{"id":1772,"date":"2021-12-07T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2021-12-07T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:40:47","slug":"designer-notes-62-josh-sawyer-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-62-josh-sawyer-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #62: Josh Sawyer &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode, Soren interviews veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer, best known for his work on <em>Icewind Dale<\/em>, <em>Fallout: New Vegas<\/em>, and <em>Pillars of Eternity<\/em>. They discuss how making a website for a tattoo parlor led to his game career, what is the purpose of traps in an RPG, and how much lore is too much lore. This episode was recorded March 24, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Adventure<\/em>, <em>Ultima<\/em> series, <em>Bard\u2019s Tale<\/em> series, Gold Box series, <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em>, <em>Pillars of Eternity<\/em>, <em>Tyranny<\/em>, <em>Darklands<\/em>, <em>Quake<\/em>, <em>Planescape Torment<\/em>, <em>Icewind Dale<\/em> series, <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate<\/em> series<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/josh-sawyer-part-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/josh-sawyer-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer, best known for his work on Icewind Dale, Fallout: New Vegas, and Pillars of Eternity. They discuss how making a website for a tattoo parlor led to his game career, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-62-josh-sawyer-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Designer Notes #62: Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer), veteran @Obsidian RPG designer, best known for his work on Icewind Dale, Fallout: New Vegas, and Pillars of Eternity\nPart 1!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/icewind-dale-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-sA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}