Making your Star Wars RPG awesome
We discuss the ways that starting force powers are deceptively powerful, as well as how to make sure that players at your table are not getting frustrated by starting experiences with a force user.
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Before the crew can face the Queen, they have to find a way through her bodyguard Warg, a Mantellian Savrip out for blood.
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This episode has us talking about the tiny adventure before the big adventure so we all can get comfortable with our characters. From pilots to prologues we talk about how to set your own expectations for your games.
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Aboard the disabled Renegade’s Blood, Barawyn, Illyn, Billie, and Vastrano try to find a safe path to the bridge for their confrontation with the masked Pirate Queen.
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We bring Brandon on board as a guest to help talk about encounters and adventures looking to resolve without violence, from how to frame an encounter to ideas to discuss the topic at the start of the campaign.
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Docked to the Renegade’s Blood, our crew must fight their way aboard and find the Pirate Queen before the ship falls apart around them.
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We decided to use the Expanded Setting Sheet and create our own setting. What came out was an empowering setting filled with fanciful technology of medical heights. With mutations in the world and how the world has been shaped by them.
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The space battle over Aleen rages on. The Sky on Fire is falling apart at the seams but with K-1 on repairs, Barawyn and Vreebo on the guns, Vastrano and Billie on the mines, and Illyn in the cockpit maybe the crew can hold it together.
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We talk about using vehicles in your encounters and what happens when you do finally give the pilot an episode focused around them. From ideas on what others can do, to ways of structuring the encounter.
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Joined by allies and friends, The Sky on Fire has to carve a path to the Renegade’s Blood.
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Our look into the Expanded Players Guide continues with a look into themes, magic, and some of the cool ideas we have about how to bring this to the table. From helping new players learn the system and advancement to the vast fields of story that can be had.
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Vastrano patches up the crew while Barawyn and Billie gather allies and Illyn prepares the Sky on Fire for the fight of her life.
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We take a look at the Expanded Players Guide from Fantasy Flight Games and give our thoughts on this new book for Genesys. From the depths of a post apocalyptic future to the high Gothic of old school monsters we talk about how to use this book and some of the ways it inspires us.
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The crew has returned home to their ship only to find it under assault and a valuable companion bleeding out.
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We find the tales in The Phantom Menace that we think would be amazing adventures from podracing to the heights of Courscant intrigue.
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All aboard! Not so far away from our heroes, the luxury liner The Crimson Star travels through hyperspace, bound for its next destination. But the Star has more colorful characters aboard than usual….
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To talk about The Mandalorian we brought on Brandon from Heroes and Chris Ing. We have a fair bit of fun looking at the surface of the show, some of the themes and some of the very generic ways that the galaxy is working in a post Endor time.
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All aboard! Not so far away from our heroes, the luxury liner The Crimson Star travels through hyperspace, bound for its next destination. But the Star has more colorful characters aboard than usual….
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Preparing to improvise is one of the trickier things to happen. We talk about some of how players can twist how we change things because how our players act and expect to make a much more engaging story. This episode also contains a crossover from Ted on the Manellian Express.
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All aboard! Not so far away from our heroes, the luxury liner The Crimson Star travels through hyperspace, bound for its next destination. But the Star has more colorful characters aboard than usual….
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We’re all back to talk about the force and redemption in the Rise of Skywalker. The ways that it can feel fulfilling to us and the ways that show an understanding.
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Bloody, battered, broken, and in a room on fire, Barawyn, Illyn, Billie, and Vastrano need to fight their way out if they hope to catch the queen and save their own lives.
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There was a movie that came out recently that had a crawl and was a Star Wars movie. This is part one of our discussion about the movie, the choices made, and a few thoughts of what we thought would make a more satisfying story.
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The Queen has escaped and the crew of the Sky on Fire find themselves surrounded by hostiles. Will they be able to fight their way out of the Queen’s court?
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A discussion about how to prepare players for a campaign launches us into talking about how you communicate ahead of time about a general topic, what specializations are allowed, and how to adjust player character ideas to what the campaign actually is.
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