The Axe of the Blood God.

Welcome everybody to another episode of Acts of the Blood God,

US Gamer's official RPG podcast.

I'm your host, Cap Neely, and we have two guests with us today because we're doing a little

bit of a roundtable.

First off, our kind of now regular co-host, Nadia Oxford.

Yay, co-host.

And also returning guest, who I always bring in when I want to talk on weighty subjects that

kind of go across the entirety of the RPG genre because he knows so much about the

medium and game design in general.

Steve Tramer, welcome back.

Hi.

It's nice to be back.

And the reason that I've summoned you two here today is because we're going to talk about RPG boss fights, which has been an idea that I've been kind of kicking around for a little while now.

I think Steve and I may have even been like, hey, we should totally do that, like make a mental note of it on a previous episode.

Yeah, it was the last episode I was on.

Oh, yeah, okay.

So there we go.

And so I've just been kind of keeping this one banged for a rainy day.

Well, it's a rainy day.

So let's talk about RPG boss fights, which I feel like sort of in a lot of ways to find

how we remember an RPG because usually they're the most memorable parts of the game

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