Game Key Cards and the Importance of Physical RPGs

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

More like Lame Key Cards. Kat, Nadia, Eric, and Victor discuss the pros and cons of physical vs digital and what it means specifically to the history and culture of RPGs. Could it be that sometimes BOTH approaches are appropriate and that instead of pitting them against each other we should be addressing the underlying corporate systems that prevent us from experiencing art as anything other than consumers? Probably!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.comNote: Microsoft and the Xbox brand remain subjects of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement for their complicity in the ongoing apartheid and genocide of Palestine. In the interest of journalism we've chosen to cover Microsoft but encourage you to visit https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft for more information. Also in this episode: The joy of getting a map with a game The frustration of downloading mandatory patches EA really is the worst What Tales game needs a remaster Hernias and Ronald McDonald Timestamps: 6:30 - Main Topic - Game Key Cards and the Importance of Physical Game Releases 1:05:14 - Random Encounters 1:11:04-ish - The Tavern - Dragon Age and Mass Effect Remasters, Tales of Xillia Remaster 1:34:00 - 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 Hollow City - [Tales of Xillia 2] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God and independent RPG podcast. I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:19.0	Joining me, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:23.0	Hello, Kat. I'm sorry you all had to miss the bit where I was using swear words to test
0:27.0	the mic on my end.
0:29.8	It turns out Victor had a really nice thing prepared to get to season theater and knows
0:33.9	how to, like, do initiation. I'm a gutter rat, so it's just like F word, S word,
0:39.7	uh,
0:41.3	F attack on Brest Mountain.
0:43.5	Yeah, so you all missed it.
0:45.8	You should have played, you should have played Oran in Balders Gate 3 that would
0:49.1	have worked out really well.
0:51.7	I guess so.
0:52.5	Also joining us is my equally lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen.
0:57.4	If you didn't hear audio during the first part of this podcast, no, you didn't.
1:04.0	Hey, I didn't say any of the words.
1:05.7	It only briefly, the intro did not have audio and then like the first two words that Kat said were not heard, but everything else is normal.
1:15.5	Don't worry. And if you're listening at home, you don't even know the difference.
1:19.7	Yeah.
1:19.9	Just for the Twitch and YouTube folks, Twitch and YouTube folks, don't stress.
1:23.7	My V-Mix exploded during the week and I had to rebuild it late last night.
1:28.7	So we can rebuild it.
1:30.4	Make it stronger better.
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