Tales From the Hydian Way

Come listen to another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way. We’re talking about motivations, obligations, and duty. How do you use them as background and how do you make sure they stay relevant to your group. You can find us at @DeuteriumIce and @Xphile101361 You can find us and much more at TheHydianWay.com Please … Continue reading "Episode 6 – Motivations in the Background"

Welcome to another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way Join us as we talk about a variety of ways to combine the three career books that have come out for Edge of the Empire. Far Horizons, Dangerous Covenants, and Enter the Unknown give up their story telling secrets and bring new life to your … Continue reading "Episode 5 – Deep in the Edge"

Come with us as we join the Alliance to Restore the Republic and see what Age of Rebellion can tell us about  creating new characters and the sorts of stories we can find. From finding stories and archetypes for the confusing Commodore to talking about how to bring Ithorian and Gran sensibly into a fighting … Continue reading "Episode 4 – Joining the Rebellion"

We decided to take a step back from the Force and Destiny Beta and talk about a book that struck both our fancies. Far Horizon seems to have just squeaked out there between the different Core book releases, but it has quite a few things to talk about. From the new specializations to a whole … Continue reading "Episode 3 – On the Horizon"

Welcome to another episode of Tales from the Hydian Way. There are a lot of choices to be made when it comes to building a character. Finding the careers and species that speak to us and listening to how they speak to us can help us craft interesting stories just from character creation. It’s another … Continue reading "Episode 2: Forceful Characters"

What happens when 8 pages in a new book cause a long discussion about how you can bring out role playing at the table? We delve into the Morality mechanic and see how we want it to reside in our games, and how we think it will brush up against Duty and Obligation when we … Continue reading "Episode 1 – Morality and Connections"

Thanks for joining us with our first episode of our Story-centric Star Wars RPG podcast. We touch upon what brought us to the Star Wars galaxy for story telling and a few things we’ve come to like about the system from the dice to initiative, but mostly the groups and families that you create with … Continue reading "Episode 0 – The Tales of Two GMs"