Episode 4: Combat encounters with Sam

In this week’s episode of Campaign Spotlight, we chat with Sam about running novel and interesting combat encounters, raising the stakes by putting everyone’s favourite NPC in danger, and ethically nonmonogamous orc throuples. Spoiler warning for Sam’s campaign – although we recorded this a while ago, and we’re pretty sure the players have already encountered that set filled with traps.

This interview got us thinking about the type of games that take the physical battlemap really seriously. In next week’s Flashlight episode, we’ll be talking about Warhammer 40K.

This is an episode where we spend some time admiring Sam’s intricate 3D battle sets. Is a podcast the best medium for discussing combat visuals? Probably not, but Jake doesn’t have the face for YouTube. Here are some pictures Sam sent us, so you can see what we’re talking about:

Sam mentioned the John Green YouTube channel Crash Course. Jake mentioned the David Prokopetz homebrew item Deck of Many Tarrasques.

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