On this episode of The AIE Podcast... * We promise, we are NOT podfading! * Are you a world builder? * 10.2.6 is THIS WEEK! * We are in a new galactic season! * And, we are talking to ourselves All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/HeJ7cyHDjpI Open Welcome to episode #418 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left isTetsemi (enter catch phrase here) And, we are Mewless this evening, but we figured we would get a show out so no one thought we were Podfading! We sure missed you all and there is a ton of news to catch up on! Ok, so let’s get into the news AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn NOMADS The BitCraft Alpha is going live on April 4th. It's a multiplayer, open world, survival/exploration type game. No invites have gone out but they have a signup going on (that's a little over-gamefied in my view, but ok). We'll very likely have some AIE people in there checking it out. Besides the other ongoing fun stuff (Rust, Palworld, ARK, etc.) there will be some single-player RPG games coming out next week that people may want to chat about. Horizon: Forbidden West is finally hitting PC (Steam) and Dragon's Dogma 2 is looking interesting. Mkallah- TTRPG News If you are a world builder, Chaosium is running a Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge with their open gaming license (d100). And let’s be honest, if you’re going to try and label the system as BRP (Basic Roleplaying), we’re going to add Universal and System to it and call it (BURPS). Also it’s being released under the ORC (Open RPG Creative) license. https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-basic-roleplaying-design-challenge/ Daggerheart is doing a public playtest beginning M...