Kat's Perfect RPG Library, Trails in the Sky, and BIG NEWS

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

As we prepare for our fearless leader's graduation, it's time to celebrate the RPGs that made her. From tactics to action, from sim to rogue-lite, Kat, Eric, and Victor discuss Kat's idea of the perfect RPG library. Plus, Eric's been playing Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter; is this the Trails games that will hook newcomers? Listen to this perfectly bitter-sweet episode of Axe of the Blood God to find out! 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.com Also in this episode: Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Baroque is back, baby! How easy it is to play old games Timestamps: 3:12 - Big News! 10:52 Main Topic - Kat's Perfect RPG Library 22:32 - Tactics 35:12 - Turn-Based 47:28 - Action 56:48 - Dungeon Crawler 1:05:36 - Simulation 1:13:52 - CRPG 1:20:16 - Rogue-lite 1:26:48 - Monster Collecting 1:27:18 - Wildcards 1:32:08 - Random Encounters 1:53:20 - The Tavern - Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Remake 1:36:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] Pub - [Lunar Knights] Cityscape - The Sun Rises for Ones Who Smile - [Etrian Odyssey V] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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,
0:17.7	Kat Bailey, joining me as always, my lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen. Hi, I'm back. I was going, what reason did I have for being gone? Did you all come up with like a cute and fun reason for me being gone? Or was I just also out of the supposed? Eric and Nadia are actually the same person. They've just been body swapping this entire time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was out for pole tabs.
0:38.0	I learned what pole tabs are.
0:39.7	That was a magical moment for me.
0:43.0	Nadia is out for cigarettes.
0:44.9	Canadian cigarettes.
0:47.1	Mm-hmm.
0:47.9	Canadian cigarettes.
0:49.1	They're very different.
0:51.5	Well, we needed someone to fill the Canadian chair on this podcast. So that is the one and only
0:58.4	Victor Hunter, straight from the editing bay. Good morning, Kat. Good morning, Eric. As you can see,
1:04.8	you have got no nonsense Victor here today. I'm very excited about what the future holds for acts of the blood god as a
1:12.5	corporation, as an entity. I can't wait to synergize effective solutions for us as a brand.
1:19.9	And this week, we are introducing a brand new evergreen series. It's our perfect RPG libraries.
1:28.0	Each host is going to make a library of RPGs that they would just want on a shelf.
1:36.4	And we have a list of genres in which those games can fit into, but then plus three wild cards.
1:45.6	And I'm going first to share my list since I started this podcast.
1:52.3	And I get to, I get to go.
1:55.1	I get to go first.
1:56.6	It's only fair that we celebrate, Cat Bailey.
1:59.9	Exactly.
2:01.5	What is this but a celebration of me, Kat?
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