Tales From the Hydian Way

A couple people poked us about Duty and how to use it in a game setting in a way that wasn’t just a second way of collecting experience. We started off simple and then it grew into something much deeper, like the duty mechanic itself. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you can sit with us as we stare into hyperspace and talk with our Ithorian refugee about duty and what it means to be in the rebellion.

We start talking about Force Unleashed and how to deal with players who have characters at that power level. We examine the tropes and raise a few good points about how you can make the consequences of their actions matter to them at the table. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or sit with us at the Four and a Half as we wait for a gambler of some note to arrive and listen to our rousing Tales.

We saw the Rogue One preview. It was amazing. Then we started talking about running a campaign like that and asked ourselves how we would do it. One thing leads to another and suddenly we’re discussing how to make a decent war based campaign that doesn’t feel like an Edge of the Empire campaign. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you could sit down with us as we talk to some Antarian Rangers about the fun things they found in orbit of Toprawa.

Cam has a plan, and that plan is to finally talk about Fly Casual. Which we did, and we pretty much love the book. There are so many stories that we can pull out of it. We discuss the kind of stories that make Fly Casual a great resource, talk about the three new specializations, and talk about some of the story ideas we have for the species. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you can come over and sit with us as we talk about that one time Tarkin came to Brentaal and have some more fun around the table here:

We were able to find Max Brooke and get him to talk about all of the fun things going on at FFG as well as some of the cooler aspects of Star Wars the RPG and why having a single campaign to run is a good idea. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you can pull up a chair at this lovely establishment in Iepatap harbor. While we wait for our special guest.

Ben and Cam started talking about ships and the big concept ways of using them and the topic started to drift quickly. They slingshot past how to make things more interesting from the outset of a campaign and end up talking about how to keep a campaign interesting over the longer term and how to ratchet up the difficulty. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Sit at the bar with us as we buy and trade information with those almost sly guys at Imperial Intelligence.

Ben had no idea about equipment and was starting to worry he was doing it very wrong. Cam had some ideas so they started talking about it. Thankfully someone had the recorder going so all of you can benefit from the discussion on equipment and how to get it to mean something to the players while not being too giving or to miserly with it. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Find spare parts near by to assemble the show below.

Cam and Ben are back with another question that a fan asked. How is the system suited for letting the players in on the narrative reigns and not just making the GMs feel over taxed. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Dodge the gundarks and sit down with us and this ancient pirate as we all swap new tales.

The Cracian thumper finally made it past the dreaded wampa line and delivered Bens copy of Lords of Nal Hutta. We take a look at it and what speaks to both Ben and Cam from the book. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. We slip into the booth and take a look over the sabaac table as we Tell more Tales from the Hydian Way.

We start off with a simple question of how to deal with a guard house full of security personnel with out shooting it up and expand into how we run low prep games and bring the players into a scene. After a nice little dalliance with improvisations we start talking about how to kick players plans into action and how to guide them out of the analysis phase and into action. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you can click below and sit with us as the plan goes all awry and we come up with a new one while the circus keeps us entertained.

Ben and Cam talk about high powered adventurers and parties, tactics to deal with same both in FFG Star Wars and more generally, changing things up mid-campaign, and what to do when a player is about to break the game. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. We go say hello to Admiral Daala and dine with wookiee service and you can listen in below.

This week Ben and Cam talk about how we build characters to have a background and obligations that fit within the party and how we can make them useful to the GM as well as the players. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. You can also sit back and have vaporated water with us at Tosche Station and listen as we talk with how we get started with characters.

This week we talk about narratively dealing with a timer, how to set aside rules when the party just doesn’t need them applied, and how to make space combat more interesting while using the rules we discussed in the last episode. We also cover using capital ships and how to deal with them, and we even touch upon how to deal with reinforcements coming to the field narratively. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you can sit down next to us as we outrun these TIEs, dodge the Exogorth and give you a few ideas on how to make space combat better in your adventures below.

We take a look at the rules that govern space scenes in Fantasy Flights Star Wars and we try to make all the weird actions and maneuvers make sense. This is the first part of two in our in depth look at space combat and how to make it fun and interesting for your players. (we’re sorry for the audio quality in this episode) You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. As we escape with the Varactyl along the Hydian Way listen as we give the basis for greater things.

How many ways can you kill a campaign? We know quite a few and have witnessed many premature campaign deaths. Fortunately, we also know several ways to keep a campaign alive and reinvigorate it. We can keep the campaign moving and breathing until it’s ready to live on it’s own once again. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please rate and review us. Or you can come over and chat as we talk by the slowly roasting tauntaun.