Series 65.2 - Spooky Micro RPGs - It Takes a Child to Raze a Village and Absolution in Brass

Welcome to the second episode of Series 65, everyone! This series will be covering varying degrees of spooky micro RPGs from various sources so that you can have a good heap of options for your own groups if you are hoping to do an RPG one shot this Halloween! In today’s episode, Amelia and Ryan sit down to talk about and do the setup for It Takes a Child to Raze a Village by Ursidice and Absolution in Brass by Sharang Biswas!

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It Takes a Child to Raze a Village (Ursidice):

DriveThruRPG: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/317712/it-takes-a-child-to-raze-a-village?affiliate_id=1601603

Itch: https://ursidice.itch.io/village

Ursidice Website: https://ursidice.com/village/

Absolution in Brass (Sharang Biswas) [Ultimate Micro RPG Book]:

Simon and Schuster: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ultimate-Micro-RPG-Book/James-D-Amato/The-Ultimate-RPG-Guide-Series/9781507212868 

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Announcements

00:01:22 - Introduction

00:02:46 - What's in a game? - It Takes a Child to Raze a Village

00:05:48 - Let's make some people! - It Takes a Child to Raze a Village

00:08:49 - How the stats work

00:09:40 - Demands and Suspicion

00:11:33 - Defining our rituals ahead of time

00:21:34 - Creating a Village

00:33:42 - Figuring out items needed for each ritual.

00:44:46 - What's in a game? - Absolution In Brass

00:49:40 - Let's make some people! - Absolution in Brass - What fueled your character's life?

00:53:20 - Occupation

00:54:18 - Fuel

00:56:55 - What one possession from your life do you still carry?

00:57:11 - What physical limitation does your undead brass form impose on you?

00:57:32 - What is the first initial of your character's name?

00:58:40 - Describe your character

01:02:03 - How the game plays

01:05:09 - Proximal Shard

01:16:50 - Medial Shard

01:35:15 - Ending the Game

01:36:41 - Episode Closer

01:38:07 - Call to Action

01:49:47 - Credits

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Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod

Clip 1: Meditation yltsA kciR yb pU Impromptu uoY eviG annoG reveN 03

Clip 2: Dystopia by Ian Kelosky on Soundstripe:

https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/15186

Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs

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