Summer of the Rings: How Tolkien Helped Define RPGs

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

What do RPGs owe to J.R.R. Tolkien's works? Everything... or something dang near close to it. This week, author David Craddock joins Kat and Nadia to talk about The Lord of the Rings' influence on RPGs old and new, eastern and western. Pull up a stool, fill your tankard with the Green Dragon's finest dark ale, and for God's sake, don't fiddle with the fireworks Gandalf so temptingly left unguarded in his wagon. Also in this episode: The Steam Deck will mean great things for RPGs (aaaaand they're gone), Kat has a new Super Robot Wars lesson, and Tidus' head just friggin' explodes. RIP in pieces, Blitzball boy. This is what it sounds like when doves cry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3	T's and Cs apply. Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood on an independent RPG podcast.
0:50.5	I am your host, Kat Bailey.
0:52.1	Joining me, as always, is my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:55.7	Hello, Kat. How is life treating you?
0:58.6	Well, that's a loaded question.
1:01.6	It always is. This is planned from the start.
1:05.6	I feel like this week I've only been thinking about work.
1:08.5	It's work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
1:11.7	I haven't even really had time to play video games,
1:13.5	except I finished up Type Fighter total conversion and discovered that the rest of the campaign's not coming out until 20, 22, and my heart was broken.
1:23.1	Well, at least you have a good, like, chance to rest and refresh and get back to your backlog.
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