1 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,000 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,880 My name is Ryan. And I'm a guru that sustains 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,760 himself on your bad thoughts. I am Aaron King, game designer 4 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:31,480 and Co host of the podcast RTFM the RPG Book Club podcast Oh. 5 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,680 Nice. That's the clearest joy I've 6 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,320 ever done. It didn't dig us 5 minutes to 7 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,080 decide how to do it, but damn, that was clean. 8 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,400 But it's not just Aaron King today. 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,440 It's our noir Aaron King with us today. 10 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,480 Yeah, those I'm. Bad at technology? 11 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,000 Yeah, those in podcast land, you'll get that joke when you 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,800 watch it on YouTube. But yes, Aaron King with us 13 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,960 today. Aaron's been on the show before. 14 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,760 We've reviewed a number of other games, Patrick, we're all, which 15 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,400 is fantastic. The game we're reviewing today 16 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,680 later in a mirror brightly. Aaron was actually on before to 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,680 discuss putting this together with Max Lander. 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,880 So we're going to take a look at that and also talk today about 19 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,000 the bootleg fest happening. For those watching, you'll see 20 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,640 the band above us today. Before all that gets going, 21 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,440 though, How? How the heck are you doing, 22 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,320 Aaron? I'm good. 23 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:27,320 I It's finally summer here in Minneapolis and it's been 24 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:30,280 raining for two days and so I had to turn all my fans off. 25 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,520 And so I feel like I'm living in a swamp. 26 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:36,880 So it's also probably good that I'm in sepia or whatever or 27 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,400 being listened to on a podcast because I am like just sweaty 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:41,360 right now. But it's. 29 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,160 Moist. Just moist. 30 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,200 Just moist. Good. 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,920 Good, good. Sounds like a pleasurable state 32 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,680 of being. It's not bad, I would prefer I I 33 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:54,200 like this moist because often times here it is too cold to be 34 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,240 moist and it is instead frozen and icy. 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:00,640 So I'm just shreking it. I'm shreking it in my swamp 36 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,360 today. And I appreciate that. 37 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,840 There you go. I I feel like I'm the polar 38 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,040 opposite. I live in what amounts to like a 39 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,200 desert valley and I'm extremely unmoist and often quite dry 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,600 actually and I think the high today is like 87 so. 41 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,320 The weather where I am is perfect so much of the year, so 42 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,880 yeah. Yeah, fuck you. 43 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,280 My terrible weather breeds good character though. 44 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,960 That's so true. Yeah, Yeah. 45 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,000 Friction. Friction breeds creativity, you 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,120 know. Yeah, apparently so does 47 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,840 moistness. It's a kind of friction. 48 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,360 Yeah. Sticky for it. 49 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,600 We're doing really great so far. Yeah, we do a. 50 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,560 Lot of interesting about this. Perfect this. 51 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,880 Is why I only do podcasts and not live stuff because it's like 52 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,640 just edit all this out. Please edit all this out, people 53 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:51,560 don't need to hear. What we do is we never edit 54 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,720 anything, so it always stays in even our long pauses and 55 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,560 terrible jokes. That's part of the part of the 56 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,800 fun, you know? It's the charm, you know? 57 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,360 Yeah. So. 58 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,560 Aaron King. Aaron King Bootleg Fest that is 59 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,440 going on right now. Why don't you tell what is What 60 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,400 is the Aaron King Bootleg Fest? It is a pre-order to fund a 61 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,160 print run of a number of zines that I have written, some game 62 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:24,400 zines. They are all blatantly using IP 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,080 that I do not own. And so I'm hoping I don't get 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,720 hit with a cease and desist, another cease and desist. 65 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,800 I've already been hit by one previously. 66 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,240 See, I, you know, want to have these scenes in print so I can 67 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,720 take them to Zine fest and stuff. 68 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,560 And this is how I'm going to do it. 69 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,400 And instead of trying to skirt the, the, the, the law, it's 70 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,480 filing those serial numbers off. I just thought I would embrace 71 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,600 it. I don't necessarily believe in 72 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,520 the ownership of intellectual property and so I'd make a joke 73 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,120 out of it and also print what are hopefully some cool games. 74 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,240 They do look like very cool games. 75 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,440 Good, thank you. Should I run down? 76 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,040 Do you want individual descriptions? 77 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,520 Absolutely. Yeah. 78 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,400 Oh yeah. One is called speed rune. 79 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,959 It's a very short rules lights ancient world fantasy. 80 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,280 So something akin to like Rune Quest but also maybe something 81 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:26,400 like Xena Warrior Princess or something like that. 82 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,360 It uses a system derived from Cyber Metal 2012. 83 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,480 I know you're a fan, I'm a fan. Adoles world champ Gameco. 84 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:43,800 So real simple like D100 roll with some fun fiction rules 85 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,120 built in. Another one is called After the 86 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:52,000 Bomb and it is my salute to Fallout. 87 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,840 I wrote it years ago. I've always loved the video 88 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,560 games. Now the TV show is out so I 89 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,200 again I'm hoping to blatantly capitalize on that. 90 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,600 It uses the down we go system from plus one Exp. 91 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,440 There's a lot of gear swapping and it comes with a full 92 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,520 campaign set in Minneapolis with a cool fallout style map. 93 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,760 And if you go get it digitally there's also a zip file of 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,240 royalty free oldies. So like in the Fallout video 95 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,280 game you can have your radio station playing in the 96 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,880 background. And then the last one is Spice 97 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:34,360 World which is a Dune like game built on the Traveller chassis. 98 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:39,560 SO2D6 rolls, but all the career paths are things from Dune. 99 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,400 Yeah, it's but Doom Traveler mashup sounds like a good 100 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,160 fucking time. I'm very excited for that. 101 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,480 A traveler or or tune you know. Tune. 102 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,920 There we go. Tune sounds like a failed MP3 103 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,240 player from the late 90s. Wait, wasn't there something 104 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,960 like that though? Zoom zoom. 105 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:09,120 It was the zoom I. Remember, So what brought about 106 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,080 the, the, the, this bootleg fest? 107 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,400 Like, I mean, a few of these have been around for like an 108 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,240 amount of time, right? And Spice World is a more recent 109 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,640 project for you. What, what set you off on this 110 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:20,680 path? Like, oh, I'm going to, I'm 111 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,320 going to fund all these right now and print them. 112 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,400 Yeah, I, you know, I've been wanting to get stuff printed for 113 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,000 a while. It is unfortunately expensive 114 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,280 and I don't want to do a Kickstarter because those are 115 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:35,120 stressful in their own way. So I wanted to just set up a 116 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,640 pre-order system. I am, you know, like, I think 117 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,880 like a lot of people now on the long tail of COVID and stuff, 118 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,200 trying to reconnect locally with people that maybe I hadn't seen 119 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,400 for a few years. We dropped off each other's 120 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,600 radar during lockdown and stuff. And so I wanted to have zines 121 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,800 mostly to take to local Zine Fest and stores. 122 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,520 And we have a lot of like arts events, indie art events, stuff 123 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,400 like that. And so I just wanted to have a 124 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,760 decent stock of zines that I could show up and trade. 125 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,960 We have Zine Fest here as well, and when I started looking at 126 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,560 the stuff that I wanted to have in print, I realized like, oh, 127 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,720 these are all kind of my very personal version of something 128 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,120 that I've always wanted to play but never found a way to enjoy 129 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,120 playing it. Like I've tried the Modifius 130 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,320 Dune game, I've looked at the Fallout one, I've looked at 131 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,640 Mutant Year Zero, I've tried. I have like 5 versions of Rune 132 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,920 Quest behind me and none of them are that fun to me. 133 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,800 But there's so much that appeals to me and all of those. 134 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,120 And so, yeah, I wanted to get all those together, all in 135 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,360 Prince. And I just like bootleg stuff. 136 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,640 I think, You know, I grew up in the South and there were all 137 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,600 sorts of flea markets and there would be weird bootleg toys or 138 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,240 like going to the dollar store. And it's like Captain Action and 139 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,800 it's just like a repainted Spider Man or whatever. 140 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:05,160 Like those always held a certain mystique to me and a certain 141 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,560 level of humor. And so, you know, I like 142 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,640 bootlegs, I like flea markets, I like selling stuff for cash 143 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,240 under the table and let's not tell anyone kind of thing. 144 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:21,840 So that's, I hope, the three angles that brought this about. 145 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,280 I do love that. I'm also from the South and I 146 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,520 also do remember those flea markets. 147 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,680 Actually, even even in California, I've been to a few 148 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:40,360 that were like, huh, cool DVDs buddy, very cool. 149 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,000 I also why do we always randomly run into people and realize that 150 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,160 we're all from the South? Do you mind saying what where 151 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:48,480 you were from in the South there in the United? 152 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,440 States I was born in Austin, TX and lived in Texas for years. 153 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,600 Did we for? Did we forget all this because I 154 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,560 was born in San Antonio, TX in. Dallas. 155 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:02,160 Yeah. And my dad grew up in San 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,360 Francisco, which is also very funny. 157 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,560 Yeah. I think there's, again, talking 158 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:10,680 about, like, reconnecting with people in the Midwest. 159 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,520 There is this kind of level of, you know, you hear about the 160 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,720 Midwest passive aggressiveness. And I know other people that 161 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,080 move here and they're just like, how do you make friends? 162 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,120 And it is kind of difficult. And so I do always end up 163 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,280 connecting with people who are here from the South who are just 164 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,360 like, no one hangs out on their porch and invites strangers onto 165 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:32,800 their porch. What's up with that? 166 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:38,120 And it's, you know, just we have to connect all these expatriates 167 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,840 from the South when they end up elsewhere, so. 168 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,480 It's so it's so so I've never lived in the Midwest, but I've 169 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:45,920 lived in the South. I've lived in the East and I've 170 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,120 lived on the West. I did. 171 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,120 I had never heard of like a Midwest passive aggressiveness. 172 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,320 But I'll tell you what, when I went from East Coast to West 173 00:09:55,320 --> 00:10:00,280 Coast, there was a a massive culture shock of most of it was 174 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:01,640 just the speed at which people do stuff. 175 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,200 Everyone on the East Coast is moving so fast and is like very 176 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:05,640 blunt with their shit. And everyone on the West Coast 177 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,960 is moving so slow. And like, the biggest issue I 178 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,320 had is I would on the East Coast, if you say, hey, let's go 179 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,480 do something, you go do something together on the West 180 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,280 Coast, if he's like, hey, let's go do something. 181 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:17,600 That's just their way of saying goodbye. 182 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,520 They have no plans to ever talk to you again. 183 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,040 But you get used to it I guess. Yeah, it's some of that in the 184 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,920 Midwest too. It is a way of saying I enjoyed 185 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,760 our time together is to say, let's spend some other time 186 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,840 together. It does not actually mean let's 187 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,640 commit to spending that time together. 188 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,120 Yeah, the Midwest is very like, oh, isn't that nice? 189 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:42,040 Or, you know, the I went to college with and I was friends 190 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,080 with a lot of people who were involved in the arts. 191 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,360 And the compliment they always get like at art shows and stuff 192 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,280 is like, oh, that's interesting. Like a, a complete unwillingness 193 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,440 to say what they really feel, an inability to say what they feel 194 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,200 without it sounding offensive. And so they just say a nothing. 195 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,360 They say something that translates into nothing at all, 196 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,360 so. Well, you just described the way 197 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,640 I talk to everybody. So thanks for thanks for that 198 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,160 psychology. Yeah, I work in retail and so 199 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,280 it's actually a useful skill to have to say, to speak to someone 200 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,880 and actually say nothing to them because people don't like it 201 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,400 when you tell the truth when you work now retail. 202 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,760 So they don't want you to be a human in retail, they want you 203 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,400 to be a dispensing machine that makes small. 204 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,040 Time, yeah. Yeah, so I work in healthcare. 205 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,920 So I also I work it's it's just like retail but with body 206 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,160 fluids. So good, good. 207 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,120 So I got you. So more about the the bootleg 208 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,520 fest. So I've had speed room for quite 209 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,520 a while. I remember I won't mention that 210 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,880 actually, but so and after the bombs been out since for like 2 211 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,800 years now. Very I love the way that that's 212 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:54,480 put together. I love I know that you're a big 213 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,680 comics head. I love all the use of the the 214 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,720 comics and that everything like at some point we're we're 215 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:01,480 definitely going to be talking about speeder in here on the 216 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,840 show, me and Hunterman being like what gave we get to do from 217 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,480 air index for quite a while. So we're excited to finally get 218 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,440 to enemy or brightly but spice world. 219 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,800 We talked about this a little bit before the show started. 220 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:16,120 Is one that he's not out yet in PDF and it's it's coming out and 221 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,720 I know you said something about like this is the little bonus. 222 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,720 So so for those that you know, cuz all of these are available 223 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,480 on your H page right now. We'll make sure the link to that 224 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,040 is down below. But tell us a little bit more 225 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,640 about Spice World specifically, since it's not available to us 226 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,160 at this point. Yeah, Spice World. 227 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,560 I've wanted to do a Dune game for a long time. 228 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:38,360 I've tried different ways in and never gotten it. 229 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,520 Like you, I've recently gotten into Traveler in a big way. 230 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,920 And the cool parts of travel, I mean, the whole of Traveler is 231 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,560 very cool, but I think the initial things that spark 232 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,520 people's imaginations are the life path, character creation, 233 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,520 where you're entering into a, a service or a career path, 234 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,760 enrolling to see if you get promotions, enrolling to see 235 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,560 what you get materially when you leave or when you get promoted. 236 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,560 That stuff is very cool. It's also a really simple 237 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:14,920 resolution system that uses 2D6. So it's like not far off from a 238 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:19,960 lot of other games as well. The hard part of Traveler is the 239 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,320 same stuff that you see like in OD and D, like old dungeon 240 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,960 crawler stuff is there's all these rules that are really 241 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,920 intrinsic and important to the game that are not really laid 242 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,560 out very well. And in D&D it's like the the 243 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:36,480 importance of the dungeon turns and stuff like that. 244 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,680 And then Traveler, it's the importance of mortgages and 245 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,080 paying your debts. And yeah, yeah. 246 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:50,680 And there's a whole kind of hidden system of buying stuff in 247 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:53,280 one system and shipping it to another. 248 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,680 While you're doing your mission, you're also carting a bunch of 249 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,480 carbon from this carbon rich planet to this carbon poor 250 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,920 planet or whatever. And it's really interesting and 251 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,360 it's really well done once it starts humming. 252 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:09,920 But Traveller does ask you to build that entire engine before 253 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,600 you turn it on. There's some great blog posts 254 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,120 out there that laid out a little more clearly, but it's very much 255 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:21,640 a spreadsheet game, which if you have the right group, that's 256 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,520 awesome. If everyone's on board helping 257 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,360 track the spreadsheet, it hums very nicely. 258 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,360 I don't have a lot of people around here that play games like 259 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:34,000 that. And so I just, I kind of 260 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,520 vandalized Traveler and took out all the money. 261 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,880 Dune is so unconcerned with like making money and with poor 262 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,480 people in general and is very concerned with like aristocracy 263 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,880 and rulers and dictators. And so this is a game about 264 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,440 entering those career paths to be a noble or an accomplished 265 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,680 sword fighter or a rich merchant and kind of scheming and 266 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,440 plotting and gathering information without the need to 267 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,880 track how much money you have or whether you'll be able to fly 268 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,160 from one planet to another. Is that, I guess I described 269 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,680 what it isn't. But yeah, so you get skills. 270 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:21,200 The skills are the typical Dune skills that you'd expect, like 271 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,520 bureaucracy, sex, sword fighting, and a lot of the 272 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,840 skills are used outside of combat to gather info, get dirt 273 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,240 on your opponents and stuff like that. 274 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,360 A lot of kind of PBTA style pick lists where you're rolling and 275 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,160 asking questions and getting this info. 276 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,680 And then there are more direct con contests like there are in 277 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,200 traveler D&D. But a cool thing about 278 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,240 travelers, there's no hit points, you're always taking 279 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,520 away from people's attributes. And base traveler, I think 280 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,680 you're only attacking the physical attributes, but because 281 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,880 it's Doom now you can also attack their social status or 282 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,560 their, you know, their sense of self and erode that with your 283 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,880 powerful Mentech computing skills or you're been a Jesuit 284 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,400 sexiness until you know, if you get their social status down, 285 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,080 they're embarrassed and they lose face and stuff like that. 286 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,920 So that's been a fun part of like, what does it look like to 287 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,720 treat a secret the same way that Traveler used treats a laser 288 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,840 gun? And that you can use the secret 289 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,280 to deal damage to someone's social status and mess with them 290 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,960 that way. So that is. 291 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,080 Pretty cool. That's a really cool idea. 292 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:31,960 That's gonna be fun. Yeah. 293 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,000 Thank you. I'm excited to play more. 294 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,240 That sounds fantastic. I love the. 295 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,920 It is so weird that like, and I think that's what some people 296 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,240 really like about watching like things and reading things about 297 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,600 like the aristocracy and stuff is that exact thing that you're 298 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,880 you're zeroing in on. Is that like if you, if you like 299 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,120 make fun of one of your buddies in like a circle, like you just 300 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,440 made fun of one of your buddies. But if you make fun of like 301 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,720 another member of like the high nobility aristocracy, you could 302 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,280 literally start like a generational war because how 303 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,240 dare you made them lose like face in front of like their 304 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,160 friends and stuff. It's the the stakes become 305 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,079 higher when the stakes actually are like completely meaningless 306 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:09,400 for the most part. And it's, it's really 307 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:10,680 interesting. Right. 308 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,520 And there's all these old books of like nobles becoming so 309 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,480 embarrassed or their love is turned down that they waste away 310 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,400 and die. And it's like, can you turn that 311 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,119 into a game? Can you kill someone with 312 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,280 sadness? I think we can do this in this 313 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,480 game. So yeah, I've been reading a 314 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,520 bunch of I love to read. I've that's always sounds dumb 315 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,440 when I say it. I need to figure out a better 316 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,680 way to say it. But I've been reading a lot of 317 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:37,400 like books, fiction set during the Napoleonic War or during 318 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,240 like Renaissance Europe and stuff like that, like books 319 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:44,520 about nobility and aristocracy to try to figure out like what 320 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,600 can I pull from that? Because Dune is, I mean, there 321 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,080 aren't, there's lasers and there's spaceships, but it is 322 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,760 like basically hand to hand fighting Napoleonic. 323 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:59,160 It's about these nobles who fight in a very established 324 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,640 society, you know? So yeah, I mean, I absolutely 325 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,800 it's, it is science fiction, but it is way more tied into like a 326 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,960 previous like 19th, 18th century aristocracy that's even more 327 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,680 like inspired by the Romans still. 328 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,400 Right. You know, Yeah, I've been 329 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,320 reading. Just real quick note, it does 330 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,520 not sound dumb when you say that you like to read. 331 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,320 It only sounds dumb when someone proudly says I don't read so 332 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,800 sorry. And I'm shocked at the number of 333 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,840 people that say the the latter, not the former. 334 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,680 Yeah, but yeah, so I've read like War and Peace and Master 335 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,760 and Commander in these like classic Napoleonic books about 336 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,480 these rich people going. Off to war. 337 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,360 Because it's what they're expected to do. 338 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:45,560 And it's because they, you know, they would rise through the 339 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,840 ranks and come back with money. And that's why they go to war. 340 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,560 And then they're like getting shot and dying. 341 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,280 And they're like, oh. I didn't expect this was. 342 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,520 What an unfortunate turn of events, and it's been good. 343 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,360 It's been fun to see. Like this is just Dune without 344 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,080 the laser guns and instead of spice they're worried about 345 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,040 their nice furniture or whatever. 346 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,400 I. Think that's still working? 347 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:16,360 Dune actually as well now. I'm excited to bet so so we're 348 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:19,400 gonna get this physically as part of the bootleg fest. 349 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,800 We'll make sure the links are down there for those. 350 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,240 I don't know if we explained exactly what it is. 351 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:24,280 I'll make sure the link is there. 352 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,720 But go to this web page. You can pre-order what? 353 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,720 Why don't you tell us exactly like what, what, what can people 354 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,680 actually do with the Bootleg Fest to like go get it and and 355 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,320 do what not? Yeah, you go to Aaron King dot 356 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,120 Games and it is just a Shopify store and so you can check out 357 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:41,720 there. It'll charge you for shipping. 358 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,160 I have already started sending these games to the printer, so 359 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,600 I'm waiting for them to get to me and then they'll start 360 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,840 shipping out. You are pre ordering individual 361 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,600 scenes. You can buy as many as you want. 362 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,480 If you are like a retailer or distributor. 363 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,400 If you order three or more of any, I just double your whole 364 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,960 order. So basically give you a retail 365 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:02,880 discount. But yeah, once I ship them I 366 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,320 will also be sending PDFs as well. 367 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,080 Speeder in the base game is free on H dot IO. 368 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,200 You can go download it right now. 369 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,840 After the bomb, the whole thing is free for the PDF, you can go 370 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,280 download it. So if you are interested and 371 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,200 don't want to have a physical thing or can't afford a physical 372 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,240 thing, there are still options out there. 373 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,280 There are three full campaign supplements for Speed Room as 374 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,560 well that are being printed and those are also already done. 375 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,400 The PDFs do cost money so I would just suggest buying the 376 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,000 physical one. It's not much more expensive and 377 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,240 I'll send you the PDFs. Oh yeah. 378 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,760 And then Spice World is not available on itch right now. 379 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,640 I know you can get the PDF from if you buy the physical, but 380 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,880 what happens after the physical? That is a good question. 381 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,240 I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure how exclusive I 382 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,920 want to keep it. I'm sure eventually I'll put it 383 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,400 out. I do a podcast, RTFM, and we 384 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,320 have a Patreon. I'll be putting the PDF there. 385 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,360 So if you have listened to that and you backed the podcast or 386 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,040 want to or want to, basically, I mean, you could subscribe to our 387 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,440 Patreon for a dollar for a month and download that and then I'll 388 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:12,800 subscribe. That would be fine. 389 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,680 That might be the best way to get it, but we'll see. 390 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,680 I'm keeping a secret. I'm afraid that the big Dune IP 391 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,120 owners are going to come down on me. 392 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,160 I'm not actually afraid. Well, listen on our on our 393 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,360 podcast here with our millions of listeners. 394 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,080 Someone might just call them. Listening. 395 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,840 Tell them to put their pop, tell them to put their popcorn bucket 396 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,280 down and go check out this. It's dot IO game and. 397 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,800 Also, if anyone wants to send me that Dune popcorn bucket I do 398 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,440 want one. But that's funny, I didn't go to 399 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,600 the theater. Jarrett Crater got two, I think, 400 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,480 and he was shipping one off to somebody. 401 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,520 I was a gamer should ask you. Yeah, yeah. 402 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,280 Thank goodness gracious. Yeah, I did. 403 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,000 I did get a cease and desist for Speed Run at one points from 404 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,280 Chaosium, which was a bummer. That has all been figured out. 405 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,680 They are my mortal enemies now. But I did want to mention 406 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,240 quickly too, that Speed Rune has art by this cartoonist, a 407 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,360 Deacon, who is one of my favorite comic artists. 408 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,840 I released an early version of Speed Run that just had like 409 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,920 some public domain and manipulated stuff. 410 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,280 And he was like, hey, can I do art for this? 411 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:25,360 And I was like almost crying. I was like, you are one of my 412 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:27,880 favorite cartoonists. Why are you following me on 413 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,760 Twitter? And he turned in like twice the 414 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,400 amount of work that he had originally said he would. 415 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,200 And so there's just so much cool arts. 416 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,240 I just, it's like a dream, you know? 417 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,080 It's bucket list item of like work with this cartoonist that I 418 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,320 really like. So it's worth it for the art 419 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,200 alone, I will say. Yeah, I'm glad you got the cease 420 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,080 and desist cleared up, you know. Yeah, I'm glad you got a cease 421 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,640 and desist. Now you have that forever. 422 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,400 You know, it is kind of a badge of honor. 423 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,440 This big company came, you know, throwing its weight at me, so. 424 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,720 It's funny, when I first saw the the updated Speed Room, I it 425 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,640 said by Aaron King with art by Adigen and I was like what 426 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,600 Degeneret wrote it's. Good, right? 427 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,880 I mean, I'm sure it's it's on purpose. 428 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,560 No, his dad is Bruce Deegan, who illustrated children's books. 429 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,040 God, what? One of them is like the jammy 430 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,400 bear. Jam bear. 431 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,040 Oh my God. Anyway, it's just weird that he 432 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,520 comes from this Jamberry. It's a classic kids book by 433 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,360 Bruce Deegan. Anyway, just a weird a weird 434 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:37,680 fact from Alex Deegan's biggest fan. 435 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,880 Me. You can go get his dad's books 436 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,160 too, yeah. Very cool, Jamberry. 437 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,200 Interesting. That's neat, though. 438 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,080 Yeah, no, that's, I mean, that's really cool when you get to a 439 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,480 chance to work with someone who you obviously like. 440 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,720 I mean, that's like that's half the reason we've done this 441 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,440 podcast and we get to meet people like you who are like, 442 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,640 man, we really like their shit. Maybe they'll talk to us, but 443 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,840 that's awesome. The other thing we're doing 444 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,280 today, so that is the bootleg fest. 445 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,880 We'll make sure again that the links are in there. 446 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,680 Definitely go check those out. It's worth it. 447 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,560 I mean, most of the zines are like 10:00-ish dollars. 448 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,720 And yeah, I mean, to get the PDF as well as the Zine for $10, 449 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,400 especially with the quality of the stuff that you put out, is 450 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,880 an incredible deal. And I mean, I of course bought 451 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,400 all of them. The shipping is pretty low for 452 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,160 that. So definitely wanna go check all 453 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,640 of those out. We're also going over In a 454 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,640 Mirror Brightly today. This is the from the Low Res 455 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,840 Futures Kickstarter that you did with Max. 456 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,120 I know we talked about this before on the show, but we're 457 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,680 going to be we're going to be going through this today after 458 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,720 we boot you out of here. But tell us a little bit about 459 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,240 In a Mirror Brightly. Yeah, this is going to be a real 460 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,560 test. Do I even remember making this 461 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,640 game? Kickstarter. 462 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,440 The stress of Kickstarter has wiped the memory in a mirror 463 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,200 brightly. I think was the 1st inspired by 464 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:58,000 cyber metal game I made. I saw Adam in town when they 465 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,200 were touring, Adam's in the band Law Dispute and they were 466 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,600 touring and they were playing a show here. 467 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,040 And so we met up and it was right after I'd met, met, read 468 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,360 cyber metal and I was like, don't take this the wrong way, 469 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:12,840 but I read it and I immediately wanted to make my own version. 470 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,480 Like cyber metal is so good that I was like, I want to mess with 471 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,000 this. I want to get my hands in it and 472 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,760 so in a mirror. Brightly is kind of millenarian 473 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,600 like 2000s work of fantasy sci-fi. 474 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:34,400 The matrix, the invisibles, the original mage game from White 475 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,200 wolf. Like this idea that a big change 476 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:44,160 is coming and the the world will look different and you can use 477 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,120 technology and magic and strangeness to maybe further 478 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,880 that change or, or resist it or whatever. 479 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,520 So there's just like, lots of weird abilities and you're 480 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:57,760 fighting against shadowy government entities and, you 481 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,000 know, just all that kind of Men in Black stuff that really hit 482 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,480 its high point in the 2000s, early 2000s. 483 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,680 So there's like weird, yeah, weird ritual magic, more sex. 484 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,920 Ever since I started hanging out with Max, I just have to put sex 485 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:14,520 in every game. I. 486 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,120 Was going to say every game you have, it's just got like a sex, 487 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,760 you know? I remember the number of RTM 488 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,680 episodes where it's like, man, this would be better if I did a 489 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,200 sex move. Oh wait, this one does have a 490 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,200 sex move, you know. Yeah, so you can do weird sex 491 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,760 magic. I mean there's other non sex 492 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,240 stuff as well. You don't have to. 493 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,920 I know some people for any number of reasons have a hard 494 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,040 time engaging with sex material. So it's not explicit. 495 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:40,840 There's a lot of consent stuff in there. 496 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,200 And also if if that's not your jam, you can ignore it and the 497 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,080 rest of the game will play just fine. 498 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,120 But yeah, it's another kind of life path, character generation 499 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,800 thing. There's a full adventure in it. 500 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,200 And then there's a cool book attached to the back of my book, 501 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,240 or my book is attached to the back of a different cool book, 502 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,320 which is kind of a deathmatch, island style games of death, 503 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,680 Hunger Games. What's the movie? 504 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,240 The Japanese movie where all those high school kids get. 505 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,160 Oh, it's oh, I know what you're talking about. 506 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,720 My God, you're it's. A comic book too, Yes, Battle 507 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,120 Royale style. Yeah, like what if Fortnite was 508 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:26,040 bloody and sad instead of had? Is it not? 509 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,680 Sad. Is it a full of license 510 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,120 material? Right, right. 511 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,960 I should if Goku's not fighting Casper the Friendly Ghost. 512 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,720 It's not Fortnite or whatever the fuck. 513 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,840 And John Wick, Chris? Scott doing, Yeah, doing, doing 514 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,760 virtual concerts, you know. I wish I could do a Fortnite 515 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,960 dance right now. I wish I knew a Fortnite dance. 516 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,720 I would do one. And you can do the like this 517 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,600 thing or. Whatever, like the not on this 518 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,680 show you can't, sorry. Hey. 519 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,520 Doing that, no flossing. Here, if I want to floss, I'm 520 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,040 flossing. Yeah, just put on a backpack, 521 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,800 but no, this is great. I mean low res features was such 522 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,640 a cool idea between both. I mean, obviously we're we're 523 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,160 we've said the million times we're an out of a Stan podcast 524 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,480 here. I mean, it's probably a big 525 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,520 reason we even started it and a big reason that I Adam's a big 526 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,680 reason that I think about games way that I do. 527 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,520 I mean, you can't it's all Adam. But so our metal 2012 is a 528 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,960 fantastic game and I really love the way that both you guys like 529 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,120 heck, this this is I'm really excited to go over this. 530 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,200 As I said, we've been wanting to go over this for for quite a 531 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,080 long time. I'm just trying to find the 532 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,600 right time and it just kind of fell in. 533 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,800 I don't know how it fell in this. 534 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:31,880 I was just like, hey, we're going to do this. 535 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,160 We want to talk. I was like, yeah, let's talk. 536 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,560 OK, we got it. We're doing it in two days and, 537 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,520 and we're here so really excited to go over it. 538 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,880 I mean, the system is super, super clean. 539 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,320 I love the D100 system and Enumera brightly. 540 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,880 It definitely reminds me of those kind of like White Wolf 541 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,440 games where it's like, here's the world that everyone sees and 542 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,080 right behind it is this entirely other world and you that really 543 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,240 comes through a lot. And in the game, like, 544 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,960 especially with like the enemies, we're like, what's 545 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,880 what's the first enemy? Isn't it just like a regular 546 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,520 dude? Every day shit head. 547 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,400 Just an every day shit head, yeah. 548 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,440 That's, again, that's my retail experience of like, you're my 549 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,920 enemy today. I know you're not a bad guy. 550 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,760 I know you're part of the system that's making you act this way. 551 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,680 You're still my enemy, and I still have to deal with you. 552 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:23,560 So, yeah, it's, I mean, the promise of White Wolf, it was 553 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,000 always so much greater than the delivery of the White Wolf 554 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,680 games. And so I think again, getting 555 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,560 back to that bootleg idea of like these big companies take 556 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,360 these ideas that are in the public consciousness, like the 557 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,640 idea that there is a world behind the one we know is like 558 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,440 old. And lots of people have played 559 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,360 with that idea. But to suddenly be like, we own 560 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,160 this idea now because we put out this 300 page hardcover game 561 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,880 about it. The game is not great. 562 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,200 There's great ideas in there. There's tons of problematic 563 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,360 content in all of those as well. But just, you know, I hope 564 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,600 people feel free to go. These are actually all of our 565 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,200 ideas and we can do them the way we want to do that. 566 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,320 Speak to us or the people around us instead of inheriting this 567 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,880 janky thing from someone on high. 568 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,000 I don't know, maybe that makes me sound really uncreative, like 569 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,360 I only do things based on other things I don't. 570 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:27,120 There's lots of I had my weird, fully self selfish stage of like 571 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:32,200 these are my strangest ideas. Those are out there too, but now 572 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,040 I'm in my what if I made a good version of these things phase. 573 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,720 Well, I think it's really fair. I think there is something to be 574 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,000 said about like a lot of these ideas, all these themes are 575 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,800 things that we've all collectively hold and have been 576 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,440 around for a longer than a lot of these properties are. 577 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,840 And saying like, hey, I gathered a lot of these ideas and 578 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,760 concepts and I made a, an IP out of it. 579 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,440 And now you can no longer access like these themes that have been 580 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,160 around longer than my IP. Like that's a hugely Dick move. 581 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,960 And that's why pirating is OK. Yeah, yeah, You know, most of 582 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,080 these games, like I said, are available for free if you pirate 583 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,760 my games. That's cool too. 584 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,720 Once I no. You should pirate big IPS. 585 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,920 You don't pirate from the small. You should, but it's back when 586 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,880 the Trove existed. The Trove was like the Trove 587 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,560 trove of RPGPDFS. And it was, again, Speaking of 588 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,960 badges of honor, like always kind of a badge of honor to be 589 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,560 like, oh, someone put my shit up here. 590 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,880 Someone thinks my stuff is interesting enough that they put 591 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,720 it on this thing to share with other people. 592 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,440 Yeah, I sure I would like the $3 or whatever that I would 593 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:42,960 normally get. But, you know, I go through 594 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,720 phases where I have a hard time affording things. 595 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,080 And you know, I grew up downloading MP threes and 596 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,680 downloading movies and stuff and like, it helped shape my taste 597 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,760 in such important ways to have access to that. 598 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,320 So if someone is doing that with my stuff, I get it. 599 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,680 I hope someday they buy something, but also I hope 600 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,960 someday like they make something and put it out there and that 601 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,680 would be just as cool. If you didn't listen to half of 602 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,480 Nutty's hip hop but that weird little sound in it from like the 603 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,560 Limewire downloads, then you're not one of us. 604 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,120 But no I. No, I mean, that's an 605 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,440 experience. The other day, actually, 606 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaking of what we're speaking on, I was listening to a song 607 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,320 that I know originally I got off Lime Bar and it had an audio 608 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,600 flaw in it and I was ready for it to hear that audio because I 609 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,040 had to. Like it was on like a disk. 610 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,880 I burned and I had it on repeat for like a year and I was 611 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,800 waiting for it and it was clean on the way through because I'm 612 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,680 on Spotify now. I'm like, oh wow, the days, the 613 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,040 old days. Right. 614 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,840 Or like, yeah, and the royalty free music in After the Bomb is 615 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,960 all from archive.org, which is a great website, a great resource, 616 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,920 but so much of it has that record hiss because it was 617 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:56,000 pulled off of record players. And I know that's not the real 618 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,040 version of the song, but those audio artifacts feel as 619 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,520 important as the music of just to have that kind of. 620 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,640 You can almost hear the uneven record showing up and down 621 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,800 around while chunking through. Yeah, yeah. 622 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,680 I randomly like my car doesn't have like an aux cable so I have 623 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,040 this like aux thing I have to plug into it And I just didn't 624 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,600 feel like doing it home from work the other day. 625 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,320 And I randomly found this like classic channel which is just 626 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,800 all the shit I grew up like in high school listening to other 627 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,080 radio. So it's like Nelly and stuff. 628 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,120 And I don't know if the radio edits like I think things are 629 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,680 much less edited now, but remember those songs? 630 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,400 So they used to do sound effects as sensors. 631 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:40,160 So it would be like we like it's the whole 24 hours a day. 632 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,600 It's a classics, you know, like old school channel that plays 633 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,400 all that. And everyone still has those 90s 634 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,680 radio edits. Just. 635 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,960 Like a weird like clucking or whatever. 636 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,040 Oh, it's so good. Especially like specifically the 637 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,680 Nelly song plays like every day and like half of it is just like 638 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,000 random sound effects and it's so good. 639 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:00,200 Yeah. I mean, there's a whole lot of 640 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,920 discourse around, you know, piracy and all this. 641 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,000 I mean, if we're if you're, if you buy a movie from a streaming 642 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,840 service and they can take it away from you and and owning 643 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,880 isn't, isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing, you know, so, 644 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,120 you know, people, technology, we're we're in the new, the new 645 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,400 Napster age, I think. But you know, there's also I 646 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:21,960 should. Set this up so you could see all 647 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,719 my DV DS. I'm on the physical media train. 648 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,880 I'm going to own this stuff. Exactly. 649 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,159 They're going to take it all away. 650 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,000 There's like a wall. We actually just got VHS player 651 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,880 this week so now we're fucking VHSS so. 652 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,000 I can't. That's a step too far for me. 653 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,719 But I appreciate and love. I mean, that's, that's the other 654 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,239 part of it too, is like so much of that stuff is disappearing. 655 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,679 Yeah, it's. Gone. 656 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,120 You know, the studios are happy to delete it from a server 657 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,360 because then they don't have to pay for it. 658 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,639 But like, what about historians? What about people who are 659 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,600 interested in that stuff as an art form or a means of 660 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,800 production? Like, you know, so many of video 661 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,440 games are gone. The the store I work at, we sell 662 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,240 stuff on eBay too, and we sell DVDs on eBay. 663 00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:09,440 And it's so funny. We will find some weird like 664 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,840 horses of the upper Midwest and it's on DVD and it's worth 665 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,760 $50.00 because there's only one of them. 666 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,320 And then someone will buy it. And it's usually like a library. 667 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,760 They're like this information. This is the only source for this 668 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,240 information. And we need it in our 669 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,240 collection. So we are happy to pay $50.00 670 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,760 for this horse DVD. Please send it to us. 671 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,960 So yeah, I, I think it's nice to, to keep track of those 672 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,480 things and to have access to them. 673 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,120 You know, I would not be surprised if 10 years from now, 674 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,840 access to the Internet is much less reliable. 675 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:46,080 And so I'll be happy to have this is my version of Dumerism. 676 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,160 What do you call Prepper? Yeah, I'm prepping. 677 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,560 I'm prepping for no Internet. And so I will be able to watch, 678 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,960 you know, Sliders season one and two starring Jerry O'Connell at 679 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,920 my leisure. And everyone in the neighborhood 680 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,920 will know Sliders is on at Aaron's tonight. 681 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,120 We're going over there. I'm just fantasizing about being 682 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,280 popular because of my ownership of of. 683 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,160 Material goods, Yeah. No, Yeah. 684 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,120 I mean, it's it's interesting. We live in a time where we have 685 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,160 more access to information than ever before. 686 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,640 And it more and more of it is becoming shitty and fake and 687 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,840 terrible. And the more we get and the more 688 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,640 access and the more ability we have to even store, it doesn't 689 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,400 matter. Like if it's not profitable, 690 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,440 it's being deleted in ways that you you really couldn't delete 691 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,680 books before without burning entire libraries and cities and 692 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:40,520 shit. So it's it's an insane let's 693 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,800 keep let's I mean, things are going Grace Yeah, yeah. 694 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:49,440 Anyway, gosh, there's about 8010 and so we could have just went 695 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,040 off on like the last little bit. So I'm glad we just kept moving 696 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:58,320 through so low res features. I know we talked about this a 697 00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,440 little bit before the podcast too. 698 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,240 There's an AR aspect of this that's gonna eventually come out 699 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,640 and there was some like maybe bonus content. 700 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:10,160 We might give you some. Way, Max and I wrote a bunch of 701 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,880 bonus content that would be AR accessible, you know, if you 702 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,240 like, held a phone over this page, it would show this extra, 703 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,880 you know, whatever. If you go through in a mirror 704 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,920 brightly, there's a bunch of hands of glory, like candle 705 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,000 hands all doing different poses. And those were the signals of 706 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,920 like, here's where the AR content will be. 707 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,440 Yeah. And so that blank space is 708 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,400 actually a secret ability. Unfortunately, Max has gotten 709 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,320 very busy, got hired as a professor, had to move across 710 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,120 Canada like three times and he's the one with the game dev 711 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,720 skills, so we haven't gotten to that, but I had completely 712 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:50,960 forgotten about it. Thank you for reminding me. 713 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,640 I will put out the extra contents, but yeah, it's mostly 714 00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:00,720 extra player options. Cool secrets backgrounds, you 715 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:04,000 know, like most of the backgrounds in the book are like 716 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,080 you were an artist, you were, you know, just the stuff you 717 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,000 were a hacker like in the Matrix or whatever. 718 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,720 But then there's weird secret ones of like you are a time 719 00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:15,800 traveler sent back to do whatever and some secret 720 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,840 abilities and stuff too. So we'll get those. 721 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,840 Maybe, maybe not. Maybe I'll delete them from the 722 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,600 server and no one will have access to them ever. 723 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,920 You'll never know, no. Yeah, just print one physical 724 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,160 copy and stick it on the shelf somewhere and then. 725 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,880 Yeah, you have to send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I 726 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,800 will send you a physical copy of the Secret abilities. 727 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,240 I would honestly love that so fucking much if that was the 728 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,720 thing that you had to do because I would do it so fast. 729 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,200 Yeah, I have always wanted to do play by mail games. 730 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,000 Like if you go to old issues of Dragon Magazine or whatever, 731 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,120 it's like send $5 to us and we'll send you this booklet of 732 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,160 our campaign and then you send in one move a month or whatever, 733 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,560 and then we tell you what happens. 734 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,040 I had started trying to write one of those. 735 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:04,200 I am just like too depressed to reliably make to the post 736 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,800 office, so I don't think I could run one, but it appeals to me a 737 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,640 lot. And there's a book, Wolf in 738 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,880 White Van by John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, which is a 739 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,240 fiction. It's a novel, but it is about a 740 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:21,360 guy who sends out those moves, who lives at home and, you know, 741 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,080 talks to people through letters, through this weird game world 742 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,240 that I really enjoyed so. That sounds pretty cool. 743 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,480 Awesome. Yeah. 744 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,720 I wanted to do like AI think I know that discussion came up in 745 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,520 the RTFM Discord. Definitely go check out the RTFM 746 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,040 discord. A lot of amazing discussions 747 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,440 happening there about games and all the things that surround the 748 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,320 gaming culture. But I really want to do like a 749 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,400 physical game jam where everyone like makes something and then 750 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,680 prints 20 of it and then sends it to somebody. 751 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,080 And then whoever gets all of it together just takes one of 752 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,920 everything so there's 20 and then mails it back so everyone 753 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,720 gets one of everybody's. Like that would be such an 754 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,240 amazing. Thing they used to be how 755 00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:59,560 fanzines were put together like, you know, Legion of Superheroes 756 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:05,800 fanzine, everyone has one page front and back folded to, you 757 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,560 know, write about your favorite ship or to review an issue or to 758 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:10,800 write about your favorite artist. 759 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,840 And then you would do that. You would send it all to one 760 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,720 person and they would send it back out to the people. 761 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,840 Yeah, it's one of those things that sounds like long distance 762 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,200 intimate. It's just like a very nice 763 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:28,840 culture and community project. But also that's a lot of work. 764 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,200 Maybe, but it would be worth it. I don't know. 765 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,400 Yeah, I I definitely like the idea, but I would never have the 766 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,120 spoon to actually do it. So maybe someone better than me 767 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:41,720 one day will do that. So we're I think we're going to 768 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:43,760 hop into doing the anime of Bradley Aaron. 769 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,000 I just want to say thank you so much for coming on the show and 770 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,160 chatting with us today. A permanent invitation. 771 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,360 Always would love to have you on everything you put out. 772 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,240 You know, we we devour here and and really enjoy everything you 773 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,880 do in the way that you you and Max both think about games. 774 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,400 Anyone here on the show? You know, we've we've talked 775 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,360 about the RTFM discord before. You guys are much Unacs are much 776 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,120 better and smarter about games than we are and we really love 777 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,040 to listen to. Max as a professor, I'm. 778 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,760 I'm just a nobody but I'm. Just just. 779 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,320 I'm just, that's what I got going on too. 780 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,360 I got this guy and I'm like, I just, I just cracked jokes, you 781 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,160 know? There was a, we submitted RTFM 782 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,520 to the Ennies. And so to do that you have to 783 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,040 like make a, a best of clip thing. 784 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,760 And the whole clip was like Max saying smart things or our 785 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,920 guests saying smart things and then me just doing like weird 786 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,560 fucking goblin voices and introductions and stuff just 787 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,000 gave such a, a skewed idea. Well, maybe not skewed, maybe I 788 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,480 am kind of the show Goblin. But yeah, RTFM comes out every 789 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,840 two weeks. Each episode is about a single 790 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,480 book. I think we have like 61 episodes 791 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,400 right now in the main feed. So you can go back and listen. 792 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,920 We've done Girps, we've done Traveler, sort of. 793 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:58,360 We did a lost episode on Traveler, but right now we are 794 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:03,240 doing again a sexy season, so we're doing anal Wizards. 795 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:07,560 We covered Vice and Violence, which is like a super fun 796 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,920 dungeon crawler game wrapped in this. 797 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,240 Like porn art, online porn art. It's actually also really. 798 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,840 Good art, a lot of tits and Dicks. 799 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,640 Yeah, very explicit. But it's also like one of the 800 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,680 best fantasy adventure RPGs I've ever read. 801 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,280 It's really good. The layout's great, the 802 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,040 mechanics are neat, and then I've. 803 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,200 Not read that one. Oh, it's it's. 804 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,160 You'll get it. I mean pre pre before I starting 805 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,600 the show we were talking about anal lizards because like that's 806 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,320 such a cleverly and well done project that I would just really 807 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,320 encourage anyone to check it out if you want just like a solo 808 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,120 comic S choose your own adventure game. 809 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,880 Yeah, and Vice and Violence I think is free. 810 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,200 The artist name, the artist goes by Rapscallion. 811 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,440 You can just find it on their Twitter, like a Google Drive 812 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,400 link to one of the most professional and nice looking 813 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:03,200 RPG books I've ever seen. But is full, you know, Content 814 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:08,120 Warning is full of naked people, so yeah. 815 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,640 So is life, so you know. So we all come into this world 816 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,360 naked. I'm going to leave it that way. 817 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:21,800 Yeah, trust me, you will. But yeah, definitely check out 818 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,320 RTFM. We'll put the links down there. 819 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,720 It's something I look forward to afford to listen to all the 820 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:26,840 time. And definitely check out the 821 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,440 Patreon as well. It's yeah, it's only like a 822 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,360 dollar. You can check out a lot of 823 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,480 really interesting episodes that are are usually specific to 824 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,320 Patreon. I know you guys occasionally 825 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:41,600 drop them on to the the main channel as well, but definitely 826 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,640 check out that it's one of our favorite podcasts here on the 827 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,160 show. And again, always appreciate you 828 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,680 always, you know, permanent invitation. 829 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,640 If you ever have anything coming out, please let us. 830 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,600 Know we gotta get on our. Chat about it again. 831 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,000 Oh yeah, you're on our list. We just, again, you're on the 832 00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,640 list. You're on the list. 833 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,440 We have a list. But yeah, RTFM. 834 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,560 Cast.com Dune episode drops tomorrow on the Patreon feed 835 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,160 where we talk about the book, the movies, maybe we talk about 836 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,880 Spice World. I don't remember because I 837 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,040 accidentally got drunk while we were recording that episode. 838 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,480 So if that's something that sounds appealing, there it is. 839 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,120 If it sounds unappealing, believe me, I get it. 840 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:25,960 Yeah, Thank you for having me. I I'm going to go eat some 841 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,520 lunch. Nice. 842 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,120 All right. If you guys listening stick 843 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,160 around, we'll be back in just a moment and we will be going over 844 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:42,160 in America brightly. So BRB, hello, we are back for 845 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,000 the week is real podcast. Thanks so much, Aaron for coming 846 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,160 on once again. Aaron mother fucking king, the 847 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:52,240 RTF podcast Woo is one of us my favorite listens. 848 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:53,720 Listen to it all the time at work. 849 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,360 So definitely check out that. As I said, all the links to all 850 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,080 that will be down there below and you definitely want to go 851 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,520 back all of the bootleg fest scenes. 852 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:07,880 Super worth it. Aaron is very, let's say a 853 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:12,120 little bit self deprecating. They are an incredible TTRPG 854 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,920 mind, love the way that they think about games and the games 855 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,520 that they put together are are really fantastic. 856 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,200 So always, always see those, always check those out and 857 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,120 definitely go to the itch and support them with that stuff. 858 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,640 So Speaking of that, we are going to be going over in a 859 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:34,240 mirror brightly from who's a Oh yeah, Aaron King. 860 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,520 This is a fantastic game. Let's go to this and make sure 861 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,200 it's up there. It is also. 862 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:47,200 Great, great shape on the book. Now just throwing it out there. 863 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,480 Good, weird book shape. Love this. 864 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,920 It's like it makes it so easy to find it on my bookshelf 'cause I 865 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,360 was like, Oh yeah, 'cause I've read the digital, which is 866 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:56,520 weird. I don't know why I did that, but 867 00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,160 I went to go look for it was like, can I find it for the 868 00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,400 show? I'm like, Oh yeah, it stands 869 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,160 right out. So. 870 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,240 Well, I mean, I think both of these, if I remember correctly, 871 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:07,040 are were were based off of cyber Metal 2012, which is also an 872 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,920 incredibly similar book shape. So I wonder I also. 873 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,600 Have an easy time finding on my bookshelf. 874 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,480 Yeah, I assume that was part of the inspiration of the shape as 875 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,760 well to to be inspired to, to since it's similar to the shape. 876 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,840 I think it's either the exact same shape or maybe like a 877 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,800 little bit kind of taller than Cyber Metal 2012. 878 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,760 Yeah, grab that and we'll we'll see if it's exactly the same or 879 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,880 not. Is it the same? 880 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,520 Boom, look at that now. Exactly. 881 00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:37,320 So inter mirror Brightly was originally part of the low res 882 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:43,080 Futures 2 RP TS1 flip book on Kickstarter. 883 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,880 Millenarian cyber witchcraft, augmented reality death games 884 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:56,200 from 1990 X put out from Aaron King and Max Lander funded 885 00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,960 successfully on February 16th, 2023. 886 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,200 So just a little bit more than a year ago. 887 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,120 As we said, it is a flip book. So for those in podcast land 888 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,360 that can't see this, when you look at one side of it. 889 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,320 Oh, and the shape. We we we said the shape, but we 890 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,000 didn't say the shape. It's our metal 2012. 891 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,720 So it's kind of like A5 but like sideways. 892 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:15,920 So the bindings on the left and it's long ways, you know, 893 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,000 horizontally it's a long boy side. 894 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,440 It's a long boy one side. When you look at it, it says in 895 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,240 a mirror brightly. And when you flip it directly 896 00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:25,240 over, it says hand baskets. Competition rule book one by 897 00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:28,960 Max, one by Aaron. This is funded like I said, on 898 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:33,240 February 16th, 2023. We got it physically in hand. 899 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,400 It was like the end of last year. 900 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,760 We've had it for a little. October, November S ish. 901 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:39,400 Something like that. Yeah, yeah. 902 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,640 This is one we wanted to look at for a while, partly because we 903 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,040 love Aaron and Max and partly because both games are super 904 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,920 cool and we love Cyber Metal 2012 and this is just a very 905 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,080 unique game. If we ever actually put stuff 906 00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,360 out, I would love for us to both to put something out like this. 907 00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,160 That'd be cool, I I would do that would be done in Amira. 908 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,880 Bradley is a great weird game by the way. 909 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,880 I rolled up a character as I read through it, like I, I 910 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,880 really enjoyed the life path characters and the weird 911 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,880 abilities you can get. As we get there. 912 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:18,160 It feels like playing this would be, I don't want to say zany, 913 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,560 that's not the word I'm looking for, but it would be a really 914 00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,160 fun, weird, trippy experience at my table. 915 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,160 That's how we do it, you know? Absolutely. 916 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,000 And I love, I love the cover, I love the design. 917 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:35,760 It's so out there, it's like a it's like a kind of collage and 918 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,640 it's got these very, very bright colors, these greens, these 919 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,520 purples, these pinks, these oranges. 920 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:45,320 It's it's bold on the cover shows like an an atomic 921 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,960 explosion with enemy or brightly on it in this warped font. 922 00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,800 There's a hand of glory that Aaron is talking about like 923 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,920 giving the middle finger. There's a hurry up offer expires 924 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,960 sticker on the front. Each page describes it as a game 925 00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:02,160 of millenarian magical rebellion. 926 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:08,640 Wake up from the drudgery of everyday life in 1990 X and 927 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,680 fight for the best future you can imagine and divide by the 928 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,680 Matrix, the Invisibles and Mage the awakening. 929 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,680 And using mechanics inspired by Cyber Metal 2012 players will 930 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:25,400 fight the power with tech, hex and sex $5 on each. 931 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,640 And then also if you got the physicals. 932 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:33,040 From the dollars on each. Yeah, needs to charge more for 933 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,280 their stuff. Yeah, you knock this up a few 934 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,720 bucks at least this is AII do. I did thoroughly enjoy this and 935 00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:40,680 I also really like Aaron's riding in this. 936 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,240 Just like the tone that he that they have when they explain 937 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:49,640 things to you. Yeah, they again very self 938 00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:54,120 deprecating in they're like, oh, I'm just I'm just someone on the 939 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,080 accept that like everything to make is fantastic. 940 00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,680 Patchwork world is fantastic. This is great like. 941 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:00,160 I'm just some person. Yeah. 942 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,000 No, you're you're great at the stuff that you do. 943 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,960 You should. Yeah, absolutely. 944 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,120 So you remember, I don't know. So it's, I don't know. 945 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,800 I'm physically flipping through this as I'm looking at the PDF. 946 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,440 That's not something I do. I'm going to put that off to the 947 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,120 side. I started to do the same thing 948 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:15,480 and I was like oh I should open the PDF. 949 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:18,720 But it's just so fun. And because of the shape, it was 950 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:21,560 so fun because this is another one that I definitely decided to 951 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,800 just like put on some weird music and sit in the living room 952 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,080 and like physically flip through because it was such a, it's a 953 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,720 such a fun shape to flip through. 954 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,320 Yeah, I just put on the Doctor Who theme song just on repeat, 955 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:33,400 you know? There you go. 956 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:40,480 I remember I definitely put on some weird like tech, like 957 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:46,280 techno, industrial something. So let me get a lot of the 958 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:47,040 we're. Doing great, guys. 959 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:48,680 We're doing great this episode. We're. 960 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,920 Killing it. So this one, I'm just going to 961 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,280 do full, full pages on each. Obviously also you'll notice a 962 00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,200 little chop at the bottom and top. 963 00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,760 No one cares about that but me, but it's there. 964 00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,560 And I pointed it out to you. So first and foremost, do we 965 00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:12,480 have no bookmarks? But so I was talking to Aaron 966 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,480 about this a little bit before and I think we need to talk 967 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,440 about this before. Is this a book or Z and it's 37 968 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,160 pages this? Is AZ. 969 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,560 We're going to go Zine scoring right? 970 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,680 Yeah, this is Zine. I mean, there, this is 971 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,040 incredibly lightweight. It is. 972 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,960 It's like 37 pages. A lot of the pages there's one 973 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,840 thing or two things on a page. It's very like stylistically 974 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,040 done. It looks really great. 975 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,120 That's not a complaint or knock against it, but yeah, this is 976 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,840 definitely a Zine. If we compressed all this down, 977 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,840 it's like a more traditional like layout. 978 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,440 It'd be like incredibly short. Well, yeah, I mean, it's, it's 979 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:54,160 37 pages and starting on page 31. 980 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,440 So really it's only 30 pages. And like you said, some things 981 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,120 there's only like literally one paragraph. 982 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:02,440 So it would be 1520 pages Max, including the adventure. 983 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,040 And we're only going over about 30 pages. 984 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,800 And then Max's side of the book only goes out to I think like 985 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,640 3334 pages. So yeah. 986 00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,760 So we'll do Zine scoring for this, which and no one gives a 987 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,080 no one gives a fuck. We care. 988 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,560 And it's just because we do the scores at the end really as a 989 00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,240 way to condense like our thoughts down into 990 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:23,760 realistically, you don't even listen to us talk. 991 00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,840 You can just jump to the scores and hear all of our talk. 992 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,760 That's why we do it. Yeah, sometimes. 993 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,160 When I review our episodes, I I just skip to the end. 994 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:32,160 I'm like, what did we say? Yeah. 995 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,960 Funny enough, based on the analytics on YouTube, a lot of 996 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,720 people do that. So thank you at least for 997 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:41,920 listening to that part. So enemy or brightly a game by 998 00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,240 Aaron King. Wake up. 999 00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,840 You are about to step through the magic mirror. 1000 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,120 You'll leave your previous life behind. 1001 00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,480 Take one last look at it and roll 1D20. 1002 00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:57,800 So this page really kind of defines a lot of the way that 1003 00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,880 the art and layout are throughout the entire thing. 1004 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:05,200 I know there's let's you don't need a massive our budget to 1005 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,720 have a good game, and if you think you do, then I think that 1006 00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,800 shows a lack of confidence in your game writing. 1007 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,280 I'll just throw that out for those that are deep enough to 1008 00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:18,560 care that I just said that. But the layoffs, fantastic. 1009 00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,680 It's a lot of comic strips and and obviously like either public 1010 00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,080 domain art chopped together. It's very bright. 1011 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:30,280 Max's side of the book is very black, white, red, you know, 1012 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:36,120 this is bright yellows, bright oranges, Cyans, you know, 1013 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,280 magentas really, really far out there. 1014 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,280 And it starts with character creation that goes into rules. 1015 00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,960 So why don't you kick us off? Because I think the way we've 1016 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,040 kind of fallen into the way review is, I usually do rules, 1017 00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,360 usually do character creation. So why don't you, why don't you 1018 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:54,680 kick us off? We do start with character 1019 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,080 creation here. So it says already we roll 1D20, 1020 00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:00,600 would you like to roll? Yeah, fuck it. 1021 00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:05,320 Yeah, you can walk me through character creation, so I will 1022 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:14,400 roll 1D20I rolled 14. 14 You're an influencer, the worst thing 1023 00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,520 you could possibly be? Honestly, probably the worst the 1024 00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,360 second worst thing on this list. Yeah, the first worst thing is a 1025 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,120 cop, So yeah. Exactly. 1026 00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:23,520 I'm glad we're on the same page of that. 1027 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,560 Yesterday I rolled a guru and today I rolled a union 1028 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:31,800 organizer. So doing OK here so. 1029 00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,800 What's funny is I was like fuck it, I'm gonna roll another one 1030 00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,760 and just see what happens. I rolled a 14 again, so 1031 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,240 influencer it is. Influencer it is. 1032 00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,000 I'm saying you're going to, I didn't take distinctive like 1033 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:43,760 deep notes on this. It's a fairly short game and 1034 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,560 like, it's totally fine to read it. 1035 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,480 Usually we've been I've been taking more notes so we can 1036 00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,840 paraphrase, but I'm you're going to write down the result of 1037 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,400 whatever you roll and you're going to put a 30 next to it. 1038 00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,280 When you try to solve a problem using skills regarding your 1039 00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,600 former life, because you've awakened to a new you're going 1040 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,800 to roll D100 and if you roll lower than the number, you 1041 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,240 succeed. It says here your world is 1042 00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:06,160 bigger now. It's multiplicative. 1043 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:11,800 The secret masters of the world slice it up and divided, eating 1044 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,040 it up or folding and hiding those pieces that would bring 1045 00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,760 joy to others. You must discover and fold the 1046 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,320 sacred geometries. Pull them from the guts of the 1047 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,960 secret masters. Use what you find to free your 1048 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,200 fellow humans from their shackles. 1049 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,600 Return power to those who it has been taken from. 1050 00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,000 Holy mirror up to the world. Let it recoil. 1051 00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,440 Let's step through and smash the glass to cut the throats of 1052 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,480 those who refuse to look. One big thing I really love 1053 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:46,000 about this game is that it just implies there's a bigger, deeper 1054 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,280 world. That could mean a lot of things. 1055 00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,000 You could play this as a Matrix game. 1056 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:54,000 You can play this as like a weird, you know, like almost 1057 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,720 like acid mages where you're taking drugs to reach a higher 1058 00:55:57,720 --> 00:55:59,520 understanding. There's a lot of room for 1059 00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:03,560 whatever the expansiveness of your weird, weird world is. 1060 00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,200 Mm hmm. Well, I mean, I like that if you 1061 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,240 look at, it's funny because if you look at the influences, 1062 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,200 you're like, yeah, yeah, that totally goes together. 1063 00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,560 But they kind of polar opposites, like the Matrix 1064 00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:19,280 versus Mage, the ascension. It's like, yeah, this like the 1065 00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,360 tech versus magic, but it really takes you to the same place, 1066 00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,600 which is just like behind the curtain, you know? 1067 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:31,840 Yeah, So yeah, you really love. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1068 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,480 You can't see if you're listening, but I'm making like 1069 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:35,600 that chopping motion under my neck. 1070 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,520 I'm like, I'm shaking my head really vigorously. 1071 00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,480 Yeah. Moving on. 1072 00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:47,360 We have a cool art page that has this hand with the glory. 1073 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:49,960 What's up? The hand of glory. 1074 00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:51,080 You know what a hand of glory is, right? 1075 00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,400 No, it was a hand of glory. Hand of Glory is it's a, it's a 1076 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,040 magical artifact. Often times it's like it's a 1077 00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:03,000 thing you'll put together you depending on the lore, it's like 1078 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,040 you have to use like chop the hand off of a person who is 1079 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,920 executed at midnight for murdering somebody or whatever. 1080 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:15,840 And you do all of this insane. Like you could literally have a 1081 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,160 a whole magical quest just about all the things you have to put 1082 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,160 together to have this hand of glory and the fingers like are 1083 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,600 flames and you literally cannot put them out except that you can 1084 00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,520 use them for like basically black magic rituals and shit. 1085 00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,520 So the hand of glory is literally like an extremely 1086 00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,840 powerful like arcane like witchy magic. 1087 00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,240 Sounds like a thing I would know. 1088 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:36,960 You did. I actually had. 1089 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,920 No. I actually have like candles of 1090 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,840 like hands of glory like multiple ones like. 1091 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:43,720 That's so cool. Just. 1092 00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:45,520 Chilling. I'm actually too. 1093 00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:50,160 Magicy boy, go ahead. Yeah, Aaron, actually they added 1094 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,320 it to the itch page and then just sent me the link. 1095 00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:57,840 But they sent us all of the AI content, yeah. 1096 00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,640 So what's on this page? So I'm gonna download it right 1097 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:05,600 now or I'll read it directly off of here. 1098 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:10,160 So let me see if it's written out by page number. 1099 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,040 Oh, some of it's not, but so I assume this one says Hand of 1100 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:15,960 Glory. Behold the Hand of Glory, a 1101 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,960 mysterious object that is possibly the cursor of A5 1102 00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:24,000 dimensional God that plays our reality like a video game. 1103 00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,960 It has the power to reach through the text we call reality 1104 00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,280 and alter it. At its most basic level, each 1105 00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,040 player has one Hand of Glory that they can turn in during 1106 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,360 character creation or play. Doing so lets them unlock new 1107 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,120 character options or choose outcomes instead of rolling 1108 00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,280 them. Once the Hand of Glory is used, 1109 00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:45,680 it disappears from local reality, but perhaps 1 can be 1110 00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,120 found again. Turn in your Hand of Glory to 1111 00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:51,480 unlock four more background options and choose one from 1112 00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,840 among the full 24 for your character. 1113 00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,440 So when we get the backgrounds, I'll, I'll, I'll add in those 1114 00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,160 extra, I'll tell you those extra 24. 1115 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,240 Oh wait. Turn in your Hand of Glory to 1116 00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,160 unlock this dangerous school of abilities. 1117 00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,040 Yeah, when you get the backgrounds, I'll, I'll read the 1118 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:07,960 backgrounds we need to abilities or read the abilities. 1119 00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,880 And then there's like a whole other tarot building thing too. 1120 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,120 I'll make sure I'll send you this too. 1121 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:15,400 Sick sick. Cool cool cool cool cool cool 1122 00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,640 cool cool cool. Wait is are the backgrounds the 1123 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:24,760 life paths that you start with? Or is this the It's 24? 1124 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:31,920 You already start with 20. Weekly scroll exclusive from 1125 00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:34,080 Aaron Aaron King here on the show going over. 1126 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,680 I just dropped it too. So the backgrounds that are 1127 00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:41,320 unlocked are time traveler, ghost, future Messiah, and 1128 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:45,000 fictional character made real or real person made fictional, 1129 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,920 depending on your perspective. That's actually a super 1130 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,800 interesting twist to your game too. 1131 00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:53,400 Like, yeah, you're a fictional character. 1132 00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,200 It's real. It's like, well, in my world, 1133 00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,720 you know, actually you guys are the fictional people. 1134 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:06,240 Very cool. Moving on to abilities, it looks 1135 01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,360 like we have some extra ones to unlock as well, but I'm going to 1136 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,080 read it out straight and then we'll look at the extra ones. 1137 01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,320 So your character will have a number of skills and abilities 1138 01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,800 gained by rolling on the life path below. 1139 01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,920 They also have a trait called commitment, which starts at 100. 1140 01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,520 Commitment measures your devotion to your cause and your 1141 01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:27,960 distance from the life you left behind. 1142 01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,080 Your commitment might fall as you're wounded in the line of 1143 01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,000 battle or made cynical obsessed anger. 1144 01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:41,440 It's not quite HP, but it's kind of a catch all for your like, I 1145 01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,440 mean, commitment is commitment to the cause, to the belief that 1146 01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:48,200 you hold now and the distance from just going back, you know, 1147 01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:52,080 and giving up for abilities. You you gain about to gain 1148 01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:55,800 abilities, you're going to rule 1D6 to find the resulting school 1149 01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:59,920 and then rule 1D four to gain the ability from that school. 1150 01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,000 After that, pick a second school and the ability, probably one 1151 01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,640 that no other player got. If you gain a skill in this 1152 01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:10,720 process, it starts at 40. I remember this is AD 100. 1153 01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,160 Roll under. If you get a skill you already 1154 01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:16,520 have, increase it by 5. Ryan, would you like to roll a 1155 01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:17,800 skill? I'll roll one too. 1156 01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,640 Yeah, it's D6 and D4. I'm gonna give me one second 1157 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:26,400 real quick. I'm going to Aaron sent it as a 1158 01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,120 text doc. So I'm just gonna kind of 1159 01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,800 reformat that a tiny bit so I can actually throw that up on 1160 01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:37,000 the screen too, just cuz the way text it goes forever if this 1161 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,000 goes forever. So I just need to space down a 1162 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:43,520 little bit. OK, cool. 1163 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:49,760 So yes, the abilities. So it's a 11D6 to kick off the. 1164 01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:56,120 D6 and D4. OK so I got a 5 and a three. 1165 01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:03,760 Nice, uh, philosophy, uh, philosophics? 1166 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:04,920 Is that what it says? Am I dumb? 1167 01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:06,400 Philosophics. Yep. 1168 01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,320 OK, cool. Just making sure and you said 1169 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:12,760 you you rolled A4. Uh, I rolled A5 and A3. 1170 01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,760 Five and a three refusal. Again the semantics and rhetoric 1171 01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,920 skill. Once permission, lose 5 1172 01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,920 commitment and explain why something the GM has described 1173 01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,960 doesn't actually exist. It thusly does not exist. 1174 01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,440 It's a great one. I rolled a six and a three. 1175 01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,800 So I got machines and I got God and the machine that gained the 1176 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,720 religion skill. Once a mission ask a question of 1177 01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:39,640 a machine, it must answer truthfully and in your best 1178 01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,120 interest. Those are really interesting 1179 01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,360 powers here. There's like in the magic 1180 01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,360 skills. You get consumed filth, but you 1181 01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,280 can live off human waste. You never get sick, you can take 1182 01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,080 in the negative thoughts of other people and gain an extra 1183 01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,120 skill plus 10 towards skill check. 1184 01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:59,600 There's some really weird ass cool shit right here. 1185 01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:05,600 I love this section. Yeah, there's, I mean, and 1186 01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,840 there's some really. All right. 1187 01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,680 So I threw that up. So we'll be able to go to that 1188 01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:14,160 when we do it. I really like what am I going 1189 01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:15,080 the wrong way? Yeah. 1190 01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,200 So it's there's six of each and then four in each one. 1191 01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:21,280 Do you, I mean, this is pretty sure. 1192 01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,800 Did you have any favorites as we went through this to to get your 1193 01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,160 abilities and the skills that come with it? 1194 01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,440 The magic one is my the consume filth is I think my favorite 1195 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:33,320 because it's just so unbelievably uncomfortable. 1196 01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:39,720 There's a lot of really cool stuff in the in the ESP tree and 1197 01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,400 yeah, I think, I think those are my those kind of fall in line 1198 01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:45,680 with like what I like and I, you know, I the weirder you can make 1199 01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,880 magic and the more uncomfortable it becomes, the more like. 1200 01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,480 Yeah, ESP and magic are both really, really cool. 1201 01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:53,080 The pleasure one's interesting. I know that. 1202 01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,880 Like Aaron's saying that they're doing the the sex season over on 1203 01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:00,960 RTFM, so there's a whole one that's pleasure. 1204 01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:02,640 So did you say the six? It's ESP. 1205 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,960 Magic, pleasure, violence, philosophics, machines. 1206 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:07,800 I don't know why I didn't say all six, but. 1207 01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:13,160 In a special setting in a second, but the pleasure one's 1208 01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:17,240 interesting because I like how there's one that's like sex and 1209 01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,600 that's fine. It's easy to chop that out, but 1210 01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:24,280 it literally it basically says like you, you can, if you can 1211 01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,960 get yourself or somebody else off, you can do a bunch of 1212 01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,360 magical stuff. And if everyone can sense the 1213 01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:32,680 more people you get. Basically if you go like get 1214 01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:35,080 yourself off is the weakest and have like a massive orgy would 1215 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,120 be the strongest. The more people you can get into 1216 01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,440 your sexual ritual, the more magical will be as long as 1217 01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,440 everyone understands and gives full consent, which is, which is 1218 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,320 interesting. I know that there's, you know, 1219 01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,840 discourse around sex and stuff. I mean, I'm definitely a person 1220 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,120 who generally does not have sex and stuff in the game. 1221 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,960 It's because I'm like a middle-aged white dude and it 1222 01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:57,280 always feels weird, you know, to to be like, hey, one girl that's 1223 01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:01,280 at the table, you know. But yeah, I like that. 1224 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,720 It's no desire Corral's and pharmacists. 1225 01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,120 So there's literally talking about like the gourmand skill. 1226 01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,080 So it's like eating pharmacist is about drugs. 1227 01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:11,920 So there's a wide plethora of pleasure. 1228 01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,080 And I really, really like that one that that was really fun to 1229 01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,840 to dig into. And then the violence one, one 1230 01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:17,960 of my is another one of my favorites. 1231 01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,880 The gun one is one of my favorites because you get the 1232 01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,600 gun skill and you immediately decrease your commitment by 10. 1233 01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:28,120 So we haven't really talked about commitment a lot in the 1234 01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:31,360 game yet, but it's kind of like your ability to kind of stay in 1235 01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:32,840 it. So I really. 1236 01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:35,320 Like I said, almost exactly that you were. 1237 01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:37,880 You were editing the document. Ah, OK. 1238 01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,600 Well, good job. But I really like how basically 1239 01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,480 like having a gun automatically like takes you out of the magic 1240 01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,480 a little bit. Yeah, I think that's a really 1241 01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,880 interesting, like ingrained set into the rules there. 1242 01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,520 That's really cool. And the secret one because there 1243 01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:54,840 is a secret one is the 7th 1:00. If you turn on your hand of 1244 01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:58,360 glory you get meta mechanics. You gain the cardamancy skill 1245 01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:02,560 which is fortune telling and at the start of a mission you roll 1246 01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,800 AD 10 and set it aside. Once during a mission you can 1247 01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:10,800 replace a die roll you made. Alternatively, use the dye to 1248 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,920 deal damage or set a fallout. Explain how your prediction put 1249 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,440 your enemy in the wrong place at the wrong time. 1250 01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:24,400 The skills there are going to be mirror image, downscale, choke 1251 01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:28,160 and choke fate. Oh sorry, divination, mirror 1252 01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:31,640 image, downscale and choke fate, Chuck fate. 1253 01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,520 It's interesting because you do not gain a skill from this one, 1254 01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,520 but at any time you can lower your commitment by 10 to declare 1255 01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:42,240 the fallout of A roll before the player rolling a science dice. 1256 01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:46,880 It's neat, it's a good, it's a good secret one. 1257 01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:49,680 Yeah, I I really like these secret ones. 1258 01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:52,280 They're very interesting to go through. 1259 01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:56,840 And I love God, can I just say like when we were going over the 1260 01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:00,240 when we talked with Aaron and Max originally about this and 1261 01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,200 it's such a cool idea to have built in AR stuff. 1262 01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:07,040 I know if you go to the Kickstarter page, you can see a 1263 01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,360 little bit of like how they like were showing over it. 1264 01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,560 And to just basically be like anytime you see this hand, just 1265 01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:15,480 like look through the app and you'll see extra shit is so is 1266 01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,840 so fucking cool. I've seen some other games where 1267 01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:20,360 they do that like a little bit or there's like bar codes that 1268 01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,400 will take you to a website or something like that. 1269 01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:27,120 But that's really neat that if you just because aside from that 1270 01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,360 one page, which is completely blanket for the hand of glory, 1271 01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:33,160 except when you look at it, I'm sure it's like a huge like write 1272 01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:35,240 up on it. I you wouldn't have even noticed 1273 01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,240 this. It just looks like a cool piece 1274 01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:39,320 of art next to it. But like you get the bonus shit. 1275 01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,960 That's really neat. And not to scroll through quick 1276 01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,640 too quickly through all these, but the visually, this is such a 1277 01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,040 great section. Like everything looks so good. 1278 01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:50,040 Like the colors are so vibrant, very dynamic. 1279 01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:53,440 Like I I really enjoy the way that this looks. 1280 01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,320 Well, it's it's cool kind of almost just juxtaposition a 1281 01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:01,120 little bit too of like the layout is clearly inspired by 1282 01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:06,960 like wind, like DOS, like windows, like the the font, the 1283 01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:09,440 boxes, even some of the boxes have a little like XS in the top 1284 01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:11,800 corner to get rid of them. But then the colors are so 1285 01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:13,760 vibrant. So it's this really neat mix of 1286 01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,840 like almost like magicky weirdness mixed with like tech 1287 01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,279 computer Ness. That's that's like kind of a 1288 01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,399 little bit changing in a cool way. 1289 01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,800 It reminds me what like computers look like in Cowboy 1290 01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,359 Bebop, you know? Yeah, yeah. 1291 01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,600 Cool, Ryan, you want to tell us about experience? 1292 01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:42,200 Oh sure, so experience. You might not be new to this 1293 01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:43,840 life. You can choose one result and 1294 01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:47,040 roll up and roll for up to two additional results on the 1295 01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,920 following table, each one representing 6 to 12 months 1296 01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:53,680 passing since you quote UN quote awakened, which could be anyway. 1297 01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:57,399 Anyway, for each result past the 1st chosen 1, lower your 1298 01:08:57,399 --> 01:09:00,000 commitment by 10. So that automatically tells you 1299 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,640 like you don't have to choose a bunch if you don't want like 1300 01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:04,960 this is an optional rule, but you decrease your commitment. 1301 01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:06,920 I kind of just show that you've already been here. 1302 01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:10,160 When you gain a skill from these tables, it starts at 40. 1303 01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,479 If it's a skill you already have increased, instead increase the 1304 01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:16,960 skill by 5. So there are I believe it's just 1305 01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:21,120 four. There is travel field training, 1306 01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:25,120 research and double agent. So 2D fours, what did you get 1307 01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:29,560 for yours? I roll D4 and a three so that 1308 01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:35,439 puts me at double agent and I can vomit forth a swarm of ghost 1309 01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,279 tech insects. Once permission they can attack 1310 01:09:38,279 --> 01:09:42,240 everyone in the in the area. Once I eat through something, 1311 01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:44,920 consume it completely or provide cover. 1312 01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,680 Great one. It's one of my favorite on the 1313 01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:49,000 entire thing. I'm glad you rolled that. 1314 01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:57,160 I rolled a A3 and A1. So I got research and then it 1315 01:09:57,160 --> 01:10:01,520 says gain the skill of your choice, psycho, geography, media 1316 01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:04,800 history, medicine, symbolism or technology. 1317 01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:10,880 So some of those are referenced back in the abilities, like you 1318 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:12,880 get a skill, but then there's other things you get in your 1319 01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:14,320 abilities, but some of them aren't. 1320 01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:16,920 I really like, I'm like, how am I gonna explain psycho 1321 01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,720 geography? But like, I like that it's not 1322 01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:23,040 super defined. Yeah, we've talked about this a 1323 01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:26,080 bunch in games recently. How like if you leave stuff 1324 01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,720 open, it's super fun. I don't need 10 pages of your 1325 01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,480 400 page book to tell me exactly how to do every little thing. 1326 01:10:31,480 --> 01:10:33,480 So I really like how there's some broadness to this. 1327 01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,320 I, I love a system where I'm like where something like comes 1328 01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,760 up and I just Google the term and then I just sit with my 1329 01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:41,120 friends. Like how are we gonna call this 1330 01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:42,480 one? I will call it like this. 1331 01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:44,160 That's how it works now. I don't know. 1332 01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:48,440 That's so cool. I've been playing some TCGS more 1333 01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:51,040 recently that are smaller than Magic the Gathering that also 1334 01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:55,120 like, like are this like, hey, you should like table rule this, 1335 01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,000 you know, like not everything should be written now. 1336 01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,800 You and your friends should have your own version of doing this, 1337 01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:03,040 you know, So I do really appreciate that It's we don't 1338 01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:04,680 need that much scaffolding. I know some people do. 1339 01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,600 I think this is a great project for like, yeah, super minimal. 1340 01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:09,560 You don't need. If you want to figure out how 1341 01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:14,640 this works, decide you know. Yeah, yeah, you know, and again, 1342 01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,200 if, if you do need more, that's totally fine. 1343 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:21,160 You know, I, I do think that the we should eventually just have 1344 01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,280 an episode on scaffolding and like the way that games are are 1345 01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,800 needed for it and why people shouldn't are fine staying with 1346 01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:29,320 the rat. But like the reason that 1347 01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,280 scaffolding exists is to eventually remove it because you 1348 01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:36,040 no longer need it. So, you know, progress. 1349 01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,400 Progress. That was that was experience. 1350 01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:44,040 What about contacts? Contacts. 1351 01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:46,000 Yeah. So hey, you got You have a 1352 01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:47,560 connection to the everyday world. 1353 01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:53,080 In everyday world, strangers become something more in mundane 1354 01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,400 ways. Neighbors, accidents, chance 1355 01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:58,480 encounters at basement concerts. On the other side of the looking 1356 01:11:58,480 --> 01:12:00,960 glass, things are exponentially stranger. 1357 01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,560 Contacts exist to put the players directly into the most 1358 01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:05,880 exciting part of the mission. They exist to circumvent the 1359 01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,160 boring bureaucracies that we normal humans have to endure. 1360 01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:11,160 Looking at addresses, waiting on hold. 1361 01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,280 I do like the looking at bad addresses one because I can 1362 01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:16,040 totally see that as like a, you know, like you got to find out 1363 01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,080 where this is. It's like I call my buddy and 1364 01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,400 it's like, I'll find it for you. You know, I feel like in in 1365 01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,720 those like almost like crime drama shows, you have the one 1366 01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:25,600 hacker person. That's what they do. 1367 01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,480 And the action still is going on in the show. 1368 01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:29,200 And then they get a phone call. It's like, Hey, I found this 1369 01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:32,680 area and I really enjoy stuff like that. 1370 01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:36,800 They also add some dramatic social interaction to a game. 1371 01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,560 And basically here it's saying that, like, you can have an arc 1372 01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:43,200 with these contacts where, like, you use them multiple times and 1373 01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:45,800 you get to know them. In and out of that comes its own 1374 01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,920 small adventure or mission. Maybe they get kidnapped. 1375 01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:51,760 Maybe they turn on you. Like, there's a lot of potential 1376 01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:56,080 for like, yeah, social drama. The tables are provided to help 1377 01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:57,960 all the players generate context as needed. 1378 01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:01,000 If someone gets a contact from their experience role, they can 1379 01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:06,600 choose some options or roll for them when it comes to contacts, 1380 01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,560 A roll result that feels a little off might signal to the 1381 01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:13,280 player that it's time to choose a result that makes more sense. 1382 01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:15,160 Love that. Hey, roll for it. 1383 01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,560 If your roll does not make sense, go ahead and just choose 1384 01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:20,760 one. And then they have some fucking 1385 01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:24,240 great names. My favorite ones from these 1386 01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:26,480 names of contact is there's several. 1387 01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:30,280 There's Cash Daddy, that was. I was like, you better say that 1388 01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:31,680 one first. That's my favorite. 1389 01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:37,680 And there's Trisma guesses, Cyberska, Sir Walter. 1390 01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,280 And then the last one's just Banksy. 1391 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:42,600 You just know him. You know, there's a lot of. 1392 01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:44,760 Other poorest, Yeah. Mother and deary. 1393 01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:49,080 Yeah. Yeah. 1394 01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:52,680 I mean, I think like, Oh yeah, there's also one's just an 1395 01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:55,440 e-mail address. It's the apple of my eye at 1396 01:13:55,440 --> 01:13:57,320 treemail.com. Like. 1397 01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,640 Really super clever. Like it very much fits in. 1398 01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,840 And also like when you have contacts, like it makes a lot of 1399 01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:09,000 sense to them to be like dubious characters or eccentric 1400 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:12,760 characters. You know, I, I think that that 1401 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:14,680 little blurb of names, it killed me. 1402 01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:20,800 Yeah. Do you want to rule for a, a, a 1403 01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,080 thing? It's a. 1404 01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:28,960 It's AD 8. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1405 01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:32,760 OK, SO1D8, remind me to to go back over a character thing real 1406 01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:33,880 quick. Then when we're done. 1407 01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:36,680 No, I got a six. I got a six. 1408 01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,440 Yeah, six. That's coworker. 1409 01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:42,840 You did the same thing together for a while. 1410 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,440 When you moved on, they stayed there. 1411 01:14:44,440 --> 01:14:48,000 Specialist, blue collar saboteur, supplier, a couple. 1412 01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,360 It has a little all of them have like four kind of leading 1413 01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:54,640 questions under them for you to help flesh out your contact. 1414 01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:58,520 All ones here are what useful industry do they work in? 1415 01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:02,760 How do they get you the info? Next was their connection to 1416 01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:07,200 other every workers and how they rile them into action. 1417 01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:11,000 What enemy workplace are they undercover in? 1418 01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:14,560 Do they sabotage them? And the last one is what useful 1419 01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:18,480 supplies can they filch for you and what do you offer mature, 1420 01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:24,360 but the other ones are you have mentor, mentee, family, romance, 1421 01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:28,320 correspondent, competition and haunting. 1422 01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:32,360 Haunting is a great one. You're just haunted and then 1423 01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,880 material goes some like weird vibes. 1424 01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:40,400 You know, it's really great. So it really leads into the 1425 01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:44,920 bizarre, like otherworldly through the mirror, through the 1426 01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,880 looking glass vibe. Yeah, absolutely. 1427 01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,960 On going back to experience, there's a hand of glory there 1428 01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:57,360 with the thumbs down. That was a hand of glory. 1429 01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:01,240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so I think so I think I 1430 01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,400 think of this, I think all the hand of glories are in character 1431 01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:04,680 creation. I don't think they're already 1432 01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:05,840 after they had character creation. 1433 01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:09,840 So I believe it's the tarot killed character building. 1434 01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:12,600 Do you want to talk about that? Yeah, absolutely. 1435 01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:16,640 I'll fuck it, we'll do it live. Let me expand this. 1436 01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:23,680 So the tarot character building the tarot is the universe in 1437 01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:26,560 miniature. And since the universe contains 1438 01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:32,600 and since the universe contains and we it, it can be used to 1439 01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:36,240 generate your character since both backgrounds and abilities 1440 01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:41,640 have 24 options. And for this here it says we 1441 01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:43,480 cannot speak of locked abilities. 1442 01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:48,880 You can map them to the Major Arcana and draw a three card. 1443 01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:50,760 Spread your background to abilities. 1444 01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,240 Holy shit I'm definitely doing this is sick as an initiative 1445 01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:58,080 into the mysteries. You know that the Major Arcana 1446 01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:01,200 only #22 and you have two options. 1447 01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:05,080 Remove to each of the backgrounds, abilities, your 1448 01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:07,640 choice. Or dig deep into yourself to 1449 01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:11,080 produce the forgotten Arcana, the Beggar, and the fountain. 1450 01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:16,760 Then spread a meditative moment. Assign each option to an Arcana 1451 01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:18,840 draw and proceed. Sorry, it says. 1452 01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:20,680 Then spend the meditative, not spread. 1453 01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,320 Spend the meditative. Fucking that's great. 1454 01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:27,080 This is amazing. It's so, so unbelievably good. 1455 01:17:27,440 --> 01:17:29,600 It's so great. That's so cool. 1456 01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:33,960 I would definitely dude the the playing this game and definitely 1457 01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,200 leaning a little bit more into like the made weirdness of it, 1458 01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:38,880 like pulling out one of the hand of glory candles and doing a 1459 01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:41,440 tarot spread for your abilities before you like step through the 1460 01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:43,080 mirror. That'd be dope as fuck. 1461 01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:46,040 Yeah, absolutely. I'm gonna hand draw the fountain 1462 01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:47,520 and the beggar as well, you know. 1463 01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,080 So I'm gonna. Cut out my own tarot cards. 1464 01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,160 I think we're on to experience and I. 1465 01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:57,600 Walk there's no we're to adjudicating rules. 1466 01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:59,600 We're to adjudicating roles right, right, right, right, 1467 01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,880 right, All right. Adjudicating roles So roles 1468 01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:05,880 should I love This is this is so one of my favorite. 1469 01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:09,200 I've said this a billion times. One of my favorite things ever 1470 01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:12,080 is the explanation of like when to roll like I'm gonna get it 1471 01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:16,360 fucking tattooed on me at some point, but there's a million 1472 01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,640 ways to say the same thing. This is one of my favorite ways. 1473 01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:19,680 This is a. Good one. 1474 01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:23,480 It's such a good one because a lot of people want to, you can 1475 01:18:23,480 --> 01:18:26,320 explain it in a sentence and I think that's that's totally 1476 01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:28,800 fine. This one takes that and goes 1477 01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,680 just a little bit more with it. So I'm gonna go through all of 1478 01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:32,480 it. So it says role should happen 1479 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,040 when the following are true and there's three things underneath 1480 01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,760 it when the outcome is unclear, when success is interesting, 1481 01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,000 when failure is interesting. And then there's a a, a box 1482 01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,000 explaining this. I'm going to steal the Aaron. 1483 01:18:45,480 --> 01:18:49,800 So if less than three are true, consider the following. 1484 01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:53,000 So basically all three in order to roll all three should be a 1485 01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:55,360 thing. So if it's less than that, I'm 1486 01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,440 going to stop putting my elbows on the keyboard. 1487 01:18:57,440 --> 01:18:58,640 I was banging the camera there for a second. 1488 01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:00,720 If less than three are true, consider the following. 1489 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:04,400 If the outcome is clear, just have that outcome happen. 1490 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,160 No need to roll. Thank you. 1491 01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:10,560 Like thank you. If success is uninteresting, 1492 01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,840 work with the other players to choose an interesting failure 1493 01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:16,400 that puts someone in a position where a role could happen. 1494 01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,120 If failure is uninteresting, work with the other players to 1495 01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:22,720 choose an interesting success that puts someone in a position 1496 01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:24,880 where a role could happen. That says. 1497 01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,160 Note that interesting quote UN quote does not always mean best 1498 01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:31,600 quote UN quote. These meanings will vary from 1499 01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,440 group to group, which is why it's important to work toward an 1500 01:19:34,440 --> 01:19:36,160 outcome with your fellow players. 1501 01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:42,080 I fucking love this page. This this reminds me of 1502 01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:45,440 Patchwork Worlds in the way and wish that when I read something 1503 01:19:45,440 --> 01:19:50,320 Aaron King has wrote, I am better at explaining and playing 1504 01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:53,280 games. You know, like, oh, I just got 1505 01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:54,920 better at doing this. Yes. 1506 01:19:55,480 --> 01:19:57,840 And yeah, this is one that I feel like people should steal 1507 01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:01,440 this if you don't take anything from this book, and I feel like 1508 01:20:01,440 --> 01:20:03,680 there's a lot of really great in here to take from, you should 1509 01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:07,320 take this. Yeah, well, so we have our own 1510 01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:11,440 opinions on PBTA and all the things that claim to be. 1511 01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:21,440 I understood how to play Pbtas, not run, Yes, but I mean, the GM 1512 01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:24,800 tools in Apocalypse World are my favorite part of it. 1513 01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:26,760 Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna say that. 1514 01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:31,160 I'll keep the rest of myself, but playing the game, I got so 1515 01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,120 much better. Aaron has this incredible way of 1516 01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:36,000 explaining things in a concise way that you thought you 1517 01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:41,080 understood, but is better because we've said over and over 1518 01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:43,600 we love brevity, we love rules, light stuff, and just saying the 1519 01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:45,720 only role. When this is the thing, we go, 1520 01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:48,040 yeah, we get it. And then you read this and go, 1521 01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:50,680 yeah, we got it. But this explains it in such a 1522 01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:54,760 way that makes it so much easier to absorb and communicate. 1523 01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:57,080 Yeah. And Patrick World does have a 1524 01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,040 PPCA. This does this with like the 1525 01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:03,240 core role for like every fucking TTRPG. 1526 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:07,000 It's it's, it's such a again, just a clean, concise, clear, 1527 01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:10,400 clear, well communicated way for something that we all thought we 1528 01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,800 knew and know a little bit better now, just like you said 1529 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:14,040 so. It's great. 1530 01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:16,520 I don't know why, but I specifically love the line that 1531 01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,600 if the outcome is clear, then it just happens. 1532 01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:23,680 Like, yeah, you're like, yeah, you just don't need the role for 1533 01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:25,440 every guy. I mean, I'm already like a, you 1534 01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:27,560 know, I've been through a whole session where we've rolled 1535 01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:30,640 twice, you know, but it's great to put that there. 1536 01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,880 I mean the whole blurb is great, but. 1537 01:21:33,480 --> 01:21:37,440 Amazing part, it's so good. So the rest is all of the core 1538 01:21:37,440 --> 01:21:39,640 mechanics of the game. Again, this is adapted from 1539 01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:44,240 several Metal 2012, which is AD 100 system, which is basically 1540 01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:49,240 it's AD 100 roll under. And when a player rolls, they 1541 01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:53,880 roll AD 100 with the intention of scoring equal to or under an 1542 01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:56,160 applicable skill. We talked about skills and 1543 01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:59,160 everything that you got with your abilities and everything 1544 01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:01,000 like that. They want to roll as high as 1545 01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:04,840 possible within that range though, with A roll equal to 1546 01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:06,600 their skill level being a critical hit. 1547 01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:11,280 So critical hits would be very very you have a one in a hundred 1548 01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:13,960 chance of getting a crit basically according to this with 1549 01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:16,040 a rule equal to their skill level being a crit. 1550 01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:19,160 So if you have a 40, you have to roll a 40 to get it. 1551 01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:22,080 If the player doesn't have an applicable skill, they can still 1552 01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:25,280 try to roll equal to or under A10, which is considered an 1553 01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:27,280 application of dumb luck or divine intervention. 1554 01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:28,960 So A1 in 10 chance. Basically. 1555 01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:32,160 Some enemies and obstacles are resistant to attempts to 1556 01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:33,640 overcome them. For instance, while any 1557 01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:37,400 successful gun roll is enough to harm an idiot cosplaying as a 1558 01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:41,840 mercenary, a trained servant of the Outer Insects decked in 4D 1559 01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:44,280 liquid armor is a bit harder to hit. 1560 01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:46,680 When this is the case, the obstacle has a threshold. 1561 01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,560 The playgrounds were all equal to or above this threshold while 1562 01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,680 still rolling under their skill. For example, Getting is trying 1563 01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:54,440 to shoot the aforementioned armored enemy. 1564 01:22:54,440 --> 01:22:57,800 Colonel Friday. Colonel Friday, right. 1565 01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:01,160 The servant of the outer Insects, decked in 40 liquid 1566 01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:02,400 armor. Colonel Friday. 1567 01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:06,480 Yeah, obviously Friday's threshold is 60 and Gideon's gun 1568 01:23:06,480 --> 01:23:09,320 skill is 80. This means that Gideon will need 1569 01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:13,920 a 61 to 80 to successfully harm the Colonel with a gun. 1570 01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:17,480 That's on 1/2 the page. That's the that's the core 1571 01:23:17,480 --> 01:23:18,760 mechanics. I love that the second part of 1572 01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,480 the mechanics, like, explains and tweaks a little bit more so 1573 01:23:21,480 --> 01:23:23,560 it says right at the top kind of in parentheses. 1574 01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,400 If you're having trouble wrapping your mind around this, 1575 01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:28,640 it's Price is Right rules like, you know, closest is that going 1576 01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:30,280 over right? As long as you go over the 1577 01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:32,920 threshold. But I like the part below. 1578 01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:35,640 And again, we've talked about some parts of this in summer 1579 01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:37,560 metal 2012. We're not referencing that. 1580 01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:39,560 We're reading this game as this game. 1581 01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,560 So however, there are multiple ways to increase that band of 1582 01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:45,800 numbers. Basically it says if you it's a 1583 01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:49,600 roll under game, so you don't necessarily fail. 1584 01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:53,120 If you also roll under the bad guy's threshold, you just don't 1585 01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:57,440 succeed, right? But what you do do is give your 1586 01:23:57,440 --> 01:24:02,960 the the next person a bonus. So it says if a player roles 1587 01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:05,440 under their target number, but also under the target's 1588 01:24:05,440 --> 01:24:09,320 threshold, they identify a weakness or set up an ally for 1589 01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:12,400 success, and the next ally to target the enemy can choose to 1590 01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:15,640 either raise their effective skill by 10 or lower the enemy's 1591 01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:18,320 threshold by 10. Both of these are only applied 1592 01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:22,320 to the next role, so I love that you still succeeded. 1593 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:25,440 Technically you succeeded super well, but not within the 1594 01:24:25,440 --> 01:24:27,640 threshold. So instead of doing damage, you 1595 01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:29,920 just give the next person a bonus, which is great. 1596 01:24:30,440 --> 01:24:33,960 Yeah, I also just, we we need to really roll it back to that. 1597 01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:38,160 What is it? The a servant of the outer 1598 01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:41,040 insects wearing a 4D liquid armor. 1599 01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:43,240 I I read that and I was like, that's perfect. 1600 01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:48,600 Yeah, absolutely. Also, if a player has a number 1601 01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:51,680 of applicable skills, they can use the highest one and increase 1602 01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:53,560 it by 5. For instance, if a player's 1603 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:58,760 background is cop reroll but and they're using the gun scale, 1604 01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:01,720 they can usually treat their gun scale as five higher due to 1605 01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:04,280 being bolstered by their time as a police officer. 1606 01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:08,200 However, this likely only applies to the gun they used 1607 01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:12,200 while a cop guns, which are unfortunately becoming larger 1608 01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:17,080 and more varied in the US. I'm going to move on from that. 1609 01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:21,240 So one last way to increase your target number only applies to 1610 01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:23,560 the background skill you first wrote. 1611 01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,840 You can choose to lose 10 commitment and describe a scene 1612 01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:30,560 from your old life to increase that scale by 20% for a single 1613 01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:31,960 roll. Yes, Aaron, a cap. 1614 01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,640 After a roll is made, the player will assign each of the two dice 1615 01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:39,240 that make up AD 100 roll to one of two components, Damage and 1616 01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:41,640 Fallout. If the roll is successful, the 1617 01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:45,200 damage is dealt to the target. The damage is an abstraction for 1618 01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:47,240 overcoming an obstacle, so it doesn't have to be a literal 1619 01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:50,120 wound, which is my favorite way that things do damage. 1620 01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,960 It can also represent physically eroding the illusory cloak, 1621 01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:57,800 hiding a base out, dancing a competitor, or anything else. 1622 01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,720 I we said this already. Aaron writes in a concise way. 1623 01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:02,160 That is so fucking vibey. Yeah. 1624 01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:08,520 Yeah, there's, it's not implied lore, which, which there is 1625 01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:10,640 maybe like a touch of with like the liquid armor guide and 1626 01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:13,560 stuff. But like, what am I trying to 1627 01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:16,400 say there? There is like this implication, 1628 01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,520 the way that rules are written and it really expands how you 1629 01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:25,320 think about how things can shake out when using said rules like 1630 01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:26,760 this. I mean, it's just it's just a 1631 01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:28,600 contest, Like anything can be a contest. 1632 01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,240 I can make it. We could have a battle of the 1633 01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:32,200 bands right now. Could be we could do a skate 1634 01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:39,640 off. Yeah, where, where we, where did 1635 01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,600 we end up? The role is successful, but. 1636 01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:44,400 What I what I was saying specifically about this part was 1637 01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:48,000 the two, the two examples chosen for damage, right as an 1638 01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:51,480 abstraction. One is physically eroding the 1639 01:26:51,480 --> 01:26:55,360 illusory cloak hiding a base. One is outdating a competitor. 1640 01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,160 And that's just not gonna not crack me up, you know, it's 1641 01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:00,560 just, it's a cool way to do it. So yeah. 1642 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,600 So if your role's a failure, the damage is the amount your 1643 01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,480 commitment is reduced by. So again, damage is an 1644 01:27:04,480 --> 01:27:07,800 abstraction. And if you fail, you just 1645 01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:09,480 continue to reduce the commitment. 1646 01:27:09,480 --> 01:27:11,840 So again, commitment is your ability to kind of stay within 1647 01:27:11,840 --> 01:27:13,560 this magical world, as far as I read it. 1648 01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,360 And the the more kind of jaded you get with it and everything, 1649 01:27:17,480 --> 01:27:21,280 yeah, you you lose. So damage is all on abstraction 1650 01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,920 based on your commitment. Commitment's also the distance 1651 01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:27,760 from your old life. And so I, I, I feel like there's 1652 01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:31,120 a lot of like, interesting narrative implications for some 1653 01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:35,160 of those, like backgrounds for like, so falling back into your 1654 01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:37,040 old life, especially the cop, it's like, well, you just go 1655 01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:38,280 back to being a piece of shit cop. 1656 01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:40,560 But you know, like, I'm getting so jaded and angry. 1657 01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:44,360 I'm gonna go back to, you know, yeah. 1658 01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:47,000 No cops listen. No cops listens to this show at 1659 01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,000 this point. We haven't, we haven't got a 1660 01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:50,480 good hate coming in a while. We'll believe. 1661 01:27:50,480 --> 01:27:52,520 I still need to put that first. I need to put that one on a 1662 01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,160 T-shirt. So anyway, Fallout indicates how 1663 01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:58,200 the story of your characters and the world around them changes 1664 01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:00,240 based on your actions. It's all narrative. 1665 01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:02,240 And the follow happens based on the table below. 1666 01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:08,400 I will say a couple of times, Aaron says below, but it's sigh, 1667 01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:10,840 raise. But that's a common thing that 1668 01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:12,560 happens in games all the time. And I think it's just the way we 1669 01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:16,680 all write in Word, straight down Google Docs. 1670 01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:18,960 Yeah, Google Docs. Yeah. 1671 01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:22,240 So it's a it's a one to three, four to seven and eight to 10 1672 01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:23,480 table. Why don't you, why don't you 1673 01:28:23,480 --> 01:28:27,000 roll me a quick Fallout and we'll explain this a little bit. 1674 01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,080 I rolled a nine. Damn. 1675 01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:34,760 Yeah, it's going to shit. Something explodes. 1676 01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:38,480 Your enemy gets reinforcements. The boss has a second, stronger 1677 01:28:38,480 --> 01:28:40,520 form. The consequence of yourself. 1678 01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:44,640 Selfishness becomes evident. Yeah, so that's the worst 1679 01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:45,760 possible outcome. Yeah. 1680 01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:49,320 The other options one through three things are good or at 1681 01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:54,760 least beautiful. Again, like the way that's this 1682 01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:56,840 is exactly my point with the way that Aaron writes where it's 1683 01:28:56,840 --> 01:29:01,840 just like there's so much said in so few words that it I like 1684 01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:03,720 it. It's that Midwest passive 1685 01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:05,080 aggressiveness coming through in the writing. 1686 01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,680 That's what it is. Circumstances are going in your 1687 01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:09,720 favor. You see a useful object learn 1688 01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:11,680 important fact. An alarm goes quiet, you look 1689 01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,880 hot or the environment changes to look strange and lovely. 1690 01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:18,000 Four to seven friction is building and turning gross. 1691 01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:20,280 A fire starts. A bystander is drawn in, 1692 01:29:20,280 --> 01:29:23,680 something isn't as easy as you thought, sights and smells turn 1693 01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:26,880 evil and distracting, and people witness you doing something 1694 01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:28,400 embarrassing or selfish. And we already talked about 1695 01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:32,160 eight through 10 going to shit, so fallout consequences should 1696 01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:34,320 build naturally and be telegraphed. 1697 01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:37,120 There's an example here basically saying that on a four 1698 01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,400 through 7 you see things going bad. 1699 01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:42,120 On 8 through 10 something does go bad, so Telegraph these 1700 01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:44,280 things ahead of time as follows. Gets worse. 1701 01:29:44,840 --> 01:29:47,360 The default table works in most situations. 1702 01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:52,440 Feel free to adapt it any way you want, including changing the 1703 01:29:52,440 --> 01:29:55,560 numbers of things that are more difficult or easier or whatnot, 1704 01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:57,800 which is really easy to do with the D10. 1705 01:29:57,800 --> 01:29:59,600 That's one thing that's great about do 100 systems. 1706 01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:04,400 I know I'm a big 2D6 boy, but I think D100 would be my next 1707 01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:08,080 thing before we even get to D20. Roll under just because I think 1708 01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:09,080 you've said this over and over again. 1709 01:30:09,080 --> 01:30:11,240 The numbers become so easy when it's just a percentage. 1710 01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:15,520 Yeah, you know, yes, it's very incredibly easy to figure math. 1711 01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:21,000 Yeah. And then do you want to do 1712 01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:22,080 commitment damage? Let me in the game. 1713 01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:23,520 Yeah, the coupon. Yeah, absolutely. 1714 01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:25,440 So you start with 100 commitment, which we said a few 1715 01:30:25,440 --> 01:30:28,200 times and there aren't many ways to regain it. 1716 01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:34,520 We've talked about losing it a lot by either like taking damage 1717 01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:40,640 quotes or using it as a resource to in in contact with your 1718 01:30:40,640 --> 01:30:45,000 skills. Yes, do with the information as 1719 01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:47,120 you will. Live fast and die young or play 1720 01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:49,880 it safe and stretch it out. Stretch out what time you have. 1721 01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:53,720 Luckily most of your enemies will have less durability when 1722 01:30:53,720 --> 01:30:56,560 you successfully use a skill to hurt them. 1723 01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:58,520 You deal damage as described above. 1724 01:30:59,480 --> 01:31:03,800 When you reach 0, you're done. You might not be dead, or you 1725 01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:07,200 might be dead, or you might not be, or you might just turn back 1726 01:31:08,440 --> 01:31:11,560 to your old life, or turn your back on the this revolution that 1727 01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:15,640 you're a part of. I will say I have one question 1728 01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:18,200 about go if you want to go through the unless part. 1729 01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:20,080 I did have a question. Hopefully Aaron's still in chat. 1730 01:31:21,160 --> 01:31:25,840 Unless, this is unless one of your allies permanently 1731 01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:28,640 sacrifices in the ability to bring you back, They lose this 1732 01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:32,720 ability and can never regain it. They describe how the usage of 1733 01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:36,480 this ability brings you back from the edge, or a contact 1734 01:31:37,040 --> 01:31:43,120 you've worked with betrays you. They let you live out of respect 1735 01:31:43,120 --> 01:31:47,200 for your previous relationships, but they won't be so forgiving 1736 01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:50,560 next time, and they will bring all their knowledge of you to 1737 01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:53,400 bear. Or you decide to join the other 1738 01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,480 side, in which case your character comes the enemy, 1739 01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:58,840 though that with a slim possibility of future 1740 01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:02,200 redemption. I love all these. 1741 01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:06,080 This is a fantastic way to to do this, especially the third one 1742 01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:08,800 where like you're a bad guy, but then maybe something happens and 1743 01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:12,880 you get like a good role. So my question is if you if you 1744 01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:15,800 so once you hit zero commitment, you're out, you're gone, right? 1745 01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,440 Unless one of these things happens. 1746 01:32:17,440 --> 01:32:20,440 But like how much like mechanically wise, right? 1747 01:32:20,440 --> 01:32:24,360 Not just in the narrative, like you would need commitment again, 1748 01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:28,360 how much, how much do you get back if one of these unless 1749 01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:33,240 happens, like how do you like, what do you restart at for the 1750 01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:35,400 purposes of mechanics and taking damage and stuff like that? 1751 01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:36,880 That's my question. I don't think it's listed 1752 01:32:36,880 --> 01:32:39,720 anywhere of like if someone does say, if you say one of your 1753 01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:44,080 allies does permanently sacrifice an ability, like what 1754 01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:46,880 do you start back at? You know, roll AD 10 and if it's 1755 01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:48,240 a four, you get 4D kind of thing. 1756 01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:53,280 Boom. All right, So Aaron said, oh 1757 01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:56,000 shit, I have no answer for that. I would say 1D100, which is 1758 01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:58,400 basically what I just said. Just like roll it and then you 1759 01:32:58,400 --> 01:33:00,080 just get that one. So perfect. 1760 01:33:00,920 --> 01:33:03,440 So we'll say that. We'll say that is that's that's 1761 01:33:03,440 --> 01:33:05,120 what you do. You just roll the 100 and you 1762 01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:06,560 start back. You and your table, the house, 1763 01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:07,760 you know? Yeah. 1764 01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:09,400 Very true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1765 01:33:10,280 --> 01:33:12,160 But yeah, that was the only thing I saw there was just that 1766 01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:14,800 like you get to come back, but mechanically you need, you need 1767 01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:18,160 that commitment missions. Do you want to do missions or? 1768 01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:24,440 Yeah, yeah. Missions play centers around 1769 01:33:24,440 --> 01:33:25,800 missions. Characters might be given the 1770 01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:30,600 mission by a contact, or choose one based on what they know. 1771 01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,040 If you're play. If you're the player generating 1772 01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:37,480 the mission, feel free to keep the initial premise simple and 1773 01:33:37,480 --> 01:33:40,120 then complicate things as you go, especially if the other 1774 01:33:40,120 --> 01:33:43,480 players are ruling poorly. Sample mission components are 1775 01:33:43,480 --> 01:33:47,960 listed below or to the side. Pick from them or create them on 1776 01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:51,520 your own, then add enemies. More information on enemies is 1777 01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:53,640 in the latest section, and it's it's fairly funny. 1778 01:33:54,320 --> 01:33:59,040 Keep in mind that characters in Through the Mirror are powerful 1779 01:33:59,080 --> 01:34:01,440 without rolling. They can sneak past defenses, 1780 01:34:01,440 --> 01:34:03,760 kill enemies, or make them switch sides. 1781 01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:07,000 Thus, it's recommended to include multiple stages and 1782 01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:09,400 locations in each mission. This forces the players to 1783 01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:12,720 either use their powerful abilities up front to get them 1784 01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:17,200 past initial obstacles, or to rely on roles initially saving 1785 01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:19,280 their abilities for the final task. 1786 01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:25,520 Both purchases are fine. Yeah, I really love the way that 1787 01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:26,680 they put the missions together here. 1788 01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:33,160 It's, I mean, I was gonna drop this text document into Dropbox 1789 01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:34,400 real quick. I'll get it out of the way. 1790 01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:38,560 So tell me how they put them together. 1791 01:34:40,480 --> 01:34:44,720 Yeah, so you have mission goals. You can choose one or two, you 1792 01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:48,560 have twists which add one or rarely 2, and then the end of 1793 01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:50,480 mission. When the mission is over, 1794 01:34:50,480 --> 01:34:55,560 everyone does the following things, which are things you do. 1795 01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:59,720 Everyone has the opportunity to frame a scene based around 1796 01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:03,120 something on the list above. The scene can show how their 1797 01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:07,800 characters change and how other characters can can be invited in 1798 01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:12,080 for the conversation. And I love these. 1799 01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:15,920 This next mission go and an arrow, and the next mission go 1800 01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:20,600 arrow and again put upside down. Yeah. 1801 01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:24,000 So after your first mission, you add 5 to a skill. 1802 01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:27,720 After the next mission, you add 5 to a skill or gain a new 1803 01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:30,880 skill. And after that one you add 5 to 1804 01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:35,200 a skill or roll for a new ability or choosing new ability 1805 01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:38,280 under a heading you already have an ability in. 1806 01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:41,480 Great stuff. It's. 1807 01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:43,760 Really. But yeah, so my thought as far 1808 01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:49,080 as this, and maybe I'm wrong, is this is three different, it's 1809 01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:51,000 different advancements after each missing, right? 1810 01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:52,880 So first, when you do this, second, when you do this or when 1811 01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:54,920 you do that, I really like that you don't get a lot of games 1812 01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:58,920 where you rotate through different styles of advancement. 1813 01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:00,880 They might give you all the options or whatever, but not in 1814 01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:02,480 this specific way. And I really like that. 1815 01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:04,800 And I would probably loop it back to the first one. 1816 01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:07,200 It would be a loop, you know, I would just. 1817 01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:09,000 Keep going. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1818 01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:11,400 I mean, I think that's the intention, but it's also neat 1819 01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:18,480 that like you like once you get to the third one, you get it's 1820 01:36:18,480 --> 01:36:21,720 1-2 and three options. But then, yeah, on your 4th 1821 01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:23,840 mission, going back to just like you just get the skill or 1822 01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:25,120 whatever. I think that's a really neat way 1823 01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:30,280 to kind of like, I don't know, add some dynamism in the 1824 01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:31,600 advancement. Without having to do a bunch of 1825 01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:34,520 problems going a little bit. As far as mission goals, goals 1826 01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:37,080 go, you have someones that you'd expect like kill somebody, 1827 01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:39,400 rescue somebody, destroy something. 1828 01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:42,200 Because some interesting ones are like escape unseen because 1829 01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:43,800 mission goals are supposed to choose one or two. 1830 01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:47,080 And that's like an interesting like addendum one like, Oh yeah, 1831 01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:51,160 you need to leave your mark and then escape unseen. 1832 01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:54,400 Yeah. Or you can be travel through a 1833 01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:58,160 dangerous way or dangerous area and retrieve information or an 1834 01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:01,240 object. As far as twist, the goal is 1835 01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:04,600 keep being kept elsewhere, but someone doesn't want to be 1836 01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:06,040 rescued. I think that's an interesting 1837 01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:07,560 one. You get to rescue the person, 1838 01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:09,680 you're like, Oh no, I'm here by choice. 1839 01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:13,040 Like, what do you do then? Are you then going to kidnap 1840 01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:15,040 them? Yeah. 1841 01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:18,240 And in the end of mission, you know, if you lose commitment, 1842 01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:23,760 you gain 1D10 to the Max 95. If you lose 10 commitment, oh, 1843 01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:27,920 sorry, you lose 10 to men if you killed, tortured or otherwise 1844 01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:30,760 went against your morals. And then you advance your 1845 01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:31,520 character. See below. 1846 01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:35,000 I like it. It's a really straightforward, 1847 01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:38,480 clean way to do something that could be written in a much more 1848 01:37:38,480 --> 01:37:40,800 complicated way. But choosing one or two mission 1849 01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:43,600 goals and choosing one or two twists for the missions is just 1850 01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:47,960 such an easy way to go forward. And it's also such an easy list 1851 01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:50,960 where you can just be like, I can think of 1000 more that you 1852 01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:53,560 could add to this and make it super simple to make something 1853 01:37:53,560 --> 01:37:55,720 dynamic. It's really, it's neat. 1854 01:37:56,200 --> 01:38:00,000 And again, I like the way that each person gets to frame like 1855 01:38:00,200 --> 01:38:02,720 one time of what's happening to to add to the group narrative, 1856 01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:07,720 which you also already get from the like failure and success, 1857 01:38:07,720 --> 01:38:09,000 like discussions and stuff like that. 1858 01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:14,760 So it's a way to continue the consistency with that enemies. 1859 01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:17,160 So there's a bunch I like. I like them. 1860 01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,840 There's everyday shitheads, amoral thinkers, literal 1861 01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:25,440 monsters, captains of industry, corrupt betrayers, and chief 1862 01:38:25,440 --> 01:38:29,680 executive officers. So obviously the lowest are 1863 01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:32,720 these guys. So in each one you get an 1864 01:38:32,720 --> 01:38:34,520 explanation of kind of like what they are. 1865 01:38:34,760 --> 01:38:38,640 You get a paragraph that is the mechanics of it. 1866 01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:40,840 And then underneath you get escalations. 1867 01:38:40,840 --> 01:38:44,440 It's ways that like when shit starts to go bad, especially 1868 01:38:44,440 --> 01:38:46,560 when you're rolling on the fallout table and stuff, that 1869 01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:48,760 you can escalate it. So everyday shitheads are just 1870 01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:51,480 like regular people, such as a cop who likes to push people 1871 01:38:51,480 --> 01:38:53,080 around. What's a cop talking here, 1872 01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:55,040 Aaron? Others might. 1873 01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:56,600 It's almost like we don't like cops. 1874 01:38:57,040 --> 01:39:00,320 Yeah, others might only be here for the paycheck or whatever. 1875 01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:03,680 So everyday shit heads usually have no thresholds, meaning any 1876 01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,800 role under this skill succeeds. If they're untrained, they have 1877 01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:08,640 one health, if they're trained, they have like 5, so they can 1878 01:39:08,640 --> 01:39:10,600 take one or two hits. Basically they're mooks, you 1879 01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,440 know? Yeah, but the the escalations 1880 01:39:13,440 --> 01:39:15,280 are neat. So when a player's Fallout die 1881 01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:18,960 is 4 or higher, consider having your everyday shithead pool one 1882 01:39:18,960 --> 01:39:22,320 of the following maneuvers here. Threaten a bystander, cause 1883 01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:25,600 collateral damage, call in reinforcements, challenge a 1884 01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:28,520 player's morals, beg for their life, or run away. 1885 01:39:29,040 --> 01:39:33,640 So I really dig the escalation list here specifically for the 1886 01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:37,200 Fallout specifically because like again, we've we've said 1887 01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:39,560 numerous times of some things it's nice to leave it broad, but 1888 01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:42,880 when something is, it is brought as saying Fallout changes the 1889 01:39:42,880 --> 01:39:45,840 narrative, so change it. It's really nice to not only get 1890 01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,040 an expectation of what that means, but for every enemy to 1891 01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:51,560 have a list explaining what that means is really nice to have. 1892 01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:55,480 Yeah, we have to talk about the just like the first line of 1893 01:39:55,480 --> 01:39:58,400 literal monsters. Oh, it's I that was. 1894 01:39:58,440 --> 01:39:59,600 Yes. Please read it for me. 1895 01:39:59,800 --> 01:40:03,680 It's so good. The the literal monsters, the 1896 01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:06,840 fuckable misunderstood monsters are already on your side. 1897 01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:15,560 You might be one of them. Oh my God. 1898 01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:20,600 Yeah, so good I can. Tell that Eric could spend a lot 1899 01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:23,400 of time with Max. Yeah, just a little bit. 1900 01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:26,080 Just a little bit. The next line is these literal 1901 01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:28,280 monsters are the bad ones. So I love that, you know, the 1902 01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:30,040 good ones are the fuckable ones. That's great. 1903 01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:34,720 Likely to have a human speed, strength, or the abilities not 1904 01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:37,080 be hideous for disgusting. It might just look like you, you 1905 01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:39,120 and me. Little monsters have a threshold 1906 01:40:39,120 --> 01:40:43,120 between 20 and 30, but they only apply to certain approaches. 1907 01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:45,040 Each monster has its weaknesses after all. 1908 01:40:45,600 --> 01:40:48,680 So while a flesh wearing man monster might be very difficult 1909 01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:52,800 to harm with a typical weaponry, the rule must be above 30 or 1910 01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:57,160 below the character skill. A buckshot blast of mere shards 1911 01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:59,640 would circumvent that threshold. Love that. 1912 01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:06,320 I think it's like when I first started reading this, I like 1913 01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:08,960 after the first time I was like, oh, little monsters like evil 1914 01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:12,800 people, people are monsters and I but still probably play this 1915 01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,200 like that sometime. But yeah, it means like actual 1916 01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:17,360 monster monsters, but escalations. 1917 01:41:17,800 --> 01:41:23,080 They drag someone to a remote location that sucks, strike out 1918 01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:27,360 at everyone, present a destroy an object or landmark Sha King 1919 01:41:27,360 --> 01:41:31,560 Kong, and then or consume a bystander to heal or reveal a 1920 01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:34,360 new ability. That's right, they grow even 1921 01:41:34,360 --> 01:41:38,000 more arms. Yeah, yeah, cuz they gotta have 1922 01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:41,000 arms or tentacles. Well, I guess those are in the 1923 01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:43,800 first, never mind. So yeah. 1924 01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:45,960 So going through each one just to give a little blurb. 1925 01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:48,120 Everybody shitheads your everyday are just normal fucking 1926 01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:50,160 people. Wrong place, wrong time. 1927 01:41:50,400 --> 01:41:53,720 But I like that they're susceptible to like just being 1928 01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:56,000 like, bro, you can just get, you can just leave and then you'll 1929 01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:59,680 be like, OK, amoral thinkers. Amoral thinkers are scientists, 1930 01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:01,360 planners, philosophers of the opposition. 1931 01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:03,400 They're they're the smart ones, but they're still pretty much 1932 01:42:03,400 --> 01:42:06,160 just like regular shitheads. Then there's the literal 1933 01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:08,000 monsters and there's the captains of industry. 1934 01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,960 These are the greatest monster of our society, feeding on 1935 01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:13,440 money, taking it from those two week to hold on and shoving them 1936 01:42:13,440 --> 01:42:16,440 into gaping moths and distributing it to their 1937 01:42:16,440 --> 01:42:19,600 disgusting organs like arms manufacturers, police budgets 1938 01:42:19,600 --> 01:42:21,240 and addictive drugs, etcetera, etcetera. 1939 01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:24,400 Corrupt betrayers are people that used to be on your side, 1940 01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,160 but they switched, They were seduced, brainwashed, double, 1941 01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:29,000 triple, quadruple agented, whatever. 1942 01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:31,840 And then the chief executive officers are the biggest, 1943 01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:36,200 baddest, bland. They, they aren't bland, 1944 01:42:36,200 --> 01:42:39,680 ignorant CEOs of the real world, but they embody all the evils of 1945 01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:43,320 the system. The CEO is supposed to be like 1946 01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:46,840 the big dad of the entire, you know, world that you have 1947 01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:49,760 traversed into there. You know, make them immune to 1948 01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:51,600 regular shit, you know, get crazy. 1949 01:42:52,120 --> 01:42:55,240 Escalations are like command a whole word called the power of a 1950 01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:58,560 holy alliance. Like edit your character sheet 1951 01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:01,320 until the end of the mission. Love that one. 1952 01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:02,760 Yeah. Yeah, sorry. 1953 01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:04,560 You actually. Don't have that skill give me 1954 01:43:04,560 --> 01:43:08,280 your sheet scratch. That's good and then there's the 1955 01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:11,240 sample mission here. It's really neat it's it's 1956 01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:14,440 Ballard Ranch. It's an introductory admission 1957 01:43:14,440 --> 01:43:16,520 to intermere brightly. It's neat it's cool. 1958 01:43:16,960 --> 01:43:21,440 I I'm not gonna there's a a cool little we don't read the 1959 01:43:21,440 --> 01:43:22,600 adventures here. It's a good one. 1960 01:43:22,600 --> 01:43:25,840 And I love the first line of running the adventure, the dark 1961 01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:28,160 secret of the adventure. I'm not going to say it go by 1962 01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:33,320 the PDF right now on on H dot IO the link below, but it's really 1963 01:43:33,320 --> 01:43:35,600 cool adventure. It gives you everything that you 1964 01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:38,120 need for it. A a breakdown of everything 1965 01:43:38,120 --> 01:43:40,760 that's going on, an explanation of how to run it, a map. 1966 01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:43,320 It's great. And then at the back there's the 1967 01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:47,360 reading list, the appendix in for this, the games like 1968 01:43:47,360 --> 01:43:50,520 Cyberpunk 2020, Maid's Ascension, Cyber Metal, 1969 01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:56,800 obviously Apocalypse World Comics, The Invisibles by Grant 1970 01:43:56,800 --> 01:43:59,800 Morrison, Phil The Menace, and more for a recursive tale of 1971 01:43:59,800 --> 01:44:02,560 Gnostic weirdness and all of its messy, stylish glory. 1972 01:44:02,920 --> 01:44:04,880 And then movies and television. We talked about this before The 1973 01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,960 Matrix series by the Wilkowski's The Prisoner from Patrick 1974 01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,400 Mcgoohan. Great. 1975 01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:13,240 That's it. This is half of the Lorez 1976 01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:15,560 features book. This is in Amir Brightly. 1977 01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:17,120 This is Aaron motherfucking King. 1978 01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:21,120 So let's kick to those review scores real quick. 1979 01:44:21,800 --> 01:44:27,240 We are gonna just do let me rearrange this a little bit, get 1980 01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:29,280 rid of the game scores. Nope. 1981 01:44:33,280 --> 01:44:36,720 We're prepped, don't worry. Yes, I do wanna get rid of game 1982 01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:38,000 scores and I wanna put Z in scores. 1983 01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:41,400 There we go, There we go. So the difference really only 1984 01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:43,600 matters to us. But you know, full quote UN 1985 01:44:43,600 --> 01:44:49,760 quote bigger games that are that just have more stuff, we usually 1986 01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:51,400 do 5 metrics for, for smaller games like this. 1987 01:44:51,400 --> 01:44:55,000 For scene size games, we use 3 metrics, visuals, rule set and 1988 01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:56,880 vibes. So visuals are all the visuals 1989 01:44:56,880 --> 01:44:59,480 of the game. That includes the art, the 1990 01:44:59,480 --> 01:45:01,600 layout, everything, everything. When you look at it, you know, 1991 01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:04,920 front to back, that's visuals. Rule set is if it's a new rule 1992 01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:07,640 set, do we like it? Is it good if it's an adapted 1993 01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:09,120 rule set? How well is it adapted? 1994 01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:12,680 Also do it like and it's good and the vibes are kind of like 1995 01:45:12,680 --> 01:45:15,400 an overall looking at the visuals, looking at the rules, 1996 01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:19,840 like how bad you know when you close that last page, do you 1997 01:45:19,840 --> 01:45:22,960 want to play this game? That's the vibes. 1998 01:45:22,960 --> 01:45:28,040 So visually what you got? I love the way this looks. 1999 01:45:28,440 --> 01:45:32,800 I love the like, like kind of diffused art in the back of 2000 01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:38,360 every single page and I love the colors and I'm a huge fan of 2001 01:45:38,360 --> 01:45:41,080 this. Visually it's still incredibly 2002 01:45:41,080 --> 01:45:44,760 readable, which I think is really important, like. 2003 01:45:44,760 --> 01:45:47,200 Well, I mean, the colors are like, I don't know how much 2004 01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:48,920 higher contrast you can get, you know? 2005 01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:52,320 Yeah, like it's, it's super easy to read while still being like 2006 01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:55,360 very visually dynamic and like and having a lot of personality 2007 01:45:55,360 --> 01:45:59,480 to the visuals and then just not feel like it's just art. 2008 01:45:59,480 --> 01:46:02,000 Don't know the place. It all fits in nicely, even 2009 01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:07,400 though maybe there's not really one central like genre storyline 2010 01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:09,120 to this. It could be, it could go in many 2011 01:46:09,120 --> 01:46:11,080 different ways and you and you feel like going through it. 2012 01:46:11,080 --> 01:46:13,320 So I'm pretty good on visuals, you know? 2013 01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:15,440 Where are you at? The visuals are great. 2014 01:46:15,440 --> 01:46:18,920 Well, I mean we kind of have to like where where where do we 2015 01:46:18,920 --> 01:46:23,920 factor in like the fucking the fact that there is AR bonus 2016 01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:28,120 content, you know what I mean? Like is that part of of visuals 2017 01:46:28,120 --> 01:46:30,040 like is that part of rules? I think that. 2018 01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:31,240 No, I wouldn't say that's part of. 2019 01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:33,560 Rules. So or vibes. 2020 01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:38,520 So I mean, unfortunately the AR app doesn't really exist right 2021 01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:41,680 now and we know it's there. So this doesn't really add 2022 01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:43,280 anything to us visually right now. 2023 01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:45,320 It does really add to the rule set because you can now get 2024 01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:50,920 these rules and read them. But yeah, I think if the app 2025 01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:53,920 comes out ever and we can scan this, I think, yeah, visually 2026 01:46:53,920 --> 01:46:56,520 it'll bump it up to, I mean, probably a 10. 2027 01:46:58,160 --> 01:47:00,760 But yeah, where are you at? Where are you at with this 2028 01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:01,840 visually? I mean, I think it's great. 2029 01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:03,400 I love the art, I love the style. 2030 01:47:03,400 --> 01:47:05,800 I think it's super readable. I think it fits the vibe that 2031 01:47:05,800 --> 01:47:10,160 it's going for compared to other games since I've gotten 10, 2032 01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:11,040 stuff like that. Where? 2033 01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:13,280 Where are you? For this one right now I'm 2034 01:47:13,280 --> 01:47:16,600 probably more around like an 8. I mean, that was dead on where I 2035 01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:17,920 was at. I think it's really, really 2036 01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:25,520 fantastic and it reminds me a little bit to again, probably 2037 01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:32,880 vibing off of several Metal 2012 of how there is no, there is no 2038 01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:35,560 base layout. You know, like every page is 2039 01:47:35,560 --> 01:47:37,720 different. Every page was clearly done 2040 01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:40,080 differently. You know, it's not like it's 2041 01:47:40,080 --> 01:47:42,320 just a column thing. You're just like filling in text 2042 01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:43,840 in the text box that's supposed to be there. 2043 01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:45,880 And I love that. I love when games make every 2044 01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:48,880 page individually different. I think that's definitely one 2045 01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:51,960 way to get around like the whole like we need to have a huge art 2046 01:47:51,960 --> 01:47:53,240 budget. It's like, no, just make every 2047 01:47:53,240 --> 01:47:56,120 page its own spread and like use your layout in an interesting 2048 01:47:56,120 --> 01:47:58,480 way and then you're fine. That is art. 2049 01:47:58,480 --> 01:48:00,160 Yeah, I know. I think yeah, it is. 2050 01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:02,960 Like it isn't, you know, I don't think game designers are. 2051 01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:04,320 But like, that's a discussion for another day. 2052 01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:08,120 So visually, I think in solid rule set, so. 2053 01:48:08,240 --> 01:48:11,640 So adapted a little bit from Cyber Metal 2012, which is. 2054 01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:15,840 Great, I love this. I I love the use of like a like 2055 01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:22,440 the D100 like not contested rule, but like things are 2056 01:48:22,440 --> 01:48:24,040 contests. It's not necessarily causing 2057 01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:26,400 damage or hurting somebody. Like I like to like, Oh yeah, 2058 01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:28,280 you're just like rolling to win in this. 2059 01:48:28,280 --> 01:48:31,000 Whatever off you're having right now, whether it be with guns, 2060 01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:34,320 dancing, fashion show. Like I really appreciate that. 2061 01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:40,560 I like the flexibility of the skills and I just like how weird 2062 01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:46,520 building a character is. You know, there's just like you 2063 01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:50,480 roll AD 20 or maybe from 24 if you know, if you know the arcane 2064 01:48:50,480 --> 01:48:52,440 secrets, the esoteric secrets of the book. 2065 01:48:54,240 --> 01:48:56,520 But yeah, you could just be, you're just a normal person 2066 01:48:56,520 --> 01:49:00,760 who's just like, you know, woken up to the truth behind things 2067 01:49:00,760 --> 01:49:04,120 and now you can fight. I I think it's lightweight and I 2068 01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:07,880 think it has as much scaffolding as I would want with something 2069 01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:10,120 like this. And it leaves a very, very open 2070 01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:13,440 to interpretation and kind of gives you a lot of examples of 2071 01:49:13,440 --> 01:49:16,040 those interpretations in really small ways as you go through the 2072 01:49:16,040 --> 01:49:19,320 text. I like this game. 2073 01:49:19,320 --> 01:49:23,320 I think it's cool. Yeah, I mean, I think it's super 2074 01:49:23,320 --> 01:49:27,680 cool. I think I mean I, I, you know, I 2075 01:49:27,680 --> 01:49:31,760 really enjoy that things are like super broad and but focused 2076 01:49:31,760 --> 01:49:33,200 in the ways you need to be focused. 2077 01:49:33,480 --> 01:49:37,640 I would just say like there's just a couple of things that 2078 01:49:37,640 --> 01:49:39,120 maybe like a little bit of clarification. 2079 01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:41,920 So like for example, like you run into a room with like 5 bad 2080 01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:44,320 guys. Like there's an explanation of 2081 01:49:44,320 --> 01:49:47,880 kind of like the bad guys every shit had usually has no 2082 01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:54,920 threshold, things like that. But what can the bad guy do? 2083 01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:59,720 The bad guy action economy? I think if it's nothing and it's 2084 01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:01,440 all just based on character, I think that's something that 2085 01:50:01,560 --> 01:50:03,360 could use a little bit more explanation. 2086 01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:07,160 Cuz if you run into an amoral thinker, there are some things 2087 01:50:07,160 --> 01:50:10,240 like there's devotion, the experiments, chosen path, it's 2088 01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:12,160 quick mutations. There's a lot of narrative, but 2089 01:50:12,160 --> 01:50:15,680 not really in the escalations. What's the base thing that they 2090 01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:18,640 can do to you? And how do the turn order go a 2091 01:50:18,640 --> 01:50:20,720 little bit, I think is the only part of the rule set that I 2092 01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:25,040 think is like we would just figure out at the table, but 2093 01:50:25,040 --> 01:50:27,040 wouldn't mind a little bit more clarification on. 2094 01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:29,680 But otherwise, yeah, I love the rule set. 2095 01:50:29,680 --> 01:50:33,640 It's so it's like it's so nice, just and clean. 2096 01:50:33,960 --> 01:50:36,600 Just roll. You have a skill number, roll 2097 01:50:36,600 --> 01:50:38,600 under it, you get it. If there's a threshold roll 2098 01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:45,040 between like boom, super cake and and then all of the 2099 01:50:45,600 --> 01:50:47,720 character life path is fucking fantastic. 2100 01:50:48,520 --> 01:50:49,800 Those are great all the way through. 2101 01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:53,360 The variations that you'll have in a game just by rolling up for 2102 01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:55,600 extraordinarily different characters are incredible. 2103 01:50:56,920 --> 01:50:58,600 I don't know where are you at with this. 2104 01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,560 No, I think the last one you do. This I know, I know, I always 2105 01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:03,000 try to make you do all of them I. 2106 01:51:03,040 --> 01:51:04,600 Know you try to make me do all of them. 2107 01:51:04,720 --> 01:51:06,400 I'm doing that. I know. 2108 01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:09,160 Well, it's only taking 150 episodes for you to start saying 2109 01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:11,680 no. I realizing that's what I do. 2110 01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:13,400 I realized that like it's so funny. 2111 01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:15,320 I realized that like two months ago and I was like, I'm just 2112 01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:16,720 going to track how often it's Mead. 2113 01:51:16,720 --> 01:51:19,040 Picking the number. And then like 2 weeks ago I was 2114 01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:19,800 like. You know what? 2115 01:51:21,880 --> 01:51:26,920 I'm probably I'm probably for like Zine rules is I'm probably 2116 01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:28,640 still around an 8 for this. I really. 2117 01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:30,760 Love them too. I mean, every time we go through 2118 01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:32,760 Zine, there's always some rules that aren't in the Zine. 2119 01:51:32,760 --> 01:51:34,040 You know, They're all very lightweight. 2120 01:51:34,760 --> 01:51:37,640 But I mean, stuff like this is so easy that I would just decide 2121 01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:40,240 at the table. And I think this is not made for 2122 01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:43,600 your first game. I mean, I'm sure you could if 2123 01:51:43,600 --> 01:51:46,680 you were like a creative person who was, who was unstressed and 2124 01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:49,800 flexible about it. But like, this is not gonna be 2125 01:51:49,800 --> 01:51:52,120 your first game. You can figure stuff out. 2126 01:51:52,120 --> 01:51:54,360 You play other games so. Yeah, I mean, you could play 2127 01:51:54,360 --> 01:51:56,680 this as the first game easy, but running it as your first game 2128 01:51:56,680 --> 01:51:59,120 like, but that's what all kind of like rules, like systems. 2129 01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:04,200 There's a lot of, like, implied knowledge that we have because 2130 01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:06,320 we read all of this shit. All of every. 2131 01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:07,440 Yeah. I'm rather an insane amount of 2132 01:52:07,440 --> 01:52:09,720 games at this point. Yeah, well, I mean, that's half 2133 01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:11,400 the reason we do this. I buy so many games, I gotta 2134 01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:15,000 read some of them, you know? So yeah, I think 8's easy and 2135 01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:16,320 vibes what you have for. Vibes. 2136 01:52:16,320 --> 01:52:17,680 The vibes are through the roof on this thing. 2137 01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:18,760 I love this through. The fucking roof. 2138 01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:21,280 Yeah, I don't play so bad. It's an easy 9 for me. 2139 01:52:21,720 --> 01:52:23,600 Yeah, I think 9 is right where I'm at for it too. 2140 01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:26,960 Yeah, I think 9 is where I'm at. I just generally top to bottom. 2141 01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:29,840 I really love this. Again, like the way that Aaron 2142 01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:33,440 writes the, the, the way that they think about games and 2143 01:52:33,440 --> 01:52:35,720 listen to the RTFM podcast to hear a lot more about that. 2144 01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:38,880 And then the way that they communicate games, I think is, 2145 01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:41,240 is all those are great. But honestly, the way that they 2146 01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:45,080 communicate games is is some of my favorite. 2147 01:52:45,080 --> 01:52:48,160 Like the way that they can write things so concisely in a way 2148 01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:52,160 where I go, Oh, like I rarely ever have a question after they 2149 01:52:52,160 --> 01:52:54,680 explain something in the way that they write it because of 2150 01:52:54,680 --> 01:52:58,000 how of how well it's done. But also, yeah, all the little 2151 01:52:58,000 --> 01:53:01,080 the little quips and like the semi backhanded stuff that'll 2152 01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:04,280 come up in the rules. And like the things like that is 2153 01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:08,160 it's so it's it's enjoyable to read whenever they're right 2154 01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:10,400 stuff. So 8 + 8 + 9. 2155 01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:17,520 That's 16. That's what like a 25 if I can't 2156 01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:19,520 add 3 numbers together. Yeah, it's a 25. 2157 01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:22,720 Super solid score. 2525 out of 30. 2158 01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:25,480 Great. Love this game. 2159 01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:29,680 It's good, It's good. I like it a lot. 2160 01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:32,360 Yeah, yeah, Enemy or brightly check it out. 2161 01:53:32,360 --> 01:53:34,160 Like I said, it's only what what did we say? 2162 01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:36,760 Like we didn't, we don't have a value score on like the five, 2163 01:53:36,760 --> 01:53:39,040 but how much did we say it was? Was it like 5 bucks on it was? 2164 01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:42,120 It like 10. Bucks yeah, yeah, something some 2165 01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:47,640 insanely like inexpensive cost for a game that you could have 2166 01:53:47,680 --> 01:53:50,520 endless fun with. That's extremely well written. 2167 01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:54,080 Very excited for it. Also place every middle 2012 got 2168 01:53:54,080 --> 01:53:58,520 fucking like such a good game. At some point, probably in the 2169 01:53:58,520 --> 01:54:01,240 next week or two, we're going to be going over the opposite side 2170 01:54:01,240 --> 01:54:05,440 of the book, which is hand baskets from Max, from Max 2171 01:54:05,440 --> 01:54:09,200 Lander. We are doing an episode on 2172 01:54:09,200 --> 01:54:10,440 Thursday. I don't think we're going to do 2173 01:54:10,440 --> 01:54:14,160 this on Thursday, but we'll probably do this next week and 2174 01:54:14,200 --> 01:54:16,960 we'll do some. We'll get we'll get both sides 2175 01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:19,600 of it, but check all of that out. 2176 01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:24,680 What do we still got going on? Check out Earth After Dark and 2177 01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:27,760 Black Ramba Society, talk about those on previous episodes and 2178 01:54:27,760 --> 01:54:29,240 begin the Kickstarter. One more giveaway. 2179 01:54:29,240 --> 01:54:32,160 This week we're doing the Hell Night giveaway. 2180 01:54:32,880 --> 01:54:34,320 Yep. So how am I listen? 2181 01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:37,160 Am I doing it? Are you? 2182 01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:38,800 Doing it no. Listen, listen, listen to what? 2183 01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:43,640 So listen, go to our Twitter, you know, weekly under score 2184 01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:48,680 scroll and like our post about the giveaway 'cause you, you 2185 01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:52,040 could be the lucky winner of this gorgeous copy of Hell 2186 01:54:52,040 --> 01:54:55,560 Knight and the additional Zine The Damned. 2187 01:54:57,040 --> 01:55:00,200 They're great. I love Hell Knight. 2188 01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:04,040 I that game. You know, I didn't think I was 2189 01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:07,840 an 80 biker, 80s biker guy until I read that and I was like, no, 2190 01:55:07,840 --> 01:55:09,280 I could fucking do this. This is great. 2191 01:55:09,400 --> 01:55:14,280 So yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's, it's so well done top to bottom. 2192 01:55:14,280 --> 01:55:16,280 It's really great. Gabber Kroga has some really, 2193 01:55:16,680 --> 01:55:19,520 really great again thoughts about games and, and the way 2194 01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:22,080 that they produce so many of so much of it with their own hands 2195 01:55:22,080 --> 01:55:24,920 and like do the collage style art and the poster stuff, yes, 2196 01:55:25,080 --> 01:55:27,480 is really great. Black Remo Society is on 2197 01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:30,800 Kickstarter now to do an expansion for Hell Night, so 2198 01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:35,200 definitely go check that out. I will post the tweet probably 2199 01:55:35,200 --> 01:55:37,800 right after this episode. So go yeah, so, so go check it 2200 01:55:37,800 --> 01:55:39,320 out now. We'll do an episode on Thursday, 2201 01:55:39,320 --> 01:55:41,880 unless we postpone it again, but sometime this week we will be 2202 01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:44,760 doing an episode. We will be giving away that the 2203 01:55:44,840 --> 01:55:49,800 that finals, the book and I think that's it. 2204 01:55:49,800 --> 01:55:51,040 We got a lot of fun stuff coming up. 2205 01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:53,120 I'll be talking with Kayla Dice this weekend. 2206 01:55:53,560 --> 01:55:55,400 They'll be coming back on to talk about their newest game, 2207 01:55:55,400 --> 01:55:59,840 Psycho Dungeon. And and yeah, so Aaron, once 2208 01:55:59,840 --> 01:56:01,800 again, thank you for coming on. We really appreciated that. 2209 01:56:02,000 --> 01:56:05,480 Thank you for making such a great game with with inner 2210 01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:08,360 mirror brightly here. And I believe that's it for us. 2211 01:56:08,360 --> 01:56:12,280 So Hunter, beautiful as always. We will see you all later. 2212 01:56:12,680 --> 01:56:13,040 Bye.