On this episode, we continue the discussion with Josh Roby about making epic-scale games, with the third of three points: respect, from the point of view of a game respecting its own epic conceit and NPCs respecting epic-scale PCs. Josh also gives an interesting answer to Ryan asking about how his previous master plan is coming along. Afterward, Ryan talks about "the power of names" -- exploring an idea that the names we give terms in our games have a dramatic impact to how well they're understood, illustrated by two counter-examples he's recently come across in other games and one in Mythender.

Josh Roby:

• Kallisti Press
• Agora: how shall we live?
• Thread on Story-Games about Agora
• Sons of Liberty
• Full Light, Full Steam
• Part 1 of this interview

Other mentions:

• Mythender
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Shreyas mentioned in the interview is Shreyas Sampat, designer of Mist-Robed Gate
• Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition
• Dirty Secrets by Dark Omen Games
• Actual Play thread by Jesse Burenko for Dirty Secrets

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Running time: 21:44 / File size: 15.0M

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