1 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,200 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,480 My name is Ryan. And I think it's dangerous to go 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:25,320 alone, so take this. And today we're going to be 4 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,440 going over so so it's our it's our second kind of like Zelda 5 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,480 inspired game in two week in three weeks. 6 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,040 But last week we also did princesses. 7 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,800 So I feel like we're kind of on like a quasi. 8 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,640 I was like, so we did. We did Princesses and Perils 9 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,680 because that project was running. 10 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,320 I think our original idea was we were going to do some video game 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,640 esque inspired ones back-to-back, right. 12 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,120 That one is more of a fairy tale inspired one, right? 13 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,040 But there's princesses and stuff. 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,280 There's there are a. Little bit of crossover in it, 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,160 but yes, originally we. If you can well define that 16 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,760 crossover, leave a comment. There's princesses, there's 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,320 castles, there's swords. Yeah, there anyone? 18 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:17,440 Heroes of Cerulea Woo, as Hunter said, originally the plan, I 19 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,360 think when you had suggested you've forgotten Ballad, we 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,840 decided to do it. We were going to do here's of 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,920 Cerulean right after, but then I saw that the Paris and Princess 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,840 Kickstarter was going on and I was like, we have to this is the 23 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:30,440 perfect time. I want to do this one forever. 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,000 That was a fun one. That was a great one. 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,240 If you guys didn't check that out, definitely go. 26 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,760 It is now one of my I probably put it in my top like like 3 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,200 intro games that I would I would play new players with probably. 28 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,760 Absolutely. Yeah, but so it's funny because 29 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,840 we both are looking, so anyone that watched Forgotten Ballad 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,160 knows that I, I never really played the Zelda game. 31 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,320 So I did a little bit, I did a little bit of Ocarina Time, 32 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,600 moved on. I did not have that nostalgia. 33 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,520 But it's funny because over the past like year or two, you had a 34 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,560 Zelda game that you really liked, Forgotten Ballad. 35 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,320 And then I was all in on Heroes of Ceruleo, which is a game 36 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,400 we're going over today. And it's interesting that we 37 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,240 both got them roughly at the same time and now we're going to 38 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,200 go over them one week in between. 39 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,960 But this one's definitely this one's it's different. 40 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,680 It it. It's interesting how two things 41 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,440 inspired by the same thing are are so different. 42 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,440 Yeah, it definitely shows off a different aspect of the 43 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,920 inspiration. The other one's a lot more like, 44 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,800 you know, magic pastoral vibe, and this one is more of a video 45 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,920 game. Yeah, I don't know if we've ever 46 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,040 looked at one that's more of a video game than I. 47 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,200 Don't think we have. I think this is maybe the most 48 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,960 video gaming. It really leans into it. 49 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,840 I think it does it well. Yeah. 50 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,240 And like, it's obviously very on purpose. 51 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,920 I think sometimes, you know, I read some small stuff where 52 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:59,760 there's like some maybe video game logic accidentally slid in 53 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,800 there. But this one's like hard leaning 54 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,720 into it and using it well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,680 I mean, I think at one point we'll go over and it literally 56 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,040 says like one of the one of the one of the crime gym principles 57 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,960 is like lean into the video gaming Ness of it. 58 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,320 Like just do it. Yeah. 59 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,080 So again, today we're going over Heroes of Cerulia. 60 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,920 This is a game put out by Black Fisk Publishing. 61 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,920 There's AK on the end of it. Not Blackfish, even though 62 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:27,320 there's kind of like like an octopus, a guy. 63 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,040 So I thought it was Blackfish for a long time. 64 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,760 And then, yeah, but it's AK because if you go to Blackfish 65 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,120 Pub on Twitter, it's not Luke's fault. 66 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,760 But anyway, so yeah, so we're going to go over that today. 67 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:40,920 So why don't we hop into that a little bit? 68 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,680 Why don't we hop in? So first, this was a project on 69 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:50,640 Kickstarter. It funded on October 6th, 2022. 70 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,960 And what's up? Three days after my birthday. 71 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,280 Oh yeah. Oh, we got Lucas Falk in the 72 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,360 chair right now. They said Black Fisk is an 73 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,960 octopus or squid in Swedish. Cool there. 74 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,120 We go. So this project successfully 75 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:18,000 funded October 6th, 2022 with 1023 backers pledging 434,261. 76 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,160 So I know it's not SEC. I think it's like, I think it's 77 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,000 like kroners. I, I, I, I, I don't feel like 78 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 I'm saying that right? But that is the Swedish 79 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,800 currency, which I mostly know from backing. 80 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:37,000 You know what I'm talking about. I do have. 81 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,040 These. Yeah, all the, all the. 82 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,720 You. Know stocks in brew yeah all the 83 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:46,080 all those things we're. Doing great so far. 84 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,760 We're we're killing it and that is 41,000 a kroner. 85 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:57,520 KRONORI was right there we go. That's just over 41,000 USD. 86 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:03,080 Four years of Cerulean I, I went all in on it. 87 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,480 So let's flip through the physicals real quick. 88 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,080 I know right crazy. I will say this is one of the 89 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,000 neatest books that we've ever got. 90 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,400 Let me let me do what we always do. 91 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,960 Turn off the blur real quick for those in podcast land once 92 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,600 again, you don't care. But for those looking it's it's 93 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,480 it's a video game cartridge. This is a straight up old school 94 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,080 Nintendo cartridge. It's fantastic it. 95 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,920 Is like so visually appealing overall. 96 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,560 It's gorgeous. So the book is a is a matte 97 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,440 Gray. It looks like a Nintendo 98 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,400 cartridge. It's like embossed with the 99 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,440 shapes on the side, even like down the front where the the 100 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,880 sticker for the cartridge would be is like a sticker on the 101 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,200 book, but it's also like into an embossed like area. 102 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,040 So it fits in really nice. Same thing with the back. 103 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,720 The sticker on the back is like tucked into an embossed area. 104 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,960 It's got the symbol embossed on the back. 105 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,480 I mean, even like, like, it's, it's fantastic. 106 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,320 And on top of all of that, beautiful, gorgeous blue ribbon. 107 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:11,360 Beautiful book. Yeah. 108 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,520 As we go through this book as well, we will not. 109 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,360 There's not going to be only a few comments about how good it 110 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,760 looks all of the way through. Yeah, yeah. 111 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,040 Swedes just know what they're doing. 112 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,000 They just, you know, yeah. Their visuals are out of this 113 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,600 world. Now, not that that book isn't 114 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,480 totally gorgeous, but the only way to get more gorgeous than 115 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,960 that is to of course get the limited edition gold versions of 116 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:41,840 the of of the game which got the seal of qualities. 117 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:44,120 So this actually comes with the slip case. 118 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,360 It is gold. And when you slide it out of the 119 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,320 slip case, the book itself, the cartridge and everything is a 120 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,000 shiny gold cartridge. It's like messing with my light, 121 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,400 it's so shiny. It's just messing with your 122 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:57,960 camera. It's so reflective, yeah. 123 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,760 It's just a beautiful reflective gold. 124 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,600 It's insane. It's got the same blue ribbon, 125 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,400 but it does come with the here's the certainly a player booklet, 126 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,160 which I think is fantastic. We'll talk about that a little 127 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,800 bit on string, but it's just like 12345. 128 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,320 It's like 6 pages. That's just the core rules you 129 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,440 need. So you can just hand this to 130 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,560 somebody instead of handing them the book and they can flip 131 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:23,640 through real quick and have that. 132 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,520 The back of the thing even has like pictures on the side, looks 133 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,480 like a like a cartridge and everything. 134 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,720 It's absolutely stunning. And then on top of that, mine 135 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,560 also came with this beautiful GM screen. 136 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,320 Love, love the front right there. 137 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,920 Got the bad guy on the back. It's got the entire overworld 138 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,120 map for the player facing side and basically all the rules for 139 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,920 the game because it's that short on the inside, which is 140 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,400 fantastic. And it comes with two additional 141 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,440 adventures besides the one that comes in here. 142 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,440 We have Lucas Falk wrote the Temple of Legends, and then we 143 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,000 have Christian Celine, who if I'm not mistaken, that is a 144 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,840 Stockholm cart hell person who I believe they did Death in Space, 145 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,760 They did the halls of Smoke and Ash. 146 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,840 So really, really fun, cool adventure that when you get to 147 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,080 the back it, you have to flip it upside down so you can keep 148 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,520 going with it. So yeah, really incredibly, 149 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,560 incredibly gorgeous books here. I have to say overall, Oh, 150 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,679 Cyborg, that's right. I'm sorry. 151 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,159 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, not not Death in space, 152 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:37,520 Cyborg. No, no, I was like, I know that 153 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,760 death in space is 2 dudes, so I don't know why it why it popped 154 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,520 my head. I was going to try to get to my 155 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,600 section back here on the ground. What you can't see is about 5 156 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,400 feet of books in between myself and my shelf anymore. 157 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,360 So that's right, Cyborg, I do apologize for that that mix up. 158 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:57,240 I will say one of the things I was saying was this is one of 159 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:03,960 the nicest physical products have received in a very, very 160 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,760 long time. There's not a single aspect of 161 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,520 it that is disappointing anyway whatsoever. 162 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,560 Not a single thing I would change. 163 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:15,320 It's absolutely stunning and it's exactly it. 164 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,800 It far exceeds what I expected. I thought it would be really 165 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,480 cool, but I didn't expect it to be like so embossed and so, so 166 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,720 gorgeous all the way through, so incredibly happy just from like 167 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,200 the quality of the of the Kickstarter there. 168 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:34,120 So with that being said, let's just hop right on into the game. 169 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,360 It's not very long which. Is not the thing I love. 170 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,000 I love me a minimalist game, you know? 171 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:46,960 Bro, listen, if if to each their own is my I'm trying. 172 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,760 I'm trying to have the philosophy of you know, TJRB 173 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,520 Jesus like music. Just because you don't like my 174 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,360 genre doesn't mean I'm not going to yuck. 175 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,480 You're Yum unless it's 5 E play a better game. 176 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:02,200 So let's do this. Here we go hopping straight in. 177 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:07,120 For those looking on stream, you'll see the cover of the game 178 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,960 and every every part of the cover here that looks embossed 179 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,960 is what the cover looks like in person, which is insane. 180 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,320 That's pretty. Great. 181 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:24,240 Gorgeous pixel art, it's got the batch of characters, one of each 182 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,320 of the character classes at the top, the Lucas Falk Heroes of 183 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,320 Cerealia pixelated Dungeon Crawl RPG from Black Fisk Publishing. 184 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:38,800 And again, like, I just can't get over how I love my Nintendo. 185 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,680 I'm a Super Nintendo boy, like deep in my heart and soul. 186 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,960 But Nintendo is great right off the bat. 187 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,880 We have a What's up? It's interesting because my 188 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,440 experience with the, I believe it was Super Nintendo is I 189 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,920 played Dragon Quest, the original one like a time. 190 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,280 So when I first looked at this project, that's what really was 191 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,720 recalled to me just because that's my experience with the 192 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,320 the Super Nintendo. But definitely reading through 193 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,240 it, it's like ah, Legend of Zelda. 194 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,440 What? So when you played Ocarina Time, 195 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,080 what did you play it on? In 64. 196 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,960 See, you are. I am just, I'm just enough older 197 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,360 than you that we had completely different childhoods because I 198 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:28,120 played Ocarina of Time on a Game Boy put into a Nintendo Super 199 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,280 cartridge where you could put the Game Boy into a cartridge to 200 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,200 put into your Nintendo to into your Super Nintendo. 201 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:37,720 Ogre of Time on Game Boy. Whichever 1. 202 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:40,520 I don't think that one was on game. 203 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,160 No links? Was it links Awakening? 204 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,240 Oh, maybe it was on Game Boy Advanced. 205 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,440 No, it must have been Which? Whichever one's the one before 206 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,120 that, that's when I play. Then it must not have been 207 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,520 Ocarina. It must have been Link. 208 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,400 Is it Links Awakening? Maybe I don't. 209 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:59,160 Know I'm I'm older so yeah my I had a lot of Game Boy and then 210 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:06,000 putting Game Boy games into this with Nintendo yeah links 211 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,240 Awakening was on Game Boy so the only game I've ever played is 212 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,600 links awakening on Game Boy so yeah so anyway so first two page 213 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,920 spread here you get the overland map, which makes sense as you go 214 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,000 through but it is a a map of the overland. 215 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,880 It is basically the world map, exactly like you would boot up 216 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,760 in any video game. And you'll hear that a lot as we 217 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:33,320 go through this pixel art. You know, desert means brown, 218 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,440 forest means green. Like, you know, things like 219 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,600 that. It's really fantastic. 220 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,000 Yeah, it's great. It's great for setting the 221 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,520 expectations of vibe immediately, you know? 222 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,120 You're like, OK, I've seen maps like this in games, you know? 223 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,760 Yeah, yeah, instantly, yeah, if you're old enough to have played 224 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,720 pixel art games like this. But yeah, a lot of really great 225 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,200 places. I don't know if every single one 226 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,880 of these places has hit like really hard in the campaign, so 227 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,000 there's definitely room to do more stuff in here, but it's 228 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,560 great. Check it out, read through. 229 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,920 There's little descriptions of all of the locations beneath the 230 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,760 map across the spread, which is cool. 231 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,480 Then we get to the contents page, which let let's let's 232 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,000 check it out. I know the answer already, but 233 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,240 so first and foremost, we got we got bookmarks. 234 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,120 I love that we got we got hyperlinks, people. 235 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,040 It's it's it's it's well hyperlinked. 236 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:30,200 I think there was 11 spot that is the most nitpickiest, like 237 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,280 doesn't doesn't need to be hyperlinked at all. 238 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,800 But I still checked spot in the entire book. 239 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,040 But otherwise, you know, collapsed. 240 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,680 Shout out Lucas. Appreciate a solidly well 241 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:47,880 hyperlinked document. It's funny because they Lucas 242 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,440 and and and Black Fisk released on Twitter a few days ago that 243 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,320 they help me finish the words I'm saying. 244 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:58,920 They were checking our the the the. 245 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:00,760 Oh, yeah, They were checking their hyperlinks. 246 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:01,000 Yeah. Yeah. 247 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,320 Because they, they tweeted out that they, they had their, like, 248 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,280 open source license for this. And so you can make your stuff. 249 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,680 And I retweeted and I was like, that's very funny because we're 250 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,120 reviewing it this Friday and they they were commented like 251 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,800 nervously checks hyperlinks. Yeah. 252 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,400 I I quote tweeted that of someone go like, but you know, 253 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,920 and I did. I looked I looked thoroughly 254 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,960 great. Great table of contents. 255 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,280 One thing that I really love about this too, especially for a 256 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,520 game like this, it is color-coded. 257 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,440 So the books color-coded, the pages are color-coded, the 258 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:30,880 headers in each sections color-coded. 259 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,640 Love it. It definitely gives me. 260 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,640 This is another reason I think that my mind went to death in 261 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,000 space. This could death in space. 262 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,120 It's the same thing where they have like each different 263 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,600 sections of color-coded section. Even though, again, Cyborg 264 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:41,880 Christian, Selena, I apologize for that. 265 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,840 Yeah, how? Dare you not be perfect at all 266 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,000 times? But listen, we, we, we've gone 267 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,760 over a lot of sock home cartel. I should know better. 268 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:56,080 But we have an introduction section, a rule section, the 269 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,920 hero section, which is characters, the dungeon master 270 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,480 section, which also includes the bestiary. 271 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,240 And then there are four adventures in the book. 272 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,520 And we'll go over why there are four adventures in the book. 273 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,320 And I will say that that takes up about half the book is the 274 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,840 campaign. Yeah, it's it's like 50 ish 275 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,480 pages. It's interesting. 276 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,160 You could buy this game and you could immediately play a 277 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,960 campaign with very little prep on the master. 278 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,560 You can just bust it out, which is that's incredibly valuable to 279 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,600 me because I like not having to prep. 280 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,720 So, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you know, it it, it 281 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,320 depends on what kind of game you want to play. 282 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:35,960 But there's definitely, it's interesting when we get to the 283 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,640 master section where it talks about like it'll even tell you 284 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,600 like what kind of campaign and how much to prep for different 285 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,000 sections, which is really cool in such a small book to offer so 286 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,160 much guidance. So get into it. 287 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,320 Here we go. Heroes of Cerulia love the pixel 288 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,920 everything, pixel everything. Just if you can imagine that 289 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,800 it's pixelated or pixel art or pixel font or pixel text. 290 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,920 It is for those that aren't going to check it out on 291 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,120 YouTube. It's not so pixelated that it's 292 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,000 like, OK, dial it down. It's the perfect amount where it 293 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,840 conveys the look it's going for while still being incredibly 294 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,560 legible. Yeah, yeah, even even the logo, 295 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,600 even the the logo that they put on all of their stuff, they made 296 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,200 a pixel version of it for for inside this, which is great. 297 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,400 So writing in game design is Lucas folk illustrations are a 298 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,320 bunch of people and then so are the maps and and and everything 299 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,200 like that. So you read that at your 300 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,680 leisure. A lot of amazing people in here, 301 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,240 obviously influenced by legends of Zelda. 302 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,880 It also talks about Blades of the Dark and Merckborg, which 303 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,440 again, not surprised to see a Stockholm cartel in here. 304 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,520 What's funny is honestly, I didn't know. 305 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,520 I guess it just didn't dig far enough. 306 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,600 I knew that the black Fisk logo had like the, I don't think it's 307 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,680 an umlaut when it's over, like the a or whatever, but you know 308 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,040 what I mean? But even Lucas Falk, I was like, 309 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,240 I didn't realize it was a Swedish name. 310 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:49,800 And then you start reading the book and then I looked at the 311 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,000 play tester and I was like, oh, I feel like everyone's probably 312 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,880 Swedish. I don't think they just found 313 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,120 one or two people. So then I then I, you know, 314 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:01,360 realized that they're actually, they're Swedish. 315 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:02,440 It's the Swedish. They're Swedish. 316 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:08,000 So getting into it, Yeah. Long ago, the three divine 317 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,119 Dragons created the mythical realm of Cerulea, a vast Kingdom 318 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,599 of greenfields, blue lakes, deep forests, volcanic mountains and 319 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,720 scorching deserts. A perpetual cycle of conflict 320 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,319 grips this world. The Guardian of the Paragon 321 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:26,119 bravely defends Cerulea against the Shadow King and his horde of 322 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,200 monsters. All three have been reborn 323 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,120 numerous times our history. Now the Shadow King has 324 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:34,680 returned, but the Guardian of the Paragon are still nowhere to 325 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,640 be seen. New heroes must come to really 326 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,080 as aid. I think Guardians. 327 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,840 Are there more than one Guardians or they're not more 328 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:52,160 than one Guardians? Anyway, something's not 329 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,200 pluralized. So anyway, so getting into it, 330 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,480 first of all, love this piece of art right off the bat with the 331 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,160 skull, with the, with the key around their neck, with in front 332 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,680 of a treasure chest. I mean, with like one arm still 333 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,040 in a manacle. Yeah, amazing. 334 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,280 After the overall map, amazing first piece of art. 335 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,840 Yeah, that thing's definitely not going to come alive and try 336 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,520 to defend the key or anything, so don't worry. 337 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,160 Just take, just take it out the skeleton. 338 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,000 It'll be fine. Yeah, yeah. 339 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:24,280 And then heading right into the introduction, which. 340 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,000 Guardian is single and Paragon is single. 341 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,000 Oh, gotcha. Because it was said are not is. 342 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:37,800 So I'm like, where's my grammar? So getting into the introduction 343 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,000 section, we're in a yellow section. 344 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,240 So everything's yellow, the pages are yellow. 345 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,720 And if you look at it from the side of the book, you will also 346 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,080 see the yellow sections, which is really, really nice. 347 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,160 Here's a cerulean. It's a tabletop role-playing 348 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,640 game. There's a a box, a very like pop 349 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:01,120 up in a video game like style box of all the things you need, 350 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:05,480 which is people, time and stuff. Read that at your leisure, 351 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,040 getting directly into the basics again. 352 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,280 One of you is Game Master the rest of your players. 353 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,400 One of my favorite lines in the whole book, though, immediately 354 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,600 starts right here, and I love it. 355 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,000 The next two things in this intersection love it so much. 356 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,680 Use the game mechanics only when failure could be both reasonable 357 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,120 and interesting. And the rules are a toolbox. 358 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,160 Use them as a foundation and improvise rulings when the need 359 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,960 arises. I think the the whole like use 360 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,360 the game mechanics only when failure is reasonable or 361 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:38,440 interesting thing is such a good way to write the thing we talk 362 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,360 about all the time and just basically like only role when 363 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:42,840 you have to. Yeah, and we all, and we've said 364 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,880 this a million times and we'll say it a million more, giving 365 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,800 people license to do what they want with the game at their 366 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,680 table. It's good. 367 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,680 I mean, more experienced people like us will just take that 368 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,160 license into their own hands. But it really took me a long 369 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,720 time to learn them. Oh yeah, I can just do that 370 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,240 myself. It's nice to be given that 371 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:05,640 permission. Yeah, absolutely, and but also 372 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,480 one of the things this game does really well is we've all seen 373 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,720 like the only roll dice when you have to thing and then people 374 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,000 roll fucking dice all the time anyway. 375 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,880 You know what I mean? It drives me insane, drives me 376 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,640 insane. I think this this one does a 377 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,280 really good job numerous times as you go through basically 378 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,000 saying like just don't like just don't like you do the whole 379 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,600 thing without you know, if you just don't. 380 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:31,000 So I like that, but the the only dig into the game mechanics when 381 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,040 you have to is a good way of saying that it talks about the 382 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,400 dungeons, they're prepared locations. 383 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,040 The book includes 4 Reddit play dungeons on page 34, seven and 384 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,240 nine. And those hyperlinks in the text 385 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,440 are those numbers are hyperlinked in the text, which 386 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,040 is great. Yeah, I love this 387 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,640 troubleshooting pop up. Having problems starting the 388 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,280 game? Try blowing any dust from the 389 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,920 book before restarting. Classic. 390 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,080 Also, do you like the pop out boxes? 391 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,600 You know, we talk about like good uses them and bad uses of 392 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,000 them in in books and we've seen a lot of really good uses 393 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,960 recently of these like boxes to like draw the eye to like little 394 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,200 notes and stuff. And it works really well. 395 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,720 Here. They have this the black kind of 396 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:14,160 menu box. Yeah, and since everything is 397 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,800 such a bright kind of like almost primary color through 398 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,160 having these like black and white boxes are so stark. 399 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,520 But like again, like with the font and with like the feeling 400 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,720 of the video game units. They're they're they're perfect. 401 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,520 It's great. Talk about hero sheets, which is 402 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,720 your character sheet. We'll get to those. 403 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,880 Talks about dice, you know 1D2D4D you know what it is 404 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,200 double DS video game logic. I do enjoy this and this is the 405 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,640 thing that we're going to talk about a bunch because pre stream 406 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,080 this is where we had like a little bit of a like I think 407 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,880 this is where discussion is going to come in about this 408 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,360 game, especially versus a game like forgotten ballad. 409 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,240 So yeah, it says in this game a key works in pretty much every 410 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,760 lock, but it disappears when used. 411 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,920 Character sealed through eating food and increase their maximum 412 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,360 health through finding heart containers. 413 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,120 For some reason random pots contain money and bombs and 414 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:05,280 boomerangs can bring those items to you. 415 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,600 Monsters are evil. NPC's only want to talk about 416 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,640 one single thing. Dungeons are puzzles designed to 417 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,080 be solved by heroes. Heroes of Surelia embraces these 418 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,760 anti realistic aspects in order to facilitate a peculiar video 419 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,360 game like role-playing experience. 420 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,440 So they do not at all sky away and actually do the opposite and 421 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:33,120 run towards throughout the entire game how video gamey this 422 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:36,080 is and I love it. I love it so much. 423 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,560 I do think it's done incredibly well. 424 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,320 It definitely knows what it is and leans into well. 425 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,240 I I really do like the idea of like you just keep talking to an 426 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,280 NPC and they just like Dead Eye, just keep telling you the same 427 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,320 thing over and over and over. It's so good, like just the one 428 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,360 line that keeps playing so good, and that's the intersection. 429 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,400 So now we're getting into the blue section, which again, the 430 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,280 color, even the pages are colored a different color. 431 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,600 We're going from a yellow section to blue. 432 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,120 So it's very slightly tinted blue. 433 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,400 And then all of the, the bar across the bottom of the page, 434 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,560 all of the little arrows and, and bullet points and 435 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,560 everything, we're all blue. I love the, I love it so much. 436 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,480 It's great, so great page at the top of a battle happening and 437 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,680 kind of like a lava pouring down behind them fighting things. 438 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,040 It's great that the, you know, one of the heroes flying down 439 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,280 from from above. I love pixel art style. 440 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:38,240 I'm glad that like it's, it has come back into like Vogue to be 441 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,000 like, you know, doing pixel art again. 442 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,880 I think it fell off during the 2000s. 443 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,680 People are like, no, everything is being super high def, but 444 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,520 yeah, which no, it doesn't. But yeah, I love Sprite art. 445 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,840 I love this pixel look and and it is so good in this and it's 446 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,440 such high quality. Yeah, I, I completely agree. 447 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,440 I mean, games like Red Dead and and all that stuff where things 448 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,600 are so super realistic, that's cool if you're like a massive 449 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,680 publisher with like a billion fucking dollars or whatever. 450 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,480 But like Blasphemous is my favorite game of all time and 451 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,080 it's pixel art. And my favorite games are always 452 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,080 going to be pixel art. First of all, I think it's 453 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,600 gorgeous. And second of all, like it's 454 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,320 cheaper for the studio, like not having to like render for 455 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,200 three-dimensional bullshit, you know, so. 456 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,200 But you're saying you don't want to pay $70.00 for a video game 457 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,640 so they can look like you're walking outside? 458 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,160 Well, we can just be like Destiny and every six months 459 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,880 have to pay another $70.00 for something that will be given 460 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,720 free in a year anyway. So rules, getting into it. 461 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,960 Actions. When you want you're here to do 462 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,440 something, you take an action. There's a list of actions here. 463 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,120 There's attacking, defending, using an item, inspecting, 464 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:44,320 escaping, talking, and other. They are exactly what I think 465 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:50,800 they are attacking is attacking and a lot of great art through. 466 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,920 I love the the alien person here with their bow standing on top 467 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,800 of this like bottom, bottom bar. I love the bar across the bottom 468 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:58,960 too. A lot of times you see that more 469 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,160 at the top of the page. I love it on the bottom where 470 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,080 it's got like the page number and at the bottom of each 471 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,440 section it again tells you like what section you're in. 472 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,920 You could easily flip through and find it. 473 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,320 This is a a book that is is really short, but all of the 474 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,360 tools that they use to make it navigable would be great in 475 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:18,320 things that are like 3 and 400 pages, you know? 476 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,320 Yeah, if you can just take all the good ideas from this and put 477 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,840 it in something that's like 400 pages long, it would really help 478 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,360 out all those things we've gone through the other 400 pages long 479 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:28,920 and don't have it. I feel like between this one and 480 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,000 like last week, like it's literally like look at these two 481 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,080 books to make your book better, you know? 482 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,400 Absolutely. Yeah. 483 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,280 OK, so getting into action rolls, so based on the action, 484 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,120 you pick an attribute. You only get 3 attributes in the 485 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:43,440 game. Great. 486 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,200 That's my favorite amount of. Attributes you know. 487 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,080 Perfect amount of attributes you got might, you got bravery and 488 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,840 you got insight. So might is you're pushing, 489 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,640 you're attacking, you're heating, you know all of your 490 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,040 strength stats. Basically you got bravery, which 491 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,440 is jumping, defending, climbing, evading, resisting. 492 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,960 So there it's not, it's definitely not a strength and 493 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:08,720 speed stat at all, but it's a it's a Little Mix of the bravery 494 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,680 does give you your jumping and stuff like that, but it's also 495 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,400 defending, resisting and things like that. 496 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,480 So it's a little bit a little bit more in that direction. 497 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,200 And then you have insight, which is discovering stuff, but also 498 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,400 shooting, tinkering, analyzing, persuading. 499 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,240 Anything that takes like a lot of your fine brain or motor 500 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,680 skills is your insight. You rolled dice equal to your 501 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,760 attributes value. So this is the dice pool game. 502 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,960 Which D4 dice pool game? Which is great. 503 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,360 I think we kind of skimmed the the dice symbol section you 504 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:43,280 talked about like 1D2D, but it's only D It's not in it because 505 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,520 it's just D fours. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 506 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,640 yeah. And if it's DD, you just, you 507 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,360 roll like, yeah, AD four and AD four, yeah. 508 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,800 Yeah, interesting. D4 is very very caltrop core 509 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,440 but. I love these. 510 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,400 They're very underutilized, you know, I don't. 511 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,640 I don't mind the D4 thing. I got to say I kept going 512 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,960 through and I don't think the game would break if you use D 513 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:13,600 sixes instead and and I might, but D4 is interesting. 514 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,800 It definitely changes the math if you were to switch it out. 515 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,320 But so the action outcomes anytime you do roll, when you 516 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,480 have to roll, one or two is a failure. 517 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,400 It's a failed action. One heart is lost if the action 518 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,200 is dangerous. So anytime you do anything, you 519 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,920 have a 50% chance of failing and losing a heart if it was a 520 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:39,920 dangerous thing to do, right? Three on AD 4 is a successful 521 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,520 action and you still lose a heart. 522 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,560 So if you just defend, you don't lose any hearts though. 523 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:52,440 So, so 75% chance potentially of losing a heart every time you do 524 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,440 anything that's dangerous. Oh, a D4 is kind of like the 525 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,840 Triforce piece, which I didn't even put that together. 526 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,360 And that's so perfect. Now I wouldn't, not even with 527 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:08,000 the D. 6 nodes so bright bro. Because it's funny because I 528 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,280 have D fours that aren't like the, you know, the pyramid 529 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,400 basically because they roll better. 530 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,360 But now it's just like, oh, well, of course it's a pyramid. 531 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,920 Of course you would use AD four. That's so, that's so smart. 532 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,440 So it, it does define danger here. 533 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,720 It says danger in melee combat, all actions are dangerous unless 534 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,440 a monstrous stunt. So anything you do in combat, no 535 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,480 matter what is dangerous. And a lot of things you do 536 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:34,960 outside of combat are dangerous. So if you ever have zero dice or 537 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,040 fewer, you always roll at least two and take the lowest result. 538 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,480 I love that role. I think it's great. 539 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,800 Great logic. There makes a lot of sense. 540 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,920 It's not. Even just like you get one and 541 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,360 you still get you still get a like a consequence for not 542 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,240 having any which is great favorable or disadvantageous 543 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,920 circumstances can add or move dice for extra successful 544 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,160 actions. The master decides an 545 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,520 appropriate outcome. Depleting an extra heart from a 546 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,760 monster, saving a friend, whatever. 547 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,280 I love that all of that. Like there's nothing specific 548 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,400 that says like if you somehow get 2 fours, it's just like 549 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,000 cool, the GM just like make it even better, you know? 550 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 I love. That on this move, what happens 551 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:20,720 if I roll 2 fours, you know? I'm going to punch through the 552 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,960 screen as my move. What is what pick list for? 553 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,200 I'm never going to let that joke go. 554 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,840 And you're going to hear it. If you listen to our show, you 555 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,120 will hear that joke a million more times because. 556 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,720 Listen, listening to our show is a move. 557 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,320 So yeah. Combat roles. 558 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,720 Only players make action roles. A single action role determines 559 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,560 the outcome for both the hero and the monster. 560 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,320 And combat. A one to two means the hero 561 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,320 fails and the monster succeeds and the hero loses 1 heart. 562 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,800 So like every time you try to hit something, if a one or two, 563 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,360 you lose a heart. A3 means you both succeed 564 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,240 because you both lose a heart, and A4 means a hero succeeds and 565 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,000 the monster fails, the monster loses heart. 566 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,160 So basically the core mechanic of the game is roll AD four and 567 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,560 you only fully succeed on a four, so you have a 25% chance 568 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:06,080 of doing exactly what you wanted to do Yeah, I mean, plus there's 569 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,400 there's there's so the map gets funky when you throw in 3D 570 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,240 fours, but. Yeah, but I love this. 571 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,680 I love player facing combat. I always think even if like this 572 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,280 doesn't necessarily have like enemy turns, right. 573 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,520 But I think when players like they're totally responsible for 574 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,200 combat, there's a lot more buy in. 575 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,600 Yeah, I couldn't. I completely agree with you. 576 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,680 It's just, I mean, talk about like having to do less work as 577 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,760 AGM too, where like, you can just like, respond to what the 578 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,680 players want to do as opposed to forcing their players to respond 579 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,720 to what you were doing so much. We've talked over and over again 580 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,440 about taking out the kind of like antagonistic feeling of 581 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,600 like GM versus player when the consequences of everything that 582 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,200 they do are based on their actions. 583 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,840 Yeah. Which is like, this is your 584 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,640 fault. I'm just sitting over here. 585 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,920 You, you tried to hit it. You got a three. 586 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,760 We both hit each other. But that's on you, buddy. 587 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,200 I didn't try to hit you, you know, I love that. 588 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,560 Like it's such a it's a core thing in like every game that I 589 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,000 try to develop every you know, everyone that I try to play or 590 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,400 run is just to make it player facing as much as possible, 591 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,600 which is which is great. But I do I really enjoy these 592 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,080 mechanics. I mean, this is there's not a 593 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,120 lot of D4 games out there. I do like couch up core. 594 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,840 I really enjoy this one as AD four-game at school to to to 595 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,440 cooperative roles. They exist if working together 596 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,480 is advantageous, for example, blah, blah, blah. 597 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,080 When everyone makes an individual action role, the best 598 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,480 role counts for the whole group. I love that. 599 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,640 So basically you're making a pool and of everybody instead of 600 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,520 pool for yourself. It's a great way to do it. 601 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,920 And if working is not advantageous, everyone makes an 602 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,000 individual action roles and players can then gift one or 603 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,560 more of their nice results to the player. 604 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:48,480 Yeah. Very cool. 605 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,920 I like that rule. I like this game is, I don't 606 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,160 mean this is like a bad thing, but it's a little bit softer on 607 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,240 the player than like other things that we go through often. 608 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,320 And I think it's incredibly appropriate for what this is. 609 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,920 Yeah, I know there's moments where it's not, I think like the 610 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,280 cooperative roles and some other stuff like falling off a Cliff, 611 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,320 not killing you. Yeah, I I, I like it. 612 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,000 Fits really well within what this game is trying to do. 613 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,440 Oh, absolutely. I mean, I, I definitely agree 614 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,040 with that. It's it's, it's softer in that 615 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,200 like I think you'll die real fast in this, but you don't lie. 616 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,920 Like you literally just like hang out for a round and then 617 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,640 you like get a heart back and like pop back up and stuff. 618 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,160 So yeah, like it's, it's interesting in that it's like 619 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,520 brutal, but not like at the same time because of the way that 620 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,840 like doesn't stuff work. So yeah, it's cool. 621 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,600 Monsters and rounds, they exist. There's a lot of things here 622 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,440 about monsters and stuff. I'm going to skim through them a 623 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,800 little bit. Monsters are normally aggressive 624 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,960 and evil creatures, so there's no like, this monster's a good 625 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,160 guy. I'm going to be the video game. 626 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,560 I'm going to be the playable monster now. 627 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,880 Like, yeah. Yeah, you're not, you're not 628 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,880 making friends with monsters, which and, and I have no issue 629 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,160 with that. And I have no issue with games. 630 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,840 They're just like, yeah, I mean, you can talk your way out of 631 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,240 most things, but this is you're playing a video game where 632 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,360 you're fighting monsters and you're fighting evil. 633 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,680 So you're you're you're going to do that. 634 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,440 So please enter this with the expectation that that's what's 635 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,840 going to happen. Yeah, I mean NPCS exist to be 636 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,960 friends with and monsters exist to kill for loot if they drop 637 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,200 any. Like that's how it works and 638 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,000 that's fine. Monsters can't chase after 639 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,880 heroes if multiple heroes are nearby. 640 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,800 Each monster tech's a random hero. 641 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,400 A monster tech normally depletes 1 heart when the hero rolls a 642 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:28,960 three or lower. We talked about this, there 643 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,600 might be some other actions based on the monsters. 644 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,040 We'll go through that. Some of have special abilities, 645 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,880 they have hearts to etcetera, etcetera. 646 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,040 And then a monster disintegrates when defeated. 647 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,160 Yeah, and it's items disintegrate too. 648 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,880 Unless it drops some standard loot in red. 649 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,840 It's written in red. Yeah, it's dope. 650 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,080 Like it just. Yeah, that's exactly the sound 651 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,920 that was in my mind. If you're worried about this is 652 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,400 a game where like, if you're worried about like, Oh my 653 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:01,600 immersion, go outside and immerse yourself in reality. 654 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,800 Because at no point in a tabletop role-playing game where 655 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,160 you're sitting at a table rolling dice to swing a sword 656 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,920 are you so immersed that a monster disintegrating is going 657 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:16,000 to break that for you. Rounds when heroes aren't 658 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,600 fighting or under time pressure. You don't have to keep track of 659 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,760 it. One of the things I like about 660 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,000 this game is so how often it doesn't like, try to fix a 661 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,120 problem that doesn't exist. It just says that's not a 662 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,080 problem, keep going. You know, like cooperative 663 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,719 roles, everyone just roll like, it's like they they figure out 664 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,600 like the the simplest way to do it. 665 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,120 That where you just go, well, yeah, duh. 666 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,440 You know, and you don't need to make it more complicated than 667 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,440 that. And they do that over and over 668 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,800 through the game. And I really enjoy that a lot. 669 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,560 That's. An amazing lesson that a lot of 670 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,480 game developers should take actually, not over like there's 671 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,760 no need to overcomplicate things that just don't matter. 672 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,719 Don't like even I think some, you know, obviously I'm very 673 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,800 into minimalist rules and so for me, I'm like, yeah, don't make a 674 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:54,920 rule for it if it doesn't matter. 675 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400 But I think sometimes rules rather than just purely out of 676 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,280 habit for like especially for combat and stuff. 677 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,920 But to like this and be like who the fuck cares doesn't matter. 678 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,640 Fuck, amazes. That's why your books are 400 679 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,160 pages because there's 300 pages of shit that doesn't fucking 680 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,560 matter. You know? 681 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,480 Like here's the thing, at the end of the day, if you're 682 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,960 writing a rule and you go home, someone will probably home brew 683 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,840 this and do a different. If you don't need that rule, 684 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,560 don't figure out how they're going to do a different anyway. 685 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:24,000 Like, you know, I teach their own, you know? 686 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,080 Under more intense circumstances, time is invited 687 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,160 into rounds. Rounds last a couple of seconds. 688 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,480 How many? Who cares? 689 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,280 Doing a round, participants can initiate 1 action and move a 690 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,800 short distance. The master describes what? 691 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,760 There's a numbered list here, so we'll go through that. 692 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,720 The monster describes what the monsters are doing. 693 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,440 The players take their turns according to who speaks first. 694 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,320 No ruling for initiative. Perfect. 695 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,920 The first player describes your hero's actions. 696 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,240 The player makes their action role. 697 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,560 The master interprets the effects #3 Another player 698 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,760 describes their hero's actions, makes their action role, and so 699 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,000 on #4 When our players have made their action rules, start a new 700 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,320 round. Amazing. 701 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,120 It couldn't be, couldn't be better, but I think the key, I 702 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,800 think the key here, realistically on such a short 703 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,120 table that's very much just like, well, yeah, duh, is number 704 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,120 one. The master describes what the 705 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,080 monsters are doing first. So a lot of people kind of get 706 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:18,880 lost in player facing roles and the stuff because the impetus is 707 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:24,160 on the players to do things. But the GM like I remember. 708 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,800 What I seen. Has to set the scene. 709 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,520 But not only that, I remember the first time I like I got into 710 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,040 like a mixed success like game like that. 711 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,880 And it's just like, well, if things only act when the players 712 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,440 do it, then if they just like walk past the bad guy, nothing 713 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,040 happens because they didn't attack the bad guy. 714 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,880 And someone had to be like, no, what you do is like you put the 715 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,520 bad guy in their way and lift their arm like you're going to 716 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,600 hit them. And then it's the players turn 717 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,000 because now they have their side if they're going to try to dodge 718 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,320 or if they're going to like put up a shield or hit them first. 719 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,400 Like you can still put them into the situation. 720 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,480 It's just they get to determine like the action they take 721 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,640 because because of it. So I think #1 is really 722 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,360 important here anyway. Multiple opponents, the several 723 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,480 monsters attack a single hero in the same round and the hero can 724 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,200 pick any action against one of them and defends against the 725 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,560 rest and make an action role for each action with -1 D for all 726 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,960 roles. Great, love that. 727 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,640 So that's kind of the core of combat in the game, which 728 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,400 obviously this will be, it's a it's a video game. 729 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,560 It's going to be a combat heavy game. 730 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,560 So that's a big part of it, hearts and energy, You have 731 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,640 them. Losing hearts is only temporary. 732 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,640 You can restore them if you have zero hearts left. 733 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,200 You go unconscious and you regain 1 heart when someone 734 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,960 wakes you up or when the fight ends. 735 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,760 I love that one. It's got to be like wake up you 736 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,320 know? Yep. 737 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,920 If all heroes are unconscious, the game restarts the heroes 738 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,800 return of the dungeon entrance, the progress is saved but all 739 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,160 the monsters have respawned. So basically you can't die in 740 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:51,680 this game. You can't die in the game. 741 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,680 It's like you just wait for someone to wake you up and then 742 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,760 you get one heart back and you keep going and if everyone dies 743 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,600 you all just blink back to the beginning of the dungeon and try 744 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,720 again. Love it, right? 745 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Just like, it's just like a video game. 746 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,280 So yeah. Just like real life, some items 747 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,920 consume energy. Energy is a thing. 748 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,200 So you have hearts and you have energy. 749 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,480 The restoration is cool. You have a snack, a meal, a 750 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,800 heart potion, energy potion, a snack restores 1 heart and one 751 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,720 energy. A mirror restores 3 hearts and 752 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:24,800 three energy and a heart potion and A and a energy potion 753 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,080 restores all your hearts or all your energy, which is great. 754 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,760 I love the notations that they have here. 755 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,520 So there's the rest of this page is hearts and and lightning 756 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,920 bolts, which is your your hearts and your energy, right. 757 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:40,360 It says use a pin to outline your maximum hearts and then use 758 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,520 a pencil to cross off and you don't have them so you can just 759 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,000 like erase over it. Great idea, I'm stealing the 760 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,080 shit out of that. It's funny how we go through 761 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,280 games and sometimes like the like the simple, straightforward 762 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,000 ideas, straightforward ideas actually show like such 763 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,720 brilliance. You know, like, yeah, this is 764 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:00,120 great. This is an amazing idea. 765 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,040 It works perfectly well. It's enjoyable to look at too. 766 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,600 Well, it's definitely like I said, a lot of this game and is 767 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,480 a lot of just like well, well, well done. 768 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,640 Now that you've said it, of course of. 769 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,480 Course. You know, I don't like that 770 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,040 items improving and miscellaneous rules before we 771 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,800 get into heroes items, they exist. 772 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,280 They're tools that open up new possibilities. 773 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,840 Each item takes up one slot. Gym's food keys, Trinity 774 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,640 fragments, they don't take up slots. 775 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,320 They're marked on your hair sheet in a different area. 776 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,160 I remain remains where you lead them. 777 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,280 So if you drop it you can come back and get later. 778 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,680 And items wielder to worn by monsters are cursed and you 779 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,240 can't use them. You can get loop but you can't 780 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:45,520 take the monster stuff, which is cool. 781 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,200 And you improve your character by finding new items, finding 782 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,760 heart and energy containers which go over and finding 783 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:57,160 Trinity fragments, which are fragments that gives one hero 784 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,000 the opportunity once per session to re roll any number of dice 785 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,320 during an action roll. So re rolls there's. 786 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,440 Trinity Fragments, you know? Yeah, yeah. 787 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,880 Definitely Trinity, yeah, fragments if you, if you just 788 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,000 tweak up, if you tweak out all the middle. 789 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,280 Parts. It's Trinity, yeah. 790 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:20,560 Legally distinct Trinity icon. So a bunch of random 791 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,120 miscellaneous rules here. Let's go through some of them. 792 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,840 Heroes cannot harm freely inhabitants like that. 793 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,680 You can't be hitting on and you're not hitting on. 794 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,080 You can hit on NPCS like you want to get hit NPCS. 795 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,240 Regular keys open any regular lock. 796 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:38,160 Bombs blow up cracked walls. Regular walls can't be scaled. 797 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,240 Heroes can't attack while swimming. 798 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,200 If you fall into a pit, you lose 1 heart. 799 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,920 After one round, you automatically return to where 800 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,760 you fell from. Love that perfect. 801 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,280 If you're swallowed by quicksand, you lose 1 heart. 802 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,960 After one round, you automatically turn to where you 803 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,360 fell from. You fall into love, you return. 804 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,320 You're like kind of blinking, you know, like in and out, you 805 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,880 know, for a for just a moment. Like water droplets. 806 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:06,200 Just lava though. Two hearts, and when a hero 807 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,600 enters the boss room, the door seals behind them. 808 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,440 Other heroes are automatically transported inside, and it opens 809 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,200 again when the heroes defeat the boss monster. 810 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,120 All them, all the heroes are unconscious. 811 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,640 Boom, that's it. I think we get to the what this 812 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,640 game does really well and I and I think I I felt like this about 813 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,280 forgotten balanceable is it's just it captures how charming 814 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,760 like the this aspect of like the legend Zelda or like a video 815 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,200 game like that is like it captures the charm of that going 816 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,080 through these books. They are very like the rules are 817 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,200 very charming. I can very much enjoy these, you 818 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,840 know. Yeah, it definitely hit you in 819 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:48,040 that nostalgia where like things were, I don't know, I mean, no 820 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,200 matter where you go in time, they're like, you can look 50 821 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,920 years earlier and hear someone complaining the same way you 822 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,120 were complaining. But like, times were simpler, 823 00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:02,520 you know, things were just a thing, and you didn't need 10 824 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,400 apps doing the same thing to get your fix on it. 825 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,400 I just needed to 20 minutes in Aladdin, you know? 826 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,880 That was my game. Yeah. 827 00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:10,560 We're getting into heroes section. 828 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,800 This is character creation. So do you want to build a 829 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,080 character as we run through this real quick? 830 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,520 Please press your forward. Build a character. 831 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,520 So this is a green section. So again, the pages like 832 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,160 slightly green in the background and then all of the bullet 833 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,080 points and everything throughout the entire thing are green, 834 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,360 which is great. Again, I love the color coding. 835 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,400 It's it's fantastic. So as you bring up some dice, 836 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,040 you have some character options. You choose a kin. 837 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,280 A kin is your critical race in other classes. 838 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,320 It is a kind of creature you are. 839 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,600 And I love the art of the top that has like one of all of 840 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,640 them, which is dope. So you can be an elf, which is a 841 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,160 pointy eared humanoid hailing from the plains. 842 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:56,080 They have a special yeah you can spend 1 energy ahead of an 843 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,000 action roll to get plus one dice. 844 00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:00,280 That's dope. Great for Alves avians. 845 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,080 They're bird like humanoid hailing from the skies and 846 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,080 they're special is you can spend 1 energy to make a long jump and 847 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,400 glide to the air. I love that from a narrative 848 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,440 perspective. That's like the coolest freaking 849 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,240 thing. I mean I love that some of these 850 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:15,320 are more narrative. The Geon is a rock like humanoid 851 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,920 hailing from the mountains. They have a special wish. 852 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,640 You can spend 1 energy to resist losing 1 heart which is dope. 853 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,200 Which mechanically you know that basically gives you that means 854 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,160 all your energy or hearts which is cool. 855 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,280 It does tweak your attributes you get plus one might -1 856 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,400 bravery. You have an aquarium which the 857 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,720 fish like Humanoid handle from the lakes. 858 00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:38,160 You can spend 1 energy to swim long distances underwater or 859 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,960 attack while in the water which is why the miscellaneous rule 860 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,040 said other people couldn't. And then you have the seedling, 861 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,200 which is a tree like humanoid hailing from the forest, 862 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,680 Especially as you spend 1 energy to turn invisible for as long as 863 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,800 you stay still. I assume that means that they 864 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,800 like, in my mind, the Sprite turns into like a little tree 865 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,400 that looks like all the little trees around it. 866 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,120 So you can't like tell which one it is. 867 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,520 And then the attributes are -1 brevity a -, 1 might plus one 868 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,000 brevity the opposite of the G on. 869 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,640 So which which kin are you going with? 870 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:12,600 Oh, I in The Legend of Zelda and its various games, I love the 871 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:17,200 Gorons, so I will pick AG on the obvious inspiration. 872 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,800 I love that they like did the -1 bravery because I believe in 873 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,000 those games too. Even though the Gorons are like 874 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,640 big tough guys, they are like, you know, it's not the most 875 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,840 agile and also like sometimes they're fairly cowardly, which I 876 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,200 feel like the bravery stat for this one actually fits both 877 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,360 those things. Like a like a big teddy bear. 878 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,160 OK, so we got some notes on stats and gear and then we'll 879 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,160 we'll go over some stuff. So your hero starts with three 880 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,680 hearts. So you use a pin to outline 881 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,000 those three hearts. OK, I believe there's a form 882 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,320 fillable character sheet in the Dropbox too. 883 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,880 So you get 3 energy. So you use a pinned outline, 3 884 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,320 energy symbols. Your little lighting bolts start 885 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,000 with 15 gems, so you can make a note of that. 886 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,880 You get a small pouch which is 4 slots. 887 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,680 I do believe the character sheet also has an 8 slot pouch. 888 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:14,640 Yeah. So you just mark the. 889 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:19,480 Wallet, you know, got to turn in your Golden's Katulas or 890 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,960 whatever to get the bigger size wallet. 891 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,520 There you go. So you but you get the four, so 892 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,000 you get a starting weapon. So you started with the G on, so 893 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,560 you get to start with the club. Perfect. 894 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,480 I like that there's not even don't even worry about picking 895 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,400 the weapon. Like you have your character and 896 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,640 your character gets the weapon that they they're starting 897 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,720 weapon which it's a video game like you don't get the yeah, and 898 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:44,880 then a special item choose or roll multiple heroes should not 899 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,280 start with the same item. So roll AD 4 real quick and you 900 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,720 get to pick. You get to start their special 901 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,240 item. I rolled A1, I got a Lantern. 902 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:53,960 Lights up dark places can emulate objects. 903 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,080 Amazing. I assume that means you hit the, 904 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,440 hit the hit someone with a Lantern and they will die from 905 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:00,160 flame. Yeah. 906 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,800 So there are additional items grouped more for more than four 907 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,200 heroes randomized on the special items table so that the the 908 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,920 table does go much farther that the 1st 4:00 on that table, 909 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,200 though are the same 4. So it just extends the table 910 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,800 longer later on in the master section. 911 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,160 And I do like that there's there's all the four items are 912 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,160 down here. You got the boomerang, the 913 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:25,120 Lantern, the the magic Cape, and the bow in dope dope ass pixel 914 00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,360 art. Love the magic Cape icon, I 915 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:31,320 think it looks so great. It does look so cool to spend 1 916 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,480 energy to make yourself invisible for the current round 917 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,040 and the next. So similar to the seedlings 918 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:40,680 ability but it's a Cape which I think makes you actually 919 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,280 invisible Where the seedling? I know it says invisible but in 920 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,640 my mind again I think they just more like look like plants. 921 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,960 Some people don't see them but to each their own. 922 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,720 That's just how I interpret it. For for the seedling ability, it 923 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:54,480 specifically says for as like you have to stay still. 924 00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:57,960 Yeah, but for the Cape it does not say that, which me implies 925 00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,640 that I'll move around wearing. Oh yeah. 926 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,560 Oh yeah. OK, so distribute your 927 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,360 attributes and determine your appearance. 928 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,280 So you have 3 attributes. We already said that you 929 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,600 distribute the following values, among them three, two and one 930 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,560 amongst your might, bravery and insight. 931 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,520 I think I'm going to, I might just go straight down 3, two and 932 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,440 one actually, because I would have, I get plus one to my and 933 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:28,720 -1 to bravery, which means I would have 4-1 and one, yeah. 934 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,600 That's always that's always the play, right? 935 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:39,560 Is do I even out to SO or do I double up the one? 936 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,360 I'm going full into being big and strong and clumsy so don't 937 00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,760 ask me to jump over anything, I won't do it. 938 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:50,000 No, no, just run through it. That's how that works. 939 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,480 The the kit modifiers are listed here again, which is great. 940 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,400 The Geon and seedlings with the with the attributes. 941 00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,760 I love that. I love that it's not listed just 942 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,520 once and you're expected to remember where the heck that 943 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:01,960 was. I like that it's listed where 944 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,840 you need it, which is great. So determine your appearance. 945 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,920 So it says roll DD, roll those double DS for me, which just 946 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,840 means you roll a four to four and read it like a percentile 947 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,560 like. So hair is Gray and then I'll 948 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:21,440 roll again for clothes and I got a 33 for clothes. 949 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,400 I have worn purple clothes, Gray hair, and I got like a purple 950 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,920 like tank top tunic kind of thing. 951 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,040 I'm a genon, I'm a big buff dude, big buck. 952 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,440 So that's dope with like the with the Gray hair popping out 953 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:33,600 the top. That's cool. 954 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,040 Looks dope. That sounds very video you gave 955 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,280 me. Yeah, this reminds me a little 956 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,720 bit of the the tunnel goons. Roll for your Cape color roll 957 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:43,880 for your club color. You know, love that. 958 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:49,280 I would I would I definitely would be like roll one more time 959 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:54,840 and and that's the color of your cloak, you know, roll or pick 960 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,600 one roll one more time for me. I want to do it. 961 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,480 I want to do it because you got hair, you got clothes. 962 00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,360 Magenta. So oh, purple, magenta. 963 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,080 That's a dope girl. Come up with this with the Gray 964 00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,280 hair, bro, you literally just rolled Magneto. 965 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,320 All right, Magneto, the Geodon, the Geon. 966 00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,400 OK, Oh, this is AG on here with with the purple clothes, right? 967 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:22,000 So if you if this hair was Gray, that's you all right. 968 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,960 So buy something spin gems to buy things. 969 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,760 If you do noted on your character sheet. 970 00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,240 So you can start by buying some stuff. 971 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,960 Snacks are worth 5 gems. We're going to talk about what 972 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,200 they are. Meals are 10 gems and then bombs 973 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,080 are 5 gems. So you can spend up to you start 974 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,720 with 15 gems. You can buy stuff if you want, 975 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,600 and then you roll or pick a name. 976 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,320 You roll another double D for me. 977 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,600 Oh cool, yeah love rolling for names. 978 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,320 I rolled 32 Erie. Erie. 979 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,080 Erie. Erie Sounds good. 980 00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,160 That's your Geon. So it's got the hero agenda. 981 00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,240 Here. 4 things. Explore Sirulia, help feeling 982 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:03,480 inhabitants, find dungeons that clear them of monsters, and 983 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,080 fight the Shadow King's evil influence. 984 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:07,560 Love it. That's all you got to do. 985 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,960 That's what you're supposed to do when you break pots and 986 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,600 defeat monsters. You have a chance to find 987 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,440 helpful stuff for remind the master to roll on the standard 988 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:20,800 loot table. Oh yeah, one letter off of Eric. 989 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,640 That's funny for for Magneto, for those that aren't in the 990 00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:30,560 chat with us. So, and it's not a hyperlink to 991 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,720 that, but it didn't say that it was, but it's already linked 992 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:34,440 out. So there is a character sheet 993 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,240 right here after the hero section, which I love because I 994 00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:39,680 was able to flip while going through the two pages. 995 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,640 The very next page is your character sheet. 996 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,120 So I love that it was available that I could look at the 997 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,800 character sheet while I was reading about it so I could see 998 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,720 where I would have put it, which is really fantastic. 999 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,240 It's a beautiful looking character sheet. 1000 00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:52,800 I like it. I like that it uses the. 1001 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:56,560 I was gonna say the triforce. The what's? 1002 00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,880 No, the Trinity. Triforce, the Trinity, Trinity. 1003 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,040 Yeah, the Trinity fragments for the for the areas where you 1004 00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,480 write your stats in. It's a great clean character 1005 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,560 sheet. I really like it a lot. 1006 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,080 I like the little meal symbol with the little fishies, the 1007 00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:14,120 keys and stuff, the little Pamela looking snacks, and I 1008 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,280 really love the all of the actions listed on the bottom. 1009 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,240 It's really nice to have because you only roll action rolls. 1010 00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,480 So it's really nice that all of your actions are listed right 1011 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,920 there. This is my nitpicky part, Lucas. 1012 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,720 This is my only nitpicky part. And it doesn't matter because it 1013 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:31,840 doesn't matter because this is not that. 1014 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:36,560 But I would have been blown away if if here where it says 1015 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,720 blackfiskpublishing.com, it hyperlinked out to 1016 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:45,240 blackfiskpublishing.com. But again, that's not even 1017 00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:47,320 nitpicky, because it's not even an expectation, because it's 1018 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,000 actually what's on the character sheet. 1019 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,360 You know what that's. What I was saying? 1020 00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,360 Fuck you. I don't disagree with you. 1021 00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,880 That's what I said. It didn't matter. 1022 00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:01,360 I hedged that, but again, it doesn't really matter. 1023 00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,960 But also, if you're giving it out as a PDF on the PDF, if it 1024 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,160 was linked there, then any time someone brought up the PDF, 1025 00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,200 they'd be able to go Click to the other ones really easily 1026 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,960 too, which we have seen before, people on the character sheets 1027 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:17,320 linking to other spots. That's it. 1028 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:18,880 Yeah. I mean, that's not it. 1029 00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:19,880 We're not done. But that no. 1030 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,600 Yeah, it is more but. From the player side, that's the 1031 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,640 entire game. Yeah, I meant to download this 1032 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,200 and I did want to. I did want to talk about this 1033 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:32,200 real quick. So in I, I oh, I did download 1034 00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:33,240 it. Look. 1035 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,400 At you. You're ready, so I don't. 1036 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,160 So I went all in and got everything. 1037 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,560 I don't know and I think that the little player book came 1038 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,240 inside this gold case. I don't remember though. 1039 00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,520 But hey, the creator of the game is in our chat with us, which is 1040 00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:56,000 the reason we still do this live on twitch is the player and it 1041 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,120 is gold. Did this come with all of the 1042 00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,200 pledges or did the player booklet only come with the with 1043 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:07,080 the with the with the gold box? Because I, I love that and I 1044 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,560 just want to take two seconds to flip through it real quick. 1045 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:16,080 The player booklet is fantastic. It is pretty much everything we 1046 00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:20,040 just went over in like 6 pages. It's got the, it's got the 1047 00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:26,520 beginning like words, the starting with the video game 1048 00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,800 logic section. It's got the actions still 1049 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,680 color-coded, still laid out very similar, like the same style. 1050 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,640 It's got all your actions, all the special abilities. 1051 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:40,200 It talks about items, rounds, hearts, energy and that's it 1052 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,600 it's literally like 5 pages including the the inside of the 1053 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:48,160 back and it's everything you need to to be the player in the 1054 00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:49,880 game. So everything that we just went 1055 00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:53,880 over easily done yeah. The player booklet is part of 1056 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,840 the gold edition, but you'll be able to download it from our 1057 00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,520 website once the game releases. Regular and printer friendly. 1058 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,680 I it's killing it so going to go through the master section super 1059 00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,040 quick. There are just some points we 1060 00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,080 want to hit on, but we're not going to read through all of it. 1061 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,200 The Shadow King dwells in the Cerulean Citadel behind an 1062 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,200 impenetrable, impenetrable barrier, while as evil influence 1063 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:19,880 spreads across Cerulea, his most fearsome beasts have fortified 1064 00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:23,280 perilous layers from which monsters spawn and terrorize the 1065 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,120 region. These beasts each protect a 1066 00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,200 Trinity fragment. The Trinity is a legendary 1067 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,640 artifact that once restored, we'll be capable of breaking 1068 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:34,120 down the barrier surrounding the Cerulean Citadel, allowing 1 to 1069 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,400 face the Shadow King. So we're getting into a bright 1070 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,240 red section. Beautiful piece of art at the 1071 00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:43,200 top here of a bad guy slash the dungeon. 1072 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,000 The Shadow King, The Shadow King. 1073 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:47,720 Well, the Shadow King is actually this dude. 1074 00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:52,600 That's the same dude. Awesome. 1075 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,280 Oh, yeah, you're right, 100%, a thousand million percent the 1076 00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,320 same dude. It is the and it's a dope piece 1077 00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,120 of art. I was like, no, it's not. 1078 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,000 He's got a crown. Yes, he does. 1079 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,680 OK. The horns on the chair should 1080 00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,400 really give it away. Beautiful piece, stunning 1081 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,880 colors. I mean the purple and the pink 1082 00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,960 and the Blues. If I could get print to hang 1083 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,080 from this, it'd probably be this one honestly. 1084 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:19,120 Probably, yeah. I mean, it's either that one or, 1085 00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:23,040 I don't know, the, the, the, the, the 1:00 where they're, I 1086 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,080 mean, I love the skeleton at the beginning where the lava's 1087 00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,560 coming down and the one guy's like that's gonna be there. 1088 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:33,120 I think a lot of the I think the also the the woodland tomb, 1089 00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,240 which is the one of the dungeons of the book. 1090 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:37,600 That one I'd also like. I'd hang down on my wall, you 1091 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,240 know, I just like it. Yeah, it's. 1092 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,400 Classic. It does it, yeah. 1093 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,280 It definitely punches you in the nostalgia a lot. 1094 00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:48,080 So this is a master section, a lot about running the dungeon 1095 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:49,320 and stuff. I love when games do it this 1096 00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,680 way. I love when games have like, 1097 00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,480 like if you're a player, you could stop and just be done. 16 1098 00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:59,080 pages, 15 pages and don't do it. So there's not this like weird 1099 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,800 mix of just like I'm not going to say the game, but where 1100 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,160 there's like way too much direction for shit that doesn't 1101 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,160 matter all throughout. Instead of just bumping it to a 1102 00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:12,280 different book or to its own section where you're trying to 1103 00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,000 learn how to play the game, but you're getting like a billion 1104 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,800 directions on shit that doesn't matter because you're not 1105 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,960 running the game separate into its own chapter. 1106 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,440 This does a fantastic job of doing that and I like it a lot. 1107 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,280 Still read it if you're a player because there's a lot of really 1108 00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,160 great stuff in here, but it's cool. 1109 00:56:26,240 --> 00:56:29,200 So the master guidelines, the master agenda, which is 1110 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,400 different than the player agenda is prepare dungeons, apply the 1111 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,080 rules when things are clear cut, making rulings when they aren't, 1112 00:56:36,240 --> 00:56:38,960 challenge the players and the heroes say yes to the players 1113 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,120 creative ideas and solutions and embrace the video game logic. 1114 00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,200 I love that. So it talks about dungeon 1115 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:46,520 mapping. It literally says like print the 1116 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:50,000 maps out, cut them up, and then just lay them down as they enter 1117 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,440 the room. Great idea to do it. 1118 00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,600 If you have a printer that's cool, it says, or just draw it, 1119 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,800 that's cool. So campaign play is really neat 1120 00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,200 and I do like the way that they do this. 1121 00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,840 So the Shadow King has split the Trinity into three fragments 1122 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,240 before you get into the Cerulean Citadel. 1123 00:57:04,240 --> 00:57:08,120 So there's three dungeons in this game and then a fourth one 1124 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:10,680 where you actually fight the Shadow King. 1125 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,840 So there's literally half the book is the three dungeons to 1126 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,960 get the three Trinity fragments and this really in Citadel to 1127 00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,640 fight the Shadow King. So the campaign, the game, the 1128 00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,880 game within the game, the game that this game is, if it was a 1129 00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,320 video game, exists within this rule book and it's fantastic. 1130 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,000 So the campaign style I really like is really interesting. 1131 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,160 So there's the dungeon campaign where it says heroes start at 1132 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,040 the dungeon entrance whenever they want. 1133 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,680 They just go in. I'm completely skipping overland 1134 00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,440 play and as a master, you really don't need to prepare anything 1135 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,000 because you can just run it right out of the book. 1136 00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,440 Love that you just it's right there. 1137 00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,960 There's the overworld campaign where the heroes start at either 1138 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,960 the entrance of the dungeon or at Citadel town and they can 1139 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,080 access the overland map by like picking stuff that's marked on 1140 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,680 it. And then they have to travel 1141 00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,360 through a number of world areas. As a master you should prepare 1142 00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,720 content for those areas so they can see the map and they kind of 1143 00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,400 like pick where they go. And then there's a screen crawl 1144 00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,760 campaign where the heroes start in Citadel town and know 1145 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,560 nothing. They don't get the overworld 1146 00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,400 map. They have to talk to NPCS to 1147 00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,680 find out where anything is. They have to explore to find it. 1148 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,200 That would be dope. Yeah, I like that too. 1149 00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,520 I I love the multiple different options of modes. 1150 00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,920 And I would definitely want to play. 1151 00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:26,080 I would definitely want to run like the screen crawl campaign 1152 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,160 and just be like, yeah, welcome to Welcome to town. 1153 00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:30,560 You've lived here your whole life. 1154 00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,320 Where are we going? That's exactly, I mean when I 1155 00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,680 played not awkward in a time when I played Links Awakening, 1156 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,840 like you just start in a little town and there's like grass and 1157 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,560 like every time you come back you chop the grass to get the 1158 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,760 rupees and then you're like fish and then you go try to do stuff. 1159 00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:44,600 It's great. I was going to the fact that 1160 00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,440 there's like a preset, fairly finite map means that if you do 1161 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:53,960 this version, prepping for it is not going to be as daunting as 1162 00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:57,680 like prepping for, you know, something else, 5 E or whatever, 1163 00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,400 but a lot of other stuff as well. 1164 00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:07,720 Yeah, but we got to do something real quick. 1165 00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:11,160 I like the modifying difficulty part. 1166 00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:13,960 Their official campaign is written for three heroes, 1167 00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,600 everything in threes, obviously because of the the Trinity 1168 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,040 fragment. If there are fewer heroes for 1169 00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,480 each missing one, reduce the number of monsters in each room 1170 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,360 by one and the hearts of the bosses by two. 1171 00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,400 The opposite, if there are more, you increase the number of 1172 00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,960 monsters by one, and then you increase the boss's heart by 1173 00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,000 two. Simple, easy, streamlined, 1174 00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,120 couldn't ask for for a quicker, easier way. 1175 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:37,560 Boom. All right, going through 1176 00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:39,600 creating the dungeons. There's a whole section here, 1177 00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,600 best practices, which is great, and a numbered list one through 1178 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,600 6 of putting a dungeon together, picking the theme, picking the 1179 00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,520 challenge, picking the items, picking the bosses. 1180 00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,960 It's great, I love it. I would use this for just about 1181 00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,120 anything. It's really awesome. 1182 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,000 I love the best practices too. They're good. 1183 00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,560 Create non linear paths, anticipate multiple 1184 00:59:57,560 --> 00:59:59,880 possibilities. Don't block the main path at the 1185 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:02,200 hardest challenge. Keep that for like special 1186 01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:09,040 treasure and have the special items be used on bosses and for 1187 01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,200 those special things to get to other things which is great. 1188 01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:12,520 And then embrace video game logic. 1189 01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,760 You know there's a a double D roll table here for theme and 1190 01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,240 architecture which also gives you the room roaming roaming 2 1191 01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:27,160 double DS real quick. OK, the 1st, 1:14 and the second 1192 01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:32,000 one's 42. OK, so we're so 14 is that air, 1193 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:38,160 sky, cloud? And 42, we've got Cave, Cavern, 1194 01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:39,480 Grotto. It's the architect. 1195 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,200 So come up with come with the name and I do like how they say 1196 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:43,600 it up top. It's cool because you can do 1197 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,240 like the moon cave or you could do like Cave of the Moon. 1198 01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:50,120 So what do you got? What do you got? 1199 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,680 You got cake. Grotto, grotto in the sky, you 1200 01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:55,200 know. Grotto in the sky. 1201 01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,240 There you go. Sky grotto baby. 1202 01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,800 So cool. We got the grotto in the sky. 1203 01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:06,760 So challenges are problems that heroes face And then it talks 1204 01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,640 about hidden doors. Don't automatically say it. 1205 01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,800 If they ask if the wall is cracked, they'll throw a bomb. 1206 01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:16,040 There's a double D thing for challenges again in the area 1207 01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,320 above you go through there's challenges, special items, 1208 01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,440 bosses and shop inhabitants. And as you go through the rest 1209 01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,840 of the section, there's challenge table, there's a 1210 01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:27,520 monster table. We actually go directly into the 1211 01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,920 the beast area. So it talks about monster 1212 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,120 reaction table. Aside from 8:00, because you're 1213 01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:38,280 old 2D, they all attack you, They attack you, they attack 1214 01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:39,480 you, they hire, they try to ambush you. 1215 01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,160 And the number 8, they're friendly, they want, they want 1216 01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,440 to talk. There's a section on modifying 1217 01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:45,280 the danger, which is interesting. 1218 01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:49,320 It says for easier dungeon area, subtract 10 from the monster 1219 01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:52,160 roll result. For a harder dungeon area, add 1220 01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,120 10. So roll me a double D real quick 1221 01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:56,800 and we will talk about that monster. 1222 01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,280 That is going to be two. Two. 1223 01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:09,080 So going down to #22 that is a Skelly classic classic. 1224 01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,720 Great reanimated bones. When defeated it turns into a 1225 01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:16,640 skull and then unless destroyed, it reanimates into a skeleton 1226 01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,480 after two rounds. Love it. 1227 01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,280 It's it's got two hearts and there's 2D of them. 1228 01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:26,600 There are one thing you'll notice when you roll the D and 1229 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:28,800 AD. What's the highest you can get? 1230 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,400 44. So why does this go to 54? 1231 01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:36,720 Oh, because you can add 10. Because you can add 10. 1232 01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,760 So what they said was, and I love this because it took me 1233 01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:41,600 like half a second when I was like, but it's 54. 1234 01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,600 That doesn't make sense. So basically when you do a 1235 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,120 monster roll, you roll to 22, right? 1236 01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:47,880 If you want to make it harder, add 10. 1237 01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,080 So we would jump ahead and we would go to 32 and you would 1238 01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:54,280 instead be fighting a Sentinel, which is animated armor that 1239 01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,760 appears to be a statues got three hearts and there's one D1 1240 01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,480 plus one of those. And if you want to make it 1241 01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,000 easier, you would drop that 22 down to a 12. 1242 01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,960 And instead you'd be fighting a strider large 4 limbed insect 1243 01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:08,600 leaps in the air attacks from above, etcetera, etcetera. 1244 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,480 I love that it's so again, just find the simplest, easiest way 1245 01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,400 to do it and do it in a good way. 1246 01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,000 And that's, that's the that's the theme of this entire book. 1247 01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,120 It's so clever. So the only way that you can 1248 01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:26,200 fight Knights, centaurs, grabbers or dinosaurs is if you 1249 01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:30,520 add plus 10 to your 40 plus rolls, which is cool. 1250 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,800 I mean, and the hearts jump up on those pain they're, you know, 1251 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,880 5-6. Yeah, those are those are beefy. 1252 01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:41,040 Those are beef boys, beef boys, beef boys. 1253 01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,640 So inhabitants. So everything that you can be 1254 01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,240 can also be NPCS. And there's a section here for 1255 01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,320 age, appearance, demeanor and their focus. 1256 01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:53,960 So like what they're stuck on. So say you roll an old avian 1257 01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:59,800 woman with a helpful demeanor who's focused on the weather. 1258 01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,200 She might literally just be like looks like it's going to rain 1259 01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:09,080 kids and be like rain's coming kid better pack an umbrella and 1260 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,560 like that's a. Young elf who's hidden their 1261 01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,680 appearance so I'm not really sure how old they are. 1262 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:20,840 They have an uninterested demeanor and they're apparently 1263 01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,800 focused on food, so they're. Hungry elf? 1264 01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,640 Yeah. So I wonder what happens if you 1265 01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,600 feed them? Could it be a clue? 1266 01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,800 Here all that. Yeah, fantastic. 1267 01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,880 A boss section here, and it even talked about like putting the 1268 01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,000 boss together. They're particularly powerful, 1269 01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,080 they have special features, they usually match the dungeons 1270 01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:47,080 theme, they follow a certain action move set to can actually 1271 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,080 roll for how it works, which is dope. 1272 01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,240 Love that. It's really cool and like, it 1273 01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:53,720 allows you to, like, in a video game, predict what the bosses 1274 01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:57,080 can and will do. And also in the out, because I 1275 01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,520 was reading the dungeons, the bosses in there have their, 1276 01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,600 like, boss move set. And I was like, oh, very cool, 1277 01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:02,400 you know? Yeah. 1278 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:04,360 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want to go through the. 1279 01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,480 So they don't give a boss example. 1280 01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:08,800 Yeah, you should. I don't want to. 1281 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,880 I don't want to talk about the bosses on stream, but there's 1282 01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,480 not an example one, but there's four in the book, so I just like 1283 01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:15,880 flipped one of those. But yeah, normally they have 5 1284 01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,480 to 8 hearts. Dang, they're usually 1285 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,920 invulnerable to regular attacks until the heroes figure out 1286 01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:24,560 their weakness, which is dope. And when the heroes defeat a 1287 01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,640 boss, it disintegrates and they get a Trinity fragment increase, 1288 01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:30,480 increase their maximum heart by one and fill restart their 1289 01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:32,680 hearts and energy. So that's another one of the 1290 01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,840 ways you can improve. There's no there's no leveling 1291 01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:36,520 up in this. There's no XP, there's no 1292 01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,280 whatever you get heart containers, you get energy 1293 01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,600 containers, you beat bosses, you find Trinity fragments. 1294 01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:45,120 That's how you do it. I love that I love I love the I 1295 01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,000 love that. So they have a double D table 1296 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:51,720 here of boss bad guys. So you could have like a, a 1297 01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:56,000 scorpion, a mystical scorpion, boom, you got a boss Donzo. 1298 01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,440 There's a double D table for weaknesses. 1299 01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,160 So let's say it's you have to climb on top of the scorpion. 1300 01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:05,520 That's how you get it because somehow it's not going to sting 1301 01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:06,680 you. But there you go. 1302 01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,520 And then there's a listed action move set, which is D4. 1303 01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,520 So number one is a special attack #2 is a regular attack #3 1304 01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:17,080 is displacement, which I love like an action that moves a boss 1305 01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,120 or the heroes. I love that like split the part, 1306 01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,960 like move people around the board, move yourself around the 1307 01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:23,040 board. That's really great. 1308 01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,440 So they either teleport or swing you all away or something. 1309 01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,000 And then #4 is defense. Then there's the section here on 1310 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,160 putting mini bosses together, which is like a, it's a 1311 01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,080 simplified version of the boss, which is fantastic. 1312 01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:36,760 Great graphic here, like a cyclops tortoise section here on 1313 01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,160 items. There's a shops, how much they 1314 01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:40,760 cost, what they do and stuff like that. 1315 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:42,760 I don't mind this one because it's like a video game, like you 1316 01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:46,640 need out the shop list general item things like a particular 1317 01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,240 key. Most keys open any lock, but not 1318 01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,120 the particular key. That's a particular lock. 1319 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,640 Shock ring, frost ring, monster mask, all that stuff. 1320 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:57,840 This is a special items table here on page 30. 1321 01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,720 The first four are the first four listed previously, and then 1322 01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:05,400 it is a full D44 table including a hover disc and a mirror 1323 01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:08,040 shield. Not have the mirror shield? 1324 01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,760 Well, if he throws this dark energy bolt at you, you got to 1325 01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:12,920 block it. You gotta, yeah, that's what you 1326 01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:14,560 gotta be doing. There's a loot table for 1327 01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:18,560 standard loot and chest loot, both obviously double D tables, 1328 01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:22,320 D44. The the a whole breakdown of the 1329 01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,560 overworld section, which we talked about a little bit in the 1330 01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,240 front of the map. It talks about traveling and 1331 01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:28,520 the, and the content in the area. 1332 01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:32,040 There's AWD table here with features and obstacles for 1333 01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,120 overall travel. And that's the entire master 1334 01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,240 section. And then what you get into are 1335 01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:38,320 three adventures. You got the woodland tomb. 1336 01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:40,440 We're just going to go right back to the beginning. 1337 01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:46,360 You have the Woodland Tomb, the Lake Tower, the Cavern of Flame, 1338 01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,040 and the Cerulean Citadel. I love it in. 1339 01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:51,720 Citadel. The forest, the lake and the 1340 01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:55,840 volcano before you can go back to Citadel town and unseal the 1341 01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,760 Cerulean Citadel so you can defeat the Shadow King, whose 1342 01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:03,880 dark presence is invading the overall it's I it's it's so it's 1343 01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:05,960 so good. So the entire campaign to start 1344 01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:10,040 to get the original 3 Trinity fragments, if that's what you 1345 01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,480 want to do are in those three. They're incredibly well laid 1346 01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:14,800 out. They're incredibly well done. 1347 01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:17,960 I mean we'll just flip through them a little bit as I scroll 1348 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,040 through the maps are very grid based, but with a non linear 1349 01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:24,880 pathway through. One thing I really love is that 1350 01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:29,840 even though the stats are listed in the monster section in the 1351 01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,240 adventures, the stat blocks are listed for each one again, which 1352 01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:33,560 is really cool, really well done. 1353 01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,840 They're very vibey, very well laid out, very interesting. 1354 01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:41,640 All the bosses are really cool. You got a you get a nice flavor 1355 01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,399 because you get in three different kind of like land 1356 01:08:44,399 --> 01:08:48,880 types as you go through and it's just they're gorgeous. 1357 01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,520 And then so I definitely read, I definitely read up on some of 1358 01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:52,640 the shadow King stuff in the back. 1359 01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:54,160 So good. And I'm going to scroll real 1360 01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:55,680 quick. So you don't hit that, but like 1361 01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:58,399 so good. And then at the end, the Shadow 1362 01:08:58,399 --> 01:09:00,640 King has been banished. Peace returns to the Kingdom 1363 01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,160 once more. You are the heroes of Cerulean. 1364 01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:05,080 Your brave deeds become legend, etcetera, etcetera. 1365 01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:09,319 And then in the back there is a master summary, which is is 1366 01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:13,720 great, which is basics, agenda, loot, and then a rule summary, 1367 01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:15,960 which is all the basics you need for the rule. 1368 01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:19,439 And when you actually go through in the book, it's the same 1369 01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:20,760 thing. In the front you get the 1370 01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:25,920 overworld map and in the back the last couple of pages are the 1371 01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,960 master summary. I don't see that very often by 1372 01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,160 the way as well, like a like you can see rule summaries, but a 1373 01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:35,000 like masters or GM summary at the back of book. 1374 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:36,439 I'm like, oh, that's a great idea. 1375 01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:40,520 Oh yeah, the last page is that and then the in papers are your 1376 01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:42,760 rule summary, which we said this before. 1377 01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,040 I love Paris and princesses. The one thing that I'll probably 1378 01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,359 change though, is that the rule summary was split across the 1379 01:09:47,359 --> 01:09:49,000 front end page and the back end page. 1380 01:09:49,319 --> 01:09:52,000 This one is the the in Page and the back cover. 1381 01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:54,560 So laying flat on your table, you have the rule summary 1382 01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,440 sitting right in front of you, which is absolutely stunning. 1383 01:09:57,120 --> 01:10:01,200 I mean, it's so OK, so that's the game. 1384 01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:03,480 That's the game. And in the back, obviously the 1385 01:10:03,480 --> 01:10:06,640 back looks like looks like norm cartridge and everything. 1386 01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:08,880 So we're going to hop right into it. 1387 01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:10,800 Review scores where you'll hear all the innings. 1388 01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:15,280 So for those that do not know real quick, we have we we, we 1389 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,040 quantify our terrible opinions into 5 scores, each worth 10 1390 01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:23,120 points for a Max of 50. We look at so so as much of A 1391 01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,000 game review, this is just a product review as well. 1392 01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,320 That's why we often wait till we get the physical in our hands to 1393 01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:30,160 talk about it. Art and layout is the art in the 1394 01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:32,320 book and visually the layout in the book. 1395 01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:37,640 So just visually, how it looks, usability is the usability of 1396 01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:41,680 the book, is it readable? Are the sections, in our 1397 01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,480 opinion, in the right order? Are there hyperlinks? 1398 01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,000 Are there bookmarks? Are there ways that make it 1399 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:48,560 where you can absorb the information in the book? 1400 01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:51,120 The rule set is the rule set. If it's adapted, how well is it 1401 01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,200 adapted? If it's new, do we like it? 1402 01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,600 Do we feel that it is good originality? 1403 01:10:56,080 --> 01:11:02,160 It's very it's in any aspect. Is it original and the value is 1404 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,080 bang for your buck. How much? 1405 01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,920 Not only how much it cost directly, but what you get with 1406 01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:09,200 it too. So when you buy the book, do you 1407 01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,880 get character sheets? Do you get PDFs? 1408 01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,880 Do you get printable stuff? Is there an app? 1409 01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,160 Is there a website that where you can get download more stuff 1410 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:18,760 for free? Are there adventures for it? 1411 01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:21,520 All the stuff when you get the book, do you have stuff to play? 1412 01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:25,600 So art and layout what are what are your thoughts? 1413 01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:29,680 Oh, obviously this is it's going to suffer here because the arts 1414 01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:31,600 now I'm saying it's. Yeah. 1415 01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:34,520 What a beautiful book. You know, I, I, I was at work 1416 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,560 yesterday talking like my Co worker who plays some tabletop 1417 01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,360 games, mostly D&D. And I was like, you want to see 1418 01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:42,200 how cool this book looks? And I popped it up and then 1419 01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:43,600 showed me. It's like, oh, wow, this is like 1420 01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:47,160 very good looking. Yeah, it is very good looking. 1421 01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:48,760 Yeah. I love this book. 1422 01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:52,280 I love the layout of it. It's incredibly readable all the 1423 01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:53,240 way through. It's fun. 1424 01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:56,680 It's nice to look at. It's well organized. 1425 01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:00,440 Yeah, a fairly high score for me. 1426 01:12:00,440 --> 01:12:03,880 I mean, this is like, at the very least an 8. 1427 01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:07,040 This is kind of nine territory for me, man, you know? 1428 01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:09,600 Yeah, I mean, so this is what we're talking about. 1429 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:15,480 Like as far as what you want from a book to be with visually, 1430 01:12:15,480 --> 01:12:17,720 both art and the layout. You can't ask for more. 1431 01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:21,040 There's every every spot where there are candy art and even 1432 01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,880 somewhere you didn't expect. You know, there's there's extra 1433 01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,880 art like even like lay it on the pages with like some of the 1434 01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,440 sprites like talking here you. Know some little? 1435 01:12:29,440 --> 01:12:31,200 Boxes they're. Great. 1436 01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:35,120 They're great. I mean, almost every monster in 1437 01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:38,520 the monster section has a picture. 1438 01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,680 I think if there's 54 monsters, there's probably like at least, 1439 01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:43,520 well, that's not really 54, but you know what I mean. 1440 01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:44,880 I'd say at least three quarters do. 1441 01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,160 And when they don't, it's just there's not a room on the page. 1442 01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:49,920 So there's nothing for the spider just because it's like no 1443 01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,280 room for it. But this page has 1234. 1444 01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,920 Yeah, this page has six monsters on it and four of them have art. 1445 01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,920 And the art is stunning. Like you said, that warlock, the 1446 01:12:59,960 --> 01:13:01,280 the Shadow King piece in the beginning. 1447 01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,120 I mean, artistically gorgeous. The pixel art is gorgeous. 1448 01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:07,120 The visually, I love the colors of the layout. 1449 01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,560 It's like, again, we're not talking about readability and 1450 01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:11,560 stuff like that, but it's it's so nice. 1451 01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:13,680 It's not a stark white. We talked about that before. 1452 01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:15,680 It's very easy to read. It's beautiful. 1453 01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:18,680 I mean, I do also think that this is, I mean, I think it's 1454 01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,720 an, I mean, I'm not about. I would go with mine for this if 1455 01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:23,880 you're good with that. You I would say, are you, are 1456 01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:25,520 you thinking of 10? No. 1457 01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:29,320 OK, well the 9. Are you thinking of 10? 1458 01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:31,040 Hell no. I'm kind of brushing against 1459 01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:32,280 them. Just kind of think what else I 1460 01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:36,320 could I could possibly have. So that's, that's, that's when 1461 01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:38,720 it becomes A10 for me is when I don't get asked like what it 1462 01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:40,440 could be. I go, oh, it's because of that 1463 01:13:40,440 --> 01:13:41,360 thing right there. It's a 10. 1464 01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:44,400 Like it's, it's, it's, I think with all of our scores, we look 1465 01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,040 at things and like 9 is as high as we go because 10 has to be 1466 01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,760 something that we're just not going to see again, you know, 1467 01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,480 and like the ones that we have given 10s for, like the book is 1468 01:13:53,480 --> 01:13:54,520 gorgeous and the layout's gorgeous. 1469 01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:57,040 But those are, those have been like super, those have been like 1470 01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:00,360 art books, you know what I mean? Like hell money where it was 1471 01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,880 literally put together like actual physical art that was 1472 01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:05,520 made outside and then scanned into the book and shit. 1473 01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,200 Like that's what made it A10. You know, it's, it's that little 1474 01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,240 bit extra, but I'm super down for an eye on this. 1475 01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:15,760 I think it's visually like exactly what it wants to be and 1476 01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:20,400 more than I expected usability. Super usable. 1477 01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,400 Like there's bookmarks, there's usability tools, things are in 1478 01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,520 the order that I would expect them to be. 1479 01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,520 All of the player stuff is front loaded so that the players don't 1480 01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:32,360 have to like have a bunch of access data that is really for 1481 01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:37,720 the game master. There's inline hyperlinks. 1482 01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:42,320 There is a player pamphlet for just players to go through 1483 01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,720 there. I think this is incredibly 1484 01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:46,040 usable. It's a great example of what to 1485 01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:49,120 do. It's got color-coded chapters, 1486 01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,520 so even if you just open the book up, you know where you are. 1487 01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:55,080 There's a silk bookmark. I don't know. 1488 01:14:55,120 --> 01:15:00,240 I mean listen, this is a great example of how to do the thing 1489 01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:04,720 correctly. Yep, Yep, this is. 1490 01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:07,960 This is a perfect example of how to do the thing correctly. 1491 01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:10,360 I mean, Oh. Also, there's a there's rules 1492 01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:12,160 reference at the the Backpage of the book. 1493 01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,720 Not only is there a character rules reference, there is a 1494 01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:17,600 master rules reference, but you never see. 1495 01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:20,440 I don't know if I've seen it before, maybe I have once I'm 1496 01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:22,800 forgetting, but I can't think of another time. 1497 01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:25,680 Well, and the GM screen is is perfect and. 1498 01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:29,480 The GM screen, yeah. Yeah, love, love that. 1499 01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:31,800 But as far as like usability goes, something like this is a 1500 01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:36,560 huge boon. As I said in the we'll talk 1501 01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:38,680 about this again in value, but like you said, the the the 1502 01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:42,360 player booklet like this, if I could have got three more of 1503 01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:44,080 these, you could easily. I don't even need to give this 1504 01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:46,080 to people to play the game. I can just give them this and 1505 01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,240 then we'd be good and it'll be available on the website. 1506 01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:53,400 I mean, yeah, I think this is an easy 9. 1507 01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:56,960 Yeah. Easy 9 it's not a ten. 1508 01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:59,400 I'll tell you exactly why it's not a 10 because what's 1509 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:02,200 interesting is this is actually has he has a lot of the similar 1510 01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:05,480 notes for why Troika's A10 for me and the only thing because 1511 01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:09,240 the color-coded sections color-coded papers like 1512 01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:11,040 everything hyperlinked. It could possibly be hyperlinked 1513 01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:16,360 just over the website. Is the bonus hyperlink that 1514 01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:19,320 Troika does, where the like the headers and footers and page 1515 01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,240 numbers take you back to the beginning of the chapter I. 1516 01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:24,000 Tested those actually when I was like, oh, I didn't test and 1517 01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,800 footers, yeah. I'm like, I do always like think 1518 01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,760 that that's something that it doesn't mean like matters, but 1519 01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:31,480 it's not there. But listen, if you were making a 1520 01:16:31,480 --> 01:16:34,920 game and you're making a hyperlink rich, if in the footer 1521 01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:37,280 header, you make the hyperlink go back to your table of 1522 01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:40,000 contents. Like that is such a quality of 1523 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,000 life thing that I, you know, yeah. 1524 01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,880 Think about it, yeah. That's why Troika goes above 1525 01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:48,120 beyond is because they have all of that. 1526 01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,480 And then but but The thing is like they have one, they have 1527 01:16:51,480 --> 01:16:54,960 one like one of the links on, on, on the on one page takes you 1528 01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,160 to the beginning of the chapter you're in and one takes you back 1529 01:16:57,160 --> 01:16:59,160 to the table of contents. So no matter where you go in the 1530 01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:01,960 book, you can easily bump back to the table of contents or back 1531 01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:05,320 to the Yeah, that's that's where where it goes. 1532 01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,000 Like that's that's ridiculous. That's above and beyond that. 1533 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:09,760 We're not that's not an expectation, but that's what 1534 01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:11,800 gets you a 10 here on with the scroll. 1535 01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:15,520 Where it matters. Yeah, where it matters, yeah, I 1536 01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:17,440 enjoy it a lot. I think it's super simple, but I 1537 01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:19,800 think it's it it's, it's one of those things where like it 1538 01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,760 definitely. There's so many real slits out 1539 01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:26,600 there that like edit but not edit is in like get an editor 1540 01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:29,840 edit is in like, you know, when you watch a lot of like baking 1541 01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:31,800 shows where they say edit, edit like get rid of some 1542 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:34,280 ingredients, like chop it down. Like that's exactly what I mean 1543 01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:35,280 here. Like there's a bunch of stuff 1544 01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,440 that you don't need. And this game said what do we 1545 01:17:38,440 --> 01:17:39,960 not need? Get rid of it. 1546 01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:43,680 And the things we do offer offer it in like a clear, concise, 1547 01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,600 like simple way that stays true to theme. 1548 01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:49,480 I enjoy it. I can't. 1549 01:17:49,480 --> 01:17:53,960 I looked for something to not like about the rule set in this. 1550 01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:55,960 And first of all, that's incredibly light. 1551 01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:59,320 You know, I couldn't find anything that I didn't that I 1552 01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,000 didn't love. I mean, even the D4 thing, I was 1553 01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:03,320 like, eh. But then as soon as they said, 1554 01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,520 well, it looks like a pyramid, I'm like perfect, then it's 1555 01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,400 perfect. Like I would have. 1556 01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,360 Almost been mad if it was AD 6 because it it looks like a 1557 01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:14,520 fucking pyramid. So like I don't know what are 1558 01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:17,320 your thoughts? I, I, I honestly, actually I'm 1559 01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:19,040 out of nine for the rule set as well. 1560 01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:24,120 I just think this is one of those that shows it's, it's how 1561 01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,800 clever it is through how through use of simplicity. 1562 01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,480 And I, I love that it like it full leans into the video game 1563 01:18:31,480 --> 01:18:33,760 aspect in every way that it possibly could. 1564 01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:38,120 And like there's not one moment of this where it doesn't contain 1565 01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:41,040 that like a video game aspect. And I really, I think it it sets 1566 01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,840 out to do a thing and it does incredibly well. 1567 01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:50,440 Yeah. I mean, yeah, as far as you 1568 01:18:50,440 --> 01:18:54,520 know, a rules bright game would be a game that sticks to the 1569 01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:57,720 theme. Yeah. 1570 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:02,280 I mean, I don't know, it's kind of hard to give a game a nine 1571 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,680 though, because, you know, the only thing that would even make 1572 01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:07,680 me hesitate about the nines is when we look at other games that 1573 01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:09,760 have gotten nines, things like Necronautilus and stuff like 1574 01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:12,240 that. I'm like, does this game compare 1575 01:19:12,440 --> 01:19:14,360 to Necronautilus? Because that's how we've done a 1576 01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:16,480 lot of things does. This game successfully do it 1577 01:19:16,480 --> 01:19:21,160 sets out to Necronautilus sets out to do very successfully the 1578 01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:23,680 type of game it's trying to do, and it uses the rules in that 1579 01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:27,920 way to do that thing. This game, in a very similar but 1580 01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,720 much different way, sets out to create a video gaming experience 1581 01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:33,520 and I think it really nails that. 1582 01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:36,720 Yeah, I don't disagree. I just think, you know, for a 1583 01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,080 lot of the games we look at, when we look at it compared 1584 01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,720 especially specifically to rule set, that's a lot of things we 1585 01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:44,880 come down to. It's just like, OK, it like 1586 01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:47,920 let's look at the other games that have gotten nines and does 1587 01:19:47,920 --> 01:19:50,080 this one compare to those kind of games? 1588 01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,320 If not, it's an 8. If yes, then it's a nine. 1589 01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:53,760 Again, we've only given 110 before. 1590 01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:59,560 You know Kingdoms from Sofia. Tenny Necronalis is like a 9.6 1591 01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:03,520 or 9.5. Might kind of be actually a 10. 1592 01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:06,920 That one, honestly, if we sat down and looked at it again, 1593 01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:10,520 that's probably our second ten. Yeah, but you're good with this 1594 01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:13,360 being a nine. This magazine score like like. 1595 01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:16,320 Like I mean, do you, what do you think it is? 1596 01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:20,760 I, I think it's fantastic. Again, my only, my only thing 1597 01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:23,240 stopping me is just like when I think of some of the games we've 1598 01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:28,160 given nines to, I love that this game does exactly what it wants 1599 01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:31,680 to do. It does it and it does it 1600 01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:36,240 extremely successfully. I just think that like it is the 1601 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,880 simplicity is one of the strengths of it. 1602 01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:41,560 But in context of some of the other games, when you look at 1603 01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:44,680 things like Necronomics or like the the depth within that 1604 01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:48,160 simplicity, like the words thing to me is like it's simple, but 1605 01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:51,200 the amount of depth built into that. 1606 01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,640 OK. So that's an approach to this 1607 01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:56,640 conversation that I'm more receptive to. 1608 01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:58,720 OK. So this does what it wants to do 1609 01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,640 successfully. Yeah, I think I'm a really solid 1610 01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:06,600 8 for this, I think. So again, to me, in my head, 10s 1611 01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,800 are basically off, off, off the table. 1612 01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:11,280 So it's the same thing with nine, like what takes it above 1613 01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:13,840 to get to the 9. And this, I think the simplicity 1614 01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:17,640 is both its strength and in this specific context, it might be 1615 01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,040 the only thing holding it back a little bit just because there's 1616 01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:23,840 not just a little bit more, a little bit extra, it just, but 1617 01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:29,840 it does the thing that it wants to do perfectly originality. 1618 01:21:30,480 --> 01:21:33,720 So this is this like the, I think, I think Lucas Falk posted 1619 01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:38,480 a picture of three Zelda games on Twitter. 1620 01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:40,600 So you can't say it. We, we did. 1621 01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:42,480 This is our second one in, in two weeks. 1622 01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:47,880 So what was the third one? It's yeah, I got you. 1623 01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:48,960 It's. I sent you. 1624 01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,600 I sent you. Well, yeah, yeah, I still need 1625 01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:53,240 to grab that one. I think it's over on spear which 1626 01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:55,440 right now, I think Spear which and maybe rating and Daddy has 1627 01:21:55,440 --> 01:22:01,480 it, but and then Lucas in the chat set. 1628 01:22:01,480 --> 01:22:04,360 I think a problem with the rules could be it's a bit too niche to 1629 01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,480 play really long campaigns and things like that. 1630 01:22:06,480 --> 01:22:07,840 It just depends. I mean, your map would have to 1631 01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:13,040 get a lot bigger, but I, I do think that with the simplicity, 1632 01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,120 I think it's not that you couldn't, I just think that I, 1633 01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:21,640 even though it does things extremely well, I would say 1634 01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,760 there's not a ton of depth where like after you've done three or 1635 01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:28,440 four of these dungeons, I might be like, OK, I've, I've, I've 1636 01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:30,520 scratched my nostalgic itch a bitch. 1637 01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:33,720 I've fallen down into lava and and blinked back like four 1638 01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,360 times. Like I could play something 1639 01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:36,480 else. You know, that's my thought. 1640 01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:40,320 Originality though, I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a 1641 01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:45,040 Zelda game. Umm, but you know, even if we 1642 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,640 just want to talk about like things like, because originality 1643 01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:49,720 could mean anything. Have you seen a game that looks 1644 01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:50,960 like a Nintendo? Purchase, No. 1645 01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:54,640 Visually it's just so great. The book is so unique, I think. 1646 01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:58,080 I think as far as original originality goes, there's a lot 1647 01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:00,880 of genre emulation in what we talk about, and there's nothing 1648 01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:02,840 wrong with that. And I actually love that about 1649 01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:04,440 this space. I love when people put their own 1650 01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:07,760 twist on it or they pick the things about that genre or that 1651 01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,280 inspiration that they like and they're like, that's why I want 1652 01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,680 to continue forward. But I think as far as this being 1653 01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:16,040 a video game, tabletop game, there's a lot of like really 1654 01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:20,440 fun, unique moments in this that I feel like other tabletop games 1655 01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:22,640 kind of stay away from because they don't want to feel very 1656 01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:24,080 video game. And this on the other hand, is 1657 01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,480 like, no, this is we're going, we're going all in. 1658 01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:30,960 And I think it shines in that like as far as originality goes, 1659 01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,480 because people don't always love that in their own game they 1660 01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:36,920 make. Yeah, which they should. 1661 01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,920 I love the video game aspect. Like this weird. 1662 01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:43,200 There's this weird, like we can't do like video games except 1663 01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:44,680 like, that's, I mean, here's the thing. 1664 01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,360 Here's the big difference between TRPG and video game 1665 01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:51,680 people. There are studios of video game 1666 01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:53,920 people. They're a professional. 1667 01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:56,880 There's like thousands and thousands of professional people 1668 01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,200 that do this. There are tons of game designers 1669 01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:01,680 out there that have made their living just writing books about 1670 01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,240 designing games and shit in the video game space. 1671 01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:06,480 Point ME3 in the teacher RPG space. 1672 01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,680 Yeah. You know, they they know what 1673 01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,200 they're doing, they know what they're talking about and a 1674 01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:15,480 level design in a video game and level design in CRPG. 1675 01:24:15,480 --> 01:24:16,800 You can take a lot of those things from it. 1676 01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,480 I'm where you at with this on for originality and I think and 1677 01:24:20,480 --> 01:24:22,800 and all the same things that you just said are where I'm at with 1678 01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:24,960 it is just. I think you need a video game in 1679 01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:29,360 six, you know? I'm sorry, I think I'm a strong 1680 01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:30,960 seven on this. I think the only thing that 1681 01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:33,240 keeps it, the only thing that keeps it from me, is the fact 1682 01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:37,920 that like we can name 3. 3. Zelda games like instantly like 1683 01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:39,760 rehops overhead. OK, so value. 1684 01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,960 So as far as a Kickstarter goes, again, I backed it for, I don't 1685 01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:47,040 know, some kroners and but I was able to get, and I'm just 1686 01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:51,280 talking about the the the Kickstarter stuff. 1687 01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:53,480 I got the regular book, what exists in the world for this 1688 01:24:53,480 --> 01:24:55,520 game? Again, the regular book, the GM 1689 01:24:55,520 --> 01:25:03,280 screen, the special gold book, the player pamphlet, the two 1690 01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:06,720 bonus adventures. And there's APDF of the solo 1691 01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:08,200 mode sitting on my Dropbox right now. 1692 01:25:08,320 --> 01:25:08,960 Oh right. Yeah. 1693 01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:15,600 So on top of all of that, just from the PDF side of what we 1694 01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:23,360 got, we also got Heroes of Cerulia new because there is an 1695 01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,920 OG version on Twitch, Heroes of Cerulia core. 1696 01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:33,240 So you got PDFs of everything I just said you get the game 1697 01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,880 temple, you get I got Halls of Smoke and Ash and I got Temple 1698 01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:41,840 of Legends and the whole overall area section PDF in the hero 1699 01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:44,960 sheets. We got a printable one, we got a 1700 01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:52,160 regular one, and then I got one that is in Excel. 1701 01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:54,480 Bring an Excel version of the sheet. 1702 01:25:56,320 --> 01:26:03,000 And then all of the all of the maps in the game you get as PDF. 1703 01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:04,960 So you get maps of all of the games in that stuff. 1704 01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:07,760 So the what you get is incredible. 1705 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,080 Yeah. On top of that, so the game's 1706 01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:12,000 not physically released to the public yet. 1707 01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,280 What were you looking at? What was that? 1708 01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:16,280 I thought you were. Yeah. 1709 01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:19,920 Oh well. So also it says this in our chat 1710 01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:21,280 because Lucas Fox is in the chat. 1711 01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:27,560 The PDFs are name your own price on itch right now. 1712 01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:31,280 And also when the physical book comes out, it will be 2995 that 1713 01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:34,400 is EUR. So I believe that is about 30 to 1714 01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:39,960 $33 American, which for this book, great. 1715 01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:42,640 Yeah, fantastic. It's, it's so it's such a, it's 1716 01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:45,000 such a good looking book that like, I think that's an 1717 01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:46,440 incredible price for it, you know? 1718 01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:51,240 Yeah, incredible. Yeah, I mean it's like a 70. 1719 01:26:52,480 --> 01:26:55,760 It's like an 82 page book with all the embossing, the ribbon, 1720 01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:56,920 everything. Fantastic price. 1721 01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:00,000 So yeah, like 37 bucks. You know, third, third party 1722 01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:01,800 license just came out. I don't know if you said that 1723 01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:04,440 when I was looking something I didn't price, but yeah, the 1724 01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:07,120 third party license just it was released this past week. 1725 01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:09,800 And so we can look forward to having more adventures to come 1726 01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:12,160 out for this game. So I think that really increased 1727 01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:14,960 the value as well. Yeah, well, yeah, for this. 1728 01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:18,560 I think it's incredible value. Again, like the book by itself 1729 01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:22,120 has four dungeons in it. I got like three more dungeons. 1730 01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,360 Yeah, it's a campaign. You got like three more 1731 01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:26,320 dungeons. You got solo mode, You got the 1732 01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:28,520 whole overall map to do your own thing with enough guidance to 1733 01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:29,760 build as many dungeons as you want. 1734 01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:31,720 Like literally an infinite number of dungeons that you want 1735 01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,280 the third party license like you just said, like the physical 1736 01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:40,360 release coming out. I mean for like it's an 1737 01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:42,080 incredible value. I mean, again, for 30 bucks, 1738 01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:46,480 this is crazy. I'm a easy eight at least. 1739 01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:50,000 I think I'm mad at 8 as well. Yeah, yeah. 1740 01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:52,680 Well, here's the other thing too though. 1741 01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:54,560 Like the thing that might bump it up a little bit more though 1742 01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:59,800 is one thing that they said the PDF of this book, I assume the 1743 01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:03,000 one that we're looking at right now will be pay what you want, 1744 01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:04,520 just like every game that they put out. 1745 01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:06,400 And they specifically said that all of the games are. 1746 01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,240 Pay what you want, might be a nine to me. 1747 01:28:08,440 --> 01:28:12,560 Theoretically free, like if you don't have the money, that's a 1748 01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:13,880 thing. Like the fact that you can get 1749 01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:17,400 like an 80 something page PDF for free, play this game. 1750 01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:19,800 And if the PDF is free, that means you get the entire 1751 01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,080 campaign for free too. Like well, pay what you want. 1752 01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:23,800 Pay what? You pay, you can, you know. 1753 01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:25,760 Yeah. So I mean I think that makes the 1754 01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:27,480 9 for me. Honestly, I think so too. 1755 01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:29,400 I think it really pushes A29, yeah. 1756 01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:31,280 So that's. What We said that before, like 1757 01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:34,760 if your game is free, it's hard not to say it's got great value. 1758 01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:39,000 That's a 42. Bro I you know I have to do it 1759 01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:40,120 anyway. I know. 1760 01:28:41,040 --> 01:28:44,200 That's a 42. That is it. 1761 01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:46,840 It is. What if I was like, no, it's a 1762 01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,040 43, you fucked up. I would. 1763 01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:51,760 Be like wow that's crazy. Yeah, incredible score. 1764 01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:53,560 I mean, one of the realistically, I mean the high 1765 01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:55,800 scores we put for a regular game, I think the highest one 1766 01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:59,200 we've ever done is a 44. I think like Necronalus is like 1767 01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:02,880 a 4344, so one of the top like three to five games we've ever 1768 01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:04,960 looked at. I think it deserves it for a 1769 01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:08,720 game that is this simple, it does everything it wanted to do 1770 01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:13,080 above and beyond. It succeeded and every aspect 1771 01:29:13,080 --> 01:29:16,120 exceeded my expectations. It's beautiful. 1772 01:29:16,160 --> 01:29:17,880 It's gorgeous. I highly recommend it. 1773 01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:19,600 I definitely want to play this one. 1774 01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:22,040 We're putting it in our side quest list of stuff so that Josh 1775 01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:27,320 will run it for us. I it's it's it's fantastic. 1776 01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:31,360 Anyone that's making games out there right now should read this 1777 01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:33,640 book so that you can write your. Games Better. 1778 01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:36,400 A lot of good examples to take out of this book for how to do 1779 01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:39,960 things well. Yes, in in rules, in rules 1780 01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:44,920 writing, in rules design, in layout, in, in quality product. 1781 01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:48,960 I mean, it's it's great. It's fantastic. 1782 01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:51,600 And that's it. That's us. 1783 01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:53,000 That's our show. Lucas, thank you so much for 1784 01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:54,480 being in chat with us. We really appreciate everyone 1785 01:29:54,480 --> 01:29:57,040 that was here. The book is coming out within 1786 01:29:57,040 --> 01:29:59,080 the next month. Make sure you follow Black Fisk 1787 01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:01,320 Pub on Twitter. We'll make sure that all the 1788 01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:05,200 links to the original on twitch, plus, you know their publishing 1789 01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:08,160 site and and everything is in the links and wherever you know 1790 01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:09,400 where they are, it's the Internet. 1791 01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:12,360 You know where things are. That's it that's us for today. 1792 01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:14,200 You all have a wonderful day, Hunter. 1793 01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:17,800 Have a a great rest of your day bud and very. 1794 01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:20,200 Well. Douchebag. 1795 01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:21,520 All right, bye.