Tales From the Hydian Way
A podcast about making better stories and adventures in the Star Wars universe and how to GM better
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 150
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2022
261 – The Three Plot Tale
We go back to the list of RPG plots and gain ideas for you and us to use. From a fish out of water, to diplomacy, and racing in between we have ideas on engaging plots and some nifty places to find …
00:50:43 |
Mon 02 Sep 2019
260 – Setting The Hook Tale
We talk about story hooks and trying to set the ones you as a GM want, while still being okay with the changes your players will inadvertently want. Growing beyond the plots we have and maturing in…
00:37:31 |
Mon 26 Aug 2019
259 – A Blockade Run Tale
Rissa was posed a question about how to get players to run blockades, we both have ideas and advice on how to make the seemingly impossible into challenges your players won’t balk to see.
Thi…
00:40:26 |
Mon 19 Aug 2019
258 – A Tale of Two NPCs
For Heroes Act 2 Ben needed advice on how to do an important characters voice without doing an accent. Rissa has experience with making new voices and showing off different personalities for charact…
00:39:50 |
Mon 12 Aug 2019
257 – The Shepard’s Tale
Ben had a question for Rissa, how do you guide the players without taking their agency away from them? How do you get the players to choose to do something that will be cool, but they have no idea …
00:37:45 |
Mon 05 Aug 2019
256 – The Android Tale
In part 2 of our Android review we talk careers, the construction of the book, the favor economy, and hacking. We loved the setup and found that it sparked each of our imaginations in making us want…
00:51:46 |
Mon 29 Jul 2019
255 – The Beanstalk Tale
A little while back Shadow of the Beanstalk launched from FFG, we decided to do a review episode about it and even brought in noted cyberpunkfile David Pickering. We talk about the lore and why the…
00:50:47 |
Sun 21 Jul 2019
254 – The Edge to Age Tale
Players grow and some want to move from the Edge of the Empire style of scum and villainy and a shade of grey for every action to something more obvious of good and bad. We have ideas on how to sugg…
00:29:59 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
253 – The End of Thursday Tale
Ben’s Thursday night campaign is coming to an end, but he’s unsure how he should do it. Rissa has several helpful ideas on how to bring it in for an end in a satisfying fashion.
Things talk…
00:39:27 |
Mon 08 Jul 2019
252 – The Failing Up Tale
After a session or two when your players are having no luck with the dice it can be so disheartening, and which can lead to player resentment. We talk about how to deal with failure after failure in…
00:33:05 |
Mon 01 Jul 2019
251 – The Tale of Destiny
We get talking about the Destiny pool and how to keep it in play and moving between sides. From using it as a GM intrusion to an adventure to upgrading rolls and so many places in between
Y…
00:34:27 |
Mon 24 Jun 2019
250 – The GM Experience
We have David and Leslie on to talk about our methods of preparation, what we find needed, and how to encourage a new GM into running a second campaign.
Things we talked about in the episod…
00:55:41 |
Mon 17 Jun 2019
249 – The Period Tale
Playing in the Old Republic Era has no stats behind it, nor does the Sequel Era. We have ideas on how to still use the system to tell amazing tales and not worry about the mechanics behind everythin…
00:40:46 |
Mon 10 Jun 2019
248 – The Composition Tale
Translating the inspiration for a campaign into what the players hear and see is hard. We have a few ideas on how to take that comncept that evoked your desire to run the adventure into what your p…
00:41:23 |
Mon 03 Jun 2019
247 – The Rumble Tale
An episode of Heroes makes Ben wonder about different ways of presenting encounters to the players. Rissa and Ben have some ideas on how to make sure that the players weapons aren’t always the firs…
00:35:59 |
Mon 27 May 2019
246 – The Player Pet Tale
Recounting a few missteps in our own history we have a few ideas on how to make the pets of a player matter to the game and to the players in ways that aren’t always obvious.
References for t…
00:32:24 |
Mon 20 May 2019
245 – The Growing Threat Tale
We said it was going to be a series, and we’re starting it. Threat is a tricky thing to use since it’s very easy to undervalue it, we have ideas on how to make it more vibrant and how to not try to…
00:41:46 |
Mon 13 May 2019
244 – The New Advantage Tale
We start our discussion about the extra mechanics in the FFG narrative system with advantage, as we start talking about the scale of what makes one advantage a small boost versus making three or fou…
00:39:24 |
Mon 06 May 2019
243 – The Indecisive Tale
We talk about methods of how you as a player and a GM can move a disagreement at the table between characters and players along to some form of resolution, with a few examples from our own tables.
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00:34:18 |
Mon 29 Apr 2019
242- The Unexpected Tale
Surprises can be an amazing thing, and we have a few ideas on how to turn a cliff hanger into something that the players will never expect. From fantastic settings to NPCs that will haunt your p…
00:35:00 |
Mon 22 Apr 2019
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