Latest / Sessions Canceled / Draw Steel, Tactial Heroic Cinematic Fantasy | Tabletop Shoutout-Part. 3: Ep. 166

Transcript

Draw Steel, Tactial Heroic Cinematic Fantasy | Tabletop Shoutout-Part. 3: Ep. 166 · Sessions Canceled

• 0:18
  Our GM is in jail right now. He, he broke into the MCDM
• 0:23
  headquarters to kiss the ground upon Matt Colville's feet, for
• 0:27
  which he walked. And, you know, trespassing,
• 0:33
  stalking. So he's going to be gone for a
• 0:36
  little bit and we're not paying bail.
• 0:40
  He'll be fine. You know, you, you would have
• 0:42
  figured or I would have figured that he would have listened to
• 0:44
  us, you know, when we were like, hey, man, this is not a great
• 0:46
  idea. And you know, famous last words
• 0:50
  of it's fine. Fun fact, it's not fine.
• 0:55
  It'll be fine. It wasn't.
• 0:57
  It wasn't. Fine, as it turned out.
• 0:59
  Not even close. He did get to talk to Matt
• 1:02
  Colville and James Intercasso, probably not in the way he was
• 1:04
  hoping, but you know, he talked to him for a minute.
• 1:06
  Yeah, when they were trying to follow a restraining order.
• 1:09
  Yeah, yeah. And when they were like, can you
• 1:11
  stop being a creepy weirdo and get out of our office?
• 1:14
  But, you know, we're back. We're still talking about draw
• 1:23
  steel. I did say, well, I don't know.
• 1:27
  I didn't know how long it was going to take.
• 1:28
  So here the fuck we are. Listen, y'all, this book thick
• 1:34
  as hell. She's she's, she's, she got the
• 1:40
  thighs. Gosh, she got that Emma Frost
• 1:42
  build, you know what I'm saying? I just I couldn't not think of
• 1:46
  the deuce Bigalow American gigolo.
• 1:48
  That's big. Yeah.
• 1:51
  Yeah, basically. Somebody called the circus.
• 1:58
  Stop, cease. So yeah, we're we're still on
• 2:06
  this draw Steel shit. We're still talking about the
• 2:08
  old MCDMRPG, kind of say it's really weird reading through
• 2:15
  this game and being like, oh fuck, it's like a real game now.
• 2:20
  Because you know, you know what I mean is like, you know that
• 2:26
  thing where you have like a friend who's like, oh, I'm going
• 2:28
  to do this thing. Like I'm going to do this big
• 2:30
  project and they talk about it. They talk about it, talk about
• 2:32
  it, but they never fucking get their ass moving and actually do
• 2:35
  it. So you're just like, uh huh,
• 2:36
  sure you are, bud. It's like your friend's like,
• 2:38
  bro, I'm going to have a fucking 6 pack by the end of the year,
• 2:40
  man. I'm going to be fucking 175 lean
• 2:42
  as shit. And you're like, uh huh, sure
• 2:44
  you are, bud. And then the end of the year
• 2:45
  comes around, they're like 165 and like they ain't really
• 2:49
  lifting that much more. You know, that kind of shit.
• 2:51
  You know what I'm saying? You don't get That was kind of
• 2:54
  how I felt about this game. That was what?
• 2:59
  That was how I felt when Lupo told me he was going to become
• 3:01
  an indie wrestler. I was like, what the?
• 3:02
  Fuck, you're not. Yes, yes.
• 3:04
  And then. He did, and then he did do like.
• 3:07
  Oh shit. All right.
• 3:08
  He actually. Yeah, that one, he that one, he
• 3:10
  actually did. It's true.
• 3:13
  But like watching, you know, watching Matt Colville's videos
• 3:18
  before, before he for, you know, like I was watching him.
• 3:21
  I mean, we both were, we're watching him before MCDM even
• 3:24
  existed. Like the company period and like
• 3:27
  their trajectory has been kind of crazy and how fast they've
• 3:30
  moved and, you know, small companies so you can be a lot
• 3:34
  more live. But like, the going from one
• 3:39
  Kickstarter to company to many many books to DND magazine to
• 3:45
  our own God damn game is like, kind of wild, you know what I'm
• 3:48
  saying? And.
• 3:50
  But in those early days of MCDM when they were making 5 E
• 3:54
  products doing strongholds of followers and kingdoms of
• 3:56
  warfare mostly, you know, he would talk about like, oh, we'll
• 4:00
  probably make our own game at some point.
• 4:02
  And I was just sitting there like, yeah, yeah, sure you will
• 4:04
  Blood. We'll see about that.
• 4:05
  I just didn't believe it was going to happen.
• 4:07
  And then it started actually happening.
• 4:08
  And I was like, all right, but like, is it actually going to
• 4:11
  come? And then it came out and I was
• 4:13
  like, oh shit, fuck, All right, nevermind.
• 4:16
  Like I just, I just, I don't know.
• 4:19
  I don't know what it was about the project that made me think
• 4:21
  it wasn't really gonna happen. I just thought it wasn't at one
• 4:24
  point. I just didn't have, I mean, once
• 4:26
  it got to a certain ramp up, I was like, all right, obviously
• 4:29
  money's being put into it, but like, yeah, it was just kind of
• 4:32
  funny. I, I'm literally having that
• 4:34
  right now because I, I, I paid into the, the Mr. Rex Sands of
• 4:40
  Doom Kickstarter, like way back in the way back to the way, way
• 4:43
  back. And every time that book is
• 4:46
  done, it's like it's, they're literally just waiting for like
• 4:49
  shipping shit to calm down a little bit.
• 4:51
  And I didn't realize that because I, I for some reason,
• 4:54
  like I think their emails are set to spam for me, which is
• 4:57
  annoying because I didn't do that.
• 4:59
  And I went to check the other day.
• 5:00
  It's like end of September books will be going out to the US.
• 5:02
  And I was like, oh, oh, oh, it is real.
• 5:05
  Oh shit, cool. Yeah, Kickstarters are notorious
• 5:10
  for that problem. But yeah, it's a real game.
• 5:16
  It's out. It's playable.
• 5:17
  People have been playing it a lot, people liking it.
• 5:19
  So, you know, before we really get back into the shebang,
• 5:25
  though, you know, hold on. I got to swallow one second.
• 5:31
  Yeah, not trying to chew, you know.
• 5:38
  Why are you chewing while recording you fuck.
• 5:42
  'Cause you were talking and I had a little little bite left
• 5:44
  and I was like, I'm just, and then you, I expect you to keep
• 5:48
  talking a little bit longer. Anyway, we're good, we're good.
• 5:55
  Before we get all into it, let's, you know, do the usual
• 6:00
  hit follow or subscribe on your podcast platform of choice.
• 6:03
  You know, it's that's all well and good, but also I have a
• 6:06
  little, a little little mini announcement.
• 6:08
  Don't get too excited, but I have a little mini announcement.
• 6:12
  So we busted 100 subscribers on YouTube.
• 6:13
  We busted a nut. We busted 100.
• 6:16
  Subscribers. All right, now see, now you made
• 6:21
  it weird. OK, yeah, like that.
• 6:24
  Like I'm the only one who's notorious for making it weird.
• 6:26
  OK, All right. We had.
• 6:29
  We had actually. We had already broken 100
• 6:31
  between all platforms a while ago, but I was only mostly
• 6:34
  looking at the YouTube one just because I don't know.
• 6:39
  And yeah, so we bought it. We got over 100.
• 6:43
  I'm going to stop saying busted because it's going to it's going
• 6:44
  to fuck me up. Now we got over 100 on YouTube
• 6:47
  in terms of subscribers. So as a little a little little
• 6:51
  mini celebration thing, I have put in the link in the I have
• 6:56
  put a link in the description on all the platforms, a link to our
• 7:01
  Kofi. If you don't know Kofi Coffee,
• 7:04
  however, the fuck you supposed to say it?
• 7:05
  I never know. I always say coffee.
• 7:07
  Whatever I think it is supposed to be coffee cause the joke was
• 7:10
  by an artist a coffee was supposed to be the idea.
• 7:12
  So you're probably right. Coffee if you don't know is it's
• 7:17
  kind of become like a little Patreon platform thing.
• 7:20
  But it also offers just tipping like you can just throw in
• 7:24
  donations one time donations. So I have made a donation link
• 7:28
  for us. If you have listened and you've
• 7:30
  been like, I'm feeling generous, let me throw out some donation.
• 7:34
  The money, however, will not be going to us.
• 7:37
  The money will be going to our editor, Brett.
• 7:39
  I haven't told him this, by the way.
• 7:41
  So he's going to learn this from editing this episode.
• 7:43
  So it'll be a fun little surprise.
• 7:46
  The money's all going to go to him because as we've jokingly
• 7:50
  said many times, we don't pay him.
• 7:52
  We don't actually keep him in a cage, he does it of his own free
• 7:55
  will and he could tell us to fuck off at any time.
• 7:58
  We know there's no stipulations involved here, but we don't pay
• 8:01
  him and that part is true. So if you'd like to donate money
• 8:03
  to Brett for his blood, sweat and tears, you may not do that.
• 8:07
  Link in the description. Yes, and again, we are.
• 8:10
  We, me and Josh will not see a dime of this.
• 8:12
  This all goes to Brett, because without Brett, this podcast
• 8:15
  doesn't fucking happen. Until until it gets to the point
• 8:18
  where it starts becoming ludicrous about and then we'll
• 8:20
  readjust. But for the time being.
• 8:22
  Yeah, let's make sure at least the fucking poor guy gets paid.
• 8:26
  Yeah. So yeah, if you're feeling like
• 8:30
  you want to be generous and be nice to Brit, I know we still
• 8:34
  haven't had him on. So he's just like the nebulous
• 8:37
  being in the background. We probably should at some
• 8:39
  point. So he's less of a nebulous
• 8:40
  being, but. I've thought about, yeah, I've
• 8:41
  thought about how we can bring him out, although, you know,
• 8:43
  it's not like the audience has never heard him.
• 8:46
  He's been there in in bits and pieces, little snippets.
• 8:49
  He does exist. He's real.
• 8:51
  If we start paying Brett, we can actually pay Brett to actually
• 8:55
  do some effect editing for us. So whenever we say Brett say the
• 8:59
  thing, he'll actually. Do well, we can have him do it
• 9:02
  on a more regular, but I mean he still does it sometimes when he
• 9:04
  feels like it. But he feels like it.
• 9:06
  But now we if he start paying you, we can be like you're
• 9:08
  actually obligated to fucking do the thing.
• 9:11
  We can ask. Him to do it more anyway so
• 9:18
  let's fucking yeah let's fucking draw steel let's get back into
• 9:21
  it so we we we were talking about classes last time and.
• 9:27
  That's what we were talking about, right?
• 9:29
  Yeah, yeah, we literally just mentioned this before we.
• 9:33
  Start. I know I my brain turned off for
• 9:35
  a second, yes. So we're gonna jump right back
• 9:39
  on classes 'cause we talked about it, but like, there's a
• 9:42
  lot to say and I don't, you know, we didn't totally cover
• 9:46
  everything we wanted to. So like, I think, I think we're
• 9:52
  just going to kind of go class by class and just kind of talk
• 9:55
  about them. Really broad strokes I think is
• 9:58
  the easiest way to do it. And just like things we like,
• 10:00
  things we don't. What makes each one of them a
• 10:02
  little like different from each other.
• 10:07
  And I do think the different from each other is actually
• 10:09
  really relevant here because I think a lot of people might
• 10:14
  either look at the game or heal the sales pitch for this game.
• 10:18
  And the classes might seem very samey because they all work off
• 10:23
  of this same kind of heroic resource spend for big power
• 10:27
  type system. And there's no spells in the
• 10:31
  game so that you can't differentiate spellcaster versus
• 10:35
  Marshall. That's not really a thing.
• 10:36
  And like all of the all of the classes have this kind of
• 10:40
  fantasy superhero vibe. So you can't necessarily
• 10:43
  differentiate like mundane guy versus magical guy.
• 10:46
  There's a lot of elements of the classes that might might make
• 10:49
  them all appear very samey. They're not very samey, but when
• 10:54
  you're just looking at it at first first glance it might come
• 10:57
  off that way. Anything you want to throw in
• 11:03
  there? No, I mean, I think I I agree
• 11:05
  with you in that they there is an interesting amount of
• 11:07
  separation between the classes and the heroic resources Don't
• 11:15
  they don't actually affect the way that you see the classes.
• 11:17
  It doesn't make each class feel samey.
• 11:19
  It it you just sort of treat it the way you treat, you know, hit
• 11:23
  hit dice, for example. It's just an ammo counter.
• 11:26
  It's an ammo. I think the thing, well, I think
• 11:27
  the thing that's really cool about the thing that makes
• 11:30
  heroic resources interesting, like they are an ammo counter,
• 11:33
  but the thing that makes them interesting is everybody accrues
• 11:36
  them in little different ways. Everybody burns them in little
• 11:39
  different ways and everybody wants to kind of manage them in
• 11:46
  in slightly different methods. Like the Fury, for example, gets
• 11:53
  active benefits if they have more of their heroic resource
• 11:56
  banked, but obviously if they have it banked, they can't use
• 12:01
  their abilities that cost their heroic resource.
• 12:04
  So there's like this, this tension between do I want to
• 12:07
  hold on to it and do I want to spend it?
• 12:09
  And that's obviously that's very intentional.
• 12:12
  And then like the talent, for example, can go negative on
• 12:15
  their heroic resource, and they're the only one that could
• 12:18
  do that. The Fury's the only one that
• 12:19
  gets a benefit from banking. Like they all have a little
• 12:22
  different ways they want to go about utilizing them, you know
• 12:24
  what I mean? And so that adds to that flavor.
• 12:31
  So just kind of going down the list.
• 12:33
  So we were talking about the sensor last time a little bit,
• 12:37
  I'm going to sort of restart at the sensor.
• 12:41
  So the one of the big things I didn't mention, so the sensor
• 12:47
  has or which OK, order of operations.
• 12:53
  I mentioned that the sensor has subclasses and they do they have
• 12:56
  three. There's the exorcist, Oracle and
• 12:57
  paragon. The the differences between them
• 13:04
  is a little unclear to me. With the sensor, I'll be honest,
• 13:10
  I think the idea is kind of that the Oracle is the caste guy, the
• 13:14
  paragon's like the supporting guy, and the Exorcist is a
• 13:17
  little more like smack thing with hammer guy, I think is kind
• 13:20
  of the idea. I'm gonna be honest, I didn't
• 13:22
  pay super close attention to the sensor other than the fucking,
• 13:26
  what's his name, Dazar. That's the that's the conduit.
• 13:31
  Oh my bad, I'm an idiot. Bull.
• 13:34
  C but two different. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 13:36
  Sensors the Paladin guys. Right, my bad, my bad.
• 13:39
  Yes, yes, Exorcist is more of the big smack O Oracle.
• 13:43
  You're more supporty and then. Paragon, I think it.
• 13:47
  No, I think. Paragon is Paragon is supporty.
• 13:49
  Supporty, Yeah. And then Oracle's about, you
• 13:51
  know, blasting them with the holy damage.
• 13:54
  Yeah. The other thing though is so you
• 13:57
  have your subclass which is your sensor order.
• 13:59
  You also get a deity in domain like the conduit.
• 14:02
  So the sensor picks a God and that dictates some of the powers
• 14:08
  that they get via their God. So unlike D&D where you have the
• 14:14
  cleric and the paladin, and the cleric very explicitly has a
• 14:18
  domain and the paladin, they talk about having a God they
• 14:22
  worship, but don't actually mechanically give them anything
• 14:25
  in that regard. In this sense, this in this
• 14:28
  game, the sensor does actively have a deity that you pick or a
• 14:31
  domain that you pick and that does influence your character.
• 14:37
  It is worth pointing out though. Also, sensors are a little
• 14:40
  thematically a little less righteous than paladins, and a
• 14:45
  little more. Yeah, they're a little more.
• 14:51
  Yeah, they're a little smite. The infidelities.
• 14:53
  Like, yeah. They have a little bit more of
• 14:57
  a, of a of a malicious bent to them than like a Paladins.
• 15:01
  Yeah, yeah. So that's worth noting.
• 15:07
  So you pick your DD domain. The other big thing that the
• 15:09
  sensor gets that's kind of unique to them is judgement,
• 15:13
  which is kind of like a Hunter's mark, but it's for the sensor
• 15:19
  cause. And again, there is no Ranger
• 15:21
  class, which I do feel like missed opportunity perhaps feel.
• 15:25
  Like we'll probably see it soon because you're right, they they
• 15:27
  have the wild heart. It makes no sense that they
• 15:29
  would create a whole class or the 5th edition and then not use
• 15:34
  it they. Have the beast hearts, Sir.
• 15:37
  All right. Beast Heart Wild Heart is the
• 15:39
  subclass rename for the Barbarian in 5th edition, right?
• 15:43
  Right they. Would be named.
• 15:47
  Total barbarian. I can.
• 15:50
  So you have judgement, Yeah. Which is kind of a Hunter's
• 15:54
  marquee thing. And essentially you mark an
• 15:56
  enemy and it does a couple of different things, like if an
• 15:59
  enemy shifts away from you, you can stop them.
• 16:04
  If they make a power role, you can like give them a bane on it.
• 16:08
  It does a couple, it has like 4 different options about how you
• 16:10
  can affect them, but basically you lock that bitch down and say
• 16:14
  you Sir are my problem. And then you also get a benefit
• 16:20
  based on which subclass you picked.
• 16:23
  And then the other kind of unique thing that the sensor
• 16:25
  gets is my life for yours. This is effectively your Lay on
• 16:29
  Hands ability and it lets you take some of your recoveries and
• 16:34
  use them on somebody else. Recoveries are the primary
• 16:37
  method that people keep themselves up in this game that
• 16:39
  they they heal themselves with. Normally you do the catch breath
• 16:43
  maneuver and then you heal yourself.
• 16:46
  The sensor is the only character where they can burn their own
• 16:49
  personal recoveries to help somebody else.
• 16:51
  I actually, so something I want to point out to this, and I say
• 16:54
  this tentatively because like I think I like it.
• 16:57
  I think I'm on board. I got to like think about it a
• 16:59
  little more because on one end I do like that they are
• 17:02
  consolidating down ammo counters because there's already a good
• 17:06
  amount of them in game. So they're just giving you
• 17:10
  another way to use your recovery, you know what I mean?
• 17:13
  They're just making it a new thing.
• 17:14
  Whereas DND lay on hands its own thing, its own health pool, its
• 17:17
  own, you know, resource effectively.
• 17:21
  I like it. Tentatively, I have to think
• 17:25
  about a little more, but just like, you know, on the initial
• 17:27
  smell test, I'm like, oh, that makes sense out there.
• 17:29
  From Adm perspective, that makes sense.
• 17:30
  Yeah, or so right. From a game design perspective,
• 17:33
  that makes sense. Yeah, it does.
• 17:37
  You do miss a little bit of the flavour of like literally
• 17:40
  burning your own or yeah, like burning your own health in a
• 17:43
  way. But it is it is still mostly the
• 17:46
  same. Like, yeah, it feels just
• 17:48
  slightly shifted over, but it does still mostly work.
• 17:51
  And I think this is also one of those abilities that's gonna
• 17:54
  feel a lot cooler in play because reading the game, well,
• 17:58
  actually not even I think I can pretty much say this
• 18:01
  wholeheartedly because I'm watching a play through.
• 18:04
  I'm, I'm watching an actual play that Matt Colville is putting on
• 18:07
  his YouTube channel of him and some other some of the others
• 18:11
  games designers with James and Zacasso, the lead designer
• 18:14
  running it. And Matt is playing a sensor.
• 18:18
  And the idea of burning your own recoveries to help someone else
• 18:22
  out is a pretty big deal because recoveries are generally a
• 18:25
  pretty big deal because you don't have short rest.
• 18:28
  So recoveries are sort of like your hit die, but they're your
• 18:31
  hit die on the go. You know, you can just burn them
• 18:33
  whenever. So it's kind of a big deal to
• 18:36
  give up your own recoveries for somebody else.
• 18:39
  That is like a relevant thing. It might not, it might not read
• 18:43
  as like a big deal, but in play it does end up being a big deal.
• 18:46
  So. It definitely does, yeah.
• 18:51
  Yeah. And then the other with, I think
• 18:53
  there was one other ever domain that that bad sensor signature
• 18:57
  abilities. What was the one other thing I
• 19:00
  wanted to say? Well, now I'm not remembering.
• 19:06
  But either way, those are the kind of the main that's the
• 19:09
  sensor's main bits and bobs. They have the judgement, they
• 19:12
  have the my life for yours thing.
• 19:13
  They all. They also get their own deities.
• 19:15
  Sensors do get kits, which we haven't gotten to what kits are,
• 19:19
  but essentially sensors can use equipment is what that means.
• 19:23
  Not all classes get kits, so that is a relevant.
• 19:26
  Thing I believe the only one who doesn't is the Fury.
• 19:31
  Nope, Conduit, Elementalist, Null, and Talent all do not get
• 19:35
  kits. Oh, weird.
• 19:39
  None of them get kits. The Fury does get kits so I
• 19:45
  don't know what you're referring to.
• 19:48
  I don't know, I I feel like I read somewhere that the the Fury
• 19:51
  didn't get a kit. No, the Fury definitely does the
• 19:54
  Fury. Has this?
• 19:54
  Fury doesn't get armor in their kit I think.
• 19:57
  No, they do. It ain't OK.
• 19:59
  There's no unarmour defense in this game.
• 20:01
  There is a there are kits that you can choose that explicitly
• 20:04
  say you don't wear armor, but that's a choice.
• 20:09
  There's no unarmored defense but you can take like there's the
• 20:12
  Panther kit which is no armor but heavy weapon and that is the
• 20:16
  recommended kit for the fury because that's the Conan style
• 20:19
  kit. Next we have the conduit.
• 20:23
  The conduit does not get a kit so that's a relevant 1.
• 20:30
  The conduit also obviously gets a deity and domains, but the
• 20:35
  conduit gets 2. So the conduit actually gets to
• 20:40
  take two different domains and smack them together, which is a
• 20:46
  cool, fun thing. And that just, you know,
• 20:51
  thematically that comes from the fact that a lot of the gods in
• 20:54
  the setting cover lots of different kind of domains.
• 20:58
  They don't generally have just one.
• 21:00
  And also it just adds to the sort of customizability of the
• 21:03
  conduit as a class. The cool thing about the conduit
• 21:07
  and their heroic resources, they have piety.
• 21:11
  And what's really fun about this is you can you gain piety at the
• 21:18
  start of each year turn. Additionally though, if you
• 21:23
  would like to get more piety, you can pray.
• 21:27
  And basically you roll AD 3, which is to say, you know AD 6,
• 21:33
  but you roll AD 3. And if you get a three, you get
• 21:36
  2 additional piety and you can activate one of your special
• 21:39
  domain effects from your prayer. If you roll A2, you get one
• 21:44
  additional piety, nothing else. If you roll A1, you still get
• 21:49
  your 1 piety, but you also take 1D6 plus your level and damage.
• 21:55
  So you can actively piss the gods off and they can give you a
• 21:58
  little a little smack and you can do that every single turn.
• 22:02
  So depending on how how risky you're feeling, you know, you
• 22:06
  can, you know, live, live life for the Gambo.
• 22:11
  Basically the cool thing with the prayer effect is depending
• 22:16
  on which domains you pick, if you get that three the prayer
• 22:19
  effect after you pray. Like if we take the let's say
• 22:25
  the death domain, if you get the prayer effect, you inflict a
• 22:28
  deadly curse on up to two enemies within 10 squares of
• 22:31
  you. Each target takes corruption
• 22:32
  damage equal to twice your intuition score.
• 22:36
  So essentially you get like a little mini spell effect that
• 22:40
  goes off right at the start of your turn for rolling that
• 22:44
  prayer. Then because the other thing
• 22:51
  that's notable about the conduit is because they do not get a
• 22:55
  kit, so they don't have gear, they get a prayer and a ward.
• 23:01
  And these are essentially little like they're passives that you
• 23:05
  can swap out on a respite that will take the place of kit
• 23:10
  bonuses. So like for example, the
• 23:13
  recommended prayer it it tells you to take under the quick
• 23:16
  build is prayer of distance, which is you have a + 2 bonus to
• 23:22
  distance on your range magic abilities.
• 23:24
  And then the recommended ward it tells you to take is the Bastion
• 23:27
  ward, which is you have a plus one bonus to saving throws, but
• 23:33
  there's four of each or no, there's 12345 prayers and then
• 23:39
  123444 wards. And you can mix and match those
• 23:46
  out as you will on a respite. So you don't get gear, but you
• 23:50
  get that extra little customized option.
• 23:55
  And then obviously we have all our signature abilities and
• 23:57
  stuff. Those all work the same.
• 23:59
  And then the one, I think there was one other thing.
• 24:05
  Oh no, I mentioned that. Yeah, that's the main.
• 24:11
  That's the main shit with the conduit.
• 24:13
  And then obviously I'm not going to keep restating it, but with
• 24:17
  every class, as you go up in levels, you get more signature
• 24:20
  abilities and more heroic abilities, as well as features,
• 24:24
  which features are kind of your main outside of combat abilities
• 24:29
  that let you do a little extra thing or whatever.
• 24:34
  In the case of the Conduit, I guess it is worth pointing out
• 24:37
  that your features are tied to your domain selections.
• 24:40
  So for example, if you chose the what is it?
• 24:45
  Love domain? I think yeah love domain.
• 24:47
  You get the blessing of compassion.
• 24:50
  You gain an edge on any test made to assist another creature
• 24:54
  with a test. So essentially you can give a +
• 24:57
  2 bonus to anybody. Additionally, when you present,
• 25:00
  when you are present at the start of a negotiation, 1 NPC of
• 25:04
  your choice as their patience increase by 1 and the first Test
• 25:08
  made to influence them gains of edge, meaning you're better at
• 25:12
  negotiating because people think you're cool and friendly, so
• 25:15
  they have more patience and you gain a bonus to that initial
• 25:18
  test. So those are, those are like
• 25:20
  some example features you get. Then we go from conduit, we go
• 25:26
  down to the elementalist and the elementalist, like I said, is
• 25:31
  like I said last time, is kind of your it's your wizard mostly,
• 25:41
  but also kind of not it. Well, I.
• 25:44
  Was going to say there's no wizard in this.
• 25:48
  There isn't really a standard wizard.
• 25:50
  The elementalist is the closest thing you're going to get, but
• 25:52
  the elementalist is a little bit more thematically sorcerer esque
• 25:57
  in the DND sense, a little bit. There isn't really the bookner
• 26:02
  guy who reads real hard to get his spells.
• 26:05
  That's not quite there. I would like to see that, but
• 26:09
  yeah, that's kind of not there. Basically, the elementalists,
• 26:13
  they pick an element for their subclass and then that's
• 26:19
  dictates some of their features that they get, but it doesn't
• 26:22
  dictate their signature abilities and it doesn't dictate
• 26:28
  their heroic abilities. So you can be a fire
• 26:31
  elementalist, but you can still pick up heroic abilities from
• 26:35
  the other elements. So you could be like, I'm a fire
• 26:39
  wizard, but I'm also going to take this this green heroic
• 26:43
  ability. Yeah, it's, I think the closest
• 26:47
  you could think about it is you're a, you're a spellcaster
• 26:51
  or a wizard from Warhammer Fantasy where like you follow
• 26:55
  the wins, but you can sort of like eek your way into some of
• 26:59
  the other wins, but you can't go too far from your own stuff like
• 27:02
  that. Yeah, I mean, you can go, you
• 27:07
  can. The funny thing is, so like you
• 27:09
  pick your subclass, which is your elemental specialization,
• 27:14
  and that will give you the features based on that.
• 27:17
  But you can pick every other heroic and signature ability
• 27:20
  cannot be the same as your subclass.
• 27:23
  So you could completely ignore all of the like obvious
• 27:26
  selection ones if you wanted. So you could have your fire
• 27:29
  features from your fire subclass and then take all void void
• 27:33
  based heroic abilities. You know, so you can mix and
• 27:38
  match pretty pretty all over the place.
• 27:41
  Yeah, I mean the, the, the comparison doesn't 100% work,
• 27:43
  but the idea being like you're a, you're a spellcaster of some
• 27:48
  sort of prereq in this distance, you know the elements.
• 27:52
  Yeah, and you got big Avatar. Energy.
• 27:55
  A bit, yeah. Something I do want to point out
• 28:00
  that kind of bugs me, and I understand why they did this, I
• 28:05
  just don't like how they did it. So the elementalists, under the
• 28:11
  elemental specializations, it lists out all of the elements
• 28:14
  and you might say, oh, so air, earth, fire, water, right?
• 28:18
  No, there's 8. There's. 7 There's seven.
• 28:21
  Sorry, there's seven. So you have air, earth, fire and
• 28:24
  water. There's those four.
• 28:25
  You also have the green, the rot, and the void.
• 28:31
  And you know, those are basically in universe Canon,
• 28:34
  like cosmology elements based around, you know what Matt
• 28:40
  Colville's ideas for the setting and stuff.
• 28:43
  The thing that bugs me, they list all seven of them.
• 28:46
  You can only pick three of them that kind or sorry, you can pick
• 28:55
  four of them. Sorry, you can pick earth, fire,
• 28:57
  green and void. So there's no water and there's
• 29:01
  no air and there's no rot subclass.
• 29:06
  And I don't mind that because so I was Matt Colville put out a
• 29:11
  video talking about all the classes on very broad strokes
• 29:14
  like literally like 2 days ago. And he mentioned that the reason
• 29:17
  they put it there is so that you would have an idea for what the
• 29:20
  elements are like in Vezluria in the setting.
• 29:24
  Which I'm fine with. Just don't put them in the list
• 29:29
  with the subclasses 'cause that makes it seem like I can pick
• 29:32
  them when I cannot. So instead, what I would have
• 29:35
  much preferred is if they list out the ones you could pick and
• 29:38
  then had another chunk of paragraph that says there's also
• 29:40
  these three other ones that are not in the game yet, but if
• 29:43
  you're curious about what the other ones are, here's what they
• 29:45
  are. You know what I mean?
• 29:46
  How odd is it that they made it Earth, fire, nature essentially,
• 29:52
  and space? Space and time and and void and
• 29:59
  teleporting. Yeah, something odd to I I, I
• 30:02
  don't 100% think I agree with the choices they made, but I
• 30:06
  guess they were trying to shift away from just a like the
• 30:09
  normal, you know, Avatar. Yeah, yes.
• 30:12
  Yes, but. It does make me feel a little
• 30:14
  incomplete. I think it was also because they
• 30:17
  did green. I think green was an obvious
• 30:18
  selection because like, well, we want to have some kind of a
• 30:20
  druid type character cause the green, if you want to be a
• 30:24
  druid, you play a green elementalist.
• 30:27
  So they wanted to have the Druid tape and I think they went with
• 30:29
  void. And I think think Matt actually
• 30:31
  literally said in the video, they basically gave us, gave us
• 30:34
  void because they just thought it was fucking cool and they
• 30:37
  just wanted to make the subclass and we're excited about it.
• 30:39
  So they went with void. It makes sense.
• 30:41
  I get it. It it's it's funny.
• 30:43
  Yeah, fire was the like fire was an obvious.
• 30:48
  You can't not have the fire guy in there.
• 30:50
  That one was obvious. So, you know, I probably, if it
• 30:54
  was up to me, I probably would have liked Fire Green.
• 31:02
  I don't know actually, it's it's a hard call to make actually,
• 31:06
  now that I'm thinking about it. I mean, I, I, I agree with with
• 31:10
  I do agree with void and green because if they had made it like
• 31:13
  rot, I, I, I think of this one, rot is the one I give a shit
• 31:18
  about the least. Like Rod has potential though.
• 31:23
  See, for me, rot is not when I can.
• 31:25
  Like, you know, when you're like, oh, I can't immediately
• 31:28
  think of a character I'd want with this.
• 31:29
  I can't think of one for Rot. Oh I think of like the the
• 31:32
  undead shrooms druid type vibe. Yeah, but I don't like, I don't
• 31:37
  100% vibe with it. I vibe with it post Dodo Hitoro
• 31:41
  because I like N, but like, yeah, exactly.
• 31:43
  I can't think of it. I can't.
• 31:45
  I don't want to play that character.
• 31:46
  You know what I mean? To me, that's not a character
• 31:48
  that's good for playing. That's a character that's good
• 31:50
  for interacting with as an NTC. Did you not?
• 31:52
  Did you not like Spores Druid in Five East?
• 31:54
  No. Well, you're allowed to be
• 31:57
  wrong, I guess. No, I didn't give a fuck about
• 31:59
  it. All right.
• 32:01
  Fucking I also didn't give a shit about the B druid.
• 32:05
  There is no B Druid. The the Swarm Druid.
• 32:09
  That's that's a Ranger. Oh, is that a Ranger?
• 32:10
  My bad. Yeah, I didn't give a shit about
• 32:12
  that one. Either that one's weird, but I
• 32:14
  could see some really creepy, uncomfortable characters you can
• 32:17
  make with that one. Yeah, I mean, so you have two
• 32:19
  options. You have Devorah or the Fury
• 32:23
  from Metal Gear Solid. Or Shinji and Naruto.
• 32:28
  Or not Shinji. Shino Shino.
• 32:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway.
• 32:39
  The fucking character. I love Sheena, I always thought
• 32:42
  he was sick as fuck. There's a joke in the Naruto fan
• 32:44
  base that he's the strongest character because across both
• 32:47
  series he never loses a single fight.
• 32:51
  He doesn't get in that many fights, but yes.
• 32:54
  But he's not in 1000. Yeah, Yeah.
• 32:56
  He's not in 1000. That's fair.
• 32:57
  That's fair. I get it.
• 32:58
  I get it doing better than 1010. There is.
• 33:03
  OK so there's a really funny joke for the Naruto storm games
• 33:07
  that I have between my high school friends where if you win
• 33:11
  a Shikamaru he's like all according to plan.
• 33:14
  We were doing like a a drinking tournament and someone was
• 33:17
  playing his Matera and dropped a meteorite on him and then got
• 33:20
  shut out in a clutch fight and he was like all according to
• 33:23
  plan. My friend started molting.
• 33:27
  He got so mad. He's like, I dropped a nuclear
• 33:32
  bomb on you. That was your fucking plan.
• 33:34
  Shut up. My others are like not bro, you
• 33:37
  don't understand. He just.
• 33:38
  It was all part of the plan. He's like, what is it?
• 33:43
  Oh God, what's the guy say? The sage of the 6th path?
• 33:44
  Nah, Shookamaro, Sage of the Seven Paths.
• 33:47
  He's that extra path. Nobody knows.
• 33:49
  He's the extra path. Love it.
• 33:53
  Akaromo. That's his name.
• 33:58
  Anyway, so yes, I I don't like that they listed all of the
• 34:00
  elements and then you can't pick all of the elements.
• 34:03
  That bugged me. It also confused me because I
• 34:05
  was scrolling through the elementalist trying to find the
• 34:08
  other three options and was like where are they?
• 34:11
  And they just weren't there, and I was.
• 34:12
  Like had the same problem I had with the talent where I was like
• 34:15
  yes wait I want to play the animopathy one where the fuck is
• 34:19
  that? So they not fucking there.
• 34:22
  They did the exact same thing that with the Elementalist as
• 34:25
  they did with the talent where they listed them all, but you
• 34:27
  can only pick three of them. Yes, they did the exact same
• 34:29
  thing. Again, I don't mind you throwing
• 34:32
  in the lore, just throw in the lore separately so it doesn't
• 34:35
  look like it's part of the list of things I can pick.
• 34:39
  Right? Like I don't mind the again,
• 34:40
  it's not it's not the idea, it's the execution I'm annoyed about.
• 34:45
  Anyway, cool thing about the the elementalists.
• 34:52
  They're like one of the every class kind of has like their
• 34:55
  main fun little level 1 shtick thing.
• 34:58
  The element has persistent magic where they can kind of like
• 35:03
  effort in the without number games.
• 35:06
  They can permanently dock their one of, you know, one of their
• 35:11
  essence or one or more of their essence every turn to keep a
• 35:15
  spell going and then the effect of the spell to just keep on
• 35:19
  rolling, which is very fun. So you can put a dude in like a
• 35:24
  fire tornado and then just keep cooking them.
• 35:26
  Basically. They don't have anything super
• 35:32
  weird about how they acquire essence.
• 35:37
  They just sort of, they just kind of slowly build it up if I
• 35:40
  America correctly. Yeah, they basically just build
• 35:42
  it up and then the first time each combat round that you're a
• 35:45
  creature within 10 squares takes damage that isn't untyped or
• 35:49
  wholly damaged, you gain 1 essence.
• 35:53
  So nothing super fancy about that.
• 35:55
  They have a basic signature action called Hurl Element where
• 35:58
  it's just hit a foe with element thing.
• 36:02
  And then if you're curious, yes, they kind of sort of have
• 36:06
  prestidigitation. They have a thing called
• 36:08
  Practical Magic. It's not as good, but it's sort
• 36:13
  of kind of in that realm. If you're curious, again, I
• 36:19
  mentioned the we mentioned the so the earth is self-explanatory
• 36:22
  and fire pretty self-explanatory.
• 36:24
  The green, like I said, is your druid.
• 36:26
  So you're going to be doing a lot of like talking to animals,
• 36:29
  summoning plants, turning into animals, although you get the
• 36:33
  turning into animals at level 2. Void is like teleportation,
• 36:42
  manipulating space, adjusting like distances in time.
• 36:49
  It's a lot of like reality fuckery I guess is the easiest
• 36:53
  way to put it. I don't remember where it is,
• 36:58
  but one of the abilities that the void elementalist gets is
• 37:02
  you can just return to any place you've been whenever the fuck
• 37:06
  you want. I love that.
• 37:09
  It's like it's like distance is a something distances in a
• 37:15
  enigma or something like that. I don't even remember.
• 37:17
  I can't Fuck. I saw it today.
• 37:21
  Oh, there. Oh, wait, maybe it's that one.
• 37:22
  Hold on. There's no space between.
• 37:24
  It might be that one. No, it's not that one, because
• 37:30
  that's it wasn't a manoeuvre. That one's there is no space
• 37:34
  between. It's fun because you can just
• 37:36
  make portals all over the battlefield.
• 37:39
  Oh, is it this one? Wait each time you Oh yeah,
• 37:42
  distance is only a memory. Each time you finish a respite
• 37:45
  you you can open a two way portal that leads to any place
• 37:48
  you have previously been. You and your allies can pass
• 37:50
  through the portal, which remains open for one hour or
• 37:53
  until you dismiss it as a main action.
• 37:57
  Yeah, and you might be curious what what level do you get the
• 38:02
  make a portal? Whatever the fuck I want Level
• 38:05
  3. Oh, let's go, dude.
• 38:08
  Yeah, like so not that far into. Granted, there is 10 levels in
• 38:14
  this game, so it's D&D equivalent.
• 38:16
  It's like level 5:00-ish, but still not that far.
• 38:19
  Level 6, level 5 range, still not that deep into your
• 38:22
  character. Similar to the Conduit.
• 38:27
  Because the Elementalist also does not get kits, they get
• 38:31
  enchantments. Did you play Dragon Age?
• 38:37
  Yes. OK, do you remember?
• 38:39
  Do you remember the little kid Dragon Age enchantments?
• 38:42
  No, so I didn't play Origins. Oh God damn it.
• 38:45
  All right. There's a little dwarf kid who's
• 38:46
  got like, I don't, I don't know, is maybe supposed to have like
• 38:49
  autism or something like that, or he only says enchantments,
• 38:51
  but he's like really good at making magical enchantments.
• 38:54
  So every time you go to talk to him, it just goes enchantments.
• 38:59
  It's just what made me think of. So yes, they have enchantments
• 39:05
  and they have wards which are basically the same thing as the
• 39:09
  prayers and the wards from the conduit.
• 39:11
  It's like customization options that you can pick to replace
• 39:14
  your kit option. The the Elementalist does have
• 39:18
  one that explicitly lets you take a kit however.
• 39:24
  Or it gives you the effect of a kit.
• 39:25
  It lets you wear light armor and wield a light weapon even though
• 39:28
  you don't have a kit. So there is one that basically
• 39:32
  replaces it. So I'm I'm trying to figure this
• 39:34
  out and I I thought I read this somewhere but I can't seem to
• 39:36
  find it now. If the game doesn't start you
• 39:39
  with a kit, does that mean that you just cannot take one?
• 39:44
  I have not looked at every perk and every title in the game, so
• 39:48
  I would be willing to bet there's probably a perk or a
• 39:50
  title that can grant you a kit. But yes, if your class does not
• 39:54
  grant you a kit, then you never get a kit.
• 39:58
  Like you can't go buy a kit for example.
• 40:01
  No, no, because kits are not purchased.
• 40:05
  Don't purchase kits, you just have them.
• 40:11
  Odd, but OK. Yeah.
• 40:13
  So like kits are fictionally they're like, you know,
• 40:16
  described as equipment, but mechanically they're effectively
• 40:21
  like power sets you swap out because you can change your kit
• 40:25
  on a respite and there's like no restriction on that.
• 40:30
  So you don't like purchase kits in any way.
• 40:33
  You don't buy gear in this game in that sense.
• 40:37
  So yeah, you don't have any. You if you if, yeah, if you
• 40:41
  can't get a kit, that's it. You can't get a kit unless you
• 40:44
  have something that explicitly says, oh, you get a kit for
• 40:47
  this. So yeah, gotcha.
• 40:51
  Obviously fictionally your character can be like, I have a
• 40:54
  staff or I have a book or whatever.
• 40:55
  But mechanically, you don't have a kit.
• 41:00
  Oh, the other important thing to note is the classes that do not
• 41:03
  have kits get 2 signature actions, whereas the classes
• 41:07
  that do have kits get one signature action.
• 41:09
  And the reason for that is because your kit gives you a
• 41:12
  signature action. So the classes that have kits
• 41:15
  get one from their class and one from the kit.
• 41:17
  The classes that don't have kits just get 2 from their class.
• 41:21
  I think that's all I meant. Wanted to go about with the
• 41:26
  elementalist. Then we have the Fury, Fury
• 41:30
  being our, our barbarian person. One really big complaint, and
• 41:36
  this is a very personal complaint.
• 41:40
  There's no rage, there's no sicko mode.
• 41:43
  And I just, I just hate that. I just want, I want a rage real
• 41:48
  bad. I just, I like my sicko modes.
• 41:49
  Let me have a sicko mode. That's one thing that 5E gives
• 41:52
  me all the time, and I love it. Yeah, I agree.
• 41:56
  No, I mean, yeah, I think I said the episode.
• 41:59
  Yeah, there if my favorite thing in in role-playing games is a
• 42:02
  sicka mode. And if you can't give me a sicka
• 42:03
  mode, give me a summon. Yes, you can get summons.
• 42:08
  Also, do you know about the first new class that they're
• 42:11
  working on for the game? No.
• 42:13
  It's Summoner. All is right with the world.
• 42:17
  It is, yes. It's very explicitly Summoner.
• 42:23
  So the Fury is your barbarian fellow.
• 42:26
  I said they don't have a sicko mode.
• 42:28
  If you choose a storm white, you turn into an animal lichen
• 42:31
  throat person. So like that is kind of a sicko
• 42:33
  mode. But I want the berserker to have
• 42:35
  a rage and they don't. They do have ferocity, which as
• 42:41
  it increases, you get additional effects, which is pretty similar
• 42:45
  to a rage, but you have to like build up to it.
• 42:47
  You can't just like activate rage.
• 42:50
  So, you know, it's sort of kind of there the, the theory is
• 43:00
  pretty straightforward. They do get a kit.
• 43:04
  They, like I said, they have their ferocity thing.
• 43:07
  So their, their heroic resource is ferocity.
• 43:13
  And basically they, they have every, each of the subclasses
• 43:17
  has a table associated with it. And so as it goes from 2:00 to
• 43:21
  4:00 to 6:00 to 8:00 to 11:50, you unlock more abilities or you
• 43:27
  unlock like passive buffs as your ferocity goes up.
• 43:29
  And then you can obviously you have to spend ferocity though,
• 43:32
  to use your, your heroic abilities.
• 43:35
  So there's that back and forth. Like I was saying before, to
• 43:40
  give like a basic example for the Berserker, if you have two
• 43:44
  ferocity, whenever you use the knockback maneuver, the force
• 43:47
  movement distance gains a bonus equal to your might score.
• 43:50
  And then at 4 ferocity, the first time you push your
• 43:52
  creature on your turn, you gain a surge.
• 43:54
  And then at six ferocity, you gain an edge on might test and
• 43:57
  the knockback maneuver. And so it kind of goes on from
• 43:59
  there. You also unlock more of the
• 44:03
  table at level 4-7 and ten. The the Fury's main shtick
• 44:10
  honestly, is the fury and the Knoll.
• 44:12
  They're two things is they're the guys that can move enemies
• 44:15
  around on the battlefield a lot. So the fury has a lot of like
• 44:18
  smack you away or grab you and pull you to me or smash everyone
• 44:22
  around me type abilities such as their move tide of death.
• 44:26
  Oh, no, actually tide of death doesn't move you.
• 44:33
  Oh out of the way out of the way forces everybody to slide
• 44:37
  around. They also have a signature
• 44:41
  ability, brutal slam, which reminders signature abilities
• 44:44
  you can do every single turn. So they can push an enemy 1-2 or
• 44:49
  four squares every single turn for no cost.
• 44:54
  So worth worth noting. Now there are some there is a
• 44:59
  stat in this game called stability, which essentially if
• 45:03
  you go to push something and their stability is higher than I
• 45:07
  think your mite. I forget exactly we'll get to
• 45:09
  that later. You just can't move them.
• 45:16
  The one weird thing about the fury or the sort of weirder
• 45:20
  subclasses, the stormlight, and that's the you turn into a
• 45:24
  lycanthrope. You're either a bear, a wolf, a
• 45:26
  Raven, or a rat and Raven. Raven is an odd choice.
• 45:33
  I think where Ravens are sick. We have art of them.
• 45:40
  There is art of the lycanthrope one and the bear 1.
• 45:42
  I don't think there is Raven art unfortunately, but I love the
• 45:46
  idea of where Ravens. Yeah, well, so I do too because
• 45:50
  my my boy Corvus coax in warmer 40K currently could turn into a
• 45:53
  weird Raven demon thing. So I love the idea.
• 45:55
  I just it's not what I would expect from from a game like,
• 45:58
  you know, so you get like where bear, where tiger, where rat, I
• 46:01
  can see. Yeah, well, we got wolf, wolf,
• 46:04
  bear, rat and Raven. Yeah, but yeah, basically if you
• 46:11
  choose the Storm White Fury, you turn into animal mode and you
• 46:15
  don't, You don't use a weapon, you just go sicko mode and fuck
• 46:20
  people up with your claws 'cause you know, werewolf, which is
• 46:25
  sick, which is sick. Don't get me wrong.
• 46:27
  We we touched on it a little bit, but a perfect example of
• 46:30
  what we were talking about last time with the art that's a
• 46:31
  little awkward is on the Fury. There's the the orc that's
• 46:36
  decapitating the two skeletons. Yes, it's a little hard to read
• 46:40
  what's going on. I know what's going on.
• 46:42
  That's that's a backswing. Yes, the backswing looks odd, a
• 46:46
  little off. Yeah, I.
• 46:47
  Agree. Because it yeah, because that's
• 46:49
  a ready position that's I'm going to swing down.
• 46:52
  If she was the back swing, it'd be like a baseball player where
• 46:55
  one hand is off, the other one is super far curled behind.
• 46:58
  Yes, also the facing of the axe makes it look like she cut their
• 47:02
  heads off with the back of the axe.
• 47:04
  Which doesn't, yeah. Yeah, no, I know.
• 47:07
  I saw that. I did.
• 47:10
  Yeah. So that's the fury.
• 47:13
  Yeah. Nothing crazy.
• 47:14
  Nothing, nothing else crazy there.
• 47:16
  Then we get to the Knoll. The Knoll is your monk guy.
• 47:20
  It's your punchy unarmed guy. But the Knoll is very explicitly
• 47:25
  psionically powered. So they are the punchy guy, but
• 47:30
  they are also like I can punch you across time guy, because you
• 47:35
  have the chronokinetic, which is where you can just you just can
• 47:41
  ignore the flow of time. You have the cryo kinetic, which
• 47:44
  is like make thing cold and then the meta kinetic, which I think
• 47:50
  is the illusion Y one. Yeah or no, it's the OR it's the
• 47:54
  ignore illusions. It's the I'm anti illusion 1.
• 48:00
  The Knoll does not get a kit because they paunch.
• 48:05
  They don't need weapons, they paunch the interesting little.
• 48:11
  One of the interesting main ability that the Knoll gets is
• 48:14
  the Knoll field, which is where they effectively open up a field
• 48:18
  around them and reduce the potency of people's effects by
• 48:22
  one. They can also spend some of
• 48:26
  their discipline to activate additional effects under the
• 48:31
  Knoll field. But yeah, the main thing about
• 48:32
  the Knoll is that they power down everyone else's shit around
• 48:36
  them. I, you know, it's interesting.
• 48:38
  So the, the cryokinetics subclass is not really about
• 48:44
  ice. It's about like entropy, like
• 48:49
  robbing things of of motion. So you might be like ice feels
• 48:56
  like a weird choice for no, it's not actually, it makes a lot of
• 49:00
  sense. It's just a case of weird
• 49:01
  naming. There is like ice stuff, right?
• 49:03
  Like Wall of Ice 9 discipline as a sixth level ability, but a lot
• 49:08
  of it's earlier stuff is just like entropy and robbing stuff
• 49:12
  of of momentum. It's like kind of both, but.
• 49:16
  You're making it cold, as in like the molecules are not
• 49:19
  moving as fast. Cold, Yes, you are forcing the
• 49:21
  molecules to stop. Yeah, that's exactly what's
• 49:23
  going on. Which is that's actually kind of
• 49:26
  cooler than I initially thought. Exactly that's what I'm saying.
• 49:29
  Fucking crowd connect is cool as shit.
• 49:30
  Yeah. Level 2 in Tropic field you
• 49:32
  drastically increase local entropy.
• 49:34
  That's cool as fuck. Yeah.
• 49:37
  What I'm saying is is don't sleep on cryo kinetic for null
• 49:40
  because it's pretty. Cool.
• 49:40
  Yeah, Yeah. As I you might also might like
• 49:45
  ice so that's you know and the cryo kinetic is cool too, but
• 49:48
  like. Fair, yeah I mean I love ice,
• 49:50
  it's my favorite element anytime we're dealing with any kind of
• 49:52
  like fantasy superpower nonsense.
• 49:57
  As we established, the Null does not have a kit, so they also get
• 49:59
  2 signature abilities. They also have their
• 50:08
  augmentations which are again kind of like the like the
• 50:14
  enchantments or the prayers for the for the conduit, same kind
• 50:17
  of idea. You can pick up some bonuses
• 50:19
  that make up for the lack of a kid.
• 50:23
  The Knoll also kind of straightforward, but it's about
• 50:29
  how you build the Knoll where you can do some really cool
• 50:31
  shit. Like you can focus on some very
• 50:33
  specific methods and the knolls ability.
• 50:40
  The Knoll is also the other class where it's just like you
• 50:42
  just move around when I say you do.
• 50:47
  I'm trying to remember if there was any other.
• 50:51
  Yeah, I think that's yeah. Then we have the shadow.
• 50:57
  The shadow is your rogue guy. Funny enough, the the Shadows
• 51:02
  subclasses are called Colleges, which I thought was interesting
• 51:05
  choice. The idea not tell that the the
• 51:10
  shadow character was a wode elf for the longest time.
• 51:14
  She is a wode elf, yes. Because she didn't have any like
• 51:16
  this the the face like the face fuzz.
• 51:19
  But she has the big ears. She you're right, she has the
• 51:21
  big bat ears. So I was like is cuz the the
• 51:23
  shadows get well, no, the shadows do get a sicko mode.
• 51:26
  They get their do that. Yes, yes, they have their oh
• 51:31
  God, what the it's like called like their umbrel form or
• 51:33
  something like that. I don't remember that one to
• 51:38
  TBH. Basically for a while I just
• 51:40
  thought that it was that like whatever the umbral form looked
• 51:44
  like, because they're always wreathed in shadow.
• 51:47
  Well now hold on let's let's find it since you OK Umbral.
• 51:50
  It's literally called umbral form as you lose control of
• 51:53
  yourself, becoming a shadow creature dripping with ash.
• 51:56
  This transformation lasts until the end of the encounter, until
• 51:59
  you're a dying, or after one uninterrupted hour of Quiet
• 52:02
  Focus. Outside of combat, you gain the
• 52:04
  following effects. You can automatically climb at
• 52:05
  full speed. Enemy spaces don't count as
• 52:08
  difficult to reign. An enemy make takes corruption
• 52:10
  damage equal to your agility score the first time you pass
• 52:12
  through them. You end your turn with cover or
• 52:15
  concealment from another creature.
• 52:16
  If you end your turn, you are automatically hidden from that
• 52:19
  creature. You gain 1 surge at the start of
• 52:20
  each of your turns. That's strong.
• 52:23
  You have corruption immunity equal to 5 plus your level.
• 52:25
  Creatures gain an edge on strikes against you.
• 52:29
  You take a Bane on Presence test made to interact with other
• 52:32
  creatures. You're just creepy.
• 52:33
  Nobody wants to talk to you. The weird one for me was the
• 52:39
  people get edges to hit you but you're like a weird shadow.
• 52:43
  I feel like I almost thought that was a typo.
• 52:46
  I I guess the idea being that you're you're not in control of
• 52:52
  yourself so you're not dodging as well because it's like you're
• 52:54
  weird monster mode you're. Not.
• 52:56
  Potentially out of the way of attacks.
• 52:58
  That's that was my assumption. The shadow.
• 53:03
  So yeah, you pick colleges. You have the College of black
• 53:05
  ash, the College of caustic alchemy, and the College of the
• 53:09
  Harlequin mask. Black Ash is your sort of weird
• 53:15
  Smokey high mobility ninja vanished guy.
• 53:18
  Caustic Alchemy is your alchemist dude.
• 53:20
  You make poisons and bombs and shit.
• 53:22
  Harlequin mask is like illusion magic guy for the most part.
• 53:28
  The shadows main heroic resources insight.
• 53:33
  They don't do anything super weird with it from what I
• 53:35
  remember. Oh the Knowles resources
• 53:38
  discipline by the way, in case you curious.
• 53:41
  I think I said them all last time, but whatever the the the
• 53:46
  really cool main ability that the shadow gets is called
• 53:51
  hesitation is weakness, which is so the way initiative works in
• 53:56
  this game. It goes players, monsters,
• 53:59
  players monsters, player monsters, it goes back and
• 54:01
  forth. The shadow can as soon as
• 54:05
  another player characters ends their turn, they can immediately
• 54:09
  start their turn. So the shadow it can make to
• 54:12
  make it so that it's two player turns in a row and that is a
• 54:15
  signature ability. It is a free trigger and it has
• 54:21
  no cost of any kind. So you can do it every single
• 54:23
  turn. So effectively, if you have a
• 54:27
  shadow on the team, you know a good chance they are going to
• 54:32
  they're going to double team up with one of the characters every
• 54:35
  turn because there's not any reason for them not to for the
• 54:39
  most part, which is fun. The shadow does get a kit.
• 54:48
  And then the other thing they have is their there I'm no
• 54:53
  threat thing or no, that's actually sorry.
• 54:55
  I'm no threats up from the Harlequin subclass.
• 54:56
  Never mind, I thought that was a main ability.
• 55:00
  It's not the Oh yeah, the black ash subclass gets the
• 55:06
  teleporting thingy and then the caustic alchemy.
• 55:09
  You get a smoke bomb and a poison blade ability, which are
• 55:12
  fun. Shadow's probably the simplest
• 55:18
  class in the game, which might sound weird because I don't
• 55:25
  know. Do people think of Rogue as the
• 55:26
  simplest class usually? I feel like no, no, I mean,
• 55:30
  they're not that. Hard.
• 55:31
  Is shadow the easiest or the simplest?
• 55:34
  In this game, I would say, yeah, Shadow's the simplest to play.
• 55:39
  The only other one is maybe the tactician.
• 55:41
  You could argue, but the Tactician requires tactician.
• 55:44
  Work right tactician? Is this like?
• 55:48
  You can kind of ignore the teamwork to a degree as the
• 55:51
  shadow. Like it's better if you do the
• 55:53
  teamwork, obviously, but you could kind of be like, you know
• 55:56
  what I mean? I I guess.
• 56:00
  Like you can, you can be out for yourself a decent amount.
• 56:07
  Yeah, I I feel like Shadow's probably the simplest.
• 56:14
  Speaking of the tactician, the one after the shadow is the
• 56:17
  tactician. The tactician is your.
• 56:22
  The tactician is the only class that is dude, MC guy, Jim just
• 56:26
  just doody bro MC Guy. Like if you want to play the
• 56:30
  mundane dude without all the weird superpowers, the tactician
• 56:34
  is the only character that's really going to do that for you.
• 56:38
  In the future. They may release more classes
• 56:39
  that are in that vibe. I don't know.
• 56:41
  But yeah, tacticians kind of all you got.
• 56:43
  Their whole thing is they're a tactician.
• 56:49
  They help plan out the battle for everybody else.
• 56:53
  They help other. They have abilities to like,
• 56:56
  help people recover, help people attack off their turn, help
• 57:00
  people position themselves off turn, like they can manipulate
• 57:03
  the battlefield, like a sort of General Lee vibe.
• 57:07
  Their subclasses are Insurgent Mastermind and Vanguard
• 57:14
  insurgent. I actually don't know how to
• 57:19
  describe the the differences on the subclasses for the
• 57:22
  technician to be honest. They're all like they're kind of
• 57:27
  similar. I think Vanguard is supposed to
• 57:28
  be the most up in the face one on the front line.
• 57:32
  Insurgent, you're like, Insurgent is a little odd.
• 57:37
  You're kind of you're like close to the shadow.
• 57:40
  You're you're kind of you're not, you're not exactly solid
• 57:43
  Snake, but like. You're in that, yeah.
• 57:45
  You're like, yeah. You're in that vibe because you
• 57:47
  have proficiency and things like proficiency, you have a a like
• 57:51
  skills points. Yeah.
• 57:52
  You have skills for things like intrigue and you get stuff for
• 57:55
  like the sitting in. It's a little, Yeah, it's a
• 58:00
  little odd. Vanguard, you are.
• 58:04
  The most upfront guy. Yes, you are.
• 58:06
  Basically you're the tank. You just you, you walk up, put
• 58:09
  down big shield and Dick firmly on table.
• 58:13
  And Mastermind is more of the battle mastery shit that people
• 58:15
  think. OK, OK.
• 58:18
  Yeah. I feel like the the differences
• 58:20
  between the texticians are a little trickier to parse apart
• 58:26
  at first. Well, at the Sensor 1's kind of
• 58:30
  R2 actually. Sorry, I was just looking at
• 58:36
  something else. Yeah, I mean, I I don't have a
• 58:41
  ton to say. I'm the tactician.
• 58:43
  Like that's their bit. They're the tactician guy.
• 58:48
  They don't. So their main they they have a
• 58:53
  marking ability, which doesn't work exactly the same as the
• 58:57
  censors judgement, but a similar thing.
• 58:59
  Their big thing too that they have is strike now, which is
• 59:03
  they can target an ally and an ally can use their signature
• 59:06
  ability off their turn, which is pretty good.
• 59:11
  So essentially the tactician can be like, Oh, I can't, I can't do
• 59:16
  anything effective right now, but my teammate who's closer to
• 59:19
  the enemy can. So I'm going to tell them to
• 59:21
  attack instead. So you burn your turn for the
• 59:23
  sake of them doing the thing, which some people might not
• 59:27
  like. Oh, I guess the other thing
• 59:31
  that's important to know is their their fear, their field
• 59:33
  arsenal ability. They take two kits and smash
• 59:38
  them together and get the the they get the best benefits of
• 59:43
  both, so they don't stack. Like if one kit gave you speed
• 59:48
  bonus plus one and the other gave you speed bonus +2, you
• 59:52
  don't have a + 3, you would have a +2.
• 59:54
  You take whatever the better of the two numbers are.
• 59:57
  So the idea is you take two kits that don't have a lot of
• 1:00:00
  overlapping effects and smash them together and you can get,
• 1:00:02
  you know, quite useful benefits from both.
• 1:00:05
  And the idea is that you're. Kitted the fuck out.
• 1:00:09
  You have lots of weapons and your armours high quality and
• 1:00:12
  you know how to use all these different tools 'cause you're
• 1:00:14
  the tactician, you're the the weapon mastery guy.
• 1:00:19
  Apparently Matt Koval was saying in the video too that at one
• 1:00:22
  point in time the tactician was going to be the weapon master
• 1:00:25
  character, back when the game had like a detailed equipment
• 1:00:32
  list. But eventually they got to the
• 1:00:35
  point where they decided that they didn't want to have the
• 1:00:38
  long D&D style equipment list for this game, so the weapon
• 1:00:41
  master guy didn't fit as well. That must have been a nightmare
• 1:00:46
  to to redo. To redo?
• 1:00:47
  Yeah, I would think so, yes. I'm I'm look, I'm I am the guy
• 1:00:53
  where it's like, no, don't get rid of the mechanic, just fix
• 1:00:56
  it. I think in that instance I I
• 1:00:58
  just throw my hands up, be like fuck it, throw it out.
• 1:01:02
  Yeah, yeah, it would be. I mean, who knows, maybe they'll
• 1:01:05
  come up with something in the future that makes a lot of
• 1:01:06
  sense. But yeah, right now I that would
• 1:01:10
  be difficult for sure. Oh, the other other important
• 1:01:14
  thing that's worth noting from the Field Arsenal ability is you
• 1:01:18
  get both of the signature abilities from the two kits,
• 1:01:21
  which is relevant. So you get extra signature
• 1:01:24
  abilities or not extra, but you get your two come from two
• 1:01:29
  different kits, which is a different method than everybody
• 1:01:34
  else. You still have two like everyone
• 1:01:37
  else. But yeah, you can mix and match
• 1:01:39
  them a little more And the the talents rogue resources, their
• 1:01:46
  focus, which I think they Nope, sorry, that's the wrong bit.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah, each time The first time, each combat round that you are
• 1:01:58
  an ally, damage a creature marked by you, you gain 1 focus.
• 1:02:01
  The first time in a combat, then an ally within 10 squares of you
• 1:02:03
  uses heroic ability, you gain 1 focus.
• 1:02:07
  The tactician is very supporty guy.
• 1:02:11
  They're very like the, the what sort I'm looking for, the
• 1:02:15
  fantasy of them is supposed to be the battlefield commander,
• 1:02:18
  right? So they're very much about
• 1:02:21
  helping everyone out. So if you want to play direct,
• 1:02:24
  fighty, punchy man, Texas is sort of that, but sort of not
• 1:02:29
  that, to be honest. Yeah you are.
• 1:02:31
  If you want to just be a straight up bruiser your your
• 1:02:34
  better bet is going with either fury or sensor.
• 1:02:38
  Yeah, or the Knoll if you want to do the unarmed thing,
• 1:02:42
  obviously. Yeah, so you know what's funny?
• 1:02:44
  This the the the thing I can see, like the for me tactician
• 1:02:50
  that they first thing comes to mind is like Zorro, like you
• 1:02:55
  have a sword, you're good with your sword, but you're like
• 1:02:57
  doing the Jackie Chan think on your feet, you know, trip
• 1:03:00
  people, push them over, you know, do some weird acrobatic
• 1:03:04
  like high bar shit that every old character did back in the
• 1:03:08
  day. Not how I would have put it, but
• 1:03:10
  interesting. After the tactician, we have the
• 1:03:15
  one Isaiah's most excited about, which is the talent.
• 1:03:18
  Yes, Sir. The talent.
• 1:03:21
  Probably the most complicated, I would say.
• 1:03:25
  Yeah, So their thing. So like we mentioned, they have
• 1:03:31
  the the they have the talent traditions.
• 1:03:34
  There are 123456. So there's.
• 1:03:39
  Wait, did I count that wrong? Oh no, there's 8 of them listed.
• 1:03:43
  You can only pick three of them. So the three you can take are
• 1:03:48
  Chronopathy, Telekinesis, and Telepathy.
• 1:03:53
  Which, yeah, makes sense. Makes sense why they chose
• 1:03:58
  those. I would also want to play the
• 1:03:59
  Animopathy or the Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis But yeah, their
• 1:04:06
  big thing, like I mentioned, so they have clarity that they
• 1:04:09
  accrue. But the thing that's cool about
• 1:04:11
  the talent is they have they can go into strain where they can
• 1:04:14
  actually dock their clarity. So if they have one point of
• 1:04:19
  clarity and they want to cast the three clarity ability, they
• 1:04:22
  can go -2 to use that ability. However, if they go too low, I'm
• 1:04:31
  trying to remember is there like a threshold thing now I'm
• 1:04:34
  forgetting. I don't know.
• 1:04:36
  I know I don't think there's a threshold, but I so I think you
• 1:04:40
  can't spend if you're already negative, I believe is the
• 1:04:42
  situation. Right, right, right, right,
• 1:04:44
  right. So.
• 1:04:45
  If you go into the negatives, you can't spend any more, and
• 1:04:48
  every ability you have, if it takes you into the negative, it
• 1:04:51
  has like a specific readout. OK, yes, so you, OK, you can
• 1:04:57
  spend clarity you don't have pushing that heroic resource
• 1:04:59
  into negative numbers to a maximum negative value of 1 + a
• 1:05:03
  recent score. OK, so that's your Max negative
• 1:05:05
  At the end of each of your turns, you take one damage for
• 1:05:08
  each negative point of clarity. Whenever you have a clarity
• 1:05:12
  below 0, you are strained. Some psionic abilities have
• 1:05:15
  additional effects if you're already strained or become
• 1:05:17
  strained when you use them. Strained effects can still
• 1:05:20
  impact you even after you're no longer strained.
• 1:05:22
  You lose any remaining clarity and negative clarity at the end
• 1:05:25
  of the encounter. OK, so there is a Max based on
• 1:05:27
  your reason score. All right, that's what that that
• 1:05:29
  was the bit I missed in terms of talents also don't have kits, so
• 1:05:40
  they get their they get augmentations, scionic
• 1:05:43
  augmentations and talent words. These again work the same as the
• 1:05:46
  elementalist enchantments and the conduits prayers and all
• 1:05:49
  that. They're sort of little, little
• 1:05:52
  passes you can swap out because you don't get kit benefits.
• 1:05:55
  And of course you also get the two signature actions.
• 1:06:03
  The I said the talent's the most complicated.
• 1:06:06
  They're they're not the most, they're set up like all the
• 1:06:10
  other classes, but their individual abilities are the
• 1:06:16
  most complicated ones I guess is the easiest way to put it.
• 1:06:20
  Right. Yes, because they have their
• 1:06:22
  standard ability, they have their strained rebound and then
• 1:06:27
  you have one for each of the the talents subclasses, the
• 1:06:30
  traditions and they have the most the traditions like.
• 1:06:35
  Well, I was just saying what I meant is like the just the
• 1:06:38
  signature and heroic abilities listed tend to be the more
• 1:06:41
  complicated ones compared to the effects that other classes get
• 1:06:44
  from their heroic abilities and signature abilities.
• 1:06:46
  Yes, they do have the, if you take chronopathy, one that's
• 1:06:52
  kind of crazy is you have an ability called again, which is
• 1:06:55
  somebody makes an ability role and you can just make them re
• 1:06:58
  roll. And do it again.
• 1:07:00
  Just do it again. Which is like, huh, OK.
• 1:07:05
  Really got to hit him with the the the army NCO with again.
• 1:07:10
  Again, Yeah, the idea being that you rewind time a little bit to
• 1:07:13
  let them video. Just to fuck people over.
• 1:07:17
  Well, you can do it on allies or enemies, so.
• 1:07:19
  You can yeah. It just I I think about God, I
• 1:07:23
  keep tangenting. I think about that the the bit
• 1:07:25
  in the 40K hook infinitely divine when 2 necrons take each
• 1:07:29
  other to court and the one is in time travel and he keeps losing
• 1:07:32
  the court case so he keeps time travelling back to make a new
• 1:07:35
  argument in the court case. And keeps hoping he'll get it.
• 1:07:39
  Yeah, it's funny. Yeah.
• 1:07:44
  That's the, that's, that's your bit with the talent.
• 1:07:48
  Like we said, you get all your you know.
• 1:07:50
  Again, like I said last time, I am not going to describe every
• 1:07:54
  ability. We would never, ever.
• 1:07:57
  We'd be on like 8 episodes and like we'd.
• 1:07:59
  Be trapped here forever. I like this game, but this game
• 1:08:01
  ain't no fabulous Ultima I'm not willing to spend that much time
• 1:08:04
  on. It, well, more importantly, it
• 1:08:06
  would get really dry if as I'm just reading ability texts over
• 1:08:09
  and over and over again. So that's the more important
• 1:08:11
  part, yeah. And the talent, I guess we
• 1:08:20
  should just clarify just in case anyone slightly unclear by the
• 1:08:22
  name, the talent is your like Jean Grey, psychic powered
• 1:08:28
  psionic character. They blow shit up with their
• 1:08:34
  mind and manipulate time and create ice and fire and do
• 1:08:37
  everything with their mind. That's the important thing.
• 1:08:45
  And then lastly we have the Troubadour, which is your Bard
• 1:08:48
  guy. So the Troubadour subclasses are
• 1:08:55
  the Artour, the Dualist, and the Virtuoso.
• 1:08:58
  The Dualist is your, you know, swashbuckler rape your wielding
• 1:09:04
  like performative dance of death guy.
• 1:09:06
  The virtuoso is your little bit more standard default Bard of
• 1:09:11
  weaving magic and, you know, playing the instrument to, you
• 1:09:16
  know, unlock the powers of reality.
• 1:09:19
  The Artur, however, is really fucking weird.
• 1:09:25
  So the idea behind me Artur is that the Artur Troubadour is
• 1:09:32
  telling the story of the game somewhere in the future.
• 1:09:39
  And all of their abilities are about rewriting the story to
• 1:09:42
  make it a better story. So it's the, it's the idea that
• 1:09:48
  like, you know, the beginning of the movie, the guy sits down at
• 1:09:50
  the desk and starts, you know, at the table and is like, let me
• 1:09:53
  tell you guys about this adventure I went on.
• 1:09:55
  And then the adventure you're playing is the story the Artur
• 1:09:58
  is telling. And so all of your abilities are
• 1:10:02
  like, you actively fuck with the continuity of the scene through
• 1:10:09
  the art tour's abilities. It's very strange.
• 1:10:15
  It's a It's got a lot of fun in it.
• 1:10:16
  I I looked at the fun a little bit.
• 1:10:18
  It's fun, but it's also weird. Like it's definitely the kind of
• 1:10:23
  1 where some people are going to look at.
• 1:10:25
  Like I don't like the way that feels.
• 1:10:28
  Which fair? It's a little noodly, yeah.
• 1:10:31
  I don't mean because, I mean like the conceit, the idea of it
• 1:10:34
  being you're rewriting reality because you're telling a story.
• 1:10:37
  Like, I feel like people are not going to like that vibe, you
• 1:10:39
  know what I mean? Oh no I disagree.
• 1:10:41
  I think people will love that vibe.
• 1:10:43
  I mean, I think it's, I think it's fun, but.
• 1:10:45
  It might be frustrating for DMSI could see that.
• 1:10:49
  Well, no, it won't matter for DMS because mechanically you're
• 1:10:51
  still doing the same thing, it's just the flavour around it
• 1:10:54
  that's weird, you know, Like mechanically you're still doing
• 1:10:58
  relatively the same kind of idea as anybody else.
• 1:11:04
  Yeah, I suppose. The the flavour text for the
• 1:11:09
  ability, called blocking, says no, no no.
• 1:11:10
  You lose the audience that way. Try it like this at the at the
• 1:11:14
  end of each of your turns. While this performance is
• 1:11:16
  active, you can choose a number of targets equal to your present
• 1:11:18
  score and teleport those targets to unoccupied spaces in the
• 1:11:21
  area. A target can't be teleported
• 1:11:24
  this way that if it would harm them, such as off a Cliff, leave
• 1:11:27
  them dying or results in them suffering a condition or
• 1:11:29
  negative effect. So the idea is the the the
• 1:11:31
  Troubadour our tour is like no, no, I think they were over here
• 1:11:34
  when this happened and then they just are over there.
• 1:11:42
  The Troubadour, their heroic resources, drama, something that
• 1:11:48
  the Troubadour could do. That's kind of crazy.
• 1:11:51
  So when the troubadour goes down, you continue to gain drama
• 1:11:58
  during combat as long as your body is intact.
• 1:12:02
  If you have 30 drama during the encounter which you died, you
• 1:12:06
  come back to life with one stamina and 0 drama.
• 1:12:09
  No action. If you're still dead after the
• 1:12:11
  encounter in which you died, you can't gain drama during future
• 1:12:14
  encounters. So if you can rack up enough
• 1:12:16
  drama in the fight that you went down, you can just rewrite the
• 1:12:21
  continuity and be like no no I didn't actually die.
• 1:12:24
  Which just makes me think of the first Prince of Persia game
• 1:12:28
  where every time you would die, the Prince would narrate.
• 1:12:30
  Like no, I don't actually think that happened.
• 1:12:32
  Yeah, do you? Remember that?
• 1:12:35
  So that's kind of a wacky woo Hoo ability and they're the only
• 1:12:39
  ones that could do that in the game for sure, which is nuts.
• 1:12:47
  And then they also have their other big thing is they can do
• 1:12:51
  routines, which is effectively they go into a a performance and
• 1:12:57
  depending on which performance they're doing gives you these
• 1:13:00
  different kind of buffs. So like I mentioned, the
• 1:13:02
  blocking one before, that is a routine that the Artur gets.
• 1:13:07
  And then every all of the troubadours get choreography and
• 1:13:12
  revitalizing Limerick the choreography 1.
• 1:13:16
  When this performance is active, each target who starts their
• 1:13:18
  turn in the area gains a + 2 bonus of speed.
• 1:13:21
  And then the revitalizing Limerick is at the end of each
• 1:13:24
  of your turns. While this performance is
• 1:13:25
  active, you can choose up to a number of targets equal to your
• 1:13:27
  presence score. The chosen target can spend a
• 1:13:29
  recovery so you can do a Healy thing or a speed boosty thing.
• 1:13:33
  As you might imagine, the Troubadour is big on buffs and
• 1:13:40
  assistants and all that other. You know they're the Buffy
• 1:13:44
  supporty guy right? They're they're bards.
• 1:13:45
  They do the Bard thing. Also I mentioned I mentioned the
• 1:13:51
  Artor being weird. The Artor gets its own little
• 1:13:54
  side block specifically being like, hey, this subclass is
• 1:13:58
  weird. Just so you know it says
• 1:14:02
  abilities like guest * miscue and twist at the end.
• 1:14:05
  Allow the Artor to rewrite bits of what happened in the battle
• 1:14:08
  by temporarily removing creatures from an encounter,
• 1:14:10
  bringing people back to life, or causing an ally to appear.
• 1:14:14
  These features are no more powerful than any other, but
• 1:14:17
  they're narratively different from shooting rays of fire or
• 1:14:19
  swinging a sword. So they're acknowledging that
• 1:14:22
  the. Yeah, the Troubadour could do
• 1:14:24
  some very strange shit. Well, they are Tor 1
• 1:14:29
  specifically. The other two are a little more
• 1:14:30
  standard. Yeah, I mean, I really like the
• 1:14:36
  Troubadour. What a surprise.
• 1:14:40
  I don't know if I have a favorite class by looking at
• 1:14:43
  them. Obviously I'm partial to the
• 1:14:45
  troubadour, but yeah. I mean, so I mean for me,
• 1:14:50
  clearly it's talent. It's got to be talent.
• 1:14:52
  Troubadour's high though, I think they have some of the best
• 1:14:55
  flavour. Like some of their skills are
• 1:14:57
  called like power cord and like ballad and shit like that Star.
• 1:15:01
  Solo. Yeah, star solo so it's it's
• 1:15:04
  nailing the vibes I think better than a good amount of them and
• 1:15:07
  most of them nailed the vibe pretty well.
• 1:15:09
  But like ballad of the beast is like oh hell yeah, yeah, I think
• 1:15:15
  I think I got to go with the with talent.
• 1:15:16
  I just. Side by having.
• 1:15:19
  Played a Mystic. I just deeply desire to play a
• 1:15:21
  talent. Understandable on page 210.
• 1:15:26
  I love the the devil guy ripping a sick power cord on his loot in
• 1:15:29
  hell it looks like. Yes, OK, so this is one of the
• 1:15:33
  best instances of art because you can clearly tell what's
• 1:15:35
  going on and it's. Awesome.
• 1:15:38
  Yeah, it it goes pretty hard. Like that, he's got like, no,
• 1:15:42
  his eyes have no pupils in them. He's just really going for it.
• 1:15:46
  Ripping it, Yeah, and his. Like his lutes got like a weird
• 1:15:49
  little pipes like almost like a like a built in amp dude.
• 1:15:52
  It's. Yeah, yeah, it fucks.
• 1:15:54
  It fucks electricity shooting off of his secrets.
• 1:15:57
  It's great piece of art. Demons warring around him.
• 1:16:01
  Yeah, so that's the classes. God damn the yapping.
• 1:16:09
  Anyway, that's our classes. Anything you want to add about
• 1:16:12
  the oh, I actually 1 little thing I do want to mention
• 1:16:15
  because I forgot to mention it before in case you're curious.
• 1:16:19
  Yes, all of the classes do get capstone abilities at Max level.
• 1:16:24
  They are not related to your subclass.
• 1:16:26
  You get you get a class based capstone ability.
• 1:16:32
  But yes, everybody gets capstones.
• 1:16:34
  And yes, they're all pretty good.
• 1:16:39
  The Troubadour has one called Greatest of All time.
• 1:16:41
  When you obtain a success on the test, each NPC within your line
• 1:16:44
  of effect has their impression score decreased by 4 during a
• 1:16:48
  negotiation to minimum one, and each ally with within 3 squares
• 1:16:52
  of you gains an edge on their next test.
• 1:16:54
  These effects last until you start your next rest bite.
• 1:16:58
  You're just, you're just so awesome that you're just,
• 1:17:03
  everyone is like in awe of you. You're like damn he's fucking
• 1:17:06
  sick the easiest way to put it. Oh oh I also forgot to mention
• 1:17:14
  at level 10 you get a new heroic resource called an epic
• 1:17:17
  resource. So the troubadour for example
• 1:17:20
  gets applause each time you finish a rest bite, you gain
• 1:17:24
  applause equal to the XP you gained.
• 1:17:26
  You can spend applause on your abilities as as if it were
• 1:17:30
  drama. Additionally, whenever you were
• 1:17:33
  a creature within 3 squares would obtain a failure or a Tier
• 1:17:36
  1 outcome on a test, you can spend 11 applause to improve the
• 1:17:40
  outcome by 1 tier. Applause remains until you spend
• 1:17:43
  it. So everyone gets like an
• 1:17:46
  upgraded version of their heroic talent at level 10.
• 1:17:49
  So what a resource? What I will say about the
• 1:17:51
  classes is when you look at the capstone abilities, they on the
• 1:17:57
  face of them are not super interesting.
• 1:18:01
  Like they're super powerful, but they're not that interesting.
• 1:18:03
  And I feel like you have to forgive this game for that
• 1:18:07
  because the other class abilities are so evocative and
• 1:18:11
  interesting and fun that you don't feel like you're losing
• 1:18:15
  anything by not having some crazy fuck off nuts capstone.
• 1:18:19
  You know what I mean? Well, I think it's it's also
• 1:18:21
  worth pointing out that the the capstone abilities in a vacuum
• 1:18:25
  by themselves might not come off as crazy, but the way that they
• 1:18:30
  combo with all of the other shit you've gotten up to that point
• 1:18:33
  makes them crazy, you know what I mean?
• 1:18:35
  Right, That's, that's what I mean too.
• 1:18:37
  Like they, they are strong for sure yeah.
• 1:18:39
  They end up being about like how 'cause we always talk about how
• 1:18:43
  in 5V it's like, you know, I don't really care if an ability
• 1:18:45
  is strong, it doesn't feel good, right, Right.
• 1:18:47
  Yeah, the rest of the class abilities feel super good.
• 1:18:52
  So, you know, you don't really recognize that the capstone
• 1:18:55
  doesn't feel good because you're having so much fun with the
• 1:18:57
  other facets of the game that it's like, oh, OK.
• 1:19:01
  And it does, you know, let you do, though.
• 1:19:03
  It's like each one is basically designed to let you do those
• 1:19:07
  things more. So it's just reinforcing itself.
• 1:19:10
  Yeah, and the thing about 5 E capstones is a lot of them are
• 1:19:14
  lame and they don't really interact that much with the rest
• 1:19:18
  of the club. Like they don't do anything that
• 1:19:20
  crazy with your other abilities, you know, whereas these like
• 1:19:23
  very explicitly combo with everything.
• 1:19:25
  So it it just it's like a good like a feedback loop kind of
• 1:19:31
  thing. And yeah, like, yeah, basically,
• 1:19:39
  yeah. You already have crazy, fucking
• 1:19:40
  ridiculous powers by level 10. It's like you don't really need
• 1:19:44
  it anymore. I mean, the, the level 11 or
• 1:19:48
  the, the, the 11 cost heroic abilities that you get get
• 1:19:52
  fucking wild. So, so after the kit.
• 1:19:58
  Oh, sorry. Well, now, OK, so now we're
• 1:20:00
  going to backtrack because they did this weird thing where they
• 1:20:02
  described some rules before the classes.
• 1:20:07
  So now we're going to get into more rules proper type shit.
• 1:20:12
  So, well, a lot of this I can kind of gloss over.
• 1:20:19
  It's not. We don't need to get too
• 1:20:20
  specific into it, but like before you get into the classes,
• 1:20:23
  it briefly mentions their heroic resources, which we talked
• 1:20:26
  about, heroic abilities and all that.
• 1:20:28
  Some keywords that aren't worth noting.
• 1:20:30
  You have area and charge area being meaning it's like an AOE.
• 1:20:38
  So if something says area three, that means it's 3 squares by
• 1:20:41
  three squares in terms of size. You have the charge keyword,
• 1:20:47
  which is like a type of action you can take where you literally
• 1:20:50
  charge and then hit somebody. There is a keyword for magic and
• 1:20:55
  psionic in this game, which basically means it just tells
• 1:21:01
  you the like quote UN quote origin of the ability, which
• 1:21:05
  does not have any rules in and of itself, but might need to be
• 1:21:07
  referenced from other abilities you have.
• 1:21:11
  Obviously mainly in range. That's fine.
• 1:21:14
  Strike keyword deal damage to or impose A harmful effect on
• 1:21:19
  specific creatures and objects. So you'll see the word strike
• 1:21:23
  used a lot. That just means you're smacking
• 1:21:25
  somebody in some capacity, it it can end up meaning a lot of
• 1:21:32
  different things. But yeah, and then.
• 1:21:34
  Weapon is a keyword because some abilities use weapons and some
• 1:21:39
  abilities don't use weapons. And you that may or may not.
• 1:21:42
  Again, none of these have rules in and of themselves, but you
• 1:21:45
  might need to reference them. And then you have the activity
• 1:21:51
  typing of the thing, which is like main action, maneuver or
• 1:21:55
  move action or triggered action. We'll get to what those mean
• 1:21:59
  later, but yeah. And then the trigger of a thing
• 1:22:05
  or or if something has the keyword trigger, it means that
• 1:22:09
  it requires A triggered action or a free triggered action to
• 1:22:12
  use it. And what the trigger is will be
• 1:22:14
  in the ability. You can't use it whenever.
• 1:22:16
  So for example, the talents again ability is a trigger
• 1:22:19
  ability and the trigger is whenever some whenever somebody
• 1:22:23
  rolls a a test then you can use again.
• 1:22:30
  Some. Other stuff, I mean, there's.
• 1:22:32
  Obviously distance is relevant in this game, so there's.
• 1:22:34
  Distance. There's distance numbers on all
• 1:22:37
  of your different abilities. Unless you don't need to know
• 1:22:41
  the distance, yeah. And then you have area of effect
• 1:22:48
  abilities. So for area of effect you.
• 1:22:50
  Have auras, burst cube line and wall aura is.
• 1:23:01
  Or no, sorry. Yes.
• 1:23:03
  No. No, that was brain aura.
• 1:23:06
  Is something that emanates out from your character and can move
• 1:23:09
  around with you. It's an aura.
• 1:23:12
  Burst is something that explodes out from your character, so if
• 1:23:15
  it says like burst one, then it means everyone square around
• 1:23:19
  your character. A reminder that this game
• 1:23:22
  explicitly uses squares for everything.
• 1:23:24
  Cube is what you're kind of used to in for a lot of area effects
• 1:23:28
  in D&D where you pick the box of Doom somewhere on the map and
• 1:23:32
  then it's the cube is however many squares on a side line is a
• 1:23:39
  line and wall is like a line, except you can, you know, make
• 1:23:44
  it go horizontal or at an angle or whatever.
• 1:23:47
  You know one thing that's important about noting with
• 1:23:50
  lines? In this game.
• 1:23:52
  Is you can make them like curve, so you can make there's a so
• 1:24:01
  this this game has diagrams for the way the different AOE
• 1:24:03
  abilities work. So if you're reading it
• 1:24:05
  yourself, you can look at the diagram.
• 1:24:07
  This is going to be a little tricky for me to explain without
• 1:24:09
  the diagram, but essentially the line could be straight or it can
• 1:24:13
  be in an angle, but you can also go like over 1 down to over
• 1:24:18
  another one down another one. You can kind of like wiggle it,
• 1:24:22
  yes. So the line does not have to be
• 1:24:23
  a straight line. So it doesn't have to be
• 1:24:25
  totally. Straight, but it can't curve
• 1:24:28
  back in on itself. Bend back on itself.
• 1:24:31
  So. It has to be going a little bit
• 1:24:35
  to the left or a little bit to the right is the easiest way to
• 1:24:38
  put it. Basically you can.
• 1:24:41
  You can have a a line that's. Going northward, right, If you
• 1:24:44
  think about this on a, on a, a, a compass and you can make it
• 1:24:48
  kind of shoot out towards the 1:00 or the 11:00, but you can't
• 1:24:54
  make it curved to 3:00 or 9:00. Well, yeah.
• 1:24:59
  So like you could say you could have it shoot in like a
• 1:25:02
  northeastern. Direction.
• 1:25:03
  If you think about it as a compass, but once it starts
• 1:25:06
  going east, it can't go back towards N, it has to essentially
• 1:25:09
  keep moving eastward, right? Again, it it's hard to explain
• 1:25:15
  if you look at. The diagram it makes more sense,
• 1:25:16
  but. Yeah.
• 1:25:17
  So the the important thing that's worth noting is that the
• 1:25:20
  lines can be manipulated so they don't have to be straight.
• 1:25:24
  So it gives you some extra tactical advantage on how to use
• 1:25:27
  them. Walls also don't need to be
• 1:25:31
  straight. You can sort of manipulate them
• 1:25:34
  into like an L shape or like a Tetris zigzaggy shape as long as
• 1:25:39
  the size are touching some other.
• 1:25:44
  Keywords, stuff you have. Obviously abilities are going
• 1:25:47
  to. Have a target name or a target
• 1:25:50
  type. So creature or object are two
• 1:25:54
  that could come up. Those are very self-explanatory.
• 1:25:56
  I don't think I need to explain what creatures or objects means.
• 1:25:59
  Some abilities will specify enemy and ally.
• 1:26:03
  Ultimately an enemy and ally is just the person who's casting
• 1:26:08
  it. Do they consider the person an
• 1:26:10
  enemy or an ally is mostly what that comes down to.
• 1:26:16
  There might be a situation where the director has final say and.
• 1:26:19
  Those like know that. Character's actually your enemy,
• 1:26:21
  not your ally, but obviously those are going to be more edge
• 1:26:25
  narrative cases where that might happen and then target self it
• 1:26:31
  targets. Yourself.
• 1:26:35
  And then we. Get a description on how the
• 1:26:38
  ability. Rules work, so I don't think I
• 1:26:42
  went over these and if I did, I'm going to do it.
• 1:26:44
  Again anyway, just to. Make it clear.
• 1:26:48
  So the main core mechanic of this game is.
• 1:26:51
  The ability, role, or. The power role.
• 1:26:56
  So a power role is 2D10. Plus a stat.
• 1:27:01
  And every ability is broken up into tiers.
• 1:27:07
  So you have Tier 1, Tier 2, and tier 3.
• 1:27:10
  And I know we said this first time around, you cannot miss in
• 1:27:15
  this game. So getting Tier 1 doesn't mean
• 1:27:18
  the ability misses, it just means it does the least
• 1:27:21
  effective damage and the least effective effect.
• 1:27:25
  So Tier 1 is if you roll an 11 or lower, Tier 2 is between 12
• 1:27:32
  and 16, and then tier 3 is 17 or higher.
• 1:27:36
  Now you do add a stat when you roll, so it's.
• 1:27:39
  Not just two D 10. Flat it'll be two D10 plus or
• 1:27:42
  minus your stat which is in this game characteristics.
• 1:27:47
  So if you have mite 2 for example.
• 1:27:49
  And you roll an ability with your.
• 1:27:50
  Mite you would be rolling 2 D 10 + 2 and as we said last time,
• 1:27:56
  because of the the way the math works out and dice curves and
• 1:27:59
  all this shit, +2 is a much bigger deal than it initially
• 1:28:03
  sounds like so. What this ends up?
• 1:28:11
  Meaning is like. At lower levels, obviously, you
• 1:28:13
  know. You're going to expect, you
• 1:28:15
  know, you'll probably get tier ones and twos a little more
• 1:28:17
  often and at higher levels you're going to bank around the
• 1:28:20
  Tier 2 and 3 range as long as you're rolling abilities with
• 1:28:23
  your best characteristic and not rolling with negative so on and
• 1:28:26
  so forth. Yeah, this is it's kind of a.
• 1:28:31
  Modified. Version of the Apocalypse World
• 1:28:34
  style. Success, partial success.
• 1:28:38
  Yeah, full success, partial success, failure system.
• 1:28:41
  It's sort of a heroic fantasy version of that idea, and it's
• 1:28:52
  probably going to look a little complicated.
• 1:28:55
  For a lot of people. At first, but I promise will
• 1:29:00
  take you. I don't know.
• 1:29:02
  Maybe 2 sessions at? Most to figure it out if you're
• 1:29:06
  paying any attention right fair to say yeah about yeah because
• 1:29:13
  if you've done. Like relative.
• 1:29:15
  Enough familiarity with playing games especially.
• 1:29:17
  With running games, it's going to be easier for you.
• 1:29:18
  But if you, if you are, if this is you are second, first game,
• 1:29:23
  then yeah, you're going to, you're going to start first,
• 1:29:26
  first, second game, first, second.
• 1:29:27
  There you go. Yeah.
• 1:29:31
  And ultimately it's. 11 or less, 12 to 1617 and up, that never
• 1:29:36
  changes. So once you remember that little
• 1:29:38
  chart, quote UN quote at you're good.
• 1:29:42
  As someone who played a lot of Apocalypse World, obviously,
• 1:29:45
  yeah, it doesn't take long to remember something like that.
• 1:29:49
  The thing that will get a little weird is when you have abilities
• 1:29:52
  that say for example, power roll plus your might, and then if you
• 1:29:57
  get a 12 to 16, it says 6. So the way it's denoted on the
• 1:30:01
  abilities, it'll say 6 + m So you will have to remember what
• 1:30:05
  the letters of all the characteristics are.
• 1:30:07
  That might take some time, 6 + M damage.
• 1:30:10
  So if you have two might, it'd be 8 damage, 6 + 2, and then it
• 1:30:14
  says push 2. So you'll have to remember what
• 1:30:18
  the letters mean and then you'll have to remember what it means
• 1:30:21
  when it says push. Now for push, that's not too
• 1:30:24
  hard. Like, OK, I push him two
• 1:30:26
  squares. That makes sense.
• 1:30:28
  For some of them it'll be a little weird.
• 1:30:29
  Like shift, for example. Shift is also forced movement.
• 1:30:34
  It just means it can be forced movement in any direction.
• 1:30:37
  So if something says shift two, you can move them left one and
• 1:30:41
  then down one, or you can move them up one and then right one.
• 1:30:45
  So there's a, there's some keyword stuff you'll have to
• 1:30:50
  keep in mind. And then there's the potency
• 1:30:53
  thing, which I. Talked about last.
• 1:30:56
  Time, but effectively you take a stat and then you have it'll be
• 1:31:01
  the stat less than and then it'll say weak, strong or
• 1:31:08
  average. So if your potency.
• 1:31:13
  On your ability is. Weak.
• 1:31:14
  It's the stat -2. If the potency is average, it's
• 1:31:17
  the stat -1. If this potency is strong, it's
• 1:31:20
  just equal to the stat. And what those are for are for
• 1:31:24
  certain abilities, it will say if the creature has, if their
• 1:31:30
  intuition is less than your strong potency, then it would
• 1:31:40
  be, you know, whatever your potency stat would be.
• 1:31:43
  So if you're a sensor, it'd be presence.
• 1:31:45
  So if their intuition is less than your presence, they are
• 1:31:49
  affected. And if your presence is 2, that
• 1:31:51
  means if it's less than two, they get affected by the
• 1:31:53
  additional effect of the ability.
• 1:31:55
  Again, that one's going to be a little weird the first couple of
• 1:31:58
  times, but once you use it a few times, it would make sense.
• 1:32:03
  It just, it's got a lot of like notation to it.
• 1:32:09
  But as somebody who was literally just listening to
• 1:32:13
  people play it, I was like oh OK I see how this works.
• 1:32:17
  Basically they didn't want to have saving throws in the game,
• 1:32:19
  so this is your saving throw equivalent thingy.
• 1:32:35
  Potencies can. Also.
• 1:32:40
  Be sorry. Like reading and thinking.
• 1:32:44
  Potencies can be manipulated and adjusted and stuff, for example,
• 1:32:49
  for example, like the sensors null field.
• 1:32:52
  So that's another thing you'll have to kind of keep in the back
• 1:32:55
  of your head depending on the situation, and then the game
• 1:33:03
  talks a little bit. About critical hits.
• 1:33:07
  So critical hits in this game are kind of crazy.
• 1:33:11
  If you roll. A-19 or A20 then you get a
• 1:33:14
  critical hit and a critical it gives you an entire additional
• 1:33:18
  action. So you know, you can action
• 1:33:22
  surge basically not quite as strong as action surge, but
• 1:33:26
  close which? Can.
• 1:33:31
  Be, you know, pretty sick depending on the situation.
• 1:33:37
  Yeah. I mean, it's it's.
• 1:33:39
  It's strong. Yeah, a little nutty, I will.
• 1:33:45
  I will point. Out 'cause some people might be
• 1:33:47
  curious. Why a 19 and 20?
• 1:33:50
  Because if Because it's 2D10. If it was only A20A crit would
• 1:33:55
  be a 1% chance. Yes, even with the 19 a crit is
• 1:34:01
  only. A 3% chance.
• 1:34:02
  In this game which is 2 less D and DA crit is a 5% chance so it
• 1:34:09
  is 2 less percentage. So you know, but considering
• 1:34:15
  that the reward. Is quite a bit bigger.
• 1:34:18
  Kind of makes sense. You know if the reward.
• 1:34:23
  Was just a little. Extra damage that would be
• 1:34:25
  annoying that it was. Also a lower percentage.
• 1:34:30
  And then lastly. Or not?
• 1:34:31
  Why or not? Lastly.
• 1:34:34
  Then after that it talks about surges, which we've mentioned
• 1:34:36
  before, but effectively surges are a little bonus that you can
• 1:34:40
  get temporarily that you can spend to either bump your damage
• 1:34:44
  or bump the potency of something.
• 1:34:46
  They're like a little temporary buff thing that you get in a
• 1:34:49
  battle. Oh, it also mentions rolling
• 1:34:53
  against multiple. Creatures if you're rolling.
• 1:34:56
  Against multiple things, you just roll once.
• 1:34:58
  You don't roll for every creature.
• 1:35:05
  Then it mentions. There's some noodly bits.
• 1:35:07
  About like actions within. Actions and stuff.
• 1:35:12
  It's too related to bother right now to be honest.
• 1:35:17
  One thing that is worth pointing out though.
• 1:35:20
  Stacking unique effects. You can stack different effects,
• 1:35:24
  but you cannot stack same effects.
• 1:35:25
  Similar to how DND rules that if it's two different effects that
• 1:35:31
  do a similar. Thing you.
• 1:35:33
  Take the highest version of the things of the Knoll field.
• 1:35:37
  Reduces your potency by 1, and then another Knoll comes up and
• 1:35:40
  reduces your potency by two. Your potency goes down by by 2,
• 1:35:44
  not 3. Some abilities have.
• 1:35:50
  The save. Save ends thing which is where
• 1:35:53
  you roll flat. What is it, D10 or AD 6?
• 1:35:57
  No D10? Yeah.
• 1:35:59
  You roll a flat D10 to see if an effect ends on you.
• 1:36:03
  There's also end of turn, end of next turn effects, which gets
• 1:36:06
  abbreviated to EOT. That was definitely an acronym I
• 1:36:10
  forgot when I was looking at some roofs.
• 1:36:17
  I just forgot what EOT meant. I had to.
• 1:36:18
  Go back. No, I.
• 1:36:19
  Did too, no. I was Yotic, the one that.
• 1:36:23
  Confused me for a while was line of effect and like I had to go.
• 1:36:27
  I don't know why, because it it's just Los, right?
• 1:36:30
  It's just line of sight. Yeah.
• 1:36:32
  Every time they said line of effect, my brain was like, no
• 1:36:36
  way. Is that no, it's not right.
• 1:36:39
  No, yes, no, no, yes, no. Yeah.
• 1:36:43
  Effectively, yeah, they say. Line of effect.
• 1:36:45
  Because sight quote UN quote can be like.
• 1:36:49
  Dubious sometimes, but. You could still have line of
• 1:36:52
  effect depending on the situation, even if you can't
• 1:36:55
  quote UN quote see the target, you know what I mean?
• 1:36:57
  But the game basically treats it like if you can draw a line to
• 1:37:00
  the character, yeah. And you're good.
• 1:37:04
  So for example if. If.
• 1:37:06
  Like there's an area obscured by.
• 1:37:07
  Fog as. Long as you can still draw that
• 1:37:09
  line to them, you can still affect them.
• 1:37:11
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:37:15
  Then it talks a little bit about straight lines and movement, how
• 1:37:20
  the movement works in the game. Not worth it.
• 1:37:26
  There's also. A little chunk.
• 1:37:27
  Specifying the difference between ground and ceiling,
• 1:37:31
  which I thought was odd, but I was like, OK, sure.
• 1:37:37
  And then then we get into some conditions.
• 1:37:40
  So the game does have a decent number of conditions.
• 1:37:43
  You have bleeding, dazed, frightened, grabbed, prone,
• 1:37:47
  restrained, slowed, taunted, taunted, taunted, taunted, and
• 1:37:52
  weakened. Bleeding effectively.
• 1:37:56
  You take damage every time you do an action.
• 1:38:01
  Dazed is you can only do one thing on your turn, main
• 1:38:05
  maneuver or move action. You can't do all three.
• 1:38:07
  It's kind of like the slow spell in DND Frightened.
• 1:38:12
  You take banes if your fear is near you.
• 1:38:14
  Also you can't move closer. Grabbed.
• 1:38:20
  Grabbed is mostly the same as DND grabbed.
• 1:38:24
  I don't remember I I don't think there there was anything.
• 1:38:26
  Weird or different about it from what?
• 1:38:30
  I remember. Yeah, no, yeah, it's.
• 1:38:34
  It's DND you, just you. Yeah, you can try.
• 1:38:38
  And you can spend a maneuver. To try and get out of it or no
• 1:38:42
  you can spend your action to get no grab creature can attempt to
• 1:38:47
  escape being Oh yeah, I was right maneuver yeah you can
• 1:38:49
  spend a maneuver to get out of it.
• 1:38:53
  There is some rules on like sizing and stuff in this game
• 1:38:56
  that's a little more. There's a little more to than
• 1:38:59
  DND, but other than that DND prone.
• 1:39:03
  Prone does as you would think. Restrained you have 0 speed.
• 1:39:08
  You cannot stand up you. Can't be forced moved.
• 1:39:11
  You take a bane on things, you're having a bad time?
• 1:39:15
  Slowed. Your speed is reduced by two
• 1:39:17
  taunted. If you are taunted, you have a
• 1:39:21
  double bane on ability rolls for any ability that doesn't target
• 1:39:24
  the creature who taunted you and then weakened.
• 1:39:29
  Which is you take a bane on all power.
• 1:39:31
  Rolls. Those are your.
• 1:39:35
  Those are your conditions. I got to ask.
• 1:39:37
  All right. Awesome the.
• 1:39:38
  Bleeding. The bleeding condition.
• 1:39:42
  I feel like a lot of games try to replicate a.
• 1:39:44
  Bleedy condition of some way. Shape or form and I don't know
• 1:39:49
  if I'm ever in love with any of them.
• 1:39:51
  And like it usually it takes one of two forms.
• 1:39:53
  It's the like you know, it's it's the A dot or it's the it's
• 1:40:00
  a build to big damage. So you have like the Final
• 1:40:02
  Fantasy version of bleeding or poison, and then you have like
• 1:40:04
  the Dark Souls version. And I just, yeah, I don't feel
• 1:40:07
  like any. Any time I've ever seen it done
• 1:40:10
  in a game or a home brewed or even suggested, I've just been
• 1:40:13
  like, it's OK. I mean, I don't know how else
• 1:40:17
  you would do it to be honest. Well, there's like my new show.
• 1:40:20
  And like how you can get rid of it, how much damage it does?
• 1:40:23
  I don't know, I just don't feel like I love any of them like
• 1:40:28
  this one. Works.
• 1:40:29
  You know you take. Damage equal to 1D6.
• 1:40:31
  Plus their levels so. You can be a lot or a little bit
• 1:40:34
  depends. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:40:37
  I I just don't ever feel like because it has, I think it has
• 1:40:41
  the the the capability of being a really interesting status
• 1:40:44
  effect, but I don't think any games ever like hit the sweet
• 1:40:48
  spot. I'll be honest, I'm not really
• 1:40:51
  sure what you're looking for. I don't really either, I just.
• 1:40:54
  Like so like a good example like taunted I think.
• 1:40:57
  Taunted is a really good status affliction that like, feels fun.
• 1:41:01
  It feels interesting because it's the persona and rage.
• 1:41:05
  I just don't feel like I've ever had that.
• 1:41:06
  Like, Oh yeah, that's actually pretty cool.
• 1:41:08
  When it comes to bleeding, yes. Yeah, I don't.
• 1:41:15
  Yeah. I've never.
• 1:41:18
  I'm fine with it just being like gradual damage.
• 1:41:23
  Yeah, that's fine. I don't need.
• 1:41:26
  I don't know. I don't.
• 1:41:27
  Feel that I. Don't feel like I need any more
• 1:41:29
  my new. Shadow of a bleeding condition
• 1:41:31
  personally. I mean, maybe if I saw an.
• 1:41:36
  Example of that I thought was cooler but.
• 1:41:38
  Well, actually, you know what? I just shot myself in the foot
• 1:41:41
  because I think there is an interesting version of this.
• 1:41:42
  It's a it's slightly more interesting is a burn in Lancer
• 1:41:47
  because it's a damage over time, but it's a damage over time that
• 1:41:50
  stacks. So unless you like take an
• 1:41:52
  action to like actively stop burn, it just keeps happening.
• 1:41:56
  So for example, if you take one burn next turn, you will also
• 1:41:59
  take one burn. If you get hit next turn with
• 1:42:01
  another one burn, that becomes 2 burn and that will become four
• 1:42:05
  burn. Like it actually feels like it's
• 1:42:08
  something that you know, like you're bleeding out, you're
• 1:42:10
  running out of time. I mean, it is worth pointing out
• 1:42:13
  that one of the main ways that bleeding.
• 1:42:15
  Interacts in this game is when you're at zero hit points, right
• 1:42:19
  that actually I did forget about that.
• 1:42:20
  So that is an extra tier of things that does make.
• 1:42:22
  It more interesting. Fair enough.
• 1:42:24
  Yeah, 'cause when you're at zero, you can still do actions,
• 1:42:27
  but you start bleeding. Right, right.
• 1:42:34
  So now. We're gonna so.
• 1:42:36
  Like I said, we're doing it slightly.
• 1:42:38
  Weird order. So that was some rule stuff
• 1:42:39
  we're jumping past the classes back-to-back around to kits.
• 1:42:46
  Not too much to say about. Kits that we haven't already
• 1:42:48
  said essentially you. Pick a kit.
• 1:42:52
  It gives you a description of the kinds of equipment that the
• 1:42:56
  kit has. So for example, the cloak and
• 1:42:59
  dagger kit says you wear light armor and wield one or two light
• 1:43:02
  weapons, and then the kit you choose gives you a list of
• 1:43:09
  mechanical effects. So for the cloak and dagger kit
• 1:43:11
  you get plus 3 stamina per echelon of play.
• 1:43:16
  You get a + 2 speed bonus, your melee damage bonus is +1 at
• 1:43:21
  every tier, and then your range damage bonus is also plus one at
• 1:43:25
  every tier. Your range distance bonus is 5 +
• 1:43:29
  5, and your disengage bonus is +1.
• 1:43:33
  So when you take the disengaged maneuver, you can move two
• 1:43:35
  squares as opposed to 1 square. And then you get a signature
• 1:43:39
  ability from your kit, which in the case of cloak and dagger is
• 1:43:43
  Fade. It's a melee or a range strike
• 1:43:46
  with a weapon. It's a main action.
• 1:43:49
  You roll, yeah, you power roll with your might or your agility.
• 1:43:55
  And then after you do. So you can shift yourself 1-2 or
• 1:44:00
  three squares depending on what tier of success you got on the
• 1:44:03
  roll. And yeah, they basically all
• 1:44:07
  work like that. This is your replacement for
• 1:44:12
  gear in this game. You take a kit and you can
• 1:44:16
  change out your kits on a respite and pretty much all the
• 1:44:23
  kits that I would personally want are.
• 1:44:25
  Present. There is one kit called Ranger
• 1:44:29
  which I. Feel like.
• 1:44:31
  There's a little bit of kick in the ass because a little bit,
• 1:44:33
  yeah, there's a Ranger kit and not a Ranger class.
• 1:44:36
  I don't know. I've I've.
• 1:44:37
  A little bothered by that. Yeah, and it it to my end.
• 1:44:40
  Yeah, I think they're they pretty much cover everything.
• 1:44:41
  I want Warrior. Priests, sword and boards, Spell
• 1:44:44
  swords, Swashbucklers, sniper. Do you like that the the no
• 1:44:49
  armor big weapon one is called Panther?
• 1:44:51
  Panther Yeah, it's good. I I really appreciate.
• 1:44:55
  Retiarius Yeah, yeah, you see, you're yeah, you're a.
• 1:45:00
  Gladiator with a MIT, yes. Yeah, it's a funny one.
• 1:45:04
  Hell yeah. I also like that stick.
• 1:45:06
  And robe is an option because. I love the idea.
• 1:45:09
  Of playing a stick and robe sensor so you're you're not like
• 1:45:13
  armor kitted out with a Mace or anything you're just a dude with
• 1:45:15
  a stick. But once you unleash that stick
• 1:45:17
  on people, you fuck them up. It's a shalal.
• 1:45:21
  Yeah, basically. I look, I, I'm.
• 1:45:23
  I I'm there with you. I love.
• 1:45:24
  The idea of just take it out, somebody's kneecaps with a
• 1:45:26
  shalali. Yeah, you could probably play a
• 1:45:29
  pretty fun like. Mafiazo sensor.
• 1:45:35
  Yeah, you just like put your arm.
• 1:45:37
  At someone's shoulders. Like look.
• 1:45:39
  You owe the local Lord of favor, and if you.
• 1:45:40
  Don't pay up with the grain. You're going to get broken
• 1:45:42
  knees. You want broken knees?
• 1:45:43
  You don't. Yeah, I mean, if you're looking.
• 1:45:51
  For. Gear porn type.
• 1:45:54
  Game. This is not your game.
• 1:45:56
  No, it's not and I but I do like I mean, I know we.
• 1:46:00
  Know both of us normally say we like.
• 1:46:02
  Having, you know, an interesting gear section in our games, which
• 1:46:05
  is true, but I do like this kit system.
• 1:46:07
  I think it's a cool alternative. What?
• 1:46:09
  So this is what I got to say about it.
• 1:46:13
  I love gear. Ladies and gentlemen, I love
• 1:46:16
  gear. But what I don't like is when.
• 1:46:22
  Equipment and gear. Feel useless, right?
• 1:46:25
  Which is a lot of D&D gear it doesn't like I I make a
• 1:46:30
  concerted effort. You can ask Josh about this to
• 1:46:33
  make shit relevant. Like my 10 LB sack of flour,
• 1:46:35
  thank you very much Yep. And if you.
• 1:46:41
  Understand that your. That the.
• 1:46:43
  Gear that you were trying to make?
• 1:46:45
  Is not to the effect that you want rather than just scrapping
• 1:46:50
  it, which is an option, right. If you're just like there's no
• 1:46:53
  point, then yeah, you can just scrap it like never knows.
• 1:46:56
  Best doesn't have any gear or equipment of any kind, neither
• 1:46:58
  does monster hearts. This is the way that you do it.
• 1:47:03
  You either have gear and make it effective and useful and fun.
• 1:47:07
  You don't have gear and don't worry about it and don't even
• 1:47:10
  just put it out of your mind. This is the healthy alternative
• 1:47:15
  because every kit. Will feel useful or the.
• 1:47:21
  Thing that you want. It to do.
• 1:47:23
  Which effectively means that there is no bad option.
• 1:47:28
  They're all good options, it just depends on what you want
• 1:47:31
  from the. Character.
• 1:47:33
  Yeah, they all have a particular.
• 1:47:34
  They all have like a cool effect and shit.
• 1:47:38
  They also, I think it's, I think another.
• 1:47:40
  Thing that helps with the kits a lot is that each of.
• 1:47:42
  Them getting that signature ability, so it's like not only
• 1:47:46
  do you have the passive bonuses, you have the signature ability
• 1:47:51
  to kind of reinforce how you use that kit, like how you use that
• 1:47:54
  weapon. They also have good evocative.
• 1:47:59
  Names. They do.
• 1:48:00
  Yeah. I just.
• 1:48:00
  I'm kind of laughing. Myself, I kind of pulled an
• 1:48:02
  Obama on that one. Mindful Americans.
• 1:48:05
  I love gear. I love gear.
• 1:48:08
  You did a little. Bit after, after.
• 1:48:11
  Kits and. Then we have perks.
• 1:48:16
  Do I need to say anything about perks their?
• 1:48:18
  Feats. No, their feats I I mean, I
• 1:48:19
  don't. Their feats the the name is a
• 1:48:21
  little misleading, but. It's fine.
• 1:48:26
  Well, like it. Just feats.
• 1:48:28
  Are like I think I think. Feats are a good name for.
• 1:48:31
  The ability in D and. D because you are pulling off a
• 1:48:35
  feat, right? Like the whole thing with with
• 1:48:37
  sharpshooter is sharpshooting is a feat.
• 1:48:40
  It is like a thing of high skill that you're managing to pull off
• 1:48:44
  for being an actor or like being a linguist.
• 1:48:47
  These are like extraordinary things, perks or just I, I just
• 1:48:51
  think of like Call of Duty, which effectively that is what
• 1:48:53
  perks and Call of Duty are just it's just not the right, it's
• 1:48:56
  not the right vibe. It's not what I want.
• 1:48:59
  Well, I will say the thing that's kind of funny is I think
• 1:49:01
  perks. I think the name perks makes
• 1:49:05
  sense in terms in. Game design.
• 1:49:07
  Language, like it is a perk that your character is acquiring, but
• 1:49:11
  if you're thinking about it in the natural language of what
• 1:49:13
  your character is doing, then yes, perk feels weird.
• 1:49:16
  Yeah, yeah, I think the one, the one.
• 1:49:20
  Little thing that's a little different.
• 1:49:21
  With this game versus your standard 5E feats is that this
• 1:49:24
  game breaks them up into categories.
• 1:49:27
  So you have crafting perks, exploration perks, interpersonal
• 1:49:30
  perks, intrigue perks, lore perks, and supernatural perks.
• 1:49:36
  So from your like. Class.
• 1:49:39
  And your career and I think your ancestry can give you some perks
• 1:49:44
  depending. Although I don't remember the
• 1:49:46
  top I had. It will say that you can take
• 1:49:49
  perks from a specific category. So picking class at random here
• 1:49:56
  I look at the shadow. Oh, that one says perk your
• 1:50:00
  choice. I oh, maybe are are all the
• 1:50:02
  class ones. The classes might all say of
• 1:50:04
  your choice. It might just be your careers
• 1:50:06
  that are of a specific category. Oh, no, OK, no some.
• 1:50:10
  OK, so like at level. 6 The sensor has perk.
• 1:50:13
  You gain 1 interpersonal lore or supernatural perk of your
• 1:50:17
  choice. So basically when you acquire
• 1:50:19
  them, it will sometimes say you can only get from this category,
• 1:50:23
  which is, you know, I think a good way to do it because it
• 1:50:29
  makes them a little easier to balance.
• 1:50:31
  Make sure you can manage what falls under like what can be
• 1:50:35
  used for what thing, what you know, categorizing is often
• 1:50:38
  helpful. I did just have a thought too by
• 1:50:42
  the way, I I. Meant to mention this when we
• 1:50:44
  finished. Talking about the classes, you
• 1:50:47
  may have noticed we went through all that talk about classes and
• 1:50:50
  we didn't say anything about multi classing.
• 1:50:53
  That's because there is no multi classing.
• 1:50:56
  No multi classing. Allowed.
• 1:50:58
  You cannot do it. This is not there.
• 1:51:03
  And listen, here's the thing. Some.
• 1:51:05
  People might be a little. Sad about the lack.
• 1:51:08
  Of multi classic. And I get that.
• 1:51:12
  And if ultimately in the video that Matt Colville just put put
• 1:51:17
  out, he actually addressed this and he was basically like,
• 1:51:20
  listen, when we were designing abilities for 5 E for the beast
• 1:51:25
  heart and the talent and the ill rigor, we had to nerf abilities
• 1:51:31
  because we would try to design the class to make the coolest
• 1:51:34
  version of the class that we possibly could.
• 1:51:37
  And then one of our play testers would say that ability is really
• 1:51:40
  cool, But if you multiclass that ability with this class's
• 1:51:44
  ability, it becomes really fuck busted overpowered.
• 1:51:47
  And so you're going to have to change it to make it not as
• 1:51:49
  good. And so in order to make each
• 1:51:53
  class as cool as they want them to be, they did not put multi
• 1:51:57
  classing in the game so that they did not have to cross
• 1:52:00
  balance the classes essentially. And so each each ability that
• 1:52:05
  the class has is the is in their opinion of course the best
• 1:52:11
  version that that ability could possibly be.
• 1:52:14
  And they don't need to worry about toning it down or
• 1:52:17
  adjusting it because if you combo it was something else.
• 1:52:20
  It becomes ridiculous and I understand people.
• 1:52:25
  Being potentially annoyed. About that.
• 1:52:26
  But in my personal opinion, that is a very reasonable reason to
• 1:52:30
  not have multiclassing. Yeah, that was a disappointed
• 1:52:40
  yeah. Yeah, I mean, it is a little
• 1:52:43
  disappointed because. I think there is potential for.
• 1:52:45
  Multiclassing to be a thing in the game, but I also understand
• 1:52:48
  and respect the idea that it's yes, that the designers went,
• 1:52:51
  it's just simpler. If we don't like, I really can't
• 1:52:54
  fault them for that. Yeah.
• 1:52:56
  I mean, here's here's the. I will say I do think there's
• 1:53:00
  potential. In this game to make kind of
• 1:53:03
  little mini pseudo multiclassing either through perks or through
• 1:53:08
  kits. Like I, I think there's space in
• 1:53:10
  this game to make like kind of a a little pseudo multiclassing
• 1:53:15
  subsystem thing. I don't know if they're going
• 1:53:17
  to, but I do remember a, a while ago, Matt Colville talking about
• 1:53:23
  when they first started designing the kits and he was
• 1:53:26
  kind of like, oh, kits could be a way that we kind of have
• 1:53:30
  multiclassing in our game without having full on
• 1:53:32
  multiclassing. And I, I see what he means.
• 1:53:35
  So there's a there's a potential there for them to like add on
• 1:53:39
  top of it in the. Future.
• 1:53:44
  And you? Know ultimately he's talking
• 1:53:46
  about it, which means. He's aware that it's a thing
• 1:53:49
  people want, so at the very least he's acknowledging it.
• 1:53:56
  Yes, that is good. Yeah.
• 1:53:58
  So. That I'm sure they're thinking.
• 1:53:59
  About it. I would be.
• 1:54:01
  I'd be very. Surprised if they.
• 1:54:02
  Weren't you know what I mean? They better be thinking.
• 1:54:07
  About my fucking Ranger though. I that would be nice, Yeah.
• 1:54:11
  I want to say I want. A Ranger class It's.
• 1:54:14
  Not going to be called a Ranger. It'll probably be the Beast
• 1:54:16
  Heart. Honestly, they'll probably
• 1:54:17
  remake the Beast heart. Which I'm fine with, by the way.
• 1:54:21
  Very, very down for that. Yes, I'd like that as well
• 1:54:26
  after. Perks then we have.
• 1:54:28
  Complications. So complications.
• 1:54:30
  Are an optional rule that effectively you can take a
• 1:54:36
  downside for an additional upside is sort of an easy way to
• 1:54:42
  look at it. Basically, at character
• 1:54:46
  creation, you can choose to take a complication.
• 1:54:49
  You can either roll on the big table, it's AD 100 table,
• 1:54:52
  there's 100 complications, or you can, you know, pick one and
• 1:54:59
  it gives you a little upside that's kind of like a perk, but
• 1:55:02
  it also gives you a drawback. So for example, if you take the
• 1:55:04
  amnesia complication, the benefit is you have a
• 1:55:08
  supernatural possession, a first echelon trinket of your choice
• 1:55:12
  that might have some connection to your former life.
• 1:55:14
  So essentially you start with like a low level magic item
• 1:55:17
  drawback. You take a bane on any test made
• 1:55:20
  to recall lore cause your your memory no works so good.
• 1:55:28
  There's some fun ones there's like Animal.
• 1:55:31
  Anti. Hero.
• 1:55:32
  There's animal. Form which is literally you.
• 1:55:35
  You're like a patronus person in fucking Harry Potter where you
• 1:55:39
  can like turn into a little animal, but also the director
• 1:55:41
  can spend malice to force you to turn into an animal when you
• 1:55:44
  don't want to. There's ones where you're like
• 1:55:48
  a, a vampire vampire scion. So like you were bitten by a
• 1:55:52
  vampire and you serve a vampire. You are not yourself fully a
• 1:55:56
  vampire. You know, there's there's a
• 1:56:00
  hundred of them. So there's a cursed weapon?
• 1:56:03
  There's a rival 1. Like there's all sorts of
• 1:56:05
  different interesting complications.
• 1:56:07
  They're technically optional, but they're really fucking sick.
• 1:56:09
  So I find myself being like, why would I not take these?
• 1:56:14
  I. Don't know about you.
• 1:56:15
  But no, yeah, I'm pretty much in the same one.
• 1:56:18
  Like these are cool, why would I say to it?
• 1:56:20
  Yeah. But wrongfully imprisoned?
• 1:56:23
  That's a funny one. And then we.
• 1:56:28
  Get after. The complications.
• 1:56:32
  Then we get into the meat and potatoes mechanics stuff.
• 1:56:38
  Guess it's going to have to be next time.
• 1:56:42
  I knew it. I knew.
• 1:56:44
  We weren't finished. I I knew.
• 1:56:45
  It. I wasn't sure how much I would
• 1:56:47
  Babble about the classes, but the classes are the most
• 1:56:49
  exciting bit, so it's fair. I like.
• 1:56:52
  Once again, I purposely was like, all right, I'm going to
• 1:56:54
  keep my color commentary to a. Minimum so we can get as far as
• 1:56:56
  we can. And I knew it.
• 1:56:58
  All right, so next. Week we'll get into the sort of.
• 1:57:04
  Main core. Mechanic stuff, tests, combat
• 1:57:09
  negotiation, downtime, projects, rewards.
• 1:57:14
  I will say the combat section actually probably be kind of
• 1:57:16
  quick because a lot of it you will be familiar with if you've
• 1:57:20
  played five, despite it being a very large chapter.
• 1:57:23
  It's it's just. It is familiar in a lot of ways.
• 1:57:27
  Yeah, it does have some cool. Differences, but the sort of the
• 1:57:30
  the skeleton, the core found 8, the scaffolding is very 5 E,
• 1:57:36
  yes. So yeah, that's been us, like I
• 1:57:44
  said, if you are so inclined to perhaps.
• 1:57:47
  Throw a little. Money at our our good friend
• 1:57:50
  editor Brett. You may do so in the
• 1:57:54
  description. Click the coffee.
• 1:57:55
  Link. Porvor And if you want, you can
• 1:57:59
  follow us on the social medias which are also in the
• 1:58:01
  description, but I kind of don't care that much about those.
• 1:58:04
  So no, if nothing else, please keep commenting even if you're
• 1:58:08
  mad at me, because I. Think it's the funniest shit on
• 1:58:10
  the planet? Please.
• 1:58:11
  I Yes. Well, nothing to be mad at
• 1:58:16
  about. This time so I.
• 1:58:18
  Mean yes I I didn't have a spicy hot.
• 1:58:22
  Take a spicy hot take that was front.
• 1:58:24
  Loaded with the fact that I wasn't using the full.
• 1:58:26
  Information. It was just the smell test.
• 1:58:28
  Yeah. Oh.
• 1:58:31
  Why have you changed some of your opinion on that?
• 1:58:33
  No, not at all. Because I still haven't read
• 1:58:35
  that part yet. Well, that part.
• 1:58:37
  'S in the other book exactly so you know, so they talk about it
• 1:58:44
  a. Little bit in the.
• 1:58:45
  Encounter section. I'm aware they do in this book,
• 1:58:47
  but I still haven't. Gotten to that part in the book
• 1:58:49
  so opinion has not changed. Feel please feel free to keep
• 1:58:53
  yelling at me in the comments. Feel feel free to keep yelling
• 1:58:56
  at them, seeing them roll. In in Real Time was pretty good,
• 1:59:00
  but it's kind of funny. All right, fine.
• 1:59:03
  Fuck. I don't know.
• 1:59:03
  Do whatever you want. I don't care.
• 1:59:04
  Yeah. Do whatever you want, that's
• 1:59:06
  what. I'm saying anyway, bye bye,
• 1:59:08
  we're done here, all right? Peace my bucket.