An Interview with Josiah Mork of Hoodwink Games

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Sixty minutes of hot Sumerian action! Join me as I sit down with game designer Josiah Mork of Hoodwink Games and we talk about his current Kickstarter campaign: Early Empires - a modular supplement focused on bringing the Biblical Levant to life at your table. Open for pledges until May 25!

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Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).

 - - Show Notes - -

00:00:00 - Theme

00:00:30 - Introducing Josiah Mork!

00:01:28 - What is Early Empires?

00:04:24 - The Kickstarter

00:05:20 - Researching the Region: Why Canaan?

00:09:24 - How came you to gaming?

00:12:05 - The ethos of Hoodwink's Basic And Generic RPG System

00:15:32 - Scout's Honor

00:16:25 - Previous Successful Crowdfunding

00:18:58 - Fulfillment Plans

00:20:45 - Illustration, Design, and Artwork

00:22:20 - Stretch Goals: Unlocked and Aspiring

00:26:34 - Gods of the Fertile Crescent

00:30:54 - Burning your Children? (The Tone of a Bronze Age Levant)

00:35:15 - Related BaG Product: Suburbville - Undead City Crawl

00:38:50 - Mass Battles and Conquest in BaG and Early Empires

00:40:42 - BaG: Free Edition vs BaG: Core Rules

00:42:26 - On Usability in Other Game Systems for Early Empires

00:43:44 - (Taylor Hints Which Game He's Using)

00:44:30 - Reward Tiers for BaG: Early Empires

00:45:41 - The Global BaG Community

00:49:53 - Did, or How Did, Faith Influence the Project?

00:54:11 - On Implementing Real Religions in a Game

01:02:00 - Final Notes on Early Empires and Parting Words from Josiah

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Early Empires Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1133637349/bag-rpg-early-empires)

Hoodwink Games (https://www.hoodwinkgaming.com/)

Hoodwink Games Twitter (https://twitter.com/GamesHoodwink)

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Early Empires Kickstarter Again! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1133637349/bag-rpg-early-empires)