1 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,640 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast. 2 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,240 My Name Is Ryan. And I'm the bare hand brawler. 3 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:29,720 And today we are gonna be looking at the TLDRPG from Billy 4 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,360 Blue. Look at that cover. 5 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:33,240 Gray cover. I do. 6 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,160 I do dig the cover. It definitely, you know has has 7 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:40,000 some creepy vibes for those who can't see. 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,240 The cover is like the lower half from like Bridge of the Nose 9 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:50,560 down of this toothed bloody face with a big old smile on it. 10 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,840 I really like it and it's and it's got like and that's it on 11 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,640 the cover side the side the the soft back and the hard back 12 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,960 they're they're print on demands from drive through but the dope 13 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:07,640 it's a pretty dope cover and and yeah and we'll get into that in 14 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,080 a second but how how are you buddy I feel like we we we have 15 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,040 been kind of back and forth sick for like since Zine quest I 16 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,040 think so hopefully we're. Back on track. 17 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Yeah. Look at us. 18 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:22,760 Look at us. I think I just had allergies. 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,000 So I'm, I listen, I'm great, man. 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,360 I've just been, you know, I've been working. 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,000 I'm doing some, like, professional certifications 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,760 right now. So I've been doing that 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,760 non-stop. And then when this episode's 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,720 done, I'm gonna do that again. So how about you? 25 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,000 There we go. I've, I've been doing nothing. 26 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,680 I've I've burned through on my PTO because we've been over 27 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,400 staffed at work for the last couple months. 28 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,880 It's been great to feel like a slow rolling vacation for the 29 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,000 first quarter of the year, which the first quarter of the year is 30 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 done, which is crazy. Don't fucking say that. 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,400 What the fuck? I know, you know and the other 32 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,760 the other crazy thing too is we were talking about like peeling 33 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,240 back after after Zen Quest. But I feel like the next two 34 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,880 weeks we like stacked up again. But yeah, at the end we will 35 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,280 talk about a lot of really cool stuff that we have coming out in 36 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,440 the next two weeks. And if you're listening to this, 37 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:21,680 make sure you go back and listen to our or watch our trophy dark 38 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,440 side quest. We did this past week with Josh 39 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:30,800 and Stella who are now our default side questers, besties, 40 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,120 best friends of this show. But for for all of our side 41 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,360 quests, it's pretty much they're going to be Josh or myself 42 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:45,920 running in the games. So probably Josh and and Stella 43 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:56,400 Condrey will be our our in house third person and unless they are 44 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,560 unavailable and then we will get a third. 45 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,480 We we with side quests, we were kind of like rotating players in 46 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,600 and out, but we love playing with Stella so much and their 47 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,000 availability is perfect for ours. 48 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,080 So we just fuck it like you're just part of the team now so 49 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,560 they are awesome. So yeah, so welcome both of of 50 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,760 them as what amounts to permanent members here on the 51 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,480 podcast. Hi guys, But that's it. 52 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,880 Like I said we we have a bunch of stuff coming out in the next 53 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,920 week to two weeks. We'll talk about that at the end 54 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:27,200 of the show. But why don't we hop into 55 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,160 TLDRPG. So before we get going I do have 56 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:36,240 a little write up here TLDRPG. So this is a lean mean in the 57 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,320 RPG gaming. Yeah, it's always our influence 58 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,720 with high action and little crunch, old school feel with new 59 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,280 school mechanics. That was the the pitch on 60 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:50,800 Kickstarter. This is a game by Billy Blue and 61 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,000 Paper Airplane games show it right there. 62 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,160 I think it's in the yeah, paper airplane games right there. 63 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,360 It's a nice little paper airplane logo that's not 64 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,040 focusing. Whatever you you, you get it. 65 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,000 So this is pretty much all all Billy Blue as far as I can tell. 66 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,840 Art. There's like one guest piece 67 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,920 from Michael Harmon who does amazing stuff. 68 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,800 We've watched some of the games that have their stuff on the 69 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,880 show before editing from Jert, a friend of the show. 70 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:31,400 Jert are not Cat Chatter. This was successfully funded on 71 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:41,920 February 17th of 2023 with 144 backers pledging 28162 dollars. 72 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:52,560 So this is one of those ones where someone who's prime, who 73 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,200 at least I've always seen is primarily an artist in the 74 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,280 space, then puts out their own game and we'll we'll be doing a 75 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,200 couple of those this year. I think maybe we can talk about 76 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,200 like theming a month, but then we yeah, we're us sure. 77 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,520 So we'll do it. Yeah, maybe. 78 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,400 We'll get Yeah, we'll see. But let's hop in. 79 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,600 So TLDRPG rules like Game by Billy Blue. 80 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,160 Paper airplanes. Special links to a bunch of 81 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,200 people. A long list of names here. 82 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,840 Hey, Billy Blues in the Chat, Marcus Lindrum, Allen Barr, 83 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:31,720 Douglas Cole, Mark Parrish. MOV, Michael Harmon, Billman and 84 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,200 Jerk Crater. Those are some. 85 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:34,760 Those are. That's a list of names there, 86 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,600 you know. Allen Barr, Michael Harmon, Jerk 87 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,600 Marcus Lindrum. Great stuff. 88 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:46,080 So kicking it off, we give a table of contents. 89 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,800 So the one great thing that I can only imagine is cool if 90 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,880 you're an artist, is you can put as much art as you want in your 91 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,840 own life, Which I will say this book does not lack for art. 92 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:58,960 Yeah, it's got some really great. 93 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,240 Especially we get to the like in the ability pages. 94 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,840 There's some really cool, like, character pieces. 95 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,360 I like, you know, I love a wizard guy. 96 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:14,080 Yeah, for sure. And there's there's also this 97 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:20,520 kind of like dirty texture throughout the book. 98 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,120 I don't know what I'm like a like a like a grungy splatter. 99 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,520 Yeah, throughout that's consistent. 100 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,280 And also, you know, aside from I think just one piece, it's 101 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:31,520 Billy's art through the entire thing. 102 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,000 So there's a consistency of the art. 103 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,600 So right on the table of contents page you have this like 104 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,080 skull shooting out from the left side. 105 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,680 Art and Game by Billy editing by Jert. 106 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,560 So let's what do we got for digital tools here? 107 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,720 So we are fully bookmarked, which is really nice. 108 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,640 And hyperlinked. So we we do have a hyperlink 109 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,400 table of contents. But I will, I'll say this, we'll 110 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,400 say this to what's we do this sometimes what's your what's 111 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,080 what's A1 liner for your impressions of this before we 112 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,800 get going. Dice pool fantasy game. 113 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:22,160 Gotcha. So I, you know what we've been, 114 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:27,520 you know what I feel like we've seen a bunch recently is that 115 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,720 like I feel like we've reviewed a bunch of games that have 116 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,760 really good bones and would probably have really good two 117 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,440 ES. You know, I think that to me 118 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,640 this kind of falls into that as I think A2 East of this could 119 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,280 really go off 'cause I do, I do really like it. 120 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,280 I think it's got great. I think it's got great vibes. 121 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,680 I totally see where they were going when they made this. 122 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,360 I just feel like maybe like a step or two more would have got 123 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,760 them where they really wanted to go. 124 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:07,640 So we'll go over that that here. But I will say it off the bat, I 125 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,440 do really like this game regardless of anything I say 126 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,520 after this one. So yeah, hyperlink typical 127 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,920 contents. We got about 100 pages in here. 128 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:24,200 If you if you have the just the salt the the so they're POD, 129 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:29,160 which I mean is great for distribution, but you know 130 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,080 they're very glossy. They're not going to be the 131 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,760 nicest books on your shelves. But I will say that the drive 132 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,640 through Prince have gotten slightly better. 133 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:40,520 If you have just the paper copy, it only goes to about 70 pages. 134 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,960 And if you have the hardback, yeah, it goes to 100 pages. 135 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,600 That's why I told you to read the hardback one. 136 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:53,800 Because the paper, the softback 1 softcover, that's the words, 137 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,080 those are words. I'm looking for digital tools. 138 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,080 The hyperlinks on that are incomplete, they just become 139 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:08,840 page numbers eventually. But the hardcover PDF was 140 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,760 completely feels complete and like they added like another 30 141 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,680 pages and a bunch of stuff like all the generators in the back. 142 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:20,080 All of that stuff's not really, most of it is not in the soft 143 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,360 cover version. But so we get to the table of 144 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:29,040 contents, introduction, character creation, playing the 145 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,640 game, combat and then a bunch of other status effects, weapons, 146 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,000 you know, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. 147 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,520 What's up? Nothing. 148 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,240 No, you have a A look on your face Guest artist Michael 149 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:41,480 Harmon. This isn't a little piece here 150 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:49,240 by by Michael Harmon and then page of a sad, sad little 151 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,760 soldier boy person. A soldier person with a spear 152 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,320 hood up. Then we get to. 153 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,720 Love a spear in the shield, you know? 154 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,840 Very, very. You know, I'm trying to play in 155 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:06,040 the phalanx, you know? I've I mean, here's the thing. 156 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,480 So obviously, you know, none of these games are actually 157 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,640 accurate to humanity at all. I mean, we all know stud leather 158 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:19,000 wasn't really a thing, but man, I wish that more games really 159 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,680 appreciated the spear, you know, and had better mechanics for it 160 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:23,760 because the spear was fucking insane, dude. 161 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,280 It's funny, I've been referencing this game a lot in 162 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,800 the past, like months of our episodes, but like, I'm still 163 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,040 playing my solo game of Wolves Upon the Coast, you know? 164 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,360 And I and I use a spirit in that game because it actually is 165 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,120 incredibly useful. So good. 166 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,880 Yeah. All right, so TLDRPG we get one 167 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,280 obligatory page of what is this? And what is an RPG? 168 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:59,520 So, TLDRPGTLD for short, Does it ever say what TLD actually 169 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:00,960 stands for? Besides, like the standard? 170 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,240 Like too long didn't read TLD RPG, did I? 171 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,600 Am I? Wait, does it I. 172 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,120 Don't know. Billy's in chat and we can ask, 173 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,160 but I do like the TLD RPG, yeah, it's it's a fun kind of 174 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,440 reference to being a rules like game, which I enjoyed from the 175 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,720 first time I heard it. So it's a rules like 176 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,200 role-playing game designed to get you and your friends in the 177 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,840 action as quickly as possible. So it says this game assumes you 178 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,640 have a little familiarity with RPGs, but even if you don't, 179 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,680 that's OK, you will pick it up just fine. 180 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,440 A glossary of common terms, an example of plays included at the 181 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,360 end of the book, just in case. I really like that They tell you 182 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,640 right off the bat that all of that stuff is at the end. 183 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,400 You can jump if you want, So it it does. 184 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,840 I will say so. It says TLB doesn't try to 185 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,640 anticipate every scenario. It's deliberately incomplete. 186 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,360 With enough rules to get you going but not enough to get in 187 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:00,720 your way. You aren't going to find every 188 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,760 answer in the book. That's OK, your creativity, 189 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,640 role-playing, all this stuff. I will say I am completely fine 190 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,880 if that's the last time I heard that you can just do what you 191 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:15,040 want with it. But I but I I think the the 192 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,880 desire to make sure that you understand, yeah, that is like 193 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,720 really pushed hard throughout the book. 194 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,160 And I think once you get permission once that's more than 195 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,480 enough. Even once is more than for some 196 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,520 people out there that say of course I can do whatever I want. 197 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,120 It's my It's my game now. Yeah, I will say that I think 198 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,560 this is one of those games that we go over that has a what's an 199 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:39,640 RPG where I'm like, oh, I can actually see this being 200 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,000 someone's first game. Like, you know, like absolutely. 201 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,280 This could absolutely be your first game. 202 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,840 Well I will say that this is first this is 100% definitely a 203 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,360 system like there is very there is little to no, I don't even 204 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,400 think there's really any like implied setting in this fighting 205 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:58,720 search. Imagine it's just a pretty 206 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:05,120 standard like you know western medieval European fantasy like I 207 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,520 don't even think there's any like implication for anything 208 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,080 else. So it is just it is just a 209 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,440 system there's no like you know rounded out game or anything but 210 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:15,560 but like you said they're like yeah this is this is something 211 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,800 someone could be like oh this this is a a nice rules light 212 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,720 little system for sure. So it does have a what's an RPG. 213 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,440 It's it's a role-playing game. GM describes the situation, 214 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,240 players describe their reactions, dice are rolled with 215 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,000 characters, attempt bubble, etcetera, etcetera. 216 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,360 Yeah, I do have a little note here. 217 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:37,920 It says see page 28, the test, then the GM describes the 218 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,240 outcome. So a little nod right there to 219 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,320 the game mechanics. I will say this is not inline 220 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,960 hyperlinked. I would say it's not. 221 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,320 No, and every other instance of the word PAGE is written out as 222 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,240 PAGE instead of PG period. This is I think, the only time 223 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,160 that's run up, so there's all inconsistency there. 224 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,480 I will say it's nice to see this. 225 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:05,440 Who edited this thing, man? It does say in the beginning 226 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,120 here. See page 28 for the test, which 227 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,840 is good because we were gonna we were talking about it before the 228 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,520 show. It's you don't know any of the 229 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,320 dice mechanics of the game at all until you get to page 28. 230 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,200 They're not mentioned in any part of character creation 231 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,240 whatsoever. So it's nice right in the 232 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:28,080 beginning, But I will say that the core mechanic being told to 233 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,080 find the core mechanic on page 28 in the What's an RPG section. 234 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,600 I would have maybe bolded or put it on the side or something, 235 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:39,800 because I'm sure any like many of us in the scene immediately 236 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,840 skip this entire page. Yeah. 237 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,480 Because it is the obligatory What is this game? 238 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,080 I might have I might have skipped this page. 239 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,240 Exactly. So put it in. 240 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,320 I mean, there's a reason this layout is when we'll get to that 241 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,880 has all this blank space on the side. 242 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,280 I think it would have been really good. 243 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,360 If you're gonna indicate like an important you know, thing to 244 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,640 check to pull it out of the what's an RPG section. 245 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,040 Maybe even put it up in just the TLD section or put it in red on 246 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,880 the side. What you need stuff D sixes. 247 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:16,640 All right. Getting into your character, 248 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,920 let's talk about this layout a little bit right off the bat. 249 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,800 So this is definitely it's reminiscent of the classic 250 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,520 explorer template and that's from Clayton Notistine. 251 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:29,520 It's like a mostly like column system where 1/3 of the page is 252 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,440 left blank so you can like write notes and things in it. 253 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:40,680 What are your thoughts? Funny, I actually have the Grid 254 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,640 base or Grid System basics by Clayton Osteen on my hot bar if 255 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:51,480 for referencing it. Yeah, it it is, it exists. 256 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,720 You know, I'm not. I don't find it like incredibly 257 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,680 offensive or anything. Yeah. 258 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,160 I feel, and I don't feel super strongly about it. 259 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,320 I guess what I should say. Gotcha. 260 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:03,720 It's readable. I probably, I probably have a 261 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,240 stronger feelings. I think the lay it was really 262 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:12,400 readable. I just think that so so we'll 263 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,200 get into it. So on the first page of your 264 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:19,320 character, the entire left third is blank, and then there's one 265 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,200 sentence that says grab a character sheet and follow this 266 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,960 outline. I don't really understand the 267 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,040 purpose of the left sidebar because there's a real there's a 268 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,200 weird mix of like sometimes direction, sometimes bonus 269 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,600 stuff, sometimes different things, but like it's a lot of 270 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:40,960 empty space on the page for what amounts to 7 words and a letter 271 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,480 that could easily have been plugged. 272 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,360 In I hate an overly crowded page, so I think actually I'm 273 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,800 probably more on the side of this is good than rather than 274 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,360 bad for me, you know? I'm I'm torn. 275 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,000 I'm torn because I just feel like it's a it's AI mean at the 276 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,680 end of the day too. Like if you chop it's like 1/3 277 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,960 of 100 pages. You could save 30 pages by not 278 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,640 having that space. So would you say that into the 279 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,920 odd would save a bunch of space if they didn't center everything 280 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,880 and put small amounts of text on every page? 281 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,319 No, but I think the into the odd layout is is better. 282 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:19,079 It's more artistic than this. I think it uses that space in a 283 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:21,480 way that makes more sense in this. 284 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,000 Like, I just don't. I feel like this column I think 285 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,760 was like, we can put notes and directions here and then they 286 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,520 just kind of lost the way going through on like what was a note, 287 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,120 what's a direction, what's this and that. 288 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,720 I don't mind the layout. I just think if it was going to 289 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,240 be used in this way, it needed to be used more. 290 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,600 Yeah, thoughtfully. You know, there's there are a 291 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,560 bunch of directions here that could be here on the side, and 292 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:46,960 we'll get to that. But anyway, I just want to hit 293 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,560 that right off the bat because that's where something moves 294 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,360 see, all the way through. So character you start with 295 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,800 attribute points right? You have mind, body, and spirit. 296 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:00,960 Mind is mental power, magic. It's used for magical attack and 297 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,160 defense, memory, willpower, technology, etcetera, blah. 298 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,280 All the mind stuff. Body, which is your physical 299 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,200 power, melee attack, defense, everything. 300 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:14,120 Spirit is dexterity and finesse, Spirit, spirit get the whole. 301 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,080 I get the whole mind, body, spirit part. 302 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:20,280 Like it's it's it's very classic three parts, but like it's 303 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,440 ranged attacks and defense, manual dexterity, social 304 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,040 interactions, avoiding sprung trap, deception, spirit is a 305 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,320 weird word. I don't think it fits well. 306 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:41,720 It's so I don't know. I think that I don't think it's 307 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,240 awful, but like, I think it's close to. 308 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:49,640 In other words, I'm searching through my almost empty brain 309 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,200 for I get the direction they were going for it, you know, 310 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,680 like the quickness of spirit or whatever. 311 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,920 But yeah, I am. It's a weird choice of word. 312 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,840 Yeah, I I think it's so this kind of defines kind of how I 313 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,040 feel about a lot of parts of this game is that like, I see 314 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,960 what they're going for and it like, it works. 315 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,640 Right. It's a little inelegant, yeah. 316 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,000 It's a little clunky. Yeah. 317 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,040 Yeah. So the attributes, because we're 318 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,080 going to get in the second, we're going to get into like 319 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,400 derived stats from our attributes. 320 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,760 So I get the whole mind, body, spirit thing. 321 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,240 It's supposed to like encompass like the the your, the 322 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,560 attributes of your character. But like I would never take like 323 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,960 it says, mind is mental power, body is physical power, and then 324 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,360 spirit is dexterity and finesse. I would never think spirit, 325 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,720 dexterity and finesse. I wouldn't mind it if they just 326 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:45,400 went more with like finesse or something here. 327 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,280 Or like you know, having like a like a mind and two body stats 328 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:53,520 like a speed and a strength kind of thing with body as opposed to 329 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,240 going into like the mind, body spirit thing. 330 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,640 I think a like a strength, speed, mind would have been. 331 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,160 It wouldn't have changed anything, but I think it would 332 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,640 be more applicable to like the way it's used, you know? 333 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,920 Yeah, I mean IA little bit like am sick of how everything has 334 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,520 the same names for their attributes. 335 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:15,160 So I I appreciate the trying to like change dexterity away from 336 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,480 being whatever decks or quickness or whatever. 337 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,520 But yeah, I yeah, I think I. Mean. 338 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,160 We've both We've both tried to make RPGs enough to that I've 339 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,160 I've burned out my thesaurus for like the five words that 340 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,560 actually apply. So, like, there's only so many 341 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,840 ways you can say, like, move quickly, but not like, you know, 342 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,360 top end speed. Anyway, so those are your three 343 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,040 attributes. It says each attribute starts 344 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,400 with one point and those are your 3 overarching attributes 345 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,280 you assign starting XP. So each character starts with 346 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,240 five experience points to improve your attributes and 347 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,960 character creation. To improve an attribute to the 348 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,200 next level requires XP equal to that level. 349 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,480 Pretty classic. So if you want to get to level 350 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,000 2, you need to experience points. 351 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,720 If you want to get to Level 3, you need three more experience 352 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,040 if you want to get to, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera for each 353 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,400 individual attribute. And then you get your stats. 354 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:12,160 So stats are derived from attributes, so you get mana, HP, 355 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:18,360 gear, and luck, right? Mana is equal to your mind score 356 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,600 plus one, and it's how you cast mind abilities, because we're 357 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,440 going to get to abilities Mana refills after arrest. 358 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,880 HP is another Dr. stat, it's your body plus three, it's your 359 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,720 health. 0HP equals death. HP refills after reset. 360 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,720 There is there are two death mechanics in here, one give it 361 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,120 A1 optional. We'll get to that. 362 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:43,080 Gear equals body plus four. It's just every item carried has 363 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,640 weight. Gear tells you how much. 364 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,040 There is a bit of a a little bit of like a quantum inventory in 365 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,400 here that I like. We'll get to that too. 366 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,080 And then luck equals spirit plus one. 367 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,600 This is spent to use spirit abilities. 368 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,160 Luck does not refill after arrest and is instead earned by 369 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,120 Critical Failure and Difficult success roles. 370 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:09,760 Or is an award from the GM. We'll get to that again. 371 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,920 On this entire page, there is one paragraph one sentence here 372 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,800 in that left notes column. More info on abilities can be 373 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,240 found on page 11. Not hyperlinked. 374 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,200 Choose two abilities. So we have attributes, we have 375 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,880 derived stats and then you get 2 abilities. 376 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,200 Pick one ability per attribute point assigned for each. 377 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,840 Example if a character has two spirit and one body, they get 2 378 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,160 spirit abilities and one body ability. 379 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,120 Makes sense. There you go. 380 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:44,000 Yeah absolutely easy logic. And then on top of that you 381 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,400 choose the skill. Yeah so pick one related to your 382 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,320 character's background Skills are explained on page 8. 383 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,320 I like those are references to page numbers. 384 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,600 Just type link it. I know it's it's a pain in the 385 00:22:53,600 --> 00:23:04,880 Dick, but you know it's there. So we have I will, I will say it 386 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:12,000 starts to feel less rules light once you have attributes, stats 387 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:17,920 derives, attributes, abilities and skills and then other stuff 388 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,320 on top of that. It does start to feel a little 389 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,640 bit less rules light and a little bit more pushing towards 390 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,440 rules medium. Once you start having to keep 391 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,240 track of so many different things. 392 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,320 Continue with character creation that says gather equipment, pick 393 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,560 up, pick or make up starting weapons. 394 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,840 Be sure to write it down on the weapon category. 395 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,440 It's light, medium or heavy, so that's the weight that it is so 396 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,000 and the damage that it is. So I do, I do like that and I 397 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,120 that's one of my favorite things to do. 398 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:50,920 I don't give a shit what light weapon you're carrying. 399 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,520 Make it up. Like make it your own, but it 400 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,960 weighs the same and does the same damage as every other light 401 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,520 weapon. I do really enjoy that. 402 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,760 That was that was like slimmed down so you don't have like a 403 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,120 list of you know, 50 fucking different like short swords you 404 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:09,080 know and then says weapon and shield and armor suggestions are 405 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:14,920 on page 46. Take one small potion that heals 406 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,960 to HP and choose one miscellaneous item relevant to 407 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,160 your character's personality. This item doesn't necessarily 408 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,960 have a mechanical effect, it's just for role-playing. 409 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,160 There's a lot of these, like, kind of inserts throughout the 410 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,480 game where it's like like it really is pushing hard to like 411 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,760 role play a lot, which again, I understand what they're going 412 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,200 for. There's just a little bit of an 413 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,920 inelegance in the way that they push it over and over and over 414 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,040 again and finally make up the rest of your character details 415 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,680 like their age, name, appearance, etcetera. 416 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,600 In the future, you might even consider hiring an artist to 417 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,920 illustrate your character. Nice little ad right there in 418 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,000 the game from the artist. I really like that. 419 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,320 That's great. That's a very funny line. 420 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,000 Yeah, I really like it. We're on to gear. 421 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,800 I do like this box here and I don't like the box for two 422 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,800 different reasons. So it says it is assumed that 423 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,960 adventures are carrying basic adventuring equipment like 424 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,000 backpacks, rations, etcetera. This doesn't need to spell out 425 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,960 if your character needs something and it's like one of 426 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,960 those basic ass things, you just have it. 427 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,840 If you're doing want you to have it like it's it's whatever. 428 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,760 Like you don't need to keep track of like every little, like 429 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,280 every piton and hammer like the basic shit. 430 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,440 You just have it and you don't even worry about the weight of 431 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,320 it. I like that. 432 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,320 To me, that's clean. What are your thoughts? 433 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,440 I think for this game it's great too. 434 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,480 You know, like some games I'm like, yeah, like no, count your 435 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,600 stuff or whatever. But this is a great game. 436 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,480 Like, yeah, no obscure the other way. 437 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,600 This is a fun role-playing game. Don't worry about that. 438 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,080 Yeah. If it's a piece of equipment 439 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,520 that doesn't really fucking matter, then it doesn't fucking 440 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,040 matter. I will say that if you if you 441 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,200 take one hammer and that hammer becomes like your signature 442 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,560 shit, at some point I might like assign a weight to that and it 443 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,640 becomes like something that you carry under belt or something. 444 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,840 But again that's that's up to the gym. 445 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,560 I will say the reason I don't like this box is it is a 446 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,040 different font than all the rest of the game and it's a different 447 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,240 font than all the rest of the light blue boxes you find. 448 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,000 You don't see the until until the bestiary it. 449 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,680 I mean it is also the footer font which I also don't like it 450 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,880 down there. I just don't like the font kind 451 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:13,080 of for for this anyway, but it's it's a different font than the 452 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,360 rest of all of these, like blue note boxes. 453 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:20,360 My other thing too is like, why do we have these blue side note 454 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:26,120 boxes when we have a third of every page empty for notes and 455 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,880 directions? That's that's my thing, not this 456 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:34,720 page, because there's a a big old piece of art here, which I 457 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,840 do like. It's a great piece of art, you 458 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,360 see, you see what I'm saying? There's like some incongruous 459 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,800 yeah, PC is limited in how much they can carry. 460 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,520 Most items have a weight from 1 to 4. 461 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,480 Standard carry you already says body +4, so small items can be 462 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:53,400 bundled. There you go character levels 463 00:26:53,400 --> 00:27:00,720 and leveling up. So this is this is I have notes 464 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,440 on this. So until the RPG, a kicker has a 465 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,240 level for each attribute between 1:00 and 7:00. 466 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,800 When a rule or ability or first level, this means to use the 467 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,280 level of the relevant attribute. OK, so we're saying that if your 468 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:21,280 attribute is 3, right? Say mind you have mind 3, then 469 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,000 you are mind Level 3. Right. 470 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,120 Why? I don't know. 471 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,000 I was wondering that too. I'm like, well, isn't that just 472 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,440 mine? 3 Still it's. 473 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,200 Just mine three. Yeah, it drives me. 474 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,120 We'll get here and we'll be. It'll be like a role level here 475 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,200 in a little bit, but literally it could just be role, mind or 476 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,520 whatever. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 477 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,720 Yeah, this is, this is another kind of thing that that happens 478 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,320 to this game. It's just a lot of like 479 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,920 inelegance, trying to like. I feel like there was a vision 480 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,920 and they just like shoehorn just a little bit in without with and 481 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,520 and it kind of creates this, this lack of elegance throughout 482 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,840 that like doesn't make it bad, but it just makes it feel just 483 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,760 like a little clunky throughout. But just like this like like a 484 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,600 character levels. The assumption one is level is 485 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,480 like your whole like your whole character. 486 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,200 But this is the original attributes levels. 487 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,680 Yeah, like I don't. I don't like the concept of like 488 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,360 there aren't character levels, right? 489 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,240 You just raise your attributes. Character level is nothing in 490 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,040 this. Essentially. 491 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:26,200 I like that fine and I wish it was just called that, but. 492 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,880 I yeah there's an example of here how to do it. 493 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,160 I there the next section, The next header is called Leveling 494 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:37,160 Up again. So my note says if leveling up 495 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,600 just means increasing an attribute, you could easily just 496 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:44,040 call it Attribute increase instead of instead of adding 497 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,280 another keyword. Yeah, I think it, I think the 498 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,400 the issue that we're seeing here is that it's, I don't know if 499 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,200 shoehorn is what I would say. I like overly keyworded, you 500 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,600 know, overly keyed. Like there's just a lot of words 501 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,760 that kind of like mean very similar things or don't mean 502 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,560 exactly what they say that they don't need to be in here. 503 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:04,720 Like I don't think it's character levels. 504 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,720 Leveling up doesn't bother me as much because you are leveling up 505 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,280 a stat or an attribute, right. But the character levels, I'm 506 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,720 like, it's not you're not character leveling. 507 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,000 That's what I'm saying is if you're not going to use like 508 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,200 character levels, you don't need to use leveling up because 509 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,840 you're not leveling up. Yeah, I guess increasing 510 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,440 attributes would be more correct in that circumstance. 511 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,800 But I feel like that's kind of like the vibe that that we run 512 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,600 into a bunch of the game where it's like, I don't dislike this. 513 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,920 I just feel like there was a cleaner way to do it. 514 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,400 And I I yeah. And that that comes up over and 515 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,440 over and over again throughout this. 516 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,160 It's just like it's fine it, but it could just be cleaner. 517 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,520 So leveling up. Leveling up means spending XP to 518 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:45,960 increase the level of an attribute. 519 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,280 Just like doing characterization. 520 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,640 They come down after short rest, so you get stuff when you level 521 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:56,080 up the amount of XP spent we already talked about You can 522 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,160 improve the selected attribute by one I assume like if you 523 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,360 like. It's just telling you I I don't 524 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,480 think that's a little hard and fast for like if you have enough 525 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,720 XP to increase the level by multiple times, I assume you 526 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,880 just wait. You can wait multiple short 527 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,320 rests, you can do whatever. But it says increase by one. 528 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,720 It says improve stats accordingly. 529 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,520 So your derived stats increase when your attributes increase 530 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,240 and then it says choose a new ability for the new slot which 531 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,160 must be the new type. So this was a weird word to me. 532 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,320 It's just it's slot is never used everywhere, anywhere else. 533 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,800 Again, I understand that it's just like you have this like 534 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,680 attribute point that has an ability assigned to it. 535 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,120 It's just a weird way to work that because then you go wait a 536 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,080 minute. Are there slots? 537 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,600 Wait, where are the ability slots? 538 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,480 Exactly. So it's just yeah, that could 539 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,600 just go away earning XP in luck. I have thoughts. 540 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,840 Another PG no period, no space earning XP in luck. 541 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,720 You earn XP or luck when you have a critical failure or a 542 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,840 difficult success page. Look at page 33. 543 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,800 You demonstrate excellent role play. 544 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,240 We'll get back to that. You finish a difficult battle. 545 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,840 You reveal a secret about your character. 546 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:10,360 You complete a dungeon, mission area, or do anything else that 547 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,400 GM feels is worthy of award. Demonstrate excellent role play. 548 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,320 I don't like it. I don't think it should be in 549 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,600 here. What are your thoughts? 550 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:28,160 I I don't know. It's like my, like on one hand 551 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,720 you're like oh, so people who are not great at role-playing 552 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:41,440 never get this. But yeah, I mean, I think that 553 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,720 my, my biggest point is if you're a bad role player like 554 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,840 which people are sometimes and they sit at my table and they're 555 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,400 still fun to play with. So I guess maybe I would 556 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,320 probably take role play out and just put excellent play, you 557 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,880 know, and you can just define that however you want the table, 558 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,240 if that's making a really funny joke or being really great in 559 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,200 role play or doing something really cool. 560 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,240 But yeah, I wouldn't limit it to just because. 561 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,040 Yeah, I mean, some people are just not good role-playing. 562 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,440 I'm not great at role-playing. I just make quips, you know? 563 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,360 I make quips and I do little voices and they're bad. 564 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,240 My voices suck. Yeah. 565 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,240 I will say that. I do love the art piece on this 566 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,800 page and I like the stall on the page before this because I kind 567 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:28,200 of like Twisted Skull and the last one has like one eye still 568 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,200 kind of looking at you. Very, very good and terrifying. 569 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,160 Yeah. And the bottom jaw is off. 570 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,120 I do want to point out we're going to have two more pages 571 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,360 with that third column on the side, completely empty. 572 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,480 Yeah, Demonstrate excellent role play to me. 573 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,000 Like you said, it's built in punishment. 574 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,040 It's not a ward. It's not a reward. 575 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:53,600 Like it's because it can be. There's I listen, I prefer when 576 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,480 I play a game, people that are super invested and are in first 577 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,880 person to me that really helps me stay immersed. 578 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,360 But third person role play is also totally fine. 579 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,680 You don't have to have a voice. You don't have to be you. 580 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,520 You can see my character, this is my character is that. 581 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,200 But this kind of lends immediately to AGM to determine 582 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,360 what they think is good role play and if it's not how your 583 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,720 style again like you said you're never going to get this. 584 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,200 So like you said, I think it's just like I think if you want 585 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,160 something like this because this is another one of those times 586 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,120 where I'm like I get where you're going but you didn't 587 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,560 quite get there. I think it's it could just be 588 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,160 like you said, like if you have like a fun cool moment or like 589 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,120 you make the table like if you want this to be on there at all, 590 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,000 which I don't think you necessarily need. 591 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,040 I think that's more the direction it should go as 592 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,280 opposed to like zeroing it in specifically on this like out of 593 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,400 game thing. And I I think I had less of an 594 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,080 issue with this like, but if you look at everything else, like 595 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,720 finish a difficult battle, everyone gets an experience 596 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,080 point, right? But what if you finish a 597 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,000 difficult battle and two people had really great role-playing in 598 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,240 that battle, So they just get 2 experience points? 599 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,600 And then your third dude is like, well, you weren't that 600 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,320 interesting of a role player, so fuck you I guess, yeah. 601 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,960 That's what I'm saying is it feels like a built in to me. 602 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,880 It just feels like the opportunity to be a built in 603 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:24,960 punishment exceeds the ability for it to be a reward because of 604 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,199 the differences. And I think, I think, I think 605 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,440 Torchbearer does something like this and it's it's not fun. 606 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:38,719 So again like I just I find it not not bad because I understand 607 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:42,679 why because all like throughout the game they say there's a 608 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,280 bunch like like role play do the thing. 609 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,320 That's why you have like background skills and stuff and 610 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,960 like you know, supposed to get out there. 611 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:54,719 But I I just find this to be unnecessary. 612 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,080 Next, we get into skills. Skill is something that anyone 613 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,320 can do, but you can do better because of your past is 614 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,000 basically what it is. They're vague. 615 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,320 They can sometimes overlap. The point of skills is to bring 616 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,120 creativity to the table in order to help roles. 617 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,600 When a player thinks a skill might apply to a role, they 618 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,800 should be creative and present their case to the GM. 619 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,080 Even though figuring out which attribute discovered by the 620 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,480 skill can be a Gray area, they should still be related to the 621 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,000 character background, blah blah blah. 622 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,400 Pick up or make a character skill like character creation. 623 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:32,160 Then again, anytime an attribute reaches 7, so this is this is a 624 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,880 personal thing for you. It could be anything you want. 625 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,480 It could be fucking pie making, you know what I mean? 626 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,040 Like it could be anything you want. 627 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,560 I don't mind this. I think it's fine. 628 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,440 No, I like for like background skill stuff. 629 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,680 I really do prefer where it's just like, yeah, well, like, 630 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,920 pick a background, you know, like I'm a big guy. 631 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,760 Like, I love a thief guy sometimes where I'm like, Oh 632 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,240 yeah, I went to a thief school, you know? 633 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,160 So it's like, OK, well, cool, Anytime you can reference. 634 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,840 Yeah, we learned climbing at my thief school. 635 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,800 We learned falling at my thief school. 636 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,960 You know, I like stuff like that. 637 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,920 When you can kind of obscure it and just like, you and the gym 638 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,160 can decide like, hey, does this really apply to that situation? 639 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,320 I like that. So go ahead. 640 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,960 No, no worries. I was gonna say the picking up 641 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:19,040 another one at attribute 7. I'm like, OK, what's the thing? 642 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,800 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's a whole, I 643 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,840 think, I think it's a later part talking and not in the leveling 644 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,360 up section where it probably should be, but what like talking 645 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,120 about like when you get to level 7 and stuff like that later you 646 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,840 get a bunch of stuff. So we'll we'll talk about that, 647 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,360 Yeah. So side note here it is highly 648 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,200 recommended to you skills as often as possible. 649 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,000 So again, this is my and this is last. 650 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,480 This is probably not the last time I bring it up. 651 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,000 This is the third page now with the entire left column in 652 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,120 completely blank. There's one sentence that could 653 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,160 easily just fit any any anywhere else on here. 654 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,480 It's just an unlike. This is why I'm like what is 655 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,760 like if it had a point. I get it right. 656 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,440 It just feels. Like and there are more if there 657 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,560 are more meaningful margin notes would bother you less is what 658 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,360 you're saying? Absolutely if it had like. 659 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,880 To me, the point of this layout is to have this column in order 660 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,160 to mark meaningful things into it, right? 661 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,960 And then they didn't utilize it like pretty much at all. 662 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,360 So that's why the layout I don't mind. 663 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,880 I like this layout. I think that this layout, the 664 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:31,160 style is great, but if you look at something I'm not gonna give 665 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,640 examples that's escaping me where it is used more 666 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,720 effectively. Like these columns like die for 667 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:40,120 example has like a similar kind of like not a third, but like 668 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,640 those things are packed on the side with like information that 669 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,920 is nice to have but doesn't necessarily need to be in the 670 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,360 core text, you know. So how do you skills, if it 671 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,600 relates to your character's skills, mention it when rolling, 672 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,080 Be creative. So it says. 673 00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:00,080 For example, they might be adept at lock picking because they had 674 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,120 a shady past as a jewel thief. So mention that and then how 675 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,600 skills effects how skills affect roles. 676 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,680 If the GM agrees so you can use the skill, you get what you get 677 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,600 plus 1D to the role. So on page one it tells you go 678 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,440 check the test on page 28. But we still don't even like at 679 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,120 no point unless you went to page 28 do we know that it's a dice 680 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,920 pool game. Yeah, that is something I even 681 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,040 though it does say go to page 28, I wouldn't have minded like 682 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,720 what is this like a thing at the beginning that says this is AD6 683 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,680 dice pool game, you know? Yeah, especially because I love 684 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,320 AD 6 dice pool game. So it's great. 685 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,160 Yeah. So you add 1D to the role, it's 686 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,520 a player critical failure or critical success. 687 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,480 They get to ignore the negative impact of those roles, such as a 688 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,480 penalty, but still gain the positive impact such as XP and 689 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,960 luck. More on that on page 7, which 690 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,720 was the last page. So basically, like if you're 691 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:04,040 using your skills, you negate critical failure results. 692 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:09,440 Fine then once you use your skills, yeah. 693 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,200 I think that's fine. You're skilled at this. 694 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,880 You like, even if you don't necessarily pass this, you're 695 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,120 definitely not going to, like, run yourself into the ground 696 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,600 because you kind of know what you're doing. 697 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,240 Yeah, I think from a narrative point of view, you're like, that 698 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,560 totally makes sense. I agree. 699 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,360 The next page it says here are some possible skills and their 700 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,280 associated attributes. I like this page. 701 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,080 I think this page is extraordinary, extraordinarily 702 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,200 necessary, or I would not have liked the previous page, but 703 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:42,360 it's it is 3 columns in, another in in that font that I'm not a 704 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,320 huge fan of. And something that doesn't 705 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,440 bother me at all. Yeah, it's just so much 706 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,240 different than like the rest of the body font. 707 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:51,840 You know what I mean? Like, look at it in comparison, 708 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:58,400 like even the size, like it's just but so mind, body, spirit. 709 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,120 There's what, 123-456-7892, There's ten different ones for 710 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,000 for each, for mind, for body and spirit. 711 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,760 And they're color-coded blue, red, and green. 712 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,640 It's a, it's a, it's a. It's a fine looking table. 713 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,640 It's a fine table. There's a, a blue, a blue note 714 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,160 bar on the bottom. It says player and GM are 715 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,440 encouraged to add to the list the GM as a final say in how it 716 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,440 works more kind of like editing things. 717 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,600 This isn't it picky, but there's like there's no space after this 718 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,400 period. There's time. 719 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,880 Oh yeah, so this suggestions regarding which attribute 720 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,080 relates to which skill, or just that, suggestions. 721 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,440 Skills with some homes fall under more than one attributes. 722 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,560 They don't take the list too strictly, blah blah blah blah. 723 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,760 This isn't on those ones where it's like like, I know we get 724 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,920 it. Like there was like beating your 725 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:53,640 head over this, like do what you want kind of thing didn't feel 726 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,200 necessary. So now then we get to perks, 727 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:03,400 which is what happens at different levels when you get 728 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,920 your attributes. So again, this is another just 729 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:12,640 unnecessary keyword and I don't understand why this whole 730 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,160 section isn't wasn't just in like the leveling up like it 731 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,960 should have been like the next page after leveling up. 732 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,520 I agree. Yeah, which should have been 733 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,560 called attribute increase. Yeah. 734 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,400 Oh, my note. Said yet another keyword in a 735 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,680 quote UN quote. Low crunch game. 736 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,560 Perks are automatic bonuses. A character gets it attributes 737 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,480 Level 3 and seven. So for mind, body, and spirit, 738 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,760 whenever you get those attributes up to three and then 739 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:45,560 seven, you get bonuses. When mine reaches 3, your mana 740 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:50,480 increases by two, so your mana is now mine plus 3 instead of 741 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,640 mine plus one. Cool. 742 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:54,960 Keep a note of that. Basically you just get 2 free 743 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,360 mana points at Level 3. Cool. 744 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,520 When body reaches 3, you improve your melee attack damage by plus 745 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,360 one. It's not added to, it's just 746 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,480 melee. No magic, no no, nothing. 747 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,560 May seem unfair at first glance, but I remember that range 748 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,080 weapons of magic can hit from a distance. 749 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,560 I don't mind that note here, but this is what I'm talking about. 750 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,000 You know where that note would have been much better? 751 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,560 In the left side column because it's not important to the text 752 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,840 whatsoever, but it's direction. You know what I mean? 753 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,320 Yeah, absolutely. That could easily be just off to 754 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,280 the side because you don't need it. 755 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,000 Umm when spirit reaches Level 3, luck is increased by two, so now 756 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,440 your luck is now spirit plus 3 instead of spirit plus one. 757 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,440 OK, so basically body gets plus one extra damage at Level 3, and 758 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:49,000 your mana and spirit get +2 on top of the one that they got 759 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,080 already for total of three. And at level 7 perks, umm. 760 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,160 The level 7 perks are all the same. 761 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,040 When Mind, Body, or Spirit reaches level 7, characters gain 762 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,800 a new skill. If a character survives long 763 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,160 enough to get all attributes to level 7, they'll have four 764 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,240 skills this first line. The level 7 perks are all the 765 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,400 same. It's just a nice just delete it, 766 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,400 just delete it. That's. 767 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,840 I mean, that's it. Abilities. 768 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,360 OK, so so we're getting into abilities. 769 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,520 Abilities are characters, bread and butter. 770 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,040 They are the special things the characters can do, as well as 771 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:31,320 the best way to build your character. 772 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,120 Each of the three attributes has its own set of abilities. 773 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,160 Here we go. So you get active and passive 774 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:48,620 abilities. Yeah, yeah, so active. 775 00:43:48,620 --> 00:43:53,060 And passives. So there's also a note here on 776 00:43:53,060 --> 00:43:55,300 the side. There are also miscellaneous 777 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:57,980 abilities and ultimate abilities that are explained later. 778 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,040 Mm hmm. Mm hmm, everything I've said 779 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:02,080 already. There is my note there. 780 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:06,720 So active abilities require so supposedly require a successful 781 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:09,400 test. On a failed test, there's no no 782 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,400 cost is paid. OK, that's number one. 783 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:17,840 Number two requires the use of 1 action, OK, and three have a 784 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,120 cost required to them ranging from zero to four. 785 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:26,280 That is paid with mana or luck, depending on the ability. 786 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,120 OK, all right. Mana or luck? 787 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:33,760 All right. And then you have passive 788 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,040 abilities. There's four things. 789 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,880 Automatically succeed without a test unless the, unless the 790 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,800 stated otherwise do not require an action to use, have no cost, 791 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,320 and will have AP after the ability name. 792 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,680 Abilities are written in a way to communicate all this 793 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,960 information at a glance. And then there's like a a an 794 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,320 algebraic type equation with brackets and all this. 795 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,520 Bold this Please make this bold and bigger. 796 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,520 Ability name and then cost from zero to four if active or 797 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,320 passive. And then the effect of the 798 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,520 ability. It's listed out here and there's 799 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:08,800 an optional rule listed here. Some gyms may allow an ability 800 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,440 swap. Sometimes a mission ahead could 801 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,320 benefit from trading out old and new. 802 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:13,400 Fine. Whatever. 803 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,200 OK, great piece of art here. It's blue. 804 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,560 Yeah, it's blue. So we're going into mine stuff. 805 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:28,360 But it's a full page wizard boy with like a an energy thing in 806 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,760 its hand and he's like coming down to slam it. 807 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:31,920 It's great. It's a great piece. 808 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:32,520 Great. Piece. 809 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,720 Yeah, it is an amazing piece. I do love this piece a lot. 810 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:39,040 OK, so mind abilities. So there's sixteen of them. 811 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,480 OK, and we're going to read every single one. 812 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:42,280 Y'all. Gear up. 813 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,960 Every single one. If if a mind ability has a 814 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,880 listed cost, it uses mana. OK, so let's just talk about, 815 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:55,200 let's talk about a couple. So mana costs? 816 00:45:55,320 --> 00:46:01,720 Do me a solid hunter. OK, all right, there are sixteen 817 00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:03,880 of these. How many different mana costs 818 00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,440 are there on 16 abilities? 2. 819 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,200 There's two mana costs, right? What are the mana costs? 820 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:14,640 It's one and X. OK, OK, so X is Fireball. 821 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,840 Right? Before rolling, the caster picks 822 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,040 the amount of mana they want to spend, then throws an explosive 823 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,520 fireball. We'll get to the rest of the way 824 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,800 in just a second. Yeah, so if you spend 5 minutes, 825 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:34,040 huh, You get like, what? With X damage? 826 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,400 With X damage? So it's magic The Gathering 827 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,560 Fireball X damage, right? So if you spend 5, they get 5 828 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,320 damage, right? Everything else is 1 every. 829 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,560 Everything is 1. 15 abilities is what so wide listed wide list 830 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,880 the cost at all. The yeah, my other thing is like 831 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,160 I think up there it says this the cost range from zero to 4. 832 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,760 Where is the four? Is it in? 833 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,360 It might be. It's maybe. 834 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,960 No, bro, we talked about this. It's not get there though. 835 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:08,080 You said yeah. Oh, maybe it's saying that for 836 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,680 the X, the highest it could be is 4. 837 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,040 With that, it's. Just that's not. 838 00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,520 I mean, you're being very generous because that's not what 839 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,120 it says. It says the ability cost. 840 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,480 No, sorry. Maybe that's what I was trying 841 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:24,240 to say. Ranging from zero to four and 842 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:29,120 every single ability cost is 1. Is that a mistake? 843 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,200 It has to be. It fucking has to be it. 844 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,000 Has to be a mistake, right? We talked because we talked. 845 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,760 About this. Because it's in percolating my 846 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,120 mind. I'm like, there's no way this is 847 00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:39,680 right, you know? No. 848 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,600 It can't. What's the point of having 849 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,680 ability cost saying they range from zero to four and making 850 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,800 every single one of them one? Yeah, resurrects cost one, yeah. 851 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,560 And also barrier cost one, Yeah, I mean obviously. 852 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,440 Light. Yeah. 853 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,040 Creating a 30 foot diameter of light is the same as 854 00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,640 resurrecting a player. It's the same cost. 855 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,880 It has to be a mistake. It literally says it ranges from 856 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,880 zero to four and then lists everyone at 1:00. 857 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,040 Yeah. But yeah, barrier, control, 858 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,160 light and begin. It's it's mind magic that's what 859 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,120 you get. So but here's the other issue. 860 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,960 We'll get through this. So bend the elements. 861 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,880 Caster creates a malleable shape of up to level times 10 square 862 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,360 feet of volume. Oh yeah, that's the other thing. 863 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,040 When we haven't gotten to ranges yet, have we? 864 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:27,800 So. Yeah, no. 865 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,080 Should we jump to range real quick to explain this or wait 866 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,440 till later then come back to this? 867 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:32,840 Because one or the other, we have to do both. 868 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,560 I say we just keep going through linear in a linear nature, but 869 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,000 everyone who's listening, if you are listening, remember that it 870 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,760 says 30 feet in here and it gives like I think 10 feet as 871 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,640 well as a form distance. Level times 10 square feet. 872 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,680 The effect of the globe goes for a 30 feet in big, and the target 873 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:59,080 gets a 1D3 body for level rounds and grows exactly 20% larger. 874 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,640 Mm hmm, Fireball. Anyone within 15 feet? 875 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,080 Let's just go. Let's just do range now 'cause 876 00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,240 it doesn't really matter. OK, let's just do Range now. 877 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:16,320 Yeah, so we're gonna go down to to range. 878 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:20,320 It's somewhere down here. I don't remember where it is. 879 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,920 Was it above using an ability above attack? 880 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,920 It is, yeah. It's in combat. 881 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:31,160 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 882 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,640 It's on page 37. OK, so for for distances it's 883 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,680 just move right? This is your movement in combat. 884 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:47,040 OK, so short distance is within melee range. 885 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:48,880 OK, so they're short, medium, long and very long. 886 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,080 OK, short distances within melee range. 887 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,400 Hunter What is medium distance? Oh, it's one move action. 888 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,840 One move away, what's long? It's two moves away. 889 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,880 How about very long? It's more than two moves away. 890 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,280 How long is a move? It's it's medium distance. 891 00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:12,840 And how long is medium distance? It's it's one move away. 892 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,600 I think. Like this is where you really 893 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,080 benefit from like medium range that's that's the across an 894 00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,520 average size room you know. Anything. 895 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,600 So it it says there is this little blurb on the bottom. 896 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,760 It says these distances are meant to to answer simple 897 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,080 questions. Am I close enough to stab? 898 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,880 For example, if something is long range, taking a move action 899 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,600 to move towards it puts it into medium range. 900 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,400 We get it. It's range bands emanating from 901 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,080 you Totally makes sense. Like I I love range bands. 902 00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,680 I'm a fucking range guy. I hate feet, right? 903 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,560 But here's the thing. This is how all all of the all 904 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,880 of it works in the game. It says TLDRPG defines distances 905 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,880 as ranges, right? Except when? 906 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,240 Yeah, range weapons and range magic attacks maybe use it. 907 00:50:56,240 --> 00:50:59,840 Ranges at the GM deems reasonable, blah blah blah. 908 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:05,120 OK, so it literally says quote distances as ranges, so we're 909 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:10,040 going to hop on back to. Seven or not 17, sorry, like 12 910 00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:10,960 or something. I swap that. 911 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,040 Abilities it is. It is well hyperlinked, so it is 912 00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:15,200 incredibly. Well hyperlinked. 913 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,800 Yeah. So 10 feet, what is that? 914 00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,160 30 feet? What is that? 915 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:20,880 We don't need to be over a dead horse. 916 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,640 There's an incongruous Ness between the use of feet multiple 917 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,880 times about this book and then the use of ranges later in the 918 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:29,920 book. This is what we're talking about 919 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,920 again, where there's like this inelegance of like, we see the 920 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,800 vision, but it didn't like it there because I think both were 921 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,120 on the mind and they just, like, forgot to get rid of one. 922 00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,200 Most likely they went with feet, 'cause it's very classic BX, you 923 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,720 know, whatever, it's D&D. And then they're like, let's 924 00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:47,120 simplify it with going with ranges and then never just 925 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,520 switch these alter ranges. Yeah, so that's that's what it's 926 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,760 got to be, anyway. So that's that. 927 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,360 Another great piece of art. Another. 928 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,800 Great piece of art. Mm hmm. 929 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,440 And then another great piece of art, and this one's red. 930 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:07,040 Yeah, this is a very it's like a demonic night with like a Mace 931 00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,640 in this badass, like skulls hanging off the bottom of the of 932 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,480 this like, long. I don't know what it is. 933 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,040 Bladed weird axe thing. It's gorgeous. 934 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,920 It's a great piece of art. Body abilities, OK, we're going 935 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:23,280 to start cruising through some of this stuff. 936 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,480 So the body abilities all lists either P or 0. 937 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:30,760 After them there are probably 16, So P is passive, 0 is 938 00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,560 active, but it even says in the thing that there are no that 939 00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,120 it's only spent on mind and spirit. 940 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,360 It never says anything my body. So. 941 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,000 So why is it a cost listed at all right? 942 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,520 And how are they used? Like do I These are just I get 943 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,320 to do these every time. Yeah. 944 00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,880 I guess it's like, so, yeah, you could do SHIELD Dash every turn 945 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,000 like, yeah, if you wanted to. I mean, it costs nothing, so 946 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,680 yeah. Yeah, it costs. 947 00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,240 So all of all of the melee stuff, just like costs nothing. 948 00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:03,960 I mean dual wield. So The thing is like it's I mean 949 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,320 it's active because you have to roll but the ability itself is 950 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:09,520 not. It should be passive but 951 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,200 whatever. So basically yeah it's all the 952 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,560 so backstab, battle cry, blood loss, dual wield like gash, you 953 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,760 attack a target to do one damage and cause bleed. 954 00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,880 We'll get to bleed but like I just don't understand. 955 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,560 Like I think if if they don't cost anything, there needs to be 956 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,560 an explanation of like how you can use it then. 957 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,120 And also don't list a cost of 0 because it's just confusing 958 00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,600 people. Unnecessary. 959 00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,440 Yeah. And then and then like there's a 960 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:40,880 werewolf piece. Great piece. 961 00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:49,240 Which is such a strong art piece. 01 of my favorite in the 962 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:52,000 entire game. Weird double daggered guy with 963 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:55,160 his like mask has like blood spatter on and he's hood up. 964 00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:00,640 Very much like a very cool assassin rogue, dude, you know? 965 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,600 And the glow on the daggers is. Yeah, the glow on decks, yeah. 966 00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:06,800 All right, so talk. So tell me about Spirit 967 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:13,400 abilities. They all cost one except the 968 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,000 ones that are passive. I mean, yeah, they yeah. 969 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,960 And they use luck so like. Yeah, so luck. 970 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:25,360 So, so luck. So man, that comes back on. 971 00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:30,360 The rest? OK, but luck. 972 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:36,720 You have to either crit fail or is it crit succeed? 973 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:39,520 It was one of those two. Well, I got to go back. 974 00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,560 I don't remember, honestly. Yeah, yeah. 975 00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:47,560 Yeah, So inherently it is incredibly hard to get luck 976 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:48,640 back. Or maybe I can probably, but 977 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,120 it's much, much harder to get luck back. 978 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:56,400 So hey man, listen, if you're building a, you're building a 979 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,440 spirit based character. Good fucking luck. 980 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:05,640 Patch and but again so one thing you said every one of these 981 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,320 abilities that isn't a peeve or passive is just again listed as 982 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,280 just one. But why? 983 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,720 Why make luck something that only comes back sometimes like 984 00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:20,160 versus everything else. It makes no sense. 985 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:23,920 Like there's no there's no rationale I can think of because 986 00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,000 it's not like here's The thing is like it would make more sense 987 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:31,160 for mana to be something that you that like it's harder to get 988 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,160 back because it's like magic and shit and not everyone has to be 989 00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,440 magic or something. But like even having luck as 990 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,600 like the derived thing from spirit to me is just weird 991 00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,640 because first of all spirit is your dexterity and finesse and 992 00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,960 then you add luck to it. I can see agility and luck and 993 00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:48,440 stuff like that. But like, why would it? 994 00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,080 Why would it not come back? Because like you're saying, like 995 00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,360 if I want to make a thief character that uses a bunch of 996 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,640 these, like thief finesse, if you if you want to build a 997 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,000 finesse build, you're fucked. You can't use any of these 998 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,640 abilities. Yeah, I mean, if you do use 999 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,440 them, you're going to lose a point and it's going to take you 1000 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,760 a while to get it back because you have to either crit fail or 1001 00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:10,600 crit succeed. Yeah, Which I guess I'm the dice 1002 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,840 mechanic for this. Crit failing is rolling. 1003 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:17,880 It's rolling double S, isn't it? Yeah, kind of. 1004 00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,320 But there's like targeted dice in it too. 1005 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,240 Yeah, it's a whole. Yeah, maybe it's maybe. 1006 00:56:22,240 --> 00:56:24,040 I did not do math for this one. I'm sorry. 1007 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:28,000 I've almost thing but maybe it's more statistically significant 1008 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,600 for to quit, fail or quit to see in this system than this in like 1009 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:35,520 AD 20 based system. I think it's like we'll we'll 1010 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:36,640 get there. They actually have the math in 1011 00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,400 here, which is nice. They do have some math in here. 1012 00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,240 They have a little table math. And I'm like, yeah, good for 1013 00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:41,120 you. Put that shit in here. 1014 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,760 I love that. Yeah, it's nice. 1015 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,960 But what I'm saying is like, but they're even then there's no 1016 00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:53,200 rationale to punish all agility based players and have their 1017 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,760 derived staff be the only thing that doesn't come back because 1018 00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,440 like because again luck isn't in a lot of games. 1019 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,160 Luck is like a re roll or something. 1020 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,720 Luck is just the derived staff that you used to spend spirit 1021 00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:07,640 abilities. Like there's nothing that like 1022 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,800 makes it special compared to the other ones at all. 1023 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:16,120 So it makes no sense, but like Blessing, bullseye, etcetera, 1024 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,200 etcetera. Like, you know, Second Chance, 1025 00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,360 it's it's it's your, it's your sneaky guy. 1026 00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,320 Like, yeah, there's a couple of mice. 1027 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,360 There's a cool skull boy. Then we get some miscellaneous 1028 00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:31,040 abilities. I mean, OK, you can put into an 1029 00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,840 ability slot regardless of attribute. 1030 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,320 OK. So some are similar. 1031 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,160 So you get blood packed. Coward, Hearthmaker, Holy Mite 1032 00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,680 and Hustler. Oh, oh, there's more. 1033 00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:45,520 There's 10. Most of them are 0 or P and one 1034 00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:50,480 cost one, which is lowering or raising a dice ability. 1035 00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:53,880 It's these random miscellaneous things like Coward. 1036 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,680 Once per round the character may attack a fling foe within range, 1037 00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,560 but they have to yell coward. Like it's just it's just random 1038 00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,880 ones that don't fit anywhere that are like maybe slightly 1039 00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,120 more powerful. And that's your miscellaneous 1040 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,000 abilities. And that doesn't even count your 1041 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,800 ultimate abilities. Yeah. 1042 00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:12,760 Born winner concentrate gambling or gamblers luck. 1043 00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,560 So there's only three of them. If the character has an ability 1044 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:20,200 granting plus 1D and they decide not to use it, they gain 1 luck 1045 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,920 and one XP. If they succeed again they make 1046 00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:27,040 luck in XP. I feel like they wanted luck to 1047 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,400 be something that was that it just isn't and this is just a 1048 00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,400 derived spirit abilities. But in other games I get why you 1049 00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,080 would get XP and luck, you get another re rollback or something 1050 00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:38,040 like that. It's just it feels like, and 1051 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,200 anyway you can only you. Ultimate attributes may only be 1052 00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840 put into level 7 slots or attributes or whatever. 1053 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,960 That's it. OK, 28 pages in. 1054 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:49,360 Now we learn how to play the game. 1055 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,800 Yeah, so that was a lot in the character section. 1056 00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,400 The rest of it isn't nearly as much, so we'll cruise that. 1057 00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:02,400 So it's a nice pull system. When performing a test, you get 1058 00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,040 a number of D6 is equal to the character's relevant ability. 1059 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,120 So if you are doing a mind test and you have a mind of three 1060 00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,840 Level 3, you get 3 die plus whatever you get. 1061 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,040 If they get at least 1-6, they succeed. 1062 00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:20,640 Usually only one six is needed, and there are cases GMA decide 1063 00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:23,080 that you need to. So dice pool. 1064 00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:24,840 You have to have at least 1/6 for a success. 1065 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,360 That's the game. If multiple things are altering 1066 00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:29,400 the number of dice in the dice pool, the effects are 1067 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,760 cumulative. Good place for that on the side, 1068 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,520 actually. That's the appropriate use for 1069 00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,320 that. A large pool of dice gives you a 1070 00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,840 better chance. Obviously you also have your 1071 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,800 abilities, skills and other players helping you. 1072 00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,120 Adding to dice pool. It's a dice pool right? 1073 00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,600 The most important rule just have fun. 1074 00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:50,800 If something works at your table but isn't 100% by the book, 1075 00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,320 that's fine. Two issues with it. 1076 00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:58,800 If it's the most important rule wise on page 29 and 2nd like 1077 00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:00,760 this is like the fourth time you said like just make it your own. 1078 01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,320 Like we get it. That's that's what indie games 1079 01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,320 are like. We get it like at. 1080 01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,840 But then on top of the core mechanic, you have the dice 1081 01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,280 bump, right? It's a very lethal game. 1082 01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,280 Particularly in the beginning, it's recommended that players 1083 01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,600 use every means at their disposable to add extra dice. 1084 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,880 So to do a dice bump, simply spend one mana or one luck to 1085 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:24,480 gain an extra dice on a test. And then there's rules for that, 1086 01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,400 like it has you have to say it before the roll. 1087 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,040 You can only bump your own character. 1088 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:34,520 You can spend as much as you want on mana or luck, and it 1089 01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,240 does not take a special ability to use it. 1090 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,640 Great players always roll at least one die during a test, 1091 01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,480 even if the character's attribute is 0, or some other 1092 01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:45,000 rule effect would require the dice to use that. 1093 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,720 I don't understand why this is a blue box way down here, and this 1094 01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,440 isn't attached to the actual definition of what the test is 1095 01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:54,840 because it's literally. Part of the one start up with at 1096 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,920 least one in each attribute. Yeah, OK. 1097 01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:00,680 Yeah. So you always have that. 1098 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,440 But if for whatever reason it's 0. 1099 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,920 But what I'm saying is like that's a core part of the dice 1100 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,920 mechanic and we're like 2 pages away from like the test put them 1101 01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,280 back up there. And again, why are we having? 1102 01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,200 What is the point of the blue bar on the side here when you 1103 01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,880 have 1/3 of a column on the left that's completely empty? 1104 01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:20,480 I'm. Saying I too. 1105 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,840 Players almost always roll for tests, except when they don't, 1106 01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:26,800 and it doesn't make sense as a core mechanic. 1107 01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,360 It's basically it's a it's player facing rules. 1108 01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,440 For example, MPC might have an ability that grants. 1109 01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,800 So this is this is interesting. MPC might have an ability that 1110 01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:40,280 grants plus 1D to its attacks. Since the defending PC is 1 1111 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,880 rolling to determine the outcome, they roll 1 less die to 1112 01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:49,040 reflect the MPC ability. So the bad guy will have plus 1113 01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,840 1D. You actually just do -1 D to 1114 01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:53,680 defend. Yeah, I would not put it as plus 1115 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,920 1D. Then I'd probably put it as like 1116 01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,840 the bad guy has -1 D and you take away one die when you roll. 1117 01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,640 Exactly. Because plus is plus and minus 1118 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,240 is minus. And while I totally understand 1119 01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,440 what it's saying, there's already so like several moving 1120 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,360 parts in here. And I wouldn't like there's 1121 01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:15,800 that, that I said you had 10 rules for writing games, you 1122 01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,080 know, And one of them is like call a thing a thing, you know, 1123 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,360 call it what it is. You know, that's what I'm 1124 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:22,880 saying. With the attribute level is like 1125 01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:24,800 the attribute thing, it's just you're increasing Attribute is 1126 01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:26,160 called actually increase. There's no reason to have 1127 01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:27,960 levels. Like slinkers, 10 rules for 1128 01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,880 writing, 10 rules for writing rules, yeah. 1129 01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:35,640 Yeah, but but yeah, so like, why would it say like plus 1D to 1130 01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:39,040 their attack? It should just say this attack, 1131 01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,880 subtract 1D from your defense. Like there's no reason to have 1132 01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:43,640 it be like a thing that you have to remember to be a thing. 1133 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,160 Yeah, it's counter intuitive is what I wrote. 1134 01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:50,120 So a word about failure. While it's true at least 1-6 is 1135 01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,200 needed for an action to succeed, there's some area for GM 1136 01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:54,600 discretion. For example, if a character is 1137 01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,880 jumping over deep chasm, a failed role doesn't has 1138 01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,520 necessarily mean they fall to the death. 1139 01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,480 Maybe they make the jump but twist their ankle. 1140 01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:05,320 OK, so like make success, but not in the mechanics. 1141 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:06,840 You're supposed to narratively decide it. 1142 01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,520 Come on like if you if that's what you want then just say like 1143 01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,000 on A5 you on A. Five. 1144 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,320 I told you that was immediately. What I thought when I read this 1145 01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,800 was like, give them a five. Option 5 is a mixed success. 1146 01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,160 Oh, the highest role is A5. Cool. 1147 01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:22,360 Then, yeah, success with a little bit of, yeah. 1148 01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:25,840 Yeah, you shouldn't have like this is a little note, but like 1149 01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,160 just put it in your game then like if that's what you want to 1150 01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,560 happen then just make it happen. You have a lot of room on this 1151 01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:35,200 page. No need to roll. 1152 01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:36,840 There's dice math here which is really nice. 1153 01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:40,560 It's the number of dice listed in the percentage to hit a six. 1154 01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,720 So if you roll one die, you only have a 16.7% chance. 1155 01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,280 If you roll 8 die, you have a 76.7% chance. 1156 01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,200 I like this. Great table love that it's in 1157 01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:48,880 here. Should be. 1158 01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:51,520 Great table. I love adding like, you know, 1159 01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:55,720 D20 base games like people play a lot of. 1160 01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:59,000 Obviously 5E is D20 base. It's very easy to do the math 1161 01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,880 when you have diceable games. It's a lot harder for people to 1162 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,480 contextualize what the math looks like. 1163 01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,160 Obviously I've sent you a bunch of math that I've done for my 1164 01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,960 own dice pool thing, but it's really nice to put this in for 1165 01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,720 like, hey, like, this is what this actually looks like. 1166 01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:14,240 Just so you know, because people don't know. 1167 01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:19,280 Yeah, I mean, exactly like, it's the number of times that we 1168 01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:23,040 literally like sit here and. Do the math. 1169 01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,280 Do the math. It's nice to get there. 1170 01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,160 And we love D sixes. I do. 1171 01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:32,600 I love AD 6 dice pool, so yeah. Yeah, I mean I enjoy dice pools 1172 01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:34,880 like I just the two D6 is my favorite. 1173 01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,600 But dice pools or D6 dice pools are are very close after. 1174 01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:43,200 That I really do like the core of this, like I really enjoy 1175 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,640 like the system and how it works, and I like the idea of 1176 01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:50,960 the like abilities and I I like the attributes. 1177 01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,080 I do think like this absolutely would benefit from a 2 E, 1178 01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,360 because I do think there's so much good in the bones of this, 1179 01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:58,880 you know? Yeah, yeah. 1180 01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:00,040 I mean, that's what we said at the beginning. 1181 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,080 It's just like there's, but there's so much just kind of 1182 01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,680 clunkiness throughout where it's like, I get where you're going. 1183 01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,720 You just didn't like. It's not like. 1184 01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,480 And I I think a lot of the points we've had so far, like a 1185 01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,960 second pass on editing, frankly would have fixed a lot of, you 1186 01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:19,280 know, yeah. I also think that the a lot of 1187 01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,840 it too is it feels like. It almost feels like a game was 1188 01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:27,280 written and then there was a Passover it to like add the like 1189 01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,200 quote UN quote new school mechanics with the old school 1190 01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:33,920 feel and they just missed a bunch of like the the stuff. 1191 01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,320 It's like well let's simplify the ranges on page 37 whatever 1192 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,360 because they hit range was like oh let's change that. 1193 01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:42,960 But they didn't go back and fix all the things that also applied 1194 01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:44,560 to it. So it's it's it's, yeah. 1195 01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,320 Crit success is how crit success works. 1196 01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:49,640 I do remember now. Sorry, keep going. 1197 01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:51,000 Yeah. And I just don't. 1198 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:55,880 Yeah, I I wrote a note that says I do not know how I feel about 1199 01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,600 this, but at first read it feels superfluous. 1200 01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:01,400 So a character's attribute level determines the number of total 1201 01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:02,960 dice rolled. For tests. 1202 01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:06,640 We got that, but actually it reaches level 2, The possibility 1203 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,600 of crit sexes and failures is introduced. 1204 01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,480 So two of the dice you roll are now your crit dice. 1205 01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:13,600 So if you like you just have two. 1206 01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:14,840 So they should be different colored. 1207 01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:18,400 And then when a player rolls, crit dice along with the rest of 1208 01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,720 their characters dice, so they make sure they're blah blah 1209 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,240 blah. For example, a character with a 1210 01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:26,800 level of four will roll 4 dice total, two being crit dice, two 1211 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,960 being not. A six on a crit die is the same 1212 01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:32,360 as any other six, unless the roll is one of the three 1213 01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:37,120 critical results below. Except it's not below because 1214 01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:41,560 you look at a book. The crit die overrides the rest 1215 01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,240 of the dice. OK, so then we go down here and 1216 01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:47,440 it says the crit results double ones, double sixes or both A1 1217 01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,160 and A6 on the crit die. So 11 snake eyes. 1218 01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:52,800 It says it's a 2.8% chance. I love they put the math in 1219 01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:57,840 here. 66 is a 2.8% chance and a both one and a six is a 5.6% 1220 01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,880 chance. So didn't we say that like 1221 01:06:59,880 --> 01:07:01,880 getting locked back was like on one of these? 1222 01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:05,600 Yes. So a 2.8% chance is how you're 1223 01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:10,240 going to get your stuff back. Well, it's on any and I think 1224 01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,200 it's crit success or crit failure, right? 1225 01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,520 So. You have you have like an 11.2% 1226 01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,480 chance. That's not really probably very 1227 01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:25,240 accurate, but somewhere in there of getting your getting luck 1228 01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,400 back. But my question with this math 1229 01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:31,640 is. So wait, if I use my if I use my 1230 01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:38,600 spirit like a my like luck points on abilities when before 1231 01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,320 I'm level 2, I just can't get them back? 1232 01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:45,480 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's so. 1233 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:49,280 Funny, yeah, it just there's a little, there's a little logical 1234 01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,040 hole there. Yeah, again, this game I feel 1235 01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:55,520 like wants a luck to be like ADCC luck or something and 1236 01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,360 didn't realize that they just made it their derived staff that 1237 01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:03,040 only like is your is an entire player's core. 1238 01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,000 It even says about like like the ability is like to find your 1239 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:10,160 whole player, but like you gave one whole of your three 1240 01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:14,760 attributes like a massive penalty right off the bat to 1241 01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:19,120 just not get those abilities back like everyone else does for 1242 01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,600 no specific reason. Again, if it to me, if it was 1243 01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:25,920 magic and that like magic was more difficult so everyone 1244 01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:28,040 didn't have it all the time, that would make sense. 1245 01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:30,399 But just your speedy boyness. Yeah. 1246 01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:31,720 How quick you are. Yeah. 1247 01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,439 Yeah, makes no sense. So anyway the test fails I. 1248 01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:38,200 I would consider running this, but if I did, they'd come back 1249 01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,319 on your rest, you know. Yeah, yeah, it would have to, 1250 01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:45,720 yeah. So these these that's failures 1251 01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,399 and successes and and difficult. So character gets a penalty, but 1252 01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:51,920 they also earn one XP and one luck penalties defined by the 1253 01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:53,760 GM. Critical success. 1254 01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:56,960 It succeeds and you get a bonus, the bonus defined by the GM. 1255 01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,439 If you get a one and a six, the test is successful, but the 1256 01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:03,560 character also incurs a penalty, as with the critical failure. 1257 01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,520 So basically you get both. So on a failure you get XP and 1258 01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,000 luck. On a success you get a bonus, 1259 01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:11,359 and on a difficult you get penalties. 1260 01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,439 But all you also get like XP and luck or a bonus. 1261 01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,760 So you don't get luck from the critical success, you only get 1262 01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,560 it from failure or difficult success. 1263 01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:22,560 Yeah, which makes it even less likely to happen. 1264 01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,880 Yeah, yeah. Combat surprise. 1265 01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:30,160 This is the whole big page to say it exists. 1266 01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,680 You get a one, you get a + 1. DI do like the art. 1267 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,080 The scally boy with the glowing eyes is dope. 1268 01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:35,120 Scally boy. Art is good. 1269 01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:42,560 Yeah it talks about on surprise action the play the character 1270 01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,520 gets advantage on their role plus 1D. 1271 01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,080 Using the word advantage in there does not mean the 1272 01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:51,600 advantage but advantage is so part of RPGSI want to use that 1273 01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,680 word there initiative. This is a whole page to say 1274 01:09:54,680 --> 01:10:00,160 there's two ways you can do it. 1D6 plus spirit, right? 1275 01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:05,560 Just like normal initiative or optional rule for faster simple 1276 01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,160 initiative. The GM may decide to do 1 1277 01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:10,640 initiative role for a group of BCS, one for MPCS. 1278 01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,520 Cool. Yeah, that's a whole page to 1279 01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:18,320 tell you how to work initiative. Combat turns characters, so 1280 01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:21,360 during a turn characters get two actions, Move, Attack, 1281 01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,600 Usability, Focus, or Parry. Characters may do the same 1282 01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,280 action twice, such as taking moves or doing two attack 1283 01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:29,320 actions. There's a thing that says this 1284 01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,240 is just the most common stuff. Other things happen, enemies get 1285 01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,240 the same shit. We've already talked about the 1286 01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:37,640 move page. A move is defined by itself. 1287 01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:41,880 A medium distance is 1 move, and a move is at least a medium 1288 01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:43,400 distance. No idea what that means. 1289 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,800 We can assume. But I it need that needs to be 1290 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:51,920 fixed attacking, use mind body or spirit to do attacks, magic, 1291 01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:58,400 melee or ranged. And then to me I think this is 1292 01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,680 this second paragraph where it talked about doing like defense 1293 01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:05,720 roles really needs to have like a header, like a red header just 1294 01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:08,400 like everything else. So when when we're willing to 1295 01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:10,680 defend against an attack it characters the spots determines 1296 01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,480 the relevant attribute. So basically like if you want to 1297 01:11:13,480 --> 01:11:16,960 block with his shield use body. If you want to dodge out of the 1298 01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:21,080 way you spirit basically what it says and then again it says. 1299 01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:24,240 Remember that players make almost all tests like it's a 1300 01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,240 player facing game and it lists everything else you can do. 1301 01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:31,160 You can use an ability, you can focus which just gives your next 1302 01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,800 action 1D. You can parry which gives all 1303 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,720 defense tests plus one DI do like that. 1304 01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:41,280 You get 2 actions, and some of those actions can set up like 1305 01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,640 your next turn. So if you want to say, all 1306 01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,640 right, I attack once and then I parry, you can put yourself in 1307 01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,720 like a more defensive position or like I want to focus on my 1308 01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:52,440 next one because I'm too far. So I'll do a move action and 1309 01:11:52,440 --> 01:11:54,440 then focus and the next time I can do it, I do. 1310 01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,040 I do like that. I think that's great. 1311 01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:00,360 I agree. I concur. 1312 01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:03,880 Death. When you read zero, you die or 1313 01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:07,840 you don't. Those are the 2 rules resting. 1314 01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:09,920 I don't like it. I love the art on this page. 1315 01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:12,800 This like warlock looking over like a cauldron. 1316 01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,320 I was thinking more of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. 1317 01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,160 Yeah. Yeah, like a shaman. 1318 01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:21,160 Almost, yeah. Resting each hour of rest fills 1319 01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,960 one mana and one HP. Resting for at least six hours 1320 01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,880 fills all mana. The resting does not fill luck. 1321 01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,160 Luck is earned from critical fails and difficult success 1322 01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:30,640 roles, or is an award from the GM. 1323 01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,280 Oh, you can award luck. Does it say that earlier? 1324 01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:38,400 You missed that? Yeah, it says it in. 1325 01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,160 Oh, it does say that. Yeah, it's the word of the GM. 1326 01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:46,120 Oh, OK, interesting. I still don't love it, but. 1327 01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:51,080 No, I don't like it at all. I also want to go back just to 1328 01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:52,800 make sure that I'm not talking about my ass. 1329 01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:57,920 Like when we derive luck, Spirit plus one is luck. 1330 01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:00,480 Luck is spent to use spirit abilities. 1331 01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:05,320 Yeah, there's. Well, until you get to Level 3 1332 01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:11,040 and then it's Spirit +3. Yeah, yeah. 1333 01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:15,120 So anyway, so resting every hour you rest, you get one mana and 1334 01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,960 one HP for a minimum of six hours. 1335 01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:20,640 To me. I don't know how you feel about 1336 01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,560 that. I I don't. 1337 01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,080 There's a lot of stuff missing from this. 1338 01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:27,320 How many rests can you do in a day? 1339 01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,240 If it's as many as you want, then yeah, then let's. 1340 01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:35,080 I would just do like a one to two hour nap like every fucking 1341 01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:37,160 all the time and just have my shit back all the time. 1342 01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:40,720 And if if not and there's a limited number of rests, why 1343 01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:45,080 would it matter if you get 2345 or six like what you would like 1344 01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:47,320 to me that's what I'm at. That's bookkeeping that at GM 1345 01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:49,040 doesn't need to worry about. You took a rest and let me get 1346 01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:54,160 your shit back, you know? Yeah, it's just unnecessary. 1347 01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:56,880 Great piece. I love this castle piece here 1348 01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,880 with like the stuff glowing, the person in the in the back. 1349 01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:05,160 Is a very there's some really cool like darker almost like 1350 01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:08,520 charcoal pieces in this. You're like very iconic art 1351 01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:09,440 going through this. It's. 1352 01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,800 Definitely dope status effects. There's a bunch Bleed, burn 1353 01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,720 days, plague, poison, stun. They cause things, They cause 1354 01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:18,320 statuses. The one I don't understand is 1355 01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:20,080 bleed. Unlike other statuses, the 1356 01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:22,880 status does nothing on its own. Instead, some other abilities 1357 01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,880 may activate when an opponent is bleeding at the beginning of a 1358 01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:28,120 turn. Decrease bleed status by one. 1359 01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,560 The status are moved at 0. I really couldn't. 1360 01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:33,240 Maybe it's listed somewhere and I was just like frustrated and 1361 01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,520 couldn't find it. But like I don't know what it 1362 01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,160 actually does when it is activated though. 1363 01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:40,440 Oh, I saw this in the ability. Actually, I'm gonna find it real 1364 01:14:40,440 --> 01:14:41,440 quick. Yeah, Gash. 1365 01:14:41,440 --> 01:14:52,840 Mm hmm. Yeah, Gash. 1366 01:14:55,440 --> 01:14:56,840 Yeah, but it just says that you bleed. 1367 01:15:00,440 --> 01:15:02,640 Where is it? Does it? 1368 01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:05,040 Have you gone in the wrong direction? 1369 01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:10,280 I mean, let's control F bleed too. 1370 01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:11,080 I am. That's what. 1371 01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:13,480 That's exactly what I did. That's what I'm saying. 1372 01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:16,240 So it's I just don't understand how bleed works. 1373 01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:24,880 Well they have it on the blood packed ability. 1374 01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:31,000 A gym to see the dies or have the bleed status heals this 1375 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:35,680 character for one HP. This is one of those things 1376 01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,360 where, like it's defining what it does by itself with no 1377 01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:43,600 explanation. There's one. 1378 01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:47,640 It's like if your melee attacker hits a target with bleed status, 1379 01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:52,480 you gain 1 HP, so it's almost like and then you do one damage 1380 01:15:52,480 --> 01:15:57,680 and cause bleed. Yeah, it's almost like it 1381 01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:01,600 doesn't exist on its own. It only exists when in concert 1382 01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,720 with something else. Which is what it says. 1383 01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:06,080 This is like, unlike other statuses, the status of nothing 1384 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:07,840 on its own. Instead, some other abilities 1385 01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:11,360 may activate it. But there's not a ton that 1386 01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,320 there's two abilities to activate it, so yeah. 1387 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:19,480 An example here or like a like a page number to one of those or 1388 01:16:19,480 --> 01:16:21,040 something would have been nice 'cause like right? 1389 01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,400 I don't I don't mind this like I think it's kind of neat that 1390 01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:28,080 like the ability only matters when something triggers it but 1391 01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,520 it like it's it's I should we shouldn't need a control F to 1392 01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:32,600 like try to figure out how it works. 1393 01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,720 You know what I mean? Yeah. 1394 01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:42,360 Anyway, a whole yellow page here with a dope fucking zombie on 1395 01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:43,760 it. Cause zombie is an effect. 1396 01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:46,040 Make a body test when the status is applied. 1397 01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,040 On a failure the character has one D6 plus body days to be 1398 01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:53,720 blessed or they become a zombie. I like it. 1399 01:16:54,680 --> 01:17:03,040 Me too. No automatic statuses so 1400 01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:08,000 Delirium, Fear feeble. There's three automatic so for 1401 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,000 example, like fear, when active the target must roll 1D6 at the 1402 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,560 beginning of the turn, etcetera, etcetera on the side. 1403 01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:16,560 Here it says the effects listed previously are typically 1404 01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,840 imparted by an ability. The statuses listed here are a 1405 01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:21,360 bit different. They have an automatically when 1406 01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:24,440 the relevant stat drops below 0. Have we ever have we looked at 1407 01:17:24,440 --> 01:17:29,080 anything where a stat can decrease like below 0? 1408 01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:32,040 Like you can spend all of your shit, but like, at what point? 1409 01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,160 But it's not like spent. You use your abilities, right? 1410 01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:38,240 Like they don't. They don't go down when you use 1411 01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,480 them. Well, so this is the stats, not 1412 01:17:41,480 --> 01:17:46,440 the not the not the attributes. But like there's nothing that 1413 01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:49,040 reduces except spending yet, and you can't spend when you have 0. 1414 01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:50,800 So I don't understand why it would drop below 0. 1415 01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:52,440 Maybe we're missing something where something could 1416 01:17:52,440 --> 01:17:57,800 potentially, but this is a lot of writing for like a maybe I 1417 01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,400 don't, I just don't get it. Like when I read the rules I 1418 01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,120 never understood a point where you you could reduce the stat 1419 01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,560 below 0 if there is one. It just needs to be better 1420 01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:11,600 explained. Below 0 Yeah OK. 1421 01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:16,880 Yeah. Too many keywords too also. 1422 01:18:17,480 --> 01:18:21,080 Yeah, but it's fine. I mean, we'll just we'll cruise. 1423 01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:23,360 I love this is another one of my favorite pages. 1424 01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:25,840 This is one right for the weapons page. 1425 01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:27,520 This is page 45. It's this full page, kind of 1426 01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:31,720 like Reaper guy with just like the bottom bloody jaw. 1427 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,240 Really gorgeous with like the I I love that bluish purple in the 1428 01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:38,720 background too. I like the yellow highlight like 1429 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,640 there's some like toy off on the side. 1430 01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:42,640 So good. I mean that. 1431 01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:44,280 That's the thing. Billy Blue's art is, is 1432 01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:47,880 fantastic weapon categories. I really like this Unarmed 1433 01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:49,640 light, medium, heavy, that's it. And then you just pick what it 1434 01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:50,200 is. Who cares? 1435 01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:51,440 I love. That's my favorite way to do. 1436 01:18:51,440 --> 01:18:51,800 Weapon. Yeah. 1437 01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:52,760 It's so good. Yeah. 1438 01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:53,520 Perfect. Great. 1439 01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,360 Thanks. Damages consistent throughout. 1440 01:18:57,440 --> 01:18:59,840 That's it. Oh, another great piece that's 1441 01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:03,520 like just weird. Tall, skinny man with a giant 1442 01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,840 axe on a red background. It's stunning. 1443 01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:12,080 So they're listed here. So unarmed is weight damage, so 1444 01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:15,200 weight is 0, damage is 1, and you get plus one dice when you 1445 01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:17,120 use it. Light weapons weight is 1, 1446 01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:19,920 damage is 2 + 1 dice. There might be a couple of 1447 01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:23,000 things I do like the part about wizard stuff having potentially 1448 01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:28,120 like wands and Staffs. Light, medium, Love that medium 1449 01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:31,600 weapons weight 2, damage 3, heavyweight 4, damage 5. 1450 01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,440 And with heavy you only get one attack per turn. 1451 01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:38,240 I do like that it basically says like it's such a big thing that 1452 01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:41,920 normally like you have the ability to do 2 actions, but you 1453 01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,640 have to like spend so much of your time like swinging this 1454 01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,240 thing around or whatever that it takes it both. 1455 01:19:46,480 --> 01:19:48,560 I like that because you're also doing fucking five damage per 1456 01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:51,520 turn and you don't get any pluses to to your rolls. 1457 01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:52,960 You only get those on your own armor and light. 1458 01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,360 So I dig that. And the dual wheel was only a 1459 01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,720 light OK armor and shield. There's the thing on the side. 1460 01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:00,000 I wrote a note. What does my note say? 1461 01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:01,920 Just no. I wrote just no. 1462 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:04,720 So let me read what it says. When you see armor with a 1463 01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,320 lowercase a, that is referring to the actual piece of armor. 1464 01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:10,160 When you see armor with a cat with an uppercase A, that is 1465 01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:13,880 referring to the armor stat, which is how many times a piece 1466 01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,800 of armor or a shield can block damage. 1467 01:20:16,440 --> 01:20:18,520 That's why I wrote just now. Come on. 1468 01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:22,440 Screams internally. So. 1469 01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:26,080 It's like armor, but also it's armor we're referring to. 1470 01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:27,640 Just you two different fucking words. 1471 01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:33,360 Or if it's a stat quote UN quote like AP Armor points. 1472 01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:34,560 Let's see. Oh yeah. 1473 01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:35,120 Or use. Yeah. 1474 01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:36,720 Uses that. Like, Absolutely, yeah. 1475 01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:41,240 Yeah, so like weapons, armors and Shields are things. 1476 01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:44,360 When selecting an armor category like medium, heavy, it defines 1477 01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:47,600 the things right? So like likewise Shields are the 1478 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:49,240 same. All armor and Shields have a 1479 01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:54,400 rating they absorb, so this is not when taking damage. 1480 01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,520 Characters may reduce armor by 1 to fully ignore a single source 1481 01:20:57,520 --> 01:20:59,920 of damage, such as a trapper and attacker spell. 1482 01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:04,560 This is kind of like mothership, where you don't take any damage, 1483 01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:07,920 but once your armor is broken, you take all the damage, and I I 1484 01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:09,280 don't mind this, I think that's really cool. 1485 01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,160 It's interesting that you're not going to take any damage, so 1486 01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:14,760 your armor's gone and then you'll take a ton. 1487 01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:16,680 So you're going to like be up, be up, be up and then. 1488 01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:22,680 Die and then really be down. Yeah, I'm not. 1489 01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:27,160 It doesn't matter. The source of damage would 1490 01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:29,640 impart a special status. You can. 1491 01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:32,120 Basically it says if you can decide if you want it or not. 1492 01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:34,240 Like if you're going to get poisoned from like a claw armor 1493 01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:35,920 might block it, but if you're going to get poisoned from a 1494 01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:37,320 gas, armor might not do what you want. 1495 01:21:37,480 --> 01:21:40,040 That's fine. Armor and shield categories. 1496 01:21:40,440 --> 01:21:43,600 It's weird that this is a table ish. 1497 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,520 That's kind of different because it's not anywhere else but 1498 01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:46,680 light. Armor weight 1. 1499 01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:47,880 Armor two. Medium weight 2. 1500 01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:49,120 Armor 3. Heavyweight 3. 1501 01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:50,760 Armor four. Small shield weight 1. 1502 01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:52,000 Armor one. Large shield weight 2. 1503 01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:52,920 Armor three. I like it. 1504 01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:53,680 It's simple. That's fine. 1505 01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:57,640 There's a long example of play, which is fine except that there 1506 01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:00,000 are many times where like there's a lot of stuff that I 1507 01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:04,480 would have loved to seen in in a in a example of play that aren't 1508 01:22:04,480 --> 01:22:06,280 in this example play. Nothing really happens in this. 1509 01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,680 You cast a spell. I think when the when the actual 1510 01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,080 combat starts the the example ends. 1511 01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:13,800 So there's no critical success, there's no getting luck back. 1512 01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,880 There's no like it's it's almost all narrative to the end. 1513 01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:19,240 I will say there's a section here that doesn't make sense to 1514 01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:20,920 me. Abby rules 5D6. 1515 01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:23,240 She needs one success, she gets 2. 1516 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:29,680 But like my spirit rolls four, I roll 3. 1517 01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:32,280 Long story short the math doesn't math. 1518 01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:35,320 Like I think they only have four but it says 5 so that sometime 1519 01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:36,560 that they might need a fix and editing. 1520 01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:38,200 I don't I'm not going to read it again to get to there. 1521 01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:45,240 But I mean it's yeah it's like a very long example play to not. 1522 01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:48,280 Oh wait a minute is this example like longer than the paperback 1523 01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:49,240 one? I just skipped it. 1524 01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:54,720 No, it does say something about a crucial success. 1525 01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:57,400 Not only does she get a hit, you do double damage and then roll 1526 01:22:57,400 --> 01:22:59,440 initiative. Then the comments aren't you So 1527 01:22:59,440 --> 01:23:02,800 bestiary beasts, They happen. They have ranks, they have 1528 01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:06,440 attributes. I wrote notes, The note says 1529 01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:08,560 scroll through the enemy slime and now we'll get to that. 1530 01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:16,920 So in general, Munch's rank is a clue to how big of a threat they 1531 01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:18,920 are. So if you want a more 1532 01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,440 challenging adversary, look further down the list. 1533 01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:24,520 It's the G Ms. responsibility to scale enemies appropriately to 1534 01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,520 the needs of the table. My note was not very OSR. 1535 01:23:30,440 --> 01:23:32,440 So then it says however, not every fight is winnable. 1536 01:23:32,440 --> 01:23:37,040 Blah blah blah. Oh I I I put the word 1537 01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,200 suggestions in my note. Says too many suggestions. 1538 01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:41,280 People change what they want to change, and if they require your 1539 01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,520 permission then you need to only say it once. 1540 01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:45,440 At this point it feels like hedging and a lack of 1541 01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:48,800 conviction. Damn, I was on a lot of coffee. 1542 01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:53,080 That's my bad. So basically there's a table 1543 01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,440 here and I like it. Bad guys are ranked zero to four 1544 01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:59,720 and then they have ranges for mind, body, and spirit. 0 is 1545 01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:01,960 fodder. Rank one is typical. 1546 01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:03,320 Rank two is tough, Rank three is challenging. 1547 01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:06,400 Rank 4 is a big bad. I love this in a system that I'm 1548 01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:08,240 working on. I I do very similar things. 1549 01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:09,520 That's one thing I liked about TLD. 1550 01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:12,120 There's things in it that are exactly what I would do because 1551 01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:14,360 I have. I'm literally play testing those 1552 01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:15,680 things. This is one of them. 1553 01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,640 I really like that you can just be like I have a rank 3 baddie 1554 01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,760 hear what the all the stats could derive to be. 1555 01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,200 The only thing is like, they're all the, they're all exactly the 1556 01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:26,080 same. Like there's no mix up. 1557 01:24:26,440 --> 01:24:30,200 Yeah, you could just actually just put like one ability, yeah, 1558 01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,160 one column or two columns. Like it's rank and their 1559 01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:35,080 abilities. Yeah, if it's not gonna be 1560 01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:37,800 different, you don't need 4 columns to say all the same 1561 01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:42,400 stuff. And then we get to the bestiary, 1562 01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:46,160 which suddenly switches to a completely different font. 1563 01:24:46,480 --> 01:24:51,520 It has multiple fonts or typefaces in the same thing and 1564 01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:57,360 then this the typeface used in like the body of this I it does 1565 01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:01,120 not feel like a very pretty body text and I I don't like it even 1566 01:25:01,120 --> 01:25:03,400 more than I didn't like the other one like am I wrong? 1567 01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:04,520 Like what? Like this font? 1568 01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,040 Actually this font I do not like this one I did. 1569 01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:09,600 I know this was like, Nah, I don't like this font so. 1570 01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:12,920 Yeah, it's. I will say a really sick art 1571 01:25:12,920 --> 01:25:15,880 piece is coming up. Yeah, yeah. 1572 01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:18,600 Oh, my note says I hate the layout. 1573 01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:20,800 So yeah, I just don't like this typeface. 1574 01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,440 This is that Michael Harmon Gobbo's art. 1575 01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,440 Yeah, fucking. Cool. 1576 01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:29,400 Yeah. I really like this. 1577 01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,720 The adventure in the, in the, in the back of the book talks about 1578 01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,280 gobos and stuff like that. So they're really cool. 1579 01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,760 They're basically, you know, badass goblins and shit, bite, 1580 01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:38,480 kick, slash, you know, everything. 1581 01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:43,360 So the notes that I was referencing are like slime, 1582 01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,400 right? So multiple times it says that 1583 01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:49,600 the it's player facing roles. Players roll defense tests. 1584 01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:52,800 So I don't understand. There's a bunch that have this 1585 01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,720 like dodge ability. It says plus 1D on defense 1586 01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:58,080 tests. So the slime is dodging. 1587 01:25:58,280 --> 01:25:59,680 The slime doesn't make defense tests. 1588 01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:04,680 No, it's -1 D on the whoever's defending against it. 1589 01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:07,440 So that's what you think this means? 1590 01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,400 Absolutely means. We established earlier that if 1591 01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:13,360 they get a plus 1D to something, that actually means -1 D. 1592 01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:16,800 So it specifically said in there attacks. 1593 01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,640 Oh, did it OK. Yeah it specifically said in 1594 01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:26,760 there attacks but like I don't so let's run with what you're 1595 01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:30,080 saying though just so we can math was was we can brain it out 1596 01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:32,080 dodge. Right. 1597 01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:38,520 Colon plus 1D on defense tests. I don't see how you could 1598 01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:44,000 possibly. So you're saying that that would 1599 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:49,080 mean -1 D on attack rolls? I'm That's what I'm going with. 1600 01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:54,520 That would be such a ridiculous that that would be so 1601 01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:59,720 incompatibly on like just not good. 1602 01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:02,440 I don't know anything else I could say about that. 1603 01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:04,400 Yeah. And the problem is that like the 1604 01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:09,840 establishing that like plus 1 -, 1 earlier, it now makes it more 1605 01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,880 confusing when trying to parse this out because you're like 1606 01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:14,080 wait OK is this the same thing? Even though it doesn't say 1607 01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:17,840 attack, you know he's that earlier when it said attack 1608 01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:21,280 wrong. What section was that in? 1609 01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:24,080 Actually, I'm gonna look. Dude, I don't even know. 1610 01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:29,560 But to me what I think this is, is what I said before where it 1611 01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:33,680 feels like they wrote a game and then they said let's simplify 1612 01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,960 this mechanic with some new school mechanics and then just 1613 01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,840 forgot to fix some of it. Because. 1614 01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:43,080 To me this is a bad guy that before they decided to do player 1615 01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,240 facing rolls they had good guy rolls and bad guy rolls and the 1616 01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:50,600 bad guy would roll with a more of a dodge and they never came 1617 01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:53,800 back and fixed it to say they have a dodge ability. 1618 01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:59,520 Player gets -1 on attack rolls and if if if the fix for that 1619 01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:03,200 was that one little line that says where I say plus 1D for the 1620 01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:09,240 for the for the bad guys you get -1 D for you I think it would be 1621 01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:10,840 in the defense section under attack. 1622 01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:13,600 It would be in the attack section in like the the 1623 01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:19,840 paragraph above the blue box. OK, I'm there now. 1624 01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:34,040 Let's look. So we're looking, this is where 1625 01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:36,200 I think you are looking. Yeah. 1626 01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:49,000 Where is it? Well it's somewhere. 1627 01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:54,120 It's somewhere if an attacker possibly for example when 1628 01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:56,880 attacking, when rolling to defend for example a magical 1629 01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:58,800 bolt. Remember that players. 1630 01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:03,360 Yeah it was it's, it's, it's somewhere in here. 1631 01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:12,160 We we said it before but like that's oh wait no that's a -, 1 1632 01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:15,320 D to partial cover for example when attacking what's? 1633 01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:18,680 Funny because there is a another example of a -, 1 D in there 1634 01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:20,160 which is like it's the partial cover one. 1635 01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:22,920 So I'm like, OK, so we could just said -1 D this entire time? 1636 01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:25,680 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 1637 01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:30,160 OK. No, that's pairing. 1638 01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:33,600 Yeah. So I mean, but even if that was 1639 01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,680 the case it shouldn't be this difficult to to figure it out. 1640 01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:41,000 Oh, it should not anyway. So yeah that's that's a problem 1641 01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,000 is I feel like like there that that there's a lot of bad guys 1642 01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:49,520 that have dodge that it doesn't make any sense to to either if 1643 01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:52,160 if the point is that they have a + 1 so you get a - 1. 1644 01:29:52,440 --> 01:29:53,600 I found that. That's ridiculous. 1645 01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:55,560 Where is it? It's under. 1646 01:29:55,560 --> 01:30:01,280 Players almost always test. The example given is that an NPC 1647 01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:04,800 might have an ability that grants plus 1D to its tax, so 1648 01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:07,680 it's not hard like it's only attacking. 1649 01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:11,400 This is just an example so that dodge I maintain at that plus 1D 1650 01:30:11,400 --> 01:30:15,600 dodge means -1 D to defending for the player. 1651 01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:22,360 Which is bad. Bad. 1652 01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:27,560 Like, yeah, I mean words. It took a words out and. 1653 01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:31,000 It's in, it's in and it's in an example that doesn't even talk 1654 01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:33,480 about defending. For example, an NPC might have 1655 01:30:33,480 --> 01:30:35,560 ability that grants plus 1D to its attacks. 1656 01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,960 Since the defending PC is the 1 rolling to determine, they roll 1657 01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:40,440 1 less dice to reflect. That's. 1658 01:30:40,440 --> 01:30:46,320 So that's not that's gosh, I'm trying to be nice. 1659 01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:47,760 That's bad. It's not good. 1660 01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:49,160 Don't do that. Fix that. 1661 01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:52,240 Make that go away. There's a lot of bad guys and a 1662 01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:54,800 lot of them are really cool. I I just got hung up on that but 1663 01:30:54,800 --> 01:31:01,200 like imbued slime slam dissolved again dodge again dodge bites. 1664 01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:02,920 Like they're really cool. I do like it. 1665 01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:08,160 I think that the bad guys are are simple like they give you 1666 01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:13,520 HP, rank, armor, what they look like and then why and how they 1667 01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:15,800 do their attacks which I really like and then three quick 1668 01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:17,200 attacks. I think this is a great way to 1669 01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:18,680 do Obesiary. It's great. 1670 01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:27,960 It's a fat bestiary it's very long and and it's good so we'll 1671 01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:30,320 cruise through that and then we're basically done. 1672 01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:34,320 In the back you get character examples kind of so you have 1673 01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:36,560 like Berserker let's say this is not sure what kind of character 1674 01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:39,560 to play here some fun ideas. So what what it gives you is a 1675 01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:41,920 cool little piece of art. So for the Berserker, it gives 1676 01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,880 you a little line that says a bloody death is a highest honor. 1677 01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:49,160 And then it gives you the abilities that they would take 1678 01:31:49,160 --> 01:31:51,720 to make the Berserker, which is fine. 1679 01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:52,800 It doesn't give any of the stats. 1680 01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,560 It doesn't give any of that. It's just like the ability is to 1681 01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:57,880 kind of give you the vibe, which is fine, that's cool. 1682 01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:00,840 The blood mage servant of the ancient spider queen. 1683 01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:04,240 It's got like spider eyes and a little like, you know, the, the, 1684 01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:09,400 the fucking, what's it called? Black Widow kind of symbol. 1685 01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:12,760 Yeah, like the time thing. The hourglass. 1686 01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:14,600 Yeah, And then the abilities. That's cool. 1687 01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:16,960 Barehead. Oh, the bare hand brawler. 1688 01:32:16,960 --> 01:32:19,200 And you, buddy. Look at you. 1689 01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:20,240 Bite. Kick. 1690 01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:22,080 Smasher, Pete. Weapons. 1691 01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:24,320 Who needs him? Spell sling your divine knight. 1692 01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:27,800 You know, cool. It's whatever. 1693 01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:31,080 A weird monster maker. There's a cool, very kind of, 1694 01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:35,960 like, like, legally distinct beholder creature here. 1695 01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:43,920 Then there's a bunch of tables. There is a weird monster maker. 1696 01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:45,800 So you roll twice on the first column. 1697 01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:47,920 Why don't you just rip this out real quick, Yeah? 1698 01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:48,920 Absolutely. Let's just. 1699 01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:50,880 Make one, then we'll be done. So it's D66. 1700 01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:54,320 Yeah, so on the first column you got a 13. 1701 01:32:54,320 --> 01:32:55,920 Twice. OK. 1702 01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:58,320 And 31. OK. 1703 01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:01,240 Nice roundness to that. Armored. 1704 01:33:01,240 --> 01:33:02,920 Freezing. OK. 1705 01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:10,800 And then a 36, which is a lobster, which is perfect. 1706 01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:13,600 It's an ice lobster. It's got armor because that's a 1707 01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:21,280 shell, obviously. And then with I'm rolling a lot 1708 01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:22,760 of threes. I'm trying to get out of the 1709 01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:24,680 threes. Oh my God, was is my roller 1710 01:33:24,680 --> 01:33:29,040 broken? There we go 16 A pair of glowing 1711 01:33:29,040 --> 01:33:33,080 eyes that encircle it. Yep, Cool. 1712 01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:35,320 That's cool. Yep, they're great. 1713 01:33:35,440 --> 01:33:39,400 Yeah, they're great lists. I mean 3D60 sixes for this. 1714 01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:44,120 There's loot table, so there's D6 potion, superior Shields. 1715 01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,320 There's a great art piece for like, how the heck do I roll AD 1716 01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:50,040 66 And it's this weird, like, fucking demon thing? 1717 01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:51,040 And it's really. Neat. 1718 01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:54,880 I do. I do like that. 1719 01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:59,880 The D66 loot generator. Lot of really cool loot in here. 1720 01:33:59,880 --> 01:34:02,840 Cool weapon generator, D6. So the whole back is basically 1721 01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:06,320 just that. Character creator, so you can 1722 01:34:06,320 --> 01:34:10,760 quick make like it. It's character creator, but this 1723 01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:14,200 is just like stuff. So like possession, D66 1724 01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:17,080 possessions, quirks, personal philosophies. 1725 01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:18,520 This is a way to like round out your character. 1726 01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:21,360 Then there's an adventure. Happy birthday goblin king. 1727 01:34:22,480 --> 01:34:26,000 It's 8 little rooms for like a gobbo goblin king kind of 1728 01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:29,000 situation. Happy birthday to Goblin King 1729 01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:34,080 Big AB, which is this guy, which this, this dude was used in some 1730 01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:38,120 of the promo art as well. And then that's the adventure. 1731 01:34:38,120 --> 01:34:39,520 And we don't talk about adventures on the show. 1732 01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:46,560 And then in the back you get a terminology page, which it did 1733 01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:50,520 reference in the beginning, but it literally is just like 1734 01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,080 XPPCNPC. It's it's super basic, which is 1735 01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:55,840 fine for new players, totally fine. 1736 01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:57,640 And then there's yeah, then there's a character sheet. 1737 01:34:57,640 --> 01:34:58,720 That's nice. It is nice. 1738 01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:04,440 It's nice character. Yeah, so where it says Level 3 1739 01:35:04,440 --> 01:35:12,840 perk plus one mana, it's +2 because it's Yeah yeah. 1740 01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:14,400 So the character sheet in the back of the book is wrong 1741 01:35:14,440 --> 01:35:18,080 because you get a total of three mana and luck. 1742 01:35:18,480 --> 01:35:22,800 You get +2 bonus at Level 3, so that should be 3 two mana. 1743 01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:24,960 Level 3 perk should be +2 mana, not plus one. 1744 01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:29,280 And then that's it. Big QR code in the back so you 1745 01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:30,640 can support more Billable's work. 1746 01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:34,440 So that's this game. Let's jump to reviews. 1747 01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:37,800 Boom. We're there. 1748 01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:41,520 Oh, it's in a book review. Weird. 1749 01:35:42,080 --> 01:35:43,920 It's 100 pages. I know. 1750 01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:45,480 It's just like we haven't done that in a while. 1751 01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,680 I know we had so many zines. You were messaging me like, we 1752 01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,640 should go faster. I'm like, bro, it's not a Zine. 1753 01:35:50,680 --> 01:35:53,680 It's 100 pages. Like, I think we did good. 1754 01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:58,120 Yeah, about an hour and a half. Yeah, So for that, for God. 1755 01:35:58,120 --> 01:35:59,960 We haven't done a book review in so fucking long. 1756 01:35:59,960 --> 01:36:06,680 So for those that don't know, it's five attributes or well, 1757 01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:10,600 you can derive stats from those if you really want, that are 1758 01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:13,480 worth up to 10 points each. We give points to shit to give 1759 01:36:13,480 --> 01:36:15,400 some quantification to our bullshit opinions. 1760 01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:18,600 Art and layout is the art and the layout usability is how 1761 01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:21,520 usable something is. The rule set is if it's adapted, 1762 01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:24,040 rule set how well it's adapted. If it's new, how you know? 1763 01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:25,840 Do we like it? Do we feel that it is good? 1764 01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,960 Originality is exactly what it sounds like, and value is the 1765 01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:34,920 bang for your buck when you when you when you buy this thing. 1766 01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:40,720 So, art and layout Thoughts. The art's great. 1767 01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:43,560 Yeah. I love the art. 1768 01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:46,760 I don't think it suffers for art at all. 1769 01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,160 I think Billy Blue style suffuses everything. 1770 01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:55,280 Oh, I fucking forgot too. I backed out the tier where 1771 01:36:55,440 --> 01:36:58,440 Billy drew inside my book. Oh, nice. 1772 01:36:58,440 --> 01:37:01,320 Cool. Wait, I'll go back to a bigger 1773 01:37:01,320 --> 01:37:09,440 page real quick. So yeah, I'm trying to get, 1774 01:37:09,440 --> 01:37:10,480 trying to get it. It's cool. 1775 01:37:10,480 --> 01:37:14,680 It's just like Wizard Guy it. Really likes sword planted in 1776 01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:16,760 the ground with Moss growing all over it. 1777 01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:18,520 It's really cool. And then on the side this says 1778 01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:22,440 thanks for support, Hashtag TLDRPG Billy Blue sig there. 1779 01:37:22,440 --> 01:37:25,040 So yeah, this is cool. This is why it took us a little 1780 01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:27,400 longer to get around to it too, because I've had the paperback 1781 01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:30,720 one for a long time, but Billy got these, drew in them and sent 1782 01:37:30,720 --> 01:37:32,960 them out. So that was really cool. 1783 01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:34,240 That was nice. It was nice to get that as a 1784 01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:35,520 tier. That's a cool reward. 1785 01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:40,120 I really like any time that creators do that. 1786 01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:44,880 So art and layout, again, like you said it art's great. 1787 01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,080 Doesn't hurt for art. Billy styles through the entire 1788 01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:48,520 thing. Michael Harmon's a great artist. 1789 01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:51,120 It's cool to see a piece or two from them and their art solid. 1790 01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:53,800 Can't see anything like that. Layout No. 1791 01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:58,760 Yeah, it's fun. I mean I think your your point 1792 01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:02,600 about the third column makes a lot of sense and I think there 1793 01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:06,320 are some typeface changes that you find grading that. 1794 01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:09,400 I even I know this and I'm the person that wouldn't notice the 1795 01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:11,960 things like that. Like I'm I'm that guy. 1796 01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:15,760 So both guys are in this room and then we both noticed. 1797 01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:19,000 So not great. What are you thinking? 1798 01:38:20,480 --> 01:38:22,640 I mean, this is one of those weird ones, since we're doing 1799 01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:25,320 art and layout where the art's great and the layout to me is 1800 01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:30,640 bad if I went and it's only bad because it's poorly used. 1801 01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:34,640 I really like that extra column on the side, but there are a lot 1802 01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:37,880 of times where what's written in it didn't need to be there. 1803 01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:41,440 Or there's stuff written in the body text that could have been 1804 01:38:41,440 --> 01:38:44,880 there and the whole thing could have been 30 pages shorter by 1805 01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:48,040 not having that that whole. Because there were there were 1806 01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:51,840 times, I think the the longest one I counted was maybe 3 pages 1807 01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:53,480 worth nothing in that column at all. 1808 01:38:53,480 --> 01:38:56,160 And then the fourth page had like one line of less than 10 1809 01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:58,120 words and then another empty page. 1810 01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:02,160 So there's literally like you're talking like 567 pages in a row 1811 01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:06,240 where a third of the page is empty like just just because of 1812 01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:08,800 the delay out choice. To me it was just a poor choice. 1813 01:39:10,280 --> 01:39:13,880 And I don't understand the use of the blue, the blue boxes for 1814 01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:17,200 notes when you have an entire column on the side like it 1815 01:39:17,440 --> 01:39:21,560 didn't make any sense to me. I just think yeah I think the 1816 01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:25,360 typeface changes were are were just inconsistent and yeah if I 1817 01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:28,720 was just going by layout it would be honestly be like like a 1818 01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:30,000 three or four. I just. 1819 01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:34,720 Think I was thinking A4 for layout and like A8 for art, you 1820 01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:36,120 know? Yeah. 1821 01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:41,560 So let's average that to. 6. I mean, the art really pulls it 1822 01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:43,120 up and it makes me it. Really does, yeah. 1823 01:39:43,480 --> 01:39:46,800 It makes me not want to give it that high of a score because of 1824 01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:50,360 of how much I dislike the layout. 1825 01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:53,440 And again, it's not that it's not completely legible, it's 1826 01:39:53,440 --> 01:39:57,840 just the the use that it seems like they were going for was 1827 01:39:57,840 --> 01:39:59,720 just poorly, poorly. Right. 1828 01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:02,520 Usability. Fine. 1829 01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:05,640 Yeah. I mean, it's unfortunate that it 1830 01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:10,000 refers to page lines so often. ISME like inline page 1831 01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:12,080 references? And they aren't hyperlinked, but 1832 01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:14,360 bookmarks are great and they're plentiful. 1833 01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:17,480 The table content is hyperlinked. 1834 01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:24,240 There is a list of terms in the back for newer people into the 1835 01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:27,640 RPG space. There's some good tables in the 1836 01:40:27,640 --> 01:40:32,360 back too for rounding out a character, and I would say that 1837 01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:38,960 putting the rule set 30 pages in it does actually hamper the 1838 01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:41,800 usability of of this as a game and system. 1839 01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,320 Yeah, what are you thinking? Yeah, I mean, I agree with all 1840 01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:49,320 of that. I also think that, yeah, I 1841 01:40:49,320 --> 01:40:52,000 think, I think the digital tools for the most part, obviously we 1842 01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:56,200 would love it. I wouldn't mind the lack of MPH 1843 01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:59,240 hyperlinks or inline hyperlinks as much, except they use them a 1844 01:40:59,240 --> 01:41:02,000 lot, which is great for direction. 1845 01:41:02,400 --> 01:41:05,160 Yeah, it's great for direction, but if you're gonna put it into 1846 01:41:05,160 --> 01:41:08,080 your PDF, it would be really nice to have those hyperlinks. 1847 01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:12,920 But to me that's like the I personally find it necessary, 1848 01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:15,080 but in this course of what we use for scoring, that's the one 1849 01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:18,840 I find the least in. Like I give the least. 1850 01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:20,880 It's, I know that's one of the hardest ones to do. 1851 01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:25,040 So I weigh that a little bit less than like even just having 1852 01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:27,600 a fucking like like hyperlink, table of contents and bookmarks. 1853 01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:29,880 So the bookmarks are fantastic, they're very thorough. 1854 01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:34,240 So it doesn't bother me as much. I will say, like you said, there 1855 01:41:34,240 --> 01:41:40,000 there are. You don't know for 28 pages that 1856 01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:41,840 it's a dice ball game. It's never mentioned anywhere 1857 01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:44,680 that it's a dice ball game. Yeah, you there is. 1858 01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:47,040 Even in the test, there's that random part where like there's a 1859 01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:49,200 a very important part of the test where you always were at 1860 01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:53,080 least one die and it's like the end of the next page or like 2 1861 01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:54,320 pages later that should have been put. 1862 01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:56,720 There's a lot of stuff that I would have rearranged to help 1863 01:41:56,720 --> 01:42:00,280 with usability. There's things like bleed where 1864 01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:02,560 like we had to dig around, try to figure out what it meant. 1865 01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:05,240 To me that's a usability issue. I think the layout itself is a 1866 01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:07,440 usability issue because that's where you could have like 1867 01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:11,280 written a lot of that stuff in. Like anytime it references 1868 01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:13,720 another page, if there's a whole blank column on the side, you 1869 01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:17,440 can give like a little quick, a little quick bit and then say 1870 01:42:17,440 --> 01:42:21,120 for more go to this page, you know, I mean, I just think the 1871 01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:23,520 layout is something that should have helped the usability and it 1872 01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:25,640 hurt it. I don't think it's bad. 1873 01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:27,560 I think it's it's pretty average. 1874 01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:29,640 I'm probably about like a like a six for this too. 1875 01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:32,680 I was about to say I'm probably about five for this, so I'm. 1876 01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:37,640 Good with the five I'm good. With the five I again I yeah, 1877 01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:39,240 the art really pulled up the one above it. 1878 01:42:39,520 --> 01:42:43,000 Rule set this is. Hard. 1879 01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:46,080 I I like a loving, but the rule set? 1880 01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:51,760 I like the dice pool system. I don't. 1881 01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:56,480 I I kind of like the drive stats as like a pool that you spanned 1882 01:42:56,480 --> 01:43:00,040 as a resource. I don't love how. 1883 01:43:00,040 --> 01:43:06,280 I mean obviously we don't like how luck is regenerated, but I 1884 01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:09,040 like the idea of like making abilities for like a lighter 1885 01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:10,920 weight game and like, yeah, you can just do an ability. 1886 01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:12,480 Like I think that was a cool addition to this. 1887 01:43:12,480 --> 01:43:16,200 And like I we we've played several dice pool systems now 1888 01:43:16,200 --> 01:43:18,240 and I have one and it's like, I don't have that. 1889 01:43:18,240 --> 01:43:19,920 I'm not going to add it to mine, but I think it's cool. 1890 01:43:21,440 --> 01:43:25,480 Yeah, I think a lot of us explained fairly poorly and I 1891 01:43:25,480 --> 01:43:28,760 think there's too many keywords, like, I mean, we could stripped 1892 01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:32,000 out a ton of these words and just called the thing the thing 1893 01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:36,880 for the rules that I'm probably actually like about a six, 1894 01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:45,720 honestly. Yeah, I yeah, yeah, probably. 1895 01:43:45,720 --> 01:43:47,600 I mean, that's the thing. This is this is one of those 1896 01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:50,400 tough ones because I do I really do like the bones of this for 1897 01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:53,160 all the reasons that you said. But like my thing is like you 1898 01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:56,480 barely even need stats for this because you could just have like 1899 01:43:57,840 --> 01:44:02,240 your attributes and then say that like you're you get just 1900 01:44:02,240 --> 01:44:08,760 like pluses at like so if so for example like like mana you get 1901 01:44:08,760 --> 01:44:14,680 plus one mana to start and you spend it right, you could just 1902 01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,760 have mind and you spend your mind points like it doesn't make 1903 01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:20,720 any difference. Like the the the derive stat is 1904 01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:24,400 using the same number. You know what I mean like. 1905 01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:28,280 Whenever you make a mind, well, if you're spending mind, do you? 1906 01:44:28,280 --> 01:44:31,200 Whenever you make a mind roll, are you still rolling all of 1907 01:44:31,200 --> 01:44:33,240 your mind? Or is the do this go away? 1908 01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:35,360 Because the nice thing about the drive thing is they create these 1909 01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:38,920 pools that slowly drain so you run out of ability points. 1910 01:44:39,240 --> 01:44:42,520 Like you don't want to run out of your stats, right? 1911 01:44:42,600 --> 01:44:43,520 Yeah. Like, no, you're right. 1912 01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:45,040 You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. 1913 01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:46,200 Yeah. I mean you could though. 1914 01:44:46,200 --> 01:44:49,320 I mean that's a very caring ish thing to do and a very into the 1915 01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:50,680 odd like actually using your stats. 1916 01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:54,800 But no, I I agree with you. But like, again, so I like the 1917 01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:56,440 bones. I like the dice pool. 1918 01:44:56,440 --> 01:44:58,920 I like that there's just bad applications to a lot of it. 1919 01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:02,120 Like, yeah, poor, poor explanation of defense roles, 1920 01:45:02,120 --> 01:45:04,760 poor explanation with like a lot of stuff in the Bestiary. 1921 01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:07,680 That's thing is I think I I like all the bones and I dislike a 1922 01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:09,120 lot of the flesh. You know what I mean? 1923 01:45:09,120 --> 01:45:12,960 Yeah, so I'm probably at about a six, two, like again, like this 1924 01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:15,280 is one of those games that I I really think like a two. 1925 01:45:17,040 --> 01:45:18,760 EI is a game that I would really, really enjoy. 1926 01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:20,720 I see a really, really good game in here. 1927 01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:25,720 I just think there's a lot of it's it's it's extremely 1928 01:45:25,720 --> 01:45:30,320 inelegant and I feel like there were a lot of choices made where 1929 01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:31,880 there was like, this is the idea I want. 1930 01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:34,440 So I'm putting it in and didn't fix the problem. 1931 01:45:34,440 --> 01:45:37,120 They just put in what they wanted to put in or they changed 1932 01:45:37,120 --> 01:45:38,680 their mind and didn't fix all the things they should have 1933 01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:40,240 changed with it. So I'm about a six two 1934 01:45:40,680 --> 01:45:44,920 originality. Yeah. 1935 01:45:44,920 --> 01:45:49,080 So it's. Yes, it's. 1936 01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:51,360 I don't know why I just turned the sound on for our stream. 1937 01:45:54,200 --> 01:46:00,160 It does. It's not really like derived 1938 01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:02,440 from any setting. It doesn't really reference any 1939 01:46:02,440 --> 01:46:04,960 setting there. There isn't a lot about it that 1940 01:46:04,960 --> 01:46:09,040 is like an original concept to this game. 1941 01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:12,320 Mm hmm. So I don't know. 1942 01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:16,040 This is one of those ones where like, and again, the people out 1943 01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:19,920 there who love to talk and hear themselves talk, call it 1944 01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:21,840 whatever the fuck you want. A game is a game. 1945 01:46:22,640 --> 01:46:26,200 The book contains what I would call a system, right? 1946 01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:29,320 To me, this is a system. This isn't what what I would 1947 01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:31,360 call a game like. It's a game in that there are 1948 01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:34,080 rules and stuff like that, but like to me like a quote UN quote 1949 01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:38,600 full game. There's like, I would call and 1950 01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:41,520 again this is a game, but to me like the full part of it is 1951 01:46:41,640 --> 01:46:44,680 something that also comes with a little bit of setting and stuff 1952 01:46:44,680 --> 01:46:49,320 like that too, like a Merck Borg or like a like a like even into 1953 01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:53,560 the odd or or. Yeah, there's not even really an 1954 01:46:53,600 --> 01:46:56,600 implied setting into. This, this is like this is like 1955 01:46:56,600 --> 01:46:59,920 Cairn and nave to me. Not none of those have setting, 1956 01:46:59,920 --> 01:47:03,120 they're just systems nave to me. I haven't seen to eat. 1957 01:47:03,120 --> 01:47:06,800 I mean there's more to it too, but like those are so I I would 1958 01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:11,280 lump this in with with nave and Cairn and like derf and stuff 1959 01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,720 like that, where the implication is you got swords and Shields 1960 01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:16,000 but other than that it's just a system, you know what I mean? 1961 01:47:16,440 --> 01:47:19,080 So. So originally in the rules then. 1962 01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:24,400 Yeah, I think that it. Obviously there's nothing new, 1963 01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:28,320 but I think there's a really cool, I think there are some 1964 01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:31,640 different ways that things are used in an interesting, fun ways 1965 01:47:32,840 --> 01:47:34,560 because like, like you said, like what? 1966 01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:35,320 What? What? 1967 01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:37,360 What's the closest system to this that you can think of? 1968 01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:40,920 Exactly. That's my point. 1969 01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:42,280 Like, I really couldn't, Penguin. 1970 01:47:42,480 --> 01:47:43,720 You know, you're right. Yeah. 1971 01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:45,880 So, and I like it. I mean, once again, I like the 1972 01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:48,280 bones of it so. Yeah, I I do enjoy the bones. 1973 01:47:48,280 --> 01:47:50,400 I think the dice pool's great. I think the abilities are great. 1974 01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:52,960 I have the ability to add actual point values and stuff like 1975 01:47:52,960 --> 01:47:54,040 that. I think it would really shine a 1976 01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:55,840 lot more. Yeah. 1977 01:47:55,840 --> 01:47:57,080 I think the core of this is really good. 1978 01:47:57,600 --> 01:47:59,520 What do you think of her originality then? 1979 01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:00,400 I. Guess 6. 1980 01:48:01,040 --> 01:48:02,200 I think it's 6 is good for this. Yeah. 1981 01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:07,240 Value. So on drive through RPG the PDF 1982 01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:10,960 is $10 and again this is 100 page PDF. 1983 01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:17,840 The print on demand PDF hardcover standard color, 35 1984 01:48:17,840 --> 01:48:20,000 bucks. I'm gonna do it. 1985 01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:24,120 Yeah. Wow, that's incredibly 1986 01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:26,440 affordable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1987 01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:30,720 I mean, yeah, I mean Death in space is $35.00, but like 1988 01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:32,760 that's, I mean that's one of the rare ones, so it's just really 1989 01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:33,560 good. Yeah, that one. 1990 01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:35,520 I also, I think I've said I'm like, man, this is incredibly 1991 01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:38,120 affordable. For like a $50 book, yeah, that 1992 01:48:38,160 --> 01:48:42,400 should be like a $50 book. But I mean 100 the thing that so 1993 01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:47,360 you don't get setting with this, but like on top of the rule set. 1994 01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:51,680 The the loot tables are cool. The B series huge. 1995 01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:53,840 The monster generator is really neat. 1996 01:48:53,840 --> 01:48:56,880 So you do get a lot of tools with the system, like the system 1997 01:48:56,880 --> 01:48:58,200 does come with cools. It's really neat. 1998 01:48:58,960 --> 01:49:01,600 You do get an adventure in it, which is great. 1999 01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:07,360 So in this you get the rule set. You get the adventure. 2000 01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:10,400 Oh, with with the map. There is a, there is a a map 2001 01:49:10,400 --> 01:49:13,360 that comes within the PDF stuff. You get the BCRI, the optional 2002 01:49:13,360 --> 01:49:15,520 premade characters tables for rolling. 2003 01:49:15,520 --> 01:49:16,960 Yeah. So you get you get all the stuff 2004 01:49:16,960 --> 01:49:18,720 that we talked about. So I think it's fine. 2005 01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:23,800 I think it's, I think it's, it's I think $35 for this and a 2006 01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:25,680 hardback. I think it's interesting that 2007 01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:32,080 there is no Unless I specifically clicked and that 2008 01:49:32,080 --> 01:49:35,400 there's different things, I don't see a soft cover option, 2009 01:49:40,880 --> 01:49:44,600 which is interesting. There's a pay what you want 2010 01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:47,760 character sheet, which is cool. But yeah, I don't see a soft 2011 01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:50,720 cover option. I just see the hardcover option. 2012 01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:54,560 So that that would raise the price. 2013 01:49:54,560 --> 01:50:02,240 I mean I think that this as soft cover at like you know 2025 2014 01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:05,240 bucks would be more affordable, but I think it's fine. 2015 01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:07,560 I think I'm probably at like a where do you where are you at 2016 01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:10,280 for this? A six or seven maybe. 2017 01:50:11,240 --> 01:50:14,320 Yeah, I'm probably at a six for this too, because, I mean, 2018 01:50:14,320 --> 01:50:16,160 there's, I mean, I think there is like maybe one other 2019 01:50:16,160 --> 01:50:21,880 adventure, but the there's not like a lot of extra. 2020 01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:23,840 I mean it, it did just come out, you know, a couple months ago, 2021 01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:26,160 right? So that's it. 2022 01:50:26,160 --> 01:50:28,960 That is TLDRPG. This is another one of those 2023 01:50:28,960 --> 01:50:32,640 games very similar to mecha concrete, where also a dice pool 2024 01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:35,280 system. So dice pool system. 2025 01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:44,160 So that'll be a 29 I think would really benefit from a second 2026 01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:48,040 edition with, I think, art fantastic. 2027 01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:52,640 I think a new layout and a fine tooth comb through the rules to 2028 01:50:53,560 --> 01:50:56,320 to fix some like kind of like glaring mistakes that I think 2029 01:50:56,320 --> 01:50:57,440 are glaring. I think that I think the 2030 01:50:57,440 --> 01:50:59,600 abilities have to be a mistake. I genuinely think those have to 2031 01:50:59,600 --> 01:51:02,240 be a mistake. No, they they genuinely have to 2032 01:51:02,240 --> 01:51:03,800 be a mistake. I don't. 2033 01:51:03,800 --> 01:51:07,000 I think that like if they fix that, if they fix luck, if they 2034 01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:09,800 explain things a little bit better and relayed it out, I 2035 01:51:09,800 --> 01:51:11,800 think this would the all of these points. 2036 01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:14,680 This could probably shoot up by a good like 8 + 8 points at 2037 01:51:14,680 --> 01:51:16,560 least. Yeah, with just. 2038 01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:20,400 Fixing the errors that are in it and and and changing the layout 2039 01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:22,320 a little bit I think would would easily jump a lot of these 2040 01:51:22,320 --> 01:51:27,320 points from sixes up to sevens and some of them into eights and 2041 01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:30,680 that's TLDRPG from Billy Blue. We'll make sure all the links 2042 01:51:30,920 --> 01:51:35,560 are down below to Billy's art, which is fantastic to the game 2043 01:51:35,920 --> 01:51:41,680 and and yeah, that's all we got, what we have coming up. 2044 01:51:42,040 --> 01:51:43,760 What do we have coming up? Tell me. 2045 01:51:44,840 --> 01:51:47,040 So if you're listening to this now, there's no way I'm going to 2046 01:51:47,040 --> 01:51:51,400 get this episode out today. So go watch our interview. 2047 01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:53,000 That is going to happen on Friday. 2048 01:51:53,440 --> 01:51:58,160 We are going to be talking to Crescent Chimera for Astro 2049 01:51:58,160 --> 01:52:01,520 Prisma. My goodness, did that project 2050 01:52:01,520 --> 01:52:04,400 come out of fucking nowhere? I know I would. 2051 01:52:04,760 --> 01:52:07,080 I'm so excited to talk to them because who are they? 2052 01:52:07,280 --> 01:52:09,520 Where did this come? Yeah, what's? 2053 01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:13,920 Insane. It's looks gorgeous. 2054 01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:16,200 They've done all of it, you know, Apparently, like all the 2055 01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:17,520 layout, all the writing, all the art. 2056 01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,760 It looks beautiful. They sent me an asset package. 2057 01:52:19,760 --> 01:52:24,440 It's got like 3D, like moving gifts and renders and shit, like 2058 01:52:24,440 --> 01:52:27,880 the quality of everything beginning to end for someone 2059 01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,480 that literally just like popped about a fucking nowhere. 2060 01:52:30,800 --> 01:52:34,920 This project looks absolutely stunning and I'm so excited to 2061 01:52:34,920 --> 01:52:36,840 like you to say, like figure out who the fuck this person is 2062 01:52:37,480 --> 01:52:41,360 nowhere and just my gosh, it's it's it's beautiful. 2063 01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:43,200 A one person team doing all of that is insane. 2064 01:52:43,560 --> 01:52:46,520 And to have so much of it looks like it's done before the game's 2065 01:52:46,520 --> 01:52:51,440 even out is crazy. And then on Monday we're going 2066 01:52:51,440 --> 01:52:54,120 to be doing the second part of our trophy side quest. 2067 01:52:54,600 --> 01:52:56,920 We already did Trophy Dark. We're going to be doing trophy 2068 01:52:56,920 --> 01:53:00,400 gold. We're going to be continuing the 2069 01:53:00,560 --> 01:53:04,280 the adventure kind of from a warm and pleasant home into our 2070 01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:05,480 adventure. It'll be another Michael Van 2071 01:53:05,480 --> 01:53:07,880 Vleet adventure into trophy gold. 2072 01:53:07,880 --> 01:53:12,360 Same crew is back Monday, and then next Friday we're going to 2073 01:53:12,360 --> 01:53:17,800 be having Christian Sorrell meet Castle on to do an actual play 2074 01:53:17,800 --> 01:53:20,960 of Tacticians of Om. The game that they are. 2075 01:53:21,200 --> 01:53:24,040 Yeah, you can snag it right now, but it's they're they're they're 2076 01:53:25,200 --> 01:53:27,240 wolves upon the coast. It's funding it. 2077 01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:28,520 Funding it. Yeah. 2078 01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:32,000 What's he? I love calling it that. 2079 01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:37,320 It makes me go. Wow, would you do that? 2080 01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:39,880 Why would you say that? What's it? 2081 01:53:40,600 --> 01:53:44,080 I know it is, but like why? It's fantastic. 2082 01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:45,360 You can go get it now. It is. 2083 01:53:45,360 --> 01:53:48,200 It's a work in progress that's like monthly updates, but it's 2084 01:53:48,200 --> 01:53:49,680 playable now. It's beautiful. 2085 01:53:49,680 --> 01:53:53,120 There's more art rolling out for it and Meet Castle is one of the 2086 01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:57,400 the best people in the scene and and is a is a fantastic game. 2087 01:53:57,920 --> 01:53:59,920 I got to play test it. We've talked to them on the show 2088 01:53:59,920 --> 01:54:01,720 about it, so very excited to have them on. 2089 01:54:01,920 --> 01:54:06,120 And then the week after that, Jert is back for For our Not Cat 2090 01:54:06,120 --> 01:54:10,520 Chats episode 3. Just a slow couple weeks for us, 2091 01:54:10,520 --> 01:54:12,160 you know? You know, just stacking 2092 01:54:12,160 --> 01:54:13,760 everything in. Other projects to look at. 2093 01:54:13,760 --> 01:54:16,360 Go back. Karen Box at 2 E from Space 2094 01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:17,240 Penguin. Go back. 2095 01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:21,080 Gardens of yen like Soul Muppet. Yeah. 2096 01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:24,360 And and that's what we got. That's our episode. 2097 01:54:24,360 --> 01:54:29,160 We will see you tomorrow. Same time to talk with Astro 2098 01:54:29,160 --> 01:54:30,920 Prisma or to talk about Astro Prisma. 2099 01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:34,800 That's what I got. I will see you later buddy. 2100 01:54:36,560 --> 01:54:39,280 Excuse me? Bye, bye.