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| Episode 62|Announcements
Tonight we’re joined by Wolfgang Baur, a man with so many titles it would be unfair to only call him by one (which is exactly what I did in the intro, shame on me) to talk about Kobold Press’s new campaign setting: Midgard! Also, the Roleplayers Chronicle has a great hurricane relief bundle package going on, it ends on the 10th though so if you want to help out you better do it quickly!
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Midgard Campaign Setting
We talked about Midgard a little last week, but this week we have Wolfgang Baur himself in the house and we talk about all things Midgard including why you might want to play in Midgard instead of say… Golarion, or the Forgotten Realms. That’s right folks, we went there! (Really, Micah did so blame him).
Also here’s the link to that preview up on Kobold Quartery (as well another preview at DriveThruRPG) so you can check out some of the great flavor Midgard has to offer for free!
The Pepperoni if the Damned
Last week Matt Dukes from Critical Hits was talking about a gaming night gone all wrong, we discuss these situations each on a personal level. We talk about backup plans and lots more, there are good ideas to be scraped from this discussion so listen up!
Tip Corner
We’re all gamers, and most of us have a huge long list of games we want to try and run but we often only have time for one or two. To break up monotony of your campaign ask your players if they’d like to run a one shot of a new system every X number of sessions just to keep things fresh. Variety is the spice of life after all!
Twitter Poll
I’m stealing Wolfgang for a game design question as part of an ongoing series on Obsidian Portal’s blog that I’m starting for NaGaDeMon: “If you were designing a game where character death might occur at a regular rate, is there anything you’d do with character creation, combat, or otherwise that would ensure the game could remain fun?”
Music Credits | Intro: “Prelude” | Outro: “Stande Alone” | by LukHash |
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I’m running a super-heroes RPG and I am SO giving a villain the Aura of Inebriation. Great idea!
I am definitely adding Midgard to my xmas list! Really sounds great!
I very much enjoyed this version of Haste. By the way, the audio levels were all pretty cool even with the three speakers. Wolfgang Baur was a very interesting guest and I’ll certainly look into Midgard as an alternative setting. I loved his “squirming” as he tried to answer Micah’s question of why anyone would move from Gelarion to Midgard. Wicked Micah! But it was all good fun really.
I agree with the sort of Clone idea for games of high mortality rate. That was one of the things that enabled Paranoia and I think it is a good thing to bear in mind for games with irresurrectable (is there such a word?) death. I like that idea of a basic class of character. With the time it takes these days to create characters, it is well worth having an easy alternative if a character dies in the first few minutes of a session. Bring in his twin brother or his brother in arms!
Thanks again for the podcast!
Thanks for listening Twiggy! We had as much fun recording it as you probably did listening. Wolfgang was great to have on, so many good ideas going around too.
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This was a great episode. I came in to hear Wolfgang and have since listened to many more. More interviews please!
We’ll take that into consideration, thanks for listening!
…and I have already ordered the Midgard Campaign Setting. So far, I have just read through bits of the PDF but it has been enough to convince me to use it for my next campaign.
That sounds awomese! I’ve been plugging away at both my Conan mod, and the Eberron/Dragon Hack stuff we’ve talked about before, but haven’t had a lot of time to devote to it lately. I’ve been trying to get my head around converting PF spells (see my last blog entry!) so having more schools and spells to look at for inspiration would be great!
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