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Over the past couple of months, myself and a friends have been working on a podcast project, recording the sessions of a game played out over discord, and editing them into a stream-able series.

This is the first episode of that series. We’ll be aiming to upload weekly from now on.

Oceans of Leaves is a low-fantasy homage to fairy tales, history, and coming of age stories, ran in the FATE system. Our aim is not to have a story full of your typical tabletop jokes and puns, nor is it to run a game full of spectacle and action. Instead, Oceans of Leaves is all about a stroll through the woods, and aims to be as relaxing as that, with the occasional bump in the night and historical anachronism.

So a friend of mine has started a FATE game as a podcast that I’ve been a part of (try to guess which character). The first episode is up now so I thought I’d spread the word. 

“Oceans of Leaves is a game set in 8th Century Europe - with a twist. All bodies of saltwater are instead replaced with deep, deep forests, filled with fae, monsters, and megafauna. This is a game designed to invoke the kind of feeling that old school fairytales will, and follows the story of six children as they grow up, explore the world, and learn who they really are. 

 GM’d by a high school history teacher and played by a group that’s been together for five years, Oceans of Leaves is a relaxing story that trades spectacle for story, exploring deep lore, attempting historical accuracy, and cherishing the relationships between characters.”

This week on RWBY: Raven evacuates her tribe while she and Vernal face down Cinder and Dr. Watts, then gets them to leave by striking a surprising bargain. Down in Menagerie, Sun steps into the ring for a surprise tag-team match at Ghiramania 2017, while Blake gets ready for her undercard bout with Ilya.

Your unpaid Team RDIO interns are: Sunday (@sundayswiththeilluminati), Sam (@jetblacknova), Kaden (@nonegenderwithleftbeef), and Daft (@daftprodigy).

This week in RWBY: Six teenagers finally having a nice dinner for once, and boy do they deserve it. Then, in a shocking twist, Ozpin finally comes clean and explains everything…that we figured out two volumes ago. Oh well.

This week’s unpaid RDIO interns are: Sunday (@sundayswiththeilluminati), Artyom, Renzeos, and Tyler (@prettypoopoo).

This week on RWBY, Qrow Branwen can’t find anyone to hang out with him, but not for the usual reasons; meanwhile Raven taunts us with answers we aren’t going to get, because Yang and Weiss opt for a cute hug with Ruby instead. And it’s totally worth it.

This week’s unpaid RDIO interns are: Sunday @sundayswiththeilluminati, @daftprodigy, @rane0, and Kaden.

This week in RWBY: Ruby gets depressed, Blake gets rejected, and Adam show how batshit crazy he really is.

Your unpaid RDIO hosts this week are: Sam, Tyler, Joe, and Blue.

Join Dougss, Ren, and Joe as they discuss probably the biggest piece of media to ever come out of anything, ever, The Force Awakens.

Spike is a psychographic of players who use the game as a means to prove something, often to themselves, sometimes to others. My best guess is that about 25% of the players are Spikes. Spikes are way more than just high end professional players.

Magic currently has somewhere around 12 million active players and the female percentage is somewhere between 25% and 35% (in total play including digital - they are a smaller percentage of people playing in organized play - not because they are uncompetitive but because the environment is often not welcoming).

Let’s assume the low end with 25%. That means there are somewhere around 750,000 female Spikes.

In Unglued, we made Timmy a male. In Unhinged, Johnny was a male. We were finishing out a cycle of which none of which so far had been female, so we decided, hey let’s have some female representation in the cycle rather than none.

Diversity and representation is something we take very seriously. Interestingly, I’ve gotten a lot more notes from people happy to see Spike portrayed as the card as a woman than upset by it.

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