What Makes a Good RPG Story?: 02/05/2016

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Stiv Tramer returns to discuss the possibility of an official localization for Mother 3, then delves deep into the nature of narrative in RPGs. What are the different types of RPG stories? What are some of the tools that developers use to craft a good RPG story? And what are some of our favorite stories? We answer all of these questions and more as we take a deep dive into RPG narratives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	The Axe of the Blood God.
0:33.0	Woo ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Welcome to another episode of the Blood God,
0:48.4	US Gamer's official RPG podcast.
0:50.8	I'm your host, Kat Bailey, and today I will be joined by Steve Schremer, frequent guest on this show,
0:56.5	because we're going to be talking about RPG narratives. I kind of got this idea for this show
1:03.6	when I was playing Undertale, and I was like, oh, this is really interesting. It's basically an
1:09.5	adventure game with some RPG mechanics, but it relies pretty much interesting. It's basically an adventure game with some RPG mechanics, but it relies
1:13.2	pretty much entirely on its storytelling and a lot less on its systems. It's got me thinking a
1:21.6	lot about how we were going to talk about, how we talk about RPG narratives and how they like fit into the genre.
1:29.1	So we're going to get really deep into that, like really, really deep.
1:33.5	But first of all, Steve, it's been a while since you've been on the show.
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