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Why Guilds will Ruin your Game
31 minutes Posted Nov 9, 2022 at 9:00 am.
Intro
Theme
Expanding the (OSR) Anchorverse
Community and Civility
Main Topic: GUILDS and Why they will Ruin your Game
Why do refs use guilds?
How to guilds benefit players and player characters?
Why these "benefits" are lies in disguise
Players that Don't Want to Play
Gold Sinks: Are they Really Needed?
Time Taxes: the Boring Way... or the Awesome Way?
Player Benefits or Incentive Doffers?
No Free Lunch
Rugged Individualism
Call in: James Eck - DM Metagaming
Further, Player Metagaming in a Troupe Game
Outro
Theme & Legal
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31:33
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Show notes
 - - 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 - - 
 - - 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/
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