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Episode 619 – a closed setting

2024/1/11
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Fear the Boot, RPG Podcast

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  • (0:29) Why talk about intelligence? The Why Files) episode about Cicada 3301.

  • (9:24) A game takes an unhelpfully long break, only to be replaced by another RPG.

  • (12:44) The lack of a bottomless “buffet of ideas” in a closed setting.

  • (14:24) Use minimal starting information to give you room to work.

  • (18:12) How to run a school (everyone go play Persona 5).

  • (24:48) Create a wide variety of NPCs and give them their own lives.

  • (30:38) Keeping the party together, even if it doesn’t quite make sense.

  • (31:57) PC-specific NPCs, so you know the players are bought it.

Hosts: Dan, Mary, Wayne