Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, a podcast devoted to all things RPGs.

I'm your host, Kat

Bailey, joining me as always my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.

Hello, Kat. It is a beautiful fall day here. How are things over there? Well, the sky is no

longer orange, so I count that as progress. Good, good. No orange apocalyptic sky is step one to a nice day. And who is our special guest today?

Eric Van Allen is here. I was waiting to pop that can for my intro.

Is that beer? Are you drinking beer? No, no, it's a Red Bull. We're keeping it classy today.

Oh, it's that kind of episode, is it? I'm going to need this Red Bull to get into the

depths of Hades. Eric is here because we're going to be talking about Hades this week, which

all of the U.S. Gamer team absolutely loves. It is an amazing game. You could argue whether or not

it's an RPG. I think it's kind of immaterial. I think it's close enough to an RPG. And as always, we're going to be talking about all of the

RPG news that happened this week, of which there was quite a bit. If you enjoy the podcast,

can I suggest that you leave a review over on the show feed? We always enjoy hearing positive comments from our listeners.

Also, you can follow me on Twitter at the underscore catbot.

Nadia is at Nadia Oxford and Eric is at C-M-M-S-E-A-M-O-O-S-I.

And I like to stream over at Twitch.

combele TV. We also have a newsletter that

comes out every single Wednesday. Nadia, what was the newsletter about this week? Well, this

week, it's actually quite a fitting topic because the topic was about Hades. I focused more on the

topic of it's unconventional, but really effective storytelling and how, you know,

RPG or not, I think it's a technique that a lot of really story-heavy games can adapt

successfully because we'll probably get into this in more depth. But I think super giant games

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