1 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,960 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,800 My name is Ryan. And I'm a song by Paul McCartney 3 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,440 and Stevie Wonder. What's the song by Palm Garden? 4 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,480 Stevie Winter. Ebony ivory, which it's perfect 5 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:31,520 for what we're about to talk about. 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:37,280 Oh, because it's like I'm wow, you went levels with that one. 7 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,120 I'm always, I don't think you guys listen if you're listening 8 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,480 to this, I think sometimes you guys don't appreciate the names 9 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:46,080 that I use that are like several levels deep of a joke. 10 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,400 You know what? We need to do is get famous and 11 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,560 get famous enough that someone puts out a wiki with an 12 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,400 explanation of every name you use. 13 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,040 But we're never gonna get famous enough because we swear too 14 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,680 much, our episodes are too long, and we don't promote ourselves 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,200 at all. Are we supposed to be doing 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,720 that? I mean, I don't know. 17 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,680 This is a hobby, and This is why we're not. 18 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,160 We do this for the love, and today for the love. 19 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,400 We are gonna be going over Macchiato monsters. 20 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,200 Macchiato Monster. A game that deserves a better 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,320 title. Oh my God, I don't disagree with 22 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:29,200 you. This is from Eric. 23 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,640 I'm going to say Newton printed from Lost pages. 24 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:37,440 Big Lost Pages lovers here on the show wanted to show off some 25 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,280 of the Lost Pages stuff that I have, including some new stuff 26 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,120 that literally just arrived. You just got new stuff. 27 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,480 I just got new stuff, first one Beyond the Pale from you I go. 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,960 This book is absolutely stunning great book I'm going to let's 29 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,040 turn off the blur for you guys in podcast line. 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,360 You don't give a shit about the blur, but for those on YouTube, 31 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,120 they. Might they might care. 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,000 Beyond the pale beautiful looking book. 33 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,000 Really, absolutely stunningly gorgeous. 34 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:13,720 It came with the patch the Zena of Jewish monsters magic and 35 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:19,200 mayhem as well and a whole bag of Jewish folklore magic bits 36 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,480 like nails and rocks and it smells delicious. 37 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,520 I it's been a long time since I had a box that smelled as good 38 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,680 as this one did before I opened it. 39 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,800 It's a lot of cinnamon. It's really good. 40 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,320 The other thing that just arrived as well is Wolf Wald. 41 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,880 Very excited for this. This is the Kickstarter that was 42 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,120 out actually before be on the pail. 43 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:42,600 I've been waiting for this for a while. 44 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,920 It's really fantastic. It's like 5 zines inside this 45 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:46,600 gorgeous box. One of my favorite things about 46 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,160 this box and for all those making boxes out there, see see 47 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,680 the front, see how it's beautiful for those in podcast 48 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,080 land, it's got this like 3 headed wolf situation on it, 49 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,720 some runic, you know, some Nordic rune riding on the top, 50 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:04,760 but on every edge it also has the logo. 51 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,240 Which means. However, I decide to put it on 52 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,640 my shelf, left, right, flat, whatever. 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,280 I get to see the logo. Diagonal. 54 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,520 Love that theoretically you can see it like twice if you 55 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,360 diagonal it. Hey, wow. 56 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,960 Hey, so this is how I'm going to start putting all my books so I 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,400 can see them twice. Other stuff from lost pages real 58 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,760 quick, a gift from Paolo was something I ordered before. 59 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:36,760 This is beautiful, yet lost. I got a couple more POD things 60 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,400 here. We got the the wonder and 61 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,640 wickedness. This you can actually get on 62 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:43,920 drop there. It's really fantastic. 63 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,560 And then also the Marvels and Malaysons, Malaysons. 64 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,280 But a book that's very reminiscent of Beyond the Pale 65 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,560 was the the book of Gob. Beautiful, stunning book. 66 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,880 Same style, same kind of like it's fabric, but not. 67 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,920 I really love this. Whatever it is I need to talk to 68 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,160 I need to talk to lost pages about this because my I love 69 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,000 fabric, but like I feel like as soon as I touch it on my I've 70 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,120 like I'm leave. I leave finger stuff on fabric. 71 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,839 Yeah, oily finger stuff. But you don't own this. 72 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,839 It it it feels really nice. I really like this. 73 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,839 I love that cover. Oh, the with the with the with 74 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:23,360 the six fingers. And it's like it's actually 75 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,840 embossed too. It's like deep in. 76 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,560 Yeah, it kind of reminds me of the Return the Slab guy from 77 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,280 Courage to Cowardly Dog return. The slab. 78 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,200 Yeah, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 79 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,680 And then the last thing I have to show off from lost pages, we 80 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,480 got Cathonic Codex. This is dope box. 81 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:46,480 I spent too much to get one of these but I like lost pages so. 82 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,320 Money isn't real. Only the tabletop RPGs are real. 83 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,400 So. You, you don't listen. 84 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,440 You can't get married with money, but you can't get married 85 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,640 with a TT RPG collection. That's true. 86 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,000 Married. Married. 87 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,680 What did I say? Married doesn't matter with AB. 88 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,200 Yeah, anyway, Lost Pages made macchiato monsters. 89 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:10,960 We are going to be going over macchiato monsters. 90 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,360 One of the reasons we chose to go over macchiato monsters. 91 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,640 Well, actually the reason we chose to go over Whitehack, the 92 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,200 reason I made us go through Whitehack is so that we can do 93 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,400 macchiato monsters because I love this game. 94 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,080 I this is honestly, you know, we'll get into we'll, we'll, 95 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,880 we'll get into my feelings about it, But I really, really enjoyed 96 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,320 this game a lot. And, and it is called, it is 97 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,120 called, it's called Macchiato monsters. 98 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,400 It is so it is actually, it's, it's a mix of the black hack and 99 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,320 the white hack. And we'll get into what's called 100 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,240 macchiato monsters because they talked about it in the book. 101 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,160 What's interesting is now we'll get it when we get in there. 102 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,280 What what's your what's your what's your quick take on this 103 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,720 before we really do this? Game. 104 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,160 Good. Right, it's a lot. 105 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:01,520 The magic is good. I mean, you know, I'm I'm like, 106 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,360 I'm such a one trick pony, dude. Like I I'm so like single 107 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,280 minded. Like if you have good magic in a 108 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:10,440 game and it's also a D20 roll under, like I'm probably going 109 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,080 to like your game. And that's, that's, that's all 110 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,840 it takes for me. Also, like this brings back risk 111 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,320 dice, which are usage dice, which I always love. 112 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,960 And I love them implemented into a game as like a decision maker 113 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,640 for different things. I, I think it's cool, a way to 114 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,680 track stuff and the great utility. 115 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,280 But yeah, I think it, I think this is very cool. 116 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,160 Yeah. I also like the very open 117 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,640 endedness of like how like have like character concepts, which 118 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,480 Whitehack does really well, as much as I don't like reading 119 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,120 Whitehack, but I do like that it really holds on to that very 120 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,240 open-ended like character concept that you can build 121 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:48,320 yourself, you know? Yeah. 122 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,600 Yeah, yeah, I I I really love Macchiato monsters because we 123 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,400 talked about it on the end of the White Hack episode. 124 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:00,040 The only reason we you know, we primarily do NDTTRPGS, not that 125 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,160 like White Hack and Black Hack and and Apocalypse role aren't 126 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:10,560 like Indian theoretically. I mean outside of like 4 127 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,400 publishers, everything's indie if you go by money. 128 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,320 But like that's not what we're really talking about right? 129 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:19,120 But like a lot of the older games that we look at, we are 130 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,920 only looking at because so many of the games that are coming out 131 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,920 now are hacked from them. Like the PBTA is from Apocalypse 132 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,880 World and the forwards and the dark and blades and the dark and 133 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,640 stuff like that. We said that we are O and four 134 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,680 on reading the origin games of games we like because most of 135 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,120 them are written terribly. Horrendously. 136 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,120 Horrendously and it's not even that black hack is that bad, 137 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,280 it's that God I wish I had looked at black hack before 2 E 138 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,440 because I've said it over and over again like everyone tell 139 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,840 like 1 E if it was just a Zeem with the rules I would love the 140 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,720 shit out of the rule system. The the trying to make the a 141 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,280 solid rule system into a whole game failed in my opinion. 142 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,680 It didn't do well, yeah, but but Macchiato Monsters takes all the 143 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,640 best parts in my opinion of Black Hack and all the best 144 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,520 parts in my opinion of Whitehack and makes a really fantastic 145 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,800 game that is communicated extremely well and it's just 146 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:16,800 good. And we're going to go over it. 147 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,240 Prior to that, though, everyone out there, you got to get out 148 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,360 and vote, right? Get out and vote. 149 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,600 We got, we got we got to wreck the vote. 150 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:28,960 What did What did What did? Was it? 151 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:29,880 Was it? Was it P? 152 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:30,920 Was it P? Diddy P? 153 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:36,400 And vote or die. Voter die vote like P Diddy but 154 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,840 not really anything else. Don't do anything else like P 155 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,640 Diddy. Yeah, but we're, we're, we're 156 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,240 talking about the innies. We're actually talking about the 157 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,080 innies, so. You thought we were talking 158 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,800 about politics. We're not. 159 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,800 We don't really talk about it on the show. 160 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,640 Yeah. We make we all make offhanded 161 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,680 commentary in there. Yeah, a cap. 162 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,040 But if there's any question on who we're not voting for, you 163 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,520 don't listen very well. But the innies. 164 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,240 The innies are happening. The voting opened last night. 165 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,040 We talked about it on the beginning of our White Hack 166 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,560 episode. A bunch of our friends and 167 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,880 previous guests we've had on the show are nominated Space 168 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:24,080 Penguin, Colin Lassoor Games, Omnivorous, The Luminal Horror 169 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:30,880 Crew, Black Oath. I mean, even like what? 170 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:34,360 And then like small publisher and stuff. 171 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,920 Like everyone we fucking know is on there, like me Castle and 172 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,160 everybody Tubes. So I encourage all of you to 173 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,720 vote. Even if you vote, don't vote for 174 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,640 the people that we suggest, even though you absolutely should. 175 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Should listen to us. We're right, so. 176 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,400 Yeah, we are. We are correct. 177 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,720 But regardless, go vote. You know, awards are what you 178 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,880 make of them. So if you like something, go 179 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,000 vote so that bad things don't get a lot of votes and win 180 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,640 usually. Yeah, vote, vote. 181 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,600 We should, we should get a we should do a whole like rock the 182 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,760 vote. But like for TTRPGS thing with 183 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,240 like the sticker rolls and everything. 184 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,200 That'd be funny. Anyway, we're going to we're not 185 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,400 going to do that. We don't, we don't. 186 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:15,960 We're too lazy to even edit the podcast. 187 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:17,600 You think we're actually going to put effort into a fucking 188 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,720 bit? No, let's read this game. 189 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,360 Macchiato Monsters rules for adventurers in a dungeon verse 190 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,160 you build together a lost pages book. 191 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,000 Extra numero issue. So one thing about the lost 192 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:40,320 pages is they number all their stuff and I don't have some of 193 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,760 them. So I I need to figure out how to 194 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,040 find the ones that I don't have. But like Beyond the Pail, it 195 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:52,480 says issue 14. So this was an extra numero 196 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,040 issue from the lost Pages, which is the publisher. 197 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:02,600 They put out awesome stuff again, Chief Hackarista, so they 198 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,000 really OK, so all right, macchiato monsters. 199 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,680 Let's get it out of the way early. 200 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,520 This I. Listen, I love this game so 201 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,000 much, Eric, Eric Newton. I love it so much. 202 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,000 It's a terrible name. I just. 203 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,080 Have a really bad name? It's awful. 204 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,600 I was telling a friend. I'm not going to say who they 205 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,120 are, but this is like the second thing that I'm stealing from 206 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,840 them. With credit to Anonymous, I was 207 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,960 talking about how much I love this game and I said it was 208 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,320 called Macchiato Monsters and they said I want to I want to 209 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:40,440 make sure I quote this correctly that just sounds like some 210 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:46,320 monster fucker ROM com novel. And then sent me this picture. 211 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,240 And for those on the podcast land, just Google legends and 212 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,840 lattes from Travis Balder and you will see exactly what I 213 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,440 think when I think of macchiato monsters. 214 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,520 Yeah, very interesting choice in the name. 215 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,920 I mean, this is a really good game too. 216 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,240 It's a good game. Why don't we actually just 217 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,480 scroll? Well, let's scroll ahead real 218 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,440 quick, get this out of the way, and then we'll go back to the 219 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,240 beginning. There's some stuff, there's some 220 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:15,480 stuff, there's some stuff, whatever. 221 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,120 But then we're going to skip to what inspired Macchiato 222 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,240 monsters, as the name suggests. Parentheses. 223 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,920 Perhaps too subtly, Yes. Not perhaps very much too 224 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,160 subtly. Macchiato Monsters was 225 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,640 originally cobbled together in 2015 as an adaptation of The 226 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,720 Black Hack, with classes and magic system from White Hack, 227 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,920 both inspired by the original fantasy game, The Indie. 228 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,200 In the years of follow up, Macchiato Monsters became its 229 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,320 own thing through play, testing, experimenting. 230 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:47,240 Along the way, they drew from BX box sets Mold, Bay Marsh and 231 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,720 Cook into the odd Nanochrome. I don't know Nanochrome. 232 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,240 I want to read it though it sounds if it's if it's inspired 233 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:55,120 this game then I want to read it. 234 00:12:55,280 --> 00:13:00,560 Maze Rats, obviously I love Maze Rats and Don Jon and K which is 235 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:03,280 another game I really want to check out and it does use the 236 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,240 LGL or the OGL which is the back of the book. 237 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,720 So I had I still didn't understand what this meant so I 238 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,120 talked to coffee people. Apparently a macchiato is just 239 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,400 like coffee and like cream or milk. 240 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,520 Yeah, milk. Yeah, so, so it's like, so it's 241 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,520 black and white. A macchiato is black and white 242 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,280 and coffee. Is brown, but whatever. 243 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,040 Yeah, well, I mean, I take, I mean coffee's, I mean, I guess I 244 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,560 mean it's black when I look, when I don't get. 245 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:34,160 But but that is that is what Macchiato Monsters means. 246 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,960 I guess Macchiato is supposed to be a mix of black and white. 247 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,240 What's interesting is actually in the original version of this 248 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:49,640 game, in the Macchiato Monsters 0 version, the beginning of the 249 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,720 game is actually different. I'll throw that up here real 250 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,440 quick and you'll see what I mean. 251 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:04,880 Like it said this for those in podcast land, get out of here. 252 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,320 Oh, there was like comments on the side of that. 253 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,680 Interesting. It says Macchiato Monsters. 254 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:17,560 The Black and White Hack, 0 edition Acrobat found comments 255 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:19,200 in the PDF open in the comments pane. 256 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,680 Do you wish to retain this behavior? 257 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:21,960 Yes. I gotta read those comments 258 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,280 later. Apparently I didn't even. 259 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,960 I didn't even know I've been reading some Dropbox. 260 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,120 You were just like, they're not mine. 261 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,800 They're the creator's comments. Yeah, no. 262 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,040 Anyway, so back then they did call it the Black and White 263 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,400 hack. My God, I wish it was just 264 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,120 called the Gray Hack. I'm gonna be honest. 265 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,560 Like the thing, my response to that was like, yeah, it should 266 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,080 be called the Gray Hack. Like the Gray Album. 267 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,000 And it was like a picture of Jay-Z with The Beatles. 268 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,440 It's like, this would be great. This could just be called the 269 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,640 Gray Hack, but it's not. There's a lot. 270 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,760 Of things are called. It could be called several other 271 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,320 things. But here's the thing, you know 272 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,600 what they did after they committed to this name is they 273 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,480 really committed throughout the rest of the book, Because 274 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,400 throughout the rest of the book, all almost all of the pictures 275 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,600 of like the monsters stuff are all coffee themed. 276 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,680 So there's like a lich drinking cup of coffee. 277 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,080 There's like coffee stains, like drips and like where you put 278 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,560 like your your mug down all. It is pretty funny, I just like 279 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,920 to say. Fungus people with a with a 280 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,280 French press or something at one point, yes, yes. 281 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,480 So if, if, if, if, if, you know, they stuck with this name, 282 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,680 that's a choice. But you know, they stuck with it 283 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:25,760 and they ran with it. And I can respect the hell out 284 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,480 of that. And I love that they just said 285 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,760 fuck it and really dug in and made all the graphic design 286 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,000 coffee based all all that's that's that's great. 287 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,040 That's great. So anyway, chief and then chief 288 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:41,960 hackerista Eric Newton layout, espresso lasagna printer 289 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,240 whispering Palo Greco. I just recently learned about 290 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,160 the lasagna. If you know, you know, if you 291 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,080 don't, you know, editing for Moonrat conspiracy. 292 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,960 Fiona may have Geist Moonrat is Fiona and dirt. 293 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:00,520 You know that and then some people, including Eric Newton, 294 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,840 Russ Nicholson, some other people, Luca Rejic and some 295 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,920 stuff. 0 edition 2016, First edition, 2018, Glasgow, 296 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,520 Scotland. So I'll say off the bat, no 297 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,560 digital tools, nothing's hyperlinked. 298 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,960 I don't think there are any bookmarks. 299 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,160 Nope, nothing. I will say the original Zero. 300 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,120 I didn't. Notice that. 301 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,760 Yeah, the original 0 PDF is hyperlinked though on the table 302 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,640 of contents, which is interesting because it came out 303 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:30,400 like three years before this, but so that kind of sucks. 304 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,560 I mean, it is it you can get it right now POD. 305 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,360 So I do have a copy POD. It is perfect bound. 306 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:38,960 You know, it could it could be a Zine. 307 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:46,400 It tops out at just ignore it. I just fucked that up. 308 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,120 It tops out at 58 pages. So it absolutely could just be a 309 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,800 Zine, but it's it's it's it's drive through. 310 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,760 So it's it's I don't think I don't know if drive through even 311 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:54,960 does Zine. So they just do everything 312 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,600 perfect bound. Oh, that's a really good 313 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,520 question that I don't know the answer to. 314 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,840 I know it. Doesn't matter, but I would 315 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,119 love, I would love a real print of this. 316 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,680 I'll tell you what. Yeah, that'd be really cool. 317 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:12,839 Not POD, but regardless, table of contents, welcome to the 318 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,359 dungeon verse core mechanics, making a character, gear, gold, 319 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,200 blah, blah. This stuff, all the stuff we're 320 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,160 going to go up for it. It's a relatively short book. 321 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,079 A lot of it, I would say probably 1/3 of it is like 322 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:26,599 tables and, and, and stuff, you know, so really it comes down to 323 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,960 maybe like 35 ish pages of like tables, maybe this one. 324 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,280 They're great, they're great. And that's the thing all the way 325 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:33,040 through. They're really great. 326 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:37,120 And this this is this is the example of like making a game 327 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:41,480 out of a system that 2E should have followed as opposed to or 328 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,120 I'm sorry, that black act should have followed. 329 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:48,720 Yeah, because this one actually does it well, which which which 330 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,280 they don't. So anyway, getting into this 331 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,520 welcome to the dungeon verse. This is a game where adventures. 332 00:17:54,640 --> 00:18:01,040 In the. Dungeon you play the dungeon 333 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,480 verse which you build around the game. 334 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,600 This game is is one of the other reasons I love this game is 335 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,920 because it does kind of lean into that old school gaming 336 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,760 style in a very like emergent narrative kind of way. 337 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Like there's no storyteller like the the world is built as you 338 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,200 play, kind of, which I think White Hack wants, I think White 339 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,960 Hack wants to do. I don't know, I'm sure and told 340 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,960 me. I could tell you like about the 341 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:23,960 game. Obtuse. 342 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,240 Obtuse way, but it says old school gaming. 343 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,880 What WT That's the other thing I like about the suit there. 344 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,560 There are a couple of times where they just like say some 345 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,120 shit where there's like talking like a person. 346 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:37,040 And I'm like, thank you for just talking like a human being and 347 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,480 talking to me like a human being, not like a fucking 348 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:40,920 computer in. What though though? 349 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,760 Yeah, but like, it's like what? -5 points because that's not how 350 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,920 you spell what. Anyway, so in tipple top OPG, 351 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,200 old school isn't about nostalgia, it's about game play. 352 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,000 What does that mean? Rulings over rules, player 353 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,200 intelligence, resource management, deadly fights and 354 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,400 embrace randomness. It's it's it's the classic kind 355 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:03,520 of like Principia Apocrypha or whatever. 356 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,560 You know what I'm talking about that like bit Milton, etcetera, 357 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,400 etcetera thing that came out. It's it's it's what O what OSR 358 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:14,440 thinks that old school gaming played like, don't forget, oh, 359 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,920 sorry, it's dead. But those are the like 5 360 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,280 concepts for it. And I love that I do love that 361 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,840 style play rulings of a rules basically says like the rule set 362 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,480 is small. It's not going to hit every 363 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,120 single outcome. So if that comes up, just make a 364 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:32,800 decision and stick with it. That's that's the only thing 365 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,440 that matters is make a ruling and then just be consistent with 366 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:37,840 it. Player intelligence means that 367 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,040 you don't worry about what's up I. 368 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,040 Was like, hey no, I'm sorry it doesn't mark for me. 369 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,800 I need a whole other $60.00 hardback that's all full of 370 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,800 specific rules and potentially optional rules and we'll call it 371 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,240 like the Game Masters guide. Yeah, something like that. 372 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,000 Actually. I think one of the biggest 373 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,440 problems with 5th edition, I'll throw this out, is that most 374 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,920 people don't read the GM guide because there's actually a good 375 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,440 game if you read the GM guide, but most people don't fucking 376 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,760 read it. The optional rules actually make 377 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,520 the game better. Even though it still sucks. 378 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,520 Advanced macchiato monsters yeah, we need we need that for 379 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,360 all of the to hit every single option. 380 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,760 Player intelligence you don't worry about you know, you can 381 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,800 play dumb and not have that effect like your ability to 382 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,360 understand the intelligence of like actually playing the game. 383 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,640 Resource management actually matters. 384 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,320 You don't just get a bag of holding on session 2 for the 385 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:34,920 rest of the campaign and not worry about stuff. 386 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,720 Deadly fights. Everything is low HP and then 387 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,200 embracing randomness should happen to have fun with it. 388 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,920 You know, I do like this text convention section here. 389 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,880 So for those that can't see again the podcast, there are it 390 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,120 says in this book U is addressed to the player and then box text 391 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,000 like this. It's a Gray box. 392 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,040 Look at the formatting. Look at look at how it breaks up 393 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,440 the solid whiteness of that page. 394 00:20:58,440 --> 00:20:59,560 Really beautiful. It's really great. 395 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,360 Yeah, the those Gray boxes are addressed to the referee. 396 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,720 Love that some boxes are marked with a dice blotch to denote 397 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,320 optional rule. So there's like a little, 398 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,400 there's a little blotch of ink on the paper, and then there's 399 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,880 two dice inside one of the blotches. 400 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,480 So if it's marked with that, it's talking about optional 401 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,840 rules. Another is marked with a chat 402 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,520 block, a chat blotch to indicate a shared narration rule. 403 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,360 So it literally looks like a little text message with like an 404 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,200 ellipse in it. And then it says optional, also 405 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,800 optional. These lighten the referee's 406 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,080 effort by giving the players a little bit of control over the 407 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,840 setting. And then the last one, the 408 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,240 coffee beans blotch. So it's three coffee beans in a 409 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,960 little ink blotch. This is to remind you of some of 410 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,880 the important rules. I love that. 411 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,200 I love these little indicators. Works really well, very clean. 412 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,520 I also like that there's just like a little explaining our 413 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,080 friends. She's like, hey, when you see 414 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,320 these spots, look at them. This is what they're for. 415 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:56,920 I'm like, oh, OK, cool. Thanks for not making me guess. 416 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:58,800 I you know. Giving me a giving me a little 417 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,840 thing that says like this is how you read the book. 418 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,640 I made it easier for you here. Oh my God, who would have 419 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:05,960 thought? I had? 420 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,640 I, I went off about this to somebody the other day and I 421 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,840 don't, well, I was talking to Marco the other day and I 422 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,000 basically said like, are when you're writing a rules text, 423 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,880 when you're going to write a, are you doing like a rules text, 424 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,200 like a data set? Or is it an instruction manual, 425 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,760 right? Is it a data set or is it an 426 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,320 instruction manual, right? Whitehack was not an instruction 427 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,000 manual. It was a data set. 428 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,920 It was just the rules stuck in a book with no intent to actually 429 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,600 teach you how to use the game. Right. 430 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,960 If you're making a new job and the person training you is not a 431 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,160 good trainer, they're just saying stuff to you and you're 432 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,920 like, OK, I guess I'll put these pieces together. 433 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,680 Thanks. Yeah, if you're, if you're, if 434 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,400 you're going to write a game that you want people to play, 435 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:55,920 your game should be a big chunk of it should be an instruction 436 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,440 manual on how to play the game. Because once someone's finished 437 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,520 reading it, they should be a note, they should know how to 438 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:01,920 play the game. I think this game does that 439 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,080 incredibly well. I really enjoy the way that 440 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,760 they, yeah, I agree, give you these tokens, give you these 441 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,160 little splotches that they do examples of play really, really 442 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,480 well. They specifically, anytime I had 443 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,920 a question, it was less than a page later than I would get an 444 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,640 example of play or like a clarification. 445 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,160 And when we'll see that as we come up. 446 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,240 What inspired Mark Adamantche is we talked about that already. 447 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,040 So jumping straight into the core mechanics, the stat check 448 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,560 D20 roll under or equal to one of your stats chosen by the 449 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:30,920 referee. Perfect. 450 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,640 There are there are crits and there are fumbles ones and 20s 451 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,520 and they double the effect or bring a consequence or side 452 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,000 effect into play. Boom, that's a game. 453 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,600 The 20 equal or all under Great great. 454 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,480 Amazingly concise. It's almost like you know. 455 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,640 Yeah, it's almost like it's so easy. 456 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,600 Advantage and disadvantage. Guess what, you roll twice and 457 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,920 you take the best or worst result. 458 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,720 Not highest or lowest because it depends on what you're doing. 459 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,720 It's just the best or worst result for you. 460 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,000 There's already a little. Spot positive double s and 461 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,560 negative double s better, you know. 462 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,160 Also, I swear I'll stop going on my white hack eventually. 463 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,640 No, that's fine. I mean we still go in on fucking 464 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,240 blades of the Dark and shit so I don't give a fuck. 465 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,000 That's call back for forever. We'll just bitch about shit 466 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,200 enough that people actually go back and watch those episodes 467 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,760 just so they know what we're talking about. 468 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,600 For me is that if someone was like, hey, do you want to play 469 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,800 white hack? I'd be like, yeah, I'll play 470 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,320 white hack. It sounds like, hey, do you want 471 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,160 to play Blades in the Dark? I'm like, Nah, I think. 472 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,600 Absolutely not. That's I completely agree with 473 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,480 that 100%. We actually had a comment on 474 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,600 YouTube where someone was like oh man, like I wish you would 475 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,000 have played this one first. And I was like, honestly, if I 476 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,320 know anyone that would actually run this, I would love to play 477 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,560 it. Totally, yeah, I would play it. 478 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,400 Yeah, but I in the episode we stated multiple times that I 479 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,920 will not put in the work required to run that game 480 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,080 because I would have to rewrite the entire thing just so I could 481 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,760 understand it. And I'm not going to. 482 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,360 Yeah, but if anyone out there that is mutual wants to run a 483 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,480 game of White Hack I, I did. I did. 484 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,920 I did talk to somebody who is a big Blades fan and told them 485 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,640 that we, we we should play Blades at least once. 486 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,240 Who? Yeah. 487 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,280 Yeah, Michael Elliott. Michael Elliott's a huge. 488 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,480 Oh. Oh, cool. 489 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,800 Yeah, I definitely play with Michael Elliott. 490 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:12,320 That'd be. Cool. 491 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,800 Here's the thing. Even if I hate Blaze of the 492 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,880 Dark, which I I don't, I just don't enjoy the way that it's 493 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,680 written. Yeah, I would. 494 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,520 I'm saying if I did, if I hit it with my whole being, I would 495 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,520 still play it. If Michael Elliott was going to 496 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,200 GM was in it. Absolutely. 497 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,960 Yeah, oh, the quick side note, Michael Elliott has a Cyborg 498 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,400 project up on Kickstarter right now. 499 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:41,040 Go check it out it's it's called the 55 seems great back anything 500 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,760 from Michael Elliott can't wait to get fealty in hand anyway so 501 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 already. Mechanics. 502 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,040 Yeah, so we're already hidden a a a text bubble here says free 503 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,640 advantage once per session. If a player can describe a 504 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,040 place, an NPC, or a setting element, that would explain why 505 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,520 they have a better chance of doing something. 506 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,320 They can roll with advantage on any check. 507 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,400 Great rule. I like the moment I read this 508 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,160 was like, that's a fun, that's a fun narrative. 509 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,120 I I, I like the, you know, it's, it's like, like collaboratively, 510 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,240 collaboratively constructing like a game world. 511 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:12,160 And I've thought about that before. 512 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,160 I'm like how to incentivize that. 513 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,120 And this is a great little one. It's like, yeah, just one state. 514 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:16,840 You can just get advantage. Just tell me about a detail 515 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,600 about you, someone you know that gives you advantage. 516 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,600 Super clean. This is I mean, so this pulls 517 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,960 from Whitehack still too, like, you know, because it it it's 518 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,760 kind of like an extremely simplified version of like 519 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,680 taking like one of your groups, like your your association or 520 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,960 something and putting it next to your stat. 521 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,720 And you get that all the time. But this is kind of like a very 522 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,080 narrative way of just getting it once, which I think is dope. 523 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,400 But like you said, the collaborative storytelling, if 524 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,760 you go back again, it literally says right at the top, what is 525 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,920 this game? It's a game where you building 526 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,640 the dungeon verse like as you play. 527 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,840 So having this collaborative thing be like, oh, let me just 528 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,320 let me let me throw that in. That's great. 529 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,960 I love that, like you said, getting to the risk dice. 530 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,360 So this is definitely black hack coming in. 531 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,360 I love this page that is very clearly white hack and black 532 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,120 hack like on one page, which is fun. 533 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,200 So wrist dice are usage dye. That's that's that's what. 534 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,120 Usage dye. These are interesting. 535 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,800 Though you do. So you know, regular usage dye, 536 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,800 right? You, you, it is a way to like 537 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,200 count down a like dwindle a threat, I think is what they or 538 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,880 dwindling resources represents a threat. 539 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,760 And basically if you start with a die size for this game, it'll 540 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,360 be, you know, 121086 or four. You roll the dice and every time 541 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,040 you hit a 12 or. Three. 542 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,920 The die size goes down to the next size down, representing the 543 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,200 threat dwindling or your resources running out. 544 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,640 It's a great way to track different things. 545 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,760 I use it for like fire damage a lot in my games because fire 546 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,080 slowly goes out. But the interesting thing here, 547 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,440 and this is only interesting to me because I like usage die. 548 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:51,280 Maybe to you listener, but most usage die go down a size on A1 549 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,320 or A2. This one goes down a size on a 550 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,120 1-2 or three. And let me tell you, when you 551 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:03,520 were rolling AD 6 usage die, you were going to hit A1A2 or a 552 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:08,320 three at least 50% of the time. I wonder why they added the one 553 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,160 extra one. I guess maybe in play testing 554 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,040 the just one and two wasn't enough. 555 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,200 Oh, I don't know, I I roll crap on my usage. 556 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,600 I feel like every time. So I feel like I'm always every 557 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,200 other step, like turn going down a step. 558 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:24,200 Yeah, I'm curious. I'm curious too. 559 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:29,480 I don't know if I think in a lot of games, a lot of usage, I 560 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,120 really lean on to sixes that like sometimes you'll get an 8 561 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,560 maybe like you'll peak at 10. But I feel like in this game, as 562 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,000 we go through, a lot of stuff is at like 10s and twelves. 563 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,880 It's a bigger, Yeah, I did notice that. 564 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,520 It's like, yeah, there are a couple twelves in the couple of 565 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,240 the examples. Yeah, I think you're right. 566 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,880 I think in like a lot of them too. 567 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,200 And I've read like 12 isn't even offered as an option. 568 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:55,040 It is like 10864. I love usage so. 569 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,000 Yeah, here's the thing. It's one of those things where I 570 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,440 really love it theoretically and it's different than like the 571 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,040 stack and Troika where I think that's a genius mechanic in 572 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,880 theory. But like, I don't want to 573 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,360 fucking play that. I just don't really ever find 574 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:19,680 myself in a situation where like I needed to, I felt like I 575 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,360 needed to use usage in a way like that. 576 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,040 But I recently did start start thinking about maybe this game 577 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,640 made me think again about like maybe I do want to just use 578 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,880 usage type for arrows. I don't know. 579 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,440 It's just an easy thing to throw in and not think about, you 580 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,640 know, like, like, oh, someone like that was the really. 581 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,920 I fire damage is always the one I use because it was the first 582 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,680 time I ever, like, we were in an adventure. 583 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,880 We were playing like bastards or something. 584 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,800 And there is no rule for fire damage, obviously, because 585 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,920 there's almost no rules of bastards. 586 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,360 And I was like, yeah, you hear D6 usage die. 587 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,280 You know, you're like on fire right now. 588 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,640 You need to put that shit out. Yeah, but. 589 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,200 Yeah, that's great. I mean, anytime I think of 590 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,760 usage, I like just having the inventory system for a thing 591 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:59,960 that, like, doesn't really like. To me, the perfect type of usage 592 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,920 dye is arrows. Yeah, I think there's nothing 593 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,680 counting. What's up? 594 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:06,720 I fucking hate counting. You don't. 595 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,080 Want count all your arrows? It depends. 596 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,720 I mean, The thing is, it depends, right? 597 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,960 Like, like it depends. That's a problem too. 598 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,360 Like if you're deep down in a dungeon, right? 599 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,360 And you only win in with five arrows, yeah, I'd make you count 600 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,120 every fucking one and I every. If you want to retrieve them, 601 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,320 I'd make you roll for everyone to see if it breaks, because 602 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,880 that's matters, right? But when you have something that 603 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,640 like kind of matters, like it does, it does matter. 604 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,000 You don't have 800 arrows, right? 605 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,880 But do I care whether you have 20 or 30I fucking don't. 606 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,240 So if you have the usage die like it doesn't like, you'll get 607 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,040 somewhere between 20 and 30, right? 608 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,800 So who cares? Unless I unless I'm rolling your 609 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,320 usage die because I never get there's one game has like a 610 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,640 table that says like I can't remember which game it was, but 611 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,640 so it's how much each like level of dye should give you and I 612 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,280 never I never fucked. That, but I, I mathed it out 613 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,120 once and I think if you started at D20 you end up with like and 614 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,840 it's like 30 something potential like on average or something 615 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,960 like that so it it gets up there anyway so that's usage dye. 616 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,720 There's a little coffee bean bubble here. 617 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,040 I can't, I can't remember what the coffee mean. 618 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,080 Coffee bean meant again. Yeah, it actually. 619 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,000 Explains earlier, so I let me scroll up and. 620 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:13,920 See. Scroll it back. 621 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,200 Yeah. Oh, remind you of the rules. 622 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,000 OK, Yeah. So this is a little reminder 623 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,880 about the risk. It basically says that using a 624 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,440 one to three means usually one to three means an escalation of 625 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,120 the risk and the maximum number is a lucky break. 626 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,080 So you can assume a three is better than two, etcetera, 627 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,080 etcetera. Anyway, Yeah, so. 628 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,440 But then again, again, on one page, there's two referee 629 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,800 instruction parts on here, which is two more than the entirety of 630 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,360 white deck anyway. So making a character we we love 631 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,160 a numbered list. We. 632 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,240 Love a numbered list? You know, numbered. 633 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,000 List So there's seven numbers here. 634 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,640 First, roll 3V6 in order and normal stats. 635 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,000 Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dex, Con, Christmas Standard. 636 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,240 Swatch to find all those stats to listen to your standard. 637 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,960 Oh, well, there's a whole page on that, but we're not going to. 638 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,520 Well, we'll get there. I didn't read that page #2 Of 639 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,160 course you didn't, because you know what strength means. 640 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,240 Invent a trait, for example, a race, occupation, background or 641 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,320 faction. I I like that. 642 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:18,040 I will say in with all of the like in like references to other 643 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,440 pages on this page where it talks about go to page 7, go to 644 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,480 page 31, go to pages, whatever. There is a page that talks about 645 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:28,080 traits, but it's not listed here, but there is one. 646 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,040 What page is it? Yeah, I know, I know there is 647 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,320 one. Well well well well. 648 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,080 Oh, literally page 6. So it's already like 2 pages 649 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,800 away from this. So that's the only thing I 650 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,240 notice that there is a page but like it doesn't say like 651 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,280 parentheses paychecks. No, it's not doing it anyway, so 652 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,200 yeah. But there is a there is, and 653 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,960 that's one thing that's it says invent a trait. 654 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,000 And the thing that I like about this is it it, it gives you 655 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,240 focus without giving you the answers. 656 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,360 You know what I mean? Like it, it tells you how to 657 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,480 build a trait, but it doesn't give you a list of a list of 658 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,320 traits. Like for example, like I find 659 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,120 with white hacking, you have to pick a vocation or an 660 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,320 association or this you get one of these three. 661 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,560 This one lets you do whatever you want, but narrows it down to 662 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,720 to give you an idea of what they should be, which I really enjoy. 663 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,120 We'll get to that. That's number two. 664 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,960 Number three, record your hit dice. 665 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,760 It's AD six. You will roll it for hit points 666 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,880 and all. And it also has, and it also 667 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,640 limits Marshall prowess. We'll get to that. 668 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,680 Choose two below or the same entry twice as a part of 669 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,880 characterization. There's 12345. 670 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,720 There's six options. You can add AD 6 to a step that 671 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,480 is less than 10. That's 10 or less. 672 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,400 You can write down a second trait. 673 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,720 You can gain a hit die of the same type you already have, so 674 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,240 you can start with two hit dice instead of one. 675 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,880 You can take Marshall Training, which means you step up your hit 676 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,560 die or dice, which means you don't start with the D6 or the 677 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,520 D8. You have specialistic training, 678 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,160 which means you come up with the daily ability, which it does 679 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,080 explain that to. And then there's magic training 680 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,880 where you come up with two spells. 681 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,160 Also has pages listed where you'll find that. 682 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,400 Wish it was hyperlinked. That'll that'll be effective in 683 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,159 this course #5 you roll your hip down, your dice for your current 684 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:11,239 HP. You can decide to permanently 685 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,639 spend one point of time to roll again, and you can add one of 686 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:18,800 your HP if you don't roll better so you still get something for 687 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,920 sacking a point of time. I love that. 688 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,800 It's all so easy, you know? And then number six, roll for 689 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,600 your own languages, blah blah blah, it's on there #7 roll for 690 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,600 your equipment. We'll get to that. 691 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,040 And then there's another dice thing here, another blotch. 692 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,159 You can always let players have no idea for their character. 693 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:41,560 Roll equipment first so that then they'll get an inspiration. 694 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,400 Love that Good. I think it's a really good idea. 695 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,760 Yeah. And then if you want to play 696 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,600 zero level characters, you skip step four and only rule D4D6 or 697 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,120 D8 on the equipment table. So basically you don't get any 698 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,320 of the advancement stuff. And then you can just start at 699 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,600 zero level, which again, a very clean, easy way to alter the 700 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:05,080 game in the way you want to. Make every character I I think 701 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,600 one thing that stood out to me about your the choose two below. 702 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,800 Add AD 6 to a stat that's less than 10. 703 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,400 I don't know the time I've seen that rule and I'm like, oh, 704 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:20,680 that's a good idea, you know? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's 705 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,520 somewhere. I'm sure. 706 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,480 I mean of. Course it's somewhere. 707 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,240 I mean the list. Of all those six and maybe even 708 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,320 from like the old BX stuff. That's the thing with old BX 709 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,040 stuff is like there's like three different versions of it and I 710 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,200 never remember which one's in which, you know what I mean? 711 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,240 Like mold, Is it moldy? Is it like blue home? 712 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:37,920 Like what? Like homes, Like what illegal 713 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,920 are you doing here? There's a cool picture here. 714 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,240 I will say this, this this game is not hurting for art. 715 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,800 I I do really. Enjoy the big fill, looks good. 716 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,520 Yeah, there's a Griffin that is sipping coffee out of a what is? 717 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,240 What is that? I think that's something that's 718 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,520 much more popular in Europe. It's isn't that. 719 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,040 Like a percolator or? Is it? 720 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,000 Is it time for that? What? 721 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:12,040 Stop. It's time for that. 722 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,000 Anyway, so anyone listening, I I don't know what that thing is 723 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,120 called it it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a metal thing, The top, 724 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:20,800 the smaller. The. 725 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,680 Bottom I I, I, I, I know a lot of I, I don't want to stereotype 726 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,200 people, but I, I know a lot of people that are Italian that use 727 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:34,480 that specific type of coffee maker, but I don't know what's 728 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,680 called anyway, so your stats in hand of fate random stats or 729 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,800 staple of old school gaming, etcetera, etcetera. 730 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,360 You don't dream up the perfect hero or work at the best combo. 731 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,560 That's why it's random. You take what fate gives you and 732 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,760 you come up with a character who has a long way to go in order to 733 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,040 become a hero. If they survive, you get the six 734 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,080 historic stats right? You know what you know All these 735 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,240 are strength and Wiz dexcon. Prisma. 736 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,760 You, you know what these are. There's nothing crazy or 737 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,800 different about these at all. But I do like the way that they 738 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,360 explain it because they they tell you about it. 739 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,400 They tell you what a low is like, they tell you what a high 740 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,720 is like, and then give you a list of examples of the kind of 741 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:11,840 characters that you'd play, like priest, cleric, shaman, scout. 742 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,480 Love that. That's a really good way of 743 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,680 explaining it. We're not gonna read it, but 744 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,640 they're really good. Hit points are your primary 745 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,760 resource of a character losing the means, being in danger of 746 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,880 dying, which would get to with wounds and stuff like that. 747 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,160 Your hit points represent your character's health, endurance 748 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,120 and ability to avoid getting seriously hurt. 749 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:31,080 So this is a a, a style of game or HP your hit points, and most 750 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,800 games are like this, but people don't take this this way. 751 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,360 It doesn't mean you have an open wounds. 752 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,600 It's an abstraction of your overall general health and 753 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,480 endurance. And I like that. 754 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,200 And then here are the fungus people You talked about drinking 755 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,680 out of the oh, it's so good drinking out of French press. 756 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,120 Like the. Yeah, the little grumpy guy is 757 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,440 holding the French press and the bigger guy is smiling, holding 758 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:51,880 this fancy mug. It's. 759 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,680 Yeah, it's a great piece. I pictured this as like the 760 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,080 husband and wife and this is her dress. 761 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:01,160 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, little Grumpy. 762 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:06,840 Husband yeah, as one would be so traits and your character this 763 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,600 is what I talked about before traits form the concept of your 764 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,000 character origins, factions, occupations, et cetera there's 765 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,600 four kind of bullet points here and I like. 766 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,400 How these are divided up, Yeah, a lot. 767 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,440 I love them so much. So it's what your character is, 768 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,280 what your character does, what your character belongs to or 769 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,520 where your character comes from. So like, that is what your 770 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,280 character is like. Maybe like a species or race. 771 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,680 What your character does is like a job, occupation or trade. 772 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,120 Where your character belong to is like a group or organization, 773 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,120 and where your character comes from is obviously like the city, 774 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,680 forest, the mountain, home. And these help form your like. 775 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,800 It's a really great way to divide up the mentality of what 776 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,680 the trait is and what it kind of does for. 777 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,360 You. Yeah, I, I mean, obviously this 778 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,960 is pulled from Whitehack, but I like this even because this is 779 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,560 obviously a part of Whitehack that I do that I did understand 780 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,360 and I did like and was good. I think I like this even more. 781 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,040 Like I just think that allowing a little bit of an abstraction 782 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,400 to it and setting it more into like a kind of a normal 783 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:12,360 language, I think really helps kind of like both open and focus 784 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:16,200 it a little bit in a way that I, I, I find like very enjoyable. 785 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,280 Yeah. And I think there's there's 786 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,040 some, I think there is a more linear nature to how this is 787 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,880 explained and and not even in like the yeah, I think that's. 788 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,040 How you see those? Did you see those bullet points? 789 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,240 I mean, that's enough right there to to get you over. 790 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,720 Yeah, no, they're great. I love these as traits. 791 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,960 They're fantastic. And it makes it so easy 'cause 792 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,280 even just listed here, even if you just go with the first ones 793 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,840 listed here. So you're a dwarf traitor in, 794 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:47,000 you know, the, the, the, in a Guild in the city. 795 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,560 Boom boom. But you just pick one and then 796 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,760 you can get more traits later. And what I. 797 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,040 Think is also what works better for me for this is that like in 798 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,080 Whitehack, there's so many different things that you're 799 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,240 picking as you make your character. 800 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,000 You're attaching 2 stats and this is like, no, you're going 801 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,760 to start with one thing. Right now I'm like perfect. 802 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,480 Well, the the thing that I really love about this too, is 803 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,560 that like narratively, again, this is still going back to the 804 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,520 core concept of the game, which is like you're building the 805 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,480 dungeon versus you go you're and and specifically when it talks 806 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,400 about the character stats and we kind of jumped over it a little 807 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,720 bit, but it specifically says you are the the reason we make 808 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,000 you roll stats in order is to challenge the way that you are 809 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,800 playing the game. You don't get to min match your 810 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,280 character. You see what your stats are and 811 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,000 make a character using those stats, which is like a great way 812 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,160 to to do it. I I know it's not like the five 813 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,680 EOC generator style that a lot of people fucking love, but you 814 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:46,600 play the random game and you as you get new traits. 815 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,840 So you say your first trait is dwarf, you're just a dwarf, but 816 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,120 your next trait might be traitor. 817 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,600 Explain to me narratively how you suddenly have a job. 818 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,320 You know what I mean? Yeah. 819 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,040 And you have to build in how that happened. 820 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,760 So like it might be like after downtime, you're like, well, I 821 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,760 spent my downtime like working in this place. 822 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,480 I learned how to do this. This is my job now. 823 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,000 I love that there's a built in narrative every time I take a 824 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,600 new trait because say your next trait, you pick an association 825 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,440 and you pick a traitors Guild. That makes fucking perfect sense 826 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,160 because like you are a traitor. So picking the next trait is 827 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:21,760 great. Love it. 828 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,480 OK, so referee will have questions about your traits. 829 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,800 Make sure everyone's on the same page. 830 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,080 I love that whenever you make a check where one of your traits 831 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,920 is relevant, you get advantage. Boom, easy fucking peasy. 832 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,680 A trait can also allow you to roll for actions and another 833 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,880 character wouldn't be able to attempt, such as climbing 834 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,200 vertical walls and stuff if if you're whatever verticals. 835 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,960 But note that they're never useful in combat. 836 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,720 This is really important. I wish this was bolded. 837 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,480 They're never useful in combat. Traits are specifically a non 838 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,600 combat thing and they're all because there are things that do 839 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,760 help you in combat. And then I do also love where it 840 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,360 says sometimes the referee may give you disadvantage because of 841 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,640 a trait. So it says if you're a known 842 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,120 thief negotiating with the brotherhood of written law, for 843 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,560 instance, or a half ogre trying to disappear into a crowd, how 844 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:11,520 that paragraph is the same thing as that like color paragraph 845 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,240 with like the double edged thing in white hack written in two 846 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,480 sentences in a way that's 10 times easier to understand. 847 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,040 We're going to be shit on a white hack for a while. 848 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:23,120 Like anyway, not shitting on it. It's, it's the way that it's 849 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,440 written. OK, so Marshall is training and 850 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,360 specialist training. These are the the things you can 851 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,560 get in the beginning that actually can help you in combat. 852 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,960 And that's why your traits don't. 853 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,600 It's to really separate the narrative aspects of play versus 854 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,160 like the combat aspects of play, which obviously still obviously 855 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,840 still have narrative elements, But like, it allows you to build 856 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,120 a character that's not necessarily just built to murder 857 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,880 shit, you know, which I love, obviously I love murdering shit 858 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,120 too. But like, yeah. 859 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,080 So Marshall training, yeah, each time you take combat training, 860 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,360 which is the thing that you give like advancement, stuff like 861 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,120 that, you step up all of your hip dice. 862 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,640 So you go from like AD 6 to AD 8 to a maximum of AD 10. 863 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,760 And then you re roll all your hit points with those new dice. 864 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,880 And comma training also gives your character the ability to 865 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,280 wield better weapons and more efficient armor. 866 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,800 So whenever you have like a weapon or an armor, that is if 867 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,080 it's a risk die higher than your hit die, you get disadvantage on 868 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,720 using it which is so clean. Very clean way to like track 869 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:24,280 that, like, you know, instead of I'm thinking of more track games 870 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,560 like, Oh yeah, you're proficient and swapping this is like a way 871 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,680 cleaner way. You almost don't even have to 872 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,800 think about it, you know? Yeah, well, the thing with the 873 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:37,000 Marshall, too, is like, you are like in a very, very clean way. 874 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,840 You are the fighter. You're getting more HP because 875 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,800 you're gonna be on the front line, while at the same time 876 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,840 having a wider array of weapons to use and heavier or more 877 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:52,320 complex armor that you can use all within one thing. 878 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,520 That is just increasing a dive from AD 6 to AD eight. 879 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,880 It's so clean, and narratively it makes sense. 880 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,320 So I really enjoy that. And then specialist training is 881 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,640 a thing where you can pick a specialist ability. 882 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,360 So a specialist ability reflects a character's unique trait. 883 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,840 It works once a day at level one, but you'll have the option 884 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,720 to get more uses as you level up, right? 885 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,120 Unless it's really impressive feat, like something that 886 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,080 mortals can't do. An ability does not require a 887 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:18,880 check. So like if you have this, you 888 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,360 just get to do it. So you talk with the referee to 889 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,800 establish what it does, especially if there's a 890 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,840 mechanical advantage or if it breaks a rule in some way. 891 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,200 So some ideas as having a faithful pet, resisting pain, 892 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,680 dual wielding, detecting a lie, stuff like that. 893 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,320 So it's like, it's basically like you pick a feat is what 894 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,720 this is or like, or like a pet or something like that. 895 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:40,200 That's about it. And it specifically says like 896 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,240 you can theoretically do a spell like ability, but you could also 897 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:44,320 just take magic training which was another option. 898 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,600 So just do that. Magic training an. 899 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,120 Ability is the only Safeway to get advantage on combat checks 900 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,160 and it has to reflect one of your character traits that you 901 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:54,680 can't just randomly pick some shit. 902 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,160 So the example is an assassin with blade in the liver can 903 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,160 backstab a guard if undetected, or doulas can faint and can 904 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,480 trick a sentient adversary when crossing swords. 905 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,360 Great examples. There is a here. 906 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,400 Yeah, it's just like you can allow a character with the 907 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,000 specialist training to instead of doing advantage, you can do 908 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,000 double damage, which I feel like in some situations I'd be like, 909 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,480 yeah, I got just hits like a fucking freight train. 910 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,480 Well, that's white. Heck, that's the that's the base 911 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,080 deft. One of the base deft abilities 912 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,600 where you could always change your double positive role for 913 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,720 double damage. Oh yeah, don't positive. 914 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:34,480 Right, right, right, right. That's that's why. 915 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,560 Or positive double roll, whatever the fuck it's called. 916 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:37,800 You could. Change your advantage. 917 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,360 I think it was double positive. I'm just, I'm just like still 918 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,920 like, yeah, I couldn't think. I get they didn't want to use 919 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,840 advantage but come on. Yeah, but this is this is this 920 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,960 is this, these are the kind of things that like make a good 921 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,720 hack, right? Like they they took a mechanic 922 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:54,960 that they enjoyed, inserted it back into a different way to 923 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,200 give you relative basically the same result, but in a way 924 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,360 specific to this game and the stuff that they wanted to use. 925 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,240 Like such a good hack. This is one of my favorite 926 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:04,320 hacks. It's right up there with I'm I'm 927 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,920 like, I don't know what my my brain is breaking. 928 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,720 What was the what was that Fallout, that Fallout hack that 929 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:15,640 we did Newt such a good game, such a that's. 930 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,920 Actually a really good one. Yeah, you're right. 931 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,200 It's. Such a good game the like it's 932 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,440 just the way in which they hack it to make it their own thing as 933 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,400 opposed to just like copy pasting the mechanic. 934 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,360 And that's the thing I love most about hacks is when you can 935 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,200 really take a thing, make it your own thing, but still know 936 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,360 where it came from anyway. So magic training spells 937 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,000 described in a few words, you come up with them as you go. 938 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,480 We'll get to that on magic stuff later. 939 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,720 But you can, you can change that languages. 940 00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:39,680 Your character speaks some, boom, you get it. 941 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,720 Sometimes you get more whatever random starting equipment. 942 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:45,000 So a character starts the random stuff, including armor and 943 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,680 weapons. You roll AD20AD12AD, ten, 8886 944 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:52,240 and 84 the entire festival on the following nine tables. 945 00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:55,280 You have to decide a table and a die before you roll, but you can 946 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,360 ignore tables or roll several dice on the same 1. 947 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,000 The referee might decide the magical trinkets, heirlooms, or 948 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,600 faith tables are not available, and beginning adventures often 949 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,440 have to make do with the equipment they could gather from 950 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,600 a former life, making up a reason for stuff, blah blah blah 951 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,920 blah blah. So basically you get one of all 952 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,320 your fucking dice and there's nine tables, and before you roll 953 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,400 them you have to assign which dice to what table you want. 954 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,040 It doesn't matter. You don't have to roll on every 955 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:20,840 table. You can roll all of your dice on 956 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,720 one table if you want, but assign them, roll them, and 957 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:25,560 that's what you get. Great. 958 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,560 And using that as the start of your character creation would be 959 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,240 fucking hysterical. In a good way. 960 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,600 I love character creation by way of equipment picking. 961 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,720 So or this one equipment generation. 962 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,000 Yeah, love it. It's great. 963 00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,920 So why don't you bring up a dice roller? 964 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,080 Oh, I'd like. To and and roll all of them. 965 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,920 I can use my dice roller. Oh wow, you're so cool. 966 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:51,640 I'm. Cool. 967 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,520 This is this is great. You know, that's awesome. 968 00:47:53,640 --> 00:48:00,240 OK so I need to roll a 468101220. 969 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:06,120 Yep. And then roll yeah. 970 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,280 And then you as you pick a result, just pick a table or 971 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:09,560 just go all the tables straight down. 972 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,760 Yeah, let's just we'll start with equipment and so you'll. 973 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,640 Skip three. You're allowed to skip 3. 974 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,160 There's three that we're not gonna do. 975 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,040 Yeah. So we'll do equipment, food. 976 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,920 I'll say I rolled a three. I have a jar. 977 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,760 Snail soup. That is a risk. 978 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,520 Risk die of six or used. Die. 979 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,760 An old ox, a rolled up carpet, two snacks and a crowbar. 980 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:40,200 There's a body in that. Carpet always is, yeah. 981 00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,960 The food sounds pretty good on some of these that I was reading 982 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,160 and I was like I'm kind of hungry. 983 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,720 I liked 19 sealed meats, scroll maker's tool tools, a wizard 984 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:52,440 hat, spyglass, and magic reagents. 985 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:54,600 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 986 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,880 You liked the one that specifically is designed for a. 987 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:57,440 Wizard. I did. 988 00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,280 I listen. If you're listening to this and 989 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,120 you don't realize, like I love being a little wizard or listen, 990 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:06,840 street boy, Yeah, suck you. You're the wizard boy, I'm the 991 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,520 edge Lord douchebag, and that's us. 992 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,880 Yeah, magic is cool. If you're if anyone out there 993 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:17,920 ever does ever does like fan art of us, just think that right? 994 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,480 Yeah, you're you're wizard boy and I'm I'm edge Lord douchebag. 995 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:24,880 So what's next? What are you doing next? 996 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:29,040 We're going to we're going to skip well, valuable, valuable 997 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,120 starting the ones. Just like real life. 998 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,760 So there's a nice coffee stain on the bottom of this one. 999 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:37,960 Which I really. Love keeping keeping your cups 1000 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,560 sitting down, yeah? All. 1001 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:40,640 Right. What's next? 1002 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:47,640 And we'll do melee weapons and we'll say that was the D12 and I 1003 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:55,160 rolled in 11, which is a Dane axe or a flail that is D8/D8. 1004 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:59,080 It's a two handed weapon, grants the wielder advantage to damage 1005 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,160 which is pretty cool. Oh dude, Dane axes are dope. 1006 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,560 Mm hmm, that's cool. All right, all right armor, 1007 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:13,680 let's do use my D6I rolled 3. I have hide tunic and fur hat. 1008 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,360 Just like in real life. You're not you're. 1009 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,080 Really. You're really picking out a 1010 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,160 character here with the Dane axe and then like the fur hat. 1011 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:21,320 And stuff. Full Viking? 1012 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,800 Yeah. And you have an ox or are there? 1013 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:31,560 Oxes and Ox. Alright, what's next? 1014 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,600 We're going. I wanna, I wanna do the last 1015 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,200 three tables 'cause I think they're some of the best. 1016 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:36,920 So we're gonna skip missile weapons? 1017 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,760 My guy's not much of A missile weapon person. 1018 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:45,040 Magic trinkets, let's say. Oh, I'm looking, I'm cheating. 1019 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,200 Look at all the SI have, which I'm not supposed to do, but I'm 1020 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:48,360 not doing it anyway. Oh well. 1021 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:54,720 We're going to go ahead and use the what is that D8I rolled A7? 1022 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:59,880 I have a pouch of the oracles incense, you know like. 1023 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,440 That's an apostrophe S like a Reese's piece. 1024 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,080 Oh. Yeah. 1025 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,000 The Oracles. Yeah, it's the Oracle's incense, 1026 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,280 just like it's Reese's piece. They. 1027 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,880 Gave it to me. Yeah. 1028 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:19,840 OK, moving on to Heirlooms and heritage. 1029 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,680 I will go ahead and use my D10 for this one. 1030 00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,280 I you. I rolled A6 Mom's sword. 1031 00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:32,280 It has a name, a story, and maybe a minor magic power. 1032 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,680 That's a really cool one, you know. 1033 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:37,320 Well, 'cause is it your mom or is it somebody else's mom? 1034 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,800 I think it's mine. I I always think like a a great 1035 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,720 minor magic effect that we all know from the most popular 1036 00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:48,040 fantasy novel in the world is is from Lord of the Rings. 1037 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,840 Sting glows blue went around the orcs, which is a minor magic 1038 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:53,280 effect. That's a really great example of 1039 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,000 how to do minor magic very, very well. 1040 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,640 So it's Mom's. Sword so it glows when you're 1041 00:51:58,640 --> 00:51:59,960 trying to sneak into the kitchen late at night. 1042 00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,360 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm trying to steal in the 1043 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,480 cookie jar and I believe this is our last table which is faith 1044 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,200 and I rolled A-15. I say the high one for this, the 1045 00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,400 faith. The material plane is a mere 1046 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,240 illusion. Sinners embrace the void. 1047 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,440 Vibrant. Sounds pretty cool. 1048 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:20,760 Oh, I know some dope. I know some dope. 1049 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:23,840 There's a blotch here. Random availability you can 1050 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,920 equip in PCs and stock and stock shops at these random tables. 1051 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,280 The richer the person in area, the higher the die. 1052 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,280 You roll dope, Great. That's the thing. 1053 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,280 That's the thing about all of these tables is it's they're all 1054 00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:36,840 D 20s. There's nine of them. 1055 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,920 And anything that you need, like you have an NBC and they happen 1056 00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,040 to be religious. What kind of religion? 1057 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:41,960 Who knows? Real D20. 1058 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,160 They're they believe in Mother Nature, man. 1059 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,960 Yeah, that's what it says. I also, I also, I don't know if 1060 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,800 you notice this, but like as we get closer to magic and stuff 1061 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:55,520 like that, there's these random little word like chaos written 1062 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,200 just like randomly all through the book. 1063 00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,680 Love that on the chaos page it just says chaos chaos chaos 1064 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,840 chaos. Well this is right next to the 1065 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,800 one that says I believe in chaos chaos, chaos, chaos chaos but 1066 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,960 like half of them are upside. Down and they're really small 1067 00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,200 like. Yeah, so that's great. 1068 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,760 So gear and gold, it exists their tables. 1069 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,280 So you'll get like melee weapons, it might say like 1070 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,360 dagger, knife, blackjack, and then there's missile weapons and 1071 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,600 then there's a damage. So it's like they're kind of 1072 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:24,920 paired off with what the damage is comparatively. 1073 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,280 So like a dagger and a dart have the same damage and then that 1074 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,920 great sword and a muscular heavy crossbow have the same damage, 1075 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,720 which is like AD 10. And then there's the thing here, 1076 00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:35,960 2 handed meal weapons give advantage to damage. 1077 00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:40,440 There's armor listed, there's D4D68D10 which is just like a 1078 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,600 helmet, gamisan, Heidel there, etcetera, etcetera. 1079 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,640 Goes all up to full plate. Sometimes they can be combined 1080 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,800 with different armor, which is stepped up one category to a 1081 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,960 maximum of of delta 10. And that's specifically the 1082 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,960 leather. And then there's a bunch of just 1083 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:58,040 random items, arrows, coffee beans, of course, Bala, booze 1084 00:53:58,040 --> 00:53:59,840 powder. And then there's a usage eye 1085 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:03,600 that goes with with each one wealth and coin bags. 1086 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,360 We're not going to go over this. It's fine. 1087 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,640 It exists. I I think this is OK though. 1088 00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:12,240 I think that like wealth is risked eye based and like what 1089 00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,920 like level of coin that you have, it says what kind of goods 1090 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,040 you can buy with it. And I think it's a very clean 1091 00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,280 and easy way to like deal with money. 1092 00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:23,640 Well, because you don't have to actually keep, you don't have to 1093 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,000 actually keep anything like a number, right? 1094 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,200 So like, yeah, so we'll go over it. 1095 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,880 So wealth, wealth and coin bags and then splitting, merging and 1096 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,240 explaining bags and buying, selling. 1097 00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:36,680 So basically as what Hunter said, if you have if something 1098 00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:42,600 cost gold, you can just hand in right a D4 of gold and you'll 1099 00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:46,560 get gold or whatever and but if you have two if you have a D4 1100 00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,040 gold and a D4 gold right? I'm just going to read this 1101 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,960 because the math broke my brain. You are limited in the number of 1102 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:54,880 items you can carry, so combining bags is often a good 1103 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,360 idea. You can merge 2 bags of the same 1104 00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:01,160 metal and value to get a bag of the next type. 1105 00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:06,840 So for example, two purses of gold D4 become a pouch of gold 1106 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:11,120 D6. Similarly, split a bag in two by 1107 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:15,960 stepping down the dye. A chest of silver D12 becomes 2 1108 00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,000 bags of silver D10. Right, so if you're combining 1109 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:29,720 the same type you up the dice, you can merge 2 bags the same 1110 00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:31,960 metal to get a bag of the new type. 1111 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,240 I don't see I that's but the the sentence above I think is a 1112 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:38,480 mistake. Merging 2 bags the same metal 1113 00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,840 and value get a bag of the next type and then it tells you that 1114 00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,000 you're just upping the dice. So I think that's specific. 1115 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,720 I think that is supposed to say UPS your dice. 1116 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,560 Yes, I agree. I see where you're. 1117 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,760 Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, that's my Brainbird. 1118 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:56,880 With that, a bag of coin D12 can be exchanged for D for D4 of the 1119 00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,560 next higher coin. So character can also buy a bag 1120 00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,400 of a lower Dom denomination. This is you. 1121 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,440 So basically what they're saying is that like if you if you have 1122 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,600 AD 4 gold and AD 4 gold, you can put them together, you get AD 6 1123 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,680 gold. And then if you have AD 6 gold, 1124 00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,800 AD 6 gold, you put that together to do D8. 1125 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,120 And then you can do that to AD 10. 1126 00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:17,160 You can do that to AD 12. But if you have a bag of D12 1127 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:24,800 gold, you can bump that up to AD four up next after gold, and 1128 00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,160 that's platinum. So goes copper, silver, 1129 00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,040 electron, gold, platinum, mythium, right? 1130 00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:38,280 So if you're at the highest die of of a coin type, you can trade 1131 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,520 that in for the lowest type of the next coin type up. 1132 00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:44,640 And why would you do that? Because you might have D12 gold, 1133 00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:48,400 but you might, there might be a plate of armor or there might be 1134 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,000 armor plate that you want. That's electrum. 1135 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,560 So you're trading up for whatever. 1136 00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:54,720 You know what I mean? Electrum to gold. 1137 00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:56,040 Gold for whatever, because you don't. 1138 00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,120 Really have that level of coin and then you roll your risk die 1139 00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,760 essentially to buy it. Yes, roll 1-2 or three. 1140 00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,600 It goes down a size. Yeah, So that's how you can, 1141 00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,080 that's how you track all your stuff is basically you don't 1142 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:12,800 have to. It's interesting. 1143 00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,200 Yeah, it's definitely interesting. 1144 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,520 I don't know if it really, I don't know. 1145 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,400 I think it's interesting in a way that's mechanically 1146 00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,440 interesting. But yes, I I don't know if it 1147 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:26,640 helps simplify anything because if something costs 50 gold and I 1148 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,880 have 50 gold, I can just give them 50 gold and. 1149 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,600 But the union roll dice, we're only here for rolling dice. 1150 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,400 Yeah, right. That's the whole point of the 1151 00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,280 the thing. So buying and selling you do it. 1152 00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,080 Encumbrance is the thing that happens. 1153 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:44,040 You're here can carry one item per point of con whatever the 1154 00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,520 size and weight of the item. And it said it literally says 1155 00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:48,520 don't start arguing with the referee about this. 1156 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,480 You might end up losing all your equipment in a swamp. 1157 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:51,960 I love the little sides about that. 1158 00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:56,240 Armor doesn't count. If you're rolling encumbered you 1159 00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,600 can carry a number of items equal to your strength plus your 1160 00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,640 con, but when you're in cumbered you get disadvantage on anything 1161 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:02,960 that wouldn't matter when you're in Cumber. 1162 00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:10,400 It's a running and shit cool page here of a sphinx drinking a 1163 00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,120 coffee with their name spelled wrong on it. 1164 00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:15,440 Did you notice? That I didn't even. 1165 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:22,360 Yeah, so they're drinking coffee and they're speaking in 1166 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,840 hieroglyphics and then the name is written on the cup, but it's, 1167 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,360 it's Sphinx, but it's spelled PHSFINX. 1168 00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,000 That's hysterical to me. I I love that. 1169 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:33,880 That's hysterical. There's a whole nother list 1170 00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,040 here. This is like lodging, like 1171 00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,320 weapon, armor, equipment, lodging, all sorts of stuff like 1172 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,240 based on like basically like what you can get for the 1173 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,400 different things. So at CP level, weapon armor, 1174 00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,800 it's like peasant weapons and leather armor equipment is like 1175 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,280 consumables and D4 reagents, things like that. 1176 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:56,200 But all the way down to Mythium. You can get unique artifacts and 1177 00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,240 just stay in a palace for a week and like, you know, everything 1178 00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,120 has a price and you can pay it. So like I really like this kind 1179 00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:06,120 of like if you're not going to give exact numbers, you can just 1180 00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:09,400 give like this is kind of what CP will buy you. 1181 00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:10,760 This is kind of what GP will buy you. 1182 00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,320 I think this is a great table experience and goals. 1183 00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,640 I love this. It's it's it's it's I really 1184 00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:17,920 enjoy this. So basically, yeah. 1185 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,120 You level up when you reach a number of goals. 1186 00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,120 Each goal is defined by players and referee together, such as 1187 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,320 like clearing a goblin nest or rescuing the last night. 1188 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:29,800 So like when you start an adventure, you set goals and you 1189 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,800 have to complete a number of goals equal to the level you 1190 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,920 want to get to. So if you're at Level 3 and you 1191 00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,960 want to get to level 4, you have to complete four goals and then 1192 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,000 you level up to four. Then you have to complete five 1193 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,240 goals to level up to five. It's basically like a way to do 1194 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:49,960 level stone miling in a like kind of non level Stony way. 1195 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:51,960 Like you're there's a specific number for it, but you're not 1196 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,640 counting XP. I guess it's like one XP point. 1197 00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,560 Like it's kind of like an abstract way to just count XP 1198 00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,680 points. What kind of leveling? 1199 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:02,040 Milestone. That's not what you've been 1200 01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:03,520 saying. What did I say? 1201 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:05,080 I said that. Word one time. 1202 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:09,480 No, you said I said it. Oh, regardless, milestone. 1203 01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:15,080 So I do like the character goal thing. 1204 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:19,200 It says you can allow players to pick their own goal, but only 1205 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:24,440 one at a time, and only one of those can be Only one goal can 1206 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,080 be reached during a given session. 1207 01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:30,000 So if you're going for a character goal, you're all going 1208 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:34,480 for a character goal, but that will like help your define your 1209 01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:36,160 character a little bit more. So basically if you want to take 1210 01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:39,080 a side quest for one of your characters, you'll all get a 1211 01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,480 goal, but it will be specifically to that character 1212 01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,320 to increase to further their narrative and and character 1213 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:45,960 about the stuff, which I think is really neat. 1214 01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,120 I think it's really cool. It almost a little bit in a way, 1215 01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,040 and I might be reaching, but this is just how it tickles my 1216 01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:53,080 brain. It kind of reminds me of 1217 01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:54,800 boasting in wolves upon the coast. 1218 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,480 You know, you like boast that you're going to do a thing, 1219 01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:01,560 especially you do set a goal and you do get like to increase your 1220 01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:03,720 health or attack bonus based on that. 1221 01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:05,920 I really like that kind of thing. 1222 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:09,000 You know, it's very narrative. It gives you a tangible benefit. 1223 01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,440 It feels cool. Yeah. 1224 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:16,000 Yeah, I, I completely agree. I I like how all of this gives 1225 01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:20,400 you like, kind of like a, a concrete format in an abstract 1226 01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,200 way. Yeah, like do a goal like it's 1227 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,480 whatever, but like you need to do four of them. 1228 01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,080 And I like, I like that as opposed to being like you need 1229 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,720 600,000 XP. Yeah, yeah. 1230 01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,640 And I don't. I just hate counting. 1231 01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:38,200 XP anyway, so leveling. Leveling up you every time you 1232 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,840 level up, you choose two of these, and unlike a character 1233 01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,640 creation, you can only pick each one once, and there's five of 1234 01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,520 them. So you can add one point to a 1235 01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,040 stat of your choice to a Max of 18. 1236 01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,520 You can gain one hit die and then you roll your hit dice and 1237 01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,000 record your new total. If the new role doesn't improve 1238 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,880 your hit points, you just add 1 to the total. 1239 01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:57,760 I like the consistency. It's the same as when you did 1240 01:01:57,760 --> 01:01:59,920 CON before. You can spin a con point to roll 1241 01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:02,800 again keeping the best result. Same as before. 1242 01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,640 Or you can research a new spell. If you have magic training, you 1243 01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:09,600 can gain 1 melee attack or missile attack, but you must 1244 01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,160 have Marshall training and you can gain a new ability once a 1245 01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,600 day and an extra daily use for an existing one, which is your 1246 01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,920 specialist training. So basically it's ways to make 1247 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:24,440 your HP or stats better. And then one way to do magic 1248 01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,800 training, Marshall training or specialist training. 1249 01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,360 So it's it's very similar to character Christian, but you get 1250 01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,000 to do a little bit more at levels 47 and 10. 1251 01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,840 You can also take another trait or choose a new training. 1252 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,640 So that's how if you don't start with something like magic 1253 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:42,000 training, once you hit 4, you could take magic training. 1254 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,280 Well, no, well, that's just that's not that's that's that's 1255 01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,840 like picking like The Who, what where you were and stuff like 1256 01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:53,440 that. So Next up is another picture of 1257 01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:57,960 that coffee maker thing that I don't remember what it's called, 1258 01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:02,920 but it's like a it's like a Mecca like Gollum kind of 1259 01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,560 version one on like. It's a percolator. 1260 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:07,400 I told you what it's called. Is it? 1261 01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:08,680 It's a percolator? I don't. 1262 01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:10,800 Google it, look up images right now. 1263 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,160 Tell me I'm fucking wrong. Percolator, you're fucking 1264 01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:19,640 wrong. I don't see anything that looks 1265 01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:26,000 like that. I'm just saying I don't see 1266 01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,080 anything look like that. I see a lot of kettle looking 1267 01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:34,080 things. I think you're wrong. 1268 01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,440 Get in the comments guys. Get in the comments. 1269 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:41,200 All right, Brennan. So anyway, this thing's got 1270 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,080 legs. It's like a mech coffee maker. 1271 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:43,960 I love it. It's great. 1272 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,240 So monsters and followers. This is interesting. 1273 01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,880 So creatures and other hostels. Everything in the game is a 1274 01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,200 monster. It doesn't matter if it's a if 1275 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,880 it's a good guy or a bad guy. It's fine if it's if it ain't 1276 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:54,040 you, it's a monster. Great. 1277 01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,480 Easy peasy. It's called a mocha pot. 1278 01:03:57,600 --> 01:03:59,160 Thank you. Boom. 1279 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,360 Not a percolator. Thank you, Christian. 1280 01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,480 Mocha pot. I knew it was something like 1281 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,080 that. Go into the Google images. 1282 01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:08,840 Yep, there it is. Mocha pot. 1283 01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,640 So for all you that have been listening, it's a it's a mech 1284 01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:14,360 mocha pot. It's a, it's a it's a mecha 1285 01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,680 mocha. It's used on a stove top like a 1286 01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:19,520 percolator though. So he sees you. 1287 01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:21,440 There you go. You were partially right. 1288 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,640 We'll give you partial credit. You got a partial success mix 1289 01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:30,200 successful Even so. So it talked about monsters. 1290 01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,920 If converting from other games, hit dice or D8, they have an 1291 01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,280 armor class, there's damage just ported over. 1292 01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:37,800 If the monsters have magic, just use it. 1293 01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:39,960 It's fine. It works, it's not hard, the 1294 01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,440 game is still designed in a way that allows BX and stuff to use 1295 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,160 it. There's a reaction table. 1296 01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,080 Monsters should always be doing something. 1297 01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:50,640 If you want, there is a an encounter, goal or activity 1298 01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,200 table. Why don't you roll me AD 12 real 1299 01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,280 quick so you can check CHA to decide if a monster is 1300 01:04:56,280 --> 01:05:00,160 immediately aggressive, cautious, or open to the parlay. 1301 01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,800 What'd you get? I rolled sorry it froze, so I 1302 01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:10,160 rolled 3 *. I rolled A4 so it's raiding 1303 01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:13,760 settlements or amb ambushing a traveler. 1304 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:18,120 Boom, there you go, I can read and there's a there's you do. 1305 01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:21,840 There's a cute little coffee colored dragon and drinking 1306 01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:26,240 coffee as they do. I do like the theme is so 1307 01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,960 consistent in this like that they really do lean into the, 1308 01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,200 you know. They really, they really said I 1309 01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,960 went with Macchiato, so I'm fucking going with Macchiato. 1310 01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:38,200 I will say, like when we started reading this or when I started 1311 01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:46,480 reading this last night, I liked the name more the more of the 1312 01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,120 art that I saw, 'cause I'm like, OK, at least they carried the 1313 01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:50,640 theme all the way through, you know? 1314 01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:52,160 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I, I agree. 1315 01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:54,240 That's what I'm saying. I think I, I would prefer a 1316 01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:57,880 different name, but as we said in the beginning, they went with 1317 01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:00,120 it and they went with it hard and I can respect that. 1318 01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,720 So still with the monsters, there's a section on like, what 1319 01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:04,880 do they want? There's motivation for NPCS and 1320 01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:05,800 stuff. We don't need to go through all 1321 01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:07,640 this. There's morale, there's a, and 1322 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:11,840 there's AD 12D12 table for NPC motivation, AD 12 table for 1323 01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:14,200 morale. There's a section here on giving 1324 01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:15,840 chase and running away, which is interesting. 1325 01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:17,720 It's basically like Dex checks and whatnot. 1326 01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:21,000 Sometimes you might like drop weapons or loot and stuff like 1327 01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:22,960 that or roll with disadvantage to get away. 1328 01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:24,760 Very interesting. I really love all that. 1329 01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,560 We don't need to go through all of it specifically to you if 1330 01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:29,880 you've, if you, if you've chased before, it's basically that 1331 01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,360 followers or hirelings the same name for the same thing. 1332 01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,120 You can have them, which is really interesting and they 1333 01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,000 really can come into combat because of the way the 1334 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:39,680 disadvantage and stuff work with a risk dye. 1335 01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,040 So a follower can carry 5 items, 10 if they're willing to be 1336 01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,880 encumbered. A hireling has a risk dye that 1337 01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:47,520 represents their skill and loyalty. 1338 01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,040 Villagers or D sixes but professionals can be 810 or 12. 1339 01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,000 Double payment or strong incentives can increase the die 1340 01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,160 type which is great. You can pay them to be better 1341 01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,600 with your job. Which pay me and I'll better my 1342 01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,560 fucking job. I know I'm talking about that 1343 01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:02,800 every day. And he's like, I'll fire you. 1344 01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:05,320 Yeah, I get paid enough to do what I do. 1345 01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,080 Whenever a hiring is hurt, does something dangerous, or is 1346 01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,160 otherwise in grave danger, you roll or die. 1347 01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,880 If it if it it's a fail. They run and shit. 1348 01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,040 There you go. There are there are D12. 1349 01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,320 There are 12 different types of hirelings. 1350 01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,200 D12 is in a city, D4 is in the middle of nowhere. 1351 01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,880 I think that's really interesting because D4 one 1352 01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,760 through 4 is torch bearer, Harbordier scout, and hedge. 1353 01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:28,720 Hedge wizard. We don't need to go what they 1354 01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:30,000 are, you get that. But each one also has an 1355 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,720 ability. So torch bearer, the number of 1356 01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:37,080 item, extra items they carry, they can carry and then the 1357 01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,400 halberdier additional damage. So you're that's what their 1358 01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,600 wrist dies for. So but beyond that you have 1359 01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:44,520 halfling, Chaplin, elf, bodyguard, dwarf, surgeon, 1360 01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,640 burglar and Bard, each one with different abilities and stuff. 1361 01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:50,080 Really interesting, really fun. Again, they all get their own 1362 01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:54,080 wrist dye. It's a good time hireling who 1363 01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,080 dies, fizzles, quits or flees anyway. 1364 01:07:56,080 --> 01:08:00,360 So hiring followers. Follower wages range from daily 1365 01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,920 pay to equipment to lump sums, but you can get a free follower 1366 01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,480 if it's your first session and politics aren't going to be very 1367 01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,200 improminent. Every character who chooses an 1368 01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:12,640 organization or faction as a trait gets a follower to start 1369 01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,760 the game. Maybe any type you want, or even 1370 01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:16,720 a pet. I love that. 1371 01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,800 I think that's so fun. Like if you're the one trait you 1372 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,319 want to start with is an organization, like I'm going to 1373 01:08:23,319 --> 01:08:25,439 be a Mason, Great. You get a cultist. 1374 01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:26,760 You know what I mean? Like, go. 1375 01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:29,479 I think that's really interesting. 1376 01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:31,399 That's really neat. Yeah, absolutely. 1377 01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,760 Exploring the world. This is a weird spot to put 1378 01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:36,319 this. I'll say this is my only real 1379 01:08:36,319 --> 01:08:40,600 big critique of the entire game is we go through the entire 1380 01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,240 multi page exploring the world section as we're getting through 1381 01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:46,840 like character creation and stuff like that and then you hit 1382 01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,720 combat. Yeah, combat's next, and then 1383 01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:51,279 after that is like magic and stuff. 1384 01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:55,479 It does feel like this is ours, wounds and death and magic, but 1385 01:08:55,479 --> 01:09:00,880 it does feel like this is like 10, 15 pages too early, you 1386 01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:02,840 know? And I get it because it is still 1387 01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,399 mechanics, because it's the it's the way that you are 1388 01:09:05,399 --> 01:09:11,600 adventuring, right? But if there's like tables at 1389 01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,600 the end on how to like build an adventure and stuff like that, I 1390 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,680 would rather the the rules. It is still a dungeon game. 1391 01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:19,640 You're still going to murder shit. 1392 01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:21,080 So give me murder sooner, you know? 1393 01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,640 Yeah, I think combat and death and stuff like that should be 1394 01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:26,240 above this. And then exploring the world 1395 01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,000 should happen. And then you'll move into like 1396 01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,800 all of the tables for building worlds and stuff like that. 1397 01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:31,600 It's the only big critique I have. 1398 01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:33,800 I think it's it's fine technically where it's at. 1399 01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:38,080 I would prefer it later anyway. So in the following pages, 1400 01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:39,560 you're interacting with the setting. 1401 01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:41,680 How does Referee make it a living place? 1402 01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,600 So there's a whole section on delving into dark places. 1403 01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,680 There's there's mechanics associated with this. 1404 01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:47,600 We don't need to read every single part of this game. 1405 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,240 They'll buy the fucking game. Buy the PDF, we'll give you how 1406 01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,960 to do that a little bit later. But delving into dark places, 1407 01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:56,720 there is AD 12 table for dungeon exploration and you rolled 1408 01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:03,040 encounter risk, die. And then there are encounters, 1409 01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:06,200 resources and fines, which I do really like this. 1410 01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:08,520 So it's listed encounter resources, encounter resources, 1411 01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:10,880 fine, fine. Encounter is rolled or chosen by 1412 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:13,520 the ref. A resource result means the 1413 01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:17,200 party has to roll a wrist die for their for their resources, 1414 01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:18,800 for your light source, for your food, whatever. 1415 01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,040 And then a fine die is a lucky break. 1416 01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:22,600 You actually find shit. I love that. 1417 01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,480 I think that's such an interesting way to do the table 1418 01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,680 because you literally can come to this table with no prep 1419 01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:29,760 whatsoever. And you can literally roll on 1420 01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:33,040 building a dungeon as you go and what's in each room as you go. 1421 01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,200 And even if it's just an encounter, you can just roll on 1422 01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,400 encounter table as you go. And that's so fun and 1423 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,560 interesting to, like, build it without having to do a lot of 1424 01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,480 prep because you are a referee, not a storyteller. 1425 01:10:42,480 --> 01:10:44,960 You're not telling a story. The story is told through the 1426 01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:46,640 narrative of the story of intelligence. 1427 01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,440 Yeah, yeah. Simple encounter roll. 1428 01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:54,840 It basically says roll, and on a, the party comes in contact 1429 01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:56,840 with something on a one to three, boom, there you go. 1430 01:10:57,840 --> 01:10:59,720 Player rumors. You don't have to know 1431 01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:01,000 everything. Let the players fill in the 1432 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,800 blanks. Have your character who might 1433 01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,760 know about something by a trait check something. 1434 01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:08,920 On a success, the player gets to say something. 1435 01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:12,640 On a failure, someone else can say something that is not 1436 01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,040 entirely true. So there's a section here on 1437 01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:18,000 crossing the wilderness that gives you like the number of 1438 01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,240 hexes you can travel on a day based on like where you're at 1439 01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,080 and stuff like that. There's a section on weather, 1440 01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,200 wilderness exploration, hunting, and foraging. 1441 01:11:26,480 --> 01:11:27,840 There's a section on camp events. 1442 01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,040 It says there's no such thing as a quiet day at the camp. 1443 01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:35,280 Love that, it reminds me of the The Village expansion we talked 1444 01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:38,320 about with Max Moon which you can buy pre-order to maximum 1445 01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:39,600 games.com. Go check that out. 1446 01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,760 We're not sponsored by anyone, these are just our friends. 1447 01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,440 There's some These look like Knowles to me, with axes and 1448 01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:50,360 Spears drinking little espressos. 1449 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:51,720 I would take that. Yeah. 1450 01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:53,560 I love it. Yeah. 1451 01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,920 It's like literally just two finger in them. 1452 01:11:56,440 --> 01:12:02,160 Yeah, just two finger in them. So the first shortcut is Fast 1453 01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,680 forward travel. You can Fast forward travel. 1454 01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,520 I I actually really like this. So we're going to talk about 1455 01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,520 this real quick. So if the referee wants to get 1456 01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:11,760 to the meat of an adventure without getting bogged down in 1457 01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,560 details, you can roll on this table to gloss over a couple of 1458 01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:16,920 days. And so with this is Fast forward 1459 01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,200 to traveling. So let's say that you roll A7, 1460 01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:22,320 right? You made a discovery at a cost. 1461 01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:26,600 So you get to say what you did and what you lost, right? 1462 01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:31,440 You might get pushed back. You pushed back an ambush, roll 1463 01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:33,280 your hit dice for your current HP. 1464 01:12:33,440 --> 01:12:35,880 You know you got lost. Your name took D4 extra day. 1465 01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,480 Step down your rations. So it gives you a narrative for 1466 01:12:38,480 --> 01:12:41,360 the journey you went on where you can fill in what happened 1467 01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:44,360 without after actually having to do it, but without like nothing 1468 01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:45,720 happening. And I really enjoy that. 1469 01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,640 And then the second shortcut is catching up with the party. 1470 01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,600 If someone joins the middle of an adventure, you can roll on 1471 01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,720 this D12 table to stay what they were doing before they caught up 1472 01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:58,960 to you, like nonviolent contact with a monster or faction. 1473 01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,240 Or you fell down a hole and lost a random weapon. 1474 01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,040 And then boom, like, you're just there. 1475 01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:04,440 And they're like, where have you been? 1476 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:07,240 Oh, I got stalked by somebody. They're still following. 1477 01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:09,080 Yeah. Little side that you can talk 1478 01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:09,360 about. Yeah. 1479 01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:11,640 And then there's a Stories on the Road section. 1480 01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,400 Once per trip, each player can describe a situation or problem 1481 01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,920 that the character is involved in It might be as simple as 1482 01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,760 saying I repair a broken wheel or as dangerous as what if a 1483 01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:23,600 bear allow what of a bear owl a bear owl not an owl bear 1484 01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:24,720 because. Not an owl bear. 1485 01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,120 I visited our camp in the dead of night and I shot it with one 1486 01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,920 well placed arrow. You the ref gets the final say 1487 01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:32,400 More narrative stuff. I enjoy it. 1488 01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,640 Good good good good fights and how to avoid them. 1489 01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:39,440 We start getting into combat now after the all of the world 1490 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:42,400 exploration stuff. So time, distance and action. 1491 01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,000 It's more concerned with creative script of fun, not 1492 01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:48,080 tactical mini game. Great so your turns are fast and 1493 01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,920 loose, each player's character gets a turn until everyone has 1494 01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:53,240 had one. Every hero still standing it's 1495 01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:56,120 another turn and so on. Turn order depends on who's 1496 01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:59,040 going doing what, etcetera. So be clear, establish order, 1497 01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:00,040 stick with it. That's fine. 1498 01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:03,000 Initiative, some initiative. That's what it says in the book. 1499 01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,640 I like it. Use common sense. 1500 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:08,880 If you have a ready crossbow, you shoot before something hits 1501 01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:10,240 you. Boom, there you go. 1502 01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:14,200 There you don't roll for initiative, just whoever it 1503 01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:15,400 makes sense to go in the narrative. 1504 01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:18,000 Just fucking go. You don't need square grids 1505 01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,600 because who gives a shit? You can move around doing the 1506 01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:26,120 thing that you're going to do. Be reasonable, fighting for your 1507 01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,720 life. So each turn, you roll your D20 1508 01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,760 once. Your whole turn, no matter what 1509 01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:35,360 you're doing is one check right? It's all or nothing. 1510 01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,720 You strengthen melee decks when melee weapons and if it calls 1511 01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:43,400 for something else like in to hide whiz for for calling aid, 1512 01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:45,680 con to run, etcetera, said the referee picks. 1513 01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:49,520 If you succeed and you are attacking, royer damage for your 1514 01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:51,560 attack. If you fail, you're hit by 1515 01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:53,560 whoever was attacking you and you take damage. 1516 01:14:54,480 --> 01:14:56,200 Boom, that's combat baby. Easy. 1517 01:14:56,440 --> 01:14:58,760 Yeah, that's it. Damage dealt is always 1518 01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:01,560 subtracted from your victims hit points unless they're wearing 1519 01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:03,160 armor. If you're attacking with a 1520 01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:05,880 weapon with damage higher than your hit die, you have 1521 01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:07,560 disadvantage on the damage roll right? 1522 01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,440 So if your if your hit die is AD 6 and your Dane acts is AD 1523 01:15:11,480 --> 01:15:16,040 eight, you have disadvantage, advantage and disadvantage in 1524 01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:17,800 combat. Remember traits do not grant 1525 01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,280 advantage disadvantage. Those really common. 1526 01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:24,600 Basically it reflects a monstrous combat skill to roll 1527 01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:26,200 and for you to roll the disadvantage. 1528 01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:29,680 So if you're ever fighting something with a hit dice higher 1529 01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:31,160 than you, you're at disadvantage. 1530 01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,760 But it's not just you, it's everyone fighting on it on like 1531 01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:36,360 that turn. Specifically, it's talking about 1532 01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:40,320 like your followers, right? So say that I love the example 1533 01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,280 here. Grim is a level 2 Shield Maiden 1534 01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:48,160 with three hit dice, wants to charge A4 HD Ogre, ignoring his 1535 01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:51,920 three goblin retainers. OK, they all have three hit dice 1536 01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:54,040 in total, so that's a total of seven hit dice. 1537 01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:57,480 The referee says she'll get disadvantage subjected to a lot 1538 01:15:57,480 --> 01:16:01,040 of damage. She could attack with her two 1539 01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,400 Spearman with two HD, but the goblins would still tip the 1540 01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,640 scale. So with her three HD and her 1541 01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:10,600 Spearman total of 2 HD, they have 5 HD versus the Ogre and 1542 01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:12,880 the goblins, which is a total of 7. 1543 01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:15,920 Even if they all attack together, everything is a 1544 01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:19,520 disadvantage. So if your whole party equals 1545 01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:22,000 six hit dice and you're fighting something with eight, everyone's 1546 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,880 a disadvantage all the time. I love that. 1547 01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:28,520 I think it's really interesting. It's a way that you can use the 1548 01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:35,680 same monster against different levels of party and still make 1549 01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:39,280 it kind of like, I'm not going to use the word balanced, but 1550 01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:42,840 like fit the combat right. Balance combat. 1551 01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:44,320 I think it's always the goal you. 1552 01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:47,120 Know so a low level fighting an owl bear the owl bear stays the 1553 01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:49,280 same, but you have disadvantage against it. 1554 01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,960 But once you level up high enough you lose a disadvantage. 1555 01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:54,640 The owl bear stays the same, but it's still easy for you to beat 1556 01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,880 because you're higher. I love the abstraction of that 1557 01:16:56,880 --> 01:17:00,560 It's really great armor. So it's not just the only thing 1558 01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:03,640 I don't like armor I don't understand I get it I don't 1559 01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:06,760 under I don't I understand it, but I don't get it so basically 1560 01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:08,920 each type of armor is a wrist eye. 1561 01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:10,680 We talked about this before. Leather armor is like AD 4, 1562 01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:12,600 right? It absorbs damage like hit 1563 01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:17,120 points. You roll that die the first time 1564 01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:21,280 you're hit, as you never know in advance whether your next 1565 01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:23,040 opponent will be able to find the fault in your armor or not. 1566 01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:27,720 The result of that wrist die is how much damage your armor can 1567 01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:31,000 soak during this fight. You roll again for your next 1568 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,320 fight. So let's say your armor is AD 8, 1569 01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,680 right? And you roll A4. 1570 01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:48,540 OK, that means this fight you can soak 4 points, correct? 1571 01:17:49,660 --> 01:17:51,660 Yes, Yeah, that's all I got. Yeah. 1572 01:17:51,740 --> 01:17:55,620 OK, so as usual with the risk dice, if you roll A1 to a three, 1573 01:17:55,620 --> 01:17:59,020 your armor die is stepped down. This means it has been damaged 1574 01:17:59,020 --> 01:18:01,580 and needs to be attended to by a Smith unless magical, blah blah 1575 01:18:01,580 --> 01:18:03,900 blah blah blah blah blah blah there's a repair cost blah blah. 1576 01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:06,020 The referee can give you disadvantage when sending 1577 01:18:06,020 --> 01:18:07,140 certain things in armor, blah blah blah. 1578 01:18:07,180 --> 01:18:09,740 Anyway, so. So here's my problem, right? 1579 01:18:09,860 --> 01:18:13,180 OK. For your armor die to step down, 1580 01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:21,480 you have to roll A1 to a three. Your armor soak is the risk 1581 01:18:21,480 --> 01:18:23,440 roll. You actually roll that dice and 1582 01:18:23,440 --> 01:18:25,120 that's the soak you get for that combat. 1583 01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:30,240 And the game literally designed around like building a narrative 1584 01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:32,200 and like all the rest of this stuff, right? 1585 01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:36,760 What happens if you use all of your soak like your armor's only 1586 01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,520 quote UN quote damaged if you step it down so your armor just 1587 01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:43,880 becomes somehow ineffective but not broken like the first time 1588 01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:45,480 you get. Hit, how do you deal with that 1589 01:18:45,480 --> 01:18:47,280 narratively? You're just like, well, I have 1590 01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:50,160 no more. So I I think I may have read 1591 01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,680 this wrong for somebody because I read soak as in like, oh, you 1592 01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:56,000 just have you, you like, yeah, you have 4 armor every time you 1593 01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:57,360 get hit. I didn't realize it was like a 1594 01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:01,200 point spin that like every point you lose that right? 1595 01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:05,920 So if I have four overall, that means after I like soak four, I 1596 01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:09,480 have no more armor, right. OK, yeah. 1597 01:19:09,480 --> 01:19:10,800 I don't know how you deal with that narratively. 1598 01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:13,200 I originally like thought there was saying the oh like your 1599 01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:16,200 armor soaks for like from every hit, you know? 1600 01:19:18,480 --> 01:19:28,000 But yeah, I mean, that's that's that's like this is this is what 1601 01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:30,320 I'm talking about specifically for this and the, and the risk 1602 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,680 and the usage dye and and having like, I love the way that the 1603 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:35,240 wrist dyes are used and everything except for this, 1604 01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:37,760 because it doesn't make sense that your armor soaks a 1605 01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:44,000 different amount every single fight, but only gets damaged if 1606 01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,400 you roll A1 to a three. Yeah, there is a little 1607 01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:52,200 incongruity with like logic and the actuality of the rule set. 1608 01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:58,240 Yes, yeah, I, I, I don't know if I, I definitely feel the, like, 1609 01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:02,640 snag there. And I don't know, like care too 1610 01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,080 much about that, but it does like kind of mess up how 1611 01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:07,040 logically you feel like armor works. 1612 01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,960 But like, say, say that that's the thing though, right? 1613 01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,200 Like say you're say we're say we're fighting, right? 1614 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,520 Like and you roll your D8 and you get a four. 1615 01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:17,600 So now you have 4 soak something hits you for four. 1616 01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:21,240 And now the next time something hits you, it's just going to hit 1617 01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:22,720 you. But your armor is not broken. 1618 01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:27,400 But your armor's not broken though, so I mean, I would, I 1619 01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,240 honestly do play this the way that I explained it, which is 1620 01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:32,040 like, Oh no, you just have 4 armor for this fight. 1621 01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:35,080 Like every time you get hit, someone does 6 damage to you. 1622 01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:37,880 Your armor soaks 4, You want to take two damage next time you 1623 01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:40,760 get hit for five, you're almost soaks 4, you take one damage. 1624 01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:45,080 That's how I in my brain would run this. 1625 01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:49,200 Yeah, and so Christian Sorrell make House a game where go buy a 1626 01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:50,440 shit. Go vote for them in the innies 1627 01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:55,600 is saying that they think it's so per turn, but I'm pretty 1628 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,800 sure, as I read later in the game in the combat section, 1629 01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:00,680 we'll get to it. It talks about it just not being 1630 01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:02,320 that way. So we'll we'll get to it. 1631 01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:06,440 But anyway, so like, that's weird to me and I I honestly 1632 01:21:06,440 --> 01:21:11,640 would just give armor a, a, a value, yeah, and just give it a 1633 01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:13,800 soak value. Another thing about this game is 1634 01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:16,240 like stuff like this, you can just slot something else into 1635 01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:18,520 this rule space like it's be effortless. 1636 01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:25,840 Here, here's what I would do. You're the soak is half of 1637 01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:32,480 whatever the dice is, and if you get hit during combat after 1638 01:21:32,480 --> 01:21:36,720 combat you need to roll your wrist dye to see if your armor 1639 01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:38,200 is broken during combat. Very. 1640 01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,480 Clean way to deal with this? Yeah, so like if you have AD 10, 1641 01:21:41,480 --> 01:21:43,120 you have 5 soak, you know what I mean? 1642 01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:46,120 So that's it. Shields will be splintered. 1643 01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,240 Shields are handy, Referee should give you advantage when 1644 01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,080 using yours. Shields can are splintered by 1645 01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:54,920 axes and burnt by dragon fire, and you can sacrifice your 1646 01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:57,040 Shields and negate damage from anyone attack. 1647 01:21:57,120 --> 01:21:59,080 Boom. But there is a stunning blow 1648 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,400 thing which I think is neat. This is an optional rule when 1649 01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:05,680 armor or Shields protect armor. When armor Shields protect 1650 01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:09,320 characters from damage that would have brought them to 0 HP, 1651 01:22:09,480 --> 01:22:11,640 you make a contract to avoid being knocked out. 1652 01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:13,920 Check your CON again after a few turns. 1653 01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,480 This is his own opportunity. So you don't take any damage 1654 01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:20,120 because the, the, the, your armor soaked it, but if that 1655 01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,120 damage would have hit you to zero, that you can get knocked 1656 01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:25,280 out by it. So the armor protected you from 1657 01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:27,160 dying, but not from getting knocked on your fucking ass. 1658 01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,600 So that literally says that is the basics. 1659 01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,120 That's combat. That's how combat works. 1660 01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:33,720 And then there's other other stuff underneath it. 1661 01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,960 So tactical risks if you're willing to put yourself in 1662 01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:43,000 harm's way. In harm's way, Yep, charging, 1663 01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,800 attacking recklessly. The referee can give you some 1664 01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:47,520 options. If you if your combat check is 1665 01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:50,160 successful, you are an ally, get advantage on your next turn. 1666 01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:52,400 If it's a failure, you'd get disadvantage your next turn. 1667 01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,080 So you can, you can say I want to take a tactical risk and then 1668 01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:56,840 potentially get advantage disadvantage. 1669 01:22:57,120 --> 01:23:00,160 There's a whole section on complex turns where that is when 1670 01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:05,880 you can have like a multi role turn and the the example is a 1671 01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:09,800 thief wants to like jump on a table, slide down, breakthrough 1672 01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:11,320 the window and shoot out of the bar. 1673 01:23:11,480 --> 01:23:14,280 But someone's like trying to stab them as a slide down the 1674 01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,080 table and stuff like that. And they have to roll to like 1675 01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:19,400 slide across the table, avoid the daggers and break the window 1676 01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:22,560 and that's three rolls. Love that great shooting in 1677 01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:23,960 melee is a thing. You can hit people. 1678 01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,480 That's the thing. Running combat in six steps. 1679 01:23:26,480 --> 01:23:27,720 I like this. We're going to go through it 1680 01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:29,640 real quick, so. They'll have a number list. 1681 01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:31,960 Yo it's so great. One check a turn. 1682 01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,080 I mean a flow chart would be nice, but I love this list, it's 1683 01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,160 great. The one check and turn mechanic 1684 01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:41,000 may feel weird but here you go. So you started the turn the you 1685 01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,280 describe the location, the threats, the monsters and what 1686 01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:45,000 they do, especially who they target. 1687 01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:47,720 The general situation is clear to everyone, that is to the gym 1688 01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:51,320 #2 the first character gets to act, ask the player what they 1689 01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:54,120 would like to do. So who acts first depends on the 1690 01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:56,800 situation before he dies. Role the character circumstances 1691 01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:59,280 are made super clear and the character's turn is resolved 1692 01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:01,960 with the check done. Damage is dealt, consequences, 1693 01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,840 you move on #3 the next character acts. 1694 01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:07,360 This should happen in order of fictional importance. 1695 01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,760 Describe the character's circumstances exactly like 1696 01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:13,960 before #4 repeat Step 3 #5 Have all the NPCS done something? 1697 01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:17,760 If not, describe what they do and give who is affected a 1698 01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:21,280 chance to react. So if so, again, the bad guys 1699 01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:24,560 only hit if you fuck up and they hit you. 1700 01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:27,960 Except if at the end of everything there's some bad guys 1701 01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:32,160 that didn't get to go. They get to go, but they put 1702 01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:36,560 themselves in a situation that the player then reacts to and 1703 01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:38,480 gets a chance to roll and then you go on. 1704 01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:40,000 I love that. I love that. 1705 01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:43,360 That's so fun and interesting. It might steal the shit out of 1706 01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:45,280 that for something and that's it. 1707 01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:47,560 It's super easy. One of the important things and 1708 01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:50,480 one of the other things that lends itself to a lot of like 1709 01:24:50,480 --> 01:24:56,560 these OSR style OSR style games, because OSR is dead, is that 1710 01:24:56,560 --> 01:25:01,080 since everything is based on like characters, like the 1711 01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,040 narrative is, again, it's an emergent narrative. 1712 01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,120 It's not a story. You're not a storyteller. 1713 01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:07,480 You're just adjudicating situations. 1714 01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:12,360 Before a player makes a decision, they should know all 1715 01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:14,320 things. Like the referee is never like a 1716 01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,520 trickster, like hiding shit from them or whatever. 1717 01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:20,360 There's no gotchas. So before the the player does 1718 01:25:20,360 --> 01:25:25,360 something, they should know all of the situation and then get to 1719 01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:27,520 do that stealth and surprise, it's a thing. 1720 01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:31,000 What do you think it it's that wounds and death. 1721 01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:34,640 And there's this really cool person with like, chainmail 1722 01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:37,360 that's coffee colored. Like sipping on a coffee. 1723 01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:38,640 Yeah. Blowing. 1724 01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:39,600 Blowing. He's cooling it. 1725 01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:46,800 Down blowing, yeah. So at 0 HP AT0HP HPHP, you're 1726 01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:48,960 unconscious and bleeding, you make a contract to determine if 1727 01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:51,480 you're still breathing. If it's a failure, make a new 1728 01:25:51,480 --> 01:25:53,480 character while your friends split your gear amongst 1729 01:25:53,480 --> 01:25:54,520 themselves. I love that. 1730 01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:58,400 It's a really good part. Yeah, if you succeed, you go 1731 01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,480 back to one HP and then there's other stuff you got to do. 1732 01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:03,880 You've sustained a grievous wound though, so you lose a 1733 01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:06,320 level to represent the loss and abilities and then all the stuff 1734 01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:07,920 that comes with it. So like when you lose the level, 1735 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:11,480 you have to like take away like the stuff you would have got 1736 01:26:11,480 --> 01:26:13,480 from a level. So if you get 2 when you level 1737 01:26:13,480 --> 01:26:15,680 up, you have to take two away when you level down. 1738 01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:19,280 So if it was HD, if it was like a mat, if it was a, a, a stepped 1739 01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:21,480 up dice, whatever, boom, it's gone. 1740 01:26:23,440 --> 01:26:25,400 Cool. I mean, you know, like it's a 1741 01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:26,920 good way to represent lasting injury. 1742 01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:28,960 Yep, Yep. How do you get it back? 1743 01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:32,000 Do it again. There's no way to get back what 1744 01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:33,560 you lost resting and eating. Guess what? 1745 01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:38,240 You can you can do those things. There's there are optional rules 1746 01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:42,520 for stamina and sanity, which are risk die related. 1747 01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:45,560 So that's fine Magic healing it exists. 1748 01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:47,000 It's fine. We're going to get a magic here 1749 01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,600 soon. You can heal with it long rest 1750 01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:53,880 and referee turns basically just as like during long rest and 1751 01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:55,760 stuff like that. If you choose to take a long 1752 01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:59,520 rest, that is the referee's turn to advance the world. 1753 01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:02,960 You know, again, you're not telling a story, but you are 1754 01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:07,280 building the world and like the moving parts in it so that the 1755 01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,200 players action. So the so that the world is not, 1756 01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:15,520 you know, the, the, the world is not like the, the pre Galilean 1757 01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,880 concept of the universe, right? They are not the sun with 1758 01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:19,120 everything revolving around them. 1759 01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:23,160 The players exist within a moving world, and when you take 1760 01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,120 a long rest, the referee goes, who? 1761 01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:27,240 Who? This faction does this and this 1762 01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,520 lich does that, and they're trying to go over here. 1763 01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,160 Well, they're not there anymore. And then there you go, spells 1764 01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:34,240 and chaos. Do you want to do magic? 1765 01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,960 Yeah. Yeah. 1766 01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:44,360 So hey, listen, magic cost HP, it starts at one, and as you add 1767 01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:45,880 effects, we'll just do the thing. 1768 01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:50,640 Yeah. So, Oh yeah, that's you in the 1769 01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:53,960 chat now. Magic cost HP. 1770 01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:58,480 The cost is figured by all basic spells cost one. 1771 01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,520 You can never spend more than you have HP. 1772 01:28:03,920 --> 01:28:07,840 And as you increase the effects of a spell, the range of the 1773 01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:11,040 spell, the targets of the spell, you add on to the cost. 1774 01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:16,680 It's got a nice little bullet list here if you know where to 1775 01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:19,560 add cost. I'm fucking stumbling today. 1776 01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:26,080 But yeah, you roll. And on a successful roll magic 1777 01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:29,480 works as discussed on a discussed, and on a failure it 1778 01:28:29,480 --> 01:28:33,520 doesn't work unless unless you let chaos come into play, which 1779 01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,920 comes in next. And on critical rules you have 1780 01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,480 additional consequences. A natural 20 day referee decides 1781 01:28:39,480 --> 01:28:43,280 what goes wrong or picks a mishap and like one you don't 1782 01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:48,760 lose HP. And I I did skip this for the 1783 01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:51,720 roles. It can be intelligent, wisdom 1784 01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:56,080 and sometimes charisma. It's it's fairly traditional, 1785 01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:57,600 kind of like the magic stats you know. 1786 01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:01,160 A little blurb here. Specialist magic. 1787 01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:03,720 You can allow characters of the treat, such as Illusionist or 1788 01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:07,480 pyromancer to avoid rolling with disadvantage when casting a 1789 01:29:07,480 --> 01:29:10,440 spell with a cost higher than their level. 1790 01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:14,360 However, being specialized means lacking certain knowledge. 1791 01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,560 Pyromancer. Pyromancer wouldn't know water 1792 01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:19,280 magic very well and probably couldn't do ice magic at all. 1793 01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:23,120 Fairies stuff. And like I said, spell cost one. 1794 01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:28,920 It's instantaneous, it affects creatures of the short range by 1795 01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:34,400 default, and it deals or kills one damage by default and has an 1796 01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:37,720 inconsequential yet possible entertaining effect, increasing 1797 01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:42,000 the cost by 1 to five points for each. 1798 01:29:42,440 --> 01:29:46,480 And that is generic wording. For example, if you use 1799 01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:49,600 something generic like necromancy is the example of a 1800 01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:53,480 generic raised dead. Or it would be more specified, 1801 01:29:53,480 --> 01:29:56,000 but a more generic brother would increase the cost. 1802 01:29:57,640 --> 01:30:00,960 Instant casting time would increase the cost, increase the 1803 01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:04,560 range targets, things like that. It raises the cost of the spell. 1804 01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:08,400 And this is how magic is. It's not quite triangulated like 1805 01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:12,080 it is in white hack, but it is like, yeah, it's just added up. 1806 01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:16,040 You are building. It literally says like, start at 1807 01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:19,520 1:00 and then every one of these that you added to it, you can 1808 01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:22,680 just be like, all right, it's a long range with an extra target, 1809 01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:26,200 and the HD is higher and I want it to last a minute and it's 1810 01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:28,680 going to be a big fucking thing. Well, it went from one and now 1811 01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:30,960 it costs like 6. And that's your HP, buddy. 1812 01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:33,640 Yeah. And you can lower the effects by 1813 01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,480 like having an arcane focus, having magical reagents, like 1814 01:30:36,480 --> 01:30:38,680 being in a place of power, narrative stuff will help you, 1815 01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,400 you know, lower the cost of these spells. 1816 01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:44,160 Yeah, I do like what it specifically says there the one 1817 01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:46,760 of that, the the bullet points there like do not waste 1818 01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:50,400 everyone's time counting beans. Like like don't fuck around and 1819 01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:52,800 argue and like do whatever. Like kind of know what you want 1820 01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:56,000 to do when the referee tells you how much HP unless it seems 1821 01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:58,840 fucking crazy, just say OK and roll with it, you know? 1822 01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:02,520 Absolutely. Love it. 1823 01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:05,000 Did you see how the chaos is Chaos, Chaos, chaos, chaos? 1824 01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:05,600 Chaos. Chaos. 1825 01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:06,800 Yeah, I was. Saying earlier it was like, 1826 01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:08,960 that's the next page. Chaos, Chaos, chaos. 1827 01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:11,600 And it comes back up. Yeah, yeah. 1828 01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:15,080 And then we have we have some art of a creature that is 1829 01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:17,320 legally distinct from a beholder for sure. 1830 01:31:17,320 --> 01:31:20,880 Yeah, holding a holding a coffee cup with his mind's eye. 1831 01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:22,640 Oh, I just thought he was first thing. 1832 01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:24,120 I thought he was thinking about coffee cup. 1833 01:31:24,120 --> 01:31:26,920 But I do see now it's like psychic energy, you know? 1834 01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:29,920 Yeah, yeah, because thinking would just be a bubble. 1835 01:31:29,920 --> 01:31:31,480 This is like a little you're. Right. 1836 01:31:31,480 --> 01:31:35,120 Yeah, it's a little BLOB. Yeah. 1837 01:31:35,480 --> 01:31:40,600 So moving on. Chaos, you know, chaos risk die. 1838 01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:43,720 Yeah. The chaos for die represents the 1839 01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:50,520 stability of magic in the area. It starts at 12, but awesome, 1840 01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:53,520 given narrative situations, it might start lower. 1841 01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:59,000 And this is our spell mishap table, which you can pick from 1842 01:31:59,920 --> 01:32:01,920 as the referee or you can roll on Ryan. 1843 01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,560 Why don't you roll? 8 at. 12. 1844 01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:10,120 Oh, I rolled A4. Four. 1845 01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:13,240 What's that one? Erasure. 1846 01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:16,640 The magic works, but you forget the spell until you sleep a full 1847 01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:18,640 night. What I love about the chaos 1848 01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:24,400 table is that obviously you roll on this if you roll like if you 1849 01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:28,120 mishap your spell, but you can also if if any time you fail a 1850 01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:32,240 spell check, you can just roll on this anyway just because you 1851 01:32:32,240 --> 01:32:35,360 want something fun to happen. And there's a couple really good 1852 01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:40,640 ones I think. One is like you get back all the 1853 01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:43,120 HP loss from spell because even if you fail on the spell you do, 1854 01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:48,280 it does still cost HP to do it. The mutation one's cool too. 1855 01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:50,320 You're still actually ends up working. 1856 01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:54,400 But you have you're, you're all weird now, you know? 1857 01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:56,240 Yep. Yep, I like this. 1858 01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:58,640 I like I like a lot of like they're all really good. 1859 01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:01,720 Like there's a weak spell, lack of control, erasure, delayed 1860 01:33:01,720 --> 01:33:04,520 action, like all the stuff. I it's it's a really cool spell. 1861 01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:07,280 Miss up table but also just like again the chaos table where 1862 01:33:07,280 --> 01:33:08,360 you're like Oh I failed that role. 1863 01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:10,440 Yeah, let's see what. Happens. 1864 01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:14,880 You know, and it is a wrist die. So the moment your wrist die 1865 01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:19,000 goes down and fizzles out essentially like they're just, 1866 01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:20,720 it doesn't, the chaos just doesn't work anymore. 1867 01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,120 Like when you fail, you just fail, and that's the end of that 1868 01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:26,400 for then, yeah. Yeah, it's neat. 1869 01:33:26,480 --> 01:33:30,640 That's really cool. Finding spells section literally 1870 01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:32,840 says like, great, you can learn spells, whatever, but you can 1871 01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:34,080 just go find spells too, which is dope. 1872 01:33:34,760 --> 01:33:39,320 OK, Foci, reagents, matching materials, they exist. 1873 01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:41,840 You can have that. They help, they risk die based 1874 01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:43,440 and they help make things easier. 1875 01:33:43,480 --> 01:33:47,120 The cast. Yeah, it reduces your HP cost. 1876 01:33:47,480 --> 01:33:51,800 So when you, you can actually roll your reagents to get a 1877 01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:55,000 number and that if if the, if the GM says it's going to cost 1878 01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:57,280 you 6 and you say, all right, I got D4 reagents. 1879 01:33:57,480 --> 01:33:59,200 I rolled a three, it only cost me three. 1880 01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:02,920 My reagents are gone, but I reduce the cost of that boom, 1881 01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:05,240 because it cost you HP for everything. 1882 01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:11,400 So anything you can use to buffer that HP, a focus reagents 1883 01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:13,120 like, you know, items and stuff that have you do that, it's 1884 01:34:13,120 --> 01:34:14,600 great. Faith is a thing. 1885 01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:17,520 You can use your, your, your, you know, faith and price. 1886 01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:20,880 Magic. Yeah, so you actually get a a 1887 01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:26,880 faith like like a faith dice to do that with the same thing. 1888 01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:28,880 So you're spending faith instead of like HP and stuff like that 1889 01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:32,840 or like to offset the costs. Magic items exist. 1890 01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:34,560 You can create them. There's a section here about it. 1891 01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:37,160 There's a whole table here for like drugs and intoxication. 1892 01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:39,960 Guess guess what they use? You just die and they're cool. 1893 01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:42,880 There's a dragon drinking some coffee. 1894 01:34:43,560 --> 01:34:47,160 There's an example of magic at play, and it's an can. 1895 01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:48,640 We just read the first sentence. Go. 1896 01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:52,200 For it, it was just. The Edith is refereeing, 1897 01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:56,160 refereeing for opto, the psionic L spot. 1898 01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:58,720 Just that that was all I needed from that. 1899 01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:00,880 Yeah, that's dope. These are great. 1900 01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:04,800 It's great. It's an entire page on how it 1901 01:35:04,800 --> 01:35:08,560 works, what the referee is doing, like how to cast spells, 1902 01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:10,200 everything. It's a great example of play. 1903 01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:14,040 It is very long, but it's very. Yeah, it is long. 1904 01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,160 It's but it but it tells you exactly how it works and like 1905 01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:19,120 when things fail and everything. So like it's a really this 1906 01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:22,360 exactly what you want is to be able to have a narrative example 1907 01:35:22,360 --> 01:35:24,040 play that teach you how to do stuff. 1908 01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:26,240 There's 3 sample spells here. We're not going to go through 1909 01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:28,560 them basically. But one of the things I did like 1910 01:35:28,560 --> 01:35:30,880 about the first one, the Thuvia's Reign of Blades, is 1911 01:35:31,160 --> 01:35:35,520 once someone does come up with something that they're using the 1912 01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:40,240 spells to do, just write it down and the cost that you're given 1913 01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:42,440 and you can use that as the general cost maximum. 1914 01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:45,320 So you don't have to calculate. Every time, like maybe you're 1915 01:35:45,320 --> 01:35:46,720 like, well, it was 6 HP last time. 1916 01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:48,040 It's a little bit easier this time. 1917 01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:49,680 So it's five or it's a little bit harder this time. 1918 01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:54,040 So it's 7:00, but you can start, you know, five steps in just by 1919 01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:55,640 writing it down. And that's, that's great 1920 01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:00,400 downtime in domains. It's, it exists. 1921 01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:03,240 There's fine. You can have domains like 1922 01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:05,120 entertainment, highway robbery, manual labor. 1923 01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:06,480 They, they're, they're fine. There exist. 1924 01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:10,600 Oh, you, you can also do a job during your downtime to make 1925 01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:15,040 money. And whenever you do, you roll. 1926 01:36:15,240 --> 01:36:18,960 And if you fail, there's a consequence while you were doing 1927 01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:22,480 your job, so you could hurt yourself on downtime or get 1928 01:36:22,480 --> 01:36:25,640 arrested or go into debt or something while working your job 1929 01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:27,600 between adventures. And I just love the idea of 1930 01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:32,080 someone like waiting table or like, you know, a barista at a 1931 01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:34,880 cafe between. Shoulders, waiting tables and 1932 01:36:34,880 --> 01:36:36,520 now you can't go on your next adventure and you. 1933 01:36:36,520 --> 01:36:39,000 Can't go on an adventure, right? Or you get an argument and 1934 01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:41,040 someone kidnaps you and takes you away because that's in here. 1935 01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:44,120 That's great. Off screen expeditions, you can 1936 01:36:44,120 --> 01:36:47,720 roll for it and that's great carousing and nights out again, 1937 01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:50,200 reminds me of the the village. It's great. 1938 01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:56,240 A carousing table D12 and you roll it it's it's a it's a coin. 1939 01:36:56,880 --> 01:37:00,320 It's a coin die. So like you know and more yes, 1940 01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:03,000 yes, yes, domains and traditional campaigns. 1941 01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:04,920 The ventures end up managing domains. 1942 01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:09,760 It's here your finances, mass combat, feuding factions, 1943 01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:12,720 stability and trouble. There's a stability of dice. 1944 01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:16,280 There's like trouble happening. So a a bandit's coming in, a 1945 01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:18,120 disaster coming in, an assassination attempt. 1946 01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:21,000 That's here. 50 Shades of macchiato monster. 1947 01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:25,760 So there's fifty monsters here, including a dope graphic of a 1948 01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:30,240 wolf howling in front of a moon, but the moon is the bottom 1949 01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:34,760 coffee cup circle stain. It's such a great piece, but 1950 01:37:34,760 --> 01:37:39,360 there's fifty monsters here. For example, let's go with #27 1951 01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:44,040 Mantis Mercenary D6 comes with pre installed plates and blades, 1952 01:37:44,440 --> 01:37:49,600 HD3 Armor D8, Razor Claws D6D6 Morale D8. 1953 01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:53,800 That's a monster and they there's fifty of them. 1954 01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:55,600 They're interesting, they're neat. 1955 01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:59,120 There's a lot of like iron pumpkin leotard and serpent 1956 01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:01,080 sorcerer, but like it's super easy to reskin. 1957 01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:03,760 The serpent sorcerer can easily be something else. 1958 01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:05,640 You just like reskin stuff, so that's great. 1959 01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:07,040 It's great. There's fifty of them. 1960 01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:09,960 It's interesting that like in like nave, there's like 50 1961 01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:12,920 spells and this there's already 50 monsters and more chaos 1962 01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:16,160 scales, scales, scales, scales. And then there's a bunch of 1963 01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:20,480 sideways tables. These are drop tables. 1964 01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:22,960 We're not going to go over all of them, but we are going to 1965 01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:25,000 look at one and I'm actually going to rotate this, 1966 01:38:36,450 --> 01:38:38,250 OK? I rotated the whole document, so 1967 01:38:38,250 --> 01:38:40,210 now we can look at it this way. So perfect. 1968 01:38:41,410 --> 01:38:43,570 So these are drop tables. So we're going to look at 1:00 1969 01:38:43,570 --> 01:38:44,930 and then just tell you what the rest of them are. 1970 01:38:44,930 --> 01:38:47,530 So you drop AD 6 and AD 8 on the next page. 1971 01:38:47,530 --> 01:38:51,770 So when you go to the next page, there are 20 blocks on this page 1972 01:38:51,770 --> 01:38:54,690 and in each block there is a one through 8 list. 1973 01:38:55,130 --> 01:38:59,200 OK, so you would take AD 6 and AD 8 and you would drop them on 1974 01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:03,640 the table. OK If necessary, read D6 to D8 1975 01:39:03,640 --> 01:39:05,640 on the table below to get an occupation. 1976 01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:10,160 Add both results if you need a morale or morale dice or wants 1977 01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:12,080 to know what the character is currently doing. 1978 01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:16,920 OK, so there's a thing on the side that says D6 after your D6 1979 01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:19,920 is less than your D8 and they're self-serving or neutral. 1980 01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:23,880 If the D6 is greater than the D8, they're altruistic good or 1981 01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:25,960 lawful. And if it's equal to they're 1982 01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:28,520 dishonest, evil or chaotic, right? 1983 01:39:28,840 --> 01:39:33,120 And then there is just a whole fucking thing. 1984 01:39:33,520 --> 01:39:38,200 So if you drop it and you land on number 9 and it's AD 6, 1985 01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:42,720 they're compulsive liar, right? And if you drop the other one 1986 01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:46,200 and it lands in box 12 and it was AD 8 or, and they got an 8, 1987 01:39:46,200 --> 01:39:51,280 they are actually dead or won't blow that they feed pigeons raw 1988 01:39:51,280 --> 01:39:54,040 meat, right? But above that there's these 1989 01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:56,880 other lists. So like the 11 to 48 here. 1990 01:39:57,200 --> 01:40:00,200 The, the, the table of like doing both and you add them 1991 01:40:00,200 --> 01:40:03,160 together is 11 to 68. So if you do that and you get 1992 01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:06,280 like a, the 24, there are Watchmen or tax collector, 1993 01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:08,360 right? That is compulsive liar and 1994 01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:11,120 feeds meat to pigeons. That's what you get. 1995 01:40:11,120 --> 01:40:14,120 So that's your NPC. And it also automatically tells 1996 01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:16,240 you what their what their demeanor is. 1997 01:40:17,040 --> 01:40:21,320 It tells you what their dice is, what the NPC like Delta dice is, 1998 01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:23,400 and it gives you what they're currently doing. 1999 01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:26,400 So if you had got like a A9 by adding the two together, they're 2000 01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:28,680 sleeping or resting. So it gives you all of those 2001 01:40:28,680 --> 01:40:32,680 things just by dropping two dice on a table on a on a on a piece 2002 01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:34,680 of paper. It gives you everything you know 2003 01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:38,280 about NBCI love these these drop tables are fucking amazing. 2004 01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:43,080 So there's one for townspeople. There's one for plots, whole 2005 01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:47,000 plots to your to to fact, the factions of doing, including 2006 01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,480 when wheels are in motion, when everything's in flames, like 2007 01:40:49,480 --> 01:40:51,720 it's great. There's a whole one for 2008 01:40:51,720 --> 01:40:56,720 factions, for adventure locales, for creatures, items, and 2009 01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:59,520 treasure. I will use this for every game. 2010 01:40:59,800 --> 01:41:02,600 I think they're amazing. I should use draw tables more. 2011 01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:04,840 I like the idea of them, I just never actually used them. 2012 01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:06,480 You. Know, but I love this one 2013 01:41:06,480 --> 01:41:09,320 specifically because of the way that it gives you like like 5 2014 01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,840 things with like advertised together which one's greater 2015 01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:15,160 which one's less than what did they land on like it's so great 2016 01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:17,480 you just drop 2 and you get like 10 things there's a map 2017 01:41:17,480 --> 01:41:20,960 generator that tells you like literally like what's coming up 2018 01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:23,160 next So again, you can build out a whole hex without having to 2019 01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:26,400 build a hex first it's great there's a a forest exploration 2020 01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:30,240 table so you literally drop onto this table and where it lands 2021 01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:33,320 and then and whatever you rolled it'll tell you what's going on 2022 01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:34,520 there. It's a it'll tell you it's a 2023 01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:35,760 trap. It's a monster in which what 2024 01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:38,200 kind it is Great. And then that's the game. 2025 01:41:38,400 --> 01:41:41,480 The drop tables at the end are are are are worth the price of 2026 01:41:41,480 --> 01:41:42,960 admission alone. Very amazing. 2027 01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:45,120 Yeah. OK, so that's it. 2028 01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:48,040 That's us. We're going to head over. 2029 01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:50,280 We're going to head over to the review scores. 2030 01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:52,040 So this is obviously a full book. 2031 01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:56,880 It's like almost 60 pages. For those that don't know and 2032 01:41:56,880 --> 01:42:01,360 can't see the screen, we actually quantify our terrible 2033 01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:03,960 opinions into 5. Categories. 2034 01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:09,560 With a Max potential of 10, so from 1:00 to 10:00, possibility 2035 01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:11,480 of 50 points. Those categories are art and 2036 01:42:11,480 --> 01:42:15,560 layout, which is the art in the book and the layout visually, 2037 01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:20,040 the usability of the book, which is a lot of times it's the 2038 01:42:20,400 --> 01:42:22,920 digital tools, bookmarking, stuff like that, Things in the 2039 01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:25,320 right order, like how well you can use the information that's 2040 01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:27,040 given to you. The rule set. 2041 01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:29,480 If it's a unique rule set, do we like it? 2042 01:42:29,480 --> 01:42:32,040 If it's a hacked rule set, how, how well does it achieved? 2043 01:42:32,040 --> 01:42:35,560 Was trying to hack Originality can be any originality in 2044 01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:40,840 anything, whether it's art, like rules, whatever value is bang 2045 01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:42,760 for your buckets. It's not just the cost of the 2046 01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:44,800 game itself, but all of the ancillary stuff you could 2047 01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:47,320 potentially get with it, like third party licensing and extra 2048 01:42:47,320 --> 01:42:48,520 adventures and all sorts of shit. 2049 01:42:48,840 --> 01:42:51,120 So art and layout. Mm hmm. 2050 01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:56,640 I think, I mean, I, I think the layout's about a million times 2051 01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:58,600 better than white hack, Yeah. Yeah. 2052 01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:02,760 Well, that bar is on the floor. Yeah, I think it's look, it's a 2053 01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:05,680 good looking like black and white book. 2054 01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:06,760 Well, it's more than black and white. 2055 01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:09,080 It's coffee color in as well. The art's good. 2056 01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:15,040 The it's Gray too. It's incredibly readable. 2057 01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:20,240 I don't have any major like bashes on the layout. 2058 01:43:20,240 --> 01:43:23,160 I mean, I don't think it's not like it's not like high art or 2059 01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:25,440 anything, but like I think it looks good and it's incredibly 2060 01:43:25,440 --> 01:43:27,880 usable and it's a shorter book, so. 2061 01:43:28,120 --> 01:43:30,600 Yeah, for black and white layout, that's just trying to 2062 01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,000 impart information in an instructional way. 2063 01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:34,200 It's great. It's great. 2064 01:43:34,200 --> 01:43:36,120 The headers are and there's nothing about it. 2065 01:43:36,120 --> 01:43:39,800 Like in in for example, like Black Hack, there's a, there's 2066 01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:43,200 every, every other fucking word is bolded because they didn't 2067 01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:44,800 just bold the first time they told you something. 2068 01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:47,800 They bolded for the entire book. Like there were whole there were 2069 01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:50,840 whole pages that were taking up almost by just the headers for 2070 01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:53,120 stuff that they had already explained or you didn't need a 2071 01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:54,560 header for because it's like 2 lines. 2072 01:43:54,600 --> 01:43:58,520 Long, I guess. It's just like on its own, like 2073 01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:00,440 none of the headers were a problem or anything, but there's 2074 01:44:00,440 --> 01:44:02,160 just too many of them. Too many things were bolded, too 2075 01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:04,240 many things were italicized. Like the layout was just like. 2076 01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:06,800 That's what we mean by like if it's a black and white book, 2077 01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:10,040 like you would think it's it. It's just fucking layout. 2078 01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:13,600 It's not like this is it's simple, but there's bullet 2079 01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:16,120 points we need to bullet points. There's numbered lists. 2080 01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:18,800 When you need numbered lists, well, that's usability. 2081 01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:20,800 The layout's fine. I like the art. 2082 01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:24,800 Again, there's never there's no big empty spaces. 2083 01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:28,960 Again, like the, the, the macchiato thing, really digging 2084 01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:30,920 into the art, I think is hysterical. 2085 01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:32,600 It cracks me up. The Sphinx is great. 2086 01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:36,280 It's not an art book by any stretch, but I think it's a it's 2087 01:44:36,280 --> 01:44:38,920 a well laid out book with some good art. 2088 01:44:38,920 --> 01:44:42,200 Great spot art. Couple of new pieces I'm healing 2089 01:44:42,200 --> 01:44:44,440 solid 7 on this. Seven is where I was going with 2090 01:44:44,440 --> 01:44:45,360 it too. Yeah, yeah. 2091 01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:49,720 Like this is like a very this is how you how a simple, how a 2092 01:44:49,720 --> 01:44:59,200 simple layout with some some good art gets a good score by 2093 01:44:59,200 --> 01:45:01,440 just doing it. Well, you know, you don't have 2094 01:45:01,440 --> 01:45:03,560 to reinvent the wheel. You don't have to be Mark Borg. 2095 01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:10,720 Absolutely usability. Listen, I'm gonna tell you right 2096 01:45:10,720 --> 01:45:15,280 now, this is AI think this is five for me on usability. 5 Yep, 2097 01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:19,720 Yep, I agree. I think, I think, I think that 2098 01:45:19,760 --> 01:45:22,960 it if it had digital tools, obviously it would go up. 2099 01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:25,760 So there are no usability. It's like there's inline 2100 01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,600 references to other pages frequently, but no, like at 2101 01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:30,360 least on the PDF. Nothing there. 2102 01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:33,280 And again, it it's kind of crazy that the previous version of 2103 01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:36,360 this did have at least a hyperlink table of contents, and 2104 01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:39,160 that's interesting. Not even any bookmarks built 2105 01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:42,800 into the PDF, which is weird. But. 2106 01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:45,400 Almost the one that gets me the most that there's not even 2107 01:45:45,400 --> 01:45:48,200 bookmarks in the PDF. I'm like, oh, this is actually 2108 01:45:48,200 --> 01:45:50,240 kind of crazy. Yeah, because like if you do a 2109 01:45:50,240 --> 01:45:53,200 Google Doc, it like builds the outline of bookmarks for you 2110 01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:54,720 already. You know, it is like it's weird, 2111 01:45:55,040 --> 01:45:56,920 but like it's so there's none of those things. 2112 01:45:58,160 --> 01:46:01,280 And I think there's just like the one section I I personally 2113 01:46:01,280 --> 01:46:03,360 feel could be in a better place. I get why it's there. 2114 01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:05,320 I don't have a necessarily a problem with it. 2115 01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:08,200 I wish it was lower though. Like I would put the whole 2116 01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:12,280 exploring the wildlife section right before all of the stuff 2117 01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:14,440 that we did kind of at the end where it's a lot like this is a. 2118 01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:18,320 Perfectly serviceable game book. Like it's fine. 2119 01:46:18,440 --> 01:46:21,920 Like it's like usability tools are not stellar, but it's not 2120 01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:23,640 bad though. I think it's a perfect five. 2121 01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:28,280 It's like, honestly. Yeah, this is when you have zero 2122 01:46:28,280 --> 01:46:32,320 digital tools. The vast 90% of the game is put 2123 01:46:32,320 --> 01:46:35,080 together really well in a way that, like, it tells you where 2124 01:46:35,080 --> 01:46:37,600 all the pages are. How do you get a bad score on 2125 01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:38,640 this? Because we rarely give out. 2126 01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:40,640 I don't know if we've ever given less than a four in any of the 2127 01:46:40,640 --> 01:46:42,560 scores. But like, how would you get a 2128 01:46:42,560 --> 01:46:45,680 bad usability if, say, this game, you strip out all the 2129 01:46:45,680 --> 01:46:48,000 references to where pages are, right? 2130 01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:52,080 You you mix up all of the stuff in like a weird order, right. 2131 01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:56,480 That makes it all like unusable, like those are ways where this 2132 01:46:56,480 --> 01:46:58,160 would be dropping to like lower and lower lower. 2133 01:46:58,160 --> 01:47:03,040 But like this is just well done in a in it's just it's just it's 2134 01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:07,200 just done like so it's a 5. It's it's bang average and 2135 01:47:07,200 --> 01:47:08,600 that's fine. Rule set. 2136 01:47:08,680 --> 01:47:10,880 OK, I love. I like this. 2137 01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:13,080 Rule set. I love it so much. 2138 01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:17,960 This is like outside of armor as far as like the rule set itself 2139 01:47:17,960 --> 01:47:19,680 goes. I can't think of a way that I 2140 01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:20,960 would really change too much of this. 2141 01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:24,200 No, I think this is really good. And I once again, as a person 2142 01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:27,720 who loves usage diet, like it's cool to see them implemented 2143 01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:30,680 throughout an entire rule set. And I think in most places 2144 01:47:30,680 --> 01:47:35,080 except armor implemented really well in a way that follows like 2145 01:47:35,080 --> 01:47:37,280 a single train of kind of like logic on it. 2146 01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:39,240 And you're like, cool, I know what to do with these things. 2147 01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:47,560 I love the way that they give you a lot of depth to extremely 2148 01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:51,840 simple mechanics, both like narratively, mechanically, to 2149 01:47:51,880 --> 01:47:54,800 abstract a thing into a way that makes it like really like 2150 01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:58,800 intuitive to understand. And one of the things we always 2151 01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:01,200 say when we bring up a rule set is if it's a hacked rule set, 2152 01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:04,200 how well is it hacked? And and when you're hacking 2153 01:48:04,200 --> 01:48:08,560 something like why are you doing it and what is the goal? 2154 01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:12,000 And did you accomplish it right? They're mixing black and white 2155 01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:19,680 hack up to build a game of emergent narrative role play in 2156 01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:24,840 a in a old school style where you build the world and the 2157 01:48:24,840 --> 01:48:27,560 situations as you go. Does this game do that? 2158 01:48:30,320 --> 01:48:30,960 Yeah. Yeah. 2159 01:48:31,080 --> 01:48:33,320 I think it fucking does stellar. I think it fucking does stellar. 2160 01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:37,880 And not only that, I mean the fucking the the all of the drop 2161 01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:41,080 tables at the end. Amazing. 2162 01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:42,720 I'm gonna use those for like every game. 2163 01:48:43,760 --> 01:48:48,040 What are your thoughts? I'm at I'm at like an 8 for this 2164 01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:49,480 honestly. Yeah, I'm in an 8 two. 2165 01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:53,320 I'm, I'm in an 8 two. Yeah, I I'm closer to, not in 2166 01:48:53,320 --> 01:48:55,480 the name of seven, but I think I'm still out of eight. 2167 01:48:57,000 --> 01:48:59,960 I don't know what I would do to bump it up. 2168 01:49:00,600 --> 01:49:01,880 I don't know. I don't know what would make 2169 01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,120 it's. Such an abstract score in my 2170 01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:06,360 mind, you know, I really am just like throwing darts at the 2171 01:49:06,360 --> 01:49:08,560 board. But what's funny is how often 2172 01:49:08,560 --> 01:49:11,040 that we are thinking of almost the exact same number, and I 2173 01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:13,240 don't know if we're ever more than one point off of each other 2174 01:49:13,320 --> 01:49:15,400 because it's always about just. Feel it just. 2175 01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:17,360 Feels like an 8. It feels like an 8, you know? 2176 01:49:18,800 --> 01:49:21,000 Well, there's only one game that's ever gotten A10. 2177 01:49:22,640 --> 01:49:23,520 Did we? Did we? 2178 01:49:23,520 --> 01:49:26,120 Monopoly. Yeah, Monopoly got it. 2179 01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:30,120 But Kingdoms did. Did we bump Necronalis up too or 2180 01:49:30,120 --> 01:49:32,280 did we keep that one on 9? Oh well, I thought we were going 2181 01:49:32,280 --> 01:49:34,040 to bump Necronalis up. We should I. 2182 01:49:34,040 --> 01:49:37,200 Don't know. I don't know, no. 2183 01:49:37,480 --> 01:49:39,520 I never that's not that's not a discussion for today. 2184 01:49:40,480 --> 01:49:45,760 Originality So for our monster fucker ROM com book here. 2185 01:49:45,800 --> 01:49:48,680 Yeah, I mean, it's fun. I mean, is it original in any 2186 01:49:48,680 --> 01:49:50,160 way? I mean, it's a dungeon game. 2187 01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:56,560 So, you know, I mean, it's not really the focus of this. 2188 01:49:56,560 --> 01:50:00,040 I think it's a hack of another game and it's done well. 2189 01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:03,400 Well, I think that's important to hack of two games done well. 2190 01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,320 I think that risk dire implemented in the way that I 2191 01:50:08,320 --> 01:50:11,200 think there aren't always in a lot of other games and it's cool 2192 01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:12,680 to see that here. And I feel like that's fairly 2193 01:50:12,680 --> 01:50:16,480 original, maybe not the content itself, but its application in 2194 01:50:16,480 --> 01:50:20,600 this this game. Yeah. 2195 01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:22,560 I mean, I, I don't think it's going to strike very high for me 2196 01:50:22,560 --> 01:50:25,360 originally because it's, it's not really original in those 2197 01:50:25,640 --> 01:50:27,280 ways. But that's the thing too is, 2198 01:50:27,280 --> 01:50:31,640 yeah, it's not the the thing of this is it wasn't like 2199 01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:33,600 originality was not the goal of this. 2200 01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:38,600 Like they combine two things to literally make something you can 2201 01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:41,360 do BX with. So like you're the the point of 2202 01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:43,440 was to not necessarily be like super original. 2203 01:50:43,440 --> 01:50:48,360 The point was to just do a thing that a lot of other things do, 2204 01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:50,840 just in a different way. And I love the way they did to 2205 01:50:50,840 --> 01:50:51,960 do it. You know, you don't. 2206 01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:55,320 Yeah, I but yeah, what are you thinking? 2207 01:50:55,920 --> 01:50:57,360 6. Like a six. 2208 01:50:57,360 --> 01:50:59,560 That's exactly what I was thinking. 2209 01:51:00,640 --> 01:51:04,920 And this is also why when we give scores, you should look at 2210 01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:08,480 the individual score and ask the story, the overall, and pick the 2211 01:51:08,480 --> 01:51:10,880 one that matters to you, right? If rule set's really important, 2212 01:51:10,880 --> 01:51:13,000 I can show you rule sets. I got eights on rule set and 2213 01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:17,040 four on layout. You know, and value. 2214 01:51:17,400 --> 01:51:25,680 Value The PDF is 7 lbs, so that's 8:00-ish. 2215 01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:27,280 Where? Where are you getting the PDF 2216 01:51:27,280 --> 01:51:28,640 from? That 7 lbs. 2217 01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:36,040 Shop.lostpages.co.uk. Oh, you didn't just go to drive 2218 01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:38,280 through RPG? No, I'm a freak. 2219 01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:40,840 I'm a freaky little guy. I went directly to Lost Pages 2220 01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:43,640 website. OK, So if you want it on drive 2221 01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:48,040 through, it's $6, it's what, 6 dollars? 2222 01:51:48,560 --> 01:51:51,080 Oh. That's that's crazy. 2223 01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,280 That's crazy. I mean, for a game, it's like, 2224 01:51:53,480 --> 01:51:55,280 oh, it's mostly randomly generated and you generate 2225 01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:56,840 things as you go. I'm like, well that's just 2226 01:51:57,240 --> 01:52:03,240 endless game. Play for like it's 6 bucks so 2227 01:52:03,560 --> 01:52:07,720 watermark PDF $6. I stop DRM ING your shit drive 2228 01:52:07,720 --> 01:52:09,280 through. Yeah, please stop doing that. 2229 01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:15,640 Fuck, come on. Soft cover, black white book. 2230 01:52:15,640 --> 01:52:18,720 The thing that I have in my hand right now, a 5 perfect bound 2231 01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:23,400 $12.00. Oh, super reasonable. $12.00 to 2232 01:52:23,400 --> 01:52:28,720 get this POD black and white, and same cost to get obviously 2233 01:52:28,720 --> 01:52:32,120 the PDF with it. So $12.00 for PDF and this book 2234 01:52:32,280 --> 01:52:35,760 normally 18 marked down to 12. I don't know if it's normally 2235 01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:39,800 marked down to 12. I know, yeah, $12.00 and then 2236 01:52:39,800 --> 01:52:41,160 the PDF is off together. It's 12. 2237 01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:42,920 It might be one of the things where it's 18, but it's always 2238 01:52:42,920 --> 01:52:45,720 12. It's always 12, yeah. 2239 01:52:47,440 --> 01:52:49,080 That's very fucking he never does that. 2240 01:52:49,440 --> 01:52:53,240 That's a great deal. I mean, again, it's it's 60 2241 01:52:53,240 --> 01:52:55,680 pages. It's 60 pages even as a POD, 2242 01:52:56,360 --> 01:53:00,240 $12.00, honestly $12.00 is not even enough for the for the PDF 2243 01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:01,680 of this. The PDF of this should be like 2244 01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:04,280 12 to $15. Because the PDF should be more 2245 01:53:04,520 --> 01:53:06,400 the more expensive it it just should be. 2246 01:53:06,840 --> 01:53:08,760 It's not that's affordable. It's nice that the doors it's 2247 01:53:08,760 --> 01:53:10,440 easy that I open to get to this game. 2248 01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:15,560 I'm giving us a strong, strong eight. 8. 2249 01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:19,640 I guess 9. No, no. 2250 01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:23,280 So I guess my only problem, I guess for a high score on value, 2251 01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:26,920 right, is like this is a. So again, value is not cost, 2252 01:53:27,200 --> 01:53:28,920 Value is bang for your buck, right? 2253 01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:31,800 So like the cost of this is relatively inexpensive, but 2254 01:53:31,800 --> 01:53:33,760 outside of the fact that like with everything that's 2255 01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:37,000 technically OSR, you can technically run all OSR, there's 2256 01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:39,440 not a bunch of other macchiato monster stuff, There's not a 2257 01:53:39,440 --> 01:53:42,560 tree, there's no but you. Can run everything pretty 2258 01:53:42,560 --> 01:53:45,240 easily. There is a lot of generators in 2259 01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:46,440 there, you know, There's a lot of, yeah. 2260 01:53:46,440 --> 01:53:50,040 But here's here's another here's another problem that I have with 2261 01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:55,040 the current take on this right is Macchiato Monster 0 edition 2262 01:53:55,880 --> 01:54:03,720 right came with character creation examples separate die 2263 01:54:03,720 --> 01:54:15,160 drop tables, character sheets, a city crawl like all sorts like 2264 01:54:15,240 --> 01:54:18,680 all of these extras came with zero right, right. 2265 01:54:18,880 --> 01:54:21,640 But none of them came with this right. 2266 01:54:21,640 --> 01:54:23,880 Those are the, this is what I'm talking about for as far as 2267 01:54:23,880 --> 01:54:27,440 value, right? Like that's, that's what, that's 2268 01:54:27,440 --> 01:54:29,200 what we that's what we mean is like value, right? 2269 01:54:29,200 --> 01:54:32,120 The cost of this is inexpensive. But like no digital character 2270 01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:35,000 sheets, No, none of the stuff that you got from zero, none of 2271 01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:38,080 the to the dot, none of the drop tables is like a separate PDF, 2272 01:54:38,080 --> 01:54:40,160 like no extra resources whatsoever. 2273 01:54:40,160 --> 01:54:41,840 That's the thing that knocks it down for me because those are 2274 01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:45,560 easy because like they already exist, you know, to get to throw 2275 01:54:45,600 --> 01:54:47,160 that into the folder with the PDFs. 2276 01:54:47,160 --> 01:54:48,720 Yeah, so. What do you think? 2277 01:54:49,080 --> 01:54:51,760 I'm I'm down to lower my score then what are you thinking? 2278 01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:56,880 I'm somewhere routine, like, I mean, it's only $6, so you gotta 2279 01:54:56,880 --> 01:54:58,520 give us a that's. The thing is that that really 2280 01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:01,560 knocks stuff, so I think I'm still at A7. 7 easy, yeah. 2281 01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:10,960 OK, cool. So 7 + 5 + 8 + 6 + 7 = 33. 2282 01:55:10,960 --> 01:55:14,840 Is that it? 33 respectable. 2283 01:55:15,240 --> 01:55:17,960 Yep, you're correct. Seven plus, well, I think it's 2284 01:55:17,960 --> 01:55:26,080 that five on the usability thing that like really, yeah, 33 if 2285 01:55:26,080 --> 01:55:31,560 they here's The thing is that would easily be closer to like a 2286 01:55:33,640 --> 01:55:40,840 36 or a 37 if they bookmarked and hyperlinked the PDF and 2287 01:55:40,840 --> 01:55:43,480 threw in some character sheets and and separate drop table 2288 01:55:43,480 --> 01:55:47,320 stuff into the PDF stuff. And it would be it would easily 2289 01:55:47,320 --> 01:55:50,160 be like a, a mid to high 30s instead of a low 30s. 2290 01:55:51,280 --> 01:55:53,600 But anyway, so that is the game that is Macchiato monsters. 2291 01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:55,960 It's a great game. I really love it, super 2292 01:55:55,960 --> 01:55:58,240 enjoyable, relatively inexpensive from Lost pages, 2293 01:55:58,240 --> 01:56:00,160 Definitely go check out everything that lost pages does. 2294 01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:04,960 They're a fantastic publisher. And at some point maybe we'll 2295 01:56:04,960 --> 01:56:08,240 we'll hear from lost pages. Go vote for the innies. 2296 01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:10,880 If anyone's ever been on a show, vote for them because they're 2297 01:56:10,880 --> 01:56:12,920 cool. And that's it. 2298 01:56:13,080 --> 01:56:14,440 That's our episode. We will see you next week. 2299 01:56:14,440 --> 01:56:17,760 I don't know what we're doing is jerk back next week. 2300 01:56:18,960 --> 01:56:20,600 Oh, is that next week? That might be next week, 2301 01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:24,600 actually, yeah. But also on Monday, a little 2302 01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:26,640 preview for what's coming up. We are going to be having 2303 01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:30,040 Prismatic Wastelands on to chat once again. 2304 01:56:30,040 --> 01:56:31,840 Second time that they are going to be coming back. 2305 01:56:31,840 --> 01:56:34,080 So we're going to be talking to them on Monday. 2306 01:56:34,080 --> 01:56:37,760 And I think Jert is actually coming on the same week. 2307 01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:40,320 So we're not reviewing a game next week, I guess, because we 2308 01:56:40,320 --> 01:56:41,720 got an interview on Monday and Friday. 2309 01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:44,560 So we'll see what interview we're doing in two weeks and 2310 01:56:44,560 --> 01:56:47,520 maybe we'll stick to more in reviews that interviews. 2311 01:56:47,720 --> 01:56:50,320 Have a good day everybody. Bye bye.