Tales From the Hydian Way

We look at Lead by Example and poke it with sticks, trying to find interesting ways of playing the new specializations along with some ideas on how to use the new special abilities.

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Or listen below as we learn a little with the Savior of Dantooine.

We talk with Max Brooke about how to use the Dark Side in your Star Wars game.

How do you make it more nuanced, and not just good vs. evil? How do you deal with people that don’t respect the force and player force users that aren’t major nemesis?

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Or fiddle with the buttons on the holocomm below

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.

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Or listen below as we work to fix what David broke by pressing the big yellow button

David’s back to talk about villains with us and how to make them just the big bad nemesis for your players to knock over.

We go from Babylon 5 to Die Hard for examples and many places in between.

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Or watch the huttball game and listen in as we have a little side project we must finish

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.

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Or come with us below as we walk with the Shadow Walker

Ben and Joshua discuss setting a scene and how the FFG system is tailor made for better improvisation and cool ways of adding to it from both sides of the GM screen. (who uses those things as screens?)

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Or listen below as Ben and Joshua have the Dejarik table dance

Ben and Joshua look at the star destroyer on Jakku and let their minds go wild with possibilities for creating a campaign and integrating the history of the galaxy.

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Or watch the scanners as we talk and dodge a rampaging exogorth

David and Ben talk about making a party and not just a bunch of characters, how this requires more then just a few lines and some deep thought.

Then Ben challenges them both to make a party that is going to show up in Meet the Party soon.

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Or you can watch the security guards chase David and Ben from a few casinos below

We talk about minions so you can use them better in your games and about how to do devious and wicked social minion encounters.

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Or sit with us as the droids are repainted yellow and blue that Ben was able to ‘win’ in a perfectly legal game

We talk about slicing in the context of ShadowRun and looking at it in a very Gibsonesque fashion.

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David is @Akaagentshades

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Or sit near David as we jump into hyperspace a little too early below