1 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,760 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,080 My name is Ryan and I'm. Loretta Green. 3 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,400 And today we are going to be going over moonlight on 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,800 Roseville Beach. This is a queer game of disco 5 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,800 and cosmic horror. It's a tabletop role-playing 6 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,400 game about a queer beach town in 1979 and the residents who solve 7 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,200 its strange occult mysteries and protect it from elder gods, 8 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,960 weird monsters and greedy real estate developers. 9 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,080 Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, this is this is a 10 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,720 great one and this from our Rook studio. 11 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:53,200 They've done a lot of stuff. It's interesting. 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,800 I bought a lot of things over time and then realized as I 13 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,480 eventually like found Richard and their portfolio that I have 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,440 all of this. I have Enoch Week and I have 15 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,720 shared with an Apple and things because they all slapped super 16 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,600 hard but but happy Valentine's Day buddy. 17 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,400 Happy. Valentine's Day. 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,040 Hey, love you, love, love you man. 19 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,440 Love you too. Hey and Jess, whoever knows 20 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,840 where we stand on everything, it is Valentine's Day. 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,240 Love is love, and that means everybody gets love, whoever the 22 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:29,120 fuck they want. So the entire LGBTQIA we if you 23 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,280 yeah community, if we support them and if you don't go fuck 24 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,160 yourself, I think is yeah, you know, if you if you are not a 25 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,240 fan, you're not a fan of us. Either. 26 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,440 I don't know in game in Grand Theft Auto role-playing do that, 27 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,320 but but yeah, as I said, this is a day of love and that means 28 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,360 everyone can love whoever the fuck they want. 29 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,160 Where does a couple assists at white dudes? 30 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,640 And we try to be as supportive as we can and we're going to try 31 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,200 to be as respectful as we can as we go through this game, which 32 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,840 is it's not even queer coded. It's just an incredibly queer 33 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,919 game. It's so fucking good. 34 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,560 It's a. Great, not just game itself is a 35 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,760 great like overall product and the setting is great and the 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,160 mechanics for it are really interesting. 37 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,200 Yeah, shout out this game. Yeah, yeah, we're going to go 38 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,160 over it if you if you couldn't guess, we like it. 39 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:29,280 So you don't need to listen to the next two hours probably, but 40 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,360 but yes, so we'll get into a little bit of the game. 41 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,760 We do want to quick make a quick stop though. 42 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,760 A quick, a little Dewey tour, little detour. 43 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,000 We're going to go over to Kickstarter, actually. 44 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,440 Wow. Throwback kickstart the podcast, 45 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,040 y'all. Right, right, crazy. 46 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:56,080 Let's hop over here. So our Rook studio, the maker of 47 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,960 the game that we're going to be reviewing today, Moonlight on 48 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,160 Roseville Beach, but those are unaware Zine quest is going on 49 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,040 right now. So a lot of things are funding, 50 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,520 a lot of things are crowdfunding across the various things and 51 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,680 richest project is Silver age. This is a mark of the odd game 52 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,360 of werewolves. It's a tip top RPG of bad moon, 53 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,440 small towns, monsters, heroes and sacred medals. 54 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,320 This one looks really cool. I mean, obviously you are are 55 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,840 the big mark of the odd guy. Yeah, you had me, Mark of the 56 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,680 Odd. Yeah, how about Hattie, Texas in 57 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,920 1991? I know where Hattie, Texas is, 58 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,640 I'll tell you that. The craziest thing is that I 59 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:35,960 guess Richard also grew up in Texas and so did both of us. 60 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,120 We were all born in Texas and moved to various places. 61 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,680 But anyway, so Silver Age is a tip and OP role-playing game of 62 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,800 werewolves and the towns to protect. 63 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,240 A love letter to werewolf cinema, Jack Williamson's Darker 64 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,080 Than You Think, TJ Cloons, Wolf's Wolf Song and late night 65 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,400 sessions of Maids, The Ascension and Werewolf the Apocalypse. 66 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,680 The cover slaps like crazy. This werewolf kind of like 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,080 holding the head of this person in front of them. 68 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,280 But this is inspired by the their time living in West TX. 69 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,080 It says like a lot of little towns in the hills between 70 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,720 Abilene and San Angelo, Hattie is deeply implicated in the 71 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,680 problems of both the 1990s and twenty 20s. 72 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,880 American militarism, corporate prisons and carceral state and 73 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,400 the carceral state. It's town fathers, It's town 74 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,160 fathers sold its all for pork barrel and graft, but what they 75 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,480 got returned were monsters. Hattie needs heroes. 76 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,560 And in Silver Age, it gets heroes the town's respectable 77 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,560 citizens would never choose and could never deserve. 78 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,640 So werewolves, Hey, and, and we, we, we have, we have somebody in 79 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,080 chat who might be interested in what we're talking about today. 80 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,120 It's a great game. This is very interesting looking 81 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,160 game. It is funded. 82 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:53,640 It's still going for 11 more days. 83 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,840 It's over on Kickstarter. If you like Mark of the Odd, if 84 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:58,600 you like werewolves and if you like all the stuff that our Rook 85 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,480 studio has done, I highly recommend backing it. 86 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,920 This was an instant back for me. A quick reminder too, we are not 87 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,560 sponsored by fucking anybody. We dislike cool shit and this 88 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,120 game looks really, really cool and as does the game that we're 89 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,800 looking at today. So definitely go recommend 90 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:15,480 backing that. I'm really excited to get this 91 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,120 one. So we'll see how. 92 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,200 It goes. We have a very inverse model on 93 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,800 our podcast. Instead of making money doing 94 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,200 it, it actually cost us money because we buy all these games. 95 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,280 Yes, it it, it's cost us a lot of money. 96 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:31,160 Someone actually asked on our our blue sky, Hey, you guys 97 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,920 don't accept review copies. Does that mean you bought 98 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,040 everything? And I was like, yes. 99 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,160 Yes. It does, I have bought the 100 100 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,760 plus games and more. Every game that we review, we do 101 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,200 purchase. This is just our model. 102 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:45,760 It is not how we feel about everyone. 103 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,960 Everyone can do their own thing, but we just feel that if we're 104 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,280 going to promote a game, we want to promote it with our money 105 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,360 too. And, and, and support in the 106 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,200 other way. Yeah. 107 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,680 Oh yeah, that's us. We're just so private. 108 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,200 We're just swimming in it. So I'll buy your $15 PDF. 109 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:03,640 No. OK. 110 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:09,520 So Moonlight on Roseville Beach. So I got a stack of stuff here. 111 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,240 I'm not going to use a down camera today because I didn't 112 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,680 set it up, but we have and I'll explain in a little bit. 113 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:17,120 No, you know what? I'll read through the thing 114 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,480 here. So Moonlight on Roseville Beach 115 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,960 was created by Richard Arun with art direction by Die Sugar. 116 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,400 Shout out Die. It was on Kickstarter for a 117 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,800 paperback run and funded on November 24th, 2021 with 420 118 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:33,960 backers for $11,364.00 on a $3000 goal. 119 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,960 That is this version. That is Moonlight on Roseville 120 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,000 Beach paperback version. Really nice big paperback It was 121 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,080 released in 2023 and has since earned a judge a spotlight any 122 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,600 award received an honorable mention from the Indie 123 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,240 Groundbreaker Awards and got a must play designation from 124 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,160 Tabletop game magazine and returned to Kickstarter for a 125 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,400 hardback run and funded on November 17th 2023 with 264 126 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,320 backers for $11,991.00 on a $4000 goal. 127 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,760 So the game twice now has made like 20 three, $24,000, which is 128 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,640 nice. And that is what this is. 129 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,200 This is the hardback and we'll get a little deeper into that. 130 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,800 And the digital book is available on itch and drive 131 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,400 through RBG and print copies are available at a number of shops, 132 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,880 including Spear witch writing and Daddy IPR exalted and and 133 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,080 more. You can find it on a bunch of 134 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:22,920 places. It's great. 135 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,000 I I. Love the paperback version 136 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,280 because I like a lot of the art from this is very romance novel 137 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,880 and I love it in the paperback because it had it feels like you 138 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,600 picked up like a a romance novel, you know? 139 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,280 It's amazing. I'm not gonna lie, I agree. 140 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,400 I'm I love that I have the hardback. 141 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,120 I love books and hardback beautiful. 142 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,560 But I do generally think that the paperback might be, in my 143 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,560 opinion, the superior edition for that exact reason. 144 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,680 I feel like I'm picking up like a pulp book, you know what I 145 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,360 mean? Yeah, and it does feel really 146 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,600 nice. Both are great and we'll go over 147 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,120 that. There's also, we're going to get 148 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,720 into a little bit more. There's three zenes that we'll 149 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,280 talk about a little bit later probably when we get to value 150 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,400 that are also part. I don't think that these are 151 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,160 available in print anywhere. I think these might have just 152 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:06,720 been on Kickstarter, but they are on Itch and we'll talk about 153 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,720 that a little bit later. But I think that is the entire 154 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,280 Moonlight on Roseville Beach plethora. 155 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,160 There is the hardback to paperback and the three zenes 156 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,440 that you can physically get in print. 157 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,920 There's more in digital, but let's one way. 158 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,120 There we go. Beautiful. 159 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,480 Boom. All right, so Moonlight on 160 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,799 Roseville Beach, a queer game of disco and cosmic horror from our 161 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:35,640 Rook studio. First of all, cover slaps. 162 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:43,120 We'll get into the arts a little bit more, but I it just looks 163 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,600 great. It's it definitely gives you 164 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,840 that immediate sense of like the 1950s to 1970s, like pulp 165 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,440 romance novel. I have these like weird, random 166 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,520 from no, for reasons I'm not going to get into these like 167 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,040 nursing romance novels from the 50s. 168 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,400 And it is the yeah, and it is the exact. 169 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,360 I'm turning them into the travel notebooks for somebody like 170 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:05,960 nurse friends and stuff like that. 171 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,520 Cool. But like it just hits and the 172 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,320 illustrations inside hit and obviously these are 173 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,720 illustrations from that era. We'll get into that a little bit 174 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,560 more. But even the way that they did 175 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:19,600 like the the the logo across the front, the writing the bottom 176 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,600 quarter first printing anywhere written on it like half the hard 177 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,320 half the paperbacks I have have that like this is the first one. 178 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:31,080 So a great cover slaps. It's really great and, and yeah, 179 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:32,800 we're gonna, I think we're gonna say it's really great a lot of 180 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,320 the times as we go through. We're probably going to. 181 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,720 I, I am a big fan of this. I did. 182 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,240 I was reading this as I was working and I was really falling 183 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:39,520 in love with this as I went through. 184 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,440 Yeah, it's, we'll talk about as we get there. 185 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,000 But my, I think my favorite part of this, shockingly, for the 186 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,760 first time I've ever, my favorite part of a game is the 187 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,680 stories in it written within the world. 188 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,040 You know, usually like if I dislike those things, I'm like, 189 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,040 oh, that's cool. But these were great. 190 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:57,800 I really enjoyed these. Yeah. 191 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:04,360 I mean, I think that I can't pick a fair. 192 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,440 I mean, I think the resolution mechanic just slaps so hard. 193 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,720 Yeah, it's really interesting. Yeah, I really can't pick as we 194 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,400 go through, I probably find that one weird random thing that I 195 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,160 always like fall in love with. But yeah. 196 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,640 So Mulana, Roseville Beach, our Rook studio, created by Richard 197 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,640 Run, written by a bunch of people, additional content by 198 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,040 more people, developmental editing, copy editing and 199 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,400 proofreading by Jared Sinclair, sensitivity reading by Brian 200 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Kunde of Gamer X and then art direction and layout by Die 201 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,640 sugars. Once again, shout out Die 202 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,640 sugars. This game looks incredible. 203 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,520 And you know, if die did it that I'm sure it's set up perfectly 204 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,400 for screen readers and they added in a page so that when we 205 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,120 flip to spreads in PDF, we get the full spread. 206 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,240 So clap for for die in the chat. Really fantastic. 207 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,400 Such a such a detail that you and I would know this. 208 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,880 You know what I mean? Right. 209 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,440 Well, because when we kicked us spreads, and this book is 210 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,480 designed to be in spreads a lot of the time, so we're going to 211 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,400 be kicking back and forth between pages and spreads. 212 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,360 But it's great. I'll say right off the bat, what 213 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,480 do we care about hyperlinks and bookmarks? 214 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,720 So guess what we got taught to hyperlinks. 215 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:15,520 You can see I clicked on an accent there, the little hand. 216 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,080 Well, I know my dumbass did it again. 217 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,960 My, my little cursor turns into a hand as I scroll over the the 218 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,800 things, which means they're hyperlinked, which is great. 219 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,920 They're pretty thoroughly hyperlinked as well too. 220 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,160 And look at that bookmarks that are pretty thoroughly bookmarked 221 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,120 too. There's a couple things missing. 222 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:38,200 We'll get to that a little bit later. 223 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,880 The only thing I noticed right on the first page is you notice 224 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,680 anything about the table of contents right on the very first 225 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:43,920 page. Like literally within like the 226 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:48,720 first 3 lines 4 lines. What and tell me? 227 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,640 There's a typo. It says Rosieville Beach 228 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:59,400 locations. Yeah, I checked it and it's in 229 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,920 all versions. It's in the physical version of 230 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,120 paperback, It's the physical hardback version and it's in the 231 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,880 PDF version. So that extra E is just kind of 232 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,200 float in there unless the Roseville has an extra 1 float 233 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,560 in there. But regardless, looks great. 234 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,200 I mean, what's weird like to say immediately, I love the font on 235 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,320 here. I love this. 236 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,560 Very like sans serif. There's a ton of style choices 237 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:24,680 made with font and layout that I'm like, these are good 238 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,480 decisions that were made, shockingly, by Dye Sugar. 239 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:29,760 Yeah. Shockingly, the person who was 240 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,440 like a fantastic at layout decided to do a really great 241 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,480 layout but so the book total is over. 242 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,440 I think it's like 160 ish pages long. 243 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,240 There's three sections. It's broken up into a Part 1 and 244 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,960 Guide for Sleuths, Part 2, Game Masters, Book of Secrets, and 245 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,760 then Part 3, Mysteries of Roseville Beach. 246 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,240 Love it. Thank you. 247 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,480 Please give me a very dedicated player section, a very dedicated 248 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:56,440 GM section where those things don't merge or crossover. 249 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,440 Like they don't need to give me the player stuff and then give 250 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,520 me the GM stuff. And they do a really good job of 251 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,320 that in here. So Part 1 has, gosh, so many. 252 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,360 I usually like to read through all of these, or so many. 253 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,600 There's like 20 different sections here. 254 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,360 We're not going to go through all of them, but there's map 255 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:16,880 locations, there's the character creation, there's the rules, and 256 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,880 then moving into the GM section, it's GM stuff and then the 257 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,560 adventures, which obviously I'm not going to go over. 258 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,560 So we'll just cruise into this a little bit. 259 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:25,720 I like the artist dedication and stuff right off the beginning in 260 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,760 the front. It says all art in this book has 261 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,800 been repurposed from works in the public domain. 262 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,440 Original artists have been credited whenever possible, but 263 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,720 the nature of pulp book illustrations mean that many 264 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,640 artists were uncredited in the original release or worked under 265 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,200 pseudonym that can no longer be traced. 266 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,360 For a good history of pulp art, I recommend reading the books 267 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,120 Queer Pulp, Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the 268 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,880 Paperback by Susan Striker, and American Pulp, How Paperbacks 269 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,360 Brought Modernism to Main Street by Paula Rabinowitz. 270 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,960 There's websites here too, Gay on therange.com and 271 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,440 strangesisters.com, both meticulously maintained by Ryan 272 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,080 Richardson with invaluable. We're also invaluable in 273 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,400 research for this book. There's an illustration index, 274 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,840 so every piece of art in the book that can be attributed is 275 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,880 here, which is fantastic. And on the next page there is a 276 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:13,760 note on representation, which is also really good. 277 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,320 I'm going to read most of this as well. 278 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:18,080 The book relies on illustrations from weird fiction and queer 279 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,840 pulp history will necessarily grapple with issues of 280 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,280 representation. For much of the 20th century, 281 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,200 the image of the queer person was predominantly white, 282 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,040 cisgender, and fit a very narrow definition of physical 283 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:29,480 attractiveness and gender expression. 284 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,440 Attempts have been made to show a variety of races and body 285 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,760 styles, but they are limited by the material available. 286 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,680 It is our hope that this book serves as a way for you and your 287 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,720 friends to create stories that showcase the full spectrum of 288 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,840 the queer experience without feeling tied to the notions of 289 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,800 the past. So using the art of a time 290 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,480 period where most of it was like white and cisgender, you know, 291 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,200 they did their best and you work with what you have at the time. 292 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,880 So that's from Die and Richard. So gosh, right off the bat, 293 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:06,360 Kicking into spreads Part 1, A Guide for Sleuths has this great 294 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,440 piece with these people running. It's a very like, I don't, it's 295 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,560 not abstract, but it's very like boxy. 296 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,320 Yeah, we'll go with that a little bit. 297 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,720 It's just not super detailed, but in a very interesting way. 298 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,120 But again, I'm just going to scroll through so people can see 299 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,280 like the spreads a little bit because I'm probably not going 300 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:26,480 to switch to spreads a lot of times. 301 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,760 But it's really designed to be read in spreads, which is great, 302 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,600 but we don't on the show because my ADHD is too bad for spreads. 303 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,840 It's too much information. So I'll. 304 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,680 Say, for a game that's like 160 pages, does not feel like it. 305 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,960 Like, you know, if you listen to the show, I am a very minimalist 306 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:50,280 boy and I love my zines. I was not at all overwhelmed by 307 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,400 going through this like I am with some other things that we 308 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,120 go through. I thought this was great. 309 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:55,760 No. Well, I mean, because 310 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,960 realistically the the players stuff before you hit GM section 311 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:03,440 is like 60 pages. And if you actually took out the 312 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,040 arts and stories and stuff like that, you're down to like 45 313 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,280 pages. And then like the character 314 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,640 classes are two pages spreads each for six of them, that's 12 315 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,760 pages. The guest stars is like 5 pages 316 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,840 so so the real bulk of this game is 3035 pages, you know, before 317 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,960 he hit some of the other stuff. So definitely not not overdone 318 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,440 here. So introduction Moonlight on 319 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,800 Roseville Beach. So this is kind of a longer 320 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,560 section. It is setting the tone for the 321 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,560 entire game. So I'm going to read a lot of 322 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,560 this, but we're going to skip through other sections that are 323 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,360 big. But since this does basically 324 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,840 give you the how the entire game is, we're going to give you this 325 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,400 right here. So Moonlight on Roseville Beach, 326 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,440 the book you have in your hands or on your screen reader that's 327 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,320 definitely a die, is a tabletop game set in the seaside village 328 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,320 of Roseville Beach. Often in tabletop role-playing 329 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,600 games, players take on the roles of veteran adventurers, 330 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,040 high-powered heroes or villains, or skilled investigators, taking 331 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,760 part in Chronicles campaigns and series that spanned nations, 332 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,320 continents, or worlds. But in Moonlight on Roseville 333 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,280 Beach, it's the summer of 1979, and you work in the village by 334 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,720 day while protecting yourself and your housemates and your 335 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,760 neighbors from supernatural monstrosities and occult whores 336 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,079 by night. You fucking got me already right 337 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,280 there. Just throwing it out there, you 338 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,119 might be a werewolf bartender, a former high school theater star 339 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,160 on a temp gig as a backup dancer, a one time political 340 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,599 aide hiding from a scandal and helping out at the community 341 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:30,280 clinic, or a newly minted witch helping the gardeners of the 342 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,400 Community Center. While the mysteries you set out 343 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,240 to solve might take you beyond the village of Roseville Beach, 344 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,960 they rarely take you off Rose Island in 1979. 345 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,080 Roseville Beach and the neighboring town of Pinewood 346 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:45,480 Harbor are primarily LGBTQIA plus communities inclusive of 347 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,320 people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, 348 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,240 intersex, and asexual, as well as others who are marginalized 349 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,000 due to their sexuality or gender identity. 350 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,600 As such, Roseville Beach is what people would call a queer norm 351 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,560 setting queer identified people aren't just welcome and 352 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,880 celebrated, but outnumber people with cisgender and heterosexual 353 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,720 identities as a queer norm setting. 354 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,440 LGBTQIA plus characters on the default and most people here 355 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,240 assume anyone that they meet in Roseville beach identifies as 356 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,000 queer. However, the world beyond 357 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,760 Roseville Beach and Pinewood Harbor is as heteronormative and 358 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,160 CIS normative as any other city, town or region in North America 359 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:24,200 in 1979 or the present day. Beyond those small towns, 360 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,520 citizens, political officials and police departments express 361 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,840 art at Beyond those small towns, citizens, political officials 362 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,960 and police departments express an often violent bigotry that 363 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:40,280 LGBT plus people, especially trans and non white people, 364 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,040 continue to see in the 21st century. 365 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,040 Thus, when sorcerers, necromanic secret societies, gothic 366 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,160 terrors, and supernatural entities from beyond our own 367 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,720 reality start to trouble or threaten Roseville Beach, there 368 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,720 aren't any officials our law enforcement agency residents can 369 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,040 trust. Ha. 370 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,720 Just like real life right now. Just like real life. 371 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,320 That's where the player characters in Moonlight on 372 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,640 Roseville Beach come in. You are the local residents 373 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,840 who've seen what's going on, that people in your town turn to 374 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,440 you. It's so good. 375 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,080 It's amazing. I, I love the, I love the 376 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,720 cultural notes on like, like queer culture, especially like 377 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,360 in this time period and like the attachment to like this is still 378 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:28,040 a thing now. And I love the idea that like, 379 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,600 you cannot depend on the law enforcement, like is the 380 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,520 communities that support each other. 381 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,880 Yeah, yeah. We're going to get a lot of a 382 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,200 cab in here, so yeah. We're going to say fuck the 383 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,000 police a lot, which is not if. You're a fan of the thin blue 384 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,520 line, go hangers up with it. So. 385 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,520 It's amazing you'd be watching this show after everything we've 386 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,960 possibly said. Hey, listen, we we get comments 387 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,720 hour now and then, leftist gamers and dirt dirt, dirt, 388 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,120 dirt. Anyway, so another section here, 389 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,640 this is queer going ONS in a queer 1979. 390 00:19:58,640 --> 00:19:59,760 I'm going to summarize this a little bit. 391 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,080 So this says the term queer is used to describe a broad 392 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,880 spectrum of genders and sexualities. 393 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,680 It wasn't used as such back then, but it is a term modern 394 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,520 gamers can understand. 70s and 80s was often full of all of the 395 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,160 phobias, transphobia, homophobia, everything. 396 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,160 And although they exist and they're a thing to. 397 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:27,440 Have in the game world, they are not to be brought into the game 398 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,480 itself right? Like all of the phobias exist as 399 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:36,000 things to as obstacles or issues within the game world, but you 400 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,240 are not to be, you know, transphobic or. 401 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,240 No being a bigot playing this game right? 402 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:43,640 That's the easiest way to say it. 403 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,840 Yeah, once again, we've said it before, we'll say it again. 404 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:51,080 Big as fuck off having fun with monsters, mayhem and kissing. 405 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,520 What's funny is we didn't play in this for Valentine's Day. 406 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,080 A great Valentine's Day episode. It's it's a great. 407 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,480 I thought we did, actually. I here's The thing is, we've 408 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,760 been doing this for three years and we have every single holiday 409 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,680 we've ever done. We've missed doing a themed 410 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,920 episode for it. Maybe one Halloween we even our 411 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,800 69th episode we didn't get to do like bondage nuns or anything, 412 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,200 you know? Well, we should have next the 413 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,960 269th episode. We'll do it then. 414 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:20,760 Yeah. I really thought that this was 415 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,240 a, I thought you did this on purpose and I was like, this is 416 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,920 a perfect V Day episode. Happy Accident. 417 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,800 I'll be completely honest, the reason we picked this game was 418 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,240 because obviously I like Richard's stuff and I knew 419 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,440 Richard was funding Silver Age starting on the 11th. 420 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,080 So I was like, well then let's do this on that Friday so we can 421 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,360 talk about Silver Age on the show. 422 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,600 And then I realized that was Valentine's Day. 423 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,080 This is fucking perfect. So it just worked out. 424 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,160 Happy accidents. So having come with monsters, 425 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,920 mayhem and kissing, this game basically this is about this is 426 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,960 their version of safety tools. The game comes with digital 427 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,880 consent sheet like content sheet is what it talks about. 428 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:02,920 I'll talk about this a little bit. 429 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,360 When a game can touch on a serious themes of horror, 430 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:07,920 romance and relationships, it's good to calibrate the 431 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,400 expectations of everyone at the table. 432 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,680 The game does come with a digital tool that you can use 433 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,120 that it's like a calibration sheet. 434 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,800 It talks about content a little bit and says although Roseville 435 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,280 Beach is queer norm, the wider world is full of bias. 436 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,080 So in the content section, you can kind of choose the level of 437 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,720 bias you want in the game, whether it's like an abstract 438 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,640 kind of amorphous, you know thing or whether it's something 439 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,360 that you're going to deal with specifically in the game. 440 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,880 Entirely up to you and what you want to bring to the table. 441 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,960 Same thing with tone. The game is generally has a 442 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:41,000 lighter tone, but you can go as hard as you want as far as like 443 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,960 more. I don't want to say scooby-doo 444 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,600 ish, but that kind of gives me a little bit of those vibes. 445 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,760 You can play a little bit of that like it's really just this 446 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,320 one asshole in a mask versus like deep elder Taurus. 447 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,920 You could really turn this into like a horror game if you really 448 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,280 wanted to it. There are possibilities in the 449 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,640 game to do that and basically you can set the tone that you 450 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,400 want for the game, even though it is kind of designed to be a 451 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,480 slightly lighter tone and that's. 452 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:05,480 Go ahead, finish your finish your thought. 453 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:06,960 No, that's just a content tone. That's. 454 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,320 It, I think like this would really shine in it for me at my 455 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:16,360 table at least, with it being like a lighter tone like 80% of 456 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,960 the time and then having those darker moments because I feel 457 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,040 like in a game that's like not jovial per SE, but like has a 458 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,760 lighter tone. It's more fun that when you 459 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,440 really do get to those gritty moments, they feel grittier 460 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,000 because you're having such a good time most of the time, you 461 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,160 know? Yeah, I completely agree. 462 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,960 Yeah, I think if you just if you just have a couple of those big 463 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,800 heavy notes, it really like it makes a heavy feel heavier and 464 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,040 then I feel lighter. So that's the only problem with 465 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,360 like having everything be like edge lowered bullshit all the 466 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,880 time is it's like one note of like black and blood and it's 467 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,840 like then nothing. 'S edge, yeah. 468 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,800 And then nothing's dark and gritty, you know? 469 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,200 I mean, I'm, I'm whatever. Not for everybody. 470 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,240 Right. Yeah. 471 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,600 There's a little spot here on the Secret dictionary. 472 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,400 It says throughout the book we'll use tabletop RPG 473 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,040 abbreviations and such as GMPCNPC. 474 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,600 If you're not familiar with these terms, we encourage you to 475 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,600 check out some of the numerous introductions to and demo plays 476 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,240 of tabletop RPGs online. I love that. 477 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,800 Basically this says we're not going to give you a whole page 478 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,000 of that stuff here. Go check it out. 479 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,480 There's plenty of resources for it. 480 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:19,920 We don't need to give it to you. I love that. 481 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,600 There is another section here for more safety tools. 482 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,800 It talks about lines and Veils, talks about consent sheet. 483 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,160 So those exist, they're out there, you can find them. 484 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,800 Lines and Veils is in just about everything in the world. 485 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,840 And then consent sheets, it says it's created by Sean K Reynolds 486 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,960 and Shanna Jermaine. Consent sheets are much like 487 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,440 directed versions of Lines and Veils, so you can look those up 488 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,120 from those creators and check that out. 489 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,960 So a great thing to have in the game, obviously. 490 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,360 I would be shocked if there weren't more discussion of 491 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,280 safety tools and that's a great thing to have here. 492 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,160 So this is our first of many. Let me kick over to two page 493 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,840 spread here stories from Roseville Beach. 494 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,520 This is one of the things you said was one of your favorite 495 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:01,960 parts, right? Is? 496 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,080 It the kid in the diner one? Yeah, the one that like the 497 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:07,360 piano player. Yeah, yeah. 498 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,160 So there's a lot of these are out. 499 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,440 So it's basically interspersed throughout the the game. 500 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:18,080 Are these one page little fiction shorts that really, 501 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,800 really, really helps set the tones and the vibes and stuff 502 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,760 for the game? And once again, there's a nice 503 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,720 little spread here. On the left is piece of art of 504 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,160 this shirtless, buff young man looking the way, it says. 505 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,000 Everybody's a beach bod on Rose Island, it says. 506 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,880 Every bod's a beach bod. Every bod's a beach bod Like no. 507 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,240 Matter what your body is, you have a beach bod like I. 508 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,840 Love because you're on Rose Island? 509 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,400 Yeah. I also love this short story and 510 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:49,960 it's about a youth who like grew up in like a very like Christian 511 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,720 community, like trying to like figure out what he's going to do 512 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,640 as he's queer. But I really love the end of it. 513 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,120 That says I'm just going to read the last paragraph after because 514 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,680 he meets a person to die and a person's like go here, apply to 515 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,280 be the piano player. You'll get the job. 516 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:09,600 I tell him I sent you like whatever you're running away 517 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,520 from a trying to figure out. You'll find it here. 518 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,760 And then the very last paragraph I think is great because I think 519 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,640 often religion is horrifyingly awful to queer people. 520 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,760 But I'll read it. After 18 years of unanswered 521 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:28,240 prayers, Victor finally heard what he hoped was still sorry. 522 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,240 Victor finally heard what he hoped was the still small voice 523 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,200 of God. And it said go. 524 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,280 So Victor took everything he had and he went. 525 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:42,440 And I just love the idea that like, instead of this horrible, 526 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,640 like, religious upbringing that told him it wasn't OK to be who 527 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,440 was like, this is God speaking to him. 528 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,920 Like, this is the place you're supposed to be. 529 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,880 It's a safe place for you. I'm like, that's a great end to 530 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,880 this. Yeah, I do really like it. 531 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,240 I mean. I mean, I don't believe in God, 532 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,320 but you know, I still like. Yeah, we're going to let's just, 533 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,280 let's just piss off everybody. Like most Christians are the 534 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,600 least Christian people that I know. 535 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,040 If you've ever actually read the Bible. 536 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,040 So, so yeah. So moving on from there, we're 537 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,560 getting into the Roseville Beach map. 538 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,760 This is another great two page spread. 539 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,120 Again, we're going to be going back and forth from this a lot. 540 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:18,920 So this is welcome to Roseville Beach. 541 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,960 It's very much like a beach island. 542 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,360 I don't know. So I know Richard is in. 543 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,760 I don't think it's a secret. He talks about all the time. 544 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,240 He said go birds a million fucking times. 545 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,680 It's in like the Philadelphia area. 546 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,120 So I used to live outside of that area and we would go to CIL 547 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:36,800 City, New Jersey like constantly. 548 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,720 My friend had a house in Seattle City, New Jersey. 549 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,040 This almost looks like a freaking map of Sea Isle City 550 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,120 because it's a very like narrow little island. 551 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,680 But the map is really fantastic. And even some of the the the 552 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,560 names on the map are great. Like Wild is obviously Oscar 553 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,640 Wilde. Stonewall is obviously 554 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,680 Stonewall. And I'm sure there's Garland, 555 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:57,720 bro. Yeah. 556 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,800 And I'm sure all of these are references and many I'm not 557 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,680 getting, but there is a Harbor St., there's an ocean Street. 558 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,560 But a lot of these are, like I said, are obviously references. 559 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,200 And the map is really cool. I really like this top down. 560 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,920 View the page for the tops. I also love how easy it would be 561 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,520 to navigate this because it's a grid. 562 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,560 It's a grid of streets instead of just making a like. 563 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,880 I mean a lot of beach towns are like that, but I'm from a city. 564 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,600 It's all loops and bullshit. So this would be very easy to 565 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,160 navigate, be very easy for players to learn how it's laid 566 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,200 out and know where they're all at all times. 567 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,320 Yeah. Well, so are you on Oceanside? 568 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:35,280 Are you on Harborside? Really. 569 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:39,160 You know, yeah, the map says Roseville Beach is a small town 570 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,760 situated on Rose Island, a barrier island off the North 571 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,520 American Atlantic or Gulf coasts. 572 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,840 Gulf of Gulf of America, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 573 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,880 While. There's several towns on the 574 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,040 island. Roseville Beach between Lily's 575 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,920 Woods to the east and Rose Island Swamp to the West is 576 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,200 among the oldest primary LGBT plus communities in the region. 577 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,000 Again, cool map, like I said. So the Roseville Beach 578 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 locations, there's a ton of them. 579 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,800 So there are 12 locations, each with a description and some 580 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,840 names. In PCs we can pick one you you 581 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,200 get a dice roll already. We made rolling dice at time. 582 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,720 I know I'm actually. Going to know which one I want 583 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,760 to do. Which one you want to do? 584 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,040 Screws turn, dude. And screws turn. 585 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,640 Piano Bar is popular with the drag Queens and theater lovers 586 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,800 across the island. It's owned by the gruff head 587 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,480 bartender Doug Miles. He him and his on again and off 588 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,680 again A lover or sorry X Peter Quinn. 589 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:42,080 He him Flora Blile Bli or Nolan Milstead he, he, they. 590 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,600 By day, the resident drag queen does shows every Thursday, 591 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,400 Friday and Saturday. There's so much information, 592 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,920 there's a couple of lines there and such a good, such a good 593 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,200 bar. Was in my town so. 594 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,480 Yeah, and you get what is it 123? 595 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,200 You got like 3 named NPC's right there right in that spot, which 596 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,520 is really fantastic. So again, there's 12 spots like 597 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,240 that. We got the cabana screws turn, 598 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,840 Cedar Point, Ocean Palace. It's great art. 599 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,640 I know we're not we're not even talking about the art all the 600 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,560 way through. First of all, the background 601 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,760 page has a very much like a a book that's been around since 602 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,960 the 70s. It's yellowed a little bit. 603 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,480 It's got it's got a great texture. 604 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,600 It also is a little bit like the paper isn't perfect. 605 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,600 You know what I mean? Like you can see little little 606 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,680 flex and and stuff in the paper, which is great. 607 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,880 So it really looks like a book from the time period, which is 608 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,680 which is fantastic. And and it's not white. 609 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,400 And then the art throughout. I mean, we're not going to be 610 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,000 able to stop and talk about how great dyes art direction is 611 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,880 through the entire book. We will at times, but it hits so 612 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,080 often, every single time. Even on the bottom of page 20. 613 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,360 Just this little beach scene in the box is such a perfect piece 614 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,680 for for filling the bottom and going from it #5 we got Floor 615 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,680 Manor, the Market, the Community Center, Rosie's Bracknell Lodge, 616 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,520 Violet Flame Kennels and Gifts, EJ's Kinema Photography House, 617 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,240 and the Culture Hotel. So those are all of us on there. 618 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,760 You also get the east of Roseville Beach and rest of 619 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,480 Roseville Beach locations. There's a number of locations 620 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,560 and listed in PCs for them as well. 621 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:26,680 And then you have a section for the World Beyond. 622 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,240 It's an odd island, mainland county. 623 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,320 Yeah, above it, it shows a beach scene with a bunch of rainbow 624 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,040 flags that says we're here, we're queer, so why aren't you? 625 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,440 It's like a great advertisement for like a like a vacation spot, 626 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,560 you know? Yeah, it's, it's great. 627 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,680 And again, like even the like ad pieces thrown in it fills the 628 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,520 whole time like it's a like a pulp book or a pulp magazine 629 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,920 that you're reading through. Yeah, it's so good. 630 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,160 We had another another story from Roseville Beach. 631 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,760 So it's another one pager with it's like a half a page, this 632 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,200 one is. And then at the bottom I love 633 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,520 there's there's an ad, there's an ad at the bottom of it that 634 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,200 says stories from Roseville Beach will pay you for your 635 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,800 original fact or fiction. We're currently seeking pitches 636 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,480 for. And then it goes all the pitches 637 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,480 and even the address I love because there's like a a blotch 638 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,800 on the paper and it blotches right where the zip code is. 639 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,600 So like they can do an. Address wherever this is, you 640 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,760 know, right? 52 Stonewall St. 641 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,560 Yeah, floor 2 Rose Island. And then there's like a blot 642 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,240 out. So it's great. 643 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,560 The next Oh, so we're going to get into character creation and 644 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,760 this is a great little spread here. 2 page view. 645 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,760 This is actually, I don't remember is it must have come 646 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,160 with a hardback. One of them came with a bookmark 647 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,880 and it is this piece of art here and on the back it says it's 648 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,920 hard to enjoy your gaycation when there's a mystery to solve. 649 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,360 Moonlight on Roseville Beach. So cool little bookmark. 650 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,400 It's a it's a it's a woman carrying like a Wicker bag 651 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,440 underneath a stop sign or like a street sign. 652 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:12,400 And it's gay street and. I can't see a different. 653 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,240 Street, Yeah. In another St. 654 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,040 But it's great. So this is we're getting into 655 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:21,200 character creation. So as we do, take it away. 656 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,560 Yeah, character creation we scroll to our notes so I can 657 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,400 read the I'm just going to read the intro Cool. 658 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,080 I was going to read anyway. Characters in we might on 659 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,240 Roseville Beach have an origin story and a job on the island in 660 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,480 edition. They have they all have one or 661 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,840 more troubles of all very interesting story mechanic. 662 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,480 I really love that someone there indebted to hiding from trying 663 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,800 to impress or looking out. Once you have your origin story 664 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,240 and job, choose some names as troubles. 665 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,280 You'll also choose some comforts and an ally or two. 666 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,320 Other players are your housemates, and you've already 667 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,000 had some strange adventures together before the game starts. 668 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,160 When you and the other players first get together around the 669 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,560 table, physical or digital, each player selects a strange event 670 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,199 they experience with another housemate. 671 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,840 It's. Basically character creation 672 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:12,639 right there. It is, yeah. 673 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,600 It's I love making AI love making a character in this. 674 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,719 It's very interesting. I like the open and troubles and 675 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:23,400 I like the immediate tie in with another person at the table 676 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,040 talking about the strange events. 677 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,120 Oh hey, a dice roller do. We want to do, we want to RIP up 678 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,159 a character as we go through these. 679 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,440 Yeah, why not? Yeah, there's no, I mean, we're, 680 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,320 we're only going to talk through one of them anyway, so there's 681 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,880 no reason not to just bro, it's entirely up to you. 682 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,679 I literally in my notes I said pick one. 683 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,280 Yeah, I know. It's yeah, I'm like, they're all 684 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,080 really good. There's 5 characters, 66 685 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,840 character classes. I can count 5. 686 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,719 I don't know. Look at the notes. 6. 687 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,639 Origins, yeah, yeah, that's also here. 688 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,320 So creating a character, the origin stories you can choose 689 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,280 from are The Fresh Face, which is a newcomer to Roosevelt Beach 690 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,240 and queer life, The scandalous someone hiding on Roosevelt. 691 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:08,400 Why am I saying Roosevelt Roseville Beach from a scandal 692 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,960 that disrupted their prior life. The Shifter, a human who 693 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,920 transforms into an animal, a witch, a human who has learned 694 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,000 something of magic, a familiar, an animal who supernaturally 695 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,440 bonds to mortals. And then the Stranger, a being 696 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,960 from another reality who has taken on a human body for a 697 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,600 time. And then let's go over. 698 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,600 I want to go over the scandalous but I feel like there's like 3 699 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,440 weird magic ones and like people I don't know I wanted so. 700 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:48,760 So well, so each each each origin or has a bunch of stuff. 701 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,840 Yes. So it's there's six origins, 702 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,200 each have a two page spread. They include an age and ability, 703 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,160 6 backgrounds with AD 6 list of skills under each, and two D6 704 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,400 roll tables for your troubles for each one. 705 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,640 So literally 6. That's 12 pages of just the 706 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,880 character origin stories, which is crazy. 707 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,120 So I know you said you love the scandalous. 708 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,200 It's up to you, whichever 1 you, because we're going to hit magic 709 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,680 later. So if you want to talk about the 710 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,240 magic, we can talk about the magic a little bit later. 711 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:16,680 We'll talk. About it later then, yeah. 712 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,840 I love the scandal because I love the, like, I created the 713 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,720 character concept going through this game as I often do going 714 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,760 through this, and I love it like being a 70s artiste that was 715 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,280 like, up and coming and had a scandal that came out that they 716 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,760 were queer and they, you know, retreated to live in almost 717 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,320 seclusion on Roseville Beach and still, like, practice their 718 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,440 craft and live in a safe space. I don't know. 719 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,680 I like that concept. Yeah, they're great. 720 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,360 I'm gonna flip through the the all of the spreads real quick so 721 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,720 people can see. So this is the fresh face, which 722 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,320 is like the you. You went over those already. 723 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,920 This is the scandalous love. I the the this page is also 724 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,320 really just a fantastic spread to the piece of art that they 725 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,880 chose for it. The shifter is here. 726 00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,960 We got the witch right here, the familiar, which we said is 727 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,000 basically Salem, the cat, which which I love, and then this 728 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,440 stranger. I'm shocked. 729 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,080 I I totally get where you come from, the scandalous, but I even 730 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,280 said before stream like I'm shocked that you didn't like 731 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,720 immediately gravitate towards a stranger. 732 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:13,280 That's what. I'm going to fix Yeah. 733 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:18,000 I just like, I, I like, I so often like, lean into like the 734 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,080 very magic or the very odd, like, this is a game about like, 735 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,600 about living as like a, a queer person in a safe space in the 736 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,880 70s. And I really leaned into like, 737 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,920 that end of this more so than my usual thing. 738 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,560 So, yeah, scandalous. You were doing fine. 739 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,320 You had a life. Maybe you made some mistakes, 740 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,800 but you were keeping things together. 741 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,480 Then the scandal happened. Now you're keeping your head 742 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,880 down and trying to find happiness again. 743 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,760 So each of the character classes has an age that you can either 744 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,000 just pick or you can roll from. For the scandalous, you choose 745 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:01,800 an age of oh sorry, 24 or older. Or you may roll 3D 6 + 21. 746 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,840 How? Old is our scandalous 21 + 16, 747 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:11,480 which would be 2737. Yes, 37. 37 year old young. 748 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,760 Man. Yeah, young person. 749 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,080 Bad reputation. Your trouble will tell you what 750 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,880 the scandal was, but when you meet someone new, there's a one 751 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:27,000 in six chance they've seen your picture in a newspaper or a 752 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,240 gossip rag. That's good. 753 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:32,360 That's good and bad. Yeah, Yeah, that's great. 754 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,400 And that's the ability, which is interesting because if you look 755 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,680 at a lot of the other abilities in some of the, in the other 756 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,400 classes, like for example, if we just scroll back to Fresh Face 757 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,600 for a second, they get beginner's luck. 758 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,680 Yeah, when you make a roll without the help of your 759 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,680 background or skills, you can re roll any dice that land on A1, 760 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,280 but you must accept it. This one is, I think it's, it's, 761 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,840 it's not the same as like dice roll, but as far as the 762 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,920 narrative kind of that you can get from it. 763 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,880 Super dope. I, it's really, really 764 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,200 interesting because again, that could be both good and bad 765 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,680 because I'm going to be like, oh, I was a huge fan or, oh, I 766 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,440 actually know about the scandal. Like could totally switch a lot 767 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:09,600 of stuff in different directions. 768 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:10,880 So that's really, I like that a lot. 769 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,200 As like my character concept is like this famous artiste, you 770 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,280 know, it's like, yeah, there's a one in Sixth chance. 771 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,920 People know who you are because you're this famous artiste that 772 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,680 went through this scandal, you know. 773 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:27,480 Yeah, moving to a great art piece here, a very scandalous 774 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,240 art piece. Moving on to the backgrounds and 775 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:34,320 skills. So you pick 2 backgrounds, then 776 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,080 you roll 2 skills from each. If you get the same skill twice, 777 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,640 pick one from either background listed instead. 778 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,800 So let's see. I mean, are you making a 779 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,320 character right now or are we making one can? 780 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,720 Do it together. You can pick a background and 781 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,600 I'll pick a background. I want to pick editorial 782 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,600 associate. Interesting editorial associate. 783 00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:04,920 I think then what I think tuned in, dropped out kind of goes 784 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,800 with that a little bit, yeah. Absolutely. 785 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,640 And then you want to roll 2 skills, and I'll roll 2 skills. 786 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,400 Yeah, I don't know why I closed my dice roller down like I 787 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:14,640 wasn't going to use it again, but. 788 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,680 You know A4 and A5 S? Mine are stubborn and oratory. 789 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,160 Oratory is great. Two and a three. 790 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,440 So I got illustration, which goes great and then writing. 791 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:31,600 Yo, so they can, they can write, they can draw, they can speak. 792 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,960 Well, yeah, and they're stubborn. 793 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,000 We're building the character I've dreamed of there. 794 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,880 You. Go. 795 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,920 Yeah. After that, you have the 796 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,840 scandal. This is like where you're each 797 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:50,160 character class has these and it's kind of the origin to your 798 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,280 origin, you know? Yeah. 799 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,560 These are your troubles. Yeah, these are your troubles. 800 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, it's gives you 801 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,800 like narrative backdrop to like, yeah, your it is your troubles 802 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,520 though. So you wrote 2D6. 803 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,440 Do you want to read threes or you want to just roll and roll? 804 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:10,880 I roll an 8. OK cool so 6:00 to 8:00 you got 805 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,920 entangled with a well known family member, mentor, friend or 806 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,360 ex who did something very unethical or immoral but not 807 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,360 illegal and disappeared after media expose. 808 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,680 You may want nothing to do with them but they're still looking 809 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,160 for you. Add their name under people I'm 810 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,040 hiding from on your character sheet. 811 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,720 Yes, that's nice. So yeah, it is. 812 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,800 It is kind of like the origin to origin, at least for the 813 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,800 scandalous. It's like, what was the scandal? 814 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:46,560 Yeah, it's dope. Now at least one is like a 815 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,520 person from your past because it's the full trouble thing. 816 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,920 So it's like someone you're looking out for, someone you're 817 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,040 hiding from, or like people you owe money to. 818 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,120 And there's different ones for each one. 819 00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,960 So I think, I think, yeah, I think it's, it's a lot of people 820 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:04,520 I'm hiding from people like, oh, if you go to the shifter, 821 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,480 there's some, there's one that's like people counting on me. 822 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:16,000 So they give, they all give you some type of like, I guess it, I 823 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:21,600 guess it's an NPC, but it's like like a like a thing people, 824 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,920 yeah, people counting on me. Yeah. 825 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,960 They're all kind of like that. So like story in PC, the animal 826 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,800 the the familiar has an interesting one. 827 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,400 Because you're familiar, you're an animal, you've always been an 828 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:40,760 animal. So the familiar one is troubles. 829 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,720 You don't have typical trouble troubles and can never be in 830 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,600 someone's debt. However, someone you don't know 831 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,600 well is suspicious of your supernatural nature and keeps a 832 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,200 close eye on you when they're around. 833 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,840 Additionally, sometimes people who studied or study with the 834 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,120 sorcerer who summoned you show up hoping to get your assistance 835 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,160 or to capture you for the power you taught your former sorcerer. 836 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:13,520 Just can't leave you alone. I can't bewitched Ferret, you 837 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:14,000 know. Yeah. 838 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,560 Yeah. Is that, is that the way you're 839 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,000 gonna go with? You're gonna go with Ferret? 840 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,840 No, I would definitely do the Cat 100 a hundred times I would. 841 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,600 Do the ferret Ferret's pretty, pretty cool. 842 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,000 It's basically like a really skinny cat. 843 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,920 Like a really long skinny cat. Yeah, it's a cat snake. 844 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:31,920 It's a rat snake. I mean, let's be completely 845 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,440 honest. Yeah, that's probably more true. 846 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,200 I did want to before we get too far because we're talking about 847 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,440 the character sheet real quick. I didn't have it downloaded, but 848 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,440 I do want to show it real quick because it is great and there is 849 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,960 one which is really nice. So let me actually download that 850 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,520 real quick and I'll pop it up on stream. 851 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,360 I'm going with obviously going to go with the color 1. 852 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,400 So this is. The actually got to the color 853 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,160 one. This is a character sheet. 854 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,320 How nice is this character sheet so it? 855 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,560 Great. It looks like, I actually 856 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,720 imagine as like a folder opened up and there's like things 857 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,120 tucked in it, but there's like there's a card, there's a piece 858 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,840 of paper that looks like that's got like that says Colineon 859 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,480 Realty bungalow lease. So it looks it's got like a, 860 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,200 what's it called when, when there's like a company header on 861 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,080 the top of piece of paper, You know what I'm talking about, 862 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,360 like stationary. There's an inventory note 863 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:34,280 section, the Rose Island Ferry pass is where you put like your 864 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,560 name and age and pronouns. It's so good. 865 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,960 And like the the card at the top where that where you list your 866 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,000 injuries and scares and stuff is Saint Jude's Medical Center. 867 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,760 It's literally like a like you're filling in the info 868 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,360 sheet, like the intake form. It's as a new patient intake 869 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,560 form. They did such a good job of 870 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,600 putting it together as basically like a series of slips of paper 871 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,960 that fill it in. This is a gorgeous character 872 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,400 sheet and it comes in the color and black and white version. 873 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,520 So honestly, like the piece that got me the most where where the 874 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,680 those two things, the the ferry pass for your name and then the 875 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,800 intake form for your injuries. So clever, so interesting. 876 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,960 They do. I will definitely say nothing 877 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,960 about this game or any of it's associated like downloadable 878 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:19,040 content is, is lacking in style. Not a single piece of it. 879 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:29,440 Yeah, so another the Rose Island Board of Labor art piece, 880 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,880 another kind of like Addy kind of thing, you know? 881 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,160 You should have ordered that third bottle. 882 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:43,200 Now after that, we get to choosing a job. 883 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,200 There's another like little AD at the very top, which is in 884 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,040 just seven days I can make you a man. 885 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,560 Guaranteed results. No strenuous living call. 886 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,680 Ask for Frank. Yeah, really cool. 887 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,960 And then choosing a job. Characters in Moonlight on 888 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,800 Roseville Beach solve creepy mysteries and deal with strange 889 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,040 monsters, but they also hold down the day job. 890 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,160 Once you've chosen your origin story, you come here, you pick a 891 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,840 job, or you can work with your GM to invent 1, which I think is 892 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,000 really interesting and a cool option to leave open. 893 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,840 And then you roll and roll or choose a skill you've learned 894 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:23,360 performing it. So let's see for our for our 895 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,360 scandalous artists that we're making. 896 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:30,240 I will say I do really like that some of the stories got pulled 897 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:32,200 into this a little bit. So the piano player at Cedar 898 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,320 Point Hotel, yeah, is definitely the like, this is the first 899 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:37,200 story. You know what I mean? 900 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:42,160 Yeah, absolutely. So the the orator, writer, 901 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,640 illustrator, stubborn person, where would they be? 902 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,480 Where would they work? I'm thinking opening act at the 903 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:50,000 at the cabana. I don't mind that. 904 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,160 And I thought that originally, but then I was like, then I was 905 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,440 like, wait a minute, is that too much attention? 906 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,800 Maybe. OK, that's a fairpoint that 907 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,440 might be too much attention. So, bartender at Rosie's. 908 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,320 Dude, yeah, I was even thinking because they're not going to be 909 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,680 a backup dancer. Let's be honest. 910 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,560 No, you know what I mean? And they're not going to be an 911 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:08,880 assistant at the care center, right? 912 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:10,680 My thought was one of two things. 913 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,000 One is bartenders at Rosie's, and the other was the garden at 914 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,920 the Community Center. If they wanted to get way away, 915 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,480 but I think they would, That's too far from the spotlight. 916 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,400 I think the gardener at Rosie's is is speaks to the scandalous. 917 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,880 OK, we'll do Gardener at the Community Center. 918 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,920 Wait, did you say bartender at Rosie's or? 919 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,960 Yeah, I think. Bartender Bartender bartender 920 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,320 is. Because they're. 921 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,440 Close to the spotlight, but a little bit out of it. 922 00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,440 You know, you're still kind of main character Y, you know. 923 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:37,960 Perfect. What's? 924 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:39,960 What scale are you going to pull from that one? 925 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,840 We already got stubborn. Why don't you pick? 926 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,720 Oh, I'll roll for that shit. D62 Charming. 927 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,880 Duh. Oh perfect, that was the one I 928 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,120 would have picked so. Perfect, it worked out. 929 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:54,800 I like the the add to the bottom too. 930 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,600 The John waters plants and water. 931 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:04,920 Dandelion wine so it's a bit the cool little like lion painting a 932 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:10,680 lion in the ad yeah yeah and then we get to strange events 933 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:11,720 we're. Going to say those are 934 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:14,960 interesting, no? Do you want to pick a strange 935 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,920 event? Yeah. 936 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,920 So what are the strange events? I'll I'll pick one as well. 937 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,440 So your strange events. Oh yeah, I'll. 938 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:26,040 So characters in Moonlight on Roseville Beach may have shown 939 00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,800 up on Rose Island unaware of the shadow world of sorcerers, 940 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,880 necromancers, ancient terrorism, and elder gods. 941 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,200 But something happened. Each housemate chooses one of 942 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,160 the following strange experiences, discusses with the 943 00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:41,480 player sitting to your left what exactly the two of you saw. 944 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,760 So you you get to have a little like background character 945 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,320 building moment with somebody else in the group which I think 946 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,080 helps ties the group together. Other games have done this in 947 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,840 ways that I think are great. This may be my favorite way 948 00:48:55,240 --> 00:49:00,120 because it creates like a short like internal story for you and 949 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,560 the character. So there are 6 experiences that 950 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:08,640 give you in another skill, ally or trouble. 951 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,120 Which one do we want to do? Right. 952 00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:12,720 So I know which one I want to do. 953 00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:15,520 But we get there's the monolith, there's a strange figure, 954 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,280 there's lights in the harbor, there's shark people. 955 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:24,200 People. And then there's the starry form 956 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,120 and the dunes and the fortune teller and the poltergeist. 957 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:33,880 OK, 2-3 Did I count that wrong? 4-5 No, there's seven. 958 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,280 There's seven of them, there's 7. 959 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,160 Great accounting on this show, this is not. 960 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,440 Like, I'm watching so I think we need to do 2 because one's going 961 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,120 to come up later. So let's do the monolith, and 962 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:45,760 then we've got to do shark people. 963 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,000 We. Have to do shark people cool, 964 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,800 all right Of those, those are my favorite ones, even though 965 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,280 they're like the first couple, the monolith, the strange figure 966 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,640 and the shark people were my favorite. 967 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,000 So this is great. So the monolith. 968 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:02,680 The two of you saw a strange bronze monolith. 969 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,960 It was always right behind you. Somehow you never saw it move. 970 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,680 Agree where the two of you last saw it before it disappeared. 971 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,480 Then roll 1D6. Each roll 1D6. 972 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,040 Oh yeah, each. Yeah, you got. 973 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:21,600 A2. And I got A3. 974 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,360 So we both. Got we got in the same category. 975 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,320 It's on 4 plus you gain a skill and from the limited choice 976 00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,240 skills and on a three minus you start the game with a scare. 977 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:35,680 You always feel like you're being watched. 978 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,440 Nice. Yeah, 'cause you got the four 979 00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,200 plus and I got the three minus, so damn, that sucks. 980 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:43,240 I started to give them the scare. 981 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,200 No, I rolled a three. We both. 982 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:50,760 Got Oh yeah, All right. We got to be shark people. 983 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,960 We got to be shark. People also shark people. 984 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,960 Question mark. Exclamation point. 985 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:02,000 Yeah, Walking on the beach one night, you both saw shark like 986 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:06,160 creatures attack a stranger. Name and describe the person you 987 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,200 saved driving the shark creatures away. 988 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,800 Then roll 1D6. Let's go and roll again. 989 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,520 Five baby. I rolled A5 as well, so on the 990 00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,000 floor. Plus you start the game with an 991 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,080 ally. The stranger is well informed 992 00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,000 about Rose Island's strange happenings. 993 00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:25,360 I would assume this ally was the person we saved. 994 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:26,160 Yes. Well, yeah. 995 00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,840 OK, cool. And then on this one, for a 996 00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:33,320 three minus, you start the game with the trouble, which is that 997 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,120 you're looking after that person that you saved. 998 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,720 So now you're like you, you save them, but like, they're probably 999 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:39,560 super injured and now you have to deal with it, right? 1000 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,600 Yeah, yeah. Another great full page art 1001 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,840 piece here. Pro the the whatever is going 1002 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,480 on, whatever she's holding, it makes me use think lobster 1003 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,160 hands, but they're dismissing the bottom part. 1004 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,640 But I can't not see like lobster hands. 1005 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,360 But yeah, it's a, it's a really great piece. 1006 00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:00,680 I don't know why but this is maybe my favorite piece in this 1007 00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:01,480 book. Like I can't. 1008 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:04,920 I can't name to you why it is, but I do really love this full 1009 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,880 page piece. It is really neat. 1010 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:12,960 What's really interesting, I think, is the the background 1011 00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,000 interacting with the foreground in a weird way, because like the 1012 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,200 background is very like black and dark and starry. 1013 00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,520 But if you look at those two random curtains hanging down, 1014 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,640 the one to her left on our right is actually in front. 1015 00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:32,760 Oh yeah, very cool. Yeah, really interesting. 1016 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,600 So we're skipping all of those. OK, All right. 1017 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,440 Here we go. Yeah, let me pull back. 1018 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:46,360 I went back to the wrong page. OK, so we have troubles, allies 1019 00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,160 and comforts. Troubles usually come from your 1020 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,200 origin. Allies are folks who have some 1021 00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,320 skills, experience, knowledge or supplies who open my door. 1022 00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:01,320 They they're good folks to know when you write down the allies 1023 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,480 name, what kind of tasks they're helpful with and what your 1024 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,840 relationship is with them. Boss, Co worker, crush, flame, 1025 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,960 friend, rival, or something else in addition to any ally you get 1026 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:15,280 from your background. Choose an ally you know and are 1027 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,080 willing to rely on and write their name on your character 1028 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,080 sheet in addition to any allies you discovered in character 1029 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,080 creation. Comforts. 1030 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:28,800 There are three different comforts. 1031 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,640 They are the special place, a place where you go to pull 1032 00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,160 yourself together, this special memento, something you keep in 1033 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,640 your room that reminds you of another person, time or place. 1034 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,320 Or the special person, a friend, lover or mentor who you go to 1035 00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,440 when things are tough. This can be a housemate or 1036 00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:51,840 someone else on the island beautiful. 1037 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,520 Great. And then another story on 1038 00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,200 Roseville Beach. Amazing. 1039 00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,800 Couple other couple other that's on here. 1040 00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:07,200 The what? Priscillas, cake, pies, pastries 1041 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,600 and bread. And then the bottom 1 gal pals 1042 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,240 nail salon. They're great. 1043 00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,720 So we're moving on to what's next is the equipment on the 1044 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:20,280 bungalow. So this is your entire inventory 1045 00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,000 section, right? So basically for equipment you 1046 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,240 have what you would normally have is what it says. 1047 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:28,080 It says if you're going to a job, you have the things you 1048 00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,240 would have for that job. I like that where it just says 1049 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,080 you're you're not, again, you're not an adventurer, you're not 1050 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,080 giving up to go somewhere. You just have the shit that you 1051 00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:36,400 have, right? If your job would have a 1052 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:37,600 flashlight, you have a flashlight. 1053 00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,440 I like that it also says you're the section here on the 1054 00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,040 bungalow, other equipment, weird supplies, things like that. 1055 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:48,760 So you would have what you would normally have plus three small 1056 00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,680 items. I know I said flash dot already, 1057 00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,280 but the it's flashlight, screwdriver, things like that. 1058 00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,120 That's just what you're carrying on you. 1059 00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,480 And then you can have 4 instead of three items if you're 1060 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,040 carrying a bag or a backpack, so you get a bonus one. 1061 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:06,640 The bungalow is where you are all your, where your housemates 1062 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,640 where, where your mates, the house with that your mates with 1063 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,040 right? It is a place where you stay. 1064 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:17,440 So you can return to the bungalow for supplies, which has 1065 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,160 beach gear, normally any type of beach gear. 1066 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:29,120 So like chairs, what what else? Umbrellas, sunblock, towels, 1067 00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:30,400 things like that. That's all there, right? 1068 00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,560 And for anything else you would do a supply check. 1069 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,200 So I'm just going to read the section here on supply check 1070 00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,760 because I, I love the way that they do inventory on this. 1071 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,760 I'm going to we again, we're saying that about a lot of 1072 00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,480 stuff, but we're hitting kind of like the rules meaty part of the 1073 00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,960 game now. And there's some really 1074 00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,120 interesting things they do. And I love a nice clean 1075 00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:53,640 inventory system and I love quantum inventory. 1076 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,400 So this is how it works. When you attempt to get supplies 1077 00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,560 from your bungalow, you roll 1D6. 1078 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:02,520 The number is equal to or less in the bungalows supply rating. 1079 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,640 You find the item. If it's higher than the supply, 1080 00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,320 you find something else that will do in a pinch and your 1081 00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,760 supply goes down. When the supply reaches zero, 1082 00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,280 you can't return to the bungalow for equipment again, even if 1083 00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,680 something was there before, it's been borrowed, misplaced, or 1084 00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:18,400 lost. I love the way that that works. 1085 00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,160 And if we Scroll down a little bit, we'll get to bungalows in a 1086 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,000 second, but there's starting bungalows that talk about 1087 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:24,800 supply. We'll get there. 1088 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,560 So at the start of each, at the start of each session, you're 1089 00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,440 going to reset your bungalow supply and you get to choose 1090 00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,400 something you have a lot of on hand. 1091 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:40,560 Any one thing, canned tuna, rope, sunblock, like whatever 1092 00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:44,320 you want. Each session you just stocked up 1093 00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,160 on something, which I think is such a cool way to do the 1094 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:50,800 supply. And if you do choose the thing 1095 00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,320 that you have a lot of on hand, you get to roll twice and choose 1096 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,480 the higher number so that you can is it higher or lower? 1097 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,760 You get, you get advantage, you get to roll, you get to roll 1098 00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,920 twice and pick the number that's better for you, taking the 1099 00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:04,720 better result. Yeah. 1100 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,280 So I love that. So your supply is really session 1101 00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,840 to session because once you deplete your supply, next 1102 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,440 session it's you know, it's all good again. 1103 00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:17,000 And you get that bonus item on hand, which is cool. 1104 00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,280 But I I get the feeling that you're going to have like a 1105 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,280 bunch of stuff on hand for what you needed last session is 1106 00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:24,680 what's going to. Happen a lot of time, you know. 1107 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,080 Man, I wish, I really wish you would have some rope. 1108 00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,040 And then this time we really need a lot of batteries. 1109 00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:38,120 But but yeah, so as far as other equipment, basically, if it 1110 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,040 didn't exist in 19709, it doesn't exist now, right? 1111 00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:44,040 So there's no mobile phones, there's no DVD players, Personal 1112 00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:45,840 computers are very rare, you know, things like that. 1113 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,760 I love it. Since the Sony Walkman is only 1114 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,000 available in Japan. Like, that's like, one of my 1115 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,880 favorite lines in the entire book, and I don't know why. 1116 00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,360 What else you got here? So there are no cars on 1117 00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,360 Roosevelt Island. I think rich people might have, 1118 00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:00,760 like, a golf cart. That's about it. 1119 00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,960 There could be weird stuff in the game, like Eldridge 1120 00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,720 grimoires and guns can exist, but they draw a lot of 1121 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,880 attention, probably from people you don't want to be getting 1122 00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,080 attention from, like, cops, you know, because they don't like 1123 00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:20,120 you because they're cops. So, yeah, so talk about the 1124 00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,400 bungalows again. You get to choose your bungalow 1125 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,720 on your first session and you get to pick one that's got three 1126 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,040 supply, 4 supply or five supply. So which which which one you 1127 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,120 want to look at 345? Oh, let's look at. 1128 00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,440 Let's look at three, OK? Yeah. 1129 00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,440 So everyone, yeah, go for it. Oh no, you're you got it, buddy. 1130 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:43,280 Everyone has their own room. There are two indoor baths and 1131 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,840 an outdoor shower as close to the beach and the center of 1132 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,320 town. There's a VCR on the den and one 1133 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:52,640 phone on the kitchen wall. What I love about this is it is 1134 00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,480 the nicest bungalow with a smaller supply because if you 1135 00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:00,480 look at 5:00, everyone sharing rooms, there's a shared bath. 1136 00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,400 It's a height to get almost anywhere. 1137 00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,840 There's no phone and the antenna TV is broken. 1138 00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,960 It is the shittiest 1:00, but you get the most supply. 1139 00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,320 I love the way that I did that. I mean, obviously I would go, I 1140 00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,240 mean, the, the, the smart choice is to go for right? 1141 00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,200 It runs their own room. It's a shared bath, but there's 1142 00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,280 an outdoor shower. Like it's an OK spot with an OK 1143 00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:19,960 mix apply. But I really like that. 1144 00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,360 If you're like, no, screw it. I want, I want to live in luxury 1145 00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,080 at our bungalow, but we're going to have shit off for for stuff. 1146 00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,880 There's a great piece here for come see our beachside 1147 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,760 bungalows. It's got this great illustration 1148 00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,680 of a really beautiful bungalow. I would, I would. 1149 00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,760 There's not a lot I wouldn't do to live in that. 1150 00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,600 Have this be my spot, like on a beach. 1151 00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:39,440 Just live. There. 1152 00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,800 Yeah, it would be amazing. And it's incredible. 1153 00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:48,480 So another story is from Roseville Beach here, another 1154 00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,560 one. They don't feel too much. 1155 00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,360 They feel great. Every time I got to them, it was 1156 00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,080 a pleasure to read. Again, they're only one page. 1157 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,560 It's a short little vibe. It's really great. 1158 00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,720 So getting into the resolution mechanic which I we both. 1159 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,000 Like I remember like how many through like reading this I 1160 01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,160 message you and was like, bro, I fucking love this. 1161 01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,440 And then like a couple days later like I do too. 1162 01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,440 This is crazy. It's funny how many dice pool 1163 01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:16,240 games we've done recently and how they've all been their own 1164 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,880 great takes on how to do a dice pool. 1165 01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:24,560 And here is another really cool, really cool 1, you know? 1166 01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,560 Yeah, it's really interesting. So, So this is how it works, 1167 01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:28,800 right? This is how it works to me. 1168 01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:31,640 We're getting into investigation and action, right? 1169 01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,360 When investigating, the GM will accurately describe the current 1170 01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,280 situation and what you see. And if you want to know more, 1171 01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:42,800 describe what and how and ask the GM and they're going to give 1172 01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,720 and you're going to do open-ended questions and they're 1173 01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:46,600 going to help you out, right? Role play. 1174 01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,320 Shocking. And incredible, right? 1175 01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:54,960 So action and dice, I will say, I will say. 1176 01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,680 All right, say it. Should I say it here? 1177 01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,280 I will. What dice do you use? 1178 01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,240 D Sixes. What? 1179 01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:10,880 Where does it say that? Oh, I don't know that it does. 1180 01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,080 I think I reverse engineered it from the tables. 1181 01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,400 Exactly, so this is the issue. Do you know the only place? 1182 01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,600 Because I control AFT, Do you know the only place there? 1183 01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,280 There's dice notations in SPART like D6 and stuff like that. 1184 01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:26,560 Do you know the only place on the entire book in the entire 1185 01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:30,080 book that tells you that the only dice you're using is D 1186 01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:31,920 Sixes? Where is it? 1187 01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:35,880 Wild guess. The GM section. 1188 01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,960 The back of the book. Oh, that's. 1189 01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:40,520 The worst? The back of the book, it says 1190 01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,160 for two to six players equipped with several 6 sided dice and 1191 01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:47,960 vivid imaginations, is the only place in the entire book where 1192 01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,560 they mention that all you're using is D sixes. 1193 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,160 That'd be a good detailed. Thorough control F for six, 1194 01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,000 control F for D6, all the way through. 1195 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,600 There's nothing that says you're using this, so even when we get 1196 01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,840 to the action and dice section, it says only risky actions 1197 01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,000 provoke roles. When you head into danger, 1198 01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:08,000 knowing what you're facing, you gather a pool of dice and roll a 1199 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:12,680 pool of what dice you know. I get it. 1200 01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,240 Yeah, a big detail out there. Right. 1201 01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,840 I get it when it's like the tables, it's AD 6 table, so of 1202 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:20,200 course there's going to roll AD 6, right? 1203 01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,320 You're not going to roll AD 36 and divide by 6, like that's 1204 01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:26,360 ridiculous. But in this it literally doesn't 1205 01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:29,800 say like grab a pool of D sixes and roll right? 1206 01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:36,120 So anyway, there's a couple sections where it, I think we 1207 01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,440 jumped over the which section. When you pick words of power, it 1208 01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:41,760 doesn't tell you. Obviously we know how to like if 1209 01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:46,240 you see AD 6AD6 list with D6 lists underneath, you're just 1210 01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:51,600 going to roll 2D6, right? We know that, yeah, but that's 1211 01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,800 not something that's something you could throw in. 1212 01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,320 Just roll, just parentheses. Roll 2D6, you know, because the 1213 01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:01,400 troubles have two D6 written. But there's other parts where 1214 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,480 there's like no dice notation. And this is the biggest one. 1215 01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,640 It's action and dice, and it doesn't know where dice roll. 1216 01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,760 But anyway, when you build a dice pool, select one die for 1217 01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:10,800 being a sleuth. So you start with AD 6 right off 1218 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,920 the bat. Then you add one die to the pool 1219 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:15,480 for each of the following. And I love this. 1220 01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,760 I love where it's basically like to answer these questions, or if 1221 01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,680 this applies, this is how you build it. 1222 01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,640 So these are the questions. You aren't injured or scared in 1223 01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,320 a way that inhibits what you're doing, right? 1224 01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,080 So you're not trying to run with a broken leg. 1225 01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,280 You have at least one relevant background. 1226 01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,160 You have a relevant skill. You have a second relevant 1227 01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,320 skill. This is a golden opportunity. 1228 01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:37,880 An ally or other NPC is helping you, and the ally is also at 1229 01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:42,800 risk, and you are acting to protect a housemate, housemate, 1230 01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,720 ally, trouble, or comfort from dire consequences. 1231 01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,360 So if any or all of those apply, you get to add a D6 to the pool 1232 01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:51,680 for every single one of those. It's a great list. 1233 01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,480 I love the This is a golden Opportunity one because it's 1234 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:58,560 just such an open, openly interpreted narrative like 1235 01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,400 Benchmark. I I think it's a really good one 1236 01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:03,240 because I think this is a little game. 1237 01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:04,800 You know, it is oh, it's in there. 1238 01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,800 It's so weird, but how many times have you been in an 1239 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:08,960 adventure and you're like, oh, this is literally this. 1240 01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,440 Yeah, this is fucking great. Like if I do this, this is 1241 01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,200 perfect. Like I need to jump over this, 1242 01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,360 but I have this thing. So if I just do it, we're we're 1243 01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,360 golden. It's perfect. 1244 01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:18,640 I really, really love that a lot. 1245 01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:21,280 I want I want to show off this two page spreader real quick, 1246 01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,320 because I do love this. Again, shout out die. 1247 01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:31,560 It's got it's this skull behind this roulette wheel, and I just 1248 01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:33,240 I I dig it. I like it a lot. 1249 01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,240 So continuing with the how the game works. 1250 01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:42,000 So we've already said you pool a a pool of D sixes answering 1251 01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,800 those questions. It says you begin by telling the 1252 01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:50,560 GM what you want to do and what you're trying to accomplish, 1253 01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,120 right? And then they will tell you if 1254 01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,640 it's possible confirm what you're doing. 1255 01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:57,520 So like, hey, so you're doing this. 1256 01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:58,800 This is what you want to do, right? 1257 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,160 And they're like, yes. And then they will tell you if 1258 01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,400 you need to roll. I love that. 1259 01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:05,480 Just tell me what you want to do and I'll tell you if you need to 1260 01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:06,400 roll. I'm. 1261 01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:08,400 I can't tell you. One of my biggest pet peeves at 1262 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:13,040 the table is someone going like, OK, so can I roll perception for 1263 01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:14,760 that? And like, it's role-playing, 1264 01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:15,960 bro. It's role-playing. 1265 01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:18,040 It's not a board game. Just tell me what you want to 1266 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:19,200 do. Guess what? 1267 01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:23,000 Yeah, you see shit, right? So that you will tell you right 1268 01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:26,320 which of the following tables to roll on based on what kinds of 1269 01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:27,880 risks you're taking with the action. 1270 01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:29,920 So there's something here and then I'm explaining and come 1271 01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:31,360 back to it. So there's goal, injured, 1272 01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:35,120 scared, clue, and trouble. OK, so it says if the GM tells 1273 01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:37,200 you there are more risks than you have dice for, you might 1274 01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,560 want to adjust your plan. So here it says roll if your 1275 01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:42,840 dice pool. Roll your dice pool and choose 1276 01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,840 which of the individual dice to assign to the risks you're 1277 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:49,480 taking. For each one, check your 1278 01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:53,000 assigned result against the appropriate table below to see 1279 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,640 what the outcome is. If you don't have enough night, 1280 01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:59,200 and if so, this is 1 typo, There's a missing period right 1281 01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,720 here. Roll against the appropriate 1282 01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,480 table below to see what the outcome is missing period. 1283 01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,240 If you don't have enough dice for all of the assigned risks, 1284 01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:11,520 treat any risks with no die as a result of one instead. 1285 01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:13,560 If the results are especially die, you can roll on the trouble 1286 01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:14,920 die. So basically this is how it 1287 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,160 works. You have goal, injured, scared 1288 01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:21,320 clue, and potentially trouble. So the GM says, you say I want 1289 01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:25,160 to do this thing, right? And you go, I, I pulled my pool 1290 01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:27,480 together, one for Sleuth. And let's say you've got three 1291 01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,520 more for answering some questions. 1292 01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:32,920 You have a skill, you have a second skill and a background, 1293 01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,760 right? Then there's goal, injured, 1294 01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:39,520 scared, and clue. So you have 4 dice, right? 1295 01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:45,720 So you get to assign those. And if I say you're risking 1296 01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,080 something, you're risking an injury, you're risking being 1297 01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:51,560 scared, right? That's two risks. 1298 01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:56,160 OK, so you must put a die on injured and a die on scared, 1299 01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:58,640 right? And then you have two more so 1300 01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,440 you can do. And then you're always trying to 1301 01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,200 seed at the goal. So you always have to put a dice 1302 01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:04,840 on goal. So that's three. 1303 01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:07,240 So since you have a fourth die, you can be like, OK, I want to 1304 01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,520 clue 2. So you roll your 4D sixes and 1305 01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,240 you assign one of each to those four things. 1306 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,280 And then you go to the table and read what those are. 1307 01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:22,280 It's so good. Yeah, this is a a great, very, 1308 01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:25,000 very brilliant mechanic. I really like it. 1309 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:26,080 We'll get to the tables in a second. 1310 01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,320 The trouble is really interesting too, because trouble 1311 01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:30,520 is an option. As I said, if the results are 1312 01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:33,760 especially dire, you can roll a trouble die. 1313 01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:37,120 So that's basically the GM says, if you say like I really need to 1314 01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:44,320 succeed and your role sucks, the GM can say so after you roll the 1315 01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,200 GMA let you roll a trouble die. This is a bonus die you can roll 1316 01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:52,400 at the original roll has too few high numbers, but it will mean a 1317 01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:56,360 trouble shows up relatively shows up an ally comfort, a 1318 01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,320 Roseville Beach resident is now in danger. 1319 01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,600 So why don't you pick? You want to pick like one or 1320 01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:03,840 two, roll AD 6 and let's see what happens. 1321 01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:06,440 Let's do gold and injured. Just roll 2D6. 1322 01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:12,280 OK, I rolled A5 and A1, so 5 for goal and one for injured. 1323 01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:17,520 So the goal, 5 for the five. You make progress on your goal, 1324 01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,080 but it's taking longer than you thought. 1325 01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:23,120 Or you succeed with an unforeseen consequence, possibly 1326 01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:27,760 including injuries or scares. And then I rolled A1 on the what 1327 01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:29,439 was it the other table we're doing injured. 1328 01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:30,240 Injured. Yeah. 1329 01:08:31,279 --> 01:08:33,640 Yeah. You, an ally or housemate is 1330 01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:35,720 injured. If someone was assisting you, 1331 01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,800 they also suffer an injury. There you go. 1332 01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:45,479 So each of the tables, they are either A34 table as in like 3 1333 01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:47,960 minus or 4 plus. There's a four minus or five 1334 01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,840 plus. For scared, the troubled eye is 1335 01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:55,040 123 and then four plus and then the goals are a 3 -, 4 to five 1336 01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:58,200 and a six plus. So varying things for each of 1337 01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:00,520 the tables, but it explains at the top of each table too. 1338 01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,960 So like for gold, it literally says like it explains it. 1339 01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:05,520 Every role risks failure assigned one of the dice you 1340 01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:08,600 roll to the goal and then injury to avoid injury or physical harm 1341 01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,720 as part of your action assigned one of the dice you roll to 1342 01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:13,840 injury. Like it, it's so good, It's so 1343 01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:15,720 interesting. And also because we talked about 1344 01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:20,479 this before, this is a story game that still uses really fun 1345 01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:24,240 like non story game mechanics as in the dice pool, the roles like 1346 01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:25,359 the mixed success, stuff like that. 1347 01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:30,560 But it's so much more open. Like one of the things that 1348 01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:33,520 we've talked about a bunch with like especially Pbta games is to 1349 01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:37,319 me, it's so scaffolded narratively that I generally 1350 01:09:37,359 --> 01:09:39,600 feel like we're playing like a group choose your own adventure. 1351 01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,880 Like basically like, oh, I rolled A7, so let me check my 1352 01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:43,319 list. And that tells me exactly what 1353 01:09:43,319 --> 01:09:45,920 happens. This feels so much more 1354 01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:49,080 narratively open with everything that you're trying to do, 1355 01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,840 especially because you get to pick like as many successes or 1356 01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,520 as many dice as you get to roll. You can put to risk the things 1357 01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,440 so you can have a goal and injury and scared and clue and 1358 01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:01,120 so much more can come out of each one. 1359 01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:04,720 It's so interesting. I loved, I'd like you said, I 1360 01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:08,880 love the open-ended narrative nature of like the consequences 1361 01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:11,760 of rolling in this game. It's so cool. 1362 01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:15,640 Yeah, I you know, I love the idea of narrative games. 1363 01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:19,000 But like you said, like a lot of the stuff that's like PBTAS, I'm 1364 01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,520 always like, this is I don't want all of this. 1365 01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:24,080 This is what I want. This is the this is exactly what 1366 01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:27,520 I'm looking for, yeah. I just feel too constrained by 1367 01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:30,400 just the level of scaffolding that so many of those games 1368 01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,640 have. I don't want a pick list and 1369 01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,920 even like, as a person running the game, I don't want a pick 1370 01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:40,160 list, you know? I want to naturally improvise on 1371 01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:43,200 what's happening, like given the context of the situation. 1372 01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:45,240 Exactly. So like when you look at sucks. 1373 01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,600 Bro, you know. It does. 1374 01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:49,840 But like when you look at scared, this is the difference, 1375 01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:51,280 right? There's a success or failure, 1376 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,520 basically 5 plus you succeed without frightening yourself, 1377 01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,160 your housemates or your allies, and 4 minus you and anyone 1378 01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:59,000 assisting you is scared. That's it. 1379 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,840 But you had to roll, You had to build your dice pool to get the 1380 01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:04,240 role. You had to assign the role to 1381 01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:05,440 it. And then you get to pick one and 1382 01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:07,920 it basically says you're scared or you're not right. 1383 01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,880 And that's that is all I want to know, right? 1384 01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,640 That's what I'm rolling for. But I don't have a list of now 1385 01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,040 like these are all the way. This is the exact reason. 1386 01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:20,040 That you're scared you can pick from for your fun, open-ended 1387 01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,480 narrative game. Yeah, yeah, I I just think that 1388 01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:25,360 these are so clever and so interesting. 1389 01:11:25,480 --> 01:11:28,680 And the great thing is this is so fucking hackable because like 1390 01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,880 basically, these are these are the risks that you suffer. 1391 01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,800 So if you turn this into any other game, these work. 1392 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:38,840 But there could be so many other options for risks that you could 1393 01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:44,360 have to roll against and to keep it as narratively open as these 1394 01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:47,080 while still getting to roll for it, which is, I don't know, it's 1395 01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:49,760 it's it's so clever. I really love it. 1396 01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,120 And then the trouble die. We'll go over that and then 1397 01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,960 we'll move on from here. But it says if you need an extra 1398 01:11:56,960 --> 01:12:00,000 die to roll, you can opt to risk trouble in addition to the other 1399 01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:03,080 risks on this action, add one die to your pool, but you'll 1400 01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,560 have to assign a die to the trouble table in addition to 1401 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,800 other risks. I will say that that is a 1402 01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:11,480 little, that is a little bit counter to what's previously 1403 01:12:11,480 --> 01:12:13,360 written. So when you actually go into the 1404 01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:17,360 trouble section, it says after you roll, after you roll, the 1405 01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:19,720 GMA let you roll a trouble die, but if you actually go the 1406 01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:22,880 trouble die table, it says add it to the pool before you roll. 1407 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,760 So there's a little bit of a disconnect. 1408 01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:25,480 Disconnect. Yeah. 1409 01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,400 Yeah. But on 4 plus, it says one of 1410 01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,680 your troubles will show up this session etcetera, etcetera. 1411 01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,000 On 2/3, it says one of your troubles hinders your 1412 01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:34,720 investigation or escalates problems. 1413 01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:39,320 And then on one it says an ally comfort or trouble is in 1414 01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:43,120 immediate trouble and something or is doing something that puts 1415 01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:44,800 others in trouble. So basically it's like it's 1416 01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:48,440 happening right now. It's happening or it's going to 1417 01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:50,160 happen at some point. And I love that. 1418 01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:52,680 Yeah, but at some point trouble will happen and it will happen. 1419 01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:56,440 Now getting assistance works like basically in a game people 1420 01:12:56,440 --> 01:12:59,160 can help you, but if they do and you get fucked, they get fucked 1421 01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:00,280 too. And that's what it comes down 1422 01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,440 to. I do like, I do like the 1423 01:13:02,440 --> 01:13:04,960 difference here though. With allies or NPCS, you they 1424 01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,280 can add one dice, but if it's a housemate, they can add 2 dice. 1425 01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,280 I like that the difference like you know, actual characters are, 1426 01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:16,360 are more important than NPCS and I like that because they're 1427 01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:20,320 NPCS, right? Right Now we get to using magic. 1428 01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:23,280 So we skipped over magic a lot in The Witch and the Stranger, 1429 01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,760 but oh and the familiar. So we're going to talk about 1430 01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,200 magic now because magic does exist in this game. 1431 01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:33,640 And how does magic work? Yeah, so the first thing in 1432 01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:38,000 bold. Magic is almost always risky. 1433 01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:40,560 I'll just go ahead and read the sections pretty short. 1434 01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:44,000 When you work in the magic that has any meaningful effect on 1435 01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,240 events or on the world, you roll. 1436 01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:50,560 Magic rolls work the same way as other action rolls, but you use 1437 01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:54,840 the table below to build your dice pool instead, getting one 1438 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:57,320 dice for each of the following. Several things on here. 1439 01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:00,720 A couple of them. Your origin story is the Witch 1440 01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:03,800 Familiar Stranger. You can have the Sorcery skill. 1441 01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:07,480 You draw on a word of power to cast your spell 1 for each of 1442 01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:10,040 the word of powers employed. There's a there's a quiet list 1443 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:13,080 here, actually. Did I? 1444 01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,160 Did I write down how many? No, I don't think I wrote down 1445 01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:20,000 how many. 123456781010 I did. There you go. 1446 01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:21,280 Yeah. Oh, you did. 1447 01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:23,880 Yeah. Oh yes, it's that. 1448 01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,880 Nice, pull this out. The notes are in front of me 1449 01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:29,160 right now. Yeah, I just really like that it 1450 01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,800 literally uses its own dice pooled selection list, which is 1451 01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:35,760 really fantastic. I also like the one that says 1452 01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:39,680 you have a spell, a spell book, grimoire or similar arcane 1453 01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,800 source to guide your casting. Because if you're a witch trying 1454 01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:45,840 to cast and one of the other players is a familiar, they 1455 01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:49,240 actually have a chance to know where you can find things like 1456 01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:54,080 that to aid you in casting a cool tie back into other 1457 01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,720 characters working together. Yeah. 1458 01:14:57,120 --> 01:15:02,160 So all magic risks risk becoming scared. 1459 01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:07,760 Intending harm risks an injury, and you must assign a die to 1460 01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:12,000 control. And you have an interest, you 1461 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:13,280 know, on this. Why don't you go ahead and tell 1462 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,200 us your note? Yeah, So control is basically 1463 01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,160 just another risk. Like I said, you can add risks 1464 01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:20,680 to the list and I love that, right? 1465 01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,960 But the role table says result of magic, which I think is 1466 01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:26,880 confusing because clearly this is supposed to be like the 1467 01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:30,080 trouble, the risk table. So I don't know why it says 1468 01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:33,560 result of magic instead of just like control table, right? 1469 01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,000 Because they would make it more sense because it must assign one 1470 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,480 die to control, but it never lists control anywhere else. 1471 01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:43,000 But clearly the table is for control, so I though it says 1472 01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,680 roll and the result of magic. There's just no reason that it's 1473 01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,360 not just like just like trouble was like gold or thing, 1474 01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:51,080 whatever. That just doesn't take control. 1475 01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,840 It may make a lot more sense. It would I I think it's 1476 01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,280 interesting that like you can use magic again, this kind of 1477 01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:59,040 really leans into that. How cool this the mechanics of 1478 01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:02,880 this work because you can still assign dice like you normally 1479 01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:04,240 would. You just have an extra table you 1480 01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:07,480 must assign a die to. But if you have enough, you 1481 01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:10,760 could get a clue through your magic or, you know, whatever you 1482 01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:13,120 intend to happen Like it's it still carries that very 1483 01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,160 open-ended, like we're telling a story together format. 1484 01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,040 And as like a a consonant improviser. 1485 01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,280 I, I would, I would fuck with this so hard. 1486 01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,120 Yeah, yeah. That's what I like, I mean and 1487 01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,280 that's one of the things I don't like potentially about and we're 1488 01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:30,400 just going to beat up PBTA little bit here and that's not 1489 01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,080 all of. Them, it's not all of them, but. 1490 01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:34,320 It's a lot of them, but we've said this before, there's 1491 01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:36,760 there's 500 PBTA games out there and four of them are good, 1492 01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:38,400 right? But. 1493 01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:49,200 Patchwork Worlds. Yeah, and obiton panic, but as 1494 01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:53,000 the GM I want to feel like a player too. 1495 01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:57,160 And with PBTAI feel like it's mostly corralling, it's not 1496 01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:01,000 really playing. And but when there's improv like 1497 01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,080 this where you have to like make it up as you go to because 1498 01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:06,280 that's what the players do the whole time anyway, so why isn't 1499 01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:08,400 the GM also doing that? It makes me feel more like a 1500 01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:10,200 player, more like I'm actually playing the game with my 1501 01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:11,920 friends. I don't want to feel like. 1502 01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:14,480 What's going to happen either I. Don't want to feel like a 1503 01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:16,480 director. I don't want to feel like the 1504 01:17:16,480 --> 01:17:19,160 maestro or whatever. I don't want to be like pulling 1505 01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:20,840 the strings and whatever. Like I want to be playing with 1506 01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,960 the way that like with my friends and when I get the 1507 01:17:23,960 --> 01:17:25,960 opportunity, improv. I'm gyming that makes me feel 1508 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,080 this way. But the control table we should 1509 01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,280 we should definitely talk about the. 1510 01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:34,920 Result of magic. So on A5 plus you do not lose 1511 01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:38,600 control of your magic. Working right two to four your 1512 01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:41,880 magic is beyond your control. The GM will say how you lose 1513 01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:45,400 control of the power. Treat dice on the scared and 1514 01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:50,320 Injured tables as ones, though the participants in the working 1515 01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,200 can determine which of them are scared or injured based on the 1516 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:55,040 effects. Alternatively, there could 1517 01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:57,440 merely be significant property damage. 1518 01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,720 Love that option? Think that's a great option? 1519 01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:04,320 And on A1, the energies, spirits, or visions you summon 1520 01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:07,320 are beyond your control. The GM may move dice from other 1521 01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:11,560 tables to the injured, injured and scared table as they see 1522 01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:16,600 fit, or treat them as ones and determine who is affected by 1523 01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,280 each. Injury and scare property may 1524 01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:22,040 also be damaged, often very badly. 1525 01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:24,560 Hey, listen, if you want the cops to show up, just start 1526 01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,920 fucking with property, right? Because that's what's important. 1527 01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:34,160 Funny, funny. The next, the very next giant 1528 01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:35,960 black box. I don't know what I just said. 1529 01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:38,480 Yeah. Why? 1530 01:18:38,480 --> 01:18:39,960 You tell us about calling the authorities, right? 1531 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:43,840 Yeah, calling the authorities. The Mandolin County police used 1532 01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:47,160 to regularly conduct gay baiting and queer bashing raids in 1533 01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,320 Roseville Beach. They resent the court orders 1534 01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,200 that prevent them from continuing to do so. 1535 01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:53,960 And residents have very good reason to distrust them. 1536 01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:57,160 If anyone calls the police, the best possible result is that the 1537 01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:01,120 police ignore the call. You know, once again, a cab. 1538 01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,960 Fuck the cops. If you look at any era of 1539 01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,560 policing it's just them picking a group of minorities to just 1540 01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,880 beat or multiple groups just just beat the fuck out of for no 1541 01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:14,040 reason. It's like, dude, yeah, what the 1542 01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,560 cops, bro? Every aspect of it. 1543 01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:19,160 You know, the only thing worse than cops is, is copy unions 1544 01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:24,280 police. Police is not labor. 1545 01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:27,040 Police is not labor. Because labor does not break 1546 01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:27,920 labor. Right? 1547 01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:30,120 And what is the first time that there's a strike? 1548 01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:31,560 Who shows up to fucking buffs kneecaps? 1549 01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:32,840 It's fucking cops. Guess what? 1550 01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:35,760 You don't get fucking unions and it's all corrupt bullshit 1551 01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:38,240 anyway. Anyway, moving on. 1552 01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:41,640 Thank you. So injured, scared and out of 1553 01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:44,120 action is what's coming up next. So we're talking about injured 1554 01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:45,760 and scared. So injured, scared and out of 1555 01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:49,240 action. Injuries and scares are two 1556 01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:51,440 different ways basically that you can get knocked out of out 1557 01:19:51,480 --> 01:19:52,880 of action, which we'll get to in a second. 1558 01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:58,800 So injuries are physical conditions that and the that the 1559 01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:02,120 gym names as they happen. So there's no list here, right? 1560 01:20:02,480 --> 01:20:06,080 So when, and again, I love this, it's not here's a list of like 1561 01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:07,720 you have a broken bone or you have this or you have that. 1562 01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:12,200 It's literally like you risked injury, you got an injury. 1563 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,640 And based on that injury, the gym will tell you what it is, 1564 01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,280 right? You did sprain your wrist. 1565 01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:19,880 You did get a like a slash. You have to go get stitches or 1566 01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:20,960 something. I love that. 1567 01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:24,800 It says winded, broken arm, sprained ankle, exhausted, and 1568 01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:26,800 then scared. When you're scared, something 1569 01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,920 has emotionally frightened or shaken you in some way that's 1570 01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,240 outside of what you normally deal with and like injuries. 1571 01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,800 The GM is going to tell you what that thing is, right? 1572 01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,800 And then out of action means that whenever you have 3 1573 01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:41,960 injuries or scares, it takes you out of the action until you get 1574 01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:45,320 help or until the next session. You can get back into the action 1575 01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:48,480 at 2 or less. So if you're at 3:00, you're 1576 01:20:48,480 --> 01:20:52,240 out, but if you can just kill 1, you can get back in the action, 1577 01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:54,720 but you're at risk for being knocked out pretty quickly. 1578 01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:58,160 So it says recovering from injuries and Spooks. 1579 01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,800 So recovering from injury. It basically says they recover 1580 01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:05,840 as is reasonable, right? Recovering from an injury 1581 01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:07,160 depends on the nature of the condition. 1582 01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:10,040 Some like when did it just require time exhausted requires 1583 01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:13,800 food like a broken ankle requires like a cast. 1584 01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:15,960 Like I like that. It's basically just like treat 1585 01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:17,880 an injury like you would treat a fucking injury. 1586 01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:20,120 I don't need you don't need a week of downtime, right? 1587 01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:23,160 I love that a lot of this game is literally just sounds 1588 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:26,800 reasonable, right? I'm like Yep that works there 1589 01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:31,160 are you can use a first aid kit to remove or mitigate injuries 1590 01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:36,320 which is usually not risky but could be risky in like a dire 1591 01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:37,960 situation or under duress or something like that. 1592 01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:40,960 And it says recovery from Spooks. 1593 01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:46,720 I don't know why they jumped to the term Spooks here instead of 1594 01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:49,360 just scares. I don't know if it was meant to 1595 01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,520 be what a group of scares is called or if it was just like, 1596 01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:54,520 just like a term, oh, Spooks or whatever. 1597 01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:58,200 Yeah. But I would have probably just 1598 01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,400 stuck with scares here so that there's like, consistency 1599 01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,320 because for a second I was like, did I miss something about 1600 01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:06,440 Spooks? So I probably just said recovery 1601 01:22:06,440 --> 01:22:09,720 from scares because it literally says recovering from scared 1602 01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:12,200 sometimes just requires a little time. 1603 01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,040 So for instance, if you have the jitters, you just need to calm 1604 01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:18,320 down. The best option is to like find 1605 01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:21,360 an ally or housemate, talk it out and you'll, you know, work 1606 01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:24,360 through it. You can also spend time with one 1607 01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,240 of your comforts or something like that and that'll help you, 1608 01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,040 etcetera, etcetera. Doesn't usually involve a role 1609 01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:32,680 unless things are under duress. Next we get to is downtime and 1610 01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:34,520 advancement. This is really cool. 1611 01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:38,440 So at the start of the session, so you don't. 1612 01:22:38,440 --> 01:22:41,360 When the session ends, the session ends and then you start 1613 01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:44,200 the next session. Each player will summarize what 1614 01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:47,920 they've been up to since the last mystery ended, and each 1615 01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:50,240 player chooses one of the following. 1616 01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:55,240 You can choose getting comfort, so it says say how, and then you 1617 01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:58,960 get to remove one spook again. I don't know why they randomly 1618 01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,440 went to spook for these two pages because it goes back to 1619 01:23:01,440 --> 01:23:07,360 scares later. I, that's I, it's AI don't know. 1620 01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:09,760 It's like interchanged numerous times throughout this. 1621 01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:12,880 And then, and then as I said, when we get to the GM section, 1622 01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:14,960 it never says spook again. It just always talks about 1623 01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,120 scares. So I think just consistently 1624 01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:19,760 going with scares here would be better than jumping to spook for 1625 01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:21,880 this one, like 2 bit spread and then not really talking about it 1626 01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,360 again. Then there's getting medical 1627 01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,200 attention. It says you spend some time at 1628 01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:27,200 Roseville. I love this. 1629 01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:29,520 This is really interesting too. You spend some time at Roseville 1630 01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:35,680 Care Center for minor injuries or Mainland County Hospital for 1631 01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,120 major ones. You can remove a minor injury 1632 01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:41,160 completely or convert a major injury to a minor injury. 1633 01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,520 So like a sprained shoulder to this, your arm is stiff or 1634 01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:46,960 whatever at the Roseville Care Center. 1635 01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:51,400 If you went to mainland, OK, now that says mainline. 1636 01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:56,240 But it says mainland so many other times and mainline. 1637 01:23:56,480 --> 01:23:59,040 Mainline makes sense to me because if you lived in the 1638 01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,440 Philadelphia area, you know what the fuck the mainline is. 1639 01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:05,240 I'm not going to explain it, but it says mainland almost 1640 01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,080 everywhere. But I kept wanting to say 1641 01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:11,040 Mainline, but it does say if you went to Mainline County right 1642 01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:12,680 here, what does it say on the character sheet? 1643 01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,520 Because that's mainline, right? No, it says St. 1644 01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,560 Judy's Medical Center. Saint Jude's is also down there 1645 01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,000 in the Philadelphia area. So that's interesting. 1646 01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:23,520 So if you went to Mainline County Hospital, make a supply 1647 01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,000 check. So bring in supply checks back 1648 01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,480 into a base with your injuries. And I really love that if you 1649 01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:32,400 fail, your lost income and medical expenses mean you 1650 01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:34,480 haven't been able to contribute to the bungalow. 1651 01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,640 Your house's supply goes down by one for just the session. 1652 01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:42,200 So the way that you lose money by having to spend money on your 1653 01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:48,480 medical supplies is by having to go to the nice big hospital for 1654 01:24:48,480 --> 01:24:49,640 a major injury. I love that. 1655 01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:51,360 It's very interesting. It's very funny. 1656 01:24:51,480 --> 01:24:52,760 It's a good way to deal with that. 1657 01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:54,880 Yeah, you can bond with a housemate. 1658 01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,360 SO2 characters can agree to use their downtime to bond with each 1659 01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:58,600 other. So you grow a bond with a 1660 01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,600 housemate and then you can remove a scar or learn a skill 1661 01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:04,600 or word of power from the other person. 1662 01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:06,760 So if you have a skill that I want and I have a skill that you 1663 01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,560 want, we can bond and each learn each other's skill, which is so 1664 01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:11,560 clever. I really love that. 1665 01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:17,840 You can make a new friend which gains another ally. 1666 01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,520 You can do training, which means you can train a skill that would 1667 01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,960 have helped in a previous session or gain a new skill on 1668 01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,240 your job list either or. So it doesn't have to be on your 1669 01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:30,200 job list if you can say why you're training it based on you 1670 01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,560 not having it last session. Which I think is really, really 1671 01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:34,280 clever. Like man, I just wish I was a 1672 01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:35,920 better drawer or something like that. 1673 01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:37,400 So you can learn illustration that. 1674 01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:40,920 Reminds me of what game is it where you if you fail the skill 1675 01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:44,040 check later on you can be good. Troika does it. 1676 01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,280 It's not. That was the last thing I 1677 01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,600 thought. There's a couple that are like 1678 01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,720 that though, where like if you fail, you can mark and if you 1679 01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,640 fail enough times, you can learn it, which is really interesting. 1680 01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:56,720 Like you succeed by were you succeeding in the future by 1681 01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:58,120 failing or advanced by failing, which is neat. 1682 01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:03,280 Or or you can just train on this on your job list, which is cool. 1683 01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:06,640 So we have another story from Roseville Beach and then we're 1684 01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,440 going to get into guest stars. These are really interesting and 1685 01:26:09,440 --> 01:26:13,400 there's a fuck load of them. So guest stars are for drop in 1686 01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:15,520 players. So they're they're not 1687 01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:18,080 housemates. This is such a great idea. 1688 01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:20,480 By the way, this is an amazing idea. 1689 01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:22,920 It's incredible. So they're not housemates, but 1690 01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:26,400 they're more than allies. They have a supply rating, they 1691 01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:28,200 might have some special equipment and can be tweaked to 1692 01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,640 fit. So they're basically like super 1693 01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:33,040 NPCS, right? But it's for dropping players. 1694 01:26:33,040 --> 01:26:34,960 Like if you, if you just have a friend that wants to come in for 1695 01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,800 one station to see how it works, boom, you just give them a guest 1696 01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:38,680 star. They don't even make a whole 1697 01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:40,200 character. I love this. 1698 01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:43,840 It's so clever. There's 23 of them, 20 fucking 3 1699 01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:44,760 of. These. 1700 01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,920 Let me give you the list. We got the monster suit actor, 1701 01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:50,760 the homesick expatriate, the independent journalist, the 1702 01:26:50,760 --> 01:26:54,200 haunted ice cream vendor, the poet who sees backwards. 1703 01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:58,160 I will say real quick little note here, this book is 1704 01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:07,480 incredibly well bookmarked, but when you get down to the when 1705 01:27:07,480 --> 01:27:14,680 you get down to the guest stars section, 21 of the guest stars 1706 01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,360 are bookmarked. Two of them are missing. 1707 01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,760 The haunted ice cream vendor and the poet who sees backwards. 1708 01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:23,160 There's a whole page that's not bookmarked here because I 1709 01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,520 counted what was in here, but then I counted on the page and I 1710 01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:27,400 was like, there's 23, but there's only 21 bookmarks. 1711 01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:28,800 So there's just two bookmarks missing. 1712 01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:33,000 What else we got here? We got the oblivious grandma. 1713 01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:35,080 I would play. That's that's the one. 1714 01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:37,880 That's that's it right there. There's the micro computer nerd, 1715 01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:41,720 the hippie artist troupe, the astronaut, the lousy punk, the 1716 01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:44,760 soul of the queer community, the hard boiled private detective, 1717 01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:49,640 the bronze beach pro, Definitely not an occultist, the gadget 1718 01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:53,120 geek disaster girl, the Cryptid, the awakened statue, the 1719 01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:56,320 treasure hoarder, the fatemarked graduate student, the lost 1720 01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:59,800 sailor, the psychic, the twinned man, and the high school drama 1721 01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:01,400 coach. Pick one. 1722 01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:04,440 What are you doing? What am I doing? 1723 01:28:04,440 --> 01:28:06,520 Which am I picking? Yeah, just pick one. 1724 01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:09,440 God, the poet that sees backwards. 1725 01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:13,840 The poet that sees backwards. I do want to throw this into a 1726 01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,800 nice little two page spread because they do have a lot of 1727 01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,320 them have these like really great art pieces as we go 1728 01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:20,840 through. They're really. 1729 01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:26,120 Great the I started as a bottom but now I top art piece great. 1730 01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:31,120 Which page is this? Oh, who knows really, 67? 1731 01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:36,760 Oh, that's funny. Yeah. 1732 01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,680 Because a lot of the RPS have these little, like, quote pieces 1733 01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:42,560 on them, like the the hey, Jenny, what are you really? 1734 01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:44,880 What are you rebelling against? I'm just like, what do you got? 1735 01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:49,120 Like, that's a funny one. And then the naked dude that 1736 01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:51,080 says I've worked too hard on this body to keep it under 1737 01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,520 wraps. But but which one? 1738 01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:56,400 Yeah, right. Which one did you pick again? 1739 01:28:57,080 --> 01:29:00,400 The poet who sees backwards. I just think it's a fantastic 1740 01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:02,080 name title. Go. 1741 01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:06,760 Go for it. Oh cool, yeah, the poet that 1742 01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:09,880 sees backwards. Rich grandparents paid for your 1743 01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:13,320 poetry degree, but you've been struggling ever since to compose 1744 01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:15,920 your masterwork, or to write it at all for that matter. 1745 01:29:16,480 --> 01:29:19,840 You get by with help from your trust fund, various gigs as a 1746 01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:22,600 writing instructor, and sometimes the peculiar visions 1747 01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:25,280 of the past that comes you in dreams. 1748 01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:30,320 One such vision, as well as a serendipitous gig teaching a 1749 01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:33,600 Writing Your Sexuality workshop, has brought you to Roseville 1750 01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:37,080 Beach. Might you discover a long lost 1751 01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:40,720 treasure in age-old mystery, or even some much needed 1752 01:29:40,720 --> 01:29:45,520 inspiration for a new poem. Your age is 30 + 1 D 6, so 1753 01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:49,240 anywhere between 3136. You have a four supply rating. 1754 01:29:49,840 --> 01:29:55,320 Your backgrounds misunderstood literary genius, accidental 1755 01:29:55,320 --> 01:29:57,880 historian. Your skills are poetry, 1756 01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:01,760 crossword puzzles, public speaking, social social studies, 1757 01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:04,880 trivia, and then special abilities. 1758 01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:08,920 When you sleep, you dream of the past be a scene from the ancient 1759 01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:10,520 past or something that happened yesterday. 1760 01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:14,200 It tends to be weirdly pertinent to your current situation. 1761 01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:16,720 It's so good. It's so good. 1762 01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:20,560 And a lot of these were written by, I don't think there's like a 1763 01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:23,240 lot of different writers for these. 1764 01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:28,400 So they're they're fantastic. And again, like I said, there's 1765 01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:31,880 23 of them, which is incredible selection. 1766 01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:34,720 So that is that's basically the core rules of the game. 1767 01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:37,200 It's really like, if you actually look at the actual 1768 01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:40,960 rules of the game, it's going to fit on like 4 to 6 pages, right? 1769 01:30:41,560 --> 01:30:44,160 Yeah, and then, you know, character and stuff like that, 1770 01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:48,440 but the actual the actual like dice mechanics and things like 1771 01:30:48,440 --> 01:30:50,600 that. The next we're going to get into 1772 01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:54,840 we're going to cruise through the GM section and and then 1773 01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:57,240 we'll switch over to the review. So the Game Masters Book of 1774 01:30:57,240 --> 01:31:00,640 Secrets. So this is this is number 2. 1775 01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:04,800 So once again, a nice two page spread here of this. 1776 01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:09,360 I mean, obviously pulp scene, but it's it's interesting. 1777 01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:15,280 And then we're going to get into how to run Roseville Beach. 1778 01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:19,960 So for the most part, like I said, we're going to cruise this 1779 01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:23,920 and not go too deeply into it. But so at the first section is 1780 01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:28,680 starting a mystery. So there are four parts to this. 1781 01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:32,720 There's the context, which is at the start of a session, you 1782 01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:34,080 paint a picture of what's going on. 1783 01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:36,640 There's the event, which means at some point the housemates 1784 01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:37,960 become aware that something is wrong. 1785 01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:41,480 There is what really happened. So before the session, the GM 1786 01:31:41,480 --> 01:31:44,600 decides what really happened and then who's involved. 1787 01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:47,640 You identify who might be who might have seen, heard or 1788 01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:50,960 suspected something. So I gave one lines to pair that 1789 01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:54,400 would that are actually paragraphs for each of these and 1790 01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:57,040 they're great. It it is good instruction for 1791 01:31:57,040 --> 01:31:58,360 for doing it. It's pretty straightforward, 1792 01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:00,840 like pick a mystery, pick who saw it and do whatever. 1793 01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:04,040 But it's still nice information because I think a lot of people, 1794 01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:06,960 especially people that are used to adventure games, running a 1795 01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:09,240 mystery is going to be a little bit different. 1796 01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:11,920 So I, I do like that this is in here. 1797 01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:16,160 There's interacting with NPCS. It's interacting with NPCS. 1798 01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:21,800 There is a 2D6, a very classic disposition table, you know, two 1799 01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:24,160 through twelves. Yeah, 2, two to three, actively 1800 01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:25,680 distrust or dislike the housemates. 1801 01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:28,160 And 11:00 to 12:00 is friendly and interested in whatever the 1802 01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:29,840 housemates are doing. And then there's a spread in 1803 01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:33,480 between. There's a section here for 1804 01:32:33,480 --> 01:32:35,320 giving clues. It basically says that most 1805 01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:38,160 clues don't require any risk. They can usually be found by 1806 01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:41,200 looking and asking around. If they do have risk, they gain 1807 01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:43,520 access to the information when they overcome the risk. 1808 01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:46,600 Because don't forget you can always put a die on the clue 1809 01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:50,400 risk thing and and be able to get our risk from that. 1810 01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:54,680 There is a bonus clue section here. 1811 01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:57,760 So it says. In one of these parts it says. 1812 01:32:57,800 --> 01:33:00,200 However, sometimes players make a role and place it on the clues 1813 01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:02,440 table. This gives him access to 1814 01:33:02,440 --> 01:33:05,040 additional clues. The bonus clues might include 1815 01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:06,960 spotting unexpected people, unusual places. 1816 01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:10,680 Over here a snippet, whatever. There is AD 6 table here a bonus 1817 01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:12,080 clues. Why don't you roll 1D6 for me? 1818 01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:19,000 I will 1. All right. 1819 01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:25,720 A distinctive, recognizable and physical item that the 1820 01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:28,560 housemates can use to identify someone or something. 1821 01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:31,240 A bite mark, footprint residue or trail. 1822 01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:36,040 I like this list is a great little list when because listen, 1823 01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:38,560 improv is great but sometimes your brain ain't working great. 1824 01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:39,920 It's nice. To have true. 1825 01:33:40,480 --> 01:33:42,160 Yeah, it's nice to have some of these, even if it's just 1826 01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:43,600 inspiration. Even if you look at those and 1827 01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:45,920 go, OK, all right, and then make up your own real quick, it's 1828 01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:47,040 great. It's great. 1829 01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:51,440 Perfect, perfect spot In the GM section, there's a section here 1830 01:33:51,440 --> 01:33:53,760 called special. And this is one reason I want to 1831 01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:56,640 talk about the monolith. It says when something 1832 01:33:56,640 --> 01:34:00,520 supernatural occurs, it draws the strange bronze monoliths, 1833 01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:03,920 and sometimes they're visible. No one seems to know why. 1834 01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:06,200 See Rose Island monoliths in Chapter 7. 1835 01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:10,200 Interesting. So it comes up again and again, 1836 01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:12,600 there's a there's a section here which is like an example of 1837 01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:14,280 play, which is really interesting. 1838 01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:15,520 It's not marked as an example of play. 1839 01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:18,120 I thought it was special section for a little bit, but it's not, 1840 01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,480 it's just, it's just, yeah, but it's, it's really just an 1841 01:34:21,480 --> 01:34:22,840 example of play, which is great to have. 1842 01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,200 We get into confrontations and conflicts. 1843 01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:29,440 So if basically it says if a goal would cause a long term 1844 01:34:29,440 --> 01:34:32,480 suffering or injury to an opponent, the players risk 1845 01:34:32,480 --> 01:34:36,440 taking a scare. Again it's it's this scare 1846 01:34:36,440 --> 01:34:40,120 again, not spook which is spook is only used on that. 1847 01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:43,320 Weird two page spread, yeah. It's literally just on that two 1848 01:34:43,320 --> 01:34:44,640 page spread. They talk about Spooks and they 1849 01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:46,160 go back to using scares for the rest of the book. 1850 01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:48,040 I don't know if maybe it was going to be at some point they 1851 01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:51,120 just didn't like fix all of them, but I would definitely 1852 01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:52,920 just stick with scare. It's just easy. 1853 01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:56,040 It makes a lot more sense. There's conscience and 1854 01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:57,720 consequences. It basically says if a goal 1855 01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:01,240 would cause Nope. So I I jumped ahead. 1856 01:35:01,520 --> 01:35:04,280 So confrontations and conflicts is what I meant to go over. 1857 01:35:04,280 --> 01:35:07,840 So basically it says most bad guys can take 3 conditions 1858 01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:11,880 before defeat, injuries, scares, just like housemates, just like 1859 01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:13,440 housemates. But they can't be. 1860 01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:15,160 But they can be tweaked in the fiction, right? 1861 01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:18,680 So if you, the, the example here is that the necromancer is on 1862 01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:21,480 top of like a lighthouse and you push them off and like the first 1863 01:35:21,480 --> 01:35:24,000 go, they just fucking die. Like you don't need to do all 1864 01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:25,720 three for that right? Keep it to the fiction. 1865 01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:27,840 Role to make sure that fall really killed him. 1866 01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:32,640 But generally 33 before they're out and that works. 1867 01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:36,040 And then it's conscience and consequences where it says you 1868 01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:41,840 would risk a scare for for long term harm of, of a, of an enemy 1869 01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:45,480 or a bad guy or whoever. There's a section here for 1870 01:35:45,480 --> 01:35:48,160 escalations. It basically says if you do have 1871 01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:52,880 a, a, a bad guy, right and they are going to take 3 before they 1872 01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:54,600 get knocked out. Every time they take one they 1873 01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:58,640 escalate the situation and there's AD 6 table here for 1874 01:35:58,640 --> 01:36:00,200 escalations. Why don't you rule D6? 1875 01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:12,000 55 threaten a housemate with one of their own troubles. 1876 01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:15,280 There you go some. There's other ones. 1877 01:36:15,280 --> 01:36:17,960 It's like attempting to harm or somebody calling out with a 1878 01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:20,960 piercing wheel or shriek or screen that acts as an injury. 1879 01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:24,240 So yeah, there it's, it's it's basically the way that the the 1880 01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:27,080 bad guys fight back because the one is literally like cause 1881 01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:30,360 harm. So like there, yeah, there's a 1882 01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:32,600 whole section here on romance and relationships that it's 1883 01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:36,000 interesting. And it basically says like it 1884 01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:38,240 happens. Romance doesn't mean flirting. 1885 01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:41,520 It doesn't mean I think we'll get into seduction later. 1886 01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:44,440 It means actual intimate relationships with another 1887 01:36:44,440 --> 01:36:46,440 character, which obviously you want to talk about before the 1888 01:36:46,440 --> 01:36:48,640 game starts in the consent sheets and the, and the 1889 01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:50,080 calibration and everything like that. 1890 01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:53,120 And it says Roseville Beach is a place where it's safer for 1891 01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,240 people to form friendships, partnerships and romances. 1892 01:36:55,480 --> 01:36:57,280 And the characters can explore that if they want to. 1893 01:36:57,360 --> 01:37:01,800 Right. It says don't roll for romance. 1894 01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:06,080 Seduction is not romance if you're trying to get a clue, but 1895 01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:08,240 you can roll risky to try to seduce somebody. 1896 01:37:08,240 --> 01:37:12,280 But that is not romance. Basically, RP your romance. 1897 01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:16,240 Like, what is it? I really like the one that they 1898 01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:19,880 said this. They're working to get over the 1899 01:37:19,880 --> 01:37:22,560 bullshit that keeps them from really connecting internal 1900 01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:25,520 issues like distrust, confusion, insecurity, prejudices and 1901 01:37:25,520 --> 01:37:28,760 history of bad relationships and external issues like dark packs 1902 01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:32,000 demanding supernatural patrons, curses or rival commitment. 1903 01:37:32,240 --> 01:37:34,920 So if you're open to romance and you decide to do all of those 1904 01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:37,520 things, that's the kind of bullshit that you're RP ING 1905 01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:39,760 through in order to develop a relationship. 1906 01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:43,000 You know, you're not rolling to be like, oh, we got, we, we got 1907 01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:46,720 plus one relationship, you know. I love the rubber banding 1908 01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:50,080 between like, oh, like internal struggles and like past 1909 01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:54,520 experiences to like oh, magic and necromancers and like 1910 01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:57,240 that's. It it's a thing, you know, I 1911 01:37:57,280 --> 01:37:58,280 mean. The thing that's gonna, that's 1912 01:37:58,280 --> 01:38:00,160 what this game is so. Yeah, it's the thing that's 1913 01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:02,840 gonna get in your way, you know, cuz I can imagine the stress 1914 01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:03,920 that's gonna put on a relationship. 1915 01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:07,760 You know, there's a section on asexual and a romantic 1916 01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:10,360 relationships that says they're here, they exist. 1917 01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:12,480 You can do them if you just want like a deep friendship. 1918 01:38:12,480 --> 01:38:15,200 If you want like a non sexual partnership, you can still you 1919 01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:17,200 develop those bonds just the same way you do with other 1920 01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:18,640 romances. Go for it. 1921 01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:21,600 Beautiful. There's a there's a there's a 1922 01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:24,720 meet cute table. It's a 2D6 Roseville Beach 1923 01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:27,320 doesn't have a romance role. If a player expresses interest 1924 01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:29,760 in connecting with the NBC you know very well you know little 1925 01:38:29,760 --> 01:38:34,400 about, do a 2D6 meet cute roll. We both have to do 1. 1926 01:38:34,440 --> 01:38:36,920 You know we both have to do 1. Yeah, I rolled A4. 1927 01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:39,400 The MPC is interested, but hiding something. 1928 01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:42,520 They're aware of some unexplained events, but are 1929 01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:45,160 primarily worried about something scary from their own 1930 01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:48,520 past that's on its way to Roseville Beach even now. 1931 01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:55,680 Well, three so many times, all right, I got to seven says NBC 1932 01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:58,880 is interested but a little wary of anyone who comes on too 1933 01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:00,520 strong. They have some useful mundane 1934 01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:03,000 skills, but are oblivious to Rose Island supernatural 1935 01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,160 happenings, and they're suspicious of anyone who 1936 01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:08,320 mentioned them. So you like them, but you got to 1937 01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:11,160 keep what you you got to keep saving the day on the DL. 1938 01:39:11,240 --> 01:39:14,360 The weird side under wraps for the beginning, you know. 1939 01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:16,680 Yeah, right. You got to keep the mask on. 1940 01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:21,480 Romances between PCs if two housemates decide to pursue an 1941 01:39:21,480 --> 01:39:23,400 in character romance, you have less work to do, they're 1942 01:39:23,400 --> 01:39:25,280 inevitably going to put themselves in the situations, 1943 01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:26,720 etcetera, etcetera. Romance. 1944 01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:28,440 It happens. There's a whole section here 1945 01:39:28,440 --> 01:39:31,080 about calling the police, basically a cab, right? 1946 01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:33,240 There's an optional rule here, even. 1947 01:39:33,440 --> 01:39:36,320 Put that in the notes. Oh, my notes literally say 1948 01:39:36,320 --> 01:39:39,240 calling the police space down one period a cab. 1949 01:39:39,440 --> 01:39:42,080 That's all I wrote. There's an optional rule here 1950 01:39:42,080 --> 01:39:43,760 for quick roles which I thought was really interesting. 1951 01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:48,680 Basically it says if, if if you're not sure of the outcome, 1952 01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:52,840 you can just roll a die for it. So and you can just do a quick 1953 01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:56,040 roll either one or two dice depending on what's going on. 1954 01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:58,360 It says occasionally there might be a situation where the players 1955 01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:01,200 to try to do something desperate and you can have them roll 2 1956 01:40:01,200 --> 01:40:02,960 dice and choose the lowest result. 1957 01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:05,680 But there is a roll result here thing. 1958 01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:08,080 So basically one or two things go poorly, three to four, it's a 1959 01:40:08,080 --> 01:40:10,480 mix. And five to six things go well, 1960 01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:14,000 pretty standard D6, you know, mixed success table, good to 1961 01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:16,160 have here, good little. Side option to have in the back 1962 01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:18,360 pocket. Yeah, there's examples here of 1963 01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:21,920 things to do perception, lower cantrips, fate where you're 1964 01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:24,320 like, it's not, might not necessarily be super risky, but 1965 01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:26,320 the outcome is like you're not quite sure of. 1966 01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:30,760 So you can have them just roll A roll to kind of give you a lot 1967 01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:33,240 of a lot of games do this is, I know Fate is listed here, but a 1968 01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:35,520 lot of games will be like a fate roll where it's like roll 1D6, 1969 01:40:35,840 --> 01:40:37,960 it goes good for you with three or last or four more. 1970 01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:39,680 So it's their little version of it. 1971 01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:44,120 And then there's a bunch of stuff here, another story from 1972 01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:45,440 Roseville Beach, another great story. 1973 01:40:45,440 --> 01:40:47,240 And this stuff we're not going to go over because there's a lot 1974 01:40:47,240 --> 01:40:48,960 of cool info and just buy the fucking game. 1975 01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:50,240 So. Shadows. 1976 01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:53,720 Yeah, Shadows of Rose Island contain some secret information 1977 01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:56,840 about Rose Island. It's got like details about 3 1978 01:40:56,840 --> 01:41:00,320 Roseville Island locations by the book for all that cool 1979 01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:04,160 secret information. So we're going to scroll through 1980 01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:07,360 that and then we're going to get to a section. 1981 01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:10,800 Everyone close your eyes. You can't see any of this close. 1982 01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:11,720 Your eyes. You can't see any of this. 1983 01:41:12,040 --> 01:41:14,240 Then there's a section on exploring Rose Island. 1984 01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:15,920 It's 4 interesting points of interest. 1985 01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:17,240 Guess what? Guess what you got to do to read 1986 01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:21,320 those by the fucking book. Or just pause the screen. 1987 01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:24,320 Yeah, pause the screen as I scroll very quickly. 1988 01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:26,680 Then there's a whole section here on the Sorcerer's over 1989 01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:28,720 Rhode Island. There's basically 6 NPCS. 1990 01:41:29,800 --> 01:41:31,760 Oh, I guess 7, Julian and Charlotte, and then there's 1991 01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:34,160 another double at the end. But it's a bunch of really great 1992 01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:37,320 info for these like sorcerer's or magic users that are on Rose 1993 01:41:37,320 --> 01:41:39,400 Island. So there's seven, I think 1994 01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:43,040 there's like 5-5, but two of them are pairs. 1995 01:41:43,760 --> 01:41:48,120 And there you go. And then we get to the well, 1996 01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:51,880 let's get a roll, get get get a, a whole roller out. 1997 01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:53,960 You're going to create an NPC real quick as we run through 1998 01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:55,280 this and then that'll be the end for us. 1999 01:41:55,960 --> 01:42:00,120 So creating NPCS there's AD 21st and last name. 2000 01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:04,000 So Romy 2 D 20s. No, we'll go with my opening 2001 01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:07,120 name was Loretta Green. Loretta, that's where I. 2002 01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:08,760 Am so. Yeah. 2003 01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:12,560 And then there is AD 20 for traits, so one of those. 2004 01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:19,280 I rolled A10 endless war stories. 2005 01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:24,120 Loretta Green and her endless War stories They're going to go 2006 01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:25,960 to a D20 table for what they want. 2007 01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:28,400 What does Loretta Green want with their Endless War Stories 2008 01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:34,080 3? A night of passion with a spirit 2009 01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:38,040 or other entity? Hell yeah, you're a freak. 2010 01:42:38,400 --> 01:42:43,080 Hey, my or my head immediately went was lost a spouse in the 2011 01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:45,120 war. She's trying to have one last 2012 01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:46,160 night with that, you know what I mean? 2013 01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:47,920 Yeah, OK, cool. I love that. 2014 01:42:48,440 --> 01:42:51,200 Yeah, D20 connection to the mystery. 2015 01:42:52,720 --> 01:42:58,720 Nine, It's has a conspiracy theory that's almost right. 2016 01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:01,960 There you go, the worst kind of right Almost. 2017 01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,120 Then you got AD 10 table of what they want, Why they want to help 2018 01:43:06,120 --> 01:43:11,240 the housemates. It is to used to do what the PCs 2019 01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:13,440 are doing, still do what they can. 2020 01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:15,520 Great, that's a great kind of NBC. 2021 01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:18,320 Then there's AD 10 table of why they don't want to help the 2022 01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:21,840 housemates. Five hiding from something and 2023 01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:24,840 don't want to attract attention. Going really well so far. 2024 01:43:25,160 --> 01:43:26,080 Really. Yeah, I'm trying to begging a 2025 01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:29,320 ghost. Yeah, and detent of how they 2026 01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,200 could help the housemates or throw them off. 2027 01:43:32,680 --> 01:43:37,160 One understands the symbols or incantations. 2028 01:43:37,640 --> 01:43:40,880 Boom, there we go. And that is an NPC. 2029 01:43:41,360 --> 01:43:44,440 Then you get these stories from Roosevelt Beach, and then we 2030 01:43:44,440 --> 01:43:47,800 immediately jump into a bunch of mysteries. 2031 01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:53,320 So there are what did I say besides buy the fucking book? 2032 01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:55,920 It's a list of adventures from people like friend of the show 2033 01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:59,000 Max Lander writ 1. So Richard Rune does one, Max 2034 01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:00,080 Lander does one. There's a bunch. 2035 01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:03,520 There's the Haunting of Flora Blye, Girls before swine, Sweet 2036 01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:05,840 on Jenny. Excuse me, the House in the 2037 01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:08,680 woods, Ravenous Rave. And then you have a whole, the 2038 01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:12,240 whole one that's weird mysteries and strange events in the back, 2039 01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,120 and that is in Atlanta and Roseville Beach. 2040 01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:18,320 Because guess what? We don't read adventures here. 2041 01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:20,360 And we're not going to give you all the, we're not going to give 2042 01:44:20,360 --> 01:44:22,320 you the entire book because guess what you got to do to get 2043 01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:23,520 that? Yeah, buy it. 2044 01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,720 Buy the fucking book. And then once again on the back 2045 01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:30,760 of the book you get the only mention of every just using 6 2046 01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:32,640 sided dice on the back of the book. 2047 01:44:33,440 --> 01:44:35,280 So. So that's the game. 2048 01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:38,480 So let's let's hop over to review scores. 2049 01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:43,240 So again, so for those that don't know what we do here on 2050 01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:46,560 the show, we do quantify our terrible opinions with numbers, 2051 01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:49,400 right? We assign a set of numbers to 2052 01:44:49,400 --> 01:44:52,760 five different metrics, each worth up to 10 points for a Max 2053 01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:55,600 of 50 points. We have art and layout, which is 2054 01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:59,160 the visuals of the book. It's it's the quality, quantity 2055 01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:03,440 and use of art in the book and the visual layout style of the 2056 01:45:03,440 --> 01:45:06,000 book. There's usability, which means 2057 01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:09,080 things like which it's actually using the book either physically 2058 01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:12,520 or digitally. Digitally bookmarks, hyperlinks, 2059 01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:17,960 making the PDF easy to navigate and physically it's and, and 2060 01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:20,480 just in general, it's having things that we think are in the 2061 01:45:20,480 --> 01:45:25,240 correct order, making the information easily readable and 2062 01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:27,720 accessible and once again, is usable at the table. 2063 01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:30,880 A bookmark in the book doesn't hurt a rule set. 2064 01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:32,960 If it's an original rule set, do we like it? 2065 01:45:32,960 --> 01:45:35,720 Do we think it's good? If it's an adapted rule set, how 2066 01:45:35,720 --> 01:45:38,800 well is it adapted? Originality is just the 2067 01:45:39,200 --> 01:45:41,400 definition of that word. Like what is original about the 2068 01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:44,400 game, whether it's in rules and art, in anything setting, 2069 01:45:44,400 --> 01:45:46,680 whatever. And then value is bang for your 2070 01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:48,760 buck. It's not just the cost of of the 2071 01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:50,480 game, even though that is a big part of it. 2072 01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,520 It's what more you get with the game. 2073 01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:56,400 What else is out there? Third party licenses, apps, 2074 01:45:56,400 --> 01:45:58,920 whatever the fuck exists out there, it's bang for your buck. 2075 01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:02,200 If you spend X amount of dollars, do you get a good value 2076 01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:04,280 for it? So art and layout. 2077 01:46:05,040 --> 01:46:07,440 Well, it's definitely going to take a hit here being made by 2078 01:46:07,440 --> 01:46:11,200 our favorite layout artist. Yeah, one of our yeah, Dai is 2079 01:46:11,200 --> 01:46:14,920 one easily, easily up there. Yeah, I would say yeah, a day, 2080 01:46:15,760 --> 01:46:18,160 yeah, top two. I think Dai Sugars and 2081 01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:23,080 Guillermega and Chigio are in my opinion the two best TRPG layout 2082 01:46:23,080 --> 01:46:25,320 people out there right now. They're all and that is not 2083 01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:27,560 denigrating anybody out there. There's a lot of fantastic 2084 01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:30,520 people that do stuff, Luna, Jean Verne, like a lot of really 2085 01:46:30,520 --> 01:46:32,640 fantastic people. I just personally really love 2086 01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:36,240 the way that Dai does stuff in a very good like way and God Tijo 2087 01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:39,480 does stuff in a very like super interesting, kind of sometimes 2088 01:46:39,480 --> 01:46:43,080 out there creative way. They both have incredibly strong 2089 01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:46,200 strengths and are way up there. Probably my two favorites. 2090 01:46:46,400 --> 01:46:48,000 Strong strengths, not weak strengths. 2091 01:46:49,120 --> 01:46:51,240 Brain brain braiding. So art and layout. 2092 01:46:51,240 --> 01:46:56,480 What are your thoughts? God this is a good looking 2093 01:46:56,480 --> 01:46:58,720 fucking book dude. It's so good. 2094 01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:01,960 It's the layout's great. I mean even the small thing like 2095 01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:05,400 having the extra page so that when I pull it up in Acrobat 2096 01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:09,200 right here, I can switch from 2 page to one page view my mother 2097 01:47:09,200 --> 01:47:12,240 fucking minor detail that only we would care about. 2098 01:47:12,240 --> 01:47:15,760 That makes it so much easier to parse through this and also to 2099 01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:18,640 view it as a spread when I want to see the full spread and to 2100 01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:21,800 not when I don't. The art that they got for this 2101 01:47:21,800 --> 01:47:25,480 is fantastic. It really sells that kind of 2102 01:47:25,480 --> 01:47:28,200 vibe of it. I mean, like, I think to their 2103 01:47:28,200 --> 01:47:31,000 own point, it is unfortunate. There's like no art from that 2104 01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:32,880 time period that really shows any people of color. 2105 01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:35,400 Literally all just like skinny white people. 2106 01:47:35,600 --> 01:47:38,560 But that's like that's a product of it's time and not the fault 2107 01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:41,000 of, you know. Which is addressed. 2108 01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:42,720 Yeah, yeah. Which is addressed and I think 2109 01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:44,960 it's great. But even the even the art listed 2110 01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:47,440 has the art index, which I think is fucking fantastic. 2111 01:47:47,440 --> 01:47:52,280 Yes, the art index is very cool. Yeah, I'm thinking this is the 2112 01:47:52,960 --> 01:47:54,360 fuck. It's so fucking good. 2113 01:47:55,320 --> 01:47:57,040 I I'm just letting you know that I'm thinking, hi. 2114 01:47:57,040 --> 01:48:00,400 So you, you shoot. For the stars that you want, 9 2115 01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:01,040 and. Easy. 2116 01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:04,920 I'm thinking 9 easy for this like I don't like this is about 2117 01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:10,000 this is like the this is like this is art punk. 2118 01:48:10,080 --> 01:48:12,320 Like in the same way that you would look at like, like 2119 01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:16,960 Merkborg or anything from like Gavro Caroga, but using like 2120 01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:21,040 queer pulp art. Like every page is saturated 2121 01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:22,760 with it. The page textures on the back 2122 01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:24,920 even like the stuff that we didn't even talk about too much, 2123 01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:27,320 which is like all the little quotes that are written on so 2124 01:48:27,320 --> 01:48:29,560 many other pieces of art are, are part of it too. 2125 01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:32,480 Just the way that so much of it is built into the spreads as 2126 01:48:32,480 --> 01:48:35,240 well. Like art is a central aspect of 2127 01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:40,440 the entire experience of this one of the the aspects and I 2128 01:48:40,440 --> 01:48:42,880 think it's, it's incredible. Like it really pulls you into 2129 01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:46,280 the vibe. It really helps set the tone for 2130 01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:48,200 like a lot of the things you're reading at the time. 2131 01:48:48,440 --> 01:48:50,320 I think it's it's it's stunning, it's perfect. 2132 01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:53,280 It's scored like I this is fucking fantastic. 2133 01:48:53,280 --> 01:48:57,160 I think this is an easy 9 as far as I'm concerned for art and 2134 01:48:57,160 --> 01:48:58,400 layout. I I'm glad you agree. 2135 01:48:58,400 --> 01:49:00,200 And and again, that's just with art. 2136 01:49:00,360 --> 01:49:04,160 The layout 2 incredibly readable, great use of fonts 2137 01:49:04,160 --> 01:49:05,880 without going fucking crazy with it. 2138 01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:08,120 Like even just on the character creation page, that like pink 2139 01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:11,600 font that like pops up on it like it's, it's they did such a, 2140 01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:14,240 a fantastic job. The ads throughout it too, are 2141 01:49:14,240 --> 01:49:16,160 really great. I don't know the character 2142 01:49:16,160 --> 01:49:17,840 sheet. I think also like even if if it 2143 01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:19,960 wasn't 8, as soon as I saw the character sheet, it would be an 2144 01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:22,040 eye because the character sheet is one of my favorite character 2145 01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:23,120 sheet. It's a really like the character 2146 01:49:23,320 --> 01:49:23,920 sheet. Yeah. 2147 01:49:24,280 --> 01:49:27,360 Also, like we talked previously about character sheets that like 2148 01:49:27,360 --> 01:49:30,360 lean too heavy into art to where they weren't very useful as 2149 01:49:30,360 --> 01:49:33,280 character sheets, but this one's such a great, it's still 2150 01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:36,120 incredibly useful as a character sheet and it's also very art 2151 01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:37,760 heavy. It's a hard balance to strike 2152 01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:40,040 well. Yeah, and again, it's a fucking 2153 01:49:40,040 --> 01:49:42,320 folder. I love that the folder literally 2154 01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:44,280 comes up. But like you just said, it's, 2155 01:49:44,320 --> 01:49:47,560 it's it's super artsy. It obviously looks very much 2156 01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:50,160 like pieces of paper, but there's so much room on each 2157 01:49:50,160 --> 01:49:52,560 one, right? There's there's sections for 2158 01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:57,560 everything to to do things in. And it's it's, it's such a good 2159 01:49:57,560 --> 01:50:00,040 looking character sheet. So easy night. 2160 01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:03,680 Yeah, usability. So it's going to take some hits 2161 01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:07,760 here. It does have a hyperlinked table 2162 01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:09,360 contents. It does have a plenty of 2163 01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:11,440 bookmarks. It I guess it's not going to 2164 01:50:11,440 --> 01:50:14,000 take like hits hits here. But it's divided up into 2165 01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,800 sections where all the player facing stuff is player facing, 2166 01:50:16,800 --> 01:50:20,360 all the GM stuff is GM facing. Like it doesn't intermix. 2167 01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:24,400 I will say it does not mention what dice you use except on the 2168 01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:26,920 back. There is a section that starts 2169 01:50:26,920 --> 01:50:31,840 referring to scares as Spooks, but only really in one short 2170 01:50:31,840 --> 01:50:33,480 section there. Are. 2171 01:50:34,640 --> 01:50:37,960 Of why there's a few typos in this as well. 2172 01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:40,600 Oh yeah, Speaking of that, I did forget to mention one. 2173 01:50:40,600 --> 01:50:42,960 So I wanted to, I wanted to go back and just point that out. 2174 01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:56,480 If we go to where is where's the the conflicts 1 where it talks 2175 01:50:56,480 --> 01:50:58,760 about the consequences and and stuff like that. 2176 01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:02,560 You know I'm talking about. Yeah, I closed the PDF honestly 2177 01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:06,600 but. There's a section I did want to 2178 01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:10,200 point it out but and it's so bookmarked but I'm I'm lost on 2179 01:51:10,200 --> 01:51:12,720 on the section. Keep, keep going and I'll find 2180 01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:16,200 it. I think that was really the 2181 01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:19,280 most, that was the most of my like notes on usability. 2182 01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:21,640 I mean, it has a character sheet which it adds to usability. 2183 01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,480 It's a good character sheet which you can actually use. 2184 01:51:24,480 --> 01:51:27,280 And it's not just there for show like some other packs of 2185 01:51:27,280 --> 01:51:28,880 character sheets I've gotten for other games. 2186 01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:36,120 Yeah, I think I'm thinking, you know, I'm, I'm thinking it's 2187 01:51:36,480 --> 01:51:39,720 probably still a really good, you know, when it comes to 2188 01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:42,000 usability. I'm still, I'm hovering around 2189 01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:46,280 like a 7:00-ish, you know? Yeah, I want to point this out 2190 01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:49,040 real quick. In the conflicts and 2191 01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:52,120 consequences section down the bottom paragraph, it says 2192 01:51:52,120 --> 01:51:54,320 opponents and conflict for the housemates, whether physical or 2193 01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:58,360 verbal, don't act on their own. The damage or scare the PCs when 2194 01:51:58,360 --> 01:51:59,680 they can't. I believe that's supposed to be 2195 01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:03,200 they damage or scare the PCs when they can't place high on 2196 01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:06,400 the injured scale terribles. So I think there's like 3 or 4 2197 01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:09,440 and not big. Again, we're being fucking 2198 01:52:09,440 --> 01:52:11,320 pedantic as fuck. We are, but we are but there's. 2199 01:52:11,320 --> 01:52:13,280 Like pedantic so but. Here's the thing. 2200 01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:15,520 You know what? If we pointed out then at least 2201 01:52:15,520 --> 01:52:17,760 now the author knows that there's a typo there. 2202 01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,560 If they ever release it again, they can go, Ah, let me fix that 2203 01:52:20,560 --> 01:52:24,480 typo. But and that's why we do it more 2204 01:52:24,480 --> 01:52:25,920 than anything. It's not to be like, ha ha, we 2205 01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:27,280 found one. It's supposed to be like, Hey, 2206 01:52:27,280 --> 01:52:29,600 just so you know, there's there's a you're missing AY 2207 01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:31,120 there. Yeah, we're dumbass nobodies. 2208 01:52:31,120 --> 01:52:32,600 Don't take us too seriously. Yeah. 2209 01:52:35,200 --> 01:52:37,800 What hits do you think? I mean, yes, I think the dice 2210 01:52:37,800 --> 01:52:39,880 thing is weird. I think the spook thing is 2211 01:52:39,880 --> 01:52:41,640 weird. I don't think it takes massive 2212 01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:43,600 hits for me though. But I I mean, it's so 2213 01:52:43,600 --> 01:52:46,440 bookmarked, I can only imagine. I'm guessing here. 2214 01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:48,480 And I'm going to give the benefit the doubt that it's 2215 01:52:48,480 --> 01:52:50,600 screen rated to fuck, because that's what Dai does. 2216 01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:51,800 One of the things they do for a living. 2217 01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:58,280 The I'd like you just said the the three specific sections, the 2218 01:52:58,280 --> 01:53:00,480 breakdown of everything. I mean, where you where you 2219 01:53:00,480 --> 01:53:03,040 think it's really good? I do think it's really, I think, 2220 01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:08,880 I think not like letting me know what dice we're using is the 2221 01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:10,840 biggest possible hit it could take from you. 2222 01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:13,280 The other stuff you could burn. All the rest of my complaints, 2223 01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:15,600 they're meaningless. But like that one, And like, 2224 01:53:15,640 --> 01:53:19,400 that's fucking glaring. You know, like I do, I do 2225 01:53:19,400 --> 01:53:21,440 understand that there's a one section that's like, hey, if 2226 01:53:21,440 --> 01:53:22,760 you're a beginner, go read something else. 2227 01:53:22,760 --> 01:53:24,240 But there is there is a difference between that and 2228 01:53:24,240 --> 01:53:26,920 being like at no point during the rule stacks are we ever 2229 01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:28,880 going to tell you that you're just using D sixes, right? 2230 01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:32,080 Unless we somehow totally fucking missed it, both of us. 2231 01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:36,960 I controlled F The number six. I controlled FD6I controlled F. 2232 01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:40,040 We have 6 the number the the word 6 and never saw it 2233 01:53:40,040 --> 01:53:41,560 anywhere. So yes, we might be complete 2234 01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:43,840 fucking dumbasses and completely missed it. 2235 01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:48,400 And I hope someone goes, hey, actually dumbass is right here 2236 01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:51,000 and I'll go. You know what, damn, you're 2237 01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:53,280 right. But I do think it missed it. 2238 01:53:53,520 --> 01:53:55,920 And I do think there's again, there's a couple other parts 2239 01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:59,160 where it talks about like dice and using dice that I understood 2240 01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:01,280 how they were supposed to be used, but you might not 2241 01:54:01,280 --> 01:54:03,760 necessarily know. It says like pick a word of 2242 01:54:03,760 --> 01:54:07,720 power and it gives you like AD 6 and then like sixes for each, 2243 01:54:07,720 --> 01:54:10,720 but it never says like roll AD 6 to pick and then roll another D6 2244 01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:12,720 to to choose. So things like that. 2245 01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:14,760 So yeah, I think about a 7 is probably good for this. 2246 01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,560 Cool. Because I think, I think that 2247 01:54:17,840 --> 01:54:21,640 it's really like a good, it's a really, it's a higher number 2248 01:54:21,640 --> 01:54:23,240 that knocks down because of a couple things. 2249 01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:24,960 It's not a low number that bumps up, you know what I mean? 2250 01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:26,680 Yeah. But the couple of those fixes, I 2251 01:54:26,680 --> 01:54:30,040 think it'd be an easy push and it'd be like an easy solid 8 2252 01:54:31,560 --> 01:54:33,600 rule set. If there's not a lot, let's be 2253 01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:35,000 completely. Honest, it's so good though. 2254 01:54:35,400 --> 01:54:38,040 Yeah, yeah. The rules are slim though, and 2255 01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:40,600 I, but you're right. The dice pool use of this and 2256 01:54:40,600 --> 01:54:45,040 then using like the the dice you rolled, assigning them to risks 2257 01:54:45,040 --> 01:54:49,440 that the GM told you were risks before you before you did it. 2258 01:54:50,160 --> 01:54:52,560 It's so clever. It's so clever. 2259 01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:58,000 Like I and then the tables themselves of yeah, Cat, the the 2260 01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:01,560 tables themselves are, are really interesting in the way 2261 01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:07,080 that they give you something to improv with, not tell you what 2262 01:55:07,080 --> 01:55:09,000 happens. You know, I really love that a 2263 01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:10,920 lot. Yeah, the structure of this. 2264 01:55:10,960 --> 01:55:13,000 I like the way the character classes are set up. 2265 01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:18,160 I like how the the dice to the pool and assigning them to the 2266 01:55:18,160 --> 01:55:23,760 tables goes I I think it's minimal but not overly so. 2267 01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:27,480 The thing it leans on the narrative, but it doesn't like 2268 01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:30,600 box you in. But even even with a character 2269 01:55:30,600 --> 01:55:34,520 creation like the the really narrative aspects of play, where 2270 01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:36,280 like a lot of your characterization is getting 2271 01:55:36,280 --> 01:55:40,000 another ally, getting another skill, getting a comfort, all of 2272 01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:44,680 which can be put into trouble later or be a burden as much as 2273 01:55:44,680 --> 01:55:48,400 a boon when it becomes in trouble or is at risk or 2274 01:55:48,400 --> 01:55:51,120 something like that. And all feeds into the narrative 2275 01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:53,040 of like, Oh dope, I got this cool ally. 2276 01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:55,280 Ah, fuck, my ally's in trouble. You know what I mean? 2277 01:55:55,640 --> 01:55:59,920 It's it all feeds into itself so well in realistically again, 2278 01:55:59,920 --> 01:56:03,200 such a tight little like rules package which is fantastic. 2279 01:56:03,560 --> 01:56:06,800 They're very easy to understand. And I think even going back to 2280 01:56:06,800 --> 01:56:10,440 the point you just made, the whole like adding these NPC 2281 01:56:10,440 --> 01:56:14,840 allies or troubles adds to this like narrative of this communal 2282 01:56:14,840 --> 01:56:18,480 beach town that you're in that you like are part you're an 2283 01:56:18,480 --> 01:56:21,360 active part of this community that you like work around and 2284 01:56:21,360 --> 01:56:23,160 protect and look out for each other. 2285 01:56:24,520 --> 01:56:28,960 It's yeah, you know, I'm pretty high on this one, like. 2286 01:56:29,120 --> 01:56:31,360 I would, I would, I would just say, I would, I would say before 2287 01:56:31,360 --> 01:56:35,280 we say numbers that different than zenes, because it's books, 2288 01:56:35,280 --> 01:56:39,800 we rate scores versus other games a little bit more. 2289 01:56:39,800 --> 01:56:42,320 You know what I mean? Like we, we take into account 2290 01:56:42,600 --> 01:56:44,400 the other games that we've reviewed. 2291 01:56:44,680 --> 01:56:48,440 So like one thing about this that I'll say is I'm a rules 2292 01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:53,800 like guy, right? But some like again, Kingdoms, 2293 01:56:53,800 --> 01:56:57,280 one of the only games we've ever given attend to, the core rules 2294 01:56:57,280 --> 01:56:59,960 are light, but there's three layers of rules right with. 2295 01:57:00,320 --> 01:57:04,080 And that is I think what always separated it to attend for us is 2296 01:57:04,080 --> 01:57:06,280 that I agree the layers of rules. 2297 01:57:06,280 --> 01:57:10,320 So although I'd love rules like games and I do think there 2298 01:57:10,320 --> 01:57:12,640 there's a lot of good narrative complexity to this. 2299 01:57:12,880 --> 01:57:16,000 It is a little bit of a lighter system for the size of the book. 2300 01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:19,000 It is comparatively to other things, like if you compare this 2301 01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:21,120 is something like even something we've done recently, like Alien 2302 01:57:21,120 --> 01:57:27,400 RPG, this is vastly fewer, which which is good in that the more 2303 01:57:27,400 --> 01:57:29,280 you add, the harder it is to make it all sing. 2304 01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:32,240 And I'm not, I'm not saying reduce because of it, I'm just 2305 01:57:32,240 --> 01:57:34,320 saying I'm adding context to what we're about to say. 2306 01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:38,000 But what do you think? I don't know. 2307 01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:41,840 I think for me personally, book length and rule set length are 2308 01:57:41,840 --> 01:57:46,280 not like don't have that much to do with each other. 2309 01:57:46,560 --> 01:57:50,600 You know it's just context, not. Yeah, You know, I mean, dude, 2310 01:57:50,600 --> 01:57:52,400 I'm pretty high on this rule set. 2311 01:57:52,400 --> 01:57:57,920 I'm a very high 8 to 9. You know, I think this does what 2312 01:57:57,920 --> 01:58:00,560 it does. It has the parts I need for it, 2313 01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:02,720 like when it comes to injury and scares, and like how you 2314 01:58:02,720 --> 01:58:05,600 interact with those and how you recover from those and those tie 2315 01:58:05,600 --> 01:58:07,920 back into things that you already understand about the 2316 01:58:07,920 --> 01:58:10,920 game system. I'm pretty high. 2317 01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:19,560 Yeah, Oh, yeah. But I'm just trying to look at 2318 01:58:20,000 --> 01:58:24,680 what we've looked at this year, Right. 2319 01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:28,080 So Wolfwald got an 8, Swivers got an 8. 2320 01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:34,080 I, I don't think that this for me is above either Wolfwald or 2321 01:58:34,080 --> 01:58:37,080 Swivers, specifically Swivers, because Wolfwald is like the 2322 01:58:37,080 --> 01:58:38,680 rules added on to the rules you're going to use anyway. 2323 01:58:38,680 --> 01:58:41,320 But if we give Swivers an 8, I don't think I could give this 2324 01:58:41,320 --> 01:58:43,280 A9. OK, so. 2325 01:58:44,440 --> 01:58:46,880 We're going to give every game. We're we, we specifically 2326 01:58:46,880 --> 01:58:49,680 changed the way that we review games so that we wouldn't give 2327 01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:53,160 too many eights and every book. Wait, let's go back to to 2328 01:58:53,320 --> 01:58:58,560 aliens. Ryan take a bad game. 8888, 2329 01:58:58,880 --> 01:59:02,240 every book we've done. Oh, Daisy Chunzog got a 7. 2330 01:59:02,640 --> 01:59:04,680 So 4 out of five. But I think it's an 8. 2331 01:59:04,720 --> 01:59:06,200 I still think it's an 8. No, I still think. 2332 01:59:06,200 --> 01:59:07,400 It's I'm going to say I don't know. 2333 01:59:07,440 --> 01:59:09,920 This is really lacking anything I want to add to it. 2334 01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:12,640 Or I don't, and that's I think is a reason that it's not going 2335 01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:14,680 to go down at all. Yeah, I'm just saying we 2336 01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:16,800 specifically were like, fuck, we give too many eights. 2337 01:59:17,040 --> 01:59:18,560 That's what I'm saying. We give this 19. 2338 01:59:19,640 --> 01:59:23,280 No I I if anything, because this is an 8, I would go. 2339 01:59:23,280 --> 01:59:27,520 I'm sorry for so annoying, but do you disagree with that? 2340 01:59:28,680 --> 01:59:31,200 Sorry, my cat's crying at the door now that he's not sleeping. 2341 01:59:31,200 --> 01:59:32,440 No. Cats. 2342 01:59:33,440 --> 01:59:35,240 You can tell which one. Of us is a cat person. 2343 01:59:35,840 --> 01:59:41,800 Originality. OK, can you give me another gay 2344 01:59:41,800 --> 01:59:45,400 beach town El Jatour game? It's insane. 2345 01:59:45,960 --> 01:59:51,800 It's so good. It's so good I don't even need 2346 01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:55,080 to argue why this is a 9 for me. I mean, I can just give you more 2347 01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:58,600 reasons why it's a nine. I mean, reaching even into how 2348 01:59:58,600 --> 02:00:01,200 the rule set works as a dice pool rule set love dice pool. 2349 02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:06,320 This is so individualistic. Dice pool, the the setting, the 2350 02:00:06,600 --> 02:00:09,040 fucking even the way your bungalow works. 2351 02:00:09,240 --> 02:00:11,720 It's just like the supply. The supplies remember the 2352 02:00:12,160 --> 02:00:13,480 beginning. When I say I'm going to pick 2353 02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:16,200 that one, I'm going to pick that one random rule through the 2354 02:00:16,200 --> 02:00:17,640 entire book that I love more than anything. 2355 02:00:17,840 --> 02:00:21,600 I love the way supply works because and even to go deeper, I 2356 02:00:21,600 --> 02:00:25,840 love that your supply is specifically linked to having to 2357 02:00:25,840 --> 02:00:27,720 go to the bigger, more expensive hospital. 2358 02:00:27,960 --> 02:00:29,920 That cracks me the fuck up. I still want to know whether 2359 02:00:29,920 --> 02:00:31,280 it's mainland or mainline though. 2360 02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:33,680 Yeah, it's so clever because then you don't have to fuck with 2361 02:00:33,680 --> 02:00:36,160 money at all in the entire game. Notice that there's no. 2362 02:00:36,160 --> 02:00:39,040 There's no mention of any currency and that's and it's as 2363 02:00:39,080 --> 02:00:40,000 much as I need. I'm fine. 2364 02:00:40,120 --> 02:00:42,240 That's great. Yeah, collapse. 2365 02:00:42,240 --> 02:00:44,440 Yeah, easy. I think this is an easy 9 for 2366 02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:49,200 originality, yes. And then value. 2367 02:00:49,200 --> 02:00:51,040 So I have a whole giant list here for value. 2368 02:00:51,040 --> 02:00:52,440 I did a bunch of research beforehand. 2369 02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:56,640 A huge list at the bottom. So the PDF is $20 on itch and 2370 02:00:56,640 --> 02:01:01,320 drive through, but is only $15 on IPR Any press revolution. 2371 02:01:02,080 --> 02:01:05,000 So it's only $15 PDF if you want to go there in print. 2372 02:01:05,560 --> 02:01:09,960 Paperback is $36 on most websites and hardback is $45.00. 2373 02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:14,720 I will say, although I do really like it, the hardback is kind of 2374 02:01:14,720 --> 02:01:18,200 a a standard hardback. There's 0 bells and whistles. 2375 02:01:18,400 --> 02:01:21,360 It's a decent print, but it's not anything crazy by any 2376 02:01:21,360 --> 02:01:25,400 stretch of the imagination, $45.00 is a tiny bit expensive 2377 02:01:25,400 --> 02:01:28,560 for this and it'll always hold up like death in space. 2378 02:01:28,560 --> 02:01:33,680 Comparatively, the 35, you know, 35 bucks color like black pages 2379 02:01:33,680 --> 02:01:37,040 inside foil on the cover. Tiny bit expensive for the 2380 02:01:37,600 --> 02:01:40,920 hardback. The zenes we did, we didn't 2381 02:01:40,920 --> 02:01:43,360 really bring these up. There are bonus zenes. 2382 02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:49,600 There is one for there is the I haven't had a order. 2383 02:01:49,760 --> 02:01:52,840 There's a character Zine, there's an entity Zine, and then 2384 02:01:52,840 --> 02:01:55,240 there's the Bracknell Horror Zine. 2385 02:01:55,480 --> 02:02:00,160 All the varying links, all available on Itch. 2386 02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:03,960 There's 16 to fortyish pages each and they're 8 to $10 each. 2387 02:02:04,160 --> 02:02:06,760 But again, I don't think, and maybe I'm wrong, I don't think 2388 02:02:06,760 --> 02:02:08,520 they're in print anywhere else. I think they were just on the 2389 02:02:08,520 --> 02:02:10,200 Kickstarter. But you can get the digitals. 2390 02:02:11,120 --> 02:02:14,720 And then there is another thing called Mysteries of Rose Island 2391 02:02:15,200 --> 02:02:20,200 which is PDFs OF28 page adventures for only $5. 2392 02:02:20,200 --> 02:02:25,760 It does say though on the on that that there was going to be 2393 02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:28,840 3 more added in 2024. I didn't see any added. 2394 02:02:28,840 --> 02:02:30,840 I think it's going to be 5 total. 2395 02:02:31,040 --> 02:02:33,120 Maybe they're coming later, but if that's the case, you would 2396 02:02:33,120 --> 02:02:37,680 get five more 8 page adventures for $5, which would be an insane 2397 02:02:37,680 --> 02:02:38,640 deal. So that's great idea. 2398 02:02:40,040 --> 02:02:42,960 And then there is the Moonlight on Roseville Beach Visitor's 2399 02:02:42,960 --> 02:02:51,640 Guide to Cruisin, which is a the quick start. 2400 02:02:51,640 --> 02:02:57,200 And and yeah, it's a quick start, which is free in PDF and 2401 02:02:57,200 --> 02:02:59,520 epub. So everything that you really 2402 02:02:59,520 --> 02:03:02,560 need a quick start mystery and everything totally free. 2403 02:03:02,840 --> 02:03:05,640 So great, free quick start. And then there's also a thing 2404 02:03:05,640 --> 02:03:08,360 called Boardwalks and Sorcery by R Rook Studio. 2405 02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:13,280 It is a free SRD and creator kit, once again, completely 2406 02:03:13,280 --> 02:03:16,400 free. So there's the SRD for the game 2407 02:03:16,440 --> 02:03:18,200 and everything that you need to to do stuff. 2408 02:03:18,200 --> 02:03:23,520 So a lot of a shit load of content yeah, between just so 2409 02:03:23,520 --> 02:03:26,560 that you get the book, there's three zenes, there's mysteries 2410 02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:29,120 and Rose Islands gives you two more adventures and then you get 2411 02:03:29,120 --> 02:03:32,120 the quick start and the SRD creator kit. 2412 02:03:32,440 --> 02:03:34,520 All of that is possible for the game. 2413 02:03:34,520 --> 02:03:37,320 So the amount that you have is a ton so. 2414 02:03:37,320 --> 02:03:39,040 Where did you find the pressure of the paperback? 2415 02:03:40,600 --> 02:03:42,480 On like 8 different websites since averaged it. 2416 02:03:42,920 --> 02:03:44,440 OK. Yeah, 'cause they're the 2417 02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:47,080 Exalted, there's IPR, there's Spear, which it's a little bit 2418 02:03:47,080 --> 02:03:48,920 more expensive on Spear which than some of the others. 2419 02:03:48,920 --> 02:03:51,080 Are missing 3I. Mean spirits of the smaller 2420 02:03:51,080 --> 02:03:52,840 company, they probably have 10 to be more overhead. 2421 02:03:52,840 --> 02:03:54,680 So they there's a couple extra dollars on that. 2422 02:03:55,440 --> 02:03:59,200 But I, I priced a lot of it for from IPR because you can get the 2423 02:03:59,200 --> 02:04:02,120 paperback or PDF or the bundle or do whatever. 2424 02:04:02,120 --> 02:04:06,520 So roughly $36 on most pages, roughly $45 on the hardback and 2425 02:04:06,520 --> 02:04:12,000 roughly $15.00 at IPR for the PDF, but $20 on our rooks itch 2426 02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:14,640 and and on drive through. So get it from my PR. 2427 02:04:15,040 --> 02:04:19,120 So I think value score. Overall I would say. 2428 02:04:19,440 --> 02:04:21,240 You know, I mean, I think there's a lot of stuff. 2429 02:04:21,240 --> 02:04:23,640 I think the free stuff is great. I think the amount of content is 2430 02:04:23,640 --> 02:04:24,960 great. I think where it is going to 2431 02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:30,280 take a hit is I do think that the the cost for the paperback 2432 02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:33,760 and hardback is slightly high comparatively to to some things 2433 02:04:34,360 --> 02:04:38,240 it was more like 30 and 40. I think it would be a better 2434 02:04:38,240 --> 02:04:41,160 like cost, not value, just cost of the books themselves. 2435 02:04:41,320 --> 02:04:43,880 They are just high. But you know what make make your 2436 02:04:43,880 --> 02:04:47,200 monies right? But I do think just the amount 2437 02:04:47,200 --> 02:04:49,360 of what's out there and the amount of free stuff out there 2438 02:04:49,360 --> 02:04:51,720 that allows you to play the game without ever really having to 2439 02:04:51,720 --> 02:04:53,360 spend any money. That's what bump it up a little 2440 02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:55,040 bit for me. Yeah, yeah. 2441 02:04:55,040 --> 02:04:57,360 I would probably put this probably like a 7:00-ish. 2442 02:04:57,360 --> 02:04:58,240 What do you think? I I. 2443 02:04:58,280 --> 02:05:00,640 Think so. I think if it wasn't for all the 2444 02:05:00,640 --> 02:05:05,680 free stuff, it'd be like a very good 6:00-ish, and I think the 2445 02:05:05,680 --> 02:05:08,840 free stuff knocks it up. I completely agree, I think 2446 02:05:08,840 --> 02:05:11,120 6:00-ish would be good just because like the scenes and the 2447 02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:12,960 extra adventures you can get with the mysteries of Rose 2448 02:05:12,960 --> 02:05:14,800 Island. But as soon as you get the free 2449 02:05:14,800 --> 02:05:16,600 quick start and then if you haven't gone through the 2450 02:05:16,600 --> 02:05:19,600 boardwalk and sorcery, the SRD and critter kit, it's good. 2451 02:05:19,600 --> 02:05:21,200 Like it's really really good. It's a lot of really great 2452 02:05:21,200 --> 02:05:23,000 content. Plus when you get the PDF, you 2453 02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:26,240 get black and white character sheet, color character sheet. 2454 02:05:26,240 --> 02:05:28,160 You get a bunch of of stuff with it. 2455 02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:33,480 So it is, it is really good. Just the amount of of stuff you 2456 02:05:33,480 --> 02:05:36,280 get with the PDFI think, I think there's APDF and an epub version 2457 02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:39,600 too. So yeah, it's good. 2458 02:05:39,600 --> 02:05:41,160 So I think 7 to 5 U is fantastic. 2459 02:05:41,160 --> 02:05:44,560 So like nice high score overall. This might be one of the higher 2460 02:05:44,560 --> 02:05:45,880 scores we've given the entire year. 2461 02:05:47,040 --> 02:05:52,200 I think that is high score. We've given a year A because you 2462 02:05:52,200 --> 02:05:54,400 know, I have to do this. I know, even though I have to. 2463 02:05:54,760 --> 02:05:57,040 Do it. I have to like, I don't know 2464 02:05:57,040 --> 02:06:00,480 why, but it's just the thing. I do think that once again, I 2465 02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:02,840 think that might be the highest score we've given all year. 2466 02:06:03,480 --> 02:06:09,040 And I think part of it is just because of the the creativity 2467 02:06:09,040 --> 02:06:11,200 and tightness of this and just how different it is from other 2468 02:06:11,200 --> 02:06:12,920 things, right? Because like, I love Swipers. 2469 02:06:12,920 --> 02:06:14,880 I think it's fantastic. But Swipers is kind of like 2470 02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:16,800 another adventure game, you know? 2471 02:06:17,800 --> 02:06:20,000 Yeah. I, I love the, the cultural 2472 02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:25,240 notes on like queer culture in the 70s and what, and like what 2473 02:06:25,240 --> 02:06:27,400 it was like for them and what the police were like. 2474 02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:31,400 And I just, I think it's important, you know, like as a 2475 02:06:31,440 --> 02:06:34,840 sis hetero dude, I'm like really into this game. 2476 02:06:34,840 --> 02:06:36,720 I'm really into like the culture around. 2477 02:06:36,720 --> 02:06:38,920 I think it's incredibly beautiful and interesting. 2478 02:06:39,760 --> 02:06:42,240 Yeah, this is, this is much higher than anything we've given 2479 02:06:42,240 --> 02:06:44,960 all year. And I think if we look at if we 2480 02:06:44,960 --> 02:06:48,600 look at the the where it where it shined, the art and the 2481 02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:52,480 layout are really, really great. But even even in the parts that 2482 02:06:52,480 --> 02:06:54,840 are like the lower numbers like usability and value, they're 2483 02:06:54,840 --> 02:06:56,720 still at sevens, which is fantastic. 2484 02:06:56,720 --> 02:06:58,720 So it's just consistent through with some of the other ones. 2485 02:06:59,000 --> 02:07:01,760 I think both of the other ones might have had a 6IN in in some 2486 02:07:01,760 --> 02:07:04,120 things or like a string of sevens. 2487 02:07:04,120 --> 02:07:08,280 So anyway, 40 high score of given so far this year. 2488 02:07:08,280 --> 02:07:10,480 I really love this game. I think it's fantastic. 2489 02:07:10,480 --> 02:07:13,360 I think it looks fantastic. It is basically like the queer 2490 02:07:13,360 --> 02:07:16,440 version of Merck board for me as far as like how art pump it is. 2491 02:07:16,560 --> 02:07:17,960 You know what I mean? It's an art. 2492 02:07:19,040 --> 02:07:25,160 Weird way to put that. But it's, it's gosh, I, I just 2493 02:07:25,160 --> 02:07:27,520 can't get over how much I love the resolution mechanic, like 2494 02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:31,480 the, the dice pool narrative. It's, it's a, it to me. 2495 02:07:31,480 --> 02:07:33,600 It's like a better forged in the dark, right? 2496 02:07:33,600 --> 02:07:37,480 Like the dice pool narrative aspects of it just really, 2497 02:07:37,480 --> 02:07:39,760 really taking a direction that could be hacked in so many 2498 02:07:39,760 --> 02:07:41,280 different ways. I would love to see someone 2499 02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:44,120 hacked this game into literally anything else just to see how it 2500 02:07:44,120 --> 02:07:46,640 could be used. So that is moonlight on 2501 02:07:46,640 --> 02:07:48,760 Roseville beach. Definitely make sure to go check 2502 02:07:48,760 --> 02:07:51,840 out Silver Age over on Kickstarter. 2503 02:07:52,080 --> 02:07:56,200 It's still funding for some time, so check it out sooner 2504 02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:59,560 than later and go back. Everything from artwork studio 2505 02:07:59,560 --> 02:08:02,800 Richard I we got to we got to meet Richard at PAX. 2506 02:08:03,040 --> 02:08:05,160 I got to hang out with Richards a lot more at the after party 2507 02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:09,720 and such a genuinely like nice, intelligent, well spoken, like 2508 02:08:09,720 --> 02:08:11,920 kind person. So I was very happy. 2509 02:08:11,920 --> 02:08:14,120 It's definitely one of those like sometimes it's nice to meet 2510 02:08:14,120 --> 02:08:16,800 your hero kind of things. And once again, I have 2511 02:08:16,800 --> 02:08:20,240 everything that they have ever done before I realized it and 2512 02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:22,920 and I'm glad I have it now. I'm glad I got this book. 2513 02:08:22,920 --> 02:08:26,000 I'm super I got the hard back and super happy to have met 2514 02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:29,160 Richard and this game. Fox, go buy it. 2515 02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:31,040 Spend your money. Buy it. 2516 02:08:31,680 --> 02:08:35,000 We'll see you Sunday. Sunday for. 2517 02:08:35,200 --> 02:08:37,480 For Jert coming on for our knockout. 2518 02:08:37,600 --> 02:08:38,800 Yeah, we're doing the Jert episode. 2519 02:08:39,440 --> 02:08:43,120 And then on Monday, we're gonna have a special actual play that 2520 02:08:43,120 --> 02:08:44,960 we'll talk about probably on Sunday. 2521 02:08:45,400 --> 02:08:49,320 So we will see you then. Everyone have a wonderful day, 2522 02:08:49,320 --> 02:08:51,320 Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day. 2523 02:08:52,280 --> 02:08:52,520 Bye.