Episode 38: The Prolific John Snead!

Onyx Pathcast

In which Dixie and Eddy talk to John Snead about his long and varied career. Seriously, he’s done so much.

We are not the Green Ronin podcast!

The intimacy of the RPG industry

Dixie and Eddy fight for legend status

Killing people with kindness

Redlining and whether green is a rude color

John’s start with Lion Rampant

Blue Rose first edition

The freelance life vs a career in cultural anthropology

Working on and developing Trinity Continuum: Aeon

Adding and updating representation

Excited about sci-fi

Eclipse Phase

Changeling the Lost

Mage the Awakening

Turning down work and doing small workloads

Writing magic systems

Awkward silence!

Writing Exalted charms and rolling lots of dice

Writing fiction and hiding your inspiration

How the industry is changing

Shout out to Danielle Lauzon!

History of the Storypath system

John wants to work on his own games

We discuss putting Matthew in a box

More John stuff we didn’t even get to

Toying with the idea of repeat guests

We’re close to our 50th episode!

LINKS

There are just SO MANY projects, so here’s a link to all of John Snead’s work on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=&author=john+snead&artist=&pfrom=&pto=

Trinity on Backerkit: https://trinity-continuum-aeon-rpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Also, a list of all the magic systems John worked on:

1 Ars Magica 3e: Shamans – Shamanism

1 Nephilim: Liber Ka – Sorcery

2 Conspiracy-X 1e: Forsaken Rites – Sorcery & Alchemy

4 Ars Magica 4e: Hedge Magic – (Ascetics, Cunning Folk, Natural Magic, & Spirit Masters)

1 Star Trek (LUG): The Way of Kohlinar: Vulcan Psi

1 Dying Earth RPG – Magic system

2 Buffy: The Magic Box – Magic & Weird Science

1 Exalted 1e: Player’s Guide – Dragon Kings Magic

1 nWoD: Immortals – Purified powers

2 The Mistborn RPG – Allomancy & Ferruchemy

1 Laundry Files RPG – Mythos Sorcery

1 Eldritch Skies – Mythos Sorcery

2 BRP: Enlightened Magic – Enlightened Sorcery & Enlightened Alchemy

1 Mythras: After the Vampire Wars – Half-Fae Magic

1 Reign 2e: Clockwork Sails – Clockworkers (soon to be published)