Saladin Ahmed on D&D Inspired Novels

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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Author Saladin Ahmed stops by to talk about how Dungeons & Dragons inspired his 2011 novel Throne of the Crescent Moon and what it's like playing with him at conventions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dungeons and Dragons podcast everybody. I'm Greg Tito.
0:13.7	Now I'm Trevor Kidd. What's up?
0:15.9	We're waiting for you to tell us what's up.
0:18.2	Oh yes, that's true. Yeah.
0:19.5	Everyone just scream what's up right now?
0:22.1	Oh yeah, there you are are I hear you now.
0:23.4	Oh yeah, yeah. Wow sweet. Yeah a lot a lot of stuff. Okay I can hear you now
0:27.0	the old weird old Yankovic joke anyway where is the dungeon dragons
0:31.0	podcast we're gonna talk to the amazing author, Saladine Ahmed, of author of Throne of the Crescent
0:38.1	Moon, which is a fantastic book.
0:40.1	He'll tell you all about it.
0:41.1	Probably about halfway through the podcast that's that's how we
0:44.2	roll we're not going into that question for a while but we do have some crazy fun
0:49.7	announcements to talk about Pax East is coming up this weekend. Oh wow yeah. It is Friday,
0:55.4	Saturday, Sunday in Boston. It's going to be fun. There's a lot of Dungeons and
0:59.6	Dragons play that's happening over the course of the whole weekend.
1:03.3	You'll be able to play all over Ravenloft Adventure League
1:06.6	at Adventures, plus I think it's called Death House, which is this big
1:10.4	awesome haunted house, which will be pretty cool. You know, why don't they just go to the life house?
1:14.8	Why does it have to go to the death house? That seems like a bad idea. Well you don't have to but then you just kind of like
1:19.7	grab a character to stand up and walk away from the table.
1:22.6	You're like, I'm gonna role play being a jerk.
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