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Skills in RPGs – Episode 174

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Synopsis: Skills in RPGs are an important element but many games don’t get them right. Many games have too many skills while others have no skills at all. Caleb and I talk about good and bad skill systems in RPGs and how it has changed over the years. Caleb also brings up real life skills, like rhetoric, versus their in-game equivalents.

Shout Outs

  • Red Thread: A book about mazes and labyrinths. Excellent if meandering.
  • The Testaments: A sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale
  • Pagan Autogeny: An indie video game about exploring a dead MMO.
  • Oblivion Song: A comic about rescuing people from alien hellscapes
  • Japanese Video Game Obscurities: A book about weird video games
  • How To: The XKCD creator explains how to do various tasks
  • Medical Police: A sequel series to Children’s Hospital. Very funny!

    • Song: Harps and Dreams by Indreba

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