Title: Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Developer: Inkle Score: 7/10 Time Played: Approximately 40 minutes We Did Received a Review Copy of this game. Listen to our first audio review of a game here on the first episode of Crossed Wires: Our Review of Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Continue reading »
Category Archives: Fantasy
Episode 12 – Tradition
Episode 12 – Tradition! This week we disccuss tradition, Fiddlers, Roofs, Capital T’s, G.K. Chesterton, and Jaroslav Pelikan. It’s an episode that carries on the long tradition of Crossed Purposes Podcasts! Continue reading »
Episode 11 – Subordinationism
Episode 11 – Subordinationism This week we discuss subordinationism, that popular heresy that says that the Son is less than the Father. We try to explain this by talking about Tom Bombadil, Greek Philsoposhy, the Bible, and history. This is a theology heavy episode this week, so strap in, and do not forget to wait until … Continue reading »
Episode 10 – Rose Tint My World
Episode 10 – Rose Tint My World Get your towels and your toast ready, because this week we discuss the wave, Rocky Horror, and Liturgy. We are down one Joshua, but we are up a Thad on the first episode of the second season of the Crossed Purposes Podcast! Continue reading »
Episode 9 – Candy Coated Monkies
Episode 9 – Candy Coated Monkies It’s the end of the world and Rebecca Cohen, Joshua Gonnerman, Billy Kangas and Joshua Wise are hunkered down in a present under the tree in the Pryz to talk about all things End…ish. Cthulhu, Flying Flaming Skulls, and the Bloop make their expected appearances. Continue reading »
Episode 8 – The Happy Frog
Episode 8 – The Happy Frog This week we finally get around to talking about the Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon film The Cabin in the Woods. We bring up questions about sacrifice, roles, horror movies, and whether people are more important than a person. Also The Sword of Truth, and Kingdoms of Amalur come up. … Continue reading »
Episode 7 – The Knowledge of Fruit and Evil
Episode 7 – The Knowledge of Fruit and Evil This week we discuss Eden, the Nile River, and C.S. Lewis…as always. We also consider the virtues of the Lord of the Rings, the fact that humanity has fallen, Gattica, and Bioshock. There’s also some debate on how to pronounce The Brothers Karamazov. Continue reading »
Episode 6 – We’ll Make Up For This Somehow
Episode 6 – We’ll Make Up For This Somehow This week Rebecca, Billy, and the two Joshuas discuss the Atonement, Narnia, the Space Trilogy, the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and Les Miserables There’s a general consensus that theories of the Atonement are like dates to the Prom, the more you have, the better. Here … Continue reading »
Episode 4 – It’s a Sin
Episode 4 - It’s a Sin This week we discuss sin in popular culture, bringing in Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek and the Wheel of Time. A fistfight almost breaks out between proponents of East and West, and Martin Luther comes up a lot. Continue reading »