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Excess Advantage is a fortnightly podcast dedicated to the Genesys RPG by Fantasy Flight Games. In this podcast, I go into options for players and GMs, setting ideas, customizing your game, and more!
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In this episode of Excess Advantage, we have some great news! Guillaume and I have started the French Genesys community! Pour les francophones, il y a maintenant des groupes sûr Facebook et Discord! Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jdrgenesys/ Discord server: https://discord.gg/bUqj2nD Now, you all probably know that I am American, but I do know enough French to get into trouble, so I hope to see my French-speaking listeners on the new community sites! For the rest of the episode, I answer a listener question about incorporating the EPG and RoT magic talents. Then we do a deep dive into the two new tones in the EPG: Heist and Noir. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
In today's episode, we take a break from the EPG review and I have a nice chat with Guillaume about his Skills Guide. It's been a #1 best seller on Foundry practically since the day it dropped, and for good reason! In this episode, we focus on the magic skills section because he has some amazing new rules for limiting starting magic without charging characters XP to unlock, and instead relies on skill checks! Text link to the Skills Guide: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/299740/Skills-Guide-Skills-Supplement-for-Genesys?affiliate_id=275246 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
In today's episode, we continue with the Expanded Optional Rules from the EPG: Social Encounters. This episode only discusses the basic of social skills as well as the new options and suggestions in the EPG. If you would like to hear my in-depth coverage of the social encounter mechanics, check out episode 113 (https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/episodes/113-Social-Encounters-e3h0qo)! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Greetings and welcome! This is the first of my more bite-sized episodes (clocking in a just under 20 minutes) and I take a deep dive into the EPG, Part 3 Chapter 1: Expanded Magic rules. In this episode, I talk about the new magic talents and actions added in the EPG and how I feel like the EPG is a love letter from the devs to the community. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Just a quick episode to update all y'all on what's happening with the podcast as well as the future of Genesys! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
301: Vehicles

301: Vehicles

2020-02-1141:34

With the recent release of the Expanded Player's Guide and the inclusion of vehicle creation rules, there has been a renewed interest into vehicles. So today we do a deep dive into the rules for vehicles: what a vehicle is, how it works, what it can and can't do and how vehicular combat differs from personal combat! The intro/outro music is "Take a Chance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. If you like what you If you like what you hear, please leave a rating or review where you get your podcasts, it helps others find us. If you would like to donate to help support the podcast, please visit ko-fi.com/excess-advantage. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Welcome back to Excess Advantage! Today, Scott and I discuss stealing from other games: what to steal, what not to steal and how to do it well. We discuss how to mitigate changes to the at-the-table mechanics as well as stealing prep/behind-the-scenes material whole-cloth from other games. Specific items discussed: The Perilous Wilds, a Dungeon World setting creation supplement Elite Dangerous RPG, which has some of the best solar system creation rules I've ever seen Stars Without Number, which has a great system for not only populating a cluster of star systems but also for figuring out what the main planet is like Scott's Traveller sector generator, for automating the sector creation for Mongoose Publishing's second edition of the Traveller RPG ————— Join the discussion: Discord: http://discord.gg/3vNJa6t Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GenesysRPG/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/genesysrpg/ FFG Forums: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/527-genesys/ ————— Plain text links: The Perilous Wilds: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/156979/The-Perilous-Wilds?affiliate_id=275246 Elite Dangerous RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/238339/Elite-Dangerous-RPG-core-book?affiliate_id=275246 Stars Without Number: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226996/Stars-Without-Number-Revised-Edition?affiliate_id=275246 Traveller: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171643/Traveller-Core-Rulebook?affiliate_id=275246 Scott's Traveller sector generator: https://github.com/DrainSmith/SectorGenerator --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
In today's episode, I am not only joined by everyone's favourite part-time host Scott, but Sam Stewart himself! Sam is back to answer all our questions about Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk! It's going to be a long one today, so I hope you enjoy spending the next hour with us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
206: Magic

206: Magic

2019-05-1649:21

Welcome to another great episode! Today I am once again joined by Scott and we discuss the magic system in Genesys. We go in-depth about how it works as well as the whys it works. One of the big things we talk about towards the end is the post by /u/greatfrito with a table for making your own magic implements! Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Welcome to the conclusion of the Genesys setting master class. If you missed the prior episode, please go back and listen to that one first so you'll get the entire class instead of just half of it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
In February 2019, Scott and I did a Genesys master class on setting creation. Today we proudly present part 1 (of 2) of that talk. The class itself went for over an hour and a half, but I was able to distill it down into two episodes of just over a half hour each! This episode is more scattershot than prior, mainly because there is a live audience we were interacting with and answering questions as they arose. If you're interested in joining us for further master classes you can find myself on Twitter or join the Facebook Group, Discord server or Subreddit to interact with the community! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Today is the ultimate episode in the Adversaries series in which Scott "DrainSmith" and I build one nemesis each. We also get to talking about what makes for a good nemesis, rival or minion. It's a great episode and a wonderful conclusion! In this episode, Scott shamelessly mentions his Dispensary of Genesys which is a one-stop shop for all amazing things Genesys! Also, you might have noticed the new artwork I have for the podcast! Thanks to Scott for that! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Welcome to the penultimate episode in the Adversaries series! Today I am joined by none other than Scott "DrainSmith" himself as we build a few adversaries! During the build process, we not only tell you what the numbers are but why we choose what we do and workshop things a bit. Do note, though, that the adversaries Scott gives us are straight from his Something Strange setting  while my adversaries are off the cuff. Since it takes longer than just half an hour to design two minions, two rivals and two nemesii, it's been broken up into two episodes. So keep a look out for the exciting conclusion next time! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Today's episode is a brief "welcome to season 2!" that includes a shoutout to GhostDM, a listener question sent in from Josh and a short teaser of what's coming in season 2! I hope you enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Today's episode is a quick one. I just want to let all y'all know what's coming next for season 2 of Excess Advantage. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
106: Characterization

106: Characterization

2018-03-1527:38

For this episode, Devon returns to talk with me about characterization. That is, coming up with your character's backstory, their appearance and their outlooks and personality. We discuss quite a few places where you can draw inspiration besides just the Genesys core book, including: Fate Core Character Idea and Phase Trio 20 Questions from Legend of the 5 Rings (you can download the 5th edition beta here) Cypher System 13th Age's one unique thing GameMaster's Apprentice Base Deck (also with fantasy, age of sail, sci-fi, and steampunk varients) TVTropes.Org (specifically the personal appearance tropes) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
105: Cinematic Combat

105: Cinematic Combat

2018-03-0117:12

Today's episode is my first listener-requested episode! The listener (I forgot who you are, sorry!) wanted me to cover combat, so here is what I hope to be part 1 of 2. This episode is all about how to inject more narrative flair into your combats and how to avoid boring encounters. In the near future I'll cover the mechanics of combat, but today it's all about the narrative, baby. Also, my first ever iTunes review is in! Thanks, MW1880, whomever you are! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
In today's episode, we delve into spending advantage and threat in both combat and social encounters. While I do talk about the tables in the book, I also go into more detail about how to spend them in other ways. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
103: The Basics

103: The Basics

2018-02-0128:42

This episode we dig deep in Part I: Chapter 1, "Core Mechanics": What's with the funny symbols? How Do I interpret the dice? How the heck do I form my dice pool? I apologize for the length of this episode, but I didn't want to cut it into two pieces since the core mechanics are, well, core to how the game plays. It's just under 29 minutes in length. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
Today is episode 1 of my winter-themed live play! It was a blast playing and I hope to be able to do more one-shots like this in the future! Discussion Points in the episode: • I have a patron! Please visit my Patreon page if you would like to support the show and gain access to the patron-only Discord • The players for this game were found on the Redemption Podcast Discord server. It's a great Star Wars live play. If you like Genesys, the NDS and/or Star Wars it's worth a listen! There are no questions this week, but if you have one please drop me a line! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/excess-advantage/message
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Jean-Philippe Mica

Whether you are searching for info on Genesys and see if it fits your role-playing needs or you're an experienced FFG star wars player/gm, Christopher and his occasional hosts provide amazing info and tips from understanding the basics to advanced settings or npcs building advices. All that with a consice and to the point presentation. I particularly enjoyed the social interactions episodes which got me to reconsider some of my assumptions on the subject. I would gladly recommend it to anyone interested in Genesys and narrative dice system !

Dec 13th
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