1 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:17,580 Hello and welcome to The Weekly Show Podcast. 2 00:00:17,580 --> 00:00:24,540 My name is Ryan. And I'm Elvira, you were ready 3 00:00:24,540 --> 00:00:26,820 for a different one. I was ready for a different one. 4 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:27,260 Yeah. And. 5 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:30,140 And today, we're looking at Weird Heroes of Public Access 6 00:00:30,140 --> 00:00:33,280 from Joy Royale, a tabletop role-playing game that lets you 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,680 and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV 8 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,120 personalities battling monsters, angry moms and juvenile 9 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,600 delinquents to save your beloved town of Fair Haven. 10 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,320 Yes. Yeah. 11 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:50,360 First time we got to hear that today. 12 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,880 So. But before that, before that, 13 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:54,560 what do you? What? 14 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,200 How's it going, buddy? Oh, it's going fine. 15 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,000 I'm I'm we're packing up. As you can see, I no longer have 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,560 bookshelves behind me. We're packing up to move and 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,720 we're waiting for the apartment complex to come inspect our 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,880 place because they have to do that before they let us transfer 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,760 to a smaller unit because we're getting a smaller unit and 20 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,800 school starts next week. So I'm feeling not overwhelmed 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,160 at all. Well, good. 22 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:21,080 I mean, it's great that everything is going swimming. 23 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,440 Lately super fine. How are you? 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,680 Problem just, you know, peachy fucking keen, right? 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,640 I, we talked about this little bit before stream started with 26 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,280 the city decided to inspect my apartment. 27 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,840 I guess there's some legislation they passed that let's let's him 28 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:37,800 inspect like 10% of all apartments in the city to make 29 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,360 sure there's no like slumlord situations or whatever. 30 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,760 Which like I'm torn on the legality of the city just being 31 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,680 able to come into my apartment. But they literally just walked 32 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,120 in. I thought they were going to do 33 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,840 like a thorough top to bottom thing. 34 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,880 So I've talked a lot about the stacks and stacks and stacks and 35 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,200 stacks of books that were, like, sitting in my living room, yet 36 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:59,440 to be put on the shelves behind me. 37 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,000 So I took the time and actually did that because that's the only 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,320 time things actually get done. And then they literally just, 39 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,240 like, knocked on my door. And they just asked me 40 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:08,759 questions, like, does your hot water work? 41 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:10,720 I was like, yeah. And then it was just shit like 42 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:12,560 that. Like, do your lights work? 43 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,400 I was like, yes, they do. And they're like, cool, All 44 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,200 right, thanks. Bye. 45 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,680 And I was like, that. That's bad. 46 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,000 The only reason they needed to come in was to look at the hot 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,040 water heater. Literally glanced at it. 48 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,520 I guess just make sure I had one and to open the fuse box. 49 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,480 What's interesting about that is that means that they are having 50 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,160 a problem with slumlords where you live, you know? 51 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,120 Yeah. In the in the city that shall 52 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,720 not be named that I live, I'm not shocked, No, really. 53 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:46,280 You're not. Are you being sarcastic or not? 54 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:47,920 I really don't. I don't know anything about 55 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:51,400 where you live, so. Oh, here, let me message you the 56 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:57,120 nickname of my city. Oh. 57 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,040 That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. 58 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,320 So I'm not, I'm no, I'm not surprised. 59 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,840 I don't necessarily think there's like slumlords, but I 60 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,440 wouldn't be surprised if there's just a lot of people that 61 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:18,760 probably live grossly. Yeah, you know, so, but you know 62 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,920 what what that means. I guess it's good that the city 63 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:22,640 will go and come in and I guess fix that. 64 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,800 Hopefully anyone that needs help will get the help that they 65 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,680 need. I live in a pretty red area 66 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,160 though, so I wouldn't be surprised if they literally just 67 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,440 right. Gavin Newsom then just took 68 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,840 other shit and, and, and kicked him out of, of where they're 69 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,440 living, you know, But you know, it is, it is what it is. 70 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,800 They just did a little. So regardless, my apartment's 71 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,440 cleaner than it's ever been, more organized than it's ever 72 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,520 been. I got rid of 4 bags of clothes 73 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,640 from my closet and actually put all of my books from the living 74 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,320 room on the shelves. It's probably like 15 piles of 75 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,680 books. So, so that's what I did. 76 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,440 I actually got organized which is cool. 77 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,880 That sounds awesome. But I mean, moving is going to 78 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,960 give you guys an opportunity to kind of like get rid of the 79 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,560 things you know you don't need and and consolidate and 80 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:11,240 reorganize, right? Yeah, we are having very similar 81 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,120 things going on in our lives right now, you know, so. 82 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,880 I. Go ahead. 83 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,000 I would I the only reason I'm still in this apartment is 84 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,360 literally I just don't want to move. 85 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,480 I feel like I just got here. It's been like 3 years. 86 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,720 Yeah. I also don't want to move, but 87 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,120 we have that third bedroom and we don't want to keep, we don't 88 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,840 want to pay for it. So yeah. 89 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,280 Yeah, but it's going to downsize. 90 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,080 You know, It's not like rent's going to get lower anytime soon. 91 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,720 That's true. It's not. 92 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:41,440 In fact, it's only going to get higher. 93 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,800 Yeah, because that's that, that is the the the hellscape in 94 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,680 which we currently live, which is pretty cool dope, you know, 95 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,760 so sweet. But yeah, so that's, that's 96 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,640 what's going on in our lives. Also, we haven't had a lot of 97 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,000 episodes but we are we are towards the end of the what 98 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,000 they're calling the Summer Bah show in September. 99 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,640 It is getting spicy here at the end. 100 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,880 My Bo Urah is only one win away from double digits, which is 101 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,640 great Rock and my Urah magic shirt. 102 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,320 Shout out Tokyo and the Discord for sending me the link to this 103 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,000 one. This shirt is actually hand 104 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,280 carved and by somebody and then like hand printed. 105 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,840 Oh, really? Like support your small 106 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:26,680 businesses. Yeah, I love this one and but 107 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,520 but host just lost two in a row not on Asatos at the top. 108 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,600 So it's it's going to get spicy here at the end. 109 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,400 If if they went out and then Hosh and Ono Sato Ono Sato 110 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,360 battle on the last day and Hosh wins, it would put them into a 111 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,840 tiebreaker and then they'd immediately have to battle again 112 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,720 for a tie. So at this point, that's what 113 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,640 I'm hoping for is back-to-back Yokozuna matches on Day 15 to 114 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,880 decide which Yokozuna wins the boss show sumo. 115 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,120 Sumo. I, I'm definitely going to go to 116 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,600 Japan at some point in the next year or two to, to catch one of 117 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,080 the Boshes. But anyway, we didn't get time 118 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,360 on that. That was even lower that that's 119 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,400 not even 10 minutes that we started with because we did it 120 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,960 twice. Oh, another thing, I've been 121 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,320 playing the new video game. Oh shit, what have you been 122 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,320 playing? It's called Hell is US. 123 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,280 It is a. Real life simulator. 124 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,080 Oh, yeah, actually, you are. A, you're returning to a 125 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:27,840 war-torn country during a genocide and a calamity of like 126 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,520 monsters has appeared in your. It's like an investigatory game. 127 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,160 There's no map markers, there's no but quest points or anything. 128 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,080 You just have a journal that updates pretty well, but you 129 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,280 still pretty much have to take physical notes as well. 130 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,880 And you're like gathering information and like solving 131 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,560 puzzles and figuring out what's going on. 132 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,520 It's been very satisfying to play so. 133 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,320 Looks kind of dope. It looks pretty dope. 134 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,040 I Well then the last thing that I did recently is I got an 135 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:58,000 airbrush, so I'm going to Start learning how to airbrush my 136 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,760 minis. Make those like big airbrush 137 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,080 T-shirts of like Bugs Bunny and shit, yeah. 138 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:11,320 Yeah, yeah, like RIP, you know, no, a lot of the grime effects I 139 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:16,080 want to do are going to go on a little like better with with an 140 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,840 airbrush than just like glopping them on. 141 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,400 So I said fuck it. And I found like a decent one 142 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,440 with just like a handheld compressor that puts out enough 143 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:23,920 PSI to kind of just do what I want to do. 144 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,920 And I get too fancy. So I know Andy airbrushes. 145 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,520 We're going to hobby night tonight and just chat about that 146 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,880 a little bit and I'll start bat painting like that. 147 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,120 Eighty dudes I need to do for my My Night Lords horse hairs, the 148 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,280 Army. Oh yeah. 149 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,320 But excited for that. My list got done. 150 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,520 My list is done. Just got to start actually put 151 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,560 them together. So so that's it, that's us. 152 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,560 Let's get into let's get into the actual game. 153 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:53,320 At this point, I'll pop over to the cover. 154 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,360 I'll throw the cover up real quick while I go over the zoom 155 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,640 to page level. Look at that cover. 156 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,880 It's a great cover. It's. 157 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,800 A great cover. So the original Zine actually 158 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,400 looks like this. It was just a pink Zine that 159 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,320 kind of just looks like the like a like the ad for a local news 160 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,360 station, which obviously is 13 WHPA Fairhaven get haunted 161 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,960 industries. But the the cover art for this 162 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:28,360 one love the interior spreads here, but it is Hayden Hall to 163 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,080 the cover art. Brian Shutter did the layout for 164 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,200 it. Yeah, it's dope. 165 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,159 It's a it's a bunch of different TV personalities. 166 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,679 You got a guy working out, you got a vampire guy, you got a 167 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,960 preacher guy. Then you got a guy with a like a 168 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,200 dummy with a. Ventriloquist on me. 169 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,440 Yeah. Your classic, your classic 170 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,440 public access kind of cliches, you know, you get the the 171 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,840 vampire guy doing the old monster movies, you know? 172 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,360 Yeah. And he's like Poltergeist. 173 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,200 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you got that Poltergeist TV 174 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,080 at the bottom bleeding, but it's very muted colors. 175 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,880 It's got that like weird kind of like 80s rainbow of colors like 176 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,600 on there and it's all that like muted brown. 177 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,040 It's pretty dope. I like it it it sets a vibe 178 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,000 immediately. So what is what is weird Heroes 179 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,560 here? Here's the info for Weird Heroes 180 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,200 of Public access. Weird Heroes of Public Access 181 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,400 originally came out as part of So These Are I. 182 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,400 I've now named the era the Post COVID Indie Boom. 183 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:34,840 It came out as part of the post COVID Indie Game Boom in 2021 as 184 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,520 a 20 page Zine, which is a pink one I held up already. 185 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,920 It was followed up by a number of supplements including the 24 186 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,600 page Station Manager's Guide in 2023. 187 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,560 A new edition, Crown flooded on backer kit in October of 2024 188 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:56,680 and funded November 1st, 2024 with 587 backers for $30,396 on 189 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:02,640 a $4000 goal. This new 110 page hardback 190 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,000 edition, the one I'm holding up right now, we looked at already 191 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,560 and what's on the screen combined the Weird Heroes of 192 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:12,040 Public Access game rules, Station Manager's Guide, and 193 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,640 selections from the supplements Tales from Fair Haven Volume 1 194 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,000 and 2, as well as a bunch of new content. 195 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,040 You can find Weird Heroes of Public Access at Exalted 196 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,320 Funeral, Goodman Games, and digitally on Drive Through RPG. 197 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,440 That is the info for the game. Oh yeah, yeah. 198 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:35,440 Oh yeah. What what we got time. 199 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,800 This is going to be a quick one. What's your what's your one 200 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,360 sentence? I know I do that and then we say 201 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:40,920 like 5. But what what's your what's your 202 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,760 quick hot take before we get going this? 203 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,600 Is a weird, good little game, you know? 204 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,440 I like how odd it is. The book itself is like, also 205 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,520 just kind of a fever dream to go through, you know? 206 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,760 But yeah, I like it. It's good, yeah. 207 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:54,080 Dope. I like it too. 208 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,760 We'll get into more of that in our likes and dislikes. 209 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:03,320 So let me zoom back down to page level of fit with fit with you, 210 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,640 motherfucker. There it goes. 211 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,560 Yeah. So, so like I said, the book, 212 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:13,080 we'll get into layout a little bit more. 213 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,720 The book really is just a A a bunch of these scenes. 214 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,320 Oh, let me show up the collection I've got. 215 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,800 I like this game a lot. I'll also just straight up say 216 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,200 I'm a big fan and anyone that knows me knows that what I'm 217 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,200 afraid of something. I kind of have to have all of 218 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:28,560 it, right I? Have everything. 219 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,480 So I'm close. There's a couple things I don't 220 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,360 have. I'm missing Tales from Fair 221 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,840 Haven Volume 1 and the Station Manager's Guide, and probably a 222 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,480 couple other little things. But other than that, I did 223 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,400 decide to try to go. I mean, I didn't have to try. 224 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,680 I went a little nutty and got all of these. 225 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,440 Wow. Really. 226 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,120 Impressed it out even more. Yeah. 227 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,480 And then I got the GM screen as well. 228 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:06,840 And then I also have a patch a die set that has like the the 13 229 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,200 logo on. Nice. 230 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,560 A drink koozie, Fat stack of stickers. 231 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,320 Joey Royale. Like sexy photo hell. 232 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,000 Yeah. Yeah, and then a pamphlet for 233 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,440 Battle of the Bog Beasts. But yeah. 234 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:37,600 So this is 1234567891011, 11 zines plus everything else I 235 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,120 just said. So I like it, and each one is 236 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,840 weirder than the last, and I'm a big fan. 237 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,080 We'll get into why a little bit later. 238 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,680 I have shockingly opinions. Oh yeah, about. 239 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:53,000 Why? This is good, and so many things 240 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,760 are bad, but getting back into game review, let's get into what 241 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:00,160 the fuck? This is the rules breakdown. 242 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,840 I've gone a little long in this part recently with some of the 243 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,440 games, so we're going to try to tighten this one up, which won't 244 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,600 be hard because this game is very brief. 245 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:08,760 Yeah. It is very brief. 246 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,360 There's a lot of stuff in the back half of this game I think 247 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,520 is like really interesting, but like the the actual rules 248 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,080 portion of the game is really only like like 9 pages or 249 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,480 something, Yeah. Well, again, the original game 250 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:27,280 was just a 21 page scene and and some of that was is like the 251 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,640 stuff in the beginning, the stuff on the end. 252 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,760 So at the end of the day, like the original Zine only had like 253 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:36,320 fucking like 15 pages 13. Inch pages, sorry. 254 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,960 Yeah. Well, and really, again, all 255 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,600 they did for this book was take the original stuff and put it in 256 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,640 there, which when we get into layout and stuff, we'll talk 257 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,440 about that a little bit more. But but what is this game? 258 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:49,560 Guess what is the dice pool game? 259 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:52,400 2025 for us is the year of the fucking dice pool. 260 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,280 Because I think a lot. Of dice pool games. 261 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:56,360 I'm OK with that. I love the dice pool game. 262 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:56,840 Yeah. Yeah. 263 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,760 I talked about loving a dice pool game a couple of years ago 264 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,760 and then this year we've just. Yeah, we've been running through 265 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,400 just dice pools all around. Yeah. 266 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,600 Yeah, well, I mean, these 6 is the best dice, yeah. 267 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,040 It's the most. Overrated fucking dice in 268 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:11,200 history. It's fine. 269 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,600 It's fine. Exactly. 270 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,720 It's fine, but most ice pools are D sixes. 271 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,560 And you know, it's probably my second or third favorite, kind 272 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:26,080 of like core mechanism, you know, I like 2D6 levels of 273 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,480 success, but after that I'd like a good ice pool, man. 274 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,200 It it there's just a lot of something to do with it. 275 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,760 So basically, what is this game? It's a dice pool game where 276 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,160 public access hosts battle the occults in the paranormal to 277 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:40,360 save their little town of Fire haven. 278 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:44,240 Like I said in the beginning and every part of the game all the 279 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,200 way through really just feeds into that. 280 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,400 Even from the original, like this is not for everyone. 281 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,800 This is for you. Lights, camera, technical 282 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,520 difficulties, action. I love that. 283 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,200 That one really tickled me. But as you go through the entire 284 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,800 book, it's a mix of the rule stuff mixed in with 285 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,080 advertisements for the game or advertisements in world. 286 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,960 It's very it's very I love when books do this where it's like a 287 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,000 rule book, but it's filled with a bunch of diegetic stuff. 288 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:15,560 So like, it's not, I like that kind of mix where it's, you 289 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,000 know, if it's purely diegetic, it can be a little bit too much. 290 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,880 It's, excuse me, very difficult to maintain, but throwing in a 291 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,440 little bit of stuff like this, like Fridays at 10 AM, crystal 292 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,240 balls, crystal balls, crystal ball, the weekly reading. 293 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,920 And it's got like a guy in like a looted or mask crystal ball. 294 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,920 So crack me the fuck up. So and then there's a. 295 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:39,880 Station manager and everything. Yeah, it's so dumb. 296 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,160 I love it. It's so fucking dumb and I love 297 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,800 it so much. This game tickled me to no end. 298 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,800 There's a the station manager is is Rev Joey Royale. 299 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:52,720 It has a little note here in the beginning. 300 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,120 So I just about the gist of the game is dice pool game. 301 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,240 So how does it work? It is a dice pool game and I 302 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,720 love the broadcasting guidelines here in the beginning. 303 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,560 Literally just give you the entire thing. 304 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,680 The layout again, we'll get into the layout of the book a little 305 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,440 bit later, but so, so how does this work? 306 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,080 So when an action requires it, the host will ask for a skill 307 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,680 check and how the skill checks work. 308 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:21,240 You will pick a core skill of which you have 4 mind, mouth, 309 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,560 body and soul. You know what that mouth do? 310 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,480 Yeah. The the, the four pieces of a 311 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,400 person you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 312 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,680 Yeah. And then, oh, I literally wrote 313 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,040 there are three skill core skills and there's literally 4. 314 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,120 My notes are incorrect. Let me correct my notes. 315 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:49,800 But and then you will roll AD 6 at base plus additional D6 for 316 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,640 each point in the core skill. So if you have three points in 317 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,680 mind, right, you'll roll AD 6 plus the three sixes that you 318 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,720 get for having three points in mind, right? 319 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,440 A result of 5 or 6 is a success. And that's the core of the game. 320 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,480 And it's super easy and I like it. 321 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,280 It's, it's the IT is. So it is the most basic way. 322 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,520 You can pretty much do a dice pool game right? 323 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,520 If the host rolls all ones, their Hope score is reduced by 324 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:21,520 one. We'll talk about Hope a little 325 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,599 bit later. If they were all all sixes, you 326 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,000 get a supernatural point which can be used anytime, which 327 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,440 allows you to unlock a supernatural ability which is 328 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,840 minor and fleeting but really fucking cool that some random 329 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,120 public access host can just like, read your mind for a 330 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:39,280 second. Has telekinesis, you know? 331 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,200 Yeah, really. Really neat. 332 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,800 Well, the telekinesis whole thing that we can get into, but 333 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,560 one of the things I really like is the for the ref part here, it 334 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:53,520 says consider successes as what the host wants, and if a host 335 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,080 fails a role, consider what the story needs to maintain 336 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,280 engagement and excitement. I love that mindset for the game 337 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,680 where it's like failure isn't necessarily the players failing 338 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,880 what they want to do. It's more success let's them do 339 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,320 what what they wanted to do, which kind of guides the story 340 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,800 in a certain way. And failure lets the ref guide 341 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,480 the story in in a different way, which I think is really, really 342 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,520 interesting. Yeah. 343 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,600 It's a good mentality to hold on to, you know? 344 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,280 Yeah, I like that a lot. And you don't have to 345 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,880 necessarily try to come up with the way they fail as opposed to 346 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,120 try to come up with something cool that is different than what 347 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,520 they wanted, which I think is really fucking neat. 348 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,280 The next section is to become a whole section which Hunter will 349 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,400 go over to in a little bit, but I'm going to bounce forward a 350 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,560 little bit to talk about some of the game rules stuff on page 11, 351 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:47,120 which is leveling up. I literally wrote just look at 352 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:51,360 page 11 because any like breakdown of it was as long as 353 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,200 just looking at it. Leveling up I think is new to 354 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,320 this version. I do not believe it's in the 355 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,720 original one. The first like 11 of the first 356 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,120 like 13 pages are exactly the same, and I think this is a 357 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,400 different 1. So holy cow, you and your pals 358 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,800 say Fair Haven again. You learn stuff right? 359 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,680 So when you complete an adventure, you increase Max hope 360 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,880 by points, you increase Max hope points by 1 again, Hunter over 361 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,000 hope a little bit more. You add a point to anyone skill. 362 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,640 You put 20 bucks in your wallet, you increase the pizzazz of your 363 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,920 supernatural ability by just a smidge and you enjoy a nice 364 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,680 meeting with friends. That's it. 365 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,840 I love that. We'll go over the supernatural. 366 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:31,840 Are you are you going to cover supernatural abilities? 367 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,680 I have a. Short note on it, I I deep dive 368 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,040 it so but yeah, I have I mean. There's not a lot for it, but 369 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,920 we'll deep dive. But like I like the idea when 370 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,920 you do the supernaturability, it's not really super defined. 371 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,760 It doesn't say like you have an area that you can do this. 372 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,520 It's just kind of like you have like a minor ability. 373 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,040 I like that the level up is like make that minor ability just 374 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,080 like a little cooler and that's about as much direction as you 375 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:53,840 get. Smidge, you know, Yeah, just a. 376 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,880 Smidge just increase a pizzazz. Just a smidge. 377 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,360 And then the other part of the rules is just combat basically. 378 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:10,240 So when you do combat the the host and ref roll D sixes and 379 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,200 then you act in descending order, which I love. 380 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,360 I think it's a cool way to do it. 381 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,880 Attacks are just body checks and then on a success you roll 1D6 382 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,960 so you know. The host or the the the ref will 383 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,960 will roll for the bad guys, you'll roll for the good guys 384 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,480 and whoever wins. It's the same mechanic both 385 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,080 ways. On a 1 to 4, you subtract 1 hope 386 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,440 from the opponent. On a 5 to 6 you subtract 2 hope 387 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,800 from the opponent. Hope points are basically HP, 388 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,800 which is probably why they're called hope points. 389 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,760 And it's just HP, not hip protection. 390 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,280 And they start at six. And then there's a whole section 391 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,040 for PSI powers. I'm not going to deep dive it. 392 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,720 It is the IT is the Zine that I held up a little bit ago. 393 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:03,080 It's the one that's literally called Looking for the magic PSI 394 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,080 enhancement Exercises for Weird Heroes of Public Access TV 13 395 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,240 employees. It's a whole Zine, but they 396 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,520 stick the entire Zine basically in here. 397 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,200 And we were joking about this a little bit before. 398 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:18,960 Well this is also one of my favorite pages. 399 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,200 Do not trust the Fairhaven Police Department. 400 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,440 It basically says the only thing they protect and serve is the 401 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,160 charade of normalcy. The force is inherently corrupt 402 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,480 and easily manipulated by shadowy powers. 403 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,120 Damn right. Kids don't trust the police. 404 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,320 Yeah, this is a this is an A cab podcast for sure. 405 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,280 What was I bounced into PSI powers. 406 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,800 I even wrote page numbers on my notes so I could scroll to it 407 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,680 because there is no table of contents. 408 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,080 Just you'll hear about more about that later. 409 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,480 We'll do a little quick flip through the book at one point 410 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,560 just to show some of the weirdo stuff. 411 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,120 But yeah, looking for magic. They even just put like 412 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:02,160 literally the cover just in here. 413 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,800 But the way that the sigh powers work is there are 5 meditations, 414 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,400 which is basically like just five steps to get to the magic 415 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,200 to get to the sigh ability, right. 416 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,880 But the first, the first bunch before you get to the rules are 417 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,400 like real world things you have to do to unlock the powers, 418 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:28,040 which is so fun and so cool. So, you know, there's a whole 419 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:32,640 like stop, you know, warning, read this basically like, you 420 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,000 know, these manifestations can fuck shit up and you have to 421 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,600 sign and date it, which I love. But basically there are like the 422 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,360 the classic kind of deck of symbols for people trying to 423 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:45,120 figure out like if they can read people's minds, you know, 424 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,440 circles and WAVY lines and pluses. 425 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,680 And you literally have to for the first couple of meditations 426 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:55,760 basically like try to guess and and read the minds of these 427 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,040 cards you sit. In a dark room with the lights 428 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,640 off and try to guess the cards and you mark how many you get 429 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,080 correct. Yeah, it's a pretty fun, like 430 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,280 real world thing that you're doing for this game. 431 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,720 Yeah. And I, whether you're doing that 432 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,440 with other people or not, like I would be so invested into being 433 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,400 like, like this is how you can RV by yourself, right? 434 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,040 Yeah. So I would literally sit in a 435 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,800 dark room by myself in a corner and it's like, I got it like so. 436 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,640 And then what? Once you once you you know gas 437 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,440 enough, right? You get to pick the abilities 438 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,480 that you have. And then as you work your way 439 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,120 through the meditation to choose a focus item which is literally 440 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:33,920 like from your in your. Room you can hold in your hand, 441 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,720 yeah. You pick a phrase to recite to 442 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,520 channel your sigh energy, which I I believe it's literally like 443 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,280 pick up a book and like a book. Yeah, and read it and they're 444 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,720 like it. It's not random. 445 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,600 Nothing is random. Once you understand 446 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,320 synchronicity, you realize there is no randomness. 447 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,120 I'm just like, this is fucking great. 448 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,560 It's so good. And then and then at the end the 449 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,680 last couple meditations of the five are actually like kind of 450 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,040 the rules of the game. It gives you the rules to using 451 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,760 sub powers and the risks of static manifestations and 452 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,320 psychic catastrophe for actually using the abilities. 453 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,200 And they have like, you know, these these disaster photos from 454 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,080 like scary Mary Kloggins unfocused pyrokinesis rage blast 455 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,320 Level 3. And it's it's just this 456 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,760 disaster. It's so fucking funny. 457 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,320 But like I said, like meditation 1, you literally cut out the 458 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,120 cards and and and do a whole thing. 459 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:29,880 So it's great. We're not going to go over the 460 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,680 entire thing by the scene, by the book, but it's hysterical. 461 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,840 And again, I love the the mix of like diegesis and like meta in 462 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,920 this game is one of the things I love the most about it. 463 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,840 And, and they do. And the sigh one really, really 464 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,440 kind of encapsulates that a lot. I also love the sigh ZAP, which 465 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,120 is literally just like sticking your tongue on a fucking like 9 466 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,120 Volt battery. And that can like recharge your, 467 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,360 your burnt out hole points. If you, if you literally ZAP 468 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,880 your fucking tongue with the battery, you get to roll 3D6 469 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,800 and, and, and recharge your, your hole points. 470 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 It cracks me the fuck up. There's even a soundtrack for 471 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,200 meditation. This is like a Spotify thing. 472 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,080 I are you. Can you scan those like I tried 473 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,120 to like like barcodes get in with my phone or I don't? 474 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:16,920 Think you can? I don't think there's like AI 475 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,120 don't know it's something. At some point but but there's a 476 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,640 whole playlist here to listen to why you're doing your 477 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,080 meditations, which I think is really funny. 478 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,400 Oh, that's yeah. Hey, you know, maybe there is 479 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,600 actually. What page is that on again? 480 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,520 39 My phone's weird about scanning stuff. 481 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:44,560 Like I can never scan anyone's Venmo like UPC code or QR code 482 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,680 literally ever. My phone won't so I have to use 483 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,640 a a different app that will scan it. 484 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,320 Holy. Shit, yeah, that code totally 485 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,440 works. If you go to Spotify and go to 486 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,960 search, there's a camera button. I've never used it. 487 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,200 You can click that and it scans it, but yeah, it totally works. 488 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,320 Sick, that's how. They won't just. 489 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,200 Do it through your. Camera you'd got to do it 490 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,880 through Spotify sick. Yeah, so so so you can actually 491 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,680 get the Spotify link to the meditations playlist. 492 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,480 So yeah, that's cool. So that's basically how the game 493 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,760 works. Like I said, it's dice pool. 494 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:21,000 You roll dice equal to your core skills and then it's so it's 495 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,880 like the most simple dice pool game ever, but it's it's more 496 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,240 than enough than you need for this game. 497 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:32,480 And I think all the vibes are are way more the focus than than 498 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,760 that. So big fan. 499 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:36,640 So talk to us about character generation. 500 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,000 Yeah, so your character's called a host. 501 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,120 You're the host of a show on this public access network. 502 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,680 And there are 9 steps. 7 steps. Well, I don't know if they're 503 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,000 not numbered. I counted quickly and forgot. 504 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:54,240 So 123-456-7899 I knew what I was doing. 505 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,160 Yeah. So the first step of you 506 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,160 creating your host for your public access show is a 507 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,480 determine your niche programming focus. 508 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,360 Like what is your show about? After that you will distribute 2 509 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,560 skill points among the core skills being mind. 510 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,840 I put Mindy, but mind, mouth, soul and body. 511 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,920 The next is you'll distribute the skill points from your 512 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,760 programming focus, which we'll go after immediately after this. 513 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,360 It's just kind of an umbrella category of like what your 514 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,400 programming focus is and a couple bonuses it gives you. 515 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,720 After that, you're going to define connections slash pick a 516 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,640 special gadget. Ryan, I had a question for you. 517 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,920 That is, define connections or pick a special gadget, right? 518 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,160 No, no, no, no, I I did question this too and then figured it out 519 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,720 later. There there are some parts of 520 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,840 this that are so like kind of brief in the writing. 521 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,160 It is defined connections and there are only connections in 522 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,360 the variety and local talk hosts. 523 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,560 So they are the only one you get. 524 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,000 Connections and pick a special gadget is only for the special 525 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,240 interest host. It's just the kind of. 526 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,240 It's basically just like the class you pick that is only four 527 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,480 of those kind of like 3 hosts get that kind of that that 528 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,080 number in the in the selection, OK. 529 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,480 Cool. That makes a lot of sense. 530 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,760 Yeah. After that, you're going to pick 531 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,320 your day job because you just have a public access show. 532 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,520 You're not living off this thing. 533 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,800 So you got a mundane day job. That guy dressed as a vampire. 534 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,360 He runs a fucking coffee shop. He's still dressed as a vampire. 535 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:35,320 But you know, I fucking I, I really enjoy that by the way, 536 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:36,640 you know, it's so. Good. 537 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,520 I this is a super side thing. When I was first going to when I 538 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,080 was going back to school for the job that I currently have, I had 539 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,720 to take a math class and it was literally just math for the job 540 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,840 that I have. My teacher this day job was math 541 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,480 teacher and tennis pro. Oh, but what he was was an Elvis 542 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:03,760 impersonator, and he'd never really turned it off so he would 543 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,880 dress like G he was. Always in. 544 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,600 Well, he was. Just always kind of ill. 545 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,360 It's like, yeah, so I went like they will. 546 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,600 I'd met him and was like, no, fuck this. 547 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,200 And literally the next time I went to class was the final, 548 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,960 which was like 70% of your grade. 549 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,840 So I was like, I know I can just not do the rest of it. 550 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,280 And if I pass the final, like I'll just pass the class. 551 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,360 So I went to that class twice because I was like, I'm busy. 552 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,600 I'm working a full time job. I'm taking like four other 553 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,480 classes for this. I'm doing night school while 554 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,440 doing everything. I'm not gonna come to fucking a 555 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,680 math class with the fucking Elvis impersonator. 556 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,920 Like fuck this but this reminded me of that so much if I. 557 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,520 Had a math teacher as an Elvis and person here I'd be at every 558 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,400 fucking class he wasn't. A good one he wasn't. 559 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:48,480 It was that. Sucks. 560 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,240 I'd love to have, like, Elvis competently teach me calculus, 561 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,840 you know, Like, that sounds super enjoyable. 562 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,240 Yeah. Being bad at that sucks. 563 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,800 Yeah. Anyway, next step after picking 564 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,440 your day job is you got to roll your money. 565 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,160 You start with 1D6 times $10 potentially. 566 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,200 Not a lot of money no matter what really. 567 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,720 After that you're going to pick 3 inventory items, just three 568 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,240 things that you own that might be useful all together that 569 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,000 should cost under 100 bucks. You live on Earth, you 570 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,280 understand how Earth money works, change your local 571 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,680 currency if you're somewhere else, and then you keep one of 572 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,880 those things on you. So one of those, you start with 573 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,000 one of those things on you. The other ones are stored away 574 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,480 somewhere, probably not in your car because you work at a coffee 575 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,960 shop and run the public access. So I assume you would take the 576 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,880 bus, but they're somewhere. Actually, you're going to come 577 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,480 up with a supernatural ability. And finally, you'll record your 578 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,840 6 hope points. Everyone starts with six. 579 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,360 Next section we're going to get into is the programming lineup. 580 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:01,040 And this is the umbrella category for what your show is. 581 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,840 It gives you some skill points. It might give you a special 582 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,640 gadget, it might give you a connection. 583 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,760 They're they're a little asymmetrical, but they all at 584 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,520 least give you like a couple skill points. 585 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,680 And that's the thing that I loved most about them is they 586 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,640 are all really asymmetrical. Like there's it's not like you 587 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,600 get 2 things in a in a this like no, it's. 588 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:20,480 I really. Love them a lot. 589 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,640 Like we're cool. I have one example on page 7, 590 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,360 the monster movies, obviously that's the one that like I'm a 591 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,520 big fan of Mystery Science Theater. 592 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,960 So I love the idea of like having a show where you watch 593 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,240 like old, like schlock and like make fun of it or like enjoy it, 594 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,680 you know, for what it is. Yeah, So I'll read the monster 595 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,640 movie. This is the programming lineup. 596 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,880 This is what your show would be under a midnight moon. 597 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,400 You have resurrected long forgotten shock for the next 598 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,000 generation. Now you start with mind point of 599 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,080 1. So that's starting. 600 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,160 So when you assign your two other points, you can still 601 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,960 assign one more than mind on this one's got some interesting 602 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,480 abilities on this one. On this successful mind check 603 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:09,320 you received vivid flashes of arcane, occult and or scientific 604 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,120 knowledge. Hilarious. 605 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,520 And then the final ability is you may attempt 2D6 to perform a 606 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,840 basic slight of hand illusions and lock picking. 607 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,640 A 4-5 or six is a success. That's sick. 608 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,280 That's dope. I was like, that's a great one. 609 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,960 They're all really good. They're all different. 610 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,080 I do love like the the Fitness 1 doesn't give you anything except 611 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,440 you start with three points in body which is a lot. 612 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,240 That's a lot to start with. Like you could put your other 613 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,560 two points in body and have 5 body points you can. 614 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,800 Have 5 start. And just be literally like the 615 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,400 town strongman who's just like, bad. 616 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,760 At everything. Fucking else, yeah. 617 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,760 But yeah, I love that there there is absolutely no 618 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,000 commonality between any of them. Like every single one is a 619 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,760 little bit different, like you know, like the one that you just 620 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,680 said gives you a cool ability. The spirituality one gives you a 621 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,240 cool ability. But as you were talking about at 622 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,800 the other one, some of them just give you connection. 623 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,560 Some of them give you that like special gadget thing, which is 624 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,240 really cool. The special interest one yeah, 625 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,840 just gives you the access to the special gadget, which is dope 626 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,080 so. I love this, like, ad that she's 627 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,440 a child. That is obvious. 628 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,360 Like obviously a child. Vampire Lord Blood's Crypt of 629 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,040 Cool, Yeah. It's a funny there's another 630 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,720 crypt of a big Lord Blood's ad later on too. 631 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:34,840 Yeah, actually we have the WP ATV13 end of week lineup, which, 632 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,680 Oh my God, dude, it's a it's a funny schedule for the last 633 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,240 three days of the week. I'm. 634 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,720 Just saying, if I if this existed, this is all I would 635 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:45,480 watch. I've been watching. 636 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,760 So yeah, what is what is Uncle Larry's basement freak out? 637 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,960 You know who fucked knows? I got tuned in to find out bro. 638 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,920 Taxidermy for children every Saturday at 10 Every Saturday at 639 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,800 10 I'm watching taxidermy for. Children bro, some of. 640 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,520 These other ones, chainsaw talk and I also do love that there is 641 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,360 like very clearly like once it starts to get late at night, 642 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,360 they get the late at night one like like Lord Blood's Crypt of 643 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,560 Cool is what Saturday nights from like 10:00 to 11:50. 644 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:21,080 Yeah, but. Sister Martha's love dungeon or 645 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:27,239 or OK I hate people talk and call in inappropriate. 646 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,360 Puppets is at midnight on Friday. 647 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,920 Dude, it's so fucking good. Yeah, it's. 648 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,520 Pretty good all of. These are so good. 649 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,400 That's your opinion. Local politics, That's your. 650 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,480 Yeah. Like it's so good. 651 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,960 So dumb bro. Even like even even the Sunday 652 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,360 morning mass for shut insurance cracks me the fuck up. 653 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,560 Or blacksmith Barbara and her mighty forge. 654 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,760 Like this is so fucking this. Is great. 655 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,920 It's also a good example of like what to name your shows when 656 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,800 you're making your character. It goes well here because like 657 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,960 you're going to be in this mindset like what's my show 658 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,560 called and you have a bunch of examples of just ridiculous 659 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,040 titles, but very like evocative titles. 660 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,200 You kind of like, want to engage with them, you know? 661 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,120 Oh. Bro knifing with Norman. 662 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,440 Like what the fuck is he? Is he making knives? 663 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:16,400 Is he? It's K. 664 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,960 NOR it's KNOR, just like KNIF knifing with Norman. 665 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:23,920 Bro. If it was later at night, it 666 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,360 would be even like, imagine knifing with Norman, but it's at 667 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,600 like 10:00 PM on Saturday. You're like, whoa, that got 668 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,280 weirder. Versus like 6 in the afternoon. 669 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,880 Anyway, Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so this is a great I love 670 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,680 this right here. This is this is a good thing to 671 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,440 have right here too. Next we're moving on to 672 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:40,960 supernatural abilities. Brian, can I touch them? 673 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,320 There's not a lot more. They expand. 674 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,920 If you roll all sixes, you get a point to invest in your 675 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,080 supernatural ability. And they are like incred. 676 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,400 They're mostly minor things like you can do things with them and 677 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,240 it specifically says they should be impressive to like a regular 678 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:54,920 people. But you're not like it's not 679 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,200 like earth shattering powers, you know, like you're, if you 680 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,920 have Tel connects, you can pull something small to your hand and 681 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,040 like that's really impressive, but you're not moving the car, 682 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,800 you know? Yeah, yeah, unless you're loving 683 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,000 them up like crazy. I do like this wanted ad at the 684 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,960 bottom though for X tech because like there is a lot of like 685 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,560 again like diegetic shit in here. 686 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:14,760 You'll earn. Some fast cash. 687 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,800 You won't be. You won't be a medical test 688 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,440 subject, Yeah. Thank you. 689 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,800 X Tech is like a whole Zine that talks about X Tech. 690 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,520 We skipped a little bit of the lore stuff in the beginning. 691 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,920 We skipped it entirely. Yeah. 692 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,960 Before we jump to the next section, we'll touch on the lore 693 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,680 a little bit more whenever you're done with that character 694 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,320 generation. Yeah, there's not a lot left 695 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:35,840 after that. We have the section on 696 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,200 connections, and this is a thing given to you by your background. 697 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,400 And basically it's just there's different types of important 698 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,680 people you would know and different types of things they 699 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,400 can help you with. This just gives you kind of an 700 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,400 example list. No need to deep dive that. 701 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:53,280 Next is leveling up with Ryan also pretty much touched on. 702 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,920 The one thing I do like about leveling up that Ryan did not 703 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,040 touch on is the learning from your greatest failures, the 704 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,760 challenge role. Basically, if you have like 705 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,920 bombed out on a task recently, like climbing a thing or 706 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,040 whatever, you can take that as a challenge. 707 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,520 Like pick a thing and every time you attempt to do that thing 708 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,080 again, you get one extra die into your die spool, which I 709 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,880 think is cool. I always love like your mistakes 710 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,160 making you, you know, better. I think. 711 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,800 What game does it help me? What? 712 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,040 Isn't Troika do like you can mark a point if you fail at 713 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,560 something and if you marking up points you can get? 714 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,520 I think so. That's not the one I was 715 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,880 thinking. I'm thinking of the Western. 716 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,280 That was a Mark Borg hack. And is it any more than blanking 717 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,400 on the name? Oh. 718 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,720 I had it in my head until you. Until you frontier scum. 719 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:43,800 Thank you, Ryan. Yeah, Frontier Scum does a 720 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,880 similar thing, but I liked failure being like a drive for 721 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,000 improvement. But yeah, I think this is a 722 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,960 cool, small way to do this. Yeah. 723 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:52,880 I mean I. Like that? 724 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,240 I think the last thing I have to talk about is hope points. 725 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,000 Once again, another thing that Ryan already touched on. 726 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,480 But yeah, you start with six. They're essentially your mental 727 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,440 and physical HP. When you run out of them, you 728 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,520 have to make a soul check. And on a success you stabilize 729 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,200 with one point of hope. And on a failure, it means 730 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,480 cancellation. You go unconscious, maybe you 731 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:22,280 die, or even worse, you you're resignated to normalcy. 732 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,040 You become a normie. What a fucking nightmare. 733 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,400 Yeah. I think that's it for my 734 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,000 section. That was pretty much all I had. 735 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:32,640 Yeah. Cool. 736 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,960 Yeah, I so a little bit of the lore that I, I was flipping 737 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,520 through early and I didn't see it right away, so my brain just 738 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,840 like kind of jumped over it. Fair Haven being the core aspect 739 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,440 of this game basically. Where is it in here? 740 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,280 Oh, yeah, it was, it was the, the letter from, from Joy 741 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,400 Royale. I kind of jumped over it. 742 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,600 Basically what happened is at some point Fair Haven. 743 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,440 Fair Haven's dope, right? But it's very much like the 744 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:09,400 like, you know what, Like what's that fucking show that made D&D 745 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,920 more popular with the kids that are like 50 now, but they're 746 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:17,320 still trying to dress them up like teenagers 911 and shit, you 747 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:22,760 know, on Netflix. Oh, stranger things. 748 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,440 Yeah, so between like season 2 or season 3 or whatever where I 749 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,360 was like nostalgic and then like the mall comes in, whatever. 750 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,960 That's where this lives. That's where this lives where 751 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,640 like the old cool shit is starting to fade into like the 752 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,520 the mall space and stuff. Anyway so basically what 753 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,280 happened is a full moon happened in the summer and everyone 754 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,640 marveled at it because it it was still there and it kept being 755 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,840 there but it never went away and people thought it was cool for a 756 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,280 while till they realized weird shit was happening. 757 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,720 Now that this full moon is always there and that's where 758 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,400 and all the weird stuff happens. That's when the host started 759 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:57,560 having to save the town and stuff. 760 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,160 That's when like X tech is also there which is basically like 761 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,720 this like. It's again, kind of like fucking 762 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:08,880 stranger things where there's that like weird science base 763 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,800 kind of like in the town or whatever, like up on the hill 764 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,280 behind the fence and shit like that. 765 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,320 So that's kind of that's Fair Haven. 766 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,840 Is this this cool one or this this little town on the verge 767 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:25,840 of, you know, progress with a full moon that won't go away. 768 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,920 And and I like the kind of X tech like that's the the feds 769 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,360 for first small towns kind of bit for it too. 770 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,440 But that's a little bit more of the lore for the game. 771 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,440 We haven't said. This but this game is like 772 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,960 incredibly welcome to Night Vale coded like I mean it couldn't be 773 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,200 anymore. Oh, I didn't know if you were 774 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,440 familiar with welcome to Night Vale. 775 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,720 It's really cool that you are so. 776 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,960 I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm like, I know of it more than really. 777 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,120 I could tell you too much about it. 778 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,880 OK, I've I've listened, I haven't read any of the books, 779 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,040 but I have listened to hours of the podcast so. 780 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,520 Absurdist supernatural fiction podcast created by Joseph Fink 781 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,560 and Jeffrey Krenor. I'll have to listen to the 782 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:08,520 podcast. Yeah. 783 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,960 The podcast, The podcast is a public access news show. 784 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,120 Oh, why is the sound back on is a public access news show about 785 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:21,120 this weird, absurd small town that's like a little existential 786 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,440 dread and also like, jokes about government and, like, 787 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,080 capitalism's failures. It's really amazing. 788 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:29,440 Yeah. Well. 789 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,400 Then this game is very much welcome, the night though it is. 790 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,080 Very much that. Yeah. 791 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:34,160 That's. Sick. 792 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,560 All right, so hop it into likes and dislikes. 793 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,480 I will start with the dislikes. We'll get into it more in 794 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,680 layout, the structure of the book. 795 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,720 I don't like it. We'll again, we'll touch on a 796 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,520 little bit more in layout, but it it literally really is just 797 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,760 like a couple of these scenes just wrapped in a hardback 798 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,040 cover. And I wish a little bit more, 799 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,040 more put in to make it more of like a book somebody. 800 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,520 And I'll talk about that more in depth in the in the usability 801 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,600 and layout sections later. What? 802 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,080 What are you? What are your dislikes? 803 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,160 It's pretty much the same thing. I feel like when I get later in 804 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,760 the book, I start being like, what are these sections? 805 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,680 You know, like I think there's a couple that don't have 806 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,280 incredibly clear headers or I feel like they no headers. 807 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,600 Yeah. No headers at all. 808 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,240 And so like, you know, the front part of the book, I'm like, it's 809 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:28,160 pretty solid and I know where we are. 810 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,480 And then I get lost very quickly past that. 811 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,240 And there's a lot of really cool stuff in here. 812 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,840 But after reading a bunch, I was like, OK, I know what this 813 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,400 section's for, but yeah, that. Yeah. 814 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,280 It's really it's really like I said, it's not very well 815 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,240 delineated my likes. It's really weird and doesn't 816 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,640 give a single fuck and I genuinely like I love it. 817 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,360 This is what I think is currently missing the teacher 818 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,280 RPG space. And I will say that like I have 819 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,800 a whole rant about marketing and capitalism and the complete 820 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:59,120 total lack of innovation since like mid to late 2022 when 821 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,440 THRPTS really slid hard into marketing and capitalism. 822 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:06,960 But the, the, the, the one small silver lining of COVID was a lot 823 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:11,200 of people had a lot of were you pinned up and said, fuck it, I 824 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,760 had this, I had this idea and I'm going to fucking make it 825 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,800 because I got time and we got so many fucking awesome games from 826 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,040 that period. And that's what I call the post 827 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,960 COVID indie game boom. And this game is one of them. 828 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:27,040 They started writing it during COVID came out in whenever I 829 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,280 said I did early. And it's so fucking good. 830 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,640 And it's so fucking weird. And so many games right now 831 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,400 really lean into profitability over like weird cool shit. 832 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:44,920 And this game leans so hard into the weird cool shit and I love 833 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:46,720 it. I wish, I wish games would take 834 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:49,920 themselves less seriously because the ones that do in my 835 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,360 opinion are just more fun and better. 836 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,800 Like you can tell that they had a fuck load of fun writing this 837 00:43:55,800 --> 00:44:00,400 and play testing it. And I can tell a bunch of people 838 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,280 did not have a lot of fun while they were like, you know, beta 839 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,120 testing or, or, or what what's it called when you when you put 840 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,480 a bunch of people in a room to test different versions of 841 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:15,800 something? Like screens something that's 842 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:16,800 for sure. You know what? 843 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,840 I'm talking about. I do, but but I I just feel 844 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,240 like, you know, you can tell. You can tell when shit's written 845 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,320 to make money and when shit's written because it's fun and 846 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:27,800 cool. And this game is very much 847 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,160 written to be fun and fucking cool. 848 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,280 And I hope they're also making money off of it. 849 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,280 But that's, that's what I love about it. 850 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:38,400 It's fucking weird and goofy and, and very much an in joke on 851 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,120 itself. And I love it, Yeah. 852 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,560 It's great. Yeah, what about you? 853 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,720 I have, I wrote as my notes weirdo fever dream incredibly 854 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:49,520 refreshing to see a game just be so genuine and odd. 855 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,040 And also I thought the Cy powers mini game is like a really fun, 856 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,760 like real world activity addition to this game. 857 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,800 I mean, overall, I love the vibe and like what you said about the 858 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,400 game, it's just so unapologetically weird and it is 859 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,960 like genuinely a genuine in doing so, you know, it doesn't 860 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,960 feel like a thing that was like made to be weird, you know, like 861 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,040 it feels very genuine. Yeah, yeah, big fan. 862 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,680 It's it's fucking goofy and I love it. 863 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:21,920 Again, I mean the sign picture of of Rev Joey Royale. 864 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,200 I. I am. 865 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:29,040 I've never met this person, but they seem cool and I'm 866 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,080 extraordinarily unsurprised that this is what they look like. 867 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:41,040 I, I, I'm so glad as well with him wearing like a velvet sports 868 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:46,000 coat that, that, that this is, this is the game. 869 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,800 But yeah, so getting into the metric. 870 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,880 So for those who don't know what the fuck it is we do here on the 871 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:56,400 show, we do quantifier terrible opinions with metrics different 872 00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,720 for games versus zine's or bigger games versus smaller 873 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,440 games. With bigger games, we do 5 874 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,760 metrics with smaller games to do 3. 875 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,320 We do give a score at the end. But at this point the show, 876 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,560 since we kind of reformatted, we, we do all of the metrics 877 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,240 that we cover for any of them and then just pick the five or 878 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:16,120 three based on it. Obviously this is a book because 879 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,400 it's a whole fucking book. I have it on my hand. 880 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,880 It's a good cover. It's 110 pages. 881 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,560 Even though the rules are only small part of it, It's it's a 882 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,080 whole ass book. If we were just doing the little 883 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,680 Zine, obviously it would be a Zine, but we'll do 5. 884 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:31,120 But we cover 6 metrics and then like I said, 5 we give scores to 885 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:32,920 for books and three for Zine. So it's going to be art and 886 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,320 layout, usability, rule set, originality, value and vibes. 887 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:42,600 So starting off with the art and layout cover slaps. 888 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,560 Yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll zoom back down to the page level 889 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,720 for that. It's really cool. 890 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:56,000 I love the the again, the kind of like the diegetic ads 891 00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:01,320 throughout the entire game. There's the like, for example, 892 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,560 like page 12. Like I remember in high school 893 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:09,560 we had like a like a coupon like paper thing that I remember high 894 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,160 school put out or whatever. Like you got 6 tacos of Taco 895 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,680 Bell for like a dollar or something. 896 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,080 Like that's exactly what this reminds me of. 897 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,600 There's another one later. Like I said, that's like the 898 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,840 whole page. Here it is on page 21. 899 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:25,080 It's the full page Crypt of cool bad. 900 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,440 I, I love the shit they're it's fucking great. 901 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,240 And what we didn't talk about kind of all the way through are 902 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:33,400 these like creatures that keep popping up with with given names 903 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,080 that are like kind of like giving you the weird kind of 904 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,240 through the static bits like this one says, it will be an 905 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:41,680 arduous cycle. The 13th channel is a bridge. 906 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,360 You will not be psychically harmed if a bridge is 907 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,000 maintained. That's sick. 908 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,800 I love that. I wish they use these a little 909 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,640 bit more effectively in separating sections because I 910 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:53,800 think that might have been the intent. 911 00:47:55,360 --> 00:48:00,640 That would be a good idea. But as far as the the art and 912 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,400 layout goes, like it's very, again, it's very diegetic. 913 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:09,360 It feels like a bit of an in world item, especially with the 914 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:10,600 fonts and the ads and everything. 915 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,600 What about you? Yeah, I, I, I didn't really have 916 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:18,680 a lot to add to this section. One thing I do love in this 917 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:23,000 game, it's just very odd is like not very odd in this game, but 918 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,680 that I like it is the inside cover pages that aren't at the 919 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,400 PDF, but they're like this really pretty like wallpaper 920 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,440 esque, you know they're. Gorgeous. 921 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,000 Yeah, again. We got a color corrector shit 922 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,000 sometime my. Color. 923 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,320 My color is way the fuck off. What the fuck? 924 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,800 For those that can see my color is correct, yeah. 925 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,840 Ryan's color is correct. They're. 926 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,480 Gorgeous. Yeah, good choice. 927 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:55,120 Yeah, yeah, whatever. Another time. 928 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,440 Yeah, it's something. How red it is. 929 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,440 No, they look so rosy. What? 930 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:01,680 What? Did you hold up the other day 931 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,360 where I was like, that's not what this was, I. 932 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,200 Don't remember, but there was something else that you have 933 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,000 like, that's, yeah, that's that's incorrect. 934 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,080 Yeah. I mean, I think I, like I said, 935 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,640 I love the last, love the gigantic aspect of this. 936 00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:14,520 I mean, mostly we're just going to fall off. 937 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,600 For me is again like, you know, the layout's a little something. 938 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,320 Yeah. So I mean as far as visual 939 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,800 layout of the book, it's super readable. 940 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,440 It is super readable, Yeah. As far as that now moving into 941 00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,920 usability, this. Usability is going to take a 942 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:30,680 huge. Knock right? 943 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,240 So I got a fat fucking note section for this, so yeah. 944 00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:36,760 Your note section was so big that I didn't put I have. 945 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,480 I was like, I have nothing to add except one thing. 946 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,440 You literally. Wrote, I don't have a lot to add 947 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,360 here. Yeah. 948 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,640 So there are no hyperlinks, there are no bookmarks, there's 949 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,080 no table of contents, There's no distinct separation of sections. 950 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,600 It really is just four or five of these zenes slapped together 951 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:58,560 into more of like a collection wrapped in a hardback cover with 952 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:03,080 a few more pictures. I think there is there are there 953 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:08,000 is a section that has more pictures on it in this versus 954 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,800 the Zen. It's on page. 955 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:17,280 It's the Fairhaven planning and zoning page, page 15 and 16. 956 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:20,520 I think the four pictures to the side aren't in the original 957 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:21,720 scene, but they are in this Great. 958 00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:25,680 Adding some pictures, but aside from adding in a couple of a bit 959 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:30,160 of extra content, it like you can actually pull out like the 960 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,160 parts from Tales from Fairhaven. You can pull out the all the 961 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,080 station managers guide stuff again, like the entire sizing 962 00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:38,160 cover and all is just stuck in here. 963 00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:45,040 Yeah, so again, the whole book feels more like a a hardback 964 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,760 collection than it does a cohesive kind of role-playing 965 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:54,080 game book. So I really wish they made like 966 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,320 pushed a little bit more into making it a more cohesive book. 967 00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,520 Like maybe separate the adventures out, maybe separate 968 00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,200 the supplemental stuff out a little bit more. 969 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,480 Like you said, like the front's a little bit more structured, 970 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,800 but that's because I think the zenes in the front were more 971 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,560 structured. Makes sense? 972 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,280 So but 110 pages and literally not even having the table of 973 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,160 contents is just crazy. Yeah, A. 974 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:18,680 Little rough. Yeah. 975 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,760 So that that's kind of like the big, I think the the thing 976 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,600 that's going to get the biggest knock on this is it doesn't feel 977 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:28,640 like like a cohesive book beginning to end. 978 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,000 It just feels like a collection of content which is not very 979 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,800 easy to navigate. And then you had you had 980 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,680 something to add. Yeah, they're in the book. 981 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,960 In the actual physical book, there is in fact a silk ribbon, 982 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,520 which I appreciate because I flipped back and forth a couple 983 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,440 times and that's a good organization tool. 984 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,240 Doesn't make up her for not having a table of contents, 985 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,360 Probably not, but that's so nice. 986 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,000 It's. A very pretty ribbon. 987 00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:02,080 It's like a green color and always love a good ribbon. 988 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,840 I mean, the hardback itself is very nice. 989 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,840 It's a very well done book. Yeah, it really is, actually. 990 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,960 Yeah, it's very. Pretty corners are really sharp 991 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,080 and hard. The ribbon is really nice. 992 00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,080 The end papers are this is well printed wherever they decided to 993 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,400 print it, it is it is a nice hardback. 994 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,880 Again, I wish it was a little bit easier to navigate. 995 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,160 That have been dope. But we will take what we can 996 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:23,920 get. But that's usability. 997 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,640 Like I said, probably going to get the biggest knocks when we 998 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,080 hit the scores because it's not it's not well, it's not very 999 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:33,040 usable yeah, rule set. So at its core, it is very basic 1000 00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,600 dice pool system. We talked about that. 1001 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,560 But I do like the stuff that they add to it to spice it up 1002 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,240 and make it it's like the like you said, the challenges when 1003 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:42,760 levelling up. I think makes it really 1004 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,080 interesting having the ones and sixes like the sixes giving you 1005 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,760 the supernatural abilities, the ones making you lose hope 1006 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,440 points. I actually really like the way 1007 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,200 combat works, literally just being like one through 3. 1008 00:52:55,200 --> 00:53:01,200 Like if you, The thing is, if you, if you roll to hit and 1009 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,800 succeed, like it's so easy to just be like, all right, if you 1010 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,960 roll 5 or 6 or whatever, you're gonna roll again and either do 1011 00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,840 one or two, boom, move on. Super fucking easy. 1012 00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,440 Like I like how clean it is. I don't think it's a knock to 1013 00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:15,760 say that it's like pretty simple. 1014 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,280 I think that it is the kind of system we talk about with more 1015 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,960 rules like games where it just, it is more. 1016 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,360 It is enough for what you need and it gets the fuck out of the 1017 00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,880 way to let you just play the game. 1018 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:30,680 So I think it's a perfect amount of system for this game and for 1019 00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,560 the dice pool system. I do think they add a lot of 1020 00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,800 stuff in to really make it interesting and I and even the 1021 00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,800 quote UN quote classes right asymmetry of those. 1022 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:44,040 I think you're so fucking good. So I I really like it again, 1023 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,200 it's it's it's light yeah, but I think it's interesting. 1024 00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:48,680 I dig it. What are you? 1025 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:50,520 Yeah. I think it's good. 1026 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:51,880 I think it works incredibly well. 1027 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,720 And I I agree. I think it really gets out of 1028 00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:56,680 the way of you playing this game because this game is less about 1029 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,840 the mechanics, more about like the weirdo stories that you're 1030 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,800 creating as these public access hosts in this odd little town. 1031 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,200 Yeah, I I mean, I like the challenge mechanics. 1032 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,000 That was one thing I made note of, and I enjoy this. 1033 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,240 I also like I want to play. And I also think it'd be fun to 1034 00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:14,960 make up your own programming lineup. 1035 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:19,440 That wouldn't be hard to do, and I like the open summer, but 1036 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,000 yeah, it's a fun, light little game. 1037 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,640 Well, I think it's really interesting if you have like 4 1038 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,560 or five people playing because yeah, they, they literally have 1039 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,200 24 hours a day for three days. I don't know if public access 1040 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,160 really has that much, but like, even if you just have 5 people 1041 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,960 and be like Saturdays is public access days. 1042 00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,800 You guys each get ATV block, you know, starting at like 10 and 1043 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,720 ending at like, you know, 5 or 6 or whatever, starting at noon 1044 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:44,680 and ending at six. You could easily just write it 1045 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,680 write that up, you know, which is which is really cool. 1046 00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,000 All right, that's rule set originality. 1047 00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,080 I mean, obviously we just talked about the rule system system 1048 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:54,640 wise, it's it's it's a nice pool system. 1049 00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:59,320 It's got some cool stuff, but everything else, everything else 1050 00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,720 I think is fucking awesome, like even just weird heroes of public 1051 00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:07,720 access. I it's that tells you the whole 1052 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:10,440 game before I ever cracked the cover, but I had heard the title 1053 00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,200 of it. I knew exactly what this game 1054 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,560 was. And when I actually cracked the 1055 00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,360 cover, it gave me exactly what I wanted and about 100 times more. 1056 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:24,240 And it's it's incredible. Like I, this is literally like 1057 00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,960 schlock, like nostalgia schlock. Hit me right in the fucking face 1058 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:33,320 with it so hard. And, and, and I love it and I do 1059 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,200 think it's incredibly weird and original and interesting. 1060 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,640 Big fan make more games like this. 1061 00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,240 Yeah, I, I, I super agree. I'm I think, what was I going to 1062 00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:47,320 say? I had something here and I 1063 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:48,880 totally blanked on it wasn't in my notes. 1064 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:50,880 I just saw about it, but I guess it's gone forever. 1065 00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,480 Yeah, I think that this is a great concept. 1066 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,200 Oh, I was going to say that like weird public asset access shows 1067 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,000 are what modern capitalism is taking away from us because you, 1068 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,720 they really can't be done now at this point, you know, they're 1069 00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:08,520 impossible to support people. Are streaming on twitch that's 1070 00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,440 all you would do that's where you find this stuff now but. 1071 00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:15,200 It's just there's less of the good stuff and more of just yes, 1072 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,120 there's. I will say though, there's some, 1073 00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,000 there's a lot of bullshit, there's a lot of people just 1074 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,000 like sitting in front of a camera. 1075 00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:22,200 There's some really fucking cool weird shit. 1076 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,720 If you really dig deep and go hard on Twitch, you can find 1077 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:26,320 some really cool, fun weird shit. 1078 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,400 But yes I completely like this would not be possible like. 1079 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,560 You would basically, yeah. But yeah, I don't think there's 1080 00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,200 genuinely obviously not another game I can reference being like, 1081 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:42,280 well, now when you play weird public access TV show hosts 1082 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,080 because there's there's not one, I think that's great, you know? 1083 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,760 Yeah, yeah, it does suck that like that. 1084 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,560 Literally it's just gone. It's just gone. 1085 00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,200 We would. You can never have like a Bob 1086 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,720 Ross again. Like, you literally just 1087 00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:57,600 couldn't, you know, And that's sad, you know, but obviously. 1088 00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,800 Shot Bob Ross. You know that guy was that guy 1089 00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,960 was a fucking Borg vet. You know where you can watch Bob 1090 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,760 Ross 24/7 on Twitch, right I. Did actually know that? 1091 00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:09,320 Yes, I. Often just throw on Bob Ross, 1092 00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,200 there's a retro anime one that's just on and then the whitest kid 1093 00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,720 you know has the 24 hour one and between those like really? 1094 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,200 Yeah, WKKTV on Twitch. Just watch Witest kid. 1095 00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:23,120 You know, 24 hours a day dude. I am super OK with that. 1096 00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,360 What the fuck? Yeah, yeah. 1097 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,240 So next is value. So value wise, the hardback is 1098 00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:33,160 normally $35 on EF. It is on sale right now for 1099 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,280 $28.00, which I think is a good deal. 35, yeah, a little bit 1100 00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,120 pricey, but it's exalted. It doesn't say it comes with the 1101 00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,000 PDF on exalted funeral though, when usually it does. 1102 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,680 I think it probably should or would because if you get it 1103 00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,040 from, I believe it was, Goodman Games was also selling it for 1104 00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:51,880 the exact same price that came with the PDF. 1105 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,840 So it would be weird if the hardback of this did not come 1106 00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,880 with the PDF on exalted. But it usually says when it does 1107 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,720 and it doesn't say that it does, so I'm not sure. 1108 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:07,400 And if you get it PDF by itself, it is $20 on drive to RPG which 1109 00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,600 which is fine. I think $20.00 for the PDF is 1110 00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:12,040 fine. I think 35 for the hardback 1111 00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:16,400 might be a little bit pricey, but you know. 1112 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,560 Mostly OK, you know, Yeah. It's fine. 1113 00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:21,560 It's about industry standard at this point. 1114 00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:22,600 But you know, you know, you know. 1115 00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:26,880 My feeling on it is the PDF should either be free and make 1116 00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:30,320 your money on the print or the print should be the cost of the 1117 00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,120 print plus what you made for the PDF. 1118 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,000 So make the PDF more expensive and the print cheaper or make 1119 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,400 the the print more expensive and the PDF free. 1120 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,600 One way shape or form. It's when it they both fall in 1121 00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,160 the middle that it is just kind of like whatever. 1122 00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,520 But it that's about that's about standard. 1123 00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,840 We'll get to that in the scoring and then vibes through the 1124 00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:52,240 fucking roof again. Yeah, this is the weird stuff 1125 00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,920 that the indie indie scene used to make and should start making 1126 00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:58,560 again. Please make more weird games. 1127 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,240 Please make more games because you think it's cool and fun and 1128 00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,480 not because they're profitable. Seriously. 1129 00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,320 Like this? This. 1130 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:11,840 We need more of this. Yeah, I. 1131 00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,520 Do miss like this era, I mean, it's kind of from the era of 1132 00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:19,240 games that like, yeah, like the less commercially marketed, like 1133 00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:23,280 the less drive to be like a twenty $30,000 Kickstarter 1134 00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,800 project and more like I put up on my Kickstarter goal is 3 1135 00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:28,440 grand. I just want to print this weird 1136 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,240 little thing I made, you know? Yeah. 1137 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,800 Yeah, yeah, it, it, it's definitely a shift. 1138 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:35,480 And I understand. I mean, again, like everyone has 1139 00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,440 got to make money, you know, capitalism is, is is crushing 1140 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:39,920 all of our souls. Yes. 1141 00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,200 But I, I do, I do miss when people made weird shit because 1142 00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,560 it was it was what just needed to come out of them versus 1143 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,680 people making another thing for this system that they know will 1144 00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,480 sell. You know it is what it is it. 1145 00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:58,480 Is what it is it? Is what it is, you know what are 1146 00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:02,600 the review scores so for books. From the six metrics that we 1147 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,520 just talked through, we give a number between one through 10 on 1148 01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:10,120 five of them, art and layout, usability, rule set, originality 1149 01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:14,000 and value. The total score will be listed. 1150 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,240 Doesn't really fucking matter. If you don't give a shit about 1151 01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,440 originality, that score doesn't really matter, does it? 1152 01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:24,760 So art and layout, remember that thing that we had? 1153 01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:28,240 Yeah. That was like, we should look at 1154 01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,600 that again when we're scoring a bunch of this stuff, you know? 1155 01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:31,840 Yeah. I thought about that thing 1156 01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:33,280 today, actually. Yeah. 1157 01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:36,600 So let's look at that thing and let's talk about this. 1158 01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,240 Where is that? Right there. 1159 01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,880 All right, I had the thing. So art and layout. 1160 01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,320 What are your thoughts? I like it. 1161 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,880 I think it's, you know, it's above average. 1162 01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,760 I love the in universe like stuff. 1163 01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,200 I love the diegetic, like ads and art and stuff. 1164 01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:00,680 I think it's incredibly readable layout and I have no major like 1165 01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,680 gripes other than like some usability stuff. 1166 01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,120 Really. Yeah. 1167 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,400 Which was for next. What do you think? 1168 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:09,800 So just Arnart and layout I think. 1169 01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:16,400 I think I personally think that the diegetic shit in in the in 1170 01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,960 world stuff, you know, when people use big words to sound 1171 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:25,120 smart, they sound stupid in my as we often do, the we we just 1172 01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:27,400 say like and fuck a lot. I'll tell you the two most 1173 01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,440 popular words on our podcast are like. 1174 01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,240 And fuck when I. Did a control F for the word 1175 01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:36,000 like on one of our transcripts. It may be what I cut my own 1176 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:45,200 throat in game, but I like it. I think I think I personally 1177 01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:49,200 think it's it's good to really good just for the art and layout 1178 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,160 usability. We'll talk about in a second for 1179 01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:54,600 art and layout, the diegetic, which means the in world stuff 1180 01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:55,920 that that's where that rant went. 1181 01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:59,440 The in world stuff, the stuff that is in the world of Fair 1182 01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,920 Haven kind of looking in the book. 1183 01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,120 I dig it. I think I think it really we 1184 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,920 talked about a lot that the art should feed the game should feed 1185 01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,000 the art should feed the game, and this one does really, really 1186 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,040 well. So what do you think? 1187 01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,200 Good, really good. What are your thoughts? 1188 01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,680 I'm somewhere between good and really good. 1189 01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:16,920 Let's go really good on this because I feel like we're going 1190 01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:18,920 to we're going to be mean to it in usability. 1191 01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:20,400 So that's. Fine, I'm good. 1192 01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,520 One of us being really good. Yeah, and I do think the cover 1193 01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:27,760 does slap pretty hard. Usability. 1194 01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,880 It really. Does the cover really the cover? 1195 01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:36,200 If I'd seen this book wrapped in plastic on a shelf in that 1196 01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,040 cover, I would get it. So bro. 1197 01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:42,640 Not even the side when they put like the rainbow on the side, 1198 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,440 even with like the the 13 Fairhaven like that. 1199 01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:52,200 Oh yes, yes, usability. This one's going to be rough. 1200 01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,720 Again, we talked about it. The physical book itself is 1201 01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,200 beautiful. I think they did a good job. 1202 01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,320 The ribbon's great. The inside again, does not feel 1203 01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,360 like a cohesive tabletop role-playing game book. 1204 01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:07,280 It feels like a collection of zemes wrapped in a hardcover and 1205 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,760 that does not contribute to usability if I if I like it 1206 01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,160 would be and without a table of contents, much less the 1207 01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,400 hyperlinks in the bookmarks. Like not having a table of 1208 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,320 contents 110 page book is crazy. Yeah. 1209 01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,640 That's pretty brutal, honestly. I don't. 1210 01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:24,960 I can't, I can't. So so we 5 is bang average 5 1211 01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:26,880 means we don't have really anything good or bad to say 1212 01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:29,000 about it. Unfortunately for usability, 1213 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:30,960 there's very little redeeming qualities of this. 1214 01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,720 Yeah, it's. Below average I would say. 1215 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,480 I would say it's probably below average as far as usability go. 1216 01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:40,720 There's been a while since we found a book that really had no 1217 01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,520 tools whatsoever to help you navigate it, and there's not. 1218 01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:48,240 Yeah, outside of the physical ribbon, which I did use, there 1219 01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:51,760 are no, there's no easy way to navigate this book besides 1220 01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,640 taking notes on what page you have to look stuff up on. 1221 01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:59,840 So yeah, I would say that this is probably a below average as 1222 01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,960 far as the usability of this specific book goes. 1223 01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:07,520 Yeah, unfortunately agree. Yeah, yeah. 1224 01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,920 Unfortunately, which really sucks because it's like 1225 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:11,560 otherwise again, we'll we'll get that. 1226 01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:14,400 So rule set. We talked about it Dice bowl 1227 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:18,600 system pretty light, but what they do add to that kind of core 1228 01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:20,400 system, I think is really fun and really clever and really 1229 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,400 interesting and really fits into into the system. 1230 01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:25,760 So So what are you? What are you? 1231 01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,080 What are your thoughts? I think. 1232 01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:31,000 It's good, you know, I mean, I'm, that's where I'm at. 1233 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:32,720 I think it works really well for what it is. 1234 01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:35,480 There's no mechanics that really blow me away or like incredibly 1235 01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,000 unique, but I think it's good. See, I'm going to disagree with 1236 01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:39,960 you on that. I'm going to say it the least 1237 01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:45,760 really good and I will. So my counterpoint is psionics. 1238 01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,040 Right. Damn, that's a good point. 1239 01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,080 Yeah, you're on the rules. OK, You're fine. 1240 01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:53,360 You're right. And we didn't dig too deep in 1241 01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,760 it, but even the way that the psionics feed into the 1242 01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,440 adventures, because if you have a psychic catastrophe or you 1243 01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,880 have a static interference, I think is a huge part of it. 1244 01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,600 And the asymmetry of the classes I think really helps it a lot 1245 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:08,800 too. If it literally was just like to 1246 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:11,760 add 1 point to this, here's 2 abilities, here's like one bonus 1247 01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:13,480 thing you get. If they were all like, these are 1248 01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,120 4 things you get, I would be like that's that's kind of man. 1249 01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,320 But the fact that they really balanced the asymmetry of it, I 1250 01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:20,680 think, I think feeds into a little bit. 1251 01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:22,200 So I would say it's at least really good. 1252 01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:26,000 I. Yeah, you're right. 1253 01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:27,640 It's really good. Is it? 1254 01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,240 Is it at least really good? Are we going to go or or I 1255 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,000 think. That I think you're we're good 1256 01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,400 to do, at least really good. It is. 1257 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,240 Like I do want for something like this, I would want 1258 01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:39,760 something that kind of gets out of the way. 1259 01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,280 So yeah. Yeah, so it's really good your 1260 01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:44,520 stealing on that. Yes, all. 1261 01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:52,400 Right originality. I mean, it's, it's wholly 1262 01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:56,040 original concept wise. I mean, I know the rule sets a 1263 01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,840 dice pool, but like, the concept is great, you know? 1264 01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,440 Yeah. So where? 1265 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,520 So so where? So where are we at with that? 1266 01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:07,360 I mean, excellent, Amazing. I'm. 1267 01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:10,440 Not I'm not great to excellent, you know, I think. 1268 01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,600 I'm an easy excellent on OK. Easy. 1269 01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:13,720 Excellent. There we go. 1270 01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:14,960 Easy. Excellent. 1271 01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:19,320 So we're going to give a nine in originality. 1272 01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,800 I honestly think that that's where it really, really shines. 1273 01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:26,800 Yeah, we're not scoring vibes because we don't do vibes or 1274 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:30,120 more physines. But I will say if we were, it 1275 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:34,240 would be another 10 for vibes. Easy, easy, easy value. 1276 01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:41,080 So so value wise outside of the book, which I think the hardback 1277 01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,720 for me is fine. It's fine. 1278 01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,000 It's average price. I don't expect if if it was 5 1279 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:50,000 bucks cheaper, I would be happy. If it was 55 bucks more 1280 01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,440 expensive, I would be sad. I think it fits fine where it's 1281 01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:55,320 at. But I will say as far as because 1282 01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,680 value is bang for your buck, it's not just cost. 1283 01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:03,920 I will say this is not all that there is and I'm holding up a 1284 01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:07,320 stack. Here's a stack. 11 zenes, 1285 01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:09,680 There's more that I don't think it made it to print. 1286 01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,080 There's like two more that are in print that I like can't find. 1287 01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:16,120 We're talking there's like 15 to 20 zenes of additional content, 1288 01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,080 adventures, supplements, extra stuff. 1289 01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:21,480 The prices on these are pretty inexpensive. 1290 01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:23,960 I think the PDFs are like 7 bucks or something like that. 1291 01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,520 I snagged every single one that I could find and did not spend 1292 01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:31,040 that much money. I think when we factor in one of 1293 01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:33,480 the things we talked about with value a lot is bang for your 1294 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,560 buck. What more is out there to to 1295 01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:39,360 play the game with? My gosh, when's the last time 1296 01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:42,600 you saw a game that's. A That's an amazing point as far 1297 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,480 as value goes. I think that's a really good 1298 01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:45,640 point. And the fact that you can still 1299 01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:49,600 obtain them is a massive deal because a lot of stuff that we 1300 01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:51,800 go over sometimes, like, yeah, there's like five of those 1301 01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:53,520 things for this thing, but you can't fucking get them anymore. 1302 01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,560 But the fact that you can still take those is great. 1303 01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,560 But yeah, visitors to Fair Haven is New Adventures. 1304 01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,360 Tales from Fair Haven is New Adventures. 1305 01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:03,800 The looking for magic I know is in there, but that's a sigh 1306 01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:09,640 Magic Fair Haven beings. Godspeed you little bastards. 1307 01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:12,240 Which is. Which is more adventures and 1308 01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:13,960 stuff and and, and content for it. 1309 01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:18,439 So like, I mean, there's so much the life, death and on death of 1310 01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,680 Sherman Glimp, which is actually, I believe that one is 1311 01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:24,880 almost holy in in the in the new book, but there's so many Oh, 1312 01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:26,359 bro. And if you want to get a little 1313 01:08:26,359 --> 01:08:30,800 bit deeper with it, the Jude manifestation scene is so cool. 1314 01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,560 Like if you want to go a little bit more horror based like that 1315 01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:37,319 is these are the Jude manifestations. 1316 01:08:39,319 --> 01:08:41,359 You're oh. OK, I see. 1317 01:08:41,359 --> 01:08:42,319 I see. OK, Yeah. 1318 01:08:42,399 --> 01:08:43,920 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So being able to like kind of 1319 01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,760 dig in and use those a little bit is really fucking dope. 1320 01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:50,840 So I would say, and plus you can also get a GM screen and shit. 1321 01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:55,200 Not that the system needs it that much, but a GM screen does 1322 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,120 exist for the game. That's fun. 1323 01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:58,479 It's. Really fucking cool. 1324 01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,279 Cool. Yeah, with the things on the 1325 01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:03,319 side. So I think value is definitely 1326 01:09:03,319 --> 01:09:07,600 above average, at least I think that just the amount of stuff 1327 01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:10,160 that you're able to use to play the game on top of all the stuff 1328 01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,840 that comes in the game because it's not well separated. 1329 01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:15,760 But there's like fucking 20 plus adventures in the game, bro. 1330 01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:18,120 Yeah, there's so much stuff to play. 1331 01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:20,479 Just like right out of the fucking right out-of-the-box. 1332 01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:24,080 You got months of content literally just in in, in that 1333 01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:25,800 $35. Well. 1334 01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:28,160 I'm feeling really good about the value. 1335 01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,359 Then you know that really bumps it up from bang average. 1336 01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:34,720 Yeah, I think really good. I think really good is is good 1337 01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:37,479 for that. So we got art and layout at A7 1338 01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,680 usability at a four. Unfortunately that's where it's 1339 01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,319 going to take the hit. Rule set of seven originality 1340 01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:50,920 and nine and value is 7. So that's 21 + 13 and that's a 1341 01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:57,840 34, which man, that's that's, that's a little bit low as far 1342 01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:00,200 as total number and that's usually. 1343 01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,240 Heard it. That's the. 1344 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,320 Usability, man, like I'd say that's lower than this feels. 1345 01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:06,800 And it's like I said, it's just usability. 1346 01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:12,720 If there was just a little bit more, like honestly, if there 1347 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:15,440 was a table of contents and maybe just some like headers, 1348 01:10:15,440 --> 01:10:19,880 maybe using the ads as more defined headers, then maybe just 1349 01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,440 some manifestations. And really, that's a good. 1350 01:10:21,440 --> 01:10:23,400 Idea a little bit more. Like, this is just an adventure. 1351 01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,920 This is that. That number would shoot up 1352 01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:27,640 really, really quickly. But like you said, like once you 1353 01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:29,160 get to the back half of the book, half the time you're like, 1354 01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:30,480 what am I even fucking looking at? 1355 01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:32,600 Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's exactly what my 1356 01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:33,960 experience was, so and everything. 1357 01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:36,080 Was so weird. I'm like, is this an adventure? 1358 01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:38,120 And you're like, Oh yes, it is an adventure, but it'll take you 1359 01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:39,800 a little bit of time to to to get there. 1360 01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:42,840 So which is fine to a point. I think it passes the point 1361 01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,280 though, I think it crosses the line into into a lack of 1362 01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,160 usability doing that. I agree. 1363 01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:54,240 So that is a weird hero's public access, the role-playing game 1364 01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:56,400 from Joya Royale. I highly recommended it. 1365 01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:58,680 This is one that I really, really fucking hope we get onto 1366 01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:00,520 the show. I want to play this super 1367 01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:01,720 fucking bad. It's weird. 1368 01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,200 I want. To play this weird people. 1369 01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:06,240 That are going to dig deep like I already am thinking about like 1370 01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:11,200 what host I would want to be it's been a while I don't know I 1371 01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,120 don't know I don't want to say that because I remember the 1372 01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,080 games we've done but like I want to play this one real fucking 1373 01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:20,960 bad so shout out joy Royale go snag this book it's on sale 1374 01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,560 right now exalted funeral for like 20 something bucks worth it 1375 01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,600 oh you can also find get haunted industries on Etsy where they 1376 01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:29,360 still have some of the Kickstarter stuff and that's 1377 01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,080 where I got a lot of the stuff like the. 1378 01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,200 Dice, they have an Etsy page. It's so funny. 1379 01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:37,880 Yeah. So yeah, I think that's that's 1380 01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:38,480 it. That's us. 1381 01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,160 That's us show we are. US. 1382 01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:45,440 We are us. What was the name? 1383 01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:49,880 Hell is hell is us, you know. That's it. 1384 01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:51,080 Let's show we're out. Have a good day. 1385 01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,000 Bye bye.