The Axe of the Blood God.

Welcome to another episode of Acts of Blood God, U.S. Gamer's official RPG podcast.

I'm your host, Cap Bailey. My lovely co-host, Nadia, is not with me this week. Instead, I have a special guest here to talk to me about all things Mass Effect and also a little bit of tormenting tides of Newman Era. Yes, believe it or not, this podcast does occasionally cover Western RPGs. We, the Blood God is not just a JRPG fan. The Blood God does not just play persona.

No, we are going to be talking about Torment Ties of Numenera and Mass Effect. And who better

to do that than Rowan Kaiser, who specializes in this sort of thing. Rowan reviewed Tormentides

of Numeranera for us over on the site.

You can go check out his review.

And he also wrote a Mass Effect essay for us.

And he's just started in on Andromeda.

And Rowan, I think you're also writing a book, if I'm not mistaken, about Mass Effect.

How's that going?

Or is that, like, kind of like something I shouldn't be

asking about? I mean, this month is giving me more motivation to get back into it. I was hoping

to have it done before Andromeda, but I ended up having to read a Game of Thrones book beforehand.

And then, yeah, but, yes, I am very slowly writing a Mass Effect book and getting several new pieces in this month.

Yeah, can you tell us a little bit about your book really quickly?

The book is called Possibility Space, which is kind of a dorky title, but it ends up working really well because I think that what

makes Mass Effect special is the gap between what it wants to do and what it's actually doing.

And I think it more, this is true for most ambitious RPGs, but Mass Effect, because it's so heavily serialized

and because it's so high in production value, gets a lot closer at actually succeeding

and making you want to jump into its spaces and let it take you over than most of them,

even though it's filled with all these very, very obvious problems.

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