Localizing Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Conception w/ Bradly Halestorm

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

It's a very special episode this week as Victor interviews Bradly Halestorm, the founder of LionWing Publishing, a team that specializes in localizing Japanese tabletop RPGs both old and new. We learn all about his history with RPGs and what it's like to license and localize Japanese books from 20+ years ago. It's a real treat and we get into the weeds, especially when we discuss LionWing's upcoming release from their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, Wares Blade; a fantasy mech tabletop from the 80s. I hope you all enjoy this episode of Axe of the Blood God! Subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod⁠ and get merch at ⁠https://shop.bloodgodpod.com⁠ Also in this episode: The challenges of working through snail mail The future of Shin Megami Tensei: Tokyo Conception Finally, another guest that respects 7th Dragon! Timestamps: 6:08 - Main Topic - Interview w/ Bradly Hale of LionWing 1:10:33 - Wares Blade Music Used in this Episode: Axe of the Blood God Theme - [Lena Raine] VITALITY - [Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne - Incense Disc] LUCK - [Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne - Incense Disc] STRENGTH - [Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne - Incense Disc] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, a dependent RPG podcast.
0:24.6	Thank you to Ondora's Lies for that one.
0:27.4	I'm your host for this episode, Victor Hunter, and we've got a real special episode for you today.
0:34.2	Ah, you may have noticed that I am flying solo today.
0:38.4	Now, Gway, don't turn the podcast off.
0:42.6	That's very rude, and it would very much hurt my feelings.
0:50.3	And I have a very special episode planned for you because I interviewed founder of Lion Wing publishing, Bradley Hale.
0:59.3	Lion Wing recently released the Shin-Magami Tensei Tokyo Conception tabletop role-playing game, as well as a bunch of others.
1:09.3	They have a very exciting tabletop coming up called
1:12.7	Wearsblade. It's honestly such a delightful conversation. We had a wonderful time. The
1:20.9	interview went twice as long as either of us planned just because there's so much interesting stuff he has to say about the
1:29.9	process of licensing a tabletop, especially with a big intellectual property like SMT, and the
1:39.2	conversation was just really, really compelling, and I had a great time. So the meat of this episode is going to be that conversation just in its entirety.
1:49.8	Before we get to that though, hey, a dependent RPG podcast, dependent on what?
1:57.4	Your contributions over at patreon.com slash blood god pod where one dollar a month just a
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2:20.3	That's going to give you access to our monthly game club. You can play along with everybody else who's playing the game for the Pantheon.
2:28.3	And we have tons of game nights, especially for the FF14 crew. I think the FF11 crew has been up to some
2:36.5	stuff lately as well. So if you've got a game, you want to play with some folks, head on over
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2:48.2	you all of those things, plus Nadia Oxford's delightful weekly
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