How many ways can you kill a campaign? We know quite a few and have witnessed many premature campaign deaths.
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The Fischer Tale
We were lucky to get in contact with Andrew Fischer (@Etheral_Fish) of FFG games to talk about Stay on Target. What follows is a decent first discussion of how the book came to be and of how an FFG developer was able to get into such an interesting position.
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The Ace’s Tale
Stay on Target, freshly released from Fantasy Flight Games, is our target. The new Ace Career book brings us interesting views on what an Ace is and how an Ace can fit in our game. Learn about our singular disappointment with the book as we take just some of the ideas presented and make them into usable ideas at the table.
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Encouraging Weird Parties
Today we talk about the wonderful things that you can do to help make your player parties less ‘normal’. With interesting ideas for making weird party concepts, talk a little on how parties are their own character in their own right, and then go on to finding ways of making things even more interesting at character creation. How can a single free rank change the entire nature of a party?
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Creating the Paths to Take
We’re talking about preparation for players and how to use that prep time in a way that is effective.
We talk about simple ways to have adventure threads at the ready for when duty or obligation triggers, but also how to get the players to talk about morality and how to engage it with out alienating that player.
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Taking the Next Step
So you have a session 0 under your belt, why it’s under a belt we’ll never know, but now the players keep wanting to do things. How do you start getting an idea of where to take them and what to do with them.
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The Underside of the Galaxy
This time we look at criminal organizations, how to use them, one of many ways to use law enforcement with them. Even how to use the “Big Galaxy” approach when dealing with planetary Criminal organizations.
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Or you can sit down with us as we hide out from the bounty hunters we’ve seen and listen to more Tales from the Hydian way below.
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Not the Normal Way
We had a bit of fun, starting with monsters and finding some ways to bring them into an adventure, but quickly the Wookiee and Trandoshan rivalry reared its head and we were off chasing ideas down.
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Blowing up Published Adventures
While Adventure Campaigns are fun, we find that using the two words interchangeably to be infuriating.
We take a look at ways that we can expand upon the Fantasy Flight Games Adventure settings and how to make them less infuriating to use at the table. Lengthening them to the point of making sense for our own narrative and not just the ones on the page.
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Or you can look out the observation window and watch the slowly cooling debris as we talk about having fun with adventures on the edge of a singularity.
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Learning from Legends
Today we talk about the Legendary stories we’ve come across and just a tiny bit of what we’ve used them for on the table.
Taking ideas and characters from the different stories we talk of and how we use little tidbits to create deeper stories for our players and keeping a big galaxy in our minds.
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Igniting Knight Level Play
We’re talking about Knight level play and kicking the tires. Continue reading “Igniting Knight Level Play”
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Suspense and the Party
As we descend onto the wind swept forms of Gavos we take a look at different ways of getting the players to be more on edge.
From raging Wookiees to breaking into prisons, we search for ways to take the players out of their comfort zones. Continue reading “Suspense and the Party”
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Making Adventures Usable
We talk about how and why to use published adventures.
Then we expand from there to how to make them more useful to your game. Continue reading “Making Adventures Usable”
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Going from the Beginning
We approach Naboo laden with another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way.
Ben and Cam talk about the ideas that starting ships, bases, and people options for new groups in the FFG Star Wars system bring and what sort of adventures can happen with the big things that the party is given. Continue reading “Going from the Beginning”
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Playing in the Sandbox
Come out of the blowing desert winds. We take a look at beginning sandbox campaign creation, running them, and common pitfalls.
We have a few ideas for campaigns we want to run and seeds that will eventually let us make them.
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Forceful Discussions
Welcome to another Tales from the Hydian Way. Today we talk about force powers and how they can be used.
We even take a quick look at some of the potential outcomes that might occur when you use them. Continue reading “Forceful Discussions”
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Motivations in the Background
Come listen to another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way.
We’re talking about motivations, obligations, and duty.
How do you use them as background and how do you make sure they stay relevant to your group.
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Deep in the Edge
Welcome to another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way
Join us as we talk about a variety of ways to combine the three career books that have come out for Edge of the Empire.
Far Horizons, Dangerous Covenants, and Enter the Unknown give up their story telling secrets and bring new life to your characters.
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Joining the Rebellion
Come with us as we join the Alliance to Restore the Republic and see what Age of Rebellion can tell us about creating new characters and the sorts of stories we can find.
From finding stories and archetypes for the confusing Commodore to talking about how to bring Ithorian and Gran sensibly into a fighting campaign.
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On the Horizon
We decided to take a step back from the Force and Destiny Beta and talk about a book that struck both our fancies.
Far Horizon seems to have just squeaked out there between the different Core book releases, but it has quite a few things to talk about. From the new specializations to a whole new starting style. We dive deep into these things and more.
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Forceful Characters
Welcome to another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way.
There are a lot of choices to be made when it comes to building a character.
Finding the careers and species that speak to us and listening to how they speak to us can help us craft interesting stories just from character creation.
It’s another good discussion from the Star Wars: Force and Destiny beta.
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Morality and Connections
What happens when 8 pages in a new book cause a long discussion about how you can bring out role playing at the table?
We delve into the Morality mechanic and see how we want it to reside in our games, and how we think it will brush up against Duty and Obligation when we need it to.
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The Tales of Two GMs
Thanks for joining us with our first episode of our Story-centric Star Wars RPG podcast.
We touch upon what brought us to the Star Wars galaxy for story telling and a few things we’ve come to like about the system from the dice to initiative, but mostly the groups and families that you create with other players.
We’re off to a start and looking forward to getting the ol’ CR-90 off in a good direction and ready for trade, misbehavin’, and maybe even some of that weird glow rod swinging.
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