Cooking an RPG Stew w/ Rebekah Valentine

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast · January 19, 2026

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00:06:55 - 00:07:03

And I'm not even ace combat fan. I plan to remedy that. Um, there's another instance where one of the other nights we got in early and mega ran is performing.

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... But once I got there at the whole thing, it's just like music game music, which is totally my jam, so to speak, like, um, before one of the shows, like we got an early for the pro to men X three. And I'm not even ace combat fan. I plan to remedy that. Um, there's another instance where one of the other nights we got in early and mega ran is performing. And actually, um, if you list, uh, I met Brian, uh, from game informer and we did an emergency little podcast and we talked about like the difference between magfest and other corporations, uh, just like the corporate, sorry, the corporate run conventions. ...

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00:07:29 - 00:09:39

... And so magfest is totally fanned. Like, I think it's actually a charity or something of that classification. There's just no real corporate presence there. And it's really neat to have just these giant basically all the convention center area is dedicated to fans and fans stuff and fan music and not like giant booth selling the same Funko pop 15 times over. So I absolutely plan to go back next year if I can, uh, pro them in or no pro them in that is kind of their home con as it were. They're not going to play…

01:13:15 - 01:15:30

... You, you have it figured out. Thank you. And I, now I just see him in the shop every now and then he's coming back. He, he bought a like standard commander deck. He bought like a pre-con and he's been upgrading it and things like that. And he's like involved in the community now. And it's that stuff means so much for just not just the people involved, but for the store, for, for people coming back, for supporting local business. And I love this particular store because they're big about, Hey, we don't allow…

00:40:17 - 00:40:53

... And if you are somebody at home who you've been paying attention to RPGs for a while and you've been like, I missed the good old days of Final Fantasy six and stuff like that. They're doing that in Octopath. That is the continuation of like classic Final Fantasy at this point. I know Octopath Traveler Zero. I find that it's battle system. The way it differs from the other games makes it its own really unique, fun experience. ...

01:22:19 - 01:22:58

... Several people over there are now looking forward, angry about that. Like one of my favorite articles I wrote for inverse was about the, the, um, the connections between Romeo and Juliet, the movie and fun fantasy 10 era square. Like that was so much fun. ...

01:06:36 - 01:07:15

... So now I'm like, Oh, I want to make an elf deck. That'd be sick. I don't have like a typo deck in my roster right now. That'd be kind of sick. So. Uh, I, I just like Lorwyn as a plane. I think the concept is really, really cool. Uh, the whole idea is that it's a plane where there are two different worlds of existence. There's a, oh God, I forgot the names. It's, there's the light side and the dark side. And you're basically one person is actually two people depending on whether you're on the light side or the…

01:24:17 - 01:24:55

... Uh, I might actually, that might encourage me to play the game again, frankly. Um, Cygames has apologized for the concern it caused around its intention to create an AI focused subsidiary saying art produced via generative AI is not used in its products. And the studio says it won't implement generative AI into its products without prior notice. ...

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But I think maybe they don't let you do it because you want to be able strategically to see the entire map like they do really cool things you know we're like oh if you're, if it's dark out and you're in a spot and you have, you have your torch out, you can only see like in the cone in front of you and if there's like a wall or something it'll block the light so you can't see past the wall, so you can't see the whole map the whole time but when you can see the whole map because it's daylight like that's…

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