Why Guilds will Ruin your Game

 - - 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/