1 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,520 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast. 2 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,000 My Name Is Ryan. And my true name is Astario. 3 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,000 And today we're doing a couple of things, but the game we are 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,640 going to be reviewing is called Ruiner from Mark Conway. 5 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,640 It's nice little a six I got here, oh. 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,800 God, it's so cool. I love an A six. 7 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,480 That's the it's a superior. It's a superior Zine size, you 8 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:40,160 know. I I do like it. 9 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:44,680 I don't know if it's superior than A5, but at at at worst it's 10 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,520 adjacent to. You know. 11 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,880 But also, but also happy, happy zinequest buddy. 12 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,960 Oh yeah. Happy Happy Black History Month. 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,800 Yes, both of those things and. Zinequest. 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,320 And Zing Quest. Yes, so Zing Quest kicks off 15 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,760 today, since I can't even walk out of the room without another 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,440 project emailing me that I need to sign up for. 17 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:16,080 So for the entire month, we're well, we've already been doing 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,720 Zing Quest stuff, you know? We kind of preemptively started 19 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,320 it with some friends, you know? Yeah, and we'll continue 20 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:25,560 through. At least. 21 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,960 I think most of our stuff tapers off by the third week of the 22 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:31,640 Zing Quest, cuz by then a lot of projects are ending or wrapping 23 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,240 another last month or last last little bit. 24 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,320 But we have a lot of stuff planned in these next three 25 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,400 weeks. We got just about every day. 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,960 We have either an AP or an interview or something for some 27 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:46,880 great projects, but we're gonna keep doing our every Thursday 28 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,840 episodes and we're gonna do review. 29 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,680 We're gonna do Zenes all month for Zenquest, which makes sense. 30 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,520 Uh huh. Yeah, Yeah, reasonable. 31 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,960 Yeah. And then each another reason 32 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,800 it's good to do Zenes is they're shorter, take less time and that 33 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,479 gives us more time to do Zenquest, Roundup or just. 34 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:11,640 Take little naps, you know. Yeah. 35 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:13,200 Just little little nap you we'll. 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,000 Take little naps. So I think the plan is each week 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,440 we're going to talk about a bunch of new projects, remind 38 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,680 you about the old ones, and then do our review. 39 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,440 So we're going to talk about a bunch of projects now and a 40 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,360 bunch of people, if you happen to respond on Twitter or 41 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,600 anything to like Kate talks about your project thing. 42 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,800 I've, I've looked all of them. I've saved all of those. 43 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,600 I've looked at the dates when they're ending and we'll make 44 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,960 sure that we get to those throughout the month as we go. 45 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:48,080 If, you know, we we, we did, we we've had a thing saying, hey, 46 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,600 if you want to come on the show since like December posted. 47 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,960 So if you waited till now to ask to come on, guess what, it's too 48 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:02,560 late. But we are going to be talking 49 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,880 about projects in a way, even for those that aren't weren't 50 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,320 able to come on the show or that we're not going to do AP4 or 51 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,520 anything like that. So why don't I stop rambling? 52 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,400 And why don't we start talking about some Zenquist projects, 53 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,160 buddy? And and just so everyone knows, 54 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,800 we're really giving honing in on all those really niche 5 E 55 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,360 projects that are on Zenquest this year, so. 56 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:23,360 That's us, you know? That's us. 57 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,080 You know us? Yeah. 58 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:31,600 Anyway, so there's one project, there's some projects that 59 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,960 aren't technically Zenquest but are still happening that I want 60 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:36,440 to talk about real quick, and I'm going to do that. 61 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:37,600 So let's start with one of those. 62 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,880 So this is one that you missed on the show that I keep saying 63 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,360 you should read and you will love, but this is dead. 64 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:45,960 Halt. I've. 65 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,400 Not read this I think I have read this. 66 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,160 I think I did like it. I don't know if you read it or 67 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,880 not, but I I loved, I loved this game. 68 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,880 It's fantastic. And this is one of those games 69 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,320 that after I complained about not having hyperlinks, they 70 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,680 hyperlinked it. And not only that, the I bought 71 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,680 a physical after and they they drew a picture inside and signed 72 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,800 it like now with hyperlinks or something like and. 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,560 It said it's me. Very nice of them to do that. 74 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,720 Regardless though, what's going on now is a dead halt project 75 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,240 that has adventures on floppy disk. 76 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:21,480 Which means yes, I will have to buy a floppy disk player. 77 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,480 The only way you'll be able to access it because there is no 78 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,560 PDF is if you access it on the floppy disk and AT SHIRT, and 79 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,920 they're reprinting the original physicals for it. 80 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,360 Huh. Yeah, I love. 81 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,000 I love all of the niche throwback technology that art 82 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,560 hipsters love, like cassettes. You know, you get a lot of 83 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,680 cassettes in like the punk scene and in the tabletop scene. 84 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,200 And now floppies gonna have to. I don't even know, know what to 85 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:50,680 do about that. I'm gonna have to get a floppy 86 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,920 disc reader. Yeah, we love floppies here on 87 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,840 the show, you know? But yeah, so I grabbed a couple 88 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:01,000 extra these. So great. 89 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,720 Project Dead Halt is a fantastic game from zomwarezomware.net. 90 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,440 Just go to Kickstarter search Dead Halt RPG. 91 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,120 I'm really excited for its T-shirt, super excited for the 92 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,600 floppy, and you can get the past released floppies as well. 93 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,040 So of course I got those. And I've already researched, A 94 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,800 floppy disk driver with USB plug is only like 26 bucks. 95 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,080 So, a ton on Amazon. So yeah. 96 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,200 A ton. So I'll be snagging one of those 97 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,920 faux Show Dead Halt. Fantastic game. 98 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,080 Really loved it. Really cool. 99 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,720 Snag that real quick. Another project that's already 100 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,400 been out for a little bit Only has eight days to go. 101 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,600 But I did want to talk about is Jukebox the karaoke musical, 102 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,360 tabletop role-playing game? Be dramatic. 103 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,280 Yeah, be belt out your karaoke favorite. 104 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,600 You're the star. The TGRBG homage to musicals of 105 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,480 the stage and the screen. This is a cool project. 106 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,320 Lila Macbeth Fujiwara is putting this out. 107 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,840 First of all, the project looks great, but I'm going to be 108 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:02,680 honest, I would never, ever do karaoke in my life. 109 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,840 Ever if I had to. There's only one song I'd ever 110 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:08,920 do it. I'm not going to tell anyone 111 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,880 what that one song is, because then they'll try to get me to do 112 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,080 it. But one of the stretch goals for 113 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,280 the project? Song. 114 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,280 Let's hear it. Yeah, is that no. 115 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:30,400 Is is a little adventure called Swamp Goblins and that is from 116 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,840 Aaron motherfucking King over at the Read the Fucking Manual 117 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:38,240 podcast. So yeah, definitely wanted to 118 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,440 support to make sure we got to that level so we could see 119 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:47,840 Aaron's work in here. And I do believe they did. 120 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:50,080 Yeah. So it's $7500 to get to that 121 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:51,720 level. They're like $11,000. 122 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:53,360 Regardless, it's a cool looking project. 123 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,360 The art looks fantastic. The cover of it, it looks like a 124 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,960 like a Playbill, you know, it's really neat looking. 125 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,200 It's. Nice to cover, the art looks 126 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,840 really good. Yeah, project seems great. 127 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:07,600 It looks, it's really interesting. 128 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,240 Like I said, it's I would never do karaoke, but I would love to 129 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,000 experience it in tabletop form and you know, push, push the 130 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,520 boundaries. That's why we do these things. 131 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,880 So a lot of great people on the project looks fantastic. 132 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,840 Definitely go back to that. That is Jukebox, the karaoke 133 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,160 music tip, top role-playing game. 134 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,800 The next one is the Avat Trilogy. 135 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,800 This is an interview from an interview I did with Stuart. 136 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,160 This is the Avat Trilogy. It is a three system agnostic, 137 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,320 old school style adventure. Definitely let me go check out 138 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,160 the interview for that. It's three scenes that are and 139 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,600 the adventure, they're all self-contained or the whole 140 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,440 adventure across all three. Super interesting. 141 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:58,400 The art on them is fantastic and we had a long discussion in the 142 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,400 interview about, you know, kind of spoilers for the three 143 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,520 adventures. Basically the paths that go 144 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,400 along with them, they sound fantastic. 145 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,880 Stewart Watkinson does great stuff with the luxurier press. 146 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,960 We I have a bunch of the things that they've done, just a great 147 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,840 writer, a great person and this adventure set sounds really 148 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,520 fantastic and as I said the the art is great and they're a 149 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,120 fantastic writer as well. So you definitely want to go 150 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,920 support this project and go listen to the interview that I 151 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,039 did with Stuart, just, I don't even know, like 1. 28. 152 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,440 Episode 128. Thanks bud. 153 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,600 It's my whole job, and this is like, I just tell Ryan what 154 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,560 episode it was. Yeah 'cause you weren't able to 155 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:48,120 make that one, but it was cool. Stewart's a great guy, really 156 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,520 appreciated him coming on. Hopefully we'll see them on 157 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,160 again in the future, but this project has 20 days left to go. 158 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,800 It's like 2/3 the way funded. Like I said, definitely sounds 159 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,200 great. Definitely snag that. 160 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,400 It's a cool project. We'll remind you to do that 161 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,880 again, Field team, isn't it? But I think, I think that was 162 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:09,440 maybe our last episode also. You do not make that one. 163 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,200 That is an interview I did with the creators, Michael Elliott 164 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,240 and Galen Peugeot. Michael Elliott. 165 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,200 We have reviewed merger before in the past. 166 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,800 Their fortune dark like Eldridge. 167 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,080 Corporate horror game Fealty sounds really neat. 168 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:28,360 First of all, the art is fantastic. 169 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,160 Galen did amazing art. They've done a lot of really 170 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,880 cool stuff. They did a lot of the art for a 171 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:38,120 lot of Spencer Campbell stuff like Dusk, but this project is 172 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:45,040 really neat. It's about the what does it says 173 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,480 the the courtly drama, incompetent monarchs, and the 174 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,640 commoners who steer them. Basically it is the commoners 175 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,280 that are raised up because of their abilities to actually run 176 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,400 a Kingdom when the monarch is an incompetent piece of shit who's 177 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,040 just fucks around and it's it sounds really interesting. 178 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,320 There's cards involved, there's chess pieces involved, there's a 179 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,680 whole token system involved. It sounds incredibly 180 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:10,600 interesting. I'm really excited for this one. 181 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,000 Michael Elliott does amazing stuff. 182 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,560 Galen has put out a lot of great games as well, a lot of 183 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,240 illustrations for some other games. 184 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:24,520 So it's just a really neat sounding system to go with an 185 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,960 interesting concept of the game, originally kind of inspired by 186 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,120 Thomas Cromwell. Yeah, it looks great. 187 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,840 Yeah, the art looks really neat. Wait, there's the the the horse 188 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,800 head guy. Where's that one? 189 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:40,960 Oh, I love the horse head guy Art. 190 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,520 I don't know if they did. Did they do the horse head one 191 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,080 on the well? Hey listen, if you want to see 192 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,760 it, you can look at the thumbnail for our episode 134 193 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,800 when they were on. Yeah, it's cool because there is 194 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,200 a fantasy element to it, which we do discuss on The Interview 195 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,160 on why they do this kind of like courtly drama, but then bring 196 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,200 like of course added people into it and the answer is really 197 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,680 great and you should listen to the interview to hear about 198 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:06,360 that. But Fealty is the name of the 199 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,920 project again. Michael Elliot and Galen Peugeot 200 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,800 the. Answer is just like we just 201 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,120 thought it was really sick, you know? 202 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,040 Yeah, yeah, it's just dope. I just wanted to put. 203 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,160 I just wanted to put a head on the dude and you know, no, it's 204 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,080 really cool. It's really great. 205 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,800 Again, Michael Elliott does fantastic projects. 206 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,240 I'm really excited to get rigged soon, but definitely worth 207 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,040 backing. We're supporting as soon as I 208 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,280 saw the e-mail back that right away. 209 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,520 So really cool. It's already most of the way 210 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,640 funded on day one. It's only a two week project so 211 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,360 go snag that right now. OK, some other interesting 212 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,200 things coming out. This is Terror of the Stratos 213 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,720 Fiend, Snake Wolf 3. Now if you follow all the terror 214 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,880 of the Stratos Fiends, Congrats. It's it's a lot. 215 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,760 This is from Orbital Intelligence. 216 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,960 This is Shawn Richer. They also do Crapland, which is 217 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:04,840 really fantastic and got just the weirdest shit I think. 218 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,000 I have a couple actually somewhere. 219 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:12,400 I'm sure, I'm sure you do, but everything they do is is just 220 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,400 fantastic and and weird. A lot of Troika, a lot of DCC, a 221 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:22,440 lot of stuff that comes out of Spear Witch and the Tear of the 222 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,800 Stratosphere is a long running DCC adventure. 223 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,200 And what's interesting about this project is that they 224 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:36,080 actually completed Dungeon 23. They actually did it and this is 225 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,120 that it is a mega dungeon. It's like I think it's like 400 226 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,080 something pages and it's only and it's only 50 bucks. 227 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,720 Good. Yeah, but it's also a can. 228 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:50,520 Yeah, right. But it's also so it's a mega 229 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:55,040 dungeon. So the the tagline is an endless 230 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,280 dive into a mega dungeon chase is a man who dared to touch a 231 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:02,200 God, a paranoid conspiracy laden level one through 6 adventure 232 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,160 for DCC. And again, if you follow the 233 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,280 Terror of the Stratosphere storyline, I think there's like 234 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,440 maybe three more that are going to come out for that and then 235 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,640 it'll kind of wrap up. But the Snake Will stuff plays 236 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,800 in with some of the later stuff. It's it's again, it's weird, 237 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,880 it's crazy, it's cool. This is this is the indie RPG 238 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,680 shit we really love here when it gets fucking weird, but it's 239 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:26,040 still really interesting. Everything that Orbital 240 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,800 Intelligence and John Richard do is great. 241 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:32,280 So definitely want to back this. And again A450I think it's 450 242 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,560 pages. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty 243 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:39,280 positive that's what it is. 450 pages for like 50 bucks? 244 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,320 Yeah, the early bird hardcover is 50 bucks and then the 245 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,520 standard is 75. So it's a lot. 246 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,520 And I know from experience because I have like a million of 247 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,920 their things that Shawn Richard puts out like just nothing but 248 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,360 fire. So it's a great deal for what 249 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,280 sounds like a really great project and people just love 250 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:01,800 mega dungeons lately. I. 251 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,280 Don't know dude. I'm I'm so about it. 252 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,400 It's great. Also, shout finishing Dungeon 253 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,560 23, I think that we all abandoned very quickly. 254 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:10,840 Not all of us. Some of us. 255 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,000 Yeah, no, I abandoned it. Still works on my dungeon 23 so. 256 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,240 I'm I I'm not because I knew immediately that I would get 257 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,920 through one day and be like, Nope. 258 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,400 So I just chose not to. Anyway, we got three more and 259 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:31,200 then we'll hop into the review death game from Lori O'Connell. 260 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,680 This looks fantastic. Really excited for this. 261 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,000 Love Lori O'Connell that he did one of your favorite games from 262 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,880 last year. That's true. 263 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,160 Yeah, Hieronymus, Yeah. Yeah. 264 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,360 And I just. Wasn't blanked out there, so 265 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,400 that was all just you steering. But yeah, they did. 266 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,440 Hironymus and I looked Hiramus. They also did. 267 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,800 A that Blanchard. Government forever ago that I 268 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,680 thought was really cool as well. Yeah, I mean they've done a 269 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,600 bunch of fantastic stuff, but the most recent that we talked 270 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,480 about was Hieronymus, which won a bunch, not one, which which we 271 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,920 put in the top five of a bunch of our categories for last year. 272 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,920 So yeah, they they they put out fantastic work and Death Game is 273 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,120 a Fight for Your Life, for the entertainment of the rich and 274 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,680 powerful and a narrative driven RPG. 275 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,960 And anyone looking at this page will instantly recognize the 276 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:29,800 Hodag art that is covering it. So looks great, sounds great. 277 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:36,480 It is a high stakes battle for survival in the likes of Battle 278 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,560 Royale, Squid Games, Alice in Borderland, Hunger Games, et 279 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,160 cetera, et cetera. Looks neat, Really excited for 280 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,000 it. Kind of popped up out of nowhere 281 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,480 in the last like week or two on the socials and was really 282 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,040 excited to to see it drop and come out. 283 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:58,640 And again, art looks great. You should go back it a lot of 284 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,160 the stuff dropped today and they are already at it's a $3000 goal 285 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,200 and they're already at almost 2K in the first gosh like less than 286 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,280 an hour. So probably going to to fun 287 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,960 pretty quickly but don't want to miss this. 288 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,960 Definitely go snag that we'll remind you again in the future 289 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,360 about it. But death game Laura O'Connell? 290 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:21,920 Boom. Hell yeah. 291 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,600 Next, one friend of the show, Alex T Black Oath Entertainment, 292 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,160 has dropped Over War. The Night Comes Down Monarch 293 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:36,080 Edition, a gothic fantasy strategy RPG inspired by the 294 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,440 classic JRPG, console games and the OSR. 295 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:45,680 So it's surprise, surprise, solo or Co-op strategy tabletop RPG 296 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,480 for Black Oath Entertainment, Yeah? 297 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,600 I'm sorry, Black Oath today, Solo or Co-op game? 298 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,400 Yeah, crazy. Yeah, that's really weird. 299 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,200 I can't think about that. They're all on my shelf right 300 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,040 now. No, I I can't. 301 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,000 I have a whole shelf that are oh wait, no yet. 302 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,680 They're all so low. We're caught, but all great. 303 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,839 Really excited. Really excited to get this one. 304 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:09,839 Everything. I mean Alex has been on a bunch 305 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:11,800 of times. They do really fantastic work. 306 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,960 Sacrifice is great. Really excited to get Kerneth 307 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,960 Ellis as well. But this one over wore the night 308 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,079 comes down. The cover definitely slaps you 309 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,200 with a little bit of that JRPG. There's like this, I don't know, 310 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,040 giant reptilian guy and the there's a Viking character in 311 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,600 the front holding his shield up, but the reptile is so big, it's 312 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,560 like pushing the shield down. It's like strike at the guy, the 313 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,760 light coming through the back, it looks fantastic. 314 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,960 But that logo is such like a a PlayStation JRPG logo, right? 315 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,880 I like it a lot. It's also like. 316 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:48,640 I don't know, It feels very like bright, like a brighter color 317 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,200 palette than what I'm used to from like a which is not a not a 318 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,280 disc. I think it's really cool. 319 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:58,360 But yeah, it is very PlayStation Two JRPG, maybe PlayStation 3. 320 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,400 Yeah, I mean, you're right. I think on the the one of the 321 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,600 covers for or one of the pieces of art from Kerneth Olas is 322 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,880 literally like a person standing on a a pile of a pile of 323 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,520 corpses. So. 324 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,400 This one's very, that's very own brand. 325 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,160 So there you go. Exactly. 326 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,120 But yeah, this one is really neat. 327 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,520 It is the definitive. So this is the other thing, if I 328 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,040 remember correctly, because I'm only glancing through this, I 329 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:27,960 think that this is not a project that Alex wrote but is putting 330 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,200 out. They've they saw a project from 331 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,720 somebody and I was like, hey, we should make this a thing. 332 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,840 And not only that, we should make it the definitive version 333 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,360 of this thing. So everything you've ever wanted 334 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:44,840 to do, let's do that. So yeah, right, So so yeah, it's 335 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,600 the the definitive remaster of a gothic fantasy role-playing game 336 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:54,360 inspired by Fire Emblem Yigdara, Union Langreser, and Yasumi 337 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:55,480 Matuno. Mm hmm. 338 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,400 Yep, those are people and things. 339 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 You're doing really great, buddy. 340 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:08,160 Keep going. Hey, listen, so I'm just trying 341 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,280 to find yeah, it is the remaster of Over War, which has been out 342 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,720 since 2022. The Monarch edition adds new 343 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,760 tables, resources, Lord GM tools and solo play support and 344 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,600 includes all the content from a number of other things that have 345 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,160 been put out for it. So again, it is a little bit 346 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:25,480 different than Alex's normal stuff. 347 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,120 This is a remaster of a project that's already out right now. 348 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,960 It's Richard Kelly is the designer of Over War. 349 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:40,560 That's what I want to say. And Leo F Blank Down in a Second 350 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,360 is doing a lot of the illustrations for it, as well as 351 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:45,560 the number of other people. Anyway, project looks really 352 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:47,080 fantastic. It is a little bit different 353 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,680 than what Action On Me does, but clearly in their wheelhouse. 354 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,120 Yeah, it looks great. I'm really excited for it. 355 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,400 Yeah. And then the last one we're 356 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,760 gonna do for today. And then again, we'll do this 357 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,640 every week. Touch on some projects before we 358 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,600 get started. This is The Curse of Misling 359 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,280 Grove, a fantasy role-playing adventure module. 360 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:12,000 This is from Idol Cartelary. You might know them from their 361 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,760 Playful Void blog, The Bathtub Reviews. 362 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,440 Love reading those. They're really good, really 363 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,000 interesting. I really like. 364 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,480 I don't always agree with everything, but I really love 365 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,960 the way that they look at games. Yeah, I. 366 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,560 I agree. I don't always line up with 367 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,400 their opinions, but I always appreciate them. 368 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,560 You know, I'm always like, this is a good point of view, you 369 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,480 know? Also, it makes me wish that I 370 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,000 had a bathtub so that I can do bathtub reviews even if I didn't 371 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,960 post them. That just sounds like a good 372 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:39,840 time. So. 373 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:43,840 It does, you know, Nice bath. I have a bathtub. 374 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,720 I only have a bath though, so yeah, you could technically just 375 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,320 lay I. Couldn't that's a really good 376 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:56,680 idea, Ryan. Anything is a backup if you try 377 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,960 fucking. Drain and I'll just lay there on 378 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,960 the floor like a like a dying rat. 379 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:07,600 Do it and then and then write a review while you're doing that. 380 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,720 Yeah. Oh, that's great. 381 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,920 We'll get to that. So The Curse of Mizzling Grove 382 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,960 is a fantasy role-playing adventure module written for OSC 383 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,240 or other similar fantasy role-playing games. 384 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,880 In it your heroes are rogues or rogues, will breach the 385 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,760 unbreachable door in the cursed Renwald Tower in a Grove cloaked 386 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,400 in perpetual storm and learn what happened in that cursed 387 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:33,320 place centuries ago. Honestly, anything that the 388 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,560 noble puts out, I will snag up. They put a couple of things out 389 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,800 recently. Hiss is really great. 390 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,680 Hell on Rev X Fantastic, and I love the Ludacris Compendium 391 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:51,080 there. It's a really interesting B 392 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,400 series, but each entry starts with like haikus or like poems. 393 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:06,200 So it's a really interesting take on the bestiary is that is 394 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,360 different than the standard here is like a giant stat block. 395 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:11,720 So really, really neat, really love those. 396 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,200 They do have a podcast as well, the Dungeon Regular podcast 397 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,480 where they go through like old adventures from like Dungeon 398 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,600 magazine, like old Dungeon magazine so. 399 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,360 Very cool. I have not listened to that. 400 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,720 That's awesome. Yeah, it's really neat. 401 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,800 So and then in collaboration with Neosis Queer Australian 402 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,080 Filipino artist and game develop and game developer. 403 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,640 So the project looks great, the art looks great, Excited for 404 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,280 this. There's no such thing as having 405 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,760 too many OSE adventures. If you're going to write a 406 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,360 project for five E, don't write it for LSE. 407 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:46,720 And I think that's that's it for today. 408 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,560 We got about a million more, but we got three more weeks of Zing 409 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,240 Quest and and that's where we're at. 410 00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:00,840 So Ruiner. Ruin Ruiner It's funny because 411 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,040 it's exactly it's the size of the scene that I would have that 412 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,880 I actually don't have this one. Yeah. 413 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:10,960 What were your let's do, let's do your quick first takes and 414 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,160 then we'll hop into the review. What did you think first of all? 415 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,360 Obviously this is something that I would really like because it 416 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:24,120 is very much within that like family of minimalist tabletop 417 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,400 games that I love that has a very, like, you know, D20 role 418 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:32,560 under into the Odd Descendant Bastards descendant hack. 419 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,400 It's fucking weird, right? It's super weird. 420 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,040 There's some weird shit going on and I'm super into the weird 421 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,560 shit. I would be interested to. 422 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,800 I'd be interested to play this the the travelling down the 423 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:54,440 rungs is like the very like interesting, like esoteric, all 424 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,240 like nebulously described thing that I would love to see 425 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,320 interpreted before I try to interpret it myself. 426 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,560 How about you? Why were you thinking? 427 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,840 I think it's weird as shit and I thought that you would love it, 428 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,880 especially the magic system. I thought you would find that 429 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,440 interesting. Yeah, I do love the magic 430 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,920 system. I do love this. 431 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,640 I read it and I was like, oh, I do really love this. 432 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,120 This is the type of weird that I really get down on SO. 433 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,040 Yeah, this is when I thought of this. 434 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,040 I thought this is really fucking cool, but I also think that 435 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,560 hotter all things is really fucking cool. 436 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,440 This, to me, definitely leans towards like acid mages. 437 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,000 Yeah, I did. And that's exactly what I was 438 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,840 thinking going through like especially moving down the rungs 439 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,320 and like everything fades and like what an interesting concept 440 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,200 we'll get to it. But if. 441 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,240 I If I just say one word, If I just say one word, it's a word 442 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,880 that you said already. It'd be esoteric. 443 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:46,440 It just feels esoteric. So let's get into it. 444 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,440 Yeah, let's do it. You know what? 445 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,800 Let's do it. Let's go ahead and review a game 446 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,760 today. Oh, is that what we're going to 447 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:54,520 do? Is that a thing? 448 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:03,960 Yeah, Runner Mark Conway. I actually love this cover and I 449 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,760 think this like fucking hit you in the face red with like the 450 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,120 yellow going through it. It works. 451 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,440 Incredibly well, yeah. Yeah. 452 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,760 I think it works to a point. And then I've read this thing so 453 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,000 many times. I'm like fuck, like it's a lot. 454 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,840 It's a lot to get you. But I do love the cover. 455 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,040 So there is a a logo repeated three times on the cover. 456 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,320 It's it's Ruiner written in two different fonts tagged together 457 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:38,240 and then there's this like red orange background and then it's 458 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,600 got it's very loud in if you're. Listening it's It's so loud you 459 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,360 can almost hear it on the podcast. 460 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:48,360 Yeah, over our yelling, which means it's loud as fuck. 461 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:57,080 Let me put up my thing. It reminds me, you know, if I if 462 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,880 I was one of those people, I had the mic, like right at my lips. 463 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,120 I feel like I wouldn't yell so much. 464 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,480 But I'm not, so I don't. Do it, Coward. 465 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:04,360 Can't. I won't. 466 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:13,480 The mic, I'll just go. So anyway, so there's it's and 467 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,640 then the logo's in yellow. It's in like this weird kind of 468 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,600 foresty green color that is I'm. I'm positive that's not the 469 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,720 color it really is when I look at it, but the other colors 470 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,640 around it are so bright, I feel like it warps it into a 471 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,720 different color. But it's green. 472 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:27,800 What's? That. 473 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,200 Wait, hold on. Look, let me see the physical 474 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,360 real quick. You have the physical in front 475 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:31,880 of you, right? Also, by the way, this is 476 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,600 definitely one of those where I'm getting the physical 477 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,640 tomorrow when I get paid. It's darker and the physical it 478 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,840 feels like. Yeah, well, I mean that's 479 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,680 probably just the into the ink on the paper. 480 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,800 Yeah. But like I said, I also think 481 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,960 it's one of those things where like the colors around it are so 482 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,360 bright that it makes your eyes see the color a little 483 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:49,080 differently and that's what it feels like to me. 484 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,200 And then white on the bottom anyway. 485 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,360 So it says, it says runner like 6 times on the front. 486 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,840 It's great. I love how it fits on the the 487 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,840 cover of the A six. It's really great. 488 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,640 I love it. This is from Mark Conway. 489 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,120 You can find a lot of stuff. Mark Conway might see them on 490 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,200 the show tomorrow. Who knows? 491 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,240 Who knows, really? Who knows? 492 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,480 Who knows? We'll see. 493 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,000 So it it it hops right into it. I mean The thing is it's like 9 494 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,200 for the adventure, it's I think it's maybe 9A6 pages and that's 495 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,760 all it is. So. 496 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,080 Yeah, I'm gonna be real with you actually did not read the 497 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,200 adventure. Well, we're not going to read on 498 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,240 the show anyway. I am because we don't read 499 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,160 adventures. But it's interesting. 500 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,400 So characters, it's a five step process for a character creation 501 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,280 and that's it. Do you want to rip one up real 502 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,360 quick? I mean, might as well. 503 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,240 Oh, do I want to create a character? 504 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:46,840 Absolutely. Where am I? 505 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,920 Oh, yeah, that's right. Do you know that I installed the 506 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,080 little drawer on my desk because there wasn't one? 507 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,560 And I've been putting stuff in here to use on the show and I've 508 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,240 forgotten it's all in here. And you gotta use it. 509 00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:59,000 You know what? I have that I never remember, 510 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,360 but I should keep with me all the time. 511 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,080 You remember that little, like that dice roller that's like its 512 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,480 own little machine. I was gonna ask you today, I 513 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,840 can't remember the name of that site cuz I really want to get 514 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,400 one of those, so. Yeah no, they're dope as fuck. 515 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,840 I need to remember where it is so that I can find it, cuz I 516 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,680 would be so much easier to just be like to do it. 517 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,640 Oh there's my dice. I honestly don't even know where 518 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,640 it is. I need to find it. 519 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,760 It wasn't cheap, so I should find it anyway. 520 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,480 So step one. We're doing great. 521 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,080 We're. We're getting there. 522 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,480 Roll 3/6 for each ability, 3D6 for Precision, Prowess, and 523 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,280 Presence. I love that it's three PS. 524 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,480 Got to love the alliteration. I like the name too. 525 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,040 I like I'm. I'm a firm believer in the what 526 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,520 you call your stats or abilities dictates how your character, 527 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,400 your player characters interact with the the game you know. 528 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:49,840 Absolutely. I mean, look at him both, you 529 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,760 know what I mean? Like, that's an amazing example. 530 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,960 Yeah. So precision is agility and 531 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,320 cunning, doing things adroitly, scale, wit, etcetera. 532 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,240 So it's not, it's not just physical, less mental as well. 533 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,000 Prowess is strength and intimidation. 534 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,600 Again, physical and mental things, doing things mightily 535 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,840 and then presence as will and magnetism. 536 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,600 Doing things majestically with great sagacity or Charisma. 537 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:22,160 SO3D6 What are your stats? Well, wow, this is not the best 538 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,480 I've ever rolled, I'll tell you that. 539 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:32,760 I have a six for Precision, I have a 15 for Prowess and I have 540 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,520 an 8 for Presence. Wow. 541 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:39,640 So you're just muscle. I'm just a strong dumbass. 542 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,560 There you go, Just a strong, clumsy dumbass that's good for 543 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,520 you. So Step 2 and character creation 544 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,000 of the five step process. You roll 2 D 6 + 6 and that's 545 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,480 your vigor. Vigor is basically your health 546 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,760 in this game. So what is your two D 6 + 6 for 547 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,200 your vigor? 12. 12 That's a good that's a 548 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,240 solid vigor. Yeah yeah, for all the spells 549 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,840 that you can't cast, cuz you're dumb as fuck. 550 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,160 Step three, row one D 6 + 3 for the number of letters in your 551 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,600 true name. 5 So you got 5 letters in your true name. 552 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:24,560 And what is your true name are? You gonna fucking come up with a 553 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,560 5 letter word on the fly? OK, well, you keep going. 554 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:32,160 I'll go to step four. Step 4, choose your weapons and 555 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,040 armor, as well as two. Curious. 556 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,680 You know what? You know what my true name is? 557 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:37,720 James. So. 558 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,680 Fantastic. There you go. 559 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:46,600 Good old Jimbo Jimbo. Also, 5 letters, 2 curios, so 560 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,800 choose your weapons and armor, as well as two Curios to carry 561 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,520 with you in your inventory. Your inventory slots are equal 562 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,400 to your Prowess score +2. So you have high Prowess. 563 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,520 So do you have 17 inventory slots? 564 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,600 Yeah. And carry big things, you know? 565 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,520 There you go. And then Step 5, Roll your 566 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,640 Annoyment. So hit Hit, roll 1D6 and we'll 567 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,440 we'll tell You how your Anointment is. 3. 568 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,760 So you got stone that sinks. The body is your anointment. 569 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,880 You have an armor of -1, and you are ponderous in being. 570 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:28,800 Just like real life. Yeah, so the game is so light I 571 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,920 wouldn't mind if it told me what the fucking anointment was. 572 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,880 You know what I mean? Like, I get it. 573 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,600 I do get totally, I don't know. I love when things are explained 574 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,720 well, but sometimes these smaller projects, and especially 575 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,960 this one, that kind of leans into this like, esoteric. 576 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,920 Not everything's explained. It's just like, this is what it 577 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,640 is and you're like, what the fuck does that mean, man? 578 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,280 But like leaving that kind of open space for interpretation or 579 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,320 maybe just never really understanding. 580 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,800 I personally kind of enjoy that. Yeah, but I wouldn't mind if it 581 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:07,000 was like, roll for your anointment from the gods or 582 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,320 something, you know, I mean, or your anointment from the holy 583 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:10,440 la, la, la, you know what I mean? 584 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,440 Like, it can still be like a weird, esoteric thing and still 585 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,160 give me just a tiny bit more, you know? 586 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,880 Like, I don't need it to be like, Rolf, you're not me. 587 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,160 Your anointment is XY and Z. You know what I mean? 588 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,680 Like, even even just a slight bit more of more. 589 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,040 Like I said, even if it's just like anointment from something 590 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,400 you know, from the heavenly light or something you know, 591 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,200 then I'd be like OK, but some of the other ones are are neat. 592 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,040 These are really interesting weird things that add like 593 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,480 number, like #6 is an opened skull. 594 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,920 You are forgetful yeah, and may change your sources after 595 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:50,760 resting worrying rage plus three damage, but you lose 1 vigor 596 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,160 each round of combat. So you you are stone that sinks 597 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,200 the body prop like one. That doesn't help you at all. 598 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,800 You're just Your armor is -1. I am. 599 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,760 Ponderous in being, though. Yeah, you are bonderous. 600 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,600 Yeah, with all of your, all of your all. 601 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,440 Of my great ability to position, yeah. 602 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,040 So that's it? That's your character? 603 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,240 That's you. What's your name? 604 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,480 Jimbo James. James. 605 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,400 James moving with Yeah, 5 letters. 606 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,760 Yep, rules. Rules. 607 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,680 Pretty easy to accomplish something dubious, you roll the 608 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,360 D20 with the results. So what I like about the system, 609 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,160 let me say the words and then I'll say it. 610 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,120 So roll the D20 with the result under your relevant ability 611 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,720 score, but above the obstacles difficulty value. 612 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,080 Any result not within this margin is a failure. 613 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,920 So it's not just A roll under system, it's a roll under roll 614 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,280 over like margins. Yeah, yeah, I do. 615 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,800 I I did like that upon reading, I was like, oh cool. 616 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,600 I think creating a more narrow band based on what you're doing. 617 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,320 I yeah, I'm the rule is appealing to me as AD 20 role 618 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,320 under guy. Yeah, well what's interesting is 619 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,840 is the next part on why I think that really works in this is 620 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,719 that difficulty value ranges from 1 onwards. 621 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,880 From easy to hard obstacles, everything has a difficulty 622 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,679 value and if you fail the role, something vicious happens. 623 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,639 A foe hits back, drops it off, etc etc. 624 00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:22,520 And this is what sucks for you. If the DV the difficulty value 625 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,960 is ever higher than your ability score, you must roll the exact 626 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,000 DV score to succeed. So what did you get? 627 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,719 Like A5 and an 8 on two of your scores. 628 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,000 I got a six and an 8, which, yeah. 629 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,639 It's not high. Those are those are low numbers. 630 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,880 Yeah. I will say it makes your margin 631 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:46,320 really fucking big though, yeah. But I don't think there's a lot 632 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:52,239 of things that are like 12 DV. So yeah. 633 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,920 The 15 is great. You know the 15, I'll probably, 634 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,120 I'll probably, you know I'll probably hit a couple of things. 635 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,560 Yeah, just swing. Hard swing offenses. 636 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,280 A single character may test an obstacle to advance entire 637 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,880 party. In combat, everyone acts 638 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,480 independently. If the situation falls in their 639 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,880 favor, roll the die twice. Pretty simple advantage system 640 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:13,600 there. There's not really. 641 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,720 It only talks about the favor, it doesn't talk about disfavor. 642 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:18,680 So there's really no disadvantage it seems like. 643 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,640 Which is fine. I like how simple that is. 644 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,400 It's like fucking 12 words and that's it. 645 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,640 I really do like the next part though. 646 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,240 Whenever you encounter harm, you may invoke your true name to 647 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:35,200 avoid it completely. After avoiding row 1D6, the 648 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,440 result is equal to the number of letters revealed in your true 649 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,600 name. And if your entire true name is 650 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,920 revealed, foes will smell you throughout the rungs. 651 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,600 They'll just. Smell you, you know. 652 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,080 Smell you. They can smell your exposed. 653 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,960 True. Name 5 letters in my true name, 654 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,560 which means that I could invoke it one time and possibly just 655 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,160 reveal the entire thing. Theoretically, yeah. 656 00:35:58,240 --> 00:35:59,880 You have a two out of You have a. 657 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,640 You have a one in three chance. Yeah, yeah. 658 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,600 And then if I use my true name twice, I'm pretty much almost 659 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,040 guaranteed to reveal my entire dream. 660 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,440 But it's only by wrong. I do like that things reset 661 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,120 after each wrong, which is really cool. 662 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:24,480 Yeah, Speaking of that, going into exploring. 663 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,200 I I love this part. Yeah, yeah, definitely. 664 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,120 You will never return where you've left. 665 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,120 These places will fade because of you. 666 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,800 Rungs are where you search for hoarded valuables, where curses 667 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,600 are grown and soaked into your stone face. 668 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,200 You have a stone face from where you enter. 669 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,280 Pardon me? From where you entered cannot be 670 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,520 returned. So further, you must sink. 671 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:49,880 Yeah. So. 672 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,440 OK, I'll. I'll just do the whole thing. 673 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,040 There's not much, so there's always nothing in the rungs. 674 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,680 There's no time, but there are brief moments of respite. 675 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,880 You may take a brief rest that replenishes 2D6 figure when not 676 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,200 in peril. While resting, foes will seek 677 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,160 you out. There is a two in six chance of 678 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:14,800 1D6 random foes besetting you. When a rung is fully exposed, 679 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,160 you may absorb its light before leaving to bolster yourself. 680 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:23,200 However, some obstacles Big O might prevent you from doing so 681 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,480 until they are dealt with. When absorbing the light, choose 682 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,680 an ability rule 3D6. If the result is higher than the 683 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,640 current ability score, increase the total by one. 684 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,600 Upon leaving rung, it begins to wither. 685 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,920 Light will dry Into Darkness. The inhabitants will either seek 686 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:43,120 refuge in another rung or remain until a slow whimpering in. 687 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:47,200 Be sure to collect all that you need, but pardon me before 688 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,120 proceeding as you cannot return. Entering a new rung conceals all 689 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,560 letters of your true name, masking yourself from its 690 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:59,240 inhabitants. These might be some of my 691 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:02,640 favorite exploration rules I've ever fucking read. 692 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,760 Very vibey. So vibey. 693 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:10,640 But also just so clean and like, what's what I really like about 694 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,520 this game is it is like, interestingly, like weirdly, 695 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,440 esoterically, like punishing, but also not punishing. 696 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,000 You know what I mean? Like, so basically you're on a 697 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,640 rung looking for valuables and everything like that, and you're 698 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,680 going to find weird shit. But after every encounter you 699 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,640 can rest to get vigor back after you encounter stuff. 700 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,480 But every time you rest, there's a chance that more stuff finds 701 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,600 you. But when you leave the rung, the 702 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,680 IT disappears. Yeah, it no longer exists. 703 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,920 Yeah. I like the the idea of like an 704 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,560 NPC or like an enemy that is constantly like jumping down the 705 00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:01,240 rungs after you, you know? Yeah, I mean, because it says it 706 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:05,040 could, they could either chase you or stay and disappear. 707 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,440 Because every time you leave a rung to go to descend to the 708 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:15,160 next rung, you absorb the light of that whole rung and basically 709 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,840 like cause it to cease to exist. And that's what gives you your 710 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:24,120 advancement. Like you advance by descending 711 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,560 by taking the light from this whole, like, mini realm that you 712 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,280 have just hoarded and battled through. 713 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,400 It's so that's so cool. I really love that. 714 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,360 It is very cool. Yeah, as an advancement system, 715 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,200 I really love that you're just like, well, I've, I've looted 716 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:45,440 this whole weird esoteric realm. Like, yeah, let me just slurp 717 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,880 that light in them out, you know so it's neat. 718 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,960 I dig it. Encounters when meeting 719 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,360 unfamiliar beings some might not be quick to anger. 720 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,240 I really love that. Immediately it says you don't 721 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:03,920 have to fucking fight. Everything you can test to to 722 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,920 precision to slink past it, privates to chase it away 723 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:11,520 presents to engross it and it. And only when you fail do 724 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,360 hostilities arise. I love that characters and foes 725 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,080 roll the D6 every round, Highest act first. 726 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:18,600 How? Let's go to characters. 727 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:23,160 Environmental effects act last. So characters have three actions 728 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,320 in combat. Foes have two actions generally 729 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,600 in combat. Pretty much everything takes an 730 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:33,520 action for characters to do, like dashing using objects, 731 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:34,960 swinging a weapon, everything like that. 732 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,760 And you can do them in the order you want. 733 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,640 I also love that kind of stuff for like. 734 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,320 It's all just like do it however, because what difference 735 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:44,640 does it make? You know what I mean? 736 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,480 Yeah, it's just everything is an action. 737 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,320 So go ahead and just do whatever you're going to do with three 738 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,760 actions. Three actions over 2 for enemies 739 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,800 is interesting and I was wondering if it was because of 740 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,840 how difficult it could be to hit an enemy based on their 741 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,200 difficulty value and you rolling under. 742 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:11,480 Sorry, I would be curious if it's mechanical or if it's, and 743 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,440 I mean the answer is probably both, but I'm I'm curious if 744 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,680 it's mechanical or if it's more flavor, right for the game. 745 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,440 So like all of the foes that exist on the rung would 746 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,320 theoretically just cease to exist when you leave that rung. 747 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,720 So I feel like you're more corporeal to an extent, you know 748 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:31,360 what I mean? You're more. 749 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,200 Real, you know. Yeah, so you get. 750 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,400 So that's how I saw it is like, you're more real, so you get to 751 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,000 do more stuff, you know? You keep it real. 752 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,560 That's how I feel about myself every day. 753 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,320 Yeah, that's why I get 2 actions. 754 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,480 Foe's. Yeah, so Foe's come, we have two 755 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,960 actions Foe's. Vigor is doubled as difficulty 756 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,600 value, which is again a neat, nice round system. 757 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,080 When it reaches 0, it's gone. A Foe's sorceries never drain 758 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,600 its figures. So that's the other thing, Foe's 759 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,280 get sorceries all day. But you're well, we'll get to in 760 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,800 a second. Your sorcery's drain, your 761 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,560 vigor, a foam might choose to attack it as an action, causing 762 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,920 you to roll. OK, so the other thing too is 763 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,520 when you attack, you can try to hit it, but can it can hit you 764 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,280 back if you fail. And when it tries to hit you, 765 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,040 you can hit it. So if you roll above it's 766 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,240 difficulty value but under your relevant ability, you avoid it. 767 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:37,040 If not, it damages you. If it succeeds, you damage it. 768 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,000 So this way you may exact retribution. 769 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,080 I love that line. I love that line so much, but it 770 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,480 reminds me of Durf a little bit. Durf has a similar system where 771 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,400 like any time you attack something or something attacks 772 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,520 you, there's an opportunity for either of you to walk away 773 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,400 damaged. And I really like that. 774 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,600 I think it's really like it keeps contact super interesting, 775 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,240 yeah. I like the exchange hits thing 776 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:06,720 is really cool. They're what is that game by 777 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:09,240 Feral Indy Studios that I played a few times. 778 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,400 You're talking about verm hack. Yes, Verm Hack also has like an 779 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,040 exchange, like a potential for exchanging blows. 780 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:20,480 And I always enjoy it. Makes combat feel very active, 781 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,800 you know, even if there aren't many rules to the game, it feels 782 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,560 a lot deeper just by the nature of, like when somebody walks up 783 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,600 to the plate to hit like they might get hit. 784 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,800 Yeah, just like really. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 785 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:39,160 We should do verm hack though. Original, there we go. 786 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,560 Not extra crispy. Yeah, yeah. 787 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,400 When when being best at foes, test morale successfully. 788 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,360 I like this too. Another thing that you kind of 789 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,160 talked about earlier, when you defeat a foe or when you are 790 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:55,120 beating one, they can test morale and some might flee or 791 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,280 become sycophants. And I like that. 792 00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:58,560 We'll get to sick fans in a little bit. 793 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,040 Sourcers, words, curios, and other effects last for a single 794 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:04,920 encounter or scene, unless noted. 795 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,520 Also like that your effects just last as long as the thing, the 796 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,880 reason you caused, you caused them. 797 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,920 Equipment is interesting, so it gives you basically weapons and 798 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,640 armor right off the bat. And there's no, there's nothing. 799 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,200 There's nothing. There's no reason why you 800 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:29,320 couldn't do A2 handed or ranged or a Large or a small or like. 801 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,960 I mean there's armor that is literally up to like -4 if you 802 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,440 want right off the bat, you know. 803 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:37,600 But it's self balances, which is really interesting. 804 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,800 So on your character, what would you pick, 'cause you get a 805 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,000 weapon and an armor, but you start with -1. 806 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,560 Oh. Gosh. 807 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,560 So weapon options are Small, Standard, Large, Ranged, and 808 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,480 Unarmed. I'm imagining James is 809 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,760 incredibly stupid and strong, so I'm thinking unarmed. 810 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:04,360 I'm thinking he is like a a wild man. 811 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,080 I'm playing Tarzan, you know. Gotcha. 812 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,160 OK, I thought you were gonna go large. 813 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,440 You went the completely opposite the way I was thinking. 814 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,400 No, he's too stupid to wield the weapon efficiently, so. 815 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:17,720 Yeah, I mean that's true. We. 816 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,040 Can talk about large weapons? He's going with a large weapon, 817 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:21,080 right? Is that what you wanted me to 818 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:21,360 say? No. 819 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,840 No, no, no, no. I just I that's what I assumed 820 00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,520 you would. Be whatever. 821 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,080 I love the unarmed one. That's really, I mean that's 822 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,600 that's The thing is you can, you can do an interesting take. 823 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,600 So let's talk about the differences between the two, 824 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,200 because again, there's no looking to get from. 825 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,280 These other precision or prowess instead. 826 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,680 Or prowess? Yeah. 827 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,720 Oh yeah, I did. Use prowess. 828 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,720 Yeah, so unarmed, Unarmed Precision of Prowess. 829 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:46,880 It's one D3, but with each successful unarmed attacked, you 830 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,880 may make another attack at no action cost. 831 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,080 So if you if you just keep hitting, you just keep hitting. 832 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,280 You just keep hitting. Yeah, you swing until you miss. 833 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,680 It's a, it's a it's a cool unarmored rule because usually 834 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,760 you're like, unarmored. You do less damage and you're 835 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,360 like, well why would I ever like, be unarmed Then? 836 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,400 This one's like, yeah, you do less damage, but hey, just keep 837 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,480 fucking swinging guy. Yeah, just keep punching but 838 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,520 compare that to to large right? Prowess IS1D6. 839 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,080 So theoretically double the damage, but on a result of one 840 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:21,640 to three you re roll the die and add the previous results on to 841 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,960 the new one so that you could theoretically do a big hit like 842 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,720 because you could just roll again and again as a single 843 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:30,720 action. Large weapons may be broken to 844 00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,960 the story of Foe's armor, but it takes up two inventory slots. 845 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:38,600 So I mean, the thing with the large one is there's not a huge 846 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:44,200 drawback to not taking it, but it if you have a low prowess, 847 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,440 obviously you're not gonna go with it. 848 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,560 It's gonna take up a bunch of inventory slots. 849 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,280 But yeah, so there's there's differences. 850 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,920 But I do like the flavor of like if you hit, just keep hitting. 851 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,000 So there's armor. So there's armor, and then 852 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,480 there's Shields. Right? 853 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:06,680 Right, Right, right. But so armor negates damage 854 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,560 received by -1 to -4. So you already start with -1 855 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:16,120 armor. Do you Do you think that means 856 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,240 that that's all you get? Or that that's just that that's 857 00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:21,560 in addition, like, that's just you on your own, 'cause you. 858 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,240 It was like skin of stone, right? 859 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,000 I would say that's just you. Yeah, I did say that. 860 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,360 I would say this, yeah, this is just a stone guy who's just so 861 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:36,800 enhanced and has no armor on because he is -1 already. 862 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,600 But yeah, it. Lowers your precision score and 863 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,240 reduces sorceress words by the by. 864 00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:46,600 It's by the amount equals of damage. 865 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:51,120 Negation, right? Yeah, so my precision already 866 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,200 sucks, so I wouldn't go above a -, 1. 867 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,960 Right. And I do. 868 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,440 I do like it. Go ahead and it takes up 869 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,040 inventory slots equal to this. So if you take -4, you reduce 870 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:06,160 your precision by 4 and take a four slots in your inventory. 871 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,120 That's a lot of. Shit. 872 00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,560 God, that would fucking suck. I would do that. 873 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,040 Actually, I would. I would make this like, the 874 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:21,840 least precise person ever. But I do like the whole like, it 875 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,200 affects your sorceress words as well, because that's a very 876 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,080 classic spell. Weaver can't wear big armor 877 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,200 because it's going to fuck up how you talk about your spells. 878 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,840 You. Know I do dig it. 879 00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:35,880 And the Shields too. You could dig it. 880 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,200 Shield. Those Shields fully negate 881 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,320 damage from a single attack. Shields have a one to six chance 882 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,320 of breaking after the attack. This chance cumulatively 883 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,240 increases by 1 to a Max of five and six chance after each 884 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:47,920 attack. I love that mechanic. 885 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,720 I really, really love it. I don't remember what else we 886 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:52,600 saw recently. Oh, I think you and I were 887 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,520 individually talking about kind of like a variant of like 888 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,320 Mothership. It soaks until it exceeds and 889 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,720 then breaks, but then it's gone. But I like the idea that it 890 00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:04,080 like, it breaks but then like just reduces kind of as it goes 891 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,360 down. This reminds me a little bit of 892 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,400 that where like, so Shields fully negate damage from a 893 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,640 single attack but have a one to six chance of breaking. 894 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,560 But every time it does it, it gets higher and higher and 895 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,360 higher and so you have a five and six. 896 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,680 So eventually it's going to just break, which makes sense. 897 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:23,480 And it's kind of like what I just said, but like like 898 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:24,520 backwards. It'll keep. 899 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,560 It'll keep stopping a single attack until it breaks, but it 900 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,200 like breaks down every time. I love it. 901 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,400 I think it's really elegant way to have Shields be something 902 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,320 that you can have for a little while, not just single use, but 903 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,400 aren't like a permanent part of your armor. 904 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,880 It's really interesting. Curious. 905 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,040 Yeah. Curious and sorcery. 906 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,120 Yeah, So you get that. So you get to pick two curios. 907 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,000 Which two? Which? 908 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,720 Which two would you pick? So the first one I really like 909 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:52,680 is Rose Salt. I just love the idea of the salt 910 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,040 boundary. Like, so Rose Salt pour out 911 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:58,720 entirely to halt foes from crossing its boundary. 912 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,480 Like I always love that. And like Supernatural or other 913 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,080 ghost shit where they're like, yeah, we saw. 914 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,120 We draw a line in the saw of salt and spooky things can't get 915 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:16,480 through it. And then I think maybe jaw. 916 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,200 Well, no, this character is not even the cast, so not jar from a 917 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,000 God's brain. Cool one though. 918 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,920 It's a cool one though. It is a very cool one who I 919 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,880 don't know what would you pick as my second one? 920 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,280 What would I pick as your second one? 921 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,440 I have no idea. Can I tell you my favorite one? 922 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,080 Tell me your favorite one. Ashes of yourself. 923 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,520 I was going to say that's a really good one. 924 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,760 Yeah, so ashes of yourself. This was once you rub on body to 925 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:46,440 avoid death, bro. I love that. 926 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,080 It's so good. It's so good. 927 00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,240 And going back to the one you just said, the the jar for God's 928 00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:55,240 brain sorcerer's word can be spat in here for later use. 929 00:50:55,240 --> 00:51:00,640 Love that the names that just the the God, the name every the 930 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:05,000 forbidden face paint the the shriveled fist. 931 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:10,640 The the unbound rope can be limitlessly unspooled until cut. 932 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,840 Just this is the endless fucking rope. 933 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:15,840 Until you cut it and then it is what it is. 934 00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:21,480 But yeah, like, but then there's like the child's mask from a 935 00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,840 child who never grew. Damn. 936 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,200 Yeah. So what's your other one? 937 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,760 What's your other one? What you what you taking? 938 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,040 Oh, I would probably do that for this person, ashes of yourself, 939 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,160 because like, you know they're going to probably die punching 940 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:37,520 somebody in the face at some point. 941 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:39,960 Yeah, but you have like a million vigor, don't you? 942 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,640 You have like 12 vigor. I have 12, not a million, you 943 00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:46,160 know. Close enough, but that's yeah, 944 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:47,880 they're so I love the curious. They're so good. 945 00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,200 And you just get to start with two and then sorceries. 946 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,840 Talk to me about sorceries. I love this system. 947 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,480 It's similar to a system that I'm kind of toying with. 948 00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,480 So it makes me go, hmm, you know. 949 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,880 So from whose brain did you pluck these words? 950 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,800 The envious would gurgle your Gray matter for the those 951 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,800 secrets you should be proud to speak your sorcery Roll 952 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,920 presence. Explain what you intend to do. 953 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:16,120 The difficulty value of a sorcery is equal to the number 954 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:20,000 of syllables uttered. After casting, the same number 955 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,720 is drained from your vigor, the price that is to be expected for 956 00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:27,360 uttering such secrets. Sorceress words you know are 957 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,400 equal to your present score divided by two. 958 00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,840 My present score sucks, sorry. Your present score divided by 959 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:42,280 two areas, rounded down. Choose from below or record your 960 00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,920 own. When sorcery is intended to 961 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:49,480 harm, it deals 2 to 6 + 1 per syllable points of damage. 962 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,240 I love this. I love this. 963 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,040 Very clean, very lightweight. You know what reminds me of a 964 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,160 little bit? What game does this remind me 965 00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:56,720 of? A little bit. 966 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,480 Just a tiny bit. Just a little bit. 967 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,000 It's an Adam Bass. Oh yeah, totally made. 968 00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,600 Yeah. Yeah, the ones that I really. 969 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:09,480 Yeah. Yeah. 970 00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:10,280 Thank you. It's. 971 00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:14,160 Like the the whole. Word astronauts for some reason. 972 00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,400 I don't know why but. The whole like words thing, but 973 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,520 also like like the memories thing and like how you have to 974 00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,040 add word like you use words. The thing I like that it's 975 00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,640 similar to this and it's not just like a word and you get a 976 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:26,440 word. I'd love that. 977 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:30,640 It's like syllables to the word. So light and weapon are very 978 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,960 different versus also like immolate. 979 00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:38,680 Like you could have super long words if you really wanted to, 980 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,920 but also like the amount of vigor that you drain from 981 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,000 yourself, like based on the the equal to the number of syllables 982 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:50,280 you utter. So like a four syllable word you 983 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,800 could like almost kill yourself with. 984 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,520 That's crazy. Yeah. 985 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,120 Wow. Yeah. 986 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,400 I love that. I think that's the one of the 987 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,840 most interesting magic things ever, where it's just like, I 988 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,040 mean, clearly we've done things where there's like blood magic, 989 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,760 of course you hurt yourself to catch spells, whatever. 990 00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,200 But I really love that. It's literally like these secret 991 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,480 words you're not supposed to utter, these words of power. 992 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,800 And like when you do like, the longer the word is more powerful 993 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:18,440 it is, but the more it hurts you, it's just such an 994 00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,400 interesting. I also just love like the words 995 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,680 of power type of magic. I think it's really cool. 996 00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,360 You have you seen Adventure Time? 997 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,120 Yeah. OK, all the all the every time 998 00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,880 the the Lich pops up and he gives, it's like a one fall. 999 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:39,320 Yeah, you're like, oh fuck yeah. Yeah, it's so good. 1000 00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:43,040 It's not, it's, it's so good. Last page really is the 1001 00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:47,440 sycophants and the rungs. So I really dig the sycophants. 1002 00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:51,240 As you proceed those there will be those seeking power in your 1003 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:53,720 presence. These sycophants are beings met 1004 00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:58,760 within the rungs or even former foes you spared for each 1005 00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,840 sorcerer's word taught to it. A sycophant will follow you 1006 00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,280 while the sycophant is in your company. 1007 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,520 The sorcerer's word is unauditable to you. 1008 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,840 Upon entering a new rung, the sycophant must be taught a new 1009 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:12,840 word or will depart from company again. 1010 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:17,760 I love the self limiting aspects of this game where yeah you 1011 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,840 could have this thing following you around, helping you battle, 1012 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,280 doing whatever, but like I should take it from wrong to 1013 00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,360 wrong to wrong. That's another word you can't 1014 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,320 use in another word cuz I assume it's stacks. 1015 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:28,560 I think it's the only way you can read. 1016 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,960 This is I read. It as it stacks, I mean, I think 1017 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,040 personally that's probably how I would run it. 1018 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,240 Yeah. Regardless. 1019 00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,960 I'm like 99.9% sure, like that's the point. 1020 00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,840 Well, we'll never be able to ask Mark Comwent so. 1021 00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:48,680 Yeah, it's not like he's gonna be with us sometime soon, but 1022 00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,840 but that's the only thing that makes sense because like, you 1023 00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,800 have to teach another word or it goes away. 1024 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:57,960 So it's like it's like a weight on your spell casting where like 1025 00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,960 eventually the sycophant is going to have like, all your 1026 00:55:59,960 --> 00:56:01,560 words and you can't cast them. You're going to get to a point 1027 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,320 where you don't even have any words left to teach and then 1028 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,240 they're just going to go away, you know? 1029 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,080 And I love that. I think it's such a cool thing. 1030 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,560 And I love just like the the lower concept of it too. 1031 00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,560 Where it's like you spared a creature, now it follows you, 1032 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:17,360 but you have to, like, teach it now in order for it to stay with 1033 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,440 you. It expects a thing from you, you 1034 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:19,880 know. Yeah. 1035 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,640 Yeah, wrongs. I know you love them. 1036 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:25,760 Wrongs. You want to talk to me about 1037 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,160 wrongs? Yeah, so wrong is a place and 1038 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:33,520 time melted, a patch of quasi natural matter squeezed together 1039 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,320 where forms of mock life experience sensations after the 1040 00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,400 dissolution of the last collective consciousness. 1041 00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:46,480 What the fuck? I'm going to be honest, I don't 1042 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,000 know this word. Croissant. 1043 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,640 Croissant. OK, I've heard the word. 1044 00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:58,120 The most poissant Demerge demerge is Weave rungs at will, 1045 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:03,800 while lesser deities seek to claim turf existing on existing 1046 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:10,400 rungs to call their own. Every rung differs in tone and 1047 00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,880 purpose, yet each possess an array of light, which shifts 1048 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,360 periodically, changing the demeanor and taste of its 1049 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:21,880 inhabitants regardless of if they are native to the rung or 1050 00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,040 not. When designing Rung, consider 1051 00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:27,880 who made it, what was made for, and how it is connected. 1052 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,800 Who is meant to dwell here and who is not. 1053 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,520 Rungs are interesting. They're like, yeah, they're 1054 00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:38,240 they're created like deities and Denny are just like, they're 1055 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:43,440 just Demi plains that you move from one to the other. 1056 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,480 Yeah. What do you think happened to 1057 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:49,160 the creators you know? Well, I think the creators still 1058 00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,360 exist. What I really liked what What I 1059 00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:55,280 think is really interesting is where it talks about like the 1060 00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:59,600 most powerful ones make the rungs and lesser ones like just 1061 00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,400 try to exist on the rungs that the more powerful ones are able 1062 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,240 to make. There's so much flavor in like 1 1063 00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:09,200 fucking line there that's so, so interesting. 1064 00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,200 But I also love the chain absolute. 1065 00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:16,280 This rung is fettered links of God intestines tying together 1066 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,920 chambers of light of course. So good, so good. 1067 00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,640 And I really love the map set up too. 1068 00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:27,120 Like I it reminds me a little not not in the same. 1069 00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,400 It doesn't remind me of the bassard's map in that it looks 1070 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,200 similar, but it reminds me of it in the way that it's like a 1071 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,080 abstract ish, but it totally makes senseish kind of way. 1072 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:38,960 Absolutely. Yeah. 1073 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:43,320 I think this game lists Bastards as a influence somewhere. 1074 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:44,600 I don't. Think it lists anything as an 1075 00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,000 influence. Oh, that's right 'cause I was 1076 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,440 looking at it on spear Witch. Ah, well then yeah, that would 1077 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,360 make sense. And drive through RPG. 1078 00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:59,920 But I do love that it's very jaquist which is with the S 1079 00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:03,560 Which is the right way to say it that it's got a lot of like 1080 00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:08,160 loops and and backward movement so like from 1234 you can go in 1081 00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,360 all the different directions 679 there's another loop. 1082 00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,040 So I I really like the way that it was structured in a in a very 1083 00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:23,040 UN not linear fashion. But also I love this roll 1D6 1084 00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:27,240 for the color of light and you would re roll after each rest to 1085 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:34,400 see what the light color is. Roll the D6 real quick. 6. 1086 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,640 So you would start in a scintillating light. 1087 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,600 Traveling to a new chamber restores 1D3 Vigor to you makes. 1088 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:45,760 Sense. I really. 1089 00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,920 I really love all the these various different kind of like 1090 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,280 add-ons and stuff to it. Like your your annoyment in the 1091 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:54,880 beginning, like it's a it's a cool way to change up like 1092 00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:59,520 'cause you could get like, you could get warlike and then roll 1093 00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,520 Damage twice and choose your preferred result like for the 1094 01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,160 whole ring and like and you get a + 1 of Prowess. 1095 01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,760 You'd be sitting at 16, so it's cool. 1096 01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,920 So the The Chain Absolute is an adventure, which is neat. 1097 01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:18,520 So it's what 10 rooms like, really, really interesting. 1098 01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:23,440 I mean, let's just pick one room to talk about just so that we 1099 01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,680 can, like, give a kind of an understanding of what it goes. 1100 01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:29,240 So let's go with. Do you wanna roll A1D10 or you 1101 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,480 just wanna pick a cool one? Is that one D10? 1102 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,200 Yeah. Or a. 1103 01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,040 Connecting Link A spiral stone blocks the path forward. 1104 01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,400 Two hands outreach from the wall, their fingers signed to 1105 01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,320 the party that in order to open the pathway, they must leave 1106 01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,760 something behind. An item or a letter of their 1107 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:52,160 true name for each hand Once relinquished 1D4 quarrellers 1108 01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,360 which are highlighted in yellow. So those are bad guys and a 1109 01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,800 Shame bracer rush forward to steal the offerings. 1110 01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:03,240 Shame bracer wears the armlet of the oaf which is +2 prowess -2 1111 01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,960 position. Carry one ally effortlessly. 1112 01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,040 Did you come? Did you start with that? 1113 01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:13,200 Is that how you? The great the great magic item 1114 01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,200 carry one ally effortlessly just. 1115 01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:16,880 Talk to. Me on your shoulder. 1116 01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,960 And then at the end are a bunch like, in my opinion is 1117 01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,080 surprising. Surprisingly Big B series for an 1118 01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:29,920 adventure this month. They're so good. 1119 01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,280 Like the quarrelers I love so much. 1120 01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:36,520 So two desiccated bodies tugging a single weapon. 1121 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:40,320 Death cannot halt their grudge, so they're literally like 1122 01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,600 desiccated and dying but still fighting over the same weapon 1123 01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:51,040 and then fight you with it. So good DV2 Vigor, 4 damage 1V6, 1124 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,720 they get two actions and then they're special is when reaching 1125 01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,600 0 vigor, the Quarrelers rally and act as though they possess 1 1126 01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,040 vigor for a single round, so they get one one bonus one. 1127 01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,000 So I really dig that. What's the highest DV thing here 1128 01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:06,920 though? There's a A DV4. 1129 01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,280 There's a 5, there's a six and an eight. 1130 01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,360 Pillar Heads 8. Pillar Heads 8. 1131 01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:18,680 So if you had to do some stuff against the pillar head without 1132 01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,280 your prowess, you would have to roll an 8. 1133 01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:23,520 Yeah. Or you would. 1134 01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:28,640 You would you would just fail. Crazy bummer. 1135 01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,600 And that's that's runer. So the back cover, it says where 1136 01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:36,080 you have arrived. You will not return lower unto 1137 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,520 the ladder before your foes reach you. 1138 01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:44,920 There are many rungs yet to see the the flavors. 1139 01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,600 You can fucking taste them. Taste them. 1140 01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:54,760 Let's go to the scores. So obviously this is the Zine. 1141 01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:57,080 Itty bitty Zine. This is exactly what we want 1142 01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:01,360 from Zine. We do 3 scores. 1143 01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,360 Visual, rule, set and vibes. Visuals are all the visuals, 1144 01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,720 Rule set is the rule set and vibes are the vibes. 1145 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,560 So thoughts on visuals? It's a cool, minimalist game, 1146 01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:17,200 you know? I mean, there's not a ton going 1147 01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:20,800 on here, but it's nice to look at. 1148 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,200 I like that It's like this really like incredibly bright, 1149 01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:27,520 loud red. What do you think? 1150 01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:31,800 I mean, I like the font too, but yeah, it's very minimal. 1151 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:43,000 Yeah, I mean, I I I like it. I think that the I think that 1152 01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,120 the color choice is it's readable. 1153 01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,840 I will say that. I do think though like when 1154 01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:52,440 actually reading it, the the headers on each page, the whole 1155 01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,280 there, there's only three colors in the whole thing it's well, I 1156 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,000 guess 4. There's the background red, 1157 01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,400 orange color, there's a yellow, there's a green and there's a 1158 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:01,760 white. And then the headers on each 1159 01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:05,960 page like exploring encounters are yellow with like a green 1160 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,160 drop shadow. Yeah, in the physical. 1161 01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:14,400 I'm not a huge fan of that. I like it digital, so that's 1162 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:18,400 interesting. But also it is when it's just 1163 01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:23,200 the red and yellow, it does get like, it's. 1164 01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,480 I think it's supposed to be weird on your eyes, obviously, 1165 01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:30,000 because shit's weird. But I don't know, sometimes it's 1166 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,160 a little bit illegible, like, obviously we want to give me 1167 01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:35,760 like a piece or two of art, you know? 1168 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:40,360 The other thing too is like like acid mages didn't really have 1169 01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,680 like quote UN quote art but sort of how like designy backgrounds. 1170 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:45,000 And stuff. There's some stuff going on in 1171 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,440 the background, right? Yeah, yeah, I mean, I would 1172 01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,440 write this below that, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1173 01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:52,840 I mean, even even when we look at others, I think that's the 1174 01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:55,400 here's The thing is, I like it. I think it's, it's good. 1175 01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,280 But I think that if anything's lacking in this, it's the it's 1176 01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:00,040 visuals. It's. 1177 01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:02,160 I would super agree. I mean, I think for me this is 1178 01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:06,880 like a good six for visuals. Yeah, six is 6 is where my mind 1179 01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:10,400 was was going, yeah. Because I mean if this was 1180 01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,800 expanded a little bit, had just even just like a couple of 1181 01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,160 random pieces. I mean, the whole thing 1182 01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:19,440 literally is only 15 pages, even if they bumped it out to 20. 1183 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,480 To put just like one or two pieces, a picture of the 1184 01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:24,760 Corollar, a picture of like page. 1185 01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,440 Gender page charter or header or something. 1186 01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,360 Just low, yeah. You know it needs a little bit 1187 01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:36,360 more visually, but for a super minimalist and like it's, it's 1188 01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:38,680 fine. Again, 5 is not bad, Five is 1189 01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,560 just nothing good or bad to say about it. 1190 01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:43,760 It's paying average. I think 66 does work. 1191 01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,400 I think the weird colors do pop it up a little bit. 1192 01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:51,920 Rule set. Cool rule set cool spin on one 1193 01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,040 of my favorite like rule set types. 1194 01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:57,680 The D20 roll under made popular by a lot of games. 1195 01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,280 I like the spells, I like the true name thing and none of it's 1196 01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:07,080 very like heavy but I feel like you'd use it. 1197 01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,880 I think that there is a lot to be said about the self 1198 01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,000 regulation of the rules like you were talking about. 1199 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,920 Like there for every bonus there is a negative when it comes to 1200 01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:20,400 like equipment or I mean even using your true name. 1201 01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,720 I think it's a lot of really cool stuff added on to that, 1202 01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:29,200 like into the odd ask framework that doesn't detract from it. 1203 01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:33,040 It doesn't add like layers of complexity that are unnecessary. 1204 01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,520 So I think pretty highly of this rule set. 1205 01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,920 Yeah, I really dig it. I mean, for the same reasons you 1206 01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:40,000 just said. I like that. 1207 01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,680 It feels elegant. Absolutely. 1208 01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,120 It feels elegant. Yeah. 1209 01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:47,640 And there's nothing in the rules that I'm like, you don't really 1210 01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:48,880 need that. Like everything. 1211 01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:54,280 That is all the little systems in it feel once you've read 1212 01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,320 them, it feels necessary. You know what I mean? 1213 01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,560 Yeah and yeah, the magic's great. 1214 01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:02,320 And again, this, the self regulation is fantastic. 1215 01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,120 It's just like, yeah, take -4 armor, go for it, and then just 1216 01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:09,040 be fucked and have no precision, no spell words, which means no 1217 01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:12,800 sick fans, which means like most of your inventory has gone too. 1218 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,840 So it's really interesting. Like you rolled up a character 1219 01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,760 that has like nothing but prowess, you know? 1220 01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:20,880 So you could really go into that or try to bump it up. 1221 01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:23,680 So yeah, I really like it a lot. What are your thoughts? 1222 01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,480 I'm thinking like a really good solid 7 on this one. 1223 01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,160 Oh really? I could do eight. 1224 01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:32,840 I'm seven between 7:00 and 8:00. I always had an 8. 1225 01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:34,040 I always had an 8. OK, let's do eight. 1226 01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:35,480 I think 8. I said seven. 1227 01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:37,080 And I was like, man, maybe I would maybe. 1228 01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:38,800 I think it's an 8 actually. Yeah, so. 1229 01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,520 For a Rules Light game, I really did this. 1230 01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:42,640 I would play the hell out of this. 1231 01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,520 And again, there's nothing that I can think that I would be 1232 01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:49,240 like, man, I I there's nothing mechanically that I'm like, man, 1233 01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:50,520 I wish it had this, you know what I mean? 1234 01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:51,800 Yeah. Like at all. 1235 01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:55,680 At all and everything that is there, yeah. 1236 01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:57,720 He feels. Vibes. 1237 01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,280 I feel viby. I feel vibes are good on this. 1238 01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:03,760 And this is a great example of someone who's like writing voice 1239 01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,920 comes through their game and really well and works really 1240 01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:13,200 well with it and adds to the weird, esoteric, other planer 1241 01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:18,200 nature of this game without riding like, long like 1242 01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:22,600 paragraphs of prose. I I love this. 1243 01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:26,000 I think it's a It's hell of hell of big vibes. 1244 01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,760 You know, hella big vibes. The interesting thing about this 1245 01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:39,040 is that if if you cut like 5 sentences from this entire 1246 01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:42,479 thing, it feels like you're gonna play a different game. 1247 01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:44,200 You know what I mean? Yeah, totally. 1248 01:08:44,319 --> 01:08:49,760 Like things like, and even the way that it says things like 1249 01:08:50,279 --> 01:08:53,880 random foes besetting you, like, that's a whole different vibe 1250 01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:57,000 than like an enemy comes around the corner or an enemy attacks. 1251 01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,479 You know what I mean? Like, foes beset you. 1252 01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,760 But like, what's that one that I said that I really, really 1253 01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:08,240 loved? The one that was like, I don't 1254 01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,240 remember now. Oh, even just the fettered links 1255 01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:13,359 of God intestines. It's a great one. 1256 01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,399 It's such a good one, but there's just a couple of lines 1257 01:09:16,399 --> 01:09:18,520 in it through the entire thing where you're just like, fuck, 1258 01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:25,040 like even just that last little bit, That last oh, this way you 1259 01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:29,040 may exact retribution, like get rid of that line. 1260 01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,760 And the sense above it is, is just mechanics. 1261 01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:35,160 But that line at the end goes fuck like it's still weird, It's 1262 01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,200 still esoteric. So yeah, vibes are high 1263 01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,760 thoughts. Thinking I'm thinking another 8. 1264 01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:42,880 Yeah, that's where I was at too 8. 1265 01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:47,080 Easy 8, I think. I think realistically, like the 1266 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:49,680 increased visuals would increase vibes, you know? 1267 01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:51,160 I mean, but that's just how I. Agree. 1268 01:09:51,319 --> 01:09:54,279 I think there's a lot good here. And I I I do wanna play this 1269 01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:57,840 weird little thing. You know, it's it's such a weird 1270 01:09:57,840 --> 01:09:59,640 little thing. That's such a weird little 1271 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:00,800 thing. And I would play the hell out of 1272 01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:01,800 this. I would play the hell out of 1273 01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:03,320 this in a second. I would keep this in my back 1274 01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,560 pocket and be like, hey kids, you wanna play like a weird 1275 01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,560 little thing, but like, not kids, like my coworkers or 1276 01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:13,680 something, you know? But yeah, so this is a 22 four 1277 01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:14,720 ruiner. Love it. 1278 01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,040 This is from Mark Conway. We alluded to it a couple of 1279 01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:19,360 times on stream, but you can expect Mark on the show 1280 01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:22,640 tomorrow. Tomorrow we're gonna be playing 1281 01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:29,400 some meatheads, which is a weird meathead game. 1282 01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:31,760 You can go check it out right now on their itch page. 1283 01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:37,680 It's Half blark dot itch dot IO. Check them out on Twitter at 1284 01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:39,360 Half Blark as well. You'll see meatheads on 1285 01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:40,600 everything. We're going to be doing an 1286 01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,120 actual play tomorrow. It's myself, Hunter and Stella 1287 01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:46,720 Condrey who is on our show for some Illuminal horror 1288 01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:49,400 previously. They also do some great stuff. 1289 01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,440 We'll make sure we talk about their A Red Solstice 4, just 1290 01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:56,560 dropped from Stella, but really excited for that. 1291 01:10:56,840 --> 01:11:01,200 It's a very interesting game. We will be, I believe, doing 1292 01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:03,960 some type of dungeon crawl with our meatheads. 1293 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:08,840 But meatheads is a bunch of like system tools for old school 1294 01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:13,240 gaming with a lot of fun, funny vibes. 1295 01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:16,200 Excited for that. Mark Conway's done a lot of 1296 01:11:16,440 --> 01:11:19,040 yeah, I'm really excited. Mark Conway's done a lot of 1297 01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:20,560 great stuff. Check out all of the things. 1298 01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:25,040 It's one of those things where when we started talking about 1299 01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:26,480 this, I was like, wait a minute, I had this from you. 1300 01:11:26,480 --> 01:11:28,000 Oh, and I had this from you. Oh, and I had this. 1301 01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:31,640 From. You and yeah, so be here 1302 01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:36,160 tomorrow for that. And every freaking day pretty 1303 01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,040 much for the rest of the month to talk about more Zing Quest 1304 01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,320 stuff. If you're listening, you have a 1305 01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:42,880 Zing Quest project. Just find us on Twitter, drop it 1306 01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,800 on one of our tweets, We'll do our best to get to it. 1307 01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:51,280 Otherwise we had a submission form open for like 3 months and 1308 01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,400 it's closed now because we got autonomous submissions and we're 1309 01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:57,280 talking to all of those people. So next year be prepared. 1310 01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:00,520 Odds and ends got your tweet? We will be talking about your 1311 01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:02,800 project as well. That is it. 1312 01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:04,360 That is US. That is our episode. 1313 01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,600 Nice and tight. This one is buddy, you have a 1314 01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,480 good day. I will see you all later. 1315 01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:11,240 Bye, bye.