Making your Star Wars RPG awesome
Why is astrogation only used to pull those levers for hyperspace? Can you use knowledge skills in the heat of the moment? Can deception be just as good as range (light) in combat? We look at all of these and more in this weeks episode.
Continue reading “The Underused Tale”
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Joshua feels deeply about Jet Packs.
We look at how you can use gear that can seem over the top and how to bring it into a cool encounter to showcase it. From the jump boots we just found, to some amazing ideas on what to do with a gravshute, we give a broad idea of where to get ideas from and share a few of our own.
Continue reading “The Power Gear Tale”
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David was talking about his Nebulon-B campaign and the idea was cool enough that we decided to do an entire episode about campaigns being set on a ship and the cool things you can do with it. Taking cues from The Hunt for Red October and Battlestar Galactica all the way through SeaQuest we talk about how to bring being on a large ships bridge to life.
Continue reading “The Boldly Going Tale”
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We talk about coercion and the use of the skill at the table.
Joshua is away and one of my players was looking at the blackmail talent, so David and I had a discussion on how to use it, how it’s been used in movies and ways to improve its effectiveness.
Continue reading “Episode 64 – The Coercive Tale”
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Organizations are fun to come up with, so we came up with 9 new ones, each with a different bend.
David takes criminals, Joshua goes all forcey force, and Ben is doing odd military applications.
Continue reading “The Organized Tale”
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Hope and despair are woven into the DNA of Star Wars, and stories generally. How you can use hope in the darkest situations and despair when everything is going right is the topic of this weeks episode. Listen in and have fun.
Continue reading “A Tale of Hope and Despair”
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A missing player isn’t the end of the world. We talk about how you can deal with players that are gone for a session or a month. The approaches differ but can be used to set the story forward in ways that wouldn’t normally be available.
Continue reading “The Missing Player Tale”
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We talk about Beasts this week because ages ago @thebrometheus decided he really liked the 30 odd dogs in his family room.
It’s taken a little bit but we here on the Reluctant Bogwing sat down and talked about beasts from the wonderful swarm of bees to Zilo beasts.
Continue reading “The Bestial Tale”
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Ben is back and he brought in two other people to talk with him about Star Wars and the cool things they can come up with.
As the Star Wars RPG talk starts, they break into a discussion on Nemeses and how you can use them effectively in a few situations.
Continue reading “The Restarting Tale”
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We talk about things to keep in mind as you end sessions, chapters, and campaigns during Cams final show. We have a great time as we watch out for murder bears around the campfire.
Continue reading “The Tale of Endings”
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This week we talk about campaigns in Edge of the Empire that don’t deal with the Hutts or Black Sun.
Going from the wild west to noir and back again Ben and Cam have many good ideas for you to listen to.
Continue reading “The Other Edge Tale”
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This week we talk of move, seek, sense, and foresee. Finding interesting and cool ways to make them menacing and really fun ways to bring them to the table for everyone to enjoy.
Continue reading “The Foretold Tale”
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We interview Sam Stewart, RPG Manager for Fantasy Flight Games, about the Force and Destiny Core book.
We talk about how the specializations were designed and how to use Inquisitors and high level Nemesis characters in your game.
Continue reading “The Sam Stewart Tale”
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We answer two listener questions about force traditions and how to not let force users out shine other player characters.
We go from the witches of Dathomir to Gand marshals to figuring out how to treat a whole party as a whole party.
Continue reading “The Alternative Force Tale”
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This week we talk about Rivals, Minions, and Nemesis characters and how the different power levels change the way you want to use them.
We also talk about how to take an NPC from the lowly minion who runs away from the PCs and transform them into a truly terrifying nemesis later.
Continue reading “The Ascendant NPC Tale”
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We talk about Bind, Protect/Unleash, and Battle meditation in this episode.
We give the High-Powered abilities a look to see how they can be misused by GMs and to see how they can be used to tell amazing stories.
Continue reading “The Binding Tale”
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How do you make Force Powers epic?
From the simple powers, such as enhance, to those that are iconic, we find interesting ways of approaching them and how they can move the story along that isn’t just the focus to an entire session.
Continue reading “The Powered Tale”
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We talk about the Force and Destiny Core book.
The book is finally out, and we have a few things to say, and to praise. We go from motivation to morality, from the GM section to the specializations, and we don’t just have a little fun with it.
Continue reading “The Core of Destiny Tale”
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Ben and Cam have a few ideas on how to grow your community, add flavor to your one shots, and bring in more people to your games faster when using pre-generated characters.
Continue reading “The One Shot Tale”
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This week Cam can’t join us, so we pull in two guests. We talk about specialists and how they can be very difficult to deal with on the fly. We also come up with a few ways to keep your specialists feeling special, and how to engage them without punishing them for specializing.
Continue reading “An Impossible Tale”
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This week we start a look at how you can deal with holes in the party and how, as a GM, you can challenge players without making it punishment for choosing the ‘wrong party’.
We also give a few ideas for party concepts and how they can be made into really amazing adventures or campaigns.
Continue reading “A Party Tale”
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Today we talk about a much requested topic, campaigns in the Empire.
We take a look at many of the different things that come up when working with Stormtroopers in the shadows of the Clone Wars.
Continue reading “An Imperial Tale”
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Getting players to engage with a setting is never easy, and getting players to use the setting to their advantage is even harder.
This time we talk about setting tone, suspense, using fear, where to glean some useful feedback, and many other things.
Continue reading “Setting the Tale”
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With an explorer you never know what you’re going to find. Whether you’re driving through a mountain pass trying to catch an imperial squad that stole your crystal skull, or finding the next rancor that your benefactor has paid you to take down. We talk about the many facets of the explorer and also delve a little into ways to illicit skill rolls that aren’t asked for by the GM.
Continue reading “Exploring a Tale”
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We talk this week with Dan Clark about writing the Beginner Box games and why some of the choices are made to go the way they have. From why the starting characters are the way they are, to how the adventures grow from “this is a skill check” to stealing a ship.
Continue reading “Dan’s Tale of Beginner Boxes”
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