Redemption & Creation | Ironsworn: Starforged | Solo RPG | S01E01
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- CW: Claustrophobia, mild peril
Session 1 of The Bad Spot, an actual play solo RPG podcast, with host Matt Risby playing Ironsworn: Starforged by Shawn Tomkin
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There are some excellent "educational" examples for Ironsworn solo play in this episode. I suspect a common trap in Ironsworn solo is interpreting every setback or complication as an immediate challenge to overcome, leading to a constant cascade of mechanical penalties or additional problems to resolve. Instead, this episode shows effective other approaches. The miss on the vow led to i) a narrative complication that informed future encounters and ii) a subtle mechanical penalty where you were forced to use Edge or Shadow instead of your stronger Wits for most of the exploration. The peril encountered in Research was just "banked" as a potential future issue. The overall effect of these is to maintain focus on the main plot of "explore the ship" but provide additional context, flavour, and difficulties during this plot. Recommended viewing/listening for a new Ironsworn player.
Thanks so much for watching and for leaving such a thoughtful analysis. I think this all comes from bitter experience. My first few sessions of OG Ironsworn solo were grinding failures. First session out, my character died having barely gotten out of the tavern they started in. Keeping the narrative strictly at the forefront and not being so harsh with the misses is key for me. Thanks again for stopping by!
Well this was a pleasant discovery! Looking forward to more of this series. Thanks for introducing me to this game, I’ve already ordered my own copy to try playing it!
Welcome aboard!
Love the effort that you put into the visuals and explaining the gameplay. It should be a must see example on how to play Ironsworn in an enjoyable manner. You got a new sub that'll be hearing ur podcast while working, dreaming of adventures on planets far away
Awww, amazing thank you! I try to use this channel as both a storytelling outlet for me, but also an on ramp for new players. I want as many people as possible playing this system!
Are you aware that the audio is mono (left)? Could you make it and the rest Stereo?
I can't hear anything out of my right ear, which is strange when I have my over-ear headphones on, and doesn't allow me to use just the right ear if I want/need to for reasons.
Hi Jeremy, thanks for watching. Yes I am painfully aware that I accidentally recorded the first 3 episodes in mono. It remains a very foolish mistake that I must live with unfortunately. It affects the first 3 episodes (Both halves of the Session Zero and also this episode) but is fixed afterwards. I imagine I lost a few viewers through my incompetence, but it gets fixed so stick around!
@@thebadspot Thanks for the reply and feedback, and for sharing your adventure with us.
Welcome aboard!
Oof, just found your content and want to check it out but... the balance being only in the left ear is killing me.
Tell me about it! It was a recording mistake that I thankfully fixed after this episode! Hope you stick around to enjoy more…
Man this is excellent creative stuff you came up with but the system is like pulling teeth
it's such hard work to come up with just basic information, I would have given up well before the first session was over
Thanks for watching! I actually find the system very freeing, but this is exactly the kind of experience I want when I play a TTRPG, so your mileage may vary...
@@thebadspot Well said! I am glad to hear you enjoy it, the results are a very atmospheric story so its win / win
I know I am late to the party, but isn't it unlikely for a compass to be made of iron? Since ferrous materials interfere with the magnetic needle. Other than that I am really enjoying these so far. I do really like the Flash Fiction. Doing this can really fill in some of the blank spots in your adventure without having to explicitly roll up an adventure to discover them.
Hey hey and welcome aboard! I'll sidestep this by saying that it isn't a real compass. It's symbolic thing that denotes membership of the Griffin Institute.
Next episode please
Thanks for watching! New episodes every Thursday!
That was GREAT! Love the mix 9f narration, mechanics and interpretation, very nicely done. For some reason I only hear you on my left earbud though, is that something you could fix for future episodes?
@@Multiklaaas Thanks for the kind words! The audio is my bad. Recorded the VO in mono by mistake. Schoolboy error...
@@thebadspot Haha no worries, I always recorded my podcast in mono, but then set Audacity to spread that over the left and right channel equally. Apparently, for voice, it's best to record in mono. If you want, I can look up how I used to do that.
Yes please!
Very inspirational and great story telling. I assume there are edits where you spend five minutes trying to interpret the oracle rolls. If not I feel depressed at how easily you spin a yarn from a single word or two. Also, I love the narrative details you add that are not prompted by the dice.
5 minutes? I wish it only took 5 minutes! Each episode is the product of about 2 hours of play, so there is plenty of thinking and deliberating going on that is cut. Thanks for watching!
"By golly, was there a mutiny?" is now my go-to phrase when anything unexpectedly goes wrong.
I suddenly came over very British in that moment…
@@thebadspot I'm very much enjoying what I've heard so far. Congratulations on completing your first season :) I'm looking forward to getting caught up.
Welcome aboard!
Just a tip for Windows 10 Users listening to this, you can turn Mono
audio on under the Windows Audio settings (just type Mono in the start
menu and it will pull that option up). Audio was corrected after the
first three episodes were recorded.
Thanks for bailing me out with this info!
Halfway through, you mentioned the sound of a dot matrix printer... Which prompted a conversation with my wife, about how we are fairly certain our 13 year old kid has no idea what that is, or what it sounds like...
Oh, to never know how loud and slow those things were... Thanks for watching!
@@thebadspot Actually, I used to have an actual line printer. It could spit out reams of printed paper faster than you could fold it back up (remember how the paper was all bought connected and we had to not only separate the pages, but also tear away the perforated holes on each side?). Now THAT was a noisy machine. :)
Who is Dot Matrix? 😄
I know i'm kinda late, but this is an amazing series and you helped me discovery this fantastic rpg. Thank you!
Thank you so much for saying so and thanks so much for watching!
Same as me. Thank you very much ❤
Thank you!
Super cool script, the narrative parts are really great!
...but pleeeease don't pan the voice to one side, I have the voice in the left headphone and just some music on the right, it spoils the experience badly!
I hope this is fixed in the next videos because I really want to see the entire series! 😃
Thanks for watching! Yes, the audio for the first 3 episodes was mixed in mono by mistake. My bad. This has been corrected for the latest episode and all future episodes. Really glad you’re enjoying it despite the sound issues!
@@thebadspot I really am! looking forward to get to episode 4 and beyond, thanks for replying!
Today I discovered Ironsworn through you vids and I think my 2023 gaming is going to be very different to that of 2022 🙂
Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoy the show and playing Ironsworn!
Looking forward to the next one. It is the way of the Ironsworn that the dice are trying to kill you! 😉
Thanks for tuning in. New episodes on Thursdays and yes, even playing on challenging difficulty, it is a deeply unforgiving system!
“Five fucking hit points”😂😂😭
I felt that. I’m playing Ironsworn myself. One thing you forgot to mention was even when player health drops to 0, you don’t die outright. You have to first endure harm however many times as you do then roll to decide whether your character shakes it off or is negatively affected.
In my case, I was maimed. After a duel where I eventually killed the BBEG in my story, my character was basically left a hollow, broken shell of the man he used to be. And for rp purposes, that memory of the fight gives him PTS which is detrimental to a warrior’s mind.
I love Ironsworn :)
Thanks for watching! Yes, I'm aware of the not dying at 0 health part, but brevity meant I couldn't include every nuance of the rules in this instance. Trying to overview the rules in less then 3 minutes will do that...
I have been looking for more ironsworn podcasts (of sorts).
I love the system...I think maybe combining it with other systems (lore) would be really cool.
Welcome to the channel! I hope you find much to enjoy.
Hi there, all of your Ironsworn/Starforged content is so wonderful and welcome to a solo RPG'er trying to learn the ropes of ironsworn, thanks for all the effort! Quesiton: is your podcast available on all platforms or jus TH-cam? I was trying to find it in my podcast app (PocketCasts for Android), but unfortunately couldn't find it. Just checking if that's on me or just not posible! Would love to listen to this on the road :) Best!
Hey there! Thanks for watching! Season 1-3 of Starforged are all available in audio only formats through the TH-cam music app!
I love the little intro stories
Glad you're enjoying them. I'm certainly enjoying writing them.
I’m brand new to this hobby and I’ve gotta say I’m surprised to find such high quality content for such a niche category.
Also, sometimes videos in this genre can be a bit monotone so I really appreciate your sense of humor
Thank you so much! Glad you are enjoying my stuff!
Love the AP - great stuff.
I don't know if it's intentional or not, but so far all the episodes have had all your voice audio coming into the left channel of my headphones. It's a problem for me personally, since I'm deaf in that ear. If you could get your vocals into both channels, it would be GREAT. Otherwise I'm console myself only listening at home when I can use normal speakers.
Thank you so much for watching! I’ve enjoyed a bunch of your stuff too! Keep up the good work…
I'm only getting audio from the left speaker/headphone. Can this be fixed?
Hi Jonathan, thanks for watching. I made a mistake with the audio on the first 3 episodes resulting in my VO being only in one ear. My bad. It has been totally corrected from episode 4 onwards!
For people coming in, "episode 4" refers to "session 2" (aka, next episode!) as session 0 takes up what Mr. Spot means by episodes 1 and 2.
I'm loving this! I normally stick with text AARs/actual plays, but this one is quite good. Is there any way to get it audio only as a real podcast though? I live very rural and don't always have internet.
Hey there! Thanks for watching. This isn't available in an audio only format I'm afraid. There are plenty of ways to enjoy TH-cam content in an audio only way though. TH-cam premium is one, but there are lots of free plugins and apps that do the same thing if you have a quick google.
You probably get this question a lot but where did you find the theme song for the bad spot?
Hey there! The theme song is one I made myself using some chopped up loops on Garageband. Not much more to it than that really!
For everybody cursing at the left channel only voice acting: in Windows 10, you can go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio -> Set it to mono. You can also set it to stereo again there. In 6 months, when you suddenly notice your stereo sounds aren't stereo at all.
This audio mistake in the first 3 episodes will continue to haunt me I swear to god. Thanks for guiding people through my incompetence!
“Someone blew up the power core. Which, I mean I’m no expert at flying a spaceship, that seems like it’s something you need whilst you’re in the air. But, yeah, these things happen, I guess.” -Hilarious, I’m loving these walkthroughs, they make me feel more confident about my own game which hasn’t gotten past the inciting incident.
Hey there! So glad you’re finding something to enjoy in my show! Thanks for watching! Hope you can get past that inviting incident: I believe in you!
I'm really enjoying this play through and I'm looking forward to catching up on the rest!
You have a long way to go, but you’re burning through it!
@@thebadspot 12 down, 14 to go!
You’ll be all caught up for Friday’s Season 2 premiere at this rate…
@@thebadspot quite possible. Not currently working (though I'll need to do something about that soon) so I have a lot of time to listen while I paint miniatures.
Just purchased Ironsworn and Delves Hardcovers. I have a plan for a solo campaign about an escaped slave looking for her father's sword and the man who killed him, but I'll be buying this next
Awesome!
The device Archer looks through would be a TRANSIT.
Finally! That has been bugging me for ages. Thanks for watching!
I do like the flash fiction very much indeed! 💚🥚
I must have missed you talking about it at the end of the episode the first time I listened to it.
Awesome idea to use the oracle rolls for inspiration for it. 🥰
One of my favourite things about my campaign was when the audience start sending them in!
Hello, just wanted to say I just started the episodes. Seems like it'll be fun.
Thanks for watching! New episodes Thursdays...
@@thebadspot cool will definitely be watching these. Half hour is a perfect length too.
I'm thrilled to be diving in here at the beginning of your podcast in 2024. Recently began my first OG Ironsworn campaign, and I'm absolutely loving it. I plan to get Starforged soon now that it's in a new print run. Cheers!
Thrilled to have you!
Great show! Weirdly I can't find your show on my friendly podcast player. Is it available outside of yt?
Hey there! Unfortunately it is currently only on YT, but I’ve been asked to put it up on podcast feeds a few times. I may well do that at some point in the future, but for now they live here. Thanks for watching!
I've just found your channel and started watching season 1. It is really great. Thanks for creating this content.
If you dont mind, could you tell me the name of this dice roller that you use? is it on Windows?
Hey there! Thanks for watching. The dice roller i use is the 3D Dice Roller by Pixels on iOS. I screen record the folks in my phone and import them into keynote to make the slide. Get the app here: apps.apple.com/gb/app/dice-3d-7pixels/id1263339902
Listening to this in my phone and for whatever reason, the sound quality changes when I turn it to landscape.
That is very weird. Not sure what that is about! Welcome aboard anyway!
Hello! I know this video is a year old, but I have a question. A Miss in an Iron Vow means you can't mark progress UNTIL you deal with an immediate threat. Wasn't racing for the Databank something more close ro a Weak Hit? It ended up being the first Miletone to achieve, rather than an obstacle preventing you from reaching the first milestone. Or did I interpret something wrong? I'm learning to play, and I'm listening to your podcast to do so :)
Hey there! Strictly speaking, yeah you are correct, you need to overcome the obstacle before you begin, but I chose to “bank” it and fold it into the narrative. As a result, what was already hard became much harder. I couldn’t rely on my stronger stats as much and overall I felt like the severity suited the situation. There’s a temptation playing this game to be really hard on yourself and I was learning from previous experience. Check out my video on failure in Ironsworn if you get the chance, I talk about it more in depth there. Thanks for watching!
@@thebadspot I will! I have to say, I do commit that mistake on being too harsh on myself often, so it's a deffinitive watch!
It’s easy to do! Going in hard with mechanical penalties rather than folding a twist into the narrative is probably the most commonly made mistake. I talk about it in the failure video but Failure Cascade is a real thing!
very excited about the story
Thanks for tuning in and subscribing! New episodes every Thursday.
congrats on100 subs!
Thanks for watching and subscribing! New episode tomorrow!
20:42 would you not get an additional +1 as this vow is basically being made to a Connection? Turning a miss into a weak hit?
Probably, there’s every chance I got this wrong. I have a loose grip of the rules, as you’ll discover…
@@thebadspot the great thing about solo games is, your opponents or fellow players will never call you out for "cheating" :D
This is a great example for how to play this game solo and I highly recommend. I really need to consider using the higher stat array for a more heroic game. It really significantly cuts down on misses. Getting a string of misses in a row can really be tough on the brain trying to envision how things continue to go from bad to worse, but increasing the chances of misses even becoming weak hits is very helpful. Also increasing the odds of strong hits is very helpful too You had several rolls that would not have been strong hits if you were using regular stat line.
Thanks! Yes, the standard array is a real challenge. I still miss A LOT with higher stats. This would be a very different show if I went with 32211.
@@thebadspot yeah, I’m doing a 32211 right now and find myself constantly stopping for 30 minutes trying to figure out how my latest miss derails me even further. Probably not conducive to a podcast.
Yeah it was a no brainer for me to go 43322 for the show. It is very easy to tailspin into a failure cascade.
Player safety? But you’re the only one *playing*
You’re not wrong, but it’s an important step in setting up the game and I wanted to talk about it. And I also used this opportunity to establish the tone and let the people watching what to expect. My play through is about showcasing the game so it would be remiss to skip an important section.
Fantastic episode! I love your story and voice! May I ask where can I find the opening music? I really like it
Hi there and thanks for tuning in. I made all the music for the show myself using various loops in GarageBand, so nothing too special! Glad you liked it!