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Hosts: Clayton, Nina, KP, KD, Lanina
Guest Host: Kenneth
Things we reference in this episode:
- The proper way to deal with the problem of cell phones at the table
- The Usual Suspects, directed by Brian Singer
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Episode 23: Emotional Rewards of Tragedy in RPGs
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Hosts: Clayton, KP, Nina, Jordan
In this episode we discuss the emotional benefits of the hardships player characters endure
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Episode 22: How to Create a Campaign Setting
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Hosts: Clayton, KP, Hayley, KD, Lanina, Jordan
In this episode we discuss the methods we use and the inspiration we draw from when we create a campaign setting
Things we mention in this episode are:
- Midnight Syndicate – Their music is available on Spotify
- Discography of Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor
- Discography of This Will Destroy You
- Discography of Mooncake
- Mount Everest Special – Ernest Hemingway’s sandwich, For Commanders Only
Clayton’s litany of questions when designing a campaign setting:
- What System?
- How long is this campaign going to last?
- Why make a new setting?
- What is different about the setting?
- What is the scale of the start of the campaign vs the end of the campaign?
- How long are the PCs going to spend in any particular place?
- (If fantasy or sci-fi) what races are available? How prevalent?
- How fantastic? How “realistic”?
- What do you expect from this fantasy campaign? What is your idea of fantasy? How is magic involved/how prevalent?
- What has been established? Are there wizards, haughty elves, dragons, etc. What fantasy memes, tropes, etc are we going to follow?
- How must the System be changed to accomplish this
- Shorten the pre-game information that the players need to know down to 10 bullet points.
Actual Play: Fate Accelerated One-Shot 0101 Mearth
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In which the PCs wrote aspects of the world on card and forced the GM to make some sort of sense of the nonsense
Aspects of the world are as follows
- This takes place in the 1920s
- The monarchies that fell during WWI remained in power, and it is the 1920s
- Everyone has innate elemental magic within them. This has led to street gangs of magic developing all over the world
- Magic exists, but only elemental magic
- Everyone has a talking duck companion
- Animals can talk and are cool
- We are not on Earth. We are on the Mars, but as if it were Red Earth, called Mearth
- Death is not death. You just ascend to the next world.
Episode 21: Archetypes, Tropes, and Cliches
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Hosts: Clayton, Jordan, Hayley, Beth
In this episode we talk about Archetypes, Tropes, and Cliches until we start talking about period-appropriate misogyny in historical games, at which point we decide to talk about that another day.
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Episode 20: How to Grow Characters
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Hosts: Clayton, Beth, Hayley, KD
In this episode we talk about how to make your character grow like a real person.
Episode 19: What Players Need to Know
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Hosts: Clayton, Beth, Hayley, Lanina, KD
Discussing what information Players should have at the start of a new campaign
Episode 18: Modern Urban Fantasy
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Hosts: Clayton, KP, Nina
In this episode we ramble for a while and say a couple things about modern urban fantasy
Episode 17: How to be the Best Player
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Hosts: Clayton, Beth, Lanina, KD, KP, Jordan, Nina
Discussing ways the players can help the gamemaster and improve the game
Episode 14: Rousseau v Rogue – Social Contract in Gaming
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Hosts: Clayton, Jordan, Beth, KD, KP, Hayley
Guest Host: Kenneth
In which we get philosophical about the responsibilities of the individual to the group and the group to the individual
Things we talk about:
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