Making your Star Wars RPG awesome
We talk about Dead in the Water and how you can break down the modules you see and read to make them more your own and get inspiration for the campaigns you want to run. Continue reading “The Personal Module Tale”
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We talk about how to make adversaries and villains build in power, how to make them build in threat relevant to your player characters, and how to make these characters be more of an actual character to your players than just cardboard cutouts. Continue reading “The Party’s Problem Tale”
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We have Kristine Chester on to talk about obligation and ways to braid it into your plots so they don’t become plot derailing intrusions into your story and complement the characters that are there.
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We talk about building mysteries and setting hooks for players to get interested in the adventure you have planned. From disappearing children to a penpal that wants to meet we have ideas on how to make a plot hook into that consuming little thing that drives players wild. Continue reading “The Mysterious Tale”
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We talk about several ways to make creatures matter to a scene and how to make sure they don’t get lost in normal role-playing. From keeping tracking of characters to helping them set scenes. Continue reading “The Creature Tale”
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We talk about getting the players to be hooked for an adventure lead and how to make them more of a player party instead of just players. From discussing other RPGs to how to manage disagreements we have a jam packed episode for you today. Continue reading “The Party Starting Tale”
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Chris Ing has been a part of Heroes almost from the start, but Ben wanted to talk to him about his other podcast Silhouette Zero and two person gaming in general since it isn’t the typical way to run Star Wars RPG from FFG
Continue reading “The Silhouette Zero Tale”
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Tess wanted to ask about making a published module your own. We talk about how to make the voice of the module yours and how it can make it even more awesome because it allows you to focus on the characters even more. Continue reading “The Module Tale”
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I want to help clear up a misconception that I’ve seen again and again in discussions. Skills are skills. It doesn’t matter if they’re knowledge skills, combat skills, bow hunting skills, or computer hacking skills it all comes back down to: The way you use a skill in one situation is the same as in any other situation. Continue reading “Confessions of a Newb GM: Skills and Structured Events”
Two listeners asked us about skill challenges in Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars system and we decided to give our thoughts on it.
From outlining what they are for those unaware, to ways the advantage and threat skew how you can use them.
Continue reading “The Challenge Tale”
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We interview producer and writer Max Brooke of FFG about confict in Force and Destiny.
As we lookinto a few gaps we’ve seen and stumbled over he’s able to help us greatly with our understanding.
Continue reading “The Return of Max Tale”
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Ben and Joshua talk about Keeping the Peace and how the themes of the guardian career can be used in your game in shaping the whole party as well as the individual characters.
Continue reading “The Keeping the Peace Tale”
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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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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 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 take a deep look at the careers and species in the new career supplement for Age of Rebellion. They cover some of the ways that it’s evocative for new and old players alike. Styles of play and odd ideas are tossed about with great relish.
Continue reading “A Desperate 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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Ben and Cam talk about things in the Star Wars system that we find irritating or clumsy and how we deal with bringing them to the table as a good way of expanding the story.
We give advice on how to be prepared for a session, how to use your players characters as a guide for what problems will come up, and how to let them happen without breaking the game.
Continue reading “The Tale of Preparation”
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We start talking about Force Unleashed and how to deal with players who have characters at that power level. We examine the tropes and raise a few good points about how you can make the consequences of their actions matter to them at the table. Continue reading “A Tale of Responsibility”
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Cam has a plan, and that plan is to finally talk about Fly Casual.
Which we did, and we pretty much love the book. There are so many stories that we can pull out of it. We discuss the kind of stories that make Fly Casual a great resource, talk about the three new specializations, and talk about some of the story ideas we have for the species.
Continue reading “A Nonchalant Piloting Tale”
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This week we talk about narratively dealing with a timer, how to set aside rules when the party just doesn’t need them applied, and how to make space combat more interesting while using the rules we discussed in the last episode.
Continue reading “The Droids Strike Back Tale, Pt 2”
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We take a look at the rules that govern space scenes in Fantasy Flights Star Wars and we try to make all the weird actions and maneuvers make sense.
Continue reading “The Runaway Droid Tale, Part 1”
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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.
Continue reading “The Fischer Tale”
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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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