Three Moves Ahead 444: Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

Three Moves Ahead

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Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

King of Dragon Pass, a longtime cult favorite, is one of gaming's best storytelling platforms. In a fantasy world older than Dungeons & Dragons, King of Dragon Pass combined elements of choose your own adventure, strategy, management and council politics that went unrivaled for almost twenty years. The developers at A Sharp have now returned to deliver a new entry in the world of Glorantha with Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind. Featuring the same unique play style of King of Dragon Pass and similarly gorgeous art, Six Ages allows players to manage cows, the Gods, magic, and more cows. Six Ages recently debuted on iOS exclusively, but will be available for PC next year. Join Austin Walker, Jon Bolding, and Troy "I hope this time I can marry a goat" Goodfellow in talks about trolls, raiding, and praying to all the right deities.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:06.1	Today we have with us, PC gamers board gaming columnist John Bolding.
0:12.3	Howdy, howdy.
0:13.8	And our friend from Waypoint, the editor-in-chief, the illustrious Austin Walker.
0:19.0	How's it going?
0:20.0	And today we are going to talk about, well, a couple of weeks ago we talked about a game
0:24.6	only available on Switch.
0:26.2	So today we're going to talk about a game only available for now on iOS.
0:31.9	Kit Fox's Six Ages, a sequel, prequel, midquil, something cool, to the Celebrator, King of Dragon Pass,
0:42.9	a game we talked about in winter 2015.
0:47.8	King of Dragon Pass was a game that was often talked about but rarely played until it came to steam a few years ago.
0:54.9	And now we have this whole wider world.
0:58.6	John, let's start with you.
1:00.1	What are the King of Dragon Pass games?
1:02.2	What is Glorantha?
1:03.4	What is Six Ages?
1:05.3	Yeah, so Glorantha is a world-building project that was started by a mythology expert named Greg Stafford in 1975.
1:16.4	So it's kind of one of the oldest game worlds, as it were.
1:21.5	It was originally designed for a war game called Red Bear and White Moon, which was a long time ago.
1:27.4	So, like, this sort of predates, like, the Dungeons and Dragons era of role-playing games, if that makes sense.
1:33.5	But as opposed to something like the worlds people usually play games like Dungeons and Dragons,
1:38.5	or even more modern stuff like Dragon Age in,
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