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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

The Best RPG Starter Towns w/ Michael Higham

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast · January 26, 2026

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01:25:29 - 01:25:51

... It almost feels like, and we talked about Red Dead Redemption too, it almost feels like those kinds of systems are, it's of that caliber, it's of that scale, but now in full RPG form where not only do NPCs have schedules and personalities, but they will be reacting directly to you in a way that we just haven't seen before. ...

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... And then so yeah, it's the town stuff. It's the social sim, it's the choice and consequence and how this particular franchise does choice and consequence. And yeah, those are the things I'm excited about most. It almost feels like, and we talked about Red Dead Redemption too, it almost feels like those kinds of systems are, it's of that caliber, it's of that scale, but now in full RPG form where not only do NPCs have schedules and personalities, but they will be reacting directly to you in a way that we just haven't seen before. Like these are principles we know even coming from Fable, but to this extent is pretty ambitious. So I'm excited to poke around in that regard. So I don't know. This was an unnecessary showing, of course, ...

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