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Resistance Episode 23 - "Hurricane Jericho"

Hello Rebels, and welcome back to episode 23.

It’s almost our one year anniversary, and in celebration, we’ve re-mastered episode 1. In addition, we are holding a giveaway of the Star Wars RPG The Force Awakens beginner box! If you have ever wanted to try the game out, or if you just need a new set of dice, be sure to join through the link in our show notes, or by the link through our facebook page, Dice Willing podcasts. Currently, we have 30 people entered, so you have a great chance of winning! Contest ends April 30th, 2017.

If you like anime, listen to the podcast WTFAnime where our friend Joe Hadfield introduces his buddy who doesn’t watch anime to iconic shows and episodes like Madoka Magica episode 3 and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

If you would like to help fund the podcast, you can find us on Patreon by searching Dice Willing or through the link below.

Episode 24 will be out May 6th, 2017.

Links: One Year Anniversary Raffle Dice Willing twitter Resistance Podcast twitter Dice Willing Productions Facebook page Terry Marks’ website Ezra Terrestrial’s IG WTFAnime Podcast

Copyright:

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RE-MASTERED Resistance Ep. 1 - "Dantooine is Not a Truckstop"

Hello Rebels, and welcome back to the re-mastered first episode of Resistance! 

In celebration of one year of Resistance, I re-mastered the audio from the first episode to bring up to our current standards. Also, we are celebrating with a giveaway!

We will be giving away a Star Wars roleplaying game Force Awakens beginner box set to one lucky fan as well as some extra goodies from the cast of Resistance. Link is in our links section.

Resistance is a bi-weekly podcast, and episode 23 will be released April 22nd, 2017.

Links: One Year Anniversary Raffle Dice Willing twitter Resistance Podcast twitter Dice Willing Productions Facebook page Terry Marks’ website Ezra Terrestrial’s IG WTFAnime Podcast  

Copyright:

Epic Unease Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

RetroFuture Clean Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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When the low Charisma PC tries to prove she can seduce NPCs as well

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“I’m glad I didn’t lose anything valuable, just my arm.”

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I respond to people talking about star wars quicker than my own name

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkKf9o_jnc)

The brilliant thing about media is how it can inspire different forms of creativity. When fandoms clash and inspire new words and ideas, all these infinite permutations of expression collide and form new ideas. I love the age of instant communication. Access to different ideas, cultures, media and memories completely change, evolve, and metamorphosize who we are and the potential of who we can become.

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Please listen to the Campaign Podcast. Start at episode 43 as its a great jumping in point. You dont even need to know about star wars. Love this dumb space family with me, please.

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thug life thug wife

kicks off star wars blog with memes. tag urself.

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Shirt Neutrality by Wingfeather (on tees here)

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Hello, Rebels! Good news! 

Our first podcast, RESISTANCE, premiers tomorrow, April 31st, with the first two episodes! You heard that right, TWO whole episodes! Spread the word!

Resistance is an actual play podcast using the Edge of the Empire as our playground. The campaign follows the adventures of the BT-C crew: Pec Kanata, Syrge Talin, and Jinn TaLore Jr. (Pictured above, in that order. Thank you Ezra Terrestrial for the lovely character art!) Our story starts one month after the events of The Force Awakens.

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So I’ve recently been writing a search-the-galaxy sort of fic for Star Wars, and realized I needed very desperately needed to know about one very important thing:

Hyperspace Travel

Specifically, hyperspace travel times. 

To help me I found this lovely resource; Black Cat’s Star Wars Hyperspace Travel Times Page. This page contains pretty much everything I think you need to know about hyperspace travel times, at least to make your fic vaguely realistic. It’s a fairly short read, but I’ll summarize the version I use here.

The table above shows base travel times between regions. The original page describes how these travel times are affected by two factors; the speed of the hyperdrive and the location of the destination. 

Speed of Hyperdrive basically means if your ship is more high tech/high quality/newer, it might have a faster hyperdrive. The base travel time assumes a x1 multiplier, so a faster hyperdrive might be only a x0.5 multiplier (halving the travel time, I believe), while if your ship is older/cheaper etc., it might have a slower hyperdrive, e.g. a x2 where the time would therefore be doubled. (I’ll freely admit I don’t use this variation much so I may be misunderstanding it slightly).  

Location of destination is what the top map is for, and basically why I’m making this post instead of just linking you to the page. If your start point is in the same region (e.g. Mid Rim to Mid Rim) or in the same quadrant as the destination, the travel time is halved from the base travel time. The original page describes the quadrants as being delineated by “two perpendicular lines cut through the centre of the Deep Core" , but references a book which is unnamed and has no map. So, I made my own, which is the top picture. It is by no means official, but I figure there can’t be too many ways to cut two lines through the centre of the Deep Core, so I’m probably not far wrong. (HERE is a much bigger version of the top map).

Edit: The table should be read by going down to the region your start point is in, then going along to the destination region. You may notice some of the numbers are slightly different; this is to account for possible added distance going toward the Core, because you could be travelling from the very edge of, say, the Outer Rim. The table is a table of averages, so knocking off or adding on a couple of hours here or there to account for more or less distance could help keep things more realistic. 

Generally I tend to stick to the Base Travel Times table (pictured), rather than the Specific Travel Times table which is also on the original page, because they have discrepancies and the former covers a much wider scope, so is easier to use. The original page also describes a calculation you can do yourself to figure out travel times, but I’ll freely admit I’m too lazy for that xD

The source the original page cites is “various pages on Wookieepedia”, so I guess it can’t be too far wrong. 

Of course, if you want, feel free to just ignore hyperspace travel times. I can think of one memorable instance when TCW does, and that’s only one xD

(P.S. The observant perusing the larger version of the top map might notice one marker/planet name that looks different. That’s the one I added in, and is therefore completely unofficial. First person to spot it and drop me an ask can have…something xD) 

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We launched a Patreon! 

Ever been curious about the lost episodes of stuff? Check out that secret archive. 

Thank you to everyone’s who’s subscribed so far. These contributions are really going to help us turn the network into something special.

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Revenge of the Fifth

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The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

Kermit the Frog gives a talk on creativity and creative risk-taking

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The cast of Dice Willing is ready to start recording their first session.