Card-Based RPGs - PART 1: History and Appeal

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

I'm pulling a Retronauts and calling this "Part One" because we barely even got around to talking about the games themselves; instead, Victor, Eric, and Nadia wax philosophical about the seemingly-universal appeal of card games, the stories that can be told with a deck of cards, and how they fit perfectly into the systems and structure of both tabletop games and video games. Maybe in Part Two we'll talk about actual specific video games. Maybe Part Two will be the upcoming Mega Man Battle Network 2 Pantheon episode! Who can say? Go and get a tarot reading and find out! Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com Also in this episode: Corpse Party cancelled Octopath Traveler 0 Impressions Canadian Cooking Shows and Human Anatomy Timestamps: 6:20 Main Topic - Card-Based RPGs 26:44 - History of Decks of Cards 1:17:42 - Random Encounters 1:21:12 - The Tavern - Octopath Traveler 0 Impressions 1:30:40 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] Pub - [Lunar Knights] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] The Valedictory Elegy (for guitar) - [Baten Kaitos Origins] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, an independent RPG podcast.
0:22.1	I'm your host for this episode.
0:24.1	I'm DeJoka, baby.
0:26.2	It's Victor Hunter.
0:27.9	And with me, as always,
0:30.2	my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:32.5	How the hell are you, Nadia?
0:34.0	I'm good.
0:34.7	I'm also...
0:35.3	The ace of spades.
0:36.8	The ace of spades. The ace of spades.
0:42.6	My husband's in the bedroom saying, what the fuck was that?
0:45.6	Oh, fantastic.
0:47.5	And of course, with us also, as always, our other lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen.
0:55.0	How the hell are you, Eric?
0:57.2	Hi, I'm the gas inspector.
0:59.1	I'm just checking for leaks real quick.
1:01.2	Y'all been smelling anything funny?
1:03.0	No, it's carbon dioxide.
1:03.6	We're all dead.
1:06.0	Oh, okay, okay.
1:15.7	Yeah, sorry, we've just been peering into the Akashik records to discover archetypes that persist throughout human history To discuss today's topic, which may surprise you
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