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“This is hard to listen to at first. Audio quality is acceptable and quickly improves. The role-playing is good. The extremely crunchy gameplay of Pathfinder is faithfully represented and interesting.
There are problems. They're all men and two of them sound very similar. The early episodes of the podcast feature some pretty ugly threats of rape and violence against NPCs and it could be hard for some people to listen to. Later episodes feature some extreme descriptions of gore and brutality. Some of it is hard to listen to because of how graphic it is, and some of it is hard to listen to because of how pointless it is. On the other hand, they're playing a prewritten adventure path, so the weird NPC behavior and motivations aren't all the GM's fault.
Combat toward the beginning is very formulaic. The GM springs a monster on the PCs and gets a surprise round, and the players scramble to respond. They seldom play carefully enough to set up their own ambushes. No punches are pulled, and player characters die regularly. That's fine, but often it seems like their deaths are somewhat arbitrary. Other times it's clearly the fault of a player (Joe, of course) who seems to be playing a different game from everyone else. Joe refuses to optimize his characters, instead building them to be mechanically interesting, and then has the temerity to be suprised when they die. Joe will never read this, but it's worth saying anyway: Joe, build a mechanically successful character FIRST, and THEN give the character an interesting backstory and personality. Troy is not playing a rules-light collective storytelling game; Troy is playing to kill your character. Stop faffing about and play the same game everyone else is playing. Write a book or play a different game or with a different GM if you want to tell a story without optimizing the character build.
Listeners will still get interesting characters and voices and a lot of jokes. I could do without the fifteen minutes of banter before each episode, but apparently they consider it part of their schtick. It's still worth a listen, and their Patreon-only campaigns are also good.”Read full review »
UtilityMaximizer via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/31/21
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