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Post by 00dlez on Apr 4, 2018 21:53:37 GMT
Let me start by saying the audio was not the best. Sometimes, it happens. BUT if you stopped listening because of it, you are doing yourself a dis-service! Mattias can still be understood just fine and there's some really great perspectives that have helped me a lot already!
Probably the biggest take away for me was the point that cultures aren't made in a vacuum and need to relate to one another. It's vital to make a broad setting immersive and relateable. It's something I was already working on doing in my world, creating the cultures as they developed together versus one at a time, but the context the episode provided was stellar and invigorating!
Taken a step further, people (NPCs and players in a game) often have misconstrued notions about a given group - whether its that all orcs are violent (the orcs atop Mountain A are actually pacifists) or that the human island tribes are all violent (they actually just regard their islands as sacred ancestral ground, and visitors are violating a religious rite).
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Post by DM Onesie Knight on Apr 5, 2018 21:16:08 GMT
I get that he was connecting from Europe, but dang... I'm in my car dealing with road white noise, and running my phone by bluetooth through a very cheap and terrible radio transmitter to the car radio which was made in 1998. If I turned it up enough to hear Mattias, I was being deafened by the radio scratching and popping.
I'll give it another go at home with a better sound system, but it was pretty hard to listen to going by my usual habits.
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Post by 00dlez on Apr 5, 2018 21:22:10 GMT
Yes I had it on ear phones without the background car noise - it helps a lot but it's very worth it!
It's not tip heavy, but there are a lot of perspectives presented that can really improve the way you approach culture in general, and especially "monster culture" in any campaign.
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mjrollins
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Post by mjrollins on Apr 23, 2018 2:22:45 GMT
This episode had some great brain fodder. I personally liked that you discussed how individual monsters within a group can and should vary (i.e. a hill giant who tricks his prey). Awesome stuff!
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