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
The Group of Individuals Tale
We talk about a topic from the discord regarding mixed groups and how to make it feel that everyone is in the story, instead of just given simple tasks to do. From magic users and Genesys to how to g…
00:42:10 |
Mon 26 Nov 2018
The Villainous Tale
We talk about villains in your game, from introducing them, how much different types of adventures bring a villain out to the players, and so many places in between. We have advice and tales of when …
00:43:39 |
Mon 19 Nov 2018
The In Character Tale
From policing what or why your character would act a certain way to figuring out ways to make sure your split party compartmentalizes we have ideas on how to get your players and characters to identi…
00:35:44 |
Mon 12 Nov 2018
The Plotting Tale
Your players do weird things and will deal with situations out of the order in your head. We talk about some of our experiences with players going left when we’d have expected them to go right, and g…
00:42:32 |
Mon 05 Nov 2018
The Going into Business Tale
Ben has players that through paying attention to all the little throw away ideas he had have found enough parts to go into business for themselves as an arms manufacturer. This boggled his mind, so h…
00:36:09 |
Mon 29 Oct 2018
The Player Guidance Tale
Sometimes players get analysis paralysis and it gets frustrating for both the GM and the players alike. We have a few strategies to lessen the effect of it at the start of a session when the last ses…
00:39:26 |
Mon 22 Oct 2018
The Backstory Tale
Ben is joined by Heroes Kristine and Leslie to talk about character backstory and motivations. From informing the characters actions to providing hooks for the Game Master to propel the story along w…
00:42:41 |
Mon 15 Oct 2018
The Lost in Space Tale
We talk about challenges we’ve had as GMs to get players engaged with the stories we’re trying to tell and some of the solutions we’ve had for when the players actively try to derail your plot.
Thing…
Thing…
00:37:50 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
The Murder Mystery Tale
Rissa and Ben set out to talk a little about making careers in Genesys, that idea was a red herring apparently as they fall into the trap of making a whole murder mystery one shot for you to use.
Thi…
Thi…
00:54:18 |
Mon 01 Oct 2018
The Forgotten Skill Tale
From discipline to astrogation many skills are forgotten by the whole table. We talk about several ways to make them more valuable for you and your players.
Things talked about in this episode:
* Va…
Things talked about in this episode:
* Va…
00:39:22 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
The Player Choice Tale
This week we start with a Minotaur stepping on the gas and it gets weirder from there. We talk about how you can plan for players being unpredictable and how you can recover from them doing something…
00:43:10 |
Mon 17 Sep 2018
The Expanding Narrative Tale
Ben and Rissa talk about bringing meaning to your scenes and items. From making the blaster your gambler is carrying mean something extra to the framing of a dead body at the start of an adventure. W…
00:34:48 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
The Driven Tale
Ben and Rissa talk about the differences in approach that character driven and plot driven campaigns can take and are generated for your players.
Things talked about in this episode
* Buffy The Vamp…
Things talked about in this episode
* Buffy The Vamp…
00:40:47 |
Mon 03 Sep 2018
The Traditional Tale
We start talking about the different sorts of force traditions there are from the Gand Findsmen to the Dathomiri Witches and try to come up with ways to make it matter in your game.
Things we talked …
Things we talked …
00:45:02 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
The Character Finding Tale
We talk about finding the stories that specializations want to tell and learning to find the ones that are there and not always forcing our own onto the career and specializations.
Things talked abou…
Things talked abou…
00:39:52 |
Mon 20 Aug 2018
The Cheese Wheel Tale
Ben, Rissa, and Leslie were talking about the absolute cheese that is in Star Wars and related products, how it’s baked into the essence of it, and discuss many ways to add it in and vectors to add s…
00:43:30 |
Mon 13 Aug 2018
The Player Mayhem Tale
We talk about the players who shoot first and may remember to ask questions after they’ve looted the bodies. We get ideas on how to make the experience broader with them and how to try and how to mak…
00:44:50 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
The Investigation Tale
Ben is getting ready to run Mask of the Pirate Queen, Rissa runs a bunch of investigation and mysteries for her players. Rissa gives insights from her many adventures and what has worked and what has…
00:39:26 |
Mon 30 Jul 2018
The One Shot Tale
This week we’re excited to welcome James D’amato from the One Shot Network to talk about improvisation and some strategies to make it easier at the game table when players throw you for a loop.
Thing…
Thing…
00:45:32 |
Mon 23 Jul 2018
The Captured Character Tale
A scenario that’s always hard to setup is getting player characters captured. We talk about how to make it more intuitive for the characters to be captured, how to deal with a near total party kill, …
00:38:29 |
Mon 16 Jul 2018
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