1 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,600 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,280 My name is Ryan. And I'm the vampire Lestat. 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,400 Bro I love it. Rice, you know. 4 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,440 Shout out Anne Rice. I actually this, this is an Anne 5 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,640 Rice fucking tattoo right here. Oh, cool. 6 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:32,960 Unsurprisingly, Yeah. Nice. 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,440 Yeah. I love the vampire novels that 8 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,480 link back to aliens in the end. I think that's really great, so. 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,880 When did it go to aliens? So I I'm a fake fan because I 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,960 stopped after the 4th book because the 4th book sucked and 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,200 I need to go back to it. I didn't even make it that far 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,440 so. Where? 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,640 Where the fuck the aliens then? Towards the end the like very 14 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,720 glassed book I believe. Of like the 10 that she did for. 15 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,520 The whole thing, yeah, it goes back and it turns out that like, 16 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,760 the vampires are like, spoiler, spoiler for like. 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,040 A 24 people, yeah. If you have not, honestly, fuck 18 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,560 you. If you're If you're pissed about 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,120 the spoiler, fuck you. I I was kidding the. 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:16,240 Vampires are like possessed by alien spirits that died on Earth 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:17,520 or something. Something about Oh. 22 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,640 So the ghosts are aliens because you find out the origin. 23 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,440 I'm going to I need to put my notes here again and this is 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,400 what Stop yelling. This is a note I've had for 200 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,680 plus episodes. Hasn't helped, but I'm going to 26 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,760 try. So in Queen of the Damned, which 27 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,280 is my favorite of the first four books, you get the origin of the 28 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,720 vampires and it's literally like basically Egyptian times. 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,400 And again, spoiler alert, what basically happens is the King 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,000 and Queen go in at this haunted place and their servants fucking 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,720 stab them to death and the spirits go in. 32 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,240 Through their stab. Wounds and they basically become 33 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,920 vampires, which is dope and they have a protector in that book 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,440 who ends up being like the third oldest vampire and actually 35 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,480 named my my last dog that was actually mine. 36 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,320 I named after that Cayman, much like the vampire or the the the 37 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,920 alligator alligator creature. Different spelling. 38 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,880 Different spelling in the book though, but that's the same 39 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,680 pronunciation. But I named my dog after that. 40 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,160 I loved that book. I thought it was incredible. 41 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,360 I say yeah, no fucking shit. What do you think the giant at 42 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,920 the top of The thing is Horus. It remind me not to say it. 43 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,440 The problem is when I get excited, my ADHD brain goes way 44 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,080 too fast and I almond like I have too many fucking filler 45 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,200 words. It makes me sound like an idiot 46 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,920 and I hate it but. That's not what. 47 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,000 It doesn't. You know who doesn't use filler 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,040 words, and I think they sound incredible, is Josh Domansky. 49 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,480 Yeah, I've said that to him before in DMS. 50 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,960 I'm like, I love the way you talk, bro. 51 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,480 Like, you sound intelligent. And part of it is because you 52 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,000 don't say like. And he has that deep, you know? 53 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,200 Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, he's a very listening to 54 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:54,560 and talk. Very enjoyable so. 55 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,840 Yeah, it's great. I've got to get it back in the 56 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,880 show some run some more games. But today, today we're doing a 57 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,600 review, first of its kind for us. 58 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,520 We're going to be reviewing 1000 year old Vampire from Tim 59 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,720 Hutchings, a solo role-playing game of lost memory and 60 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,640 Vampires. Book slaps. 61 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,360 When was the last time we both had the book? 62 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,480 I don't know, but a few episodes we've, we've done several that I 63 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,200 haven't had. So we, yeah, I don't know a 64 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,520 while actually. How fucking lush is that book? 65 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,280 I do with that honestly. The book is astonishing to look 66 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,400 at, like it really is. It's so beautiful and but the 67 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,200 beauty continues on the interior. 68 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,200 I love the first little spread that has the title like it's 69 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,280 like it's written. Bro, let's look at let's look at 70 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,040 your color versus my color. We could work on your color 71 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,920 correction for next episode. I know your. 72 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,600 Color is not, you know, messed up. 73 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,560 And I'm actually right. So because my eyes work, but so 74 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,920 we I do want to show the spread because it's gorgeous and I did 75 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:04,640 delete it out of the PDF because it's a different size than the 76 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,640 rest of the PDF and it was fucking up the way I put it on 77 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,440 the screen. So really beautiful in pages 78 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,040 that has gorgeous cursive to 1000 year old vampire but. 79 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,480 Listening to this instead of watching it, you know, just 80 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,760 imagine. Hey listen, we already said if 81 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,760 you watch us on Spotify, I have to check Apple still I put the 82 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,240 videos up. Oh, you're. 83 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,560 Welcome. You can watch on Spotify. 84 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,720 That still blows my mind. Like right now I'm just like, 85 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,840 you can watch it on Spotify. You know, we've already had this 86 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:32,400 conversation. Which is interesting because our 87 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,200 numbers on Spotify have increased since I started 88 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,360 putting videos so. Yeah, cool. 89 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,760 We might be one of the few people using that functionality. 90 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:42,000 No, a lot of people fucking put their radios on Spotify. 91 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,520 It's crazy. And at the end of the day, 92 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,640 realistically, it's, it started out as a little bit more work 93 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,360 for me, but it has now become almost a little bit less work 94 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,160 for me because actually, and it's a little bit better for the 95 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,720 YouTube as well too, because it used to just put the VOD clip 96 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,360 straight onto YouTube. And now when I drop it into 97 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:08,360 Premiere Pro, I can do what I used to do to the audio in the 98 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,360 clip. And then I just export that clip 99 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,640 of the audio fixed for YouTube. So now the YouTube clips 100 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,040 actually have better audio because of that. 101 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,600 And then all I do is throw on the, the theme song beginning 102 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,880 and end for the for Spotify. And that's it. 103 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,440 It's actually pretty quick works out. 104 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,080 Nice. So person who I don't want to 105 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,720 say harassed person who suggested a couple of times to 106 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,360 to add it to Spotify. It worked out in the end. 107 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,160 Thank you. Good suggestion. 108 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:37,640 Yeah, So what? So what have you been up to, 109 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,520 buddy? Let's see, I haven't been 110 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,760 gaming. I actually started to write a so 111 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,800 I I'm prepping to play mothership. 112 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,640 I've I'm prepped, I'm ready to play mothership. 113 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,480 We had to push our session back, but I've been playing a lot of 114 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:00,680 mech video games and I read Mech Mech 28 by. 115 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,000 Whoever. Yeah, great. 116 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,160 Super simple and I love it and it works really well, but I 117 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,160 really wanted a like a layer of depth more to it. 118 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,320 And so I started working on my own Mech 28 hack that borrow 119 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,760 some inspiration from like Armored Core, because I played 120 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,400 through all of Armored Core 6 last month and it was amazing. 121 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,280 I highly recommend it if you're a a game, if you're listening to 122 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,080 this, you're a mech gamer. I thought armor Core 6 was 123 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,520 great. I do think it's funny. 124 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,160 It's very from soft. To get the full story, you have 125 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,280 to play through it three times, which I absolutely did. 126 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:37,280 And and I was felt great doing it because it opened up more 127 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:38,360 options. It wasn't like doing the same 128 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,120 missions over and over again, but I've been working on that 129 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,760 lightly. So that's what I've been kind of 130 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,080 up to because I want to run like a mech mothership. 131 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,720 So I'm trying to use the mothership rules as well and 132 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:55,200 fold those things together so. Have you checked out Flames of 133 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,960 Orion? I think that's on my list to 134 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,440 check out. I haven't read that one yet. 135 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,760 So I read the mecha hack and I was like this doesn't help me at 136 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,200 all, it's just the. Fucking black hack, but it's. 137 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,800 Just the black hack, so. We've talked about or I've been 138 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,080 talking on the idea of having a mech episode where we bring some 139 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:14,600 people on and talk about mecha cross multiple types of media 140 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,280 because my my primary mech consumption is most like anime 141 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,600 and cart is and stuff like that. I haven't done a lot of I never 142 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,000 played Titanfall or anything like that. 143 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,800 And I know you're a huge gamer and stuff and actually met the 144 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,240 creator of Mech 28 before for Circle works. 145 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,960 Cool. It's super solid. 146 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:34,800 I really like it a lot so. Yeah. 147 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,040 So I could, I maybe could possibly reach out to them and 148 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,920 see if they want to hop on and we can talk about that a little 149 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,160 bit too that. 'D be really cool because maybe, 150 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,920 just maybe, Ryan in Tabletop Simulator, I already built us a 151 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,760 Mech 28 map and I already pulled mech figurines for that map and 152 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,160 I sized them. Correctly. 153 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,560 And I already have it set up. I was going to suggest maybe we 154 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,360 play it. I I also might have got the 155 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,120 flames of Orion STL's and prints already so that I have 4 mechs. 156 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,520 Yeah, and we can get, we can get those printed up and and done 157 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,720 down. I mean, we're going to do an 158 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,880 Acropolis first, but how about Mech 28? 159 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,480 Yeah, Necropolis first after. Oh yeah, I want to. 160 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:16,720 I want to show you a little something. 161 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:18,440 Entertain the peoples for for a minute. 162 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,920 Just start juggling and shit and you know I can't juggle. 163 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:24,720 By the way, I can barely see how the one I very well. 164 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,680 So you know how much would be entertaining. 165 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,520 You can listen to my sultry voice. 166 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:36,600 Yeah, but I mean, so kind of going back to MEX though. 167 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,960 My experience with MEX is is I grew up watching Gundam, 168 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,120 obviously, but I actually played like Armored Core on the 169 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,800 PlayStation two and the PlayStation 3, including the bad 170 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,000 ones. Armored Core 5 is bad. 4 was 171 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,720 pretty solid, 5 was bad. I have no experience in battle 172 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,000 tech. Like I've seen it around, you 173 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,480 know, it's very much like a tank mix, you know? 174 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,240 Bro Battle Tech is making an insane run. 175 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,360 They were all over fucking Gen. Con. 176 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,880 But how about how about first of all this by the way, for those I 177 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,480 can't see it sucks for you. That is the side of the box 178 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,560 drawn on by the one and only Peter Viggers, creator of 179 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,880 Necropolis 28. Oh here's some stickers. 180 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,240 Wonder where I got these from. Could it be a box that Peter 181 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,280 Viggers fame of the show will never believe? 182 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,840 That scent of Necropolis 28 miniatures? 183 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,720 Yeah, maybe. Maybe he sent us a giant box of 184 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:36,400 28 miniatures. Yep. 185 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:38,600 And you know what's really cool about this one? 186 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,360 If you look in our discord, they posted a diorama board with a 187 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,560 bunch of miniatures on them. That's these miniatures. 188 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,080 And you know what's cool about this specific bag of like 6 189 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,440 miniatures? What? 190 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,560 He doubled it up so I can send one to a friend. 191 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,800 It's no way sick. Yeah, and I mean, so I'm just 192 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,960 going to find somebody to send it to. 193 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,160 I don't know who yet, you know. Yeah, well, good luck finding 194 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,760 somebody Speaking of speaking stuff, since we're burning time 195 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,320 at the that front of this episode. 196 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:08,720 Oh, you got the box in? Yeah. 197 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,280 I got my box in I will say. Timer literally for like a Dick 198 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,120 around amount of time at the digging show. 199 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,360 I will say that the last four box for the manager is very 200 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,680 cool. Easily the most flimsy box I've 201 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,240 ever held in my life though. It's pretty, It's pretty, it's 202 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:25,720 pretty. I handed it. 203 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,120 I handed it to my fiance and she was like, wow, this box is like 204 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,160 about to fall apart right now. I'm like, I know. 205 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:34,560 Yeah. And what's interesting about it 206 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:41,040 too, is realistically it's basically just 4 armies from 207 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,440 World War One and like 1 sprew of weird shit, which is fine. 208 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,360 That's fine. I'm going to kit bash most of 209 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:52,560 mine anyway. But but yeah, bat bat stack of 210 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,640 of minis. Thank you so much, Peter 211 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,000 Biggers. We're definitely going to be 212 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,760 paying these on the show. We're definitely going to be 213 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,360 talking to Peter. And the show question mark, 214 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,600 question mark question. Mark again, won't, won't, won't. 215 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,720 I don't believe anyone listens to the show. 216 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,200 What's up? I read in the crop it's really 217 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,360 cool. So it's sick. 218 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,680 Yeah, I'm. I don't believe, I don't believe 219 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:13,440 we have any fans at all. I think everyone that talks to 220 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,840 us is lying and I will forever believe and believe that. 221 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,960 I don't even think I listen to the show but it's cool when 222 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,600 people say they do, especially people as cool as Peter fucking 223 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:26,040 Biggers, which is insane. So after we finally finish 224 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,920 Malagas we will be doing our not weekly war games of Necropolis 225 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,000 28 on the show. Very excited art from Martin 226 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,560 McCoy. Peter already knows. 227 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,280 He's like, listen, don't give me shit about not having a table of 228 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,040 constant hyperlinks. I promise it will be there. 229 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:43,680 I was like, you do listen to the show. 230 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,640 That's crazy. But that's. 231 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,720 Cool. Yeah, So. 232 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:51,120 So what have you been up to, Ryan? 233 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,040 Oh, I'm so glad you asked. I. 234 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,520 Thought I asked Ryan what the fuck have you? 235 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,200 Been up to I went to motherfucking Gen. car. 236 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,360 You did, I did. It was cool. 237 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,680 I probably won't do it again. Oh. 238 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:05,120 Yeah, that cool? It was. 239 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,480 It was too, it was just, it was really cool. 240 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,320 It was just too big. It was way too big. 241 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,080 I did nothing. I went to the exhibitor hall in 242 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,720 that state, which is about 10% of the space. 243 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,840 I, I, everyone kept telling me it was big. 244 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,280 I did not realize that it's literally the entire massive 245 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,280 Convention Center, plus the entire Indianapolis Colt 246 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,200 Stadium, which is right next door, all filled to the brim 247 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,920 with expansions planned for like next year when they open a new 248 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:29,880 hotel. It's too fucking big. 249 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,920 But I will say Indianapolis, gorgeous, Cleanest, big cleanest 250 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,800 city I've ever been in. Philadelphia, LA. 251 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,360 All these places smell like piss and are just gross all the time. 252 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,400 Indianapolis. I did not see one piece of 253 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,840 fucking litter. I did not smell piss anywhere. 254 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,320 The architecture is gorgeous. Indianapolis, good fucking job. 255 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:53,200 Gorgeous city. Apparently they have teams of 256 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,320 people that go around every day cleaning up the city. 257 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,320 I'm like reasonable where everyone should create jobs. 258 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:03,280 And keep your use of tax dollars. 259 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,320 Honestly, I, I, I really mean that also. 260 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,480 Hey, just a quick question. Did you do that thing we do when 261 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,440 we start the episode where we play 3 minutes of ads nonstop so 262 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,240 we don't get ads the entire? Episode no so so at some point 263 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,200 someone will it's not the entire episode, it's just once in the 264 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:18,840 hour. We just get to choose when we do 265 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,840 it. So no. 266 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:25,240 And for those we, we, we, we have to run ads because we are 267 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,200 massive affiliates. Yeah, so profitable like the 268 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,360 $2.00 every six months we get. But but what he means is if we 269 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,800 run the ads at the beginning while we're pre streaming, which 270 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,280 I my dumbass didn't do, it won't do any pre roll ads for an hour. 271 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,480 So people that pop in don't get them. 272 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,440 So sorry pre rolls sucks for you but Gen. 273 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,840 Con was cool as fuck though. What was weird is PAX was great 274 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,840 because PAX felt like ATTRPG convention that also had other 275 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:56,560 shit you know what I mean? They had cards and games. 276 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,880 So Gen. Con really felt like a gaming 277 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,360 convention focusing on like cards and board games that just 278 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,040 happened to have teach RPG people at it. 279 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,680 It was weird for people to walk up so often and be like, so are 280 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:12,680 these novels or what, you know? So it really was a Oh yeah, it 281 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:14,520 was definitely a very different crowd of people. 282 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,200 I, I personally preferred packs a lot. 283 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,640 I think it was smaller, which is cooler. 284 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:24,960 And I think that the, I think that the crowd was, I mean, we 285 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,240 did, we did packs. Everyone there that walked by 286 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,360 new TTRPGS wanted to know about TTRPGS. 287 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,920 Like most from New World Champ. I want to swing it by. 288 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,040 It was really cool. We were busy talking to people 289 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,040 all day, which is really fucking cool. 290 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,040 But I will say the funnest time was after 6:00 PM pretty much 291 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,880 every night. I was out to like 2:00 in the 292 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,680 morning drinking, hanging out with people, like bouncing 293 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,600 around like bars and hotel lobbies and stuff, playing 294 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,600 games. Played a little bit with Richard 295 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,040 when I was drinking with Richard and West, which is really cool. 296 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,080 Met some new people, the people over at Hinterlite, if they 297 00:14:55,080 --> 00:15:00,920 remember my name, going to have them on the show and and a bunch 298 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,120 of other people Met some people that have previously been on the 299 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,040 show. My inbox our our inbox is now 300 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,080 full of people saying, hey, let's, let's talk on the show. 301 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,320 So we have a lot to schedule coming up. 302 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:17,040 So if you have emailed me specific person to chat, I saw 303 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,240 it. I'll get back to you, I promise. 304 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,760 But but we'll get there. I I went to the innies. 305 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,160 Yeah. Yeah, it was even Dumber in 306 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,840 person than it was in real life. I. 307 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,880 Find the hard way that could be even Dumber. 308 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,520 Yeah, no, you'd be surprised, but but it it it was. 309 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,960 And I think some of the product of the year, especially this 310 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,640 year, kind of once again proves my point that the entire thing 311 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,240 is a fucking joke. Congratulations Space Penguin, 312 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,600 though. Fucking silver Amy for the mall 313 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,680 remastered. Yeah, yeah, I'm not. 314 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:53,560 That's good. Yeah. 315 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:54,880 Woo. Jerk got a fucking. 316 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,160 It's like his second year as Space Penguin when you got an 317 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,600 innie. So that's really fantastic. 318 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,400 This is very much one of those. If your friend wins, that's 319 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,200 really cool. And if they don't, it super 320 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,240 sucks or they suck. But. 321 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,480 But very, very proud of Jerk Space Penguin. 322 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,960 Again, a monthly guest here on the show. 323 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,320 Very proud of them and the work that they're doing. 324 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:22,600 Also know that my Luminal Horror Deluxe pledge manager just 325 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,320 dropped. You looked up Product of the 326 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:26,800 Year for 25? I did look up product of the 327 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:31,120 year. Yeah, anyway, so I think that's 328 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,320 all I've been up to Jim Combo's fun. 329 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,080 It was a great fucking time. I I worked the booth. 330 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,440 The Soul Muppet, Zach and mall were great. 331 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,120 Definitely got a mall here on the show soon. 332 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,520 And I think that's about it. I think that's all I've been 333 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,240 doing. I mean, you know, then came back 334 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,160 and worked way too much, but that's it. 335 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,600 So 1000 year old vampire, you want to hop into that? 336 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:53,760 Yeah, told me. Let's do it. 337 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:59,400 All right, so 1000 year old Vampire once again is a solo 338 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,520 role-playing game of lost Memory and Vampires. 339 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,280 It's our first, I think it's our first solo role-playing game, 340 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,119 not the one we've ever talked about on the show because we 341 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,800 have had some people on talking about solo role-playing like 342 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,880 like Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard and stuff. 343 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,200 But first one we're going to review so we'll figure it out as 344 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,400 we go. But in 1000, Year Old Vampire, 345 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,520 you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire's existence, 346 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,319 beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with 347 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,800 inevitable destruction. Prompt driven play and simple 348 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,600 resource tracking provide easy rules for exploring your 349 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,400 character's human failings, villainous acts, and surprising 350 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,600 victories. Expect gut turning decisions and 351 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:44,000 irreconcilable acts. 1000 Year Old Vampire began in 2018, was 352 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,120 completed in 2019 and distributed sometime around July 353 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,760 of 2020, and won a number of awards that year. 354 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:56,960 At the 2020 Innies, for what it's worth, it won gold for Best 355 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,960 Rules and Best Production Values and won silver for Product of 356 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,760 the Year, and also won the Tabletop Design award at the 357 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,680 2020 Indicate Awards, which I hadn't heard of then. 358 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:09,920 Googled and they're really cool so I definitely check those out 359 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,680 more often. In addition to the core book, 360 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,920 there is the companion book which I didn't know was still 361 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,200 available. I did buy. 362 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,120 Wish it was here, wouldn't spoil it for you. 363 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,640 Anyway, I'll tell you about it later. 364 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,920 And in 2024 a sequel. So you've met 1000 year old 365 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:35,160 Vampire was funded on backer kit with 4108 backers for $284,129 366 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,720 on a $45,000 goal. And I think I read recently that 367 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,400 it should be coming out sometime this year. 368 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,040 I know I've seen some some of the e-mail list stuff from Tim 369 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,720 Hutchings doing kind of a gold foiling like this, but there's 370 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,000 like blood coming down in the foiling that looks super fire. 371 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,440 So I did not know that was on backer kit at the time. 372 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,280 I did not back it, but I'm going to try to pre-order that I 373 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,440 think. I think those are still open. 374 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,480 So that is the story. That is all the info that is 375 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,840 info part of the show for 1000 year old vampire. 376 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,400 So let's get into it. Let's look at it. 377 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:17,760 It's beautiful the the just. I would say the worst part of 378 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,280 the entire book is the scan they used for the PDF because it is a 379 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:27,880 digitized, non shiny, non anything version of the book 380 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,160 that does no justice whatsoever to how gorgeous the book is 381 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,040 physically in your hands. But I definitely did notice that 382 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,160 opening PDF and I was like, I'm just going to do this with the 383 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,160 book in my bed, in my journal. Yeah, what the fuck. 384 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,080 But after that, though, and including the cover itself, the 385 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:54,520 book is beautiful. I mean, let's get into that with 386 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,160 with when we when we get into the the metrics and stuff. 387 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,240 So let's just talk about the game. 388 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,800 What is 1000 year old vampire? Right. 389 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,200 So the gist of the game of what 1000 year old vampire is let's 390 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,840 get to a cool page that we can. This is a cool looking page. 391 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,800 So the game mechanics for 1000 Old Vampire are pretty simple 392 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,040 and I have not done a lot of solo journaling games because I 393 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,360 don't really like solo journaling games so I can't tell 394 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:20,960 you if they're all this simple, but it's pretty easy. 395 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,080 So the gist of the game is that you make a character, then roll 396 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,400 dice to semi or randomly work your way through a book of 397 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,880 prompts. This book, which is mostly 398 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,080 prompts which let you explore your vampires wants and needs, 399 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:40,880 resolve problems and chart the decline into senescence play can 400 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,600 happen entirely within the character sheet or can become a 401 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,320 journaling activity. And I kind of split it a little 402 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,960 bit. Like I, I mean, I could pull up 403 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,600 mine, but I literally copy pasted the prompt in and then 404 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,880 answer the question a little bit and then put my experience in 405 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,200 the top. So it wasn't full journaling, 406 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:56,800 but it was a little bit more than just like not doing 407 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,920 anything. But so I can actually go through 408 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,920 mine and see prompt prompt, prompt prompt prompt and like 409 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,440 what I did for it. I did not write the prompts 410 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:04,840 down. I do kind of regret that because 411 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,480 I can't go back and look. I mean, I guess I can. 412 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,840 I can figure out. I vaguely remember all of them. 413 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,160 I just wrote down my answers to them just to have it in my 414 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,560 brain, you know? Yeah, yeah. 415 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,160 No, it was because I was using. I was at work for a lot of it, 416 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,640 so near my downtime. We'll get into the usability, 417 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,320 but the text file version was so great because my Internet at 418 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,000 work fucking blows. So I would just copy, drop it in 419 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,520 to my dock and then have my dock on the PC because I'm not going 420 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,000 to only go on Dropbox and work PC. 421 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:34,680 And then that way I could work my way through the dock and it 422 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,840 made it really good. So mechanically, mechanically, 423 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,240 what does what I just say actually look like? 424 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,040 So to play the game, you need the book or the text file or the 425 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,840 PDF or whatever, something to write on, something to write 426 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,720 with. And AD 6 and AD 10, that's it. 427 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,840 You need 2 dice. You'll make your character which 428 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:57,120 hunter will go over more, but how that works real quick is you 429 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:59,440 get 5 traits. Basically there's five aspects 430 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,520 to the game that you use. You get memories, skills, 431 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,320 resources, characters, and marks. 432 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,520 Memories are the core of the game. 433 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,680 You can only have 5 memories at a time which have 3 experiences 434 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,160 in each one. Capital M, capital E Almost 435 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,800 every time you roll for a prompt, you'll need to add an 436 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,640 experience into a memory. If you don't have space, you 437 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,200 need to erase an entire memory and all the corresponding 438 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,800 experiences. And that's basically the crux of 439 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,320 the game. And that the agony over deciding 440 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,200 which memory you're going to lose in order to gain these new 441 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,040 experiences because you can't not gain the new experience. 442 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,160 And like I said, that's basically that's the core of the 443 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,680 game. This is loss of memory. 444 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,040 Skills are skills. That's what the fuck you think 445 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,160 of. Skill is the role-playing game, 446 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,880 right? There are things you can do and 447 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,080 learn. You will check them if you use 448 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,600 them, and you'll cross them out if you lose them. 449 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,720 One of the other important parts is resources. 450 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,640 There are things that you have, whether it's big or small. 451 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,720 Could be an entire Roman legion, could be a a a ring, you know, 452 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,520 it doesn't matter. It is a resource. 453 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,480 One of the ways to lose the game is to lose all of your resources 454 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,520 and skills. Characters are based on the NPCS 455 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,360 of the game and they can be either mortals or immortals, as 456 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,000 in other vampires. And then there are marks, which 457 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,160 are physical marks on your body or something around you that is 458 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,880 difficult to hide. That makes it more more 459 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,440 difficult to be in normal society, right? 460 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,120 It could be a massive scar. Could be. 461 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,480 I think one of the examples in there was wings that they cut 462 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,680 off and had like the stubs still sticking on them. 463 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,640 And that's kind of it. That's the core of like the the 464 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,000 things you have to play the game with. 465 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,040 Once you have your character, you roll AD 6 and AD 10 and you 466 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,040 subtract the D6 from the D10. If it's a positive number, you 467 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,960 go forward that many prompts in the base game there's like 80 468 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,920 ish. And then if it's negative, as in 469 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,120 say you roll A6 on the D6 and A1 on the D10, you go backwards on 470 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:06,080 the prompts. And if it's the same number, 471 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,440 like 3-3, you just do the same prompt again. 472 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,360 And every prompt, and I think in the core part of the book, has 473 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,240 three options. So you can do AB or C and if you 474 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,680 somehow use all three and you hit the same number again, you 475 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,440 just go up or down one basically. 476 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,120 Or you can use the alternative prompts that it has a ton of in 477 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,840 the book. Yeah, which I mean, we'll 478 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,560 definitely talk about those because I think we both have an 479 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,800 opinion on those. And that's pretty much it. 480 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,800 That's the game. Eventually you die or in some 481 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,440 way shape or form, injure, existence, trapped or whatever. 482 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,960 But basically most of the time you just fucking die. 483 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,840 I landed right on the very first death one and didn't had read 484 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,320 forward enough to realize that like because in my head I was 485 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,240 like how far am I going to go? What if I get to the end and I 486 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,520 haven't died yet? No, like the last 10 problems 487 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,000 are all you find the last. 9 the 9th the 9th 1's the best you 488 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,120 ascend to like a higher level of being. 489 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,400 Do you remember the first one? Which one is that? 490 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,320 How did you die? Oh, I, I got trapped out in the 491 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,600 sun and I died, which felt so anticlimactic a little bit to me 492 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,240 because I had made like some really hard decisions right 493 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,360 before and I, I was literally at work and I was just doing it on 494 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:11,120 my phone and I was like, this is getting annoying. 495 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,400 Let me log into my Gmail so I can log into doc so I can do all 496 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,800 of that. I pulled it all up, did a whole 497 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,040 thing, got situated, took me like 5 minutes to do all that, 498 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,200 checked on my patients and shit, came back, pulled it up, rolled 499 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,080 my fucking dice, rolled for a new dice roller because my dice 500 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,000 roller was pissing me off, rolled it once, boom I died. 501 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,080 I was like you son of a bit. Like I did all of that just to 502 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,160 die immediately, but literally it was like you got trapped out 503 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,840 in the sun. How your dad game's over. 504 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,600 I got in crazy for all eternity. I was sick. 505 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,920 Yeah, yeah. What do you think about For the 506 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,880 first thousand years, I'm like, fuck, dude. 507 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,560 That's. Such a good one. 508 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,160 I don't know. I like, sorry, we're still in 509 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,640 your section, so finish your point, no? 510 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,360 No, that was about it. That's basically that's how the 511 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:57,400 game goes, and then you just go from prompt to prompt to prompt 512 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,320 telling the story the game does. It was hard for me. 513 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:05,240 I think if I play again it would be much easier, but the whole 514 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,080 concept of basically let the game take control. 515 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,440 If you get a prompt that doesn't really fit, it doesn't matter. 516 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,400 Maybe it's years later. Really fucked with my brain a 517 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,720 little bit for a while. Yeah. 518 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,280 And I'm not going to lie, like there were times where I was 519 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,480 like, I fucking don't want to do this prompt. 520 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,520 Like I want to do a different one. 521 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,280 But I was like, let's just run through it. 522 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:28,280 And I was actually talking to Will Will Rd. 523 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,360 Forbidden Tomwell about about this. 524 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:35,360 And they said that they ran it mixed with like 10 candles. 525 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,840 And every time they got a prompt that they didn't want, that 526 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,000 didn't feel like it fit their character, they could roll 527 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,640 again, but they had to blow out a candle. 528 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,440 And that was a third way that you could fucking die. 529 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,160 And I was like, that's so. Cool, love that. 530 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 531 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,480 That is, that is the rules breakdown. 532 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,840 You have the character generation breakdown or whatever 533 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,280 you were going to say. I was going to say I, I I don't 534 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,680 remember what I was going to say. 535 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,800 So, yeah, very cool. Yeah. 536 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,880 So character generation. Very simple. 537 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,360 Yeah, to to I gotta stop saying them too, huh? 538 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,440 Yeah, to to make your vampire you imagine someone from the 539 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,080 distant past. I did a hermetic scientist from 540 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:23,720 Bronze Age Mesopotamia because special interest there. 541 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:25,480 You go. I did. 542 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:35,040 I did the cousin of the last of the mayor of Indians, which was 543 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,760 the family in France before France really became like the 544 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,560 Kingdom of Franks or whatever, before, about 100 years before 545 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,480 Charlemagne rose to power. Yeah. 546 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,120 Charlemagne, the God you know. Yeah, yeah. 547 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,240 You know what's crazy is Charlemagne just means like 548 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,080 Charles the the king or something like, but I mean 549 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,320 Charlemagne, you know the. Name slaps. 550 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,760 Yeah. So to make your vampire you 551 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,760 imagine something from the distant past. 552 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,440 This is your first memory and experience. 553 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,960 It really defines like what you start with as your character. 554 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:13,120 Then you create 3 mortals and your relationships to them. 555 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,880 Then you give your vampire three skills based on the skills they 556 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,280 would have obtained in that life and three resources they'd also 557 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,360 have from living that life. You create three more 558 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:32,200 experiences with three more three more memories by combining 559 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,400 your mortals resources and skills. 560 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,960 Last Lee create the immortal that created you, which I 561 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,480 actually didn't do. I I subverted this one with mine 562 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,240 as well as a mark and the experience that made you a 563 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,200 vampire. I play the hermetic scientist, 564 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,000 which is like a a part of its classic alchemy. 565 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,640 So I was just like, yeah, I've alchemy. 566 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,160 You know, that's I I took an alchemic like for me like a 567 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,720 potion that turned me into this like a mortal vampire esque 568 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,880 being. I had fun with this one. 569 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,200 I actually really, I really enjoyed it. 570 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,440 You played it, you played it multiple times, right? 571 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:10,720 Yes, I have played this multiple times. 572 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,320 It's been a couple of years since I played the last, but I 573 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,600 got this years ago. And then at the end, your 574 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,360 vampire should have three skills, three resources, a mark, 575 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,640 which was like, it's how it, you know, look, it slipped off 576 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,120 wings, I think was the example that you gave. 577 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,880 It's in the book 3 Mortals that it has relationship with one 578 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:34,840 immortal and one experience in each of your five memories now. 579 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,240 I will say I I struggled so hard as my vampire creation because 580 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,480 like you know me like I, I struggle so hard with just 581 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,800 coming up with the name of a character, coming up with an 582 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,720 entire character's history and like all the people around them 583 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,720 took me like 5 hours. I'm not even kidding. 584 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,760 Like you know how deep I know the origin of like the Kingdom 585 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,000 of France and Charlemagne now. Like I went hard and I even all 586 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,160 of my NPC's are all named for like the French like French 587 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,960 characters at that time or or characters from like the mayor 588 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,560 of Indian or like what was their family like the Carla Vinjian 589 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,840 lineage or something like before like Charles Martens and fucking 590 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,640 Charlemagne and shit. Pretty cool it. 591 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,160 Was yeah, it was cool. I mean, I know a lot more about 592 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,000 the origin of the Kingdom of France and shit, which is neat, 593 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,880 but but yeah, going down Wiki rabbit holes like me, Castle 594 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,840 just said in chat, it literally says in the book to like use 595 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,360 this as an opportunity to learn about history and, and I did. 596 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,680 It's cool. Yeah. 597 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,640 My basically my character was, was that guy. 598 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,160 He was like a basically like a minor aristocrat and I got 599 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:49,840 turned but but I had my three, my three people were the guy who 600 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,880 was basically the last night of engine who said he was a distant 601 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,680 and distant uncle. He didn't like talking about 602 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,600 like the night of engines shit. They were basically overthrown. 603 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,400 And then I had a friend who was like a libertine who was like my 604 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,280 friend of me. We were like Bros that went out 605 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,960 like drinking and shit together. But he was like trying to like 606 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,520 get with a girl that I loved and then the girl that I loved. 607 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,280 And then when I got turned, it was like a beastly creature. 608 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,360 And I was supposed to meet this girl at like midnight in the 609 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,920 woods or whatever. And when I got there, this 610 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,840 creature was like standing over her and I like, you know, 611 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,480 attacked whatever. She ran off. 612 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,040 I got turned into a fucking vampire. 613 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,480 But my mark, which was really difficult for me. 614 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,880 I don't know what you chose for yours was that my teeth were 615 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,760 like beastial, like sharp, pointy, and anytime I would file 616 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,440 them down by the next morning they would all come back. 617 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,280 So it was like difficult for me to be in society because my 618 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,840 teeth were basically like beast teeth that I couldn't get rid of 619 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,680 it anyway. So I took to wearing masks when 620 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,520 I could or like staying in the shadows and shit. 621 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,080 I did haunting yellow eyes because I just thought like 622 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,120 drink a potion like a golden ass hydration. 623 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,720 Yeah, and like just. It's called jaundice now, yeah. 624 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the jaundice apparently is 625 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:02,320 was the mark. I did. 626 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,280 Yeah. I was just like, you know, I 627 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,120 went with AI, went with the very classic beautiful vampire. 628 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,520 I was really, I did not achieve this, but in my mind I was 629 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,240 really holding that. What's that Tilda Swinton movie, 630 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,320 The Last Lovers Left Alive or something like that you wanna 631 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,280 talk about? No, you've never seen a movie. 632 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,000 It's Only Lovers Left Alive, which is a vampire movie with 633 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,360 Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton and it's. 634 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,360 Wait, whoa, whoa. There's a vampire movie with Tom 635 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,520 Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton. Yes, absolutely. 636 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,200 It's really good too. I really enjoyed that movie. 637 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,000 I saw. It's very sad, sad vampire 638 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,080 movie. Sad how? 639 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,960 Have I not seen a sad vampire? Movie very much like a I think 640 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,200 it was more of like an indie flick. 641 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,280 A depressed musician reunites with his lover. 642 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,480 However, their romance, which has already endured several 643 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,240 centuries, is disrupted by the by the arrival of her 644 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,520 uncontrollable younger sister. Who plays the younger sister. 645 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,200 I don't remember. This is good. 646 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,800 This is good content, Mia Wasakowska. 647 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:09,840 I have no idea who this person is. 648 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,760 Yeah, that person. Oh, I've seen her. 649 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,000 Interesting. She's Alice and Alice in 650 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,320 Wonderland. The newer ones. 651 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,200 The interesting. Well, I know what I'm going to 652 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,240 try to watch. Yeah, it's a solid movie. 653 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,040 It's very. Depressing. 654 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,160 Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. 655 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,960 Is it a refin movie? That's what me Castle just said. 656 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,960 That makes it doubly bad because Refin is like one of my favorite 657 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:43,360 fucking directors ever. No Jim Jarmusch something. 658 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,960 Oh yeah, Jim Jarmusch, It's not refin. 659 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,360 You teased me. You teased me. 660 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,760 Me, Castle. I love. 661 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,480 I love Good refin movie. I'm such a pretend I. 662 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:56,800 Was going for SAD, I was going to. 663 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,560 I was trying to go for SAD vampire and I really actually 664 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,720 just ended up with weird cult vampire. 665 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,960 Interesting. Because there's, there's a, 666 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,480 there's a prompt that like refers to Colts and I rolled 667 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,639 that page twice and it only gets worse. 668 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,120 And like, I feel like every time I gained like a mortal friend, 669 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,600 like almost immediately, either I killed them or they were 670 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,400 killed. So it was cool. 671 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,679 I feel like every time I got mortal friends going, I would 672 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:26,840 roll the prompt to be like, you slept for 100 years, they're all 673 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:27,360 dead. I'm like. 674 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,440 Yeah. And that happened too. 675 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:34,280 Yeah, Yeah, that's one. And then another one died, I 676 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,639 think also by something I might have done, but you know. 677 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,360 Yeah, what's 1? Gaming? 678 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,560 I kept having servants. I got that like 3 times and I 679 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,719 just kept naming them the same name and by the third one I was 680 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,760 like or like they were the same name. 681 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,639 Like I would take a servant but only like a specific person and 682 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,440 they kept having the same name. By the third one I was like I 683 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,840 don't know why this feels vaguely comforting but it's but 684 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,800 it's cool. I like this guy and then. 685 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,960 A dog over and over and you keep. 686 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:08,240 Name the same name, but that one, the third one I rolled that 687 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,040 they had I committed a crime and they took the blame for it. 688 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,560 And then when I rolled again, something like basically they 689 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,240 got executed for the crime that I committed. 690 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,040 But in that role, like I had to take a skill that was basically 691 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,640 like not my fucking problem. Like oops, Oh well. 692 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,560 And I'm like God damn it. And then like my last two 693 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:33,360 prompts before I died were something like, you have massive 694 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,480 regret for something that you've lost, lose 2 resources, gain one 695 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,560 that you've lost. And I was like dope, I got my 696 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,560 like mayor of engine signet ring back. 697 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,560 And my very next prompt was basically like, shit's 698 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,880 transient. Get rid of your oldest most 699 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,000 precious resource. And I was like, I'm definitely 700 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,080 going crazy at this point. Like my vampire's going crazy 701 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,760 where they're like, Oh my God, I'm, I'm literally like 702 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,000 basically the prompt was like, you have to figure out how to 703 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:57,920 get it back. And I did. 704 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,520 And my very next prompt was fuck it. 705 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,080 And like tossed it again. And the prompt right after that, 706 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,200 I died, I was like, Yep, I was definitely going crazy at the 707 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,280 end. Like that was that was it. 708 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,920 So yeah. So yeah, that's basically what 709 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,640 we did. You had a you had a cult 710 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:18,360 alchemist. Yeah, I had I Tri saved like the 711 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,880 memory of the girl I loved for almost to the very end. 712 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,440 It was like one of the last memories. 713 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,280 And I know that's not necessarily it says always like 714 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,080 get rid of your oldest memory or whatever, but I was like, Nah, 715 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,880 and I didn't fuck with Diaries. No, I think it's a great one to 716 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,240 hold on to though, you know? Yeah, well, because I forgot who 717 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,680 I was. I forgot how I was made. 718 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,840 But I remember the girl that I loved so. 719 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,320 There's a lot of loss in this game, like this game is like a. 720 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,760 Game of loss, you know, yeah, it's dope. 721 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,400 It it tickled my heart in in all the right and wrong ways. 722 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,280 Definitely made me really sad, which felt good. 723 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,800 It's it's good to feel something, you know. 724 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:57,080 So moving on to the as if the timer fucking matters at this 725 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,400 point, like we're using it moving on to the likes and don't 726 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,120 like sections of the podcast. Basically, what did we enjoy the 727 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,480 most about the game and what did we think like wasn't necessarily 728 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,800 our favorite thing? I always start. 729 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,680 Do you want to start with what? What you weren't this big a fan 730 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,560 of? Yeah, I mean, I think that I 731 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,600 this will be my my almost mild take I've ever had because 732 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,520 there's nothing about this that I really dislike. 733 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,680 Like I truly enjoy this. I like creative writing 734 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,440 activities. So like this probably is strikes 735 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,160 closer to what something that I would enjoy to do, maybe more so 736 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,400 than you. I thought this is a ton of fun 737 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,160 to play and I have played it several times over the past few 738 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,400 years. Yeah, I don't really have any 739 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,360 dislikes. I mean, what is it a dislike 740 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,720 about? It does the thing it does and I 741 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:42,600 think it does it well. And then, yeah, my likes are 742 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,040 pretty much everything. I thought the prompts were 743 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,120 really cool. I think that that I, we said, 744 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,840 we're going to say this later, but it is in my likes. 745 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,000 The additional prompts, there are two sections. 746 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,800 I think there's only two sections of additional prompts 747 00:37:54,720 --> 00:38:00,840 and they're better. They're great, the book is 748 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,080 beautiful. There's two fucking silk ribbons 749 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,520 which I absolutely did employ. Shout out two silk ribbons. 750 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:08,720 This is exactly the book you want. 751 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,080 Boil on the cover and two silk ribbons. 752 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,000 I know. What the fuck? 753 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,520 It's. It's so plush. 754 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,000 Yeah. And like, frankly, like, this is 755 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,880 very easy to play in a short amount of time. 756 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,000 And you don't have to do a ride. And I did where you keep a, like 757 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,360 a journal the whole time. Like, you can really just, like, 758 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,000 go through it. Yeah, yeah. 759 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:29,840 What about you? Yeah. 760 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,720 I So what I wasn't a big a fan of it's it's kind of the same 761 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:35,440 thing I have with cyberpunk. It's just not my game. 762 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,800 Like I'm not a solo journaling fan. 763 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:45,880 I this is kind of with a lot of creative stuff and it probably 764 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,840 comes out on the show a little bit because this show ends up a 765 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,440 lot of time being beach like dev editing. 766 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,120 I don't necessarily I don't like starting with a blank canvas. 767 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,600 I like starting with something and and kind of molding that 768 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,960 thing, right? So it's kind of like if you want 769 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,920 me to come up with an idea for something that's going to be 770 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,800 really hard, but if you come up with an idea, I can tell you 100 771 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,720 ways that I would do it. You know what I mean? 772 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:10,840 Like, and so having this, what you said, basically massive 773 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,360 creating writing exercise, I told you it took me like 5 hours 774 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,480 to to come up with just my vampire creation. 775 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,160 And I'm sure it took you 10 minutes. 776 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,520 Like, yeah. Pretty much, yeah. 777 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:24,280 I like I my naming, my names were not classic Bronze Age 778 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,000 names. And I do know that although I I 779 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,720 did move outside of the Bronze Age, but not by very much 780 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:31,040 because I kept it towards the fall of the Bronze Age. 781 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,560 But I'm already like, that's already like a special interest 782 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,640 of mine. So I didn't have to deep dive 783 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,760 too much of it, you know, Right? Yeah, I mean, so that's really, 784 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,960 that's my only critique, which is just literally a very 785 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,640 personal, extremely subjective critique. 786 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,920 It's just a me thing. It's just that like this kind of 787 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,920 just reinforce, I've never been a huge fan. 788 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,040 I've always said I'm not a big fan. 789 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,280 I haven't done a lot of them because I'm like, it just 790 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,320 doesn't feel like it's something I really want to do. 791 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,600 And then doing one, it was gorgeous. 792 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:02,920 It was a really fun experience. But if I had the opportunity to 793 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,800 sit down and play another solo journaling game or like another 794 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,920 solo adventure game, like 12 years. 795 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,080 Or any of that kind of stuff. I will always just go with the 796 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,680 adventure game, right? I would play this one again 797 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,440 because I've done it and I would wanna see what it is and maybe 798 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,840 flexing those muscles a little bit more would make solo 799 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,080 journaling more fun going forward. 800 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,040 So I do wanna try every now and then again. 801 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,200 But I would say that's my only critique. 802 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,320 And it's a very personal it's not even critique, it's very 803 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,960 just personal, subjective thing. In solo games, I'm always going 804 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,160 to pick adventure over journaling and that's something 805 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,680 I really have to say. And what do I like about it? 806 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,240 What you said fucking everything. 807 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:42,640 I mean, I'll say that the the this stuff for those non pocket 808 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,880 land sucks to be you. All of the kind of like collage 809 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,000 bits. The I, you know, I hate texture 810 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,200 of paper. If you're going to do texture 811 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,000 paper, do it like this where you can barely tell. 812 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,480 Don't put wrinkles and shit in your paper. 813 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,560 Yeah, the immersion that you get flipping through the 1st 10 814 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,920 pages before you get into the prompts, it is so Immaculate. 815 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,480 It's so perfect. The vibes are insane the entire 816 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:05,680 way. I would say that that's 817 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:11,040 unquestionably my favorite thing about it is the piece as like a 818 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:15,840 piece of art or a product itself is so important to the 819 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,600 experience and it's perfect. It's fucking perfect. 820 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:22,600 That's that's what I like most about it. 821 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,600 The actual product itself is gorgeous and it definitely 822 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,000 deserved. Did it get? 823 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,240 Yeah, best production value gold and then silver for product of 824 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,400 the year. I'm going to go back through 825 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,720 every fucking Idi and see who actually won product of the 826 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:37,600 year. And it's going to be just a 827 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,400 black and white fucking 2 column. 828 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,280 I'm going to be what the critique the product of the year 829 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,800 is every time. But this the the book itself, 830 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,320 the vibes that it creates is my favorite part. 831 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,400 It's it's perfect. It's stunning, it makes the 832 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:56,720 immersion so incredible and adds to the experience in a way 833 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:58,400 that's like indescribable. And to really play it. 834 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,240 And I would say that's that's my favorite thing about it. 835 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,520 So why don't we move into the metrics then? 836 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,400 Because my my assumption is, and we haven't really talked about 837 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,960 this, how we're going to review this because I wasn't even sure 838 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,080 if we were going to have scores or not. 839 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,360 But guess what? It's a book, it's a game. 840 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,240 It has rules, it has everything. So let's just fucking do it like 841 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:20,880 it's a game like always. I agree. 842 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,360 Yeah. We'll, I'll just mark it 843 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,560 somewhere for my own stuff later. 844 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,240 If we do decide add like a new category at the end where we do 845 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:31,920 like solo games or adventures or whatever when we do our yearly 846 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,840 roundup. Hey, maybe we'll do an award 847 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,400 show, you know? Yeah. 848 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:37,920 You will have one more meaningless. 849 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,160 The weekly Yeah, we'll do the week. 850 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,440 The Scrolees the. Scrolees the. 851 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,000 Scrolees OK, So for those who don't know, one of the main 852 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,400 things we do here on the show is we do quantify our terrible 853 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:53,080 opinions with metrics. We used to do 5 for. 854 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,240 We still do 5 for books and three for scenes. 855 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,200 But in the new format that we've done, instead of waiting to the 856 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,040 end and then talking about those, we're going to go through 857 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,520 those metrics as a way to kind of discuss the book. 858 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:09,720 And we've mashed those eight together into 7:00-ish to talk 859 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:11,320 about, and then we'll score at the end. 860 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,960 So this will be a book and we'll go over those metrics at the 861 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:14,960 end. But the metrics that we're going 862 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,400 to talk about for basically everything that we do is art and 863 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:23,280 layout, usability, rule set, originality, value and vibes. 864 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,960 And we'll just go through that. So starting with art and layout, 865 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,200 I mean, we've talked about a little bit. 866 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,320 What are your thoughts on art and layout? 867 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,200 I mean, it's such a great book. It is so beautiful to look at. 868 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,640 It's it's easy to read and go to go through. 869 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,760 I really love the font choices on the prompts. 870 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,160 I like the color on the background. 871 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:46,240 I there I have no massive knocks to any of this. 872 00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:54,480 You know, I think it's great. I also love, I love the little 873 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,280 like images and like inset into the background, like faded out 874 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,280 on several of the pages. You go through the prompts. 875 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,480 Yeah, I think it's a pretty book. 876 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,360 And yeah, I mean, those first few pages when you're going 877 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,680 through like the explanation what the game is and kind of the 878 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,240 rules and it has this like scrapbooky feel to it. 879 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,960 It's very good. Yeah, it's incredible because 880 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:17,840 it's such a good. I mean, they definitely do the 881 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,960 graphic design in such a way that it is a book. 882 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,480 But then someone took newspaper clippings or something and like 883 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,040 stuffed it into the book, taped some stuff into the book. 884 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,920 And they do it in a way that doesn't look tacky because we 885 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,720 have looked at, we've looked at game books that use parchment 886 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:36,280 shed and stains and stuff like that. 887 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,920 That just looks tacky as fuck. This is so well done. 888 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,680 Like it looks like a historic piece, you know what I mean? 889 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,360 Like, you know, I have opinions about teach RBT's as art, but 890 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,440 this one as a product and stuff gets about as close as I think 891 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,080 it's going to be going to get in the form of a book. 892 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,840 It's it's, it's fantastic. So, yeah, beautiful, gorgeous 893 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:02,160 fucking book. The companion book is really 894 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,040 interesting. It it, it literally says on the 895 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,320 website, like, don't spoil it for people. 896 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,000 There's no pictures of it. When you get it, don't tell 897 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,680 anyone about it. If they want it, they'll buy it. 898 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,960 I'll tell you all about it. Not on the show though. 899 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,920 If you want it, go to the team's. 900 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,600 Website about it honestly. Say all about it 1000 year old 901 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,520 vampire.com you can still grab it for 45 bucks we'll go over 902 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:25,520 that in value a little bit later so usability all right I'll 903 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,720 start with this one the plaintext version I talked about 904 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:34,360 earlier love that love that the it's not hard to do a plain text 905 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,120 version to I don't understand why every game doesn't just have 906 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,880 plain text version just copy paste it all into a dot TXT file 907 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,400 like. If you if you for for, you know 908 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,400 what am I trying to say? For plain text version, screen 909 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,240 readers can access them more easily, so people who can't 910 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:55,200 necessarily actually read the book can still play and enjoy 911 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,480 this using screen reader. And it's a lot easier for that 912 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,240 purpose to just do a plain text version than it is to get like a 913 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,040 like PDF remediation and shit like that. 914 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,400 Yeah, which it's always better to do PDF remediation because 915 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,000 then you have all texts on pictures and stuff like that 916 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,680 too. But yeah, at the very least it 917 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:20,560 is a massive what word am I trying to help when it's like to 918 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,240 help people that need to use screen readers. 919 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:23,160 That was the word I couldn't think. 920 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,720 Accessibility feature. Accessibility feature. 921 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly what. 922 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,520 You're saying? Yeah, that was basically what I 923 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,880 said earlier is that it is a when I couldn't load the fucking 924 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,040 PDF because my Internet at work fucking sucked. 925 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,680 It took half a second to get the text file up, which is really, 926 00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,960 really fantastic. It doesn't have hyperlink stable 927 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,800 contents any of that that shit because it really doesn't. 928 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,240 I mean it kind of doesn't need it like 90% of the books 929 00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:49,880 prompts, but I mean it would be nice with the appendices and 930 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,040 stuff. It has no bookmarks, which would 931 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,320 be really nice. A table of content would be nice 932 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,720 in the front, but I also am OK kind of without it because I 933 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:03,960 think that does kind of take away from the book as art part 934 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,120 of the game as artifact artifact yeah, it kind of would take away 935 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,400 from that a little bit and again the rule section before the 936 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,240 prompts is what like 25 plus like 25 pages something like 937 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,800 that like yeah, maybe a little bit more, but that doesn't 938 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,000 bother me. I wouldn't mind the bookmarks, 939 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,040 especially in the back once you get to the there's like 6 940 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,840 appendices. So I I wouldn't have minded a 941 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,560 little bit of something for that. 942 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,520 So not not perfectly usable, but IA little bit more lenient on 943 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:36,000 this specifically for the the artifact aspect of the of the 944 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,600 book. What are your thoughts? 945 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:46,040 I just for usability have two silk book ribbons in which, 946 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,120 because I'm, I'm playing this with the book, you know, a lot 947 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,080 of stuff that we do, I go through digitally as well. 948 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,480 But like, as someone playing this with the book, that was 949 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,760 incredibly useful and I did use it quite a bit. 950 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:03,640 There's two silk book ribbons and I, I mean, I, I get why you 951 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,560 would want a table of contents, I guess. 952 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,640 I honestly want it for this. Maybe bookmarks in the digital 953 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,960 version just to get to the appendices really quickly and to 954 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,560 get past character creation if you don't need it. 955 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,560 But like, yeah, I mean, most of this book is prompt, so it's 956 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:17,640 just like. It's. 957 00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,240 It's prompts, you know, how much do I have to navigate this? 958 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:24,520 I really don't have to. It's it's not like a regular 959 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,600 game book where I'm referencing a bunch of like rules as I go or 960 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:33,000 whatever. Are you reading the designers 961 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,840 notes right now? There's a puzzle and I can't 962 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:43,120 figure it out over Mang. See what I'm saying? 963 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,440 Yeah, I don't know what it says either, but. 964 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,080 Yeah, there's a pin on the, there's a pin on the website 965 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,320 that has, you know, $1000 vampire. 966 00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,480 But and then there's like another word that's a puzzle 967 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,960 like this where it's just like you have to like track through 968 00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,560 the points to do it. And then I saw this and and 969 00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:04,680 anyway, game over bro. But where's the in come in? 970 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,440 I guess you don't use it. No. 971 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,520 Maybe I'm wrong then. I mean, Game Over makes sense, 972 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,360 but you use the E twice, which is fine. 973 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,120 Yeah, there's just that in, I don't know, Game over makes 974 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:22,280 sense. Rule set again. 975 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:28,720 I have not read A a ton of solo journaling games. 976 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,520 Most of them are prompt based like this. 977 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:33,160 A lot of them are like card flipping or Oracle or things 978 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,200 like that. For this rule set, it's fucking 979 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,040 simple. You literally roll AD 6 and AD 980 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,240 10 and it gets you to a creative writing prompt and that's a 981 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:41,440 whole fucking game. Outside of characterization. 982 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,280 That's it. I don't know how much simpler it 983 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,160 can be. Like it's fine, it's fine, it 984 00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,280 works, it's great. I don't think you need more. 985 00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,280 I don't think you need less. I think for what it wanted to 986 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,360 do, that's all you needed to do and it's great. 987 00:49:53,120 --> 00:50:00,200 I think where this really shines is the like memories, resources 988 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,320 and like the things that you lose as you go. 989 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,960 Like this is a game of loss. Like you kind of you gain stuff 990 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,600 as you play, but man, you lose a lot, like a lot of what your 991 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,000 vampire is, which is really defined by the memories. 992 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:15,000 Like they you lose those memories as you gain more, you 993 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,440 know, and you change as you go. It's very, you know, Ship of 994 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,680 Theseus, Vampire, the Vampire of Theseus. 995 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:24,560 Can I show you? Can I show you? 996 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,080 Yeah, two of my favorite pages in the entire thing. 997 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,360 It's Appendix 7. OK. 998 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,560 It at the very top it says what is a role-playing game and then 999 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,280 starts going into what apparently is A2 page diatribe 1000 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:45,880 on what is a role-playing game. And then they stuff the entire 1001 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,680 section in pictures and a lock of hair and cover up everything 1002 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,640 that would have been written for what is a role-playing game. 1003 00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,360 And how I read that is Tim Hodgings going fuck what is a 1004 00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,040 role play game sections and that made me laugh so hard. 1005 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,160 As much as I love the book, I loved it twice as much when I 1006 00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,080 read Appendix 7. Incredible. 1007 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:13,960 Just my chef's kiss. Fantastic originality. 1008 00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:18,280 My God, bro, like, and this is the thing, and I even wrote 1009 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,440 this, I wrote this is exactly what my note said. 1010 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,760 It says it's great. The concept is incredible, and 1011 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,520 that's even with the absolute glut of vampire media out there. 1012 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:30,040 And vampires have been done to fucking death every fucking 1013 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,800 decade forever, right? It is impossible to not you want 1014 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,640 like sock puppet vampires. Guess what? 1015 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,840 It's out there like it exists to me. 1016 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,880 The concept of this game blew me away. 1017 00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:48,040 Like the ability to literally live the life of the vampire is 1018 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,600 crazy to me. Yeah, I mean, I'm my mine. 1019 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:55,560 Mine's very much the same. Super great concept and great 1020 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,520 execution of the concept. But yeah, vampire game. 1021 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:01,640 But I think this is a really quality experience. 1022 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:06,440 Like, I'm not shocked that I've heard this spoken of in non 1023 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,520 tabletop RPG circles. Yeah. 1024 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,960 And I totally understand why, because it's fucking cool. 1025 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,680 Like it because yeah, it's great. 1026 00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:15,440 Yeah. Go ahead. 1027 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,240 Because I bet you there's a ton of people that have played this 1028 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:19,200 game that have never played a tabletop role-playing game and 1029 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,600 don't see this as a tabletop role-playing game, which it kind 1030 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:26,960 of I mean, you, you what is a what is a role-playing game 1031 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,640 like? Is it is it? 1032 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,920 Who gives a shit, right? I mean, you are you are you are 1033 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,120 playing a role. You know, meet castle and chat 1034 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,000 made a good point. It makes you feel some of what 1035 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,680 immortality probably feels like because even comparing yourself 1036 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,200 to now to your teen self can feel like a totally different 1037 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,400 person. Imagine a century or millennia. 1038 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:49,440 I mean, truth, myself, my teens, myself, my 20s, myself in like 1039 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,520 my early 30s even I would say, and I've said this over and over 1040 00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,680 again, you don't even really and and you're old enough to say 1041 00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,120 this thing. When I started, when I started 1042 00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,480 to feel like an adult, not finished, not finished, but 1043 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,760 where I was like, damn, I'm an adult now. 1044 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,360 When I was a kid, I thought 20 year olds were fucking adults, 1045 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,200 right? When I was 20, I had no fucking 1046 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,720 clue. I did not start to really feel 1047 00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:14,960 like a grown up until I was 27 years old. 1048 00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:19,280 And I would say that for me, things kind of started to settle 1049 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:24,520 out like in my early 30s where I was like, I feel like I'm me. 1050 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,480 And now that I'm in my late 30s, that felt true to me where I was 1051 00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,400 like, I'm the same person. I like some. 1052 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,040 Some things that change are things that you choose to change 1053 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,680 a lot more than things that change over time. 1054 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:36,800 Once you hit your early 30s in my I. 1055 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:37,720 Very much feel the same. Yeah. 1056 00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:39,520 I think it's, it's a great comparison. 1057 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,720 Like, yeah, after millennia, like, who would you be? 1058 00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:43,560 You'd be totally different. Yeah. 1059 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,840 Which is, which is crazy. And then they say again, it 1060 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,200 makes you feel that concept of that immortality would be in 1061 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,640 many ways a curse. You can only keep so much of you 1062 00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,560 alive for so long, even if your body continues. 1063 00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,880 I mean, very true. If you read the beginning of 1064 00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,320 Interview a vampire, there are vampires that literally go 1065 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,320 fucking crazy because they've been alive for too long. 1066 00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,680 Like he clutched the hands off the violin player. 1067 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,480 You know what I mean? Like these people, these, they 1068 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,280 go insane to the point where there's like, fuck it, I'm 1069 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,360 walking out of the sun, I'm done. 1070 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,200 And I think Lestat at one point does that, but he's too powerful 1071 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,120 now. The sun doesn't kill him. 1072 00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,000 You know what I mean? Like it's, it's, it's crazy 1073 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:16,840 easy. So yeah. 1074 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,120 But I think concept wise, again, it's a vampire game, but I think 1075 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:24,080 the originality, the ability to experience what we experience in 1076 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:29,440 that scope is incredible. So you know what we said before, 1077 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,480 like you can do a thing that's been done if you do it in a 1078 00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:32,920 different way. And I think this does it in a 1079 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,440 massively different way. And I think it's. 1080 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,360 I think it's a very fair take on this so. 1081 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,240 All right value. I'm actually, I honestly, I'm so 1082 00:54:39,240 --> 00:54:41,400 stoked how much you liked this because I knew I liked this 1083 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:42,720 going in. It's vampireship. 1084 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:44,760 What do? You well, I know that like solo 1085 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,600 journaling is not always like your go to, you know, but I'm so 1086 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,920 stoked you like this so much because I have thought this was 1087 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,400 brilliant for a while and I kind of I've had for so long, 1088 00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,000 frankly, that I've forgotten and I had it. 1089 00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,480 I had to look for it. It's on Abigail's vampire 1090 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,240 bookshelf, where all of her vampire I'm. 1091 00:55:00,240 --> 00:55:01,880 Shocked with all of her Twilight stuff, yeah. 1092 00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,080 Yeah, with all of her Twilight stuff, that's right. 1093 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,720 Now tell her to read. Better vampire fiction. 1094 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:07,480 She has. She has. 1095 00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,000 And she also loves the bad stuff. 1096 00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,280 I will say at least she loves it mostly ironically. 1097 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,000 You're allowed to love things. You love it the way. 1098 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,280 She loves it, is incredibly funny and like, very ironic and 1099 00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:18,480 mean. Mimi, you know. 1100 00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,560 Yeah, like if you know it's bad and you love it for how bad it 1101 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,200 is, that's totally fine. I mean, she doesn't love 1102 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,280 whatever you love bad shit, people. 1103 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:26,360 That's totally fine. Don't she? 1104 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:32,800 I mean, Twilight tattoo. She's she's you're married to 1105 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,320 this person. So don't I'll delete, I'll 1106 00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,480 delete this part. Don't tell her about that, but 1107 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,000 value. So the book is 4750 and the PDF 1108 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,520 is $15 whether you get it on itch or from Tim Hutchings 1109 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,480 website. The companion book is 45 bucks. 1110 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,840 There's a bunch of other stuff you can get on that website 1111 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,680 including enamel pins and shit, which I'm very sad I didn't see 1112 00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,320 when I bought the companion book because I had about like 2 of 1113 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,320 the enamel pins. I fucking love enamel pins. 1114 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:02,800 You know what's weird? Backer kit. 1115 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,240 Once you've like, you know, you can be a super background 1116 00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:06,520 Kickstarter. This is so random. 1117 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,120 You can be the the version of like a super background backer 1118 00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,440 kit. They send you a pin. 1119 00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,880 I had they sent me one like I backed enough projects that I'm 1120 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,600 like their version of like a super backer or whatever. 1121 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,720 So they sent me a pen, which I was like Kickstarter never sent 1122 00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:23,160 me a pen. Thanks Packer kid like. 1123 00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,240 Well, fuck Kickstarter, but yeah. 1124 00:56:25,240 --> 00:56:26,120 Yeah, yeah. I mean, very true. 1125 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:33,800 But anyway, so 4750 I think is a little bit like expensive for a 1126 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,400 book when the PF is $15.00. But I will say that this book I 1127 00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,680 have no problem. With that, yeah, it's such a 1128 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,760 well done, beautiful, like artistic take on a book. 1129 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,320 I I don't really mind. That's a little bit more pricey. 1130 00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,240 You have a lot of legs this game too. 1131 00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:52,440 I mean, honestly, if you made a different vampire than the one 1132 00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,920 that you previously played and you still rolled the same 1133 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,280 prompts, they would you could have them shake out differently. 1134 00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:01,960 You know, I think there's a lot of playability to this, a lot of 1135 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,400 life in it. So I mean, I bought it. 1136 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,600 So wait, did I buy it or did I back from Kickstarter? 1137 00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,560 What year was it on Kickstarter? I don't think this was ever on 1138 00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:10,680 Kickstarter, was it? I think. 1139 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,400 It was maybe I just bought it then so. 1140 00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,320 I I don't if it was I did not put that in the info. 1141 00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,840 Do not know when I bought this. Yeah, I bought. 1142 00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,760 I mean, I bought it in probably 2020 or 2021. 1143 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,880 I've played for a. Long time too, which is funny 1144 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,960 because I've had it forever and I just played it like this week, 1145 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:31,080 the first time I ever played it. Yeah. 1146 00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,480 I mean, again, pricey for a book, but I think this is a 1147 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,800 luxury book even in the context of like luxury books in the in 1148 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,600 the concept of like the TTRPG space is like a luxury space 1149 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:40,920 like you don't need this to live and breathe. 1150 00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:46,280 But I do think it is worth it even though again, like that's 1151 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,360 got me not not going to be the best value ever. 1152 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,520 We'll always talk about something like Death in Space 1153 00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:57,160 where the normal cover has like foiling and bookmarks but it's a 1154 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,040 6 by 9 I think with 150 ish pages. 1155 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,120 But like you said it's infinite replayability. 1156 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,640 Basically there's 8080 initial prompts and I think close to 150 1157 00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:11,000 secondary prompts. But I think also on top of that, 1158 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,160 all the appendices are great. Like the interview about like 1159 00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,160 why and how they did it is fantastic. 1160 00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,760 The even just like the number, I almost wanted to do the the drop 1161 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,120 sheet like for the random number generator just to fucking do it, 1162 00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,080 which I thought was really gorgeous. 1163 00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:29,080 Again, there's like some puzzles hidden throughout, which is 1164 00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:30,920 really, really cool. It's a great book. 1165 00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,440 Yeah, it's a great book. And value wise, it's 15 bucks 1166 00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:35,680 for the PDF is a steal, I think. Like that's the thing that I 1167 00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:37,320 think should cost more. Probably underpriced, yeah. 1168 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:41,360 Yeah, I mean, I think for me, I think the PDF should be $25 and 1169 00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,720 the book should be like 30, but you know, it is what it is. 1170 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:54,520 Also there is like a permanent basically it what is it when 1171 00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,920 it's free on itch community copies like the hardship copies, 1172 00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,720 they basically say if if you are in hardship just fucking take 1173 00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,280 it. But if you pay for it, please 1174 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,200 pay for it. This is how I make a living and 1175 00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,720 I think that's a really great thing for any creator to have. 1176 00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,520 And then once again, the website is, I think it's just thousand 1177 00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,920 year old vampire.com. It is just and 1000 year old 1178 00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:14,720 vampire.com. Vibes. 1179 00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:16,960 Vibes is the last thing. Then we'll go to the scores. 1180 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,280 Immaculate through the fucking roof. 1181 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,560 Yeah, unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, through the roof is. 1182 00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,120 What I wrote If I'm playing a silver game, these are the kind 1183 00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,480 of vibes I need to be able to immerse. 1184 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,200 If it had anything less, I probably would have bailed out 1185 00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,160 because as we've already said over and over again, I played 1186 00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,720 this game because it's amazing and I would probably do it 1187 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,880 again. But solo game, I mean, solo 1188 00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,720 journaling will never be my thing. 1189 00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,400 I will always prefer solo adventuring. 1190 00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:47,520 But this would would quite easily be the exception to that 1191 00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,720 rule. And I would play this. 1192 00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,480 I probably, I will play this again because I think the second 1193 00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,080 time will be even more enjoyable once I'm able to again let go a 1194 00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,600 little bit more into what the game is and have a little bit 1195 00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,640 better expectation. Because I also didn't remember 1196 01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,800 to make an experience for every prompt for the first like 8 1197 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,040 prompts and I had to go back and so. 1198 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,280 But yeah. Amazing vibes through the 1199 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,360 fucking roof. I am, I definitely want to 1200 01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,920 replay this and do like a 1980s vampire and play into the 1201 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,960 future. Yeah, oh, we should do. 1202 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,880 We could do, we could do multiplayer because, you know, 1203 01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:21,960 there's multiplayer rules. I. 1204 01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:25,560 Did I didn't read the appendix but I know it's there. 1205 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:27,000 That'd be sick. That'd be sick. 1206 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,880 Maybe maybe we can do a discord play by post? 1207 01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,480 Oh yeah, join our discord. That'd be cool. 1208 01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,200 Join the discord, links are where links are. 1209 01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:37,640 Yeah, OK. Ratings. 1210 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:39,920 Oh, remind me to talk about a Zine. 1211 01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:44,040 We're going to make ratings. Let's bounce over to the review 1212 01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,680 scores. I wasn't sure how we're going to 1213 01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,320 do it, so let me pop up the game scores. 1214 01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,960 Boom. All right. 1215 01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,440 So for books, as I said, we've already gone over these 7 1216 01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,400 metrics total, but there are 5 for this. 1217 01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,600 We're going to do art and layout, usability, rule set, 1218 01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:05,560 originality and value for these. So art and layout, we've already 1219 01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:06,480 talked about it. What do you think? 1220 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:07,880 What number are you giving art and layout? 1221 01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,440 Oh gosh, I'm pretty high on this. 1222 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:17,400 Yeah, I I'm a solid 8 on this. You know, I might be a nine, 1223 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,960 honestly, actually. Yeah, I think you're crazy if 1224 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:21,840 this isn't. I think you're crazy if this 1225 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,600 isn't a nine. I mean, I'm closer to. 1226 01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:24,720 I'm not. I don't think this is 1227 01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:27,560 necessarily a 10, but I'm about as close as I could be to A10 1228 01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,680 without it being one for art layout because of. 1229 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,400 A9 on. This even if you took out all of 1230 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,640 the the scrapbooking, the book itself is gorgeous. 1231 01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,520 Yes, you're. Like the and then you throw in 1232 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,560 all the vibes from the scrapbooking plus the fucking 1233 01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,560 foil covering Shit. Easy 9. 1234 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:52,080 Easy, 9 out of 10 usability don't subscribe to us. 1235 01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:56,000 Thank you. Thank you for the subscription. 1236 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,000 We need to we need to put a big thing across that please don't 1237 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,560 subscribe to us. But thank you so much. 1238 01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,400 I believe that is, is that Carl, is that Carl Druid? 1239 01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:12,800 But usability, I mean, we're up and down on this a little bit, 1240 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,360 right? It has no digital tools outside 1241 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,120 the text, which is which, which is fantastic to have the text 1242 01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,080 file. I wouldn't mind bookmarks and 1243 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:20,760 we'll came with a table of contents because you know, 1244 01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:25,320 artifact aspect of it. But as you said over and over 1245 01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:29,960 again, two bookmarks 22 which for a physical artifact, this is 1246 01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,920 about as close as you're going to get to hyperlinks outside of 1247 01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:36,560 like snake wolf 3. God, they're beautiful. 1248 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,720 They're beautiful bookmarks. What are you? 1249 01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:39,800 What are your what are your thoughts on? 1250 01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,760 I, I feel the same. You know, I, I don't, I don't 1251 01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:45,360 know where I'm at on this one. I, I think I'm at about the 1252 01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:50,560 like, I mean, man, I don't know that the plain text file I think 1253 01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,440 adds to it. So I think I'm at a high 7, low 1254 01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,600 8. And I'm good on A7, I'm good on 1255 01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:59,480 a seven rule set. I mean, we, we, this one's going 1256 01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:04,000 to be hard because again, we, I'm, I when we talk, there's a 1257 01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,400 reason we don't review skirmish games yet. 1258 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,360 There's a reason it's hard to review solo games, but not 1259 01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,000 necessarily for teach RPGs. Am I? 1260 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,360 Are either of us experts? No, have have I don't. 1261 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,400 I mean, I think I've read probably more books than you. 1262 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,880 I don't want to say something happened, but I've read hundreds 1263 01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,240 of teach RPGs. We've reviewed at this point 1264 01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,880 hundreds of teach RPGs. I've played dozens and dozens of 1265 01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:29,840 TTRPGSI feel like I have at least enough context to be able 1266 01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:33,840 to have a knowledgeable opinion, right? 1267 01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:36,040 When it comes to solo journaling, not so much. 1268 01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,760 You know, I I don't feel like I played enough or know enough. 1269 01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:40,080 So this is a difficult one for me. 1270 01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:42,720 So I'm going to review this as if it is a role-playing game. 1271 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:46,600 It does what it wants to do. Does the does it blow me away? 1272 01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:50,080 I don't think that's the point of the rule set, but we still 1273 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:51,440 have to review it. What are your thoughts? 1274 01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:55,400 I have done a lot of writing prompt activities in my life 1275 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,320 because I like creative writing. I do it a lot less now as as an 1276 01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,440 adult than when I was in a teen or even in my early 20s. 1277 01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:08,560 But yeah, I actually really enjoy this and I enjoy the light 1278 01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:12,680 mechanics that are in here. I enjoy the feeling of loss that 1279 01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:16,720 you get from from the way it programs loss into how you play 1280 01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,520 this game and how you gain things as you go and yeah, how 1281 01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:21,320 you how your character changes over time. 1282 01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,160 I think the rules are very simple and effective, but I 1283 01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,520 think it does mean that your character like, even though they 1284 01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:29,800 are simple, like you do change as you play the game, your 1285 01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:33,040 character does change and that is like effective. 1286 01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,760 It works in the game. So I I actually probably think I 1287 01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:37,440 feel a little bit better about the rule set that you do. 1288 01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:39,720 It's not that I feel bad, it's just we've talked about this 1289 01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,000 before when we look at something like Zenes versus something like 1290 01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:43,160 books. And there's a reason that we 1291 01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:47,840 always rated Zenes. Like that's why I almost wanted 1292 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,160 to say, let's do a Zine for this because the prompts are a big 1293 01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,480 part of it, but the, the rules themselves are only like 30 1294 01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,480 pages, which is way more Zine size. 1295 01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:02,000 Because no matter like it, it's difficult when you look at it 1296 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,840 the way that we're looking at it, to quantify the difference 1297 01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:09,120 between something like like Merkborg and something like 1298 01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:12,680 Hyperborea, right? You're looking at literally 20 1299 01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,840 pages of rules versus 200 pages of rules. 1300 01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:19,640 And you can compare those two, but sometimes it's not, well, 1301 01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:21,320 it's, it's apples and oranges sometimes. 1302 01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,440 Here's my counterpoint is we've we've done plenty of books that 1303 01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:29,600 only had 15 pages of rule rule like actual quotes, Yeah. 1304 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,760 And then the rest of the book was like the rest of the 1305 01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:38,600 material for the game though that were above a Zine size. 1306 01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:42,240 I mean my thought is of the rules that exist here that I 1307 01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:44,200 think are effective and do achieve what they want to 1308 01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:45,880 achieve. Are there any that you think are 1309 01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,600 could be done? Better, you know, memories have 1310 01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,760 to become better experiences and that's and that's why you talked 1311 01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:55,160 about how we review this specific rule set score 1312 01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,080 differently for Zine. So we do for books because with 1313 01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,360 rule set for zines, we always talk about, it's a lot more 1314 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,120 important for the rule to reinforce the rest of the game 1315 01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:07,120 in a Zine because it's such a smaller thing versus the rules 1316 01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:11,000 to, to give you framework and structure in like bigger books 1317 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:11,880 and stuff. So it's hard. 1318 01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:14,920 I, I think the rules are great. I think they're exactly what you 1319 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:16,440 need. I have no qualms with any of 1320 01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:17,440 them. I think it works super 1321 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,600 effectively. So my point is that what I'm 1322 01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:22,080 saying is they're not. There's not necessarily a ton of 1323 01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,400 like depth on the surface to them, but it effectively 1324 01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,680 achieves what it wants to do in a very beautiful way. 1325 01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:29,960 Yeah, so. What are what are your thoughts 1326 01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,240 on? I mean, I'm pretty high on this 1327 01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:33,640 honestly. Like I wouldn't want to add any 1328 01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,120 more rules to this. I wouldn't want to change the 1329 01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,320 rules that already exist. Like I mean, I think it's a 1330 01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,680 little light and maybe you could add a couple of things here and 1331 01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,280 there mechanically just from other kind of like solo 1332 01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,480 narrative things I've experienced in my life. 1333 01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:51,600 So I I'm like a solid 8 on this. I'll give it. 1334 01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:52,560 I'll, I'll. That's fine. 1335 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:56,320 I'll do that. This is one of those ones that 1336 01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,760 after we do like 1015 solo games, we might come back and be 1337 01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:00,760 like, that was probably 7 or that was actually probably 9, 1338 01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:03,880 which we've done in previous games when we've got deeper into 1339 01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:05,840 the things. So that's this is one that I'm 1340 01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:09,040 I'm I'm good with an 8 and we can revisit maybe once, you 1341 01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:12,440 know, episode 350 when we have like 20 solo games on our belt. 1342 01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:14,520 Originality. So we talked about this already. 1343 01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:17,200 It's vampire stuff, which there's a billion, but it's done 1344 01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:18,640 in a really interesting way. So what are your thoughts? 1345 01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:19,400 What are your? What are your? 1346 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:20,560 What are your? What is your score? 1347 01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:25,320 7 or 6 I think, you know, I mean 7 probably because I think it's 1348 01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:27,720 done really well. Yeah, I think we're almost 1349 01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:29,400 opposite. I think we're almost opposite 1350 01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:30,600 between rule set and originality. 1351 01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,720 I feel so high on originality for this and lower on rule set. 1352 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:36,880 But you're high on rule set and lower on originality, because 1353 01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,440 that's like saying that like no space game can ever get a high 1354 01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:42,080 score because space games exist. That's so fair. 1355 01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,040 You're right. OK, What are you thinking? 1356 01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,040 I mean I dropped the seven up there on accident, but I think 1357 01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:48,720 this is at least an 8 on originality. 1358 01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,320 I mean literally pointing to another vampire game where you 1359 01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:57,560 can live 1000 years full of loss and and hopelessness and, and, 1360 01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:01,080 and just again, the descent into senescence of a fucking vampire 1361 01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,600 that you created. And like honestly like I 1362 01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:08,600 literally just him that hauled so hard to be like fuck do I get 1363 01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,800 rid of ETA yet do I keep her to the end? 1364 01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:14,200 Like what am I doing? Like I need I carved her name 1365 01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,240 into the tree next to our families vineyard. 1366 01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:19,399 You know what I mean? Like what am I doing? 1367 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:24,000 So I I'm higher on I, I think I'm at least an 8 on 1368 01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:24,960 originality. Let's do an 8. 1369 01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:26,960 I'm good with that. I do think that this is like an 1370 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,040 it's an amazing experience. So yeah, like, really, if you're 1371 01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,359 listening to this and you're even a little bit interested in 1372 01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:34,439 solo journaling games, like I feel like this should be the one 1373 01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,840 that you dive into first. Hondo, Hondo, I'm glad it's, I'm 1374 01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,399 glad it's one of the first ones that I did because I do think 1375 01:08:40,399 --> 01:08:42,279 this will set the tone for a lot of future things. 1376 01:08:42,279 --> 01:08:43,880 I think. I think this is like doing 1377 01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:46,160 Necronatus like #5 on the show, you know? 1378 01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:49,479 I mean, we can always compare back to how good it was value 1379 01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:50,600 wise. I think it's fine. 1380 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,640 It's not, I think fine. It's not expensive. 1381 01:08:53,319 --> 01:08:55,279 Listen, there's always hardship copies available. 1382 01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:58,960 Yeah, if you are in hardship, if you're able to pay $15, pay 1383 01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,399 $15.00 to the person who made your beautiful experience that 1384 01:09:01,399 --> 01:09:06,040 you'll be able to have forever. But, but damn near 50 bucks for 1385 01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,760 the book, even though I think it's worth it, is expensive. 1386 01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,399 I do think you get a lot of value out of those 150 pages. 1387 01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:14,960 I think it's you could play it a dozen times and have a 1388 01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:16,439 completely different experience every time. 1389 01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:19,240 So it's difficult, but I can't, I mean, I'm probably like a six 1390 01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:22,200 or seven on value for this. Like I guess 5 is bang average. 1391 01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:23,920 So I think it's a little bit better than that. 1392 01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:27,040 I think what you get the bang for your buck for it is, but it 1393 01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,720 is if you want the book and everything is a little bit more 1394 01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:35,160 expensive for, you know, is is is a is a tad bit more expensive 1395 01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,720 than, you know, a fucking cup of coffee. 1396 01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:39,080 You know what I mean? Like it's it ain't it ain't 1397 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:40,600 necessarily cheap. So what are you saying? 1398 01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,920 6 That's good. So so that's going to be the 1399 01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,640 lowest score on the on this year totem pole. 1400 01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,479 But I don't think that's really going to affect it that much. 1401 01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:54,920 That's a 38. Nice. 1402 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,640 OK, cool, respectable score. Respectable. 1403 01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:01,080 Yeah, I mean, and with the value at six, getting a 38 is crazy. 1404 01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:06,440 Yeah, that's, that's great. So that is that is our first 1405 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:09,600 solo game, which ended up basically just being a regular 1406 01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,240 game. We reviewed it like that. 1407 01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:14,040 We'll just, we'll we'll have to discuss in the future our 1408 01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:19,040 feelings on rule set in context of maybe just solo games versus 1409 01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:22,400 all games and maybe tweak that a little bit. 1410 01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:24,320 But I think this feels good. I think this feels about right. 1411 01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:26,960 I think again, I think the other thing is like this is gorgeous 1412 01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,080 and amazing. It's a little bit expensive, but 1413 01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,280 it's fucking worth it is my overall opinion. 1414 01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:32,920 And I think the scores really played it up. 1415 01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:38,040 Agreed. So that that is 1000 year old 1416 01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,360 vampire. Do you recommend it? 1417 01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,960 Would you say that if someone had 4750 that they should buy 1418 01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,960 this book? Definitely absolutely 100% think 1419 01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,400 that you should buy live. I really enjoyed this game so. 1420 01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:52,680 Yeah, I could not agree more. If you can only buy the PDF 1421 01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,280 copy, please do of your hardship grab that. 1422 01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:59,480 But if you're able to buy the book it it is it is a talking 1423 01:10:59,480 --> 01:11:01,000 piece on your shelf. It is gorgeous. 1424 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:02,720 It is worth it. I would highly recommend it. 1425 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:04,200 I'm going to play this game again. 1426 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:06,400 Thousand year old vampire Tim Hutchings. 1427 01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:09,160 Good fucking job. I'm going to pre-order the so 1428 01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:11,960 you met 1000 year old vampire thing is a sequel to it, which 1429 01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,160 sounds fucking amazing. Very excited for that. 1430 01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:21,240 So outro, what's coming up? What are we doing? 1431 01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,200 What's going on? When are we going to do our next 1432 01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:29,320 not weekly war game? Yeah, let's look at the 1433 01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:33,080 schedule. I have a weird week next week. 1434 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,120 Although actually think it won't be weird for us. 1435 01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:38,240 Really, just look at Saturday. But it doesn't matter. 1436 01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:39,880 Let's just keep that. We're going to try to get back 1437 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:43,640 to our not weekly war games are we might still do one more shot 1438 01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:45,720 of Malagas, but we might be far enough out that we're just like 1439 01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:46,800 fuck it, let's move on to the next one. 1440 01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:49,200 The next one we're going to be doing is going to be a 1441 01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:52,840 Necropolis 28 and then expect Peter Viggers to come on the 1442 01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:56,320 show and chat about that. Sounds like we're probably going 1443 01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,800 to do Mech 28 and maybe some flames of Orion, some mech shit. 1444 01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,920 After that. Maybe we can talk to that. 1445 01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:07,680 Maybe we can even reach out to the the the hive scum guys, the 1446 01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:11,400 creator Steven from flames of Orion. 1447 01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,600 It does Hive scum podcast. I don't know if you've been 1448 01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:16,120 listening to hive scum podcast. If you haven't it, they're way 1449 01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:17,760 better than us. It's a much more entertaining 1450 01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,920 podcast. I highly recommend listening to 1451 01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:23,360 the hive scum podcast if you're into the hobby scene at all. 1452 01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:25,280 It's incredible. They're funny as fuck. 1453 01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,160 It's it's great. That's what's coming up on the 1454 01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:29,440 show. I did go to Gencom. 1455 01:12:29,440 --> 01:12:31,800 I did meet a lot of cool people. Expect a lot of those people to 1456 01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:35,280 come the show, including people like Clayton Notestein, 1457 01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:38,600 Explorers Design, who was one of the judges at the Innies who's 1458 01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:43,560 going to give us all the deets about how that went after they 1459 01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:47,160 do an article for it for their blog, which I'm very excited. 1460 01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:49,560 Super, super nice guy. Yeah. 1461 01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:51,680 Really, really fantastic to meet them. 1462 01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:55,240 I also got to meet and got a pin for Perils and Princesses from 1463 01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,200 Ryan Lynch, another super cool guy. 1464 01:12:58,400 --> 01:12:59,560 Yeah. And. 1465 01:12:59,880 --> 01:13:02,040 And got to meet the creator for Sweet Revenge. 1466 01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:04,240 Got to meet a bunch of other people again, got to hang out 1467 01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:05,400 with Wes and Richard, which is great. 1468 01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,680 So expect a lot of those people on the show. 1469 01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:09,360 Expect some other people that have been on the show to come 1470 01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,080 back. We'll have some more gin con 1471 01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:17,560 talks and and that's it for us for today. 1472 01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,800 So we will let you know what's going on. 1473 01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,000 If you want to know more of what's going on and what we're 1474 01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:26,280 doing, hop in our discord, click on the link where links are, and 1475 01:13:26,480 --> 01:13:27,960 we will see you all next time.