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Hello and welcome to the Weekly 
Scroll podcast. 

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My Name Is Ryan. 
Meow, you piece of shit. 

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And today we are going to be 
going over 9 lives to Valhalla 

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from gym room games. 
This is a a Viking death metal. 

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Just brutal, frenetic. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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Fucking cats. 
It's cats. 

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For those that don't know I 
fucking ate cats. 

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You know it's not just cats, 
it's it's everything about cats.

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It's cat people. 
It's it's cat things. 

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It's. 
It's all it's. 

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Literally, like my name is the 
father of cats on everything and

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and I ignore that for you 
because I love you. 

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But yeah, so this game is about 
cats, you know? 

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Which is fine, so. 
Also shallow gym room games. 

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I like I I did enjoy this. 
This is really cool. 

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But they also make this game 
that we're going to go over, I 

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think, at some point, called 
High Magic, Low Lives. 

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That I love. 
It is like one. 

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It's like I haven't gotten to 
play it yet, but I'm. 

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I'm very into the concept. 
We'll get there, yeah. 

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No, you sent that to me and it's
definitely one that I'm excited 

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to to jump into. 
Well, let's get into let. 

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Well, let's talk about gym room 
games a little bit. 

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So gym room games 9 lives to 
Valhalla. 

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Gym Room Games is Kaylee Lowry 
and Dan Phipps. 

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Some of the other games that you
might have seen from them before

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he hopped in Nine Lives to 
Valhalla. 

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Duck Borg recent was recently on
Kickstarter, if I remember that 

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correctly. 
Which you can buy Duck Borg now 

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on Itch if you want. 
High Magic Low Lives is out 

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there. 
There's the Weaver's 

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Observatory, which I actually 
have. 

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Look, now I got a shelf close 
enough I can pull it. 

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I got That, which is an 
adventure for tunnel goons. 

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They've done a lot of great 
stuff, and this Nine Lives to 

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Valhalla was a Kickstarter 
funded project. 

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It's funded in well, I'm not 
going that far back in the 

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updates, but it's we've had it 
for a while. 

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It had 594 backers for $8396 for
a game about Viking cats, which 

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is pretty cool. 
Azine Azine. 

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Azine funded for almost $9000, 
which is crazy, but honestly, I 

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dig it. 
Despite my dislike for cats, 

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which I'm not going to bring up 
too many times as we go through 

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the episode because it'll be the
whole thing, because it's all 

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cats. 
We'll just ignore that. 

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So so yeah, that is gym room 
games, and that's nine lives to 

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Valhalla. 
What's your What's your initial?

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What's your thoughts? 
What's your opinion? 

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I I I like how there's like you 
just there's only in one 

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occasion in which you roll dice 
and then anything else in this 

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game is like you just you're 
just going to you're just 

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role-playing a cat. 
A Viking cat. 

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I'm like, oh OK that's good. 
I like that. 

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So yeah, I completely agree. 
I think that's my favorite part.

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I think this we we. 
Talked about, yeah, a little bit

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before Serene. 
We talked about how this is like

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a very simple but a very like 
heady game at the same time, you

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know you. 
Know what it reminds me of? 

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What's acid mages? 
Little bit, little bit. 

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Like in not, not in what's going
on, but in the way that it's 

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like, it's incredibly 
lightweight and there's really 

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only rules for this one instance
and everything else is just like

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you're just you guys just 
hanging out and role-playing. 

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Yeah, no, I completely, I 
completely see that. 

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I think, yeah, one being magic, 
one being murder. 

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But yeah, completely, completely
you. 

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Could still murder with magic. 
No one says you can't murder 

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with magic. 100% true. 
That is absolutely true. 

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Why don't we? 
I'm also going to point out one 

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thing that I really love that 
Gym room games did before we hop

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into that because I'm going to 
forget if I don't until later. 

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So in the original printing of 
Nine Lives to Ala Hala, first of

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all we'll get we'll get to the 
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But there is an issue on page 28
where it's got this little this 

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little mouse buddy here. 
There's no text here, but 

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they're supposed to be. 
Oh yeah, issue with the 

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printing. 
So you know what Gym Room's game

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did. 
You know what they did? 

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At their own cost. 
At their own cost, They sent a a

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sticker. 
Like, if I actually peeled off 

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of this, I'm not going to. 
They sent a way to fix it with 

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instructions on how to put it 
into the book if you would like,

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at no cost to the backers at 
all. 

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They just said, hey, sorry, we 
fucked up. 

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We immediately found a solution 
and we sent it out. 

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Sorry. 
Great. 

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Fix. 
That's amazing. 

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Fucking awesome. 
Yeah, place the sticker on the 

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upper right corner for exact 
placement, blah blah blah. 

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But close enough is good to 
really, really love that. 

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There's been a lot of, I'll say 
there's been a number of times 

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where this would have been an 
easy fix for a lot of people on 

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a lot of projects and they chose
to just be shitty instead of 

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doing something as good as this.
So hey, gym room games. 

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This was fantastic. 
Really, really, really 

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appreciated. 
This good fucking job, that is. 

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That is how you check your 
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Great. 
Thanks. 

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So why don't we just hop into 
this? 

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It's a short game. 
We'll have a short episode, I 

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say, and then we end in three 
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I can't. 
Because the grocery store is 

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going to be closed by then, 
right? 

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There we go. 9 lives to Valhalla
first of all, right off the bat,

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if you're in podcast land, I 
highly recommend at least going 

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to the fucking niche page and 
looking at the art because it's 

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black, red, and white. 
Perfect in my opinion. 

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It's really, really very good. 
Stylistically, it's it's 

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fantastic and like the cool, 
like everything is like this. 

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Stippling on like this. 
Not quite black, but like this 

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textured black, like black paper
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It's like a almost construction 
papery background that's 

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gorgeous and the Reds in it are 
so vibrant. 

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It's crazy. 
Every time I looked at it I was 

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just like, am I on the wrong 
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But it's such a vibrant red the 
whole way through. 

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And then the style of the cat 
drawings with like the the 

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halftone shading with like the 
red, that's just like a little 

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bit off of like the things. 
It's so fucking good. 

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The art throughout this entire 
thing is amazing. 

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I like the poses the cats are in
this whole time because it looks

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like actual cat poses, but then 
they just have weapons or armor,

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you know, like it it looks 
really good. 

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I I was very like, I mean it's a
very short scene and it has like

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incredibly high quality art and 
there's like a really good 

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amount of art too. 
It's almost every, it's like 

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every page there is like almost 
a full page piece of art, You 

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know, It's like, oh wow, it's a 
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And again, it's fire. 
The red just pops everything off

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the page. 
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that the red is just slightly 
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Of the yeah, it's slightly off 
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It's so good. 
It's so fucking good. 

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So the cover has these three 
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one with a a Viking helmet and a
an axe on his belt, and one 

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that's just a skull with a Halo.
And I love it. 

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I love that one. 
I hate cats. 

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This Also this page right here. 
The second page that actually 

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has the gym room games on it 
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Like, even though I hate cats. 
This giant one gonna talk about 

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the whole time. 
Like not the whole time. 

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I'm not gonna read the whole 
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It's not. 
It's not the whole time yet. 

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This page too. 
Love this giant piece. 

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Like just the red on the horns. 
The face is so good, dude. 

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I have a couple other pieces 
that are in contending for 

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favorite, which I'll point out 
as we go. 

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I mean, they're all good is the 
thing. 

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They're all really fucking good 
anyway, all the way through. 

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It's basically that black like 
kind of construction paper feel 

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background like it. 
I it like I feel like I can. 

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It looks like I can touch it. 
Every time I look at it, it's 

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so. 
Fucking good, yeah, it's really 

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nice. 
The thing is, in the actual 

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book, it kind of comes through 
like a tiny bit, but it's 

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nothing like the PDF. 
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It's the only way that it could 
is if it was actually printed on

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like that thick LFORLFOSR card 
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Right, that would make this pop.
But anyway, so that's that. 

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So 9 lives to Baja Allah. 
The age of man is over now Dawn.

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The age of beasts. 
Here's the thing. 

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It's like 29 pages long, and yet
it still has a table of contents

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and bookmarks. 
It's bookmarked. 

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Yeah. 
I did know this was like, oh 

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wow, they bookmarked the Zine, 
that is. 

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What's up? 
Watching the show should be 

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fucking default. 
I don't understand like most 

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programs automatically do it for
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I don't understand how PDFs. 
Yeah, that is interesting 

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because they do, you know? 
Yeah, it's not a hyperlink, but 

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again, it's 28 pages. 
It's a scene. 

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Don't care so much about 
hyperlinks and things that are 

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less than 30 pages because you 
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and be happy through the scene. 
But the bookmarks help a ton. 

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So here is the story. 
I'm gonna read this whole bit 

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here and because it's important,
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of cats, I do really enjoy the 
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So here we go. 
It has been an age since the 

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last of man drew breath. 
Now only stone and steel 

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monuments remain half buried and
twisted. 

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The land is broken, the seas are
cold, and the nights are dark. 

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Strange and vicious creatures 
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Dogs still hold the love of the 
leash in their hearts, and we 

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use their strange magics to 
rebuild the world. 

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In man's long dead tyranny, 
glorious death and outrageous 

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fortune await. 
Those would stop them. 

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The blood of ancient warriors 
flows in your veins. 

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Your movements are precise and 
silent. 

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You walk in darkness, seeing and
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Fang and claw blade and bow 
might and magics will fail your 

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foes like wheat under a scythe. 
You are a cat, sworn enemy of 

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man and dog. 
Your only comrades are your 

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fellow hunters, and death 
itself, a seat amongst the 

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world's mightiest warriors, is 
kept for you in the drinking 

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calls of Valhalla, headed by the
Panthera Pantheon. 

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Guided personally by death, your
merry band will leave a wake of 

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ruin, ending only at the hands 
of a truly worthy foe. 

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On the next page it says 9 lives
stalk the earth. 9 times you 

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will die with sword and paw. 9 
times you will be carried by 

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valkyries to the gates of 
Valhalla where no man has tread.

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9 times you will be found worthy
and granted a blessing of your 

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forebears. 9 times you will cast
a wake of blood and carnage upon

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the blighted earth. 9 lives to 
Valhalla. 

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Like I could. 
That's just a metal song, you 

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know? 
It is. 

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It is. 
It's it's good. 

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Like, it's it's clever. 
It's clever if you're a cat 

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person. 
I get it. 

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I get it. 
I get it for this. 

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That's cool. 
You couldn't make this game as 

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dogs, you know what I mean? 
You really could. 

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So how to play 9 Lives to 
Valhalla Assemble and choose one

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amongst you to make The Mantle 
of Death. 

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So, Long story short, 
summarizing a little bit of this

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Death ALL caps is the GM. 
Always all caps the entire time,

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all the way through death. 
Always all caps. 

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One person plays the GM which is
death and the rest take on 

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various death metal Viking cats.
So you need dice, which are 468 

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and 10 and 12 is what you need, 
and other stuff to play game 

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with each player, except death 
makes a cat, etcetera, etcetera.

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We'll get to that. 
Each cat has four attributes. 

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You have brutality, viciousness,
cunning, and ferocity, and you 

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get dice associated with each of
those. 

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Cats are peerless warriors, and 
the players representing a cat 

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should be allowed to narrate 
their actions. 

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This is, we'll get to that a 
little bit in the dark times 

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each death may die. 
In these are time even death may

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die should a cat draw steal 
against Scythe, which is an 

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interesting mechanic that we'll 
get to in just a little bit. 

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So tone 9 lives to Walahala is a
vortex of blood, teeth, violence

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and death. 
It is also a game. 

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Before playing, pick a tone. 
Decide amongst yourself like 

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what you want and don't want 
from the game. 

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Don't worry about historical 
context. 

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Right wing douche bag fascist 
fucks that take Norse mythology 

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and turn it into their bullshit 
or assholes. 

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And don't worry about historical
accuracy. 

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That's basically what it says. 
Yeah. 

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And then and that's the rule. 
Yeah, I know. 

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That's the only rule. 
It's really the only rule. 

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I've read this thing like two or
three times to make sure that I 

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wasn't wrong on this, and we'll 
probably spend a good amount of 

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time on these like 4 little 
paragraphs here before we get to

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the rest of the game. 
But this is the only rule in the

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entire game. 
Realistically, anytime dice are 

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rolled, something must die. 
I love it. 

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I love it so much it hurts a 
little bit. 

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Yeah, Even when all appears 
calm, hidden foes lurk in dark 

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shadows and behind nefarious 
disguises. 

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If a known foe or Hidden 
assassin threatens Cat the Cat's

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player rolls 2 attributes, 
determined either by the weapon 

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they're using or the context of 
their actions. 

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The player declares the 
attributes they're using and 

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rolls the dice, reporting the 
highest result rolled Death, 

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then rolls two dice, with larger
dice representing greater 

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threats. 
Foes with special abilities may 

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get additional dice depending on
the cat's plane of attack, and 

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if the cat rolls the highest 
die, whatever foe attempted to 

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kill the cat suffers an instant 
brutal death. 

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If death rolls higher, the foe 
was successful and the cat dies.

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If the roll is a tie, then both 
creatures slay each other in the

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maelstrom of battle. 
That's that's the whole rule. 

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That's the whole that's so. 
It's so fucking dumb and 

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brilliant, you know? 
It's such a good idea. 

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It's dumb and brilliant in ways 
that like as I keep reading it, 

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like I fall in love more and 
more with because like I said, 

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in a very weird, interesting 
way. 

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This is a very, I want to say 
like, intellectual, like game, 

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philosophical, like kind of 
thing. 

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Because it never even like at no
point anywhere in this game does

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it really talk about movement. 
Does it talk about skill checks?

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Does it talk about anything? 
So like it never. 

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It never even says anything. 
Like the GM will make that up, 

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it just doesn't address it at 
all. 

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Yeah, I like, I I think like, I 
really love Zine something like 

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that, that like leave a lot up 
to you and your table just be 

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like, I mean that's not what 
this is and if you guys want to 

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like add stuff in, that's great.
But also, like the implied rule 

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is that like that doesn't 
matter, you know? 

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You can't jump off a four story 
building. 

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You're a cat. 
It would kill you, you know, 

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like, yeah, yeah, you want to 
climb up on top of this thing. 

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Yeah, you're a cat. 
You do it. 

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You know, Yeah, really, very 
great, very great minimal 

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structure. 
And it's like we we often go 

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over games and we're like 
there's always, there's always 

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a, well, it's an RPG section or 
like there's rules for a lot of 

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stuff, but this is a good game 
for someone who plays a lot of 

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games. 
It's like, you know what, you 

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guys just take it easy this 
time, you know? 

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Just just if if you're going to 
roll, something's going to die. 

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Anything other than that, just 
figure it out. 

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Yeah, that's the interesting 
thing about this too is it's 

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such a light game, but because 
it doesn't have all the rest of 

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that, I feel like people that 
only do a lot of it like trad, 

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like especially 5 E what really 
have a difficult time parsing 

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this I think to just be like, 
but how do we do like these 

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other eighteen things? 
And it's like, who gives a shit?

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Like, who cares? 
Just kill stuff. 

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Like that's literally the point 
of the game is to get a a 

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glorious death and eventually 
get to Valhalla. 

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Like, why do you need to know? 
Like, that's it. 

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So I don't know. 
I really, really enjoyed a lot. 

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I really think that it's really 
clever in how light it is. 

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Yeah, and it's absolutely easily
adaptable. 

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We talked about that. 
Like if you don't wanna play a 

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cat, you just play people. 
Same thing with mouse shooter, 

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like if you really are that up 
your own ass that you can't just

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be a mouse for a little bit in a
way that doesn't really matter, 

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like play it as people, that's 
fine. 

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You could play this as people 
too, that's fine. 

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But like, I'll play this game 
and I'll be a fucking cat. 

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I don't care. 
So. 

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I anyway, think that damn, what 
was I gonna say? 

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They're really good. 
I don't remember. 

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Oh, keep going. 
Yeah. 

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Also the art on above it. 
The guy with the Cape and the 

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and the, you know, the hatchet. 
It's all fire. 

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I'm going to say every single 
fucking piece. 

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But this one here too, that's 
got this. 

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I got adorable, cute little 
fucking cat face, but it's 

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holding like a giant fucking 
sword. 

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Great piece like it's a. 
Spear guy The spear guy is on my

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is in my top two. 
You know, the other thing too is

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like, who did this fucking art? 
The only people listed in the 

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entire book are the two people 
from gym room, so I can only 

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assume it's one of them. 
There's no artist listed, 

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there's no enlisted. 
The only thing listed is gym 

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room games and their two names 
and that's it. 

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So. 
Good job so cats. 

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Cats. 
All players, except for death 

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take on the role of a cat 
wandering the blasted mortal 

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plane, seeking tremendous 
fortune at this and the still 

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beating heart of their hated 
nemesis and glorious death at 

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the hand of a worthy foe. 
While in your first while in the

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first of your nine lives, death 
has guided you to the nucleus of

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battle. 
Each cat begins the game with a 

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name, a hated nemesis, a favored
God of the Panthera, Pantheon, a

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mastered weapon of their 
choosing, and a blessing of 

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Valhalla. 
Now we're going to take us 

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through character creation. 
The 1st is name, fur, color and 

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description. 
Very self-explanatory. 

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The next is hated. 
Nemesis, a Craven antagonist 

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from your past, has done you a 
terrible wrong, and worse, 

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denied you the satisfaction of 
death. 

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Your first stands on end, 
suspicious. 

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On end, suspicion becomes 
uncertain or becomes certainty. 

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I cannot read Tonight your 
nemesis is close. 

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You feel the blood in your 
veins, gently pulling you to the

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end. 
This once and for all or God, 

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what is wrong with me? 
Gently pulls you to end this 

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once and for all. 
I know what words mean. 

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Ryan, I swear, described your 
hated nemesis to the table, 

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naming their transgressions for 
all to hear. 

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Basically, you have a nemesis 
that did you wrong and denied 

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you death. 
Whenever they're nearby, you 

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know that they're nearby. 
Your blood runs cold. 

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Your hair stands on the end. 
I could have just described this

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instead of tripping over reading
the whole time, yeah? 

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That's a hated nemesis. 
Real quick Callie from gym Room 

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Games. 
Hope I'm saying that right. 

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She did the art or they did the 
art. 

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So it's fucking awesome. 
Great art. 

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Despite despite how I feel about
cats, I will say every one of 

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these is awesome and brutal and 
cute as fuck. 

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So good fucking job. 
There's also. 

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So much of it, Yeah, there's. 
So much but like, also like if 

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you make the game and then you 
get to do the art for your own 

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game. 
As much as you fucking want, you

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know. 
Yeah, no, it's. 

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Great. 
Just in your own time, Yeah. 

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Favored God. 
Five gods rule over all cat kind

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through devotions or through 
mighty deeds. 

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Each cat brought by death to 
fight, die and fight again is 

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overseen by one such God. 
These are the Panthera pantheon.

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In choosing a God, you are given
4 dice to assign to your 

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brutality, viciousness, cunning 
and ferocity. 

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Attributes. 
Yeah, you have 4 attributes. 

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Like we said, it's brutality. 
That's like your vigor, 

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hardiness, your bod, 
viciousness, which is your like 

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more dexterous, fine, precise 
action. 

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Cunning, which is your it's 
actually very upcoming things. 

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Machinations, treachery, 
anticipation or ferocity, which 

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is your reaction? 
Awareness, fury, instinct. 

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Funny, I'm glad they laid this 
out because brutality and 

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ferocity, Me and Mike, those are
very close, you know? 

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Yeah, I mean. 
I guess. 

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I mean, I mean brutality. 
I I imagine brutality as like 

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when you do something, you do 
it, you do it Brutal in a brutal

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way, Yeah. 
And ferocity is more like an 

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attitude that you have as 
opposed to like the action 

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itself. 
That's how I kind of viewed it. 

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And I think that's how it's like
explained a little bit in the in

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the book, if that's how you, I 
don't know if you read it the 

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same way I did. 
I did definitely read it the 

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same way. 
But when I first was reading 

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through, I'm like, let's feel 
close for me. 

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Like not in how they're defined 
in the game, but how the words 

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are used outside of the game. 
Maybe that's just like the 

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degradation of the English 
language though, and I'm just 

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not as good as speaking as I 
should be. 

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Gotta be a gooder, but gotta be 
a gooder. 

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Speaking, yeah. 
So we have the the five gods. 

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You got. 
You have a favorite? 

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I do enjoy. 
Leo, I think it's a good one to 

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talk about. 
It's not my favorite. 

407
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,640
I don't know if I have a 
favorite one. 

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Probably. 
Probably unsea. 

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Actually, it's probably my 
favorite. 

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She This is the snow leopard, 
twin of partis, partisan. 

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Earlier, God made a homeland for
all cats by blessing the 

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mountains with blinding snow, 
bitter wind, and winters of 

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complete darkness. 
Her folk were drawn to place, to

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place a thought unlivable, 
compelled to seek out veiled 

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magics and places of ancient 
power. 

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Ontia's witches speak in 
riddles, but offer weird and 

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elderish power to those who can 
suffer their company. 

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Dig that one? 
Very cool. 

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What about you? 
I was only with Anka. 

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The Jaguar stalks across the 
night sky, wandering far from 

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valhouse, warm halls each night 
with the moon in his mouth. 

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Anka sees those who travel far 
from home, Shipbuilders and 

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sailors, all who have forgotten 
the comfort of their hearts. 

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Anka's temples are hidden. 
They're Pontus revealing 

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themselves rarely. 
Secret God. 

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Secret Traveler God. 
What I what I dig about this and

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it reminds me, does this give 
you like Rayutama or like red 

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giant vibes? 
A little bit, A little bit, 

429
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yeah. 
Totally, yeah. 

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So what? 
The thing is characterization. 

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Super easy. 
You, you pick your God, and when

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you pick your God it gives you 
your dice spread. 

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You're dice bread. 
Yeah, you get so, so for, for 

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for Anka, you have D4D Sixty 
6012, and for Uncio I would have

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D4D4D8D12. 
So I have to pick. 

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Of those four dice, I assign one
of each to brutality, 

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Viciousness, Cunning, and 
Ferocity. 

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So by picking the God you favor,
you can you get the dice that 

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you actually get to put into 
your characters. 

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And it's different for each one,
which is a great mechanic. 

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I really dig that a lot. 
Yeah. 

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The they, they're very, very 
fair spreads of like what dice 

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you can get. 
Like all of them have like, oh, 

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they have a couple good ones who
are like hardest. 

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The first ones like really very 
balanced. 

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It's like D6D6D8D8 and then 
yours is like almost the 

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opposite thing where it's like 
no, you gave up two to be weak 

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and two are like D8D12, you 
know? 

449
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:50,440
I didn't do the math for it, but
are all of them like what's 6 

450
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,960
and 618? 
Are all of them 28 points? 

451
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,920
They all have four dice. 
Uncia has 28. 

452
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,440
Well, I mean, it doesn't matter 
if they're four dice if if you 

453
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,960
have like it was a joke. 
Oh, Oh, yeah, yeah. 

454
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,920
Six and six and eight. 
It's 12 and yeah, what what's 12

455
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,400
+ 16? 
Yeah, that's 28. 

456
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,320
So it's all 28. 
So it's it's five different ways

457
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:13,840
to put 28 together with four 
dice. 

458
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,280
Smart, clever. 
I like it. 

459
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,480
So it's a spread where you get 
the same number of points all 

460
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,440
the way through. 
Even though it's curious though,

461
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:25,360
because clearly like if you take
averages, I'm curious and I'm 

462
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:28,080
not looking at it in my brain in
a way that is going to mouth 

463
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,800
well right now if you have 28 
total possible points in your 

464
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,640
Max's. 
I don't think that still equates

465
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,840
to possible points as far as 
averages go. 

466
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,200
Like if you have 2D fours, 
that's two points versus like 2D

467
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,000
sixes. 
Like, I'm curious, and I'm not 

468
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,720
going to sit here long enough to
do the math for that. 

469
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,520
Regardless, I think it's clever 
and here's your here's your 

470
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,680
spear boy. 
Yeah, the spear boy. 

471
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,600
I like the jumping cat with the 
spear. 

472
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,600
Well, it's on my top two of art 
pieces, so. 

473
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,080
It's such a good piece. 
Yeah, it's got the Cape. 

474
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,600
It's just that, red, man. 
Let me tell you what like that 

475
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,320
red makes this entire Z And 
artistically for me, all the art

476
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,200
is great, but the red is such a 
vibrant color that just pops off

477
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,560
everything. 
It's insane. 

478
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:18,240
It's so good. 
So mastered weapon. 

479
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,160
Every cat is a master of a style
of weapon. 

480
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,880
Choose a style that embraces 
your nature. 

481
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,120
Panthera may bless you with an 
additional mastery or further 

482
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,960
refine a style you've already 
mastered even greater heights. 

483
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,880
Name and describe your weapon as
their extension of you. 

484
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,240
A cat may use a weapon they have
not yet mastered, but it's 

485
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,040
likely to break under their 
unbridled might after single 

486
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,680
use. 
Again, I love that. 

487
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,600
Outside of that, when you roll, 
things die. 

488
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,920
There's like no rules. 
And even that says it's likely 

489
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,960
to snap after single use. 
It never says there's no 

490
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,360
technical jargon. 
It never says any weapon after 

491
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:57,160
You know what I mean? 
Like you just say one and your 

492
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,160
weapon breaks, yeah? 
Yeah, none of that. 

493
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,480
It just says it's probably not 
going to last long and I'm good 

494
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,680
at it. 
So there are a number of weapon 

495
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,680
types. 
Dual weapons, single weapons, 

496
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,520
great weapons. 
Bows, Fang and claw and magics. 

497
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:16,320
Each one you roll 2 dice for. 
So for example, dual weapons you

498
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,120
do Brutality and Viciousness. 
Great weapons you do Brutality 

499
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:21,280
and Ferocity. 
So. 

500
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:25,200
So you already picked your your 
God, all right. 

501
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,040
You get a weapon master as well.
Which one would you pick and we 

502
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:36,480
can just go over those. 
Which weapon would I pick of 

503
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,880
these? 
Which one do you think that I 

504
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,320
would pick and? 
Everything would. 

505
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,360
I think we would both pick the 
same one in this in this 

506
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,920
situation, but which one? 
You would also pick dark magics.

507
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,360
Fuck yeah, I'm picking dark 
magics. 

508
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:49,960
I mean, listen, I'm. 
Talking to the magic boy that 

509
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,600
are the Edge Lord. 
So if it's dark magic, like, of 

510
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,000
course I'm going to pick the one
that has like. 

511
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,160
Just a skull for a head. 
And I picked the God that had a 

512
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,120
witch and shit. 
Yeah, of course I picked that 

513
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,000
one. 
So dark magics employ cunning 

514
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,240
and ferocity, piercing energies 
and dooming hexes, madness and 

515
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,280
despair. 
Effective against tricky and 

516
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,560
magic foes. 
So the interesting thing about 

517
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:15,280
each weapon is it gives you the 
two dice that you would roll for

518
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,080
the two stats, the attributes 
you would roll for. 

519
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,720
A little bit of flavor, and it 
also gives you 2 foes that it's 

520
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,160
good for. 
So I think there are 5 total 

521
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,280
foes. 
We'll get to that in a little 

522
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,400
bit. 
Like Giant and Tricky, Tricky 

523
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,640
and Magic. 
Each have different things that 

524
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:34,200
you can do for each one, but 
that is basically how the 

525
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:35,920
weapons work is that's what you 
get for it? 

526
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,200
And then what about blessings? 
Tell me about blessings. 

527
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,320
Blessings of a Hallow. 
They will sing songs about you. 

528
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,240
Oh Companion of Death and the 
Panthera sing with them also 

529
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,080
whatever they say. 
Basically this is just like 

530
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,280
little. 
This is like a bonus, like 

531
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,840
little thing that you can get. 
And some of them are like, you 

532
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,280
know, rolling the additional D6 
against tricky foes. 

533
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,200
Very cool, very like mechanical 
bonuses, but some are like a 

534
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:10,320
little bit different. 
One of mine that I enjoy is the 

535
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,920
very, very last one is blessing 
of the gifted breath of 

536
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,600
mankind's babe. 
You may speak as men once spoke.

537
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,560
On exactly 1 occasion you may 
issue a simple command to a dog,

538
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,960
and they must obey like you can 
speak as men once spoke. 

539
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,560
The cat This other thing I like 
the the mechanical ones because 

540
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,720
I feel like in this game where 
like because you can receive you

541
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,920
start with a blessing but you 
can also receive them as you go.

542
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,680
Like the very mechanical ones 
are very cool, like hand out as 

543
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,960
they go. 
But like picking those, like 

544
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:49,080
very dramatically titled, like 
The Blessing of Babista's Fur. 

545
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,000
Your fur is marked with weird 
and shifting darkness role and 

546
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,080
additional D6 when striking from
the darkness. 

547
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,560
Like very thematic stuff I I 
like for starting the character 

548
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,320
out. 
But yeah, there's some really 

549
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,000
cool ones and they all have 
really cool names. 

550
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,120
You know, Blessings of the Cold 
Flame, Blessings of Bone and 

551
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:08,040
Keratin. 
Yeah, very cool little mechanic 

552
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,640
for making your your cat Viking.
Well, The thing is, this isn't 

553
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:18,920
just like a little bonus. 
This is also this is 

554
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,720
advancement. 
This is your entire character 

555
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,360
advancement. 
So like, every time you die a 

556
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,000
glorious death, you get. 
That's correct. 

557
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,640
I did get that hard. 
Yeah, there's other times where 

558
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,880
you can get blessings, like if 
you if you there's a hidden 

559
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:32,960
nemesis thing we'll get to 
later. 

560
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,120
But I like you just said, like, 
I love that these are not just 

561
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,160
mechanical, although you can you
get like eight or nine of them. 

562
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,240
So like, it's not a bad idea to 
take like. 

563
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,440
Increase your bonus size. 
I'm definitely taking a bunch of

564
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,360
mechanical ones, I'm just 
probably starting with a more 

565
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,800
thematic 1. 
For sure, For sure, yeah yeah. 

566
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,160
But some of the base ones like 
Blessing of Leg and Fang 

567
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,680
increases your brutality by one 
die size to a Max of D12. 

568
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,080
So. 
If you start with the D4, 

569
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,440
theoretically after like 3 
deaths you could take your 

570
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,440
brutality all over the top if 
that's what you want to do. 

571
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,560
Like if you really want to make 
stats, you can and that's fine. 

572
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,560
But I'd like you said too though
like so the first it basically 

573
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,480
is stats for all four things, so
the you can raise all four stats

574
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,800
by one, then the next batch lets
you increase additional. 

575
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,720
There's no advantage or 
disadvantage in this. 

576
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,120
It's pretty much just like you 
get another D6. 

577
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,080
Like good guys, bad guys, 
whatever. 

578
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,640
So the next batch of blessings 
is AD six against the different 

579
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,800
types of foes with different 
weapon masteries. 

580
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,480
And then we get the fun flavor 
ones like what you're talking 

581
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,920
about, and they're they're also 
good. 

582
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,920
I think it's such a good spread 
of possibilities. 

583
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,080
And the way that you can gear 
your character is great because 

584
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,920
you get how many? 
How many other 1234567891011? 

585
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:03,320
12131415161718192022 There's 
like 23 or 24 blessings. 

586
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,480
That's a shit load of options. 
Quite a bit, yeah. 

587
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,360
It's crazy. 
There's some really good ones, 

588
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:09,800
too. 
Yeah, I I would play this. 

589
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,160
This sounds like a lot of fun to
play. 

590
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,560
You know, it's crazy. 
It's really like you die five or

591
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,400
six times, you know, and you 
have like 5 or 6 blessings, you 

592
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,240
know? 
I mean, that's pretty good, you 

593
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,600
know? 
Yeah, we'll get the point where 

594
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,840
you're just annihilating. 
And if you look at the 

595
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,240
adventure, we, and we don't go 
over adventures on stream. 

596
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,040
I might flip to it just for the 
dope art and stuff. 

597
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:36,200
But the adventure for the book, 
the the wreck of the murderous, 

598
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,880
it actually says just oh it's 
dope. 

599
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,120
It actually says to start with a
with a veteran war band. 

600
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,560
So you'll you'll roll 2D4, take 
the highest number and you've 

601
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,080
died that many times already. 
So you start with that many 

602
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,880
blessings. 
So like, less deaths that you 

603
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,560
get for total, but more 
blessings you get to start with.

604
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,920
Yeah, yeah. 
Super dope. 

605
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,960
Couple more great full page art 
pieces. 

606
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,640
The cat wearing the skull has 
like that. 

607
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,920
It's so I don't know. 
And then the next one where it's

608
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,120
got like whether it's blood or 
dark magics or just like the 

609
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,680
shading on the I think it's just
the shading on the claws because

610
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,440
it's a weapon. 
I think all weapons are red in 

611
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,280
this with its dumb fucking cat 
face on it like one of the 

612
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,320
weapon types is it is claw there
is like. 

613
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,680
Sting and claw. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

614
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,200
So that's dope that that the 
hand is is even got that on it 

615
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,880
too. 
But but yeah, glorious death. 

616
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,000
Love this. 
So those who count death amongst

617
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,760
their companions are given ample
opportunity to kill. 

618
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,920
The true measure of cat is in 
their glorious deaths. 

619
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Death with sword and paw and 
unflinching of nerve. 

620
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,200
Courageous, but not foolish. 
Cunning but not cowardly. 

621
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,440
And at the hands of a foe where 
they distract you down. 

622
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,880
Catch a walk with death. 
Do not die, and gloriously, 

623
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,960
Therefore any death your cat 
faces must be glorious. 

624
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,600
If you're offered a death that 
does not belong in the sages, 

625
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,280
feel free to request another. 
So you can literally say I want 

626
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,440
to die cooler, let me die 
cooler. 

627
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,679
And it says in the beginning you
get to narrate your deaths and 

628
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,639
stuff like that. 
This is such a a narrative heavy

629
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,560
like you, like you want to play 
this with a group of people that

630
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,560
are going to invest, have late 
and go like balls to the wall 

631
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:26,239
goofy the whole time. 
Yeah, the 1st 8 Glorious Deaths 

632
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,040
will see you carried by the 
Valkyries to the gates of 

633
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,400
Valhalla where you'll be found 
worthy of blessing but still 

634
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:32,800
living. 
You'll be returned. 

635
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,280
Catch it right down the cause of
each of their deaths and the 

636
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,960
blessings they receive of all 
Hallscape. 

637
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:43,719
That's dope. 
And what about the final Death? 

638
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,600
Yeah. 
A cat's final death at the 

639
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,239
conclusion of their ninth life 
brings to a close their part in 

640
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,920
maintaining an endless cycle of 
bloodshed when even the fates 

641
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,200
conspire against them and wisdom
bade them flee. 

642
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,240
A cat who remained a companion 
of death has earned their place 

643
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:04,840
in the drinking halls of Fall 
Hall. 

644
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,920
Sick, by the way. 
Just sick opening. 

645
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,200
There's a lot of writing in 
this. 

646
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,840
I'm just like, this is cool to 
read, you know? 

647
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,440
It's like good luck. 
It's murder cats. 

648
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,840
Yeah, it's murder cats. 
But yeah, embrace your cats. 

649
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,760
Final Death with good humor. 
Even if no enemies fell to their

650
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,520
sword and the night is still 
young. 

651
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,000
If you are drinking, toast to 
their memory and invent a tale, 

652
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,160
a tall tale of their heroism. 
Leave their shell of the body in

653
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,480
such a state as to strike fear 
into any dog who crosses it. 

654
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,880
Death should give the cat over 
to the Valkyries for their final

655
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,080
journey to Valhalla with dignity
and grace players whose cat has 

656
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,200
left the moral plane. 
And for the final time, it may 

657
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,080
continue to play in a number of 
ways. 

658
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,560
They may alight upon death as a 
Raven, personifying foes and 

659
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,760
providing outrageous details to 
make the inevitable viscera more

660
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,160
visceral. 
Amazing, Fantastic. 

661
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,840
They may create a new cat being 
cycle new, a cat whom Death 

662
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,840
should soon invite to meet their
new siblings of destruction. 

663
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:15,200
Yeah, very cool. 
You can come back as a cat, you 

664
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,120
can play as a Raven and just 
make describe everything worse 

665
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,680
and grosser. 
Great way to deal with death. 

666
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:30,800
Yeah, I just love that the the 
whole thing. 

667
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,680
It's not like so many triad 
games where it's like, you know,

668
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,000
let's be honest, in 5E you don't
die unless the GM wants you to 

669
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
because they're just going to 
flood for roles or it's not. 

670
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,960
It doesn't fit in their story. 
This literally says just like. 

671
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,080
I mean the only rule basically 
is like. 

672
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,160
Something has to die every time 
you roll die. 

673
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,160
You're going to die a bunch. 
You get to do it like 9 times, 

674
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,560
die fun, come back with a 
blessing and even when you die 

675
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,160
you can come back as something 
else. 

676
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,600
Like it's it's so. 
I don't know. 

677
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,360
Yeah. 
I mean like it's so the lack of 

678
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,160
yeah, the lack of rules does 
make it a really open-ended. 

679
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,520
Like yeah, you can come back as 
something else. 

680
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,520
Just tell me what you want to do
to come back and we'll fit it 

681
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,800
into this weird ultraviolet 
metal narrative. 

682
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,520
Yeah. 
Where were you? 

683
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:14,600
Where? 
Where did you leave that? 

684
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,800
Because I lost? 
You're going to tell me about 

685
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,360
playing Death? 
Oh fuck yeah, yeah, Six. 

686
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,560
So playing death. 
So this is basically the the, 

687
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:23,920
the how did GM section, right? 
So the player who chooses to 

688
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,320
take on the role of death 
represents the foes and the few 

689
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,360
allies along the way. 
A death should feel free to 

690
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,880
speak directly to the cats, 
ideally through strange portents

691
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:38,080
or cryptic Ravens and cats. 
Cats, true to the nature, should

692
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,480
be expected to ignore death 
guidance and seek where the 

693
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:45,920
opponents. 
Death is a constant opinion and 

694
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,000
they should describe everything 
this in a very favorable, fun 

695
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,880
way. 
It says do the shit GM does. 

696
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,360
You're the bad guys, you're the 
you're the world, you're the 

697
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,800
NPCS, you're everything. 
That's fun. 

698
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,560
But it does. 
There is a part down here. 

699
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,280
It is possible that another 
player will request a different 

700
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,840
death, either because they have 
already seen a similar one, or 

701
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,160
because they would be ashamed to
face a Panther in other 

702
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,320
circumstances. 
Take this in stride and all for 

703
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,600
another. 
So literally, just like who 

704
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,240
cares? 
Supposed to be a fun cool death.

705
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:15,480
So just let them have fun and 
and be cool and deaf. 

706
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:21,080
And then this last part is fun. 
Though too brave or foolish, 

707
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,480
cats may turn their claws 
towards death itself if they are

708
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,280
worthy. 
Death may die and the royal 

709
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,280
passage to the cat who performed
the killing stroke. 

710
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,920
Death is now free to take on the
life of a mortal and begin their

711
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,600
own pursuit of a HALA. 
So you can just be like you know

712
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,320
what? 
Fuck it, I'm fighting death and 

713
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:40,200
have a roll off and if you kill 
death you are now death AKA you 

714
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,080
become the GM. 
And then the GM can like roll up

715
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,080
a cat and not even roll up a 
cat. 

716
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,680
You don't even roll up, but like
you can just do the cat and and 

717
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,160
go on. 
I do really like that because I,

718
00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:01,520
and maybe always the the GM 
forever and always like I I 

719
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,600
really like so much about this 
game and I'm interested to see 

720
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:11,560
how the rolling two dice 
mechanic plays out regularly. 

721
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,840
Like I feel fine about it, but 
I'm I'm interested in actually 

722
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,960
trying it. 
But I feel like playing this 

723
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,520
game, if you're in the middle of
your tabletop journey, you know 

724
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,560
you're like you're not new but 
maybe you've only been playing 

725
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:27,040
like Call of Cthulhu and 5E or 
even just OSC. 

726
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,280
Like this would be a great game 
to try and be like hey yeah, 

727
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,760
nothing matters, like you guys 
are going to play Viking cats. 

728
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,520
None of it's serious. 
You can hand off being the game 

729
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,720
master, maybe even mid session, 
by just somebody killing you and

730
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:43,480
them becoming the the death you 
know like. 

731
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,640
Absolutely, Yeah, I very. 
Much enjoyed this to touch on 

732
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,520
something you said and we talked
about a little bit earlier like 

733
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,160
this is one of the things I love
about this game is like anyone 

734
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,480
can pick it up and play. 
It's so simple like it really is

735
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,960
but re. 
But really, like if you I don't 

736
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,960
know how douchy's is gonna 
sound, if you play a lot of 

737
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,960
games and you know a lot about 
game mechanics, this game 

738
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,280
becomes like exponentially more 
interesting. 

739
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,280
Because of how all of the 
unspoken shit that's not there 

740
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,800
at all. 
And that just it it just gets 

741
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,320
me. 
Because like so many fucking 

742
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,920
games feel like they have to 
over explain fucking everything.

743
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,520
And it's like 9/9 of 100 times I
can tell you this is not going 

744
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,320
to be someone's first game. 
Don't give me how to do this 

745
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,560
section. 
Don't give me how to do that 

746
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,200
section. 
We all know how all of that shit

747
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:29,600
works and your random indie game
like doesn't need all of that 

748
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,560
shit at all. 
Just give me a game and that's 

749
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,280
exactly what this one does. 
Like, it literally just gives 

750
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:39,200
you the game as it's going to be
played with no fluff. 

751
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,760
No, I mean plenty of like fluff 
and fur and stuff, but like, you

752
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,400
know what I mean? 
Like none of the bullshit that 

753
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,440
it's just like we've read a 
million times. 

754
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,920
Like, and I just, I really, 
really, really love that about 

755
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,520
this like a lot. 
And it's fucking 28 pages and a 

756
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:52,840
half of it's art. 
We're already almost done. 

757
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:57,160
This is the other art piece 
that's like, in my like, it's so

758
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,320
crazy good. 
Yeah, top two, top three. 

759
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:00,200
Easy. 
Yeah. 

760
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:04,040
Yeah. 
Just the oh God, like so. 

761
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,840
So for those in podcast land, 
it's a full page of just a cat 

762
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,400
skull like floating above like a
caped body with like a red Halo 

763
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,880
surrounding it. 
And again, it's got this just 

764
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,640
gorgeous texture to the entire 
thing and the vibrant red and 

765
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,040
it's just beautiful. 
Again, the the art throughout 

766
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,160
this entire thing is beautiful. 
Do you want to do photos? 

767
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,480
Do you want me to do photos? 
Foes. 

768
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,560
The age of man has ended, but 
any other creature, great or 

769
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,840
small, veal or imagine they 
stand between cats and their 

770
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,080
ultimate goal. 
Yeah, Death may prefer to plan 

771
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,720
their foes ahead of time, sign 
dice and qualities in advance. 

772
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:45,160
Death may also choose what feels
appropriate in the moment. 

773
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,680
That's me. 
Sign dice and call these in 

774
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,920
context and random chance. 
Whom among you has the courage 

775
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,480
to judge each of us to die, or 
to die associated with it? 

776
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:05,880
It may be Giant armored, Tricky 
and or magic and quality smaller

777
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,160
dice. 
I was watching you count in your

778
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:08,520
hands. 
I was wondering when I was 

779
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,240
going. 
Smaller dice are reserved for 

780
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,160
meeker foes. 
Larger dice for more lethal 

781
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,560
villains. 
Foes with one or more unique 

782
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,280
qualities gain the ability to 
roll additional dice, making 

783
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,240
them particularly dangerous. 
The cat who face. 

784
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,440
Cats who face them would do well
utilize A judicious plan of 

785
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,240
attack. 
Each quality allows the foe to 

786
00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:33,720
roll an additional 6 sided die 
unless the cat who seeks to 

787
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,680
destroy them is using a specific
nature. 

788
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,920
So again, I know you said you 
didn't read the adventure, but 

789
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,320
what's interesting about the 
adventure is it does have 

790
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,200
reminders on the side little 
boxes here. 

791
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,400
I literally have it right here. 
I don't know what the fuck I'm 

792
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,600
doing, like why I didn't just 
right here. 

793
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,800
But again, we don't go over 
adventures, but we'll show real 

794
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,760
quick. 
There's a reminders with when 

795
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,920
you see different armor types in
the adventure for their time it 

796
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,680
says that cats do not use 
viciousness. 

797
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,840
Or for this fellow specifically,
we'll have an extra D6 reminder 

798
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,120
to you. 
Reminder, the players are really

799
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,120
and I really like that about the
way that they set up the 

800
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,200
adventure. 
The reminders are out. 

801
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,000
So that was really cool. 
Yeah, also a great example of 

802
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,760
writing an adventure for your 
game and employing the mechanics

803
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,240
you use in the adventure. 
It's just like, it's funny. 

804
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,880
It's like recently I've been 
reading, rereading through old 

805
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,240
stuff because we've said that 
several times, as we said 

806
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,720
before, and I'm like, oh wait, 
when do I employ this rule in 

807
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:32,840
this game? 
And it's not in the adventure. 

808
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,760
But yeah, so there are a lot of 
foes. 

809
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:41,400
And I think my favorite thing 
just right out the gate is under

810
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,840
giant foes. 
It has coyotes and Dragons next 

811
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,080
to each other. 
It's honestly, if it's bigger 

812
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,160
than a cat, who cares how big it
is? 

813
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,360
I mean it is. 
Bigger than a cat. 

814
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,760
So yeah, that was a genuinely my
favorite part of all this. 

815
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,960
I was like coyotes, Dragons, but
but they're all really good at 

816
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,360
like the armored one has a plate
of night or a crab. 

817
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,600
The tricky one has a Hummingbird
or hidden assassins. 

818
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,080
Like I love the dichotomy. 
Exactly it. 

819
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:12,040
Makes sense though you're like, 
OK, like I could see how both of

820
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,040
those things fall under like. 
Tricky foes, you know? 

821
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,760
Yeah, absolutely. 
Yeah. 

822
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,760
Just picking one of them. 
Yeah, the Giants. 

823
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,200
Well, two magic foes. 
Wizards of all kind are best 

824
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:34,880
matched with unalloyed wrath if 
a foe is magic and the attack is

825
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,800
not. 
Ferocity. 

826
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,480
Ferocity My online, I can't say 
that word. 

827
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:41,840
Then roll an additional six 
sides. 

828
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,160
So pretty much each one has like
if the attack is not this thing,

829
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,920
roll an additional D6 like you 
the death. 

830
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,840
Four types of foes and each one 
has a stat like if you're not. 

831
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,000
If you don't roll a specific 
stat against them, then they get

832
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,720
an extra D6 against you, and I 
love that as like a really 

833
00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:03,440
interesting way to do advantage 
throughout this entire thing. 

834
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:08,120
Since you're using D4D6D8D12, 
you're already rolling two dice,

835
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,240
just taking the highest, getting
to throw another D6 in there. 

836
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,440
It's not too high, it's not too 
low. 

837
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:17,120
It's an average of three. 
Like it's sometimes It will give

838
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,760
you like a six, whatever and 
that'll be good for you. 

839
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,800
But it could roll A6 and then 
you could have AD 12 anyway. 

840
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:26,320
So like, I love again the 
simplicity and complexity of the

841
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,280
dice mechanic because you're now
doing a dice pool of three 

842
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,720
potentially different dice for 
different reasons. 

843
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,360
Like it's so good and you could 
maybe roll 4 because if you have

844
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,280
like a specific weapon one and 
you get to roll another DI don't

845
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,520
know it's it's it's it's got so 
much again complexity in the 

846
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:45,720
simplicity I would love to play.
This. 

847
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,120
Yeah, let's fucking do it. 
Yeah, great. 

848
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,040
All right. 
I'm not going to read the 

849
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,800
adventure though, So now that I 
know we're going to play it, I 

850
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,640
so I read. 
I didn't read enough to really 

851
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,040
know what's going on. 
I skimmed it so I could 

852
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,200
understand it for the exact same
reason I hate reading 

853
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,640
adventures, because I really 
want someone to play him, to run

854
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,160
it for us. 
Yeah, sure. 

855
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,840
So I do love this. 
I do love a Nemesis Revealed. 

856
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:06,440
This is. 
Really. 

857
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:07,480
Really. 
Tell me about Tell me about the 

858
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,720
Nemesis revealing itself. 
Should a single singular folk 

859
00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:14,440
kill each cat at the table? 
Long search or if if it TP KS 

860
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,080
right, you all come back. 
But that cat, that nip, that 

861
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,960
thing that killed you now 
becomes a nemesis to all of you,

862
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,720
right? 
And the name is whispered upon 

863
00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:27,800
the wind. 
And then all of you should 

864
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:32,200
pause, take a moment, come up 
with a bunch of like legends and

865
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,640
stories and stuff of this like 
insane foe, this nemesis right? 

866
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:43,240
And the cat who slays the 
nemesis eventually gets a 

867
00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:45,200
blessing, right? 
You don't even have to die to 

868
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,840
get a blessing. 
You get a blessing immediately 

869
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,040
for killing this foe that like 
TPKD the party previously. 

870
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,280
And it's also got a dog. 
A dog. 

871
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,720
It's so funny. 
Because it's got this little 

872
00:46:55,720 --> 00:47:00,880
like this, little like frenchy 
fringy, that's the least 

873
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,880
intimidating dog they could have
picked. 

874
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,840
What I love too is on, its on 
its little, on its little 

875
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,280
jacket, like its Cape. 
It's got like some embroidery or

876
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,480
pin or something. 
It's a leash and it's in red and

877
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,920
I love that so much. 
It's the leash that they still 

878
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,760
capital T, capital L the leash, 
which is still what they they 

879
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,120
have in their heart and it's the
fucking embroidery over the 

880
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,640
heart like cracks me the fuck 
up. 

881
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,960
Such a great little detail. 
I don't know. 

882
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:32,000
I love it. 
Oh, another full page piece here

883
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,080
of this archery. 
Crazy amount of art for how? 

884
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:36,520
I mean, because we're we're 
almost done. 

885
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,080
There's a few pages left, but I 
think it's mainly treasures 

886
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,680
after this. 
I can't and I just wanna pretty 

887
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,400
much. 
Oh, and merchants. 

888
00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:44,360
Yeah, but like, oh, the 
merchants, of course. 

889
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:48,960
So much art in the scene again 
if you don't have to pay for it 

890
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,840
with anything but your time, 
that you know artists that 

891
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:58,240
become game makers. 
Like, I envy them so much. 

892
00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:04,400
You know what I mean? 
So it's must be nice, you know? 

893
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,120
Yeah. 
So treasures are cool. 

894
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,480
Did you did you have one that 
you really loved? 

895
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,320
I'm going to be honest, No, I 
don't remember. 

896
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:22,200
So OK, well, so treasures. 
I feel like a treasure. 

897
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,320
Just a few of them. 
Go ahead. 

898
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,480
Yeah, go ahead. 
Good to hear, because we're all 

899
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,680
great. 
They can all be traded to 

900
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,200
merchants or other strangers 
met, and the player must declare

901
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,080
their intent to use an item 
before rolling dice. 

902
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,680
If they if that role would be 
affected, that's basically it. 

903
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,360
Well, some of the ones that I 
really liked, I really liked. 

904
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,640
Even just the vial of man's 
blood, Yeah. 

905
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,840
That's a very vial with human 
blood. 

906
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,760
Drink to improve your cunning. 
And I'm like cats are like, oh, 

907
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,920
these cunning fucking human. 
This man. 

908
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,160
That's great. 
But a catnip pouch was also 

909
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,280
great too. 
A dryer with strange but 

910
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,920
pleasurable effects. 
Burn it to improve your ferocity

911
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,000
by one die size for one roll. 
Another way that they do fun 

912
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,000
mechanics, and this is just the 
increase of die sizes as opposed

913
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,400
to more dice and stuff too, 
which is really neat. 

914
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,880
So like increase one die size 
for one roll is a really cool 

915
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,400
way to just be like, OK, bump 
that D6 to AD 8, maybe it'll 

916
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,160
help you a little bit, you know,
statistically like .3. 

917
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,680
But we like, it's cool. 
I really dig it. 

918
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,560
And what was the other one that 
I really liked a lot? 

919
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,160
There's a lot on this page. 
It's literally like 3 pages of 

920
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:32,000
them. 
Yeah, I like the rumors of the 

921
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:37,040
outside world. 
Ghosts are trapped in one place,

922
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,280
with few opportunities to learn 
about life beyond their 

923
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,040
hauntings. 
It's cruel to lie, but they will

924
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:49,760
never know you did. 
These are the grasshopper in it.

925
00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:54,040
And then what page are we on? 
Oh, we're almost into there and 

926
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,440
then we get to. 
So yeah, so there's a ton. 

927
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,840
So there's a ton of those. 
Again, there's pages of those. 

928
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,880
What I really like is the things
that you need a lot of. 

929
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,600
You really do get a lot of like 
there's pages and pages of 

930
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,240
blessings, pages and pages of 
treasures, a lot of real 

931
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:09,080
interesting things. 
But the things you don't really 

932
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,320
need a ton of, you don't really 
get. 

933
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,920
Like there's not a roll table 
for cat names, there's not a 

934
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,160
roll table for cat fur colors. 
It's just says pick a name, pick

935
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:18,320
a fur color. 
Like just go for it. 

936
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,200
And if you want to make. 
Your own blessings. 

937
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,120
It's so simple. 
Like all of the mechanic stuff 

938
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,760
taken care of, but like for 
whatever narratively happens at 

939
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,040
your table, if you're going to 
be like. 

940
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:30,040
Yeah, you now have the the 
blessing of snakes or whatever. 

941
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,080
If you have a snake driven 
adventure that gives you 

942
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,320
something. 
Or rather, point being like very

943
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,840
clever, very simple and clever. 
And yeah, great game, super 

944
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:43,920
easy. 
The merchants are really neat. 

945
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,720
I really like these. 
So basically not all who wonder 

946
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:53,080
Meow guard, which like made 
guard and it cracked me up. 

947
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,600
I think it's over, Simon said. 
Meow guard. 

948
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:58,520
Yeah, I think this. 
Too seek to kill every cat. 

949
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,200
Some are in PCs but they are all
fighters too, which is really 

950
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,320
cool. 
Some of them. 

951
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,840
Which ones are which ones? 
The one I really liked a lot 

952
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:11,240
There was oh, the Witch of 
Unseo, which is the God that I 

953
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:13,160
picked. 
So yeah, it says read even the. 

954
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,760
Like priests or people related 
to the gods are like in this 

955
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,200
immediately, which I thought was
interesting. 

956
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,240
I was like, oh cool, there's at 
least one NPC for every God. 

957
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:22,200
So cool. 
Yeah yeah. 

958
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,240
Wreathed in flowing garments and
shaded under a wide brimmed hat,

959
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:31,160
often wreathed in smoke of 
unclear origin, Speaks in Riddle

960
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:32,840
and idiom and laughs at their 
own jokes. 

961
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:36,440
Commonly named and I love there 
are names for these NBCS cuz my 

962
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,640
God there's by so many bobs. 
I was just like fuck it I don't 

963
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,800
care you're talking to ABC I 
didn't want to talk to. 

964
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,800
The name is fucking Bob. 
Guess what this is Bob friend 

965
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:45,960
Bob. 
Like fuck off. 

966
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,680
I'm coming in August, Spike, 
Min, Min, Sunshine or Cathar. 

967
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,320
But and I really like this about
the MPC too. 

968
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,760
So what they seek is the SAP of 
the world tree, the ancient 

969
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,600
amber. 
And I've knew all three of which

970
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,480
are treasures and they have 
absolution, an arrow of truth 

971
00:52:00,720 --> 00:52:02,360
and vials of poison which are 
treasures. 

972
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,520
And I really like that that 
little bit of start in there for

973
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,760
you to just be like, oh, I need 
this thing from you. 

974
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,840
What can I get from them? 
Built in in a really quick easy 

975
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:11,880
way. 
Really, really cool. 

976
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,200
Yeah. 
There's some great ones. 

977
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:18,160
I mean, just coward, yeah. 
It just you heard Death's 

978
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:18,880
calling. 
You ran. 

979
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:24,120
You're just a coward. 
You have tattered old armor and 

980
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,760
it has a coward's soul and it 
seeks Canyon. 

981
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,440
Oh, and this is the no. 
Is this the page? 

982
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:34,640
Yeah, this is the page right 
here. 

983
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,080
I think this is page 28. 
So yeah, like I was saying, this

984
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,280
is the page. 
It's got this little mouse guy 

985
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,760
here, which is fucking adorable.
I love the striped like coat 

986
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,400
that it's wearing. 
This page right here is the one 

987
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:53,560
that has the missing piece that 
once again like so fucking cool 

988
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:59,200
that they just saw an issue. 
Fix the issue and and synthetic 

989
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,920
I. 
Like the sticker fix you know 

990
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,480
dude it's such a good fix 
because it's because it's I'm 

991
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,600
not going to peel it off but 
like it's clear so you can 

992
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:12,040
literally just stick it right in
the book and it's it's it's so 

993
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:15,400
smart again. 
Found the issue fixed the issue 

994
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,000
in a in a relatively inexpensive
well at least for us because it 

995
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,840
was freeway and I just felt like
that was such a good. 

996
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:23,760
I think a lot of people in 
Kickstarter would just been 

997
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,480
like, oops, sorry by the next 
printing. 

998
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,960
Holy dude. 
So often that happens, you know,

999
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,000
Yeah, I mean, it was crazy. 
You could even like, it's a 

1000
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,880
signature on here and send it 
out to people, you know that. 

1001
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,520
Got that. 
So yeah, I I love it. 

1002
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,160
That was a a fix that they did. 
Again, a lot of respect for 

1003
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,640
people that respect the 
Kickstarter backers that funded 

1004
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,480
their project. 
So I'm really, really glad and 

1005
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:55,000
happy to see that that was done.
What are you? 

1006
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,080
Oh, the even more black, even 
more NPCS. 

1007
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,440
That's the thing. 
Tons of NPCS. 

1008
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,920
Yeah, the Wiesel, Watchman page,
Raven a deaf the Mouse hero. 

1009
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:04,680
Love the. 
Mouse hero. 

1010
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,440
That's on the last page and 
that's it. 

1011
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,760
That's the fucking game. 
Like, that's the whole game. 

1012
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,040
And I really like that the the 
back cover for whatever. 

1013
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,320
Like it's the same art as the 
front, but it's clean, like it. 

1014
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,320
It just has just the art on it, 
which I think is really cool. 

1015
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,280
Yeah, No, it's a different, it's
a different set of caps. 

1016
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:21,600
It's a wrap around. 
It goes. 

1017
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:22,840
It's them all following. 
It does. 

1018
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:29,280
Yeah, that's so cool. 
I love the the cover for the 

1019
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:34,040
adventure too is a full wrap 
around with the hex map right on

1020
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,000
the cover, which is really, 
really great. 

1021
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,320
Again, we're not going to go 
over the adventure, but I'm 

1022
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,240
going to, I'm just going to show
it to people real quick. 

1023
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:43,360
We'll just flip through, look 
how again, same art style. 

1024
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,720
Look how beautiful the ship is 
on the front cover there. 

1025
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:48,080
So there's a Viking ship on the 
front cover and again it wraps 

1026
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,360
on the back cover. 
It has a hex map on the back, 

1027
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:56,000
which is really fantastic and oh
I I like this little guy too 

1028
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,600
with like the scar on his eye. 
But really fun adventure. 

1029
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,480
Again, like it walks it through 
pretty well. 

1030
00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:03,720
It's definitely, it's so it's 
hex map style, that's definitely

1031
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:06,880
descriptive. 
It doesn't feel it's a good 

1032
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:11,280
adventure. 
It doesn't feel super like 

1033
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,160
railroading or anything. 
It's more definition. 

1034
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:16,840
There's not a whole lot of like 
if they do this you should do 

1035
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,360
that and then they'll do this. 
And if the the really coming 

1036
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,040
ones it, it's more of just like 
here are things if they find 

1037
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,760
things here this. 
But one of the things I really 

1038
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,320
love too about the adventure. 
Every time you get to a new 

1039
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:31,480
spot, one of the most important 
parts, they have a this section 

1040
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:36,040
here where it says like, feel, 
hear, see in different areas. 

1041
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,120
So really descriptive for each 
area you go into. 

1042
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,600
And more important, every every 
new location has a What can you 

1043
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,920
kill here? 
And what can kill you here? 

1044
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,640
I mean right? 
Off the bat, the whole game, the

1045
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,600
whole game is pretty much just 
kill stuff. 

1046
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,720
So yeah, this is, this is 
fantastic and that's nine Lights

1047
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:58,560
Walhalla. 
That's one of the shortest 

1048
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,400
reviews we ever did for a 
really, really fantastic game. 

1049
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,200
Yeah, I mean, its brevity is its
strength, you know? 

1050
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,200
Yeah, one of its many strengths,
I think. 

1051
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,280
Yeah, for sure. 
Not its many, absolutely. 

1052
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,400
So let's just hop into the 
reviews and thank you so much 

1053
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,880
for the follow Keegan. 
Yeah our chat just on this other

1054
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,760
we don't really so you know we 
we record this for podcasting 

1055
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,840
YouTube. 
So we don't really address chat 

1056
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,880
a lot at least verbally even 
more text into it But man a lot 

1057
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,040
of great people in chat tonight.
We really appreciate it Kristen 

1058
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:36,960
serial Keegan yeah and and the 
the people from gym room. 

1059
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:37,920
So thank you so much for being 
here. 

1060
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,560
We really appreciate it. 
Yeah. 

1061
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,920
So for those who don't know, we 
do do these deep dive reviews 

1062
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,160
and then we do give scores. 
We have a different metric for 

1063
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,360
zines versus books because it 
wouldn't really be fair to 

1064
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,000
compare this to like I don't 
know, Apocalypse World or 

1065
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:01,040
something, you know, 200 plus 
page book when this is a 28 page

1066
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,480
scene, right? 
And we do review projects as a 

1067
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,440
whole. 
That's why more often than not, 

1068
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:11,720
we really wait to try to get a 
printed project so that we can 

1069
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:14,080
review like how it was printed 
and all that kind of stuff and 

1070
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,240
actually review the entire 
thing, not just the the words in

1071
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:20,680
the page. 
So for zines, we have 3 metrics,

1072
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,160
for regular books we have 5. 
We're doing it. 

1073
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,960
This is the Zine, obviously. 
So for this we decided on 

1074
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:28,440
visuals, rule set and vibes. 
As three scores, they get a 

1075
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,120
total metric of 10. 
Visuals are the visuals of the 

1076
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,600
entire project beginning to end 
in regular book review. 

1077
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,560
It's split more on like layout, 
art and stuff like that. 

1078
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:43,880
This is the visuals entirely, 
Layout, art, style, quality, 

1079
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,600
quantity, all of that stuff. 
Rule set obviously is the rule 

1080
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:51,440
set and if it's an adapted rule 
set, how well is it adapted? 

1081
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,560
If it's a new rule set do we 
like it? 

1082
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,680
Is it good? 
And vibes are kind of like a 

1083
00:57:55,680 --> 00:58:02,200
catch all originality arts. 
It really comes down to and how 

1084
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:06,720
I I really view it in my head is
how bad do you want to play this

1085
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,440
game. 
Once you close that cover, you 

1086
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,640
know that's the vibes. 
And does the art build into the 

1087
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,560
vibes? 
Does the rules build into the 

1088
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,320
vibes? 
Is there any part that just like

1089
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,720
kills the vibes for you where 
you just go, Man, That part 

1090
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,440
right there really makes me not 
want to play this game. 

1091
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,040
That's where we go for this. 
So visually, I mean, my 

1092
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:24,120
goodness. 
What are your thoughts? 

1093
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:28,800
Oh, I mean, this has to be, this
is going to have to be one of 

1094
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,080
our highest ranked zines. 
Visual. 

1095
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:32,920
Yeah. 
Well, it has to be, yeah. 

1096
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:37,080
I mean it like, I don't know if 
we're ever going to do better in

1097
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,560
the Zine than this, you know, I 
think, well, I mean, that's OK. 

1098
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,040
It's it's really, really good. 
This is a what? 

1099
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaking of zines. 
What? 

1100
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:47,360
Actually, you know what? 
I'm. 

1101
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:48,720
I'm gonna look. 
What are you thinking? 

1102
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:52,160
Oh gosh. 
I mean, here's the thing. 

1103
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:56,200
The art shit, shit, ton of art 
the entire way through. 

1104
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,120
I mean, just a ton. 
The layout is fantastic. 

1105
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,520
The font choice is good. 
It's clean, it's super readable.

1106
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,640
I love that they didn't go with 
like 2 columns. 

1107
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:14,560
Very rarely do you get a page 
like this where there's like 

1108
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:18,160
text on both sides. 
More often than not it's broken 

1109
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:25,360
up with a one whole page as art 
and even when it is across 2 

1110
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:27,000
pages, there's still a piece of 
art on it. 

1111
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:28,800
So visually it's really 
appealing. 

1112
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:30,280
It really keeps your eye moving 
forward. 

1113
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:31,880
The art itself is really 
fantastic. 

1114
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:36,880
There's a ton of it. 
I mean, but as far as Azine 

1115
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,600
goes, this is what you want in 
Azine, this is, this is what you

1116
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,440
want in Azine. 
It's super clean. 

1117
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,760
It's, it's and I just can't get 
the art style is so. 

1118
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:47,280
Perfect. 
Give me a number. 

1119
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:48,440
Throw. 
Throw a number for me. 

1120
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,960
It's it's perfect. 
Do you hear me say that? 

1121
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,440
Did you did you hear, did you 
did you get that? 

1122
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,320
Yeah. 
I got. 

1123
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:56,960
It's a pod. 
It's a PUR. 

1124
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:58,360
Yeah, I got it. 
Absolutely. 

1125
00:59:58,360 --> 00:59:58,920
I heard you. 
Yeah. 

1126
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,160
All right. 
So, gosh, it's a, it's a, it's 

1127
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,560
a, it's a. 
It's probably at least a nine 

1128
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:04,320
for me. 
Like at least. 

1129
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:08,360
It's at least a nine for me. 
It's also like Speaking of 

1130
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,400
visuals, it's incredibly 
readable. 

1131
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:16,560
Like at no point in time do they
allow the art to make it less 

1132
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,400
readable, which is a complaint 
I've had about other scenes, but

1133
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:20,720
a lot of art that were really 
good. 

1134
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:26,240
But very readable. 
None of the text feels cramped. 

1135
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,360
Does it? 
Doesn't feel like there's walls 

1136
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:29,520
of text. 
I mean, there's definitely like 

1137
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:32,560
some writing in this, but like, 
no, it's broken up really well. 

1138
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:37,400
At no point in time does it feel
like a chore to read it so. 

1139
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:40,040
So so that's the thing that's 
what's ever than this and the 

1140
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:41,840
Nazine's first say something 
something else. 

1141
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:46,480
I got a nine is like I'm pretty 
sure that below dwelling sewer 

1142
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,680
mutants right. 
I don't know if that would get a

1143
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:50,040
nine. 
I know for vibes is really high.

1144
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,840
But the thing one of the things 
about readability is they never 

1145
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:58,520
put like the the text is always 
black on a white background so 

1146
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:03,160
it's never over stuff. 
And for like an art scene, like 

1147
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,640
I also love the shit out of that
if the text becomes part of the 

1148
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,320
art and like all this stuff, I 
love that too, right? 

1149
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,520
But that. 
Isn't better or worse than just 

1150
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,720
having the incredibly readable 
text next to a shit load of art?

1151
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,040
And clearly they weren't worried
about page count when they put 

1152
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:25,360
like 30 pages that like like 3/4
of this book is like just art. 

1153
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,280
The whole page is art without 
any words on it. 

1154
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:32,640
So 9. 
Yeah, yeah, easy 9, easy 9. 

1155
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:37,280
I mean to go to a 10, I don't 
know, need a little something 

1156
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:40,960
extra, but. 
But nine easy, I think. 

1157
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:47,600
So rule set, There's like one 
rule, but I love it. 

1158
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,560
There really is. 
There's one rule you know. 

1159
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:54,960
Yeah, I mean you have 
attributes, you know, you pick a

1160
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,960
God, the God gives you 4 dice to
use as a standard array. 

1161
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,840
Every time you roll, you roll at
least two of those dice, because

1162
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:06,600
you have to roll 2 attributes 
together and the whole game is 

1163
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,640
about glorious death. 
And killing to get to Valhalla. 

1164
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,120
And the only real rule in the 
game is every time you roll 

1165
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,920
dice, something has to die. 
I You can't get much lighter and

1166
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,400
better than that to be no I I 
mean it has everything I need 

1167
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:26,360
and it like it's weirdly perfect
like there's there are blessings

1168
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:32,920
that increase like to die size 
and it's incredibly simple. 

1169
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,160
I'm just not sure how to rate 
something like this because I 

1170
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:40,440
don't want anything more like I 
don't I this is great where it's

1171
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:42,680
at. 
So here's the thing, like 

1172
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:46,720
objectively on its own, standing
on its own. 

1173
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:51,600
It's great in the context of 
zines that have done a lot more 

1174
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,640
and I think, although I think 
it's perfect in its simplicity. 

1175
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,880
I do think games can all are 
all. 

1176
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:02,160
We've also seen games that are 
near perfect with more, more 

1177
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:06,600
with more so like you know it's 
one of those things like how 

1178
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,880
yeah, how do you rate something 
that has what amounts to one 

1179
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,920
rule versus something that has 
like a whole rule set in a scene

1180
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,480
that has much more in it. 
But, like, I guess it really is 

1181
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,760
how perfect for what that is, 
yeah. 

1182
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,080
It's perfect for. 
It's perfect for what this game 

1183
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:23,000
is. 
That's the same. 

1184
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,680
I was thinking I'm, I was, I'm 
between like an 8 and a nine 

1185
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,240
just for that simple thing. 
It's just like we've read I've 

1186
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:36,240
we've read some Zine games that 
are like fucking good, you know 

1187
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,280
what I mean? 
That have a lot more to it. 

1188
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,960
So I think that to me is what 
what would drop it down. 

1189
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,560
I mean, it's perfect for what it
is in and of itself. 

1190
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,560
For me it's a nine. 
I'll let you make the call 

1191
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:50,520
though. 
So there's just nothing else I 

1192
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:51,880
want in this. 
Like I don't want to add, I 

1193
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,680
don't want to. 
We go through stuff all the 

1194
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:55,000
time. 
I'm like I would add this or I 

1195
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,000
wouldn't do that. 
I wouldn't add anything to this.

1196
01:03:57,080 --> 01:04:01,000
We'd be like other than like 
maybe adding blessings as we go 

1197
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,360
to their relevant to the table 
that I'm running and the 

1198
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,960
narrative going on there. 
But that's part of the game. 

1199
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,280
Like there's nothing I'd add to 
this. 

1200
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:15,000
So my argument. 
Here's my argument. 

1201
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,800
Blood being Badlands. 
Got a nine. 

1202
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:22,160
OK. 
It's also perfect for what it is

1203
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,800
and has much more. 
You know what I mean that's my, 

1204
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,560
that's my thing is I think it's 
perfect in a bubble. 

1205
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,640
I think this is a super high 
score contextually with 

1206
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:32,760
everything else, which is 
generally our review scores. 

1207
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:36,080
I just, you know what I mean? 
That's that's that's where I'm 

1208
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:40,960
at. 
No, He makes the call. 

1209
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,960
I'm still a nine for this one. 
I won't die if it's AI, if it's 

1210
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:48,200
an 8, but I just like, yeah, 
Bloodbeam Badlands has more 

1211
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:50,240
rules. 
A lot of games have more rules 

1212
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,400
and less rules than other games 
we look at. 

1213
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:56,320
But I'm just saying, like, this 
rule is great. 

1214
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:00,000
I mean, there's really, there's 
smaller things that go into this

1215
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:05,000
one rule. 
But like I, you know, I enjoy 

1216
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,040
this thoroughly on its own and 
compared to other things, I 

1217
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:09,840
would just have other 
experiences, you know? 

1218
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:15,760
So this is still a nine for me. 
Don't let chat bully you, you 

1219
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,720
know, Don't let chat be beat. 
I can let Chat bully me. 

1220
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,920
I'm actually not, you know. 
I'm just what I'm saying is 

1221
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,200
like, I I think Blood me 
Badlands for the exact same 

1222
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:25,840
reason is perfect for all that. 
It is. 

1223
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:26,960
Yeah. 
But I don't wanna play that and 

1224
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,280
be like, oh, I would do that or 
I wouldn't do that or take like 

1225
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,200
there was something in there 
that I was like I would house 

1226
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:32,560
rule that. 
And there's nothing in this side

1227
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,160
of house rule. 
I play this thing all the way 

1228
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,600
out, you know? 
All right, I'm gonna let Chat 

1229
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,000
bully me, but I'm gonna let you 
bully me. 

1230
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:47,760
Yeah, vibes. 
I mean, I think we're on the 

1231
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,080
same page on this. 
I don't even think we need to. 

1232
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,160
I don't. 
I don't think we really need to.

1233
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,320
I mean, what do you think our 
highest rated scene, you know? 

1234
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,560
What do you think? 
Oh, it's an. 

1235
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,160
I'm I'm saying it's a 10. 
You know, it's a 10. 

1236
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,440
It's a 10. 
It's a 10, yeah, it's a 10 easy.

1237
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,840
It's 10 easy. 
I mean we didn't get to go 

1238
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:06,640
finish going through this 
before. 

1239
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,280
I'm just like fucking on place 
so bad. 

1240
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:13,800
Like it's such a like, it's 
funny and I love, I love really 

1241
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:17,040
engineered rule sets with like a
lot of like choice design and 

1242
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:20,160
like a lot of like mechanics 
that go into it to make this 

1243
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:21,960
like really full, well-rounded 
experience. 

1244
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:24,920
But God damn do I love a game 
that's just like, no, anytime 

1245
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:26,600
you roll dice, something has to 
die. 

1246
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,120
Fuck everything else, nothing 
else matters. 

1247
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,440
Your cats like this is that's 
it. 

1248
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:32,000
This is all of it. 
And you're just like oh, that's 

1249
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,920
brilliant. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1250
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:39,960
No, I I I agree. 
I agree the. 

1251
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:45,800
This is exactly this is a this 
is a damn near perfect game 

1252
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,760
Zine. 
Yeah, you know what I mean? 

1253
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:53,360
Like, it's it's like you said, 
it's got the literal, exact 

1254
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:57,400
amount of rules you need. 
It's got more than enough of all

1255
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,760
of the everything else you need,
like 20 plus blessings, 20 plus 

1256
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:02,560
NPCS, all the treasures you 
need. 

1257
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:06,400
It's got an intro adventure. 
That's also gorgeous. 

1258
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:10,080
That is written in a way for 
both death and for players to 

1259
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:11,760
understand really, really 
easily. 

1260
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:17,600
The art's fantastic, the quality
is fantastic, and you know what?

1261
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:22,840
Like even even just this bit 
here, this little bit here. 

1262
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,120
Like I we would need to find 
some way to give a bonus point 

1263
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:29,560
for this for yeah, I really do 
like that fix. 

1264
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:32,760
It is like, it's so charming, 
you know. 

1265
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:41,920
Yeah. 
I'll say this, there are 

1266
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:49,160
Kickstarters that I've backed. 
OK, let me start that over. 

1267
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:55,560
If you have a Kickstarter that 
funds and then you hop on any 

1268
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:57,400
social media and just start 
talking shit about your 

1269
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:01,880
Kickstarter backers, you're a 
piece of shit and the opposite 

1270
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:05,120
of that. 
Is a mistake being found in your

1271
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:11,000
book and at their own expense. 
The Kickstarter creators finding

1272
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,640
a solution, getting it out to 
you, getting into your hands, 

1273
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:21,120
you know, with an apology and a 
thank you, you know and that is 

1274
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:24,240
fantastic to see. 
So gym, room, games, a lot of 

1275
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:27,120
respect, a lot of love. 
They make great stuff and seem 

1276
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:31,560
like fantastic people and and 
yeah. 

1277
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:36,439
That is that is 9 lives to 
Valhalla. 

1278
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:39,960
It is damn near perfect. 
Didn't it? 

1279
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:43,800
It is really, really good. 
It's really very good for. 

1280
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:45,760
For what? 
It is, yeah. 

1281
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:49,279
And I love very, very 
lightweight games and scenes 

1282
01:08:49,279 --> 01:08:51,479
like I really do. 
It's like very much what I'm 

1283
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:53,600
into. 
And this is like, oh, it's like,

1284
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:57,399
it's so funny, like working on 
games, reading of the games and 

1285
01:08:57,399 --> 01:09:00,120
like myself, like writing a 
thing and thinking so hard about

1286
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:01,240
it. 
And then someone comes out with 

1287
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,000
a game. 
It's like, there's one rule and 

1288
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:04,760
that's it, And you're just like,
fuck, it's so good. 

1289
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:08,720
And that's the thing too. 
I'm sitting here feeling so dumb

1290
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:10,760
I can't get the game to work. 
And it's like, yeah, there's one

1291
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:12,080
rule. 
It's like, fuck you, this is. 

1292
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:14,720
One rule, yeah. 
And that's the thing. 

1293
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,720
That's the thing, like you said,
like for in, in and of itself. 

1294
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:22,560
Like, it's perfect. 
It's the perfect rule for this 

1295
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:25,240
game. 
Like you could make this game 

1296
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:29,800
150 pages. 
You could make a game of liking 

1297
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:35,200
metal, you know death metal 
cats, 150 pages, but they didn't

1298
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,160
like. 
Honestly, if you just put the 

1299
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:40,800
rules down with no art, this 
game is like 5-6 pages long, 

1300
01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:45,880
right? 
Yeah, but yeah, it's damn near 

1301
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:47,680
it's damn near. 
Perfect. 

1302
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:52,240
There's not much more you could 
ask for for beyond here. 

1303
01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:55,400
You know we would have to see 
something and it would blow our 

1304
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:59,040
mind and that's what would give 
it a 10/28 though that's like 

1305
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:00,680
that's. 
I forgot that that's the thing 

1306
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:01,840
that we do. 
Yeah, you have to, you have to 

1307
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:04,960
add them all together. 
But 28? 

1308
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:08,440
I mean that's we're never going 
to buy a scene score, right? 

1309
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:09,800
Easily. 
Unquestionably. 

1310
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:11,920
Like it's not even. 
I don't even need to look it up.

1311
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:14,760
I think the the next closest 
thing that we have was below 

1312
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:19,000
dwellings or mutants. 
Because visually Fantastic fives

1313
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:22,040
through the roof again, a 
really, really light rule set. 

1314
01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,480
Not a game for everybody because
it is. 

1315
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,120
They just kind of like you're in
the sewer and there's like gross

1316
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,440
shit in it. 
Yeah, for us though, like, I'll 

1317
01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:34,720
take it all fucking day. 
But gosh, I don't even remember 

1318
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,720
what, what, what did that? 
Got a 26? 

1319
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:40,000
So this is unquestionably the 
highest rated scene that we've 

1320
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:41,960
ever looked at. 
And honestly, so fucking 

1321
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:43,560
deserved. 
So smart, so clever. 

1322
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:44,480
So well done. 
Art. 

1323
01:10:44,480 --> 01:10:47,200
Fantastic Gym room games. 
Fucking killed it. 

1324
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:52,000
You guys are great. 
That's it. 

1325
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:53,560
That's our episode. 
I mean, it's like the shortest 

1326
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,480
episode we've ever done. 
Yeah, it is. 

1327
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,000
And I would like to say that 
tentatively right now on our 

1328
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:01,320
schedule, if you were interested
in more gym room games, because 

1329
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,680
I'm still very excited to talk 
about another one we're going to

1330
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:08,440
talk about on, I think it's on 
December 3rd, we're going to 

1331
01:11:08,440 --> 01:11:11,200
talk about high magical lives, 
yes, yes. 

1332
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:16,520
But next Sunday, we're talking 
about Apocalypse World. 

1333
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:19,440
Oh shit, I forgot. 
We're doing, which is going to 

1334
01:11:19,440 --> 01:11:21,040
be a much different episode from
this. 

1335
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:23,840
Oh boy. 
And I have a feeling that I'm 

1336
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:28,640
going to enjoy that episode just
a little less than this, but 

1337
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,040
it'll be really interesting to 
go through Apocalypse World. 

1338
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,760
Yeah, it's going to be. 
It is definitely going to be 

1339
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,840
quite interesting. 
We'll see how that goes. 

1340
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,400
Here's the thing, I'm not saying
it we're done. 

1341
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:45,120
Definitely go check out gym room
games. 

1342
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:47,200
You can find all their stuff in 
the lighter notes. 

1343
01:11:47,480 --> 01:11:51,280
If you're listening on podcast 
or if you are on YouTube, you 

1344
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,000
will find links to both our each
page and to their website. 

1345
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:55,400
Definitely go check out all of 
this stuff. 

1346
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:56,880
Just search gym room games on 
anything. 

1347
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,600
Again, fantastic stuff. 
Seem like great people. 

1348
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:02,640
That is it again. 
Thank you everyone for being 

1349
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:04,760
here in chat. 
Aaron Motherfucking King, 

1350
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,920
Christian Sorrell, Keegan, the 
gym room people, Vince Van 

1351
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:11,120
Davis. 
Appreciate all you guys. 

1352
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:14,640
You can find all of our socials 
at our link tree at the weekly 

1353
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,560
scroll. 
We got some fun, interesting 

1354
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,480
stuff coming up for you until 
the end of the year and we will 

1355
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:24,920
be doing another year in review.
So check that out and I will see

1356
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:28,320
you later and bye everybody bye.