Hello, Heroes, and welcome to the first episode of Campaign.

I'm Kat Murphy, your host in GameMaster.

Campaign, like its sister podcast, One Shot, is an actual play podcast,

where Chicago-based improvisers and nerds get together to play role-playing games.

However, unlike One Shot, campaign focuses on long-form storytelling, with a consistent cast of characters and actors.

Each week, I'll lead the crew of the Mynock

through part of an ongoing story set in the Star Wars universe.

We'll keep at it until the story is complete,

whether that be a few months or even years out. I'm a pretty big

fan of campaign style gaming. I think it lends itself very well to complex problem

solving organic character development and the creation of really memorable stories.

Part of what originally drew me to role-playing

was the richness of the worlds I'd get to explore

and the potential challenge of narrative puzzles

meant to be solved over the course of months.

One-shots are fun, and I'll play them forever. puzzles meant to be solved over the course of months.

One shots are fun, and I'll play them forever,

but my heart really lies in the well-conceived campaign.

Campaign is run in the edge of Empire role-playing game.

For anyone who has yet to pick up a copy of the game, I highly

recommend it. It captures that magic mix of crunch and effortless flow that makes for a solid

long-form system. The cast of campaign is as follows.

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