How Dragon Slayer and Xanadu Changed RPGs As We Know Them

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

There be dragons and dragon slayers in this week's episode of Axe of the Blood God. Faithful Patron Brian Cowan (thank you!) requested that Nadia, Kat, and Eric wade neck-deep into the fascinating historical muck that is Falcom's Dragon Slayer series. They talk about its origins, the people behind its development, and the reasons why this long-running series is one of the most important contributors to the RPG genre. Also in this episode: Nadia shares some FFXIV: Endwalker impressions, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 was saved from the brink of oblivion, and there are no cross-saves in the PC port of Monster Hunter Rise because Capcom loves suffering. Oh, and Kat and Eric talk about Evangelion Thrice Upon a Time while Nadia plays Pokemon Go. The discussion, which is spoilerish, runs from 49:35 to 58:23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God an independent RPG podcast.
0:53.4	I'm your host,
0:57.9	Kat Bailey. Joining me as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
1:04.0	Hello, Kat. We are recording during a thunderstorm over here. This is very, very sort of atmospheric. I mean, it's an October thunderstorm. Those are always kind of weird this
1:08.1	time of year at this participant site's location.
1:13.1	But let's embrace the symbolism.
1:17.0	Please send some of that rain over to California. God knows we need it.
1:20.2	Are you guys still like smothering from smoke and fire?
1:24.8	Oh no. We just have a mega drought that's been going on for several years now. It's terrible.
1:28.1	Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sending all my rain power there.
1:35.1	I'm just picking up from last week. And speaking of which, we also have our friend and guest.
1:42.0	It's Eric Van Allen. Hello. No more Texas thunderstorms. We had one over the weekend and it was just never ending and constant thundering. And I live on a hill
1:46.3	in Texas. They're like no hills in Texas. So all the, all the lightning and stuff happens
1:53.4	right around my apartment in a very upsetting way. So that's pretty up. That's pretty boss,
1:59.9	actually. It's, yeah. I's pretty boss, actually.
2:01.5	It's, yeah.
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