Tales From the Hydian Way

We were lucky to get in contact with Andrew Fischer (@Etheral_Fish) of FFG games to talk about Stay on Target. What follows is a decent first discussion of how the book came to be and of how an FFG developer was able to get into such an interesting position. 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 in the hangar as the three of us discuss the wonders of Stay on Target

Stay on Target, freshly released from Fantasy Flight Games, is our target. The new Ace Career book brings us interesting views on what an Ace is and how an Ace can fit in our game. Learn about our singular disappointment with the book as we take just some of the ideas presented and make them into usable ideas 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. Come sit down at the Folor Base cantina and let Squeaky serve you a drink, just be careful with the kindness.

Today we talk about the wonderful things that you can do to help make your player parties less ‘normal’. With interesting ideas for making weird party concepts, talk a little on how parties are their own character in their own right, and then go on to finding ways of making things even more interesting at character creation. How can a single free rank change the entire nature of a party? 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 saddle up to the bar now that the Gamorreans are dealt with and have a drink while Teemos thugs keep looking. Just click below.

We’re talking about preparation for players and how to use that prep time in a way that is effective. We talk about simple ways to have adventure threads at the ready for when duty or obligation triggers, but also how to get the players to talk about morality and how to engage it with out alienating that player. 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 back and let us play the music and light the lights as we tell more Tales right below.

So you have a session 0 under your belt, why it’s under a belt we’ll never know, but now the players keep wanting to do things. How do you start getting an idea of where to take them and what to do with them. We talk about moving forward with campaigns and we start to … Continue reading "Episode 17 – Taking the Next Step"

This time we look at criminal organizations, how to use them, one of many ways to use law enforcement with them. Even how to use the “Big Galaxy” approach when dealing with planetary Criminal organizations. You can find us on Twitter at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please … Continue reading "Episode 16 – The Underside of the Galaxy"

We had a bit of fun, starting with monsters and finding some ways to bring them into an adventure, but quickly the Wookiee and Trandoshan rivalry reared its head and we were off chasing ideas down. Space slugs and idle Infiltrators give us ideas for making things more complete on your tables. In case you’re … Continue reading "Episode 15 – Not the Normal Way"

While Adventure Campaigns are fun, we find that using the two words interchangeably to be infuriating. We take a look at ways that we can expand upon the Fantasy Flight Games Adventure settings and how to make them less infuriating to use at the table. Lengthening them to the point of making sense for our … Continue reading "Episode 14 – Blowing up Published Adventures"

Today we talk about the Legendary stories we’ve come across and just a tiny bit of what we’ve used them for on the table. Taking ideas and characters from the different stories we talk of and how we use little tidbits to create deeper stories for our players and keeping a big galaxy in our … Continue reading "Episode 13 – Learning from Legends"

We’re talking about Knight level play and kicking the tires. Going from how we prepare encounters for higher level players to how we start a longer game with it and even delving into how to create Nemeses from  the initial antagonists we use. From Age of Rebellion to Edge of Empire we also bring up … Continue reading "Episode 12 – Igniting Knight Level Play"

As we descend onto the wind swept forms of Gavos we take a look at different ways of getting the players to be more on edge. From raging Wookiees to breaking into prisons, we search for ways to take the players out of their comfort zones. A Debt to Pay can be found at FFG … Continue reading "Episode 11 – Suspense and the Party"

We talk about how and why to use published adventures. Then we expand from there to how to make them more useful to your game. Things mentioned in this podcast: A video of the Sal Nalor distress call Clawdites The Under A Black Sun Adventure from Fantasy Flight Games You can find us on Twitter … Continue reading "Episode 10 – Making Adventures Usable"

We approach Naboo laden with another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way. Ben and Cam talk about the ideas that starting ships, bases, and people options for new groups in the FFG Star Wars system bring and what sort of adventures can happen with the big things that the party is given. Things that … Continue reading "Episode 9 – Going from the Beginning"

Come out of the blowing desert winds. We take a look at beginning sandbox campaign creation, running them, and common pitfalls. We have a few ideas for campaigns we want to run and seeds that will eventually let us make them. Items and sites mentioned in this podcast: Donjon Fantasty Name Generator The Galactic Campaign … Continue reading "Episode 8 – Playing in the Sandbox"

Welcome to another Tales from the Hydian Way. Today we talk about force powers and how they can be used. We even take a quick look at some of the potential outcomes that might occur when you use them. The use of the Force, even in it’s simplest forms, can have far reaching affects for … Continue reading "Episode 7 – Forceful Discussions"