{"id":2403,"date":"2018-12-04T20:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:49:10","slug":"tradition-book-virtual-adepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/tradition-book-virtual-adepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today\u2019s show Bill Maxwell<\/a> joins us to talk about \u201cTradition Book: Virtual Adepts,\u201d<\/a>; his grandparents screenwriter Ernest Pagano<\/a> and actress Norma Drew<\/a> and their influence on him; how he got involved with Dungeons and Dragons and Vampire: The Masquerade and LARPs and writing for video games; why he was such a terrible player; adapting Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/a><\/em> video game to a role playing game using Savage Worlds<\/a><\/em> to play with his kids; why he chose Savage Worlds<\/em> over Fate<\/a><\/em>; Ten Candles<\/a><\/em> RPG; his work on Fading Suns<\/a><\/em>; how he came to work on revising the Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts<\/em>; the Ascension War<\/a>; working with co-writer Gary Glass<\/a>; the influence of cyberpunk<\/a> on Virtual Adepts; Grant Morrison<\/a>\u2019s The Invisibles<\/a><\/em> and Alan Moore<\/a>\u2019s Promethea<\/a><\/em>; Pythagoras<\/a> in Bill\u2019s book, Shadowpath (The Lost Gods Cycle Book 1)<\/a><\/em>; Alan Turing<\/a>, Tesla<\/a>, Jack Parsons<\/a>, Aleister Crowley<\/a> and L. Ron Hubbard<\/a>; how the tools of the Virtual Adepts were adapted by the Alt Right; how he would update the Virtual Adepts to the 21st century; the Syndicate<\/a>; being visited by the F.B.I.; the T Virus; spheres, trinary computers and tarot decks.<\/p>\n

Join us next week! Adam Simpson and Terry Robinson review \u201cTechnocracy: Progenitors.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n