Aug 26, 2021
The Adventuring Party - Episode 659
This week's hosts: Savage, Hida O-Win, Scarr, and special guest Xaosseed of Seed of Worlds
Editor – Scarr
Apologies for the delay, folks.
This week, The Party discuss the narrative technique of starting in media res, and whether it would be right for your campaign.
Image Source: Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope. (1977) Copyright Disney/Lucasfilm.
Show notes:
03:35: Someone knows, probably.
05:15: I don’t mean breakfast cereal, I mean an oldschool pulp serial with cliffhanger!
08:03: Out of the Abyss, previously reviewed here.
08:56: The Infamous Intro of Skyrim.
10:53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaTZV8qS1I
13:34: Exalted from White Wolf
17:06: Masks of Nyarlathotep
21:30: It still gets me every time I’m reminded that the entire process of recruiting shadowrunners for your corp is just an elaborate penis joke being played on the interns.
22:23: He’s only been doing this 2 years, folks, cut him some slack.
24:10: https://youtu.be/G6_Jb4ijIvc?t=31
24:51: Planescape, originally for D&D 2nd ed.
26:25: This man has a pre-school age son, how has he not had dinosaur names hammered into his skull yet?
29:44: There are many examples of tables of things that go wrong while carousing, here's a nice one from Reddit.
30:45: Adventurers League
31:22: Still no word on real-life conventions, but a 2nd Online Gaelcon is coming! Last years was really good!
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