1 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,440 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast. 2 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,560 My name is Ryan and I'm. King Jeel. 3 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,800 Today on the Weekly Scroll podcast, we are going over Cloud 4 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,640 Empress, which I said like three times I was gonna go grab my 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,360 copies of and I didn't. So at some point I will do that. 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,640 Yeah, Cloud Empress by what? As I'm pulling up the notes that 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,160 I also didn't pull up initial thoughts. 8 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:42,760 Give me one, two lines. Nothing crazy. 9 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:50,920 Cool weird science fantasy giant bugs that eat bones. 10 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,920 Yeah so we've had we've we've we've had Watt on twice now the 11 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,640 creator of the game wants to do a creator cut before the the 12 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,000 campaign dropped and blown away. It's amazing right. 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,440 And then we had, then we had them on more recently post 14 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,640 campaign to do kind of like a post mortem and a look forward 15 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,240 fantastic episode Loves everything that they did with 16 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:16,720 anyone that's gonna run a Kickstarter, please go watch 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,280 that episode or listen to what. Like, I think they're all such a 18 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,120 great job of very good lessons if you're gonna run a project 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,360 like what did everything like really incredibly well. 20 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:32,640 Yeah, as like as correctly as you can with like as you can 21 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,720 plan for and then when things came up handle that extremely 22 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,080 well also. Open communication, yeah. 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,520 I mean, expectations were set like appropriately and they were 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,800 moved appropriately through communication as small things 25 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,200 change. Yeah, I mean, great project. 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,440 I'm super happy with it. I've read some criticisms of it 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,120 online and like a lot of them I don't actually really agree 28 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,880 with. I like and I was incredibly 29 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,680 happy with this project. I think it's that there's a 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,480 bunch of little books, so. Well, we talked about why there 31 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,760 is a bunch of little books like what I what I Will Would I love 32 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,840 this? Eventually. 33 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:14,120 OK, I'm gonna and stop yelling. So I'm gonna put that right in 34 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,520 the center right there. For those in podcast land. 35 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,320 I have little signs to remind myself. 36 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:21,800 Stop yelling. Well, I have. 37 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:26,760 Well, I have a sexier voice when I don't yell, so listen, yes, we 38 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:32,000 need to do the podcast, so stop yelling. 39 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,920 So I said and then yelled it. So I failed immediately. 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,480 Anyway, we were talking about what? 41 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,640 They rock. The game is sick. 42 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,040 Oh, we talked about why it's a bunch of little books, because 43 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,240 honestly, it would just cost a lot more if it was one giant 44 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,200 hard book. Totally. 45 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,440 And I and I'm also, I like that it's so like if I'm running 46 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,440 this, I don't really need to bring all the books to the table 47 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,360 every single time. I just need to bring the main 48 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,720 call and whatever hex is closest to hit and that's it. 49 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,320 And I don't want to bring big book every time. 50 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,080 I don't. I don't want to bring a big book 51 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,320 every time to the table, so. Here's The thing is, of course I 52 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,880 want a big hardback special edition, but that's for like the 53 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,520 3rd or 4th Kickstarter. You know what I. 54 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,480 Mean. I super agree. 55 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,240 Yeah, there's other projects that are currently trying to 56 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,480 fund right now that have too many bits and bobs and have too 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,120 high a goal. And I think that what what what 58 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,200 did with Cloud Empress was extremely, we randomly just got 59 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,200 into such a random side tangent. Sorry for all those listening. 60 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,600 Anyway, what's been on a couple of times we've talked about 61 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,480 Cloud Empress a bunch. We're finally going to review it 62 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,240 today on stream my outer all wore off. 63 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,360 So we're focusing in here. Here's the thing. 64 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,880 Do you have the rest of your box set with you? 65 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,320 Do you have? Everything except the patches. 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,640 The patches are in my patch container, but I can get them if 67 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,480 I need to. So fantastic. 68 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,080 So if you got the full deluxe edition of Cloud Empress, you 69 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,600 got what is the main book, the rule book, The land of Cicadas, 70 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,240 which is the lore book and like the all the hex map stuff. 71 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,880 Yeah, and then that's a bunch of adventures. 72 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,200 Yeah, a bunch of adventures by a bunch of amazing content, 73 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,120 content creators. Content is fine. 74 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,480 Word people, amazing writers. And each one got their own 75 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,519 little pamphlet, which was super cool in the map. 76 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:22,760 That's right. So we will talk about the maps a 77 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,120 little bit Anyway, so focusing in. 78 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,960 We're doing Cloud Empress today, people. 79 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,240 So I took fucking notes for this. 80 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,520 I have a whole intro and write up. 81 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,840 This is we're prepared because we've talked about this game a 82 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:37,120 bunch. We can talk about it some more. 83 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,480 We've. Talked about this game a lot, 84 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,560 Cloud. Empress, let me, let me I'm 85 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,720 gonna, I'm gonna put this here and we're gonna go through this. 86 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:48,200 So Cloud Empress is an ecological science fantasy RPG 87 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,560 with a Nasika Inspire fantasy setting built on the bones of 88 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,960 the Mothership RPG, the writing, graphic design and layout 89 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,760 Whereby what editing and development was by Roz Leahy 90 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,120 with additional editing and development by Meet Castle Game, 91 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,840 Where's Christian Sorrell who we just spoke with recently. 92 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,120 Yeah. Who's we spoke with originally, 93 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,440 Who is ITCH funding Tacticians of OM, A game, a tactical game 94 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,920 they created that is fantastic right now, if you're listening 95 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,160 Google or ITCH or whatever, Go to Itch, Find Christian Sorrell 96 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:23,800 back. Tacticians of OM. 97 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,320 It blew past its initial goal. It's already on the second goal. 98 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,600 That's great. Also random side note, 99 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,800 Greenhorns from very good friend of the show Spicy Tuna AKA 100 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:38,400 Marcus Serrano dropped this morning and one baby typical and 101 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,720 so go back that too because it it rocks. 102 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,880 We already did part one on the show and Part 2 is coming up 103 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,480 Back to the notes. The project we're talking about, 104 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,040 Cloud Empress now, was successfully funded on 105 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:56,800 Kickstarter on February 9th, 2023 with 2088 backers raising 106 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,640 $98,257. And on January 9th of this year, 107 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,760 fulfillment was declared complete and the first 108 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,080 expansion, the Life and Death expansion, was announced. 109 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,360 That'll be dropping April 2nd, I believe. 110 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,120 And it is the two different books. 111 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,400 I'll say this again at the end because that's where it is. 112 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,720 In the notes, there's The Land of the Living and Land of the 113 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,680 Dead. Each is a 50 page hex crawl 114 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:32,480 expansion coming in April And who knows, maybe we'll see what 115 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,080 again we will. They'll be here. 116 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,280 They will call their press episode #5. 117 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,360 Yes, we're. Literally gonna have a whole 118 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,840 playlist of just Cloud Oppress because we fucking enjoy this 119 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:41,880 game. It's it's good. 120 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,520 I'm really into this game, like thematically, it's very much a a 121 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:48,120 hunter game, you know? Yeah. 122 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,360 It's AU game hard, like I really enjoy it. 123 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,720 It's not a Ryan game though at all, but it is a very much a 124 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,240 Hunter game and I can appreciate that. 125 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,240 Oh oh, the best part of that I wrote was this time we chatted 126 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,720 about and played Cloud Empress on creator Cuts episode #5, 127 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,680 which is betweens episode 62 and 63. 128 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,600 If you want to hear some initial like 30 minute interview with 129 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,040 Watt about Cloud Empress and then watch us play with Cloud 130 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,040 Empress running it. And then we also interviewed 131 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,520 Watt. We already talked about that on 132 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:24,400 episode 122 and did the post mortem and the campaign 133 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,080 fulfillment and the look forward there. 134 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,000 So that's that's the intro to cloud. 135 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:30,840 Empress. Mm hmm. 136 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:32,560 Mm hmm. Mm hmm. 137 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,280 Great intro, honestly. I hate listen a little 138 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,120 scatterbrained not gonna lie. We we we we're in pre stream for 139 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,640 20 minutes for a reason because we couldn't focus in, but we're 140 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,600 here. It has been already a rough 141 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,560 morning, so. Hey, I'm awake feeling good with 142 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,480 a full belly. So we're we're getting there. 143 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,040 Anything you have to say before we hop into the game? 144 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,320 Read through. I think that this is a fantastic 145 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,880 project and I can't wait for more of it. 146 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,360 That's my, yeah, that's my, my. Take away I'm very excited for 147 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,680 the Land of the living, and obviously for the land of the 148 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,080 Dead. Yeah, so because Land of the 149 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:18,680 Dead's my shit. Boom Cloud, Empress ecological 150 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,800 science fantasy RPG, how about the freaking art all the way 151 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,600 through this entire thing? Incredible. 152 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,880 The art's really crazy, so there's three different artists 153 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,679 on here. It's PB Beta, Garen and Hwanji. 154 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:39,640 And let me tell you that, Oh no, it's 4 Cause images in here as 155 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,440 well. And the art is so contiguous all 156 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,520 the way through. Like it's it's all so 157 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,240 thematically correct and I think it fits in really well together 158 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,800 that I forget that there's multiple artists, honestly. 159 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:58,480 Yeah, it's it's there's like one page where it kind of stood out 160 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,280 to me a little bit. I think it's the rest page and 161 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,600 it's the only time where I was like oh huh, Other than that, 162 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,200 like, not that it's bad, it's just that I noticed a style 163 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,960 change, but it's a gorgeous page, so it doesn't matter. 164 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,680 I was just saying it's the only time that I, I I've even noticed 165 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:15,320 that there was a like 4 artists in the book, but the whole 166 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,320 style. I especially love the the this 167 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,640 like soft half tone orangy Ness that they do a lot like the 168 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:28,560 cover. So anyway, so do we. 169 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,640 Do we wanna come back to the tables in the beginning when we 170 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,080 hit them in the rules or? Yeah, I think so. 171 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,400 I think it's like they're really cool, but it's weird to do them 172 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,840 like outside of context. Right, but then there's 173 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,280 mothership. Yeah, especially like the cursed 174 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:43,800 rules. It's like, it'd be cool to talk 175 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,040 about curses and then go back to them. 176 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,040 But yeah, same thing with he's in the very front. 177 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,800 Yeah, very mothership, yeah. Wounds, panic, miscasts and 178 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,920 curses. I I like though that the tables 179 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,360 are all in like the front 2 pages, the back 2 pages. 180 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,640 Because if you have the the book at the table it's super easy to 181 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,760 know that you just have to flip to either the front cover, the 182 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:04,480 back cover. You know what? 183 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,480 I mean, absolutely, yeah. Yeah, credits again. 184 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,440 We already said game graphic designer. 185 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,240 Layout by what? Illustration By everyone that 186 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,720 Hunter just said it'd be cool if these are hyperlinked, but it's. 187 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:15,760 I mean, it's just in the credits. 188 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,360 So, like, that doesn't bother me nearly as much. 189 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,120 There's some sensitivity readers. 190 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,200 There is a section here, and I think it's in all the books, 191 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,400 that talks about Cloud Empress written on the ancestral lands 192 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:30,200 of the Dakota people and basically says that, you know, 193 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,160 colonialism sucks. We live on oppressed land and 194 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,920 they stand in solidarity with Native nations advocating for 195 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,960 their turn of indigenous lands to indigenous peoples. 196 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,640 I agree, yeah. Same. 197 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:43,800 Yeah. Yeah, Free Palestine. 198 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:44,600 So. Yeah. 199 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,160 So there are many types. I mean, yes, obviously there are 200 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,360 many types of games that do many different things. 201 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,320 Cloud Empress has not been made to. 202 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,680 I love this, I love that. I mean, everyone has their own 203 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:58,160 kind of little version of this. Some people are like, if you're 204 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,920 fascist, kick rocks. I really enjoy this. 205 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,320 Take care. As I said, there are many types 206 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,280 of games that do many different things. 207 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,440 Cloud Empress has not been made to treat the environment as an 208 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,960 object to plunder and act. Power fantasies, especially 209 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,480 violent ones, degrade, humiliate, oppress, or create 210 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,120 characters of other beings. And there's content warnings. 211 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,040 This Cloud Empress rule book contains large bugs, mental 212 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,560 illness, blood amputation, military occupation, gun 213 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:23,520 violence, and violence to insects. 214 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:33,920 Right intro page. Yeah, absolutely. 215 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:39,760 I'm glad for the Yeah, I'm glad. For that yeah. 216 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,080 Yeah. And then we get to the index. 217 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,040 Yeah. Gotta say, I mean, I'm out of. 218 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,680 I don't like it for a couple of reasons. 219 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,400 I think the I I love, I love the outside. 220 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,000 But do you It's What are your thoughts on the index page? 221 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,040 Yeah, yeah. You know, it's a little cramped. 222 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:09,920 Yeah, I. Don't like it? 223 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,080 I think it probably should have been 2 pages, but here's my 224 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,240 issue with the index page. First of all, it is hyperlinked, 225 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:21,800 which is fantastic, and it is bookmarked, which is cool too. 226 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:27,200 But like, what's weird is not all the sections are in the 227 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:32,080 index and not all of the index sections are in the bookmarks. 228 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,320 Yeah, and my, the but. But I'm fine with all of that. 229 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,440 Some of the really small things that are like one paragraph, 230 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,880 fine, whatever, that's fine. What the thing that bothers me 231 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,600 the most, and I think can be solved easily by just bolding, 232 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,960 is that there's like, the book is broken into parts. 233 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,880 It really is like there's a character section, there's a 234 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,320 rule section, but like, it's not the index isn't broken into 235 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:54,600 parts. You know what I mean? 236 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,520 Like rules is in the same. It looks the same as everything 237 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:00,720 else. You know, character looks the 238 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:02,720 same as everything else. Even if they wanted to keep the 239 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,240 same layout of this design, which honestly I think it should 240 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:10,520 just be uncorrected in two pages or even just split it into two 241 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:16,800 columns would have been fine. I really wish that character 242 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,680 creation was just bolded and rules was bolded, you know what 243 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,520 I mean? And once it hits like the tables 244 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,880 at the bottom, like just bold those because like, from, from 245 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,040 names and aliases down is pretty much just tables or beastieary 246 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:30,040 stuff, you know? Do you think it'd? 247 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,760 Be better if there was like a like section, subsection thing 248 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,760 going on. Well, I mean, if they wanted to 249 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,240 keep this style of very clean one column, whatever, just bold 250 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,200 it, I'd be fine with that. I do think that breaking it out 251 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,480 into even if they wanna do one page 2 columns and yeah like 252 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:54,840 rules big and then like things indented slightly because again 253 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,040 the game is it's clearly broken kind of into like part one, Part 254 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,680 2 with some stuff at the end. Like I wouldn't have minded if 255 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:01,880 there was a little bit more distinct. 256 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,120 Cuz when I first flipped to this page like it really did take me 257 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:05,680 a second to be like where the fuck are the rules? 258 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,840 And then I was like it's in the rules part. 259 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,560 With everything else it's fine. But again, it is also weird that 260 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,600 I was like, OK, I went through all of these, wrote them all 261 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,600 down so we could take notes and then found five sections that 262 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,080 aren't listed here. You know what I mean? 263 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:24,520 So but again, really tiny stuff that might not necessarily need 264 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,640 it's own index page. But more than anything I would 265 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,160 just say that I wouldn't mind that if the character creation 266 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,360 rules were broken down to make it a little bit more clear in 267 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,720 the index. Also, real quick, I wanna scroll 268 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,680 all the way to the back to address this and we'll kind of 269 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:40,520 address it at the end. There's a glossary. 270 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,720 There's a glossary, which is fantastic, right? 271 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:53,320 But I feel like this information would be nice at the beginning, 272 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,800 you know, more than at the like the very end, kind of. 273 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,880 You know what I mean, would you? I guess glossaries are always in 274 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,960 the back, but like, maybe there's just some information in 275 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,600 here that's explained in ways that are explained more easily 276 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,520 than earlier in the book. Like when I first read 277 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,200 Cloudlings and Lordlings, I had to read it over and over and to 278 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,880 be like, what the fuck is the difference between a Cloud Ling 279 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,160 and a Lordlings? And we'll get to that. 280 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,320 But the Cloud Ling is is clearly broken down in this little bit 281 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,080 more definitively. Personally, I don't know. 282 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,480 I like. I think of like UVG, which has 283 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,760 like a ton of lore in it and a lot of words being used. 284 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,240 And there's a glossary in the back. 285 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:38,280 Like, I like how unbroken this feels lore wise when you read it 286 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:39,880 through. It's not like talk about 287 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,000 cloudlings willing. Oh yeah, by the way, cloudlings 288 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,040 and lordlings do this like I actually do kind of appreciate 289 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,120 that it doesn't, like, step away from the lore to explain 290 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,640 everything out. But there's a glossary in the 291 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,600 back for the terms that are a little bit more foreign. 292 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,520 God just said, Ryan, you did this to me. 293 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,320 But yeah, I think I like it. I don't mind it. 294 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,640 I don't mind it. I think when we get to oh shit. 295 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,640 I think when we get to the sections I'm talking about, we 296 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,640 can discuss it again. But it's just something I wanted 297 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,240 to touch on at the beginning, so. 298 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,400 The other problem is version of Cloud Empress you have open 299 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,920 right now because your glossary page is different from the book 300 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,680 and the other PDF just. One point O1, which one do you 301 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,480 have? Not that one I think I have. 302 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,480 You have a more updated version. Let's see. 303 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,720 I'm looking at 1.01. Yeah, I am too. 304 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,440 Interesting. OK, well. 305 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,320 OK, well then get off my back then. 306 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,520 Weird, the glossary looks different. 307 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,000 I'm just going to get this out of the way. 308 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,240 For those of you listening, I'm sure this is very riveting 309 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,680 hearing that the glossary has two different art pages, but. 310 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:55,560 Yeah, so different. Anyway, OK, so let's get 311 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,120 cracking in here again. We talked about the tables in 312 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,400 the beginning. Fuck, we are super unfocused 313 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,160 today, so hopping in great art right off the bat again, I love 314 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,960 this spread here with the art and the cicadas in the sky and 315 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,240 then like the orange art of the people with like, the giant 316 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,680 pigeon and shit like, it's so vibey instantaneously. 317 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,280 Like as soon as you see this page especially, you're like, 318 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,960 oh, this is weird, this is weird, science fantasy weird. 319 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,960 And I'm in a you know what I mean? 320 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,440 Like, it's a giant bird. Their outfits are obviously very 321 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,520 science fantasy. And then there's giant cicadas 322 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,280 in the sky and even the buildings. 323 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:34,080 You're like, OK, you know? Very it is. 324 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,960 It does capture like a lot of I know obviously it's very 325 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,520 inspired by Nautica, but it does capture a lot of, like the feel 326 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:44,040 of being in that world. You know what? 327 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,720 What? What happened? 328 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,360 So I had actually set up. I must have actually deleted it. 329 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:57,280 I had set up a cloud and because this book is actually read to be 330 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,200 like, really, really good to be in spreads. 331 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,280 So give me one second. Yeah. 332 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,160 This is actually the Land of the Cicadas is the cover. 333 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:10,720 So we're not gonna really talk about the land of Cicadas, but 334 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,520 do you want to just do like a quick what is Land of Cicadas? 335 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,520 It's the other primary book of the project. 336 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:17,640 Yeah. But what is it? 337 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:27,280 The Land of Cicadas is a It is both like a it's pretty much a 338 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:32,000 hex crawl and boar book like. It gives you a hex crawl, like a 339 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,840 fairly decent sized hex crawl to run through. 340 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,120 But your character gives you all context about like the world and 341 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:45,720 its history and what running through these different biomes 342 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:51,480 essentially is like because the Land's divided up, the hex map 343 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:57,000 of the low end waste is divided up between the what is it 344 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,800 called, the basket, the bread basket, the weeds, the thick 345 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:06,720 wood, and then the rust bucket, which is a bit it's like a good 346 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,880 sized hex crawl within two hexes. 347 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,080 And that was interesting. But yeah, it tells you about 348 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,520 like the procedures for hex crawling, hunting and gathering 349 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,320 food and then some look, some key locations and characters. 350 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,000 And it there are a lot of locations on the hex crawl that 351 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,640 they're actually even further filled in by the like separate 352 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,160 playbooks that you get like The Labyrinth of the Bride, these 353 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,040 little these little adventure pamphlets. 354 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,360 Which is nice because you can remove these not pamphlets to 355 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:37,400 scenes, these little adventure scenes. 356 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,520 You can have the stand one adventures just run that 357 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,760 adventure. Or you could visit them as part 358 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,120 of a massive hex crawl, kind of depending on what works for your 359 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:48,160 table and your group. I'm a hex crawl boy, so my my 360 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,960 table will be playing this eventually. 361 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,760 But yeah, I I. It's a really cool hex crawl 362 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,440 that has a lot of information, but it doesn't feel like first. 363 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,080 It doesn't feel like you need to know all of it all the time. 364 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,640 It just really informs you about kind of the vibe and the themes. 365 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,080 I. Well, I'm really in focus today 366 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,280 as well, yeah. No. 367 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,600 That's that's really great. Well, one of the things you said 368 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,880 is one of the thing I really do like because I'm the kind of 369 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,200 person that I just Humber all my own adventures and shit or I'll 370 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,840 take adaptive parts of adventures. 371 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,200 And it is really cool that with the extra pamphlets, with the 372 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,040 extra scenes, you can use them or not use them. 373 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,160 So if there's an empty hex or something that those fill, you 374 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,160 can just be like, I'll just fill those spots, but like, maybe 375 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,440 I'll use a little bit of inspiration. 376 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,080 So it's nice that there is both filled and unfilled spot. 377 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,720 It's like a Schrodinger's hex, you know what I mean? 378 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,720 Like you can kind of. Schrodinger's adventure scene. 379 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,760 Yeah. So what I wanted to do is throw 380 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,680 a blank page in because so much of the scene is in spreads and 381 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,120 actually reads a lot easier in spreads. 382 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,520 So this might be one that we actually look at in spreads a 383 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:04,160 lot of times. So let's see, so like this page 384 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,000 for example. But when we get to later stuff, 385 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,600 especially like the character creation page, it is across a 386 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,160 spread and the normal PDF like it's broken across 2 pages. 387 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,520 So you can't like look at it next to each other unless you 388 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,080 insert a page. So that's what I did. 389 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:29,560 So welcome to the Hereafter. So there's three sections right 390 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,360 in the beginning and I'm going to kind of break all of it down 391 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,520 into one and then come back to it. 392 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,720 So welcome to the Hereafter is a very first of all the pros in 393 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,200 this book. Fucking fantastic. 394 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,320 What is a fantastic writer? My goodness, we're not going to 395 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,840 read a lot of it today because we would be here for three hours 396 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:53,680 like we were with 120 page book. But it's so good. 397 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,120 It's incredibly well written. It's so viby. 398 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:58,440 I really like a lot of it, but there's the Welcome to the 399 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,520 Hereafter section. The Hereafter is like the here 400 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:01,520 and now. It's a setting. 401 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,320 And then there is a what is Cloud Empress, which is a quick 402 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,000 breakdown of like what it is, but also like gather the 403 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,320 following when you play rolling dice. 404 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,480 I'm gonna come back to that. There's a picture here of 405 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,320 torturers, which I get to in second with like a kind of like 406 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:21,080 writings, like an in in lower writing about the tortures, like 407 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:23,400 a like a quote UN quote story of what they were. 408 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,560 And then there's also, like you said in the land of cicadas, 409 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,400 there is a it's a setting book in the hex crowd book. 410 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,120 So like it sets into like what's happening in the world right 411 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,360 now. So between all of those 412 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:43,560 sections, I'm going to kind of break all of those down into one 413 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,160 simple easy kind of thing real quick, so we can cruise through 414 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:54,280 that. So, and of course they said so 415 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,760 basically. We're trying to improve. 416 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:57,880 Y'all, I swear. Probably. 417 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,800 Maybe so. Cloud Empress is an ecological 418 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,120 science fantasy setting inspired by Nazca in the Valley of the 419 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,040 Wind Dune and Full Metal Alchemist. 420 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,040 Story of it goes like this. Long ago and a time before the 421 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,640 sky was darkened. It was an ancient people of 422 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,160 unmatched power and cruelty called torturers. 423 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,960 My assumption probably us to end their destruction in the world 424 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,320 was basically naked into oblivion and the torturers, 425 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800 seeing what they wrought, fled into the stars. 426 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,360 Now most people live in what's known as the Lowland Wastes, 427 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:31,600 currently in the Hereafter, which still has areas of 428 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,320 radioactive fallout. But there is a magical soot in 429 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,440 the Lowland Waste called Chalk which gives spellcasters power, 430 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:45,520 and it's sought by Cloudlings. Cloudlings and their Lordlings, 431 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,280 which are the rulers of the Cloudlings, live in sky cities 432 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,920 hanging from anchors in space, and they think they have a right 433 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,400 to everything, as nobility is want to do. 434 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,560 But of course, things are worse than that, because time and 435 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:03,880 space are slippery, and you or other things can slip into or 436 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,160 out of both space and time at various times when they slip 437 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,320 opens. And at the center of all of that 438 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,760 are the imago, which are massive, like 30 foot cicadas 439 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,280 that feed on the bones of the dead. 440 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,200 Usually they're manageable, only a few 100 total. 441 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:27,080 But every 100 years the century Brood appears when thousands 442 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,200 upon thousands of imago claw up from deeper than the soil and 443 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,720 reduce any existing civilization to ruin. 444 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,680 In the setting book, which we just talked about in the Land of 445 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,080 Cicadas, what's going on is at the 29th expedition, which is a 446 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,480 military incursion by the cloud links into the lowland wastes 447 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,760 has commenced. And by fate or the powers that 448 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,680 be, the century Brood arrived seven years early, while at the 449 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,680 same time the cloud Empress, the supposed to be bride of the 450 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,400 Emperor, has gone missing. And that's that's where we are 451 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,560 in the hereafter. It is a land of radioactive 452 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,520 fallout, magical chalk warps in space-time, and encroaching 453 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,080 military expedition by those that claim to be in power, all 454 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,760 of which is under the shadow of thousands upon thousands of 455 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,640 giant cicadas that are here to eat your bones and fucks it up. 456 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:21,000 Beautiful. Was that a was that a good? 457 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,040 Would you think that was? I think that was great. 458 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,480 I would say that the distinction is so the imago are actually 459 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,520 attracted to the chalk, which is a pollutant that gets into your 460 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,360 bones, which is why they want to eat your bones is because chalk 461 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,840 is a like almost like an I think like an extra dimensional 462 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,480 pollutant essentially, right? Well, I. 463 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,560 Was going to say that to the chalk section, but yeah, that's 464 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,280 100% what it is. Yeah, the the torturers brought 465 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,320 chalk from a a parallel dimension to fuel their 466 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,000 machines. And now that it's polluting 467 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,520 everything, it travels up the food chain from like the dirt to 468 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,760 the bugs to the animals to the people. 469 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,160 Gets in our bones, gets eaten by the cicadas, and then when 470 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,640 cicadas die, people scrape the chalk from the canvases. 471 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,320 To use mind their bodies. Yeah, so it's like it's this 472 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:15,120 weird kind of circle of life quasi parasitic thing just to 473 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:18,960 get this magic chalk. So I mean so fucking good. 474 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,240 Like so. That's so good. 475 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,400 It's so good. It's a really, I, I I like the 476 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,960 foundation of the setting, but I also like the time period in 477 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,720 which you're dropped into the setting, which is like, so 478 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,600 everything's happening at once. There's almost complete chaos. 479 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,080 And it's just like, it's so close to the end of the world, 480 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,640 almost with like the Century brewed and the the 29th 481 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,040 expedition and like the Cloud Empress disappearing. 482 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,120 Like, Oh my God, there's a lot going on at once in a place that 483 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:52,440 I feel like, you know, I feel like there is space here for 484 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:57,960 like, a more pastoral adventure, maybe in a time period where 485 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,240 everything's not about to be crushed by giant cicadas. 486 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,320 Well the other thing too is like the Century Brood is is is 487 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,840 coming out and fighting shit or whatever. 488 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,480 But like it it does. It's not the entire lowland 489 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,120 waste. Like you could really just like 490 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,600 pick the areas that they're like the 29th expedition and the 491 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,120 cicadas are gonna encountering each other. 492 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,600 And if you're farther away you might not even know. 493 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,960 Like if you're in a relatively isolated town, you might not 494 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,480 even know the Century Brood came out like 7 years early, you 495 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,200 know, Yeah. So you can play a very pastoral 496 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,720 kind of like, Oh no, la da da da da. 497 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,360 And like how cool would that be to, like, especially if your 498 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:34,720 players didn't know about all of this and you were just kind of 499 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,480 being like oh Doo Doo Doo Doo like having normal levengers and 500 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,240 suddenly it's just like fucking military expedition comes over 501 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,720 the hill, Cicadas come over the hill and you're like in the 502 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,200 middle and it's like what is going on? 503 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,000 And suddenly your players are throwing totally shit. 504 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,560 This isn't just pastoral stuff. Like we're literally in like the 505 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,240 end times, like that's just crazy. 506 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,440 So that would be cool. That's one thing that is all 507 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,680 what, like I buy a lot of adventures, of all the things on 508 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,200 my shelves that I read, fewer than anything else. 509 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,160 It's adventures because I don't want to be ruined just in case 510 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,160 someone runs it for me. You know, no one will. 511 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,160 But like, you know, because I don't, because I don't want to 512 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,960 know all this information just in case, you know. 513 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,400 Anyway, so that kind of breaks down the whole beginning section 514 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,560 of Cloud Empress. So back to the What is Cloud 515 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,640 Empress section? I already said it's ecological, 516 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,200 science, fantasy, etcetera, etcetera. 517 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,000 The players are players. The person that runs is called a 518 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,800 warden, just like mothership. Gather the following game stuff 519 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:33,520 when you play. I do like this. 520 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,840 This is quick little like principles. 521 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,400 When you play, ask questions. The warden is there to answer 522 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,880 questions about the environment and everything. 523 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,080 This is. This is. 524 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,120 I don't mind this is like a what is RPG or like what do you need 525 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,080 to do. This is quick, brief, you know 526 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,960 to the point kind of mixing with principles. 527 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,440 I like this. So ask questions. 528 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,440 Travel carefully and create an environment of safety or the 529 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,720 three things so travel carefully means that characters in the 530 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,160 Cloud Empress aren't heroes. You're relish people. 531 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,960 You're super fucking squishy like you will die. 532 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,880 Like be careful. Travel carefully, be smart. 533 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,240 The world is out to literally eat your fucking bones. 534 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:11,840 So, you know, do what you guys do. 535 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,520 Literally, Yeah. And then create an environment 536 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,000 of safety help. Make your table a welcoming 537 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,600 space. Use use like be a good person, 538 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,880 use safety tools if you need to, and check insurance and all that 539 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,160 stuff frequently because you know there are parts of the 540 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,360 setting that do get a little brutal. 541 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,880 You know, like things. Eating your bones and shit. 542 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,520 Totally. It's funny, you know, with kind 543 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,000 of what we were talking about before we got on stream, which 544 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,560 we all need to go and deepen and some discussions I've had with 545 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,800 other people in like gaming space. 546 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,600 I forget how like non-toxic all of my tables I sit at are like, 547 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,760 my friends are like genuinely good people and there they make 548 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,400 each other comfortable. I forgot that there is like 549 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,960 tables where people are like adversary or looking to make 550 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,760 people uncomfortable or just totally not cognizant of that as 551 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,240 a thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 552 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,160 A quick aside to that is you don't have to sit at those 553 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,280 tables, people. It's better to. 554 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,040 It's better to not play the game than to play a shitty game that 555 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,480 makes you uncomfortable. Yeah, that's. 556 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,880 Actually allocated? Yeah, like you're like get up 557 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,720 and leave like it's fine. And if someone's shitty at your 558 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,600 table, don't invite them back. Like every time I see some page. 559 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,480 It's like advice on how to deal with a problem player. 560 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,640 The fact that it's more than one sentence long always pisses me 561 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:25,600 off. Like don't. 562 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,320 Just don't. Don't deal with them. 563 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,680 Don't invite them back. Like, if they're about problem 564 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,440 paper because they don't know, educate them. 565 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,080 If you educate them and there's still a problem, get fucking rid 566 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,480 of them. You don't have to play with 567 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,920 these people. There's 8 billion people in the 568 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,240 world. Way too many of them are 569 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,800 douchebags. Don't talk to them, don't 570 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,280 interact with them. Tell them the fuck off. 571 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,200 Yeah, come to Eugene OR play at my table. 572 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,040 You know, there you go. I'm not going to tell you where 573 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:53,720 I live. So rolling dice cloud Empress is 574 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,240 the metric system. It primarily uses 10 sided dice. 575 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,080 You know what, 1D, ten, 2D10. All this stuff is regularly ask 576 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,160 for checks of roll of 1D100. You roll 2 dice. 577 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,920 So wait a minute, roll roll two. I feel like I read this and it 578 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,200 and my brain will never know the difference between the 10s and 579 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,880 the ones and the zero and stuff. Looking at the results, one dies 580 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,320 red as the 10s, one is red as the want. 581 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:26,080 OK so on A10 sided die right? Let's say we have 210 sided 582 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,880 dies. Excuse me, what is 1 and what is 583 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:39,840 100? Well, you can only do well. 584 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,880 Mm hmm. Mm hmm. 585 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,560 Yeah, yeah, we'll come back to that. 586 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:51,120 I don't know either. Anyway, so talked about the 587 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,760 torture. I mean I I know at some point 588 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,880 but like it's all it always feels like, you know you could 589 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,280 do it two different ways. Another great piece are. 590 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,800 There are two different ways like it's either it's either 591 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,080 like what, zero to 99 or one to 100. 592 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:10,800 Yeah, greatest art here. People living lives. 593 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,560 I really enjoy this. Yeah. 594 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:21,120 So, oh, this is me. So summer traveling, parties, 595 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,040 basically. This says that the time that 596 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,400 you're playing in right now is the summer, and it's Adventure 597 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,840 Time, like this time. The winter picks up, the weather 598 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,040 gets better. People are like, yeah, yeah, I'm 599 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,400 a strike out for the summer. I'll, I'll gather a small group. 600 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,080 Maybe you meet them while you're out on the way. 601 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,400 Maybe you leave town with them or wherever you're from and you 602 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,720 just go on a summer adventure while the weather's nice. 603 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:50,480 Yep, so. You join us summer traveling 604 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,560 party. It could be cell swords, 605 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,360 lordlings, magicians, couriers, whatever it is, that's what 606 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,320 you're doing. You know, that shit's hitting 607 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,240 the fan with the expedition, with the century brood, 608 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,440 everything. But you're you're traveling and 609 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,120 seeing, seeing the world. I like that. 610 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,200 I like this, says right off the bat. 611 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,560 Like. I do, too. 612 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,960 It's like a weird summer vacation thing. 613 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,800 Yeah, for. Like hellscape eventually. 614 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,520 Totally. And I think that like playing up 615 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,040 the whole, like it's it's the cold has just passed. 616 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,920 It's now like one of the first warm days. 617 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,080 You really like play up that, you know, walking through the 618 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,960 like the bread Baskets farm lands very pastoral sunny days 619 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,480 and I do like at the end of that section that does say if the 620 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,840 world ever needed saving. That time has passed, but 621 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,200 there's still work to be done. Yeah, I don't know why this like 622 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,560 parts of this. I feel like you could definitely 623 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,400 have some grave of the Firefly shit, you know what I mean? 624 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:45,320 Like body hoppers. So. 625 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,680 Body hoppers. Yeah, right off the bat, we just 626 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,520 talked about body hoppers. So Long story short, with body 627 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,440 hoppers is people hop bodies. They go from corpse to corpse 628 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:58,240 using magic for survival. And with each new cadaver they 629 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,280 mark their face with tattoos. They recognize themselves, but 630 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,800 each time they hop, they're also like shattering parts of their 631 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,880 memory. And then there's this like kind 632 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,679 of like trophy magic used to be stronger thing that's in like 633 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:13,280 everything. Like ancient magicians used to 634 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,000 be able to do this, like almost surgically. 635 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,159 And what we have now is just kind of like a shitty version of 636 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,480 it, which is fine. At some point I want to play a 637 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,800 game where like you're in peak magic in the. 638 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,000 Height of magic, I think that's just hard to like. 639 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,679 It's hard to create a rule set for God magic, you know. 640 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,480 Yeah, I mean it would just be a power fantasy, but it's fine. 641 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,360 But anyway, so body hoppers are cool as shit, like you're you 642 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:34,880 basically bounce from corpse to corpse. 643 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,320 It's really neat. It happens. 644 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,920 I like it. It's magicians using chalk to to 645 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,960 bounce from corpse to corpse. It's randomly. 646 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,480 I feel like this isn't a random spot for it, but it's really 647 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,800 fucking dope. And the art is really cool too. 648 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,800 Kind of a random spot, but yeah, also very, I agree. 649 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,320 The slip. So what is the slip? 650 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:05,040 The slip is basically these mile wide like weird zones that will 651 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,320 just appear and disappear, right? 652 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:13,800 And if you get trapped in those spaces, that sucks for you. 653 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:16,240 And things can come in and out of time. 654 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,360 Like it can randomly drop like ancient or future machinery in 655 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,320 front of you. You could disappear and be gone. 656 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,040 Like you could suddenly be in the same spot but like way 657 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,800 earlier. Like it's just anything you can 658 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,960 imagine is for space and time. It just happens and it's like 659 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,160 there and gone. Boom. 660 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,200 So you could literally Sometimes it's just unavoidable because 661 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,360 it'll just open right around you. 662 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,360 Which is fucking crazy. Which is also a dope way to 663 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,960 start an adventure is to just boom, you're in like a weird 664 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,480 zone. You get popped somewhere else 665 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,160 and you know back to the time of you know all those great 666 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,840 magicians. So the slip is the thing that 667 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,280 exists. You know I I so the way that 668 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,520 chalk and and the slip and everything, to me it feels very 669 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:03,000 like the magical radioactive fallout of the nuclear war that 670 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,280 we fucked up. Like that's my assumption too. 671 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,000 Is that like it just? Definitely how it feels for me 672 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,400 as well. Yeah, which I think is cool, 673 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,720 like, you know, spice up the you know. 674 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:18,360 I will say that this this game is not short on cool, you know? 675 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,440 It's not short on cool at all, I will say, though. 676 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,360 Also, I do think this look. I think, I think both of these 677 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,800 parts are in a very weird part and it would be fine if both of 678 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,880 these were after all of the character Christian instead of 679 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,280 just like randomly tucked in before. 680 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,560 I don't know why, maybe they just needed to fill a page, but 681 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,440 it's just to me this feels like it's in a weird spot. 682 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:46,200 It's interesting because so after the next couple of pages, 683 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,600 it gets into like the character classes and body hopper is in 684 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,920 the class. It's an age technically, the 685 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,360 way, like the way the game works. 686 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,280 So I kind of understand why it's right before character creation, 687 00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,120 because it's part of that. But yeah, yeah. 688 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,840 Yeah, I mean it's it's fine, it's fine. 689 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,800 It's just. It's definitely not right. 690 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,920 It's not like so many times. Yeah, like I've I've we, I think 691 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,960 we've both read the scene so many fucking Times Now. 692 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,560 Like, it's like we can start picking out the weird stuff and 693 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,080 then we get to character creation. 694 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,720 So do we want to just make a character? 695 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,560 Is that the easiest way to go through this entire thing? 696 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,480 I'm sure. Yeah. 697 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,280 Yeah. Do you do? 698 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,280 You. Yeah, yeah. 699 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:29,960 Yeah. Yeah. 700 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:30,480 Yeah. I do. 701 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,960 I do. So do you want me to read the 702 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,920 character and do you make the character, or do you want me to 703 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,000 make it and you read the character? 704 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,600 You read non make. How about that? 705 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,880 OK, so then let's quick run through the. 706 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,160 I don't care whatever you wanna do. 707 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,960 All right. Do you wanna run through the 708 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,920 character classes real quick? And then we'll come up to 709 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,000 create. Absolutely. 710 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,200 Just a good quick. Does like, well, let's just do 711 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,560 like a a quick blurb on each before you pick one, and we'll 712 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,160 go in depth on that. And then and then we'll create a 713 00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,160 character using it. Sure. 714 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,760 Who knows? Who knows what I'm going to 715 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,960 pick. So for the jobs that the jobs of 716 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,400 the character classes, right, first one's going to be your 717 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:14,520 cell sword, which is your, you know, adventure seeking, gun 718 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:19,720 wielding, sword wielding, blade for hire kind of character. 719 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,040 Straight Merc, yeah. Straight Merc. 720 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,800 I will say that one of the things I really love about this 721 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,280 is the tables for all the for all the jobs. 722 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,240 And like, it's like, what were you doing last? 723 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,960 And it tells you what gear you have with you And I'm like, oh, 724 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,520 that's so that's such a great way to build like a background 725 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:38,880 narrative for your. Character. 726 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,240 It's so smart, it's it reminds me a little bit of like frontier 727 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,040 scam where like you get your skills by like something that 728 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,800 you encountered that's such a better way to do it. 729 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,400 I think it was someone else did a blog recently. 730 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:51,560 It might have been Rise up Comus. 731 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:52,840 It might have been somebody else. 732 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,920 Was it Rise up Comus. I think it was who did like 733 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,640 character creation as a point crawl where you literally are 734 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,960 like you have a winter. Oh dude, I'll send it to you. 735 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,840 It's so fucking good. It's like you have a winter to 736 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,840 get from here to there. Pick your path and the way you 737 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,680 pick the path of your character gives you like background 738 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,280 narrative and skills and stuff to get like it's so fucking 739 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,360 good. It's so clever. 740 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,000 Anyway, Cell Sword, What else we got? 741 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,720 Sell sword. After that we have the Lord 742 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:25,680 Ling, and this is the rulers of the Cloud City. 743 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,040 They they are like contested rulers. 744 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,120 There's a lot of political intrigue within the Lord Lings, 745 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,440 And so you might be a Lord of essentially nothing, but you're 746 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:38,000 still technically a Lord. People around you don't really 747 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,040 like you that much. As a Lord, Ling, I'm kind of 748 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,080 afraid of you. Because you act like a Lord 749 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,440 Ling, right? Because you act like a Lord. 750 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,840 It is really funny that you could be a Lord Ling of nothing 751 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,920 and people are still like, oh, and it's like, yeah, but you're 752 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,840 just, you're just a dude at that point, you know? 753 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,480 Yeah, but I mean, but you act like you are a Lord of a lot. 754 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,760 Right. Yeah, there's some room in there 755 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,240 for you to be kind of an impetuous, kind of ignorant 756 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:01,920 Lord. And I think there's some fun 757 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,280 game player around that if you do it not as being a Dick for. 758 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,240 Sure. I think that was a Lord Ling in 759 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,080 the play test I did with Christian. 760 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,680 And I was a Dick. Yeah. 761 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,320 That makes sense. I might do that as well. 762 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:15,760 Actually, I'd probably just play an idiot. 763 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,960 And then the magician. Which is exactly what it sounds 764 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,760 like. You were the magic user of this. 765 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,840 And the magic's fucking weird, by the way. 766 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,280 Like, it is not like throw a fireball. 767 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:28,920 It is a lot more bizarre than that. 768 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:35,080 There are no old Wizards. When you lose your, when you 769 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,840 lose your wisdom teeth, you pretty much don't have the 770 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,480 ability to channel magic anymore, so you can age out of 771 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,440 that profession, which I think is very funny. 772 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,160 I mean also there's part where it talks about how like parents 773 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,880 will rip the the wisdom teeth out of their kids to make sure 774 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,400 that they don't deal with magic, which is evil and shit, which is 775 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,640 like crazy. Very normal, very normal human 776 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:00,680 thing. So. 777 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,640 Yeah, well, that that's crazy. That is a very normal human 778 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,000 thing. Like, yeah, superstitious will 779 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,280 rip your wisdom teeth out and then sell them to traveling 780 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,960 magicians. Is 100% what people would 781 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,360 actually do if this was real. We chop. 782 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,240 The tips of our Dicks off and shit like, what the fuck? 783 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:17,920 Like, of course people are going to rip their. 784 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,760 Teeth out the I think this is the final one. 785 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,600 Is Courier. Yeah, Courier is the final one. 786 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:31,360 And you're like the hard traveled person that that's. 787 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,720 You're a Courier. You know the road you travel. 788 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,920 Well, weirdly, I love this one actually. 789 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,160 Yeah, the professional traveler. Yeah. 790 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,480 So if like it's so good. Like you kind of feel like with 791 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,080 this being a class, like, wow, every party kind of needs a 792 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,120 Courier. A little bit, you know it's. 793 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,280 Not going to have anything but you. 794 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,520 Don't need anything but like it's it's nice but the art of it 795 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,520 there's is great too. Like the orange fives again, 796 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,160 like the frog person here, the magician. 797 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:00,800 Like the the woman and the child. 798 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:06,400 The Lord Ling you know, in full armor like crazy polka dot shit. 799 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,600 The crazy polka dot shit, cuz that's the thing about the Lord 800 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,120 Lings is you picked like their their garb is ridiculous 801 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,120 looking. Yeah, because of course it would 802 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,040 be. Yeah, just like if you were in 803 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,960 Versailles. Well, and I love this all sort 804 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,680 has like the living armor or whatever we'll get to that. 805 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,040 But it's dope that like the chest on the eye on the chest. 806 00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:29,840 So, so, so it's not like you'd pick the magician or anything, 807 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,640 right? Yeah, I'm definitely not gonna 808 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:32,960 pick the Magician. That'd be fucking crazy. 809 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,720 Well, actually, what's gonna happen is we're gonna do this 810 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,960 organically. And if I roll too old to play 811 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:41,120 Magician, then I won't play magician because. 812 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,520 OK, OK, well let's let's bring bring up that roller and let's 813 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:45,560 do this. So we're gonna, we're gonna read 814 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,000 through character creation. If you look at pages 11 and 12 815 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:53,520 and the Z and it's the entire character sheet on with like how 816 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,960 to build it around it and then there's like a how to create 817 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,120 like like numbered section through the bottom but like 818 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,720 that's also exploded out on the sides. 819 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:03,480 This is the great spread in the book. 820 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,200 This is the primary reason I wanted to insert that extra page 821 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,800 so I could look at this spread together. 822 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:12,080 But then you also realize like I said that like looking in like 823 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,800 when you look at in pages you see this art then you see the 824 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,800 page of cell sort after hits you way different than looking at 825 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,400 and spread where you see the lore and the R next to the 826 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,440 table. Boom boom boom like this is 827 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,800 definitely like one that I will agree is it's good to read 828 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,000 pages. So character creation. 829 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:32,240 There are 6 total steps. So step one determine your 830 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:36,560 stats. Roll 2 D 10 + 20 for each stat 831 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:42,680 and your stats are mind, heart, strength and speed SO2 D 10 + 20 832 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,760 Don't forget everyone out there. This is a like AD 10 roll under 833 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:52,040 system. So you want high stats and then 834 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:58,080 you would roll like a you know, your D100 underneath your stat. 835 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,800 Dude, I'm rolling. Genuinely crazy. 836 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,000 Well, the most you can get is like 40. 837 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,400 Listen, let me, let me enjoy my Life, OK? 838 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,840 So do do, do, do, do. Do you want to You want to talk 839 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,040 it out while you do it? Yeah, absolutely. 840 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:34,520 I rolled a 39 for for mind. Oh shit. 841 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,480 Oh hey, listen, you know I'm not messing around. 842 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:43,120 No. A 29 for heart, which is not as 843 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,120 good. Still good. 844 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:49,000 All right, you got two left. Let's thank the speed. 845 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,840 A 32 for strength. Sick. 846 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,560 And I forgot to write speed on my little thing. 847 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,800 But for speed, this guy's going to be fast as fuck. 848 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,960 I'm telling you because I got a I'm right actually a 38 for 849 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,600 speed. Yo, fast as fuck, boy. 850 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,720 Boy. Yeah. 851 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:07,800 All right. So. 852 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,680 That's step one saves real quick, which is just one. 853 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,240 Step 2. Step 2. 854 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,560 It's determine your saves 1 to 10 + 20 and you have 3 saves 855 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,000 which is save, which is reality, fear and body. 856 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,360 And we'll get to those to explain those a little bit more 857 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,720 into the section when we get there. 858 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:29,280 So you do those three one to 10 + 20, what do we get? 859 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:38,040 I got a 25 for reality, a 25 for fear and a 24 for body. 860 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,120 Stick. All right, so step. 861 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,920 Yeah, I mean the Max of 30 when you're rolling. 862 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,240 Fucking really nice. I know actually really, really 863 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:50,960 really well so. Well, you got 24 and it's with 864 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,680 the plus 20, so you roll the four, so yeah. 865 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,040 Hey, it's nine O 1. Hey, it's nine O 1. 866 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,920 All right? So step three, Find your 867 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,800 character's age by rolling 1D10 and consulting the table below. 868 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:05,400 Your age affects your stats and what job your character can 869 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,880 take, so you can roll off. There's four different ages. 870 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,720 There's on a one to three you get a teenage, on a four to 871 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:16,280 seven you get full grown on an 8 to 9 year old old, and on a 10 872 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,080 you get body hopper. And each one adjusts your stats. 873 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,880 So what did you roll? I love how the body Hopper, by 874 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,880 the way, is just like, fucking strong, you know? 875 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:31,520 But their speed is like gone. You rolled. 876 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,520 An old man didn't. You I did. 877 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:38,840 No magic for you. Plus 20 to mind. 878 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,160 Minus tend to strength and there are no old magicians. 879 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,600 So if you're a magician and you get old, you can't be a magician 880 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:48,280 no more. So no. 881 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,280 Magician no more. Yep, no magician for you. 882 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,880 So that is. And I love that it tells you to 883 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,520 do all of this before you ever think about picking a class, 884 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,360 because this effects what you can be legitimately. 885 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,960 So #4 out of six. You choose a job and skills. 886 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,160 Your job affects your saves and grants you access to different 887 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,640 skills. Each job has unique job 888 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,360 condition which effects how you and the people around you react 889 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,960 to things going badly. So if we go down to Oh no. 890 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,360 So the job, the quote UN quote classes are jobs. 891 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,760 The South or lower leg magician Courier like that's the those 892 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,920 are called jobs. Like you are, you are I guess 893 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,720 you are your job, but you're not your job. 894 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,040 But you are your job in this, but you're not your job. 895 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,760 I'm good Courier. I knew if you didn't get 896 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,200 magician, you'd pick Courier. Of course you would. 897 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:45,880 So there's an adjustment to skills, again based on the 898 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,440 Courier. So you get a + 10 to all saves, 899 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:49,920 which is dope. It's really good. 900 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,120 And you get scrounging, tinkering, and any two other 901 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:54,600 skills. So we'll do skills in a second. 902 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,520 And you've seen it all once per session. 903 00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,240 Even make a panic check with advantage, because don't forget 904 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,680 this game is built on the panic Engine. 905 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,480 Watt. I know Watt had previously done 906 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,600 some stuff in Mothership. Panic Engine is great. 907 00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,360 I think this is such a good example of how to take a good 908 00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,240 system and do something that you would not expect with it. 909 00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:19,880 Because when you think of mothership, you think space 910 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,880 horror. And this is very weird science 911 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,520 fantasy, but it's just because it's a core D100 system, like it 912 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:27,760 works. It works well for this. 913 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,360 I think some things could be tweaked a tiny bit, but I think 914 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,160 overall like it really works well for this. 915 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,960 So #5 each job has a table of different backgrounds and gear. 916 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:41,960 Row 1D10 on each table and write the results on your sheets. 917 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:48,320 So we'll Scroll down to the Courier and you get to roll 1D10 918 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,600 for your gear. OK, on Courier, I'm scrolling 919 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,360 down right now. I rolled A1. 920 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,000 Let's see. Being abandoned. 921 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,680 So what were you doing last? Being abandoned by a hijacked 922 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:05,440 barge? My Courier gear under cloak 923 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,040 wraps, so I'm basically just. I just have wraps on 10 924 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:10,880 cookware. I have a walking staff that's 925 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:20,080 one D5 damage sunburn, A gourd canteen, large salted catfish, 926 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,560 that's. Right. 927 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,480 That's that's funny, because it's honestly like maybe the 928 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,400 worst loadout, 'cause it's like, oh, you were just hijacked and 929 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,160 you got like, this is all you made that with. 930 00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,840 That's that's fucking it. That's crazy. 931 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:37,800 Some of them likes like it's hands. 932 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,840 Crazy. Oh, collecting chalk scraps. 933 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,320 Yeah. Camouflage battle casing. 934 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:45,320 Yeah, a chalk cannon. Chalk. 935 00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,400 Collecting drills and hammers. Yeah, you were literally 936 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,280 collecting chalk, I think. Number #4 is kind of crazy too, 937 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,640 delivering rare thawing and medicine from the rust bucket. 938 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,760 You're in a humming living armor and you have like a flare rifle 939 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:03,600 and like a oh and you're cursed. You start cursed I. 940 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,360 Don't know. You start cursed. 941 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,760 That one's don't see that one. That is very cool. 942 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,480 OK, so you decided to go over curses, the magic in this, like 943 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,160 between casting crests and curses. 944 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,600 When we get to spells like, we'll talk about it when we get 945 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,280 there. But, like, the effects are like, 946 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,880 my favorite fucking thing in the entire game. 947 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,200 So character creation. Click on the hyperlink thing. 948 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,160 So that's number five. So you picked your background in 949 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,280 gear already. Everyone starts with enough 950 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,800 provisions to feed the traveling party for one day. 951 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,920 Once you play, blah blah blah 6. Finally, choose a name and an 952 00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,600 alias. There's a list on page 47 to 953 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,000 help inline hyperlinked on that page 47. 954 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:50,840 Just why don't you just roll? So do you want? 955 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,360 Are you gonna do a farmerling name, a cloudling name, a common 956 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,080 name or an ancient name? Oh, I think I'm gonna do a 957 00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,680 common name. I feel like this is I have I 958 00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,760 have a very common character, you know? 959 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:02,840 Oh wait, wait wait, wait, wait no. 960 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,280 You roll AD 100 and you just get 10. 961 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:11,560 So it's 0099, right? Yeah, 0099. 962 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,920 Messed up my windows. There we go. 963 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,000 That's the. Easiest way to do it it is. 964 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,320 Actually the easiest way to do it, so a 76. 965 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,360 So that would be this thing. I was gonna say. 966 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,200 You missed the comedies by one. You almost got in there. 967 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,720 No, I must, but I'm spin. Spin the Courier. 968 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:29,200 Wait. Rolling. 969 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,560 Alias. Oh yeah, I got rolling Alias. 970 00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:39,880 Another 100 table. 88 Wait a minute, The Punk Spin The Punk. 971 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,400 Spin the Punk, The old Courier. The old punk. 972 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,680 You're an old punk. Magicians can't get old, but 973 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,040 punks can't. And that's that's your that's 974 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,400 your whole shit. That's your whole shit, man. 975 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,520 Yeah, that's. Did I submit on this? 976 00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,400 Yes. So that is character creation. 977 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,360 Fucking easy peasy, man. Like, how easy was that? 978 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:13,640 Oh, why don't you roll on the Traveling With table? 979 00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,840 Did you get oh, could you get 2 extra skills? 980 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,840 So roll on the Traveling With table and then pick out two 981 00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:19,960 skills and then your character's. 982 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:25,080 Done. OK, where? 983 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:26,200 Here. There we go. 984 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:27,800 My brain, my brain's not working today. 985 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,520 Y'all. OK, so on that table I rolled A6 986 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,520 so I have a water bear, a soft floating creature attuned to 987 00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,800 slip. So that's definitely one of 988 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:44,040 those things called a tardigrade. 989 00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,360 I have a tardigrade. I have a bigger tardigrade like. 990 00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:47,600 A giant. You're talking about that little 991 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,880 weird thing that can survive in space and in magma and shit, 992 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:51,760 right? Yeah, this is your dope. 993 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:54,400 And then you get to pick two other skills I think is what you 994 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,800 got. Yeah, so I I started with 995 00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,520 scrounging and tinkering, I believe. 996 00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:02,840 Yeah, I would probably pick mysticism, because my bat, my 997 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,240 lore for this character is that he was a magician. 998 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,040 And he, I grew too old. And now he's a Courier because 999 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,120 he travels as a magician and he's like, yeah, I travel 1000 00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,120 everywhere. You know that makes sense, so. 1001 00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:21,720 Mysticism. And then I feel like tongues. 1002 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,960 Advanced knowledge of modern and ancient language. 1003 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:30,360 Mm hmm. Nope. 1004 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,960 So maybe not the most like util, like utilitarian Courier, but 1005 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,960 like a learned traveler, you know? 1006 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,600 Yeah, for sure. Faux SHO. 1007 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:47,480 Then we got the, then we got imago and chalk. 1008 00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:51,080 Tell me about the Tell me about the imago and the chalk. 1009 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,160 So the imago, the the life cycle is not in this book, right? 1010 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,000 It's in the other one, right? Or is it in this one? 1011 00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,560 No, I think it's wiggly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1012 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:05,640 So the imago start out as like already fairly large cicadas and 1013 00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,800 then like mature and become like, Gee, obviously you see in 1014 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,520 this art piece, this really very good art piece. 1015 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:14,160 Also I like the panel that's a close up on the face and the 1016 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:15,720 face is just like staring at the light. 1017 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,680 But yeah, the among are these massive cicadas that feel 1018 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:24,040 mystical, that have faces. They don't talk, as far as I 1019 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:28,400 know. No, they're it's, well, it's I I 1020 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:33,600 see them as like like they definitely look like faces, but 1021 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,640 it's just their carapace. Yeah, almost like when you see 1022 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,280 like a face in a tree, but like why do they all have fucking 1023 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,160 faces? Yeah, like there's no way that 1024 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:46,680 it's just like, it just happens to be like of growth that looks 1025 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,240 like a face or whatever. Like they are fucking faces, but 1026 00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:51,080 like, they it's just their shell. 1027 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,160 So it's so weird. Yeah, they are big and creepy 1028 00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,320 and like we said earlier, you know, they'll they'll eat your 1029 00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:57,240 bones. There are. 1030 00:54:57,240 --> 00:54:59,920 And the other thing is that they're like very much attracted 1031 00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:03,080 to bones. I think in the beginning 1032 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,400 adventure like there's the possibility of like the death of 1033 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:11,040 people attracting Imagos. Now why is this? 1034 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,280 Because they want to. They want to get that sweet, 1035 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,360 sweet chalk out of your bones. You know, they're trying to, you 1036 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:22,880 know, chalk and then a very interesting life cycle that 1037 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,520 there is a really cool graphic, a cool section that there's a 1038 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,440 life cycle section of the imago in this book that we'll get to. 1039 00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,720 I kind of wish it was like right around here so that you can 1040 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:32,960 instantly go to it, but that's fine. 1041 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:37,840 Big bucks instantly go to it anyway, but like it's a weird. 1042 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:39,880 It's a weird one that's like bigger than all the rest of the 1043 00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,480 pages for some reason. So like it's like rotated weird 1044 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,480 so it makes APDF shrink weird if I don't rotate them off. 1045 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,920 Well, There's also the the Brood monks too, which like people 1046 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:54,560 literally pile bodies of dead right away from stuff. 1047 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,840 Sorry, I didn't think that. Yeah, go over there. 1048 00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,840 Yeah. Dangerous job, yeah. 1049 00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:05,000 Bro. Like stacking bodies of dead so 1050 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:08,320 that a giant 30 foot bug can come eat its bones. 1051 00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,600 I mean just thinking about just like the act of like playing 1052 00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,160 this hex crawl and and walking. Not that this is all a hex 1053 00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,160 crawl, but the hex crawl brought with this and you're walking in 1054 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,720 just overhead. There's like several like a 1055 00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:25,800 small swarm of just massive like car sized cicadas, you know? 1056 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,000 And you're just like, what the fuck, dude? 1057 00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,800 Well, there's actually. This reminds me though too. 1058 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,680 They're like, and I don't know if this is maybe a any level of 1059 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,000 inspiration for it, but there's like two different places I 1060 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:42,680 think in the world where people feed their dead to vultures. 1061 00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:47,320 Like one is just kind of like out on some hills, but one 1062 00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:53,760 literally has like a tower of the dead where they like ring it 1063 00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,560 in the inside with bodies and then vultures come and eat it. 1064 00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,600 But there's like been a lot of issues where the vultures aren't 1065 00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:00,280 coming as much and stuff because humans suck. 1066 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,720 And like, it's just great. I watch this whole thing and my 1067 00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:05,840 memory sucks. So I for if if if I'm saying 1068 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,840 something that's culturally intensitive to that, I 1069 00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,280 apologize. But like, it reminds me of that 1070 00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,320 a little bit where they like, it's not the traditional way 1071 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,400 that we, you know, in the West, like stick them in the ground. 1072 00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,400 It's literally like this whole ceremony of like, sacrificing 1073 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,560 all of it to. The vultures that we do in the 1074 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:23,360 West, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. 1075 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:28,120 Nah, it's dumb. Yeah, burn my ass at best. 1076 00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,080 Yeah. And then the chalk. 1077 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,520 Yeah, I mean the. Chalk is great. 1078 00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,880 So it's the stuff of magic. Like when you cast, you have to 1079 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:43,200 use chalk to cast. And it's yeah, it's mined from, 1080 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,720 like you said that, like that kind of like circle of life 1081 00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:49,280 thing. It's mine from the bodies of the 1082 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,720 imago when they pass, or the carapaces of them, I guess, when 1083 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,200 they shed as well, right? Yeah, they get, they get. 1084 00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,600 I mean you can get the chalk elsewhere, so you can find 1085 00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,320 enough in the ground to like scrape some out or whatever. 1086 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,800 But like, obviously, like, you're going to get a shit load 1087 00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,560 when you get like in the art, The person's literally in like a 1088 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:10,720 suit on the inside of a carapace, scraping the chalk off 1089 00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:12,880 the bones. Or like the the shell of the 1090 00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,640 fucking cicada. Like chalk, collecting is 1091 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,240 actually a skill in this as well. 1092 00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,080 Yeah, imagine rolling for and getting all that, like the chalk 1093 00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:22,840 cannon and the chalk hammer and shit. 1094 00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,520 Yeah. And the art here is, I mean, 1095 00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,200 really is some great. I mean it's. 1096 00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,200 Really good. It's so good. 1097 00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:40,920 The cloudlings, you know, those who live on the the sky cities 1098 00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,640 and like my interpretation is I don't know about you Ryan, is 1099 00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,880 that some of the sky cities are in OK shape and a lot of them 1100 00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,680 don't seem like they're in the most OK of shape. 1101 00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,280 And there's only 18 left when there used to be dozens and 1102 00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,280 dozens and dozens. Like they just keep falling out 1103 00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,200 of the fucking sky because, like, that's where we're at in 1104 00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,560 this world. I would like an adventure in 1105 00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:09,600 like the Oh yeah yeah, Cloud city stuff would be very cool. 1106 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,680 Yeah for sure. I love the page though here with 1107 00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,160 like the cloudling all fancy and like the armor and stuff like 1108 00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,000 looking over like the you're looking from over that this 1109 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,600 cloudling shoulders and the farmerling is just all 1110 00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,640 farmerling looking with their gun just kind of like all pissed 1111 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:26,960 off. I mean, it looks like they're 1112 00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:28,920 facing off. Yeah, for sure, 100. 1113 00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:31,440 Percent. So yeah, it's the it's a cool 1114 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,480 spread and it's cool. It's like on one side there's a 1115 00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,640 Cloud Ling and it has like the lore, and the other side there's 1116 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:39,040 the Farm Ling and it has the Farmer Ling and it has the lore. 1117 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,960 Farmer Ling this. Is I've been saying Farm Ling a 1118 00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,280 lot, and I know it's Farmer Ling. 1119 00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,880 Oh, well, yeah, I mean that's whatever this. 1120 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,680 I will say the first couple of times I read this, I I was like, 1121 00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,600 what is the difference between a cloud Ling and lore Ling? 1122 00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:59,080 I don't understand. I in context of other things 1123 00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,600 I've I've found 'cause I was like, are the cloudlings a rich 1124 01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:02,920 one or are the lordlings rich ones? 1125 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,760 Like I don't get it. And then in context in other 1126 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,000 parts of the book and then when you get to the glossary, it 1127 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:14,120 definitely like everyone up, everyone in the sky is a 1128 01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,280 cloudlings and the ones that rule are the lordlings. 1129 01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:22,120 But I do no. Squares are rectangles, but all 1130 01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:23,680 rectangles are squares. You know what I'm saying? 1131 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,200 Yeah, sure. But yes, I feel like that could 1132 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,520 be a little bit more clear here. Like that's that's one of the 1133 01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,120 things I was talking about before where like if you go to 1134 01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:35,960 the glossary, it's like it's pretty well laid out. 1135 01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,080 But I feel like, am I wrong? Like did you read this the first 1136 01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,960 time and think, oh like Or did you were like wait, which would 1137 01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,320 switch? I think so. 1138 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:47,040 I read the glossary pretty quick and also I've read this so many 1139 01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:48,840 times, it was so long ago. I read it's harder. 1140 01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:50,040 What? Did I? 1141 01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,680 Feel like the first time, cuz this is like the 18th at this 1142 01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:57,680 point. So yeah, so the Cloud Empress 1143 01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:03,240 for which the game is named. Great piece of art. 1144 01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,360 Do you want to just read like the vessel? 1145 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:10,720 Absolutely, yeah. During the year of the century, 1146 01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:14,400 brood in the season of Imago in the moon of the worm. 1147 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,960 On the day the handmade turned the sheets to discover only 1148 01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:19,840 potatoes, the Empress went missing. 1149 01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:25,160 The Empress should never vanish. Hadn't the Emperor lifted her 1150 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,480 from the sewer alley, paid off her mother, and met her every 1151 01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,480 need? Hadn't had she not been fed the 1152 01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,760 purest chalk to nourish her growing talents? 1153 01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,600 And, of course, hadn't she been locked in impregnable tower? 1154 01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,160 Clearly the girl didn't care for her subjects. 1155 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:42,840 There had been a deal. There had been a deal. 1156 01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,840 Her life was meant to belong to the people. 1157 01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,000 Her freedom was a sacrifice to realize the dreams of an empire. 1158 01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,760 The Lordlings and Alpha City were broiled. 1159 01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,280 Her absence would not do, especially given the drought of 1160 01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:58,840 granted wishes. Empresses need time to adjust to 1161 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:00,440 their role. Everyone knew that. 1162 01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,640 But one year later, and she had failed to produce more than a 1163 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,040 handful of answers. Answered prayers. 1164 01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:10,880 The couriers clocked and nodded their heads together, nervous 1165 01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:15,400 like nervous squabs. A single voice cut through the 1166 01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:18,720 chattering, farmerling betrayer. A betrayal. 1167 01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:25,040 Sleepy, Renault said, is the only explanation for a missing 1168 01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,160 Empress. The nobles bobbed their heads in 1169 01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:29,080 agreement. That must be the truth. 1170 01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:32,320 The idea of an Empress kidnapped by Farmer Ling's insurgents 1171 01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,480 sparked the engines of the 29th Expedition. 1172 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,120 Soon the missing Empress seemed less important than the war 1173 01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:41,680 itself, dreams of fame and glory. 1174 01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,000 Chalk and feast became paramount. 1175 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,680 Lord Ling's and their house soldiers crammed into their 1176 01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:51,160 barges, flooding the lowlands to chase their ambitions and make 1177 01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:56,280 dangerous dreams material. Nice chunk of lore right there. 1178 01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:58,000 It's just so funny. It's just so good. 1179 01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:00,360 And like, so now we. So we've established them. 1180 01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:04,280 There is an Empress, picked by the emperor, bought essentially 1181 01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:10,200 and forced into a position where she's fed chalk and grants 1182 01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:15,960 wishes and is locked in a tower and she escapes and everyone's 1183 01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:17,920 like, it must be the farmer lanes, right? 1184 01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,840 It couldn't be, it couldn't be that she didn't choose this 1185 01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:25,880 position and didn't like it. And I like the, the, I like this 1186 01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:27,360 thing. It's like, oh, this exhibition 1187 01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,360 started for this purpose, but they've kind of forgotten about 1188 01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,320 the purpose. It's kind of now just about the 1189 01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:36,400 glory and the sacking of the lowlands, you know? 1190 01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:42,960 And then what we know is the Century brew just happens to 1191 01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,640 also bubble up after all this bullshit. 1192 01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:48,160 Like couldn't be a worse time or a better time. 1193 01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,360 Very tumultuous time. You know, I just think they 1194 01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:52,280 sensed all the bones. And we're like, you know, it's 1195 01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,560 like worms when it rains, they just like, hear the drawing. 1196 01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:57,800 Time. And just do do do do do do. 1197 01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:00,960 OK, so get into the rules section. 1198 01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:03,560 So this is we're gonna breeze through the rules. 1199 01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:08,880 We've read Mothership 0 East and this is pretty clean and light. 1200 01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:13,400 We're gonna bounce back to single page. 1201 01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:15,200 Let me know if any of the spreads are like super dope 1202 01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:16,600 besides like violence when we get to it. 1203 01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:22,040 But yeah, so stats and saves, You talked about it already. 1204 01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:23,880 They both exist. There's four stats, there's 1205 01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,080 three saves. There's mind which, there's the 1206 01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,520 ability to solve problems and stuff like that. 1207 01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,120 Use crests. We call facts. 1208 01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,520 There's heart, which is your emotional abilities, your 1209 01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:37,480 emotional connection, your communication, your spells, you 1210 01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:39,320 know, etcetera. Their strength, which is your 1211 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:43,160 strength and melee, and their speed, which is your speed and 1212 01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:45,920 range combat, you know, delicate stuff with your hand, like 1213 01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,480 dexterity, kind of. And then there's three saves 1214 01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,720 that you do under pressure. So there's reality, which is to 1215 01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:57,080 resist the false becoming true. There's fear, which is to face 1216 01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,960 terrifying events, And there's body, which is to resist 1217 01:04:59,960 --> 01:05:01,800 physical trauma, poisoning and radiation. 1218 01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:08,040 Those are all gonna be all your normal things, and when you 1219 01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:09,800 wanna do something risky, you make a stat check. 1220 01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:14,240 When you want to avoid or endure misfortune, you make a save. 1221 01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:16,840 It's the exact same warning after all that. 1222 01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,720 I don't know why this is broken into two. 1223 01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:24,960 You roll lower than your most relevant save if you roll 2 1224 01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,280 paragraphs when it could have just been one. 1225 01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,000 But basically, for either stat checks or saves, you roll D100 1226 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,640 and attempt to roll lower than your most relevant stat. 1227 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,520 If you roll less than a stat, you succeed, otherwise you fail 1228 01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:41,640 and take stress. So rolling is always bad for 1229 01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:44,400 you, pretty much like it's always bad. 1230 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,520 Like you should always try to overcome things without being 1231 01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:52,800 forced to roll, because every time you fail A roll you take 1232 01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:54,320 stress, and every time you get stressed. 1233 01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:58,000 That's bad for you. There's some advice here. 1234 01:05:58,240 --> 01:05:59,840 Every dice roll changes the situation. 1235 01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:03,840 It's exactly what he said, Like basically fail forward or only 1236 01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,400 make people roll when it's important and we would change 1237 01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,280 the narrative. Ask for dice roll of what I just 1238 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,120 said, ask for dice rolls on the stakes are high, there's 1239 01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:16,600 criticals that can happen. So when double S are rolled, so 1240 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,360 like 33 or 77, the result is critical. 1241 01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,680 If you succeed with it, it's a critical success. 1242 01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:24,120 If you fail with it, it's a critical failure. 1243 01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:28,160 So if your score is 50 and you get a 33, grows critical 1244 01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,600 success. If your score is 50 and against 1245 01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,200 77, Critical failure. I like that. 1246 01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:38,240 Playing easy again, you know, the Warden will narratively 1247 01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:44,000 interpret results of critical stuff. 1248 01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,680 It's a it's a critical. You know, narrative actions 1249 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:51,040 happen. Yep, it happens. 1250 01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:52,520 Yeah, Advantage and disadvantage. 1251 01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,360 So to roll an advantage to disadvantage, you roll 2 and 1252 01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:56,640 take the higher the lower. That's how it works. 1253 01:06:56,640 --> 01:07:00,320 There's two paragraphs to tell you that range, the distance 1254 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,920 between I I say that like you know, kind of dismissively. 1255 01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:05,600 They're good paragraphs. I think this is good 1256 01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,320 explanations of it. The second paragraph really 1257 01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:12,480 talks about like when you would get it and what circumstances. 1258 01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,360 Cuz it's not like always super clear, but basically like you 1259 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:21,040 know when you would get it. I mean we've played games. 1260 01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:27,480 I do like the one part, though. It does say if you would ever 1261 01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,040 roll with more than one disadvantage, the result is an 1262 01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:32,120 automatic failure. I I love that. 1263 01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:33,440 I think it's great. I love. 1264 01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,720 Inversely, if you ever roll with more than one advantage, it's 1265 01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,520 just like they just. You just do it, Yeah, yeah, fuck 1266 01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:41,720 it, Just do it. Yeah, I really enjoy that. 1267 01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,600 Especially in AD 100 system. The range is so big for that, 1268 01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,960 like in AD six in a 2D6 system. That makes a lot of sense to me, 1269 01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:50,840 'cause you're like, fuck, you're already at like +4. 1270 01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:58,880 But I I enjoy it in this. It really makes you search for 1271 01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:00,880 those advantages because the range is so high. 1272 01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,640 Like your odds are pretty small ranges. 1273 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,000 Adjacent nearby. Long range, extreme range. 1274 01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:12,720 You know what those are Fantastic piece of art here. 1275 01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:17,560 I don't know why this piece really gives me like a Who's the 1276 01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:22,120 kid in Gundam? Did the hero quote good guy? 1277 01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:26,279 Yeah. Is his name Hero the primary kid 1278 01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:28,560 in like Gundam one him versus Char? 1279 01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:31,120 I don't know why this gives me are. 1280 01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:35,319 You doing Gundam Wing or what? No Gundam Like Gundam Gundam 1281 01:08:35,359 --> 01:08:36,479 Gundam 1. The Gundam. 1282 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:39,279 You never seen Gundam? You ever see Charles counter 1283 01:08:39,279 --> 01:08:40,399 attack? You never saw any of the early 1284 01:08:40,399 --> 01:08:41,920 Gundam shit. Dude, watch the early Gundam. 1285 01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:45,160 I have, but it's been so long. The one that I remember the most 1286 01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,200 is Gundam Wing. So I was. 1287 01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,960 Thinking which is not even which is is not even in the the normal 1288 01:08:51,399 --> 01:08:52,240 like. I don't know what it's called. 1289 01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:54,680 And the normal Gundam verse. Yeah, the Gundam verse, Yeah, 1290 01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:58,720 It's one of the side verses. They're all on Netflix, man. 1291 01:08:58,720 --> 01:08:59,760 Watch the original Gundam movies. 1292 01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:00,800 They're so. Good, I'm on Netflix. 1293 01:09:02,359 --> 01:09:04,279 I'll give you mine. No, I won't. 1294 01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:06,840 Netflix you can. Actually so. 1295 01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,240 Yeah. Anyway, I don't know why this 1296 01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:16,319 gives me a very like these two people like have like rivalry 1297 01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:18,640 and love vibes, this art. You know what I mean? 1298 01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:19,880 Am I wrong? Does that, does it not? 1299 01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:21,040 Absolutely. Absolutely. 1300 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:22,960 OK. That looks like anime 1301 01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:26,560 protagonist anime antagonist, Yeah? 1302 01:09:27,359 --> 01:09:30,200 Yeah. Then we get to stress and panic, 1303 01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:32,720 which is kind of like the meat and bones of the system. 1304 01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:38,279 So there's some great pros at the top of these, but I'm not 1305 01:09:38,279 --> 01:09:40,640 going to read it. So points of stress represent 1306 01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,880 your character's accumulation of negative or overwhelming 1307 01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:45,439 thoughts and feelings staring at adventure. 1308 01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:50,040 I really love the abstraction of the of like wounds and stress 1309 01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:53,560 and all that stuff on this. It's not it's not exact points 1310 01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:56,200 of like a thing. It's like this overall 1311 01:09:56,200 --> 01:10:00,560 accumulation of like a wearing down of of your your everything. 1312 01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:03,120 So you start with zero stress. At character creation you have a 1313 01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:06,320 maximum of 10. A characteristic minimum amount 1314 01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,560 of stress can increase due to some game play effects. 1315 01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:10,560 You keep track of stress in your sheet, etc. 1316 01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:15,040 So you take one point of stress whenever you fail a checker 1317 01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:17,280 safe, you draw your weapon, your. 1318 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:20,320 Weapon you. Draw your weapon. 1319 01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,960 You take stress. Someone else draws a weapon on 1320 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,160 you. You take Stress. 1321 01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:27,520 You inflict A hideous wound. Stress. 1322 01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,480 You. Inflict not take you inflict A 1323 01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:32,440 hideous wound. Oh wait oh wait. 1324 01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,080 You kill something you do not need to eat. 1325 01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:40,800 Or when you take a wound, when you cast a spell, and when you 1326 01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:42,840 come face to face with strange and terrifying entities. 1327 01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:48,320 So basically anytime you are injured or injured or something 1328 01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:53,680 or even threaten violence or if I'm threatened on you stress, 1329 01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:57,720 I'm like real life. Yeah, I mean, The thing is, 1330 01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:04,080 like, you know, if I was forced to get into like armed combat 1331 01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:07,040 right now, me as a person, even if I was winning, like I would 1332 01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:11,080 be incredibly anxious. Not even forced into armed 1333 01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:12,720 combat. If you were just chilling and 1334 01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,200 someone pulled a gun on you, you would be stressed the fuck out. 1335 01:11:15,440 --> 01:11:18,440 Absolutely. And it's good, because the the 1336 01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:23,120 Panic Engine mothership and this, like, combat is punishing. 1337 01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:27,560 Like you. You don't want to fight because 1338 01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,720 that's how you get truly and genuinely fucked up. 1339 01:11:31,480 --> 01:11:34,640 Yeah, yeah. Like, you absolutely could win a 1340 01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,120 fight, for sure, and you can make it out. 1341 01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:40,400 But like combat, you'll die. It's brutal. 1342 01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:41,880 It's yeah, it's brutal. It's brutal. 1343 01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:43,280 You really don't want to fight in this game. 1344 01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:46,600 And I like that. I like this is clearly not a 1345 01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:48,640 comic game. And I really like, I mean, I I 1346 01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:49,880 love comic games, don't get me wrong. 1347 01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:53,440 But this game, as soon as you start reading it, doesn't feel 1348 01:11:53,440 --> 01:11:55,040 like a comic game. And I love that the rules 1349 01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:59,880 reinforce that panic. So stress leads to panic, 1350 01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:01,480 etcetera, etcetera. So panic represents the 1351 01:12:01,480 --> 01:12:05,760 unpredictable consequences of facing danger and a cube ending 1352 01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,480 stress. You make a panic check when you 1353 01:12:08,480 --> 01:12:11,240 rule a crit fail. You see an ally die. 1354 01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:14,400 You witness more than one ally panic. 1355 01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,480 You experience a devastating set back or loss. 1356 01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:20,920 You see a grizzly wound or an inconceivable horror. 1357 01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:24,560 And then to make a panic check, you roll 1D10 and compare the 1358 01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:28,400 result with your current stress. If the result is less than or 1359 01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,680 equal to your current stress, you panic and then you roll on 1360 01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,840 the panic table. Love that. 1361 01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,600 So the thing about that too is like, you have to roll. 1362 01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:42,760 If you roll less into current stress, so like, the more stress 1363 01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:44,120 you have, the worse that is for you. 1364 01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,880 Like, it's bad because like if you have one stress, the odds of 1365 01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,400 you getting a like, you can't panic, right? 1366 01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,840 It says no, Yeah, you have to roll A1, you have a one to 10 1367 01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,480 chance. But if you have, I mean it's 10 1368 01:12:55,480 --> 01:12:58,520 to the metric system of games. Like if you have seven stress, 1369 01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,520 that's the 70% chance that you're fucking failing. 1370 01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,920 Like, that's crazy. I love it. 1371 01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:04,880 It's so good. The more stress you are, the 1372 01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:06,760 more stressed, the more likely you are to panic. 1373 01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:10,040 Which makes fucking sense. I also like the panic rule just 1374 01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,320 of itself, because it follows the roll under and something 1375 01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:15,600 happens. Thing like you feel for a 1376 01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:18,280 second, you're like, wait, so I want to roll over because all 1377 01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,520 the other times in the game you want to roll under, but but 1378 01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,120 really it's just that rolling under makes a thing happen. 1379 01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:28,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yes, completely, Yeah. 1380 01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:30,800 Yeah. Also like fail forward, but yes. 1381 01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:32,960 Yes, you, you're trying to succeed. 1382 01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:34,480 You're trying to make a thing happen. 1383 01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:37,440 You roll under, you stress. Yeah, exactly. 1384 01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:41,240 And it feels consistent in in that way. 1385 01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:42,560 So that is, it's really, it's good. 1386 01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:49,280 Do we get to rest? Tell me about rest. 1387 01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:52,040 This is the hey, let's talk about where the art does feel 1388 01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,200 like a little different, but it's still beautiful. 1389 01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:55,840 Yeah, this one actually does stand out. 1390 01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:57,680 I mean, I think mostly it's probably the color palette that 1391 01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:59,640 makes it feel oh. Yeah, you're right. 1392 01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,600 It's very Gray. It's Gray, which there's there's 1393 01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:04,480 Gray splash in there, but there's a lot of orange and 1394 01:14:04,480 --> 01:14:07,480 yellow. Very orange. 1395 01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:08,960 Dreamsicle. Yeah. 1396 01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:11,480 So rest. Hey, you know you can relieve 1397 01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:17,240 stress through rest, relaxation, you know, supporting your your 1398 01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:22,080 physical and mental needs. Whenever party stops for to rest 1399 01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:24,840 for four to six hours, each party member loses to stress 1400 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,280 when resting at safe location. You lose two additional stress 1401 01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:31,360 whenever you sleep peacefully through the night. 1402 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,760 Share hearth or engaging conversation. 1403 01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:39,280 Eat a tasty meal, have good sex, consult with your group before 1404 01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:43,200 including spend a tranquil hour in nature. 1405 01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,000 You can mix a couple of those together. 1406 01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:52,840 Yeah, you could, Yeah, consequences of resting Downtime 1407 01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:54,440 is the opportunity to develop your character. 1408 01:14:54,440 --> 01:14:56,320 However, there are trade-offs to consider. 1409 01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:58,680 When you rest, you might experience one or more of the 1410 01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,240 following consequences. Your food supply dwindles. 1411 01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:03,600 That's going to happen. At least to my table. 1412 01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:08,280 A rival makes progress towards your goal, an enemy enemy's 1413 01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:12,040 plans advance, the warden rolls an encounter and you are 1414 01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:15,760 ambushed. It's good to remember that the 1415 01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:20,520 world is not a static thing. It is going to continue to move 1416 01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,600 even when you're not. Nice to have a little reminder 1417 01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:26,360 of that mechanically built in. Yes, the world does not revolve 1418 01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:31,000 around you. We are post Galilean in our role 1419 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:31,840 play. Well, you know. 1420 01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:36,520 Most of us are, yeah. Listen, the Earth's flat, buddy. 1421 01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:39,120 There's just a big ice wall, and it leads to another, bigger 1422 01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:41,480 section of the world. Yeah, and Australia is not real. 1423 01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:48,480 They're all paid actors. Yeah, the biggest lie in all of 1424 01:15:48,480 --> 01:15:51,000 the world is takes thousands and thousands of people lying 1425 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,240 continuously together, food and drink. 1426 01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,360 So yeah, you need food and drink. 1427 01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:03,400 It's it's a necessity for life. Sorry about that. 1428 01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:05,000 Yeah, at the beginning of each day. 1429 01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,040 Also, there's a lot of really good prose through all of this, 1430 01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,560 and I'm not reading all of it, but you should read it because 1431 01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:12,520 it's really good. And I've read this so many 1432 01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:17,120 times. Yeah, one serving of good food 1433 01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:22,440 and drink is equal to 1 meal for a single person, 10 servings of 1434 01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,320 food. Drink can be converted into one 1435 01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:29,880 day's provisions. OK 10 servings of good food and 1436 01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:31,920 drink can be converted into one day's provision. 1437 01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:36,200 OK At the beginning of each day, the traveling party loses one 1438 01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:39,360 day's provisions unless all PCs forgo eating and drinking for a 1439 01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,040 day. Whenever the traveling party 1440 01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:44,800 starts a day without consuming a day's provisions, each party 1441 01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,880 member takes two stress and two damage from hunger. 1442 01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:50,960 Here's the thing. Here's the thing. 1443 01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:57,440 We just read a game and my mind is already gone on what it was. 1444 01:16:57,440 --> 01:16:58,520 But what's the game we just read? 1445 01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,560 Where it's like, who gives a fuck about basic food? 1446 01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:03,880 You're adult human beings. Oh, we just read it. 1447 01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:05,760 It was. What game did we just do last? 1448 01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:07,720 I don't even. I honestly don't even fucking 1449 01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:09,600 remember. Wow, I can't believe. 1450 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:15,600 Last week. Oh God. 1451 01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,440 Not blister critters, right? No. 1452 01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:24,400 Oh, it was high magical lives. Yes, I love that. 1453 01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:26,320 I love that. I love that. 1454 01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:27,400 Stop yelling. So. 1455 01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:32,240 But I will say this doesn't feel like a combat game in the sense 1456 01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:36,880 that you want to fight, right? It does kind of remind me of 1457 01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:40,640 Into the Out a little bit in that it feels like a travel game 1458 01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:43,520 or something more so, right? It's like a survival travel 1459 01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,760 game. Right, so if you are gonna be 1460 01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,560 doing this like summer adventuring party and you are 1461 01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:52,360 going across the pastoral lowlands and areas of radiation 1462 01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:55,480 and shit, I do genuinely feel cause like to me how magic 1463 01:17:55,480 --> 01:17:57,840 lowlife is more often gonna take place in the city. 1464 01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:00,800 You know what I mean? So like you're gonna be able to 1465 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,320 just hit a fucking kiosk or something or like call like the 1466 01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:06,760 the the magic Uber, right? So like who gives a shit about 1467 01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,240 food? This one though, I do feel like 1468 01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:13,200 this is a really good clean provisions rule that I would 1469 01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,480 definitely keep. Because imagine the side quest. 1470 01:18:16,480 --> 01:18:19,080 You could have a whole session where you're like, guys, you're 1471 01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:20,200 out of fucking food, what are you gonna do? 1472 01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:21,720 And they're like, well, fuck, I guess we're gonna have to have a 1473 01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:25,000 whole session where we like break off from the thing that 1474 01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:26,720 we're doing. We're gonna have a whole day 1475 01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,040 where other people are making progress and we'd have to go 1476 01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:32,440 like hunt shit or something and they could like run into a maga 1477 01:18:32,440 --> 01:18:35,160 or like, you know, find a a water bear or something. 1478 01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:38,720 So tracking food and drink actually doesn't bother me as a 1479 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:41,080 rule. It only bothers me in what game 1480 01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:44,200 it's in, if that makes sense. If it fits or doesn't fit, like 1481 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,680 the idea doesn't bother me. It fits here. 1482 01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:49,720 It obviously doesn't fit in high magical lives. 1483 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:53,320 And there are other games that I've been like, Why are we? 1484 01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:55,640 Why would we bother? Yes, well we're we're playing 1485 01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,840 Dragon Bane on every Wednesday night and there's a bunch of 1486 01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:00,800 these just like random rules where we're just like, who gives 1487 01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:02,480 a shit? Like you have to make like you 1488 01:19:02,480 --> 01:19:05,440 have to make like we're we're in the woods and we're we're all 1489 01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:07,280 like animals, like I'm a fucking wolf kin. 1490 01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:10,520 The one girl was like literally like a a Bush, a Bush whacking 1491 01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:11,920 alpha or whatever. You know what I mean? 1492 01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,000 Like her whole shit is like being a. 1493 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,080 And Ducky is a duck. A duck. 1494 01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:19,240 A literal duck. So we're supposed to do, like, 1495 01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:24,000 bushcraft checks to be able to, like, make a campsite every 1496 01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,080 fucking time or some shit, Or we're not allowed to rest. 1497 01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:28,520 And I'm like, are you? We're not, are you? 1498 01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:29,960 What the fuck? Like, why are we? 1499 01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:32,080 We're all adults with camping gear. 1500 01:19:32,480 --> 01:19:33,960 Like, why would we need to do that? 1501 01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:38,240 But yes, I completely agree with you. 1502 01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:40,440 I don't mind travel rules. I don't mind. 1503 01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:42,360 Like, you know, I like equipment encumbrance. 1504 01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,240 Like I'd like this because exactly like you said, it feels 1505 01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:47,120 like it fits this setting and it feels like it fits this all of 1506 01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,480 adventure you're going to have. So UVG is very much like that 1507 01:19:49,480 --> 01:19:50,640 too. Like there's like a bunch of 1508 01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:53,240 travel survivor rules for a game that's a travel survival game. 1509 01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:54,080 And you're like, Oh yeah, perfect. 1510 01:19:54,480 --> 01:19:57,000 Totally makes sense, yeah. Sports. 1511 01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:03,120 Mushrooms. You know, mushrooms, fungi, 1512 01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:07,240 mushrooms, shrooms. Sports are most often. 1513 01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:12,040 Yeah, I'll read the Where should I start on this one? 1514 01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,280 What's the most non prose part of it? 1515 01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:18,440 It's all about eating sports. Sports. 1516 01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:20,080 Yeah, yeah. It's just they exist in the 1517 01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:21,360 world. Yeah. 1518 01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:26,520 Oh no, the the cool part about it is the the part where they 1519 01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:32,200 have, quote UN quote vestigial eyes but they look mournful and 1520 01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,840 the sporekeepers keep telling you don't worry about it. 1521 01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:39,360 That is a good yeah, you're fine. 1522 01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:42,280 Yeah. And more sporekeepers keep going 1523 01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:45,760 missing each season, and they're often found as a stack of bones 1524 01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:50,040 in the spore cellar a month after the disappearance. 1525 01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:53,120 But it's it's fine. Don't don't worry guys. 1526 01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:58,200 Chill. Yeah, so sports do have effects. 1527 01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,240 You carry them freeze dried and you like hydrate them to use 1528 01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:06,680 them to or something to that effect and and there's a nice 1529 01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,320 table you want to roll AD 10 for me. 1530 01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:10,800 I would love to roll AD 10 for you. 1531 01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:16,520 I'm rolling AD 10 right now. I'm doing that. 1532 01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:18,840 OK, good. Good job. 1533 01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,560 And it's A7. Seven, Do you have a purifier 1534 01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:26,280 spore? That's a rarity of C, which I 1535 01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:30,560 believe is common. It filters out and eats the 1536 01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:33,600 radiation. Other toxins in a liquid remains 1537 01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:36,600 active for a full day. That's pretty good. 1538 01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:38,720 Find some toxic water. You can clean it up and drink 1539 01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:39,920 it. Yeah, just stick it in there. 1540 01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:41,280 I all these spores are really good. 1541 01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,760 Like there's ones that are like like acid spore sleeping spore 1542 01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,560 like that, like do affect. There's like the exploding one, 1543 01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:50,960 which I love, but there's two of them that I really like. 1544 01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:54,120 The the boar beef one and I can't remember the other one. 1545 01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:55,760 the IT may be the imitation squab. 1546 01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:58,760 Yeah, like you put in water, you get more like, it puffs up and 1547 01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:02,120 you get more provisions with it. Like they're just so good. 1548 01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:04,280 Like and it makes so much sense in this world to have like 1549 01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,680 sports with the eye, with the eyeballs that can kill you or 1550 01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,960 help you immensely. Does make. 1551 01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:12,240 Sense. So good. 1552 01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:15,360 So now we come to the very hunter part of Oh my. 1553 01:22:15,440 --> 01:22:18,360 God, dude, it's so good. I love this shit. 1554 01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:26,200 Yeah, so spells. To cast spells in this game, you 1555 01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:29,760 have to you have to ingest or use a stick of chalk. 1556 01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:35,040 You're basically like goading the slip into existence and then 1557 01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:41,000 kind of like guiding the slip. In its usage, magic lives in the 1558 01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,720 teeth. Frightening caregivers pulled 1559 01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:47,520 their children's wisdom teeth, cutting off magic at its roots. 1560 01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:50,880 Couriers trade these teeth and they always fetch a good price 1561 01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:54,200 among desperate magicians. Yeah, each spell is going to 1562 01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,720 cost. To cast a spell, you got to do 1563 01:22:56,720 --> 01:23:00,240 something with chalk, use additional sticks to increase 1564 01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:04,080 the effect, recite the spells worlds or it's you take one 1565 01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:07,120 stress, you make a heart check. If you fail, you take stress and 1566 01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:09,120 you will. One detail on the miscast table 1567 01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:13,880 and if you roll a critical successor spell is cast as if 1568 01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:16,200 one additional stick of chalk was used to cast. 1569 01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:19,360 Thank you for baking in the crit success rule to casting. 1570 01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:23,280 I really appreciate that. And also making it frankly easy. 1571 01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:28,280 You rule with disadvantage when casting spells without your 1572 01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:31,160 wisdom teeth, Ryan. Do you read that as you as a 1573 01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:32,960 person or you your player character? 1574 01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,880 No, it's a player character. OK, I have. 1575 01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:41,400 I have one. Yeah, I have one too. 1576 01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:43,560 So yeah, it grew in fine with that push in a teeth. 1577 01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,960 I just left it. Yeah, same I just got. 1578 01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:47,760 Bonus tooth. Not the other side. 1579 01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:51,800 Yeah, one extra tooth. Yeah. 1580 01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:56,160 What you gonna say? I will say there's a narrative 1581 01:23:56,160 --> 01:23:58,200 part that I loved so much. It's like the only paragraph you 1582 01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,960 did completely skip over, but it's the the, the chalk. 1583 01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,240 Encourage is a slip, but chalk alone is not enough. 1584 01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:07,600 A spell is a poem personified throat, chalk, and breathe the 1585 01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:10,520 words of our mothers and grandmothers, passed down from 1586 01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:15,960 warm hand to warm hand villages. Villages form around a single 1587 01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:20,720 spell, cultivating it for 100 or 200 years until it's perfected 1588 01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:26,760 the idea that like you know that like some poem that you all 1589 01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:31,440 speak helps you like, craft this spell better. 1590 01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:33,840 So for hundreds of years, through generations after 1591 01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,600 generations, you just like, like, filter. 1592 01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:40,640 Like you just perfect the words to say and the whole village 1593 01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:43,920 will grow around. Trying to perfect the words to 1594 01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:49,960 this fucking spell makes magic feel so deep to me and so 1595 01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:53,960 powerful and so much more than just like, oh, I found a scroll, 1596 01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:57,160 you know what I mean? Like it feels so it it makes 1597 01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,240 magic like folkloric, you know what I mean? 1598 01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:05,680 Like, it makes it feel real and ancient and powerful to me in a 1599 01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:07,400 way that, like, I don't know. That's one of my favorite 1600 01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,240 paragraphs in the entire fucking book. 1601 01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:10,960 I don't know why, but like it just. 1602 01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:12,200 I don't know. There's so much in. 1603 01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:19,320 It very very cool part and it does add that like deep historic 1604 01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,160 lore of magic. It also it like builds your 1605 01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,840 world because you can come across a town that like you're 1606 01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:26,440 looking for a new spell and like, this town has this. 1607 01:25:26,440 --> 01:25:30,480 This is the spell that they do, You know, they make it rain or 1608 01:25:30,480 --> 01:25:31,680 whatever weird effects there are. 1609 01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:34,720 Yeah. Make it rain maybe. 1610 01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:40,440 So yeah. Moving on to page 36, which is 1611 01:25:40,440 --> 01:25:42,760 the spell table. My God, bro. 1612 01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:45,920 My fucking God. Just pick one because I'm going 1613 01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:47,640 to pick some and I'm going to talk about them because they're 1614 01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,520 fucking amazing. Let me get let. 1615 01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:56,000 Me get 26 just because it's a it's a weird. 1616 01:25:56,120 --> 01:26:02,000 It's a weird one. 26 is sleepy cone clone shaped. 1617 01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:04,880 The Castor shapes nearby dirt, clay, or other material into a 1618 01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,360 replica of a character known to the Castor. 1619 01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:10,680 The clone snores and Mumbles as if the character were asleep. 1620 01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:13,200 The clone lasts for six hours or until woken up. 1621 01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:16,560 Imagine going to wake up like putting this into sneak out and 1622 01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:18,600 then going to wake this person up and you wake him up and they 1623 01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:24,880 turn to a pile of mud. You know, it's it's the After 1624 01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:25,840 effects though. Oh my. 1625 01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:27,600 God dude. The After Effects is my favorite 1626 01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:29,000 fucking part. I'm using this and everything 1627 01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:32,000 ever. The caster finds the human form 1628 01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,080 disgusting for the next three days. 1629 01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:38,400 They gain disadvantage on fear saves when around other humans 1630 01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:43,360 during this time period. It's like a failure table. 1631 01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:46,440 But it's not. It's just the cost of you using 1632 01:26:46,440 --> 01:26:50,200 the fucking chalk is just the shittiness that you have to deal 1633 01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:52,440 with after. You know what this reminds me so 1634 01:26:52,440 --> 01:26:54,440 much of? But I read this so many times 1635 01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:58,040 and it hit me like a fucking train when I realized that. 1636 01:26:58,040 --> 01:26:59,400 You know what this reminds me so much of? 1637 01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:02,240 It's an anime. You get a power. 1638 01:27:02,440 --> 01:27:04,840 And then bad shit happened. What am I talking about? 1639 01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,080 Absolutely. You know, do you got one you 1640 01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:09,320 like? No, no, I'm talking specifically 1641 01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,600 with the anime. Oh, dark and black. 1642 01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:15,080 Darker than black, bro. Like it's so fucking darker than 1643 01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:18,200 black. Like the one dude is like, oh, I 1644 01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:20,480 can cast that in gravity, then I have to break one of my fucking 1645 01:27:20,480 --> 01:27:24,000 fingers like. Some of this I have to eat a 1646 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,640 cigarette, you know? Dude, the cigarette lady. 1647 01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:28,640 But the one girl's like, fuck it, I just got to chug a 1648 01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:30,960 Guinness. Boom, make it rain, you know 1649 01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:31,800 what I mean? But like that. 1650 01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:33,640 Girl in that show has the best power. 1651 01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:35,680 She's like, I can use a power just to chug beer. 1652 01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:39,400 Afterwards I'm like, oh, OK. But but the one guy like Stack 1653 01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:40,960 rocks. Like some of them are good, some 1654 01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:43,840 of them are bad. And like, it's just fucking that 1655 01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:47,520 reminds me so much of this, like so much of this, honestly. 1656 01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:49,960 Like I could give two shits about the spells like I I do. 1657 01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,720 I obviously care. But like I read the After 1658 01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,200 effects so much more than the actual spell effects because I 1659 01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:56,520 thought they were so interesting. 1660 01:27:56,520 --> 01:28:02,240 Like the form of vermin where like you target a caster or 1661 01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:05,400 anybody character, transforming them into a swarm of Eels rats, 1662 01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:09,440 Meister Bats. It lasts an hour and. 1663 01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:13,120 Yeah. But like, the effect is the 1664 01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:17,920 caster loses one finger or toe for each vermin that is not 1665 01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:19,960 adjacent to the swarm and the spell ends. 1666 01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:24,000 So like you could just be fucking fingerless, you know 1667 01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:25,840 what I mean? Like that's, But some of them 1668 01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:27,120 are so random. The floor. 1669 01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,360 Door one. The effect, like you draw a 1670 01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:32,320 chalk door or whatever, but like the caster, cannot willingly 1671 01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:34,840 walk through a doorway or arch for three days. 1672 01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:38,160 I like how long they are too. It's like 3. 1673 01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:42,320 Days, bro. The dream spy One the Castro 1674 01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:49,120 gains disadvantage for a month. Oh wow. 1675 01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:52,640 Month. Bro, it's funny, Meek Assel 1676 01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:54,240 said. There are no old magicians for a 1677 01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,400 reason, 'cause they all fucking die from the effects of their 1678 01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:58,520 fucking spells. Like, I I don't know. 1679 01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:00,800 To me, like, the spells are really, really good. 1680 01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:02,960 But the after effects, for whatever reason, just like 1681 01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:06,880 strikes such a deep record for me where I'm like, I love that 1682 01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,560 these aren't even they're not just like little costs, they're 1683 01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,280 massive costs. And in a lot of other games, 1684 01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:14,760 these would be the miscast table, you know what I mean? 1685 01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:16,440 But these? Are if you succeed miscast 1686 01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:19,520 table. Yeah, if you succeed you get 1687 01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:23,120 what you want, but you also have to deal with like the casters. 1688 01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:26,360 Maximum damage per wound is reduced by two. 1689 01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:31,960 Like, I don't know, the caster requires someone else to feed 1690 01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:35,920 them for the rest of the day because you turn nearby milk 1691 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:37,760 into curds. Yeah. 1692 01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:39,680 It's just so it's just. I don't know. 1693 01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:41,600 I I don't know. I I love it. 1694 01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,840 I love it so much. All right, Crest. 1695 01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:47,400 Crests. Crests are cool. 1696 01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:51,080 Crests are so cool. And they're they're essentially 1697 01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:59,880 these weird trinket magic items. You that give you the ability to 1698 01:29:59,880 --> 01:30:04,480 to create like one effect and they have a variety of rarities 1699 01:30:04,480 --> 01:30:12,320 to them from like major standard trinket and I think that might 1700 01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:15,400 be the lowest one. But yeah, I'll read the thing. 1701 01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:17,920 The bigger the Crest, the bigger the ego attached to it. 1702 01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:20,240 The wealthy collect dozens of crests and trade them in 1703 01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:23,120 exclusive circles. While most crests are immensely 1704 01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:24,960 valuable, some are more common than others. 1705 01:30:25,480 --> 01:30:28,600 Trinket crests regularly make their way from loreling houses 1706 01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,600 to the hands of cloudlings and farmerlings and come into 1707 01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:36,520 hundreds of varieties. Some litter junk drawers and 1708 01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,080 scrap yards, their effects worth less than the chalk needed to 1709 01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:41,800 power them. Standard Crest, however, build 1710 01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:43,480 and destroy fortunes and dynasties. 1711 01:30:43,480 --> 01:30:47,160 Each Standard Crest holds power rarely given to mortals. 1712 01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:51,600 Major crests are one-of-a-kind works of art, however beautiful 1713 01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:54,680 they all might be. Crests are remnants of the 1714 01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:58,960 tortures, cloudlings descendants chipped away at the ancient 1715 01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:02,080 monuments at the center of their cities like Ravens pulling out 1716 01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:06,320 the shiny objects to play with. Most of the 18 remaining Cloud 1717 01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:10,200 City monuments stick crumbling, their collected power pilfered 1718 01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:15,160 using a Crest is riding a bucking pack. 1719 01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:18,280 Squab your arm, shake under the expelled energy. 1720 01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:21,160 Your mind must stay calm to direct the consequences. 1721 01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:25,720 Even a single misdirected thought can mean disaster, and 1722 01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:29,360 most sane lordlings have an unspoken fear of using their 1723 01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:33,480 oversized jewelry to make sorry. To use a Crest, make a mind 1724 01:31:33,480 --> 01:31:35,840 check. If you succeed you do the effect 1725 01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:40,640 and if you fail you gain 1 stress and roll one to 10 on 1726 01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,200 Miscast table. The Crest can be used once 1727 01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:45,160 before. The symbol must be re coated 1728 01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:47,440 with chalk because chalk. Is that? 1729 01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:50,320 Yeah, yeah. So how, what? 1730 01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:52,640 How? I read that is like their 1731 01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:56,080 torturers left these statues with these stuff all over them 1732 01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:59,000 with these like symbols, and people just went and like, 1733 01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:02,880 chipped the symbols off, coat them with chalk and use them to 1734 01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:06,920 catch spells. That's so cool. 1735 01:32:07,440 --> 01:32:12,240 Yeah, I I I like it. It also opens up like a weird 1736 01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:14,320 type of casting for everybody. Yeah. 1737 01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:18,280 Yeah. Do you? 1738 01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:21,720 Do you know how you know how cool it would be if you as a 1739 01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:25,240 Courier who used to be a magician or like a Crest hunter? 1740 01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:27,800 Because you're like, I need to. I need to feel it again. 1741 01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:29,400 I need to feel the magic. Yeah, I'll roll. 1742 01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:32,640 How many is it? 3D ten I'll roll 2. 1743 01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:42,800 Total law of 19. So I got the trinket Crest of 1744 01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:46,680 burned joints. One chalk targets a nearby 1745 01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:49,160 character, creating a painful sensation in their elbows and 1746 01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:51,520 knees, giving them disadvantage on attacks for 15 minutes. 1747 01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:54,880 Aw, you just feel old. You feel like an elder 1748 01:32:54,880 --> 01:33:01,600 millennial? But yeah, I rolled A7. 1749 01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:06,320 Which in other times, rolling 3D tens, I'd be like, that fucking 1750 01:33:06,320 --> 01:33:10,720 sucks. But the major Crest of selective 1751 01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:15,640 farmers changes the weather according to the user's limb 1752 01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:18,560 cool. I like the one above. 1753 01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:21,320 Or the three. The top one, which is the major 1754 01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:26,400 Crest of calling insects. It has a high chalk cost. 1755 01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:30,440 It's three. All insects, including Imago, 1756 01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:35,160 within one mile of the user are beckoned to the user's location. 1757 01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:38,320 Terrifying during the century. Brew, you know. 1758 01:33:38,480 --> 01:33:40,280 Yes. Here's my thought though, my 1759 01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:43,440 question with the spell and I would if I was Adm, I'd be like, 1760 01:33:43,440 --> 01:33:51,160 I don't know, use it and find out is like say I use that Crest 1761 01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:53,760 and then just book it the fuck out of there, right? 1762 01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:56,960 Are they going to where I used it at or are they following the 1763 01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:59,200 Crest for a period of time? You know what I'm saying? 1764 01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:03,640 Yeah. Because if we're around a bunch 1765 01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:07,480 of people, like if I have a barge or some vehicle pack squab 1766 01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:12,680 and a bunch of expedition fuck show up and I hit my Crest 1767 01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:15,800 because I know there's a mongo around and then I book it and 1768 01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,480 then they attack, what's left behind. 1769 01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,600 I might make up the miscast of this Crest. 1770 01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:24,920 You know, you miscast it and it and it works, but it's not on 1771 01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:26,200 the Crest. It's not where you are, it's on 1772 01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:29,480 the Crest. So you gotta ditch the Crest or? 1773 01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:31,680 Yeah, leave it behind. Yeah, yeah. 1774 01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:33,600 If not though, I would do it like a pulse. 1775 01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:36,120 I would do it like A and then like they try to find like the 1776 01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:38,840 the ping for where it happened. But if you book it, they could 1777 01:34:38,840 --> 01:34:41,040 leave be as a miscast. Fuck yeah, That'd be so deep to 1778 01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:43,280 be like, no, it just still, it's still pinging. 1779 01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:47,160 Like no it worked. Yeah, you dropping it or are you 1780 01:34:47,160 --> 01:34:49,480 letting them follow you and you look back and there's like 300 1781 01:34:49,480 --> 01:34:50,360 miles? You make. 1782 01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:56,280 Yeah. All right. 1783 01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:00,360 You have violence, right? Oh yeah, I can take it if you 1784 01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:04,640 want. I think I'm gonna throw this 1785 01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:07,400 into a two page spread for a second because this is a cool 1786 01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:14,280 two page spread. So the it's got a bunch of 1787 01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,440 weapons across the whole section here. 1788 01:35:16,440 --> 01:35:20,600 Walking Staffs, bore launcher, military rifle, work tools, 1789 01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:24,200 revolver, dope. So violence. 1790 01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:26,000 It's bad for you. Most of the time. 1791 01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:30,200 Violence is like casting a stone into a lake. 1792 01:35:30,320 --> 01:35:32,240 A single motion can cause ripples. 1793 01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:34,160 So it's sporadic. It's ugly. 1794 01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:36,400 It's bad for you. It's deadly as fuck. 1795 01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:40,040 So most attacks automatically hit. 1796 01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,360 Is that? Do attacks automatically hit 1797 01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:44,760 mothership or is that different than this? 1798 01:35:44,920 --> 01:35:46,480 I don't think they do, I don't think. 1799 01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,120 They do you. Keep going, but I don't think 1800 01:35:48,120 --> 01:35:49,760 they do, no. I'm pretty positive they don't. 1801 01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:51,760 Well, I mean, if me castle stuff here, you can tell she's an 1802 01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:56,120 expert in both these games, but that makes it so much fucking 1803 01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:57,000 deadlier. It's different. 1804 01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:58,640 Yeah. Any castle right there. 1805 01:35:59,880 --> 01:36:04,160 Meat castle. For those in Pakistan, it has 1806 01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:10,200 held up my pink primeval Meat Castle T-shirt that is on my 1807 01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:13,400 body. Most attacks automatically hit 1808 01:36:13,440 --> 01:36:17,440 when making, so when making a difficult melee attack, you make 1809 01:36:17,440 --> 01:36:21,840 a strength check. So what makes it difficult is if 1810 01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:24,840 you're unarmed, your target is also wielding A melee weapon, or 1811 01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:26,400 you're trying to avoid a nearby ally. 1812 01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:28,560 So if you most of the time, if you're trying to hit something, 1813 01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:29,880 you just fucking hit it. And I like that. 1814 01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:34,160 Again, like violence is dead. It's it's it's bad, don't do it. 1815 01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:38,120 And if you do it, it's bad for everybody, because also that 1816 01:36:38,120 --> 01:36:39,320 means attacks automatically hit you. 1817 01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:42,400 And then same thing with Reigns attacks. 1818 01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:44,960 Like on a normal attack, you just fucking hit something. 1819 01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:47,800 But if it's difficult to attack, you actually roll for it. 1820 01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:54,120 And what makes a range like different is low visibility, 1821 01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:57,920 firing further than the range, trying to avoid a nearby ally, 1822 01:36:58,200 --> 01:36:59,880 or you are trying to impress someone. 1823 01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:03,640 I liked that that time there it's like, yeah and yeah, me, 1824 01:37:03,640 --> 01:37:05,480 Castle said. We, we talked about it earlier. 1825 01:37:05,480 --> 01:37:08,280 But like, even just drawing your weapon gives you stress or your 1826 01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:11,160 weapon being drawn on you. That's so good tools. 1827 01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:14,960 Of violence. Yeah, it is a stress word. 1828 01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:18,480 I love the tools of violence. This is such a clever, so just 1829 01:37:18,480 --> 01:37:19,880 prosy. I love it. 1830 01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:23,000 It says know three things when you hold a weapon in your hands. 1831 01:37:23,440 --> 01:37:27,280 1A Weapon is a flesh render, a terrible beast. 1832 01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:31,920 Two, an artisan can make all manner of ugly things elegant or 1833 01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:35,360 ingenious. And three, nothing has only one 1834 01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:42,040 purpose or only one meaning. I love that I like, I love that. 1835 01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:45,360 Like especially #2, where it's like the thing you have is this 1836 01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:48,880 is a terrible, terrible thing. Just because an artisan can make 1837 01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:51,000 it look pretty doesn't mean it's not a terrible. 1838 01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:52,080 It doesn't make it less terrible, yeah. 1839 01:37:52,280 --> 01:37:53,600 Absolutely. God, I love that. 1840 01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:56,840 I love that rounds of violence. Violence is broken up into ten 1841 01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,120 second rounds. When violence breaks out, people 1842 01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:03,720 roll. It says basically PCs and 1843 01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:07,840 enemies like it happens at the same time, and then you just 1844 01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:10,320 kind of like take it out and do it all at the same time, 1845 01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:13,160 whatever, blah blah blah. And it says it's easiest if all 1846 01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:16,880 the PCs go, then all the enemies go or whatever, and then you 1847 01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:20,760 just dictate the results. This is a very hand wave. 1848 01:38:20,760 --> 01:38:23,840 You do whatever you want with, in my opinion, do whatever you 1849 01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:25,720 want with how you want combat to go. 1850 01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:26,960 And I'm. I like that. 1851 01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:29,840 I like that there's a way here but that it's so broad that you 1852 01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:31,080 can just be like I'll do the way I want. 1853 01:38:31,160 --> 01:38:35,440 You know during a round of violence, characters can make up 1854 01:38:35,440 --> 01:38:39,040 the two actions, but if a character makes 2 actions, one 1855 01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:40,640 must be a movement action. I like that. 1856 01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:41,880 I don't know why I like that so much. 1857 01:38:42,120 --> 01:38:45,120 The wording of it where it's just like you can make 2, but if 1858 01:38:45,120 --> 01:38:49,520 you make 2/1 has to be a move. Like it kind of takes out a 1859 01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:51,840 little bit of that action economy where you feel like you 1860 01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:54,040 have a move action, so you kind of feel like you need to use it 1861 01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:55,200 you. Have to move, yeah. 1862 01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:57,440 Yeah, but you don't. Or if you don't move, like fuck, 1863 01:38:57,440 --> 01:38:58,880 I I didn't move. Was that bad? 1864 01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:02,800 Yeah, I really like that. So example of actions, move, 1865 01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:05,040 take a target, grapple, cast the spell, use a Crest or load a 1866 01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:08,360 weapon, open a door, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. 1867 01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:12,640 There's pictures here. Yeah, there's pictures here of 1868 01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:16,160 armor, of crests, of weapons of everything. 1869 01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:17,880 The art on this page is fucking fantastic. 1870 01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:21,640 I love the the living armor we talked about before with like 1871 01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:23,440 the So sorry, I'm. Peeking over, yeah. 1872 01:39:23,520 --> 01:39:25,640 Oh my God. What I also love about this art, 1873 01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:26,560 Mike. I love that. 1874 01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:29,280 It's like, it's basically the art is if it's on a person, but 1875 01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:30,640 the person's missing, you know what I mean? 1876 01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:34,040 Like, it's but then there's like a pile of it in front of them, 1877 01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:36,160 like laid out. Oh, I don't. 1878 01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:39,920 That's so good. It's so, I don't know like it 1879 01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:41,680 took me like half a second to be like, wait, what is? 1880 01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:43,800 Oh my gosh, that's like, that's just their clothes. 1881 01:39:43,800 --> 01:39:45,920 I'll fold it up. I love it. 1882 01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:47,160 I love it. It's so good. 1883 01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:49,800 And then on the bottom of the next page, there's the full 1884 01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:51,720 armor and the powered armor, which is really dope. 1885 01:39:52,440 --> 01:39:54,880 The last part of this section is the damaged wounds armor points 1886 01:39:54,880 --> 01:39:58,880 to cover, So damaging wounds again damage represents a 1887 01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:01,440 character's ability to avoid physical injury. 1888 01:40:01,880 --> 01:40:05,160 Getting damage is abstracted. It's you slowing down. 1889 01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:06,960 It's you tiring. It's getting bruises cut. 1890 01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:08,560 It's not. It's not. 1891 01:40:09,480 --> 01:40:11,800 Point for point, you took damage, so you took an 1892 01:40:11,800 --> 01:40:13,640 individual slice on your body or whatever. 1893 01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:16,080 It's abstracted for your general physical well-being. 1894 01:40:17,040 --> 01:40:19,040 When an attack hits, roll the weapons damage. 1895 01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:20,800 The target takes that much damage. 1896 01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:23,280 When you take 10 damage, erase all your damage. 1897 01:40:23,280 --> 01:40:25,680 You take one wound. When you take your third wound, 1898 01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:29,120 you die. I love it, love it so good. 1899 01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:32,160 Damage can be healed while traveling using meta paste. 1900 01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:35,160 Other minor stuff characters see A1 wound. 1901 01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:37,920 That's a wound just like the whole your whole tin damage 1902 01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:42,400 stack. A wound every month with 1903 01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:45,400 conventional treatment. A month. 1904 01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:49,480 One wound a month, and then you can heal one wound every week if 1905 01:40:49,480 --> 01:40:51,240 you have chalk infused medical treatment. 1906 01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:54,280 I love that. If you take enough damage to 1907 01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:55,800 take a real wound, it makes sense. 1908 01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:57,040 It'd be down for a fucking month. 1909 01:40:57,040 --> 01:41:00,320 Like, yeah, absolutely. I love how real this game is 1910 01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:02,440 without trying to be simulationist. 1911 01:41:02,440 --> 01:41:06,480 You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. 1912 01:41:07,160 --> 01:41:10,480 There's there's a lot of like it's it's weirdly grounded for 1913 01:41:10,560 --> 01:41:14,200 how not at all ground grounded Dolores. 1914 01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:18,960 And it it works incredibly well. I think it I think they go 1915 01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:23,240 together more than maybe my explanation of it sounds like. 1916 01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:26,800 That's good armor points. Clothing provides armor. 1917 01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:29,440 You get armor points. I love the way Mothership and 1918 01:41:29,440 --> 01:41:31,840 this does armor. I would, I would in my brain 1919 01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:32,960 when I would do it slightly differently. 1920 01:41:32,960 --> 01:41:34,480 And this is how I would do it. And I'll say that in a second. 1921 01:41:34,480 --> 01:41:37,200 But the way it works is damage less than your total armor 1922 01:41:37,200 --> 01:41:39,520 points. You don't take any. 1923 01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:44,560 You only take damage equal to. When you take damage equal to or 1924 01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:48,320 greater than your AP, your armor breaks and you take damage equal 1925 01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:51,400 to the difference. So basically you take no damage 1926 01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:53,640 until you take enough damage to break your armor and then you 1927 01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:55,000 just take all the damage after that. 1928 01:41:57,240 --> 01:42:00,040 I like that how I would tweak it slightly and then maybe not for 1929 01:42:00,040 --> 01:42:02,040 this game just in my head I went oh I would use this. 1930 01:42:02,040 --> 01:42:05,360 I would use this this way though is I would have it the exact 1931 01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:09,360 same thing where there's like if if it's four and you take 22222 1932 01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:12,560 it doesn't do anything, but as soon as you hit four it breaks 1933 01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:17,320 and now it's at 3 and when you hit three it goes to two, when 1934 01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:19,840 you get 2 it goes to one. It gives a little bit more time 1935 01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:23,120 with armor to like slowly break off of you, But I would also 1936 01:42:23,120 --> 01:42:27,880 have, if that's the way that this armor works, like there is 1937 01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:30,760 no fixing it, you're literally breaking it and by you still 1938 01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:33,160 wearing it, it literally eventually breaks off of you and 1939 01:42:33,160 --> 01:42:35,040 there's nothing left. But that would give you a little 1940 01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:38,080 bit more time, cuz I do like the idea, but I also don't like the 1941 01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:40,360 idea that like you have armor and then suddenly you just don't 1942 01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:42,440 have any armor. If it like completely breaks, 1943 01:42:42,440 --> 01:42:44,560 you know. I kinda. 1944 01:42:44,560 --> 01:42:47,280 I like your idea, you know. I don't know that I'm like I'm 1945 01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:50,600 as and I kind of want them to, like, break their armor and be 1946 01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:53,440 helpless for a while. But yeah, no, I do like this. 1947 01:42:53,440 --> 01:42:55,600 I'm just saying I might tweet it, but it's a very all or 1948 01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:57,360 nothing. Armor is literally all or 1949 01:42:57,360 --> 01:42:58,760 nothing. You either take no damage or you 1950 01:42:58,760 --> 01:43:01,880 have no armor left and that's it covers the thing you can hide 1951 01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:03,600 behind stuff. It just gives you more AP. 1952 01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:05,840 We'll get to it later. That's it. 1953 01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:11,240 And then we move on to a dope fucking page here where like 1954 01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:15,960 this person has like a claw coming out, but then like the 1955 01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:17,560 shadow has like a wing. I don't know. 1956 01:43:17,560 --> 01:43:19,320 It's it's such a this is a great page. 1957 01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,120 Death and curses. Talk to me about death and 1958 01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:21,680 curses. Tell me. 1959 01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:28,160 So when you run out of wounds, right when you when you die in 1960 01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:32,080 this game, you don't necessarily just die. 1961 01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:34,920 There is no light at the end of the tunnel. 1962 01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:36,800 I'll read the 1st for a couple of sentences because they're 1963 01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:38,440 good. Instead, the universe is a 1964 01:43:38,440 --> 01:43:41,200 narrow hallway connected to 100 doors. 1965 01:43:41,600 --> 01:43:45,440 Basically, when you die, one of those doors slips open a little 1966 01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:49,760 bit and a little bit of an alternate you slips into you and 1967 01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:53,280 a little bit of you slips into the alternate self, and you're 1968 01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:58,760 going to gain a curse. Yeah, so death is ignored for 1969 01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:00,880 time. You you return the world cursed. 1970 01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,600 Yeah, opinions on the cursed, like in this world are very 1971 01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:08,640 wildly. From being like maybe a point of 1972 01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:12,720 entertainment to like something to be pitied. 1973 01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:16,920 The first time you die, you rule 1D10 on the result or seven or 1974 01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:20,400 lower, you are cursed. You remove all damage and wounds 1975 01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:22,360 and you rule 1D10 on the curse table page two. 1976 01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:27,840 If you rule 8 to 10 or this is the second time your character 1977 01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:31,360 has died, you slip away from the world never to return. 1978 01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:36,200 So you get a freebie. Yeah, you won freebie. 1979 01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:39,600 I kind of want to pull on the curse table. 1980 01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:43,840 Definitely not free. Well, it's not, but yes. 1981 01:44:43,840 --> 01:44:49,240 But like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I I like you said, I love that. 1982 01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:54,400 Basically like the the slip opens up and when if you if 1983 01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:56,920 you're able to slip in and slip back out, you bring a little 1984 01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:59,200 something with you, but at least you got back out, you know? 1985 01:44:59,200 --> 01:45:03,400 And that it's there's so much good in this fucking game. 1986 01:45:03,400 --> 01:45:06,600 Dude, yeah, there is a lot good. I mean it's it's a really great 1987 01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:09,200 setting and then the setting is reinforced really well with the 1988 01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:13,200 rules. It's it's used well, yes, I'm 1989 01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:14,440 going to roll in the curses table. 1990 01:45:14,440 --> 01:45:15,480 You want to roll in the curses table. 1991 01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:16,520 Do it. Yeah, I'll do it. 1992 01:45:16,920 --> 01:45:22,040 What page are you doing 9? You gain an inhuman hunger, take 1993 01:45:22,040 --> 01:45:24,600 one D10 damage each day. You do not drink blood or 1994 01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:30,800 consume raw meat. Bro oh, I rolled A10. 1995 01:45:32,120 --> 01:45:34,280 You fall into an unnatural sleep and cannot wake up. 1996 01:45:34,320 --> 01:45:36,400 You can no longer play this character until a remedy can be 1997 01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:38,840 found. So you're not alive, but you're 1998 01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:40,840 but you're not dead. But you're you can't do 1999 01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:43,280 anything. I thought that one was 2000 01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:45,280 interesting because it's like, oh, I almost died. 2001 01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:47,160 Oh, I didn't die. Oh, wait. 2002 01:45:50,160 --> 01:45:53,680 Yeah, but you can just roll another character and then have 2003 01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:56,320 to drag the body of your other character around until you cure 2004 01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:59,560 them, which is come. On litter, storm somewhere and 2005 01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:04,280 get some like smelling salts mixed with chalk kind of thing 2006 01:46:04,280 --> 01:46:07,320 going on, you know? No, I love it. 2007 01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:11,360 Encumbrance and equipment. You know, I love me. 2008 01:46:11,360 --> 01:46:15,440 A good inventory system. I will say I want to tell you my 2009 01:46:15,440 --> 01:46:17,800 favorite part of the equipment list after we're done. 2010 01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:20,440 Encumbrance. Long story short, you can carry 2011 01:46:20,440 --> 01:46:22,000 10 stings, you can carry 10 things. 2012 01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:25,040 That's it. Perfect. 2013 01:46:25,040 --> 01:46:27,720 Boom. Easy things to me. 2014 01:46:27,720 --> 01:46:29,480 Combined, etc, etc. Straightforward. 2015 01:46:29,480 --> 01:46:31,760 Really great. So equipment, basically it's all 2016 01:46:31,760 --> 01:46:35,760 barter and and stuff like coin. There isn't money, there isn't 2017 01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:38,120 like if people like, oh, I've got a new coin, Most people are 2018 01:46:38,120 --> 01:46:40,280 like, ah, you're just a fucking scheme and piece of shit. 2019 01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:41,840 I was gonna say is your favorite thing. 2020 01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:44,200 If there's not a cost for equipment, it's. 2021 01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:46,320 Like Oh my God, it's Rarity. Right. 2022 01:46:46,320 --> 01:46:48,480 So it's a, it's either common, uncommon or rare. 2023 01:46:48,480 --> 01:46:49,200 That's it. Yeah. 2024 01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:50,280 So. Well, that's. 2025 01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:53,080 I mean, that's a yes. I fucking everyone. 2026 01:46:53,120 --> 01:46:54,560 Like yes. If you listen to podcasts 2027 01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:57,880 regularly, you know that I fucking hate pages of pages of 2028 01:46:57,880 --> 01:46:59,320 cost for coming. Because here's the problem. 2029 01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:05,120 Economy is not the cost of things, right? 2030 01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:10,200 Like, a shovel for a person in a room full of shovels does not 2031 01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:13,240 cost the same as a shovel for a person with no shovel. 2032 01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:15,680 You know what I mean? Like, that's just not how it 2033 01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:17,040 works. I don't give a fuck what you say 2034 01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:19,080 a shovel's worth. So I like. 2035 01:47:19,080 --> 01:47:21,920 It's my scarce partner. Yeah, my favorite part, my 2036 01:47:21,920 --> 01:47:24,200 favorite part about this entire. And then there's AD 100 2037 01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:26,240 equipment list. So why don't you just roll AD 2038 01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:27,640 100 for me? I love to. 2039 01:47:29,320 --> 01:47:31,600 You'll just each see one piece of a regular ass equipment. 2040 01:47:31,720 --> 01:47:33,040 I got a 33. What'd you get? 2041 01:47:34,840 --> 01:47:40,680 I got AI, got a A0I rolled. I rolled 2 tins, so that's zero. 2042 01:47:41,840 --> 01:47:44,360 Yeah. I got tape you. 2043 01:47:45,120 --> 01:47:46,520 You got adhesive tape. It's common. 2044 01:47:47,200 --> 01:47:51,360 And I got a hanging shower, right? 2045 01:47:52,640 --> 01:47:55,320 So here's my favorite part about this. 2046 01:47:55,320 --> 01:47:58,840 Next each thing there's this. There are rarities, right? 2047 01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:03,520 Common, uncommon, rare, and then at the bottom, Well, actually 2048 01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:06,440 one of my favorite things before I saw the bottom was I was like, 2049 01:48:06,440 --> 01:48:09,200 oh UCR this is one of the things where like you don't need to 2050 01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:11,680 explain this, people just realize this and then they put 2051 01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:13,400 the thing in the bottom. I'm also fine with that, but 2052 01:48:13,400 --> 01:48:15,120 what what? What are the rarities listed at 2053 01:48:15,120 --> 01:48:17,920 the bottom here? Oh, it's this is funny because 2054 01:48:17,920 --> 01:48:21,280 actually I totally missed the last one for for quite a while 2055 01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:24,720 because I didn't look at this because I was like, oh CUR 2056 01:48:24,880 --> 01:48:28,240 common, uncommon, rare. But it's common, uncommon, rare 2057 01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:30,240 and mythical. Yes. 2058 01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:32,480 Which list? Which one of these 100 is 2059 01:48:32,480 --> 01:48:35,200 mythical? I don't think there's any on 2060 01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:36,280 this list. It's mythical, is there? 2061 01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:38,480 Any on this list. And I love that so much. 2062 01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:43,960 It's just starch. No, I love it because there's 2063 01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:48,840 nothing mythical listed here, but mythical exists out there. 2064 01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:53,000 That's very fair. Yes, So like that that. 2065 01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:55,400 I don't know why. Like I it has to be on purpose. 2066 01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:57,680 And if it wasn't just pretend what that it is. 2067 01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:00,840 I love the idea that there's this like, rarity of equipment 2068 01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:05,480 that you literally just don't know what it would entail to be 2069 01:49:05,480 --> 01:49:07,880 because they're even in this 100 list of equipment. 2070 01:49:08,080 --> 01:49:11,280 Like, it's just not listed. Like, I don't know, but it's 2071 01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:13,640 that rare that it's not even on the fucking list. 2072 01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:15,120 I don't know. It tickles me for no blood. 2073 01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:19,760 You're right, giving the context for like there is mythical 2074 01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:21,920 stuff. It's not any of this. 2075 01:49:21,920 --> 01:49:24,960 It's like, oh cool, well that means like, let's let's say I 2076 01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:28,320 want to write an adventure for this and it all revolves around 2077 01:49:28,320 --> 01:49:31,120 one mythical item. Like, I know that that's a level 2078 01:49:31,120 --> 01:49:35,320 of rarity for an item, right? Mm hmm. 2079 01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:35,600 Yeah. Yeah. 2080 01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:37,120 I take it. I take it. 2081 01:49:39,160 --> 01:49:40,880 And the rest of this is like a bunch of tables and stuff. 2082 01:49:40,880 --> 01:49:42,560 Do we just want to like, roll and move through them, or what 2083 01:49:42,560 --> 01:49:44,080 do you want to do? Names and aliases we already 2084 01:49:44,080 --> 01:49:45,240 talked about, right? Like you already. 2085 01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:48,160 Talked about names and aliases. I think the rest is like animal 2086 01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:50,680 friends and foe. There's like NPC morale and it 2087 01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:53,320 kind of gives you some stat spreads on some NPCS. 2088 01:49:53,440 --> 01:49:56,880 I do love some of the stat credits spreads, but also the 2089 01:49:56,880 --> 01:49:59,200 lore that's in some of the beast area part, like the Clouding 2090 01:49:59,200 --> 01:50:01,880 Officer lore is really, really good. 2091 01:50:01,880 --> 01:50:04,360 Actually that's the first place I saw that Cloudings and links 2092 01:50:04,360 --> 01:50:07,960 were different, but I do like that it's kind of like that old 2093 01:50:07,960 --> 01:50:11,720 kind of like, I don't know, it hits me like 4 EA little bit, 2094 01:50:11,840 --> 01:50:13,680 you know, where there's like. I still. 2095 01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:15,880 I still have never read 40, honestly. 2096 01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:18,640 I wanted to play 3. .5 and I went straight to five so. 2097 01:50:18,880 --> 01:50:22,320 I will say regardless of whether you like the game or not, I feel 2098 01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:25,120 like the books and stuff around 4 E were so good because you 2099 01:50:25,120 --> 01:50:28,120 know like the tiles that they sold with them started with 40 2100 01:50:28,120 --> 01:50:31,720 and one of my favorite things with 40 splat books was like 2101 01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:35,720 every time you were introduced to a new creature, let's say 2102 01:50:35,720 --> 01:50:38,320 that like giant spider right is in a book. 2103 01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:42,280 You'll get giant spider, you'll get the stats for giant spider, 2104 01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:47,560 you get lore for giant spider, and then you will get like tiles 2105 01:50:47,560 --> 01:50:50,720 that which tiles would work to do a giant spider encounter. 2106 01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:54,440 But not only that, it'll also give you what else is usually 2107 01:50:54,440 --> 01:50:57,560 around a giant spider. So it might be like around giant 2108 01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:00,440 spiders you might frequently find dark mantels and this. 2109 01:51:00,440 --> 01:51:04,000 So it would literally lay out like an encounter for the first 2110 01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:05,600 time. Your characters could like run 2111 01:51:05,600 --> 01:51:09,200 into a giant spider like and talk you through like why the 2112 01:51:09,200 --> 01:51:10,960 encounters that way. So like it never just says 2113 01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:14,440 here's spider. It tells you like all the ways 2114 01:51:14,440 --> 01:51:17,840 in which you can like use the spider, use the lore and like 2115 01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:20,200 here's an encounter for like how you would generally run into 2116 01:51:20,200 --> 01:51:21,960 one. I'm like that's so good and deep 2117 01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:24,400 I like it anyway. So what a lot of 40 does a lot 2118 01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:29,400 too is be like, here's goblin, here's goblin captain, here's 2119 01:51:29,400 --> 01:51:31,640 goblin chief. And it's like levels up of like 2120 01:51:31,640 --> 01:51:33,600 the bad guys. I feel like they do this in here 2121 01:51:33,600 --> 01:51:37,160 like cloudling soldier, clouding officer, you know, like things 2122 01:51:37,160 --> 01:51:39,080 like that. Juvenile Imago, Full Imago, 2123 01:51:39,080 --> 01:51:42,600 Ancient Imago, and here's your Here's your Imago life cycle 2124 01:51:42,600 --> 01:51:44,960 spread. It's so good. 2125 01:51:45,480 --> 01:51:47,920 It's so good. It's beautifully done. 2126 01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:51,480 So it's like egg. It's like little flying not 2127 01:51:51,480 --> 01:51:53,400 little flying thing. I mean it's pretty, it's like a 2128 01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:58,800 cat size flying thing to a like you can see it compared over a 2129 01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:02,600 person. It's adolescence and then Oh 2130 01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:03,640 yeah, oh it has the little thing. 2131 01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:07,080 It's like egg nymph, juvenile and then full grown where you 2132 01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:11,040 can see another person kind of standing next to this massive 2133 01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:14,880 cicada. And then yeah, it gives a little 2134 01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:17,920 blurb on the life cycle and then a monger reactions. 2135 01:52:19,080 --> 01:52:20,920 So gives you the priorities, right? 2136 01:52:20,920 --> 01:52:22,720 Protect the brood. Devour chalk. 2137 01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:26,560 Stay dry. That's a great little thing to 2138 01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:28,640 have in your back pocket. By the way, The Imagos would 2139 01:52:28,640 --> 01:52:33,280 like to stay dry well. There's like a reaction for each 2140 01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:35,560 one like that. Yeah, it's like when threatened, 2141 01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:38,680 when near chalk, chalk technology, dead bodies, when 2142 01:52:38,680 --> 01:52:41,480 wet, when blinded by a flare, or exceptionally bright light. 2143 01:52:41,480 --> 01:52:44,160 Which is it's funny because by reading this you're giving 2144 01:52:44,160 --> 01:52:45,920 context for how to deal with Imagos. 2145 01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:48,880 You know, like, I would want my player characters to read this 2146 01:52:48,880 --> 01:52:53,400 because I'm like, right here. It tells me like when wet like 2147 01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:57,360 they might flee, like when blinded they might flee or 2148 01:52:57,360 --> 01:52:59,640 freeze. Yeah, I love that. 2149 01:52:59,640 --> 01:53:01,160 That's all that information in the table. 2150 01:53:01,160 --> 01:53:02,840 I don't like. I love all the prose that's in 2151 01:53:02,840 --> 01:53:03,880 the book. But there's sometimes where I'm 2152 01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:07,400 like, I like getting in a table and being like, I feel like I 2153 01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:08,400 discovered that, you know what I mean? 2154 01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:10,000 Like you didn't have to write it out for me. 2155 01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:11,560 It's really cool. I really like that a lot. 2156 01:53:13,560 --> 01:53:15,800 Prince Bug, do you want me to read this one or do you want to 2157 01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:17,040 read? It yeah, please do, cuz I'm a 2158 01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:19,320 little bit blanking on this one. I was gonna summarize it, but 2159 01:53:19,360 --> 01:53:21,320 I'm blanking. This one's so good. 2160 01:53:21,320 --> 01:53:23,680 So no, we read the Queen. We're going to read the Prince 2161 01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:28,400 Bug. This and stuff fit to a scarling 2162 01:53:28,400 --> 01:53:30,520 Prince bug. The abandoned royalty, a 2163 01:53:30,520 --> 01:53:34,800 silhouette on the horizon, the distal tip of the century brood. 2164 01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:38,280 Like a dark storm cloud or a drowning tide. 2165 01:53:38,280 --> 01:53:41,400 The purple wings of Prince Bug cried doom. 2166 01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:45,000 Generation after generation. Tell the story of Prince Bug. 2167 01:53:45,440 --> 01:53:50,040 The imago with a man for a horn. The Prince haunts the nightmares 2168 01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:53,280 of children. The story begins, as many do, 2169 01:53:53,280 --> 01:53:55,320 with the magician, in search of enlightenment. 2170 01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:59,400 This magician happened upon a great imago sage disguised as a 2171 01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:02,600 woman and bathing in the river. The sage offered the magician 2172 01:54:02,600 --> 01:54:07,000 knowledge of the 12 forms of suffering and their antidotes. 2173 01:54:07,280 --> 01:54:10,920 All the sage asked in return was that the magician bed down with 2174 01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:13,280 her that night. The next one is one of my 2175 01:54:13,280 --> 01:54:16,440 favorites in the whole book. The magician eagerly accepted, 2176 01:54:16,440 --> 01:54:18,000 considering himself twice blessed. 2177 01:54:19,520 --> 01:54:22,760 When morning came, the magician found himself enlightened but 2178 01:54:22,760 --> 01:54:25,360 alone. The sage had vanished, leaving 2179 01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:29,360 only her disguise behind the robe of human skin that had 2180 01:54:29,360 --> 01:54:33,120 concealed her true form. The magician would go on to use 2181 01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:35,840 his knowledge to bend the world to his will and become the 2182 01:54:35,840 --> 01:54:39,480 Emperor. The sage would go on to birth 2183 01:54:39,480 --> 01:54:41,800 the Emperor's only son, Prince Bug. 2184 01:54:43,360 --> 01:54:47,920 Such stories prey on hatred of both the Emperor and the Imago 2185 01:54:48,480 --> 01:54:50,600 has this common place. The story is filled with lies 2186 01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:52,120 and the truth is filled with sorrow. 2187 01:54:53,080 --> 01:54:58,600 So Long story short, the emperor became the emperor because he 2188 01:54:58,600 --> 01:55:03,520 had carnal relations with an Amago sage who gave him 2189 01:55:03,520 --> 01:55:09,600 enlightenment to rule, and he gave her a child which is a 2190 01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:12,920 cicada with a human being for a horn. 2191 01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:16,640 Terrifying. Dope as fuck. 2192 01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:18,080 Absolutely terrifying. And the art. 2193 01:55:18,520 --> 01:55:20,080 Insane. Insane. 2194 01:55:20,760 --> 01:55:24,760 Like, so good. This piece and the Cloud Empress 2195 01:55:24,760 --> 01:55:29,240 piece are two of my favorite. Like, like, look at how cool 2196 01:55:29,240 --> 01:55:30,560 that is. Like, the first time I saw it, I 2197 01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:32,600 thought it was really abstract. And then I realized, like, no, 2198 01:55:32,600 --> 01:55:35,760 this is a Cicada's head. This is a Cicada's back, this is 2199 01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:38,000 the wings, and this is the human being coming out of it like a 2200 01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:40,600 horn. It's so good. 2201 01:55:40,840 --> 01:55:43,640 This is fucked. Then we hit the glossary. 2202 01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:47,040 Companions, tools, clothing, cover, tools of violence. 2203 01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:49,040 It's all the stats for all the stuff that you need there. 2204 01:55:49,640 --> 01:55:51,480 And then, like a What do you find Paige on the back? 2205 01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:52,920 Let's do our last roll for the day. 2206 01:55:53,560 --> 01:55:56,160 I got a 91. What did you find? 2207 01:55:56,520 --> 01:56:02,160 I rolled a 64. I got an imago egg. 2208 01:56:03,120 --> 01:56:04,040 Oh wow. Wow. 2209 01:56:04,040 --> 01:56:05,600 That's a good time. Yeah. 2210 01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:10,520 That is worth a bunch. Or it's small, medium or large. 2211 01:56:10,520 --> 01:56:15,240 So it's imago, egg, bone skin, giant's fingernail, or powered 2212 01:56:15,240 --> 01:56:17,200 armor. Dope all three. 2213 01:56:17,200 --> 01:56:18,640 Great. Those are great. 2214 01:56:19,240 --> 01:56:22,320 All right, 9091. I get a book of torn spells, 2215 01:56:23,160 --> 01:56:27,000 arrested limbs, right? I get a water tester or I get a 2216 01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:33,000 sense poem entertainment system. The old SES. 2217 01:56:34,120 --> 01:56:36,280 Sense poem entertainment system Cool. 2218 01:56:36,360 --> 01:56:39,280 Human made worlds. By what? 2219 01:56:40,280 --> 01:56:42,280 AI. It's not really AI anyway. 2220 01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:47,800 That's Cloud Empress. We did good. 2221 01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:51,960 I feel like on time cuz if you chop off the 20 plus minutes 2222 01:56:51,960 --> 01:56:55,240 that we were in pre stream and the 15 that we fucked around not 2223 01:56:55,240 --> 01:56:58,200 being able to think at the beginning, I think we killed it. 2224 01:56:58,200 --> 01:57:00,080 That was a good one. Yeah, that is great. 2225 01:57:02,040 --> 01:57:04,000 All right. We focused eventually Cloud 2226 01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:06,080 Empress. We're doing a book review on 2227 01:57:06,080 --> 01:57:08,960 this. For those not in the know, it is 2228 01:57:08,960 --> 01:57:13,080 five metrics we, we, we, we give, we give scores to this, 2229 01:57:13,520 --> 01:57:18,920 disagree or agree, whatever. Each metric is worth up to 10 2230 01:57:18,920 --> 01:57:22,400 points. 5 is being average, 10 is fantastic. 2231 01:57:22,840 --> 01:57:27,200 Yes, art and layout is the art. It's a quality quantity, if it 2232 01:57:27,200 --> 01:57:28,520 fits the book etcetera, etcetera. 2233 01:57:28,520 --> 01:57:30,960 It's also the visuals of the layout. 2234 01:57:31,240 --> 01:57:34,920 Usability is how usable the layout is. 2235 01:57:35,400 --> 01:57:38,760 The tools comes with it, like maps and stuff. 2236 01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:40,400 I meant to talk about the maps now. 2237 01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:48,040 Hyperlinks, bookmarks, like how usable the book is at the table, 2238 01:57:48,040 --> 01:57:50,000 etc. Rule set is the rule set if it's 2239 01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:51,880 adapted. Rule set, do we like how well it 2240 01:57:51,880 --> 01:57:53,640 is adapted? If it's original, do we like it? 2241 01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,000 Is it good? Are there parts that could be 2242 01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:56,840 chopped out? Etcetera. 2243 01:57:56,840 --> 01:57:58,520 Originality is what it sounds like. 2244 01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:02,040 Value is bang for your buck. It's not just the cost, that's 2245 01:58:02,040 --> 01:58:03,000 all the stuff that comes with it. 2246 01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:07,160 So yeah, art and layout. Great. 2247 01:58:08,080 --> 01:58:11,200 Great. Yeah, I I love the art. 2248 01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:14,080 There's four artists in here and it all feels like, very 2249 01:58:14,080 --> 01:58:16,160 contiguous. It all feels appropriate and it 2250 01:58:16,160 --> 01:58:19,480 fits. It's not, it's definitely not an 2251 01:58:19,480 --> 01:58:22,120 art book, you know? No, no, it's definitely. 2252 01:58:22,120 --> 01:58:23,760 It's definitely a game book. It's definitely AZ. 2253 01:58:23,760 --> 01:58:24,720 It's. Definitely a game book. 2254 01:58:25,160 --> 01:58:26,440 Yeah, it's definitely AZ for sure. 2255 01:58:27,040 --> 01:58:29,680 I can't. There's not a lot of like 2256 01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:33,200 there's a couple open spaces for maybe some spot art, but like, 2257 01:58:33,200 --> 01:58:35,040 there's a pretty decent amount for. 2258 01:58:35,040 --> 01:58:36,560 I mean, this isn't incredibly long. 2259 01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:39,680 Yeah, there's really only like the rest page is the only one 2260 01:58:39,680 --> 01:58:42,480 that really sticks out to me. Yeah, but like everything else, 2261 01:58:42,480 --> 01:58:45,160 I mean, you have that really cool spread with the cloudlings 2262 01:58:45,160 --> 01:58:48,920 and the farmer links and then the imago and the chalk. 2263 01:58:49,000 --> 01:58:52,240 And I mean, there's a. Lot of The Who are the cloud 2264 01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:55,320 Empress and the bug prints. Yeah, those are great. 2265 01:58:55,640 --> 01:58:58,280 A great piece. The car is sick. 2266 01:58:58,280 --> 01:59:00,520 I mean, the layout's good. I mean Watt did all the the 2267 01:59:00,520 --> 01:59:02,880 layout for this and I think it's really, I think it's really well 2268 01:59:02,880 --> 01:59:04,840 laid out. Like there was never a part 2269 01:59:04,840 --> 01:59:08,520 where I feel like, I mean, there's lots of pages that are 2270 01:59:08,520 --> 01:59:11,960 just like full fucking words, but I I don't know why. 2271 01:59:11,960 --> 01:59:14,960 I just never felt like lost in it, you know what I mean? 2272 01:59:14,960 --> 01:59:17,760 It is interesting that we often complain about things not being 2273 01:59:17,760 --> 01:59:22,200 broken up because it's it's hard for ADHD brain, but like this 2274 01:59:22,200 --> 01:59:25,000 did not feel like that all at any point, you know? 2275 01:59:25,520 --> 01:59:27,480 Because it is broken up though, like if you really scroll 2276 01:59:27,520 --> 01:59:30,360 through it like you rarely go through more than like 1/4 of a 2277 01:59:30,360 --> 01:59:32,520 page without like something breaking it up. 2278 01:59:35,480 --> 01:59:37,920 Even the way that they laid out the characters, you know like 2279 01:59:38,920 --> 01:59:41,440 picture and lore table picture and lore table like in one 2280 01:59:41,440 --> 01:59:43,000 spread. I really liked it anyways, what 2281 01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:46,320 do you thought? Oh, I think this is like a very 2282 01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:50,560 strong like 7 to 8 for me. That's exactly, that's exactly 2283 01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:52,280 where I was at 7:00 or 8:00. So what are you thinking? 2284 01:59:59,440 --> 02:00:00,680 I think I'm going to go with an 8. 2285 02:00:00,680 --> 02:00:03,160 I really like the layout. I like that it's like the soft 2286 02:00:03,160 --> 02:00:06,760 knot. It says off white and black it 2287 02:00:06,760 --> 02:00:08,120 kind of and it kind of almost it is. 2288 02:00:08,160 --> 02:00:10,080 That color rolls almost into the. 2289 02:00:13,200 --> 02:00:15,160 Art what you thinking? Completely. 2290 02:00:15,160 --> 02:00:16,800 I just. I completely agree with you. 2291 02:00:16,800 --> 02:00:20,640 I think that's also one of the reasons that I don't feel like 2292 02:00:20,720 --> 02:00:22,560 so much of the wordy parts really hit me. 2293 02:00:22,840 --> 02:00:26,560 Because obviously black on white is like the quote UN quote 2294 02:00:26,560 --> 02:00:29,360 easiest to read. By contrast, it's fucking My 2295 02:00:29,360 --> 02:00:31,920 entire life is in dark mode. I have extra things downloaded 2296 02:00:31,920 --> 02:00:33,520 to make things that are in dark mode in dark mode. 2297 02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:35,240 So like having it on that parchment pack. 2298 02:00:35,240 --> 02:00:38,400 Round is so smooth so it's like it's like the lotion for your 2299 02:00:38,400 --> 02:00:39,120 eyes. It feels nice. 2300 02:00:39,120 --> 02:00:40,800 Yeah. And it also creates like a 2301 02:00:40,800 --> 02:00:43,400 consistent color experience, I think you know. 2302 02:00:43,400 --> 02:00:45,280 Yeah, and it will. And it it matches. 2303 02:00:45,280 --> 02:00:48,160 Well, that parchment to me feels very Cloud Empress. 2304 02:00:48,160 --> 02:00:53,680 You know, I will say to me, the Cloud Empress page and the bug 2305 02:00:53,720 --> 02:00:55,680 Prints page, take it from a 7 to 8 for me. 2306 02:00:55,680 --> 02:00:58,520 I think those two pieces are so stunningly gorgeous. 2307 02:00:58,520 --> 02:01:01,360 Easy pieces, yeah. I mean, I want those on my wall. 2308 02:01:01,840 --> 02:01:03,800 Yeah. Like as you get little art cards 2309 02:01:03,800 --> 02:01:05,440 with the project cards. Yeah. 2310 02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:09,120 Yeah. Which are I I I love this. 2311 02:01:09,120 --> 02:01:11,840 Which by the way, just for when you get this project, it has 2312 02:01:12,040 --> 02:01:14,920 player aid. Like it shows them steps what to 2313 02:01:14,920 --> 02:01:18,200 do. You get like this little bounty 2314 02:01:18,240 --> 02:01:20,480 card because there's like a bounty like people you can run 2315 02:01:20,480 --> 02:01:22,520 into. And then, yeah, the. 2316 02:01:28,560 --> 02:01:30,040 So good. They're really cool. 2317 02:01:30,040 --> 02:01:32,080 I wish they were like four times bigger, 'cause I would, 2318 02:01:32,080 --> 02:01:34,320 honestly, I would frame them and put my walls, but I got. 2319 02:01:34,440 --> 02:01:36,280 The fuck out of a poster of those hardcore? 2320 02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:39,120 Yeah, these are the ones by Imogen, by the way. 2321 02:01:39,120 --> 02:01:42,360 That that's that artist. Good fucking job. 2322 02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:44,280 Amazing pieces. Absolutely. 2323 02:01:44,280 --> 02:01:45,800 Stunningly gorgeous pieces of art. 2324 02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:47,040 So. Usability. 2325 02:01:47,040 --> 02:01:48,560 Ryan, what are you feeling about usability? 2326 02:01:49,080 --> 02:01:50,360 I think it's fine. I think it's. 2327 02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:52,320 I think it's what we would hope and what we'd expect. 2328 02:01:52,320 --> 02:01:54,880 There are bookmarks. There are hyperlinks. 2329 02:01:55,560 --> 02:01:57,800 Almost everything is inline hyperlinks as well, which is 2330 02:01:57,800 --> 02:02:03,800 really nice. I think the only hit this is 2331 02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:07,080 gonna take for me is that it feels a little scattered in a 2332 02:02:07,080 --> 02:02:09,440 weird way, like stuff feels around. 2333 02:02:09,480 --> 02:02:12,960 But it's it's not so much that I'm like, Oh my God, but I'm 2334 02:02:13,240 --> 02:02:15,040 reading and I was like, it's a little scattered. 2335 02:02:15,440 --> 02:02:15,760 Right. It is. 2336 02:02:15,760 --> 02:02:21,240 It is like I like there were a couple times where I'm like I 2337 02:02:21,240 --> 02:02:22,560 wouldn't mind if this information was here. 2338 02:02:22,560 --> 02:02:25,880 You know what I mean? Like, like you said that the 2339 02:02:27,320 --> 02:02:30,440 like the Imago life cycle I would have liked in the Imago 2340 02:02:30,440 --> 02:02:32,640 and chalk section. Yeah, there's no reason not to. 2341 02:02:32,640 --> 02:02:35,800 It's 2 pages on its own. You know what I mean? 2342 02:02:35,800 --> 02:02:36,920 Like you can move them up sooner. 2343 02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:43,440 I also think that the body hopper, I think could be the 2344 02:02:43,480 --> 02:02:44,960 body hopper slip page. To me, I don't know. 2345 02:02:45,320 --> 02:02:47,280 It's a random. I don't know. 2346 02:02:47,640 --> 02:02:50,320 It's fine where it's at and I don't know where else I would 2347 02:02:50,320 --> 02:02:53,960 put it, but for some reason it felt, I don't know, weird where 2348 02:02:53,960 --> 02:02:57,080 it was. I almost think that you don't 2349 02:02:57,080 --> 02:02:59,880 necessarily need the context of the body hopper before you make 2350 02:02:59,880 --> 02:03:02,720 your character if you just put it right after the body hopper 2351 02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:07,680 part, right after the jobs. Well, you you get, you encounter 2352 02:03:07,680 --> 02:03:12,080 the jobs in the same area and then the jobs are right after. 2353 02:03:12,200 --> 02:03:14,400 So if you encounter the body hopper and the body hopper 2354 02:03:14,400 --> 02:03:16,440 after, it's the same amount of distance from away from it. 2355 02:03:16,440 --> 02:03:17,440 You know what I mean? Very fair. 2356 02:03:19,480 --> 02:03:21,680 This is so strong for me. I think this is still for me 2357 02:03:21,680 --> 02:03:23,920 usability. I still think this is a 7 to 8. 2358 02:03:24,120 --> 02:03:24,880 You know I'm I. Think it's. 2359 02:03:25,040 --> 02:03:26,320 I think it's. I think it's A. 2360 02:03:26,320 --> 02:03:30,760 What gets me to A7 instead of an 8 is to me, I think I don't like 2361 02:03:30,760 --> 02:03:33,240 the index page. No, that's true. 2362 02:03:33,240 --> 02:03:35,240 You don't, Yeah. I think it's, I think it's 2363 02:03:35,240 --> 02:03:37,240 cramped. I think it feels cramped on the 2364 02:03:37,240 --> 02:03:38,800 page. I think 2 columns of it would 2365 02:03:38,800 --> 02:03:40,920 have been better. And I, like I said, I do think 2366 02:03:40,920 --> 02:03:46,480 that like, if you're gonna do like 95% of all sections, then 2367 02:03:46,480 --> 02:03:48,400 just do 100% of the sections, you know what I mean? 2368 02:03:48,440 --> 02:03:51,960 Like, for example, like the summer travel page, like is a is 2369 02:03:51,960 --> 02:03:54,920 like a headline thing, Summer travel or whatever, right? 2370 02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:57,080 But it's not in the. It's not in the index. 2371 02:03:57,080 --> 02:03:58,880 And the bookmarks and the index don't always match up. 2372 02:03:58,880 --> 02:04:01,120 There's like some things that are in the index that aren't in 2373 02:04:01,120 --> 02:04:02,760 the bookmarks and some things the bookmarks that are in the 2374 02:04:02,760 --> 02:04:03,560 index. OK. 2375 02:04:03,600 --> 02:04:05,440 I mean, we're getting so fucking nitpicky, but. 2376 02:04:05,640 --> 02:04:07,680 I mean that's like that's a very fine. 2377 02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:08,760 Yeah. So you call it. 2378 02:04:15,600 --> 02:04:18,360 I mean, for me, I think this is still an 8 because all this 2379 02:04:18,360 --> 02:04:21,080 stuff is very minor, even like though a whole bit about being a 2380 02:04:21,080 --> 02:04:23,400 little scattered. It's really not, like so 2381 02:04:23,400 --> 02:04:25,200 scattered that it's painful, but. 2382 02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:30,160 That's good rule set. It's mothership with tweaks. 2383 02:04:30,800 --> 02:04:32,400 I like the tweaks. I like the tweaks. 2384 02:04:32,400 --> 02:04:33,120 They're. Good. 2385 02:04:33,400 --> 02:04:35,040 I like the tweaks. Yeah. 2386 02:04:35,680 --> 02:04:41,560 I like that shit always hits. I like the way that violence is 2387 02:04:41,680 --> 02:04:44,520 incorporated in the stress, like you're just pulling a fucking 2388 02:04:44,520 --> 02:04:47,080 weapon like you have. You have to think of every time 2389 02:04:47,080 --> 02:04:48,960 you pull your fucking way. You can't even just be like, I'm 2390 02:04:49,160 --> 02:04:51,480 going to threaten the innkeeper to get lower prices because 2391 02:04:51,480 --> 02:04:53,840 you're getting stressed like, you'll stress, you know, like. 2392 02:04:53,840 --> 02:04:56,520 Everyone's going to. Be stressed that I love pressing 2393 02:04:56,520 --> 02:04:59,200 I like. That this, there's a there's a 2394 02:04:59,200 --> 02:05:04,000 weird wholesome energy to this game that I you don't feel when 2395 02:05:04,000 --> 02:05:06,480 you go through Mothership and a lot. 2396 02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:07,240 Is. You should. 2397 02:05:07,280 --> 02:05:08,800 I don't think you should. No, you should. 2398 02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:11,960 Sorry that that's not like critique on mothership. 2399 02:05:12,320 --> 02:05:15,600 That is a like a complement to how the tweaks work with these 2400 02:05:15,600 --> 02:05:18,680 rules, and how like violence is obviously not the answer you're 2401 02:05:18,680 --> 02:05:23,840 always looking for, and instead like an unnecessary like evil or 2402 02:05:23,840 --> 02:05:27,680 a necessary evil. I'm pretty high on this one, 2403 02:05:27,680 --> 02:05:32,560 honestly. Yeah, I mean, I do like it. 2404 02:05:32,560 --> 02:05:34,760 Like spell, After Effects are my favorite thing in the entire 2405 02:05:34,760 --> 02:05:36,800 book. Oh dude, the spell After Effects 2406 02:05:36,800 --> 02:05:39,840 are so yeah, but I mean like the creation of Crest as like a 2407 02:05:40,480 --> 02:05:43,360 another form of magic for everybody that's like very 2408 02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:46,920 situational. The magic spells are fucking 2409 02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:49,560 weird, you know. If you really break it down with 2410 02:05:49,560 --> 02:05:52,480 like the core gaming things like, it really comes out like 2411 02:05:52,480 --> 02:05:56,120 those things are what amounts to scrolls, like realistically, 2412 02:05:56,120 --> 02:05:58,880 like reusable scrolls or or relics of some kind. 2413 02:05:58,880 --> 02:06:01,360 You know what I mean? So like, but I love the way that 2414 02:06:01,360 --> 02:06:05,720 they they make it that where are you? 2415 02:06:05,720 --> 02:06:09,640 Where are you? I'm I'm in the eights for this 2416 02:06:09,640 --> 02:06:11,760 one as well, so. Yeah, I think it's an 8 for me, 2417 02:06:11,760 --> 02:06:13,520 too. Like, to me, it doesn't get to a 2418 02:06:13,520 --> 02:06:15,200 nine. I enjoy this. 2419 02:06:15,200 --> 02:06:17,160 But here's the thing, Here's the thing that I think about this 2420 02:06:17,160 --> 02:06:21,440 game is that I think that the strength of this whole project 2421 02:06:21,440 --> 02:06:29,400 is all of the stuff that's not the dice, and that you could 2422 02:06:29,400 --> 02:06:31,920 have this exact same game with a different dice system and it 2423 02:06:31,920 --> 02:06:33,440 would be the same game. You know what I mean? 2424 02:06:33,440 --> 02:06:35,480 Like. I I think there's something to 2425 02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:38,200 be said there. I am really looking forward to. 2426 02:06:38,880 --> 02:06:40,840 I'm going to play this and I'm going to play the hell of it and 2427 02:06:40,840 --> 02:06:43,320 I really, really like it. But I'm interested to see what 2428 02:06:43,320 --> 02:06:47,640 the future of Cloud Empress is. It like like further out looking 2429 02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:52,120 like a a second edition of Cloud Empress where the rules are even 2430 02:06:52,120 --> 02:06:56,400 more its own. Yeah, its own things converted 2431 02:06:56,400 --> 02:06:58,120 over for as a Cloud Empress experience. 2432 02:06:58,120 --> 02:07:00,880 I think choosing the the Panic Engine was a really strong 2433 02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:02,600 decision. Now there's a lot of stuff to 2434 02:07:02,600 --> 02:07:05,400 keep there, but I'd love to see this become even more Cloud 2435 02:07:05,760 --> 02:07:08,880 Empress. Yeah, I I really like the stress 2436 02:07:08,880 --> 02:07:10,720 in it. I I do think there's a way that 2437 02:07:10,720 --> 02:07:14,280 you can move the stress and panic away from some of those 2438 02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:19,120 concepts a little bit, and I do. But like I said, I feel like if 2439 02:07:19,160 --> 02:07:21,600 if this game was AD 20 roll under, it would still be Cloud 2440 02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:24,680 Empress, you know what I mean? Like if this game was like a 2D6 2441 02:07:24,680 --> 02:07:26,200 mixed success, it would still be, you know what I mean? 2442 02:07:26,200 --> 02:07:28,640 Like, I feel like the strength of the project isn't the dice 2443 02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:31,560 mechanics. No, I I do think there's enough 2444 02:07:31,560 --> 02:07:34,680 rules that interplay though with the with the war that no. 2445 02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:37,040 Yeah, I think that they are combined. 2446 02:07:37,040 --> 02:07:40,160 I'm just saying that like if you you could run basically the same 2447 02:07:40,160 --> 02:07:43,880 thing in AD 20 system and have rules that tie in the same. 2448 02:07:44,120 --> 02:07:46,840 I'm just saying like if you took PBTA and took out 2D6, it's not 2449 02:07:46,840 --> 02:07:48,640 PBTA, right? You know what I mean? 2450 02:07:48,920 --> 02:07:51,680 But if you take flat Empress and like take out D100 and put in 2451 02:07:51,680 --> 02:07:53,440 like D20 or whatever, it's so flat Empress to me. 2452 02:07:53,440 --> 02:07:55,320 You know what I mean? I'm not, it's not a bad thing. 2453 02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:59,760 I'm just saying, like the The rules to me are fine. 2454 02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:02,440 They're good. I like the tweaks better than 2455 02:08:02,440 --> 02:08:05,800 the core, You know what I mean? I think it's mothership at a 2456 02:08:05,800 --> 02:08:06,760 score. That's fine. 2457 02:08:07,080 --> 02:08:09,080 The tweaks they did are better than like. 2458 02:08:09,600 --> 02:08:10,720 That's what. Elevates. 2459 02:08:11,080 --> 02:08:12,680 Yes. That's what elevates it, yeah. 2460 02:08:13,280 --> 02:08:15,520 8. Originality, I mean, so it's 2461 02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:20,520 based on a lot of shit, but it's it's really fucking good. 2462 02:08:20,880 --> 02:08:23,640 It's really good and it really very much stands alone. 2463 02:08:23,640 --> 02:08:26,560 I mean, even if it was just like a gnostic in the Valley of the 2464 02:08:26,560 --> 02:08:28,640 Wind game. I mean, how many of those do you 2465 02:08:28,640 --> 02:08:33,720 even know? But you know, like giant like 2466 02:08:33,720 --> 02:08:39,880 insects covered in chalk that you mine to cast spells that 2467 02:08:39,880 --> 02:08:42,640 will pollute your bones, that later on those same fucking 2468 02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:44,880 insects eat your bones to get the chalk. 2469 02:08:45,120 --> 02:08:48,200 Like, dude, what the fuck? This is crazy good. 2470 02:08:49,040 --> 02:08:55,760 The bones, the bones, the spells, the fucking yeah. 2471 02:08:56,160 --> 02:08:58,480 I mean, there's so many times where it's like, Oh my God, that 2472 02:08:58,480 --> 02:08:59,840 makes so much fucking sense. I love it. 2473 02:08:59,840 --> 02:09:01,600 You know there's so the lore is so good. 2474 02:09:01,800 --> 02:09:04,720 The fact that again that they they set the hereafter at like 2475 02:09:04,720 --> 02:09:07,200 the 29th expedition, plus the century brood plus the music, 2476 02:09:07,400 --> 02:09:10,120 like there's just so much oh. Yeah, there's all of that going 2477 02:09:10,160 --> 02:09:12,320 on. I mean even just like the 2478 02:09:12,320 --> 02:09:17,680 project as a whole, this kind of like there there's so much stuff 2479 02:09:17,680 --> 02:09:18,880 that comes along with it that's really cool. 2480 02:09:18,880 --> 02:09:23,600 Like the player aid, the fact that the adventures for the hex 2481 02:09:23,600 --> 02:09:26,000 crawl are divided up to where you can take them out and just 2482 02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:27,760 run the adventure. Or you could run this massive 2483 02:09:27,760 --> 02:09:30,040 hex crawl. I I like it. 2484 02:09:30,040 --> 02:09:31,560 This does that. I feel like you kind of usually 2485 02:09:31,560 --> 02:09:33,560 get one or the other. You might get this massive book, 2486 02:09:33,800 --> 02:09:39,640 you know, but this side skirts that I I yeah, there's a lot of 2487 02:09:39,640 --> 02:09:42,440 stuff I like about this. Where you at? 2488 02:09:42,440 --> 02:09:43,160 Where you at? Where you at? 2489 02:09:44,160 --> 02:09:48,320 Oh, honestly, I hate to go all eights, but I'm probably still 2490 02:09:48,320 --> 02:09:49,120 around. Eight. 2491 02:09:49,240 --> 02:09:52,560 I already had it listed. I already had it in there value. 2492 02:09:52,600 --> 02:09:55,120 So half of what you just said is for value, like we're talking 2493 02:09:55,160 --> 02:09:57,040 about banging. I was more approaching it from 2494 02:09:57,040 --> 02:10:00,240 like it's a great way to do a project, like it's a presented 2495 02:10:00,240 --> 02:10:05,840 project, but value wise, yeah, it's, I mean it's really, you 2496 02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:08,720 got a lot. So if you had backed the 2497 02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:12,440 Kickstarter like someone you know, like some people I know, 2498 02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:19,600 the Deluxe bundle, which was odd. 2499 02:10:21,040 --> 02:10:26,200 All of everything, sorry. One print of the rule book, one 2500 02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:29,280 and PDF, and one print and PDF of the setting book. 2501 02:10:29,520 --> 02:10:33,960 Five print and PDF trifle pamphlet adventures, which I 2502 02:10:33,960 --> 02:10:36,080 think we're then expanded to being more than trifle. 2503 02:10:36,080 --> 02:10:37,600 I think that's the little zines now. 2504 02:10:37,600 --> 02:10:39,560 They're zines, yeah. Yeah, they're zines. 2505 02:10:39,560 --> 02:10:45,320 Now. The patch, the two of postcard, 2506 02:10:45,480 --> 02:10:48,160 one large map and then all the stretch goals. 2507 02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:50,320 That was 58 bucks. I see this. 2508 02:10:50,920 --> 02:10:51,960 Fuck. I mean, there's gonna be more 2509 02:10:51,960 --> 02:10:54,520 now for MSRP. Like at sale? 2510 02:10:55,280 --> 02:10:58,560 If I can find it you want. To be able to get some of the 2511 02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:00,400 stuff too, because some of those things were like day one patches 2512 02:11:00,400 --> 02:11:02,960 or whatever, like the land of the cicada patch or whatever. 2513 02:11:03,200 --> 02:11:04,760 So big thing is, the rule book's free. 2514 02:11:05,960 --> 02:11:07,080 Digitally free? Fuck yeah. 2515 02:11:07,120 --> 02:11:08,200 Digitally free? Yeah, yeah. 2516 02:11:08,320 --> 02:11:10,520 If you want a digital version, it is free. 2517 02:11:11,720 --> 02:11:14,840 And then in Oct oh, it's already past October. 2518 02:11:14,840 --> 02:11:17,000 I guess they haven't updated this, but the first adventure, 2519 02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:19,360 the last Voyage of the Bean bar, just supposed to come out as 2520 02:11:19,360 --> 02:11:23,920 free here pretty soon. And then the rest of it's not 2521 02:11:23,960 --> 02:11:27,080 out yet. They have some prints and some 2522 02:11:27,080 --> 02:11:30,320 PDFs upcoming. They've, but I think they need 2523 02:11:30,320 --> 02:11:31,880 to update the time frame. Why they need to update the time 2524 02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:32,880 frame? Because I think it was supposed 2525 02:11:32,880 --> 02:11:36,600 to be a December of 2023 and it's actually What's up? 2526 02:11:36,960 --> 02:11:37,600 Go, I said. Why? 2527 02:11:37,640 --> 02:11:40,760 Let's go. Yeah, but listen right now. 2528 02:11:40,760 --> 02:11:42,320 Get the rule book. You could just download the rule 2529 02:11:42,320 --> 02:11:47,160 book the PDF for $0.00. Me, Castle, said. 2530 02:11:47,160 --> 02:11:49,440 Bean barges on drive through RPG for free. 2531 02:11:50,320 --> 02:11:55,280 Oh, so you can get the game free and an adventure for free. 2532 02:11:55,360 --> 02:11:57,920 The starting adventure. You get the the core rule book 2533 02:11:58,000 --> 02:12:01,440 and the starting adventure free, free right now. 2534 02:12:01,520 --> 02:12:03,600 Insane. And again everything that we got 2535 02:12:03,600 --> 02:12:07,600 with the deluxe box like the five bonus scenes that are by 2536 02:12:07,600 --> 02:12:13,360 amazing writers like the core book, the the core lore book 2537 02:12:13,360 --> 02:12:16,080 with the hex crawl. Like there's so much content 2538 02:12:16,480 --> 02:12:20,800 like and only more coming value wise pretty high on the shit. 2539 02:12:21,360 --> 02:12:27,520 Yeah, I I yeah, pretty high. I mean, we're getting up to like 2540 02:12:27,720 --> 02:12:31,120 9:00-ish territory for value. What we've talked about before, 2541 02:12:31,120 --> 02:12:34,400 like when the game's free, it's hard not to like you can play 2542 02:12:34,400 --> 02:12:36,520 the game for free. Not only just the game the 2543 02:12:36,520 --> 02:12:40,360 adventure like the first the lead in adventure and it's a fun 2544 02:12:40,360 --> 02:12:42,480 adventure. It's a it's a cool whodunnit you 2545 02:12:42,480 --> 02:12:47,640 know. Yeah I I kind of think of a nine 2546 02:12:47,640 --> 02:12:50,320 I'm I'm I'm doing value 9 we're. Going to break our eight, so 2547 02:12:50,320 --> 02:12:52,000 we're going to go nine, yeah. Yeah. 2548 02:12:53,920 --> 02:13:02,960 So total on it is 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 941 baby that is 40. 2549 02:13:03,720 --> 02:13:07,320 One especially territory. As soon as you, that's more than 2550 02:13:07,320 --> 02:13:09,560 respectable. As soon as you hit 40 or above, 2551 02:13:09,680 --> 02:13:12,160 you're you're looking at like top five at the end of the year, 2552 02:13:12,160 --> 02:13:14,320 you know what I mean? Yeah, like and I'm good with 2553 02:13:14,320 --> 02:13:16,120 this. I love this project. 2554 02:13:16,120 --> 02:13:21,440 I really like Lot, but like like just not me liking Watt 2555 02:13:21,440 --> 02:13:24,560 personally, but like the game is good, the setting is good, the 2556 02:13:24,720 --> 02:13:27,360 adaptation of the rules I think are done really, really well. 2557 02:13:27,560 --> 02:13:31,240 I would like to see this be a project that continues to go 2558 02:13:31,240 --> 02:13:33,480 forward and has more stuff, you know? 2559 02:13:33,880 --> 02:13:36,440 Well, here's the thing about Watt and Cloud Empress, right? 2560 02:13:36,440 --> 02:13:38,800 Because here's the thing, right? There's a lot of people out 2561 02:13:38,800 --> 02:13:41,040 there that make good stuff that suck. 2562 02:13:43,520 --> 02:13:46,960 There's a lot of great people out there that make stuff that 2563 02:13:46,960 --> 02:13:52,160 sucks. What is a great person that made 2564 02:13:52,160 --> 02:13:55,120 great stuff? So there's something to be said 2565 02:13:55,120 --> 02:13:57,440 for that, you know? And not only that, when you 2566 02:13:57,440 --> 02:14:01,920 listen to the interview that we had with them, they care so much 2567 02:14:01,920 --> 02:14:05,320 about the user experience, you know, and they care so much 2568 02:14:05,320 --> 02:14:07,840 about making sure everything was done right, making sure that 2569 02:14:07,840 --> 02:14:11,240 everything was done ethically, making sure that everything was 2570 02:14:11,360 --> 02:14:15,960 like, delivered on time, like, correct, like just every aspect 2571 02:14:15,960 --> 02:14:17,520 of it. There was so much care and 2572 02:14:17,520 --> 02:14:22,560 thought into the project and making sure that like it both 2573 02:14:22,560 --> 02:14:28,040 hit their vision and was rewarding to the people that put 2574 02:14:28,040 --> 02:14:31,920 money to to make it happen. You know and that's you know 2575 02:14:31,920 --> 02:14:33,600 it's important to respect your backers. 2576 02:14:33,680 --> 02:14:39,160 It's important not to, you know, go on Twitter and talk shit 2577 02:14:39,160 --> 02:14:42,760 about your backers when like one person does something. 2578 02:14:42,760 --> 02:14:45,120 You have like 1000 backers, so you want to just talk shit to 2579 02:14:45,120 --> 02:14:47,400 all of them. When they're giving you money to 2580 02:14:47,400 --> 02:14:49,840 make your. Project happen. 2581 02:14:50,000 --> 02:14:54,080 You probably shouldn't be a fucking prick about it and Watt 2582 02:14:54,080 --> 02:14:57,920 doesn't do that. So it's great. 2583 02:14:58,160 --> 02:15:00,320 I I love it. Watt's fantastic. 2584 02:15:00,520 --> 02:15:02,920 You will see Watt again. So let's wrap up with that. 2585 02:15:03,280 --> 02:15:05,280 The Life and Death expansion was announced. 2586 02:15:05,800 --> 02:15:07,920 It is the land of the living and the land of the Dead, each of 2587 02:15:07,920 --> 02:15:12,080 which are standalone 50 page Hector crawls expansions. 2588 02:15:12,240 --> 02:15:13,800 I'll be surprised that they stop at 50 pages. 2589 02:15:13,800 --> 02:15:17,400 Those are written already. It's dropping April 2nd, 2024. 2590 02:15:17,600 --> 02:15:19,960 We've already talked to Watt. Watt will be coming back on the 2591 02:15:19,960 --> 02:15:21,200 show. I don't know what we're going to 2592 02:15:21,200 --> 02:15:23,360 do, whether it's going to be an interview or another game or 2593 02:15:23,360 --> 02:15:25,440 whatever. I don't care if Watt wants to 2594 02:15:25,440 --> 02:15:27,840 come back, What's coming back? Love to have them on the show 2595 02:15:28,920 --> 02:15:30,920 and we'll just keep adding to the cloud. 2596 02:15:30,920 --> 02:15:33,600 Empress playlist. That's it for us, except 2597 02:15:35,000 --> 02:15:40,240 tomorrow we're going to have the Meet Castle game where Christian 2598 02:15:40,240 --> 02:15:42,080 Sorrell. Castle game where the? 2599 02:15:42,080 --> 02:15:48,360 Meet The Who did additional editing and and whatnot on the 2600 02:15:48,360 --> 02:15:52,120 project who's run a ton of of cloud, Empress and etcetera, 2601 02:15:52,120 --> 02:15:53,560 etcetera. They're going to be coming on 2602 02:15:53,560 --> 02:15:58,600 the show tomorrow with me, myself and Josh Demansky, also 2603 02:15:58,600 --> 02:16:03,880 known as Unenthuser, who is now the, I guess, the Co Co Co 2604 02:16:03,880 --> 02:16:07,720 person with Galvin Archives for Luminal Horror and who does the 2605 02:16:07,720 --> 02:16:08,800 majority of our side quests. They're. 2606 02:16:09,800 --> 02:16:12,800 Also. Yeah, for a side quest that we 2607 02:16:12,800 --> 02:16:14,880 haven't done one in a while, this is Side Quest #5. 2608 02:16:15,080 --> 02:16:16,200 We're going to be doing Cloud Empress. 2609 02:16:16,200 --> 02:16:19,040 So we'll be playing Cloud Empress again, but with Meat 2610 02:16:19,040 --> 02:16:21,120 Castle running it. So we'll explain that a little 2611 02:16:21,120 --> 02:16:24,240 bit more so that you can watch on the Cloud Empress episodes 2612 02:16:24,240 --> 02:16:26,040 and then watch the side quest and understand how to play the 2613 02:16:26,040 --> 02:16:29,280 game that's happening tomorrow and then again for the next like 2614 02:16:29,440 --> 02:16:31,320 4 to 5 weeks. We're going to be jam packed 2615 02:16:31,320 --> 02:16:33,799 with shit. So expect 234 sometimes episodes 2616 02:16:33,799 --> 02:16:35,760 a week. Thank you all for listening. 2617 02:16:35,760 --> 02:16:38,200 We really appreciate it. If you are listening on podcast, 2618 02:16:39,000 --> 02:16:42,240 you know, hit subscribe or whatever, we track it. 2619 02:16:42,240 --> 02:16:44,600 It gives us Spotify followers now, which is cool. 2620 02:16:45,360 --> 02:16:47,760 If you're listening on YouTube, do us a favor, also hit that 2621 02:16:47,760 --> 02:16:49,520 subscribe button like other shit. 2622 02:16:49,959 --> 02:16:51,920 We really appreciate it. Hit our links. 2623 02:16:51,920 --> 02:16:54,680 They're everywhere. You all have a wonderful day. 2624 02:16:54,680 --> 02:16:59,920 And we will see you tomorrow at 2:00 PM Pacific Time for Cloud 2625 02:16:59,920 --> 02:17:02,760 Empress side quest. All right, talk to you later. 2626 02:17:02,760 --> 02:17:03,480 Bye. Bye buddy. 2627 02:17:04,000 --> 02:17:04,080 Bye.