About this episode
- - Description - -
Answering a prompt from a friend of the show about guilds: why you should hate them too.
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Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).
- - Show Notes - -
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Theme
01:23 - Expanding the (OSR) Anchorverse
04:01 - Community and Civility
06:52 - Main Topic: GUILDS and Why they will Ruin your Game
08:00 - Why do refs use guilds?
10:47 - How to guilds benefit players and player characters?
11:30 - Why these "benefits" are lies in disguise
11:41 - Players that Don't Want to Play
13:35 - Gold Sinks: Are they Really Needed?
14:29 - Time Taxes: the Boring Way... or the Awesome Way?
15:59 - Player Benefits or Incentive Doffers?
17:24 - No Free Lunch
20:39 - Rugged Individualism
21:52 - Call in: James Eck - DM Metagaming
27:30 - Further, Player Metagaming in a Troupe Game
29:55 - Outro
30:38 - Theme & Legal
- - Links - -
The "Prior" Episode, Call Ins on Player Skill: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Call-Ins-Players--Player-Interactions--and-Player-Skill-e1nahlf
Don't Be Nice: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Dont-Be-Nice-e161q2a
Strict Time Records: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Strict-Time-Records-e1da6ti
The RedCaps Podcast: https://anchor.fm/theredcaps/
Mindweave RPG: https://mindweaverpg.wordpress.com/
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