The Spooniest Episode: Bards In RPGs

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week on Axe of the Blood God, Nadia and Kat get a little spoony and talk about one of the oldest and most controversial RPG classes: The Bard. Generous $50 Patron Drew Waranis requested we talk about these golden-throated music makers, and the Blood God is here to please. This episode dissects the history of the Bard, talks about the most famous bards in RPGs, and asks that one vital question: Do we need bards. Are they, like, cool, man? Also in this episode: Holy crap, Eastbound! Holy crap, Deltarune chapter 2! Holy crap, Tales of Arise already sold a million copies! What an exciting week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God an independent RPG podcast.
0:53.7	I am your host,
0:54.5	Cat Bailey. Joining me, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:58.7	Hello, Kat. It's been a week of surprises, hasn't it?
1:02.6	Oh, tell me about these surprises. I'm curious. What happened?
1:05.8	Well, I think the biggest one was probably the drop of Delta Rune, Chapter 2.
1:09.8	That was a surprise. It was the, what was it, the six-year anniversary of Undertale? What a perfectly weird anniversary in which to drop the second part of Delta Rune. Isn't it, though, like, yeah, when they mentioned, Toby Fox said, okay, we're doing a stream for the sixth anniversary of Undertale for some reason. So everyone was like, okay, yeah, they're going to, they're going to reveal chapter two.
1:30.7	And sure enough, they did right at the end.
1:32.5	And it was actually, it was a lot of fun.
1:34.7	I haven't gotten to play it yet, but I've heard great things.
1:37.8	Friend of the pod, Rebecca Valentine was monitoring the stream for IGN.
1:41.9	And there was much excitement in the slack from her when the announcement came through
1:46.6	that it was going to be happening.
1:48.6	Yeah, Eric Van Allen, another friend of the show went absolutely bananas on his Twitter.
1:52.8	Or apparently he went crazy on a train or something.
1:55.1	Like he was on a train when he got the news and he yelled or I don't know what happened,
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