Episode 387 - background banalities

* (0:28) The amount of bleeping in the prior episode. * (2:13) Voting for the science fiction plot hooks is still going on. You can get your votes in here. * (3:32) The flooding in Missouri. * (8:08) Natural disasters in roleplaying games. The eruption of Krakatoa. The radioactive fire at the West Lake Landfill. * (12:13) The mundane aspects of life that get represented in a character's background but not during play. * (14:04) Aspects that are excluded because they're too boring. * (17:52) Aspects that are excluded because they're done alone. * (20:43) Aspects that are excluded because we'd prefer not to think about them. * (23:37) Aspects that are excluded because they create unwanted vulnerabilities. * (28:23) Erasing the separation between items that are interesting enough to be in backstory but don't seem to make it into the game. * (39:20) Turn around, don't drown. Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne