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Perfect Draw! | Tabletop Shout-Out Part 2: Ep. 181 · Sessions Canceled

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Hey. Everybody.
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So the GM got dragged into yet another shadow game.
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It's crazy this keeps happening and we really keep telling him
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to stop accepting challenges from random white haired
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weirdos. But it is wrong.
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With you but it really is what it is.
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So with no GM sessions cancelled but I brought my dual
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mastercards. So does anyone want to play?
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No, I picked the fire deck like no wow what a basic bitch you
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are fire. No dude the fucking I loved.
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I played like a hard like a pretty sick dragon deck in dual
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masters. I had all the cool ones.
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I had Gatling sky terror, I had bullshock dragon.
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I was so happy. I am always when it comes to any
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kind of like elemental typing shit for any like show, video
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game, car, get any. I am always anti fire because I
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feel like it's always the default pick and I'm just like
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no, no rejects conformity. Like when I when I saw that the
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firebenders when I watched avatar, the firebenders were the
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bad guys. I was like you damn straight
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they are Thank God dude, I I you don't understand.
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I loved when Ang when the main character was a fucking
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airbender. I was like hell yeah dude like
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that's a different. I'm still annoyed that Tanjiro
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is basically a fire breather now.
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I that still bothers me to this day.
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Really. Yes, I wanted Tanjiro.
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I love the fact that the main character was based around water
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technique because it's makes him so much like we don't need to we
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don't need to get too down into this rabbit hole.
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But yes, I like the main character being based around
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water and the fact that the second-half of the series he
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becomes fire slash sun guy and I was just like, God damn it.
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You know what's funny, given given our topic of discussion.
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Hey, hi, hello. We're still talking about
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perfect draw. I I really like the the resolved
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the like main character. Yeah, I really like her deck
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archetype, the the battleblock battalion, because I kind of was
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expecting something really edgy or really I was expecting, I was
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expecting something closer to Yugi.
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Yeah, I was too that that deck does exist.
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It's the the the destined. But like, I kind of like, and I
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don't know, people. I I, I kind of shit on the
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goofier deck archetypes in Yu-gi-oh, but I don't know, I
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just kind of like, what was that show?
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Was was it Cubix the the robot cube toy gimmick thing from the
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early 2000s? Do you remember that cartoon?
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No, fair enough. I don't know.
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I just IA part of me is like the, the the resolves deck is
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like a Bionicle deck and you're like, ah, fuck, that's cool.
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Actually. See, I think it's funny that you
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like I, I think that's kind of funny because I'm pretty sure
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that's supposed to be based on Yuma's Go Go Go's and Gaga Gaz
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and Zexel. I'm.
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Pretty sure that's where they got the idea for that.
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It could be and it probably is and I I don't know why, because
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that was because Yuma's vibe was kind of toys like they weren't
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exactly toys in Zexel, but like aesthetically they did kind of
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look like toys right, right. I mean did you you didn't even
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like go go go magician his like his dark magician.
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I know I didn't like go magician like, but I I hate the stupid
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like don't get me wrong, I love the boncho look.
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I love the like the school tough guy with the with the fucking
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Odoro chain. But like the stupid fire pattern
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on his cloak. That just looks like something
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like it. It looks like Guy Fieri's
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magician like I I see. I I loved Gaga Gaga magician.
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I thought he was like a perfect like like a like a fun
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reinterpretation of dark magician, especially because you
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say and Jayden didn't really have a dark magician style ace
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card in the same way. You know what I mean?
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Like obviously you say had Stardust Dragon but that was
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different because Stardust dragon was more like his Slifer
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And then no I mean you say did his his arc his his original ace
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was junk warrior. Yeah, but it didn't.
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It didn't. It didn't fear.
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Was my boy when he did the sick pose and he like fucking
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cracked. The screen with the punch.
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And was like, fuck yeah, like Jump Carrier's cool, but I don't
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know, I, I don't know, he didn't feel the same.
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And the fact that they were both synchro monsters, like, I don't
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know. I just really, I don't know.
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I love the, I love Gaga, Gaga Magician's vibe.
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I thought that was a great, like reference to Yugi and Dark
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Magician and that whole thing. I don't, I like Yuba's deck.
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I think Yuba has a fun deck. I think it's stupid, which again
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is ironic. That's what I'm saying.
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Like it's it's kind of a similar thing.
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Similar. Well, you know, to be fair, like
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I don't have we don't have any like physical representation for
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the battleblock battalion. Like if the if the art for them
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was goofy as fuck, I might hate them, but like the idea of them
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is cool. I feel like it would be goofy
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looking though, Like I think that's kind of the point.
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They would look a little goofy. They might, they might.
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That's kind of why I like Yuma's deck too, because like he was a
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little goofy looking. He was like the underdog main
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character, God, a little goofy looking.
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That's yeah, that's the way I'm describing the way you.
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I don't even think. I don't think that.
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I don't think. I don't think they look that
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bad. I don't think they look that
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bad. I hate the way Yuma looks.
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No, no, I'm his cards I'm talking about.
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I also don't think Yuma looks that bad, but that's a whole
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other thing. I don't know, man.
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I don't know what to tell you. Anyway, hello everybody.
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We're talking about perfect draw again.
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Like I said, everybody hating on my boy like I'm sorry.
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It is what it is. We are picking up where we left
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off last week. We're hitting the second-half of
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the book, the card creation system, character creator, maybe
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some of the world lore, and maybe some of the GM stuff at
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the end. It's pretty bad.
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It's pretty quick and basic, so we'll see.
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Before we get into all that, though, please follow us on your
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podcast platform. Our choice.
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We really appreciate it. Yeah, actually I wanted to ask
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you, so you said before before podcast that for certain reasons
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you were you were more, you were more down for perfect job than
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you were last week. You want to give that a little
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shot real quick before we start up?
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Yeah. I mean, so I mean, we were kind
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of we kind of got into it a little bit talking about the
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main character's decks, right. So I watched a video about how
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Yugi's deck decks throughout the original Yugioh series are are
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bad and I already knew that as someone who actually played
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Yugioh IRL. Like I knew that Yugi's decks
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were bad because there was never any synergy to any of his shit.
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There was never. Yugi did not have a wind
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condition for his deck ever. Like there just was no win
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condition other than big monster hit hard which like in actual
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Yu-gi-oh is really not a win condition because you're just
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never going to get there. Like big monster hit hard is
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just not going to happen like 90% of the time.
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So like I knew his cars were bad but watching the video reminded
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me of how bad his deck is. Like the fact that Yugi always
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ran a single copy of like every card in his deck is fucking mind
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bought. Like I really like didn't think
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about that but I was like bro ran a single copy of everything.
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That is the dumbest thing you could possibly do in UK.
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I mean in basically any card game, but especially in
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Yu-gi-oh. Like are you fucking like Sir,
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were you lobotomized as a child? I I can't like Jesus Christ,
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especially, especially a card like dark magician, his ace.
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Why are you not running three dark magicians?
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There's no reason not to. You have zero reason not to.
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And I know it's because anime like it's his one special card,
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but like, shut the fuck up, get the fuck up.
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And he also referenced the fact that the dark magician is like a
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super rare card. It it it might be in in
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universe, I guess, which like, sure, fine, but I just like he's
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running a single copy of monster reboard.
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Like, dude, what are we doing here?
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Like, I mean, look, the fact that he can run monster reboard
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at all is kind of a miracle. Well, no, not at the time it
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wasn't. Yes, I know.
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I'm just monster Reborn has been in and out of the banned list.
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So many. Actually, you know what?
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I'm dead ass. I'm gonna pull up the list right
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now. Is monster reborn.
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So curious. Monster Reborn is currently
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limited so you can run one of it.
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No two. Wait, one, one or 2211.
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Sorry. Monster Reborn is currently
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limited so you can run one copy. Not bad though.
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Currently as of as of February 26th.
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Sorry, what? As of February 2nd, 2026.
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Well, can you explain to me before we get into it why
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Monster Reborn is so overpowered?
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I'm not sure I understand. It kind of depends on the meta,
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which is why it's been on and off of the banned list so many
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times. Like it's been banned and it's
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been unbanned, but it basically it just comes down to the thing
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about Monster Reborn is you can special summon a monster from
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your graveyard or your opponent's graveyard.
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And depending on the meta that is currently going on, dumping
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like all of your monsters into your graveyard to then like
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special summon them later is potentially incredibly strong.
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And certain decks, like there was a deck called the there's an
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archetype called the dark worlds that their entire shtick was
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their monsters did stuff from the graveyard.
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Like that was their like that was their gimmick was doing shit
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from the graveyard, not from the field or from their hand.
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So like a deck like that you were dumping monsters constantly
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and you could depending on set ups and stuff you could like
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double up. Like if a monster had an effect,
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it's like when they go to the graveyard or when they're
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special summon, you can like double up an effect like that.
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For example. This is one example.
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So Monster Reborn has come in and out of being relevant
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because sometimes pulling shit from from the graveyard has been
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super really like amazingly good and sometimes it's been slightly
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less good. And also being able to like if
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you can get your opponent's really strong card off the field
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and then steal it from their graveyard and then lock down
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their strategy with their own card potentially, or just
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supercharge your strategy with your like it could get into
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weird places. You can also have multiples of
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cards, like if a card is limited, but you guys, both you
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and your opponent are running the limited card, then you could
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monster Reborn and have two copies of a card that you're
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only supposed to have one copy of a of of on your field.
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Yeah, so it's shit like that. So like it's relevance kind of
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comes in and out depending on the men and shit.
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Honestly though, it being limited kind of makes it not
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worth putting in your deck now at all, to be honest.
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So, Oh, interesting. OK, I mean, not entirely.
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Like I'm sure there's probably strategies that use it.
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I don't I'm not up on the meta. I'm not up on the current meta,
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obviously. So I could be talking out of my
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ass a little bit. But the fact that you can only
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have one means your chances of drawing it are so rare that it
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it it might not really be worth it at all anymore, But I don't
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know. I'm not positive though.
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Fair enough. Well, I mean, didn't you not did
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you not have cards that are less limited that lets you deck
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searches? And then you could just deck
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search the Monster Reborn and then you could deck search.
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But deck searching for something like just monster reborn is not
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necessarily worth it unless you have a very specific plan.
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Like I said, I don't I don't know what the current meta is.
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So there may be a strategy where deck searching for your one
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monster reborn is like super worth it.
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I I don't totally know. Fair enough.
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Yeah, anyway, is it is it maybe worth talking about TCGS on this
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on this channel? No, no, we're going down.
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But I guarantee you that's a surefire way of getting Matt,
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Matt and Sam back. We're we're we're we're we're
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getting down a tangent, but I don't know.
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Anyway, all of this to go back to the original point.
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Yes, the reason. So yes, I had a bit of a like
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epiphany about this this this tabletop game.
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So I watched this video about how bad Yugi's deck is, and I
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was like, yeah, that makes sense.
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And then I also watched a video about how many times Yuki cheats
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in the original series. And again, much like his deck, I
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knew he cheated a lot, but I kind of forgot how much.
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And it's like, it's pretty hilarious, to be honest.
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Like, it's just a ridiculous amount of cheating.
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It's like 57 times, yeah. Yeah, and and it's.
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Not just cheating and you might say to yourself like, Oh well,
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he's cheating based on the actual card game rules, right?
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No, sometimes he's also cheating based on the anime's rules too,
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because the anime does have different continuity rules for
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how the game works sometimes, and sometimes he's cheating
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those also which is like bro what?
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And he doesn't get called on this shit.
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But anyway, and what I realized about Perfect Draw is that
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Perfect Draw is emulating, as we said last time, not card games.
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It's emulating card game anime specifically.
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And card game anime are fucking messy and bullshit and don't
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make a lot of sense a lot of the time.
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Because what card game anime is often trying to do is emulate
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the vibe of a shonen like a demon Slayer, like a Dragon Ball
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Z, you know like a jujutsu Kaizen, right?
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Like a One Piece. They're trying to take that
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vibe, but they're trying to do that shonen feel via a card
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game, which is supposed to have rules.
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But the problem is if you want the moment where your
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protagonist does the cool asshole and has the secret
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technique that they've been training their whole life for.
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That doesn't really work if you're actually trying to obey
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the rules of a card game because luck in RNG could just not be on
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your side. And then your shonen protagonist
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can't do their cool asshole like secret technique maneuver.
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So the anime. So the card game animes will
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often just break their own rules or do some crazy bullshit to
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make it work. So they're messy.
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And what I realize is perfect draw is a messy game because
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it's emulating a messy source material.
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And if they want to emulate the messy the the source material as
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as honestly as they can, that's going to by extension make the
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actual tabletop game kind of a fucking mess because that's
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really the only way you could do it.
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So like, it's sort of, it's sort of like the game is almost badly
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designed on purpose. Like it's kind of a mess, but
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it's intentionally kind of a mess.
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So they, they nailed the feeling like spot on basically.
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And so a lot of my frustration, I I kind of realized a lot of my
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frustration with reading and trying to understand the game is
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that it's about as frustrating as trying to understand the
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bullshit Yugi is pulling in the fucking anime.
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Oh, I mean, that loops it back around to making it peek in like
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a weird. So yeah, like kind of, yeah,
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yeah, it kind of loops back around to the big peek if if you
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want, if you want the shonen card game battle anime feeling.
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And you, you specifically want the feeling that the show does
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like, and only the show, like you don't give a shit about it
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feeling like an actual TCG in any way.
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Then like, yeah, it's, it's kind of nailing that.
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And so you come back around to like mission accomplished.
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The thing you just have to be aware of or or like pay
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attention to when you're playing the game is that it's emulating
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an inherently messy source material.
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So the game is going to probably feel inherently messy.
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So as long as you're understanding that it's fine,
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it's actually it, then it becomes good.
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Actually. The thing that is also funny
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though, is by extension is that realization also means that this
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tabletop game is even less so for people who like, like I said
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last time, this is not a game that's going to appeal very much
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to anyone who doesn't understand the source material or doesn't
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care about this, that you know, the anime source material.
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The the, the, the realization I just explained makes that even
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more true. Because now not only are you not
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gonna entirely understand what the vibe is trying to go for,
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you're also maybe gonna be a little confused as to why it
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seems like the game doesn't work 100%.
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And it's 'cause it's pulling from a thing that doesn't work
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100%. But if you don't know that, so
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like, yeah, trying to get your friend who only plays DND to
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play this game is not is is not gonna.
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Good luck. Good fucking luck.
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Fair enough. I I still think I disagree.
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I I don't think this game is actually that messily designed.
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I think you have to think about it in two separate scope of
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mines the card game in the in the game that surrounds the card
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game. I think the card game is really
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well designed. See, I think that the card game
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is less well designed, but you can see that's because they put
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all of their attention into the thing that they really cared
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about, which was the card game design.
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See, but I think the card game is the messiest part because
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it's so open-ended and how it works and the fact that you can
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literally there is literally a move in the game that is I pull
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out the card exactly that I needed and I make up the effect
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on the spot and then we'll worry about balancing it later.
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Like that's literally a core move in the game.
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It is you know what I mean? It is so like I think the card
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game part is the messy part, but again, that's kind of the point.
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So it works. It's very weird.
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It's a very strange, it's a very strange game.
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Like I really can't again, if you're not someone who who it's
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like for this game to work, you need to be again, like like I
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said last time, this game is a niche on a niche on a niche,
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right? And if you don't know all three
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niches we're trying to hit here, it's it's gonna be a tough sell.
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It's gonna be a tricky one. Like someone might like the idea
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of it. Like someone might hear the
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premise of the game and like it, but not once they go to play it,
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not really know how to play it. You know, like don't really like
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know what to do. And don't get me wrong, this is
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true of other tabletop games, right?
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People will hear about the idea of DND.
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And then not really know how they're supposed to enact the
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idea of DND while actually playing DND.
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Like that is true of all tabletop games.
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This game just cranks that problem up to 11 because it's
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it's so specific in what it's trying to enact.
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You know, I will definitely give you the specificity.
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It it if you're like, I prefer, if you're not super in on the
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vibes and like the source material, yeah, it's going to be
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it. It I'll give you that.
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It is a tough sell. It's it's a tough sell.
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Like, you know, here's the thing though.
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It sounds like I'm saying a negative.
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But on the positive side of what I'm talking about, it is worth
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pointing out that when you design A game to be hyper
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specific to a specific audience and a specific niche, that tends
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to be when you make the best games, right?
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Like making games that are super generic to the widest audience
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generally gets you the least interesting stuff.
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So in that regard, you kind, we kind you have a very interesting
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game on your hands. So if you're into the weird, if
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you're into what they're selling, you're going to be
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really into it, you know? Yeah.
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So like, there's that element to it too.
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And again, I am into what they're selling for the most
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part. So, you know, I'm not, I'm not
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even really hating. My initial frustration was
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feeling like the game part of the game was like almost like
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not finished or not fully realized.
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But now what I'm realizing is no, it is fully realized.
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It's fully realized in a very specific way and it create it,
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it, it ends up being a bit of a weird like feedback loop
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situation almost. So yeah.
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You mean where where the design reinforces the theme, which
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reinforces the design, which reinforces the theme?
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Kind of, Yeah. But the design and the it's like
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the design is bad because the theme is bad.
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But then it comes back around to being good, but then it goes
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back around to being bad. Like, you know what I mean?
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I, I think, yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't know.
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I think the, the word bad, we got to, we got our place.
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That is maybe not the right word, but like chaotic and
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messy. I thought a bit of a cluster,
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like a little bit of a cluster, 'cause I can just Sir, Sir, Sir.
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Right, right. We're 20 minutes in.
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I got it. We got to get to actually put
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the meat and potatoes. OK, fine.
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I just, my final point is I just, I can envision the player
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who doesn't, who thinks the idea is interesting but is not super
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into something like Yu-gi-oh. And then the game is like you
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need to design your entire deck from scratch and the player
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looking at it and go, yeah, I don't know about that one.
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That's just, I just constantly, I'm always thinking of that
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person. I was, I was on the edge of
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being that person when I was reading this game.
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So yeah, I mean, like, like I said before, you don't actually
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have to do that. Like the you don't have to do it
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really anything from scratch. The game gives you so many
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resources. No, not 100%, but we'll get to
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it. From scratch, it's true.
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That being said, where we left off was the very start of the
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card creation system and a buckle in.
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It's a doozy. I mean, this is the, this is the
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meat and potatoes of this game. Yeah, I like, yeah, I like I
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always talk about how tabletop games always have like, their
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one mechanic that is like, this is their thing.
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This is their core, their butter, their everything.
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This is this is that. This is the one mechanic.
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This is the the card creation is the core mechanic of this game
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by far. Yeah, it it is.
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It is as integral to the game as the character creation system,
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perhaps even more. Arguably more.
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Yeah. Like your character is almost
24:16
secondary to your deck a little bit.
24:19
Yeah. Like your character reinforces
24:21
the deck, not necessarily the way around.
24:23
And while it is technically optional, it still serves as a a
24:29
really important touchstone to understanding the nuance behind
24:35
card creation so that, you know, when you use the the Ardian
24:40
combat moves later on, you'll kind of understand where the
24:42
game is coming from, what it asks that of you.
24:45
Yeah, it it actually begin a little earlier back to the
24:51
keyword section that I had left out in the card game combat
24:54
section, because I feel like this is a more important place
24:56
to talk about it. It's slightly weird that the the
25:00
game refers to the deck building thing as like optional, which
25:02
like I get what they mean by it, but it is a little funny to say
25:05
it that way because like you do need a deck.
25:08
You do need a deck. Well, so they're saying it's
25:10
optional because you have they provide decks.
25:12
I get what they mean. 10 pre made decks and and dozens of pre
25:16
made cards. Like, it is purely optional, but
25:20
it's important to understand the methodology behind the rules
25:26
because at some point you are probably going to make a card
25:28
that isn't in the list or isn't as described.
25:32
Well, I think at some point you're just going to want to
25:34
make a card. Yeah, you probably are.
25:38
Yeah. Seems I, I feel like any, if
25:41
anyone plays this for any extended period of time, they're
25:43
going to get to the point where they're like, I want to make my
25:45
own thing now. Like, I it seems unlikely you
25:47
wouldn't get there. Yeah, I can't, unless you are
25:51
just Yuga somehow got roped into playing this campaign and you
25:55
really don't want to play it, but you don't want to leave this
25:57
group just Thursday nights are are otherwise completely
26:00
uneventful. So you're kind of just here
26:02
vibing. Yeah.
26:05
But yeah, the keywords are a pretty basic tag system.
26:12
Cards that you create or find or or interact with will have at
26:16
least one of these keywords on them, and it's important to
26:19
understand what they mean. So when you start making the
26:21
cards or when someone brings them up, you, you know you're
26:23
not looking at it. Like what the fuck is that?
26:27
The keywords are as follows. Overwork, strengthened,
26:32
overwhelm, underwhelm, piercer, sniper, teamwork, follow up,
26:39
blocker, inconspicuous, humble, and pressure.
26:48
As a basic overview, overwork essentially just means that when
26:52
you play a card with this tag, you cannot play a staple or an
26:55
invocation on the next turn. Basically meaning the card is so
26:58
chunky that you have to you basically get like summon
27:00
sickness for a moment. Strengthened effectively takes
27:03
your character, whatever your warrior strength is, or or sorry
27:07
any of your your card strength is in upset one level.
27:11
So Weak become strong, strong become right, Weak becomes
27:15
normal, Normal becomes strong, and Strong gains the overwhelmed
27:18
tag. Speaking of which, Overwhelm
27:21
guarantees that you will always win clashes with cards of the
27:24
same strength. Underwhelm, as you can assume,
27:27
does the opposite. Piercer allows you to deal
27:30
damage to a player, even the Sorry deal damage to a player
27:34
upon destruction of a card. Sniper allows you to bypass
27:39
other enemy like our enemy warriors to attack the the
27:43
player directly. Teamwork is pretty cool.
27:45
It allows if you have more than one card in the field of the
27:49
same strength, they essentially can pull their strength together
27:52
to form a monster of one strength higher.
27:55
Kind of like a fusion except they unfuse after the attack.
27:59
Blocker allows you to intercept incoming attacks to protect your
28:03
monsters. Follow up allows you to play a
28:05
card after that one card that you're guaranteed per turn.
28:09
Not counting for staples of course.
28:11
Inconspicuous means that it can't be targeted.
28:13
It's like the Magic the Gathering flight fumble
28:18
essentially works like a trap card.
28:20
It essentially it you describe how you want the fumble to work
28:24
and when it's triggered it makes it to the opponent's play
28:28
doesn't go the way it wants, and they would therefore have to use
28:31
a counter your opponent's play move to stop it from happening.
28:35
And then finally, Pressure essentially just allows you to
28:39
add +1 to your attention while that card's on the field.
28:44
Pretty basic. It's also worth mentioning that
28:49
each of these keywords, when you look at the section, has a
28:52
unique little blurb called Costing This effect that
28:55
basically goes into some general details about what you want to
28:59
think about when you add that keyword to a specific card and
29:03
how powerful it could theoretically make that card
29:06
under certain Canoe. Got it.
29:11
Everybody clear on that? All right, cool.
29:14
No, repeat all that again that that shit ain't happening.
29:18
Again. No, I don't want to into the
29:22
card creation system itself. We're going to start pretty
29:25
basic with the staples. We talked about staples last
29:27
time, but if you don't remember, staples are generalized, often
29:32
weaker cards that provide the the decks that you create a
29:36
level of consistency. Staples themselves, as the name
29:40
implies, invokes the fiction of universal cards that, in theory,
29:43
anybody could have. Think Monster Reborn, Pot of
29:46
Greed, Monarch, Monocards for the Magic the Gathering players
29:51
mean land cards. Yeah, sorry, you can tell we
29:57
both don't play Magic. Fair enough.
30:00
An interesting thing to note about this, because I was
30:03
thinking about this as I was reading the book up until I got
30:05
to this point. As we mentioned last time, your
30:08
deck at level 1 consists of four cards.
30:11
But when you think about Yu-gi-oh, right?
30:14
You think that Yugi doesn't just have 4 cards that he's known
30:17
for, right? He's got a Celtic Guardian,
30:19
Buster Blader, the Magnet cards, Kiribo.
30:22
He's got all of these little normal cards that aren't
30:24
necessarily his Ace or the Egyptian gods or anything.
30:28
Staples that count as this because the game states that
30:32
you're supposed to rename the staples to better fit them into
30:35
your card deck. So to a normal, you know, when
30:40
you when you would take the card, when you take the Summon
30:41
Night card, which creates a normal monster, That would be
30:44
your Celtic guardian. That would be, you know, for my
30:47
dual master players out there, the Immortal Baron Borg.
30:49
That's just your guy. It's worth doing because you'll
30:56
be playing these cards a lot. A lot of the decks that are pre
31:01
made pretty much consist of primarily throwing staple cards
31:04
out and then using their ace and unique cards to support the
31:08
staples. So again, very much worth
31:11
thinking about. To give a quick rundown of the
31:14
staples and what they do, you have some at night rates.
31:17
A normal warrior fireball deals one damage to the the competitor
31:21
directly. It's a burn card on kind of on
31:23
the page. Quick thinking allows you to
31:25
draw one card. It's your pot of greed.
31:27
Summon dragon This actually has overwork on it as I don't use
31:32
phrases like burned. Let's not let's say I get tuned
31:35
into this awesome TCG lingo. Fair enough.
31:38
Summon dragon We have an example of overwork here.
31:41
It creates one strong monster. The give off being that you can
31:44
create one powerful monster, but you can't summon or you can't
31:46
use staples or invocations. Next turn Summon army let's you
31:50
summon 2 small monsters saying call I'm I'm I'm going to say
31:55
monster and warrior pretty interchangeably.
31:56
You're just going to have to live with me on.
31:59
Salve allows you to heal one health Reconsider is pretty
32:02
cool. You draw 2 cards and then take 2
32:04
cards from the bottom from your hand and put them in the bottom
32:07
of your deck. Destroy let's you destroy one
32:09
target, item or monster. Double Strike let's a warrior
32:13
attack twice. Magic weapon strengthens a
32:15
warrior. Silence allows a warrior or
32:20
monster the opponent controls to essentially lose all of its
32:22
effects for the rest of the turn.
32:24
And Augury allows you to search your deck and put it in your
32:27
hand and then search your deck for a card, put it in your hand,
32:30
then shuffle your deck. I, I, I, I do want to mention
32:34
something that a, a thought I have, and this is kind of an
32:38
incomplete thought because I haven't played the game, but so
32:43
you start the, the game with four, four cards in your deck.
32:48
And I, I forgot exactly where it says it, but somewhere in the
32:51
book, it's like generally your deck you want to keep between
32:55
4:00 and 8:00 cards. That's like roughly where you
32:58
want to operate. And I'm just, I'm really curious
33:03
how that only four to 8 is really small.
33:08
And I'm really curious how that feels because like obviously in
33:12
an actual, like in actual Yu-gi-oh, the the minimum size
33:16
of a deck is 40 cards. And in Magic I think it's 60, I
33:21
think, don't quote me on that. So like the idea of you have
33:27
like 8, maybe you have 10, like 10 would be big in this game.
33:32
I'm very curious how your deck is going to feel when it's
33:36
really tiny. And because like, if you only
33:40
have 4 cards in your deck, that means you have a one in four
33:42
chance of drawing any of your cards as opposed to A1 in 40.
33:46
You know what I mean? Like I'm just, I'm just, I'm
33:50
curious how the math, like not how the math works so much, but
33:54
just what the, what the mouth feel is on that.
33:56
Because shuffling a deck of three cards is like, it feels a
34:03
little goofy almost, you know? It does.
34:07
Yeah, admittedly it does feel a little, it can feel a little
34:09
weird, I think. I think that's really where the
34:11
staples come in, right? Because you technically have
34:14
unlimited staples of two unique types, technically 3 when you
34:17
pick your playbook. So like I said, I think a lot of
34:21
these are part of this. Aren't the staples part of the
34:24
starting 4 though? No, no, no.
34:27
It's your 4 cards, then you have 3 staples.
34:30
So your deck is technically 8 cards large.
34:32
You just don't have to draw three of them.
34:34
You just it just assumes that they're always in your hand.
34:38
Oh. Oh, wait.
34:41
What? Oh, did I?
34:43
So staples aren't in your deck like normal?
34:47
No. Oh, I see.
34:49
OK, I guess I missed that. I don't know, I'm confused.
34:52
Yeah, you can. You can play staples at any
34:54
time. It just like that's why it says
34:57
like your hand is technically only one card large on a on a
35:01
filler duel, because it just assumes that you've got staples
35:05
in the rest of your hand. I see.
35:10
Yeah, that's still OK. This is where I will give to you
35:15
that it feels a little messy because your your your
35:18
imagination is doing a lot of the work for something that you
35:20
want to be physical, especially because the game recommends that
35:25
you create your cards. There is a if you go to the the
35:30
perfect draw, I'll I'll we'll have we'll link the itch dot IO
35:34
stuff in the description, but the game literally comes with a
35:41
a card creation tool and it's pretty cool.
35:44
I have it open right here. You essentially oh, oh, no, I
35:47
was gonna say I do have it. You it you input all the
35:51
information you want, right? It's name, it's type, it's
35:53
strength, whether or not it's an ace card, you can upload a
35:58
unique image to it and then fill out the effect in keywords and
36:01
it will actually create a card for you.
36:02
And you can create these and you know, align them in whatever
36:06
photo editor of your choice that you want.
36:09
And then you can just cut them out on paper.
36:12
And the game does kind of expect you to actually play the TCG
36:15
while you're playing the game. Yeah.
36:20
Like we said, we, we, I don't like we, we talked about how you
36:23
could do this on a VTT. It would be a lot.
36:27
No, I I actually don't think it'd be that hard after thinking
36:30
about it. You think so?
36:31
I think it'd be. Yeah, no, just handouts, die
36:34
rolls to represent draws and shit.
36:37
I I don't actually think it'd be that hard.
36:39
OK, I mean, there might be a cut.
36:44
Well, I guess shuffling. I don't know how you do
36:47
shuffling. Yeah, I don't know.
36:56
I'd have to, I'd have to sit and tease it out.
36:59
I I, I think it's doable, but yeah, fair enough.
37:04
So, OK, wait, so wait, so then the so the idea is that draw,
37:10
like, OK, wait, I did. I just completely miss it.
37:16
So playing a staple is like your staple is almost like an extra
37:21
deck or some shit. You just whip that shit out
37:23
whenever the fuck you want. Pretty much.
37:25
Yeah. And so, like, fictionally, it's
37:28
part of your deck, but mechanically it's not Exactly.
37:31
Yes. OK, so it says it here in the
37:36
staples section. I was trying to find it.
37:37
Your staples are not added to your deck or part of your hand.
37:40
Access to them without needing to worry about drawing them.
37:43
Yeah. Yeah.
37:43
Yeah. I see.
37:46
Yeah, yeah, Yeah. Staples are, yeah.
37:54
OK, that's, yeah, that's weird. Yeah.
37:57
I mean, I'll agree with you that that part feels messy to me
38:00
because you you got some Ludo narrative disco biscuits going
38:03
on. I mean, my, my point still
38:04
mostly stands that I still wonder about the general
38:07
mouthfeel of having a deck of like, only four cards.
38:10
But again, having not played it, this is a unfinished thought.
38:15
So. Yeah, fair enough.
38:19
After you get into your staples, like I said you get 2 of them at
38:22
level 1 plus your one from your playbook, you can talk about the
38:27
you know like we said the actual meat and potatoes, the creating
38:31
card system. The 1st and quickest one to
38:35
speak of are the pre made cards. They are just that Perfect Draw
38:40
provides 36 pre made cards that players can pretty easily re
38:44
flavor or revise into the signature cards of their decks.
38:49
The game itself suggests that first time players do exactly
38:53
that, as it notes that it's generally good practice to study
38:57
the guidelines that the premades follow when you're designing
39:00
your own deck. As part of the tables that the
39:05
premades are assigned to, the rule book lists some important
39:08
information that's we're thinking about if and when you
39:11
want to put your own spin on them.
39:13
Generally speaking, the cards are designed through a point by
39:16
style method that allows you to effectively pay more for more
39:23
varied, more powerful effects in a system.
39:25
Called effect points. A somewhat poorly worded point
39:28
by system. Yeah it it's it's there's a
39:33
couple bits where I had to read it like 3 times.
39:35
I was like, what the? Fuck are they trying to say?
39:37
Yeah, Yeah, I, I think I know what you're talking about.
39:40
We'll we'll get to that probably.
39:43
The game also explains how, and I like this, it explains how the
39:48
effect points were purchased based on the card, which I think
39:51
is pretty cool. So like for example, if you look
39:55
at the pre made battle dancer, yeah, if you look at the battle
39:59
dancer card underneath the actual card itself, it says weak
40:03
warrior worth 3 effect points, additional attack equals
40:06
powerful 2 and it's consistent. No, no, no, no, weak warrior.
40:12
Has the budget of three effect points.
40:15
That's what I mean. I maybe I the additional, the
40:19
additional attack cost powerful 2 and consistent one, which is
40:24
where your budget of three went. Yes, exactly.
40:27
That's this is that's kind of what I'm talking about.
40:30
They worded the cost and the budget are both called effect
40:35
points and I really think that was a bad decision.
40:40
Another another nice little point that they that they give
40:43
you is that at the bottom of the of each pre made card page you
40:49
get a little keyword CHEAT SHEET of the reason why I wanted to
40:52
add this that part there. After we get to that the a small
40:59
final point is the game offers you some pretty easy simple
41:05
solutions for how it wants you to re flavor the cards.
41:09
So for example the one that they give is giving the scout the
41:15
blocker keyword, essentially turning a light attacker into a
41:19
quick intercept unit that you can have take attacks for
41:23
monsters if you don't want them to be destroyed.
41:26
They also talk about the battle dancer being turned into an
41:29
invocation rather than a warrior.
41:31
Especially if you have a deck that focuses a lot on using
41:34
spell casting and is buffed by your ace cards.
41:38
After that, after premades, we have a big kahuna, the Mack
41:43
daddy, the long Dick of the law. That is the card creation
41:46
system. The system is surprised, maybe
41:50
not surprisingly in depth, horrifyingly in depth, or
41:54
aimfully in depth. It's very in depth using the
41:59
aforementioned effect point system as well as notes and
42:02
general rules of thumb to follow when you're creating the the
42:05
important thing. We got to make sure we, we
42:07
phrase here effect point budget and then effect point cost
42:15
because the book does not do a great job of distinguishing
42:18
those two statements. You know what I'm saying?
42:23
I mean, I, I, I agree with you that it's messy.
42:26
I don't think it it that tripped me up particularly, but I can
42:29
understand how. So like like for example, if you
42:32
there's the little chart, right, it says like a weak warrior 3
42:36
EP. And for a SEC, for a minute
42:40
there I was like, wait, why does a weak warrior cost more effect
42:43
points than a strong warrior? No, it's saying a weak warrior
42:46
has a higher effect point budget than a strong warrior.
42:49
But again, because they use the word effect points to mean both
42:54
the cost and the budget and do not add any distinctification on
42:58
that confusion. So I'm saying what we're talking
43:03
about it. We want to try and be clear.
43:07
Fair enough. Yes, that I get what you're
43:11
saying. Where was it?
43:15
Yeah, sorry. It it provides some interesting
43:17
rules of thumb when creating the the effects, which are for the
43:20
most part pretty freeform and very freeform.
43:26
It it allows you to create a balancing scale, in which case
43:32
you can give those freeform effects a fact point rating.
43:37
When creating a card, the game suggests that you do the
43:40
following. When you're doing so, decide
43:43
what the card's type is, be it a warrior item or invocation, how
43:47
strong that card is, weak, normal or strong, and whether or
43:50
not it's your Ace card. This process is detailed in the
43:53
Defining your card section. Describe any cards you'd like to
43:57
give right, any effects you'd like to your new card to have.
44:02
This and the following are are defined in the Giving your Card
44:05
Effects section. Figure out whether or not your
44:08
card leads into your Dex gimmick.
44:10
Figure out whether or not how powerful the card is, figuring
44:14
out how versatile the card is, and whether or not the effect
44:17
you're creating is consistent. Once all that's done, you can
44:20
rehash and revise the card, adding weaknesses as necessary.
44:26
And this is finally described in the Refining Your Card section.
44:33
Can I just, can I just point out the versatile thing?
44:36
I don't, Oh, brother, I, I talked about it.
44:39
I don't, I do not understand what they're trying to say.
44:42
I really don't. I tried, I tried like, I think I
44:44
figured it out. I I think I did figure it out.
44:46
OK, that's good. Yeah.
44:51
To the first part, though, defining your card, pretty
44:54
simple process, like I said, choosing between the three card
44:58
types. Each card begins with a separate
45:01
number of effect points that you are allowed to spend in
45:03
character or in card points Budget.
45:06
Yes, that's what I said. Like, but you can spend.
45:09
I know, I know. I'm just, I'm trying to be, I'm
45:11
trying to make some really clear 'cause it gets real confusing
45:13
real quick. Each card, the three, the three
45:16
cards, it's allotted effect points budget.
45:19
The three card types also Warrior, Item and Invocation.
45:24
Just as a. Reminder for those No you
45:27
didn't. You just said the three card
45:28
types. Yeah, I said it in the previous
45:31
bullet. Well, I didn't hear you say Oh
45:35
God. Anyway, the way it works is off.
45:39
RIP Warriors have an effect point budget of three for Week 2
45:44
for normal and 0 for strong. Items have 4 for week 3 for
45:49
normal and one for strong, and invocations have a steady three
45:54
effect point budget. It can't go any higher or less
45:58
than that. I don't exactly remember if you
46:02
can make an invocation your ace card.
46:04
I think you can. In which I think you could,
46:06
yeah, Invocations that is. I'm sorry.
46:10
Your ace card, which is to say the signature card that your
46:12
deck is built around by default, is allowed to be stronger than
46:16
other cards, and as such is given one extra point allotted
46:20
to its budget, and it's expected that you're allowed to be a
46:24
little more lenient when designing its effect.
46:28
I forget did is your are you only ever ever allowed to have
46:34
one ace period? I don't remember if it says if
46:37
you so you can add more aces to your deck, but the second you
46:40
add another ace, your first ace loses its tag and you might have
46:45
to do some work with the judge to, you know, mellow out its
46:48
effect because it's no longer your strongest card.
46:51
Let's see. I suppose you don't necessarily
46:54
have to. It doesn't necessarily say
46:56
anywhere that you would have to do that, but you can assume
46:59
based on this system that it loses that effect point budget
47:03
piece. So you're going to have to do a
47:04
little work on it. On the topic of giving cards
47:09
effects, it allows you to spend the aforementioned effect points
47:13
to fulfil your effect point budget to power up your card.
47:16
When doing so, the amount of effect points and ability would
47:19
have is reduced to a simplified equation with the following
47:23
parameters. Be prepared for lists within
47:27
lists. On this one, it's going to get a
47:28
little deep. I'm just going to trust you all
47:31
to follow along, and if not, I don't know you're going to be
47:35
doing some rewinding. Ed.
47:37
What Ed keep note that the the cards are made at the table in
47:44
front of and with the judge as a cooperative endeavour.
47:47
So you're going to be doing a lot of backing.
47:50
The first question asked is I just the the idea of that I'm
47:55
already tired. Well so you like it.
47:58
You know you're not supposed to do it in a heated moment, right?
48:01
You when you need the recover a move.
48:05
That's kind of when players can sit down and design new cards
48:07
and it it's going to be like a session long thing.
48:11
If every player at the table wants to design a card, it's
48:13
going to take a little while. Yeah, maybe not a session long,
48:16
but it's going to take an hour or two.
48:18
It's. Yeah, it's something you want to
48:20
do between sessions if you can. For sure.
48:22
Yeah. The first parameter is, does the
48:26
effect lead into my gimmick that reduces the cost?
48:31
Well, it's weird. So it says it reduces.
48:33
This is where I'll give Josh it. It doesn't.
48:35
This is one of your budget. It increases your budget by
48:38
more. It increases your Yes, it
48:40
increases your budget by reducing the cost of the effect
48:44
itself. Yes.
48:46
It's worded so I don't. Yeah.
48:47
I don't know why they didn't just say plus again, why they
48:51
didn't just use the word fucking budget in this entire section.
48:54
I do not understand. It really bothered me 'cause it
48:56
had, it left me confused multiple times.
49:01
I, I got to give credit where credit's due.
49:02
Yeah, no, it, it is worded a little oddly.
49:04
This is where I, this is where I will give Josh the, the messy
49:07
argument, how powerful the effect is.
49:11
And it's, it costs one effect point per instance of powerful.
49:16
We'll explain that later. Versatile, how versatile it is
49:19
one effect per instance of versatile.
49:21
We'll explain that again. And then consistent, that is
49:25
just one effect point. It cannot get any higher or
49:28
lower. The gimmick question is by far
49:31
the simplest it it probably requires the least explanation
49:36
You just described to your judge how you feel the card fits into
49:38
your deck gimmick and they will sort of back and forth with you
49:42
a little bit until it's agreed upon.
49:44
You know how the card works and if you can do it successfully.
49:48
As we said, your effect budget is increased by one.
49:52
I you were saying something, I just, I'm OK, I'm, I'm, I'm fine
49:59
with the does it lean into my gimmick mechanic?
50:01
Because obviously in terms of invoking, you know, Yu-gi-oh
50:06
like the anime and shit like that, it absolutely makes sense
50:10
to have this mechanic. But I can for sure see the
50:14
arguments getting started over whether or not the effect leads
50:17
into your gimmick. And I just the headaches.
50:21
I can feel the headaches. Like I think honestly, I I think
50:27
a lot of it just has to boil down to the judge being like,
50:33
yeah, OK, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah.
50:36
Which that's that is the tact you should take.
50:39
I could just, I don't know, all the other things you have to
50:43
like come up with and go back and forth on like I could just
50:46
see this, this the doesn't lean into my gimmick 1.
50:49
I feel like in particular, I can see sparking debates.
50:55
Well, you could have an interesting thing too, where a
50:57
character has a card that specifically doesn't play into
51:01
their budget. And I know in terms of meta,
51:02
that is the less effective thing to have.
51:05
But if you, for example, wanted like a, you know, I think about
51:13
skull dice in graceful dice, Joey's cards that increase your
51:16
your monster's attack and decrease the the opponent's.
51:19
If your deck isn't about buffing and debuffing, it's just about
51:23
doing like, you know, doing burn damage.
51:27
It makes sense for you to be like, well, most of your
51:30
abilities revolve around damaging the enemy directly, not
51:33
buffing your cards up. So I would say this doesn't fit
51:35
into your gimmick. And then, you know, a player can
51:39
be like, OK, well, what if it doesn't do damage directly, but
51:42
it does let my monster get the sniper property so I can, or so
51:46
I can bypass my opponent's defenses and attack them
51:50
directly. And then the judge can be like,
51:51
OK, that works. You know what I mean?
51:54
I think that's kind of how it's intended to work.
51:58
Yeah, yeah, Like, yes, yeah, I, I get how it's intended to work.
52:01
I and I, again, I'm not even necessarily against the
52:03
mechanic. I just, I remember reading it
52:05
and thinking to myself, like, oh boy, this one's going to spark
52:08
some fucking Reddit horror stories.
52:10
It can I it it definitely can. I'll give you that after the
52:15
gimmick question, we have a we have the topic of a cards power
52:18
effect, or the the power of a cards effect rather how powerful
52:22
the effect is. Yes.
52:24
In order to calculate a whether or not the card is receiving the
52:29
powerful keyword, which it's not an official keyword, but it
52:31
should because they treat it like one, it's capitalized like
52:34
one, it's proper now like 1. The effect has to run through a
52:37
series of prompts. The first one is does the does
52:41
it grant additional card advantage?
52:44
And if you were, if you didn't want to get into to TCG
52:46
terminology, we've officially failed the assignment.
52:52
Card advantage essentially just it whether or not it lets you
52:54
draw a card, lets you play an additional card, lets you
52:57
destroy an opponent. Card advantage is just
53:00
literally, I have more cards at my disposal than you have, which
53:03
is a combination of cards on the field and cards in your hand.
53:08
There can be some extra nuance to it, but that's like the
53:11
baseline. I had to look that up.
53:13
I didn't know it top of my head. Yeah.
53:17
It's just, do I have more cards than you have?
53:19
Yeah. Yeah.
53:21
Whether or not it grants additional card advantage.
53:23
Whether or not it brings you closer to winning by creating
53:26
monsters, strengthening warriors, dealing damage.
53:31
Whether or not it makes it harder for your opponent to win
53:33
by gaining life, granting significant protections, or
53:38
providing you an item that can do the same.
53:41
Whether or not it changes the rules of the game by making your
53:43
opponent unable to attack, Changing what's allowed to
53:46
happen on this turn. And finally, does it present a
53:49
problem that needs to be resolved by making victory
53:52
inevitable or by making winning impossible?
53:55
With each check of the above prompts, the effect gains 1
54:00
instance of the keyword powerful that correlates to one effect.
54:04
Point of cost against the budget.
54:07
So IE if a card has powerful three, its cost is automatically
54:13
at least three effect points. Yeah.
54:18
The game does provide guidelines later on for calculating power.
54:22
Things like assuming law of averages for luck tests and how
54:25
many warriors are ideally on any side of the field, what turn it
54:29
is, how many cards you have. It gets a little into the weeds,
54:32
but for the most part into the weeds.
54:34
I would say it it does give you some tips on balancing when
54:39
deciding power on to versatility because this shit is confusing.
54:52
It is probably the trickiest part of this system and
54:56
essentially when determining versatility, the more scenarios
55:00
in which case a card can be utilized, the more versatile it
55:03
becomes and therefore follows the same instancing method of
55:07
powerful. Now, it could be due to my lack
55:12
of general knowledge with TC GS, but given Josh's response, I
55:16
think not. What I can easily foresee a card
55:19
that is either more or less versatile than expected and
55:24
would probably therefore require one or two instances of tweaking
55:28
after the card is created just to see how it goes.
55:36
When figuring out versatile, the game maintains that you should
55:40
be doing so like we said, with a certain number of warriors items
55:43
or a mix 2 cards in the hand. I just don't, I don't I This is
55:48
the thing, I really don't understand what they're trying
55:50
to say here. So I'm I'm just going to, I'm
55:51
just going to read this verbatim here.
55:54
Generally, effects are considered versatile, imperfect
55:58
draw when they're likely to give you the option to do multiple
56:01
things when you use them, or if the same card could be used in
56:05
multiple different ways. OK, fine.
56:09
Knowing whether a card is likely to give you options can
56:12
sometimes be dependent on how the card how the game is
56:15
progressed. But if you would have a choice
56:17
of effects, targets, uses under the following conditions, then
56:20
you should consider it versatile.
56:24
Both you and your opponent have either 2 warriors and one item
56:27
or one warrior and two items, which ever would make it cost
56:31
more effect points. I do not understand what that
56:34
bullet point is trying to say. What do you mean by make it cost
56:38
more effect points and and how does that relate to the level of
56:45
like I just I don't understand what the I don't understand how
56:47
you're supposed to gauge the the level of versatile.
56:52
So I I think a little bit of information on this is found in
56:56
the choice effects paragraph below it in that little blurb
57:01
which says. Note that if your effect allows
57:04
for a choice of several modes, you only need to cost it at an
57:08
amount of powerful equal to the mode that's the most powerful of
57:11
them. For example, if an effect allows
57:14
you to either gain to life or destroy a warrior and opponent
57:18
controls, then it would be counted as powerful 2 to match
57:21
the gain to life effect. However, it would also cost the
57:25
options for Oh sorry, you would also cost the options for if
57:30
either of them are versatile or consistent.
57:33
In this case, because the user can destroy any of the
57:36
opponent's warriors, the effect of the choice would also be
57:39
considered versatile, making it a total cost of four EP Powerful
57:43
2 versatile versatile. See how is that 2 versatiles?
57:49
So I, I guess the idea is because it can do.
57:54
Yeah, that's a good point. I so like, like, yeah, I you get
57:57
the idea of what it's supposed to mean, right?
57:59
If it, it's the how many effects are in the effect, if it allows
58:05
you to heal or destroy, that would make it versatile.
58:08
But why it's versatile to I'm not exactly sure.
58:11
That's that's what I mean. And then when it talks about
58:15
when it talks about the bullet points of both you and your
58:17
opponent have either 2 warriors and one item or one warrior and
58:20
two items, whichever makes it cost more like in reference to
58:25
in regards to what like Well, then the other option says if
58:33
you have two cards in your hand, it's turned to and both you and
58:35
your opponent have either two or five life, whichever would make
58:38
it cost more effect points. And it 'cause it says wait,
58:42
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. OK, no, I think I got it.
58:45
I think I figured it out. Do you?
58:47
Yes, I do. So I, I, I think that second
58:51
versatile is a typo. I think it's supposed to be
58:53
powerful, versatile, consistent because it references
58:58
consistency and how either of the effects are considered
59:02
consistent. So to me, I think that that
59:06
second versatile is a typo. And what it's saying is, is that
59:10
when you're accounting for powerful, you choose the
59:13
strongest effect and that becomes the power rating of the
59:16
effect. Because the card has two
59:19
abilities, it gains versatile 1 and because it can destroy any
59:23
monster, it becomes consistent one.
59:26
That's not a consistent effect. I mean, based on what the game
59:31
describes as consistent it it is.
59:38
I don't think that's what that's saying.
59:41
Look, your guess goes mine, but that what's that's what makes
59:44
the most sense to me. It does say I'm not even talking
59:48
about that box. I'm still talking about the
59:50
bullet points above because it says knowing whether a card is
59:55
likely to give you to give you. Knowing whether a card is likely
59:59
to give you options can sometimes be dependent on how
1:00:02
the game has progressed, but if you would have a choice of
1:00:06
effects under the following conditions.
1:00:13
So I understand it's saying if you have a choice of effects
1:00:16
when these conditions are met. But I don't.
1:00:18
Understand what that parentheses?
1:00:19
Whichever would make it cost more.
1:00:21
AEP is supposed to mean like it wouldn't.
1:00:25
It cost the same amount of effect points regardless of the
1:00:28
exact situation. If you're considering it
1:00:33
versatile, no, not necessarily. I guess the idea is that you're
1:00:40
taking into account the effect points of the possibilities.
1:00:44
So if you have two warriors, it could be one weak warrior, one
1:00:48
strong warrior, 2 weak one, or you know, one weak 1 normal and
1:00:52
one item. So there can be some
1:00:54
fluctuation. They won't always equal the same
1:00:56
amount. That doesn't, it doesn't make
1:01:03
any sense. It, I, I can't, I can't make I,
1:01:05
I don't understand what they're trying to get at.
1:01:08
Like, like I said, I, I think what versatile just means is how
1:01:11
many effects it has. I, I get the basic premise of
1:01:15
versatile, but I don't understand how you're supposed
1:01:17
to calculate it. Aaron, I, I really, I don't have
1:01:22
enough information to, to, I guess part of what, I guess part
1:01:27
of what it's saying is if there's two separate effects to
1:01:31
choose from, that's two instances of versatile because
1:01:35
it's two effects, not one instance of versatile 'cause
1:01:38
it's one choice. No, So that's what I'm saying is
1:01:42
I, I, I don't think that second use of versatile is a second use
1:01:48
of versatile. I think it's, it's consistent.
1:01:50
No, I think it is. I don't think that's AI.
1:01:52
Don't think that's a typo because it's so it's saying OK
1:01:56
if you have an effect that would either allow you to gain 2 life
1:01:59
or destroy a card. I think what it's saying is you
1:02:01
have two effects for an option. So that's versatile too because
1:02:05
you gave yourself two options and that's why it's saying
1:02:09
powerful 2 versatile. Versatile right?
1:02:12
But you each individual effect is 1 instance of versatile, not
1:02:16
the choice between them. They don't get grouped together.
1:02:19
I think is what it's right. I see what you're saying, My my
1:02:22
only retort to that is by that metric every card with an effect
1:02:27
automatically would become versatile, but that's not the
1:02:29
case. For example, if you look at the
1:02:32
Berserker's Might card invocation on page 68, target
1:02:37
Warrior is strengthened and gains Piercer 1 until the end of
1:02:40
your turn. So it's an invocation where 3
1:02:44
has a budget of three points given strength, or give
1:02:48
strengthen and piercer. So if it's strengthened
1:02:52
strengthen counts for two and it gets 1 versatile because it has
1:02:57
one effect and another effect. No, it has yeah, the and is the
1:03:11
versatile. The strengthen is the powerful
1:03:14
and the and is the versatile, right?
1:03:16
But in the description just or in the piece described by the
1:03:19
choice effects, it either does 2 damage or or it heals 2 damage.
1:03:26
Then there's no reason why it'd be versatile.
1:03:28
Like they'd have two instances of versatile.
1:03:30
Rather it would just say versatile too because we know it
1:03:32
follows the same rules as versatile, which is why I think
1:03:36
it's consistent. Because it shouldn't say
1:03:38
versatile. Versatile it would.
1:03:40
It would say powerful to versatile too.
1:03:47
Well, no, it wouldn't say versatile too because they
1:03:48
don't. I don't think they list
1:03:50
versatile in that way. They do it says it right above
1:03:53
it. Effects can become versatile 2
1:03:55
or more if they're likely to give the user three or more
1:03:58
options. But did it.
1:04:00
But do any of the pre made cards have versatile 2 as it phrase
1:04:04
that I don't versatile I don't think they do no.
1:04:12
They they just have versatile. It's just a yes or Oh no.
1:04:16
Oh, I found one. OK, yeah.
1:04:19
So I'm I'm leaning. Towards that second versatile.
1:04:21
Is a typo and it should say consistent.
1:04:26
There's nothing else has that double listing I don't, but that
1:04:30
still doesn't really answer my question.
1:04:36
OK, I I don't know. I can't make sense of.
1:04:38
This I really I. Don't I?
1:04:40
I got nothing it doesn't make. Sense I doubt something
1:04:45
something is not worded correctly.
1:04:49
I will look the answer up. After we're done recording
1:04:51
because I I do. Want an answer to this.
1:04:54
That being said, moving on to the third.
1:04:56
Effect which? Is much simpler than.
1:04:59
This is consistency. Consistency is the final factor.
1:05:03
You have to to. Take into account when gauging a
1:05:05
card. 'S effect strength, consistency
1:05:07
I think we require is very little explanation.
1:05:10
The more reliable the card effect is, the more resistant it
1:05:14
is to opposing the facts. The less set up it requires, the
1:05:16
more consistent it's considered, generally speaking.
1:05:20
That being said, a card can only have one instance of consistent.
1:05:23
It either is or is not. It doesn't stack.
1:05:26
Can I just, can I just, I, I, I, I went, I looked, I was looking
1:05:30
at Invoke Dual to try and figure out why that's considered
1:05:32
versatile too. And I don't even understand why
1:05:35
that's considered versatile too. That seems like one option to
1:05:37
me. I don't I'm going to invoke
1:05:42
duel. It's a.
1:05:42
It's an invocation. On page 60. 9 Nice, Yeah, nice,
1:05:48
it says target warrior battles. Another target warrior.
1:05:51
If they would. Roll to clash, they are both
1:05:54
destroyed. Instead, you may choose two
1:05:56
opposing warriors with this effect.
1:05:58
How is that a versatile 2 option?
1:06:00
There's no choice there, it just does that right?
1:06:07
Like what is? What do we?
1:06:08
I guess because you could. Choose the Warriors.
1:06:10
But even in even in that case, how is that not versatile 1?
1:06:17
I guess the idea is it's so. I don't like so it's weird.
1:06:22
It's it's almost like 1. Versatile is folded into the
1:06:25
other one because you your versatile one would come in the
1:06:30
target 2 and then the initial if they would.
1:06:33
If they clash, they're both destroyed.
1:06:35
But it also becomes versatile because you can choose.
1:06:41
So I guess the idea. Is is if they didn't have that
1:06:44
that. Final sentence you may choose.
1:06:46
It would just connect with one creature it would like.
1:06:50
It like it would be a. Random creature I guess.
1:06:55
I guess the idea. Being Is that because they talk
1:06:57
about the clash clause? The fact that you can choose
1:07:00
means that you can make it so that it doesn't destroy your
1:07:02
monster as well. You can just choose a stronger
1:07:04
monster, which is where the second instance of Versatile
1:07:07
comes in, but it still should be.
1:07:13
Shouldn't that still be a case of versatile what?
1:07:20
No. I guess I.
1:07:22
Guess as I'm saying. Like I don't.
1:07:26
So get it? I guess we got to move on.
1:07:30
We're not figuring. This out here?
1:07:31
No, Yeah, we probably. Aren't it's fine now once your
1:07:35
cards effect and your effects cost your effect point costs
1:07:39
have been broadly worked out. Next step is revision.
1:07:42
As described in the Revising your Card effects, the game
1:07:45
suggests working with your judge to bring the cards effect into a
1:07:49
more or into compliance with your allotted budget.
1:07:52
This can take a while, and it's often best to find a way to
1:07:55
compromise giving by giving a card weaknesses to reduce its
1:08:01
overall effectiveness. For every weakness that you give
1:08:04
the card, it will reduce. 1. Of the instances that or modify.
1:08:08
Sorry, no for each instance of of.
1:08:13
A weakness that you give. The card that will reduce one of
1:08:17
its its pillars of effect or modifies them to a meaningful
1:08:22
hindrance. You can reduce the cost of a or
1:08:26
you can increase your budget rather by one point if a
1:08:30
significant weakness is introduced.
1:08:32
Which is to say. One that severely hinders a
1:08:35
card's performance. It can be increased by two to a
1:08:38
maximum of three, as it says one and two respectively, not one or
1:08:43
two. That being said, be.
1:08:49
Careful not to try to try to. Not make your card like a
1:08:52
jumbled mess of text that's like .5 size font.
1:08:56
Don't make an Egyptian God card where you need like a magnifying
1:08:58
glass to read it. Egyptian card cards actually
1:09:01
aren't that bad. No, you know what they're you're
1:09:04
right, they're not. I've seen some more modern cards
1:09:06
and those are. Actual nightmares.
1:09:07
Horrifying cards like you ain't bro, Link or no Pendulum
1:09:12
monsters have two. Different.
1:09:14
Effect boxes? What?
1:09:17
Yeah, 'cause they. Yeah, that's pendulum.
1:09:20
Monsters. Pendulum monsters act as effect
1:09:23
cards, as effect monsters, and as spell cards.
1:09:27
Bro what the fuck am I looking at?
1:09:31
Yeah, I like that the the effect takes up.
1:09:35
Almost. Half the card, yeah, yeah.
1:09:41
We don't need that, we got text. Have you seen the Chaos Emperor
1:09:45
Dragon of Armageddon? Probably hold.
1:09:49
On hold on, I'm I'm going to. Post this in general in in our
1:09:53
yeah, look at this fucking nightmare of a card, all right?
1:09:57
Don't get too. Don't get too.
1:09:58
Sidetracked, Sir. Oh yeah.
1:10:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all I wanted to say.
1:10:04
That's wild. Yeah, that's absolutely insane.
1:10:09
Anyway, as a precaution the game.
1:10:14
Suggests 2 rule of thumbs. When creating card effects, the
1:10:18
first of which is avoid parasitic effects.
1:10:22
Essentially, try to avoid creating cards that simply
1:10:25
cannot function with other tightly knit cards or without
1:10:28
them. Sorry, cards that like a.
1:10:32
This is a slightly weird comment.
1:10:33
They're basically saying don't make archetypes, which I thought
1:10:37
was a little odd. No, I think what they're what
1:10:41
they're. Saying more specifically is
1:10:43
like. A you know, like.
1:10:47
What's that red eye? Red eyes card where it's like
1:10:49
this cannot be normal summoned or special summoned unless you
1:10:52
have red eyes black chick to summon it from your graveyard
1:10:55
and then you can summon it. That's an archetype.
1:10:58
The archetype would be red eyes black whatever.
1:11:01
Right But the the parasitic effect is saying don't create a
1:11:04
card that requires that sacrifice from the graveyard to
1:11:06
summon. But what?
1:11:07
I'm right but that's what archetypes are like.
1:11:10
Archetypes are effects that only proc on other cards of the same
1:11:14
archetype. Like that is that's what most
1:11:17
Yu-gi-oh decks are in the modern era is their archetype base.
1:11:20
So like you don't have like a deck of stuff.
1:11:24
You have a six samurai deck, you have Dino rabbit deck, you have
1:11:30
what were they called gear, Gear gearbox gear gagon gear
1:11:35
something or others gear toys wind UPS.
1:11:38
That's what the fuck I was trying to think of.
1:11:39
You have wind UPS like there are archetypes that have effects
1:11:42
that all key off of each other. And this is basically saying
1:11:45
don't have effects that specifically key off of each
1:11:47
other in that way, which is pretty much what an archetype is
1:11:50
in Yu-gi-oh. I think it's saying you know you
1:11:53
can have it. Seems like to me what it's
1:11:55
saying is you can have cards that key off each other, but
1:11:58
don't have cards that literally cannot survive without the
1:12:02
other. It's kind of the same.
1:12:05
Thing. Yes, but.
1:12:07
There are degrees of it. To be honest, I don't
1:12:11
necessarily know if. I could tell you like.
1:12:13
If I designed an effect or if a, if a player was designing
1:12:16
effects, I don't know if I could 100% tell you if the effect was
1:12:18
parasitic or not, but I feel like I could.
1:12:21
Well, I mean if you just look at the sample cards that they have
1:12:25
for the for the, for the playbooks, those they have
1:12:31
archetypes by name, but their effects are not archetype based
1:12:35
like what they're talking about is for example.
1:12:39
You know. Something along the lines of if
1:12:41
you play Dark Worlds, if you have a Dark World card in your
1:12:46
hand and you send this Dark World card to your graveyard,
1:12:50
you may then special summon it the next term.
1:12:52
Like that's a parasitic effect. Because the idea is you need
1:12:56
something else to make the effect work.
1:12:58
So they're saying avoid that archetype synergy and make cars
1:13:02
that are slightly more generic basically and don't have to
1:13:06
specifically that don't need like if then clauses from other
1:13:15
cards, you know, like. If you look again, if you look.
1:13:20
At. If you look at the sample.
1:13:24
Starting decks for all of the. Playbooks, you'll see how none
1:13:27
of the cards, even though they'll give them the same
1:13:29
names, they do not have an effect that calls out each
1:13:33
other, which is really what it comes down to.
1:13:37
OK, OK. I see what you're saying.
1:13:39
Like if you like, I guess to that point, yeah, I guess what
1:13:41
you're saying, what they are saying is you don't want, you
1:13:44
want to use the keywords to reinforce.
1:13:46
Architects. Or or or yeah, not archetypes.
1:13:49
You, yeah, don't use the keywords to reinforce
1:13:51
archetypes, don't use effects to reinforce archetypes, don't use
1:13:53
effects, and don't make like, literal archetype combos, which
1:13:57
is how the actual TCD works. Like you'll see.
1:14:02
When, particularly when you look at.
1:14:04
Archetype cards in modern Yukio. It'll say like the name of the
1:14:07
archetype in parentheses. It'll be like if you have a wind
1:14:11
up card in your hand and the word wind up will be in
1:14:14
parentheses because wind up is an archetype.
1:14:18
Hilariously, none of the. Well, no, Jaden the.
1:14:24
Elemental heroes are an archetype, you know what I'm
1:14:29
saying? Although I don't think any of
1:14:32
the other main characters have had archetypes like that.
1:14:35
Weirdly, Yuki definitely doesn't.
1:14:38
Jaden has elemental heroes. Yuma doesn't.
1:14:42
You say? Does you say?
1:14:43
No, he doesn't. Yes, he does.
1:14:45
Think so. What would be the archetype?
1:14:47
The junk archetype? No.
1:14:50
See, but that's the thing though, those aren't.
1:14:52
Actually an archetype. No, they are 'cause there there
1:14:56
are. Cards in in U says like I
1:14:58
played. The junk deck.
1:14:58
There are cards in the in the deck that specifically proc off
1:15:01
of the junk keyword sort. OK, we're too in the we don't.
1:15:07
We don't. This is This is too much.
1:15:08
Of the weeds on the game. Itself so we.
1:15:09
Don't need to worry this, but I know, but it's kind of not
1:15:13
exactly an archetype that I don't I.
1:15:14
Don't have time to? Get into it, but it's kind of
1:15:16
not OK. Wait, it's a structure deck?
1:15:21
They sell it. As a structure, is that not?
1:15:22
Is that? Not indicative of an archetype.
1:15:24
No, what the No, it's a very. Specific thing.
1:15:29
That really. Only applies to modern.
1:15:31
Yu-gi-oh and it really only started to being a thing like
1:15:35
halfway through post post 5. Halfway.
1:15:38
And or post 5DS Weird you say has a little bit of it kind.
1:15:43
Of Jayden. Is the Jayden is the main
1:15:46
character with the most true archetype deck?
1:15:48
Let's put it that way. OK, fair enough.
1:15:54
Or what was I? Oh.
1:15:55
Yeah, OK. The second rule of thumb.
1:15:56
Is God damn it I'm I so jumbled my notes on this one.
1:16:00
The second rule of thumb is don't try too hard to win.
1:16:04
Basically don't create cards with the sole intent of making
1:16:09
them as meta powerful as possible.
1:16:11
Don't make cards that can. You know, I think the the
1:16:16
example it gives is don't create a card that you know.
1:16:21
It has the sniper. Keyword and deals 3 damage
1:16:24
because you know that the opponents typically have 3 HPS
1:16:27
so you can just drop this card round one and auto kill them.
1:16:30
Don't don't do cards like that and it is sort of expecting a a
1:16:34
level of trust between. The game.
1:16:36
Designers the the judge and the player.
1:16:39
And like, fair enough, yeah. Yeah, finally.
1:16:46
In terms of the custom card creation.
1:16:48
I do like that the I I was I I do like that the game very
1:16:51
specifically called out like yes, given how the card creation
1:16:55
rules are, you can just automatically make a card that
1:17:00
it's it's funny because when. You're playing tabletop.
1:17:03
Games, right? This is always true for the GM.
1:17:06
The GM can always just be like, oh you know the, the, the
1:17:11
ceiling collapses on the player characters and everyone dies,
1:17:14
right? AGM can technically say that at
1:17:15
any time they want, but as the GM, you know from a social
1:17:18
contract standpoint, you're not supposed to do that.
1:17:21
That's a shitty thing to do because this game puts so much
1:17:25
power in the player's hand by allowing you to design your own
1:17:28
deck. They're basically saying, hey
1:17:30
player, you have a power level on par with the GM.
1:17:34
So just like the GM isn't abusing their power, don't abuse
1:17:38
yours. Yeah, the game.
1:17:41
It's not your phrase. The game is saying don't be a
1:17:44
Dick. Yeah, don't be that guy 'cause
1:17:46
we know you could like basically this game.
1:17:51
Is very much not designed for assholes.
1:17:53
Because assholes could ruin it very quickly.
1:17:59
See this to be fair. This is the kind of designing
1:18:01
for assholes I like. Where?
1:18:02
It just says don't be an asshole.
1:18:04
It doesn't try to like over design the cards.
1:18:08
It's not even designing for assholes.
1:18:09
It's designing however the fuck they want then saying fuck off
1:18:12
if you're going to be that guy. Yeah, fair enough.
1:18:17
But anyway. I, I I just I.
1:18:20
I thought that little bit was especially funny because again,
1:18:23
you know, as AGM, I'm always in that mentality.
1:18:26
So it's kind of funny for it to see a game be like players
1:18:30
don't, don't do it, don't do it. Yeah, you also have the
1:18:34
responsibility in this game. Look, I'm not going to lie, a a
1:18:37
part of me feels a little. Called out by this.
1:18:39
Because if anyone was going to figure out the metaf to insta
1:18:42
kill the opponent, it's probably going to me be.
1:18:44
Now, to be fair, I'm not saying I would do that, but if it
1:18:48
wasn't going to be someone, it probably would be me.
1:18:50
The thing that's funny is it's really fucking easy to do in
1:18:53
this. Game so like.
1:18:54
Yeah, it is. It's not even that impressive.
1:18:57
If you do it, they literally say it.
1:18:59
They're like, yeah, you could really easily make an invocation
1:19:02
that does more damage, that just has health.
1:19:04
Like, yeah, you just win. Yeah, and that's not fun.
1:19:09
And like I was saying, finally. In terms of custom card
1:19:11
creation. The game has several illegal
1:19:13
effects that for the sake of game balance and general flow,
1:19:16
the game system's not. The game system tells you just
1:19:19
straight up don't do this. A the three that they are, The
1:19:22
four that they have are do not create effects that create new
1:19:27
unique cards. The game essentially says that
1:19:30
there are systems in place for this and they should be kept to
1:19:32
unique moments. Second is do not create card
1:19:35
effects that affect the world outside the game.
1:19:38
The the cards themselves are not superpowers.
1:19:41
They shouldn't be treated as superpowers.
1:19:43
Basically I'm looking at you Bakura with your change of
1:19:46
heart. Shadow game in Doulas Kingdom.
1:19:48
Don't do that. The third rule is do not.
1:19:51
Create card effects that are. Reliant on variables outside of
1:19:55
the game, IE don't create cards that require times of the day to
1:19:59
be played or specific actions that can be taken place outside
1:20:03
of the game. This is primarily for balance
1:20:05
purposes and there are playbook effects that simulate this,
1:20:09
Admittedly to a lesser degree, but if you want that feel, there
1:20:12
is a playbook move that you can take for it.
1:20:15
Finally, do not create cards that connect specifically to a
1:20:18
character's stats, such as, such as.
1:20:26
Tying. A.
1:20:27
Card strength I was I. Kept trying to say trying.
1:20:29
Tying a card strength to a specific stat or forcing roles
1:20:33
with a specific attribute. So basically saying a card
1:20:37
cannot force. A.
1:20:38
Player to roll with a specific stat on one of their moves.
1:20:44
Clear. Fair.
1:20:44
Good, good, The final card. Creation type is volatile card
1:20:51
creation. And it is.
1:20:54
This shit is so funny. It is wild.
1:20:57
Yeah. This mechanic really just made
1:21:00
me think about how Yugi was always pulling out the the the
1:21:03
Makiyu's magic Maki. I was waiting for you to come up
1:21:09
at some point. And how that card?
1:21:12
Just does whatever the fuck Yugi.
1:21:13
Says it does. The magical mist?
1:21:16
Yeah, it's magic because it can do.
1:21:17
Fucking anything. It's magic Mist.
1:21:19
Because it's whatever its effect is, whatever the.
1:21:21
Hell, Yugi wants. Yes, this dragon is fire
1:21:24
attributed. Will my mist deactivates your
1:21:26
fire. Oh wait, this is my enemy.
1:21:28
My character is lightning infused.
1:21:30
Oh, so it's going to increase its damage?
1:21:33
My favorite. This character is using light to
1:21:35
close to the actual effect. Do you know what the actual
1:21:37
effect of the card is? Yeah, Yeah, we looked it up
1:21:39
yesterday. If you have lightning, if you
1:21:41
have a A, if you have summon Skull or a Thunder monster in
1:21:44
your monster, destroy all of your opponent's monster, Destroy
1:21:48
all monsters your opponent controls with defense less than
1:21:51
or equal to the attack of that monster, and then you cannot
1:21:54
conduct your battle phase. So, like, it's a terrible card.
1:21:56
It's like not worth it all but. Yeah.
1:22:02
It's kind of a funny like lol fuck you card to play I guess it
1:22:06
it really is volatile card creation.
1:22:10
Is. As the game describes a
1:22:13
streamlined. Method for creating.
1:22:15
Complex card abilities in the heat of the moment, essentially
1:22:20
when the player when. A player uses.
1:22:22
The Draw a perfect card move the game suggests that rather than
1:22:26
go through the previously described long, arduous process
1:22:29
for creating a custom card, you instead describe to the judge
1:22:35
the effect. That you want the card.
1:22:37
To have as well as some basic information, it's type strength
1:22:41
and general effect parameters, and with the judge's input you
1:22:45
hash out the finer details. Yeah, the books, basically.
1:22:49
Basically. You.
1:22:50
You pull a card out of your ass to do exactly the effect you
1:22:53
want, and the effect can be kind of bullshit when you pull it out
1:22:56
of your ass and then after you're done with the session,
1:22:59
you go back and make it an actually balanced card.
1:23:02
Yes, that that is the really important part.
1:23:05
The card is allowed to be pretty much as OP as you want it to be
1:23:09
for the dual that you first pull it out in, but upon completion
1:23:14
the card needs. To be heavily revised.
1:23:16
To fit within the effect point system.
1:23:19
I do. I do love that they literally
1:23:22
put in an ass pole mechanic because it is because that
1:23:24
really is the truest like mechanic you could possibly have
1:23:28
for a fucking TCG tabletop game. Like it don't get more real than
1:23:32
that. It it it's true.
1:23:34
It really is some information that I I didn't put in my notes,
1:23:38
but they do talk about if you have a situation where your
1:23:41
volatile card doesn't really fit into the effect points system,
1:23:49
the game offers you a couple options.
1:23:51
You can either scrap the card and just design a new.
1:23:57
Card and name it the same thing. If you really can't get it to
1:24:00
work. Or you could just not have the
1:24:05
card in your deck and then. Describe in the.
1:24:07
Narrative What happened to it? Maybe you get the Weevil
1:24:10
Underwood thrown into the water maneuver.
1:24:13
So you know the the the book basically says.
1:24:15
Try to. Balance it.
1:24:18
But it recognizes that sometimes maybe that's just not going.
1:24:20
To happen and. There are other options it which
1:24:22
again could involve replacing the card entirely and just
1:24:25
having to do something completely different or just
1:24:28
saying for the sake of the game it's removed yeah and that was
1:24:36
the card creation system that was 4 pages of notes and let's.
1:24:43
See, we faffed for 20 minutes. So that was an hour that.
1:24:46
Was a full hour of our two hour episode allotted to that system?
1:24:51
Hell. Yeah, dude, I love that, I do
1:24:56
think. I do 4.
1:24:58
I think it is kind of funny. It seems like the card creation
1:25:00
system really assumes that, like downtime between sessions, your
1:25:05
characters are just getting rid of cards, selling cards, buying
1:25:09
new cards. Adjusting their debt like.
1:25:11
You're just constantly, you're going to be like move removing
1:25:14
and changing your cards in your deck kind of a lot, especially
1:25:19
because you have the whole. What is it draw?
1:25:21
The perfect card move where you asshole whatever the fuck you
1:25:24
need you like. I mean it, it does talk.
1:25:28
About that like. You might ask, pull a card you
1:25:31
need and then not want it later. So you're just like, oh, what'd
1:25:34
you do with that card you played?
1:25:35
I just got rid of it. You know, literally it.
1:25:38
It talks about that in the more section.
1:25:39
Where like. There are card like card shops
1:25:43
all over Shuffle City and like, it's not, I mean, uncommon for
1:25:46
your players to be like, oh, I'm going to do some trades real
1:25:47
quick. I mean, yeah, it it, it makes
1:25:51
sense. In the context, but it's still.
1:25:52
Funny to think about. On to chapter 4, which is
1:25:57
character creation. As you can assume, it describes
1:26:02
the the process in which the PCs can create their characters you
1:26:05
know well as giving you the the player information about what
1:26:10
your playbook is like and allowing you to pick some of the
1:26:12
options involved. Generally speaking, it's pretty
1:26:16
by the numbers as far as a PBTA playbook is concerned, but there
1:26:21
are a number of fun additions as well.
1:26:25
For example, and I don't, I'm sure other Pbta games have done
1:26:29
this. And I I I maybe Apocalypse World
1:26:31
did this, I don't exactly remember.
1:26:33
But each playbook comes with a section dedicated to how that
1:26:37
specific playbook should be handled within the narrative in
1:26:40
the game, both for the PCs and for the judge.
1:26:44
It gives tips. World does not do that.
1:26:48
I said no, Apocalypse World does not do that.
1:26:51
It gives tips on how players. Should generally.
1:26:53
Leverage their attributes and how to allow the themes of that
1:26:58
playbook to bypass their natural habits as players for the sake
1:27:02
of the character and the narrative at large.
1:27:04
As far as the judges are concerned, it provides the.
1:27:07
Opposite to. This it gives judges information
1:27:10
about not only how to handle a particular playbook, but also
1:27:13
how to handle playbook specific moves and how they shift the
1:27:16
story as a whole. There is a section a bit in the
1:27:20
section after this that talks about how to maintain your party
1:27:26
of playbooks in short term campaigns.
1:27:29
It's pretty much just a little bit more information within this
1:27:32
scope, you know, like some, some playbooks.
1:27:36
Might. Not duel in a short campaign.
1:27:38
That's not really their purpose. They could have a deck, it could
1:27:40
happen, but it's not necessarily a fact that it should happen or
1:27:43
that it will happen. Stuff like that as an addition.
1:27:48
Each playbook comes with a pre made.
1:27:49
Deck and a gimmick for players who just want to jump into the
1:27:52
action and each has a unique archetype has a unique gimmick
1:27:55
and frankly it's crazy how much fun they managed to make each
1:28:00
deck seem like truly that's impressive yeah at the start of
1:28:05
the. Game during character creation.
1:28:07
When you pick your playbook. Obviously, like other Pbta
1:28:10
games, you get to increase one of your stats by 1.
1:28:12
You give them an identity and pronouns.
1:28:14
Give them a look to come in Pbta fair.
1:28:17
After that you get to create your deck archetype as well.
1:28:20
As. The naming convention for their
1:28:22
gimmick and the unique cards. This all happens during
1:28:24
character creation. There are a number of gimmicks
1:28:27
listed that you can choose. From.
1:28:29
So strong thing by weak thing, strong thing but weak thing,
1:28:33
wrong thing with weak thing, re acquirement to strong thing,
1:28:37
weak thing helped by strong thing, strategy using strong
1:28:41
thing or weak thing and simple effect or keyword.
1:28:45
I know that doesn't make sense right now, but it will describe
1:28:48
it when we get to the playbooks. But I figured it is worth
1:28:51
mentioning as far as they go. You have.
1:28:57
What is it 10? Playbooks to.
1:28:58
Choose from in the base rule book and I think an additional 7
1:29:02
or 8. No like 5 or I think there's
1:29:06
like 6. In the.
1:29:07
The the booster pack add on book that they created a little while
1:29:11
back. Oh, I didn't see that.
1:29:13
But yeah, there's 10 in the base game.
1:29:15
Yeah, the playbooks. Are as described.
1:29:20
The Resolved. The Prodigy The.
1:29:22
Glowing. The rogue, the ally, the spirit,
1:29:27
the medium, the destined, the idealist, and the turncoat.
1:29:32
And we're going to go through and just give some quick points
1:29:35
on each of those. Anything you want to say before
1:29:42
we get into the weeks? No, I mean, there's not much.
1:29:46
I don't. Think there's much to say on
1:29:48
character? Creation.
1:29:48
It works pretty much like any other Powered by the Apocalypse
1:29:52
character creation that you're used to, so there's nothing
1:29:56
there's nothing crazy there. Fair enough.
1:29:58
Other than. Obviously I mean other.
1:30:00
Than the fact that they give you the.
1:30:02
Sample decks, obviously, which could be, you know, quite
1:30:07
useful. And I guess the tension
1:30:08
question, well, those aren't really character creation
1:30:10
though. But yeah, like the sample decks
1:30:14
are helpful. And then the how to role play
1:30:18
and how to run the various playbooks is kind of
1:30:22
interesting. Additional information.
1:30:26
I feel like that, like it's not a.
1:30:27
Specific mechanic per SE. But yeah, no, but I feel like
1:30:31
when it comes to power by the apocalypse games like right in
1:30:33
in D&D, they this I don't think works as much because your class
1:30:37
is sort of irrelevant to the like or you know.
1:30:41
In the game's eyes, your class. Is kind of irrelevant to the
1:30:44
idea of your character, right? Like you could be a rogue in
1:30:47
terms of your stats, but you could be literally anything
1:30:51
else, you know what I mean? The game doesn't really care
1:30:52
about that. But as far as playbooks go,
1:30:55
because they're so. Intrinsically linked.
1:30:57
To the character and how you play the character.
1:30:59
I feel like that that should almost be a gold standard for
1:31:03
game designers. You know, I mean not sort of if
1:31:11
we're talk, I mean if you're talking about new.
1:31:16
Age. More recent Powered by the
1:31:19
Apocalypse games, that's kind of true, where the playbooks are
1:31:24
stereotypical archetypes. But if you're talking about.
1:31:28
Older Powered by the Apocalypse games, I don't think that's the
1:31:31
case so much. You don't.
1:31:34
I mean like if you think about Moji.
1:31:35
Powered by the Apocalypse if you're.
1:31:36
Playing the driver right, like like the driver is inspired by
1:31:42
Mad Max, obviously, but it is not like it is not so
1:31:46
intrinsically core based on Mad Max that you can't play anything
1:31:50
else within it. You can play lots of different
1:31:52
kinds of drivers. There's a lot of wiggle room
1:31:55
there. But if you're playing something
1:31:57
like Avatar where you have your playbook is like the, the Ouch,
1:32:02
Jeez, what the fuck's it called? There's a playbook that's like
1:32:07
literally supposed to be ANG like without being the avatar
1:32:10
part. But like other than that is
1:32:12
clearly just ANG as as a playbook.
1:32:14
And yeah, for those for that game called the Idealist, it
1:32:20
might be like for that game. Yeah, it it it makes sense, but
1:32:30
it doesn't. Like.
1:32:34
It's like half. Half yes, half no kind of thing
1:32:37
is. Kind of where I'm.
1:32:37
Getting it like. If you're making.
1:32:42
Archetypes based on. If you're making archetypes
1:32:45
based on characters with the intention of invoking the
1:32:51
character straight up. Then.
1:32:54
Yes, but in terms of if. You're taking.
1:33:00
Inspiration from a character, but not necessarily saying you
1:33:03
have to play this character. Like this game is pretty clearly
1:33:08
trying to be like yes, each playbook maps to a character.
1:33:12
Like, really closely, that is. Not necessarily the case in
1:33:20
original Apocalypse world. So I I.
1:33:22
Kind of disagree on that because like when you use the the driver
1:33:25
archetype, as we mentioned, right, Yes, you can play a bunch
1:33:28
of different kind of drivers, but ultimately you are a
1:33:31
character who is the like the core tenet of their personality
1:33:37
is the fact that they have a car in the apocalypse, they have a
1:33:40
special car. So giving information to the
1:33:43
players on how you should treat your car, you know, assuming
1:33:47
you're playing the game expects you, how the game expects you to
1:33:49
play. And for the the, you know, the
1:33:53
MC on how they should treat that car, I feel like that that's not
1:33:58
outside. Their own possibility.
1:33:59
Something with like the gun lugger, right?
1:34:00
Like you get your cool special gun.
1:34:02
It's not necessarily, Well, the special guns aren't, they're a
1:34:08
little more. Generic.
1:34:09
Than that they're not that special, but it's not
1:34:11
necessarily outside of their own possibility.
1:34:13
I don't think it's particularly needed.
1:34:16
I don't think it's mandatory. Fair enough.
1:34:21
I I. Think it should be gold standard
1:34:22
but I I. You know if you disagree.
1:34:23
That's fine. I I I for this.
1:34:27
Game and I think it makes a little more sense.
1:34:31
Because again. This this.
1:34:34
Game is trying to invoke a niche on a niche on a niche, so giving
1:34:39
some guidance on how to make the niche.
1:34:41
Work I get a little. Bit more.
1:34:46
But I disagree. Fair enough, but I definitely
1:34:48
know I'm not looking for it. In every game, that's for sure.
1:34:52
I would like it and and at least in Pbta.
1:34:54
Games. I would like it.
1:34:55
That being said, we're going to start off with the first
1:34:59
playbook, the resolved. The resolved is your you know,
1:35:02
your Jaden, your Yuma, your happy go lucky headstrong
1:35:06
actually, for your for the shown MP resolves your it's Naruto.
1:35:09
Yeah, it's Naruto. It's the the headstrong, brash,
1:35:13
a little clumsy, but like good-natured person.
1:35:15
Ash Ketchum is another one. I mean Yugi no Yugi.
1:35:22
Yugi's too timid. For that, like actual Yugi's too
1:35:25
timid for that. And a 10 is definitely just the
1:35:27
destined. I would say Yugi's more the
1:35:29
destined than this. I thought the destined was just
1:35:31
supposed to be Merrick. No, no, it's actually not.
1:35:35
The destined is like you are bound for a greater purpose.
1:35:38
No, the the there is one in the the the booster pack that's
1:35:44
closer. To Merrick.
1:35:45
Because it's like you have an evil spirit specifically, but
1:35:49
isn't Merrick kind of? Wasn't that kind?
1:35:52
Of part of Merrick's thing like he was supposed to be ground
1:35:54
bound for a greater purpose but he like fucked it up.
1:35:57
Wasn't that. No he literate Merrick just has
1:36:00
schizophrenia. Like straight up he just has
1:36:02
multiple personality disorder. Fair enough.
1:36:09
That being said. The options you get for things
1:36:12
like your hair, I'm not going to go into this.
1:36:13
All of them but like. Just to give you a thought, for
1:36:15
those of you who might not be really repowered by the
1:36:17
Apocalypse games, you get to choose your look.
1:36:19
Or let me start with the stats. I think that's sport.
1:36:22
Your stats are Passion 2 skill minus.
1:36:25
One friendship, one we. Described those in the previous
1:36:27
episode. As far as your look goes, the.
1:36:30
Resolves. Air can be scruffy long haircut
1:36:35
by by mum like which I think kind of clues into who made the
1:36:38
the people who made this. Their clothes can be a school
1:36:42
uniform, well padded or a graphic tee.
1:36:44
Their game tool, which is to say they're dual disc can be second
1:36:46
hand, shoddy or common. The archetype is, their
1:36:54
abilities are. Are all about having like.
1:36:56
Cards that you care truly about or having like an unbreakable
1:37:00
will, Having a mentor that you look up to, being able to to
1:37:05
leverage your straight up determination to win.
1:37:09
You know, it's a pull you a dub. It's it's pretty cool.
1:37:13
They do have a funny move called the trainer's eyes meet, which I
1:37:17
just love the idea. It's it's literally the the shot
1:37:19
in something like Yu-gi-oh or Shonen where it's just a a slash
1:37:22
cut of the two opposing forces, like staring at each other
1:37:26
intently. I think it's kind of fun.
1:37:30
They give you some. Information on on.
1:37:32
Role-playing the resolve it basically talks about how when
1:37:37
you. Are playing the result.
1:37:39
As a playbook, you should always strive for a goal that's just
1:37:42
out of reach, especially at the start of your venture, right?
1:37:45
You, you want the I want to be the very best that like no one
1:37:48
ever was. But you don't necessarily know
1:37:51
exactly how to do that and you should lean into it.
1:37:55
Obviously your your judge should make that possible for you at
1:38:00
some point, but it's OK to be clueless on it at the start and
1:38:05
it's OK to play into your own well.
1:38:12
Meaning, but ultimately. Like reckless naivete.
1:38:15
That's why you get a + 2 in things like passion.
1:38:17
Which is to say, you're good at getting into trouble, but you're
1:38:20
also good at headstrong in your way out of trouble.
1:38:23
You're -1 to skill means that sometimes.
1:38:25
You come off as. Incompetent.
1:38:26
You know, the anime cutaway character falling on his face
1:38:30
randomly in front of the cool badass character.
1:38:35
It recommends. That the the.
1:38:37
Character traits that you. Should embody are being
1:38:39
knuckleheaded and starstruck, headstrong, naive and impulsive.
1:38:44
Feel free to hold on to childish ideals no experienced player
1:38:47
would, and prove everybody wrong by kicking their asses.
1:38:51
The example deck that it gives you is the.
1:38:53
Battleblock Battalion. The history of the deck is this
1:38:58
deck is important to me because I made it myself.
1:39:00
It's a little mishmash as a result.
1:39:02
My ace is important because it reminds me of when I was a kid.
1:39:05
The gimmick is smaller warriors that team up.
1:39:08
So that is that's what we were talking about before with the
1:39:12
strong thing, but weak thing, I guess.
1:39:14
In this instance. It would be weak thing helped by
1:39:16
strong thing. Recommended staples.
1:39:20
Summon Army. And fireball so.
1:39:21
It's actually giving you recommendations to on how to
1:39:24
build this deck and your starting deck are the
1:39:27
Battleblock Battalion, Star Warrior, Toy Box, Support,
1:39:31
Copter, and Build instruction. Each of them have some unique
1:39:34
effects. Star Warrior is an ace.
1:39:36
It has Teamwork 1, Piercer 1, and follow up.
1:39:39
And yeah, it's actually probably one of my favorite gimmicks for
1:39:42
the starter decks. On the judge's.
1:39:47
End when you're running the. Resolve it tells.
1:39:50
You, you know, don't be afraid to in a critical moment, shoot
1:39:57
the resolve down on the precipice of winning.
1:39:59
This is, you know, this is Ash losing the input gym or the the
1:40:04
regional championship at the like input of every every loss
1:40:08
Ash has had. Yeah, every L he's ever taken,
1:40:12
of which there are have Yeah. Have the NPCS underestimate the
1:40:16
resolved and, you know, have their overconfidence lead to
1:40:19
their downfall. This kind of keys into what the
1:40:22
book talked about earlier where it says, you know, NPCS.
1:40:25
Should be willing to win but ultimately be beatable.
1:40:30
Have authority figures. Call out the.
1:40:32
Potential of the resolves the like.
1:40:34
They could be unstoppable if they just, you know, lock the
1:40:36
fuck in and teach things to the resolve that.
1:40:42
That conflict. With their intrinsic ideal
1:40:47
optimism. I like that a lot.
1:40:50
It it even gives you some. Tips.
1:40:52
And this goes for every. Other Playbook for how to
1:40:54
specifically play with the playbook specific moves.
1:40:57
So talking about their mentor, their headstrong luck and their
1:41:01
pet cards. We're not going to get into all
1:41:03
of them because that's a lot of reading, but I like the result.
1:41:06
It's actually one of the few times where I like the the
1:41:08
default. The what?
1:41:12
Kind. Of the default.
1:41:13
Yeah, yeah, I really like the. Default in this one.
1:41:17
After this, we have me and Josh's favorite playbook, The
1:41:20
Prodigy, The Seto Kaiba of the game.
1:41:25
You. You are the rich kid.
1:41:27
You're. The too.
1:41:28
Cool for the friend group, you're kind of mean your your
1:41:32
stats reflect this in your one passion 2 skill and -1
1:41:37
friendship, aren't you literally yeah.
1:41:39
Aren't you literally described as being like a Dick?
1:41:41
Yeah, you are kind of a Dick to people.
1:41:43
Yeah, it's it's pretty funny. Your struggles kind of reflect
1:41:48
your cool kid rich school demeanor in that you.
1:41:52
Have an enterprise. That you own to control, but
1:41:54
like there are constantly competitors trying to undermine
1:41:57
you or you have like family members who are trying to
1:42:00
subvert you. It's you get some fun stuff
1:42:05
their playbook. Abilities are all.
1:42:09
They all pertain to just how cool you are.
1:42:12
A lot of your abilities are just getting plus ones to any roles
1:42:18
involving your ace. You get an ability, my favorite
1:42:21
ability in the game called screw the rules.
1:42:23
I have money basically. That's literally the name by.
1:42:28
The way Isaiah I know it's, it is literally.
1:42:30
Called screw the rules, I have money.
1:42:33
It basically makes it so that editorializing prep time, it
1:42:38
assumes that you have money and can buy something that you need.
1:42:41
And it's pretty much anything that you might need, including
1:42:44
like a new card or, or, you know, blue eyes, white jet.
1:42:49
Yeah. Or the blue eyes, white jet.
1:42:50
Exactly. Yeah.
1:42:51
You just have to roll a skill check with your skill and on a
1:42:56
7UP you get what you want. So it's not even the like 7 to
1:42:59
910 plus. It's just on a 7UP, you get
1:43:01
exactly what you want. Yeah, there's also a fun ability
1:43:06
they have called My Second Ace, which allows you to play a
1:43:09
duplicate of your ace card doing the blue eyes thing.
1:43:13
And a little fun, a little fun reference to my who is also, I
1:43:18
guess, the prodigy in Yu-gi-oh because you have a ability
1:43:21
called Elegant Egotist, which is the name of one of my's
1:43:25
signature spell cards. As far as the role-playing the
1:43:34
prodigy, just lean into being. You are the quintessential.
1:43:40
Bully. Rival, you are the the certified
1:43:43
generational hater. You should be a little rude, a
1:43:47
little abrasive, and more importantly, you need to be
1:43:51
aware that you are just better than everyone.
1:43:55
Are you are you need to. Be aware that you think.
1:43:57
That you are just better than everyone else and that can
1:44:01
involve you hurting the other the other characters, right?
1:44:07
You. Have a situation where a player
1:44:09
is looking to confide in you, but you are just, you can't deal
1:44:13
with this right now, you're just too cool.
1:44:15
Stuff like that. That that one line Kaiba says
1:44:18
where I ruin people's lives everyday.
1:44:21
I'm aceo. Just embody that energy.
1:44:24
Exactly. Yes, exactly your general.
1:44:28
Skill rundown is that. You know you're starting, +2 to
1:44:31
skill means that you're good at pretty much anything you try
1:44:36
that involves expertise and knowledge, but your -1 to
1:44:38
friendship means that you come off as kind of a Dick.
1:44:41
Again, don't be afraid to lean into this.
1:44:44
Being bad with people means your character has an opportunity to
1:44:46
grow and learn. That's a good thing.
1:44:49
The example deck that the Prodigy gives you is a personal
1:44:54
favorite, the Speakers of the Chain Titan.
1:44:57
We're not going to go super deep into the lore of the game, but
1:45:01
basically this mofo has Obelisk the Tormentor.
1:45:06
He just has a big chungus monster in the form of
1:45:09
Prometheus the Chain Titan. It does, it's his ace card.
1:45:13
It's a strong warrior that comes with overwhelm.
1:45:17
At the beginning of your turn you lose one health, and when
1:45:20
Prometheus is specifically destroyed it just gets returned
1:45:24
to your hand so it cannot go to the graveyard.
1:45:29
The deck gimmick. Is basically built.
1:45:30
Around. Summoning.
1:45:32
Prometheus and then or or sorry, summoning the speakers which are
1:45:37
normal monsters that have buffs for Prometheus and then dropping
1:45:41
Prometheus on the field and keeping him there.
1:45:46
For example, the true name speaker, when you summon it and
1:45:50
Prometheus is on the field, you gain 3 life to supplement having
1:45:54
the health drain from having Prometheus out.
1:45:57
So that's really cool. I like this archetype a lot.
1:45:59
I like this character a lot. As far as like running the the
1:46:05
Prodigy the game talks about, you know, throwing random
1:46:09
goobers at the prodigy and let them be disposed of easily.
1:46:12
You know, let the fact that they're an asshole come back to
1:46:16
bite them later on. Create challenges that can be
1:46:21
solved by. Their skill.
1:46:22
And their money. And don't be afraid to.
1:46:29
Create kinks. In their armor so that when they
1:46:33
have their amazing third act breakdown in front of the
1:46:37
protagonist that they have something to to play with and
1:46:41
that something that lets them like grow as a person it also
1:46:47
like I. Said gives you some information.
1:46:48
About the about how to run their playbook abilities, so it gives
1:46:53
you some information about if they want subordinates how to
1:46:55
run that the screw the rules, I have money.
1:47:00
I love this description. This ability can solve a lot of
1:47:03
problems for players when they need something specific, but it
1:47:06
can also create interesting goals for the prodigy when they
1:47:09
roll low. If the source of the prodigy's
1:47:12
extreme wealth has been impeded or jeopardized, you should make
1:47:15
sure to give the prodigy an actionable way to get it back
1:47:18
that aligns with the goals the players already have.
1:47:21
Some examples of ways their wealth could be in question
1:47:23
include their company being bought out, Kaiba.
1:47:26
Their parents have disowned them, Kaiba.
1:47:29
They need to hide their identity.
1:47:31
Actually, not Kaiba. Not Kaiba.
1:47:33
In that case, not Kaiba specifically, they have some
1:47:36
stuff for their second ace. Let's the player use their ace
1:47:40
card a second time in combat automatically.
1:47:42
You can treat it as representing another version of the ace,
1:47:44
essentially being a copy, giving them more than one.
1:47:48
I think that's interesting. You can't field 2.
1:47:50
Versions of the ACE rules is. Written it just lets the ace
1:47:52
attack twice, but it presumes that you you know, it's a little
1:47:57
weird because you get as it it's.
1:47:58
Treated in the narrative. Like a second version, but I
1:48:01
guess if the card is destroyed they both go a little unclear.
1:48:09
Oh no. Oh, no, yeah, no, it does.
1:48:11
So nevermind, I'm wrong on this. It says once per card game you
1:48:14
have when you have a card with the ace tag on the field or
1:48:17
you've played a card with ace this turn, you can discard a
1:48:20
card from your hand to play an additional copy of the ace.
1:48:23
So you do literally just get to OK, nevermind.
1:48:26
Yeah, well, it's weird because the running the Prodigy just.
1:48:30
Says it lets them use. Their ace card a second time in
1:48:33
combat. But no that's not true.
1:48:34
You literally just get 2 aces. You have two monsters on the
1:48:37
field. I mean that is also using their
1:48:41
card twice. Yes, but.
1:48:44
Like for the sake of. Card destruction.
1:48:46
It's not. It's treated.
1:48:47
Like a second card. I guess getting a little in the
1:48:55
weeds on that one. What is a TCG if?
1:48:59
Not something that you have to get into on.
1:49:01
Sure. After the Prodigy, we have the
1:49:07
glowing. The the glowing is, you're the.
1:49:12
Best friend. You're the character that
1:49:15
everyone gets drawn to. I guess this is more the Jayden
1:49:19
be given that like he just pulls the homies in.
1:49:22
Like people who otherwise hated each other are all chilling now.
1:49:26
You have sort of a gravitational charisma about you, and as such
1:49:32
your character finds a lot of their purpose in helping others.
1:49:39
To reflect this, you have a -1 in passion.
1:49:41
A. Plus one in.
1:49:41
Skill and a + 2 to friendship. Your struggles include, you
1:49:48
know, having someone again, because you're sort of sort of
1:49:52
like personality, someone following you, you might not
1:49:56
know who they are. You got a bit of a stalker.
1:49:59
Someone you know, someone you care about has joined the wrong
1:50:01
crowd. How are you trying to help them
1:50:03
get out of it? Or because of your popularity,
1:50:08
some people. Are disrespecting.
1:50:09
And bullying towards you and you know the things that could come
1:50:13
about with that the abilities that the.
1:50:17
Gifted give you are your celebrated.
1:50:19
Expertise things that that essentially allows you to
1:50:24
leverage your character's sort of intrinsic skill in something
1:50:27
discussed outside of combat or outside of game.
1:50:31
So things like fashion, singing, streaming, acting, magic tricks,
1:50:34
robotics, essentially just giving you a tertiary skill that
1:50:37
you can call on and you can treat anything pertaining to
1:50:41
that skill base as a 10. When you roll on it you get a
1:50:46
really cool ability I like called gift card which.
1:50:48
Just lets. You give a player one of your
1:50:50
unique cards for a duel. I think that's super fun and a
1:50:53
lot of their other stuff is around like my friends are my
1:50:57
power basically that that on that Taya shit.
1:51:02
A little bit, yeah, she is also. A little Taya coded I I I felt
1:51:07
like this playbook was Taya coded I Yeah, I suppose I just
1:51:11
did. Taya is like pretty.
1:51:13
Terrible at dueling. Taya sucks ass.
1:51:15
Yeah, yeah she do. She do not Great role-playing
1:51:22
the glowing the game. Says that you should really
1:51:24
lean. Into your charisma, lean into
1:51:26
the connections you have with people, the way that you
1:51:30
naturally sort of draw friends and enemies towards you for one
1:51:34
reason or another, you're you're going to be playing.
1:51:39
The kind of character who. If the villain needs help, even
1:51:44
if it seems ridiculous, your. Character would would.
1:51:47
Help the villain in a time of need.
1:51:49
So you're also a little ang coded, but your empathy can bite
1:51:57
you in the ass and you know. Based on what?
1:52:00
It says for the GM running the glowing that is going to happen.
1:52:04
Your convictions and what you believe in will be tested
1:52:07
constantly, and whether or not your character.
1:52:11
Holds true to those. Is to be seen, but I would be
1:52:14
interested. The example deck you get is the
1:52:18
Spirit Samurai. Deck.
1:52:19
I love this deck, it's so cool. I want to say this about a lot
1:52:23
of them. It's gimmick revolves.
1:52:27
Around. Winning clashes so it's it's ace
1:52:33
character basically can. Force.
1:52:35
Clashes with. Characters, even if it would
1:52:36
otherwise have automatically win them.
1:52:39
And when you do win them, you get to draw a card.
1:52:42
You also get other care like other cards that cannot attack.
1:52:47
Oh my God, they cannot attack the opponent directly and do all
1:52:52
of their damage through clashes. It is pretty sick.
1:52:56
I like this one a lot as far as running it goes, like I said you
1:53:00
want to. Test your players.
1:53:01
Convictions you want to challenge their beliefs and give
1:53:06
them reasons to doubt, but. Also give them.
1:53:09
Times for which their friends can reinvigorate them and show
1:53:13
them that their way is the right way.
1:53:16
That's fun. After the glowing.
1:53:19
You have the rogue. I don't necessarily know who
1:53:23
this is supposed to be. I don't know, but I like the
1:53:26
vibe of the rogue. I do like the vibe for the rogue
1:53:29
a lot. You're the character who's
1:53:32
always got a backup. Oh no, you know what?
1:53:34
This could be Bastion from GX like Mr. I have 6 decks and.
1:53:39
I can always figure out the. Solution because I'm just that 5
1:53:41
head the guy with. The elemental decks.
1:53:50
Maybe. Not really sure.
1:53:54
Who it's supposed to be? Well, so at first I thought it
1:53:57
was. My but then my the the the
1:54:00
prodigy has my one of my things as one of its abilities.
1:54:03
So I was like, I wonder if this isn't my instead.
1:54:06
I'm not not clear, that being said.
1:54:10
The passion stats are. Zero or right?
1:54:13
The rogue stats are 0 in passion, 2IN skill and a zero in
1:54:17
friendship their abilities. Are about just.
1:54:23
Having backup plans within backup plans trick up your
1:54:27
sleeve essentially allows you to gain information on the enemy's
1:54:30
gimmick and their cards. Independent contractor allows.
1:54:35
You to ask. The Judge 2 questions about any
1:54:37
particular situation. Counter spell variant.
1:54:41
I do like that one too. Counterspell allows you to use a
1:54:47
second or gain a second use rather of the counter your
1:54:51
opponent's play in a turn. And you have thieves tools,
1:54:54
which in the narrative allows you to just kind of do thieves
1:54:58
tools things. You just get to be a rogue
1:55:01
running the rogue. You are aloof, you are adverse
1:55:06
to connection, and first and foremost, your mission typically
1:55:10
is the the most important thing on your mind.
1:55:13
You're not here for friendship. It explains this by giving.
1:55:18
You a + 2 to your. Skill and giving.
1:55:20
You not a whole lot in anything else the. 00.
1:55:25
In passion, friendship means that you are targeted.
1:55:29
You've got one solid means to get shit done, and this
1:55:33
friendship, this connection shit is for the birds running.
1:55:39
The Rogue. The GM.
1:55:41
Or the judge should play into this.
1:55:43
Give the rogue something that they care for that's not the
1:55:46
mission and force them to choose between it.
1:55:49
Have the villains pull out tricks that the rogue can
1:55:52
counter with their abilities. Give them things that can
1:55:57
challenge them. By.
1:55:59
Making it so that in, you know, one critical instance, their
1:56:03
backup plan fails the example deck they give you.
1:56:07
Is the ghost in the machine? The gimmick is controlled the
1:56:11
game by setting traps and disrupting opponents game plan.
1:56:14
This one, hilariously, actually has a spirit.
1:56:16
Samurai card. I wonder why.
1:56:20
And most of its other cards can't be targeted or fall or or
1:56:28
force adverse effects on the enemy, for example.
1:56:31
When an. Opponent declares an attack.
1:56:32
You can sacrifice this card to counter the attack.
1:56:34
If you do, they can't attack this turn, so you're just
1:56:38
cutting off the opponent's entire.
1:56:39
Combat Phase. After that you got.
1:56:43
The Ally. I like this one a lot.
1:56:46
Actually, have you seen the sample deck for the ally?
1:56:49
I don't think I looked at the allies, just grandpa.
1:56:51
Right, like. Yeah, pretty much.
1:56:56
But no I. Didn't look at the sample deck.
1:56:57
I don't think or no. The ally is more specifically
1:57:01
the the who's the guy from GX that made who who works for
1:57:03
Pegasus the artist kid? I don't remember.
1:57:10
God damn it, I can't remember. It's fine.
1:57:13
I don't know. He gave.
1:57:15
Me big, he gave me big. Grandpa energy he has.
1:57:18
He has a little bit of that too. To be fair, the Ally is one of
1:57:23
those. Characters who?
1:57:25
You can expect probably won't be dueling that much.
1:57:29
In fact, they're the only character who has a specific
1:57:32
move that says they have a career path outside of dueling,
1:57:36
and your your playing of that character should strike a
1:57:40
healthy. Balance.
1:57:40
Between, you know, being a sick duelist in you deal and just
1:57:44
being a normal move specifically calls out having a card shop and
1:57:49
that's yeah, fair enough, fair enough.
1:57:50
And they don't duel as much, yeah.
1:57:52
It's fucking grandpa. Their skill layout is 0 in
1:57:57
passion. They have a binder.
1:58:00
Yes, they do have a card binder and two in friendship.
1:58:06
Their struggles are someone. Wants to shut.
1:58:08
Down something that matters to you.
1:58:09
Usually your card shop. A friend of yours disappeared
1:58:12
under strange circumstances. Why and how?
1:58:15
And you swore off something important in your past.
1:58:17
What was it and why their abilities like we?
1:58:22
Said focus around the fact that. You are not just a full time
1:58:25
duelist. You have a job, you have a hobby
1:58:28
or you know, a business. What a loser.
1:58:31
You have an actual life. Yeah you have it, says an
1:58:35
important person. Your partners, siblings, your
1:58:37
protege, your Co worker. One of your skills is your.
1:58:41
Dark. Steel Citadel.
1:58:43
It's your your card shop or a library, and it can be like on
1:58:47
wheels or it's the most popular card shop in town or you own it
1:58:51
or something. That's such a dramatic name.
1:58:53
Dark Steel Citadel. Dark Steel Citadel.
1:58:56
I love it. I'm not gonna lie.
1:58:57
I do. I kind of want to play this
1:58:59
playbook, though. I do too.
1:59:01
The deck is really fun. One of my other favorites is the
1:59:04
Yeah, I have a card shop. Yeah, the the card binder skill
1:59:08
is pretty fun. You can offer someone to trade
1:59:11
them a unique card, and when you do, you note their name in a
1:59:14
special slot given. And pretty much you can let
1:59:19
other players use your card gimmick instead of their own
1:59:22
when making cards. So if they make a card with in
1:59:26
the you know, how does it align with a gimmick phase?
1:59:28
You get to have an extra gimmick to rely on, giving you in
1:59:31
theory, an extra breadth of cards.
1:59:36
Let's. See is.
1:59:37
There any other one that I. Really like.
1:59:42
Oh yeah, the. Friend in distress.
1:59:44
You can just show. Up when your friends need you,
1:59:46
even if you like were in was good.
1:59:50
I mean that's pretty classic. That's been in there since
1:59:52
apocalypse world's first edition.
1:59:54
The I think the savvy head had that ability where they could.
1:59:58
Just show up in any. Situation.
2:00:01
I kind of like the idea of just renaming that the what's.
2:00:03
Popping jambles. What's good?
2:00:06
Yeah, because you're like, hey, what's happened?
2:00:11
It's fun. As.
2:00:12
We said while while you're role-playing.
2:00:14
The ally your. Your story should be focused on,
2:00:18
hilariously enough, not the children's card game.
2:00:22
Your the the crux of your character is balancing your
2:00:25
personal life with this ubiquitous thing that everyone
2:00:29
else is doing, and due to that, you're probably not going to be
2:00:32
dueling as much as everybody else.
2:00:35
You are effectively the the quintessential support character
2:00:39
of the game. You can duel.
2:00:41
It's expected that you will duel.
2:00:43
But you are primarily. Going to be using your abilities
2:00:45
to make things easier for your allies.
2:00:50
The example deck you have is pen and paper.
2:00:52
Adventures. You're basically the the the.
2:00:57
Ally. Created.
2:00:58
A deck based on TTRPGS, which is the weirdest about face moment
2:01:03
where we're getting a real D meta game yeah yeah we're
2:01:05
getting a real and it's a reference to 1st edition fucking
2:01:08
DND 'cause it says pen and paper fighter pen and paper wizard and
2:01:12
pen and paper cleric yeah I guess second edition DND
2:01:16
technically the cool gimmick about this card these cards is
2:01:20
that they pretty much cannot be destroyed and sent to your
2:01:24
graveyard at all anytime you lose the card it goes back to
2:01:27
your hand and you can use your invocation role for initiative
2:01:32
which allows you to get different effects based.
2:01:36
On the roles of. AD 20 So at base it strengthens
2:01:40
all warrior cards and then you roll the D20.
2:01:43
On a 20 it gets Overwhelm, Piercer 1, and Sniper 1, which
2:01:48
is to say that no matter what, it's doing a lot of damage to
2:01:52
everything. On an 11 to 19 it just gets
2:01:56
overwhelmed. On a six to 10 it gets Sniper,
2:01:58
on a 2 to 5 it gets Piercer, and on a natural 1 it gets
2:02:01
underwhelmed. The deck gimmick for this
2:02:05
playbook? Fucks so.
2:02:06
Hard dude, I love it. Running, you know, running for
2:02:13
the ally. Like we said, create over the
2:02:17
top enemies that need to. Be shown an ounce.
2:02:19
Of reality. Give the players hard choices
2:02:23
between their personal responsibilities and the
2:02:25
children's card game. Make them feel like just the
2:02:29
normal guy in a situation where they're running around with
2:02:32
Yukimoto. Basically speaking.
2:02:35
You get a couple, some dude named Jim.
2:02:38
You're just yeah, you're just, you're just like when you think
2:02:40
about Jerry and the boys, you are the boys.
2:02:44
You're not about you get some rules about how to run your
2:02:48
dark. Steel Citadel.
2:02:50
Or how to use your trade binder. So I I think I would love to
2:02:54
have in in a game with, you know, 1 judge and three players.
2:02:57
I feel like at least one person should be the ally just for the
2:02:59
fun that you out of that next playbook we have is the spirit.
2:03:05
This is oh God, what's the? Alien dude's name in in Vexel.
2:03:10
Oh Astral. Yeah, this is that character
2:03:16
because it specifically. Is not.
2:03:18
The it's not. Yami because.
2:03:20
That's again in a different book, yeah.
2:03:24
Astral basically assumes that you are not of this world.
2:03:27
You are either a ghost or an alien or a magic.
2:03:32
Spell. Given form, you are just some
2:03:35
weird magical bullshit. You are just as I lovingly call
2:03:39
it. You are Egyptian space magic.
2:03:42
To reflect this, you have. Two passion.
2:03:45
Zero skill and 0 in friendship your.
2:03:51
Your skills are. All pertaining to the fact that
2:03:55
you, or sorry due to your unknown or your unusual origin I
2:03:59
should say, essentially turns yourself into a card you build
2:04:04
your deck gimmick around. Yourself.
2:04:07
In all of your abilities? Yeah, exactly.
2:04:10
One of your abilities is called I play me.
2:04:12
You get to turn yourself into your ace card and play yourself.
2:04:18
You get you. Of all the characters I argue
2:04:22
get the most asshole magic because for example one skill
2:04:27
called Unholy. Strength.
2:04:29
When you overcome weakness, you can choose two benefits instead
2:04:31
of 1. Unreal presence.
2:04:33
You can't be hurt, you're invisible.
2:04:35
You just, you just do weird magical shits.
2:04:38
It's weird there. Is a second.
2:04:39
Most Wild 1 coming up. But it's.
2:04:42
I think as far as I'm concerned, this is the one that's the most
2:04:44
intrinsically otherworldly, specifically magical roles
2:04:50
playing the spirit. You should.
2:04:51
Really. Embody your otherness.
2:04:54
You are not like everyone else. You don't necessarily know what
2:04:56
you are, so you should feel free to.
2:04:59
Yeah, you should just feel free to lean into being weird, doing
2:05:03
weird shit, having weird fun, being the character that you say
2:05:07
something and everyone turns to look at you just have fun being
2:05:11
eccentric and and weird. It does say.
2:05:18
That you know. Depending on what?
2:05:19
You choose your origin to. Be to play into specific norms
2:05:24
about that. So if you are a nature spirit,
2:05:28
you know, play into tropes that involve our nature.
2:05:31
If you're like if you or some sort of animal spirit, you know.
2:05:36
Play into. That do weird animal spirit
2:05:38
things. The example deck they give you
2:05:41
is the. Building blocks of.
2:05:43
Hope it's a what what do? You call.
2:05:49
What's the what's the TCG gimmick?
2:05:50
Where you do better at low health.
2:05:52
Aspiration. Well, I don't know if it has a
2:05:55
specific. Name like that?
2:05:57
I mean it. Might.
2:05:59
Think I heard, yeah, essentially the the the the deck does better
2:06:04
the lower health you have. So a lot of the.
2:06:07
A lot of the cards you have. Are very.
2:06:13
Strong. With the caveat with the.
2:06:15
Weakness that there are effects only proc when you are below
2:06:20
less than half your health. Actually, this is a pretty good
2:06:24
example of. Showing how the the weaknesses.
2:06:26
System can buy you more effect points for your budget.
2:06:34
I didn't read all of the lore primer stuff.
2:06:39
But considering that it's the deck is called BBH as opposed to
2:06:43
the the resolves BBB, there's probably a connection there that
2:06:47
I'm not aware of. Well, I mean, seeing as how the
2:06:51
resolve has Yuma's deck, and if this character is supposed to be
2:06:55
Astral, who is Yuma's spirit buddy, it might just be a
2:06:58
reference to that. It could be.
2:07:00
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking as far as running.
2:07:05
For the Spirit is concerned. Kind of the opposite of what we
2:07:08
said, right? Prepare to.
2:07:11
To have NPCS treat your. Character like a weird.
2:07:14
Thing give them information and. And.
2:07:20
Let them play into the fact that like.
2:07:22
They're receiving this. Information with no context or
2:07:27
give them sort of esoteric. It's the word I'm looking for
2:07:35
premonitions of of disasters. To come.
2:07:37
Stuff like that when they're running their abilities, like
2:07:43
things like I play me play into the character's fear or or
2:07:52
excitedness to that that they get to interact with the game
2:07:56
and you know, play into their fear.
2:07:59
Should their character card be destroyed, that could give them
2:08:02
some serious baggage, considering that they might be,
2:08:04
you know, maybe dying when a character uses final.
2:08:09
Form for their. First time play into it, give
2:08:11
them a really cool big moment that shows off that yeah, this
2:08:14
is literally their final form. Well, stuff like that.
2:08:18
After them you get a. Medium.
2:08:21
Which? I like this.
2:08:24
This class is weird I. I both like.
2:08:26
It and dislike it in each measure on pretty much every
2:08:30
level. Have you read this one at all?
2:08:35
No, like yes and no. It's weird because it's the only
2:08:39
one in the game that is a specifically human character
2:08:43
that has crazy psychic powers, and those psychic powers can
2:08:47
affect things in. Like.
2:08:49
In and outside the duel, like one of their abilities talks
2:08:51
about how their psychic powers hurt people or or cause
2:08:54
collateral damage. But I wouldn't like I I I know
2:08:58
it gives you information on how to deal with this, but like even
2:09:01
that I feel like doesn't give me the information I want and need
2:09:06
because if the game says the. Duels should not affect reality.
2:09:09
But this, this in this case, this character's duels affect
2:09:13
reality. Well, it didn't say the duel
2:09:15
shouldn't affect reality. It said the cards shouldn't
2:09:18
affect reality. But it did say that the
2:09:20
playbook's abilities can affect reality during the card game,
2:09:24
right? That that's giving me some weird
2:09:26
disco biscuits, not gonna lie. You're saying that like, because
2:09:30
the fact that the duel can affect reality with the psychic
2:09:33
powers but the cards can't affect reality is kind of odd
2:09:36
because no, it's saying mechanically when you're
2:09:39
designing your cards for your deck, do not design cards that
2:09:43
have an effect on reality. But your playbook can give you
2:09:48
stuff that will do that. It's just talking about when
2:09:51
you're designing cards for your deck, don't design cards that
2:09:54
have an impact on the actual world state.
2:09:56
Such as like when I play this card, the ground turns to lava
2:10:00
or some shit like that, right? It's saying don't design cards
2:10:03
with that impetus, but the playbooks could potentially have
2:10:07
those kinds of abilities, this being one of them.
2:10:12
OK, I think I get. What you're saying?
2:10:16
As part of the medium, you are blessed and cursed with a unique
2:10:19
crazy psychic power. You have.
2:10:22
Like I said, we have you have real literal psychic powers.
2:10:25
This isn't like a, this isn't the heart of the cards.
2:10:29
You. Have you are doing?
2:10:30
Real crazy psychic aspect. It's not, it's not implied
2:10:33
powers. It's like straight up crazy
2:10:35
psychic powers. Yeah.
2:10:37
The first skill that you start the game with is called Storm
2:10:39
Conduit. It gives you your crazy psychic
2:10:42
power, whether that's super strength.
2:10:46
Telekinesis. Telepathy, animal
2:10:47
transformation, technopathy, elemental control, weapon
2:10:50
manifestation. That one's weird, but it's a
2:10:54
weird one. I make gun.
2:10:56
Yeah, well you make gun in a game where the game specifically
2:10:59
says that all problems have to be solvable in the card game and
2:11:05
says you. Can't shoot someone but I can
2:11:06
also make a gun at the same time.
2:11:08
It doesn't say you have to solve everything that the card game.
2:11:10
It says you should solve most things, but that there will be
2:11:13
situations outside of it. Does it?
2:11:16
I'm pretty sure it says very specifically.
2:11:18
All problems have to be. Solvable in the card game.
2:11:20
It doesn't say have to be. It says problems are often
2:11:23
solved that way. Hold on, it's not.
2:11:28
It's not. It's not saying that you can't.
2:11:30
Have a scenario where a character gets into an actual
2:11:32
physical fight. It's just saying most people in
2:11:35
universe solve their problems via the card game.
2:11:41
Hold on. Hold on, I got to.
2:11:42
I got to check this real quick because I feel like I'm going
2:11:44
crazy now. I don't remember exactly where I
2:11:46
said where it says it, so I don't know that you're going to
2:11:48
be able to find it. Stand by.
2:11:50
Stand by it. No.
2:11:53
Yeah. Here we go.
2:11:54
It says in the in the principles card games.
2:11:56
Decide everything from tiny disputes to world shaking
2:11:59
calamities. Nearly everything in the story
2:12:01
can be solved through card games.
2:12:03
Can be I guess. I don't know, I don't.
2:12:08
Can be. It's.
2:12:12
Saying it's. Saying we're using anime.
2:12:14
Right. Think again.
2:12:15
Just think about the the the thing that think about the media
2:12:20
that they are pulling from as reference.
2:12:22
In Yu-gi-oh, most problems are solved via the card games, but
2:12:26
there are situations where characters literally pull guns
2:12:29
on each other. This is the thing that has
2:12:33
happened. Or.
2:12:35
Characters or characters? Physic Kiba physically beats the
2:12:39
dog shit out of people. He does.
2:12:41
He does do that and Joey motherfuckers be throwing.
2:12:47
Hands. Though he does kill someone in
2:12:50
the season 0 manga with. Yo-yo, that is the thing that.
2:12:52
Happens fair enough yeah now granted you shouldn't have your
2:12:56
final battle be decided via guns right that would be kind of
2:12:59
stupid but like yeah there could be conflicts that happened
2:13:02
outside of that fair enough your.
2:13:06
Abilities all sort of focus. Around how your powers view
2:13:11
things to the environment. I don't know why I said do like
2:13:14
that they do things to the environment.
2:13:16
A lot. Of them are not specifically
2:13:20
used in the duel, the only one that is as.
2:13:22
Far as I'm aware. Is the dark card games which
2:13:24
lets you do the bakura shadow shadow game stuff it it
2:13:31
literally gives you the penalty. Option establish.
2:13:34
A. A establish that the loser will
2:13:36
face supernatural consequences such as losing memories,
2:13:39
becoming cursed to stay in one place, or becoming unable to
2:13:42
battle again. Yeah, I like the idea that you
2:13:45
could just mind break a motherfucker.
2:13:48
Remember how Yuki has that power and then never?
2:13:50
Uses it again after. One, it would have been really
2:13:53
useful with dealing with a lot of people.
2:13:55
Yeah, I give you aneurysm. I give you stupify bro.
2:14:03
Bro drops their intelligence to 1.
2:14:05
Hits them with the feeble. Mind, that is kind of what
2:14:09
happened. Nuts.
2:14:10
It's exactly what happens. When role-playing the medium,
2:14:15
it's best to to play into your absolute deepest angst.
2:14:21
You are a storm of collateral damage.
2:14:24
You are going to hurt the things and people you care about.
2:14:28
There's not a whole what? I don't understand why it's
2:14:31
called storm conduit. I didn't get the name.
2:14:35
I I didn't really either, to be honest.
2:14:38
I feel like it has to be a reference.
2:14:39
I just don't know what it is. Yeah, but I don't, I don't even
2:14:43
like. The problem is that there's
2:14:44
quite. A few anime.
2:14:45
To pull from. So it could be any.
2:14:46
I know, I know. I put my money on Vanguard.
2:14:50
I don't know why, but I'm putting it on Vanguard.
2:14:52
I don't think so. Your +2 impassion essentially
2:14:57
makes it so that, much like the resolved, you're very good at
2:15:00
getting into trouble and putting yourself in a situation where
2:15:03
you use your crazy psychic powers to solve your problems.
2:15:07
You are developing those skills so you have a plus one in the
2:15:10
skill trait, but because of your extreme levels of angst, you're
2:15:14
sitting at a -. 1 To friendship your character.
2:15:20
Should be subject to to. Things that will hinder them,
2:15:23
being angsty or antisocial, anxious, depressed, short
2:15:28
tempered. Play into your negative traits
2:15:31
and give yourself something to strive for.
2:15:35
The example. Deck is ultraviolence light.
2:15:39
I love the name for this. It's.
2:15:45
It's kind of odd cause so. This is this is what the game is
2:15:48
talking about. It sort of the gimmick is
2:15:52
actions cause. Collateral damage to you and
2:15:55
your. Opponent and it says.
2:15:58
Collateral damage and it. Treated It uses the word
2:16:01
collateral damage several times in the rules to talk about like
2:16:04
doing actual damage to things, but in this instance it just
2:16:10
means that you are going to be damaging yourself and the enemy.
2:16:15
So you're just sort of it's trying to think of what?
2:16:19
Help me out of here what I. I I.
2:16:23
Alright, what? I don't understand what you're
2:16:26
what are you saying is a problem here?
2:16:28
Well, so the problem I'm having is that they're using
2:16:30
collateral. Damage.
2:16:32
In two different contexts. In the description for the
2:16:35
medium, they're using collateral damage as a literal.
2:16:38
You are causing damage to the environment in the deck.
2:16:42
You're using collateral damage to describe that you are
2:16:44
damaging yourself as well as the enemy.
2:16:48
So that was one thing. What are you confused about
2:16:50
there? There's.
2:16:52
A name. For that self-inflicted damage.
2:16:56
I don't. I thought it was something.
2:17:00
Else it's fine. It's collateral damage.
2:17:02
What do you mean? That makes perfect sense
2:17:04
mechanically there. There's no way to damage the
2:17:06
environment in the card game, so collateral damage translates to
2:17:09
hurting yourself. You're the collateral.
2:17:16
I, I don't know it, it like I said, the the shift in in.
2:17:18
Context confused me. You zoned in on some weird shit.
2:17:23
Sometimes so do you, and I don't.
2:17:24
Want to hear that from you? That's not.
2:17:30
OK, I I. Don't I don't understand what?
2:17:32
You're confused about in that scenario.
2:17:33
But OK, we're moving on. It's fine when you run the
2:17:36
medium play into their volatile destructive nature.
2:17:42
You know, put things in front of them that they are going to
2:17:45
destroy, create problems for them that their own social
2:17:51
hindrances will actively stop them from doing.
2:17:54
But give them reasons or give the players reasons to want to
2:17:59
support them and help them be better and and gain control over
2:18:03
this maelstrom of abilities they have.
2:18:07
After the medium you have the. Destined This is the Yuki
2:18:10
character. Despite how much they look like
2:18:12
Eric, you're part of something greater.
2:18:15
You were pulled into the great game of fate, whether you like
2:18:18
it or not, and your destiny will lead you to something greater or
2:18:23
plagued with calamity. Your skills are at A1 in
2:18:28
passion, A1 at skill, and a zero in friendship.
2:18:32
Your abilities are all about having the heart of the cards
2:18:35
and using crazy card rituals like you you to summon your
2:18:39
black luster soldier. You have literal plot armor by
2:18:42
allowing you to ignore failed roles.
2:18:47
It's. I like this one.
2:18:49
Fun one. Just going to ignore.
2:18:51
Just going to ignore my. Reference on that one I didn't
2:18:54
even hear. You black luster.
2:18:58
Soldier. Oh yeah.
2:19:00
When, When Grandpa's doing naughty things with his car.
2:19:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You kill bridge.
2:19:06
We're in the beach. We're in the beach.
2:19:12
I. Love you my friend used to say
2:19:17
that. All the time.
2:19:18
We're in the beach. Like I mean how?
2:19:21
Often do you and I literally go it is what I do.
2:19:24
Yoga. That's what I do.
2:19:25
Yoga. That's not playing Copper Breed.
2:19:30
Draw three more cards. That's not even card.
2:19:35
Yeah, I, I, I like the skills on this.
2:19:37
One I I like that they're just really.
2:19:38
Playing into the Yuki bullshit by again, having Heart of the
2:19:41
cards and Plot Armor as literal skills that you can tap into.
2:19:46
It's very. It's very.
2:19:47
And it's time to duel. It's time to duel.
2:19:50
Yeah, Yeah. Which I do love that one.
2:19:51
When you would enter a dangerous situation, you could just
2:19:54
initiate a card game. Like, I understand something's
2:19:56
about to go down, but no, no, no.
2:19:58
That one. I love that.
2:19:59
Yeah. Yeah.
2:20:01
You're like, oh, something bad's about to happen.
2:20:02
No, no, no, we're going to duel. Instead.
2:20:04
I challenge you to a children's card game.
2:20:07
Yeah, Like, Bros got a fucking gun pointed at your face.
2:20:10
Like, duel me. Duel me now putter offer.
2:20:13
Duel me for it. Yeah.
2:20:14
What? Bro?
2:20:16
What? I just I'm I'm.
2:20:19
Thinking of the Devil Artemis video where they have it's it's
2:20:22
it's sell doing Yuki or he's dealing.
2:20:26
Kermit, because of course, Kermit the Frog.
2:20:27
Is a thing with Devil? Artemis and he's and Yuki's like
2:20:31
an ice. What is it?
2:20:32
I I I use this spell card and sacrifice dark Magician to
2:20:37
summon my ultimate monster Dark magician with a cat.
2:20:41
I was like, oh shit, he's backing me.
2:20:47
Like an I played the equip. Card extendo mags to let him
2:20:50
attack. Oh no, it's.
2:20:53
Really cursed, but I kind of love it.
2:20:55
Oh my God. Equip.
2:20:56
Cards. That was a thing that existed
2:20:58
for a a period of time. Apparently they're still in the
2:21:01
meta according to that YouTube we both watch.
2:21:04
What the fuck? That's kind of wild.
2:21:09
Role-playing the. Destined you.
2:21:12
Sort of play. Into your kind of protagonist
2:21:16
privilege, you play into your heroic origin and you have
2:21:23
something called. The.
2:21:24
Destruction track, which is part of your Mark of Destiny still
2:21:30
essentially. How is this?
2:21:36
Described. You you essentially have.
2:21:38
Your mark that allows. You to you.
2:21:41
To to pull from a number of abilities.
2:21:44
So searching your deck from a card and adding it to your hand,
2:21:47
asking the judge questions that they have to answer, naming
2:21:52
something that you want to go your way every.
2:21:54
Time you name 1. Of those, you get a tick on
2:21:56
what's called your destruction track, and when that fills,
2:21:59
something calamitous happens that will lead you to your
2:22:02
ultimate heroic destiny. So the game talks about leaning
2:22:09
into that and not being. Afraid of of.
2:22:12
Tapping into that mark of destiny, but being even handed
2:22:15
enough to not, you know, run away with it.
2:22:19
When you're running the. Destined you should put things
2:22:24
in front of the players that they might have.
2:22:25
To use their Mark of Destiny. To solve and when it comes to
2:22:29
their skills, you know, throw things at them that they can
2:22:33
otherwise just. It's time.
2:22:35
To duel their way out of, that's cool.
2:22:41
Yeah. Their their example deck is
2:22:43
called Kathonian Thamatergy. This is your dark magician.
2:22:47
You have your torch of Hecatee, your path of the triple goddess,
2:22:50
your Medea priest of Hecatee and your Impusa Kathonian guard.
2:22:55
Oh wait no they literally have. They have your Celtic your your
2:22:59
your Celtic guardian and your dark magician in the same deck.
2:23:03
That's pretty funny, except, except Greek themed instead of
2:23:06
Egyptian themed, right, Right. Yeah, you could do some edition.
2:23:17
Do we keep going or do we call it for today?
2:23:20
OK bro, there's like four more playbooks.
2:23:23
No. There's two more, is there?
2:23:26
Oh, OK. I, I I don't know.
2:23:32
Decide your own fate, all right. I'll, I'll, I'll have Brett kill
2:23:35
me. It's fine.
2:23:36
After this, we have the idealist.
2:23:40
You are kind of what it describes on the tin.
2:23:42
You. Are similar.
2:23:43
To the gifted, where you are sort of a symbol of charisma and
2:23:49
connection, but your ability to see the brighter side of things
2:23:53
is literally codified into your into your playbook in a lot of
2:23:56
ways. And your skills show this off by
2:23:59
having a one in passion A0IN skill and one in friendship
2:24:05
your. Your The skill that you start
2:24:07
off with is called things. I believe in you essentially get
2:24:11
one ideology that. You and.
2:24:13
Your judge can work with or create so, law, humanity,
2:24:16
friendship, safety, destiny, comfort, inequality, freedom, or
2:24:19
justice. And whenever you do something
2:24:21
that exemplifies that belief, that principle, you get to add a
2:24:25
+ 1 to it. If you are forced to taking
2:24:28
action that opposes it, you take a -1.
2:24:33
This is another one of those support classes where you a.
2:24:39
Lot of your abilities. Are are centered around
2:24:43
assisting your allies? In the narrative.
2:24:45
Less so in the duels, but you can actually use your ideology
2:24:51
to assist players in their duels if they are doing something that
2:24:55
shares your ideology. Role-playing the idealist you.
2:24:59
Are just sort of. A symbol of goodness in the
2:25:04
world, be it justice. Freedom or humanity?
2:25:06
You express your beliefs freely and you try to encourage people
2:25:10
to see things your way. Your plus one to passion or
2:25:13
friendship make you pretty good at conveying your feelings.
2:25:16
But you know that that skill, that zero in skill is going to
2:25:20
make some things a little difficult for you.
2:25:23
The example deck is the Shining Glade Insects.
2:25:27
The gimmick is based. Around.
2:25:31
Having a strong ace and then defending it with with weaker
2:25:34
monsters and forcing things to attack other monsters that
2:25:37
aren't your ace. Running for the idealist.
2:25:41
Introducing villains that are diametrically opposed to them,
2:25:45
giving them interesting foils and testing their ideals
2:25:48
whenever possible and giving them giving them situations
2:25:53
where they can encourage people. With their ideals.
2:25:57
Finally, we have the turncoat. You were a bad guy and now
2:26:01
you're good. You are the Duke, so to.
2:26:06
Speak, you're still. In and you are an edgy queen,
2:26:09
but yeah, you're this is kind of the Duke Devlin once a bad guy,
2:26:12
now a good guy Interestingly enough, your.
2:26:17
Allies may or might not. Know that you were, at one point
2:26:20
a villain. They might and you might play
2:26:22
into that, but it's not necessarily a need.
2:26:25
Your skills reflect your edgy former villain demeanor by
2:26:28
giving you a 0 in passion, A1 in skill, and a one in friendship.
2:26:33
The skill that you start with is.
2:26:35
Your dark past. It allows you to list a series
2:26:39
of terrible things that you have either done or had done to you
2:26:42
by specific people, specifically accomplices or victims during
2:26:47
character creation. Describe the terrible.
2:26:50
Things that you did. In your past and whenever you
2:26:52
attempt to defeat, overcome, or compel yourself to goodness,
2:26:57
gain plus one to any roles you make to try to right your sorry.
2:27:00
When you try to right the wrongs or act in goodness, you get to
2:27:03
add +1 to your roles. You also add +1 where you try to
2:27:08
seek forgiveness for the things. That you've done.
2:27:11
Your skills stand around you, bettering yourself.
2:27:13
As a person. Bettering the people around you,
2:27:17
finding common ground with other villains which is pretty neat.
2:27:21
All role-playing you should play into.
2:27:23
Your dark, edgy back story. Play into the uncertainty that
2:27:27
comes with trying to turn a new leaf, and lean into the fact
2:27:33
that you might be a bit of an. Outcast with.
2:27:35
The new with your new friends, don't be afraid to.
2:27:43
Don't be. Afraid to come off as a little.
2:27:44
Odd when you're. You know, trying to be
2:27:49
remorseful or empathetic because you are expressing new emotions
2:27:52
that you did not prevail. The example of that is the.
2:27:57
Reformed spider queen make. Sure, your edgy background music
2:28:02
is always playing. Yes, that too, actually.
2:28:05
So when we were talking about that, that one archetype, Josh,
2:28:07
that affects things specifically from the graveyard, this does
2:28:10
that. I thought that was pretty funny.
2:28:14
Basically you can. You once your ace is out you can
2:28:19
return monsters from the graveyard to do things and they
2:28:23
pretty much the the normal monsters cannot.
2:28:25
Be played from your. Hand they have to be sacrificed,
2:28:28
so I think that's pretty funny. And you have an invocation that
2:28:30
literally lets you dump your hand, which is hilarious when
2:28:35
running for the turncoat. Make sure they're evil.
2:28:37
Acts of the past come up to bite them.
2:28:41
They're evil mess. They're evil ass make their.
2:28:46
Victims. And former accomplices show up
2:28:49
to make the narrative messy. Give the player control over
2:28:53
their past, let them describe to you how it defines them, and
2:28:59
give them moments where they can achieve forgiven.
2:29:01
And that's a really big one with all of the.
2:29:05
Playbooks done. The game talks about the several
2:29:09
advancements you can. Take most.
2:29:11
Of them are pretty standard fare for Powered by the Apocalypse.
2:29:15
They do differ in that you're allowed to take 10 advancements
2:29:19
before. You.
2:29:22
Must retire your character and complete their arc.
2:29:25
A lot of that comes down to being able to add new staples to
2:29:28
your deck and adding new ace cards to your deck.
2:29:33
I don't. I think that's.
2:29:34
I think that's the most. Advancements I've seen on a
2:29:36
character in total in a PBTA game. 10 No.
2:29:46
Are there more? It's a lot, no?
2:29:51
Between your. Regular and your majors?
2:29:52
No, I don't. Think that's that many?
2:29:55
Fair enough I think. Base apocalypse roads.
2:29:57
Usually like 12. Really.
2:30:00
Oh, wow. OK.
2:30:02
For. I have to check every playbook,
2:30:05
but for a lot of them. Maybe 10:00-ish, briefly going
2:30:10
over Chapter 5, Chapter 5. Is the.
2:30:13
The OR docket of the book. This is a very chunky boy coming
2:30:17
in at probably close to 80 pages.
2:30:21
We're not going to go into all of this, so we're going to give
2:30:25
a pretty basic breakdown. The section does have a good
2:30:29
amount to offer in some ways that I like, in other ways that
2:30:32
I don't. First and foremost, it provides
2:30:35
a series of names, locations, organizations, and characters
2:30:40
that the players can interact with.
2:30:42
Each location and organization come with specific plot hooks
2:30:45
that allow you to interweave them into your story.
2:30:49
Secondly, it references specific historical events both within
2:30:53
the city and the setting as a whole.
2:30:56
Long story short, it's Yu-gi-oh, but replace Egypt with Greece,
2:31:00
up to and including finding the Egyptian God cards.
2:31:02
Except they're Greek. Clueless thing.
2:31:05
That was just a thing they. Decided they were like.
2:31:07
Instead of Egypt, we're just going to go whole hog on Greece,
2:31:09
huh? Yeah, actually there is a a list
2:31:12
of magic. Items.
2:31:14
At the beginning of the shuffle city that are the Millennium
2:31:17
items, Yes. Nice.
2:31:21
Oh, The Olympian. Artifacts you mean?
2:31:23
Yes, God damn it, someone knows. Yeah, it's great.
2:31:28
Achilles eye patch. Get the fuck out of here.
2:31:30
Cape of the Golden Fleece. Oh my God, they did.
2:31:33
Yep. The coolest thing, at least in
2:31:37
my opinion, is that Chapter 5 contains dozens, and I mean
2:31:43
dozens of NPCS with. Unique.
2:31:46
Names, character personalities, card gimmicks, and stat blocks
2:31:52
that NP that the judge can run. These NPCS are fully stated as
2:31:56
far as the you know perfect draw is concerned and have some of
2:32:00
the coolest deck archetypes in the game.
2:32:03
This section of the book, the NPC section, is 60 pages long.
2:32:10
It is a fuck ton of information. You.
2:32:12
Are never going to. Have to make NPCS from scratch
2:32:15
literally ever. It's wild.
2:32:18
I mean, if you're on a lot of campaigns, maybe eventually,
2:32:21
eventually, but you could very easily rehash characters and
2:32:24
change some proper nouns around and now you're rehashed
2:32:28
immediately. The final thing we're going to
2:32:31
go over super, super quick is the Judge's Handbook.
2:32:35
It does not a whole lot to talk about here.
2:32:38
It gives you some information about what you think about, what
2:32:41
you should think about before you play, and defining
2:32:43
boundaries, creating your setting in the game.
2:32:47
There was a small section about resolving card problems,
2:32:52
basically giving you a oh God, what's the phrase I'm looking
2:32:56
for oh God. It.
2:33:06
Explains to you the. The general into the.
2:33:08
Specifics when it comes to resolving discrepancies with
2:33:11
cards. What cards take precedence over
2:33:13
others? The order of operations?
2:33:15
Yes, exactly it does that. That is, you know about a page
2:33:23
long it gives you information for.
2:33:28
Running battles that are not. Just basic one V ones.
2:33:31
A little bit of information on multiplayer battles,
2:33:33
simultaneous battles which is a 2 that are happening at the same
2:33:37
time but are in different locations.
2:33:39
I do like that they gave rules on multi person like team
2:33:43
battles and shit like that 'cause that was one of the big
2:33:46
concerns I had when I thought about like how this game would
2:33:49
actually play out. Is the idea of well usually in
2:33:53
an anime like Yu-gi-oh there's only one person dueling at a
2:33:56
time and like in a tabletop context that kind of sucks.
2:34:00
Yes, correct, and I agree. I'm happy that they.
2:34:03
Brought that up. They even give you a section for
2:34:06
if, like what to do when there is only A1V1 going on, like
2:34:10
establishing goals for the other characters to do so they're not
2:34:12
just sitting there on the sidelines watching.
2:34:15
Yeah. So I appreciate that it it does
2:34:19
talk about special keywords that.
2:34:21
Are not. In the main book things like
2:34:24
activations or fusing there's also responding respond cards or
2:34:29
straight up trap cards and resource cards.
2:34:31
That is land and mana from magic.
2:34:34
I was I was surprised they didn't make a trap card mechanic
2:34:37
in the base game. I I agree they I mean.
2:34:41
They kind of did. With the fumble keyword, but
2:34:44
fumble is a little more. Fumble relies a lot more.
2:34:50
On the interrupt move than just a card skill itself.
2:34:53
So maybe they were trying to figure out how to invent one
2:34:56
while not stepping on the other. Well, I think the main thing
2:34:59
they were trying to do it is is have minimal minimize needing to
2:35:05
remember what's on your field. Quote UN quote.
2:35:07
Yeah, that too. The final thing they give you is
2:35:12
some advice for replicating other TCG effects.
2:35:16
So effects that forced my force opponents to discard.
2:35:22
Winning by decking people out, having extra decks or cards
2:35:25
outside of the game, having hero cards, slash deck leaders.
2:35:29
This is commander and magic Ambrose getting into CKS getting
2:35:34
into extra decks would be a lot. Yeah no, I agree.
2:35:41
I've never heard about mulligans before.
2:35:43
But fair enough. Mulliganing.
2:35:45
You don't know what a Mulligan is.
2:35:46
Mulligans when you dump your hand to get a new hand.
2:35:50
Oh, so like a Mulligan in Magic at the start of at the start, at
2:35:56
the first round of the game, when you draw your initial hand,
2:35:59
you can Mulligan as many cards as you want, replace them.
2:36:01
So if you like, draw 5. I don't remember if you draw 5
2:36:04
or 6 in Magic, but you draw your 5 or 6 or whatever, and then if
2:36:07
you don't like 3 of your cards, you dump them and redraw 3.
2:36:10
No, no, no, I'm a filthy liar. Do you have to dump your whole
2:36:14
hand? You might have to dump your
2:36:15
whole hand, I forget, but there's a rule on your first
2:36:18
Turner magic. If you don't like your hand,
2:36:20
you. Can replace.
2:36:21
That's what a Mulligan is. Gotcha.
2:36:23
It's when you're in the middle of a match.
2:36:25
A Mulligan card is anything that lets you throw out cards for new
2:36:28
cards. I don't know why it's called
2:36:33
Mulligan, don't ask me, but yeah.
2:36:37
Besides that, that is. Perfect draw everybody.
2:36:42
I really like. This game, I think this game is
2:36:44
awesome. I really want to play it.
2:36:45
And I don't know, rewatch the OG Yu-gi-oh, at least Duelist
2:36:50
Kingdom. It's a good time.
2:36:52
I mean, you know. I don't.
2:36:54
I don't know that you have to. Do that necessarily, not to no
2:36:58
if you want, but is a good time. Yes, I.
2:37:00
Mean, I feel like a lot of people are.
2:37:05
Not going to. Jive with Yu-gi-oh, but that's.
2:37:07
A whole other think I don't know I I was like I don't know if I'm
2:37:10
going to like re watching this and I did and was like wait this
2:37:14
slaps actually if you already are into anime.
2:37:18
Sure, but if you're kind of. Like on the on the peripherals
2:37:22
kind of anime fan. I don't I don't know if Yu-gi-oh
2:37:24
be hitting them to be honest. I want to test the theory we we
2:37:28
should get. Someone who doesn't usually
2:37:29
watch anime. And get them to re watch
2:37:31
Yu-gi-oh and see or get them to watch it for the first time and
2:37:33
see if it it hits. I mean the thing that Yu-gi-oh
2:37:36
has a very Spanish soap opera energy to.
2:37:41
It so it. Makes it so good.
2:37:43
It's very dramatic. Yeah.
2:37:44
A lot of people don't like that they didn't grow up a Telemundo.
2:37:49
Yeah, no, they did not. The white people don't know what
2:37:53
Telemundo is. It's a damn shame.
2:37:58
Yeah. I mean, you know, fuck, what was
2:38:04
I going? To say shit.
2:38:07
No, I can't remember. I don't know this game.
2:38:08
Is certainly an interesting premise if.
2:38:10
Nothing else. It's an interesting idea.
2:38:12
And like I said, if somebody approached me and was like,
2:38:16
could you design A tabletop game for me that emulates the
2:38:19
Yu-gi-oh anime, I'd be like, no, you're going to have to find
2:38:23
somebody else. I'm not doing that.
2:38:27
That's too much. That's.
2:38:28
Too much dog. This game really does exemplify
2:38:32
the. Idea that there's a niche market
2:38:33
for everybody. I it is, yeah, God damn.
2:38:38
But it's not even about the niches.
2:38:39
It's just about I know how complicated tabletop or I know
2:38:43
how complicated trading card games get.
2:38:45
And so like trying to emulate that in any capacity in a
2:38:50
tabletop, trying to emulate a game within a game, I'm just
2:38:52
like, Nah, dog, absolutely not understandable.
2:38:58
And. I guarantee you there's people
2:38:59
out. There, that will try to play
2:39:01
this game and then be disappointed that it's not
2:39:04
closer to actual Yu-gi-oh. You know what I'm saying?
2:39:10
I do I, I think I don't agree with what those people are.
2:39:15
I don't agree. With what the logic of?
2:39:16
Those people will be. But I know there's going to be
2:39:18
those people out there. Like it should be closer to
2:39:20
Yu-gi-oh. Yeah, I'm.
2:39:22
I'm sure you are going to get those.
2:39:24
They're wrong, but you know, whatever.
2:39:26
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2:39:31
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2:39:57
Sending a coffee? That's not how that works.
2:40:00
You're not sending me a coffee. In the mail bro.
2:40:04
I don't know. It's like when people when
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2:40:07
Say, send me a coffee. Like, I know you could just, I
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dined out. But you, Oh, my God, nevermind.
2:40:11
You're fighting the mainstream on this.
2:40:12
I don't know what you want to say.
2:40:13
I'm not fighting a mainstream because nobody talks about it
2:40:16
anymore. Anyway, that's fine.
2:40:19
All right, Peace. Motherfuckers come out.