An Interview with Josiah Mork of Hoodwink Games

 - - Description - - Sixty minutes of hot Sumerian action! Join me as I sit down with game designer Josiah Mork of Hoodwink Games and we talk about his current Kickstarter campaign: Early Empires - a modular supplement focused on bringing the Biblical Levant to life at your table. Open for pledges until May 25! Interested in this content, or content like it? Or feel the need to tell me I suck? Tell me on Anchor! https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail ! Theme music by Michael Ramir C, courtesy of Mixkit.co (https://mixkit.co/).  - - Show Notes - - 00:00:00 - Theme 00:00:30 - Introducing Josiah Mork! 00:01:28 - What is Early Empires? 00:04:24 - The Kickstarter 00:05:20 - Researching the Region: Why Canaan? 00:09:24 - How came you to gaming? 00:12:05 - The ethos of Hoodwink's Basic And Generic RPG System 00:15:32 - Scout's Honor 00:16:25 - Previous Successful Crowdfunding 00:18:58 - Fulfillment Plans 00:20:45 - Illustration, Design, and Artwork 00:22:20 - Stretch Goals: Unlocked and Aspiring 00:26:34 - Gods of the Fertile Crescent 00:30:54 - Burning your Children? (The Tone of a Bronze Age Levant) 00:35:15 - Related BaG Product: Suburbville - Undead City Crawl 00:38:50 - Mass Battles and Conquest in BaG and Early Empires 00:40:42 - BaG: Free Edition vs BaG: Core Rules 00:42:26 - On Usability in Other Game Systems for Early Empires 00:43:44 - (Taylor Hints Which Game He's Using) 00:44:30 - Reward Tiers for BaG: Early Empires 00:45:41 - The Global BaG Community 00:49:53 - Did, or How Did, Faith Influence the Project? 00:54:11 - On Implementing Real Religions in a Game 01:02:00 - Final Notes on Early Empires and Parting Words from Josiah  - - Links - - Early Empires Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1133637349/bag-rpg-early-empires) Hoodwink Games (https://www.hoodwinkgaming.com/) Hoodwink Games Twitter (https://twitter.com/GamesHoodwink) Christian Nerd's Unite - Interview with author Brian Godawa Part 1: {{link}}  Part 2: {{link}}  Modern Explorer's Guild (https://www.meguild.com/) Early Empires Kickstarter Again! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1133637349/bag-rpg-early-empires)