Matt and John this week catch up on the TR news:

• We talk about what we've been up to including heroclix, mountain biking and Dr horrible
• www.wizkidsgames.com
• www.drhorrible.com
• This week's Friday Night Fights with Richard Garriott and Jesus Chavez and its amazing trailer video. Thanks to Shawn at Massively for giving me the heads up on this one with this post.
• http://www.gaxonline.com/...
• We remind ourselves of the excellent interview with Tom Potter and Dane Caruthers.
• Discussing Deployment 10 we talk about the new shotguns, chainguns and rocket launchers
• New instances
• Deployment 11 goodies
• The new crafting system
• and more!

This week John and Matt had an opportunity to talk with new assistant producer Dane Caruthers, also known as Entropic.

The theme tune this week is The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

• Tom tells us about his role as lead designer on Tabula Rasa and how important the community is to his role
• PAU's: when we can start seeing concept art and how they will be introduced into the game
• Delivery of new systems and Tom's vision for this
• The Neph Warrior and how they will introduce new types of spawns to maps that make use of logos
• New creatures pretty soon and mobs whose visual appearance is level based
• Armour design and the differences between them
• Solo-ability and overall vision for class balance
• Community focused areas to act as a hub for players to get together such as the CELLAR Arena
• Is there room for a group XP bonus?
• Thoughts  on balance between PVP and PVE gameplay
• Crafting and how it WILL be something valid to do when not combating and it will be in a level ilk so modules can level and perform better.
• Control points and how it's important to make the new features for everyone -- not only PVP but PVE players too
• Tom tells us how he loves player customization and more options such as progressive armour and weapons like the new shotgun
• He also tells us how repeatable content such as instances, PvP maps and the like outside of the main game are things he'd like to see in the next few months.
• Tom tells us about his favorite class and his favorite TR moment when playing on the live servers
• All members of the team have a big interest in the game because they play it and are therefore invested.
• And more!

• Disney land was built on MMO principles?
• Tom Potter Interview, we need your questions
• Feedback Friday and the AFS War College
• NCSoft Europe Podcast 3 is a Tabula Rasa Delight!
• Tabula Rasa is now available on DLGamer

This week on TabulaCast, John & Matt are joined by Shawn off of the internet!

Topics covered include:

• John's Real Life Control Point Battle
• John & Matt's visit to NCSoft Europe
• Feedback Friday including 'The Bubble'
• Planet TR's 2nd Birthday
• Listener Emails

Thanks for downloading and don't forget to check out John's Blog!

• The New Test map on PTS
• 2008 AFS War College
• Planet TR and Ten Ton Hammer are nice places to be right now!
• A new Friends system
• Project Immersion
• Listener email

and more...

Be sure to check out the forums and John's blog. 

• The news of deployment 8 and the up and coming deployment 9
• Warcry Q & A with Tom potter
• The CELLAR fighting arena
• We continue to try out Beau's Immersion Project for ourselves, listeners also seem to like the idea as we read an email on the subject.
• The competition winner is announced
• We ramble again about more TR ideas that could exist!
• I talk to player Alex about the demolitionist , for a long overdue class discussion

Theme tune for this week is Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor

• We talk NCsoft financials for 2008
• This week's Feedback Friday and Sniper play
• We discuss ideas for endgame and Elder content
• Matt and I start our 'project immersion' and by our project, I mean we stole it from Beau Turkey