The Best RPG Starter Towns w/ Michael Higham

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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The Millennial Fair is in full swing! Nadia, Eric, and special guest Michael Higham discuss what makes the best starter towns. Did you wake up and everyone in the town doesn’t know you? Did you rebuild the town brick by brick? Is your starter town lowkey just a hub? 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: Life Is Strange Reunion Ubisoft is imploding Being a delinquent in an igloo Timestamps: 09:25 - Main Topic - RPG Towns 01:07:28 - Random Encounters 1:28:12 - Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Overworld Main Theme - [FFVII] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.
0:04.0	Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?
0:09.0	Oh God.
0:10.0	Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.
0:15.0	Cool, that was close.
0:16.0	You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver.
0:19.0	Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on.
0:22.4	Panny Power.
0:23.3	Valid on selected leagues and markets only.
0:24.9	Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only.
0:27.3	T's and C exclusions apply.
0:28.6	18 plus scummelware.org. Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God and Independent RPG podcast.
0:42.1	I'm one of your co-hosts here, Eric Van Allen, joined today by Nadia Oxford.
0:45.4	Nadia, how are you doing?
0:46.8	I'm already in trouble because we have, I'm just going to blow it instead.
0:49.5	We have our guest, Michael here, and he made me laugh while I was vapinging and I blew out a cloud of smoke and it
0:55.0	scorched my throat. So I sound kind of rough today. Hi, everyone. Michael, hi, I'm, why would
1:01.4	you do that to Nadia Oxford? Why would you subject her to this? First off, did that actually
1:06.9	happen? It did. I forgot what you said something about Don Draper. Hey. We were talking,
1:12.2	I can't remember what we were talking about something about was it the nutty the good nut or
1:16.1	no, the nutty good. Oh, I thought that was me then so that the no no, no, you were talking about
1:20.7	that and Michael mentioned like, you know, he could imagine the the naming session where like this guy
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