July 17, 2019 was #AskAnArchaeologist day on Twitter. We decided to carry that over to YouTube. Watch the ArchaeoRPG collective engage with our community and answer questions about archaeology. Watch this very special episode.
Tag public archaeology
“Still Digging” the podcast is here
For the fans of audio content, Still Digging is now available as a podcast. Taken from the YouTube live stream show, listen to four archaeologist chat while you are on the go. Subscribe on Anchor or your favorite podcatcher.
Rituals & Rolls : episode zero
Who will be the characters who will enter the jungles of Chult? Episode zero of Rituals & Rolls finds the ArchaeoRPG crew creating their characters. Additionally, we discuss how we will be playing this game and some of the ways we wish to incorporate actual archaeology into this game world. Watch and get caught up before Episode One of Rituals & Rolls premieres in September 2019.
Still Digging – episode 2
This week the ArchaeoRPG collective came together to discuss a variety of topics.
We started with a discussion of the tension that sometimes occurs between professional archaeologist and volunteers. This led to a rather lengthy discussion of the reaction and counter-reaction to a twitter post showing off volunteers in action.
Lots of finds already this morning @N_T_S #WeaversCottage pic.twitter.com/57iRojwbIN
— NTS Archaeologist (@NTS_archaeology) June 22, 2019
We then shifted gears and began discussing the world of role-playing games. A discussion of the use of racial stereotypes in the fantasy genre and tabletop role-playing games. With particular focus on two articles by James Mendez Hodes
Orcs, Britons, And The Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built For Racial Terror
Orcs, Britons, And The Martial Race Myth, Part II: They’re Not Human
These articles focused on the orc first described in the works of Tolkien and later reinterpreted for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).
We finally talk out our own upcoming live play tabletop role-playing campaign, Rituals and Rolls. We agreed that one of the purposes of this games was to critically examine the genre through an archaeological lens. We discussed whether this would best be achieved through a homebrew campaign where we attempted to ‘clean up’ 5th edition D&D from its cultural pitfalls or play a prewritten campaign to better understand what these pitfalls are. We chose the later. An coming soon we will begin the first campaign of Ritual and Rolls with Tomb of Annihilation.
Join us again on July 18, 2019 when episode 3 of Still Digging will air live at 8 pm EDT on YouTube. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel for updates.
