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Post by DM Aram on Jul 8, 2015 11:59:29 GMT -5
 Hello people! Due to a series of scheduling conflicts, we are just about out of material. I don't want to skip a week and I know a lot of you have questions about Godsfall, so we're planning our first Mailbag Episode and we need your help. Post questions about Godsfall on the website, post them on the new Godsfall Forum, or email them to us at GodsfallDC@gmail.com. Or if want to be extra awesome, record yourself asking your question and email or Dropbox us the audio file so we can edit your voice directly into the episode. Our next episode will be an all-play session (Episode #017: Turning the Tables) and the one after that will be our first mailbag episode, so post questions and we'll answer them all! Thank you! |
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Post by notkevinward on Jul 8, 2015 14:19:58 GMT -5
How were you introduced into the D&D world? Also are there any book or movies that you draw inspiration from for Godsfall?
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Post by dmstevev on Jul 8, 2015 15:16:56 GMT -5
How did you and the players all meet? What was the criteria for choosing them for the Podcast over others you may have considered?
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Post by jdereilly on Jul 8, 2015 16:52:47 GMT -5
Aram, do you have any tricks that help you stay focused on an editing heavy day? And if I can get a second question in for anyone at Godsfall, are there any memorable moments you'd want to talk about from a passed RPG session? Thanks again for the quality podcast! - Justin (@jdereilly)
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Post by Tesla Ranger on Jul 9, 2015 9:52:32 GMT -5
* Are there any conditions/rituals (music, coffee, solitude) you prefer when writing?
* What spell slot is that spell you use to let the party keep splitting up yet still manage to pull them all back together in epic ways that keep the plot moving along?
* What's been the most unexpected part of making a popular podcast that you've run into so far?
* How do you write your adventures? By which I mean, what process or system do you prefer for any notes you use to run the story? Do you have it all written out or prefer just a few points of things that are going on here or there?
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Post by gygax on Jul 9, 2015 16:41:07 GMT -5
* For Aram -when the players role play something into existence which effects the storyline of a session do you try to include it as an ark or significant factor for future role play, i.e., oinkers?
* any player - how do you feel about short fan fiction involving your characters (based on the last fifteen sessions while combined with the codex of Aram's world building?)
* anyone- how will a death in the group effect the dynamic of the current team of players... Has anyone prepared a new character just incase? Not that anyone will die, but it seems like the possibility is always there, especially considering how dangerous boat travel seems to be.
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Post by Selesnya_New_Life on Jul 9, 2015 17:14:46 GMT -5
How different is the world of Godsfall now from the time you first imagined it? For example: Did you intend to have so many gods? Is there an entire continent you added or cut out? Was magic always dead? Essentially, what changed from Godsfall's first draft to the world we see now?
P.S: Send my love to Dorro. He's my favorite character! |
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Post by burningneophyte on Jul 14, 2015 2:16:52 GMT -5
For Aram- I love not only the intricacies of the world you've created, but also the NPCs!! You have such a wide array of characters, how do you make each one their own person and so lovable? (Brannick and Phryane's father being my personal favorites, for various reasons) Are any of them based off anybody in particular or just reflections of the characters and their reactions?
For the PCs- As for you guys, what was the inspiration for your character? Why did you decide to portray them the way you do? And were the relationships between the party planned to an extent or mainly how your characters naturally came together? Like Dorro and Torvic's Dwafling pseudo-bromance, Pera/Xion's budding romance, and Phryane's annoyance and mild-affection for her ragtag companions?
And further, because I'm a curious super fan:
Kay- Phryane has made it quite obvious of her annoyance of her companion's antics, but how does she REALLY feel about the "folk" she travels with?
Michael- Now that Xion is mastering the Force and his Astral Armor, is he gonna go from researching to become a source of destruction like Pera?
Doug- How does Dorro feel about becoming the unofficial "teacher" for the rest of the party and their Divinities?
Steven- Does Torvic have any plans for Oinkers to become his Giant Warthog Mount to ride into battle like a badass? Please tell me yes.
Aram- Will poor Pera ever get into the good graces of Phryane or will be forever be the whining peasant they found in Port Bliss?
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Post by Dancemagic on Jul 14, 2015 12:00:37 GMT -5
How do your games flow IRL? The podcast is heavily edited, which is awesome, but is there a lot of stopping and doing retakes of critical moments, or do you just play through and piece it together in editing?
Aram: Did you intend for Torvic to make use of the ironwood armor "blueprints" sooner, or was it meant to be utilized down the road?
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Post by DeWayne Feenstra on Jul 14, 2015 22:32:40 GMT -5
Do the players have any inspirations for how they play their characters? Did they pattern them off any real or fictional people?
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Post by Kiado on Jul 15, 2015 17:52:51 GMT -5
I just listened to your interview on RPG Academy. That was cool to hear some of the background information of how you have built and produced your World. I have to say your Podcast has made me rethink the world of my own I am working on. I feel your detailed Pantheon really puts it above some of the competition, and it really makes a difference. So now I am rethinking and re-writing my own Pantheon, don't know if I should thank you for that, but I think the players will in the end.  Now, inline with the above statements. Did you set your Pantheon in stone early on, or did you develop them to match the general story you wanted to tell? Or maybe this is the better way to phrase it, did you put them in to build the story off of, or did they evolve with the story you wanted to tell? |
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Post by Xion Praeten on Jul 17, 2015 17:41:49 GMT -5
To burningneophyte, sorry that we weren't able to get to all of the questions. You can listen to the mailbag episode here. So, since we weren't able to get to your questions for me, here are my answers: - The inspiration for my character was largely my experiences at 16 (Xion's age). I moved from Oklahoma (Kadar - sharing many Kadarian values) to D.C. (Ani) at that age. I was a boy trying to hide his deep secret, and finding his footing in a cosmopolitan setting away from the strictures of his old society. That is very much a theme that we have played with.
- I portray Xion as I do as a serious-minded youth who just wants things to move smoothly, though they invariably never do.
- Xion's relationship with Pera was not planned, but rather occurred organically. In fact, my character found Pera to be irritating in the beginning. Xion had been socially trained to find weakness or sentimentality to be faulty by the society in which he was raised (internalized homophobia / enforced "masculinity"). When Pera saved Xion's life in the Temple of Oram from the animated skeleton, Xion started to turn around. Xion saw Pera come into his own as a hero. Also, Xion had seen Pera naked many times after Pera had burned off his clothes: while never stated, Xion liked what he saw. There are a few hints in the podcast before the two get together that Pera is also gay, and Xion picked up on that.
- Xion didn't know that his admission of "love" would go over well with Pera, but just went with it as he didn't know if they would survive the night anyway. As it turns out, the feelings were reciprocated.
- Now that Xion knows his telekinetic powers make him a force in the world, you can best believe that Xion will use those powers to help his boyfriend and friends whenever he can. I knew from the beginning that my character would be exceedingly weak in the beginning, but would grow with power. They were right to say that they should burn him at the stake early on: there will come a time in which Xion's power cannot be stopped by any mortal.
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Post by burningneophyte on Jul 17, 2015 20:57:35 GMT -5
Thank you so much for your answers!! I can definitely say I relate to Xion more than the others (although I share Phryane's sarcasm and humor) in aspects of personality, orientation, and age (I'm only two years older). I wanna say you're hitting the nail spot on! All of Xion's actions make perfect sense, although I am confused about his reluctance to hurt others, even to the point of getting Pera to heal them. Since he's from Kadar, a very warlike nation, wouldn't he at least understand the reasons behind it for survival, even if not morally condoning it?
And as for the Xion/Pera relationship, you said that a lot of their bonding was cut out, like at Turtle Fest. Can you give a few more details you can remember? I like what was kept in, like the hand holding and Xion's paying Pera a little more attention then the others did. To me at least, that was when I started seeing something a little more than friendship between them. Do they have any idea how they're gonna make it work? Or are they just two lost gay boys trying to do the best they can?
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Post by Xion Praeten on Jul 18, 2015 5:29:19 GMT -5
Xion is generally "good," and so doesn't like to see others in pain - and certainly doesn't want to kill. Even when mean people try to hurt him and his friends, he doesn't want them killed, but rather, to be neutralized. He even feels a little bad for the elves who were scarred by Pera's flames, but he recognizes that they had to do that to escape from torture and death. He was, indeed, raised in Kadar, but he always felt alienated from that society. Xion would rather people resolve their differences through honest discussion. Sadly, not many in this harsh world agree with his methods.
Xion and Pera are not so emotionally evolved as to know how to "make it work" in the long term. This is, for them, their first relationship. So, add to that crucible often being hunted, coming from vastly different backgrounds (Pera of the farming lower class, Xion of the educated upper class like Phryane - though of a different culture than her) and being in the middle of world-altering events as they come into Godhead. They just cling to each other as they try to survive the day intact. Only time and circumstance will tell if their relationship can last, but I know that they both desperately want it to.
As to their first "date" at Turtlefest, your imagination would be better than any snippets of cut material that I could provide.
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Post by Xion Praeten on Jul 18, 2015 7:54:18 GMT -5
And, to gygax, we didn't get around to your questions in the episode, so I will answer from my perspective.
- Most of the players are ambivalent about fan fiction. It's a free country. I encourage creativity, and would probably read it. Doug (Dorro), who is playing an asexual character, would be slightly skeeved out by any sexual portrayal of his character, but would otherwise not mind anything anyone comes up with (though, of course, cannon is only what is in the podcast and supplemental materials). Stephen (Torrvick) answers this for himself in the following post. Kay (Phryane) is, as with most things, above being worried about what peasants do in their spare time (like make fan fiction) — though will send guards to deal with anyone who annoys her.
- Death is scary. We'll try to avoid it, but if it happens, I doubt the voice actors would come back as a different character, but who is to say?
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