenting our show notes in prose form, I'm going to start using a more traditional, bulleted format.  This episode continues our series on RPG design.

* A big thanks to our listeners for their support during the episode 30 problems.

* Guilty gaming habits.

* The best character Chad has ever made.

* A misunderstanding about Skies of Glass, regarding its balance of combat and non-combat rules.

* Creating back story on the macro level for your new roleplaying game.

* Planning the future plot progression of your new roleplaying game.  While discussing this topic, we mention a previous show on campaign design.  You can find that show here: http://feartheboot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=97832

* Skies of Glass Q&A

Hosts: Adam, Chad, Dan, John

To follow-up on our open letter in the previous episode, we're happy to announce the show is back on track and doing well!  However, based on the suggestion of several listeners, FTB will now be released on Wednesdays instead of Mondays.

Continuing our game design series, we spend most of this episode talking about the role player-characters will assume in your game.  We also talk about Christmas parties and our current contests, as well as giving a Skies of Glass Q&A.

The voicemail we mention from Sam Chupp at Bear's Grove can be found here: http://www.feartheboot.com/external/sam_feel.wav

Hosts: Adam, Chad, Dan

One of our forum users, Crafterofcode, sent us a box of Australian candies.  We spend this bonus episode sampling the candy and discussing international food. 

We also bring Tex back via Skype, since he spent several years living in Europe.  This was a great opportunity for us to test recording with Skype, which is something we may use for interviews in the future.

Before the bonus episode itself, I take a few minutes to address the listeners with an open letter we posted on our forums.  It explains why the design series has been running behind and what we're doing to address the problem.