Tag: GM

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.

Items and sites mentioned in this podcast:

Donjon

Fantasty Name Generator

The Galactic Campaign Guide

Grand Admiral Zaarin

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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.

A Tumblr post that was brought up in the show can be found here at Club Jade

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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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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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