{"id":56475,"date":"2023-10-31T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/natural-six-ben-starr-interview"},"modified":"2024-07-19T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:16:05","slug":"natural-six-ben-starr-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/natural-six-ben-starr-interview","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Ben Starr On Natural Six, Fearless Play, & Wizardly Whims"},"content":{"rendered":"

D&D, one of the world’s most famous tabletop games, has been blessed with a surge in popularity. Thanks, in part, to the influence of Stranger Things, Critical Role and, more recently, Baldur’s Gate 3<\/a>, a huge amount of beginners and veterans have been making plans to embark on their own new campaigns. Some have even gone as far as organizing their own actual play web shows, like Natural Six — a new adventure being undertaken by a group of (very recognisable) friends from all corners of the games industry. <\/p>\n

We sat down with Ben Starr, best known for his performance as Clive Rosfield in Final Fantasy XVI<\/a>, to chat about plunging into his first ever D&D campaign, and all the fun and chaos that will inevitably follow. “It came together because a lot of people kind of wanted an excuse to hang out and play some Dungeons and Dragons. And then we got drunk on some Rosé and thought, why don’t we do it in front of people?” Starr said. “We just chatted about life and what we want, and then all of us just looked around the table and went, ‘Should we just do this?’ We described it as to jump off a cliff and actually perform this in front of people. That could be really fun. And that’s how it was born. And then all of us just pooled our expertise together. And started crafting what has become Natural Six.”<\/p>\n

The world of Reliquiae, in which this campaign is set, has been crafted by Game Master Harry McEntire (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) and will see five plucky adventurers delve into its mysteries. Joining Ben Starr in Reliquiae is Doug Cockle (The Witcher), Hollie Bennett (Frontier, PlayStation Access), Aoife Wilson (Eurogamer, BBC Sounds), and Alex Jordan (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty).<\/p>\n

The experience level of each member of Natural Six ranges from complete newbie to hard enthusiast, making for a perfect combination of players for some truly interesting gameplay. “We want to get people in who maybe don’t play D&D, or don’t know D&D, because a lot of these campaigns have been going for a long time. And this is one that you can get in on the ground floor and explore with people who are also learning the rules as they go. Hollie has never picked up a d20 before and she proudly says that, because I think you want to have people in the party who are learning. And I think it would be great for us to look back, maybe in a year or so’s time, and see where we were at the beginning and where we are now. And hopefully the audience can feel that as well. And if it means that other people are going to pick up this game and play it with their friends, why not?”<\/p>\n

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