This is a special “bonus” podcast with a reading of the prologue of Slime Story: The Legend of Doug, a novel set in the same world as the Slime Story RPG I’ve been working on. The main character is an average teenage monster hunter named Doug, and in this chapter an ordinary monster hunting run becomes one of his most memorable ever when he runs into Rita, Los Banos’ #1 monster hunter and host of the Monster Show video blog.
If you want to read some more of the story, I’ve posted up a draft of Chapter 1: Saying Yes on DeviantArt.
Yaruki Zero Podcast #3½ (17 minutes, 59 seconds)
Next Time
For the next episode, Andy Kitkowski and I will be sitting down to talk about Japanese tabletop RPGs in general. Please comment if there’s anything in particular you’d like to hear us talk about.
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I’d be interested to hear of design paradigms, things the Japanese RPG designers do that we don’t. Mind, I would like a more general stance; not what one designer does different, and does it in only one game, but what are the design sensibilities of Japanese RPG designs in general, and where do they differ from us?