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Of Dice and Droids Episode XII: For Whom the Bell Tolls

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THE END OF ALL THINGS

EPISODE XII: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

The Cast:

  • Brian the GM
  • Kiera Lex played by Rocky
  • Diya Barron played by Nanci
  • Perceval played by Jay
  • Shoto played by Sho
  • Gin played by Saf

As you may notice on this episode, Tom is not in the GM’s seat. Unfortunately scheduling issues and Tom being completely awesome at his job have forced him to step away from GM duties for Of Dice and Droids, but don’t worry. He’ll still be around and we may even talk him into guest playing and GMing from time to time. Brian is sliding behind the GM’s screen in Tom’s place. We want to sincerely thank Tom for helping us launch this show and getting it off the ground.

This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes/Google Play to hear all of the adventures! You can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio master podcast feed  (iTunes/Google Play) for even more great Star Wars  and geek culture content. 

Tosche Station Radio #182: It’s Time for the Speculation to End

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This week on Tosche Station Radio, we avoid social media and engage in one last round of wild mass guessing over what we’re going to see in The Last Jedi. 

Tosche Station Radio is the official podcast of Tosche-Station.net. If you like what you hear, subscribe and leave a review on iTunes and Google Play. For more great shows from us, you can also subscribe to the Tosche Station Network mega feed on iTunes and Google Play. We can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Nanci and Brian are the co-founders and writers of Tosche-Station.net. You can find Nanci on Twitter with the handle @Nancipants and you can find Brian with @LaneWinree.

This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon!

Western Reaches #34

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This episode we dive back into Horizon: Zero Dawn with the new DLC, The Frozen Wilds. We also enthuse about Fran Wilde’s Cloudbound, Destiny 2, and getting the wrong things out of Turtles All The Way Down.
Games: 
  • Destiny 2
  • Curse of Osiris
  • Assassin’s Creed Origins
  • Reigns: Her Majesty
Books: 
  • Canto Bight – John Jackson Miller, Mira Grant, Rae Carson, and Saladin Ahmed
  • La Belle Sauvage – Philip Pullman
  • Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
  • Halo: Legacy of Onyx – Matt Forbeck
  • Halo: New Blood – Matt Forbeck
  • The Rift – Nina Allan
  • Cloudbound – Fran Wilde
  • Retrograde – Peter Cawdron
You can find Megan on Twitter with the handle @blogfullofwords and you can find Saf with @Wanderlustin. Be sure to subscribe to Western Reaches on iTunes/Google Play and subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed for more great shows, discussion, and commentary. This podcast has been brought to you by your support on Patreon!

The Untitled Patreon Backer Mini Podcast #1

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Welcome to the untitled Patreon (likely soon to be D.rip) backer mini-podcast, where our $5 Patrons get to tell us what to talk about and ask us questions. Nanci and Brian rant about Patreon’s new fee scheme before answering questions from listeners at the $5 backer level. Stay tuned to find out who wins this month’s Tosche Station Swag Bag. 

Tosche Station Book Club #17: Barbury Station by R.E. Stearns

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This month on the Tosche Station Book Club, Nanci is joined by Bria to discuss Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns.

Next month’s pick is Cobalt Squadron by Elizabeth Wein.

This podcast has been brought to you in part by your support on Patreon!  If you like what you hear, you can subscribe to the Tosche Station Book Club on iTunes or you can subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Megafeed for all of our great Star Wars and geek culture content. We can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Western Reaches #33

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We’re back with a catch-up episode! From Provenance to PAX Australia, we chat games we’ve been playing and books we’ve been reading since our last episode.
Games: 
  • Auntie Jaeger
  • Assassin’s Creed Origins
  • Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
  • Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds
  • Rumu
  • Detroit: Become Human
  • Paperville Panic
  • Chromalocity
  • The Gardens Between
  • VA-11 HALL-A
  • Florence
Books: 
  • We Were Eight Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Provenance – Ann Leckie
  • Leia: Princess of Alderaan – Claudia Gray
  • The Black Tides of Heaven – JY Yang
  • The Vor Game – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Updraft – Fran Wilde
You can find Megan on Twitter with the handle @blogfullofwords and you can find Saf with @Wanderlustin. Be sure to subscribe to Western Reaches on iTunes/Google Play and subscribe to the Tosche Station Radio Mega Feed for more great shows, discussion, and commentary. This podcast has been brought to you by your support on Patreon!

Aftermath, Representation, and Truth

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Norra

There’s Norra Wexley, a woman so clearly broken by war. Trying her best to do right by her child. Trying her best to love him, to keep him safe, to help him grow. I watch her succeed in moments, and fail spectacularly in others. It isn’t her fault when she fails. Not fully her fault, anyway. The woman is dogged by war. Scars from the atrocities she witnessed. Nightmares from the torture, psychological and physical, she endured for too many years.

My heart aches as the critics throws stones at her for not being the perfect mother. She often is emotionally distant, she often acts out of terror and fear. Post traumatic stress disorder manifests itself in unpredictable ways, but the critics insist her failings are entirely a flaw of character, rather than the never-ending terrors of watching her friends and family die around her. Her failures are not virtuous by any means, but they are not bad. They don’t make her a bad person, a bad parent.

I watch over time as the woman gets help to confront the nightmares of the past. I see her slowly heal. Though the nightmares will always be there, I watch her finally find some semblance of peace and belonging in her world.

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