Frogpants Plays: Special Interview with Chris Metzen

The Instance: Deep Dives for Gamers

Scott Johnson

Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Chris have a sit-down and chat up up about his new big project, plus lots of great insights into development of this kind of project vs something like a major game release at Blizzard. Here’s a bit more about the project. Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is a 5E campaign setting by Chris Metzen and Warchief Gaming. The first release in this universe, Worldbook: Lawbrand, is based on the roleplaying campaign that Chris ran with his childhood friends in the eighties and nineties, before heading to Blizzard to work on worlds such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and more. Enjoy Scott Johnson chatting with Chris Metzen about his awesome new project!

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0:00.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to a conversation with Chris Metzen with me,
0:20.4	Scott Johnson and the one the only Chris Metzen.
0:23.2	Chris, welcome back to the show.
0:24.6	Thank you for having me back.
0:25.8	A long time no speak.
0:27.0	Actually, it's not really true.
0:28.6	We talked in October.
0:30.0	Yeah, I guess hasn't been that long, but October feels like nine years away, whereas
0:34.3	at the same time, it feels five minutes away.
0:37.2	But we, you know, we'll have chats here and there on text and stuff.
0:40.8	And I got to tell you, I've been feeling a lot of anticipation and excitement for your
0:44.8	upcoming project.
0:46.6	How does it feel to kind of be there, man?
0:49.5	You're on the edge of it.
0:50.8	It feels, it's a little weird.
0:52.6	I was just explaining to Cat last night.
0:54.6	It's like, with kind of big things that are on the horizon for me, I tend to kind of put
0:59.8	them out of my mind and just kind of, you know, muscle forward and do the thing.
1:04.8	And it's only really when it's like, it's on, like it's, you know, days away.
1:10.8	I start kind of letting it in and kind of feeling that, you know, the excitement and the
1:15.1	energy and that kind of thing.
1:17.7	And it's definitely been hitting me, you know, the past few days that like, wow, this is
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