1 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,880 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast. 2 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,560 My Name Is Ryan. And I am an escaped man with a 3 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,320 face that other people have as well. 4 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,400 Very nice, very nice living that clone life. 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,520 Absolutely. Today we are going to be 6 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,280 reviewing. It's not high magic lowlife from 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,320 gym room games. I shouldn't. 8 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:38,800 Have laughed at that. That was so stupid. 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:39,960 I can't believe I laughed at that. 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,280 But I'm so used to you being like any, and we're reviewing 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,120 this and having the physical because you're such a physical. 12 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,880 Guy. That was a good bit. 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,080 So do. You want me to? 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,200 Do you want me to? I got some other gym room games 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:53,920 here. I could pull out some Weaver's 16 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,400 Observatory. What else we got? 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,320 Oh, here we go. Now here's a gym room game game. 18 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:02,600 Boom. There you go. 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,840 At least you get one. There's. 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:06,640 Just like a very. Stuff here. 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,560 So today we're talking about high magic, low lives by gym 22 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,440 room did. I say that yet. 23 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:14,680 I don't know. Did you? 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,120 I I. Did I did, when I held up the 25 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,880 fake book and you were just so tickled? 26 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,880 Waking up. Yeah, so this is like pretty 27 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,720 early gym room game stuff. Yeah. 28 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,440 So yeah, Yep, We're getting back to. 29 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,320 We're getting back to that. So let me pull this up. 30 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,320 Right. So as far as I can tell, it was 31 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,880 this is gym room games. This is Dan Phillips. 32 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:40,920 And fuck me because I know Kerry's last name and I totally 33 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,920 blanked on it. So Dan and Kerry, gym room 34 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,240 games. If you listened to us last year, 35 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,640 you know that we did gym room games. 36 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,560 It was 9 Lives to Valhalla, which is one of our, yeah, Kelly 37 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,640 Lowry, thank you so much. Great people, super nice. 38 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,640 Great games. This is one of them. 39 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,280 This. I was actually talking to Dan 40 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,840 about this previously. They put this out where they 41 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,240 were still hobbyists. I believe it dropped in June or 42 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,400 July of 2019, originally July of 2019. 43 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,240 And this is one of the first things that they put out. 44 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,720 Like I said, while they were still hobbyists before, they 45 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,160 were really doing like a lot of games. 46 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:25,640 So this is a first edition that has a second edition in the long 47 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:32,120 term plans, which will be really cool, I agree. 48 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,680 Because I'm, I'm. I like this game. 49 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,560 You. You're the one that sent it to 50 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,520 me originally. This is this is a this is a 51 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:39,840 Hunter episode. Y'all. 52 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,440 But having said that, like I'm excited to see what this their 53 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,280 their second edition looks like, because I think there's a lot of 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,160 really good here that could use some cleaning up, but I still 55 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,200 really like this. Yes, So what? 56 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,920 I had this like tagline in my head of like my opinions of the 57 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:03,880 game and I think that it is, this is a good game. 58 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,240 This is the I would play the shit out of this game. 59 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,720 It is a good game. I think there is a fantastic 60 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:21,040 game in here that a second edition could be, but this is 61 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,800 such a you game bro. I know, it's a very much. 62 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,880 I mean, I started reading it and I was like, Oh yeah, this. 63 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,840 Is like this is the US. This might be one of the US 64 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,840 games you've ever we've ever talked about. 65 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,160 Magic. It's incredibly modern, you 66 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,000 know, it's low lives, low lives. You're a dropout scumbag who's 67 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,360 trying to rob from the rich. I mean, it really couldn't be a 68 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,000 more you game. I think I can remember how 69 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,440 because I bought this on itch. I think I just saw it and I was 70 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,440 like this looks cool like magic school Dropout looks cool. 71 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,720 And going through them like oh this is like this is so me I 72 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,520 because I've been trying to get us to review this for a couple 73 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,800 months. We've just been busy. 74 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:01,880 I. Think you you sent it to me in 75 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,720 like December and then I realized I actually had it 76 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:10,960 already because I backed the TTRPG for trans rights in Texas 77 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,240 bundle and this was. Another. 78 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,079 That's how I got it. I love when I'm like, oh man, I 79 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:19,480 really want that game and I go to the Edge page and I bought it 80 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,160 in a bundle like two years ago. Love that shit. 81 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,360 Yeah, I. I mean, I've bought some of 82 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,680 those bundles. I have no idea what I own at 83 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,280 this point, but it's always. Good. 84 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,880 But I I generally like to parse, parse them. 85 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,640 You know, everybody in the bundle is doing good work, but 86 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,360 there's maybe like 10 or 12 in a bundle that I'm really, I'm 87 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,800 really in there for. So why? 88 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,280 This is a Hunter episode. A lot of times we pick the games 89 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:48,880 together, but this is you literally going, we're doing 90 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,000 this fucking game and me going, all right, I'll read it, OK, 91 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,480 let's do the fucking game. Why? 92 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,280 Why? Why? 93 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:54,400 Why? Yeah. 94 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:55,640 Why'd you? Want to do this one? 95 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:56,840 Too bad. Oh. 96 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,160 I mean the fact that it's such a you game. 97 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,040 That I think. That this is like a really good 98 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:12,080 like PBTA adjacent that pulls in some other influences that I 99 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,560 really enjoy. I love the magic system. 100 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,120 I like the idea of the magic dice, how mana works, your magic 101 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:20,480 domain. I think it's really very 102 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,720 simplified. And I really like this setting 103 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,800 of like, yeah, you live in like a modern world where the 104 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,280 immortal aristocracy has just they're immortal and they've 105 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:32,720 just been in power for so long that they have treasure hidden 106 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,920 everywhere because they're immortal than just accrue 107 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,160 wealth. And you know, a certain point 108 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,080 you and your buddies like, wait, why are we working for these 109 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,320 people? We should to hurt other people. 110 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,880 Why should what we should just take from them? 111 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,040 And I believe the impetus for the creation of this game, and I 112 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,400 might be incorrect but I vaguely remember reading this, is that, 113 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,840 you know, gym room games, home game. 114 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:54,720 You know, they're playing dungeon Dragons where you get 115 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,840 paid by rich people to go attack goblins and shit. 116 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,040 And they're like, plus really making much sense, like make a 117 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,440 lot of sense when we would just rob the rich people. 118 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,840 And so this is that, this is that. 119 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,280 I also really like this setting. For me personally, the internal 120 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:12,440 setting in my head is very much like a paradigm city, big O 121 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,720 where it's like Dome cities and like you have the ultra, ultra 122 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,040 rich that just live like separately, you know they live 123 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:25,200 in their own worlds. That's exactly how I would run 124 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,000 this. And if you when we get to tone 125 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,240 that's fine because they do mention Dome cities. 126 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,760 I'm like, yeah, exactly how I would run this. 127 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,600 Yeah, right. You're really? 128 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,880 I mean the. Character classes, too. 129 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,000 It's not characterized. It's your general deal. 130 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,840 Your general deal. We'll talk about the the 131 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:46,640 language used and because it does it really well, The Pit the 132 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,320 Itch pitch and then we'll hop into the game is hum and Jack 133 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,880 Low Lives is a post dungeon fantasy tabletop RPG. 134 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,720 Love that phrase right there about weird wizard school 135 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,120 dropouts who get into trouble with the immortal aristocracy to 136 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,680 make coin and build their #brand, I mean. 137 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,240 It's great. It's great. 138 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:15,480 Let's hop into the review. So again, this was, gosh, fuck 139 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,520 me. Almost five years ago, 2019, AKA 140 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,280 yesterday. AKA five years ago. 141 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,800 I. Mean it's only 2020 right now 142 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:23,920 so. It's insane. 143 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,280 It's insane, dude. On top of just getting older, 144 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,680 The Pandemic just deleted the quarter of my life is what it 145 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,120 feels like. So again, this was while they 146 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,760 were, like I said when they were still hobbyists. 147 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,880 So it's public domain art with pretty much just some bright 148 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,560 colors and an extraordinarily simple layout just in PDF. 149 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,720 So we're really getting into just the meat of the the game 150 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,240 because that's what we have. When we get to the art and and 151 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,680 layout score, it's going to be pretty pretty low just because 152 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,760 because it is powered by the apocalypse, made with the black 153 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:05,120 hack, high magical lives, Dan Phipps, Kayla Lowry powered by 154 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,840 the apocalypse made using Blackhack and Forged in the 155 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,440 Dark. And we'll get to some of that 156 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:16,480 stuff here in just a minute. Attribution. 157 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,680 I like this. There's a lot of like shout outs 158 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,920 and inspirations and things. I like Adventure Time with Finn 159 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,320 and Jake. Lots of stuff. 160 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,560 Book of the new song and. Five, I think's a great one. 161 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,600 You know, it's very, Yeah. You ever played Persona? 162 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,240 No, no, I know there's like an anime I'm being mean to watch. 163 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,320 I do see this here Layout and dice convention inspired by 164 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,440 Troika. Definitely got that Troik 165 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:42,640 inspired layout. Good job. 166 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,120 One of the best. Yeah. 167 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,120 And then they list. I love numbers, numbered 168 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,960 headings on chapters and like, yeah, just go to 1, 1.21. 169 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,240 I'm like, OK, cool. You know. 170 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,760 You know, I thought about that and we'll we'll we'll we'll show 171 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:58,960 everyone that we're talking about in a minute. 172 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,480 It's it really comes down to usability versus vibes. 173 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,040 And that's what would break me, trying to do a game where I'm 174 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,360 like, fuck, like if I really want a game that's like really 175 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,160 readable, I'm doing it exactly like this. 176 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,840 If I want a game that's like all vibes, like hitting like the 177 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,360 Merc Borg, I want you to feel the game the whole way through. 178 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,800 It'd be hard to do it like this and feel that Troika hit a good 179 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,280 balance, but there's specific reasons why and we'll get to 180 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,800 that too. But I love that there's the 181 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,040 artwork sources. The interesting thing about this 182 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,000 that I feel going all the way through, especially knowing the 183 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,200 rest of gym room game stuff, is that again, this is like one of 184 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,680 the first things they did when they were I I noticed that 185 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,760 hobby, it's like 18 times. It's a good word though but they 186 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,640 did such a good job on such like a first thing as far as the 187 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,600 choosing the Turkey style layout, having the artwork 188 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,920 sources listed here like they're so like you can clearly tell 189 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,480 like if I saw this in 2019 I would have been like these 190 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,760 people are going to make good shit like give them like. 191 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,880 I would say even the way they refer to things through the 192 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,360 text, like the terms and stuff they use, I'm just like, OK, you 193 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,920 get that. You clearly know what you're 194 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,320 doing. Like oh fuck yeah, you know, I 195 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,360 mean, this is the first outing and like their first outings is 196 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,360 for a game especially. I mean, this is, there's a lot 197 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,520 going on here. They shouldn't really be this 198 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,200 good. Not that they shouldn't, but 199 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,880 they very often aren't. True, Yeah. 200 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,600 I will say though that there are a lot of things in here that 201 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,320 kind of show that it is our first outing and we'll get to 202 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,120 that. There's some like some technical 203 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,040 jargon that's that's kind of mix matched. 204 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,040 There's some references that are a little bit off and there's a 205 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,360 little bit of anachronism on that could definitely be cleaned 206 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,800 up. Like I said, this is a great 207 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,280 game. This is a really good game that 208 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,160 could be a fantastic game and I'm excited to see second 209 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,120 edition. So we get to there's 12 chapters 210 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,480 and when we get to the table of contents here for those on 211 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,200 podcast line like we said art is is full page public domain 212 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,280 chapter headers and that's about it. 213 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:53,440 So we're not really going to get into that. 214 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,400 It's a black and white. It's black text on white layout 215 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,160 and the Trica style like a literally introduction one 216 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,080 setting 1.1 what is a lowlife 1.1.1. 217 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,480 Role-playing games 1.2 So you you get it, you get it. 218 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,320 And what's great is this whole section type linked and that's 219 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,200 great. And it has bookmarks at least to 220 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,840 the main chapter headers which is great. 221 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,880 Couple of things, A lot of references in the book we'll 222 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,200 talk about. None of those are hyperlinked. 223 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,760 Where it says check two point 1.2, that's not hyperlinked. 224 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,280 That would be really nice because they do that a lot, 225 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,800 which I would definitely cut out later. 226 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,760 And I do like that they break the tables down into parts. 227 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,520 If I was going to do this though, one thing in my head is 228 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,360 I would have them in the thing like this and then at the end I 229 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,800 would have another section that was literally just all the 230 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,040 tables by itself. Secondly, that would be super 231 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,280 helpful because there were times where I was like, I just want to 232 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,040 go to chapter 3 and I I know it's it's so easy, you can just 233 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,840 go to three, but it'd be nice. Like Depth in Space has that 234 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,360 where they have all every table in the book as a separate table 235 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,920 of contents, so you can click that too. 236 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,240 And it's really, really nice to see. 237 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:09,200 But 12 chapters, we're gonna we're gonna go through them and 238 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,120 a lot of it. This is one that we can we can 239 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,080 go through a lot. There's introduction, there's 240 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,360 the rules, There's a setup, there's character creation, 241 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:23,000 There is combat, health, wounds and death, magic, your phone and 242 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,640 your hashtag brand, inventory, experience and advancement in 243 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,840 PCs and the immortal aristocracy. 244 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,920 So chapter one introduction. Pink piece of public domain art 245 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,920 with some like Dirigible in the sky. 246 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,480 So I'm going to read a bunch of this introduction. 247 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,720 I've already talked about the high magic lowlives with school 248 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,200 dropouts, hashtag brand. But the setting is interesting. 249 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,160 I really I'm going to read it. The immoral aristocracy is an 250 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,840 ocean. From it all wealth comes to it, 251 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,080 all wealth returns. Quick break. 252 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:07,000 If you haven't listened to the first episode of the relaunch of 253 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,240 the Brain Trust podcast from Adam Bass and Will Yost, one of 254 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,840 the first things, one of the things they talk about in that 255 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,360 episode, they call it I believe it's like the firebrand I think 256 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,360 they called it, where basically it's like your first sentence or 257 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,760 the very initial first reaction you get from a game and like the 258 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,880 writing and they talk about like their first kind of little bit 259 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,760 in in like Torque and little bit in like Sever Metal 2012 that 260 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,800 that those two lines right there for me insanely good two line 261 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,360 opening to a game. I was hooked the second I got 262 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,400 through that. But yeah, the immortal 263 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,000 aristocracy is an ocean from it. All wealth comes to it. 264 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,280 All wealth returns. They watch from their tower 265 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,360 walls as generations of common folk toil, live, toil and die. 266 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,120 Their houses rise and fall. There was bloom and rot. 267 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,840 They are not without kindness, but this kindness stops long 268 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,760 before the gifts of self determination and dignity begin. 269 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,560 The land is peppered with magical colleges bearing the 270 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,640 names of great houses where a commoner can seek to better them 271 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,240 self and have the honor bearing an unpayable debt to a noble 272 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,880 family. Opportunities abound for those 273 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,240 with magical training under the immortal aristocracy. 274 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,600 The immortal aristocracy is an ocean, and the honorable thing 275 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,160 to do is to guide the rain back to the shore. 276 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,880 Coin, health insurance, the title, and perhaps even the 277 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,760 chance to marry into a minor house all the way to those who 278 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,040 serve you and your buddies. Have a better idea though, all 279 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,920 this coin that the aristocracy is amassing by sending dopes to 280 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,360 bully folks who are just minding their own business? 281 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:39,520 Well, they got to put it all somewhere, right? 282 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,160 So maybe instead of messing with folks just going about their 283 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,480 business to bully them at the last two coin they have to rub 284 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,520 together. Your time would be better spent 285 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,280 waiting into vaults with more coin than you can carry out. 286 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,280 Last you checked the honor of serving a great house? 287 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,600 Done. Put food on your table, put weed 288 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,400 in your pipe, get you laid, or help you sleep at night. 289 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:02,000 Ideally the work would be good, profitable, and legal. 290 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,800 But hey, two out of three, let's go rob a Duke or whatever. 291 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,680 So good. Yeah, really. 292 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:14,000 I mean, I think you're immediately like, OK, I'm, I'm 293 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,480 in, I'm into this, you know? Yeah, really well. 294 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,720 Written. Yeah. 295 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,320 It's so good. I will. 296 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,640 I will say a couple of things about this that I found early on 297 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,080 was to me there seems like a little bit of anachronism. 298 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:37,920 Like to me this feels like maybe like almost that blade to the 299 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,240 dark level of technology, you know what I mean? 300 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,360 Maybe guns and stuff, but like still like magic and fantasy and 301 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,760 stuff. But then so but, and then 302 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,680 there's a later point where suddenly it starts talking about 303 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,960 like your phone, right? And I felt like the mention of 304 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,520 like that level of technology and phone and live streaming and 305 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,680 stuff like that could have been up higher in like the setting 306 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,200 area here. You know, like there might be 307 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,360 like some little mentions. But when it suddenly has a whole 308 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,680 chapter on it, my brain kind of went, wait a second, I have to 309 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,640 retool my entire your understanding of the setting. 310 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,720 I wonder if that's partially also like the art used. 311 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,360 Obviously public domain art and what they, you know, But it 312 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:19,720 doesn't really give you that whole like, 'cause I'm OK with 313 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,960 like a little anachronism. Actually, I think. 314 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,040 I think that's a like, it can be a strength. 315 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,920 I do, I do understand what you're saying. 316 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,400 It's like when you get to the phone, you're like, Oh yeah, 317 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,240 they're phones. Yeah. 318 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,000 Yeah. 'Cause even in the preview you 319 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,800 talked about live streaming and stuff, but like so but like as 320 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,440 you read it, even to get the next part like 1.1.1, what is 321 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,920 other life? So if you know how to sail or 322 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,760 why are you a pirate instead of a sailor? 323 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,200 Why are you a safecracker instead of a locksmith? 324 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,040 Why are you a private investigator instead of a cop? 325 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:47,720 Why are you a forger instead of a notary? 326 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,280 I don't know. Like throughout it really feels 327 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,240 like the level of technology is much more into like a fantasy 328 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,040 world. So the phone thing, like, I'm 329 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,240 totally fine with the phones being there. 330 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,720 I think it's great. I just think an earlier mention 331 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,720 of it, to kind of set that level of technology in your mind so it 332 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,800 doesn't feel so anachronistic later would be nice. 333 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,960 So you are an adventurer licensed by the immortal 334 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,760 aristocracy to do their bidding. You could be. 335 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:15,440 And adventure, but you're not. You're a lowlife instead. 336 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,119 And what does a lowlife do? They mess with the immortal 337 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,800 aristocracy, especially if it helps the locals. 338 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,359 Your your your fucking wizard school. 339 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,079 Drop out Robin Hood with a fucking phone. 340 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,800 Yeah, yeah, you make lots of coin through robbery and high 341 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,120 jinks and then blow it pretty much immediately. 342 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,880 And you brag about it to look cool and take the blame. 343 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,880 So this is the this is this the introduction chapter? 344 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,520 Yeah, yeah, so role-playing. I actually really like this 345 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,560 chapter because I know we we talk shit about like, what is a 346 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,240 role-playing game a lot. I feel like this one does it 347 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,320 really well. High Magic Low Lives is a 348 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,480 role-playing game in the tradition of Midwestern American 349 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:00,760 folk art of the 1970s. Fuck. 350 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,000 I love that phrasing too. Players take on one of the two 351 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,280 roles, A lowlife or the GM. Lowlifes are the protagonist of 352 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,160 our story and the program means by which the action is driven. 353 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,880 Their players role is to listen to the GM and each other make 354 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,000 choices about how to proceed. They describe their lowlife's 355 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,320 actions and, in situations where success is not assured, roll 356 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,440 dice. GM describes the environments 357 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,120 and supporting cast of the story as well as the villains that get 358 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,320 in the lowlife's way. A good GM drives the story 359 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,480 forward. It listens closer to the 360 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,800 player's actions and asks leading questions. 361 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,280 What does GM stand for Role to find out D66? 362 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,280 T love the role to find out. You know, we're going to do it 363 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,840 right now. Do it also though, the tone 364 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,640 through this entire thing, some people try to write themselves 365 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,480 into the technical language a little bit and don't do it very 366 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,880 well. Oh my God, is it done so well 367 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,440 throughout here. It's a lot of technical language 368 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,800 and suddenly it'll just be like comma like whatever or like 369 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,520 something like this where there's so much tongue in cheek 370 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,680 in a funny like modern way. Like that almost helps the like. 371 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,840 The phone bit even better because like a lot of the lingo 372 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,720 and vernacular used throughout sounds like someone who 373 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,000 definitely has a phone. You know what I mean? 374 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,120 I agree, I rolled. I'm the grand Maniac. 375 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,400 Dope works, yeah. I mean, I really love the, I 376 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:27,680 don't know, the Goblin manager, but it's great. 377 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,560 So D6 tables. It's also really cool. 378 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,160 You roll AD 6 right off the bat, It's a lot of D sixes. 379 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:35,280 This feels like a fun intro to the dice mechanic, which is nice 380 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,880 1.2 conversation. The medium of play is words 381 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,680 typically spoken. Again, I love that. 382 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,080 It's just interesting. It's as much as you need. 383 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,760 Yeah, fiction first. The rules are important, but 384 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,680 they flow from the from the fiction. 385 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,440 Make sure you've established the context of the situation and 386 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,440 describe the characters approach before rolling rulings over 387 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,760 rules. You know what that means. 388 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,360 Texas framework. Make good choices. 389 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:59,480 Player Intelligent. A clever player playing Trump's 390 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,760 number on your character sheet. Embrace randomness and 391 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,440 randomness. You are not always in control. 392 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,040 Resource management. I love the resource management. 393 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,000 Basically it says you don't need to worry about basic food and 394 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,560 water. You are an adult fucking human 395 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,000 being. You have that on you. 396 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,600 Like seriously but higher level stuff. 397 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,880 Valuable shit. You'll keep track of that, fail 398 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,440 forward, nothing happens is a dreadful outcome. 399 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,760 Love that time is interesting too. 400 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,560 When time is discussed and referring to the text, it 401 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,040 basically says that when shit doesn't matter, don't worry 402 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,480 about it. And shit matters, worry about 403 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,320 it. For example, the example that 404 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,200 uses armor like if there's no danger and for you to like put 405 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,120 your armor on in the morning. You don't need to say I took I 406 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:44,680 put my armor back and take 4 minutes to do it because it 407 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,400 doesn't matter who gives a shit, you have the four minutes. 408 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,560 But if suddenly you're ambushed and four minutes matters in game 409 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,400 time, then it matters. And I love that because too many 410 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,600 people, especially in some of the more tried games, think that 411 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,240 every rule has to be followed at all times when it doesn't 412 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,320 fucking matter, especially like putting the armor back on and 413 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,560 stuff like that, even though I we'll get to the armor thing. 414 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,640 But the other thing too about this interest section, I really 415 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:09,840 enjoy it. I like it. 416 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,080 I wouldn't mind if it was in more of like a principles, kind 417 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,600 of like player principles, GM principles kind of thing than 418 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,360 just an introduction cuz you go from like setting to player 419 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,680 principles to like being in a mix. 420 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,440 I wouldn't mind if it was laid out a little differently, but I 421 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,320 love all of these. I think it's principles for this 422 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,840 game. It's really fantastic and well 423 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:34,080 written, like super tight, not a bunch of unnecessary bullshit. 424 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,480 Then we get to the rules which is full of unnecessary bullshit. 425 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,040 So much unnecessary bullshit. It's like every person. 426 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,040 Whoever writes A PBTA game just loses the ability to explain how 427 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,080 dice work. Concisely so. 428 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,040 Well having. Read Having read PBTA, I'm like 429 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,400 that's. It makes sense. 430 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:01,360 World of dungeons there you go. Dice 2.1 dice are used to 431 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,560 address situations that the game when the outcome is unclear. 432 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,160 Yes, if these situations we give you, we give control of the 433 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,720 narrative to fate and interpret the results. 434 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,120 I love it and it's great dice conventions. 435 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:15,760 Dice are used in the game, all of them D4 through D12 and maybe 436 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,160 some D 20s and stuff. Sometimes too. 437 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,720 It says you should have them. I don't remember ever needing 438 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,480 one in the entire reading of the game. 439 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,560 I think you get one for rolling inventory. 440 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,880 There you go, there you go. But not in the rules mechanics. 441 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,560 Sometimes you roll multiples. You know how this works. 442 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,920 If it's 2D6, you roll 2D6 and add them together. 443 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,680 If it's D66, you roll 2 sixes. But it's two separate rolls, 444 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,600 D666, all that stuff. You know how that works. 445 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,120 Same thing. You know how to roll hundreds. 446 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:43,560 You know how to run 12. You know how dice work. 447 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,680 You know how dice work. I genuinely don't need an entire 448 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,080 page to tell me how to roll dice. 449 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,360 Risk dice. This is a little different. 450 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:56,840 It's just usage dye. I I personally really dislike 451 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,240 the phrase risk dice. It makes no sense to me. 452 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:04,520 It feels like an unnecessary change in verbiage when you only 453 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,840 use it when you use something. I would prefer if it just got 454 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,720 back to usage dye 'cause I guess maybe like you're risking the 455 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,960 thing you're using when you use it. 456 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,600 Usage dive makes more sense. It's it's more to the common 457 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,920 vocabulary used throughout the the thing, and I think even to 458 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,120 explain it to players better. It's a usage dye, so you roll it 459 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:29,240 when you use stuff would be a lot easier. 460 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,640 I I, I love the use of usage dye in here. 461 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,440 I think it's extremely clever the entire way through. 462 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,880 I just wish that wrist dice was just called usage dice or use 463 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,640 dice or something like that. I do like this is a small thing, 464 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,720 but I do like throughout this thing they have the like 465 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,240 uppercase delta symbol as their as their dye symbol and like 466 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,080 actually that works. That works really well. 467 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,480 Yeah. But just for the risk dice, like 468 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,440 for the quote UN quote risk dice, the usage dice. 469 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,200 Yeah. So anything non usage dice 470 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,240 doesn't have a delta. And I really, you're right, I 471 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,560 really do enjoy that. They have like the the delta 472 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,720 instead to specifically lay that out. 473 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,240 Super clever. Yeah, I'm. 474 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,960 I'll be honest, I while I prefer usage dice as a term whenever I 475 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,960 see UD, whatever written now, I'm like, there's got to be a 476 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,040 better way. Yeah, the Delta's a. 477 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,160 Way. Oh, yeah. 478 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,560 Oh. My God, the Delta's a way better 479 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,280 way when employing an element of the game. 480 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,000 So so for those that don't know what uses die is basically like 481 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,120 you you have a die, let's say you have let's say arrows, and 482 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:34,720 let's say you have D6 arrows right like after combat or 483 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,880 whatever and you fired arrows. If you need to roll your risk 484 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,720 die, I'm going to say risk die because that's what's in the in 485 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:45,480 the thing here the whole time. If you roll a one or two, that 486 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,400 die decreases to AD 4. And again if you roll one or two 487 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,800 you are now out of arrows. So use this die. 488 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,720 Basically you have the die when you need to roll it. 489 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,120 If you roll bad it, you have less of that thing, but that is 490 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:02,680 that is used. That mechanic is used across so 491 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,280 much of the game, again in such a clever, concise, like 492 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,960 consistent way. It's it's it's done so well. 493 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,720 Yeah, so that's how usage side works. 494 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,200 I also, I don't need a whole page on how usage side works 495 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,360 either. I do like that there's an 496 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:20,120 example of play because I will never not like examples of play. 497 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,520 And it's well written. I'm not going to read it, though 498 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,680 there may be ways to restore dice through effort. 499 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,120 Hirelings can be fed given a chance of rest, batteries can be 500 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:29,560 recharged, et cetera, et cetera. Another example of play. 501 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,040 That's fine. The bad news is the GM rolled. 502 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,880 I don't need that more example of play stuff. 503 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,800 When you roll one or two on a D4, the die is removed. 504 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,320 That means it's gone. We've talked about this. 505 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,480 I don't need a third level of I do like example supply. 506 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:43,800 I don't know if I need all three of these. 507 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,200 When you roll a risk dive with advantage, roll 2 and take the 508 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,520 higher result. When you roll this dive with 509 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,160 disadvantage, roll 2 and take the lower result. 510 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:56,000 That's how that's how it works. So interpreting risk dice, this 511 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,280 is this is parts we need. So risk dice tell you a lot of 512 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,200 things that tell you how long you can expect a thing to last 513 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,360 before your supply runs out. That's how Usuzai works. 514 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,120 They tell you how well built a thing is and how much it can be 515 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:10,000 used before it breaks. And they tell you the value of a 516 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,400 thing, possibly how effective a piece of armor is. 517 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,080 Everything. Again, it's it's so much and 518 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,640 again, so well done. So there is a Table 2 519 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,720 interpreting risk dice size. Basically it tells you D4 520 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:27,240 through DD12 how good something is, how much it's worth, like 521 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,640 how much you have. Everything. 522 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,920 Every aspect of a thing that you have is on this table. 523 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,720 So clever, so smart, so clean. I really love it, Yeah. 524 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,120 I mean my only critique on this table. 525 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,760 Is the 10 and 12 that like break into like, yeah. 526 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:44,640 Fucking. Crazy. 527 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,000 I'm like, oh it. Hurts my soul, that's. 528 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,520 So funny. I mean it is an. 529 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,320 Extraordinarily good table though I will say. 530 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,800 And it's interesting to look at and be like, oh, if you want 531 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:03,000 something that's like usage 10 or 12, that's like aristocracy 532 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,160 only or the court of the aristocracy only. 533 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,840 Yeah, I think it gives good context for a thing that's used 534 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,280 for pretty much every item. Yeah, well, and the thing too is 535 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,800 like, even when you look at the rarity of it, you can 536 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,840 extrapolate that's like fucking people too. 537 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,920 That's what's crazy, right? So like when there's sections 538 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,440 later we'll get to with the aristocracy where like when you 539 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,720 deal with those people, you are generally rolling a specific 540 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,760 type of die. So if you're talking to like the 541 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,280 head guy of like the head family, you need to be rolling D 542 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,920 twelves. If you don't got D twelves, 543 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,560 you're not even fucking talking to this guy. 544 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:44,920 And I love how this table can be seen again, like in different 545 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,280 variations throughout all the mechanics of the game. 546 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,480 So fucking clever. I really like we. 547 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,960 Miss the part already where they talk about using wrist tie for 548 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,040 pets? I think we might. 549 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,720 Blown by it but. When it says don't. 550 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,920 Commentary. Oh yeah, the design. 551 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,840 It basically says don't kill your pet, Yeah. 552 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,120 Yeah. I love it. 553 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:07,520 I love that. Yeah, you can use the usage. 554 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,560 Wrist eye for a pet. But like, we really strongly 555 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,960 encourage you to not kill them when the entire runs out. 556 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,640 I'm like, yeah, that's that's good. 557 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,800 There's a lot of wrist eye. Use a similar structure. 558 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:26,280 A D6 material cannot produce a glorious result, only a D12 can, 559 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,160 etcetera, etcetera. So when you have to roll the die 560 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,960 because you will roll those die too. 561 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:36,000 It's they are still die. It basically like you can use 562 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,880 this whole table and it doesn't matter what you roll. 563 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:45,240 If you're rolling AD 12 right and you roll A1, harm is still 564 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,480 up even though you could get a 12 right? 565 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,320 And it doesn't matter when you go up because if you have AD 4 566 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,400 dice, you can't get to AD 6 anyway, so it doesn't matter. 567 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,360 That's what's so clever about this whole thing too. 568 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,400 Like, I feel like this almost feels like those coin machines 569 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,840 where the pennies only go in one and the Dimes only go in one and 570 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,400 a quarter's only go in one. Like it doesn't make a 571 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,200 difference because like the dice can only be what the dice are 572 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,920 and whether it's a 12 or A or A1, whatever it is on here, it's 573 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,600 all the same. Again, the consistency of on 574 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,160 this mechanic is really fantastic. 575 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,400 Tarot cards are not used in the game at all. 576 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,400 I think you can like draw them at some point for something or 577 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,160 whatever, but it's really more to for like the lore of it like 578 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,400 they described. Like the the higher aristocracy 579 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,640 is like the the. Yeah, you assigned to Arcana. 580 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,680 We'll get to there at the end. And like the character classes 581 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,480 too that. You're generally assigned the 582 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,000 major Arcana. Yeah, that you can deal. 583 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,520 Yeah, you can roll for him too. I mean, but I would definitely. 584 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,080 Can. Oh yeah, exactly. 585 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,280 Yeah, you can, I guess. But I would definitely bring 586 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,760 Tarot cards to the table and be like we're. 587 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,840 Are we gonna play S? Well, what's dope about that too 588 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,480 is that you get like, that tarot card can put so much personality 589 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,160 into your entire character the entire time. 590 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,000 You know what I mean? Like if I roll this character 591 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,440 and we played a campaign, I would get a fucking tarot card, 592 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,240 T-shirt and rock my fucking character. 593 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,360 You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I would do all sorts 594 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,040 of shit. I would, I would have it as like 595 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,680 a fucking dice box. I would get like, the tarot 596 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,360 card, dice box, still going. Attributes. 597 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,400 There's six of them. You can only go from zero to 598 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,120 three. I like it. 599 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,720 It's a small, it's a small window. 600 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,280 You're not, you're not rolling to get fucking 3D sixes and 601 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,320 twelves and stuff. You got strength. 602 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,840 Again, I'm gonna read this because it's written in the way 603 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,720 that they write and I love the way that they write. 604 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,200 So strength, hit things good, carry more stuff, lift things, 605 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,400 be strong. Dexterity. 606 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,480 Shoot things good. Sneaky, deaky, Dodging, Yoga, 607 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:45,600 yoga, con more HP, Carry more stuff, Survive poison, handle 608 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,880 your booze. Intelligence. 609 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,240 Cast spells. No thanks quote UN quote 610 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,560 actually. Or research Wisdom. 611 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,520 See with your eyes. Read the room. 612 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,600 More MP, Chill with animals. More HP and then Charisma. 613 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,120 Force of personalities. Public, public speaking, more MP 614 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:11,680 being online just the way. Like I said, well, I know we 615 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,560 read a book and I'm not going to call people out on it. 616 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,560 I'm also not going to remember what it was where someone again 617 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,640 like tries to write the the language of the game kind of in 618 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,160 like. With their personality. 619 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,760 Yeah, either their personality sucks or their writing does, but 620 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,600 these? This is fucking fantastic the 621 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,160 whole way through. It's a funny laugh so often. 622 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:33,840 Yeah. And again because so much of it 623 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,520 is like technical language, but then like it'll hit you with 624 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,520 something that you just like. You just crack up like in a good 625 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,360 way. And it's really great using your 626 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,880 attributes. So this is basically how to roll 627 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,640 stuff, right. So the lowlifes player states 628 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,400 what they want to do. So we're, I think we're getting 629 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,880 into a part here where I have an issue. 630 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:52,680 So your attributes come into play. 631 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,760 It's, it's, it's PBTA role 2D6, it's mixed success, right. 632 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,360 So the lowlife states what they want to do. 633 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,280 The GM states how risky and effective that approach will be. 634 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,560 So the other thing too is this section randomly bursts into 635 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,480 blades in the dark language without explaining the blades in 636 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,680 the dark language. They do that a couple of times 637 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,800 through here. Like at one point they talk 638 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,640 about a move but they don't explain moves like there's 639 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,560 there's couple of. Moves in the air. 640 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,480 Yeah, yeah. But The thing is, like, I'm OK 641 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,320 with that. I'm OK with this being like, 642 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,640 this is not your first game. You've played PBTA before. 643 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:31,080 You know what these words mean? Or write it like it's a like 4 644 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:36,280 brand new people, right? So if you're gonna have 2 1/2 645 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,440 pages on how dice work, then you should also have how what 646 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,040 approach means what position means. 647 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,240 All this stuff works too. But if you're gonna just put the 648 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,200 words in that we all know because we played these games, 649 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,880 or read these games before, get rid of the two pages on how dice 650 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,200 work. Like pick a level of how dumb 651 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,800 you think the people are that are reading the book. 652 00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,480 The lowlife player states what they want to do. 653 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,680 The GM states how risky and effective that approach will be. 654 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,440 The lowlife player rolls 2D6, adds them together with an 655 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,640 attribute in question. One to six, fail with 656 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,520 consequence 7 to 9, success with consequence, 10 to 11, success, 657 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,840 12 plus critical success. That means you don't have to 658 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,920 roll 2D6 is you can roll like an 11 plus modifier and still get a 659 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,120 crit. The table interprets a result in 660 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,240 the context of the situation. I like that it's a table 661 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,280 interprets a result. It's definitely a group 662 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,440 narrative for a lot of the stuff. 663 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,440 The risk determines how bad the consequences are. 664 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,160 Again advantage and disadvantage and then we get into like I said 665 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,400 approach, position and effect, which is blades in the dark 666 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,520 language. Approach is basically how you 667 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,880 want to do the thing and what you're using like your attribute 668 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,280 equipment, all that stuff you're explaining that and then 669 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,480 position and effect. I mean, I did actually go back 670 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,720 and and read some blades in the dark again, which. 671 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:50,520 Are you mad that he went back in? 672 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:51,400 A dream. I'm mad. 673 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,400 I'm mad eyed if I can read it. Again, Position and effect are 674 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,560 kind of used loosely here. Basically says based on the 675 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,680 lowlife's approach. The GM then describes the risk 676 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,280 and effectiveness. The table should have a good 677 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,720 sense of the consequence of both failure and success before 678 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,159 rolling. My thing is like there's no real 679 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:13,760 reason to use quote, UN quote like position and effect to use 680 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,880 the blades that are language in this because it's not the same. 681 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,920 Because if you're going to say position and effect, but then in 682 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,520 the way that you write it, say risk and effectiveness, just 683 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120 call it risk and effectiveness. You know what I. 684 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,400 Mean. Yeah, I I mean, personally, I'm 685 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,679 never a big fan of position and effect like as like a standout 686 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:34,600 thing. I I feel like, I don't know, 687 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,719 maybe just because in my table naturally we're going to have 688 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,520 discussions like OK, well like where you're doing things right 689 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,280 now, if you do this and succeed, like it's what's it really going 690 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,440 to give you? You know, maybe not a lot, but I 691 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,000 don't like codifying it as that and making it like a like boxed 692 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,560 parameter. I was actually what's funny on 693 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,800 here and we'll do a quick aside. I solidified or crystallized a 694 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,520 little bit of my feeling about PBTA and and it's it's 695 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,840 derivatives, not derivatives. You know what I mean? 696 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,720 Like it's it's it's children especially. 697 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:13,080 Also, after listening to to the recent RTFM podcast episodes 698 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,840 with Aaron King and Max Lander, definitely go read RTFM. 699 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,960 They are smarter and better than us at this, but. 700 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,320 That's so true. Right. 701 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,760 And talking in a Discord server, I I realize why I don't like 702 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,160 PBTA games or not in the way that PBTA is written to be 703 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,240 written. And why the people that like it 704 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:37,840 do and don't like the way that I like PBTA games, which is more 705 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:43,480 towards World Dungeons and like Victory Basic as opposed to even 706 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,960 like Dungeon World. It's that there's too there's 707 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,240 too much scaffolding and too much vocabulary. 708 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,480 Like I don't need a capital P, capital E position effect for 709 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,280 you to just tell me after they say what they want to do, you 710 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,880 say what the risks are, You know what I mean? 711 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,160 It's the same thing. And I think that when those 712 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:09,520 style of games came out, having the vocabulary and having that 713 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,040 amount of scaffolding for a new game was important. 714 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:17,840 I just think that game mechanics and kind of like game language 715 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:22,720 and stuff has evolved past that, and an understanding of that 716 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,600 style has evolved past that. So for me, one of the reasons I 717 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,600 don't like moves is it's too much scaffolding. 718 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,280 You know what I mean? Like, like I feel like I like 719 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,680 the options for everything and the move literally gives you 720 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,560 like 3 and that's the narrative. So to me, it's just too much 721 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,240 scaffolding and it's too much vocabulary that says like, well, 722 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,640 when you do capital A, you get to capital B, we'll take you to 723 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,880 capital C, which gets you capital D And I'm like that's 724 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,400 four nuvocab words for you to tell me to just do this like 725 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,000 quick thing, you know, I don't need it. 726 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:53,960 That's just an aside that's not really effective at this. 727 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,120 I just don't think you need to use the the blades in dark 728 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,680 language here because it's not used quite the same and this is 729 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,680 done much more simply anyway. So position and effect basically 730 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,280 approach, you say how you want to do it. 731 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,520 Position effect. The GM tells you the risk and 732 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:12,080 consequence for it, and then and then there's consequences. 733 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,240 And that aligns to the fiction, aligns to the risk, it aligns to 734 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,200 the narrative that you got. You're doing together. 735 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,000 It talks about grievous volley harm. 736 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,040 Here. We're going to skip that and 737 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:24,440 talk about that in damage because I have. 738 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,720 I have opinions on that too. Success and critical success, 739 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,280 they exist. It's a happening special 740 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,100 actions. So special actions are quote, UN 741 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:35,000 quote moves. It's interesting because when 742 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,680 you get to special actions later one of those they start calling 743 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,680 it moves and I think maybe there's just a forget to recall 744 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:43,880 it special actions, we'll get to that. 745 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,080 But basically they are, they are literally like capital M moves 746 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,600 PBTA style as in like on a one to six you get one on 7 to 9 you 747 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,800 get like 2 on A10 to a like you know etcetera, etcetera you can 748 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,560 get up to all 5 S Special actions are special moves you 749 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,480 get to do. I think I prefer, and maybe just 750 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,320 within the context of this game, I think I prefer special actions 751 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,360 as a title for. Moves. 752 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,920 What's up? I hate the word moves. 753 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,280 Oh yeah, I I genuinely hate it. But I think in this one, special 754 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,680 actions is even better, because most things aren't a special 755 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,080 action. Most things aren't a move, you 756 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,480 know, except a few things that are a special action. 757 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,680 But dude, things not being a move is a move, bro. 758 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,720 The joke that never leaves our podcast. 759 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,280 Everything is a. Move Everything is a move. 760 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,920 This is how I like moves though because I do like PBT style 761 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,480 moves. What I don't like is basic moves 762 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:41,600 I. Don't. 763 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:45,040 Want everything that I do broken down? 764 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,760 Like to me, I feel like when you really go hard on PBT style 765 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,360 moves, it's like why do I have AGM? 766 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,240 This could like I could, it could. 767 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,840 Everything is laid out. All the narrative is laid out. 768 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,760 I I could literally sit here and be like, well, I trigger this 769 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,600 move and the move tells me I have three things and then I 770 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,480 trigger the next thing. Like, I feel like you could sit 771 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:10,320 around doing a PBTA game without any GM because everything is 772 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,680 laid out for you and when you trigger a thing, the thing 773 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,120 happens and we already know this. 774 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,920 You know what I mean? I don't, I personally don't like 775 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,880 that. What I do like those style of 776 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:24,400 moves for is like powers, spells, special actions, things 777 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,400 where I'm not doing them, my basic shit, I'm doing something 778 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,400 big and important, and the risks and consequences are 779 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,440 specifically laid out in a way that's important to the style 780 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,040 and the fiction. I love moves when it's they done 781 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,040 exactly this way. So when I saw that, my head 782 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,240 immediately said I hate moves, but then I was like, but not 783 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:46,320 when they're done this way. I really enjoyed them this way 784 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,520 and we'll get to those again a little bit later. 785 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,640 Special action attributes, special actions, commonly used 786 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,320 primary 6 attributes listed, but there are some other ones that 787 00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,920 you'll get to. And we'll get to the hashtag 788 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,800 brand discussed in section 8.1. Not hyperlinked. 789 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,040 It'd be nice if it was. But again, this is 2019 is 790 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:09,520 acquired, brand is acquired for charismatic posting online. 791 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,320 The first time they kind of mentioned that in the game 792 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,360 Hashtag brand and posting online, my brain went, wait, I'm 793 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,480 posting stuff online. Even though, like it's there 794 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,240 before, some outcomes are more concerned with the fiction of 795 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:22,720 the game. Don't underestimate the 796 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,000 importance of shifting the narrative and success of the 797 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,480 Lowlife's adventure, advantage and disadvantage. 798 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,000 We've talked about that three times already. 799 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,560 It exists. There is a very long. 800 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,880 There's a there's a example of play here and then we get into 801 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,200 setup. Oh, that's me. 802 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,640 I'm set up, so the step's pretty easy. 803 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,400 It's essentially just telling you what you need to play this 804 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,000 game and then discussing with your low lives. 805 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,520 Kind of like the tone and the setting. 806 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,000 Is this going to be like a silly or serious game? 807 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,920 Is this going to be like very dark and heavy a discussion to 808 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,120 have with your player characters. 809 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,040 It's I think it says before the ink dries in. 810 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,360 The character sheet is crucial, and I agree Joe. 811 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,320 Characters in the focus of ancient prophecy can absolutely 812 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,880 roll in the same party so long as everyone knows what to 813 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,720 expect. Great advice, very solid advice. 814 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,560 I skipped over like kind of what you need, but it's a tabletop 815 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,120 game. These the things you need. 816 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,440 Dice shit like, yeah. Content's really interesting. 817 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,440 Like, what does your world look like? 818 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,800 Are the immortal aristocracy, like this one Says vampires. 819 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,880 And I'm thinking like, you know, they they ride necks around or 820 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,360 whatever. Yeah. 821 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,560 Do you live in Dome cities? Like what is in this world? 822 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:48,160 Like do you want a fun sex romp, which is very 2019, Very rare 823 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,440 that you see that and we'll see more stuff like that coming up. 824 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,480 Yeah. And it kind of just lets the the 825 00:41:55,240 --> 00:42:00,680 will I roll for GM. Grand Maniac. 826 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:02,440 Yeah, we'll say that. Yeah. 827 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,640 What were the IT gives the grand maniac, like room to like? 828 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,920 Help. Plan and move around. 829 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,240 Then you have safety and curation tools. 830 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,480 Always a great section. Talk about safety tools of your 831 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:18,040 tea with your table. And then there's a designer 832 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,960 commentary. Try not to worry over much about 833 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,120 withholding information and lobbying for the inclusion of 834 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,400 content that will make your players uncomfortable. 835 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,040 For example, horror content is important to the game that you 836 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,640 want to run. Now is a good time to explore 837 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,520 examples of horror with your table and find effective, sorry 838 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,760 horror your table found effective, enjoyable are there 839 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,520 are many ways to build tension, but the 1st and most important 840 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,240 is a table willing to give themselves fully to the section. 841 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,160 Yeah, basically. Don't try to stuff stuff in the 842 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,720 game we're going to want. Yeah. 843 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,080 I do. I do think that that section's 844 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,320 written incredibly well. I like a lot of this and I I do 845 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,000 think it's important. Yeah, I so this is the first 846 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,680 time I'm going to say this and won't be the last. 847 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,680 I I think this should be in a different spot though and like I 848 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,440 think this should be first. It's weird that we're this far 849 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,200 in when this is generally like the very first like maybe right 850 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,040 after introduction, but generally this should be like 851 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,480 before introduction, like all of this thing basically says. 852 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,000 Like introduction I want to like I want to intro with that that 853 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,840 paragraph I want it to be the first thing to read. 854 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,920 You know, but like a lot of this stuff is more like, I feel like 855 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,320 this is more like inside cover of the book. 856 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:32,960 Like you're not really in the book part yet. 857 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,640 You know what? I mean, OK, I can see that. 858 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,240 I can see that card safety tools like all to me like what dice 859 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:41,160 are or like what dice you need stuff like that that that to me 860 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,760 feels like, I mean like Adam puts, you know, out of ass, puts 861 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,760 that either right on the inside cover or even just puts the dice 862 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,120 and stuff that you need like on the back cover. 863 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:49,520 So it's not even like in there. Anyway. 864 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,520 It is. It is, like you said, great. 865 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:53,520 Well written though. It's good. 866 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,960 Yeah. Moving on to, that's it. 867 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,640 That's actually by far the shortest section in this entire 868 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,960 thing. Character four or the last 869 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,400 Section 4 is character creation, building your lowlife. 870 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,440 So it's interesting because this has derived stats. 871 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,120 So you roll 2D6 and then you look at this table to get what 872 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,920 that stat is, and then it has you assign those stats in order. 873 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,840 You're rolling like top to bottom like strength first down 874 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,960 to charisma. I am not a massive fan derived 875 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,880 stats. I'm a I'm a stat spread guy. 876 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,040 But like the window here is pretty, is pretty small. 877 00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,200 So I think this one's OK You know, it's not like you're 878 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:45,960 rolling and you're like it goes one to like 9 or whatever, but 879 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,760 yeah. 'Cause you're, you're you're, 880 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,520 you're. I mean your go to is D20 roll 881 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:54,640 under so like deriving stats for that is weird but as far for 882 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,560 like 2D6 with the numbers and stuff like that like either 883 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:03,720 either doing like a like a what am I trying to say like a 884 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:07,800 standard array but I actually really love this like zero to 885 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,400 three because you Max out at it anyway and the numbers aren't 886 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,920 like really that crazy. I think it's interesting and. 887 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,200 The majority of things you're going to get will be one, you 888 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:16,720 know. Yeah. 889 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,240 Yeah and not only that, like it does at one point in the game, 890 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:24,480 maybe I breezed over it. It talks about like bringing OSR 891 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,400 into like PBTA and Blackhack and stuff a little bit. 892 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,520 So I don't, I think it's a nice thing to sit around the table 893 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,840 and like roll your 6 stats kind of gives you that little bit of 894 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,200 like dungeon gamey feel. Yeah. 895 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,680 And but then your your margins are like, yeah, you're pretty 896 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,400 much going to get one to zeros for everything I like. 897 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,560 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 898 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,040 Once you generate your six abilities, you can swap to. 899 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:54,520 I am also the person who's like, honestly just roll 6 and assign 900 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,360 them how you want for your character, which is like at the 901 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,280 same time, like if there's a game where it's like you have to 902 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,440 roll for stuff and everything's random, like, no, everything has 903 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,640 to be random. It kind of depends on the game, 904 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,000 I guess. There is a example for how stats 905 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,960 work, which is great for somebody. 906 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,520 Yeah. And then now there's your 907 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,200 general deal. So your general deal is who your 908 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,160 character is. You can roll for it. 909 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,320 You can pull a tarot card, which is 100% the correct way to do 910 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,960 it, or you can oh, it doesn't give you the option to pick 911 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,360 good, don't pick. And then, yeah, your general 912 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,000 deal kind of tells you who your character is, what the 913 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,720 background kind of is. It gives you like an ability 914 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:39,120 that's almost always pretty cool. 915 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,840 Actually, I think all of them. I this might be 1 where I think 916 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,400 almost I think all of them hit. There's basically no class that 917 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,000 I'm going to be like, sure, fuck yeah, let's do it. 918 00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:50,240 I had a hard time because we said we were going to talk about 919 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:51,880 just two. You pick one and I pick one. 920 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,120 And that's not what's going to happen today. 921 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,280 We're going to talk about a couple. 922 00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,200 But yeah, you get 2 leading questions as well. 923 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,120 The answer that kind of like give you a relation to maybe 924 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:06,000 another lowlife or like somebody in the world in there. 925 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,520 I cannot. I think maybe I'm such a 926 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,560 character creation guy. I think this section is what 927 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:18,760 really 100% was like, oh, this is this is it, You know, so. 928 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,720 Well, if I rolled for it, If I rolled for it, I rolled the 929 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,440 Rogue Intelligence. But I mean, OK, quick, quick, 930 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:31,240 quick breeze through on here. If I was going to pick no 931 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:36,440 knowing what you know about me, which which one or two would I 932 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,040 pick? Oh, maybe the God Hunter or. 933 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,000 That's one of them, yeah, it's one of my top two. 934 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,480 The Blight Warden. You got me. 935 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,760 I'm a fucking open book. Those are my top two if you had. 936 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,880 To pick if you had to pick 2 for me. 937 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,280 Fuck you, but you're you're you're quirky sometimes. 938 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,440 I know, but this it's so funny. This whole game is like, there's 939 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,120 not one, like general deal in this game that I would be upset, 940 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,040 upset about giving. I'd be stoked on any of. 941 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:06,160 These. Not a single one, I I would 942 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,320 almost say wizard school dropout, but that feels kind of 943 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,080 like the classic one. I and that I think that's why I 944 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,400 like that one though, because it does feel like the like the most 945 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:21,440 archetype for this. Yeah, I really do like that one. 946 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,560 I also love that it's the fool card that cracks me the fuck up. 947 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,680 And gosh, for your other one. I mean, you would get weird and 948 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,840 be like the escape clone of the astronaut, I feel like. 949 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:37,440 Yeah I would the escape clone I think let's talk today. 950 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,840 Let's talk about the was just cool drop out. 951 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,280 Let's talk about Dwight Warden. Let's just do the four that we 952 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:45,000 both. Picked. 953 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,080 That'll be enough. That's cool. 954 00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,000 Yeah. I I wouldn't mind like just 955 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,280 touching on the bicycle mechanic too, because I think that's the 956 00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,960 sleeper class and the entire thing that I. 957 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,480 Absolutely. OK. 958 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:55,840 All right. Go for it. 959 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,560 So. I don't want to read them 960 00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,080 because they're fun to read. They're well written. 961 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,960 Honestly shout out, this game is is enjoyable to read. 962 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,120 Yeah, so wizard school dropout, the fool. 963 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,400 It was 4:00 AM when you looked up from your mercury fumes of 964 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,480 your overcrowded dormitory to see clearly for the first time 965 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,040 just how many of you had piled in to learn the proper arcane 966 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,440 arts and how few proper wizarding positions were open. 967 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,880 It wasn't a total waste. You know the basics of the 968 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,040 magical arts, how to defend a thesis, and you can hold your 969 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,880 liquor. All things you learn in school 970 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:37,920 alt metric, which is the ability you may use Intelligence instead 971 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,840 of Charisma when posting if the topic is concerning the 972 00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,040 esoteric, arcane, occult, or otherwise. 973 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,520 Magical. I think another thing I like 974 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:50,640 about these is that when you get your general deal as someone 975 00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,920 who's like the Game Master at all times, the ability of the 976 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,760 general deal is will tell the Game Master what's going to be 977 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,680 included in that game. Because some require you to have 978 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,800 like, you know, gods and demons and stuff. 979 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,000 I'm like, OK, great, that's what's going to be in this game 980 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,240 then. Maybe not all the time, but I 981 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:09,800 know to include it. And I really like the the 982 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,600 implied setting in here is heavy, but not so heavy. 983 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,720 That strangle. Yeah, leading questions for 984 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:20,480 this. You owe a lowlife a lot of 985 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,400 money. Why are they being chill about 986 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:23,560 it? And the other one is a fellow 987 00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,880 lowlife convinces you to leave your academic life behind. 988 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:31,280 What were they right about? I like the leading questions. 989 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,640 I think they're interesting. I like that you don't have to 990 00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,480 enter both. You can use them to actually ask 991 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,280 a different question if, if, if it doesn't suit you. 992 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,480 It's a really interesting way to to character creation. 993 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,640 One because like you just said you you are bit like when you 994 00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,080 have your four characters you can all look at each other and 995 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,200 basically the there's a quote UN quote implied setting. 996 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,960 I think like 80% of it is built. But the 20% personalization that 997 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,360 you can do to it is really fantastic And so much of it is 998 00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:01,160 done in these quote UN quote general deals in the classes. 999 00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,360 That extra 20% is that it's just so it's. 1000 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:09,120 It works so well together. Yeah, I was going to say. 1001 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,440 I will also say, actually I totally skipped saying this, but 1002 00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,120 I said it way earlier. But general deal, great. 1003 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,480 Just like what's your general deal? 1004 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,720 It's like, Oh yeah, I've read that I was like this. 1005 00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:24,720 So it it makes a lot of sense for this and also how this is 1006 00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:26,440 written with this kind of like tongue in cheek like. 1007 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,000 This is perfect. Do you want to read the Blight 1008 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,120 Warden? Sure. 1009 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,680 All right, this is my favorite. This is for the high priestess. 1010 00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:34,520 The planet is a living thing, and it is sick. 1011 00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,760 But the symptoms are so big that most folks can't see them. 1012 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,440 Droughts and hurricanes. Rising seas and foul water and 1013 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,520 the blight pools of chromatic acre. 1014 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,480 Think there's supposed to be H in there, pooling downstream 1015 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,240 from factories and dump sites. It clings tar light to creatures 1016 00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:51,840 and trees. Over time, it changes them into 1017 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,280 mutated, dangerous things. The immoral aristocracy likes to 1018 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,280 keep the blight away from their estates and to a lesser extent, 1019 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,560 their taxpayers. You and those like you were sent 1020 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,080 to burn the blight away and kill the mutated gross. 1021 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,880 You are a wet cloth on the fevered forehead of a dying 1022 00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,440 world. Love that last bit. 1023 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:13,280 Also, could you just a whole campaign of blight wardens going 1024 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,320 out and blast? That's a whole different game. 1025 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:20,720 Absolutely crazy, I think. One that we're not going to talk 1026 00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:22,400 about but isn't really good. Good one is. 1027 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,040 The next one, the neophyt body mother, which is? 1028 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,800 Just like. Yeah, you make Do you care? 1029 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:28,760 Would you? Should we just read it? 1030 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,280 Yeah, well, let me finish this one. 1031 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,840 Oh, sorry. Sterify is your ability. 1032 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,240 When fighting the mutated, corrupted, or otherwise 1033 00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:38,400 unnatural, you may add your con to damage all that. 1034 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,360 One is one of the ones that's a little bit more specific, I 1035 00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,200 think. Obviously if you're going to be 1036 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,360 this character, the gym would have that shit in your game. 1037 00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,360 But some of the other ones are kind of like more fitting to 1038 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:50,840 everything. And the leading questions are 1039 00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,160 you helped a lowlife navigate some dangerous terrain. 1040 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,520 What hidden thing did you find there that's cool? 1041 00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:00,320 While you were sinking into a hidden pool of blight, fellow 1042 00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,320 lowlife Kim Crusher plight, how did the quick thinking save you? 1043 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,160 The other thing I like about the leading question we didn't 1044 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,880 mention yet is this is a relationship building. 1045 00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,680 Because how I read fellow love life means like you're out on 1046 00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,720 another one of your partners. Absolutely. 1047 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,400 I mean, you are the the only positions in this game to play 1048 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:21,720 are the GM or a lowlife. So it reminds me of and I was 1049 00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:22,800 playing. I actually haven't referenced 1050 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,160 this game in a really long time since like the first year Monty 1051 00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,200 Cook games, Cypress system. Whenever you build a character, 1052 00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,920 they also have these questions. They're like, OK, a like a 1053 00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,040 person table has to agree to this question, but how did you 1054 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,760 do this or that? It's very similar and I think 1055 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:43,640 it's works really well for sure. Yeah, and the neophyte body 1056 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,600 model. The mortal aristocracy suffers 1057 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,520 the body mother guilds, but they do not do so gladly. 1058 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,760 They loathe any institution older than their own, and doubly 1059 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,920 so anyone whose services cannot be bound exclusively to them. 1060 00:53:56,240 --> 00:54:00,200 You've taken the first steps to being a master body, body 1061 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,040 mother, serving the mighty and meek alike to bring them 1062 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:04,800 comfort, independence and dignity. 1063 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,600 The limbs you fashion are crude but functional. 1064 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,000 The magics that animate the appendages and internal organs 1065 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,600 of your creation work well, but you can still see the seams. 1066 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,800 Do not worry about the the rumors from those who do not 1067 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,600 understand your trade, your charges, not to replace broken 1068 00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:25,280 parts with six ones. It is to help those in need to 1069 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,520 create a body with which your client will be happy. 1070 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:33,600 So cool. Yeah, one of the things I really 1071 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:41,680 like about about all of this in general too is now listen, we I 1072 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:47,280 do not have a prosthetic so I'm talking like with doing my best 1073 00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,360 to not sound the ableist as fuck here, right? 1074 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:55,440 Cuz I don't know how people feel about it, but I feel like as 1075 00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,640 soon as you start talking about prosthetics and things like that 1076 00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:01,160 in a game, it's really important to make sure it's one of those 1077 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:06,280 things that like, has to be done with a level of. 1078 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:08,000 I mean, everything should be, but you know what I mean? 1079 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,920 Like a level of care, especially if you're not a member of that 1080 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:15,480 community, and without trying to sound ableist, whatever. 1081 00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,600 I feel like they do it incredibly well through this 1082 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:18,920 entire thing with a lot of respect. 1083 00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,280 And it. Doesn't get all the way through, 1084 00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,040 yeah. And it feels not only positive 1085 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:29,040 but like it feels like, it's not saying, like having a prosthetic 1086 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:30,920 is not a bad thing at all in the game. 1087 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,040 The the, the base is pretty much, if you have a prosthetic 1088 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:38,080 like, it works like like like normal, like that's fine like or 1089 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:42,080 you know, and can actually be dope because as you increase 1090 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:43,960 your prosthetic you get like special abilities and shit with 1091 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,040 it too. Like, it's not like, oh, you 1092 00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,520 have like, you know, a prosthetic leg and now 1093 00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,280 everything you roll is a disadvantage. 1094 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,600 And I look permanently disadvantaged by your 1095 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,520 prosthetic. You're at least having the same 1096 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,400 abilities you had before you had the prosthetic or even more so. 1097 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,600 And I really like that. I didn't like you said, I feel 1098 00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,920 like it was really a positive way and then done in a really 1099 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:08,680 respectful way. But again, I'm not a member of 1100 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,560 that community. Could be talked to my ass, but 1101 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:11,520 that's how I. Totally. 1102 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,440 And I'm, I'm so down to be corrected on this. 1103 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,200 But the reason I kind of want to talk about this is because I 1104 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,720 thought it was so positive and like, it's not about fixing 1105 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:19,480 what's broken. It's about making somebody happy 1106 00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:20,920 and comfortable within their own form. 1107 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,160 And I was like, damn, that's pretty good. 1108 00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,000 Yeah, your ability build a mod. Given a few hours of quiet work, 1109 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,440 you can turn most objects into a prosthesis. 1110 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:34,240 The object becomes a prosthetic of equal die size and bearing 1111 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,760 some functional or aesthetic hints of its source. 1112 00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:40,320 I think Scissors become Scissorhands for instance. 1113 00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,960 Great. Great reference and then leading 1114 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,560 questions. A fellow lowlife never felt 1115 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,600 comfortable in their own skin until you gave them counsel with 1116 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,040 their permission. Good note, in what way are they 1117 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,560 now change. The other one is you were 1118 00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,720 imprisoned by a puritanical member of the aristocracy for 1119 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:01,080 helping common folk achieve the bodies that they need. 1120 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,600 Why did one of your fellow lives break you out? 1121 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,120 Great. Nope, Nope. 1122 00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:07,120 That is a good one to talk about. 1123 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,480 I really enjoyed that because there's like a whole section on 1124 00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,000 prosthetics later. Yeah, yeah. 1125 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,360 There's so many, there's so many good ones. 1126 00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,480 Rogue. Intelligent Circuit Riders cool 1127 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:21,200 the Tomb Streamer's dope, live streaming your fucking 1128 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:25,720 adventures and shit Pit Baller. What was the other one local? 1129 00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,320 Champion I think is the next one we're doing, which is 4/2/10, 1130 00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:33,040 which also once again, great organization where I'm like, Oh 1131 00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,280 yeah, it's 4210, like you know exactly where it is. 1132 00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,960 The the Escape Club, which is also the Hermit card, which I 1133 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,440 love. There was a time when you 1134 00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,880 thought everyone shared your face back in the hidden city 1135 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,480 deep below ground where you answered only to older versions 1136 00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:51,320 of yourself. Unlike your siblings, you were 1137 00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,080 never quite unable to let go of a burning question. 1138 00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:55,800 Why weren't you allowed to leave? 1139 00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,080 Now that you've skipped town, you're still getting used to all 1140 00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,360 the different faces that other people wear, the other genders, 1141 00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,600 and other creatures. You've also learned that anyone 1142 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,720 who bares your face has almost certainly been dispatched to 1143 00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,400 bring you home against your will. 1144 00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,560 The ability is another face in the crowd. 1145 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,120 You've developed an astounding capacity to blend into a crowd 1146 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:22,280 when trying to shake a pursuer. Very good functional ability. 1147 00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,600 The leading questions being someone who looks exactly like 1148 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,200 you but with Nye Patch tried to take you by force. 1149 00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,280 How did the fellow lowlife help you shake them off? 1150 00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,800 The other one is the apparent worldwide conspiracy surrounding 1151 00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,240 your origin has become a fixation of one of your fellow 1152 00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,880 lowlifes. What bizarre truths have they 1153 00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:41,920 learned about you and your fellow clones? 1154 00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,760 Right, There's a worldwide conspiracy. 1155 00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,920 About about this. City of Underground, City of 1156 00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,000 clones that now is in your world. 1157 00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,000 Wasn't there a movie that did that? 1158 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,440 And I can't remember what it's called. 1159 00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:56,640 Yeah, yeah, there is. It's. 1160 00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,560 It's they're clones. I mean, they're not all the same 1161 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,040 clone, but they're clones of other people held in the 1162 00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:04,800 facility because they're supposed to be like organ 1163 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,320 transplants for rich people. Essentially. 1164 00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,880 I think it's called you. Remember, Was that that wasn't 1165 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,680 Kirsten, Kristen Stewart was it? No, it was Charlize. 1166 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:18,200 Their own, but maybe and. That was like the one of the bad 1167 00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,320 one of the bad bitches. Oh, it was Scarlett Johansson. 1168 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,440 Maybe I'm thinking of something different then. 1169 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:24,720 I mean, obviously there's more than one. 1170 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,280 Every time a movie comes out, they make. 1171 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,200 That's very true of it that. One's Scarlett Johansson and and 1172 00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,880 Obi Wan Kenobi, SO. It was that one. 1173 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,040 It's a It's a pretty. Good. 1174 00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:37,440 Movie, you know. I feel like there was a 1175 00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,560 different one though that I'm thinking of as I scroll through 1176 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:40,480 these. What was the other with? 1177 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:44,800 The hedge pharmacist is cool. The poacher gatherers doe. 1178 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,920 The third eye is there. Private Third Eye is good too. 1179 00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,880 Oh yeah, that one's sick. The God Hunter. 1180 00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,440 Yeah, go for it. Yeah, OK, so the God hunter. 1181 00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,600 Everysolstice new gods. So also the amount of lore in 1182 00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:01,840 some of these character classes. Too insane? 1183 01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,280 Every solstice new gods emerge in odd corners of the world, and 1184 01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,000 every solstice, the hunt begins anew. 1185 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,000 Every God contains the potential for a new minor House of the 1186 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,720 immortal aristocracy to arise. Once shackled, they can be 1187 01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,960 drained of their power to ensure the life and vitality of those 1188 01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,800 with the means to keep them. If one wishes to truly fight the 1189 01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,920 immortal aristocracy, they must be prepared to fight gods. 1190 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,640 You've been sniffing around the edges of the Great Houses for 1191 01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,720 some time now, trying to sort out the secret hidden vault in 1192 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,160 which their gods are kept, preparing to put them at both 1193 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,040 down. The gods are too dangerous to 1194 01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,560 exist, so your ability to schism when battling the divine, 1195 01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:37,400 demonic, or otherwise exoplanar, you may add your wisdom to your 1196 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,680 damage roles and their leading questions as one of your fellow 1197 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,840 low lives is not yet convinced of the righteousness of your 1198 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,760 hunt. What about their disagreement is 1199 01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,360 charming rather than frustrating? 1200 01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:50,320 Or you suspect A fellow lowlife is divine in nature, if only a 1201 01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,320 distant descendant of a minor godhead. 1202 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:54,640 Why would you never let them come to harm? 1203 01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:57,600 So this straight up says gods exist. 1204 01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:00,480 The immortal aristocracy is immortal because they literally 1205 01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:04,920 capture gods, chain them up, stick them in their basement and 1206 01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,040 siphon the power off so that their whole family can be 1207 01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:13,080 immortal, right? And every solstice new gods pop 1208 01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,720 up and basically everyone just goes. 1209 01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:20,200 Yo, let's go catch a. God and like, hopes to raise 1210 01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,560 their station by catching a fucking God. 1211 01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:28,240 That's so fucking cool. Oh, it's UN like, dude, reading 1212 01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,720 this the first time. And I skimmed this part and I 1213 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,320 got down to the actual moral aristocracy section, which is 1214 01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,440 the last section reading. I was like, dude, what this is. 1215 01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,760 I mean, that's so creative, right? 1216 01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,200 Like, yeah, it's such a good idea. 1217 01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,000 It's like, yeah, they've enslaved the God to give 1218 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:48,000 themselves immortality, which I actually, you know, I don't know 1219 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,480 if you remember this, but I wrote a setting when I lived in 1220 01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:54,280 California and like footage. OK. 1221 01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,240 No, I would say yes, of course. We've talked about like 80 1222 01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,320 times. Talking about I was like, Oh 1223 01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:02,960 yeah, like the current gods are actually stealing their power 1224 01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,160 from the actual gods. Yeah. 1225 01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:06,880 Oh God, what would you what would you what did you call 1226 01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,360 them? Wasn't it AP Does it with AP? 1227 01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,640 Like they take them over and then they chain up the gods and 1228 01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,960 siphon the power from the gods. Yeah, they're like primordials 1229 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:16,920 or something like that. That's what. 1230 01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:19,720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, write that more. 1231 01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:21,440 Write more of that. I know I should write more of 1232 01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:22,160 that. It's so old. 1233 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,120 I actually stopped all the documents for it because I did 1234 01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:30,360 write a lot of it down. But dude, it's such a cool piece 1235 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,160 of like, large piece of war for this game, yeah. 1236 01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,120 Well, and then some of the other classes like the disgraced Noble 1237 01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:38,200 is literally one that like lost their immortality, which is 1238 01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,080 dope. The strike organized is cool 1239 01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,760 because that's sick. But then one of the other ones 1240 01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:47,640 is, oh, the oathbrook and executioner was another one that 1241 01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:50,080 was like high up on my list but the the God on the run. 1242 01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:53,000 So there's like three classes where you're either haunting a 1243 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,520 God or a God, or used to have the mortality and lost it. 1244 01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:00,000 Like so fucking cool. Yeah, I really like the God, The 1245 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,840 God on the run. I I definitely created a 1246 01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,240 character concept for that one. I. 1247 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,720 Don't know why Starfire popped in my head and as soon as I read 1248 01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,080 that. Like the? 1249 01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,840 Teen Titan. Yeah, 'cause she's like super 1250 01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,080 powerful but like kind of dumb. And like when they read, when 1251 01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,960 you read the part it like, I feel like part of it's just 1252 01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:25,280 like, what is it? There's one that basically it it 1253 01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,400 basically says like you like you had to be explained. 1254 01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,840 Like someone had explained to you that, like being a God is 1255 01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,360 not normal, you know what I mean? 1256 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:46,040 Like, but yeah. Had a cat crying at the door. 1257 01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:47,000 Sorry. Oh yeah. 1258 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,920 For a long time you thought your life was perfectly normal. 1259 01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,440 Which of your fellow low lives had to be the one to explain 1260 01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:52,720 that? Most people aren't the product 1261 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,040 of celestial intervention, So I don't know why that popped my 1262 01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,360 head for someone to just be like, wait a minute, you can't 1263 01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:03,120 do this magic. You know, like, yeah. 1264 01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:04,440 Anyway, yeah, all of them are good. 1265 01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:06,600 Like, we can literally sit and read like all fucking 22 of 1266 01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:07,600 them. They would all be fucking 1267 01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:08,440 bangers. They're. 1268 01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:14,200 All bangers, there's like, there's no misses that all the 1269 01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:19,800 general deals hit OK, so invent your magic domain and patron. 1270 01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,480 This is another point in the game that I love. 1271 01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:29,120 This is very much of me like so. For your magic domain, you 1272 01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,240 basically just. Pick. 1273 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:35,400 What kind of magic that you do, and it can be related to your 1274 01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,560 general deal. It doesn't have to be, but it 1275 01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:41,160 will dictate what you can deal with, right? 1276 01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,040 I like their example a lot. I was just going to say that I 1277 01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:46,520 was hoping you were going to read the example. 1278 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:51,000 Yeah, so the nature of your domain may make certain 1279 01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:52,760 applications of magic impossible. 1280 01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,920 Great. You cannot melt a steel door 1281 01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:57,720 with the turn of domain, for instance. 1282 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,480 On the other hand, a lowlife with the magma domain would 1283 01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,640 almost certainly have better chance, and I couldn't think of 1284 01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,120 a better example to give than that one. 1285 01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:12,040 It is perfect and I like that taking a domain immediately 1286 01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:16,520 limits you because I think like limitations and rules give you 1287 01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,800 space to be really creative. Oh, how's. 1288 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:22,600 That. What's that? 1289 01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:28,320 Nothing but yeah. So that's that's that's your 1290 01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,280 domain, dude. I I don't know if I've ever 1291 01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:32,440 actually tasted turnip. Hmm. 1292 01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:39,040 Hmm, yeah. And it kind of gives an example 1293 01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:44,200 of like, you know, what is the school dropout? 1294 01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,080 I may have something that sounds like college magic or like a 1295 01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:48,600 college major. And then like, you know, the 1296 01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:51,440 oath Broken Executioner, which I'm surprised is not one of the 1297 01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:52,880 ones you picked. It would have some. 1298 01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:54,840 It was my #3. I just forgot it. 1299 01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:55,360 OK. Yeah. 1300 01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,840 I like it says probably have a kind of gothic word salad. 1301 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,440 What's interesting because everybody can have magic, so 1302 01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:09,800 like every single one of these can get like the astronaut. 1303 01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,080 Like there's an example later that has like star magic and 1304 01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:14,720 shit, but like even like the bicycle mechanic and like the 1305 01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,080 Rogue Intelligence, like having first of all being able to do 1306 01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:19,920 whatever. Because it's also like, it's 1307 01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:22,320 cool if your Rogue intelligence magic has to do with Rogue 1308 01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,720 Intelligence, but it's also cool if your Rogue intelligence magic 1309 01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:28,640 is like pillows, like you know. Absolutely, yeah. 1310 01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,840 They're starting pillow fights all the time, landing softly out 1311 01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:39,120 of any window you jump out of. I can make that work, Yeah. 1312 01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:40,800 And. Then like the Like the the, the 1313 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:46,120 fucking when when on community when they wrapped Pierce up in 1314 01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,160 all those pillows and had like a pillow golem, you know? 1315 01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:56,680 I haven't seen that episode, but yeah, listen, I've seen several 1316 01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:02,280 episodes patrons, so I read this as this is option, right? 1317 01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,320 You may choose to begin with a patron and. 1318 01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:09,160 Basically because you can find them later if you want like. 1319 01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,080 Yes. So a patient is represented by a 1320 01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:20,040 risk dye usually well here and you can call on them for for aid 1321 01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:23,200 essentially. And if you roll a one or two 1322 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,800 decide the die size goes down and you can do a mission for 1323 01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:33,000 them to increase that die size. And I like that. 1324 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,480 I think it's really cool and I think for some of the 1325 01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:39,080 personally, well, I think of patrons I think of like warlock 1326 01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:44,800 magic that one tried game. And for some of these general 1327 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,360 deals I as a player I wouldn't require this as if I'm the GM. 1328 01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,160 But I as a player will probably be like why does my person have 1329 01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:53,320 magic. I'd probably pick a patron to 1330 01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:57,560 fill in that like why does my whatever bicycle mechanic or 1331 01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,160 astronaut have magic or whatever. 1332 01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,160 But once again, it's not really like you don't have to, but I 1333 01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:07,080 think it adds like like a fun like element to like man, I 1334 01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:10,960 pissed off my patron or hates help, you know, well. 1335 01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:16,359 That's one thing I did like about playing Warlocks in that 1336 01:08:16,359 --> 01:08:23,479 other game is kind of it's it's one of the only ways that 5 E 1337 01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:30,920 does what this does the entire time, which is to put lore into 1338 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:34,920 the game, give you narrative flavor versus just being like 1339 01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,240 terrible. But the. 1340 01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:38,520 Only good thing about the warlock though. 1341 01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:41,279 Yeah. So is that your your patron 1342 01:08:41,279 --> 01:08:45,120 gives you so much narrative flavor for you and your GM to 1343 01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,479 work with that? Like it's it's just fun, you 1344 01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:48,960 know? Especially if you're a GM that, 1345 01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:50,800 like, bucks with you, with it, it's so much fun. 1346 01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,680 Which I would totally do. I would absolutely. 1347 01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:54,279 You have. To it would. 1348 01:08:54,359 --> 01:08:58,120 It would be a double edged sword that yeah, I mean they can help 1349 01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:01,000 you, but also they have their own agenda and you're just a 1350 01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:04,680 tool in their own larger agenda. But people forget that all the 1351 01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:06,279 time. People forget that intelligent 1352 01:09:06,279 --> 01:09:08,720 swords have personalities that can fuck with people all the 1353 01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:10,399 time, too. You're like 10 episodes later 1354 01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:13,479 and just like, oh shit, like, Oh yeah, your guy talks again. 1355 01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:14,720 Oh, I guess he's been quiet. You know what? 1356 01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:17,240 I mean like, I don't know. There is a section, though, like 1357 01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,279 the next the very end of that says like they're often more 1358 01:09:20,279 --> 01:09:22,319 trouble than they're worth, and that's the reason why it's 1359 01:09:22,319 --> 01:09:25,359 because they will they. Never know when a little extra 1360 01:09:25,359 --> 01:09:27,000 planar intervention will come in hand. 1361 01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,240 Yeah, I would absolutely use this. 1362 01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:34,279 I would encourage my my table to use this, but once again I would 1363 01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:36,720 treat this as an optional thing which I is how it's written. 1364 01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:42,279 I would say that I would not do it in the first game. 1365 01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:47,160 I would add that in when people are comfortable, which I think 1366 01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:48,720 would only take like a session or two. 1367 01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:54,480 Yeah, yeah. Record your starting dice and 1368 01:09:54,480 --> 01:09:59,000 your brand. Your lowlife begins with a I'm 1369 01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,640 just going to say brand. I'm not saying hashtag brand, 1370 01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:04,280 whatever. What your lowlife begins with 1371 01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:10,800 hit die of the D6A, magic die D4 and a Marshall die of D6, and a 1372 01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:14,800 phone battery at D8 in the Brand of Zero. 1373 01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:17,680 You don't roll these right now, just write them down. 1374 01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:20,440 They're basically just the dice you use for those things. 1375 01:10:21,440 --> 01:10:27,600 And then just choose two bonuses, which I guess it's just 1376 01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:28,800 right as you create your character, right. 1377 01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,680 I was kind of reading this at one point in time like this is 1378 01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:32,080 like leveling up, but this is just right. 1379 01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:34,000 When you create your character, you can choose two of these 1380 01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,160 bonuses. You can't repeat though as be 1381 01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:40,440 one like two different bonuses. This upgrading an ash group from 1382 01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:42,160 zero to one. I think it's really great. 1383 01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:45,160 I think it's like specific to instead of just plus one to an 1384 01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:46,800 attribute. It's like know if you have a 1385 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:50,520 zero you can make it a one. Which is I think better because 1386 01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,320 it keeps somebody from getting like a + 3 right off the bat if 1387 01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:54,640 they have don't already have one. 1388 01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:58,920 Yeah, write down another magic domain, which is the one I would 1389 01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,440 take because it gives you another way to problem solve 1390 01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:04,760 situations. You can upgrade your hit die to 1391 01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:07,120 from D6D8. Upgrade your magic die actually 1392 01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:09,440 that one, that'd be the one from D4 to D6. 1393 01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,520 Or upgrade your Marshall die from D6 to D8. 1394 01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:17,160 Next is recording your starting HPMP and load. 1395 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,880 Your HP is just the number of sides on your hit die. 1396 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,720 So if you have a hit die of AD six, it's six, so. 1397 01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,320 But you can get you can get more Hit Die. 1398 01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:29,760 Totally, yeah. You can increase your hit die. 1399 01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:33,440 I mean it just in this, if you take the bonus, you have AD 8. 1400 01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,360 Yeah. Your MP is equal to Wisdom plus 1401 01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:42,000 Charisma. Yeah, your your starting carry 1402 01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,640 is 10 plus strength plus Con. That's how many items you can 1403 01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:51,840 have in your inventory and enroll for starting inventory. 1404 01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,640 This is great. This is a fantastic part. 1405 01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:58,680 Basically, you're given a full spread of of dice, right? 1406 01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:01,240 One of each size D4 all the way to D20. 1407 01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,680 There are several starting inventory tables, all of them go 1408 01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:09,640 to 20 and you pick which of those dice you will roll on each 1409 01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:11,920 table. I mean, you can only use the D20 1410 01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:15,640 ones, you can only use the D12 ones, and the tables are made so 1411 01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:19,800 that the lower or the higher than the numerical value on 1412 01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:22,160 table the way better the items get. 1413 01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,200 Yeah, but you're this is another thing that just like, I mean I 1414 01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,960 know this is how dice work, but my brain went, this is so clever 1415 01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:34,160 in the same way that like you don't have to have a bunch of 1416 01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,320 separate tables for a bunch of different dice, because dice can 1417 01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:39,280 only go so high anyway. So you just write the table so 1418 01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,240 that the D fours get certain shit, the D sixes, the D eights 1419 01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:46,320 the D2. But if you have AD 20 you could 1420 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,520 still roll A1. So like it's just really, really 1421 01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,920 clever. Again, the way that that kind of 1422 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:57,400 thought and mechanic goes from the Chronicle wrist dye usage 1423 01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:03,000 throughout everything. And I love the way that like, 1424 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:07,000 your little dice are only so big, but your big dice can roll 1425 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:08,800 super bad too and be just as equal. 1426 01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,920 So, like, I I really enjoy that. The whole there's definitely. 1427 01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:14,560 It's funny that we opened this with like, yeah, they made this 1428 01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:16,360 when they were like more hobbyists and now it's like a 1429 01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,720 full thing that they do. But like, it's still there's 1430 01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:20,480 like an incredible through line of logic. 1431 01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:24,760 Oh, in this that I'm like, oh, this was definitely written 1432 01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,200 hobbyists or not, at the time that they wrote this, they had a 1433 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:28,880 really good idea what they were doing. 1434 01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:32,560 And I mean, there's a through line of logic from almost 1435 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,600 everything you know. Fantastic. 1436 01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,600 Again, we said. This is really good as is and 1437 01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,880 could be absolutely fantastic. Like the core mechanics, the 1438 01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,520 core language, like almost everything through. 1439 01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:48,280 I just think rearranging, chopping off a bunch of 1440 01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:51,800 unnecessary like verbiage, and this is insane. 1441 01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:56,400 Put it in a hardback fancy foil. I would love to have this as a 1442 01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:57,640 hardback. I'd love to have this 1443 01:13:57,640 --> 01:13:59,360 physically. I mean, I I mean, this is 1444 01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:04,240 definitely, you know. I mean, listen, I have to have. 1445 01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:06,000 No, no more. We'll just have to have. 1446 01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:09,320 Gym room on and chat about it until we starts to drop. 1447 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:11,920 I would love that. I mean let's. 1448 01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,840 Call this 0 E and the next one is 1 E and then I will fight 1449 01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:17,240 them physically. So the. 1450 01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:18,720 Tables. Right. 1451 01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,320 The inventory tables are as follows. 1452 01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,000 There's tools and food, drugs, medical and recreation. 1453 01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:27,120 So that. Sorry. 1454 01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:29,560 That's by the way. Drugs, comma medical and 1455 01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:34,240 recreation, recreational magic, consumables, weapons, armor, 1456 01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,680 reputations and favor and haunted heirlooms. 1457 01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:43,040 And this is these tables hit like there's some really, really 1458 01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:47,080 great stuff on all these tables and they're very open-ended. 1459 01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:50,080 Maybe not so much like. Tools and food like those are 1460 01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,440 pretty apparent, right? You you guys kind of know. 1461 01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:56,000 Well, you know, a terrarium full of beetles maybe is not as open 1462 01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:58,680 or is not as apparent. Great. 1463 01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:02,880 Cold brew. Some really funny one. 1464 01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:09,760 Her magical sumo's like, you know, 19's a dying star or a 1465 01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:12,880 sack of extra planar tentacles. You know I do like. 1466 01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:14,920 That. They deal with items in the way 1467 01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:16,160 that I prefer items to be dealt with. 1468 01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,120 There's not this express purpose or an item. 1469 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:21,000 It's like how are you using this in this scenario? 1470 01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,880 And I'm like, that's great. I I love. 1471 01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,400 That's so great. Like, greenhorns with Marco did 1472 01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,520 the same kind of thing where like, there's just cool names 1473 01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:30,120 for shit and he's like, I don't know what they fucking are. 1474 01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:32,080 You tell me. Yeah, you tell me how you. 1475 01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:37,040 So good. Also so I would love I don't 1476 01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,080 have you gone past weapons yet I haven't been watching you scold 1477 01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:42,560 No it's the next 120 gun blade the sword. 1478 01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:48,120 That's a gun. I also shot Final Fantasy 8. 1479 01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:54,320 But yeah I I mean we don't have to go through all these tables 1480 01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,800 but like you should get this. You should go to these tables 1481 01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:57,720 they're enjoyable to read. I. 1482 01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:05,640 Mean The number one on armor is a parasol like, but then you 1483 01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,520 also have like a beanie knit by a witch and a helmet with a 1484 01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:11,280 mustache. I mean, these are so fucking 1485 01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:15,280 good. A reputation and favors though 1486 01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:21,200 is a really, I mean a really cool table. 1487 01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:25,120 Like, yeah, your person exists in this world and you get to 1488 01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,360 roll on like, OK, you have a reputation or or favors. 1489 01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,480 Like, I too. I really love, like, half your 1490 01:16:31,480 --> 01:16:35,320 family is werewolves, yeah. Like it's not even it doesn't 1491 01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,520 say have. It says like half your family is 1492 01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:39,000 werewolf. Like half your family is 1493 01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:40,920 werewolf. One is really funny. 1494 01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:45,400 Dared not to do drugs. We're not going to get into DARE 1495 01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:46,720 program causes. For kids to do. 1496 01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:48,680 Drugs. But what I also think is funny 1497 01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:55,640 is Hurricane Jim comes up again later and the for you What's up? 1498 01:16:56,480 --> 01:16:57,840 He said he'll fight anyone for you. 1499 01:16:58,040 --> 01:16:58,600 You. Know. 1500 01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:00,920 And that comes. That comes up later in in the 1501 01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,080 fucking. I love it in the combat examples 1502 01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:05,000 and shit. Hurricane Jim comes back and 1503 01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,720 they give some examples of bad guys and shit and you see the 1504 01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:10,520 dragon punchers again, So I like that. 1505 01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:13,680 Yeah, because this dragon puncher, this game is such a 1506 01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:16,280 labor of love. Like it is just so enjoyable to 1507 01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,160 go through. It cracks me up. 1508 01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:20,400 Yeah. I think some of the other ones 1509 01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:23,600 is like a really great, a really great one's. 15, Sorry, we can 1510 01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,200 move past the table after this, but 15? 1511 01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:28,080 You drank from the goblet of night and live. 1512 01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:29,840 Oh my God. What does that mean? 1513 01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:32,360 Oh my God, that's so cool. It's so. 1514 01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,080 Cool. But I I will say the The Haunted 1515 01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,280 Heirlooms are some of my favorite fucking shit. 1516 01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:39,400 Dude, they're really good. Which one kind of stands out to 1517 01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:41,880 you? Oh my God, you can't even. 1518 01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:49,720 Like, some of them are just like, so like like that goblin, 1519 01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:53,440 a knight thing, right. So like a bullet that has fit 1520 01:17:53,440 --> 01:17:55,520 and no gun that you can find to me. 1521 01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,120 Like, like so fucking like, Oh yeah, you got me. 1522 01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:04,400 But then, like, you literally can have like or like cuttings 1523 01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:06,360 of the ultraviolet rows. Insane. 1524 01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,800 But cuttings of the ultraviolet rows? 1525 01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,400 It's so somatic. It just feels like something 1526 01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:15,760 important, you know? But then, but then you get a 1527 01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,640 license to drive in the state of Post Ohio, because apparently 1528 01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,560 Post Ohio is a thing and we're in the states now in this 1529 01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,000 fantasy world. But the switchblade that only 1530 01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:28,680 opens for the Prince, Prince of thieves whom you are not sad 1531 01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:33,120 face is definitely is definitely up there because it definitely 1532 01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:38,600 has a Sad Face emoticon. 01. What the doll head did is. 1533 01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:41,760 Never where you left it last. Oh my. 1534 01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:45,440 God, a creepy doll head Fucking Elf on the Shelf. 1535 01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:48,080 Fuck that. I would hunt that thing. 1536 01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:54,080 Yeah, it's so funny. Like, I know we we like divided 1537 01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,320 up this episode to Ryan and I would be like really dialed in 1538 01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:57,960 for going through like our parts and it. 1539 01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:00,120 But there's just so much that you're just like, but we should 1540 01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:01,880 just walk through this real quick, you know? 1541 01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:03,680 Yeah. Well, no, because some of the 1542 01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:07,200 some of the parts, like these two or three chapters where you 1543 01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,160 get read a ton and then we can just skim the rest of it like 1544 01:19:09,440 --> 01:19:10,960 the fuck. Like I said, like the dice shit, 1545 01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:12,960 that's two pages where you're like, no, fuck that. 1546 01:19:13,480 --> 01:19:15,680 Yeah. So two things were the goals. 1547 01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:19,480 This is great, and I very much agree with this. 1548 01:19:19,480 --> 01:19:22,880 It basically says like, listen, you're you're low left should 1549 01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,160 have a goal and the goal should probably be a little bit more 1550 01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:26,880 than, just like the accumulation of wealth. 1551 01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:29,760 And achievable. Yeah, and it should be 1552 01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:31,600 achievable. And goals can change and add to 1553 01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:34,760 it adds depth to your character. I will say that, like, this does 1554 01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:36,800 a really good job of, like, by the time you're done making a 1555 01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:39,000 character for this game, your character is fairly 3 1556 01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:42,080 dimensional, right? More like I and I love games 1557 01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:43,880 where you're just like, yeah, you roll a random asshole and 1558 01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:45,080 you just die. But. 1559 01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:48,200 This is. A very natural and not forced 1560 01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,320 way makes a well-rounded character. 1561 01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:54,760 And and. And like we said, builds your 1562 01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:56,440 world around you, into your party. 1563 01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:58,800 Absolutely. All pretty simply. 1564 01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:03,200 Yeah and yeah, fill out your name looking vibe. 1565 01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:06,840 It sounds exactly what it looks like, your character's name, 1566 01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,240 what they look like in the Journal vibe. 1567 01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:12,440 You know. And then, yeah, a lowlife 1568 01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:15,880 profile. So this is your like both on and 1569 01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:22,760 offline presence, so you you can pick relationships, who likes 1570 01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:23,640 you? Who hates you? 1571 01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:28,960 You know, the answers of your general dilsing questions should 1572 01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:32,160 be answered here. I feel like for me personally, 1573 01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:33,960 the leading questions are going to fill out a lot of the 1574 01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:38,320 relationships. You know, your alignment, 1575 01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,400 alignment. So alignment is an access y'all. 1576 01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:44,280 Obviously we all know the classic alignment, which is jock 1577 01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:49,200 or nerd or and preppy or goth, and this is a graph that you fit 1578 01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:51,360 somewhere on. When I first read alignment I 1579 01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:53,800 was like OK and then I read that I was like, OK, this is that's 1580 01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,680 pretty good. Yeah. 1581 01:20:56,680 --> 01:21:03,960 So you roll D2D6D66 not 2D6, and then you or choose a point on 1582 01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:07,240 the graph. Your first role, you know one is 1583 01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:10,120 jock, sakes is nerds or somewhere in that spectrum and 1584 01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:14,920 like the second role is prep and goth. 1585 01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:18,280 I would love to be a gothy jock, by the way. 1586 01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,840 Dude, goth jock was the first thing about the matter. 1587 01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:24,640 I'm like, what piece of media has a goth jock? 1588 01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:28,720 Who? Is who is the? 1589 01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:33,120 Who is the starting quarterback that like rocks eyeliner and 1590 01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:36,360 listens to MCR after the game Like I can't think of one in in 1591 01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:39,040 modern in media. And we even mentioned this, but 1592 01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:41,040 this doesn't exist. There is a character pamphlet 1593 01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:43,560 like this. There's multiple pamphlets, and 1594 01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:44,880 this one's definitely for the Game Master. 1595 01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:49,480 And there's a character pamphlet as well that has the graph on 1596 01:21:49,480 --> 01:21:53,400 it. Dan's in chat just said yeah, 1597 01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:57,480 you can. The Zodiac is you draw cards in 1598 01:21:57,480 --> 01:22:00,440 the tarot deck until you have four first a star sign, second 1599 01:22:00,440 --> 01:22:03,320 is your sun sign, third is your moon, and last is your void 1600 01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:06,040 sign. I don't any of that shit means 1601 01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:09,200 that I would skip that entirely. I dude, listen, my characters 1602 01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:13,920 are doing it at my table. Yeah, I was reading it. 1603 01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:18,200 It is the magic of astrologers that can bring their influence 1604 01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:19,960 to bear. Talking about your star signs, 1605 01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:23,640 the magic of astrologers. Your blood type. 1606 01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,200 You can roll your blood type. I love the blood type. 1607 01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:27,680 Blood type. Catch me the fuck up. 1608 01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:32,240 Yeah, yeah. Be sure to donate when you get 1609 01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:35,400 the chance. Hey, the transfusion you receive 1610 01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:42,960 when you're limp home, missing an arm Could be your own when 1611 01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:44,320 you limp home. I'm I can read? 1612 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,160 I will say and the only I love this table. 1613 01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:51,600 I love it because it's six options and I don't know if they 1614 01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:55,400 had to go with six options and there's not six blood options. 1615 01:22:55,400 --> 01:23:00,440 There aren't there's only four. So they added the, the OR the. 1616 01:23:00,440 --> 01:23:01,520 I'm sorry, there's five, there's four. 1617 01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:04,320 They added X and Omega. Yeah. 1618 01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:08,200 And then the modifiers positive, negative but then you have 1619 01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:11,560 double, extreme, chimeric and blue. 1620 01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,160 Give me that Omega. Extreme chimeric is cool. 1621 01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:19,760 Like, I'm like, Oh yeah, I have AB chimeric blood, Yeah. 1622 01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:23,760 Omega Blue. I mean also our our our blood's 1623 01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:25,960 blue in this area. As a person who knows blood and 1624 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:29,160 blood types and shit like that, I wouldn't have minded if this 1625 01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:36,640 was a 2D6 table 2:00 to 12:00 with the most common blood in 1626 01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:40,080 the middle because that would actually make your like if you 1627 01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:44,040 need a blood transfusion even more like fucking random. 1628 01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:47,000 Like obviously like a positive is 33% of the entire human 1629 01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:50,480 fucking population, the most common blood type out there, but 1630 01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:53,720 having it on a 2D6 spectrum where the most Commons in the 1631 01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:57,080 middle and like timeric and fucking extreme or on like the 1632 01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,800 far ends would be really interesting. 1633 01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:03,000 Yeah, I could see that being very cool. 1634 01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:05,320 That does seem like a like a you thing. 1635 01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:09,440 You'd also need like five more blood types, but like, you know, 1636 01:24:09,440 --> 01:24:15,400 whatever. You just don't. 1637 01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:21,440 Yeah, next is Dating Profile. Dude, fuck yeah, I'm rolling on 1638 01:24:21,440 --> 01:24:21,880 this one. Do. 1639 01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:25,760 You want to roll real quick? I'll read that. 1640 01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:26,200 You roll. Yeah. 1641 01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:27,440 Yeah. So you know, perhaps your 1642 01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:31,320 lowlife is looking for someone. Romantic love, deep friendship, 1643 01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:34,440 or a worthy opponent in ritual combat. 1644 01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:37,280 Your dating profile helps you define what you seek. 1645 01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:41,080 You fill this out by rolling D666. 1646 01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,280 Or you can choose what by what feels right. 1647 01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:45,880 Please roll because it's hilarious. 1648 01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:51,840 Yeah, and write in an answer if the option presented failed to 1649 01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:55,360 capture your desires. Yeah. 1650 01:24:56,640 --> 01:25:00,760 Legit. 235 best possible combination of anything you can 1651 01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:05,240 get on here. So a soft goth long term 1652 01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:07,760 relationship that's real sweet So. 1653 01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,760 One of those. Those soft. 1654 01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:16,560 Really good. I like that trial by combat is. 1655 01:25:17,760 --> 01:25:20,080 Is that you're seeking give. You a hard, George. 1656 01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:25,840 Drive by combat, Yeah, yeah. I'm looking for an Eldridge nerd 1657 01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:31,240 for trial by combat, you know? Yeah, music preference, which 1658 01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:34,880 has some, like, fun and weird options. 1659 01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:38,120 Your criminal record, we can just kind of like, skim. 1660 01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:43,040 There's a lot of good things. And once again, like by the end 1661 01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:47,360 of this, I have a really good idea of who my character is. 1662 01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:53,360 You know for sure. And then we get to combat. 1663 01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:55,600 Then we get to combat. Yeah, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna, 1664 01:25:55,600 --> 01:25:57,200 I'm gonna. This is going to be one that we 1665 01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,920 cruise a little bit quicker. I will say I have notes. 1666 01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:03,280 Players familiar with other tabletop RPGs maybe use 1667 01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:05,880 mechanics such as an initiative that dictate the flow of a 1668 01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:08,000 fight. Hamantic low lives favors a 1669 01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,280 faster, looser approach. This can be tricky to wrap one 1670 01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:16,240 Ted around. So my, my, I think my issue with 1671 01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:20,600 combat. I have issues with combat. 1672 01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:22,480 So let's go through it and we'll talk about. 1673 01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,680 It's not how it works, it's just some of the ways that it's 1674 01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:28,000 described So broadly, A fight is a series of attribute checks in 1675 01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,000 a chaotic environment that you share with at least one other 1676 01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:31,920 person who is really upset with you for some reason. 1677 01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:34,800 I love the way it's written. An example of combat can be 1678 01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:40,520 found in section 11/6. It's not hyperlinked, but like 1679 01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:46,480 if this is the combat section, put the example of combat right 1680 01:26:46,480 --> 01:26:50,520 here. A fight breaks out in the 1681 01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:53,120 fiction negotiation. Sour ambushes sprung to fins. 1682 01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:55,800 Realize that they are on a bound to fight to death all the good 1683 01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,040 stuff, etcetera, etcetera. GM creates a hit die pool for 1684 01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:00,720 the NPCS. This is discussed in depth in 1685 01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,560 section 11.1. But broadly, the bigger your 1686 01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:07,880 foe, the more dice they get, and the better your foe, the more 1687 01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:11,760 sides their dice have. We freeze time, describe the 1688 01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:14,120 scene, the GMs, the low lives, what they want to do, and then 1689 01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:15,840 one or more low lives. Declare their intent approach 1690 01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:17,400 and it's handled an attribute check. 1691 01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:21,040 So my issue with this whole section, once that's resolved, 1692 01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:23,280 the gene describes the situation and the results you repeat 1693 01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,600 etcetera etcetera. One of my issues with the with 1694 01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:29,080 the this whole section is this is when it really starts being 1695 01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:32,520 like but go here, but go here but go here and I'm like that 1696 01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:36,920 makes a really incoherent way to do this like. 1697 01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:40,400 So it basically says example of the combat can be found in 1698 01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,840 section 11/6. Just put it here, there's 1699 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:47,360 talking about NPCS in combat. You could also just put this 1700 01:27:47,360 --> 01:27:51,360 here and then it says like one of our low lives, declare their 1701 01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:53,880 intent and approach which is handled by attribute check which 1702 01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:58,560 is on section 2.3 which I it would take very little to just 1703 01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:03,080 reiterate that here. And then there's another part on 1704 01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:06,280 repeat where it talks about the the morale pool, which is the 1705 01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:09,040 section 11 point 5.1, which could just be here. 1706 01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:14,080 We do this until low lives or NPCS flee, and then from the NPC 1707 01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,800 perspective see section 11. This is one of those things 1708 01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:22,040 where like I wouldn't mind if some of the language here was 1709 01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:24,800 like doubled up here and at the end of the NPC section. 1710 01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,360 Or like one of the sections had it really well, but then another 1711 01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:30,120 section kind of had like the summary of it. 1712 01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:33,320 But to just be like this happens, but go over here for 1713 01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:35,600 the section for it when I'm like just give me the comment and the 1714 01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:36,640 comment I think. There's too much of it. 1715 01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:41,400 Personally I think like saying like the the NPC stuff being 1716 01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:44,280 like oh if you want to look at that, that's over there and the 1717 01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:47,120 rest of this being in here and also like inline hyperlinking 1718 01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:50,720 the whatever 11 point 5.1 or whatever it was. 1719 01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:53,880 Yeah. But yeah, I think morale pool 1720 01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:56,080 and stuff should be it is a little bit like go here, go 1721 01:28:56,080 --> 01:29:01,560 there, go here. Yeah, and some of the wording 1722 01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:03,040 for some of it when we get to later stuff too. 1723 01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,680 So this is like a breakdown of how like the general flow of a 1724 01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:09,960 thing goes, but like when I read it like I get it but it could be 1725 01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:11,640 written in a completely different way they would. 1726 01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:13,040 Be thinking you need a flow chart. 1727 01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:16,280 Oh dude, a flow chart would be insane for this. 1728 01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,040 God, it would be so good. I know we do have flow charts 1729 01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:23,000 here, but they also like, I keep seeing more flow charts in 1730 01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:24,560 games. I'm like, oh, this is really 1731 01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:26,240 good. Yes, so good. 1732 01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:28,680 It's so good. But like a lot of this is, 1733 01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:32,440 there's like 123456, there's seven bullet points to basically 1734 01:29:32,440 --> 01:29:35,960 just be like it's an attribute check. 1735 01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:39,840 Like people start fighting, people do the attribute check 1736 01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:43,160 thing and then you do it again. I just, I feel like there's just 1737 01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:46,280 too many words here and too many redirects to other areas. 1738 01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:48,400 Cuz this to me, this section here right in me is like, 1739 01:29:48,640 --> 01:29:53,760 basically this is how it works. Check these four other spots and 1740 01:29:53,760 --> 01:29:56,200 then you'll get it. I just don't like that. 1741 01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,320 I, I if you're gonna tell me how combat works, tell me how combat 1742 01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:00,160 works. Mm hmm. 1743 01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:04,680 You know, mm hmm. 5.1 attacking. Attacking with a weapon is made 1744 01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,520 using an attribute check per 2.3. 1745 01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:11,280 Again, I don't mind necessarily saying go back to 2.3, but it 1746 01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:15,640 also only takes like four more words to be like 2 to 6 plus 1747 01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:17,000 modifier. You know what I mean? 1748 01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:19,040 Like I don't. Yeah. 1749 01:30:19,480 --> 01:30:24,400 I personally I I would just I would just keep it like this and 1750 01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:28,240 put and I would bold attribute check and be like do you want to 1751 01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:29,560 learn how attribute check works Like go back. 1752 01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:31,800 This one I'm actually OK with because I don't think they need 1753 01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:33,880 to write out. Attribute check is laid out 1754 01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:37,000 early on, you don't need to be super explained about it again. 1755 01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:41,720 Right. But we're. 60 pages later in the 1756 01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:44,680 book and it's going to talk about it a lot in this section. 1757 01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:47,120 I wouldn't mind even just at the beginning. 1758 01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:50,120 Maybe one box that just explained. 1759 01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:52,120 Attribute check again at the beginning of the chapter. 1760 01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:55,040 So like yeah, link back to 2.3 if you want to read it more 1761 01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:56,360 thoroughly. But like when you hit the 1762 01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:58,080 section and you're like combat is basically a bunch of 1763 01:30:58,080 --> 01:30:59,760 attribute checks. Let me give you a little side 1764 01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:02,560 box that says remember this attribute check works. 1765 01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:06,280 Then I don't have to like reference it again and again and 1766 01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:07,560 again. Especially if I have pocket. 1767 01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:09,480 Like a little a side, a little box on the side. 1768 01:31:09,480 --> 01:31:11,920 Like just a box. That just explains it again 1769 01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:15,400 without having to be like flip back to this other one. 1770 01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:19,400 So attacking declare a target and the attribute you're gonna 1771 01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:20,760 use. And then there's the make 1772 01:31:20,760 --> 01:31:23,640 success level six or less. You do not deal damage. 1773 01:31:23,640 --> 01:31:25,920 You suffer consequence 7 to 9. Partial success. 1774 01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:28,360 You deal damage, but suffer consequence 10 or more. 1775 01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:30,680 Full success. You hit getaway, clean 12 or 1776 01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:32,880 more crit. You hit, You gain a benefit as 1777 01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:35,000 well. On a success, roll the die 1778 01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:37,240 associated with that weapon to see how much damage has been 1779 01:31:37,240 --> 01:31:38,360 dealt. We'll get to that too. 1780 01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:42,400 Consequences while attacking. Critical successes while 1781 01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:46,120 attacking. This is important sections. 1782 01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:51,960 I don't know why I feel like again there there's just a lot 1783 01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:53,400 of words. The consequences you may suffer 1784 01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,880 for a miss or partial success should bet the context of the 1785 01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:57,560 action. For example, common consequences 1786 01:31:57,560 --> 01:32:00,560 might be granting advantage your foe, rolling your weapons, risk 1787 01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:02,880 with the disadvantage, or even granting your foe. 1788 01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,000 Actually, no, it's great. It's sue sentences, it's fine. 1789 01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:06,880 I think maybe it's just the way that it's like broken apart. 1790 01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:10,280 It makes me feel like it's more success while attacking. 1791 01:32:10,280 --> 01:32:15,600 Same thing there's there's there's an example rolling the 1792 01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:17,720 weapons at risk, die with advantage, never goes out of 1793 01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:19,880 style, but it may be appropriate to grant an advantage to the 1794 01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,320 next attacker, position the phone in your hazard or open an 1795 01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:24,800 opportunity to parlay. So one of the things about this 1796 01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:31,200 is it really lends into the PBTA style of combat a little bit. 1797 01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:35,880 But I again like I feel like the original, the, the the beginning 1798 01:32:35,880 --> 01:32:40,880 exam like talk through combat sounds like OSR combat but then 1799 01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:43,760 we get into these other areas where like your consequences and 1800 01:32:43,760 --> 01:32:47,960 and successes and things like that you're not really like you 1801 01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:51,320 don't really take damage in this area and that's not really 1802 01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:53,440 explained super great and we'll get to that in a second. 1803 01:32:53,440 --> 01:32:57,160 Improvised weapons, they exist. Improvised weapons are prone to 1804 01:32:57,160 --> 01:32:59,400 breaking especially when the die associated with your improvised 1805 01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:02,760 weapon comes up as A1 or A2. So basically I would just rock 1806 01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:04,560 those as like one hit and it's done. 1807 01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:08,040 The uses die is AD 4 to start, basically protection. 1808 01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:09,680 I do like this. This is clever. 1809 01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:13,080 The piece of gear you are using for protection absorbs damage 1810 01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:14,720 equal to half the largest number. 1811 01:33:15,120 --> 01:33:17,840 So for example, if you are wearing D4 armor, notice that 1812 01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:21,000 that is not a delta. Right. 1813 01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:25,240 Because armor, equipment, things like that aren't user die, wrist 1814 01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:30,120 eye, wrist eye, user die. For example, if you are wearing 1815 01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:33,960 D4 armor and take five points of damage, your armor absorbs 2 and 1816 01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:37,560 your HP goes down by three. So if you have D12 armor, you 1817 01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:40,640 can absorb 6 points of damage. You get half of what the high 1818 01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:41,600 dye is. I like that. 1819 01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,200 I think it's clever, it's smart. Again, it's consistent. 1820 01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:46,840 Yeah, yes. So this is the part that I 1821 01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,840 really dislike. I was wondering how you would 1822 01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:51,120 feel about this? Hate it. 1823 01:33:51,160 --> 01:33:53,960 Hate it. So much so, it's hard to get a 1824 01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:55,680 good night's sleep in your armor, even when it's 1825 01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:57,440 comfortable clothes or the magical attunement. 1826 01:33:57,440 --> 01:34:00,960 To gain the HP and NB benefits of a night's rest, you have to 1827 01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:03,080 take your armor off. There's a later part that says 1828 01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:04,880 if you sleep in magical armor, it gives you nightmares. 1829 01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:09,560 I hate this. And let me explain why I don't. 1830 01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:13,320 I don't hate it in like on its own. 1831 01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:16,040 In the context of the rest of the game, where a lot of things 1832 01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:19,600 are like you don't need to worry about food and water, you're a 1833 01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:21,120 grown up human fucking being. Like. 1834 01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:23,920 So much stuff is obscured away, like where it's just like it 1835 01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:27,280 doesn't really matter. It this feels like such a weird 1836 01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:30,320 thing to be like, we're going to be very specific about your HP 1837 01:34:30,320 --> 01:34:32,640 and MP games when you're wearing armor. 1838 01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:34,960 Not even just armor about magical armor. 1839 01:34:35,240 --> 01:34:39,440 It just feels like a thing that it doesn't, It feels out of 1840 01:34:39,440 --> 01:34:41,680 place, like it. Like when I read this, I was 1841 01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:44,280 like, this is probably the only game in the game that I would 1842 01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:46,560 like. And I'm like, it just doesn't 1843 01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:49,160 feel like it fits the rest of the five of everything else. 1844 01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:51,320 Which is pretty much, let's make this as easy as possible. 1845 01:34:51,480 --> 01:34:55,080 Let's abstract a bunch of stuff, but let's get super specific 1846 01:34:55,080 --> 01:34:58,160 about how you sleep in armor and I'm like, soldiers fall asleep 1847 01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:00,880 standing up in full fucking gear all the time, right? 1848 01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:04,240 Like, you know. I was just, it's interesting 1849 01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:06,200 when you were going to go through like the five, like 1850 01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:09,080 Section 5, like Chapter 5, There's a few things that I'm 1851 01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:11,400 wondering in your opinion on and we'll get to them as we keep 1852 01:35:11,400 --> 01:35:14,240 going through. Yeah, but I don't like that. 1853 01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:17,080 I I wouldn't use it. I like the example earlier where 1854 01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:20,040 they talk about like donning and doffing Armor is important when 1855 01:35:20,040 --> 01:35:22,040 it's important, but I'm like, I just want to make it important, 1856 01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,240 like who gives a shit? It just feel, like I said it 1857 01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:27,680 feels like a weird thing that so much other stuff is abstracted 1858 01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:31,120 in that specific Marshall training, the finest speeder in 1859 01:35:31,120 --> 01:35:33,600 the hands of a novice might as well be a stick, etcetera, 1860 01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:35,320 etcetera. I love this actually for the 1861 01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:37,040 armor. So basically it says you start 1862 01:35:37,040 --> 01:35:38,440 with the Marshall training of D6. 1863 01:35:38,440 --> 01:35:42,040 No matter what your weapon is, all of your shits based on your 1864 01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:44,800 Marshall die. So the largest die size you can 1865 01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:47,480 use for a weapon or armor, like that's all it is. 1866 01:35:47,480 --> 01:35:50,560 You can actually have AD 12 blade, you can have D12 armor. 1867 01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:53,840 Like all that stuff doesn't like it doesn't matter unless you're 1868 01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:56,320 training reaches that. You can't peek at it anyway. 1869 01:35:56,320 --> 01:36:00,200 You're still just using a six. So if you have AD 12 blade, you 1870 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:03,040 still only roll the D6 dice unless you roll your Marshall to 1871 01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:05,200 an 8 and then you roll DA blade. I love that. 1872 01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:07,120 I think it's super clever. I was this is one of the 1873 01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:08,360 sections I was wondering in your opinion. 1874 01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:09,520 Yeah. I like. 1875 01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:12,000 Armor. Yeah armor armor is the same 1876 01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:14,440 way. Like you can rock super amazing 1877 01:36:14,440 --> 01:36:17,880 D10D12 armor, but it's still only going to absorb if you're 1878 01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:20,840 Marshall dies D6 it only absorbs 3 basically. 1879 01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:24,040 I think this is such a clever way to just be like yes, you can 1880 01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:27,120 use it, you're just not as good with it as you could be. 1881 01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:29,520 Like, there's a super fancy legendary blade. 1882 01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:31,640 You can swing it, but you're not gonna swing it as good as a 1883 01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:35,480 super fancy legendary warrior. But if you level up, you could 1884 01:36:35,480 --> 01:36:38,800 like you can, yes, you could eventually invest in that. 1885 01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:41,520 And I don't know. There's a lot of games that put 1886 01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:45,240 parameters around equipment usage, and there's a lot of 1887 01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:47,000 saying no. And I always think that's kind 1888 01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:48,480 of lame. But I also think it's lame that, 1889 01:36:48,480 --> 01:36:51,000 like, somebody who sucks at stuff could just pick up a God 1890 01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:53,320 weapon even though they can't. They don't know anything about 1891 01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:55,160 weapons. And this is such a great middle 1892 01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:57,040 point where it's like, yeah, absolutely, you can use 1893 01:36:57,040 --> 01:36:58,200 anything. That's totally okay. 1894 01:36:58,400 --> 01:36:59,720 You're just limited by your skill. 1895 01:37:01,440 --> 01:37:04,160 Clever, smart. I think like that built in. 1896 01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:06,480 Like you get better. Like there's a narrative thing 1897 01:37:06,480 --> 01:37:08,120 built into that dice mechanic that I really enjoy. 1898 01:37:08,120 --> 01:37:10,320 That's not written here, but it's implied here and that like 1899 01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:13,080 that, like you said, like you get better, you get better with 1900 01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:16,160 the weapon, like, you know, but and it makes sense because the 1901 01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:18,200 dice are getting bigger. Like, it's just really smart. 1902 01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:21,520 Also, I'm so happy we're finally going through this game and 1903 01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:23,880 you're talking about because I love hearing your opinion on it. 1904 01:37:25,480 --> 01:37:27,760 I love this game. Listen, I don't really give a 1905 01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,360 lot of opinions as a person. That's just. 1906 01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:34,160 Not. So so get them while you can. 1907 01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:37,560 Health, death and wounds are health, wounds and death. 1908 01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:41,400 I feel like I had opinions on this Will get to this. 1909 01:37:41,400 --> 01:37:44,320 So hit points represent how far you are from suffering a mortal 1910 01:37:44,320 --> 01:37:47,400 blow. Characters with HP are arrested, 1911 01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:49,680 lucky and stand with poise. I love this. 1912 01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:53,080 Basically HP is abstracted. HP is not a specific number of 1913 01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:55,280 wounds you take, it's not a specific number of injuries you 1914 01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:59,520 have. It literally is just how rested, 1915 01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:02,720 ready, good to go you are, or how tired, unlucky and shitty 1916 01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:04,600 you are. It's completely abstracted 1917 01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:09,680 number that your general overall mental, physical well-being like 1918 01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:12,320 everything about you. I love that idea. 1919 01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:16,520 I recently started adapting that and I love that I saw it in 1920 01:38:16,520 --> 01:38:18,280 here. HP it doesn't. 1921 01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:21,000 It's not a one for one wound situation, it's just your 1922 01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:24,920 overall general goodness. Hit dice. 1923 01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:26,840 All characters have a pool of hit dice. 1924 01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:29,440 Hit dice are used to determine how many hit points a character 1925 01:38:29,440 --> 01:38:31,240 has. Low lives begin the game with a 1926 01:38:31,240 --> 01:38:34,720 single D6 for the hit dice, but can improve number of sides and 1927 01:38:34,720 --> 01:38:38,640 quantity through advancement. I enjoy that C-section 10.2. 1928 01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:43,760 So for non player characters, hit dice determine the size and 1929 01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:47,080 quality of an individual NPC. Small, half fewer, big half, 1930 01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:49,400 larger. We'll get to that in the NPC 1931 01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:51,000 section. Damage. 1932 01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:55,000 So this is a part that I'm I'm not a fan of the language on at 1933 01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:55,960 all. It's. 1934 01:38:56,200 --> 01:39:00,600 I get it, but it's confusing. Anything that chips away at your 1935 01:39:00,600 --> 01:39:02,240 hit points is considered damaged. 1936 01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,920 Typically damage takes a form of glancing blows, Fatigue, poisons 1937 01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:08,040 Texas. Other circumstances wear down 1938 01:39:08,640 --> 01:39:11,200 that can wear down and possibly kill you are also considered 1939 01:39:11,200 --> 01:39:13,200 damage, right? The difference between a 1940 01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:15,880 glancing blow and a mortal one is a matter of centimeters after 1941 01:39:15,880 --> 01:39:17,760 all. Very true, anything that deals 1942 01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:19,440 damage should be able to kill you. 1943 01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:22,920 If something does not have fatal potential, don't roll damage. 1944 01:39:23,520 --> 01:39:26,000 A withering insult may lower your guard, but unless the burn 1945 01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:30,200 is so sick as to possibly kill you on the spot, you might not 1946 01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:32,120 want to affect the character's HP. 1947 01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:34,960 I understand. I don't like the way this is 1948 01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:38,960 written at all. I feel like it left a lot of 1949 01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:43,800 questions that I've played enough games that I would be 1950 01:39:43,800 --> 01:39:46,680 fine. But I feel like people newer to 1951 01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:48,040 this thing wouldn't be fine with. 1952 01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:54,280 So HP is abstracted. It's just a a scale of how much, 1953 01:39:54,320 --> 01:39:57,200 how, how, how, how you are right now, how you doing? 1954 01:39:57,200 --> 01:40:00,440 But then yeah, but then there's this part that basically says, 1955 01:40:00,440 --> 01:40:03,280 it says specifically, I think there's one line that that one 1956 01:40:03,280 --> 01:40:05,720 or two that really bugs me. If something does not have fatal 1957 01:40:05,720 --> 01:40:09,200 potential, don't roll damage that it. 1958 01:40:09,200 --> 01:40:11,840 That line right there needs to disappear or be rewritten 1959 01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:18,280 because my mind immediately went to like, I get it, but a lot of 1960 01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:20,960 people will go, well, what's what's fatal potential like if 1961 01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:24,120 someone hits me with like a chair leg that couldn't really 1962 01:40:24,120 --> 01:40:26,040 kill me. So I do I not do damage for that 1963 01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:27,720 like? Does everything have to be a 1964 01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:31,280 killing blow? Like if I have D6HP, does that 1965 01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:33,480 mean only things that do greater than six damage? 1966 01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:36,280 Like, does it have to be like a real killing blow? 1967 01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:36,880 You know what I. Mean. 1968 01:40:36,880 --> 01:40:39,200 I think that line bothers me less, and it bothers you. 1969 01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:40,520 I'm actually pretty unbothered by that. 1970 01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:43,000 Like, I understand. Like, yeah, hitting you with a 1971 01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:46,240 chair leg could totally not kill you, but if I hit you in the 1972 01:40:46,240 --> 01:40:48,760 head with a chair leg or a neck with the chair on the back of 1973 01:40:48,760 --> 01:40:51,000 the neck, that could kill you. Like, right? 1974 01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:55,440 So if I hit you in the leg, do you mark HP damage? 1975 01:40:57,200 --> 01:40:59,000 Well, I would say that was contextual on there. 1976 01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:01,560 Like I mean it. It's like combat with anything. 1977 01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:04,560 If you roll really high a damage the way that the attack is 1978 01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:05,720 described is going to be different. 1979 01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:07,680 And if I roll really low, you know. 1980 01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:11,400 I know, but this game isn't doesn't OSR. 1981 01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:14,240 This game is PBTA, right? So your approach and 1982 01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:17,360 consequences and one D6 and and felt like it's not. 1983 01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:22,040 It's not a straight amount because you don't take like the 1984 01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:25,040 way you are dealt. Damage is different, right? 1985 01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:27,760 Then NPCS didn't even receive damage, so I get it. 1986 01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:29,720 I understand how it's gonna work. 1987 01:41:30,120 --> 01:41:33,480 I don't like that line because I feel like it opens up an 1988 01:41:33,480 --> 01:41:37,440 unnecessary question. You could remove that line and 1989 01:41:37,960 --> 01:41:43,360 nothing about this is different. But that question of what? 1990 01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:45,600 Well, what's fatal damage then disappears. 1991 01:41:45,760 --> 01:41:47,440 You know what? I mean, I will say that I don't 1992 01:41:47,440 --> 01:41:50,440 think it's a necessary line. Well, I'm on, I'm unbothered by 1993 01:41:50,440 --> 01:41:51,560 it. I definitely don't think it's 1994 01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:53,480 necessary. And if you feel like it opens 1995 01:41:53,480 --> 01:41:56,080 doors that don't need to be open, I feel like that's that's 1996 01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:56,720 valid you. Know. 1997 01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:58,960 Yeah. I feel like so much of this, The 1998 01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,760 technical language in this game is is very understandable and 1999 01:42:02,760 --> 01:42:05,400 straightforward, and very few times have I been like, well, 2000 01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,720 that feels ambiguous. That's what I was thinking of. 2001 01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:11,680 That to me throws a weird ambiguity that you don't really 2002 01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:14,520 need because I can see because you know how hard it is to pick 2003 01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:17,640 up PBTA when you first start anyway, if you're picking up 2004 01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:20,320 PBTA Reed Patrick World from Aaron King. 2005 01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:27,160 But so to have a weird ambiguity to like the damage that you 2006 01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:28,880 could have. I just feel it's again it's 2007 01:42:28,880 --> 01:42:31,000 unnecessary when like it wouldn't make much difference 2008 01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:38,120 without it running out of HP. So again HP is a an abstract 2009 01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:43,920 it's basically all the the the ways you get knocked down before 2010 01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:46,640 the next blow is potentially the one that kills you. 2011 01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:51,160 And I love that that it's it's you getting worn down and then 2012 01:42:51,160 --> 01:42:54,400 taking a mortal blow and then there's a mortal blow table AD 2013 01:42:54,440 --> 01:42:59,560 66 table and I love this. So it's left leg, right leg, 2014 01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:01,160 left arm, right arm, torso, head. 2015 01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:04,840 And then you get incapacitated, wounded, maimed, shattered, 2016 01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:08,480 lost, and a killing blow. And it actually levels up as you 2017 01:43:08,480 --> 01:43:12,880 go. So my only my only thing about 2018 01:43:12,880 --> 01:43:16,600 the table has to have the other tables been highest number first 2019 01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:18,640 and lowest number last. No. 2020 01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:27,600 But and it's there's no every number has the same percentage 2021 01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:29,240 of hitting so that makes no difference. 2022 01:43:29,240 --> 01:43:31,760 So yeah I never I didn't even notice that because it didn't 2023 01:43:31,760 --> 01:43:35,280 make a difference like and that's the other thing too about 2024 01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:38,120 this is like it goes incapacitated killing blow 2025 01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:39,680 because it doesn't make a difference. 2026 01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:42,880 It's it's cool to see the the the the thing down. 2027 01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:48,240 But this is another one where I wouldn't necessarily mind a 2028 01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:56,280 mixed success table with 11 where in the middle you're most 2029 01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:58,480 likely going to get incapacitated and wounded and on 2030 01:43:58,480 --> 01:44:00,400 the ends you could potentially get. 2031 01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:04,080 So like you could even you could even just roll this table like 2032 01:44:04,080 --> 01:44:10,400 just double it in two different ways where 2 and 12 are you know 2033 01:44:10,920 --> 01:44:13,320 killing blow and then etcetera etcetera etcetera. 2034 01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:15,600 So that the middle one is incapacitated every time. 2035 01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:18,720 So you're more likely to get incapacitated or wounded and 2036 01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:22,080 then or maimed as opposed to immediate killing blow. 2037 01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:24,640 That would be an interesting way to like make the game a little 2038 01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:26,920 bit potentially less healthy I think. 2039 01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:31,440 I think Helm Helm like John Davis, Helms wounds do that 2040 01:44:31,440 --> 01:44:33,640 where they split into two D6 table. 2041 01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:36,600 So you're not necessarily gonna die every time, but you 2042 01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:37,920 theoretically could on a shit roll. 2043 01:44:39,760 --> 01:44:42,160 I love that. Like if you roll a three, two, 2044 01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:45,520 or one and head, you're dead. You're just dead, yeah? 2045 01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:48,600 So Incapacitated is like rolling with disadvantage. 2046 01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:53,280 Wounded you roll to disadvantage and if you let it go too long 2047 01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:57,040 you get maimed and then maimed. If you let it load, go too long 2048 01:44:57,040 --> 01:44:59,640 and get shattered and then Shattered let you go too long, 2049 01:44:59,640 --> 01:45:03,640 it gets lost and then lost. Like if it's your head or your 2050 01:45:03,640 --> 01:45:06,840 torso, you're just dead. So I like that the if you don't 2051 01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:09,440 get medical attention soon enough like the the wounds will 2052 01:45:09,440 --> 01:45:12,320 level up If you do happen to survive, really clever. 2053 01:45:12,320 --> 01:45:14,480 Really enjoy it. Like I said, this is fine the 2054 01:45:14,480 --> 01:45:17,040 way it is, but I wouldn't mind, like I said, splitting it out 2055 01:45:17,040 --> 01:45:21,000 into into a mixed success table with a little lesser wounds in 2056 01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:23,200 the middle wounds and lost appendages. 2057 01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:26,000 Many of the results on the table gives you wounds or lost 2058 01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:27,800 appendages that require medical attention. 2059 01:45:28,040 --> 01:45:30,360 These wounds permanently affect your appearance and may result 2060 01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:33,160 in disadvantage in certain roles until the appendage is replaced 2061 01:45:33,160 --> 01:45:35,560 with a prosthetic wound. Should be recorded on lowlife 2062 01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:38,120 character sheet. So you lose an arm, you lose an 2063 01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:41,240 arm, But as we said before you get a prosthetic, your arm is 2064 01:45:41,240 --> 01:45:44,600 back as good as it was before, potentially better. 2065 01:45:45,480 --> 01:45:47,960 Recovering hit points does not negate the effects of a wound, 2066 01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:52,760 only time heals scars and only prosthetic restores lost 2067 01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:56,040 appendages and functionality. Medical detention is a specific 2068 01:45:56,040 --> 01:45:59,400 thing for all of this. The consequences of a mortal 2069 01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:02,320 blow will degrade over time. Successfully applying medical 2070 01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:05,560 attention usually takes a form of an attribute test with the 2071 01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:08,200 intent to stabilize a wound. Attempting to get medical 2072 01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:10,640 attention without first aid supplies appropriate to the task 2073 01:46:10,640 --> 01:46:12,120 as possible, but should be even riskier. 2074 01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:15,600 So attribute tests use the iterative that you have around 2075 01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:17,080 you. I love that this is what I'm 2076 01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:19,400 talking about. Like that's it's it's very 2077 01:46:19,400 --> 01:46:21,000 abstracted and it's cool and it's good. 2078 01:46:21,480 --> 01:46:25,760 So get rid of sleeping in armor prosthetics capable of replacing 2079 01:46:25,760 --> 01:46:28,160 the full functionality of an appendage or organ or commonly 2080 01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:31,040 available in towns. There are the body modders. 2081 01:46:31,080 --> 01:46:35,000 So functionality wise you have D4D6D8D12. 2082 01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:38,000 There are D10D12. These are delta though, so these 2083 01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:42,280 are usage usage. I'm sorry risk dye on the 2084 01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:51,040 prosthetics. So D6 is pretty standard across 2085 01:46:51,040 --> 01:46:53,560 the board for everything like normal everything is is AD 6 2086 01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:56,120 normal, bad guys, normal humans, mostly D sixes. 2087 01:46:56,520 --> 01:46:59,680 D4 is still rolling a disadvantage for the 2088 01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:01,840 functionality of your prosthetic, but it can keep 2089 01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:06,080 going all the way up to D12, which is a vector of destiny. 2090 01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,920 D10 or the the delta 10 is magically attuned. 2091 01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:13,520 D8 is not only is it your appendage, but it could be a 2092 01:47:13,560 --> 01:47:15,960 tool or weapon. Love that, I love that you can 2093 01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:20,520 upgrade your prosthetic. Da da da da. 2094 01:47:20,560 --> 01:47:22,600 We talked about this body modification. 2095 01:47:22,600 --> 01:47:25,760 We've already talked about that killing blows and death. 2096 01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:27,440 I do like this. Death is inevitable. 2097 01:47:27,440 --> 01:47:29,600 It can be delayed. Basically death is one of the 2098 01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:33,440 only gods that is too powerful for the immortal aristocracy to 2099 01:47:33,440 --> 01:47:40,280 capture and or too important. So if you almost die right or 2100 01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:44,200 you do die, you can actually go to death and bargain with death 2101 01:47:44,400 --> 01:47:48,560 to not die. Love that you offer a sacrifice, 2102 01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:53,560 obligation, service, whatever. You tell it to the table and you 2103 01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:56,080 know death should be inscrutable, mercurial, alien, 2104 01:47:56,560 --> 01:47:59,640 maybe a cat you know definitely reminds me a bit of nine lives. 2105 01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:04,000 And if Death agrees. To It's the cat from 9 lives 2106 01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:06,600 with the skull, yeah. Exactly. 2107 01:48:06,840 --> 01:48:08,520 That's all it is to me. That's all it will be in my 2108 01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:11,560 game. If the bargain's accepted, you 2109 01:48:11,560 --> 01:48:16,120 get to re roll your death, but you could then just immediately 2110 01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:19,240 die again and then go back to death and be like all right? 2111 01:48:19,680 --> 01:48:22,600 And then you just have to keep offering more to potentially 2112 01:48:22,600 --> 01:48:25,400 stay alive. More and more in debt to death 2113 01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:26,520 to death. You know. 2114 01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:30,320 Dope like that's so good. But I also love that. 2115 01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:40,480 I feel like the odds of like, quote UN quote dying are are nor 2116 01:48:40,480 --> 01:48:43,240 like, you know, OSR ish level. You know what I mean? 2117 01:48:43,240 --> 01:48:52,600 It's not 5 E but I do like the idea that you get the option to 2118 01:48:52,600 --> 01:48:55,640 potentially not die. You know, like being able to 2119 01:48:55,640 --> 01:48:58,120 just be like I will do this thing for you death and now 2120 01:48:58,120 --> 01:49:00,200 that's a whole campaign thing that you have to do but you 2121 01:49:00,200 --> 01:49:01,680 didn't lose your character and stuff like that. 2122 01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:05,080 I I like, I like that the that's the way it's done versus like 5 2123 01:49:05,080 --> 01:49:06,680 you where they just give you so many hit points that you're 2124 01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:08,800 never going to die anyway and they tell the gym not to kill 2125 01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:10,440 you because the story's more important, you know? 2126 01:49:10,600 --> 01:49:13,000 Yeah, well, you got to have every encountering has to be 2127 01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:17,520 balanced, so. Yeah right, Storing hit points. 2128 01:49:17,520 --> 01:49:19,760 And if it's not fudget. There are two ways. 2129 01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:23,160 Sleeping and eating. Sleeping get a night's rest if 2130 01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:24,760 you get a night's rest without armor. 2131 01:49:24,760 --> 01:49:27,720 Again, such a weird thing to be specific about. 2132 01:49:27,720 --> 01:49:30,480 I don't like it. Take your armor off if you want 2133 01:49:30,480 --> 01:49:33,120 all your HP and MP. Eating food is important if you 2134 01:49:33,120 --> 01:49:34,480 have food or spirits or other consumers. 2135 01:49:34,480 --> 01:49:36,080 Wait, I think there was a specific mechanic. 2136 01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:40,160 Yeah, you regain HP by rolling one hit die and adding your con 2137 01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:43,600 and whiz and you get all your HMP back first. 2138 01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:45,520 Sleeping. Eating. 2139 01:49:46,360 --> 01:49:49,240 You cannot restore HP on bread alone, which is again, you don't 2140 01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:54,480 have to track food and water. But if you find if you have 2141 01:49:54,480 --> 01:49:56,560 food, spirit, or other consumable comforts handy and 2142 01:49:56,560 --> 01:49:59,560 spend a few minutes to rest and eat, you roll the risk die 2143 01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:02,880 associated with your meal and regain hit points equal to the 2144 01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:08,240 roll con plus whiz. So sleeping is hit, die is 2145 01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:11,720 rolling your own hit die and adding your con and whiz, and 2146 01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:15,200 eating is rolling the die for the food you're eating. 2147 01:50:15,200 --> 01:50:17,560 Plus continent Wiz yeah. Like that. 2148 01:50:17,560 --> 01:50:19,680 I think it works well. I also like this like, oh, you 2149 01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:23,480 have to eat every watch, you know, like, I mean, I like that 2150 01:50:23,480 --> 01:50:24,720 way into the game. That makes sense for that. 2151 01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:26,520 And I'm glad this doesn't do that because it wouldn't make 2152 01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:28,160 sense. Yeah, not at all. 2153 01:50:28,960 --> 01:50:31,400 Hit points and wounds. Restoring hit points does not 2154 01:50:31,400 --> 01:50:32,440 mean your wounds have disappeared. 2155 01:50:32,440 --> 01:50:35,560 We've talked about this already. Magic. 2156 01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:37,920 Talk to me about magic. Magic. 2157 01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:44,760 Magic Man. Yeah, so all low lives are can 2158 01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:46,840 cast, which is my favorite thing ever. 2159 01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:49,640 I love when everyone's a wizard. Yeah. 2160 01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:53,200 So you begin play with a domain, which we talked about, a magic 2161 01:50:53,200 --> 01:50:56,240 dye, which we touched on, and a pool of MP. 2162 01:50:56,240 --> 01:51:00,520 Your domain themes, your magic, and your magic dye kind of 2163 01:51:00,560 --> 01:51:04,520 dictates how powerful the potential for your spell is. 2164 01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:09,280 Now your pool of MP determines how many times you need to cast 2165 01:51:09,800 --> 01:51:14,240 before you have to take a nap and restore those spell slots. 2166 01:51:15,280 --> 01:51:18,400 Magic domains as discussed in Section 4 three. 2167 01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:23,720 It basically is just like how is your magic themed, which you 2168 01:51:23,720 --> 01:51:26,680 know grants you some parameters for how you could use it. 2169 01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:30,800 The turn of a magma. You know you can gain another 2170 01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:32,680 domain through advancement, which I think is really cool. 2171 01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:35,960 Your magic domain may grant advantage to a role if it's 2172 01:51:35,960 --> 01:51:38,920 specifically applicable to the situation. 2173 01:51:39,480 --> 01:51:42,360 In disadvantage, if it's uniquely I'll suited. 2174 01:51:42,560 --> 01:51:47,960 I like that's there. I'm sure that a table full of 2175 01:51:47,960 --> 01:51:51,400 people can find a lot of occasions to use something in a 2176 01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:54,440 weird way that wouldn't grant them this, but those few 2177 01:51:54,440 --> 01:51:56,840 instances where it's like, Oh no, this specifically makes 2178 01:51:56,840 --> 01:52:01,320 sense for my magic. It's like, yeah, go off, I want 2179 01:52:01,320 --> 01:52:05,840 to see people succeed. The magic die. 2180 01:52:06,360 --> 01:52:09,560 Very interesting. It's it's kind of like the 2181 01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:14,160 Marshall die in a way. Makes it outside the armor or 2182 01:52:14,160 --> 01:52:15,960 whatever doesn't really dictate it. 2183 01:52:15,960 --> 01:52:19,800 But your magic Determine your magic die determines the powers 2184 01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:22,520 of your spells. Anything summoned through your 2185 01:52:22,520 --> 01:52:26,080 magic will be of a quality equal to your magic die. 2186 01:52:26,400 --> 01:52:29,880 That's cool. Deal damage equal to your magic 2187 01:52:29,880 --> 01:52:32,760 die and protect you from harm equal to your magic die. 2188 01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:39,320 Healing, restoring magics. Recover hit points equal to your 2189 01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:42,880 magic die. Roll lasting effects will create 2190 01:52:42,880 --> 01:52:45,480 a countdown equal to your magic die. 2191 01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:50,480 Once your magic wears off the subject of your spells, we'll 2192 01:52:50,480 --> 01:52:53,240 know magic was cast on them and probably be upset about it. 2193 01:52:53,840 --> 01:52:56,200 At character creation. You begin with magic die of D4, 2194 01:52:56,200 --> 01:52:58,840 which can be improved upon advancement. 2195 01:52:59,960 --> 01:53:04,880 Cool open format magic system. Which I don't know if you guys 2196 01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:07,640 listening know this, but I'm really into that. 2197 01:53:09,160 --> 01:53:12,480 Yeah, just a bit. Any comments about that, Ryan? 2198 01:53:12,800 --> 01:53:13,320 Just nothing. Just. 2199 01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:16,480 I think it's it's cool. I mean, you know, I like when 2200 01:53:16,480 --> 01:53:19,520 magic is like open. I hate dancing magic. 2201 01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:22,160 I think it's I I do not like it. I do not enjoy it. 2202 01:53:22,400 --> 01:53:26,080 So in it's called high magic, low lives. 2203 01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:28,400 I want magic to feel high. Totally, you know. 2204 01:53:28,440 --> 01:53:29,800 And it does. Like, it's very cool. 2205 01:53:29,880 --> 01:53:32,040 I mean, you don't roll for most things for magic. 2206 01:53:32,040 --> 01:53:34,840 It's just like you have AD 4, so it's four. 2207 01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:39,880 It's it's a risk for whatever, you know, it makes a lot of 2208 01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:41,840 sense. I don't really need to reread 2209 01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:45,040 the section and over and over to learn the gram of this for Magic 2210 01:53:46,160 --> 01:53:48,960 in Pete Pool. Let me tell you that I am not a 2211 01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:52,400 massive fan of spell slots. This isn't technically spell 2212 01:53:52,400 --> 01:53:55,600 slots, it's a magic pool. And I really do actually like 2213 01:53:55,600 --> 01:53:57,640 this a lot. It's just how many times you can 2214 01:53:57,640 --> 01:54:00,400 cast before you need to rest and game back. 2215 01:54:00,400 --> 01:54:04,600 And that pool is equal to your Wisdom plus your Charisma. 2216 01:54:04,680 --> 01:54:09,640 So if you've got a zero and one, you got one each time you cast. 2217 01:54:09,640 --> 01:54:14,280 Cost one in P Yeah, when you sleep without wearing armor, 2218 01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:20,480 yadda yadda 6.5 point one casting. 2219 01:54:20,480 --> 01:54:22,960 Is about that. Yeah, yeah, I know, really. 2220 01:54:23,440 --> 01:54:27,840 Casting spell A lowlife cast a spell by using their 2221 01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:32,080 intelligence. Spell casting is unique in that 2222 01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:34,400 benefits of success and consequence failure not 2223 01:54:34,400 --> 01:54:36,360 necessarily bound by what makes sense. 2224 01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:39,520 Spells are limited only by their domain, their magic die, and the 2225 01:54:39,520 --> 01:54:42,640 imagination of the player. The consequences for rolling 2226 01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:46,040 poorly are similarly unrestrained. 2227 01:54:46,040 --> 01:54:49,720 The position of the spell, therefore the consequences of 2228 01:54:49,720 --> 01:54:52,760 rolling poorly should be determined by the context of the 2229 01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:54,880 casting. Trying to make a Drowsy Guard 2230 01:54:54,880 --> 01:54:57,680 fall asleep is much easier than trying to make a rampage and 2231 01:54:57,680 --> 01:54:59,360 pulls rift off in the middle of the fight. 2232 01:54:59,760 --> 01:55:03,200 I like this. My one issue with this is this 2233 01:55:03,200 --> 01:55:08,760 is a six stat system and you need intelligence to cast but 2234 01:55:08,760 --> 01:55:14,760 everyone casts and I don't love that. 2235 01:55:16,360 --> 01:55:19,680 If everyone can cast and you have that many stats. 2236 01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:25,200 I personally believe that this the casting stat should have 2237 01:55:25,200 --> 01:55:29,040 some wiggle room as to what it is for the player because this 2238 01:55:29,040 --> 01:55:33,000 is saying like well intelligence needs to be good because it is 2239 01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:35,400 what you're casting from. Do you not feel the same? 2240 01:55:36,160 --> 01:55:39,320 I mean it doesn't necessarily bother me because again the the 2241 01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:41,560 modifiers are so small it's zero to three. 2242 01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:43,040 That's a good point. You know what I mean? 2243 01:55:43,320 --> 01:55:49,080 But it's interesting that using Intelligence to cast, but your 2244 01:55:49,080 --> 01:55:50,760 pool is made-up of your Wisdom and Charisma. 2245 01:55:50,760 --> 01:55:55,880 So, like, The thing is like, you're you don't have one magic 2246 01:55:55,880 --> 01:55:57,000 stat. You know what I mean? 2247 01:55:57,000 --> 01:55:59,040 Because like someone could have three Intelligence, but they 2248 01:55:59,040 --> 01:56:00,800 could have zero Wisdom and one Charisma. 2249 01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:02,640 They can cast one spell, you know what I mean? 2250 01:56:02,640 --> 01:56:06,280 So like, if it was just one, it would be different, but it's 2251 01:56:06,280 --> 01:56:08,200 half your stats make up your casting. 2252 01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:11,880 So like a combination of any of those three can really make a 2253 01:56:11,880 --> 01:56:14,120 difference. Like you know, you might only 2254 01:56:14,120 --> 01:56:16,440 get like a + 1. You could get a + 0 and still be 2255 01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:18,800 able to catch magic but have high wisdom. 2256 01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:21,040 If your wisdom's three, that means you get at least three 2257 01:56:21,040 --> 01:56:22,200 spells. You know what I mean? 2258 01:56:22,200 --> 01:56:26,480 Yeah, so like, I don't mind it because there's like a mix match 2259 01:56:26,520 --> 01:56:30,880 of so many of the stats together to give you either how many 2260 01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:34,600 spells you get or attribute added to it or something like 2261 01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:37,760 that. And like I said also it's the 2262 01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:41,080 the there's a ton of ways to increase your MP like really, 2263 01:56:41,080 --> 01:56:43,840 really quickly or increase in attribute and stuff like that. 2264 01:56:43,840 --> 01:56:46,240 So like, it doesn't bother me when you start out, if you just 2265 01:56:46,240 --> 01:56:49,520 have like lower shitty magic, you can always just be like, I'm 2266 01:56:49,520 --> 01:56:51,560 going to be a magic boy. But like you could also play 2267 01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:53,360 people that are like, I don't fuck with magic, who gives a 2268 01:56:53,360 --> 01:56:54,520 shit? Yeah, you know, that's very 2269 01:56:54,560 --> 01:56:56,480 true. So it could just be dependent, 2270 01:56:56,480 --> 01:56:58,440 you know. I mean, if that's the case, and 2271 01:56:58,440 --> 01:57:03,440 I wouldn't mind seeing maybe some more options for like what 2272 01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:07,360 you can do physically if like you're like, oh, it's open to me 2273 01:57:07,360 --> 01:57:10,840 being like not do magic at all and you'd be the guy with the 2274 01:57:10,840 --> 01:57:15,440 sword, you know? Yeah, I mean there's I mean The 2275 01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:17,480 thing is like you swing a sword, you swing a sword, you know. 2276 01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:20,880 I mean it does use strength and decks for for melee and range, 2277 01:57:20,920 --> 01:57:23,360 but that's going to be in every game you ever play because Magic 2278 01:57:23,360 --> 01:57:26,040 always going to be like cooler than like hitting some of the 2279 01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:28,880 sword, but it's hitting some of the sword is almost always going 2280 01:57:28,880 --> 01:57:30,560 to kill them faster. So it's like. 2281 01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:34,480 I think it changes a little bit when everyone's a caster, you 2282 01:57:34,480 --> 01:57:36,040 know? Yeah, my. 2283 01:57:36,040 --> 01:57:38,120 Question really. Good. 2284 01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:42,280 Why do you need success? Oh, I don't think you do. 2285 01:57:42,800 --> 01:57:44,440 No, I think you can do 4 on this easy. 2286 01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:48,080 I think you can combine wisdom, Caribbean intelligence all down 2287 01:57:48,080 --> 01:57:51,160 into one, and all of this would go away. 2288 01:57:51,640 --> 01:57:54,240 I mean, personally, I'm thinking of like a sword St. or 2289 01:57:54,240 --> 01:57:56,880 swordcaster, and I'd be like, yeah, you can use strength to 2290 01:57:56,880 --> 01:58:00,520 cast, you know or or whatever dexterity, as long as you're 2291 01:58:00,600 --> 01:58:02,440 using your sword magic, you know? 2292 01:58:03,400 --> 01:58:08,960 I will say I would. I don't think you need 6, but if 2293 01:58:09,000 --> 01:58:11,600 I was writing this game I would absolutely have to have six in 2294 01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:13,000 here. Really. 2295 01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:16,000 Why? Because everything is sixes and 2296 01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:18,360 my brain would just be like what success it is. 2297 01:58:18,920 --> 01:58:21,400 Everything is sixes. The entire game is built around 2298 01:58:21,400 --> 01:58:24,400 sixes, so success it is, you know. 2299 01:58:24,560 --> 01:58:27,080 Yeah, I mean, maybe I'll just house rule stuff in my own 2300 01:58:27,080 --> 01:58:28,360 table, you know? But. 2301 01:58:28,880 --> 01:58:30,880 I would give someone optional. Magic. 2302 01:58:30,880 --> 01:58:32,800 You're gonna mess with a magic system. 2303 01:58:33,160 --> 01:58:35,000 Yeah, I know. It's really crazy to think that 2304 01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:39,440 I I would make a magic system. I mean, I just think that, like, 2305 01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:42,480 if I have a person who sits at my table and plays this game and 2306 01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:45,400 they're like, hey, I want to be a Sword St. 2307 01:58:45,400 --> 01:58:48,520 I want to be like psychically connected, like my magic is the 2308 01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:51,840 magic of the sword. You know, I'm thinking like if 2309 01:58:51,840 --> 01:58:54,960 anyone's read kill 6 billion demons, like that is a thing in 2310 01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:56,680 there. And like the casting is just 2311 01:58:56,680 --> 01:58:59,640 like the art of cutting. You can slice through anything, 2312 01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:01,560 you know, or whatever. And I would. 2313 01:59:02,480 --> 01:59:05,680 You can do that in this and there's already precedent for 2314 01:59:05,680 --> 01:59:07,480 it. What do you mean? 2315 01:59:08,160 --> 01:59:11,560 So like consumables, we're going to get to consumables, but like 2316 01:59:11,680 --> 01:59:15,120 it or like if you have magic consumables, it talks about the 2317 01:59:15,120 --> 01:59:17,280 effects that you can put onto weapons. 2318 01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:24,320 So like, I would just use that as a context for a spell for my 2319 01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:26,080 sword, you know what I mean? So if you're saying that you 2320 01:59:26,080 --> 01:59:29,560 want to make yours, let's say your your sword becomes like 2321 01:59:30,520 --> 01:59:35,160 magically sharp, right? I'd be like, OK, you get extra 2322 01:59:35,160 --> 01:59:39,240 damage while your usage dies while the risk dye is still 2323 01:59:39,240 --> 01:59:41,960 rolling, the same way you would do it if you had like magic 2324 01:59:41,960 --> 01:59:43,760 fire. They talked later and we'll get 2325 01:59:43,760 --> 01:59:48,120 to it about where you pour fire over a blade and now you have a 2326 01:59:48,120 --> 01:59:50,280 flame blade. Until the usage dye goes away, I 2327 01:59:50,280 --> 01:59:52,840 would just be like, fine, you're a sword mage, your sword is 2328 01:59:52,880 --> 01:59:55,760 extra sharp. Until that effect wears off or 2329 01:59:55,800 --> 02:00:00,880 you know, you're you know. But if if it's always dependent 2330 02:00:00,880 --> 02:00:03,840 upon like Wisdom, Charisma, and Intelligence, and you want to 2331 02:00:03,840 --> 02:00:07,280 play a fighter, why would you ever upgrade Strength or decks? 2332 02:00:09,200 --> 02:00:14,160 Again, I just think, I think maybe I'm wrong and you can tell 2333 02:00:14,160 --> 02:00:15,960 me if I'm wrong. I think the your brain is 2334 02:00:15,960 --> 02:00:18,480 thinking that the the numbers are way bigger than they are 2335 02:00:18,480 --> 02:00:20,880 because the difference between 1:00 and 3:00 is so minimal. 2336 02:00:21,520 --> 02:00:23,080 Yeah, like, well, I mean on Tuesday. 2337 02:00:23,280 --> 02:00:25,920 If you have. A + 3 you're it's always a sex. 2338 02:00:26,080 --> 02:00:26,720 It's. Huge. 2339 02:00:26,720 --> 02:00:30,120 But like plus one is also not bad either. 2340 02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:33,440 And once it gets like advancement, it's so easy 2341 02:00:33,440 --> 02:00:37,160 realistically to it to just be like, well, I felt like in that 2342 02:00:37,160 --> 02:00:38,360 session I need more intelligence. 2343 02:00:38,520 --> 02:00:42,600 You get 6, you get 66 experience points. 2344 02:00:43,280 --> 02:00:44,680 Boom. You can just raise an attribute 2345 02:00:44,680 --> 02:00:46,360 by one. It's so easy to raise attributes 2346 02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:48,760 that it doesn't bother me. It was incredibly difficult to 2347 02:00:48,760 --> 02:00:50,840 raise attributes. I would say it's not. 2348 02:00:50,840 --> 02:00:55,280 But like realistically, if you fuck around a lot and really 2349 02:00:55,280 --> 02:01:00,800 grind XP, you can have all of your stats at three in like less 2350 02:01:00,800 --> 02:01:03,840 than 10 sessions. That's that is a very, that's a 2351 02:01:03,840 --> 02:01:07,200 very fair point. So OK moving on to I I like that 2352 02:01:07,200 --> 02:01:08,960 point. That point does make me feel 2353 02:01:08,960 --> 02:01:11,720 better about mine, phone and brand. 2354 02:01:16,680 --> 02:01:20,160 Bruises pretty quickly. Yeah, you have a phone with a 2355 02:01:20,160 --> 02:01:24,920 decent signal, an unreliable battery, a camera and a flash 2356 02:01:25,080 --> 02:01:26,800 that can be used as flashlight. You have a phone. 2357 02:01:26,800 --> 02:01:31,480 It works like a phone. Your brand is interesting, so 2358 02:01:31,480 --> 02:01:35,040 you like post and live stream. You fucking with the immortal 2359 02:01:35,040 --> 02:01:40,640 aristocracy. And like you build like an 2360 02:01:40,640 --> 02:01:44,560 online following. More more or less. 2361 02:01:44,720 --> 02:01:47,040 There are some special actions that you can take with your 2362 02:01:47,040 --> 02:01:51,360 phone and when you start your brand begins at 0. 2363 02:01:53,560 --> 02:01:56,320 A battery. Hey, anytime you you're so your 2364 02:01:56,320 --> 02:02:02,840 battery starts at I almost said UD 8 but risk 8 and it shrinks 2365 02:02:02,840 --> 02:02:05,440 on a roll of one or two. Recharging your phone for an 2366 02:02:05,440 --> 02:02:09,720 hour restores one level to a maximum of eight, so never gets 2367 02:02:09,720 --> 02:02:13,200 higher than eight. Make sure it's plugged into the 2368 02:02:13,200 --> 02:02:17,160 wall too. Do a phone. 2369 02:02:17,600 --> 02:02:19,440 Anytime you use your phone, you're going to roll. 2370 02:02:19,440 --> 02:02:22,360 You're going to roll the battery essentially. 2371 02:02:23,640 --> 02:02:25,680 Yeah, you can chat with your phone, you can send short 2372 02:02:25,680 --> 02:02:27,960 messages. If you have someone's username. 2373 02:02:28,400 --> 02:02:30,200 They can block you if they're pissed. 2374 02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:36,240 Very funny, like depth of narrative thing here. 2375 02:02:36,240 --> 02:02:37,920 It's like that you have friends online. 2376 02:02:37,920 --> 02:02:40,480 If you piss them off, like they might not help you anymore. 2377 02:02:42,680 --> 02:02:44,640 Yeah, you can treat this like any other conversation, which 2378 02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:47,160 makes a lot of sense. You only need to roll when 2379 02:02:47,160 --> 02:02:49,520 trying to do something that might fail, like intimidate 2380 02:02:49,520 --> 02:02:54,960 somebody over text, which I love this because this happens in the 2381 02:02:54,960 --> 02:02:57,640 real world. Yeah. 2382 02:02:57,640 --> 02:03:00,440 And particularly Nuance discussions over chat may result 2383 02:03:00,440 --> 02:03:03,200 in rolling disadvantage, because we all know that if you try to 2384 02:03:03,200 --> 02:03:06,320 text something Nuance, sometimes it can be totally misread. 2385 02:03:07,560 --> 02:03:11,920 Yeah, capturing the moment. Yeah, you roll battery to take a 2386 02:03:11,920 --> 02:03:16,280 photo or capture a short video with your camera to post. 2387 02:03:16,520 --> 02:03:20,360 You're going to roll, plus Charisma to upload something new 2388 02:03:20,360 --> 02:03:22,840 from your phone. This is a special action. 2389 02:03:23,480 --> 02:03:26,240 On a one to six, you're going to choose one of the following 2390 02:03:26,240 --> 02:03:28,120 outcomes. On 7 to 9, you choose two. 2391 02:03:29,120 --> 02:03:33,880 On a 10/11, choose three. And on a 12, you choose five. 2392 02:03:34,360 --> 02:03:36,360 There are five. Yeah, it's all of them. 2393 02:03:36,720 --> 02:03:44,800 Which is interesting, because hold on, never mind. 2394 02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:48,400 Ignore what I would say, but yeah, so of those, it's your 2395 02:03:48,400 --> 02:03:51,160 brand increases by 1. The immortal aristocracy can't 2396 02:03:51,160 --> 02:03:52,560 figure out your current location. 2397 02:03:52,800 --> 02:03:55,840 The immoral aristocracy can't make you look like the bad guy 2398 02:03:55,840 --> 02:03:59,120 in the news. You gain a notable follower of 2399 02:03:59,120 --> 02:04:02,160 your choosing. You get a like from your crush. 2400 02:04:06,680 --> 02:04:09,320 This is good. I like this a lot actually. 2401 02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:13,880 Yeah, it's interesting because we get to a part later where 2402 02:04:14,080 --> 02:04:18,280 again I think that they I think they just like missed the the 2403 02:04:18,280 --> 02:04:21,720 verbiage change that they use like special actions are are 2404 02:04:21,720 --> 02:04:25,160 almost all PBTA moves like the live stream is just an attribute 2405 02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:31,880 role but call to action is 1 and the the post is 1 maybe it's 2406 02:04:31,880 --> 02:04:34,160 just those two. Do we skip call to action? 2407 02:04:34,160 --> 02:04:35,400 Oh, we haven't gotten call to action one. 2408 02:04:35,400 --> 02:04:38,720 Yeah. But the when they explain how to 2409 02:04:38,720 --> 02:04:41,200 make moves later, this makes more sense in retrospect because 2410 02:04:41,200 --> 02:04:44,480 it specifically tells you like when you're making one do like 2411 02:04:44,480 --> 02:04:46,920 2, that means something bad hasn't happened to you. 2412 02:04:46,920 --> 02:04:50,360 Do one like random one and do two things that like make you 2413 02:04:50,360 --> 02:04:52,360 learn shit. And I'm like, oh now this will 2414 02:04:52,360 --> 02:04:53,840 make sense, like you get a like from your crush. 2415 02:04:53,840 --> 02:04:56,040 You're supposed to be that it's like 1 random one tossed in for 2416 02:04:56,040 --> 02:04:59,640 fun, you know? So it's it's interesting, but 2417 02:04:59,640 --> 02:05:03,000 you're always supposed to have ones that like, batshit doesn't 2418 02:05:03,000 --> 02:05:05,080 happen to you. So this one specifically says 2419 02:05:05,240 --> 02:05:08,680 the immortal artist actually can't find you and they can't 2420 02:05:08,680 --> 02:05:11,000 make you look bad. So like, they really did stick 2421 02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:14,360 to like that idea of like make two that don't happen to you, 2422 02:05:14,960 --> 02:05:17,920 and with like as the two most important kind of ones in it, 2423 02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:20,520 because if you only get one that means something bad, well, it 2424 02:05:20,520 --> 02:05:21,680 could almost definitely happen to you. 2425 02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:23,920 And it even tells you what what it could be. 2426 02:05:25,480 --> 02:05:27,920 Yeah, yeah, very cool. Yeah, imagine just turning on 2427 02:05:27,920 --> 02:05:29,720 the news and the moral Irish ocracy is like. 2428 02:05:30,240 --> 02:05:33,840 The. You know criminals, Yeah, you 2429 02:05:33,840 --> 02:05:35,800 can live stream if something exciting is happening. 2430 02:05:36,160 --> 02:05:38,200 You roll battery at disadvantage, which makes sense 2431 02:05:38,200 --> 02:05:42,320 because you're using a lot of it and you post with advantage. 2432 02:05:42,920 --> 02:05:47,560 So you know, call to action is exactly what it sounds like. 2433 02:05:47,560 --> 02:05:51,480 You're going to roll plus brand. Yeah. 2434 02:05:51,480 --> 02:05:54,440 And once again, choose one, choose two, choose three, or 2435 02:05:54,440 --> 02:05:57,240 choose five. If you have a noble follower 2436 02:05:57,240 --> 02:06:00,200 who's uniquely positioned to help roll with advantage, your 2437 02:06:00,200 --> 02:06:02,280 brand decreases by one after you roll. 2438 02:06:02,280 --> 02:06:05,240 So Brand is kind of like you're it's a stat that you spend 2439 02:06:06,160 --> 02:06:09,560 special stat. But what's weird with what's 2440 02:06:09,560 --> 02:06:12,680 interesting about brand is what? At least in everything that I've 2441 02:06:12,680 --> 02:06:15,320 read and you can tell me if I'm wrong, the only way to increase 2442 02:06:15,320 --> 02:06:17,480 your brand is to post. Right. 2443 02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:21,080 And the only thing you spend your brand on is calls to 2444 02:06:21,080 --> 02:06:22,320 action. Right. 2445 02:06:23,280 --> 02:06:24,920 So it's a very early. Thoughts that we got from all 2446 02:06:25,200 --> 02:06:26,440 this? Yes. 2447 02:06:26,440 --> 02:06:29,360 Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't mind if there was 2448 02:06:29,920 --> 02:06:32,400 more to that. I think it should be expanded on 2449 02:06:32,400 --> 02:06:33,120 as well. I agree. 2450 02:06:33,120 --> 02:06:35,640 But I do like that there's a feedback loop to it and it feeds 2451 02:06:35,640 --> 02:06:37,640 into itself and it's almost self-contained. 2452 02:06:37,720 --> 02:06:40,120 You know, like don't really need to worry about brand for all 2453 02:06:40,280 --> 02:06:44,440 everything else, like it's just within posting and calling to 2454 02:06:44,440 --> 02:06:48,400 action. I wouldn't mind though like on 2455 02:06:48,400 --> 02:06:51,000 the call to action like you spend because it says you 2456 02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:52,760 decrease your brand by one after the role. 2457 02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:55,720 I wouldn't mind when I was reading this I was expecting one 2458 02:06:55,720 --> 02:06:58,520 of them to be like you don't have to decrease your brand by 2459 02:06:58,520 --> 02:07:00,120 1. Like I wouldn't mind if there 2460 02:07:00,120 --> 02:07:05,200 was a way to like maintain your your brand if your call to 2461 02:07:05,200 --> 02:07:06,640 action was like super successful. 2462 02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:11,320 Because like you could roll a 12 + 3 modifier for a 15. 2463 02:07:11,520 --> 02:07:14,200 You lose a brand no matter what, even though you, like made a 2464 02:07:14,200 --> 02:07:17,640 call to action that was so insane that like you know but 2465 02:07:17,640 --> 02:07:23,320 like the other thing too is if you get a 12 plus, you lose a 2466 02:07:23,320 --> 02:07:25,120 notable. Follower, Notable follower. 2467 02:07:25,600 --> 02:07:27,960 Yeah, no matter what. And I was interesting. 2468 02:07:27,960 --> 02:07:29,680 That's kind of the one that I was questioning. 2469 02:07:29,680 --> 02:07:33,160 I was like, why would I lose a notable follower on a? 2470 02:07:34,160 --> 02:07:35,800 Call. To action plus, yeah. 2471 02:07:35,960 --> 02:07:38,120 Well, because people don't want you to succeed. 2472 02:07:39,880 --> 02:07:42,360 Yeah, I guess that that's like, that makes sense, right? 2473 02:07:42,360 --> 02:07:45,040 Like as a on like a meta narrative of like posting online 2474 02:07:45,040 --> 02:07:47,720 whenever you do anything big, like someone's not going to like 2475 02:07:47,720 --> 02:07:50,400 it. So like none of the other ones. 2476 02:07:50,400 --> 02:07:53,760 The other ones are all like it stops a bad thing from happening 2477 02:07:53,760 --> 02:07:56,960 to you. There's no I guess like you lose 2478 02:07:56,960 --> 02:08:00,640 a notable follower like, but if you look at the previous one it 2479 02:08:00,640 --> 02:08:03,920 says they can't figure out your current location like it would 2480 02:08:03,920 --> 02:08:06,760 be like you. You could be like you don't lose 2481 02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:09,880 a notable follower, but like honestly. 2482 02:08:10,280 --> 02:08:12,240 I would either do that. You don't lose a notable 2483 02:08:12,240 --> 02:08:14,600 follower, which means one of the one of the bad things could be 2484 02:08:14,600 --> 02:08:18,640 that you did lose 1 or like I said, outer playset for you 2485 02:08:18,640 --> 02:08:20,600 don't lose. You don't have to spend a brand 2486 02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:22,400 like you were so successful or like whatever. 2487 02:08:22,400 --> 02:08:25,400 Like you you get to keep your your resource. 2488 02:08:26,360 --> 02:08:29,880 So to go through the list, it's you gain useful insight into 2489 02:08:29,880 --> 02:08:34,080 your situation, you gain useless but fascinating trivia about 2490 02:08:34,080 --> 02:08:36,840 your situation, which is I think is a good one. 2491 02:08:37,800 --> 02:08:42,200 You gain 1D6 coin and donations. Someone in the a mortal 2492 02:08:42,240 --> 02:08:44,920 aristocracy ends up looking like a real asshole. 2493 02:08:45,000 --> 02:08:47,080 And then there's a lose a noticeable follower. 2494 02:08:47,320 --> 02:08:49,320 I like these. I don't like to lose noble 2495 02:08:49,320 --> 02:08:52,800 follower, and I genuinely actually really like you gain 2496 02:08:52,800 --> 02:08:55,240 useless but fascinating trivia about your situation. 2497 02:08:55,520 --> 02:08:57,640 I think that you keep that shit. That's good. 2498 02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:00,320 Well, there's there's always that one weird, flavorful one, 2499 02:09:00,320 --> 02:09:03,440 like the get a get a like from your crush or like the weird 2500 02:09:03,440 --> 02:09:04,880 trivia. Like, I love that, Yeah. 2501 02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:13,440 Yeah, spending coin, spend coin. You know the more aristocracies 2502 02:09:13,440 --> 02:09:14,880 everywhere. They run everything. 2503 02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:19,920 Yeah, the goods and services are available in the marketplace as 2504 02:09:19,920 --> 02:09:21,120 long as you have the coin to spend them. 2505 02:09:21,400 --> 02:09:24,040 You don't gain XP by spending coin this way. 2506 02:09:25,560 --> 02:09:28,920 Roll battery and spend coin to order food supplies, hire, ride 2507 02:09:28,920 --> 02:09:31,800 or adventure or other valuable services through your phone. 2508 02:09:33,480 --> 02:09:35,960 Risk 10 and risk 12. Goods and services are 2509 02:09:35,960 --> 02:09:38,680 restricted to members of the aristocracy only and are 2510 02:09:38,680 --> 02:09:42,360 therefore unavailable. I do like that this is what you 2511 02:09:42,360 --> 02:09:44,160 have phone and it's super modern. 2512 02:09:44,160 --> 02:09:47,920 Like you order food, you can hire help online, you can get 2513 02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:52,000 like fiver or whatever right now or other services. 2514 02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:57,000 I'm like ah, that's good. I'm glad that, like, I like that 2515 02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:59,440 there are phones and I like that it's not half ass. 2516 02:09:59,440 --> 02:10:01,720 There are phones and it's a commitment to like there are 2517 02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:03,120 phones. Like, you know what you do with 2518 02:10:03,120 --> 02:10:05,920 your phone, your DoorDash last night. 2519 02:10:06,400 --> 02:10:09,520 Which means that I get to make a weird modern fantasy equivalent 2520 02:10:09,520 --> 02:10:13,000 of like Uber and DoorDash and all that shit. 2521 02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:16,480 And I find that that that tickles me, you know? 2522 02:10:17,280 --> 02:10:19,720 Well, I do like the part that says most hirelings will help 2523 02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:21,680 you form illegal acts. Yeah. 2524 02:10:23,600 --> 02:10:27,280 I I do feel though, that like, again, like I I feel like the 2525 02:10:27,280 --> 02:10:28,920 whole thing needs a little bit of a reshuffle. 2526 02:10:28,920 --> 02:10:31,640 And I'm not sure. But like, I feel like combat, 2527 02:10:31,640 --> 02:10:39,880 health, wounds and death to me. I wouldn't mind if, like, Magic 2528 02:10:39,880 --> 02:10:43,160 and phone and brand were above that, you know what I mean? 2529 02:10:43,160 --> 02:10:44,120 Like, this is what I'm talking about. 2530 02:10:44,120 --> 02:10:49,680 Where we got to we finally got to the phone 94 pages in and to 2531 02:10:49,680 --> 02:10:54,040 me suddenly like technology took a like a huge leap forward in my 2532 02:10:54,040 --> 02:10:56,640 mind in like the Canon that my head was coming from. 2533 02:10:56,640 --> 02:10:57,760 Like the way the game was written. 2534 02:10:58,000 --> 02:11:00,840 Like I might mention a little bit of technology, the gun sword 2535 02:11:00,840 --> 02:11:03,880 and shit like that, whatever. But like like you just said, 2536 02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:05,920 literally have. Yeah, we literally have 2537 02:11:05,920 --> 02:11:11,240 smartphones and and gig economy. Like 94 pages in my brain went 2538 02:11:11,240 --> 02:11:14,120 wait a second, I need to reevaluate so much of what I 2539 02:11:14,120 --> 02:11:16,840 thought about the setting already, so I wouldn't mind if 2540 02:11:17,480 --> 02:11:21,160 either some little intro about the phone or the phone being 2541 02:11:21,160 --> 02:11:25,320 earlier was like just. Totally. 2542 02:11:25,600 --> 02:11:29,440 I once again think that when they do their second edition of 2543 02:11:29,440 --> 02:11:31,800 this, if they, I assume they're going to get an artist to do 2544 02:11:31,840 --> 02:11:34,960 art, like putting art through this, that shows a little more 2545 02:11:34,960 --> 02:11:37,520 of a technological. I think I'll add a lot because a 2546 02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:41,600 lot of the art is like the HG LS like stuff. 2547 02:11:41,600 --> 02:11:45,720 It's cool as hell, but I think it kind of maybe leads your mind 2548 02:11:45,720 --> 02:11:47,080 in the wrong direction. Yes. 2549 02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:50,960 If there was like a early spread of, like, what I'm thinking of, 2550 02:11:51,280 --> 02:11:55,640 but someone rocking a fucking cell phone, yeah, my brain would 2551 02:11:55,640 --> 02:11:56,920 be like, oh, OK, you know what I mean? 2552 02:11:56,960 --> 02:11:59,040 I. Mean I still want like dirigible 2553 02:11:59,040 --> 02:12:01,520 airships and don't you know that's? 2554 02:12:01,520 --> 02:12:03,920 What I'm saying I literally if it was literally like the 2555 02:12:03,920 --> 02:12:07,080 airship or whatever maybe like a carriage going by and someone 2556 02:12:07,080 --> 02:12:09,880 playing or like texting on their phone, I'd be like oh, I totally 2557 02:12:09,880 --> 02:12:13,240 get this like this world to me and tell me if this isn't what 2558 02:12:13,240 --> 02:12:18,840 you think. I really feel a varn electrum 2559 02:12:18,840 --> 02:12:23,240 archive with cell phones is what what I get from this. 2560 02:12:23,680 --> 02:12:26,720 I think somewhere around there. Yeah, yeah. 2561 02:12:27,040 --> 02:12:30,160 I would put it in the same like it might it would be a farther 2562 02:12:30,160 --> 02:12:33,680 bubble, but that's where my brain goes like vibe wise. 2563 02:12:33,960 --> 02:12:36,000 I like it. I don't know why, but like 2564 02:12:36,640 --> 02:12:39,280 reading through is, I cannot help but see Paradigm City in my 2565 02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:41,120 brain. I mean, yeah, yeah. 2566 02:12:41,720 --> 02:12:43,000 You know it. Yeah, I just. 2567 02:12:43,880 --> 02:12:45,480 I see what you're saying, but I just see. 2568 02:12:45,480 --> 02:12:47,200 So I just see. I just see something a little 2569 02:12:47,200 --> 02:12:48,600 different. But isn't that cool though? 2570 02:12:48,600 --> 02:12:51,280 Because technically like both those can be perfectly correct 2571 02:12:51,320 --> 02:12:54,520 based on 100%, like 100% and the theme of the immortal 2572 02:12:54,520 --> 02:12:57,240 aristocracy and everything else going on can fit easily into 2573 02:12:57,240 --> 02:12:59,040 both of those things. Like it's really it's up to you 2574 02:12:59,040 --> 02:13:02,000 and your tables interpretation. Well, that's what that's what 2575 02:13:02,000 --> 02:13:06,880 you said like 70 to 8% of the world is this implied Canon, But 2576 02:13:06,960 --> 02:13:09,960 the 20% really changes the vibe of all of it, depending on what 2577 02:13:09,960 --> 02:13:11,960 you want to do with it. So, so good. 2578 02:13:15,880 --> 02:13:18,320 Got to do the most important rule about phones. 2579 02:13:19,720 --> 02:13:22,480 No one does call someone. No one does this anymore. 2580 02:13:23,440 --> 02:13:28,440 It's it's great. Might be the best, like 8-7 2581 02:13:28,440 --> 02:13:30,040 lines, 7 words and the whole thing. 2582 02:13:30,440 --> 02:13:33,520 I once again saying this again. It just says I'm really excited 2583 02:13:33,520 --> 02:13:35,960 for another edition of this, but I really hope that they keep 2584 02:13:36,120 --> 02:13:38,520 shit like that. Like I mean. 2585 02:13:38,800 --> 02:13:40,640 It's this is fun to read through. 2586 02:13:40,640 --> 02:13:42,280 It's funny. You laugh as you're reading 2587 02:13:42,280 --> 02:13:43,520 through it. It's good. 2588 02:13:43,520 --> 02:13:45,560 We're going to call someone. No one does that. 2589 02:13:45,560 --> 02:13:50,640 No one calls anybody. I mean even just a reshuffle and 2590 02:13:50,640 --> 02:13:55,320 and tightening up but like hacking off like all the 2591 02:13:55,360 --> 02:13:58,640 unnecessary like you know especially some of the early 2592 02:13:58,640 --> 02:14:02,960 stuff would tighten this whole game up better and just like and 2593 02:14:02,960 --> 02:14:06,240 just a little bit of clarification, I mean this is 2594 02:14:06,240 --> 02:14:09,800 like we said already really fucking good and and could be 2595 02:14:09,800 --> 02:14:13,640 great. So next is inventory. 2596 02:14:14,400 --> 02:14:17,840 Inventory we discuss in which we discuss your stuff and how to 2597 02:14:17,840 --> 02:14:19,640 use it. So carrying capacity we talked 2598 02:14:19,640 --> 02:14:23,800 about already it's it's you know the 10 plus strength plus con, 2599 02:14:24,040 --> 02:14:28,960 you can carry a bunch of stuff. Everything takes one slot, you 2600 02:14:28,960 --> 02:14:33,480 can hold 100 coins in one slot essentially you hit 101, it goes 2601 02:14:33,480 --> 02:14:36,320 to the second slot. I like what it says down here. 2602 02:14:37,760 --> 02:14:39,560 Magic rings, locked pick suit of armor. 2603 02:14:39,560 --> 02:14:41,800 It's all different sizes of weights, but we are on the side 2604 02:14:41,800 --> 02:14:43,560 of simplicity for inventory management. 2605 02:14:44,000 --> 02:14:45,600 The reason we bother is that it's simple. 2606 02:14:45,600 --> 02:14:47,840 The less useful stuff you take into a dungeon, the more sex of 2607 02:14:47,840 --> 02:14:52,120 coins you can carry out. Again, we err on the side of 2608 02:14:52,120 --> 02:14:55,120 just being like, fuck it, except for when you sleep in armor. 2609 02:14:55,240 --> 02:15:01,040 Like it just again. Anyway, equipment is made to 2610 02:15:01,040 --> 02:15:03,000 last, so we've talked about this before. 2611 02:15:03,000 --> 02:15:06,720 Your equipment, dye are not risk die, user die, whatever, They're 2612 02:15:06,720 --> 02:15:09,320 not risk die. They are actual die. 2613 02:15:09,320 --> 02:15:11,960 They don't degrade. They're meant to last, et 2614 02:15:11,960 --> 02:15:13,680 cetera, et cetera. Protective armor, tools, 2615 02:15:13,680 --> 02:15:16,360 Shields, weapon, grimars, important stuff like that. 2616 02:15:16,360 --> 02:15:20,480 Things that are not risk die. You have a regular die and 2617 02:15:20,480 --> 02:15:22,040 there's different rules associated with it. 2618 02:15:22,760 --> 02:15:26,680 Equipment has a die, denotes the quality you can see Table. 2619 02:15:26,680 --> 02:15:28,880 It's not table one, it's like table three. 2620 02:15:28,880 --> 02:15:31,720 I think I think that's a miss. A miss right there because table 2621 02:15:31,720 --> 02:15:34,120 one is the GM. Like what's the G? 2622 02:15:34,120 --> 02:15:36,040 What's the M table? Right. 2623 02:15:36,920 --> 02:15:40,360 Weapons seal damage to equal equal to the dye associated with 2624 02:15:40,360 --> 02:15:41,160 them. Makes sense. 2625 02:15:41,160 --> 02:15:43,880 If it's AD six, it's D6 protection absorbs. 2626 02:15:43,880 --> 02:15:45,480 You have to talk about that half your highest number. 2627 02:15:45,720 --> 02:15:48,120 You may end with a bunch of weapons in armor. 2628 02:15:48,440 --> 02:15:53,200 Cool. Have fun with that When 2629 02:15:57,480 --> 02:15:59,960 equipment dye sizes, when using inventor of something other than 2630 02:15:59,960 --> 02:16:02,200 harming others or preventing yourself, the associated dye is 2631 02:16:02,200 --> 02:16:04,040 useful as an indicator for quality. 2632 02:16:04,040 --> 02:16:06,960 We've talked about this already. Again, it's the table three. 2633 02:16:07,200 --> 02:16:10,240 You can use the same quality for your equipment as you do for the 2634 02:16:10,240 --> 02:16:12,640 risk dye. Like levels that we talked 2635 02:16:12,640 --> 02:16:14,200 about, you know, whether something's really good or 2636 02:16:14,200 --> 02:16:16,000 something's like really bad or whatever. 2637 02:16:16,240 --> 02:16:17,920 It is what it is. Consumables. 2638 02:16:18,560 --> 02:16:21,400 These are food, drink, medicine, batteries, things that when 2639 02:16:21,400 --> 02:16:23,120 they're gone, they're gone. You're not repairing, they're 2640 02:16:23,120 --> 02:16:25,400 gone. Using a consumable. 2641 02:16:26,880 --> 02:16:29,360 Consumables have a name and associated risk dye. 2642 02:16:29,880 --> 02:16:32,440 The use of these consumable is not prescriptive. 2643 02:16:32,440 --> 02:16:35,760 So this is again something that's very abstracted and I 2644 02:16:35,760 --> 02:16:38,360 really love the example. Ball of fire oil for instance, 2645 02:16:38,559 --> 02:16:42,480 could be poured on a weapon or ammunition or rubbed on armor, 2646 02:16:42,480 --> 02:16:44,879 all sorts of stuff. So for example, if you pour it 2647 02:16:44,879 --> 02:16:50,000 on a blade, you now have a flame blade and you roll the risk die 2648 02:16:50,000 --> 02:16:53,480 every time until the and it lasts until the risk die 2649 02:16:53,480 --> 02:16:56,000 disappears. If you rub it on your armor, you 2650 02:16:56,000 --> 02:17:00,400 now have heat resistance until the usage until the risk die 2651 02:17:00,400 --> 02:17:02,639 disappears. Super smart, super clever. 2652 02:17:02,639 --> 02:17:04,160 Love it. Very broad, very abstract. 2653 02:17:04,160 --> 02:17:05,320 Like the way the magic system works. 2654 02:17:05,559 --> 02:17:07,719 Good fucking job. That's how everything should 2655 02:17:07,719 --> 02:17:10,240 work. Coin and treasure. 2656 02:17:10,240 --> 02:17:15,360 Coin is the official currency. Basically coin is what you want. 2657 02:17:15,760 --> 02:17:19,639 Only rich people have coin and it's good to have coin but not 2658 02:17:19,639 --> 02:17:23,360 good to keep coin is what the game basically tells you. 2659 02:17:23,840 --> 02:17:28,160 Again, you can hold 100 but most things are done by bartering. 2660 02:17:28,160 --> 02:17:30,879 I love the barter system. Basically you take the risk die. 2661 02:17:30,879 --> 02:17:33,160 You take the risk die. If it's equal you just fucking 2662 02:17:33,160 --> 02:17:35,760 pass it off. But if it's one up it takes two 2663 02:17:35,760 --> 02:17:39,120 of the one below it. So D6D6 you can just trade, but 2664 02:17:39,120 --> 02:17:41,080 to get AD eight you need 2D sixes. 2665 02:17:41,080 --> 02:17:43,520 To get AD 10 you need 2D8. I think it's really clever. 2666 02:17:43,680 --> 02:17:46,320 I love the way that just expands exponentially. 2667 02:17:46,320 --> 02:17:48,879 It's great selling treasure for coin. 2668 02:17:49,200 --> 02:17:52,240 It's also a good bartering rule because you only really need to 2669 02:17:52,240 --> 02:17:54,160 read it once. After that you're like, this is 2670 02:17:54,160 --> 02:17:56,600 not a complicated bartering rule like I now completely 2671 02:17:56,600 --> 02:17:58,639 understand, so I'll have to reference this because it's 2672 02:17:58,760 --> 02:18:02,480 yeah, 2/1. Super easy and again explained 2673 02:18:02,480 --> 02:18:08,879 super easily. Yeah, add it down to the the 2674 02:18:08,879 --> 02:18:10,400 bare minimum and add if you need to. 2675 02:18:10,440 --> 02:18:14,480 So selling treasure for coin exactly like it sounds. 2676 02:18:14,480 --> 02:18:16,160 You could sell treasure for a coin. 2677 02:18:16,360 --> 02:18:19,080 When attempting to sell treasure to someone with a coin to buy 2678 02:18:19,080 --> 02:18:22,920 it, roll this die and multiply the result by 100 to discover 2679 02:18:22,920 --> 02:18:27,920 what you're able to get for it. Selling other items for coin is 2680 02:18:27,920 --> 02:18:29,559 a mechanic. Hoarding coin. 2681 02:18:29,559 --> 02:18:31,080 It's bad for you. Don't do it. 2682 02:18:31,080 --> 02:18:32,520 It's most dangerous stuff in the universe. 2683 02:18:32,520 --> 02:18:35,400 Coin is. Having too much puts a target on 2684 02:18:35,400 --> 02:18:39,879 your back and make gives you weird ideas on who should be in 2685 02:18:39,879 --> 02:18:44,120 charge around here. And holding on for too long, I 2686 02:18:44,120 --> 02:18:45,480 forgot. About that line, that's very 2687 02:18:45,520 --> 02:18:46,760 good. It's such a good fucking line. 2688 02:18:46,760 --> 02:18:49,200 It's such a good fucking line. Holding on to coin for too long 2689 02:18:49,200 --> 02:18:51,440 invites attention to debt collectors and other forms of 2690 02:18:51,440 --> 02:18:54,040 trouble. Such a good fucking line. 2691 02:18:54,040 --> 02:18:56,799 So many so many fucking lines in this there. 2692 02:18:56,799 --> 02:18:59,040 Are a lot of good. There's some great one liners in 2693 02:18:59,040 --> 02:19:00,200 there. But that's such a that's such a 2694 02:19:00,200 --> 02:19:03,480 pointed, that's such a pointed, modern take. 2695 02:19:03,480 --> 02:19:05,520 It's like, yeah, it gives you weird ideas about who should be 2696 02:19:05,520 --> 02:19:06,520 in charge when you're rich, Yeah. 2697 02:19:08,600 --> 02:19:10,760 Experience and advancement talk through this pretty quick 2698 02:19:10,760 --> 02:19:12,559 experience and advancement experience points. 2699 02:19:12,559 --> 02:19:14,920 I love the way I love the style of experience gaming. 2700 02:19:15,120 --> 02:19:18,719 It's not like kill enemy like you know when the touch you 5 is 2701 02:19:18,719 --> 02:19:21,719 not a combat game and you just explain to me why everything you 2702 02:19:21,719 --> 02:19:27,000 can kill gives you XP. Yeah. 2703 02:19:27,040 --> 02:19:32,320 Sounds like the game. The game is how you write it, so 2704 02:19:32,320 --> 02:19:35,360 experience points. I love this style where like at 2705 02:19:35,360 --> 02:19:38,400 the end of a set, OK, stop yelling. 2706 02:19:38,760 --> 02:19:40,480 I wrote that right there. Let me look at it real quick. 2707 02:19:40,480 --> 02:19:42,240 Stop. Yelling yeah, I have umm on 2708 02:19:42,240 --> 02:19:44,000 mine. And I've said umm so many times 2709 02:19:44,000 --> 02:19:45,400 today, so whatever. You. 2710 02:19:45,559 --> 02:19:47,040 Know I have. Umm, and stop yelling. 2711 02:19:47,799 --> 02:19:49,560 So I'm gonna try to stop yelling for you guys. 2712 02:19:49,640 --> 02:19:54,480 So yeah, so you gain experience. Point for the following. 2713 02:19:54,480 --> 02:19:58,520 So at the end of a session you calculate experience points. 2714 02:19:58,520 --> 02:20:00,640 Death and space does this. Dragon band does something 2715 02:20:00,640 --> 02:20:01,400 similar? Ish. 2716 02:20:01,640 --> 02:20:05,120 I really love this style. So you gain 1 experience point 2717 02:20:05,120 --> 02:20:09,120 for each sack of 100 coin you blow on your goal between 2718 02:20:09,120 --> 02:20:12,840 adventures. That again, the rules are the 2719 02:20:12,840 --> 02:20:17,840 game, right? Like and people can wax 2720 02:20:17,840 --> 02:20:20,120 semantics about that shit all fucking day and I do not care. 2721 02:20:20,720 --> 02:20:23,960 What I mean by that is the way that you write the game will 2722 02:20:23,960 --> 02:20:26,520 affect, both consciously and subconsciously the way players 2723 02:20:26,520 --> 02:20:29,520 play the game. As I just said, you can't tell 2724 02:20:29,520 --> 02:20:33,480 me a A game isn't a combat game when the best way to gain XP is 2725 02:20:33,480 --> 02:20:37,000 to kill shit like that. It's a combat game like you are 2726 02:20:37,000 --> 02:20:40,720 teaching a player to kill shit. In this game you gain 1 2727 02:20:40,720 --> 02:20:45,120 experience for blowing 100 coin. It's telling you blow your 2728 02:20:45,120 --> 02:20:47,480 fucking money. And I love that, because that to 2729 02:20:47,480 --> 02:20:51,440 me is the game is get money, blow money, Go do what the fuck? 2730 02:20:51,440 --> 02:20:54,480 Again, I really enjoy it. You gain 1 experience point for 2731 02:20:54,480 --> 02:20:56,440 embodying your character's general deal. 2732 02:20:56,880 --> 02:20:59,520 Two, if you do it multiple times, you get one experience 2733 02:20:59,520 --> 02:21:01,520 for playing off another character's general deal. 2734 02:21:01,680 --> 02:21:04,200 Two if you do multiple times. And you gain 1 experience for 2735 02:21:04,200 --> 02:21:06,360 thwarting, embarrassing, harassing or robbing. 2736 02:21:07,200 --> 02:21:09,560 Basically fucking with the immoral aristocracy and you get 2737 02:21:09,560 --> 02:21:13,480 2 points if it's unquestionably you that are directly 2738 02:21:13,480 --> 02:21:19,120 responsible. I love that advancement so this 2739 02:21:19,120 --> 02:21:20,680 is what we're talking about. Before it's super easy to 2740 02:21:20,680 --> 02:21:23,560 advance realistically. So you may spend 6 experience 2741 02:21:23,560 --> 02:21:25,160 points again any of the following advancements. 2742 02:21:25,160 --> 02:21:27,680 There's 123456, there's like 7 or 8. 2743 02:21:28,040 --> 02:21:31,840 Improve and attribute to Max 3. Gain an additional hit die. 2744 02:21:32,120 --> 02:21:34,480 Grow all of your hit die by one size. 2745 02:21:34,480 --> 02:21:36,440 Grow your Marshall training. Die. 2746 02:21:36,920 --> 02:21:39,600 Grow your magic dye. Acquire a new magic domain, or 2747 02:21:39,600 --> 02:21:42,040 invent a move. That's the first time they 2748 02:21:42,040 --> 02:21:45,480 mentioned move. It's lowercase M, but nowhere 2749 02:21:45,480 --> 02:21:48,040 else to say that the special actions are moves. 2750 02:21:48,040 --> 02:21:50,840 So there's a miss. There's like a a a miss in the 2751 02:21:50,840 --> 02:21:53,680 vernacular here. Like, if it is it a special 2752 02:21:53,680 --> 02:21:56,520 action, like all the rest of the things that have that style, 2753 02:21:56,520 --> 02:21:59,040 which there's only two, and they're both special actions. 2754 02:21:59,640 --> 02:22:01,920 Or is it a move? And if it's a move, I feel like 2755 02:22:01,920 --> 02:22:05,360 the the the concept of like when the move, what a move and all 2756 02:22:05,360 --> 02:22:06,680 this stuff needs to explain a little better. 2757 02:22:06,880 --> 02:22:08,840 I think get rid of the word move because I fucking hate it. 2758 02:22:09,280 --> 02:22:11,720 Getting rid of the word move is a move though, so. 2759 02:22:13,440 --> 02:22:15,520 I would just. Bring it back. 2760 02:22:15,560 --> 02:22:17,520 Everything's a move. I hate it. 2761 02:22:17,520 --> 02:22:20,440 So yeah, we're doing an. Advanced podcast move right now 2762 02:22:20,640 --> 02:22:21,400 you know. Right. 2763 02:22:21,440 --> 02:22:25,680 Yeah. And then being hating moves is a 2764 02:22:25,680 --> 02:22:27,320 move. Yeah, absolutely. 2765 02:22:27,320 --> 02:22:31,400 It's my favorite move. So how advancement effects HP 2766 02:22:31,400 --> 02:22:33,600 and MP. As you improve your attributes 2767 02:22:33,600 --> 02:22:35,880 and your hit die and your MP and everything also increases. 2768 02:22:37,280 --> 02:22:38,720 I love that. I love that. 2769 02:22:38,720 --> 02:22:42,240 Like as you get better, your derived shit gets better. 2770 02:22:42,240 --> 02:22:44,120 You know what I mean? It makes sense. 2771 02:22:44,440 --> 02:22:48,520 So when you gain additional hit die, roll it and add your Con 2772 02:22:48,520 --> 02:22:52,160 and wisdom, add this total to your current maximum HP. 2773 02:22:52,480 --> 02:22:54,560 Interesting. That means your HP is going to 2774 02:22:54,560 --> 02:22:56,080 shoot up pretty quickly sometimes. 2775 02:22:57,240 --> 02:22:59,800 I didn't expect the amount of HP that it sounds like you could 2776 02:22:59,800 --> 02:23:01,160 get from this game. Yeah. 2777 02:23:01,960 --> 02:23:06,920 I'm curious what average? Yeah, because it's not like you 2778 02:23:06,920 --> 02:23:10,160 don't have levels, you just have the numbers. 2779 02:23:10,440 --> 02:23:13,360 So like what? When you're like 4 sessions in, 2780 02:23:13,840 --> 02:23:15,560 how much HP do you have? You know what I mean? 2781 02:23:16,880 --> 02:23:20,200 And again, in this game, it's not like it's an abstracted 2782 02:23:20,200 --> 02:23:24,000 number that just whittled away, so you really couldn't get to a 2783 02:23:24,000 --> 02:23:26,480 point where you just have. Well, no, I guess not really, 2784 02:23:26,480 --> 02:23:28,800 because eventually you Max out on con and stuff like that and 2785 02:23:28,800 --> 02:23:30,840 you really just can't take more. I guess. 2786 02:23:32,320 --> 02:23:35,080 When your hit die improves, replace all your current hit 2787 02:23:35,080 --> 02:23:37,720 dice with the dice. The next size up. 2788 02:23:38,440 --> 02:23:41,200 For each die you improve this way, add 1 to your maximum HP, 2789 02:23:41,360 --> 02:23:43,160 so that's another way to gain HP. 2790 02:23:43,160 --> 02:23:48,440 So if you already have 4D sixes, you can make them all D eights, 2791 02:23:50,240 --> 02:23:53,520 and then now you have 4 HP, one for each D1. 2792 02:23:53,520 --> 02:23:57,700 For each die you know. Mm. 2793 02:23:57,700 --> 02:24:00,560 Hmm. When your Con improves, add 1 to 2794 02:24:00,560 --> 02:24:03,840 your maximum HP for each hit die you already have, regardless of 2795 02:24:03,840 --> 02:24:06,360 size. So increase your Con by one. 2796 02:24:06,760 --> 02:24:08,400 Boom. If you have four, that's another 2797 02:24:08,400 --> 02:24:12,360 four right there for you. When your Wisdom improves, add 1 2798 02:24:12,360 --> 02:24:16,880 to your maximum HP for each die you have, and add 1 to your 2799 02:24:16,880 --> 02:24:20,720 maximum MP. So Wisdom is really important 2800 02:24:20,760 --> 02:24:23,200 for HP and MP. Interesting. 2801 02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:26,320 I feel like there's so many ways to gain HPI, don't know why. 2802 02:24:26,320 --> 02:24:27,560 I. Feel like there's a lot. 2803 02:24:27,560 --> 02:24:30,080 Of gaining HP. But again, I. 2804 02:24:30,120 --> 02:24:32,920 Was like my brain went, why would wisdom give you HP? 2805 02:24:32,920 --> 02:24:37,320 It's it's an abstract of your overall like mental and physical 2806 02:24:37,320 --> 02:24:39,840 health What? Were you saying I like don't 2807 02:24:40,440 --> 02:24:42,960 outright have an issue with this, but I would be interested 2808 02:24:42,960 --> 02:24:46,640 to see it in practice and see what HP gets up to for like a 2809 02:24:46,840 --> 02:24:47,680 regular. Person. 2810 02:24:48,320 --> 02:24:52,160 Yeah. Last one, when your CHA 2811 02:24:52,160 --> 02:24:54,400 improves, add 1 to your maximum MP. 2812 02:24:54,520 --> 02:24:57,000 So lots of ways to get HP, couple ways to get MP. 2813 02:24:58,000 --> 02:25:03,040 Yeah, so inventing moves again. Weird that suddenly we're 2814 02:25:03,040 --> 02:25:05,680 talking about moves in this game. 2815 02:25:05,680 --> 02:25:09,120 Not special actions. Is it special actions? 2816 02:25:09,120 --> 02:25:12,360 Is it moves like what? Like there's a there's a lack of 2817 02:25:12,960 --> 02:25:16,640 explanation of if there's a difference, why there's a 2818 02:25:16,640 --> 02:25:19,640 difference. I would personally just get rid 2819 02:25:19,640 --> 02:25:24,240 of the the word moves entirely. Again, I hate it, but I don't 2820 02:25:24,240 --> 02:25:25,960 think it. I think it gives a bad 2821 02:25:25,960 --> 02:25:29,920 connotation because so many of the direct descendants of PBTA 2822 02:25:30,440 --> 02:25:32,880 EV, literally everything was moved down to the basic moves. 2823 02:25:32,880 --> 02:25:35,760 And in this game, the basic moves aren't like the basic 2824 02:25:35,920 --> 02:25:39,080 thing that you do, like your attribute checks aren't moves or 2825 02:25:39,400 --> 02:25:42,200 attribute checks. Yeah, it's only the special 2826 02:25:42,200 --> 02:25:44,760 stuff that is moves. So I would get rid of the word 2827 02:25:44,760 --> 02:25:46,920 moves because. Also, special actions is just 2828 02:25:46,920 --> 02:25:50,600 better, like it's just a better thing to call it, like, yeah. 2829 02:25:51,560 --> 02:25:55,200 Actions in general, like my game that I'm doing is it's a 2D6 2830 02:25:55,200 --> 02:25:58,720 game and it's like it's the GM gets an action, you do AGM 2831 02:25:58,720 --> 02:26:01,240 action, not AGM because action sounds better than a move. 2832 02:26:01,920 --> 02:26:05,400 Kind of like not the word moves. I like the idea of inventing a 2833 02:26:05,400 --> 02:26:07,120 special action for your character that gets so 2834 02:26:07,120 --> 02:26:10,160 specialized at a thing like and you just you guys come up with a 2835 02:26:10,160 --> 02:26:13,000 list of five consequences that lay out what they should be. 2836 02:26:13,880 --> 02:26:17,600 I think that's cool. I think it's way cooler than 2837 02:26:17,600 --> 02:26:20,240 like the bog standard PBTA. Like here are all you're 2838 02:26:20,240 --> 02:26:22,360 assigned everything. Again. 2839 02:26:22,760 --> 02:26:28,320 I love when quote UN quote moves are used as spells, powers, 2840 02:26:28,360 --> 02:26:32,760 important big things where the laid out consequences affect the 2841 02:26:32,760 --> 02:26:34,480 direct situation you're involved in. 2842 02:26:34,720 --> 02:26:39,360 I don't like the triggering, like the basic moves, quote UN 2843 02:26:39,360 --> 02:26:41,080 quote from Apocalypse for all are the things that I hate. 2844 02:26:41,080 --> 02:26:42,800 I'm like just give me an attribute check and let me just 2845 02:26:42,800 --> 02:26:45,680 like make up what I want to do. When you box me into three 2846 02:26:45,680 --> 02:26:48,800 fucking little scaffolds, I'm like, why am I even playing the 2847 02:26:48,840 --> 02:26:50,120 game? I can just read this book, you 2848 02:26:50,400 --> 02:26:52,400 know what I mean? Like it really irritates me. 2849 02:26:52,400 --> 02:26:54,320 But yes, I love inventing moves with the character. 2850 02:26:54,320 --> 02:26:58,040 So talking about this, it says there's a template, so you can 2851 02:26:58,040 --> 02:27:00,400 invent a movie using the same temple as posting from your 2852 02:27:00,400 --> 02:27:02,680 phone, which is a special action. 2853 02:27:02,680 --> 02:27:04,720 So just get rid of the word moves and use special actions. 2854 02:27:05,000 --> 02:27:06,960 Give them a name, declare the attribute, the limiting 2855 02:27:06,960 --> 02:27:10,760 condition, the whole one to six, etcetera, 55, blah blah, blahs, 2856 02:27:10,760 --> 02:27:12,360 everything. So there's some example moves 2857 02:27:12,360 --> 02:27:13,960 here that I really like. I really like. 2858 02:27:14,120 --> 02:27:17,440 I really like some of them. So the fight, dirty roll, plus 2859 02:27:17,440 --> 02:27:20,240 decks on an opponent with an obvious weak point, groin eyes, 2860 02:27:20,240 --> 02:27:22,800 etcetera. So they got a groin, you got to 2861 02:27:22,800 --> 02:27:26,040 which you have access, you can access that groin. 2862 02:27:26,600 --> 02:27:30,200 Here you go. So 126 choose 17292, etcetera, 2863 02:27:30,200 --> 02:27:32,120 etcetera. So the five are you don't expose 2864 02:27:32,120 --> 02:27:35,200 yourself to a counter attack, Nobody else sees your dirty 2865 02:27:35,200 --> 02:27:37,480 trick. Attacks against this opponent 2866 02:27:37,480 --> 02:27:39,680 gain advantage until the take a moment to recover. 2867 02:27:39,880 --> 02:27:42,760 You embarrass them, you deal 1D6 damage. 2868 02:27:43,520 --> 02:27:46,880 So the only thing different about this is in the template it 2869 02:27:46,880 --> 02:27:54,480 really says where does it talk about that there's a specific. 2870 02:27:54,480 --> 02:27:56,680 Bot in the. First paragraph, you're talking 2871 02:27:56,680 --> 02:27:58,680 about the five possible consequences. 2872 02:27:59,160 --> 02:28:02,480 Yeah, two that prevent a consequence for you. 2873 02:28:02,480 --> 02:28:05,640 A few good outcomes and a few that are fun. 2874 02:28:05,880 --> 02:28:08,440 So the only thing with the fight dirty is you don't express 2875 02:28:08,440 --> 02:28:11,240 yourself to a counter attack is the only one. 2876 02:28:11,240 --> 02:28:14,080 That's like stopping something from getting to you right? 2877 02:28:14,400 --> 02:28:16,240 Nobody else sees your dirty trick is another one. 2878 02:28:17,000 --> 02:28:20,280 Oh, see, I saw that one as Oh yeah, I mean, I saw that one 2879 02:28:20,280 --> 02:28:21,520 more as like a fun one. But you're right. 2880 02:28:21,520 --> 02:28:22,960 That is the bad one. You. 2881 02:28:23,080 --> 02:28:24,600 Embarrass them, I think is the fun one. 2882 02:28:25,240 --> 02:28:28,680 Yeah, yeah, cookie dish is fine. It's about cooking and then 2883 02:28:28,680 --> 02:28:30,240 shield bash roll plus con an opponent. 2884 02:28:30,240 --> 02:28:33,080 When you're wielding a shield and you can conceivably bonk 2885 02:28:33,080 --> 02:28:35,040 your foe on the head, it literally says bonk your phone 2886 02:28:35,040 --> 02:28:36,320 on the head. I love this fucking game. 2887 02:28:37,440 --> 02:28:40,400 So you don't break your shield, you don't expose yourself to a 2888 02:28:40,400 --> 02:28:42,600 counter attack, deal damage equal to your Shields, equipment 2889 02:28:42,600 --> 02:28:44,120 die. Your opponent is dazed by your 2890 02:28:44,120 --> 02:28:46,200 blow and has disadvantage on the next role or your opponent is 2891 02:28:46,200 --> 02:28:48,240 distracted. If an ally attack soon they have 2892 02:28:48,240 --> 02:28:49,880 advantage on their role. I love this. 2893 02:28:49,880 --> 02:28:53,480 It's such a good broken down of like the the template that they 2894 02:28:53,480 --> 02:28:56,680 use, it's really well done. Also, again, the thing I do like 2895 02:28:56,680 --> 02:29:02,800 about this is how the two that are like stopping something bad 2896 02:29:02,800 --> 02:29:06,960 from happening to you gives you kind of the way that the PBA 2897 02:29:06,960 --> 02:29:10,360 does those things that the GM can just do without having to 2898 02:29:10,360 --> 02:29:13,480 break everything down into a GM move and giving you a fucking GM 2899 02:29:13,480 --> 02:29:15,560 playbook that you can only do these things or whatever. 2900 02:29:15,760 --> 02:29:18,280 Like this says like you don't break your shield, so if you 2901 02:29:18,280 --> 02:29:20,960 fail miserably you can just go, Oh well, how about we just break 2902 02:29:20,960 --> 02:29:22,320 your shield? You know, it's it's right there 2903 02:29:22,320 --> 02:29:24,360 for you. It has a special action. 2904 02:29:24,360 --> 02:29:27,120 I really love that. All right, talk to me about NPCS 2905 02:29:27,280 --> 02:29:30,120 and aristocracy and we'll be done at 3 hours. 2906 02:29:31,360 --> 02:29:33,080 Like we're going to cruise this one so fast. 2907 02:29:33,080 --> 02:29:34,640 We're 2 1/2 hours in with two chapters left. 2908 02:29:34,880 --> 02:29:35,840 Oh, there's a lot of really good stuff. 2909 02:29:36,360 --> 02:29:38,200 You know, we don't have to deep dive MPCS. 2910 02:29:38,240 --> 02:29:43,920 They are like, they're die size, hit die size, like MPCS, right. 2911 02:29:43,920 --> 02:29:49,120 So D4 is a terrible MPCD. 12 is a glorious warrior creature of 2912 02:29:49,120 --> 02:29:51,440 legend. You just basically determine, 2913 02:29:51,440 --> 02:29:55,360 like, you know, the size and quantity of dice, their gear. 2914 02:29:55,600 --> 02:29:57,960 If they're magically inclined, give them a domain. 2915 02:29:57,960 --> 02:30:02,360 If they're legendary, give them immunity and means for a PC to 2916 02:30:02,360 --> 02:30:09,840 learn it. Where was I? 2917 02:30:10,040 --> 02:30:13,320 I'm lost how tough they are, termed by how many dice you'll 2918 02:30:13,320 --> 02:30:17,400 be using. Tiny wimps get one, huge 2919 02:30:17,400 --> 02:30:19,880 Monsters get five, another. Great. 2920 02:30:19,880 --> 02:30:21,880 There's some great tables here that just kind of lay out like 2921 02:30:21,880 --> 02:30:24,640 what these things look like. Gear. 2922 02:30:25,560 --> 02:30:27,720 NP CS got a piece of gear. Piece of equipment. 2923 02:30:27,720 --> 02:30:33,320 For each die in their hip pool, magical NPCS, members of the 2924 02:30:33,320 --> 02:30:36,200 Moral Arc, Socracy, or other thumbs, allergical inclined foes 2925 02:30:36,520 --> 02:30:38,840 get access to magic. You give them appropriate 2926 02:30:38,960 --> 02:30:42,920 strange domain. Their magic dye will be equal to 2927 02:30:42,920 --> 02:30:45,760 the quality of their hit dye, essentially. 2928 02:30:45,760 --> 02:30:49,640 So how good their hit dye is Otherwise, Magic works pretty 2929 02:30:49,640 --> 02:30:55,240 much how it does for the players legendary NPCS. 2930 02:30:55,360 --> 02:30:58,120 This game operates under the assumption that suffering A 2931 02:30:58,120 --> 02:31:00,720 grievous wound or watching a friend cut down in battle can 2932 02:31:00,720 --> 02:31:02,720 make the best trained soldier panic retreat. 2933 02:31:03,560 --> 02:31:06,000 You may, however, wish to introduce a serious threat to 2934 02:31:06,000 --> 02:31:08,320 your world, a force nature of literally, literally or 2935 02:31:08,320 --> 02:31:12,080 metaphorically as written. Even if they are huge and 2936 02:31:12,080 --> 02:31:16,120 glorious with 5D12 hit dice, which is a crazy amount, there's 2937 02:31:16,120 --> 02:31:18,240 a chance that this NPC will panic and flee. 2938 02:31:19,840 --> 02:31:25,040 Basically this is just like you get a less likely to flee and 2939 02:31:25,040 --> 02:31:31,680 more legendarily actioned in PC, and it says don't be cool with 2940 02:31:31,680 --> 02:31:33,240 like they're immune, they're immune to things. 2941 02:31:33,480 --> 02:31:36,720 They're, they're they're the big tough demigod. 2942 02:31:37,000 --> 02:31:39,320 It basically says like you can just not even fuck with the 2943 02:31:39,320 --> 02:31:40,920 dice. Just. 2944 02:31:41,120 --> 02:31:42,760 Give it. Just make them like, literally. 2945 02:31:42,760 --> 02:31:45,360 You can't kill them until you have this one special thing. 2946 02:31:45,440 --> 02:31:47,440 Yeah? And then you can kill them like. 2947 02:31:47,720 --> 02:31:52,760 Sprig of mistletoe or whatever, you know, Yeah, some examples. 2948 02:31:53,080 --> 02:31:55,720 NPCS. The Dragon punch retainers here. 2949 02:31:58,400 --> 02:32:01,640 I like this because it it all fits in again really well. 2950 02:32:01,640 --> 02:32:07,480 So dragon punch retainer, HD3D6. So you know that they get three 2951 02:32:07,480 --> 02:32:10,720 items that are D sixes and that's just so clever again and 2952 02:32:10,720 --> 02:32:13,680 clean like the the next one is like the 48, so they have four 2953 02:32:13,680 --> 02:32:16,640 items that are D eights. Like again, Super clever, super 2954 02:32:16,640 --> 02:32:21,720 clean, really enjoyable. Yeah, it it follows the same 2955 02:32:21,720 --> 02:32:24,520 through line of logic as everything else does, where it's 2956 02:32:24,520 --> 02:32:26,760 just like so straightforward and so apparent that you can 2957 02:32:26,760 --> 02:32:29,840 immediately understand it. And then like, yeah, I think the 2958 02:32:29,840 --> 02:32:33,800 last one was the play in the assassin, which is like the one 2959 02:32:33,800 --> 02:32:36,360 with the vulnerability, which is the tear off the mask to expose 2960 02:32:36,360 --> 02:32:45,240 their eyes. Yeah, in the season, combat 2961 02:32:45,240 --> 02:32:49,560 pretty much talks about like morale tracking. 2962 02:32:49,560 --> 02:32:52,480 HP. Good, Good to look through as 2963 02:32:52,480 --> 02:32:54,520 the GM, but I don't think we need a deep dive. 2964 02:32:54,520 --> 02:32:56,920 It there is a morale table that you roll on. 2965 02:33:01,040 --> 02:33:04,000 Yeah, there's some examples of combat. 2966 02:33:04,240 --> 02:33:06,680 Targeted hit die. I think this section is like a 2967 02:33:06,680 --> 02:33:10,200 good section and there's a lot of a lot of examples of combat. 2968 02:33:10,200 --> 02:33:12,800 There's a long example of combat, yeah. 2969 02:33:13,040 --> 02:33:15,640 The example of combat's really great, definitely. 2970 02:33:15,720 --> 02:33:18,760 Is really my? Favorite part, Real quick, 2971 02:33:18,760 --> 02:33:20,920 because we're not going to read it, is. 2972 02:33:21,080 --> 02:33:26,560 The black hole stretches. Thomas Bahamas declares that 2973 02:33:26,560 --> 02:33:31,000 Hurricane Jim will beat up anyone for him, but he fails and 2974 02:33:31,160 --> 02:33:34,640 one of the bad guys says Hurricane Jim's a big dumb baby 2975 02:33:34,640 --> 02:33:37,560 and anyone who hangs out with him is a big dumb baby too. 2976 02:33:39,560 --> 02:33:43,040 Yeah, great. Love this fucking game and and 2977 02:33:43,040 --> 02:33:44,560 it and it goes for like 3 more pages. 2978 02:33:45,280 --> 02:33:46,920 But it's great. It's really great. 2979 02:33:46,920 --> 02:33:49,200 It hits all the things you want. It hits morale. 2980 02:33:49,200 --> 02:33:53,360 It hits the the, the like a bad consequence of a special action. 2981 02:33:53,360 --> 02:33:54,400 It hits fucking everything. It's great. 2982 02:33:54,400 --> 02:33:55,880 It's really good. We're not going to read it, but. 2983 02:33:55,880 --> 02:33:59,160 It's also just very funny, the moral aristocracy. 2984 02:33:59,800 --> 02:34:04,600 All right, break this down. Listen, the moral aristocracy 2985 02:34:04,880 --> 02:34:07,200 exists, and they're basically represented by. 2986 02:34:07,200 --> 02:34:10,440 I think the minor Arcana represents the structure. 2987 02:34:11,440 --> 02:34:14,280 Each tier of the immoral aristocracy below describes how 2988 02:34:14,280 --> 02:34:17,720 they can be generally used in play and what size dice to 2989 02:34:17,720 --> 02:34:23,320 employ for hid dice, employees, guards, quality of their gear, 2990 02:34:23,920 --> 02:34:29,000 and generally like what tier they operate at enslaved gods. 2991 02:34:29,000 --> 02:34:30,840 So we touched on this earlier. That's right. 2992 02:34:32,080 --> 02:34:35,440 And every house, every House of the immoral aristocracy commands 2993 02:34:35,440 --> 02:34:38,560 the divine right of the kings. The right is not freely given, 2994 02:34:38,560 --> 02:34:42,040 but must be taken. Yeah, these houses are built on 2995 02:34:42,040 --> 02:34:45,320 enslaved gods. These the gods are represented 2996 02:34:45,320 --> 02:34:48,520 by the ace of each suit. And so it's wands, cups, swords 2997 02:34:48,520 --> 02:34:52,240 and pentacles. The God, the existence of gods 2998 02:34:52,240 --> 02:34:56,880 is well hidden conspiracy. There is no indirect means to 2999 02:34:56,880 --> 02:34:58,400 learn the location of. Insight of God. 3000 02:34:59,200 --> 02:35:01,120 Very few can even confirm their existence. 3001 02:35:01,560 --> 02:35:05,600 The king, and only the king of a noble house knows where they are 3002 02:35:05,600 --> 02:35:10,360 housed, their mean or how they can be killed. 3003 02:35:11,600 --> 02:35:14,320 Yeah, dealing with enslaved gods should be used. 3004 02:35:14,360 --> 02:35:19,840 Should use D 10s and D twelves. And then it breaks down wands, 3005 02:35:19,840 --> 02:35:25,160 cups, swords and pinnacle aces. What that God is a God of and 3006 02:35:25,160 --> 02:35:28,720 what the house enslaving them is likely to be like. 3007 02:35:28,720 --> 02:35:32,800 Concerned and involved with there is petty nobility, so 3008 02:35:32,800 --> 02:35:35,800 those are like the two through 5, the numbered cards of the 3009 02:35:35,800 --> 02:35:39,200 minor Arcana. They represent Knights, minor 3010 02:35:39,200 --> 02:35:44,440 chorus, and some may be common people that are valuable to the 3011 02:35:44,440 --> 02:35:48,480 power structure. There's typically feuding 3012 02:35:48,480 --> 02:35:50,840 there's like a political intrigue intrigue to this. 3013 02:35:51,040 --> 02:35:53,400 But it's cool because you can have a tarot card deck and you 3014 02:35:53,400 --> 02:35:57,560 can map out like a like aristocratic house and then move 3015 02:35:57,560 --> 02:36:00,320 on to another one. You know, like who is in those 3016 02:36:00,320 --> 02:36:03,040 places? I think it's a good organization 3017 02:36:03,040 --> 02:36:04,360 tool. Peerage. 3018 02:36:04,360 --> 02:36:12,200 So 6 to 10 represent like lesser barons, marquees, high level 3019 02:36:12,200 --> 02:36:17,120 merchants, warlords people who who are not low level but kind 3020 02:36:17,120 --> 02:36:19,440 of like climbed their way up or pulled their way up. 3021 02:36:21,120 --> 02:36:23,640 For peerages are frequently seen as a necessary evil by the 3022 02:36:23,640 --> 02:36:25,800 common folk. They are able to use their 3023 02:36:25,800 --> 02:36:28,360 public facing enterprises to hide whatever shadowy dealings 3024 02:36:28,800 --> 02:36:32,000 secured their position, which I think is really interesting and 3025 02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:35,920 and rife with the ability to like you know, build the 3026 02:36:35,920 --> 02:36:39,920 background more for your world court page. 3027 02:36:39,920 --> 02:36:44,160 Knight and Queen card represent the the highest level of power 3028 02:36:44,160 --> 02:36:47,240 in the house. The three will be tied to each 3029 02:36:47,240 --> 02:36:51,280 other through family membership, on board of directors or 3030 02:36:51,280 --> 02:36:53,760 criminal ties. Under normal circumstances they 3031 02:36:53,760 --> 02:36:56,400 trust each other completely. But situations could be 3032 02:36:56,400 --> 02:37:00,040 contrived. Contrived to like kind of 3033 02:37:00,040 --> 02:37:07,680 disrupts that trust. And then the king is the head of 3034 02:37:07,680 --> 02:37:11,000 the household, represents the hand that holds the least to 3035 02:37:11,000 --> 02:37:13,440 which their enslaved God is bound. 3036 02:37:13,720 --> 02:37:15,600 Through them flows all true power. 3037 02:37:15,600 --> 02:37:18,880 They're like the true demigod leader of the their immortal 3038 02:37:18,880 --> 02:37:23,320 aristocracy house. The king alone will know how to 3039 02:37:23,320 --> 02:37:26,680 kill the gods and grant the aristocracy the immortality. 3040 02:37:27,240 --> 02:37:29,040 They will protect this knowledge of every fiber of their 3041 02:37:29,040 --> 02:37:30,640 building. Dealing with the king should use 3042 02:37:30,640 --> 02:37:34,040 D 10s occasionally D twelves to keep things exciting. 3043 02:37:35,360 --> 02:37:36,160 That's it. That's the game. 3044 02:37:36,520 --> 02:37:37,840 That's it. Hashtag. 3045 02:37:37,840 --> 02:37:38,880 Build your brand. All right. 3046 02:37:38,880 --> 02:37:41,680 Easy, easy. 90 minute episode. Yeah. 3047 02:37:41,680 --> 02:37:46,040 Quick, quick, quick, 90 minute having to glow lives. 3048 02:37:46,040 --> 02:37:49,040 We're going to write this as a book because it's 123 pages. 3049 02:37:50,480 --> 02:37:56,040 So as always 5 metrics worth 10 each to a Max of 50. 3050 02:37:56,040 --> 02:37:58,760 Art and layout is all the visuals in the game. 3051 02:37:58,760 --> 02:38:01,600 Usability is how well it is used. 3052 02:38:01,600 --> 02:38:07,280 The rule set is if we like it, yeah, originality is exactly 3053 02:38:07,280 --> 02:38:08,360 that. That's what that word is. 3054 02:38:08,360 --> 02:38:11,240 You know what it means and value is bang for your buck on what 3055 02:38:11,240 --> 02:38:13,920 you get. So art and layout. 3056 02:38:13,920 --> 02:38:15,320 I think it's a pretty quick easy one. 3057 02:38:18,240 --> 02:38:22,720 Thoughts. I'm going to give this A5. 3058 02:38:23,200 --> 02:38:26,000 Yep. I think that. 3059 02:38:26,200 --> 02:38:27,400 If. I don't. 3060 02:38:27,400 --> 02:38:29,640 Yeah. It's not awful. 3061 02:38:29,640 --> 02:38:34,320 It's not great. But I mean, you know, yeah. 3062 02:38:35,200 --> 02:38:36,440 I would. I would. 3063 02:38:39,240 --> 02:38:41,360 I would. Almost be tempted to go lower. 3064 02:38:42,360 --> 02:38:46,160 I think the numbered chapters add enough for me to be like 3065 02:38:46,200 --> 02:38:48,360 it's a 5. It's it's easy enough. 3066 02:38:49,200 --> 02:38:50,760 Well. My question is what would a? 3067 02:38:50,760 --> 02:38:52,520 Three have to look like, yeah, yeah, yeah. 3068 02:38:52,520 --> 02:38:54,240 Yeah, what would a three have to look like? 3069 02:38:54,240 --> 02:38:57,000 What would a what would a one in art and layout look like? 3070 02:38:57,000 --> 02:39:02,480 That's what I'm saying. Like 5 is literally halfway to a 3071 02:39:02,480 --> 02:39:04,400 10. Yeah, How many? 3072 02:39:04,400 --> 02:39:07,520 There's like 6 pieces. There's like 12 pieces of art. 3073 02:39:07,560 --> 02:39:09,920 It's public domain colored pieces at the beginning of the 3074 02:39:09,920 --> 02:39:15,640 chapters and that's it. What are you thinking? 3075 02:39:17,840 --> 02:39:21,800 I mean the thing about a five is like, it's it's fine, it's good. 3076 02:39:22,040 --> 02:39:24,800 Like I don't have really anything good to say. 3077 02:39:24,800 --> 02:39:27,600 I don't have any bad to say. I just think like there's just, 3078 02:39:27,600 --> 02:39:30,360 I mean and this is a product of the thing, there just isn't any. 3079 02:39:30,360 --> 02:39:33,200 There's just it's chapter, header, full page art that was 3080 02:39:33,200 --> 02:39:34,280 colored, you know what I mean? Like. 3081 02:39:34,520 --> 02:39:35,840 So what do you think of for art and layout? 3082 02:39:37,040 --> 02:39:39,240 Like it's a four or five for me, like I'm not gonna go look. 3083 02:39:39,240 --> 02:39:41,440 That low I'm. Between those two, so I'll let 3084 02:39:41,440 --> 02:39:42,480 you make the. Call ah fuck it. 3085 02:39:42,480 --> 02:39:46,560 I like I like we'll go 5. Usability. 3086 02:39:47,800 --> 02:39:50,320 I mean it's a troika layout which is my favorite layout. 3087 02:39:50,320 --> 02:39:53,440 It's the only layout that's it's or the only yeah that's ever 3088 02:39:53,440 --> 02:39:55,640 gotten A10. This is not that. 3089 02:39:55,960 --> 02:39:58,760 This is not that, but I the number chapters are great. 3090 02:40:00,360 --> 02:40:03,120 There are bookmarks as well. Here's the thing though. 3091 02:40:03,120 --> 02:40:05,920 In in if If they were to vibe this thing out with a bunch of 3092 02:40:05,920 --> 02:40:11,280 art, do you still think the number chapter is the way to go? 3093 02:40:12,560 --> 02:40:15,360 Yeah, I mean Troika has more art and numbered chapters. 3094 02:40:15,880 --> 02:40:18,360 Yeah, troika's, troika's, troika's troika, though, you 3095 02:40:18,360 --> 02:40:21,520 know. What I mean all things exist. 3096 02:40:21,840 --> 02:40:24,320 No thing. No one thing exists in a vacuum. 3097 02:40:25,920 --> 02:40:30,160 I just mean like you couldn't. You wouldn't want the the 1.21.3 3098 02:40:30,160 --> 02:40:32,960 in like Mark Borg. It would ruin the ball it. 3099 02:40:33,080 --> 02:40:34,920 Doesn't have to be Mark Borg, I'm just saying like they're. 3100 02:40:34,920 --> 02:40:37,040 No, I'm just saying like you could. 3101 02:40:37,120 --> 02:40:39,520 Increase the amount of art in this without decreasing the 3102 02:40:39,520 --> 02:40:41,960 usability of it. I mean, I think that, like, the 3103 02:40:42,040 --> 02:40:44,560 usability is going to take a hit for me here, because First off, 3104 02:40:44,560 --> 02:40:46,520 there's a lot of parts where there's just too many words. 3105 02:40:46,520 --> 02:40:47,920 Oh, don't even. Know. 3106 02:40:48,360 --> 02:40:51,320 And there's like an issue with the way things are ordered. 3107 02:40:51,440 --> 02:40:55,120 And also there is an issue with the fact that there are parts, 3108 02:40:55,120 --> 02:40:57,400 especially in combat, where it's like go here, go there, go here, 3109 02:40:57,400 --> 02:41:01,600 go there, But there's no inline hyperlink to very quick make 3110 02:41:01,600 --> 02:41:04,720 that navigability really quick, you know? 3111 02:41:05,200 --> 02:41:07,840 Even though I mean I will say though that like because of the 3112 02:41:07,840 --> 02:41:10,440 way the layout is, it's always going to make it easier because 3113 02:41:10,440 --> 02:41:12,320 you can just scroll to the top and click the one you want. 3114 02:41:12,320 --> 02:41:16,400 But agreed if it says in the same page, click this, click 3115 02:41:16,400 --> 02:41:18,680 this or go here go here, go here, I would like to be able to 3116 02:41:18,680 --> 02:41:21,000 click here, here, here, yes, yeah. 3117 02:41:21,400 --> 02:41:23,600 Also, I would like to just not have to click, just give me that 3118 02:41:23,600 --> 02:41:26,320 there. Yeah, I would say this is still 3119 02:41:26,480 --> 02:41:30,000 pretty usable. I mean, it's more usable than 3120 02:41:30,000 --> 02:41:33,880 most things. I mean, even just the like, I 3121 02:41:33,880 --> 02:41:36,240 can literally just be like, well, I know combat's five, 3122 02:41:37,040 --> 02:41:38,920 right? And I can just tell you what's 3123 02:41:38,920 --> 02:41:40,640 in 5.2 and you can be like, oh, that's super. 3124 02:41:40,640 --> 02:41:41,840 I can fucking collect right to it. 3125 02:41:41,840 --> 02:41:42,480 That's super easy. So. 3126 02:41:42,480 --> 02:41:43,680 What do you think of reusability? 3127 02:41:44,440 --> 02:41:48,040 I mean, so it's not a 10, take that right off the board, right? 3128 02:41:48,080 --> 02:41:52,120 It's not a nine because when you compare that to, let's say, like 3129 02:41:52,120 --> 02:41:55,240 death in space, there's no colored pages. 3130 02:41:55,240 --> 02:41:57,360 There's no different color chapter headers. 3131 02:41:59,240 --> 02:42:00,600 Yeah, there's none of that stuff. 3132 02:42:00,800 --> 02:42:05,560 So I think in the context of what it is, the highest I could 3133 02:42:05,560 --> 02:42:07,040 possibly imagine for this game is A7. 3134 02:42:07,560 --> 02:42:12,320 I was thinking A7. OK, I think it is an insane. 3135 02:42:12,320 --> 02:42:15,680 I think this is the correct way and I was just like spitballing 3136 02:42:15,680 --> 02:42:18,160 earlier about like do you think adding or would change? 3137 02:42:18,200 --> 02:42:20,520 I don't think it would. I think that keeping this format 3138 02:42:20,520 --> 02:42:28,680 for this game is really smart, but as you said, lots of words 3139 02:42:28,680 --> 02:42:31,240 need to go away. Chapters need to be reordered 3140 02:42:31,560 --> 02:42:35,600 inline hyperlinks, like, you know, a lot of, yeah, it's going 3141 02:42:35,600 --> 02:42:38,360 in the right direction a lot better than a lot of books. 3142 02:42:38,880 --> 02:42:41,720 So rules that. I fucking dig it. 3143 02:42:41,920 --> 02:42:44,320 I dig this game, man. I think this game is fucking 3144 02:42:44,320 --> 02:42:49,000 great. I What are my major? 3145 02:42:49,000 --> 02:42:52,160 I think that the one, the one thing that now is in my mind is 3146 02:42:52,200 --> 02:42:55,320 your thing about the donning and dotting armor, the sleep. 3147 02:42:55,320 --> 02:42:57,400 It's just because there is no particular. 3148 02:42:59,040 --> 02:43:01,600 It's so particular. But for no reason. 3149 02:43:01,920 --> 02:43:04,840 There's so much like open format narrative. 3150 02:43:04,840 --> 02:43:07,400 You create this character and by the time you're done, it's just 3151 02:43:07,400 --> 02:43:10,440 so fleshed out and it not only fleshes out the character, it 3152 02:43:10,440 --> 02:43:13,280 fleshes out what's in the world and it makes the GMs job a 3153 02:43:13,280 --> 02:43:15,800 little bit easier because they don't guess a lot of questions. 3154 02:43:16,000 --> 02:43:20,120 There's this like use of tarot cards that's not at all overused 3155 02:43:20,120 --> 02:43:22,560 and doesn't feel super contrived and annoying, and you can use 3156 02:43:22,560 --> 02:43:24,240 that to organize your immoral mortal. 3157 02:43:24,240 --> 02:43:26,400 Aristocracy is the GM building world. 3158 02:43:28,720 --> 02:43:31,960 It's 2D6, which you know Ryan loves. 3159 02:43:32,720 --> 02:43:37,080 There are moves, but they're special actions and they're 3160 02:43:37,080 --> 02:43:40,040 treated as an individual thing, which I think is where, like 3161 02:43:40,160 --> 02:43:43,720 that's how you make moves. Throughout, that's. 3162 02:43:43,720 --> 02:43:47,400 How they should be done. So I'm pretty high on this one 3163 02:43:47,760 --> 02:43:50,840 for for for Rules, honestly. So yeah, where are you? 3164 02:43:50,840 --> 02:43:52,520 Where are you at? You might need to temper me 3165 02:43:52,520 --> 02:43:56,280 because I really like this. What did you say? 3166 02:43:56,920 --> 02:43:59,240 I said you might need to temper me because I really like this, 3167 02:43:59,240 --> 02:44:00,720 I. Thought you said you I might get 3168 02:44:00,720 --> 02:44:03,440 a 10 from you and I'm like bro, we are way off. 3169 02:44:03,800 --> 02:44:07,680 Oh no, I'm not done. No, here's the thing. 3170 02:44:07,760 --> 02:44:10,800 I love it. I love. 3171 02:44:11,200 --> 02:44:14,480 I love what is there and I will think that this is one of the 3172 02:44:14,480 --> 02:44:18,320 best games we've ever viewed. I think when we get to 2 E if 3173 02:44:18,320 --> 02:44:20,520 the potential is met it's not there. 3174 02:44:20,960 --> 02:44:24,800 There are some I think not only is there a couple of like little 3175 02:44:25,960 --> 02:44:28,440 rules that I would chop out specifically the armor one. 3176 02:44:28,640 --> 02:44:30,880 I think there's some word choices throughout the entire 3177 02:44:30,880 --> 02:44:33,840 way the rules are written which is part of the rule set that I 3178 02:44:33,840 --> 02:44:35,880 would completely change. Please stop calling it wrist. 3179 02:44:35,880 --> 02:44:37,920 I just use this I it makes much more sense. 3180 02:44:38,320 --> 02:44:40,800 Your rib position in effect. There's no reason to have the 3181 02:44:40,800 --> 02:44:42,600 blades in the dark language in here when you don't really use 3182 02:44:42,600 --> 02:44:45,520 it the same way. I mean a lot of that early like 3183 02:44:45,520 --> 02:44:49,400 basically chapters like like chapter 2, you can basically 3184 02:44:49,520 --> 02:44:53,640 just delete and then combat. Delete. 3185 02:44:53,760 --> 02:44:55,480 You could cut a lot of stuff out of it. 3186 02:44:55,960 --> 02:44:58,360 You could explain to how dice work in one line. 3187 02:44:59,600 --> 02:45:04,800 D66 doesn't take a paragraph I I think combat needs to be 3188 02:45:04,800 --> 02:45:10,840 completely rewritten. I think outside of that, yeah, 3189 02:45:10,840 --> 02:45:12,960 magic is insane. Consumable is insane. 3190 02:45:12,960 --> 02:45:17,040 I love the inventory system, the core system of using usage dye 3191 02:45:17,160 --> 02:45:19,680 and extrapolating that across all subsystems. 3192 02:45:20,120 --> 02:45:22,960 So good, so well written, everything like that. 3193 02:45:22,960 --> 02:45:26,440 I I I think that like 80% of this game is insanely good and 3194 02:45:26,440 --> 02:45:31,120 20% of it is just this bog bogging the rest of it down and 3195 02:45:31,120 --> 02:45:34,040 could just be scraped off the top like fucking foam on a beer. 3196 02:45:34,040 --> 02:45:36,000 So an 8. An 8, Yep. 3197 02:45:36,400 --> 02:45:38,640 That's where I'm at. So that's finally me. 3198 02:45:39,680 --> 02:45:44,800 This Honestly, I'm not even kidding this game for me if it 3199 02:45:45,760 --> 02:45:48,960 if 2E hits potential, it could could be our 2nd 10. 3200 02:45:49,480 --> 02:45:50,600 Yeah. Oh yeah, totally. 3201 02:45:50,600 --> 02:45:53,600 I I think this game is like, it's so unbelievably clever. 3202 02:45:54,200 --> 02:45:55,880 Like, yeah, it's. It's very good. 3203 02:45:56,440 --> 02:46:01,200 If they drop a bunch of money in some really good art, make it a 3204 02:46:01,200 --> 02:46:05,400 hard back and again like really tighten up a a ton of language 3205 02:46:05,400 --> 02:46:09,200 to rewrite some stuff and reshuffle this like this could 3206 02:46:09,200 --> 02:46:11,000 end up being if it comes out this year, could end up being 3207 02:46:11,000 --> 02:46:15,080 one like our game of the year. Like, that's how insanely low I 3208 02:46:15,080 --> 02:46:19,120 am at this real set. Yeah, it's I completely agree. 3209 02:46:21,400 --> 02:46:23,800 But I I when I tighten the language, I don't want them to 3210 02:46:23,800 --> 02:46:26,880 lose the here, I don't think. I don't think they're possible. 3211 02:46:26,880 --> 02:46:28,600 We read and I lost Malala like they. 3212 02:46:28,600 --> 02:46:30,600 That's very true. That is who they are. 3213 02:46:31,080 --> 02:46:32,240 I don't think it's going to go away. 3214 02:46:33,200 --> 02:46:35,360 It's so. It should go deeper. 3215 02:46:35,680 --> 02:46:37,880 Yeah, it's interesting to read something like this, because I 3216 02:46:37,880 --> 02:46:39,960 can't remember what I was reading recently that tried to 3217 02:46:39,960 --> 02:46:42,560 have a sense of humor, but it felt really contrived and this 3218 02:46:42,560 --> 02:46:43,880 just feels so. Natural. 3219 02:46:44,200 --> 02:46:47,320 It's so fucking natural. Like there was never a time 3220 02:46:47,320 --> 02:46:49,880 where they dropped the joke where I felt like didn't really 3221 02:46:49,880 --> 02:46:52,400 need that there. Like every time I was just like, 3222 02:46:52,440 --> 02:46:54,800 Oh my God, another fucking banger. 3223 02:46:54,960 --> 02:46:59,000 And then they'll randomly hit you with like like the opening 3224 02:46:59,000 --> 02:47:02,920 setting paragraph they were. The prose is just fucking fire. 3225 02:47:02,920 --> 02:47:06,040 But again, you'll have like the the doll head that pops up out 3226 02:47:06,040 --> 02:47:09,880 of nowhere, immediately followed by, yeah, the the goblet of of 3227 02:47:09,880 --> 02:47:10,800 night. But you live. 3228 02:47:11,040 --> 02:47:14,040 I'm like. Oh my God, Like the humor mixed 3229 02:47:14,040 --> 02:47:20,040 with like the insanely well written thought out like depth 3230 02:47:20,080 --> 02:47:24,120 of it. Like sandwiched together it so 3231 02:47:24,120 --> 02:47:27,840 it works so well originally. I think we're. 3232 02:47:27,840 --> 02:47:29,680 Already talking about originality, I mean, I think 3233 02:47:29,880 --> 02:47:34,280 everything we just said. It's such a great use of so many 3234 02:47:34,280 --> 02:47:38,120 different things together, like this weird anachronistic magic 3235 02:47:38,600 --> 02:47:42,160 magic world that's modern and like ruled by this aristocracy 3236 02:47:42,160 --> 02:47:46,080 that enslaves gods that are all represented by tarot cards. 3237 02:47:46,080 --> 02:47:48,440 Like Dude. Well, it works. 3238 02:47:48,480 --> 02:47:50,120 And you know what? One of the reasons I think it 3239 02:47:50,120 --> 02:47:52,920 works is because of the language they used to write it. 3240 02:47:53,280 --> 02:47:55,160 Yeah, yeah. If this didn't have a bunch of 3241 02:47:55,160 --> 02:47:58,200 jokes in it, didn't have like like a bunch of werewolves or 3242 02:47:58,200 --> 02:48:00,800 like that kind of shit in it, I feel like it would fly. 3243 02:48:01,320 --> 02:48:03,000 Yeah, like, I don't think it would fly. 3244 02:48:03,000 --> 02:48:08,520 Because I think the jokes really make the anachronistic elements 3245 02:48:08,720 --> 02:48:12,360 actually really feel more cohesive because you understand 3246 02:48:12,360 --> 02:48:15,680 that like, you're not taking the shit seriously. 3247 02:48:15,680 --> 02:48:17,640 Like, this isn't. You know what I mean? 3248 02:48:17,720 --> 02:48:22,680 So the language used feeds into the ability to keep it goofy. 3249 02:48:23,720 --> 02:48:25,200 So I'm pretty high on this score. 3250 02:48:25,920 --> 02:48:27,520 Yeah, yeah, I'm at. Like a nine. 3251 02:48:27,800 --> 02:48:30,440 So I'm at a nine easy. I'm at a nine easy for this. 3252 02:48:33,760 --> 02:48:35,280 Wait. Oh, I didn't unhide it. 3253 02:48:35,880 --> 02:48:37,240 Value. What is it like 10 bucks? 3254 02:48:37,480 --> 02:48:40,480 For PDF. 10 bucks. And then? 3255 02:48:40,840 --> 02:48:44,960 And it's 123 pages with that's rife with stuff to build on. 3256 02:48:45,200 --> 02:48:51,040 And then you have the neighborhoods of the hi to see a 3257 02:48:51,080 --> 02:48:54,840 Hi is it hi I. Oh, don't. 3258 02:48:54,840 --> 02:48:57,080 Even my brain is not going to remember that, but there's a. 3259 02:48:57,080 --> 02:49:00,280 High Magic Lowlife City. So it's it's a bunch. 3260 02:49:00,640 --> 02:49:04,560 It's a bunch of supplements. 11. 11/11. 3261 02:49:04,880 --> 02:49:06,840 With the 12th one supposed to be coming out soon. 3262 02:49:07,480 --> 02:49:10,920 And the cool thing is, I I was not. 3263 02:49:10,920 --> 02:49:13,160 I didn't. I had not signed up for the 3264 02:49:13,160 --> 02:49:14,560 newsletter and I would have done it forever ago. 3265 02:49:14,560 --> 02:49:16,680 If I would have realized there was a newsletter, you would get 3266 02:49:16,680 --> 02:49:19,080 them free. If you had signed up for the 3267 02:49:19,080 --> 02:49:21,480 newsletter like every month, you'd have been like every. 3268 02:49:21,480 --> 02:49:24,080 If you signed up now, you'll get the 11th 1:00 and then you'll 3269 02:49:24,080 --> 02:49:25,600 get the 12th one free. If you'd have signed up on the 3270 02:49:25,600 --> 02:49:27,400 first one, you would have got all of them for free and they're 3271 02:49:27,400 --> 02:49:29,920 only like what, like 3 bucks? They're $3. 3272 02:49:29,920 --> 02:49:32,040 It's like a neighborhood. They have some stuff to do, some 3273 02:49:32,040 --> 02:49:34,000 missions. It's like some NPCS. 3274 02:49:34,240 --> 02:49:39,320 They look really cool. So right now, eleven of them for 3275 02:49:39,320 --> 02:49:41,720 33 bucks. And those are full adventures, 3276 02:49:41,720 --> 02:49:43,760 basically. That's so crazy. 3277 02:49:43,800 --> 02:49:47,160 I mean like if we looked at like a regular like 200 page book and 3278 02:49:47,160 --> 02:49:49,240 there's 40 bucks, we'd be like that's a good price for that. 3279 02:49:49,480 --> 02:49:52,960 And this is 10 bucks plus 33 for. 3280 02:49:54,160 --> 02:49:56,600 It is only PDF. I know. 3281 02:49:56,600 --> 02:50:01,200 I'm just saying, yeah, I think value for this one is still not 3282 02:50:01,200 --> 02:50:02,760 off the chart, but still fairly high. 3283 02:50:02,840 --> 02:50:05,240 You know, I'd say it's a good seven, you know? 3284 02:50:05,320 --> 02:50:07,840 Yeah, it's a good well, because also did we say like the 3285 02:50:07,840 --> 02:50:10,040 character keepers and like all that kind of stuff too? 3286 02:50:10,040 --> 02:50:13,280 Like you still get like more like more stuff for your 3287 02:50:13,280 --> 02:50:14,840 character and table shit too. Like there's. 3288 02:50:14,880 --> 02:50:17,080 Yeah, you have the. Character pamphlet, which is a 3289 02:50:17,080 --> 02:50:18,520 handout for your player carriage. 3290 02:50:18,520 --> 02:50:22,560 It's much shorter and I also really did enjoy that. 3291 02:50:22,560 --> 02:50:24,400 I haven't looked at it in quite a while for me. 3292 02:50:24,400 --> 02:50:27,520 I got this game a while ago and I deep dived it then and so I 3293 02:50:27,520 --> 02:50:29,720 reread it for this but I forgot to go through like the Character 3294 02:50:29,720 --> 02:50:34,080 Keeper pamphlet and stuff. So also an adventure called ah 3295 02:50:34,080 --> 02:50:36,840 Jeez, the Airship's on Fire you get as a free download. 3296 02:50:36,840 --> 02:50:38,440 Boom free. Another free adventure. 3297 02:50:38,440 --> 02:50:41,000 You're talking about? Once once the 12th neighborhood 3298 02:50:41,000 --> 02:50:44,840 drops, that's 13 adventures or adventure locations with it. 3299 02:50:44,880 --> 02:50:47,760 Is it $10.00 for the PDF? Is that what we decided? 3300 02:50:47,880 --> 02:50:49,600 Yes, it is. Yeah. 3301 02:50:49,840 --> 02:50:52,600 Or again, like it's it's probably in more than one 3302 02:50:52,600 --> 02:50:55,680 bundle. So yeah, value wise, I think you 3303 02:50:55,680 --> 02:50:57,880 get a lot. Like with what is there right 3304 02:50:57,880 --> 02:51:01,680 now, you could play this game for a very fucking long time and 3305 02:51:01,680 --> 02:51:04,320 enjoy the hell out of it. That that's what's interesting 3306 02:51:04,320 --> 02:51:09,000 about this game is like, we've looked at other games before 3307 02:51:09,000 --> 02:51:11,920 where I'm like, damn, like this thing has the potential to be 3308 02:51:11,920 --> 02:51:13,320 really good. But the person that's been 3309 02:51:13,320 --> 02:51:15,320 making games for like 10 years, whatever, they're not gonna come 3310 02:51:15,320 --> 02:51:17,040 up with a second edition. It's just like this is the game 3311 02:51:17,040 --> 02:51:22,080 that you get what, this game is so fucking good right now and we 3312 02:51:22,080 --> 02:51:26,800 know we're gonna get a better version of this, hopefully 3313 02:51:26,800 --> 02:51:29,360 sooner than later. And to me, that's so fucking 3314 02:51:29,360 --> 02:51:31,640 exciting. Yeah, value wise. 3315 02:51:31,640 --> 02:51:34,240 What are you thinking 7? I think 7. 3316 02:51:34,240 --> 02:51:36,840 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the fact that there 3317 02:51:36,840 --> 02:51:42,640 isn't a print reduces the value for me, but it's also this isn't 3318 02:51:42,640 --> 02:51:45,080 going to get one because that's just not what this was. 3319 02:51:45,080 --> 02:51:45,920 You know what I. Mean. 3320 02:51:45,920 --> 02:51:48,840 Yeah, but this is a really really was. 3321 02:51:48,840 --> 02:51:51,480 This is a first outing for gym room. 3322 02:51:52,120 --> 02:51:55,800 I think that this was if it wasn't their first thing they 3323 02:51:55,800 --> 02:51:57,640 did, I'm pretty sure it was the first thing on their itch, at 3324 02:51:57,640 --> 02:52:00,200 least. Yeah, what's absurdly? 3325 02:52:00,280 --> 02:52:01,560 What's? Absurdly good. 3326 02:52:01,560 --> 02:52:06,880 Like first itch release. This is like people, people 3327 02:52:06,880 --> 02:52:10,080 release like tons of games to reach this, you know? 3328 02:52:10,080 --> 02:52:13,000 Yeah. Well, and the thing too is that 3329 02:52:13,000 --> 02:52:18,080 like the all of the the fixes to take this from good to fucking 3330 02:52:18,080 --> 02:52:23,280 amazing are not hard. And with the quality that we've 3331 02:52:23,280 --> 02:52:28,800 seen from gym room games in subsequent releases, I think 3332 02:52:28,840 --> 02:52:33,200 it's would be easy for them. And I think the hardest thing 3333 02:52:33,200 --> 02:52:39,240 would be for them to just be happy with it. 3334 02:52:39,240 --> 02:52:41,360 You know what I mean? If that makes sense. 3335 02:52:41,520 --> 02:52:44,320 Like I feel like. Oh, that's what I'm worried. 3336 02:52:44,320 --> 02:52:46,560 That's the only thing I'm worried about is this game is so 3337 02:52:46,560 --> 02:52:49,680 fucking good right now and really only needs like a gentle 3338 02:52:49,680 --> 02:52:53,600 shove in a direction and then a budget for art and printing. 3339 02:52:54,960 --> 02:52:59,800 I the only thing I worry is that it's so good. 3340 02:53:00,560 --> 02:53:03,680 I exactly like you said, I don't want them to get this. 3341 02:53:03,960 --> 02:53:06,160 Urge. To over engineer it into 3342 02:53:06,640 --> 02:53:09,240 something different or have to add like so much to wear 3343 02:53:09,240 --> 02:53:11,280 something like that when it's amazing. 3344 02:53:11,280 --> 02:53:16,320 Now just clean it up and it's I would be so fucking happy. 3345 02:53:16,640 --> 02:53:22,520 So technically, a primordial version of Nine Lives was their 3346 02:53:22,520 --> 02:53:23,880 first. But basically, yeah, this was 3347 02:53:23,880 --> 02:53:25,040 the first outing, that's what, Dan. 3348 02:53:25,080 --> 02:53:28,320 I love, I love 9 lives Valhalla. Oh, so good. 3349 02:53:29,800 --> 02:53:33,480 So yeah, 3636, which is insane when you think that one of the 3350 02:53:33,480 --> 02:53:37,400 scores on it is A5 and it's not a print version. 3351 02:53:37,400 --> 02:53:41,960 So that's that's really fantastic because realistically 3352 02:53:41,960 --> 02:53:44,920 if he if he'd even had like a decent amount of art in it right 3353 02:53:44,920 --> 02:53:48,320 now and that got like an 8, you'd be looking like a 39, you 3354 02:53:48,320 --> 02:53:50,040 know? And for us like anything 40 and 3355 02:53:50,040 --> 02:53:53,400 up is like crazy good. I think the lowest score of our 3356 02:53:53,400 --> 02:53:56,320 top five was a 40, right on in last year. 3357 02:53:57,600 --> 02:53:59,040 I believe there's. Like 5 tied for 40. 3358 02:53:59,040 --> 02:54:02,160 So like a little bit of art. And this would be almost, you 3359 02:54:02,160 --> 02:54:03,640 know, in the top five for last year. 3360 02:54:05,360 --> 02:54:08,120 So yeah, so that's it. High magic, low lives gym room 3361 02:54:08,120 --> 02:54:09,920 games. Here's the thing, too about gym 3362 02:54:09,920 --> 02:54:13,280 room games is I will be waving the baited breath for everything 3363 02:54:13,280 --> 02:54:15,360 they fucking do for the rest of the time that they're making 3364 02:54:15,360 --> 02:54:18,360 games. I agree. 3365 02:54:18,360 --> 02:54:21,560 I I I love this game. This game was a This game was a 3366 02:54:22,200 --> 02:54:24,480 a hunter, a hunter Choice immediately. 3367 02:54:24,480 --> 02:54:26,760 Yeah, it's it's fire. It's so fucking good. 3368 02:54:26,760 --> 02:54:31,400 And again, I just the the way that they write, the cleverness 3369 02:54:31,400 --> 02:54:35,440 that goes into the games, the vibe that they put into the 3370 02:54:35,440 --> 02:54:38,600 games, which, you know, I think I don't know them personally. 3371 02:54:38,800 --> 02:54:42,040 But I can only imagine that when they put it into so many games, 3372 02:54:42,040 --> 02:54:46,120 this kind of like, I don't know joy and like jokiness into their 3373 02:54:46,120 --> 02:54:51,120 stuff, that it's just, I don't know, like 9 Lives of Alhalla is 3374 02:54:51,120 --> 02:54:54,520 insane and cracks me the fuck up and it's so fucking good. 3375 02:54:54,520 --> 02:54:58,680 And that's the thing about Gym Room is like that game we we 3376 02:54:58,680 --> 02:55:01,080 gave a fucking 9 or whatever for like mechanics and had one 3377 02:55:01,080 --> 02:55:02,160 fucking rule, but it was so good. 3378 02:55:02,160 --> 02:55:05,520 Like you only need to. Do one thing well, so but yeah, 3379 02:55:05,520 --> 02:55:07,720 I just. Think they're so dialed into 3380 02:55:07,880 --> 02:55:11,000 modern post Pandemic game design right now. 3381 02:55:11,000 --> 02:55:13,400 You know what I mean? I think they are the the the 3382 02:55:13,400 --> 02:55:16,600 cutting edge. They're the bleeding edge of 3383 02:55:16,600 --> 02:55:20,480 Post Pandemic. Yeah, game sign. 3384 02:55:21,400 --> 02:55:23,560 Absolutely. All right, three hours on the 3385 02:55:23,560 --> 02:55:25,000 dot. We're out. 3386 02:55:25,520 --> 02:55:27,120 Keep making games. Gym room games. 3387 02:55:27,120 --> 02:55:28,800 We love you. I love you too, Hunter. 3388 02:55:29,760 --> 02:55:35,080 My God, I, I, I I realized that I have two games the rest of 3389 02:55:35,080 --> 02:55:39,920 this entire month where I don't play a game, have a podcast 3390 02:55:39,920 --> 02:55:42,560 episode or go to work. So busy month ahead. 3391 02:55:43,040 --> 02:55:43,800 We'll see you all later.