Rich Rogers, aka Orklord, started gaming during grade school when his advanced studies teacher brought in the Dungeon board game. He was instantly hooked in and begged his parents to pick up the D&D Red Box Set and never looked back to normalcy.
After spending his high school years engrossed in RPGs, he decided to pursue a minor in theater in college and starred in several local plays. Rich also ran a seven year long Vampire: the Masquerade chronicle and several years worth of D&D 2nd edition and Werewolf: the Apocalypse campaigns. After (finally) graduating college, Rich got married and moved up north to snowy Minnesota where he joined in a series of Legend of Five Rings campaigns and made his first pilgrimage to Mecca (GenCon) in 2000 before it moved from Milwaukee to Indy. A couple years ago, Rich started playing indie RPGs, moved to sunny Florida and started listening to the weird things called podcasts and first heard of Mick Bradley.
Rich wasted time hanging out on the forum for the Sons of Kryos podcast and it was there that he met Chris Perrin. The two of them spent weeks challenging each other to have the most forum posts until Rich finally posted that his 2007 New Years Gamer Resolution was to start a podcast, something Chris also declared. The two collaborated and Canon Puncture was born!
Rich and Chris Perrin met Mick at Gencon 2007 and over the past year, they communicated over various forums and IMs. Then, in mid-2008, the CP Crew extended an invite for Mick to join their weekly Skype game and the group hasn’t looked back.
On the non-gaming front, Rich Rogers is a 30-something year old father of one with a lovely gamer wife who lives happily in Jax, FL and works for a grotesquely big financial institution.
Mick Bradley, the newest member of the crew, is a husband, father, geek, roleplayer, Web designer, football fan, podcaster, progressive, mythophile, celtophile, writer, sometime stage-actor and the guy behind Harping Monkey Studios. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and is the creator and co-designer of the Vegas After Midnight RPG, currently in alpha playtest.
Mick has been playing tabletop rpgs for many years. He has experience with GURPS, various d20 games, some of the World of Darkness, Deadlands, 7th Sea, the DCU rpg, Godsend Agenda, Serenity, Spirit of the Century, Primetime Adventures, Inspectres, Piledrivers and Powerbombs, the Roach, and a smattering of other small-press hippie games in the past year or so.
Odd holes of complete non-experience in Mick’s gaming history include any editions of D&D before AD&D 2nd ed., Hero Games, HeroQuest, Palladium games, Star Wars games, Shadowrun, Vampire, Ars Magica, Pendragon, and a bunch of other games that you might be surprised he’s never played.
Mick broke into the podcasting world several years ago by co-hosting a geek-pop-culture variety show called The Round Table, featuring … well, round table discussions … of how mythic structure and archetypal storyforms influence contemporary pop culture media including movies, tv, comics, novels, and rpgs. At various times during its two-year run, The Round Table also starred Chuck Hedden, Kenny Montano, Chris Miller, K.J Johnson, and Julia Sullivan. The show also featured guest panelists including Mur Lafferty, J.C. Hutchins, Paul Tevis, Chuck Tinsley, Lonnie Ezell, Jeff Himmelman, Caroline Murphy, Sasha Romanov, and Tracy Hickman.
Mick also hosted a second podcast called Misfit Brew, featuring essays and musings on some of those same mythic topics. He was joined on the Brew by Scottish misfit Rae Lamond. Misfit Brew ran for 24 episodes over a period of two years.
Mick also participated in and produced the first 45 episodes of The Rolemonkeys, an actual play podcast starring Mark Kinney, Clay Karwan, Chris Heim, and Max Massey.
Mick has also made guest or recurring appearances on several other podcasts including The Game Master Show, Stabbing Contest, and International Detective Dragons from Outer Space.
