- - Description - -

Answering a prompt from a friend of the show about guilds: why you should hate them too.

Disagree? Drop me a voicemail! https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/message

Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).

 - - Show Notes - - 

00:00 - Intro

00:53 - Theme

01:23 - Expanding the (OSR) Anchorverse

04:01 - Community and Civility

06:52 - Main Topic: GUILDS and Why they will Ruin your Game

08:00 - Why do refs use guilds?

10:47 - How to guilds benefit players and player characters?

11:30 - Why these "benefits" are lies in disguise

11:41 - Players that Don't Want to Play

13:35 - Gold Sinks: Are they Really Needed?

14:29 - Time Taxes: the Boring Way... or the Awesome Way?

15:59 - Player Benefits or Incentive Doffers?

17:24 - No Free Lunch

20:39 - Rugged Individualism

21:52 - Call in: James Eck - DM Metagaming

27:30 - Further, Player Metagaming in a Troupe Game

29:55 - Outro

30:38 - Theme & Legal

 - - Links - -

The "Prior" Episode, Call Ins on Player Skill: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Call-Ins-Players--Player-Interactions--and-Player-Skill-e1nahlf

Don't Be Nice: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Dont-Be-Nice-e161q2a

Strict Time Records: https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Strict-Time-Records-e1da6ti

The RedCaps Podcast: https://anchor.fm/theredcaps/

Mindweave RPG: https://mindweaverpg.wordpress.com/