Class Conscious: Thieves in RPGs

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

It's another Class Conscious episode of Axe of the Blood God, and we're going after the class that was elected "Most Likely to Steal your Heart and your Wallet" in high school: the Thief. Thieves have been part of the RPG landscape forever. These lithe, sticky-fingered tricksters excel at jacking stuff from enemies (and innocents) while avoiding traps and setting down a few of their own. Gosh, what a scummy bunch, right? Not exactly. Thieves do their secret work for myriad reasons, with myriad methods. We talk about all of it (along with special guest Lucas White), from the boomerang-flinging thieves of Dragon Quest to Final Fantasy VI's roguish Locke Cole, who is totally not thinking about Rachel right now. Also in this episode: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster discourse Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp is out, and war is over Live A Live is coming to PC, PS4, and PS5 and you should play it The Pantheon Thunderdome is upon us! Who will survive the cull? The Legend of Zelda: A P.I. Had to Rescue This Manga Music used in this episode: Do Your Best! [Breath of Fire III] Locke Cole's Theme [Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster] Torn from the Heavens [Final Fantasy XIV] A Curious Tale [Secret of Mana] Forged in Crimson [Final Fantasy XIV] 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.
0:17.2	Kat Bailey is out this week.
0:19.2	So I'm here, your host, Eric Van Allen. And joining me, as always, is Nadie Oxford.
0:23.6	Nadia, how are you doing? I'm okay. It's raining like hell out there, so I'm kind of gloomy, but what are you going to do? It's a rainy Saturday. They happen.
0:31.7	It's a rainy, gloomy Saturday. And joining us for this Wednesday, Adams of a Saturday is the one the only Lucas
0:40.4	White. Lucas, how you doing? I'm doing great. I'm actually really happy to be here again.
0:46.8	Happy to have you. Anytime. Yeah, we're happy to have you on and talk all things about thieves,
0:53.6	because this is once again a class conscious
0:56.8	episode and we have decided to take on the thieving class the thieving trade as it were you know
1:03.6	who doesn't love a good thief in a game right it's it's perfect it's they like to steal they like
1:09.7	to cause problems on purpose.
1:11.6	They, they keep the narrative moving forward and they give you all the, the potions that
1:16.9	you will never use throughout the entire campaign.
1:20.0	Yes, you will.
1:20.8	And you would have, you probably would have missed 50 times for getting that potion.
1:25.1	I'm a good thief.
1:26.0	Oh, I dropped it again.
1:27.2	Oh, oh, I suck.
1:29.9	A little bit of housekeeping before we get started here.
1:32.9	As always, we are acts of the blood god.
1:34.6	We have a Patreon, patreon.com slash blood god pod where you can go support back us.
1:40.3	If you're listening to the free feed right now and you want to listen to ad free,
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