1 00:00:14,710 --> 00:00:16,790 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:16,790 --> 00:00:20,230 My name is Ryan. And I've witnessed man made 3 00:00:20,230 --> 00:00:22,190 horrors beyond your comprehension. 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,600 And today we're going to be looking at Never Going Home. 5 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,600 This is a party focused eldritch horror role play game set in the 6 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:38,520 trenches of the First World War inspired by World War occult art 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,920 of Charlie Ferguson Avery. Yeah. 8 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,720 Arts Labs. A berm hack. 9 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,400 Fan Yeah, we've looked at I think. 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,520 I think that's. I think that's the only one 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,080 we've we've looked at that's actually like written by Charlie 12 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,760 Ferguson every. But I'm positive we've looked at 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,440 games that have Charlie's art before and I have a I mean, I 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,240 have like everything Charlie Ferguson every has ever done. 15 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,720 So I should, you know, I should have grabbed all that because so 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,640 much, so much of their stuff slapped so hard. 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,440 I, I also know that God, let's tangent right away. 18 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,720 At some point they were talking about doing more of Ermac and 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,640 I'm still really excited to get more of Ermac. 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:24,760 Yeah, Feral Indie Studios is the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,520 Maybe we never will. We'll see it. 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,040 I mean, Vast in the Dark is fantastic. 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,280 And then we also just got like Ave. 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,600 NOx just came out. I still only get the regular 25 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,160 version of that. I got the special edition, which 26 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,280 is gorgeous. But Charlie's art is also on 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,960 like the regular version. So it's one of those things 28 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:40,960 where like sometimes you want the regular version even more 29 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:42,160 than the special because of the art. 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,640 Anyways, yeah, so. So we're looking at Never Going 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,080 home. This is a cool one that we've. 32 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:52,280 It's been on my list forever and I wanted to do it a long time 33 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,800 ago. And then they they launched a 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,680 second Kickstarter and I'll get the info about that in a little 35 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,320 bit. And then I actually mailed you 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,440 like the original book. So I didn't even have the book 37 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,720 because I just backed everything on the Kickstarter for or 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,560 everything on the Kickstarter. For those that can't see the fat 39 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,600 stack I got in my hand right now it's 123456789. 40 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:18,000 It's 10 books plus some dice and some cards. 41 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:19,360 So actually let's look at that a little bit. 42 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,120 Let's just hey, we haven't we haven't done we've done like 1 43 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,920 episode in three weeks because we were super sick. 44 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,400 So it's nice to be back and we. Did it Which arrived. 45 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,520 Yeah, and Hunter's obviously feeling 100%, I feel. 46 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,760 Like today, right now. I didn't go to the ER last night 47 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:36,400 at all. That would be ridiculous. 48 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:38,560 Be crazy to do an episode after that. 49 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,480 But regardless, here we are. So let's let's talk about Never 50 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,400 Going Home a little bit. So Never Going Home was 51 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,840 crowdfunded on Kickstarter on December 3rd, 2018 with 786 52 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:58,240 backers for $33,188.00 with stretch goals unlocking the 53 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,000 books once more on To the Breach, Tome of Corrupted 54 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,240 Beasts, and A Book of Whispers. And then in 2023 more campaign 55 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,480 dossiers were released. Bones in the Dust, Blood on the 56 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,480 Snow, and Tears in the Sea. And then it returned to 57 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,280 Kickstarter in 2023 for Never Going Home, The Beginning and 58 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,840 the End. And that was to fund 3 new 59 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,480 books, the campaign dossiers, Bile in the Streets and Spit in 60 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,240 the Dirt, and the Magical sourcebook From Beyond the Veil. 61 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,160 It was It funded on June 10th, 2023 with 781 backers for 62 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:37,840 $65,811.00. Yeah, between the two 63 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,960 Kickstarters in 2018 and 2020, they made about 100 grand. 64 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,920 Wow. That's, I think it was 65 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,320 literally, if I did the math, it's like $99,998 or something. 66 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,200 It was like the closest to 100 grand you could get. 67 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:59,640 But, but it's cool. So prior to that though, I, as I 68 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,240 said, this was inspired by World War occult art by Charlie 69 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,640 Ferguson Avery. That's actually a Kickstarter 70 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,720 that happened that Charlie did, I believe in 2017. 71 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,120 We're going to kick over to the Down Cam today. 72 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:20,120 Let me turn the light on. And that's actually what this 73 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,360 book is right here. So for those in podcast land, I 74 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,800 went with the Down Cam and I'm showing this World War occult 75 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,920 with this concept art by Charlie Ferguson Avery with text by 76 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,080 Bryan Ferguson Avery. Together they do feral Indies 77 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,280 studios. So this is just a a dope art 78 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:41,560 book all the way through where there's basically a picture on 79 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,600 the right side and then a little bit of text on the left side. 80 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,720 So first page it says, no, let's get that one. 81 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,560 That's just a so here's one that's got this soldier looking 82 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,680 wounded, dead, but has a bit of a crucified look to him. 83 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,120 And it says to keep them out of enemy hands. 84 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,880 We were not allowed Diaries. Our sketchbooks were forbidden. 85 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,400 When my Sergeant finds me pin to page, I promise him I'll burn 86 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,760 them all. He knows I'm low on matches. 87 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,120 So the entire book structure like that where there's a piece 88 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,240 of art on the on the right page of the spread and some really 89 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,520 cool vibey writing on the left. Combination of black and white 90 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,480 and color all the way through and as I said, this was the 91 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,800 original inspiration for never going home the game and then 92 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,000 obviously they used Charlie's art throughout and a lot of the 93 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,040 pieces from World of War occult this book are in in the original 94 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,800 never going home book so. Brook Man, I wish, I wish I had 95 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,720 this. This Yeah, I so I found this on 96 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,920 eBay. It actually wasn't too terribly 97 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,600 offensive, but even if it was, I would have got it anyway 98 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,400 because, you know, I love Charlie's stuff. 99 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,480 And and honestly, the art fucking slaps so hard. 100 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,840 Like the vibes are Immaculate. I can see why it inspired 101 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:02,800 someone to make a game, but but yeah, so on top of all the books 102 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,640 here, I'll flip through them so you can see the covers because 103 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,640 honestly, the covers of every single one go so hard. 104 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,440 So this is the original Never Going Home book. 105 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,680 It's got a number of these, kind of like esoteric World War One 106 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,400 soldiers on the front, some information on the back. 107 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,600 Blood on the Snow is a later one, but it is one of the 108 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,520 campaign dossiers. This is the one that said in 109 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,800 1916. Toma Corrupted Beast was part of 110 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,960 the original campaign. Book of Whispers was a magic 111 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,200 book that was part of the original campaign. 112 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,600 I love this one with a red cover. 113 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,200 It's absolutely stunning. Never going Home. 114 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,240 This is From Beyond the Veil. This is part of the second 115 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,160 Kickstarter. Then there's Bile in the 116 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,280 Streets, which was, I believe, part of the second Kickstarter, 117 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:50,240 but it was a prequel. This is Campaign Dossier said 118 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,160 1914. And then we got Bones in the 119 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,080 Dust, another fantastic, I mean, they're all fantastic covers, 120 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:00,400 but this one is set in 1915. Then, as I said, Blood on the 121 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:07,680 Snow is set in 1916. Tears in the Sea is set in 1917 122 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,600 and then it is bookended there on the back with the spit in the 123 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:16,000 dirt, which is set in 1918. And then part of the original 124 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,320 campaign to was Never Going Home once more onto the Breach. 125 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,000 And that is a book of 21 adventures for never going Home. 126 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,840 Yeah. And this one is it looks like a 127 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,080 like a folder, like there's like papers and stuff on the back. 128 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,240 It's like brown and it's it's kind of like a Manila folder 129 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,360 ish, kind of look to it. The rest all have different arts 130 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,040 and things like that. So I'm going to pull this one up 131 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,080 hard because that's what I'm going to talk about. 132 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,600 So yeah, so that is that is all of the stuff. 133 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,000 Never going home. In addition, they also did put 134 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 out a set of dice. These are really dope. 135 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,480 They have these like, skulls with a World War 2 helmet, but 136 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,560 it's also this like, weird, kind of like Eldred snakey design. 137 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,240 And then other for the sixes and the pips otherwise are little 138 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,120 flies. So that's pretty cool. 139 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:12,240 Set of dice. Yeah. 140 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,040 And then there's a set of cards that I've not opened yet because 141 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,360 I haven't played with them yet, so I want to keep them 142 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,560 protected. But there is a set of cards that 143 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,040 comes with it. It's a full deck of standard 144 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,160 playing cards with 52 playing cards and two jokers. 145 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,960 And you'll understand why there's a deaf cards once we are 146 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,280 actually talking about the game, but that is all of the stuff the 147 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:32,200 deck. Of cards. 148 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:36,440 Oh, crazy, right? But that is all of the stuff 149 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:37,760 that you can give with Never Going home. 150 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,600 It's a fat stack of stuff. There's a lot of stuff, it's a 151 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,480 lot of content to interact with, you know? 152 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:51,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so I think I'll hide this 153 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:53,000 for now. We're going to be coming back to 154 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,200 the down camera for reasons that's that will become evident 155 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,240 once we get to but going into so the actual review starts now. 156 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,920 Future Ryan for the time stamps, never going home again. 157 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,080 The cover slapped so hard. Charlie's art is incredible. 158 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,120 It's amazing art, yeah. Yeah, and and the logo is really 159 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,840 cool too. Like I know it's it's it's just 160 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,880 like a a serif font, but it's very weather beaten logo 161 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,680 definitely helps with the vibes, but but the art is incredible 162 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,920 color cover with these three. As I said, these three World War 163 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:34,240 One soldiers and but the very esoteric. 164 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,160 The one is like cuts all over this arm. 165 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:41,840 A lot of them have these like kind of like fetishes or or 166 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,280 decorations on their armors. And World War 1 was such a 167 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:51,200 different vibe. First of all, it's not Hitler, 168 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,320 so that obviously you know it it you know, but the the gas mask 169 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,120 aesthetic that is used pretty. There's also just like something 170 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,320 inherently like fucked up about like the whole like extended 171 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,880 trench warfare that was like people got sick, they got gouts, 172 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,800 they were like dying left and right from the conditions. 173 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,520 They like really, they fought for just miles, like throughout 174 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,400 the entire war, really just like a couple miles back and forth 175 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,200 because how entrenched they were. 176 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,640 Yeah, it was, it was incredibly dark. 177 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,600 Like it makes a lot of sense for like a like eldritch horror war 178 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,960 setting, you know? Yeah, I mean, I mean, there 179 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,640 there's a reason that Trench Crusade also uses World War One 180 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,960 as its setting exactly like you said, just the not that there 181 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,920 wasn't trench warfare in World War 2, but it was such a focus 182 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:43,680 in in World War One that yeah, it was definitely very, very, 183 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:45,240 very, very different. Yeah. 184 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,120 So never going home. The plus one there's a we are 185 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:55,160 getting to a credits page. The plus one system, which we'll 186 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,960 talk about soon. Written by Brandon K Eighton, 187 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,840 Matthew Orr. Writing in the book is Irvin 188 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,760 Jackson, Matthew Orr, Sarah Orr, Aiden. 189 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,560 Additional writing from Taylor White. 190 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:07,880 Let me turn this light off. Adventures by Corey Capps, 191 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,120 Crystal Maser and Stephen Wu. Art from Charlie Ferguson Avery 192 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,760 and then the editor is Carol Darnell and the layout is WM 193 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,680 Knox gun. And this is from Wet Ink Games. 194 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,320 Wet Ink Games is the people that do this. 195 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,800 So Feral indie is Charlie, but Wet Ink games does they they 196 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:27,960 they have a number of other games. 197 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:32,680 I think they're the ones that do like there's like a doggos game. 198 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,160 I think they're putting out a cat game too, but they have a 199 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,960 bunch of they have a bunch of stuff. 200 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,840 I actually look like 3 weeks ago when we were for supposed to do 201 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,760 this and I've completely forgotten at this point so. 202 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,440 I have all my notes are hyperlinked to all the 203 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,840 Kickstarters, but I forgot to write down the other stuff that 204 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,760 wet ink games stuff. They've done a bunch of stuff, a 205 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,480 bunch of interesting things. So, so never go. 206 00:11:55,560 --> 00:12:01,560 So when so all right, so. Now, all right, so. 207 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,600 All right, so before we get too deep in the book, there is a 208 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,440 quote right at the beginning. Death is what we see when awake. 209 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,440 When we are asleep, it is dreams. 210 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,040 Heraclitus complete fragments, fragment 21. 211 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,560 So we do our best here on the show. 212 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,320 A couple of things. Let's just do let's do some 213 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,200 prefaces. Let's hedge, let's hedge some 214 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,000 shit a little bit, right? We are very critical here on the 215 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,440 show. We have high standards for the 216 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,840 things that we go over. We we can get super pedantic 217 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,440 about things. We can be pretty picky about 218 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,280 things because I mean, that's, that's critique, right? 219 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:42,600 Is, is a desire to, to elevate things, right? 220 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,040 Is to like, hey, this might be great, but it could be better 221 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,040 with these like small tweaks. So these are the things we we 222 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,640 point out, we go over and things like that, right? 223 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,320 We never try to be mean on the show, but we will be blunt. 224 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,000 We will sometimes be frustrated. Often times that's because 225 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,320 something could be great, but there is something that nags a 226 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,760 little bit. So we never try to be mean on 227 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,360 the show, is what we're saying I do. 228 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,160 But we're going to be pretty critical of this book for a 229 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,200 number of different reasons. The one of the things that I 230 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,280 think both of us had pretty negative opinion on that we'll 231 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,920 just knock out right away is the layout. 232 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:24,240 Yeah, it's pretty egregious across the board in almost every 233 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,200 way. Yeah, it's it's not great. 234 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,840 It's not great. So let's we'll we'll point out 235 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,600 how it's not great as we go through. 236 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,040 But here's my first beef. We're going to look at this 237 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,320 these two pages here. Let's go to fit visible. 238 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,560 Now let's go to zoom to page level. 239 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,320 Can I, can I page display this into a two page view that'll 240 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:50,640 give me both pages? No. 241 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,880 OK, so let's look at this two page view here, right? 242 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,160 So what we're looking at is basically it's 2 almost 243 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,000 completely empty pages at the full spread with just like a one 244 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 line of for that quote that I said on the left side. 245 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,240 But what the background is, is a page texture. 246 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:09,600 And I think this is one of those things where it's like, I have 247 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,920 no problem with using a page texture for a book, right? 248 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,600 Like, for example, if you look at like D&D, it's got a, a 249 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,720 parchment tea kind of background, right? 250 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,080 Yeah, fine. Right. 251 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:27,280 But what what this book does is it's not a page texture, it's a 252 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,080 fake page. Right. 253 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:34,200 It's just one though. It's two, yeah, but so and this 254 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,440 is this. There's a page missing here. 255 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,160 This is supposed to be together, so it'd be two spreads. 256 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,640 But the problem is what this one does is a couple of things that 257 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:49,480 that I, that I, I find pretty, pretty, just not great that I 258 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,480 would avoid going forward. So specifically for this page 259 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,960 right here, let's go to zoom to page level again on the left 260 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,360 side of it, as I said, this is a fake page. 261 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,080 It's not a texture. So there's actually like, it 262 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,000 actually looks as if there's a stack of pages on the left side 263 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,320 and then on the right side there's a spine down the middle 264 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,880 like about a centimeter. And there's a spine of pages on 265 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,680 the page as if it's a fake page that's like spread open. 266 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,240 That's not, it doesn't look good. 267 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,320 It looks in my opinion, like I don't know what words to 268 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,000 describe it except for tacky like to to every page looks as 269 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,960 if it is a fake page as opposed to just the texture, which would 270 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,280 have been fine. I don't like the the background 271 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,000 texture either. It's a very darkish brown with 272 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,240 like a stain on it and a bunch of these like black dots all 273 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,320 over it. And if you look to the next 274 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,280 page, you'll see the other part of the spine of like what would 275 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,640 be like. Spine part is definitely more 276 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,600 bothersome than it's just the the printed on texture of the 277 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,360 page the. Text I'm saying is if it was 278 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,920 just the texture if they zoomed it in a little bit it wouldn't 279 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,880 be though so bad but like the fake spine down the. 280 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,800 Middle and the fake. Spine and the fake and the and 281 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,560 the pages on the left side. It actually looks like fake 282 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,560 pages. But not only that, the one page, 283 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,960 which I think would be the right page on the layout spread has a 284 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,840 bunch of black dots all over that are like part of the 285 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,600 texture that is so annoying when reading the book because it's 286 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,560 actually like these giant black dots in text. 287 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,160 And we get to a one page where there's like black dots for like 288 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,360 the layout for like bullet points, but that are surrounded 289 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,680 by black dots for the texture. And it's a very dark brown. 290 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,320 So the black against it gives it this like obviously you can read 291 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,280 it, but it's not, it's a dark brown like with a black text on 292 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,360 it. So it's not great for that 293 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,040 reason. So just the, if you're going to 294 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,640 go with a page texture, just do a page texture. 295 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,880 Don't do fake page edges and stuff like that. 296 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,120 It just looks, I don't know, amateurish. 297 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,520 It looks extremely tacky and it really takes away from the the 298 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,920 look. And the other problem too is 299 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:01,800 like you said, it's just the 2 pages. 300 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,640 It's one spread of these textures for like 120 pages. 301 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,200 One because it's one and then flipped on the other side. 302 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,440 It's the exact same page flipped so. 303 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,280 No, I don't think so. No it's not because there would 304 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:14,440 be the black dots on the other one. 305 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,160 I think it's it's A1 full spread with like the spine down the 306 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,200 middle. So it's one full spread of 307 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:21,640 pages. It doesn't look so similar. 308 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:23,400 I guess it's not as many. Yeah, so. 309 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,920 It looks so similar because the stain is like almost a meter. 310 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,920 Yeah, so it's just the same 2 spreads through the entire 311 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,440 thing, which also doesn't help with like it looking. 312 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,000 I don't know. It makes it and even the one 313 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,840 page even has like a tear on the bottom. 314 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,040 Like it looks like the page is torn. 315 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,080 So every other page you get a fake page tear, but it's the 316 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,720 same page there 60 times. Like just use a texture like 317 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,080 don't use a fake page. It really detracts from the 318 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,360 book. But the thing about this though 319 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:58,560 is if you actually look in the book when, since we're talking 320 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,720 about the layout, we'll go right in, we'll we'll look at a page 321 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,920 on here real quick. When you actually look in the 322 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,080 book, it's kind of less of an issue because it's cropped 323 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:16,160 pretty bad, pretty poorly because the margins in the 324 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,240 actual book are like 1/2 a centimeter. 325 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:24,200 They're literally. Crazy small there's like there 326 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,000 is no gutter to anything in the in here. 327 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,640 There is 0 gutter. There's zero margin, so they 328 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:35,680 literally cropped it so far that you almost lose the fake pages, 329 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,080 except it's still a little bit on the one. 330 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,560 And then if you look at like the fake spine in the middle, it's 331 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,440 actually cropped to the point where it's almost gone. 332 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,200 So it's almost a little bit better to read the physical 333 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,800 because it looks almost kind of like it's supposed to be there a 334 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,960 little bit, except that when you actually look at like the 335 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,040 digital and you see what it's supposed to be, you just realize 336 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,680 that like it was cropped super poorly for the book and the 337 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,440 margins are like egregiously small. 338 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,680 So reading the physical is awful because you get like again like 339 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,880 1/2 a centimeter on the side of margin, top side, bottom and no 340 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,680 gutter. That's probably right there. 341 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,480 It's such a perfect, it's such a perfect like representation of 342 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,520 what going through this is like. Yeah, it's rough. 343 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,520 So I read it on PDF because the margins were just like breaking 344 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,520 my brain because you can't even really hold the page without 345 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,200 like having to move your thumb because there's not enough room 346 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,200 unless you're using like your nail to hold the pages open and 347 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,040 not be like over top of so much of the, the stuff. 348 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:43,240 So that's pretty. That's one of my biggest beefs 349 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,720 on the physical is that they they cropped the shit out of 350 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,200 this and really destroyed like the margins. 351 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:53,960 But we're going to get into a lot more reasons on why the rest 352 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,760 of the layout is pretty poor in our opinion. 353 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,680 But that's right off the bat is just the the use of not just a 354 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,960 not a page texture, but actual fake pages with fake paged spine 355 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:11,400 and tears and and stuff in it. It it does not in in my opinion, 356 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,040 and I assume yours as well, does not look good. 357 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,840 Then. You could probably use like a 358 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,000 fake page texture in your own game and it look OK. 359 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,280 This is just not done well. Yeah, well, that's what I'm 360 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,680 saying is like use a texture, but don't don't use a fake page 361 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,400 as in like there's a a pretend spine and a pretend edges to the 362 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,120 page and pretend tears on the page. 363 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,720 Just use a parchment background. It's totally fine. 364 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,600 You just don't need all of the you don't need this right here. 365 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:42,160 This like fake spine fold and and tears and stuff. 366 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:48,320 So continuing on, we get to the table of contents, which is not 367 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,880 hyperlinked and there are no bookmarks at all for the entire 368 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,160 thing either. So usability and navigation 369 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,560 pretty. It's only like 120 pages. 370 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,760 Right, but also we're going to get later. 371 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,920 There's the table of contents is kind of like weird what they 372 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,040 decide to do and also like we're going to get later. 373 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,400 There's no real differentiation. A lot of times, you know I 374 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,400 sometimes you don't even realize that you suddenly hit like the 375 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,360 next. Like section or like, yeah, 376 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:23,840 there's, there's not like clear delineation by use of like 377 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,720 Heathers and stuff like there are Heathers and sometimes there 378 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,920 aren't. And sometimes I think the fonts 379 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,360 a little bit different on them and so they don't strike you as 380 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,720 headers or this looks like the same as the text. 381 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,640 That's a. They basically use this same 382 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,280 font for everything to the entire book and are just use 383 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,680 weird variations of bold. Also, the font is not a great 384 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,000 choice. This kind of like very, it 385 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,360 bothers me when you get closer, when we talk like the headers 386 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:55,720 and stuff, because everything is bold. 387 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:01,320 Basically everything is bold and it's a very wide, thick bold 388 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,840 serif. Like when we're looking at the 389 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,240 table of contents page, like the space, the letter spacing is 390 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,760 pretty wide on all of it. It's just, it's just, I don't 391 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,040 know. It feels it's I don't know. 392 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,480 It doesn't it's not it doesn't look nice to me. 393 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,960 Like if you're going to get the serif font, it's just not great. 394 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,040 What what's interesting though, and as we get farther into this, 395 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,680 remind me to pull up one of the other books, one of the later 396 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,400 ones that has the same kind of vibes, but just a much better 397 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,720 layout. And we'll and we can point out 398 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,600 the reasons why it's that. So let's cruise through this. 399 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,720 There's a whole page in the beginning here that is kind of 400 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,720 like the first one is like to the memory of my great 401 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,160 grandfather to there's an one that says to those who came 402 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,760 home, these are dedications. That's what I meant from a bunch 403 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,920 of the different people in the book, Matt Orr, Brent Aiden, 404 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,320 Sarah Aiden, Irving Jackson and Charlie Freaks and Avery each 405 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:55,480 have a dedication at the beginning of this for very for 406 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,960 basically the soldiers or family members in regards to World War 407 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,840 One. The media media like get into a 408 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,360 page called the buy in. So this is something we're not 409 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:08,120 going to go over. It basically says the beginning 410 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,200 that this is a party focused role-playing game set in the 411 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,560 horror haunted trenches during the First World War. 412 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,520 If this sounds good to you, skip this page and get ready to 413 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,280 deploy. If you aren't sure, read on. 414 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,520 I'm OK. Like if you're going to do a 415 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,840 what is a role-playing game page, at least preface it by 416 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,600 saying that like, if you're in, don't fucking read this page. 417 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,760 I'm fine with that. So there's a number of sections 418 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,480 here. It says a role-playing game and 419 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,960 basically says what is a role-playing game? 420 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,000 Party focus. What does that mean? 421 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,640 I actually do like this part it says uses the plus one system to 422 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,040 focus play on growth, on what an individual character can do as 423 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,880 part of a larger story that follows a group of soldiers 424 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,440 called a unit. So basically what this is saying 425 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,440 is like the individual characters are important, but 426 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,640 the unit is most more important play. 427 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:55,960 It's not true play, but at the end of the day the point is for 428 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,360 the unit to survive, not necessarily the individual 429 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,120 characters. And the story is the story of 430 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,640 the unit, not the individual characters, which I think is a 431 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,680 really neat way to do a military game. 432 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,280 It makes a lot of sense too. Yeah, Horror. 433 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,080 Haunted. It talks about this is the veil 434 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,480 between worlds that is opened by the slaughter from the war and 435 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,800 the munchers. Whispers of beings holy, alien 436 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,920 to humanity that can now be heard. 437 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,560 Some people have listened to the whispers enough to gain arcane 438 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,040 powers, and they'll struggle to maintain control as their minds 439 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,080 and bodies begin to change. Dope again. 440 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,480 And then it says the First World War. 441 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,040 The setting is real Earth. My characters are all humans. 442 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,680 It basically says that the game is set between the years when 443 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:41,880 the veil was torn in 1916 and when the war ended in 1918. 444 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,080 And there's some information of stuff like that. 445 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,000 And it says this is your last chance to turn back. 446 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,080 So before we get deeper into the book, we talked about the layout 447 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,040 a little bit. We will say the vibes of the 448 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,480 game. Pretty strong. 449 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:59,960 Immaculate like insane like World War One Eldratore, so much 450 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:03,360 death that it tore open the veil and now like these things 451 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:06,120 whispered to you and and break your mind and stuff. 452 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:08,160 Awesome. Yeah. 453 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,560 And there's a, there's a big section in the middle that's all 454 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,640 like the pseudo history, like it actually is World War One 455 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,400 history and then where it diverges into like this. 456 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,240 And I really actually, I totally enjoyed reading that part. 457 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,200 I, I had a blast reading through that I thought was really 458 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,240 interesting and I well, it's like there were actual like 459 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,280 historical World War One things happen. 460 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,200 Yeah, yeah, we'll get to that and we're not going to read 461 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,640 through too much of it. But like you said, I love, I 462 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,960 love how it's like so much real plugged in. 463 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,600 And it's like, except for like this part, it's, it's cool. 464 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,280 It's a great way to set things in your mind where you're like 465 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,920 it. There's a kernel of truth in it, 466 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,160 so it makes it feel more real. It's easy to latch onto when 467 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,560 they do that or when you do that historical game. 468 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,840 Absolutely. There are a lot of like 469 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,080 diegetic, like artifact kind of things in the book too. 470 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,920 So there's a lot of like, well, the page we're looking at now is 471 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,840 a letter. One thing also that is not, in 472 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,600 my opinion, great. Like if you're going to have 473 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,400 fake pages, this is how you do it. 474 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,960 You don't make the whole page that the words are on fake. 475 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,280 It's on the page. It's on the page. 476 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,720 But the problem is like it's a very again, the the actual page 477 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,760 background is a is a very dark. It's not, it's not, I don't even 478 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,080 know how to describe this guy. It's a very, it's a tannish 479 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,720 color, so all these diegetic pieces over it are also brown. 480 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,800 And it just, I don't know, it could have been maybe put like a 481 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,120 little shadow or something, I don't know. 482 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,440 Yeah, well, you just think it's a little muddy or? 483 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,640 Yeah, it is it like it just the the colors are too. 484 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,560 I don't know. Again, when we look at we're 485 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,680 going to go over a bunch of layout stuff, maybe win way to 486 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,960 remind me when we get to like maybe like the lore stuff to 487 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,760 kick over to the other one. As we've seen enough of the 488 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,920 layout that we can talk about. Like the one we're going to look 489 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,240 at blood in the snow to compare the layouts and and talk a 490 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,200 little bit more once we've gone through a lot of the digac stuff 491 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,680 is cool. The writing is OK in it. 492 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,960 It's a lot of like letters written home or or things like 493 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,880 that. Like the beginning is basically 494 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,280 like what this whole book is, and it's basically to His Royal 495 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,280 Highness King George the 5th. Enclosed is a report I'm 496 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,760 required to submit regarding my involvement in and knowledge of 497 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,560 the events that occurred on the Somme battlefield beginning July 498 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,240 1st, 1916. And that's basically been the 499 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,520 Veil tour. So there's a whole letter here 500 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,840 that's basically saying like I'm going to tell you a bunch of 501 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,920 stuff. It's crazy. 502 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,080 Here you go. And then we get to a piece of 503 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,840 art. This is another just very weird. 504 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,440 This is what I'm going to try not to be super frustrated, but 505 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,200 I knew this in the show before, knows that I'm going to get 506 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,200 frustrated. I don't understand the point. 507 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,320 They put a piece of art here, which is a dope piece of art, 508 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:45,320 and then they put these fake like metal kind of ornate frame 509 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,080 pieces around the corners. Yeah. 510 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,520 And then start the playing the game section on the bottom, like 511 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:57,200 quarter of this page. And I don't understand. 512 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,560 And they do that a lot where they for no reason break 513 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,920 sections across multiple sections. 514 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:09,200 Multiple pages for a piece of art that they could have either 515 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,080 not done or just like there. Why wasn't this just a whole 516 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,520 page? Why wasn't this just like a 517 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,160 whole page? I couldn't tell you. 518 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,320 And then on the opposite side, then you have playing the game. 519 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,880 So you have a spread that's like odd on one side, words on the 520 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:21,720 other. Right. 521 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,320 But then we're going to get into what? 522 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,600 Like this thought earlier so. And they do this a lot and we're 523 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,040 going to put this out a lot, but like here's the thing. 524 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,480 This is the playing the game section and it's the same. 525 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,680 It says playing the game in the middle of the page underneath 526 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:41,400 the art in a font that is only like 2 more than the skill rolls 527 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,520 font. That's bolded in the exact same 528 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,960 font as the skill rolls fault, which is also bolded. 529 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,160 Then you get into the skill roll, which is obviously then 530 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,200 going to be split across 2 pages because you're starting on the 531 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,720 quarter at the bottom because you make. 532 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,520 This weird decision to start without enough room to put it 533 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,200 all. So weird. 534 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,440 And it's it's. So. 535 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,800 Weird. And as far as like layout goes, 536 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,840 like I'm not fantastic. Like I've read a bunch of layout 537 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,560 stuff. I've we obviously go through 538 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,080 layout a ton of stuff like that. There's just some things that 539 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,720 are kind of like rules to like doing good book layout and this 540 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,120 the this, every one of those is completely disregarded in this 541 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,280 book and it's extremely frustrating. 542 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,640 But so we're going to just start playing the game and we're going 543 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,720 to get into skill role. So I'm going to read some of 544 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,320 this stuff because the next thing that's going to we're 545 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,520 going to be kind of be critical of this is the rules language. 546 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,440 I actually really like this system. 547 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,600 I think the system is incredibly interesting. 548 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,640 We're going to get into it. The core of the system is 549 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,960 basically it's a dice pool system. 550 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,520 And then there's the plus one system. 551 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,720 It's a plus and then the word 1 and then system and it allows 552 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,760 you to manipulate the dice that you roll are the things you can 553 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,240 do before or after. And then there are also cards 554 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,480 incorporated in it, which are used for a lot of really cool 555 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,880 things. So the the amalgamation of all 556 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,440 those things together, super interesting, right? 557 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,120 But again, the rules, language and the way some of this is 558 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,680 explained is not wonderful. Yeah, it could have been tripped 559 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,760 out a lot in a lot of places, or rewarded. 560 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,920 I think rewording would would help. 561 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,080 So. So we're going to go through 562 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,880 skill role. This is like the kind of core of 563 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,280 the game. So when a character wants to do 564 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,040 something, they may be asked to make a skill role against a 565 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,000 target number at TN. Great. 566 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,040 Some target numbers are set by missions. 567 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,400 The narrator sets all other target numbers. 568 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,520 Players were all D6 dice called skill dice, equal to their 569 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,720 training in the skill dice showing 5 or 6 are successes. 570 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,400 So we know it's a dice pool system and 5:00 and 6:00 is a 571 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,240 success. The number? 572 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,600 Of. We love a good dice pool. 573 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:39,720 We. I don't know why you've done so 574 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,840 many dice pools I. Love a good dice a dice pool 575 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,760 system. The number of successes in the 576 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,080 role must meet or exceed the target number to accomplish the 577 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,600 action. So the target number set. 578 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,120 Let's say it's three. You're going to roll a bunch of 579 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,760 dice, and you have to get at least three fives or sixes. 580 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:04,200 Easy peasy. On each roll the player may use 581 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,720 as many plus one. It's a plus, and then the the 582 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,120 word 1 again. Manipulations equal to their 583 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,280 current score of the governing attribute of the skill being 584 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,240 rolled. OK, so if you have a four and a 585 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,240 skill, that gives you 4 possible manipulations right? 586 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,320 Easy peasy. Attributes do not decrease 587 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,280 through use, so you have 4 each time. 588 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,440 You don't lose them by spending them, you just have them. 589 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,720 Failure simply means what the character was attempting doesn't 590 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,600 happen. I'm not a fan. 591 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,960 Obviously, we like you know, nothing ever happens, but it 592 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,280 says you do. And then here is my first beef 593 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,640 and they do this a bunch. It says all skill rolls take the 594 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:50,920 form quotations, roll bracket, skill name, bracket, colon, TN 595 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,640 number quotations. So that is roll skill name, 596 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,040 target number and then the number that you need to hit, 597 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,960 right. That's a that's fine. 598 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,000 I that's complete. That makes complete sense. 599 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,960 But then it says which means quotations. 600 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,000 Roll dice equal to skill training, Manipulate dice equal 601 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,280 to attribute rank meet at least the required number of 602 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,080 successes. That is not what that means at 603 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,440 all. That is a very weird way to 604 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,080 write that, because that is not what that means at all. 605 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,920 What that means is roll a skill and beat a target number of 606 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,960 whatever it is, right? That is what that means. 607 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,040 It does not mean roll dice equal to skill training, manipulate 608 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,320 dice equal to attribute rank meet at least required number of 609 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:38,760 successes. They literally could have just 610 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,960 put that kind of at the beginning or or say like break 611 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,800 those into two separate sentences and say it's like in 612 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,280 summation, what a skill role is is this thing. 613 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,400 It's a very weird way to be like here is here is a formula and 614 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,240 that means this completely separate thing that is the 615 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,600 definition of all skill roles. Not very mathematical of them, 616 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,120 yes. No, it's weird. 617 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:07,320 Also, what is an attribute rank? Oh, that's. 618 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,760 Weird. It is weird. 619 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,400 We're Oh no, that was kind of rhetorical because I'm going to 620 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,840 bring it up a bunch. They mentioned that attribute 621 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,800 rank again. They do in very weird spots. 622 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,040 So let's move. We get you skill manipulation, 623 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,400 which is the plus one system. The attributes are linked to 624 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:28,040 specific skills which dictate ones they can manipulate. 625 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,120 Easy peasy, right? A character's score, comma or 626 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,840 parentheses rank in a skills governing attribute dictates how 627 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,760 many times a skill can be manipulated. 628 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,720 A role can be manipulated in the following ways. 629 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,320 So now we know in the skill manipulation section what rank 630 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,840 is, but again, this is a very weird way to write a rules 631 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,840 language because what it should say is a character's rank. 632 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,160 Parentheses is the attribute score because the rank rank is 633 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,760 your keyword. Score is not your keyword. 634 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,840 So why would you put the keyword in parentheses as opposed to 635 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:07,040 just saying the character's rank in a skill parentheses, you know 636 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,800 what you have in the attribute. Explain that in parentheses, 637 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,840 right would be what? That is, right? 638 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,800 So it's weird to put the keyword in there. 639 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,000 But when we get to character duration, let's try to find rank 640 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,239 again, OK? Yeah. 641 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,080 So basically the plus one system basically says that whatever you 642 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,199 have in an attribute, whatever your rank is in your attribute, 643 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,280 Say your rank is 3. You get 3 manipulations each 644 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,040 time you roll a skill, OK? And there are before roll and 645 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,320 after roll options. Before A roll, you can 646 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:41,440 temporarily gain an untrained skill dicer bought separately in 647 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,159 parentheses. OK, add a dice to the roll. 648 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,040 Example, roll 4 dice on a skill with three training. 649 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,400 So which is a weird way to say just add one more dice. 650 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,040 Yeah, that that example is not very useful. 651 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,320 There are later examples that are more useful, but I remember 652 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,080 reading that one and being like I don't know what that means, 653 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,480 but immediately after there are better examples so. 654 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,200 Also, saying temporarily gain an untrained skill is a very way to 655 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:11,040 is a very, very weird, confusing way of saying that you can roll 656 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:12,960 on a skill that you don't have training in. 657 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,840 Yeah. Because temporarily gaining and 658 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,640 untrained, you're not like it's a, it's a weird way to kind of 659 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,040 think it's a backwards way. Maybe it's just not the way my 660 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,520 brain works. But to be like you, you 661 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,080 temporarily gain a skill versus saying that you can on this 662 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,720 roll. You can roll on skill you don't 663 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,120 have training in. Yeah, there there's some way to 664 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,720 reword the law stuff that's on this page and other ones. 665 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,320 Yeah. So then after a roll, add a pip 666 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,640 to a die, which is saying base, it says example, change A4 to 667 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,440 A5, Cool. And then re roll any number of 668 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,280 dice and then keep the results. And it is once per skill roll 669 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:55,920 you can do that. And then it immediately goes 670 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,680 into 3 examples. And why immediately? 671 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:04,040 I mean there's no, there's not even a, there's not even a tab, 672 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,520 there's not a separation between. 673 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,880 There's nothing that says that it is that they are even 674 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,880 examples. So I got like half a line in 675 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,720 before I was like, wait a minute, like what are we talking 676 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:16,280 about? I. 677 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:19,120 Was like. So this is an example. 678 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,000 OK, OK. Yeah, and then there's three of 679 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,320 them. But again, there's no break, 680 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,760 there's no change in font, there's no italicis, there's no, 681 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,800 for example, there's no nothing. There's and there's lyric again, 682 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,880 not even a space. It is literally one line. 683 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,040 In the very next line it just immediately starts, which is 684 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,640 weird because there's plenty of room when you get to the bottom 685 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,000 that they could have put one line between just so there's 686 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,040 some separation. One of the examples, just so we 687 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,520 know we're talking about Simpson has two training in ranged and 688 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,600 three ranks of guts. That's a OK. 689 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,840 Anyway, to hit an injured Trench Stalker requires 4 successes. 690 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,200 His player buys two extra dice with two points of guts because 691 00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,600 he has three ranks and guts, right? 692 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,120 So we're talking we're we call them score, we call them ranks, 693 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,040 and then we call them points. Multiple different keywords for 694 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,920 all the same thing. So 2 points and guts could have 695 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,960 been 2 ranks and guts and rolls 543 and a one. 696 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,000 OK, he keeps the five and rolls the remaining 3 dice again. 697 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,840 So those are his three manipulations. 698 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,000 He he bought two extra dice and they did a re roll. 699 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:30,200 OK rolled A6A5 and A2, a total of only three successes. 700 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,560 The shot misses great. I think that's super. 701 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,320 Fucking interesting. I do too. 702 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,080 I think the manipulations are cool. 703 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,200 I think they give you options in the dice pool system and I think 704 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,760 they're the cool part of this for sure. 705 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,480 Yeah, yeah, the plus one system is really great. 706 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,080 The skill, all of this is super, in my opinion, super 707 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:51,720 interesting. It's a dice pool system. 708 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,400 You have attributes, your ranks and attributes give you a pool 709 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,040 to use, and that pool determines how many manipulations per skill 710 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,080 role you have. Really great the local language 711 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:03,800 for it, I really could. Use. 712 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,200 Yeah, I could use some punch it up. 713 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,280 But like, I really do like the concept of this system. 714 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,120 What was I going to say? I totally blanked what I was 715 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,840 going to say, but it was going to be a nice thing. 716 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,880 What was I going to say? Ryan, this is your fault, right? 717 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,640 I don't know. It's not. 718 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,440 It was up till 5:00 AM or anything. 719 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,160 Yeah. Actually, I should lose my look 720 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,560 at my notes. I also I but I don't like 721 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,800 obviously us like, you know, I don't like the idea that like 722 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:33,520 something just doesn't happen, right. 723 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,480 And that is the thing that is like clearly bringing the rules. 724 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,240 It literally says you just miss. That's it. 725 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,400 Yeah, I don't like that. I do remember, I was going to 726 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:46,120 say more or less the numbers are very small in this game for like 727 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,280 amounts of dice and dice pool, but you're to hit sometimes will 728 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,600 be like 4, which is like genuinely really incredibly hard 729 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,760 to do in a dice pool system that's hitting 5 or 6. 730 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,920 So it is really cool that manipulations give you so much 731 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,520 wiggle room, especially with the re rolls, because that's like 732 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:07,160 really statistically significant to making this work a lot better 733 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,640 and still feel like I feel like a very heavy and horrifying game 734 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,600 where you could fail. Yeah, and failure. 735 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,080 Nothing never happens. I do agree. 736 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:20,000 Yeah, I I think that the plus one system really is extremely 737 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,920 fun and interesting. Like you said, the math seems to 738 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,240 math really, really well and the manipulations are designed 739 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:30,000 because like, for example, even like just changing the pip, 740 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,200 right, because oh, you rolled like 2 fours. 741 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,560 OK, then I'll change one of the fours for five like you just 742 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,760 said. Math wise, that's great. 743 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,040 Yeah, re roll is great. Adding more dice is great. 744 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,240 And then being able to roll in things that you don't have 745 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:46,080 skills in because you can temporarily gain in the skill 746 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,480 you you can roll on untrained skills. 747 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,040 All of those are exactly ways like you just said that to, to 748 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,240 alter the statistics. But what's interesting about it 749 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:54,960 is all the choice mechanics involved in it. 750 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,720 We're like, fuck, I only have three points in guts, man. 751 00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:58,880 Do I, yeah, I don't know the Dyson before. 752 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,600 Do I do another one after? So the skill role, every skill 753 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,920 role you get becomes this like kind of like gamble of, you 754 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,280 know, all of these different options for for trying to like 755 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,720 eat the best out. And I it's it's so interesting. 756 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:12,960 It's so incredibly interesting. And that's one reason we know of 757 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:13,840 this game. We're going to be pretty 758 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,640 critical of this game and we don't do games we don't like. 759 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:17,600 Like usually we definitely don't anymore. 760 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,360 We sometimes accidentally do because we get too deep in the 761 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,280 book to not do it and realize we don't like it. 762 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,400 I love this game. I think it's really great. 763 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,760 We're going to be pretty critical of the products, like 764 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,200 the writing, the layout and things like that. 765 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,200 But the game itself is, so I do want to say, is so good in my 766 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,800 opinion and is really, really interesting the deeper we get 767 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,120 into it. But the whole book could use a 768 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,440 2E with a whole new revamp on a lot of it. 769 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,080 Anyway, moving on, challenges is the next thing. 770 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,960 And basically what a challenge is is it's basically like a 771 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,880 group skill test, right? It's when challenges too big to 772 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,440 overcome, overcome alone and require the characters to work 773 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,800 together. It requires multiple roles and 774 00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,600 things like that. Fun, interesting. 775 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,680 If you're going to have kind of a quasi troop style, then 776 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,600 challenges are great. We're not going to go over that. 777 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:08,280 Too much sick piece art here. But also weird. 778 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:15,200 Yeah, but also in weird layout because like it's chopped off on 779 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,720 the sides and tops. Why don't you just blow it out 780 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:20,360 to the edges of the pages like you know what I mean? 781 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,760 Like why have it chopped on your word margins? 782 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,040 It's a piece of art. Just blow it out for the entire 783 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,360 blow it out for the entire thing. 784 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,440 You know what I mean? Like it's just again, like none 785 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,120 of the rules for like good layout were were followed in 786 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,720 here. And if we go to so, for example, 787 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:44,120 I mean, let's let's look at it. This is the same piece of art in 788 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,360 the book, in the actual like World War cult book. 789 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:52,680 See how they just like have it filling the entire page all the 790 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,120 way to the page edges. I don't understand why you 791 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,040 wouldn't just do the exact same thing on this page as opposed to 792 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,440 just like cropping it down to fit your word margins. 793 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,400 It's just not a good design choice in my opinion. 794 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,680 Moving on from there, we have more diegetic things here. 795 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,280 We have a letter to Mary Warbeck from Alfred. 796 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,520 It's great. It basically is like a things 797 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,880 are going, we're on the front, you know, kind of thing and it's 798 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:22,920 great. We're not going to go over to 799 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,480 Bunch. The font choice in it is 800 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,200 interesting. And Alfred's correspondence 801 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,920 actually continues through this book. 802 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,880 Like there are several letters to them or back and forth to and 803 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,600 from them. And I do really like the this 804 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,960 use of these like diegetic in world pieces in the game. 805 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,640 I think it's super vibe and like you said and you can see Alfred 806 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,960 like shit getting darker for Alfred as they go through the 807 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,880 correspondence. Yeah, he's having a bad time. 808 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,400 Yeah, it's a cool way to do it. But also, again, they do this 809 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,080 thing where they use this like letter page and then go to the 810 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,920 cards page on like the bottom quarter instead of just like 811 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,800 centering that on a page and starting cards on the next page. 812 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,600 It's so weird. It's so really. 813 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:07,400 Truly bizarre actually that they do and not even one. 814 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,200 It's like it really like this whole section. 815 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,960 It would look so much better, like immediately if you're just 816 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,320 like, move this down and all the section starts on the page. 817 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,560 The thing that that drives me nuts about it is we we get we 818 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:25,200 get 2 cards right, which is in, in, in a it's it's letter, it's 819 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,440 it's sentence capitalized. So it's CARDS, but only the C is 820 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,400 capitalized, but it's a header, right? 821 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,880 And then but immediately underneath that is like a sub 822 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,560 header in the exact same font, but like 2 sizes smaller. 823 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,760 So there's like no real different. 824 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,160 So there, there's no. Use of what Peters one size 825 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,640 smaller though. It's but it's so bad, Like I, I, 826 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:53,160 I'm trying not to say like that it's bad, but like the the there 827 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,600 is no good structure to the way that like headings and 828 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,120 subheadings and things are used to this entire book because 829 00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,880 randomly we're going to get to stuff where like they'll just 830 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,600 start randomly underlining stuff too as a way to differentiate 831 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,080 things, which is like super weird. 832 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,200 And like there's again, it's the exact same font the entire they 833 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,600 don't even capitalize the whole word cards. 834 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,160 So it feels like a little bit different. 835 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,600 It's just such and also cards is on the left, but like the 836 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,360 playing the game was like centered and like it's just. 837 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,200 There was no. Consistency to any structure 838 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:21,480 that they use on this whatsoever. 839 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,400 But the thing that drives me nuts specifically is there's 840 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,160 this giant letter home, right? And then we get to the cards, 841 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,160 the journey, healing and character growth, right? 842 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,760 A standard deck of 52 playing cards with two jerkers is used 843 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,960 to represent the emotional resources and memories of the 844 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,760 characters. 4 for six or more players. 2 decks with two 845 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,920 jerkers each are shuffled together and then it goes to the 846 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,840 players may use any decks they have on hand. 847 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,240 The four traditional suits are called for in the game so make 848 00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,280 them recognizable and then it talks about spades, clubs, 849 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:53,080 hearts, diamonds and jokers. But because the letter is so 850 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:58,200 long, spades, clubs, hearts and diamonds is on one page and then 851 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,120 jokers which is in the which is in the same bullet pointed list 852 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,360 is then broken onto the next page because of how long the 853 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,680 letter is instead of just moving it up or starting it all on the 854 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,720 next page. They do that constantly where 855 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:14,840 they will put a piece of art or like these fake the the diegetic 856 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,960 letter pieces in, but that forces the layout into a bad 857 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,680 design decision to separate rules text across multiple pages 858 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,560 when you could easily just not do that. 859 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,240 Decision. Yeah, like you could just you 860 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:32,520 don't like it's such a weird decision to separate rules text 861 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:36,840 made the explanation of a thing. You know, it's not like, oh, 862 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,800 they explained a thing and then the separation is goes to the 863 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,120 next thing that they're explaining. 864 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,560 They're literally in the the middle of the thing that they're 865 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,840 talking about. Yeah, they break it apart for no 866 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,960 reason because they could either move the art, have the art as a 867 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,360 full page, or just, yeah, move things around. 868 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,600 But we're also going to get to the start of this page, too, on 869 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,520 the Joker section, where it's like a bullet. 870 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,360 The word Joker's is bullet pointed and then there's two 871 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,200 bullet points underneath it. But then also you get to those 872 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,920 like weird black dots. I said about like the on the 873 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,640 page. So in this little section here 874 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,960 there's literally like 6 black dots and like half of them are 875 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,400 bullet points and half of them are page sector. 876 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,960 But it all looks the same and it's just really weird. 877 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,240 So the cards wise, spades is knowledge, learning, growing, 878 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:24,920 overcoming suffering. Clubs is things, overcoming 879 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,680 obstacles, action, adventure. Hearts is relationships, which 880 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,080 are your emotion or connection. Diamonds is yourself, your 881 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,000 ambition or hopes. And then you have the jokers. 882 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,720 And jokers are considered wild and functions as any non joker 883 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:38,680 card. And then after a joker's played 884 00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,200 or revealed for any reason, reshuffle the deck including the 885 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,360 joker. Super interesting. 886 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,280 When we talk about the cards a little bit more. 887 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,440 It's a really great way to do that, especially when you drop 888 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,520 the joker. But then underneath that you 889 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:58,160 have another bullet pointed thing about the joker, except 890 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,440 the bullet point is like way off to the side for no reason. 891 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,360 The Black Joker also. That was page texture. 892 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,840 No that dot. Where it says the black Joker. 893 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,640 Yeah, that is a bullet point. Oh my God, I thought that was 894 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,400 paychecks. You're genuinely, I'm not just 895 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,880 saying that to go in on this. I actually did think I was like, 896 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,000 oh, there's not another bullet, which would make sense. 897 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,520 But it's the only bullet point in that entire line. 898 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,120 Basically through the entire thing, it's so far to the left 899 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,600 of the other ones. And the indentation's not in 900 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,400 line for the actual words with the other words as well, but 901 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,640 it's not. It's its own indentation. 902 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,480 It's entirely its own indentation, which is double 903 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,520 tabbed in compared to the single tab that starts the paragraph 904 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,800 right on the line below it. It's just not good. 905 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,360 The Black Joker also triggers a draw for possible corruption, 906 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,640 which we'll get to OK. Each card in the player's hand 907 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,480 represents a character's memories and constitutes what 908 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,240 makes them human. Let me just go through this. 909 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,720 The aces are high jokers are wild. 910 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:05,280 Let's just get into this a little bit Aces are high maximum 911 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,600 cards is 7. If you use one, it means you're 912 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,160 forgetting something about yourself. 913 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:15,120 So as it said earlier, it says that the they represent 914 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,880 emotional resources and memories. 915 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,440 So using one means you're losing part of yourself, which is super 916 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,040 viby for this game. Yeah, well, you're. 917 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:27,080 Never going home, so yeah. Cards are earned for surviving 918 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,480 missions, completing special tasks, defeating antagonists, or 919 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,280 when the narrator links thinks the player has done something 920 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,480 awesome. So card G's for a lot of stuff, 921 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,720 and there's a whole list here for what the cards are used for. 922 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,320 There is. There's the Journey initiative 923 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:51,760 plus one whispers healing, character growth, but character 924 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,680 growth. There's a piece of art to the 925 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,720 right of this. So there's like there's a text 926 00:48:56,720 --> 00:49:00,280 wrap around all of the art of a soldier standing there. 927 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:05,120 So that character growth at the bottom is broken across 2 pages. 928 00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:08,080 So there's 4 lines to start the next page. 929 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,760 As opposed to just not putting the piece of art here and 930 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,840 keeping all of the explanation on one page because then 931 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,280 underneath that is a box. And I think it's one of the only 932 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,960 boxes like this. This is in the entire thing and 933 00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,480 it gives you more explanation for Joker stuff. 934 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:31,320 Even though Jokers are on the start of the previous page are 935 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,760 the very top of the page, right? So, so the very top of one page 936 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,160 has Joker stuff and then the very top of the next page has 937 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,080 more Joker stuff instead of just putting it underneath the Joker 938 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,320 stuff above that which Joker's, which traditionally Joker said 939 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,400 basically it says there's, there's a black Joker and A and 940 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,040 a colored Joker in almost all card decks. 941 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,720 And if there is, just pick one, if there, if there isn't, right? 942 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,920 Hey, I just want you know, I scrolled really fast. 943 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,320 That's the only box in this that's not around art. 944 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,000 Like it's just a stand alone thing. 945 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,320 So it's. So again, like the layout choice 946 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:13,160 and then there's are so weird. So the rundown of what what each 947 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:17,920 of these are the journey, right? Players must contribute at least 948 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,080 one card each journey made by the unit. 949 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,880 If they do not have any cards, they put one in from the deck 950 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,720 towards the journey without looking at it. 951 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:26,080 Capital J. What's a journey? 952 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,760 I do. I I was going to ask you this. 953 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,480 I was like, OK. You know how long it is, so we 954 00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,720 found out what a journey is. Where is it? 955 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:38,480 It's about 60 pages from now. What's it under? 956 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,640 Just so I know. It's in the GM section. 957 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:46,880 The players never, never is it explained the structure of play 958 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,520 for players and the journey, which is basically like the 959 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,880 whole game until like page 60 in the GM section is. 960 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:58,720 So anyway, initiative player who reveals the highest card. 961 00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:00,680 I love the initiative system in this too. 962 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,640 The player who reveals, Yeah, the player who reveals the 963 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,760 highest cards. Basically in your hands when 964 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,760 combat starts, everyone has to reveal a card. 965 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,520 The player who reveals the highest card chooses who acts 966 00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,600 first in each combat. Cards revealed for this purpose 967 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,200 are not discarded. Players without any cards may 968 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,160 discard an initiative card from the deck which is not added to 969 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,360 their hands. So basically they draw from the 970 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:23,760 deck and they just show their initiative. 971 00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,440 But basically if you are the highest 1 you get to choose who 972 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,240 acts, which is cool. I think it's cool. 973 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,920 I also think it's cool that they have this really fun initiative 974 00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,240 system. And then also for the GMs ease 975 00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:39,720 of use, the monsters just have numbers, which I'm like, I 976 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:42,880 appreciate that as a GM because I know I don't want to be drawn 977 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,920 a bunch of cards while I'm working on running this game, 978 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,400 so. Yeah, they they do a good job of 979 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,520 of the endings and stuff. So plus one a card may be spent 980 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,160 for a plus one effect. Whispers. 981 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,120 Many whispers require cards. Healing in combat cards can be 982 00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,480 spent on a one-on-one basis to negate damage and out of combat 983 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,040 card. Magic, by the way, so I don't 984 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,200 know if we said that out loud. Oh, no, yeah. 985 00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:05,560 Well, yeah, yeah. Whispers magic. 986 00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,840 Well, there's a whole section on whispers in combat that can be 987 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,040 spent on one-on-one basis to negate damage out of combat, a 988 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,120 card can be burned at any time to heal anyone. 989 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:17,000 Attribute one point. This implies taking a break, 990 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,120 mentally preparing yourself, or bandaging your wounds because 991 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,320 we'll get into why you need to hear yourself with that. 992 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,560 And then character growth at the end of a mission, characters can 993 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,560 spin sets of cards to increase their attributes and skills. 994 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,960 So you get cards for a bunch of different reasons, you spin them 995 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,120 for a bunch of different reasons, but you need them in 996 00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:36,200 order to basically level up. And it says in general the 997 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,520 number of cards needed is one more than the number of the new 998 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,960 rank in the skill or attribute. For example, buying a fourth pip 999 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,120 in bronze. Why? 1000 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,840 Why is it called pip instead of rank? 1001 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,320 I thought it was rank, you know? We've already in Braun requires 1002 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,720 discarding 5 cards and then we get to character and stuff 1003 00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,480 later. So again, it's such a we are 1004 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,440 anyway, let's we're going to cruise through some of this a 1005 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,480 little bit faster. So corruption, certain instances 1006 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,440 will cause a player to draw for corruption or take a chance. 1007 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,000 So there's whisper effects, adversary abilities, mission 1008 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,280 incidences using the black Joker. 1009 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,040 As we said before, the black Joker is anyone that if you do 1010 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,920 use it, you have to reshuffle the deck and draw for corruption 1011 00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:18,920 and then for character advancements. 1012 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:23,320 For whispers, ranks 3-4 and five basically says when a corruption 1013 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:28,240 chance occurs, but the player draws a card from the deck and 1014 00:53:28,240 --> 00:53:30,680 looks at it without revealing the card to the other players. 1015 00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,440 If it is a black card, the character gains 1 corruption 1016 00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:34,880 point. There's an extra space in there. 1017 00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:37,640 If it is a red card, no corruption occurs. 1018 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,760 After the player sees the card, they pass it to the narrator who 1019 00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,440 also looks at it, and the narrator keeps a secret list of 1020 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,480 who has gained corruption. So the only people that know if 1021 00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,160 they've been corrupted or not are the player who draws for it 1022 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,400 and the narrator Slash the GM. I do really love that. 1023 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,040 So everybody's around you don't know you're slowly going insane 1024 00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:00,120 with dark magic. Yeah, the narrator keeps it a 1025 00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,000 secret. Corruption is not clear to the 1026 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,120 end of missions that there may be chances of shed corruption in 1027 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,480 specific situations. If any character has five 1028 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,160 corruption points at the end of a mission, they do not return to 1029 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,040 the base of the unit they are. They are just one of the capital 1030 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,120 O others now. So love that. 1031 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,040 If at any time someone has three corruption, the narrator can 1032 00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,520 choose to add from the deck to the journey one card per player 1033 00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,600 with three corruption if it we don't know what the journey is 1034 00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,720 yet, but you get to explain it. If at any time someone has four 1035 00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:31,800 corruption, the narrator can choose to add up to two cards to 1036 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,840 the journey per player with four corruption. 1037 00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,400 And this represents the chaotic outside influence. 1038 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:38,600 The player and narrative should both keep track of their 1039 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,760 corruption, and the player may not wish to write down the 1040 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,000 character's corruption because there's supposed to be a secret. 1041 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,840 I mean, right on your sheet, no one's going to look. 1042 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:46,480 The narrator keeps the law of it. 1043 00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,000 We've already explained this a bunch of times. 1044 00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,040 As a character gains more corruption, this illustrates 1045 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,000 their slow loss of humanity. How much they role play their 1046 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,600 corruption is up to the players. As a character takes more 1047 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,400 corruption, they may not make the most optimal choices. 1048 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,720 Basically you are the only you and the narrator know that you 1049 00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:05,720 have corruption RP the more corrupt you get. 1050 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,600 And once you hit three and four, it can actually mechanically 1051 00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,560 affect the way that the game is played. 1052 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,880 And at 5, when the mission's done, you're crazy and you just 1053 00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,920 are one of the one of the you. Might turn into a wear hair and 1054 00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,680 get haunted by your friends, you know, Yeah. 1055 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:25,040 So cool, love it. So let's talk a little bit more 1056 00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,120 about. So then we have another 1057 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,400 something from Alfred's journal. Then we get to combat. 1058 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,760 Notice the size difference between combat and then 1059 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:36,000 initiative order underneath it, how vastly different those 1060 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:37,640 things are. One looks like a header and one 1061 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,320 doesn't. Again, no structured whatever to 1062 00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:44,040 font sizes, bolding anything, whatever. 1063 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,160 So we're going to cruise through combat real quick. 1064 00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,200 So there's an initiative order. So basically it's your highest 1065 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,280 ranking card. You do not discard it. 1066 00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,880 You, the highest ranking one goes 1st and then they pick who 1067 00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:01,240 goes next. I love that that like whoever 1068 00:56:01,240 --> 00:56:03,240 goes gets a pick in space does it. 1069 00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:07,280 Popcorn style initiative where you pick your next person you 1070 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,720 know. Yeah, after detecting the 1071 00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:13,040 character who acts, determines, yeah, yeah, Death in Space does 1072 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,440 it. And I was like, let's see how 1073 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:16,680 that goes. Until we played it. 1074 00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:18,720 And I thought it was the coolest thing ever, because if you just 1075 00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:21,120 pick all of the good guys to go first, you're going to have an 1076 00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,600 entire turn where all the bad guys are just fucking you up. 1077 00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,200 So you have really can strategically decide, like how 1078 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:30,240 you want to do that defense. So basically how the way the 1079 00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:34,240 defense works is the targeted attribute, the rank of the 1080 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:37,240 targeted attribute is the target number for any attack. 1081 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:42,440 OK, so attacks target Braun by default, but some abilities can 1082 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:46,080 target other attributes. So basically whatever the Braun 1083 00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,880 is, is the target number that you're trying to get past. 1084 00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,200 And that's what your your target number is too. 1085 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:57,520 The way armor works, the target number is Braun or armor, 1086 00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,200 whichever is higher. And attacks at Target, other 1087 00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,320 attributes are not affected by armor. 1088 00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,360 So if if you're, you know if it's attacking. 1089 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:06,880 What are your attributes by the way? 1090 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:16,320 Braun guts. And there's another one, and 1091 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,000 there's another one to do that attribute as well. 1092 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,280 Yeah, we'll get. We'll get to it. 1093 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:25,440 Super well explained so far. Damage is by weapon or whisper. 1094 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,440 And then there's a whole page of sample combat, which it's, I 1095 00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,280 mean, it's like an entire page and. 1096 00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,920 And and more. It is like a page and a half and 1097 00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,440 I was like very interesting. I started reading it and I was 1098 00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,960 like cool and I. It makes sense. 1099 00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,960 It's a great example of play. I love it. 1100 00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,520 You should read it again. Once I when I read this, I was 1101 00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,000 like, this system fucks. Like it's really fun and 1102 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,240 interesting. Like it's really interesting. 1103 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,720 Then there's a whole weapon section which for some random 1104 00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,640 reason is like the only time it suddenly changes font to what is 1105 00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,880 in my opinion a way better font. It's like a typewriter E style 1106 00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,880 font, but for no reason whatsoever. 1107 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:12,400 It just turns into this kind of like kind of a table with a 1108 00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,400 completely different font. That is the only time this font 1109 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:18,000 is used in the entire book. It's Yep. 1110 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:24,200 And uses like these box kind of highlights for tabletop things 1111 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,520 that no other thing is used. So weapon damage inabilities 1112 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,320 basically goes through all the weapons, goes through all the 1113 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:34,080 melee weapons. So fists, knives, clubs, sword, 1114 00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:37,400 bayonets, staff, firearms, including pistols, rifles and 1115 00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,200 machine guns, explosives, grenades. 1116 00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,120 And then it gives you basically we'll pick 1. 1117 00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,400 So we'll say that a sword or bayonet has weapon, so sort of 1118 00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,040 in it has damaged. So this does one damage and then 1119 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:54,000 it's got an ability. So plus one damage ( 2 and then 1120 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,320 wreck ( 3. What does that mean? 1121 00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:00,320 We'll get to it in a second. So what is wreck? 1122 00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,520 It says permanently reduce armor of the target by 1. 1123 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:10,160 So how do weapons work? So for weapons successes in 1124 00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:14,320 excess of the number required to hit, usually the targets Braun 1125 00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:17,520 are spent after rolling for various weapon effects. 1126 00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,440 The number of successes needed for each effect is listed in 1127 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,920 parentheses below. I love this. 1128 00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,320 First of all, it feels good because it's the same kind of 1129 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,440 way that the plus one manipulation works of the 1130 00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:32,120 consistency feels fantastic. But using like there it's always 1131 00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:35,480 interesting to to when you do a dice pool game, how games decide 1132 00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,200 what to do with extra successes. Like I only needed two, but I 1133 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,440 got 5. Like there's you should get 1134 00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,720 something for that. This game uses that with your 1135 00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:46,440 weapons and it's really cool. So for example, the sword or 1136 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:51,480 bayonet does one damage, but if you get 2 successes in excess, 1137 00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:53,720 you get to do plus one more damage. 1138 00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:57,960 And if you get 3 successes in excess, you get to do the wreck 1139 00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,520 damage, which is reducing the target's armor by 1. 1140 01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:06,440 So almost every weapon, yeah. And there's a bunch of different 1141 01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:08,960 weapon abilities. There's aim, which is re rolling 1142 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,560 your damage die, assault, which is ignoring armor, a critical 1143 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:16,200 which is you roll D6 for damage instead of just the one or two 1144 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:20,560 you normally get flurry, fragmentation, spray, stun and 1145 01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,920 then wreck. So a lot of really in the way 1146 01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:27,160 the weapon system, neat, simple, consistent, really love it a 1147 01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:31,520 lot. General equipment basically says 1148 01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,560 it's abstracted your soldiers. You get soldier shit on you love 1149 01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:35,920 that. I like that because this is 1150 01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,800 definitely more of like a game about telling a story and less 1151 01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,480 so like a dungeon. The dungeoneering slog through 1152 01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:47,400 whatever you know exactly. All right, we're going to create 1153 01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,040 some of this other stuff. There's a a big section on 1154 01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,920 vehicles and guess what? It works exactly like how you 1155 01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,920 think vehicles work. They drive, they shoot and 1156 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,880 that's it. So it goes over trucks, tanks 1157 01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,600 and airplanes. So you get a little breakdown of 1158 01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:04,640 truck, you get initiative value, armor, the Braun for the truck, 1159 01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,560 and then it's got skills and abilities for the truck, the 1160 01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,680 tank or the OR the airplane. Cool, love that. 1161 01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,280 Interesting whispers. OK so basically the way whispers 1162 01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,520 work is the powerful beings from beyond the veil whisper through 1163 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,280 the cracks in reality. Those who choose to listen to 1164 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,280 these whispers learn how to manipulate reality and you can 1165 01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,000 RP it however you want. That's basically how whispers 1166 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,120 work is that the veil was torn asunder and something is 1167 01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,440 whispering to you and you can use those whispers. 1168 01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:42,880 It's really interesting, super vibey the the the the writing 1169 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,120 that is used to all this. The whisper skill can be used to 1170 01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,280 know general information about magic, like recognition of 1171 01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:53,320 maroon, identifying the effects of a particular whisperer, or 1172 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:54,880 potentially knowing the weaknesses or habits of 1173 01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:57,840 supernatural creatures. If the whisper skill is bought 1174 01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,280 temporarily, it only applies to the knowledge. 1175 01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,080 Like there's a whole breakdown of all the things you can do 1176 01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:05,160 with the whisperers and that's I'm not going to go through all 1177 01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,800 that. So this, it does the steps of 1178 01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,960 casting a whisper. You choose a whisper and any 1179 01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:16,240 augments you spend, any spell requirements, discard a car, 1180 01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,600 take damage, anything like that. You roll for successes, you make 1181 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,120 additional sacrifices if it if your path needs it, and if 1182 01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:24,640 successful, you apply the effects. 1183 01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,160 Easy peasy, right? So there's a bunch of different 1184 01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:33,080 whisper paths. There are Blood rights, Rotten 1185 01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,680 tricks, so there's 2 bronze, 2 smarts, and two guts pass, so 1186 01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:38,800 there's 6 total paths. So the two bronze paths are 1187 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,520 Blood Rights and Rotten tricks, the two smarts paths are Old 1188 01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,720 Ways and Elemental rituals, and the two guts packs are Healing 1189 01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:48,160 Words and Chaos songs. Let's go through one of them so 1190 01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:50,280 we can talk about a whole whisper path, because it's kind 1191 01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:57,040 of like a big core of the game. Yeah, let's do Blood Rights is a 1192 01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:02,600 good basic one and rotten Tricks is a good like atmospheric war, 1193 01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:04,520 World War One. So you pick one. 1194 01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:06,760 Pick one of those. Let's do let's do blood rights 1195 01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:08,520 like you said, it's Braun. It's pretty straightforward. 1196 01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,920 So the blood rights path the caster willing to use her own 1197 01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:14,000 blood as a source. We we love blood magic. 1198 01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:16,200 Mad. Magic. 1199 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,320 The caster are willing to use her own blood as a source of 1200 01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:19,680 power. Becomes much harder to stop 1201 01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,600 until they bleed themselves dry. For each blood right they use, 1202 01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:25,120 they must take one damage. 2 bronze. 1203 01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,000 You're actually damaging your attribute. 1204 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,560 This counts as one automatic success. 1205 01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,280 Many rights do not require a skill role. 1206 01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:37,040 Because the blood mage targets themselves, they may take 1207 01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,040 additional bra damage themselves, or allies may take 1208 01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,040 the damage to create additional successes. 1209 01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:46,000 One point of damage per success. This additional damage may be 1210 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,240 taken before or after rolling the dice. 1211 01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,080 So you get a bunch of blood right effects. 1212 01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:55,800 Here you got Strength, Gabs speed interject. 1213 01:03:55,920 --> 01:04:00,360 Blood blade and blood double. So let's talk about let's just 1214 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,480 we'll pick two of these. Blood Blade, A magical blood 1215 01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,960 streams from the casters open wounds and forms a solid object 1216 01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,040 to cut into enemies. The attack targets Braun and 1217 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:14,520 deals 1 damage plus one damage for one extra success. 1218 01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:16,480 You can do flurry for an extra success. 1219 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:20,840 And then there's the target may be made from range for with an 1220 01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:22,360 extra success. So that's good. 1221 01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,880 And don't forget just by casting it you damage yourself and get 1222 01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,720 one success right off the bat. And then blood double when the 1223 01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:33,280 caster would take damage instead, their body explodes 1224 01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,920 into a pool of blood and the caster appears unhurt nearby. 1225 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,360 It lasts until used or until the end of combat and yet plus one 1226 01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,160 additional double. So basically you do you do like 1227 01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,200 a what? What do they fucking do in 1228 01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:46,760 Naruto where it suddenly comes to the log? 1229 01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,360 They escape when they they replace themselves. 1230 01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,040 The log substitution. There you go. 1231 01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,640 Yeah, it's you basically doing a blood substitution, which is 1232 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:56,600 cool. So and you. 1233 01:04:56,680 --> 01:05:00,040 Really like that power, by the way, just like the vibeiness of 1234 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,040 the you get killed and actually just falls into the pool of 1235 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,160 blood and you step out from somewhere else, you know? 1236 01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,880 Yeah, it's cool. The the vibes and the mechanics 1237 01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,080 throughout this entire section, over the entire whisper section 1238 01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,680 is really, really fun and interesting. 1239 01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,520 Like the the rotten tricks ones are cool. 1240 01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,760 And again, I I'd like that they give you 2 paths for every 1241 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,680 attribute. So if you really want to play a 1242 01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:26,520 smarts person, you can you can lean into that with your 1243 01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:27,560 whispers, which is really, really great. 1244 01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:29,720 We're not going to go over too much of that because we're 17 1245 01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:33,960 pages into 120 page book, but surprisingly, we're actually 1246 01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:35,400 like halfway done. Oh, we're pretty. 1247 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,440 Yeah, there's not a ton after this. 1248 01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,880 I mean there's lore and then the GM section, the best theory, but 1249 01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:44,480 yeah, the lore is most of it. Yeah, we swapped it over to the 1250 01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:46,640 entire character creation section, which is pretty, pretty 1251 01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,160 simple. Yeah, here's here's another. 1252 01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:54,280 No, no, this isn't the one. So more diegetic document here 1253 01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:56,440 as we go through the bottom, just like a bunch of different 1254 01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:00,560 pages in Alfred's journal. Then we get to character 1255 01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:04,520 creation, which is again, it says recruitment at the top, 1256 01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:12,240 randomly underlined for no reason, not capitalized the same 1257 01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:16,920 size as everything else. It's just so again, there's so 1258 01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:21,560 anyway, OK, so. So. 1259 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,680 Yeah, this is the way the characterization works. 1260 01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,800 You divide 10 points amongst your 3 attributes, Braun, 1261 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,760 Smarts, and Guts. So Braun is. 1262 01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:30,200 It's all exactly what you think it is. 1263 01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:35,000 So each stat requires a minimum of one and can be enhanced later 1264 01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,960 through gameplay. The average human ability is 3. 1265 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,640 I love that they say this. The average human ability is 3 1266 01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:45,200 and the peak human ability is 6. Attributes greater than 6 1267 01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,920 indicate superhuman and possibly supernatural abilities. 1268 01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,240 I really like that it gives you that context of you have to have 1269 01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,560 at least one and everything, and if you have less than three 1270 01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:56,760 you're less than average in that so it's a great way to do it. 1271 01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:02,200 Attributes govern 3 things, health, defense, and skill 1272 01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,320 manipulation. So health is your physical, 1273 01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:10,800 mental, and emotional health. When you take damage, you reduce 1274 01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,360 the targeted attribute. This gives me care. 1275 01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:16,640 It's caring a little bit, right? Where like after you get through 1276 01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:19,440 your hip well into the odds, into the into the odds, where 1277 01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,280 after you get through your hip protection, you start hitting 1278 01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:25,440 attributes, just go straight to attributes, which sucks because 1279 01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,360 your attributes are what determines your manipulations. 1280 01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,920 So if you're losing attributes, you're losing your 1281 01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,480 manipulations. Yeah, in a strong manner. 1282 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,320 So when you take damage, reduce the targeted attribute. 1283 01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,440 If any attribute is reduced to 0, your character dies. 1284 01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:44,520 That's it. They just fucking die. 1285 01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:52,800 It's defense is this is the target number others need to hit 1286 01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,160 to damage the attribute and then skill manipulation. 1287 01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:01,040 It's basically this is basically a copy paste of what was written 1288 01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,400 before. It's the plus one system. 1289 01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,080 The attributes are linked to specific skills a dictate blah 1290 01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,640 blah blah blah blah blah blah. And then it gives you a before 1291 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:10,400 the roll and after the roll section. 1292 01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,640 And then the lower an attribute gets, the easier it is to hit 1293 01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,560 and the less manipulation you have at your disposable. 1294 01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:18,720 Right? So we just went through 1295 01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:23,359 character creation. Did it talk about rank at all? 1296 01:08:24,359 --> 01:08:28,359 No, just single fucking time. Yeah, there's only one other 1297 01:08:28,359 --> 01:08:30,920 time that rank comes up in this entire thing, and it's it's 1298 01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:36,000 coming up. But it's just so weird that they 1299 01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:40,479 rank pip, like score. There's no consistency to the 1300 01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:43,279 keyword used for a very important part of the game, 1301 01:08:43,279 --> 01:08:45,760 which is the number you give to your attributes. 1302 01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:49,000 Again, that's just that's, that's not good. 1303 01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,840 Gender, sexuality, and personal history, they exist. 1304 01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,359 Again, here's a page where they actually just put the whole the 1305 01:08:57,359 --> 01:09:01,479 art as the page there. We go, we did it, we got it one 1306 01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,600 time and then they start the next page in the new section. 1307 01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:07,680 That can all be not cut halfway through weirdly. 1308 01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:11,640 But what's crazy is see how big the word training is and it's 1309 01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,319 underlined. It's not the same size as the 1310 01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:16,920 word for recruitment. Look at how small the 1311 01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,080 recruitment is. Yeah, it's underlined, but the 1312 01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:23,000 font size is the same as the rest of the font size and 1313 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,120 everything else. It's like it's going back up 1314 01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:28,439 combat corruption. None of these cards, none of the 1315 01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:30,040 other ones, are underlined. Nope. 1316 01:09:30,319 --> 01:09:33,720 But again, recruitment is the header for this section and it 1317 01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,080 is let's say it's size 10 and everything else in the page is 1318 01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:37,520 10. I totally get that. 1319 01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:39,399 But then when you get to the next thing training, it's like 1320 01:09:39,399 --> 01:09:42,319 size 16. It's so much bigger, like so 1321 01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,760 the, the complete and total lack of consistency in all of the 1322 01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,680 headings and subheadings and bolding and underline and 1323 01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:50,560 everything. It's just, it's like every 1324 01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,000 single page. They just forgot any concept of 1325 01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:54,840 like consistency for what they've done before. 1326 01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,320 It's crazy training. So like 3 skills from the 1327 01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,200 following list and these are your train skills. 1328 01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:03,840 So the list is athletics, melee which is hand in hand combat, 1329 01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:07,520 stealth. Oh and they're by attribute 2. 1330 01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:10,680 So athletics, melee, and stealth are all your Braun. 1331 01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:12,760 Communication, knowledge and mechanics. 1332 01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:17,920 Your smarts and investigation. Ranged and transport are your 1333 01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,560 guts. And then whispers are variable. 1334 01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:28,560 It's your magic and then you assign 3 skill dice among your 1335 01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,960 train skills. So each point of training 1336 01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,400 represents either a level of formal school. 1337 01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,520 Why is this written like this by the way coming up? 1338 01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:39,200 Oh, here's another. Here's another box. 1339 01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:42,720 Here is another box. Each point of training 1340 01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,760 represents either a level of formal schooling in the subject 1341 01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,680 or years of experience. These points can be distributed 1342 01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:55,760 in any way. 300210111 A trained skill with no skilled ice is 1343 01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:57,720 still considered a trained skill. 1344 01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:01,560 If you assign a skilled eye to the Whisper skill, choose 1 1345 01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:05,280 whisper path and choose one spell from that path. 1346 01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:07,960 When you assign additional skilled ice to the Whisper 1347 01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,760 skill, you can either add training to a current path or 1348 01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:13,320 training a new path. You will have one spell for each 1349 01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,960 point. I don't know man. 1350 01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,360 Can we touch on how fucking hilarious it is? 1351 01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,480 Like you have three points to spend between three things. 1352 01:11:20,480 --> 01:11:21,840 You can divide them however you want. 1353 01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:25,960 Here's written down all the possibilities for how to divide 1354 01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,680 these between. It's like, yeah fucker, there's 1355 01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,720 three skills and three different things to put them in like. 1356 01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:34,200 That's weird. Deployment. 1357 01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:36,600 Draw 3 cards representing your starting mental and emotional 1358 01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,200 resources. So this is saying so deployment 1359 01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:42,240 is you start the game with three cards in your hand and we talked 1360 01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:46,600 about the way that you can that cards is when we talked about 1361 01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,120 cards you start with three. So this is how your character 1362 01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,880 works. A quick rundown of character 1363 01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:53,120 creation and everything we just talked about. 1364 01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,960 So you have 3 skills or you have 3 attributes, Bronze, smarts and 1365 01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,320 guts. You start by distributing 10 1366 01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:01,520 points across all of those, right? 1367 01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,520 And those attributes determine your health, your defense, and 1368 01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,720 the number of times you can manipulate things, right? 1369 01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:13,120 And then you pick three skills to have training in and then you 1370 01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:17,880 have 3 skill dice. And then you give a dice to any 1371 01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:20,720 combination of those three skills and then. 1372 01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:22,680 You draw. Those combinations look like 1373 01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,040 they have. They have and then you draw 3 1374 01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:28,520 cards. That is how to do a character 1375 01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:29,600 cushion. It's pretty simple and 1376 01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:30,880 straightforward. I like it. 1377 01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:36,480 If you happen to put one of your dice in the trained skill of 1378 01:12:36,480 --> 01:12:39,440 whisper, you pick a whisper path and you have your characters. 1379 01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,440 That's how it works. And then character growth is the 1380 01:12:42,480 --> 01:12:44,520 only other time we talk about rank at all. 1381 01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,920 The way character growth is is you receive decoration cards at 1382 01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:50,520 the end of your mission that you can use to build up your 1383 01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:54,320 character. That is the the cards, the 1384 01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:57,840 cards, the way the cards work and the way this works is you 1385 01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:00,240 can do skills, attributes or modifiers. 1386 01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:05,440 So if you choose to do skills, a new skill, any combination of 1387 01:13:05,440 --> 01:13:09,320 cards and the cost is one plus the number of extra skills. 1388 01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:12,240 First new skill cost 2 cards, the second cost 3, etcetera, 1389 01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,600 etcetera. You can have a new skill die. 1390 01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:17,440 So any combination of cards, we talked about four, it has to be 1391 01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:18,480 like one more than what you need. 1392 01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:22,240 The cost is one plus the number of the new training pip filling 1393 01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:28,960 in pip 4 on communication skill cost 5 cards yeah attributes and 1394 01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,760 increase in attribute any combination of red cards. 1395 01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:35,080 The number of cards spent is one plus the number of the new 1396 01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:36,760 attribute rank. So if you want to take a rank 1397 01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:40,280 from three to four, you have to spend 4 car like you know 4 1398 01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:43,800 cards a distance space. Collecting this many red cards 1399 01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:46,520 should be difficult. So only red cards let you 1400 01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,640 increase attribute, which is interesting and then modifiers. 1401 01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:52,640 If the cards are all the same, suit cost is reduced by 1. 1402 01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:56,200 You must have enough to buy the advancement, but keep one card 1403 01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:57,960 of your choice. And then if the cards are all 1404 01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,360 face cards and or aces, increase the effect by one. 1405 01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,640 For example, one more training pip new skills start with one 1406 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,560 pip attribute increased is by one rank everything. 1407 01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,560 So I I like that the the you can actually try to build out your 1408 01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:12,920 deck. Yeah, for. 1409 01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:16,520 Like your suits and stuff like. That going on for the deck 1410 01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,200 building portion, yeah, yeah, the interaction with cards is 1411 01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:22,200 pretty cool. So first I was like, do I like 1412 01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:23,840 this because it's just like a thing? 1413 01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:29,080 But it I, I think I do, you know, I think it adds 1414 01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:31,800 meaningfully to the game. I doesn't feel like it's tacked 1415 01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,320 on. There's yeah, there's also like 1416 01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:39,080 an obviously like a interesting meta to playing this game when 1417 01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:41,600 you kind of get it down with the cards and like where to use them 1418 01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:43,240 best. Yeah, it's cool. 1419 01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,800 So that is the rules of the game and character creation, right? 1420 01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:49,080 So let's talk about this real quick. 1421 01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,120 We've talked about this over and over again and harped it on the 1422 01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:55,840 show numerous, numerous times. So here's here's my thought on 1423 01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:01,040 how this is poorly structured. We read the rules for the game 1424 01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,960 before we ever knew anything about character creation 1425 01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:06,040 whatsoever. So we talked about, I think the 1426 01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:08,160 attributes are mentioned like once, but then we talked about 1427 01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:11,240 them a bunch. I, I, I wish that they would 1428 01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:15,960 have maybe given that like skill role and maybe even like the, 1429 01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:20,680 the, the, the first page, right? Basically skill role, the plus 1430 01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,760 one manipulations and then stuffed character growth in 1431 01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,120 there are the the entire character creation section and 1432 01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:29,920 then put all the rules after. Because knowing that I start 1433 01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,120 with three cards and then telling me how the cards work 1434 01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:36,880 would make the context be a lot better than saying, Hey, this is 1435 01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,280 how cards work. And you're like, oh fucking K, 1436 01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:42,880 like, all right. And then like and then like 15 1437 01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,120 pages later, like, OK, I get to start with three cards. 1438 01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:46,400 You know what I mean? Like we've talked about as a 1439 01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:51,200 bunch, like the best way in our opinions to do layout for rules 1440 01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:54,360 and character creation is to give a brief overview of the 1441 01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:58,680 system character creation rules and then all the rules of the 1442 01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:04,720 system after so that people know what they're using as they're 1443 01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,040 learning it. So that you know you have 3 1444 01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:10,040 cards when you read the the card section, you have the context of 1445 01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:14,600 like what's going on with that? So I would have rearranged like 1446 01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:17,480 that completely. And if you're gonna do if you're 1447 01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:22,000 if, if you're gonna do it where it is all of rules or all of 1448 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,240 character creation, I would say I would put character creation 1449 01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:25,960 1st and then all the rules after. 1450 01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:29,560 But I think a brief overview, character creation and then all 1451 01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:33,360 the bulk rules is ideal. There's just a really clear, 1452 01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:37,600 like, lack of hard structuring of how information's introduced. 1453 01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,480 Like it's not introduced thoughtfully. 1454 01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:42,440 It just is like on like, Oh yeah, we're still talk. 1455 01:16:42,440 --> 01:16:45,200 We're talking about this. It's on the page, you know, but 1456 01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:48,480 it's not like all aspects of whatever is being explained. 1457 01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:51,840 It's also not in the order that would make it even easier to 1458 01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:54,720 provide you context to anything else going on. 1459 01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:58,160 Yeah, yeah. And not only that, so as we went 1460 01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:03,400 through like the the table of contents is such a weird choice 1461 01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:05,880 of things to do, right. So like when we go back to 1462 01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:08,600 notice when, when we got to like the remember when we hit the 1463 01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:12,720 weapons page, which is like it's in the middle of a page. 1464 01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:14,680 It's not even like starting the top of a page. 1465 01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:18,840 So weapons is like a thing in the table of contents, but it's 1466 01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:22,560 not even it's own like header in its own page or anything, you 1467 01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:24,920 know what I mean? Like it's a weird choice 1468 01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:27,280 throughout a lot of these because I think, I think like 1469 01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:30,360 the veil and nomains, some of these other ones, they're just 1470 01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:34,520 like like not a bolded section, not their own page, not 1471 01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:35,760 anything. They just randomly decide to 1472 01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:39,720 pick them. But anyway, so we're going to 1473 01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:41,640 run through a bunch of the stuff, do a couple of the talk 1474 01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,000 about the running the game sections a little bit, and then 1475 01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:45,800 we're done. So the World at War, we talked 1476 01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:51,200 about this, the progress events of 1914 to July 1916. 1477 01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,640 This is like real history. We talked lots before and I love 1478 01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:58,320 this part sings all of the lore through this is fantastic. 1479 01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:02,840 The writing is really fantastic. Basically it is World War One, 1480 01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:06,120 as World War One really happened from 1914 to then. 1481 01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:09,800 I think it's the Battle of Psalm in July 1916 when the veil 1482 01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:12,280 tears. So there's like quotes here from 1483 01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,200 stuff. There's actually a really great 1484 01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:16,880 breakdown of like First World War and how it started and what 1485 01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:18,360 was going on and everything like that. 1486 01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,640 It's really fucking dope. It's super, super vibey. 1487 01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:23,360 It sets the scene incredibly well. 1488 01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:28,280 A lot of great pieces of art in two really fucking cool and then 1489 01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:33,080 it talks about the world broke in the veil torn July 1916, the 1490 01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,520 battle of Psalm 30,000 people were killed. 1491 01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,520 The others were already looking. It tore the veil. 1492 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,880 Shit got fucked and that's where the game started happening. 1493 01:18:41,480 --> 01:18:45,760 And then after that, oh, here's here's one of my other like such 1494 01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:49,080 a random thing that drives me insane. 1495 01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:53,840 This is a diegetic document. This is a page from Alfred's 1496 01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,520 journal. It's got, it's a fake page on 1497 01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,760 the side and everything. Why is it split across 2 pages? 1498 01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:03,120 There's just like an extra little piece of the they cut, 1499 01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:06,320 they cut the journal page so they can put it on to the next 1500 01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,000 page. Just make it a little bit 1501 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,040 shorter. It's like 3 lines, just short. 1502 01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:14,280 You're writing up a little bit or because it starts like below 1503 01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:16,600 other stuff about like, it's just so weird that it's just 1504 01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,440 like not. Same issue with like the art art 1505 01:19:19,440 --> 01:19:21,560 pieces from earlier on. It's the exact same issue. 1506 01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,880 Yeah, but it's not even that you're like splitting rules text 1507 01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:26,160 now. You're literally splitting 1508 01:19:26,480 --> 01:19:29,600 diegetic in world document like pictures. 1509 01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,600 It would be almost, it would be almost like putting a piece of 1510 01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:34,560 art in here, but then like chopping it off and putting like 1511 01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,120 the bottom of a piece of art on the next page. 1512 01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:38,760 I would argue that's exactly what it is, so. 1513 01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,640 Basically it it's just, it's, it's not great. 1514 01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:44,160 There's a section about the veil. 1515 01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:46,920 The veil is nothing new. It's been here forever. 1516 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:49,600 It is. It is the space between all 1517 01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:51,400 world and like the fucks, you know what I mean? 1518 01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:57,720 And that becomes torn asunder. And then no man's land. 1519 01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:00,480 There's all section here about that. 1520 01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:04,400 It's a huge section about trench warfare, which is again really 1521 01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:06,720 interesting. A lot of, like, cool 1522 01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,920 information. I mean, trench warfare was 1523 01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:10,760 fucking terrible. But, you know, in the context 1524 01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:13,880 that we're talking about, yeah, really great information about 1525 01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:16,120 that stuff here. And then it goes through the 1526 01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:19,080 breakdown of the Allied Powers or the Intente Alliance. 1527 01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:23,160 It talks about the Third French Republic, the British Empire, 1528 01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,760 the Russian Empire, Italy and the United States of America. 1529 01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:29,800 There's a little breakdown for each one of those leading up to 1530 01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,200 the war. So real historical shit leading 1531 01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:35,360 up to it. And then what happens in 1960? 1532 01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:40,560 And then each of them also has themes, officer attitudes and 1533 01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:43,840 soldier attitudes. So you really get a breakdown 1534 01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:48,040 for like every nation at war here and the way that they're 1535 01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:49,320 going to act and interact, right? 1536 01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:56,240 So, for example, the French one, it gives a whole breakdown of 1537 01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:57,320 that. It talked about what happens 1538 01:20:57,320 --> 01:20:59,960 after the veil is torn. And the themes are personal 1539 01:20:59,960 --> 01:21:03,200 honor, the small comforts, tragic circumstances, the 1540 01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:06,000 officer attitudes are this generation of officers has been 1541 01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,160 preparing all their careers to fight Germany and redeem the 1542 01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:10,840 national honor lost in the last war. 1543 01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:12,840 They are determined not to lose again and it will do almost 1544 01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,400 anything to inspire their soldiers to hold their lines and 1545 01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:17,120 fight to the last. And then the soldier attitude 1546 01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:20,280 says French soldiers are relaxed and somewhat fatalistic. 3 years 1547 01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:22,000 of military service, it's compulsory. 1548 01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:24,360 So the army contains every sort of French person. 1549 01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:27,040 Most hope simply to survive the tour, etcetera, etcetera. 1550 01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:30,320 So every nation gets those breakdowns, which I love. 1551 01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:32,960 It's basically like adventure seeds and and and or not it's 1552 01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:35,280 it's lower seeds and stuff for everything. 1553 01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:39,120 So that is the third French Republic, as we said, the 1554 01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:44,280 British Empire, the Russian Empire, Italy and then the 1555 01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:45,720 United States. We have to see what what the 1556 01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:47,680 United States themes and and and. 1557 01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:50,920 Yeah, Which was very funny because like, they weren't there 1558 01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:54,040 when the veil was torn, so they seemed to be a lot less bothered 1559 01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,880 overall. But they did they. the United 1560 01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,080 States policy is literally like, if you see something weird, 1561 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,240 trust that you did see it and go ahead and shoot. 1562 01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:03,720 Like that's their policy. I'm like very American, you 1563 01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:06,560 know? The themes are and agendas, 1564 01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:09,960 promise of victory and the quote UN quote adventure of going to 1565 01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:15,400 Europe, officer attitude for the most part the world. 1566 01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,400 The whole war in in Europe is a mess. 1567 01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,800 The Brits and French badly botched, which now requires US 1568 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,440 to help clean up. Typical, yeah. 1569 01:22:23,640 --> 01:22:28,120 Typical Europeans, you know, make clean godly war like us, 1570 01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:31,480 you United States citizens. And it's just, yeah. 1571 01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,240 And then there is the Central Powers, which is called the 1572 01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:36,640 Quadruple Alliance. It's all the same stuff for the 1573 01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:40,080 German Empire, Austria, Hungary, the Ottoman Empire in Bulgaria. 1574 01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:45,960 Again, a shit load of lore for all of that stuff, I think. 1575 01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:47,920 What's the page count for the lower section? 1576 01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:49,640 Let's just go back to the table of contents real quick. 1577 01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:56,240 It's from page 29 all the way to 57. 1578 01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:59,120 So you get, what is that almost 30 pages of lore. 1579 01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:05,120 OK, so we'll do some quick rundown for game stuff in the GM 1580 01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:06,640 section and then we'll be done here. 1581 01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:10,840 So there's an X card, you know what it is, use it if you need 1582 01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:16,600 it. The narrator is the GM signal 1583 01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:19,520 over noise. So this is basically GM 1584 01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:21,440 principles to start at the beginning of this year. 1585 01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:25,400 Basically it says signal over noise as one of the players at 1586 01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:26,680 the table, the narrator can join. 1587 01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:28,240 We're not. I'm not going to read this story 1588 01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:32,400 over combat involvement over happiness, creativity over 1589 01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,560 notes, horror over hope. These are principles for running 1590 01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,760 the game right. This is a weird GM section too, 1591 01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:42,120 because like, this is what you get these like principles for 1592 01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:44,120 running the game. And then it would be like, this 1593 01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:45,920 is the mission structure. But then you talk about like the 1594 01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,480 journey, which is literally like the core of the game, which is 1595 01:23:48,480 --> 01:23:50,120 not in the player section like at all. 1596 01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,000 Yeah, which is so. Weird because I didn't. 1597 01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,960 I did not read all of the GM section. 1598 01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,200 Not really everything else, but. Yeah, well, I mean in that like 1599 01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:59,080 in context, you're like, OK, well I got the rules of the 1600 01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:01,280 game, yeah. You just don't get the journey 1601 01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:02,920 because you're like, well, I'm not going to read the GM section 1602 01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:05,040 on the GM, right. Like put the important stuff 1603 01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:06,120 where the important stuff matters. 1604 01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:12,040 So basically missions are small adventures lasting about an 1605 01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:17,440 hour. Mission folio is what you get 1606 01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:20,240 for each mission, right? And there's four parts to a 1607 01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:22,480 mission folio. There's a mission briefing, 1608 01:24:22,480 --> 01:24:24,280 which is background info and mission objective. 1609 01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,080 There's the journey, which we're going to get to, which is like 1610 01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:30,280 the core of the fucking game. There are the incidents, which 1611 01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,600 is like the encounters that you'll have, which is like the 1612 01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,200 main section of the folio is like the shit you actually do. 1613 01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:39,120 And then there's the decoration, what they call it, which is like 1614 01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,280 the cards you get at the end of of the mission. 1615 01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,800 That's that's everything that comes in your mission folio. 1616 01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:46,480 And it just say like they only last about like an hour. 1617 01:24:46,480 --> 01:24:48,160 They're pretty short. Little adventures are like 1618 01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:50,000 individual excursions. Basically. 1619 01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:53,560 They're missions, right? So the journey? 1620 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:57,720 What the fuck is the journey? My notes say just read most of 1621 01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:59,360 this. So this is basically the 1622 01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:01,960 structure of the game on page 60. 1623 01:25:03,480 --> 01:25:04,280 Yep. Cool. 1624 01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,000 Good, good, good, good, good. All right. 1625 01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:08,960 So what do you expect it towards the end? 1626 01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:12,440 The Journey is an event that happens at the first part of 1627 01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:14,680 each mission and focuses on role-playing or character 1628 01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,320 moments and help sets a tone for the events to follow. 1629 01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:22,480 Each journey list its requirements, IE 3 hearts, one 1630 01:25:22,480 --> 01:25:25,600 card of each suit, and some multiple and some more. 1631 01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:29,080 Difficult missions also include things to avoid, as in no sixes, 1632 01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:32,400 no more spades, whatever. The Journey requirement is told 1633 01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:34,880 to players before they contribute cars. 1634 01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,400 So basically as part of the mission, you're going to get a 1635 01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:41,560 briefing and then you're going to do the journey, OK, each 1636 01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:43,280 player. And that is when you like put 1637 01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:50,040 cards into into a thing, right? And you can't continue on with 1638 01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:52,400 the mission until you've done the journey. 1639 01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:55,720 So each player must contribute one card from the hand to the 1640 01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:58,440 journey, but they may contribute more if they wish. 1641 01:25:58,440 --> 01:26:02,280 If a player has no cards, add one card to the journey from the 1642 01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:04,360 deck. Without looking at it by group 1643 01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:08,400 consensus, players may elect to take more time in the journey to 1644 01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:11,120 gather what they need and add add cards in the deck, but never 1645 01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,320 more cards than the total number of players. 1646 01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,680 Sometimes a narrator may also add cards to the journey for 1647 01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:19,960 corrupt characters. Players hands are always secret 1648 01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:22,680 to open discussion of who is contributing what card is 1649 01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,480 discouraged. General discussion of how 1650 01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:29,360 confident the players are that they can succeed at the journey 1651 01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:33,040 can be allowed, especially if it is played in character. 1652 01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,440 Once all the cards have been contributed to the journey, the 1653 01:26:36,440 --> 01:26:41,280 narrator shuffles them and deals them out face down to the 1654 01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:43,360 players. If there are more cards than 1655 01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:45,880 there are players, the narrator may deal themselves a journey 1656 01:26:45,880 --> 01:26:48,080 card as well. These cards should not be added 1657 01:26:48,440 --> 01:26:53,320 to the player's hands. Anyone may start at a one at a 1658 01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:56,200 time players reveal their journey card and either answer 1659 01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:57,720 the question posed on the journey. 1660 01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:00,880 What? Real quick, there is a sentence. 1661 01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:07,040 Anyone may start and. Oh, it's split across multiple 1662 01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:07,840 pages. It's. 1663 01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,760 Split across multiple pages with an art piece in between it. 1664 01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:15,880 Yeah, yeah, easily could have just put that on the next page 1665 01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:19,080 one at a time. Players reveal. 1666 01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:24,360 So basically right now everyone is face down putting up cards 1667 01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:28,000 in, right? And but there's requirements to 1668 01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:33,160 the journey. So it might be like every, all 1669 01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:35,640 of there needs to be one of every suit in the middle. 1670 01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,360 But you can't tell each other what you're putting in, right? 1671 01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:41,400 You put them down, face in, you stick it in, they get shuffled 1672 01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:43,800 and dealt back out. So you put cards in, but you 1673 01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,760 might not get your card back one of the time. 1674 01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:49,240 Players reveal the card and either answer the question posed 1675 01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:52,400 by the journey in the voice of the character or narrate a scene 1676 01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:55,120 of what the character does during the journey. 1677 01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:57,920 When the narrator reveals a card, they tell which character 1678 01:27:57,920 --> 01:28:01,080 the thoughts they describe occur to, or who's involved in the 1679 01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:03,880 scene and narrate. All answers and narrations 1680 01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:07,360 should be inspired by the themes of the revealed cards Suit, with 1681 01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:08,880 higher numbers being more intense. 1682 01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:11,520 If appropriate. The scenes can involve role play 1683 01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:12,880 with another character. The table. 1684 01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:16,640 Each answer or scene should last for about a minute, depending on 1685 01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:18,360 the mission. Successfully meeting the 1686 01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:22,600 requirement grants a bonus to the unit for the mission, or 1687 01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:25,720 failure will impose a penalty. Reveal this benefit or penalty 1688 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:27,680 after all the journey cards have been revealed. 1689 01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:31,240 All cards contributed to the journey are put in the discard 1690 01:28:31,240 --> 01:28:33,480 pile. If a joker is played, shuffle a 1691 01:28:33,480 --> 01:28:37,800 deck as normal. So basically the journey is the 1692 01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,120 journey. It's you on the way to the 1693 01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:42,600 mission. And it is a it's it is a 1694 01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:47,160 narrative act that everyone goes through. 1695 01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,920 It's basically, I don't want to call it downtime but it's a non 1696 01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:52,920 combat. Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a 1697 01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,800 second mode of play. It's a narrative mode of play 1698 01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,240 using the cards. Yeah, exactly. 1699 01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:03,120 So you basically you have this, this, you, every person is going 1700 01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:06,760 to narrate a scene as part of the journey before you actually 1701 01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:08,760 get to the mission where you're actually going to like fight and 1702 01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:10,640 stuff like that. I think it's interesting. 1703 01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:13,320 I like it. Yeah, it's great. 1704 01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,800 It it really brings RP into a tabletop role-playing game. 1705 01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:19,800 It's a fun way to to to do stuff. 1706 01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:23,560 And honestly, if that's just not your style of play, you could 1707 01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:30,720 just not do this. Like, yeah, but yeah, so the 1708 01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:34,000 difficulty can float. Some missions do not list a 1709 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,280 target number for skill roles, though many do. 1710 01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:43,000 Basically, the the part of this is basically saying that like, 1711 01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,680 fudge, fudge your shit. And I couldn't disagree more. 1712 01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:49,560 Yeah, there's 222 things that the score of this game that I'm 1713 01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:52,320 not a big fan of 1 is that like when something doesn't happen, 1714 01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:53,840 that's it. It just doesn't like, oh, you 1715 01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:56,440 just missed. That's it, I hate it, but this 1716 01:29:56,560 --> 01:30:00,800 entire section is basically telling you to fudge as AGM to 1717 01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:04,200 fudge it, which makes no sense to me because part of the core 1718 01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:06,600 of the game they talked about is the unit is important, not the 1719 01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:08,760 individual characters of an individual character dies. 1720 01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:11,120 Oh well, it doesn't take long to make another one. 1721 01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:13,880 It's the unit that's important. So actually reading some of 1722 01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:16,800 this, it basically says even with tightly scripted mission 1723 01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:18,520 every possibility cannot be covered. 1724 01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:22,960 Sometimes the numbers on the page end up not working for your 1725 01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:24,760 group. They might be sneaking past 1726 01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:29,280 every guard. Many times you will be adjusting 1727 01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:31,560 or inventing target numbers on the fly. 1728 01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:33,960 Roughly half of skill rules should fail. 1729 01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:36,600 The difficulty floats to the level of the party. 1730 01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:40,400 Lower or raise target numbers as you see fit. 1731 01:30:41,560 --> 01:30:43,600 You can also put more antagonists in the fight or have 1732 01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:46,480 allies show up to help. Another option is make any 1733 01:30:46,480 --> 01:30:49,160 Scarola challenge. So it's basically saying like if 1734 01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:51,520 you throw too much at the players, just lower the target 1735 01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:52,720 number so you don't kill them all. 1736 01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:56,440 Or if it's too easy, just like just raise it and throw more 1737 01:30:56,440 --> 01:30:59,080 people in and make it harder. It's just like that's just such 1738 01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:03,520 a 5 E mindset in my opinion of just like don't kill them too 1739 01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:05,800 hard. Don't just like set it up and if 1740 01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:09,960 they die, they die like it's it's a, it's a I couldn't 1741 01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:12,720 disagree more with that style of play. 1742 01:31:12,720 --> 01:31:14,640 And I understand if people like that style of play, but that 1743 01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:18,320 feels very much like as someone who played 5 E for a long time 1744 01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:22,320 and who did this, I can tell you right now you're not playing the 1745 01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:24,920 game at that point. You are telling a story. 1746 01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,320 Yeah. You're telling your your, you 1747 01:31:28,440 --> 01:31:30,600 know, because. Because what the players are 1748 01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,360 doing doesn't matter, you've already decided you're not going 1749 01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:37,280 to kill them, so you're just wasting 3 hours of combat time, 1750 01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:41,200 you know what I mean? Like the players actions have no 1751 01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:47,880 actual consequences whatsoever. So anyway, mobs, they exist. 1752 01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:50,720 There are mobs. Antagonist was whispers. 1753 01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:52,760 They work the same as the PCs do. 1754 01:31:54,800 --> 01:31:57,200 There is a a section here on corruption. 1755 01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:00,240 My notes say the rules for corruption here are different 1756 01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:01,880 than the previous rules on page 8. 1757 01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:07,920 I'll take your word for it because I'm not going back. 1758 01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:12,840 Yeah, you use the players characters corruption against 1759 01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:14,800 them in several ways. Firstly, they contribute cards 1760 01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:16,840 to the journey. You had one additional card for 1761 01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:20,160 each character with three corruption. 2 for four 1762 01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:22,960 additional cards may give you. Because corruption is secret, 1763 01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:26,080 there are no requirements. When a character reaches 5 1764 01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:27,880 corruption, they're on their last mission. 1765 01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:31,280 I don't remember. I mean, I have it in big red 1766 01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:34,720 letters. I don't know why I did that, but 1767 01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:35,800 I'm not going to get too deep on it. 1768 01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,800 Character death 0 in any attribute and you're dead. 1769 01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:42,360 Like that's it. Like I like that. 1770 01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:44,800 There's no death check, there's no saves, there's no nothing. 1771 01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:48,440 You're just done. There's a, a weird section here 1772 01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,360 of like resources and like other media, which could have just 1773 01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:53,600 been like the back of the book or the front of the book or 1774 01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:56,560 anything. But it talked about like a bunch 1775 01:32:56,560 --> 01:33:02,080 of books, film and TV websites that have like virtual tours of 1776 01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:05,280 the Italian front, a list of Canada's First World War 1777 01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:08,000 battles, like Wikipedia articles and stuff like that. 1778 01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,440 All right, antagonists, what's up? 1779 01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:13,440 Just cool stuff to have, you know? 1780 01:33:13,440 --> 01:33:16,000 Yeah. Yeah, OK. 1781 01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:19,240 The way that antagonists work, how to read these entries. 1782 01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:22,160 So basically antagonists are going to have a name, a type, an 1783 01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:26,560 initiative value armor, they're bronze smarts and gusts. 1784 01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:29,280 So they, they, they are going to have these attributes work just 1785 01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:33,160 like the player characters ones. And there's weapons, skills, 1786 01:33:33,160 --> 01:33:34,600 abilities, weaknesses and rewards. 1787 01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:37,840 So realistically, antagonists work exactly the way PCs work 1788 01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:40,120 because PCs are pretty straightforward and easy. 1789 01:33:41,480 --> 01:33:45,840 And then there are oh, oh, we do get more of the typewriter font 1790 01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:51,480 in the in the the little stat blocks for bad guys. 1791 01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:55,600 So let's we're just going to look at 111 person commando, 1792 01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:57,840 right? A soldier with more fighting 1793 01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:00,800 training than an average grunt trained to near the peak of 1794 01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:02,960 human ability. They're no longer surprised by 1795 01:34:02,960 --> 01:34:04,840 many ordinary deaths, blah blah blah blah blah. 1796 01:34:05,440 --> 01:34:08,640 So the type is solo, the initiative, IU 7, the armor's 4, 1797 01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:12,360 Braun 5, Smarts 3, Guts 4. Their weapons are knife and 1798 01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:15,200 machine gun. Their skills and abilities are 1799 01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:20,240 three dice and melee, 3 Dyson stealth and three Dyson ranged, 1800 01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:24,400 and the reward is you get to draw a card that is a step lock 1801 01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:26,400 for an antagonist. Easy peasy, right? 1802 01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:32,760 Easy. Cool art throughout and then 1803 01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:36,720 just the whole big chunk of of basically a bestiary. 1804 01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:47,000 Fuck off I can't get this. There it goes. 1805 01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:52,800 I don't know if that I don't think the pop up show, but it 1806 01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:55,400 like it creates like a mini little pop thing. 1807 01:34:55,680 --> 01:34:58,800 Yeah, and then and then you get adventures. 1808 01:34:59,080 --> 01:35:02,200 But you I didn't even realize I was reading adventures for a 1809 01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:05,040 while because it's there's nothing that says adventure. 1810 01:35:05,680 --> 01:35:10,360 It just suddenly says the belly, the beast crystal mazer, like 1811 01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:12,840 there's nothing that says adventures like there's no 1812 01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:14,120 differentiation, there's no break. 1813 01:35:14,440 --> 01:35:16,200 So. You have come to expect. 1814 01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:21,160 You know, so I think you get, I think there's like 3:00-ish 1815 01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:23,760 adventures in the back. There's the, the, the one I just 1816 01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:29,560 said, there's the lamps are going out and then, and then 1817 01:35:29,560 --> 01:35:33,840 there is the Swordquest. So for example, I just want to 1818 01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:37,600 give an example of of the, the, the things you need in emission. 1819 01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:40,080 So the emission objective is here, the journey. 1820 01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:42,280 So we talked about the journey. It says you travel through 1821 01:35:42,280 --> 01:35:45,960 untamed woods, stealing through dappled shadows and heavy foils 1822 01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:47,760 to world conflict as much as possible. 1823 01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:50,960 The sounds of artillery and firearms echo around you, but 1824 01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:53,680 there are still occasional moments of eerie silence, even 1825 01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:56,920 in the middle of a war zone. So that is what you're that is 1826 01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:59,600 the scene that's being set. For all of your scenes, the 1827 01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:02,600 requirement is one face card. So it's someone. 1828 01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:05,040 So at some point in the journey, you just have to reveal a face 1829 01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:06,080 card. Cool. 1830 01:36:07,480 --> 01:36:10,560 And then there is the narrative. In this moment of silence, what 1831 01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:12,280 do you observe about your traveling companions? 1832 01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:15,480 One of you is the promised king. Who do you think is most worthy 1833 01:36:15,480 --> 01:36:17,120 among you? Let the hierarchy and suits of 1834 01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:20,680 the cards and form your answers. On a success, the player with 1835 01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:23,600 the highest face card is the presumptive chosen one, 1836 01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:25,520 etcetera, etcetera. Failure. 1837 01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:27,560 There's no readily apparent leader among the players, and 1838 01:36:27,560 --> 01:36:29,000 we're not going to. We don't read adventures. 1839 01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:30,720 I just wanted to give it a little bit of an example of the 1840 01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:31,880 journey. That's it. 1841 01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:33,400 And then it gives you the rest of the stuff. 1842 01:36:33,400 --> 01:36:36,480 So if you want to read more of those, look at the fucking book 1843 01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:38,600 or buy the fucking book. There's a character sheet in the 1844 01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:42,160 back which is really super fucking straightforward. 1845 01:36:43,440 --> 01:36:45,720 It really is. It's. 1846 01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:49,200 And I, I like it. I think it looks, it looks 1847 01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:51,760 diegetic because of the, the typewriter or font. 1848 01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,560 But basically you get like your name, you get the recruitment, 1849 01:36:54,560 --> 01:36:57,680 which is like all the pips and stuff and, and your scores for 1850 01:36:57,680 --> 01:37:02,040 bronze smarts and guts section for equipment, a section for 1851 01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:04,400 your service record exception for your personal history. 1852 01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:07,800 There's five dots for corruption that you'll just mark off. 1853 01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:12,400 And on the side there's training and then all of the those 1854 01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:15,280 listed, and then there's options for three different paths and 1855 01:37:15,280 --> 01:37:18,800 the rituals that you get for it, and then a giant X card that 1856 01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:21,520 could have just been laying out. And that's the book. 1857 01:37:24,120 --> 01:37:26,680 We did it. I want to go over, I just want 1858 01:37:26,680 --> 01:37:29,040 to look real quick at blood on the snow. 1859 01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:32,800 Yeah. This is a campaign dossier, but 1860 01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:35,480 I wanted to talk about how much better this one is laid out than 1861 01:37:35,480 --> 01:37:37,120 the other one for like a bunch of reasons. 1862 01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:42,360 I will say they still use the same fake page, which is weird, 1863 01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:45,360 but it's a different background, which is weird. 1864 01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:47,560 So they must have got it from the same there. 1865 01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:51,200 It's got the same spine in it, but it doesn't have nearly to 1866 01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,080 the same degree. The fake pages on the left, it's 1867 01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:57,880 a little bit cropped down, but the background is a more like a 1868 01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:00,920 what is this? Like a light, bluish, whitish. 1869 01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:04,040 OK, am I wrong? Oh, are you not looking at it? 1870 01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:05,640 I'm looking at it right now on yours. 1871 01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:08,640 Yeah, yeah. So it's it's much lighter than 1872 01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:10,280 the brown. Yes, so it. 1873 01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:13,080 Looks better. There's like a blood splatter at 1874 01:38:13,080 --> 01:38:15,200 the bottom of the pages, which is fine. 1875 01:38:15,200 --> 01:38:17,720 Again, it's more texture than than fake or whatever. 1876 01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:19,920 No, it's still the same pages. Took all those same dots and 1877 01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:21,440 stuff. They just, they just, they must 1878 01:38:21,440 --> 01:38:24,200 have just like color corrected it to a light kind of bluish 1879 01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:26,440 white. You're right, they must have. 1880 01:38:26,840 --> 01:38:29,520 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's so much better. 1881 01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:32,200 It's so much better. But then even if we just go to 1882 01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:38,200 a, a, a page, let just look at the look at the font on this, 1883 01:38:38,480 --> 01:38:43,480 which this looks almost just like a Times New Roman on the 1884 01:38:43,520 --> 01:38:48,000 this is page three. First of all, the header at the 1885 01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:51,920 top is blue and underlined and a different font. 1886 01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:54,720 Or if it's not, it's like a bigger, it's got to be a 1887 01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:56,840 different font, but it's like a big bold font. 1888 01:38:57,320 --> 01:39:00,320 And then if we go back to like the never going home font, like 1889 01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:08,120 the page font again, this is like a very, I, I think, I don't 1890 01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:14,120 know if it's just like that. The, the IT is also a just a, a 1891 01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:19,760 serif font. But the actual like, I don't 1892 01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:20,960 know, I don't know why it's just better. 1893 01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:22,840 Maybe it's just the margins are so much bigger. 1894 01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:26,280 Yeah, it, I mean the margins are a ton bigger. 1895 01:39:26,280 --> 01:39:30,200 It's still very wall of. Text the font is smaller. 1896 01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:32,640 I think it's the same font but it it just it's smaller. 1897 01:39:32,640 --> 01:39:35,120 It is still wall of texty. But. 1898 01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:40,720 Bigger margins, better headers, different color headers. 1899 01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:45,360 Yeah, yeah. When they do do the diegetic 1900 01:39:45,360 --> 01:39:47,920 like pages in it, they keep it to one page. 1901 01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:52,160 There's a shadow on them and it's a such a different color 1902 01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:54,920 than the background that it looks much better. 1903 01:39:56,560 --> 01:39:58,640 It's just it's not that much different. 1904 01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:01,840 You can tell that it's a similar thing, but there's a much better 1905 01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:09,600 consistency for headers, subheaders, bolding, tabbing, 1906 01:40:09,840 --> 01:40:13,400 bulleting, everything like that. It still looks roughly the same 1907 01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:17,960 style, but it's just better. So clearly, like they know. 1908 01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,880 They can and this one was laid out by Charlie Ferguson Avery. 1909 01:40:21,080 --> 01:40:22,920 It's just a better laid out book than the original 1. 1910 01:40:23,160 --> 01:40:26,680 So all right, going to the review scores. 1911 01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:31,880 So for those that don't know what it is we do here on the 1912 01:40:31,880 --> 01:40:37,360 show, we do read review the book and then we give scores for 1913 01:40:37,360 --> 01:40:39,960 various metrics based on the things we looked at. 1914 01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:45,720 So we give a total of of up to 10 points for five different 1915 01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:47,640 metrics. We do give numbers to our 1916 01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:49,680 terrible opinions. Those metrics are art and 1917 01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:52,480 layout, which is the art of the book and the layout of the book 1918 01:40:52,480 --> 01:40:57,640 visually, Just visually, there's the usability, which is actually 1919 01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:01,640 like bookmarks, hyperlinks, if sections are in the right 1920 01:41:01,640 --> 01:41:04,200 section. Basically, how easy is the book 1921 01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:06,800 usable for learning the game and playing and running the game? 1922 01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:10,360 The rule set, which is if it's an adapted rule set, how well is 1923 01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:12,560 adapted? If it's a unique rule set, do we 1924 01:41:12,560 --> 01:41:16,000 like it? Originality is just originality 1925 01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,080 and any aspect of it could be lore, could be rules, could be 1926 01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:20,720 anything. Value is bang for your buck. 1927 01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:26,160 It is not just the cost of the book, the cost of the PDF, but 1928 01:41:26,160 --> 01:41:28,880 also like in the amount of content that there is for you, 1929 01:41:28,880 --> 01:41:32,720 for you to play, if there's apps, if there's websites, if 1930 01:41:32,720 --> 01:41:35,040 there's a bunch of other stuff, like basically, again, how much 1931 01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:40,320 bang do you get for your buck? So my issue I think with art and 1932 01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:43,800 layout here is going to be that obviously the art fox super 1933 01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:46,240 hard. Yeah, but the layout. 1934 01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:50,560 Is one of the worst laid out books I've ever read. 1935 01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:53,160 Yeah. One of the worst we've looked at 1936 01:41:53,160 --> 01:41:55,080 on the show, yeah. Definitely. 1937 01:41:57,240 --> 01:42:01,040 So I almost want to just like just do layout for this and just 1938 01:42:01,040 --> 01:42:04,040 like delete art off of this one because it's like obviously 1939 01:42:04,360 --> 01:42:10,440 Charlie's art slaps and I would hate to to, to, to give a low 1940 01:42:10,440 --> 01:42:15,280 score for using somebody else's art in the book in bad ways. 1941 01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:17,480 Yeah. I mean, yeah, the art is 1942 01:42:17,480 --> 01:42:18,960 obviously like incredibly high score. 1943 01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:22,760 But yeah, let's talk about layout for this one, because. 1944 01:42:23,880 --> 01:42:27,560 So, so, so and the way the way that we kind of do it is 1945 01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:30,800 basically like if we have nothing good or bad to say, it's 1946 01:42:30,800 --> 01:42:33,920 a 5, right? That is bang average because the 1947 01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:36,280 Max is 10. I think there's only been, 1948 01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:41,040 there's only been a couple that I've got 10 in our layout. 5 is 1949 01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:42,680 if we have nothing good or bad to say. 1950 01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:44,680 My God do I have a lot of bad to say I. 1951 01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:46,320 Have a lot of bad to say about this. 1952 01:42:46,320 --> 01:42:50,080 This is sub 5 for me. It's unquestionably it's just 1953 01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:53,880 how low does it go? So I think honestly that I'm 1954 01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:59,040 going to almost disregard art for this, yeah, because 1955 01:42:59,040 --> 01:43:02,880 obviously Charlie's artist fucking 10 out of 10, right? 1956 01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,080 Right. So just looking at the visual 1957 01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:08,240 layout and that's not even getting into the usability 1958 01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:09,880 aspects of the layout. Yeah, that's true. 1959 01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:12,200 Visually, I think it's a bad font choice. 1960 01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:16,800 I think the headings and sub headings and or lack thereof is 1961 01:43:16,800 --> 01:43:20,280 bad. I think the breakup of like some 1962 01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:23,720 of the the the in world documents across multiple pages. 1963 01:43:23,720 --> 01:43:26,480 I think the way that they put the art into the book. 1964 01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,160 Let's let's talk not art is in the way they used it, not the 1965 01:43:29,160 --> 01:43:30,360 art itself. How about that? 1966 01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:35,080 I don't like those. Used well, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1967 01:43:35,240 --> 01:43:37,640 Just like you said it. Breaking things up in like weird 1968 01:43:37,640 --> 01:43:41,320 ways like this is not the way that this is not good. 1969 01:43:42,040 --> 01:43:45,400 It's not and and like they could have just like full page some 1970 01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:48,080 things, but but specifically layout. 1971 01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,600 It's so weird like that one random bullet point that's like 1972 01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:52,120 way up to the side but then like double tabbed. 1973 01:43:52,120 --> 01:43:54,440 I didn't realize. I genuinely did not realize it 1974 01:43:54,440 --> 01:43:55,280 was a bull. Oh, I know. 1975 01:43:55,320 --> 01:43:56,440 Yeah. I only knew because I 1976 01:43:56,440 --> 01:44:00,520 highlighted it so I could see like because you can highlight 1977 01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:06,320 the text visually. It's it's, it's bad. 1978 01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:11,080 I mean, I would probably, but I don't even know. 1979 01:44:11,080 --> 01:44:13,360 I don't even know. I don't, I, I, I don't have a 1980 01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:15,440 lot of good to say. I again I think. 1981 01:44:15,440 --> 01:44:18,720 I don't. Either how low do you want to 1982 01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:20,320 go? It might be like a three for me, 1983 01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:24,680 like I guess bro, a book like there's still words on a page 1984 01:44:24,880 --> 01:44:29,640 so. Three, I think 3 was there are. 1985 01:44:29,640 --> 01:44:32,920 Attempts at like having headers and stuff and some sort of 1986 01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:37,000 delineation for information. It's just not done at all well. 1987 01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:39,680 Yeah, I think we've given a four before. 1988 01:44:40,920 --> 01:44:45,160 And I would say that this book is so frustratingly, 1989 01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:48,920 inconsistently poorly laid out that, like, it has to be the 1990 01:44:48,920 --> 01:44:51,320 lowest score you've ever given. Like, I think this is an easy 1991 01:44:51,320 --> 01:44:53,200 three. And again, I want to clarify 1992 01:44:53,440 --> 01:44:57,200 that is has nothing to say about the quality of Charlie Ferguson 1993 01:44:57,200 --> 01:45:00,360 Avery's art, because I think that is like, honestly, I think 1994 01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:03,840 This is why this book made $100,000. 1995 01:45:04,040 --> 01:45:06,960 It is the cover because Charlie Ferguson Avery's art slapped so 1996 01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:10,640 fucking hard. It is the way that the art was 1997 01:45:10,640 --> 01:45:14,240 used in the layout and how just bad the just bad the layout is 1998 01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:22,640 usability. So no bookmarks, no, no, no, no 1999 01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:25,360 hyperlinks. The table of content is a bunch 2000 01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:34,400 of weird stuff. The, the, I, I think that I want 2001 01:45:34,400 --> 01:45:39,760 to talk about rules language in usability more than in rules 2002 01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:43,000 that if that makes sense. Like, because I think the use of 2003 01:45:43,120 --> 01:45:48,000 the way that the rules are written and the way it I think, 2004 01:45:48,800 --> 01:45:52,080 affects the usability of the game in and you know what I'm 2005 01:45:52,080 --> 01:45:55,320 talking about, Like, like bad rules language versus like, 2006 01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:56,560 yeah. Absolutely, yeah. 2007 01:45:56,760 --> 01:45:59,880 I think the rules language in numerous sections is pretty 2008 01:45:59,880 --> 01:46:01,480 poor. I think the explanations are 2009 01:46:01,480 --> 01:46:04,360 pretty like could be written in ways like. 2010 01:46:04,520 --> 01:46:08,840 I specifically keep harping on the fact that like rank is like 2011 01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:11,800 an important keyword in the game and it is like it's like they 2012 01:46:11,800 --> 01:46:14,960 forgot sometimes that it was called rank and then other times 2013 01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:16,760 they remembered it. Like in the entire character 2014 01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:20,360 creation section. The only time you use the words 2015 01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:24,640 rank are in character growth in like character dancement. 2016 01:46:24,640 --> 01:46:29,640 Basically at no point when it's describing like attributes and 2017 01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:33,720 putting points into your attributes does it tell you that 2018 01:46:33,720 --> 01:46:37,200 however many points you put into the attributes is your rank in 2019 01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:41,240 that attribute, right? I think that having all of the 2020 01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:44,720 rules before you ever care about characterization is not great. 2021 01:46:44,720 --> 01:46:48,360 I think the fact that like the basically the way that the game 2022 01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:51,560 is played as in like the structure of actually playing 2023 01:46:51,560 --> 01:46:55,240 the game is not in any part of the player section whatsoever. 2024 01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,640 There's no breakdown even at the beginning of the book that says 2025 01:46:57,800 --> 01:46:59,640 this is basically what you're going to do. 2026 01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:03,200 And it's not even until page like 60 when you start talking 2027 01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:05,600 about like mission briefings and stuff, do you actually get any 2028 01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:07,680 structure of the gameplay whatsoever. 2029 01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:10,520 Which like you said, if you didn't, if you're like, oh, like 2030 01:47:10,640 --> 01:47:15,080 I didn't really deep dive the GM section because that's the GM 2031 01:47:15,080 --> 01:47:17,320 stuff. Like, and for some reason stuff 2032 01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:20,480 between principles, you get like game structure. 2033 01:47:21,320 --> 01:47:23,360 It's pretty poor. I think. 2034 01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:27,440 It's not, it's not a number. I don't think I could go higher 2035 01:47:27,440 --> 01:47:29,920 than 5 on this. Oh, I don't think I can go 2036 01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:32,160 higher than 5 on this either. Yeah, Oregon. 2037 01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:39,640 Let's go 5 here. Rule set OK. 2038 01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:43,560 Hey I like this part. I really, I think the rule set 2039 01:47:43,560 --> 01:47:46,200 is that this is the reason we go over this because like 2040 01:47:46,560 --> 01:47:53,160 generally, I'm going to be honest, if, if I we don't like 2041 01:47:53,160 --> 01:47:57,440 to, we've never given like the Max score is A50. 2042 01:47:57,440 --> 01:47:59,160 We've never given a 25 or less, right? 2043 01:47:59,160 --> 01:48:01,480 Which means we've never given like fives across the board or a 2044 01:48:01,480 --> 01:48:04,120 negative score in total across the board. 2045 01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:07,000 We don't do games we don't like. We don't do games that we're 2046 01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:10,240 going to be like mean about. I know we're pretty critical of 2047 01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:11,280 this one. I don't think we're mean. 2048 01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:13,840 I think we're just pointing out stuff that's that's whatever. 2049 01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:17,760 But I don't think we would really often choose to pick a 2050 01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:19,960 game that we're going to give 8 total points in the 1st 2 2051 01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:22,320 scores, right? The reason we really want to 2052 01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:24,520 talk about this one, the reason I really want to talk about is 2053 01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:27,160 the next three scores. Basically, as far as the rule 2054 01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:29,920 set goes, I don't it. The book is poorly laid out. 2055 01:48:29,920 --> 01:48:32,480 Whatever as a as a product, I don't think it's very good. 2056 01:48:33,040 --> 01:48:35,480 As a game, I think it's really fucking good. 2057 01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:37,720 I think it's super interesting. To be had here. 2058 01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:40,760 Yeah, I think the skill role is cool. 2059 01:48:40,760 --> 01:48:44,760 Like dice pool that you can then manipulate based on your. 2060 01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:47,920 Manipulation gives a lot to the dice pool, you know, it really 2061 01:48:47,920 --> 01:48:50,600 adds a lot to that style of gameplay. 2062 01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:54,720 But then on top of that, your health is your attribute points. 2063 01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:57,760 So as you get your ass kicked, your manipulations go down, 2064 01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:00,440 which makes everything harder. So there's a really cool 2065 01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:05,200 feedback we're building to it. And then the structure where 2066 01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:08,920 you're using the cards and you're actually spending them as 2067 01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:13,440 like your memories and things like that, on top of like the 2068 01:49:13,440 --> 01:49:16,520 narrative journey that you go through to get to the mission 2069 01:49:16,520 --> 01:49:18,680 and things like that is really fantastic. 2070 01:49:18,840 --> 01:49:22,720 The whispers are amazing I mean, as far as the rules that goes, 2071 01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:27,080 this is great like I said, I think it is not a great product, 2072 01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:29,800 but I think it's a great game That's how I kind of feel about 2073 01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:34,200 about this and I'm pretty high on this rule set like I think 2074 01:49:34,320 --> 01:49:36,840 one of the things we talked about before and the reason that 2075 01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:39,600 like sometimes even though we love rules like systems, 2076 01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:42,200 sometimes systems that have more depth will get higher points is 2077 01:49:42,200 --> 01:49:44,520 because of the way that you have to make those systems sing. 2078 01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:49,280 And I think the way that the dice pool system mixed with the 2079 01:49:49,280 --> 01:49:53,320 manipulation system mixed with the card system all the name on 2080 01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:54,240 itself. Card system. 2081 01:49:54,480 --> 01:49:56,880 Yeah, I think it actually works really well all together. 2082 01:49:57,160 --> 01:50:00,200 Yeah, I think it's I real. I really, really, really want to 2083 01:50:00,200 --> 01:50:01,520 play this. I think it's great. 2084 01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:08,800 I think do I think it's great? I do think it's great. 2085 01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:10,360 OK. I think it's great. 2086 01:50:10,440 --> 01:50:13,800 How do you feel about it? Pitch me a number, Ryan. 8. 2087 01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:17,120 I'm right there with you. That was my original. 2088 01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:18,880 When we started to talk about rules, I was like 8. 2089 01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:21,920 So yeah. I mean, this is, we do like this 2090 01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:24,400 is, yeah, I think this is super solid. 2091 01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:27,200 You know, we, we've only ever given like two 10s. 2092 01:50:27,200 --> 01:50:29,720 So 9 is kind of the peak. I think this is right below 2093 01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:34,520 that. I think this honestly, this 2094 01:50:34,520 --> 01:50:37,320 could be one of those ones where no, I think 8. 2095 01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:38,360 I think 8 feels really good for this. 2096 01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:42,960 Originality I think. Bro I think originality is 2097 01:50:43,040 --> 01:50:45,640 fucking super high too. I mean, not a ton of World War 2098 01:50:45,640 --> 01:50:47,800 One games out there, right? I mean, Church Crusade is not a 2099 01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:49,520 table top role-playing game. That's the thing that I feel 2100 01:50:49,520 --> 01:50:53,280 like this is the closest to this, but the combination of 2101 01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:57,520 real world history with the with this, with the veil and 2102 01:50:57,520 --> 01:51:00,000 everything that comes after that, I think it's fantastic. 2103 01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:03,600 I think the Lord is fantastic. I think that the system itself, 2104 01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:07,440 the plus one system with like the dice, dice manipulation, I 2105 01:51:07,440 --> 01:51:09,880 think that goes to originality. I think there's a lot of really 2106 01:51:09,880 --> 01:51:13,080 fun unique stuff at that. Yeah, the, the use of like 2107 01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:15,600 jokers and cards and and, and and stuff like that. 2108 01:51:15,840 --> 01:51:17,720 I'm pretty high on originality with this. 2109 01:51:17,720 --> 01:51:21,640 I think this is the vibes are great and I want to throw that 2110 01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,640 in here too because like the way that it's all tied in is is 2111 01:51:24,640 --> 01:51:27,720 really fantastic too, Yeah. I'm at about an 8 1/2 for 2112 01:51:27,720 --> 01:51:31,600 originality so. Yeah, I'm probably a solid 8 for 2113 01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:32,680 for solid 8. Cool. 2114 01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:35,880 Yeah. I mean, if you want to convince 2115 01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:37,360 me to go to 9, I might be convinced. 2116 01:51:37,520 --> 01:51:39,200 But if you're good with an 8, OK. 2117 01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:43,440 Yeah, I think the I think, Yeah, I think again, the vibes on this 2118 01:51:43,440 --> 01:51:47,040 are are absolutely fucking Immaculate value. 2119 01:51:47,240 --> 01:51:49,240 Did I know parts? And value right? 2120 01:51:49,680 --> 01:51:53,040 I mean, there's as far as like the amount of available content 2121 01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:56,400 through the fucking roof. I mean, we talked about this 2122 01:51:56,400 --> 01:52:03,720 before. There are, there are there's an 2123 01:52:03,720 --> 01:52:07,880 entire beastiary book. There are two different books of 2124 01:52:07,880 --> 01:52:14,600 magic and whispers and then the 21 like just adventure like 2125 01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:22,320 missions in the the Breach. And then you have the entire war 2126 01:52:22,320 --> 01:52:29,120 basically broken up with an adventure in 1914 or an entire 2127 01:52:29,120 --> 01:52:33,160 mission dossier thing. Campaign dossier in 1914, 2128 01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,120 fifteen, 1617 and 18, which I think is really interesting 2129 01:52:36,120 --> 01:52:38,800 because the Veil didn't Thunder till 1916. 2130 01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:41,480 So what what are you doing in the campaign dossiers in like 14 2131 01:52:41,480 --> 01:52:42,480 and 15? You know what I mean? 2132 01:52:42,560 --> 01:52:45,720 Yeah, what is that? Well, you'll have to buy the 2133 01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:50,760 books and find out, but the amount of of available content 2134 01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:53,720 in this is astronomical through the roof. 2135 01:52:54,280 --> 01:52:57,840 It is really interesting. I have read through like a bunch 2136 01:52:57,840 --> 01:52:59,080 of it. Like Blood on the Snow is 2137 01:52:59,080 --> 01:53:03,600 obviously like really, really fucking good, but I think that's 2138 01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:06,080 really great. Did I in my notes that I put 2139 01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:08,160 stuff on the bottom and I just linked to the Kickstarter? 2140 01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:09,600 I think I might have just. No, I think I did. 2141 01:53:09,960 --> 01:53:12,840 Well, I can tell you right now if you want to get never Going 2142 01:53:12,840 --> 01:53:15,680 Home or a couple of the like additional books, they're all 2143 01:53:15,680 --> 01:53:20,160 $20 each on wedding game site. You can also find the PDFs on 2144 01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:26,000 drive through RPG PDFs are $10 and I think that they have. 2145 01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:31,240 Did it go up? Oh, they were on sale when I put 2146 01:53:31,240 --> 01:53:32,680 it down. Well, they're. 2147 01:53:32,680 --> 01:53:34,560 Never on. PDFs are actually on sale right 2148 01:53:34,560 --> 01:53:37,400 now for $10. They're actually 15, so. 2149 01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:39,520 Yeah. I mean, it's 100 and it's like 2150 01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:41,440 120 pages. Like easy peasy. 2151 01:53:41,440 --> 01:53:42,560 Yeah, yeah. Man, I think. 2152 01:53:42,600 --> 01:53:48,200 So and then you can also get so I don't, I don't think I was 2153 01:53:48,200 --> 01:53:51,120 really able to find any physicals of this anywhere. 2154 01:53:52,280 --> 01:53:57,720 But there you can get a soft cover print on demand of this 2155 01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:04,640 from drive through for $20 and it's on sale right now for PDF 2156 01:54:04,800 --> 01:54:11,560 and POD for 20 bucks normally 30 dollars, $30.00 for premium. 2157 01:54:11,600 --> 01:54:14,880 Is it premium standard? It's not premium standard, even 2158 01:54:14,880 --> 01:54:21,480 at $30.00 for $15.00 for for this is a PDFI think like you 2159 01:54:21,480 --> 01:54:25,760 could turn 20 easy and then $30.00 for the softcover and PDF 2160 01:54:25,760 --> 01:54:28,680 together I think is a steal too. So as far as like the actual 2161 01:54:28,680 --> 01:54:32,480 cost, I think it's good. I think the amount of game there 2162 01:54:32,480 --> 01:54:37,560 is out there is great. I don't know, I think I'm pretty 2163 01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:40,320 high on value because like not only is there a lot of content, 2164 01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:42,960 it's a good spread of content between the beast area, the 2165 01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:46,560 magic books, dossiers and just whole mission books. 2166 01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:50,800 I think there's a lot and and it's pretty inexpensive. 2167 01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:56,680 I mean, as far as I mean, so there's not, there's not we, we, 2168 01:54:56,840 --> 01:54:58,960 we look at something like Mothership has an app and shit 2169 01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:00,520 like that that that can add into this. 2170 01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:05,760 Yeah, yeah, Mark works free. I mean, $10.00 for the PDF is 2171 01:55:05,760 --> 01:55:10,080 basically free in this economy, but I don't know. 2172 01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:12,920 I'm probably between, probably between 7:00 and 8:00 on value. 2173 01:55:12,920 --> 01:55:15,720 I mean, there's so much. I'm actually more leaning 2174 01:55:15,720 --> 01:55:17,040 towards an 8 on this one as well. 2175 01:55:17,040 --> 01:55:21,240 I think there's a there's a lot going on here for not an insane 2176 01:55:21,240 --> 01:55:23,520 amount of money and. I do, I do want to say that like 2177 01:55:23,640 --> 01:55:26,480 I, I even throw in value like the the fact that these are 2178 01:55:26,480 --> 01:55:30,160 available too, that you can get cards and dice and stuff for it 2179 01:55:30,160 --> 01:55:32,600 too. I think I'm pretty high on the 2180 01:55:32,600 --> 01:55:34,960 value for that. So when we look at the scores 2181 01:55:34,960 --> 01:55:41,920 all together, the total is 8 plus 8 + 8 + 8 I guess. 2182 01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:48,080 So it's the 32, which is honestly higher than I expected. 2183 01:55:48,600 --> 01:55:53,040 But when you look at Y right, rule set was eight, originally 2184 01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:56,880 was 8, value is 8, and then the art layout and usability, two 2185 01:55:56,880 --> 01:55:59,440 different scores together equal 8. 2186 01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:06,880 So you'll see why like the layout again, we the the game I 2187 01:56:06,880 --> 01:56:09,000 think is really, really, really good fun. 2188 01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:11,680 Interesting vibes are great. Lord's great everything is 2189 01:56:11,680 --> 01:56:14,480 great. The product, the actual physical 2190 01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:17,200 book, the structure of the book, the rules language and the 2191 01:56:17,200 --> 01:56:19,360 layout of the book is pretty poor in my opinion. 2192 01:56:19,560 --> 01:56:25,040 I think this thing could this A2 east of this with a whole new 2193 01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:28,680 layout and a rewrite top to bottom of like the rules 2194 01:56:28,680 --> 01:56:33,360 language would go so fucking hard and I would do anything for 2195 01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:38,120 that to happen. But you'll see in again in the 2196 01:56:38,120 --> 01:56:39,640 scores where where that happened. 2197 01:56:39,640 --> 01:56:43,240 Great, great game, poor product. That's it. 2198 01:56:43,240 --> 01:56:46,000 That is never going home Score of 32 here. 2199 01:56:47,080 --> 01:56:48,680 I have no idea what we're doing next. 2200 01:56:48,680 --> 01:56:51,160 We have some cool stuff coming up that might have got pushed 2201 01:56:51,160 --> 01:56:55,000 back for timing, but we got some really fun, interesting stuff. 2202 01:56:55,520 --> 01:56:58,120 If you want to get a little preview of what those things 2203 01:56:58,120 --> 01:57:03,000 could be, go listen to our last not cat chats with Jerk. 2204 01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:06,680 I think about halfway through in our in our flu riddled minds, we 2205 01:57:06,680 --> 01:57:10,520 started ranting about the possible fun, interesting things 2206 01:57:10,520 --> 01:57:12,840 that could be coming up on the show. 2207 01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:16,280 And we're not going to repeat that again until they happen. 2208 01:57:16,280 --> 01:57:18,440 But cool, interesting things coming up. 2209 01:57:20,040 --> 01:57:22,800 We'll talk about what we're going to do next week tomorrow. 2210 01:57:23,680 --> 01:57:28,160 Listen, if you're not listening to this live, go go watch the 2211 01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:30,120 next episode, which should be out shortly after this. 2212 01:57:30,440 --> 01:57:32,640 We're going to have Vidichi Valetti on the show talk about 2213 01:57:32,640 --> 01:57:35,680 their new project Lance one land ones magic. 2214 01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:40,320 So if you're listening now, go check that episode because I'll 2215 01:57:40,320 --> 01:57:45,000 probably drop them back-to-back. But Vidicha is we've looked at a 2216 01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:47,480 bunch of their stuff. Great person, great creative 2217 01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:49,000 mind, super excited to talk about them. 2218 01:57:49,280 --> 01:57:51,240 Going to be one of the last interviews we ever do here on 2219 01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:54,640 the show. So so show up for that as we 2220 01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:56,960 talk to them. Super excited there. 2221 01:57:56,960 --> 01:58:00,440 There's someone that has been on my list of of of really wanting 2222 01:58:00,440 --> 01:58:02,680 to talk to for a long time so.