Episode 7: Role-Playing Games, Knights of Badassdom VS. Community, Top 5 Fandom Films

Level up with this week's role-playing games episode! We discuss why tabletop, live action, trading card, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games are so popular and what made them so controversial. In a non-spoiler edition of the INFINITE CROSSOVER CHAMBER, Community's "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" duels against Knights of Badassdom. We squee over our top 5 fandom films.  

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Show Notes

• 0:00 - 35:15: Role-playing games.

• 35:16 - 54:03: INFINITE CROSSOVER CHAMBER - Knights of Badassdom VS. Community's "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons".

• 54:04 - 1:16:11: Top 5 Fandom films.

Links

• Wikipedia role-playing game portal
• The (not-so) secret origin of D&D
• Director Jon Favreau credits his success to D&D
• The real victims of satanic ritual abuse
• The psychology of falsifying memories
• Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
• Which are deadlier: sharks or horses? (availability heuristic)
• What's it like to LARP?
• Google Street view captures LARPing
• The Darkon Wargaming Club
• Ali LARPing as a scary clown
• Investigating the psychology of cosplay
• Movies about fan culture
• Trekkies vote Galaxy Quest 7th best Star Trek film

Top 5 Fandom Films

Conrad:

1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Star Trek (2009)
3. Galaxy Quest
4. Kill: Bill Vol. 1 & 2
5. Firefly/Serenity

Ali: 

1. Galaxy Quest
2. Rudy
3. Almost Famous
4. Mallrats
5. The Lego Movie

Honorable Mentions:

• Veronica Mars
• Flight of the Conchords
• Homemade Movies: Death Star Trench Run
• Mortal Kombat: Rebirth