Making your Star Wars RPG awesome
Ben is joined by Heroes Kristine and Leslie to talk about character backstory and motivations. From informing the characters actions to providing hooks for the Game Master to propel the story along we dive deep in these concepts.
Continue reading “Episode 215 – The Backstory Tale”
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We talk about challenges we’ve had as GMs to get players engaged with the stories we’re trying to tell and some of the solutions we’ve had for when the players actively try to derail your plot.
Continue reading “Episode 214 – The Lost in Space Tale”
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Rissa and Ben set out to talk a little about making careers in Genesys, that idea was a red herring apparently as they fall into the trap of making a whole murder mystery one shot for you to use.
Continue reading “Episode 213 – The Murder Mystery Tale”
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From discipline to astrogation many skills are forgotten by the whole table. We talk about several ways to make them more valuable for you and your players.
Continue reading “Episode 212 – The Forgotten Skill Tale”
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This week we start with a Minotaur stepping on the gas and it gets weirder from there. We talk about how you can plan for players being unpredictable and how you can recover from them doing something completely unexpected.
Continue reading “Episode 211 – The Player Choice Tale”
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Ben and Rissa talk about bringing meaning to your scenes and items. From making the blaster your gambler is carrying mean something extra to the framing of a dead body at the start of an adventure. We have ideas and tips for bringing your players into being more descriptive and making those descriptions matter.
Continue reading “Episode 210 – The Expanding Narrative Tale”
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Ben and Rissa talk about the differences in approach that character driven and plot driven campaigns can take and are generated for your players.
Continue reading “Episode 209 – The Driven Tale”
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We start talking about the different sorts of force traditions there are from the Gand Findsmen to the Dathomiri Witches and try to come up with ways to make it matter in your game.
Continue reading “Episode 208 – The Traditional Tale”
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To kick off season 2 of Heroes of the Hydian Way, each day this week we’re going to introduce you to a member of the team. Today meet Brandon, one of this season’s players.
Continue reading “Trouble Brewing Introduction 5 – Brandon”
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To kick off season 2 of Heroes of the Hydian Way, each day this week we’re going to introduce you to a member of the team. Today meet David, one of this season’s players.
Continue reading “Trouble Brewing Introduction 4 – David”
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To kick off season 2 of Heroes of the Hydian Way, each day this week we’re going to introduce you to a member of the team. Today meet Leslie, one of this season’s players.
Continue reading “Trouble Brewing Introduction 3 – Leslie”
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To kick off season 2 of Heroes of the Hydian Way, each day this week we’re going to introduce you to a member of the team. Today meet Kristine, one of this season’s players.
Continue reading “Trouble Brewing Introduction 2 – Kristine”
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To kick off season 2 of Heroes of the Hydian Way, each day this week we’re going to introduce you to a member of the team. Today meet this season’s game master Ben.
Continue reading “Trouble Brewing Introduction 1 – Ben”
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We talk about finding the stories that specializations want to tell and learning to find the ones that are there and not always forcing our own onto the career and specializations.
Continue reading “Episode 207 – The Character Finding Tale”
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Ben, Rissa, and Leslie were talking about the absolute cheese that is in Star Wars and related products, how it’s baked into the essence of it, and discuss many ways to add it in and vectors to add some tension breaking levity to your adventures
Continue reading “Episode 206 – The Cheese Wheel Tale”
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We talk about the players who shoot first and may remember to ask questions after they’ve looted the bodies. We get ideas on how to make the experience broader with them and how to try and how to make their actions matter to the stories you’re telling.
Continue reading “Episode 205 – The Player Mayhem Tale”
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Ben is getting ready to run Mask of the Pirate Queen, Rissa runs a bunch of investigation and mysteries for her players. Rissa gives insights from her many adventures and what has worked and what hasn’t.
Continue reading “Episode 204 – The Investigation Tale”
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This week we’re excited to welcome James D’amato from the One Shot Network to talk about improvisation and some strategies to make it easier at the game table when players throw you for a loop.
Continue reading “Episode 203 – The One Shot Tale”
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A scenario that’s always hard to setup is getting player characters captured. We talk about how to make it more intuitive for the characters to be captured, how to deal with a near total party kill, and how to make it so the players get the idea to be captured ‘all on their own’
Continue reading “Episode 202 – The Captured Character Tale”
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We started to talk about playing different species for your games and how to make it matter for your players. From how NPCs interact to how to set expectations at the table
Continue reading “Episode 201- The Thisspiasian Tale”
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Episode 200, you’d think we’d talk about something profound. We talk about one of the most profound things you can actually do for your campaign. How to end it. Three hosts talk about the different kinds of endings we’ve seen and give some advice for GMs on how to make it satisfying.
Continue reading “Episode 200 – The Closing Tale”
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The topic of difficult players came up in discussion in the Tales twitter DMs. This brought up the different sorts of ways players and GMs can not see eye to eye on ideas and drew us to this episode topic.
Continue reading “Episode 199 – The Challenging Player Tale”
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We were asked about a particular build for a character, it raised a bit of a flag for us and all hosts decided we should talk about specializations that require a bit more work by those around the table.
Continue reading “Episode 198 – The Gambler Tale”
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We have a huge group to talk about Solo: A Star Wars Story and share our perspectives. To a person we liked the movie, but we also are the sort who can look at it and see what could be done better. Continue reading “Episode 197 – The Han Tale”
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Communicating difficulty in an encounter is trickier than just giving out a number of dice. The players need to know before hand how to set their expectations. We discuss how and a few things that would normally be missed. Continue reading “Episode 196 – The Difficulty Tale”
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