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Daggerheart Open Beta - Character Creation System · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  >> Speaker A: Welcome, everybody, to an extra special episode
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  of session Zero Heroes, where we are going to be
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  discussing the brand new
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  daggerheart RPG system
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  from the creators of critical role and all
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  the amazing stuff that they do. We now
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  have what is called Daggerheart, which will be, from what
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  I understand, the TTRPG system that they will be
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  using for their future shows. for the most part,
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  so very exciting brand new RPG
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  system by the amazing team over there. we're really excited
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  to kind of dive into it. And we are at a
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  point now where we're allowed to share what we got to see.
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  We got a little bit of, like, early, I don't know, Cameron, what would you call
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  access? Yeah. Okay, thank you. Early
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  access, to get to see.
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  >> Speaker B: It, but we all had to sign.
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  >> Speaker A: NDAs because it was very secretive. so we got
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  to test it out a little bit. But now it is time that we are allowed
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  to share it and share what we find. Let me introduce who's at
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  our table. So to my left, we got Jackson.
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  Jackson is. Or Jack, I don't care.
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  Jackson has been involved with our criminals. Violet Numis,
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  he plays Dez, our beloved Kinku
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  Ranger. To my direct forward,
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  we have Cameron. Cameron. We all know Cameron from a
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  number of projects, whether that be playing as Bill Dor
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  in benders and bruise. He plays as fizzle
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  fingers, aka Roric in the criminals,
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  Violen numis. And he's also run the monster of the week
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  campaign that we did so far. One of them. Music,
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  mayhem. He's run or not run. He's
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  also been in the dilly Dunkers. One shot that we did.
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  So a lot of stuff from Cameron.
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  >> Speaker C: Quit doing stuff.
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  >> Speaker B: That's what I tell Skylar. Save some room for other
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  people.
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  >> Speaker A: He's accessible.
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  >> Speaker B: And then he's like, I tried asking everyone else. They're all
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  busy. And I'm like, you are my last
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  choice.
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  >> Speaker A: His section on the website with the credits is
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  just ever growing into accessible. It's
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  hiding everybody else's stuff. I need to put Cameron's
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  listing at the bottom because it takes up so many
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  scrolls.
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  >> Speaker B: At this point, I think the third campaign is probably
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  going to be dm'd by me.
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  >> Speaker A: That would be pretty dope. Maybe you can run daggerheart.
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  >> Speaker B: Maybe daggerheart campaign. If I find a nice
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  system or something. Or something that falls into.
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  >> Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And then to my right, last but not
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  least, we got Dave, who you all know as Guohan
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  from benders and brews. And, also
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  maki from criminals. Violent numas.
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  >> Speaker D: Yeah, that's a character.
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  >> Speaker B: Those are both characters.
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  >> Speaker A: Awesome. And today we are going to kind of walk through. So
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  currently what we have so far from the people over at Daggerheart
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  is the character creation process. As of
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  when this episode will be posted, I believe they're releasing
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  the sort of starter rules and everything else. Currently, all
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  we have to work off of is the character creation. So we're
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  going to walk through what the process looks like of creating a character within the
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  Dareheart, RPG. We're going to discuss maybe some of
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  the similarities to other RPGs like Dungeons
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  and dragons. I think that there's kind of like the
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  storytelling element that kind of gets copied over, not
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  copied over, similar sort, of inspired by. From like
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  powered by the apocalypse games. There's a little bit of that in there,
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  and we're going to make characters, so that'll be fun.
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  We don't have a huge amount of knowledge on the full
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  official rules, so there are still a couple of things on the character
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  sheet that we're not 100% sure on how they work, but
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  we'll try to maybe theorize a little bit or just discuss what
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  we might know or what we'll
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  get to find out, I suppose, once the time comes. So,
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  anyways, starting things off, I've got this nice big
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  character creation sort of checklist here that kind of
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  helps walk people through the entire process.
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  So the first step on that process, and you guys have all kind
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  of had a second to look over some of this stuff, but the first thing
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  is choose a class. So
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  there's a whole bunch of classes
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  to choose between, and I can go through those here
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  really quick. very similar to dungeons and
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  dragons classes. So first off, you're going
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  to have your bards. You're talking about, like,
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  performance magicians. Druids are much
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  more nature based magicians, per se, mage
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  classes, if you want to call them that. They can also shapeshift into
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  animals, which is always fun. And that is something that you get
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  in daggerheart. Guardian,
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  Guardian is sort of like your kind of a
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  fighter, paladin kind of cross between
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  the two. So you're going to be high armor, doing
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  some melee attacks, not really magic focus too
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  much, but there's a lot of diversity within the
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  subclasses and abilities that you're going to get with your
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  character, in Daggerheart. So that's not to say
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  that you couldn't do some magic and things along those lines. It's just
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  saying that from a base level, this is kind of what you'd be looking at
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  for this class, then you've got rangers. Rangers are your
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  classic sort of outdoorsy
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  experts, whatever you want to call that. Again,
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  sometimes it's kind of got a magic theme to it. Sometimes it's a
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  little bit more just fighting,
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  rogues, classic rogues. Your thieves, your
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  assassins, even sometimes pirates.
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  All that kind of stuff all kind of factors into
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  rogues. And what you could get out of that. Next up is
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  Seraph. Now, Seraph is a very, different
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  verbiage than any of the d d classes and things along those lines,
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  the official ones, that is. So serifs are kind of like a crossover
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  between somewhere in your paladin
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  cleric range. So they've got kind of this
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  religious connotation to them, m or organization
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  connotation to them, kind, of based around a
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  deity or some God or something like that.
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  Then you got sorcerers, again, very classic, kind of,
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  ah, sort of a natural
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  magic in a sense. Wizards, are out there
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  learning magic through the use of books and things like that.
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  Sorcerers usually have kind of an innate
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  magical capability within them from
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  something. There's a lot of different opportunities or a lot of
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  different reasons why they have it. Warriors,
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  classic, kind of barbarian fighter esque. You're going to be running
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  in there. You're going to be swinging swords, axes, whatever else.
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  And then finally, wizards. Wizards are also
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  very classic. You're going to be your nerdy
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  spell casters is the way I like to look at it,
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  reading up on books and spells and learning new
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  magic and being able to cast it from. So, anyway, that's,
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  that's a lot of me talking and a lot of me going over the
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  classes, but let's look at each person and kind of get a little
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  bit deeper, look into those classes based on what they took. So,
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  Jackson, what do you got?
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  >> Speaker C: I went ahead and, picked up sorcerer just
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  because I'm in the mood for
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  something similar to a warlock. Yeah, figured that
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  sounded pretty similar.
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  >> Speaker A: Awesome. So tell me a little bit about sorcerer. what do you kind
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  of have as far as what's on the character
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  sheets or kind of what is the description that it has for
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  sorcerer, which I think is on the top of the second page there?
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  Yeah.
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  >> Speaker C: well, let's see. The description for sorcerer says, as a
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  sorcerer, you were formed and shaped by the will of the
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  arcana, and you have learned how to wield that
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  power to get what you want.
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  >> Speaker A: Get what you want.
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  >> Speaker C: They have some suggested traits,
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  it seems like, whereas in the DNd five
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  ebook, where it lays out, like, hey, this is a
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  quick way to build this character right there on the character
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  sheet. This has this suggested easy,
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  quick character build, with
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  descriptions of what you could wear, what a typical
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  sorcerer wears, what's typically in their
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  inventory.
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  >> Speaker A: Kind,
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  >> Speaker C: Of in the center of
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  the description page you see questions
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  about your background and your connections, which is
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  great when building a character. Actually, I feel
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  like most of the time when I, am
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  making a character and I play a few
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  sessions of said character, it falls flat
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  because I failed to create a solid background,
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  for my character. And let's see
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  what's down there at the bottom. shows what a
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  sorcerer gains at certain levels.
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  >> Speaker C: level. Do we start at level
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  two?
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  >> Speaker A: So you can start at level one, and then when you get
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  to. So this is kind of something that powered by the apocalypse usually does
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  with their character sheets. So when you level up, they give you
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  options that you can take and you just cross out
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  the little box next to it to say that I took that option. it
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  can be so like reading through some of them that are on your
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  sheet. Permanently add one hit point
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  slot. Permanently add one stress slot,
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  increase your experience by one, so on and so forth. These
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  are going to be permanent, either abilities or
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  stat upgrades or whatever else that are going to kind of
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  strengthen you along the way. they're a little bit more
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  broad. in some power by the apocalypse
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  games, you're going to have specific abilities based on the class that you're
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  playing. And these definitely have that, don't get me wrong.
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  but it's not so much like in DND where you have to go
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  reference the class that you're playing and look through.
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  At level three, you're going to get these and you're also going to get one more
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  spell slot. And you're also going to roll your hit dice and you're going to add,
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  you have a lot of customization options because of the fact
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  that you're not really limited to a specific path. You get
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  to just m mark off, some sort of
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  benefit to your character.
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  >> Speaker C: Yeah. And rather than going back
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  and referencing a book all the time, which is right,
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  it's fine. I really love to have a physical book search
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  through when it comes to DND, but being it
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  just at the bottom of my page, if I forget to
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  take a note, it's already printed at the bottom.
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  >> Speaker A: Exactly. And that's something I really like
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  kind of nice in DND, and I'm not dissing
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  DNd by any means. but in DND, they put
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  such small sections for your features and traits, and
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  between your racial traits and your class traits
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  and subclass traits and your background
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  traits. That's a lot of stuff to try to write m
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  in a little section on one page.
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  >> Speaker C: I know a lot of people are, but I'm not a notebook keeper.
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  >> Speaker A: Right.
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  >> Speaker C: I love to collect notebooks. I've got a ton of
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  empty notebooks that I'm like, this cover was
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  so cool. I'm going to use it for DND, like a little nerd, right?
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  but I don't ever. They're all
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  empty.
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  >> Speaker A: You have every opportunity, just no initiative to
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  do. Dave, you're more of our notetaker guy, and just
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  about everything we play, I feel like you're always the guy that. I mean, I'm
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  looking at your notebook right here at the table.
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  >> Speaker C: I don't see anything in that notebook.
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  >> Speaker A: Oh, that's true. It is blank, right? Ready?
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  >> Speaker B: Visible ink.
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  >> Speaker A: very fantasy, very secret.
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  Mysterious. Awesome. So, okay, cool. That's a great
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  overview. I appreciate it. Of the kind of just the
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  sorcerer. I wanted to mention, since you brought it
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  up, so there are traits just like in d. D. Normally,
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  you'd have your strength, dexterity,
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  intelligence, wisdom, charisma, and
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  constitution. I got them. then, you
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  know, you'd have numbers in there similar to that
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  in daggerheart. You have agility, strength, finesse,
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  instinct, presence, and knowledge. And then under each
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  of those, it kind of gives you those,
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  specific skills that that trait would get
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  rolled for. But the cool thing about it is you don't have to be
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  proficient in specific skills. It's sort of an
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  overarching plus, whatever number that you're. Or minus.
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  I guess if you're not good at it, that applies to those skills.
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  So you're going to roll whenever your DM says, if
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  you're trying to pick a lock, right, your DM is going to look at
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  those skills or the traits, and they're going to see that
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  under, finesse, you've got
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  things like hide, tinker, control, and they would
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  probably say, okay, that sounds like the right
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  trait for picking a lock. So then you would roll your
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  dice on finesse, or add
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  finesse, and then that would be your final roll, essentially.
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  And I think there's a couple of other things that will kind of affect that as
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  well. but whatever case, that's the base. So you had mentioned
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  that on the bottom of your character sheet, or rather,
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  on the second page, it kind of has suggested traits. So
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  everybody's playing off the same traits. You don't roll for your
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  traits, and then one guy has, like,
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  super high, just across the board traits while somebody
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  else just happened to roll low, and they're kind of screwed.
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  Basically, this one, everybody's working off the same set
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  of numbers, which is minus 10,
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  zero plus one plus one plus two.
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  So everybody's going to get that same set of numbers, and they're going to distribute them m among
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  their stats. so, like yours said, it kind of had
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  suggested ones for the sorcerer to kind of help you out as far
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  as kind of just a base concept sorcerer works.
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  But of course, you're not limited to that. You can put them however
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  you want based on what character you are personally
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  trying to create, which I think is really cool.
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  >> Speaker B: I do want to say one thing I find interesting is
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  looking at the six choices, because you have your traditional
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  DND, like strength and charisma. But the
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  big one I'm noticing is instead of charisma, they put presence,
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  which is a thing I've always thought about with DND, because
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  sometimes you meet people that aren't really the
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  most well spoken, but their presence alone
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  is bigger factor. So think of your big, hulking
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  brutes. If they say they want something,
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  they might not say it in the most charming or elegant
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  way, but someone will still do it really quickly
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  because of their presence alone, basically. So
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  I do like that the presence is a little more open because my
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  dream DnD character I always thought of doing is a rogue,
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  but just like, it's a Goliath rogue who literally
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  just is like, give me your money now.
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  That's how they steal, because they're part of the thief guild, but instead of,
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  like, pick poggety meal, they literally just are,
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  give me your money or I'll beat you up right now.
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  I always thought that'd be an interesting character. I'm like, how would you make that in
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  DND without home brewing kind of stuff?
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  >> Speaker A: Right.
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  >> Speaker B: Making them just charismatic doesn't fit what I'm going for.
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  But strength is what makes them a rogue.
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  >> Speaker A: And that's always been a big debate, too, where
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  intimidation is a charisma
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  trait in dungeons and dragons, but it doesn't.
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  >> Speaker B: Make sense with barbarian intimidating.
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  >> Speaker A: Exactly. If the barbarian comes in and he's butt ugly and he
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  has a minus four to charisma, but he's got, like,
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  an 18th strength, if he starts popping his knuckles
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  at you, that's intimidating. Exactly. And
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  I know a lot of DMs, they're like, how are you using
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  intimidation? And then we'll adjust the skill on that. But
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  this one, it just puts it in there as presence. Presence is
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  a little bit more of a broad concept. What.
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  What do you look like when people look at you immediately? What are they
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  thinking? And if you're a big, burly guy, they're thinking, oh, I
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  probably don't want to mess with him. Yeah, no, I'm glad you pointed that out. I
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  think that is a pretty cool mechanic. So, Cameron, out of
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  curiosity, what class were you kind of leaning
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  towards?
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  >> Speaker B: Well, I was talking about this
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  earlier before we started recording with you
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  guys. And I was saying I'm not sure if I should grab. Like,
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  I'm notoriously known for playing my martial classes. I
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  love playing warriors and barbarians and just, fighters and barbarians and just playing
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  those, right, absolutely. But then at the same time, I was like, should I pick a class that
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  I'm not as familiar with? And then I was thinking, you know what I really
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  want to see? I want to see there is
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  one class that's notorious in d d
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  Pathfinder, RPG systems that they just
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  cannot get. Right, because it's this, like, what
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  is it? And that is the Ranger.
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  >> Speaker A: Right? What is the Ranger? Right?
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  >> Speaker B: Because everyone's trying to recreate strider. They're trying to
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  recreate Aragorn, right? But they're
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  like, what is it? Because it's not all druid, it's
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  not all fighter. It's this weird, like, they're good at
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  tracking. What is that? What does that mean? So I wanted
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  to see how did they take on Ranger? Because
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  it's one of the biggest
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  big problems that d d and Pathfinder have kind of
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  fallen into. How do you perfect Ranger? Like, it's the
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  only class that d d had to make a whole remake of. It's true.
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  Because of how poorly made it was. So I want to see how
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  they learned from d D's mistakes.
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  >> Speaker C: Have you. Absolutely.
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  >> Speaker A: So you're going to take that ranger. Tell me a little bit about how they
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  describe ranger in daggerheart. Yep.
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  >> Speaker B: It says, as a ranger, your keen eyes and graceful haste make
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  you indispensable in tracking down enemies and navigating
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  the wilds. Okay, so, yeah, very strider like.
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  >> Speaker A: Yeah, very strider like. Very. Yeah. And it'll be
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  something, interesting to see because I know, like, you kind of
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  alluded to the idea. Know, how much
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  is that sort, tracking.
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  I mean, tracking definitely could come into play. But I know, like, the original
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  ranger class talked a lot about. You had favorite
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  terrain and stuff like that. And it's like, who
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  cares?
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  >> Speaker C: You step out of the city gates and you are
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  suddenly in a forest, and the ranger just gets really
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  excited.
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  >> Speaker A: I'm home to shortchange the DMs
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  out there that are writing up, like, trade routes
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  and, economic complexities into their campaign. Those are
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  the kind of people that are definitely probably putting you guys
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  exclusively. You are on a grasslands terrain moving
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  uphill at both ways. Yeah, exactly.
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  Something along those lines. But for the
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  average Dm, oh, my gosh, that's a lot to kind of try to have
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  to keep track of and create and all this other stuff when you're doing
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  100 other things. And so, yeah, it's nice
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  to kind of avoid that and see. And I think there's
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  another aspect of this that I should probably preface, which
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  is in dagger heart, there's a very much heavier.
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  I, would say that it's a little bit more story over
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  numbers than d d is. D d is very, like,
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  everything is kind of listed out. It's got a plus or minus to
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  the stat. It's associated with something you're going to add
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  or subtract from your dice. your
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  range is this amount exclusively. And if it's past this
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  amount, you're going to take disadvantage, on the attack
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  things along those lines, whereas looking over the character
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  sheet and things, there's definitely a decent amount of that, but
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  there's a lot of things that are going to be more
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  storytelling focused. And if it can be justified
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  within the narrative of the game, then it could
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  count towards a stat, or it could
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  just broadly be considered like, oh, yeah, you succeed at that because
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  it just makes sense that your character would know how to do that or
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  be able to do that. So that kind of helps with the ranger situation
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  of, yeah, of course he knows how to use the terrain
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  around him. He's a ranger. That's what he.
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  And with the concession of, like, he's
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  never experienced the desert before, so, yeah, now he's a little bit out of
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  sorts. He doesn't know what to do here. So maybe he'd
• 17:55
  take a disadvantage on something or something along those lines.
• 17:58
  But, like, for instance, gold, I'm looking at that right here. So
• 18:01
  gold isn't measured by a specific number. Gold is
• 18:04
  measured by just kind of a broad concept of amount. So you've
• 18:07
  got multiple slots for handful, and then you have
• 18:10
  multiple slots that are filled in under bag. So
• 18:13
  you'd have bags of gold. Right. Then you have chests of gold, then you have
• 18:16
  hordes of gold, and then you have a fortune. Right. And so when
• 18:19
  you're playing the game. And you want to
• 18:22
  buy something. Right? I might have four
• 18:24
  X's on handful of gold. Right. So I have
• 18:27
  four handfuls per se. Right. And then the DM says,
• 18:30
  well, what do you want to buy? And you're like, well, I want to buy the spear. And he says, okay,
• 18:33
  spear is probably going to just cost you a handful of gold. So then you just
• 18:36
  erase one handful of gold. It's not like,
• 18:39
  yeah, exactly. It's not like I have exactly
• 18:41
  325 gold. Right. And I need to
• 18:44
  subtract 32. And then you're sitting there running
• 18:47
  the math or whatever the case and trying to adjust it.
• 18:50
  >> Speaker C: And not to mention things like silver.
• 18:52
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 18:53
  >> Speaker C: And copper or whatever.
• 18:54
  >> Speaker A: And nobody wants that. To keep track of that. And the DM sitting there trying
• 18:57
  to come up with pricing for things because a lot of things aren't exclusively
• 18:59
  listed. And even if it was, who wants to go through 20
• 19:02
  pages of inventory and
• 19:05
  economic existence?
• 19:06
  >> Speaker C: Just kind of right off the bat, I can already tell that there
• 19:09
  is going to be less math.
• 19:12
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 19:13
  >> Speaker C: In this by far. just the fact that
• 19:15
  you only are getting, what you get, you get two
• 19:18
  plus ones, two zeros, one minus one, and
• 19:21
  one plus two.
• 19:23
  >> Speaker A: Ah.
• 19:23
  >> Speaker C: To literally all of your stats. There's no. What
• 19:26
  does five e go up to? like a plus
• 19:29
  five.
• 19:29
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 19:31
  >> Speaker C: Max stat. and if I roll a 20
• 19:34
  and, oh, I got to see if I have a plus five to it.
• 19:38
  This is a lot simpler.
• 19:40
  already right off the bat.
• 19:42
  >> Speaker A: Exactly. It's just a lot. Yeah. More simplified and
• 19:44
  less math. Exactly. Which we all appreciate.
• 19:47
  >> Speaker C: I'm excited.
• 19:48
  >> Speaker A: Unless you're a big math person, I guess. But whatever the
• 19:50
  case, unless you're a nerd. Unless you're a
• 19:53
  nerd. And in which case, why would you be playing a role
• 19:56
  playing game in the first place? Yeah. All
• 19:59
  right, Dave, what class are you deciding to
• 20:02
  take?
• 20:03
  >> Speaker D: So I kind of had an idea for a character. So I
• 20:06
  picked the rogue. Try to see
• 20:08
  if I could work that into it. But also
• 20:11
  I picked the rogue because each
• 20:14
  character has two keywords underneath their
• 20:17
  class. okay, so the rogue is
• 20:19
  keywords are midnight and grace. And
• 20:22
  from what I understand, you share,
• 20:25
  like, card decks with, class
• 20:28
  abilities. so I wanted to see how it worked out.
• 20:30
  If I chose a keyword that was the same
• 20:34
  as a party members being Jackson's, he has
• 20:36
  sorcerer, whose keywords are Arcana and.
• 20:40
  >> Speaker A: Ah. Ah. Okay. So, yeah, you've got that midnight. So, yeah,
• 20:43
  I'm glad you brought those up. So those are domain cards and
• 20:46
  domain cards kind of are like, if you took a
• 20:48
  subclass within DND, and then even within that
• 20:51
  subclass, it kind of split into
• 20:54
  different paths within that that you could take. That's kind of
• 20:57
  what the domains are. So in the domain deck,
• 21:00
  there are a number of different
• 21:03
  domains to choose from. I can go through those really
• 21:05
  quick. you've got codex, blade,
• 21:09
  bone, arcana, grace,
• 21:12
  valor, midnight, sage,
• 21:14
  and Splendor. And then each
• 21:17
  class has underneath it the options
• 21:20
  that you can take. As far as these domain goes,
• 21:23
  you don't have to take them all. Like, if you have the
• 21:26
  sorcerer, your domains are, midnight
• 21:29
  and Arcana. You don't have to
• 21:32
  choose Arcana and just take two Arcana
• 21:35
  cards, which is what you would get at the,
• 21:38
  kind of later on down the process of character creation. You're going to take
• 21:41
  two domain cards. you don't have to take two
• 21:44
  Arcana. You could take an Arcana and a midnight. You could take two midnight. Whatever
• 21:47
  combination that you want that kind of helps guide your character in the
• 21:50
  direction that you want to go. And if you share
• 21:52
  them with another character, as you mentioned, Dave, you kind of have to come
• 21:55
  to an agreement with the other player that's sharing it with you. Like, if you both
• 21:58
  want the same card, that's not a problem in and of itself.
• 22:01
  You can just print another card, and both have, you
• 22:04
  know, depending on how you want to play it, if you really want all the
• 22:07
  characters to be different from each other, you might choose
• 22:10
  who's going to get that card and who's not, and have to take a different
• 22:13
  card.
• 22:14
  >> Speaker C: By the way, was that mentioned? This is not like
• 22:17
  a deck of cards that you buy per
• 22:20
  se. It's one of those print and yourself.
• 22:23
  >> Speaker A: Exactly. Or just reference it or whatever the case.
• 22:26
  Yes, exactly. So this all comes with the character
• 22:29
  and the base rules and stuff like that. but yeah,
• 22:32
  it's a really cool concept and it gives you abilities, is what the
• 22:35
  cards do. So that's one thing that I mentioned before was the
• 22:37
  little tiny sections of your character traits
• 22:40
  and your abilities and all this other stuff that, like dungeons and
• 22:43
  dragons has you try to fit into those spaces
• 22:46
  in daggerheart. A lot of these abilities and
• 22:49
  capabilities are cards that are just going to be sitting right there next to
• 22:52
  you, easily accessible to you and your character, so
• 22:55
  that you can quickly reference them, which I really like because I
• 22:58
  have never been able to get them onto the
• 23:00
  DND page, the character sheet, without having to
• 23:03
  shrink that font size down to like four.
• 23:06
  And then I can't read it. So then it's kind of
• 23:08
  pointless. especially when you start hitting like level.
• 23:12
  Awesome. So and then did you want to give me a description there of
• 23:15
  the rogue? Like how they kind of have it written out? Dave?
• 23:18
  >> Speaker D: So as a rogue you have experience with
• 23:20
  sidestepping the law and dealing with the underbelly
• 23:23
  of society, preferring to move m quickly and
• 23:26
  fight quietly.
• 23:28
  >> Speaker A: Quietly. So kind of, yeah, like that classic hidden
• 23:31
  in the shadows kind of rogue type character.
• 23:33
  Awesome. So that's everybody's classes. So we've all chosen a class,
• 23:36
  which is the first step. And I know we talked a lot, I think the
• 23:39
  rest of it will move a lot quicker since we've talked about a lot of the
• 23:42
  aspects of the character sheet along the way. So moving on
• 23:45
  to subclass. Cameron, you have the,
• 23:48
  remind me again, Ranger. Yeah. So which subclass did you
• 23:51
  go with?
• 23:51
  >> Speaker B: Well, see the two subclass choices you have as a
• 23:54
  ranger is wayfinder.
• 23:56
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 23:56
  >> Speaker B: Which is basically you're using your
• 23:59
  agility to well you're
• 24:02
  using your abilities to just be, well it says
• 24:05
  apex predator straight on. Just
• 24:07
  be really good at the martial skills of it.
• 24:10
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 24:11
  >> Speaker B: But when you get the, I'm not going to choose
• 24:14
  that one. I'm going to choose their second subclass option. Because
• 24:17
  when you get the ranger, when you get the ranger class, you
• 24:20
  don't get two papers like the other one. You get a third one because
• 24:23
  you get a whole companion, which is what
• 24:26
  the subclass does. Calls beastbound.
• 24:28
  >> Speaker A: Nice.
• 24:28
  >> Speaker B: I have an animal companion.
• 24:30
  >> Speaker A: Awesome.
• 24:30
  >> Speaker B: of my choice. And at the
• 24:33
  GM's description, of course, take the ranger companion
• 24:35
  sheet. And whenever you level up your character I also choose a level that is
• 24:39
  on my companion sheet. So my companion sheet has
• 24:41
  levels of training on top of,
• 24:44
  I will be giving them traits and all.
• 24:46
  >> Speaker A: Oh, very cool. Okay. And those are like
• 24:49
  sneak, climb, strike, scare, run, fly,
• 24:52
  lead, swim. All things that kind of an animal
• 24:55
  or beast could be capable of and good at. And
• 24:58
  then they have, we'll get into it here.
• 25:01
  >> Speaker C: Having an animal that advances and levels up
• 25:04
  with you is so
• 25:06
  much more interactive than just
• 25:09
  the animal companion of five E. Right.
• 25:13
  That's really cool.
• 25:14
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, that's really cool.
• 25:16
  >> Speaker B: And from what it looks like, and we don't have the full rules here,
• 25:19
  but what it looks like with the companion is I have all those things
• 25:22
  that Skylar read the eight traits and I'm going to
• 25:25
  assume that I'm going to get one at the first level. And then every
• 25:28
  time I level up I'm going to add more skills to them as well.
• 25:31
  and on top of that, it shows for training whenever your character levels up,
• 25:34
  also choose one option for your companion from the list below and mark
• 25:37
  it.
• 25:37
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 25:37
  >> Speaker B: So there you go. Yeah,
• 25:40
  I see it now. So you get one companion trait to start, and then two of
• 25:43
  those level ups is there's called intelligent. It says, I choose an additional
• 25:46
  companion trait. So my companion will have up to three of these
• 25:49
  traits, right, from sneak.
• 25:50
  >> Speaker A: Climb, whatever, which would be really cool
• 25:53
  to be able to kind of level up alongside your creature.
• 25:56
  I mean, they've got a damage dice thing, they've got
• 25:59
  stress, which is kind of a stat that we don't know a whole lot about
• 26:02
  in this game, currently without the complete
• 26:05
  rules, but it has a stress meter as well. So,
• 26:08
  yeah, while you're leveling up and you have all those options
• 26:11
  at the bottom of your second page to level up your character, you
• 26:13
  also have options to level up your beast
• 26:16
  companion as well, which is really cool.
• 26:18
  >> Speaker B: Like you said, jack, I'm also going to add just a little side
• 26:21
  thing that I think is really cool. That when they designed the companion
• 26:24
  sheet, they designed it. So it only takes up two thirds of the
• 26:27
  page.
• 26:27
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 26:29
  >> Speaker B: The main page under you, plying page
• 26:32
  underneath of it. And so it doesn't take up as much room to have them
• 26:35
  side to side.
• 26:36
  >> Speaker C: You can always reference rather than just reference.
• 26:39
  >> Speaker B: It's right there. You don't have to flip a page. It doesn't take up, as much room because
• 26:41
  your main paper is covering.
• 26:43
  >> Speaker A: A third of it. Exactly. They really thought through the
• 26:45
  design. the design of the character sheets is really
• 26:48
  cool.
• 26:48
  >> Speaker C: Right.
• 26:49
  >> Speaker A: If you get a chance to, once,
• 26:52
  everything's kind of released, they should have a link out there for you to go
• 26:54
  download it. It's pretty neat. So, Jackson, did you
• 26:57
  figure out the subclass?
• 26:59
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, you know what?
• 27:01
  they're pretty easy to understand. the sorcerer
• 27:04
  at the moment has two subclasses, one
• 27:07
  being elemental origin and one being primal origin.
• 27:10
  the primal origin, which is the one I'm not going to go
• 27:13
  with. its
• 27:16
  description is your primal origin allows you to modify
• 27:19
  the essence of magic itself. After you
• 27:21
  cast a spell or use a weapon that deals magic
• 27:24
  damage, you may mark a stress to do
• 27:27
  any of the following. And I'm going to assume that as a
• 27:30
  storytelling perspective, your stress
• 27:33
  meter is like, how
• 27:36
  much you exert, right? So, like, if I was
• 27:39
  a martial character and I wanted to
• 27:42
  leap a longer distance, I would
• 27:44
  mark a stress because I'm over exerting myself.
• 27:47
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 27:47
  >> Speaker C: Rather than normal. I think you're very.
• 27:50
  As I'm looking at it and doing my own interpretation,
• 27:53
  seems like a very cool way to do that.
• 27:55
  >> Speaker A: Yeah. it's kind of like taking fatigue in
• 27:58
  avatar legends, which we have a benders and brew series on. But
• 28:01
  anyway, sorry.
• 28:02
  >> Speaker C: and so some of those actions are,
• 28:05
  you stress yourself by extending the reach
• 28:08
  by one range of your spell, adding a plus two to the
• 28:11
  action roll result, reroll, any number
• 28:14
  of damage, dice wild, by the
• 28:16
  way, or you can hit an additional target
• 28:19
  within range with the spell.
• 28:21
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 28:21
  >> Speaker C: so those are all actually pretty cool. But speaking of
• 28:24
  benders and brews, what I want to go with is the
• 28:27
  elemental origin. Which is your elemental origin lets
• 28:30
  you manipulate and shape a certain kind of
• 28:33
  element.
• 28:33
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 28:34
  >> Speaker C: You choose one of water, fire, air, lightning, or
• 28:37
  earth.
• 28:37
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 28:38
  >> Speaker C: and you can channel this element into unique, harmless
• 28:40
  effects. Or, you may
• 28:43
  also spend a hope, to
• 28:45
  describe how your control over this
• 28:48
  element helps the current action
• 28:51
  and either add plus two to the action
• 28:53
  roll, before making it, or plus three
• 28:56
  to the damage after to.
• 28:58
  >> Speaker A: Help make sure you hit or to add some
• 29:00
  to you.
• 29:02
  >> Speaker C: Either make sure you hit or you hit harder.
• 29:04
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 29:04
  >> Speaker C: Which is nice. And I think I would like to
• 29:07
  be an earth sorcerer.
• 29:08
  >> Speaker A: Nice. Okay, so we got an earthbender, kind
• 29:11
  of. Listen, very cool.
• 29:13
  >> Speaker C: I've got them square hands,
• 29:17
  every avatar, the last airbender. They're
• 29:20
  like, what bender are you by
• 29:22
  your hand? shape. And I'm like, earthbender,
• 29:25
  earthbender, earth.
• 29:26
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 29:30
  >> Speaker C: I don't know, it's all I see on the.
• 29:32
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, so you got like these, earth kind of
• 29:35
  abilities and powers, very centered within
• 29:38
  the element, which I think is really cool. Like very avatar,
• 29:41
  the last airbender, but still nonetheless, very
• 29:43
  cool.
• 29:44
  >> Speaker C: It's interesting that it says you can channel this element into a
• 29:47
  unique, harmless effect. So
• 29:49
  that just kind of leads you into, ah, some,
• 29:52
  storytelling while you're playing.
• 29:54
  >> Speaker A: Absolutely.
• 29:54
  >> Speaker C: Oh, I'm going to make this little earth goblin to
• 29:57
  go build a fire, a little earth golem
• 30:00
  over here.
• 30:01
  >> Speaker A: Very sort, of like a prestige digitation or
• 30:04
  thermodogy where it's kind of those harmless little effects, but
• 30:07
  very specifically geared towards
• 30:09
  earth control.
• 30:10
  >> Speaker C: And you don't necessarily need to worry about spending a spell
• 30:13
  slot.
• 30:13
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, and that's also nice.
• 30:15
  >> Speaker C: and here it's called hope.
• 30:19
  Use, ah, hope to help an ally
• 30:22
  or an experience.
• 30:24
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 30:25
  >> Speaker C: Which all are kind of strange words to me at the moment. I'm not an
• 30:28
  entire.
• 30:28
  >> Speaker A: We'll figure those out along the way. Exactly
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  And then, Dave, you're over here with your rogue.
• 31:45
  Which subclass did you feel a calling
• 31:48
  towards?
• 31:49
  >> Speaker B: Right.
• 31:49
  >> Speaker D: So I had a couple options for rogue, night
• 31:52
  Walker and syndicate. So night Walker is
• 31:55
  jumping through the shadows, kind of
• 31:57
  disappearing. and syndicate is
• 32:00
  like who? You know,
• 32:03
  like, if you enter a town, it says, well, this is one
• 32:06
  I'm picking, so I'll read that. Okay. When you arrive
• 32:09
  in a heavily populated town or city, you know
• 32:12
  somebody that calls this place home, give them a
• 32:15
  name. Note how you think they could be useful and choose
• 32:18
  one from the list below. And there's like options
• 32:21
  like they owe you a favor or you left on
• 32:23
  bad terms. because that could be an
• 32:26
  interesting option to create story, enhance
• 32:29
  it for yourself personally. Work with the DM
• 32:32
  to build the world a little bit.
• 32:34
  >> Speaker C: Everywhere I go, somebody owes me a favor.
• 32:38
  >> Speaker D: Everywhere I go, somebody owes me money.
• 32:40
  >> Speaker C: Remember that time I gave you my left sock
• 32:43
  repair?
• 32:45
  >> Speaker B: Both. And the mobile
• 32:48
  interest.
• 32:50
  >> Speaker A: Very cool. So you're the guy that always knows
• 32:53
  somebody. He's always got a guy. You guys walk
• 32:56
  into a town, you're like, oh, man, we broke our
• 32:58
  cartwheel. You're like, I know a cart repair
• 33:01
  guy.
• 33:02
  >> Speaker C: It's just turning into pond stars.
• 33:05
  Let me call an expert.
• 33:06
  >> Speaker B: That's true.
• 33:07
  >> Speaker D: But it does say heavily populated. I
• 33:10
  suppose it's not every little podunk,
• 33:13
  right?
• 33:13
  >> Speaker B: More cities like, oh, yes, I know.
• 33:16
  >> Speaker D: The magical item salesman. He owes me a
• 33:19
  favor.
• 33:21
  >> Speaker A: In the middle of small town, there's.
• 33:23
  >> Speaker B: Like, eight people that live here.
• 33:29
  >> Speaker A: Very cool. Very cool. I love it. I think that's a really cool, sort
• 33:32
  of. And that's the thing with rogues. The diversity within
• 33:35
  rogue in and of itself is just so massive. Right.
• 33:37
  Like I said before, I mean, you got everything from your kind of, like,
• 33:40
  ninja or assassin or thief or
• 33:43
  pirate. I mean, all of that kind of stuff gets encompassed in here, so
• 33:46
  it is really hard to just sort of narrow
• 33:49
  things down along the way, without getting too
• 33:52
  specific or something like that. The
• 33:54
  character creation opportunities are pretty
• 33:57
  unlimited, and so I think this is a good way to keep
• 34:00
  things broad while also kind of helping you specialized in
• 34:02
  a specific area, so. Very cool. Very cool. Awesome.
• 34:06
  We'll move on to number three. Number three is you're
• 34:08
  choosing your heritage, and heritage comes in two parts. So you have
• 34:11
  your ancestry, which is sort of like your
• 34:14
  race or your species, and then you're going to have
• 34:17
  your community, which is kind of like where you
• 34:20
  came from. Right. Sort of. how did
• 34:22
  your upbringing affect
• 34:26
  what you kind of became or turned into or how your
• 34:29
  character kind of developed into whatever it is? Right.
• 34:31
  So looking at races,
• 34:34
  or the ancestries, as they call them, anything
• 34:37
  you could think of within dungeons and dragons is probably
• 34:40
  in here, plus some extras. You've got clanks. Those
• 34:43
  are like your, war forged, and those are pretty sick
• 34:46
  daemons. It's, demon with an a in it. it's
• 34:49
  kind of like your tie flings. You've got
• 34:51
  dracona, which is like your dragonborns, right? You
• 34:54
  got all those. A couple that I noticed that are really cool. So
• 34:57
  you got fungrill, which is sort of like a fungus.
• 35:00
  Say fun girl. Yeah, it's a fun girl.
• 35:03
  >> Speaker B: You can play a fun girl.
• 35:06
  >> Speaker A: Fungal, which is sort of like a mushroom
• 35:09
  species. you've got. Let's see what else is
• 35:12
  in here. Okay. You've got
• 35:14
  katari, which is sort of like a
• 35:17
  kitsune esque sort of fox
• 35:20
  person or cat person. it does
• 35:22
  specifically say feline, but I think you could probably
• 35:25
  fit kind of more of a fox, a lupine,
• 35:28
  something to do like a dog person. If you could even do a
• 35:31
  dog person.
• 35:31
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, this is your.
• 35:33
  >> Speaker A: This is exactly. I think there's a lot of
• 35:36
  options in there that you could kind of create yourself.
• 35:39
  Samaya, I think, is how you pronounce that, which is like a
• 35:41
  monkey person, which I think is really
• 35:44
  cool. you've got a ribbon, which is a frog person. So
• 35:47
  they definitely took some cool animal concepts and they threw them in
• 35:49
  there. And the cool thing about the racial or
• 35:52
  these ancestry options is that there really
• 35:55
  isn't a limit to them, honestly. It comes with the name,
• 35:58
  the description, and one feat
• 36:01
  or trait or whatever. Right. It's not like within
• 36:04
  dnd where your, stats are going to get an
• 36:07
  increase in a specific way. You're going to get, like, three to
• 36:10
  five different traits. It's going to tell you about your age
• 36:12
  options. It's going to tell you about all these other factors. It's
• 36:15
  very simple. So it really opens the entire,
• 36:19
  an insane, huge world up to making some
• 36:22
  homebrew ancestries. It's like the easiest thing in
• 36:25
  the world. But, with that being said, we're going to try to stick
• 36:28
  with the, ancestry options that are afforded to us currently
• 36:31
  with what, daggerheart gave us.
• 36:34
  So starting with,
• 36:37
  did you, what did you decide to pick?
• 36:39
  >> Speaker D: So I went with the ribbit. So
• 36:42
  let me say my character idea
• 36:44
  is kind of inspired by
• 36:47
  Kiro from one piece. That's
• 36:50
  kind of popular. See, maybe some of you have seen that
• 36:53
  the, live action. So Kiro is the pirate
• 36:56
  captain, the former captain of the black cat
• 36:59
  pirates, who is now a butler
• 37:01
  or servant at the
• 37:04
  rich girl's house.
• 37:06
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 37:06
  >> Speaker D: So my idea for this rogue was that he
• 37:09
  would be, Perhaps he has a past, like in some
• 37:12
  of the syndicate connections. Maybe he was part of a larger
• 37:15
  organization at one point, but now he
• 37:18
  has just been going from town to town or large
• 37:21
  city to large city and tricking
• 37:25
  rich, families to hire him as a servant
• 37:28
  and then eventually stealing from them and skipping
• 37:31
  town.
• 37:31
  >> Speaker A: Nice. I like it. And I like that you have kind of like a
• 37:34
  character example that we all. I feel like a lot of people would know. I
• 37:37
  know. I definitely remember him.
• 37:39
  >> Speaker D: Right. so, Ribbit, why did I
• 37:42
  pick a frog person? Well, I guess I'm thinking a
• 37:45
  little bit of over the garden
• 37:47
  wall. There you go.
• 37:50
  One of our favorite episodes of that show was the
• 37:53
  frog episode, the Frog boat.
• 37:55
  But there were frog butlers,
• 37:59
  and that's kind of what I'm thinking of.
• 38:00
  >> Speaker A: And the president.
• 38:01
  >> Speaker B: They met the president, too. That's right. They met
• 38:04
  the president.
• 38:05
  >> Speaker A: So interesting thing about the ribbon.
• 38:09
  So it literally is a frog person, for all intents
• 38:12
  and purposes. And then, Dave, you get two, sort of,
• 38:15
  ancestry abilities that kind of come with it.
• 38:17
  >> Speaker D: These seem very, Yeah, two
• 38:20
  abilities where some of these appears, they only have one.
• 38:23
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 38:23
  >> Speaker D: amphibious is the first. You can breathe and move
• 38:26
  underwater just as easily on land.
• 38:29
  >> Speaker A: Awesome.
• 38:29
  >> Speaker D: And then the other one seems pretty fun. Long tongue.
• 38:33
  You can use your long, powerful tongue to grab onto things
• 38:36
  close to you. You may also mark stress to unleash
• 38:39
  it as a close weapon that does d twelve
• 38:42
  physical damage.
• 38:43
  >> Speaker A: And I just want to emphasize on this, and technically speaking, when it comes
• 38:46
  to dice rolls, rolling a d twelve isn't
• 38:49
  always that much better than rolling, say, a
• 38:52
  d eight plus a modifier. Right. Because
• 38:55
  you could still roll low on the d twelve. But I do want to
• 38:57
  mention the fact that looking at some of the weapons in
• 39:00
  here, usually the standard is d eight.
• 39:03
  And then there's a few of them that do d ten s.
• 39:06
  And there's one weapon, a Warhammer
• 39:09
  does a d twelve. So to think that your tongue
• 39:12
  is capable of basically being on par with a
• 39:14
  warhammer is hilarious.
• 39:18
  >> Speaker C: It's just a fist in your mouth.
• 39:20
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And I'm just
• 39:22
  imagining, for the normal usage of it, you're just
• 39:25
  pulling the, like, jar jar Binks, using his tongue to pick up
• 39:28
  the little fruits at the table. And somebody in your party's
• 39:31
  just getting really annoyed with you.
• 39:34
  Cameron, tell me about your ancestry that you picked
• 39:37
  for your ranger.
• 39:39
  >> Speaker B: Like Dave.
• 39:40
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 39:42
  >> Speaker B: I immediately came up with a concept for my character
• 39:44
  immediately after I picked beastbound with my
• 39:48
  companion. I'm like, what do I want a companion to
• 39:50
  be? And I immediately thought, I think it'd be
• 39:53
  so funny if I did a retelling of
• 39:57
  curious George
• 40:00
  where I was this happy go lucky
• 40:03
  dude who just was wandering in the forest one
• 40:06
  day, and this monkey came out of nowhere and was
• 40:09
  just like, yo, I'm your friend now, and I'm not going to ever leave your side. And I'm
• 40:12
  just like, I don't want you to be here. But he kept
• 40:14
  following me, and now.
• 40:16
  >> Speaker A: And Jack Johnson music kept upside
• 40:19
  down.
• 40:19
  >> Speaker B: Started playing, like, okay. So years later, I'm still stuck with this guy. So
• 40:22
  I thought, what would be the perfect
• 40:24
  ancestry race to go with this? And I
• 40:27
  am shifting. It's not a monkey,
• 40:30
  okay? Rather, my little guy, a,
• 40:32
  halfling, was going out on a halfling
• 40:35
  adventure, and he was making himself a bowl of
• 40:37
  stew. And while eating said stew,
• 40:40
  he turns and sees a giant orange orangutan
• 40:43
  just standing next to him and just
• 40:46
  going. And he's like, what do I
• 40:49
  do? So he just kind of holds out his bowl for the orangutan,
• 40:52
  and the orangutan grabs the bowl and drinks it and then holds
• 40:55
  it out for him. And he kind of just kept refilling it. 2nd,
• 40:58
  third, and, well, seven years later,
• 41:01
  him and his orangutan have been going on cross
• 41:04
  whirlwind adventures. Because the community I also picked was wanderer
• 41:07
  born.
• 41:07
  >> Speaker A: Oh, okay.
• 41:08
  >> Speaker B: My guy, he was born into a nomadic, halfling
• 41:11
  tribe that always kind of traveled around and
• 41:13
  for his reason why, we can get into
• 41:16
  that in later backstory stuff. But he went out on his
• 41:19
  own because he's more of a loner kind of
• 41:22
  personality. And through traveling alone, he
• 41:25
  ran into his orangutan friend. And this is where he
• 41:28
  is now. So he is an ancestry halfling with the community
• 41:31
  of Wanderborn. And now I'm going to read them just so the audience.
• 41:34
  Yeah, halflings. Very similar to d d,
• 41:37
  though. little lucky. At the beginning of each session, give everyone
• 41:39
  in your party a hope.
• 41:41
  >> Speaker A: Whoa, that's pretty big.
• 41:42
  >> Speaker C: Wow.
• 41:43
  >> Speaker B: And then you may always reroll a one on a
• 41:46
  hope die if you do, take the new result instead.
• 41:49
  So you always reroll one. So a halfling cannot roll one
• 41:52
  on a hope roll pretty big.
• 41:54
  >> Speaker A: So kind of similar to the luck feat.
• 41:56
  >> Speaker B: Very similar.
• 41:56
  >> Speaker A: But dungeons and dragons, I would say.
• 41:58
  >> Speaker B: Stronger because that's only on a D 20.
• 42:01
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 42:02
  >> Speaker B: And you only, get it once. And if you happen to roll back to back ones, well,
• 42:05
  you're stuck with it this time. It says you always are rerolling if it's a
• 42:08
  one.
• 42:08
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 42:09
  >> Speaker B: And it's a d twelve, so the chances of one is
• 42:11
  a lot higher. So that's pretty good, right? As for
• 42:14
  Wandererborn, it says a nomadic pack. So I have a nomadic
• 42:17
  pack to add to my inventory. And then once per session, I
• 42:20
  may spend a hope to just reach into my pack and pull out
• 42:23
  any common item that I think is just the perfect
• 42:26
  thing for the situation. As long as it's not too crazy.
• 42:29
  The Gm m approves of it. So I think
• 42:32
  it really fits with my character is like this halfling literally
• 42:35
  just wandered around everywhere and just happened to have the perfect
• 42:38
  thing to make an orangutan best friend.
• 42:40
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 42:40
  >> Speaker C: I pull a hot bowl of soup.
• 42:42
  >> Speaker B: Out of my back, just magically keeps
• 42:45
  pulling bananas out. This is the
• 42:48
  best guy I've ever met.
• 42:50
  I can imagine the orangutan walking behind my
• 42:53
  guy and just pulling stuff out of my.
• 42:59
  >> Speaker A: I freaking love the idea that, I mean, it's a half leg. So this
• 43:02
  orangutan is very probably bigger.
• 43:05
  >> Speaker B: He's like three sizes bigger than.
• 43:07
  >> Speaker A: So it's like little dude with big best friend.
• 43:10
  Kind of big dude.
• 43:13
  Exactly. Yeah. Ah.
• 43:14
  >> Speaker B: A reverse it would
• 43:16
  be the flip. Oh, this is my little
• 43:19
  body.
• 43:22
  >> Speaker A: I love it. I love this character idea so much. This
• 43:25
  is fantastic. Dave, did you want to mention
• 43:27
  which, community?
• 43:29
  >> Speaker D: Yep. I think it only makes sense to go with
• 43:32
  the wild born community. so, I mean, it
• 43:35
  says you're part of a wild
• 43:38
  born community. Means you were raised by a clan deep within
• 43:41
  the forest. So maybe like a tree frog
• 43:43
  type thing.
• 43:44
  >> Speaker A: Oh, cool. I don't know.
• 43:46
  >> Speaker D: but the ability also goes well with a rogue
• 43:49
  class. Its ability is lightfoot. Your
• 43:51
  movement is naturally silent. Take advantage on
• 43:54
  any action roles you have. You make to move
• 43:57
  without being heard. You could spend a hope
• 44:00
  to also grant this ability to an ally
• 44:03
  in very close range of you.
• 44:05
  >> Speaker A: So you teach them the dune
• 44:07
  Arrakis walk thing.
• 44:11
  This is how you don't summon, not worms. I mean, maybe
• 44:14
  it could be, but in this case, it's, just like maybe
• 44:17
  people or try not alert anybody. So very cool. Okay,
• 44:20
  cool. So raised in the forest, kind of very, like,
• 44:22
  elvish kind of a feel. And
• 44:25
  then, having kind of that silent
• 44:28
  nature that you've developed over jumping through the
• 44:30
  trees and running through the bush and all that kind of stuff.
• 44:33
  So very cool. Awesome. All right. And then Jackson,
• 44:36
  jumping back to this sorcerer that you're putting
• 44:40
  always when I.
• 44:41
  >> Speaker C: When I build a character in d d, I always kind of think
• 44:43
  of, I almost think
• 44:46
  of my past experiences with the game, and I'm like,
• 44:49
  man, I kind of always want a jack
• 44:52
  of all trades, master of none.
• 44:53
  >> Speaker A: Nice. Okay.
• 44:54
  >> Speaker C: better than a master of one type of character.
• 44:57
  >> Speaker A: Sure.
• 44:57
  >> Speaker C: And so, for the sorcerer, I took,
• 45:00
  the orc ancestry. So the
• 45:02
  orc, race, which the description
• 45:05
  is orcs, are mostly recognizable as humanoids
• 45:08
  with square features and boar like tusks.
• 45:10
  >> Speaker A: Now it comes back to those square features you were talking about.
• 45:13
  >> Speaker C: They're already the perfect.
• 45:15
  >> Speaker A: That's perfect.
• 45:16
  >> Speaker C: and another thing that kind of
• 45:19
  ties in with that earthbender. You could flip this in
• 45:22
  a story way that I'll explain in a second. but
• 45:24
  their kind, of skill
• 45:27
  is called sturdy. And m it's
• 45:30
  whenever you should mark an armor slot, roll
• 45:33
  a d six, and on a five or more. So
• 45:36
  five or six, I don't imagine you'd add anything that. So on a five
• 45:39
  or six, you don't mark the armor slot,
• 45:42
  but still reduce the incoming damage by your
• 45:45
  armor score.
• 45:46
  >> Speaker A: Okay, interesting.
• 45:46
  >> Speaker C: Rather than my armor, I assume the armor slots are
• 45:49
  your armor taking damage. Yeah. and so
• 45:52
  rather than that happening, I'm just using
• 45:55
  my toughness or my
• 45:59
  rock like features,
• 46:01
  I summoned a rock armor to
• 46:04
  myself to kind of take the hit damage instead.
• 46:07
  >> Speaker A: Awesome.
• 46:07
  >> Speaker C: and being a sorcerer,
• 46:09
  my character is coming
• 46:12
  from the underborn community.
• 46:14
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 46:14
  >> Speaker C: and being part of an underborn community means that you are
• 46:17
  from the subterranean society.
• 46:20
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 46:21
  >> Speaker C: and they say it's
• 46:23
  typically, like,
• 46:25
  darker places, no real
• 46:28
  light areas. So they get low light living.
• 46:31
  And so when you're in an area with low light or heavy
• 46:34
  shadow, you, have advantage on roles to
• 46:37
  hide, investigate, or perceive detail.
• 46:39
  >> Speaker A: Oh, you're the dark vision guy.
• 46:46
  >> Speaker C: It's interesting because rather than just getting dark
• 46:49
  vision, you just have
• 46:52
  advantage on roles. and I thought
• 46:55
  it was interesting that it was on roles to hide.
• 46:58
  I don't know.
• 46:59
  >> Speaker A: He's a sneaky dude.
• 47:01
  >> Speaker C: Different than, dark vision in a way.
• 47:04
  >> Speaker A: Yeah. A little bit more to it than just I can kind of
• 47:06
  see well in the dark. You can see well and you can
• 47:09
  hide well. Kind of a roundabout. I grew up in
• 47:12
  a place that's just constant dark and shadows. Right.
• 47:15
  There are things that come with that for sure. So awesome. Very
• 47:18
  cool. All right, so next up on the
• 47:21
  list, so we would do the traits. I don't think it really
• 47:24
  makes too much sense to go through these because, again,
• 47:27
  you can say that. I would say let's highlight the
• 47:30
  plus two and the minus one. So everything else
• 47:32
  is pretty, like plus one plus zero.
• 47:35
  It's not like a huge amount, but for whatever you guys
• 47:38
  chose, as far as your plus two, which will be kind of your
• 47:41
  primary highest stat, and then your minus one, something that you feel like
• 47:44
  your character wouldn't really focus too much on.
• 47:47
  Dave?
• 47:48
  >> Speaker D: I was probably just going to go with the suggested
• 47:51
  traits for the rogue. plus one to
• 47:53
  agility. So sprinting, leaping,
• 47:56
  maneuvering. minus one to
• 47:58
  strength, lift, smash, grapple.
• 48:01
  Plus two to finesse, control, hide,
• 48:04
  tinker. Zero to
• 48:06
  instinct, perceiving, sensing,
• 48:08
  navigating. Plus one to presence, charm,
• 48:11
  perform, deceive, and zero to knowledge,
• 48:14
  recall, analyze, comprehend.
• 48:16
  >> Speaker A: Perfect. Yeah, I think that fits that character.
• 48:19
  Well, I was figuring you were going to take that plus one to presence
• 48:22
  because I feel like that really fit your character's whole,
• 48:25
  I know somebody in, know that kind of sort
• 48:28
  of thing, and then, like, the sort of butler esque kind
• 48:30
  of side of things, so I like it. All
• 48:33
  right, perfect. Cameron, you got your
• 48:36
  idea on at least your plus two and your minus.
• 48:40
  >> Speaker B: Yeah, I'm doing it right now, but I'm filling it. I was like,
• 48:43
  oh, but trying to think of what my character is. And I'm very
• 48:46
  much calling back to, like, curious
• 48:49
  George, man with the old hat. I'm in the half.
• 48:54
  I. As I said, it's been, like, seven years I've been with the Zorang tank,
• 48:57
  and it's very much like we've learned each other's strengths and
• 48:59
  weaknesses.
• 49:00
  >> Speaker A: right.
• 49:00
  >> Speaker B: My guy's biggest weakness is, well, strength.
• 49:04
  He is a teeny, tiny, weak little
• 49:06
  halfling. But the ring tang will just sometimes just
• 49:09
  pick him up and put him on his shoulders and just carry him across the
• 49:12
  country and stuff. But where he comes in the hand
• 49:15
  is instinct, and his instinct is his perceived sense and
• 49:18
  navigate.
• 49:18
  >> Speaker A: Very good.
• 49:19
  >> Speaker B: And as a nomadic ranger, I feel like he'd be amazing
• 49:22
  at that.
• 49:22
  >> Speaker A: Just make sense.
• 49:23
  >> Speaker B: He is just designed for tracking, exploring.
• 49:26
  Probably good at berry collecting and finding food.
• 49:28
  As we all know, halflings are great at making food out of
• 49:31
  anything.
• 49:32
  >> Speaker A: That's right.
• 49:32
  >> Speaker B: Natural mushrooms. Exactly. I'm going to put one
• 49:35
  in agility, though, plus one in agility, because that feels. It fits
• 49:38
  for the ranger class, on top of the fact that he's kind of
• 49:41
  probably had to get out some tight spots and stuff, and he's a quick little
• 49:44
  halfling. and then it would be another
• 49:47
  plus one and two zeros. I'm going to say zero, probably for presence,
• 49:50
  probably because he's lived away from no one, so no presence there.
• 49:53
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 49:53
  >> Speaker B: and then his finesse, I'm probably going to say that's his other
• 49:56
  zero, just because
• 49:59
  he's never really needed much finesse. But, knowledge, I
• 50:02
  think, is his last plus one, just because that's all analyze,
• 50:05
  comprehend. That's just the stuff he's learned.
• 50:07
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 50:07
  >> Speaker B: He probably read a lot of books on his time. Just takes books
• 50:10
  and reads in his free time and stuff, and
• 50:13
  probably has now had to read up a lot on
• 50:15
  orangutans just to learn more about them. So
• 50:18
  when he's passing from town to town on his journeys, he probably sees
• 50:21
  if they have any books, and he swaps books with them.
• 50:23
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 50:23
  >> Speaker B: I'll trade you a book for one of yours and something like that.
• 50:26
  >> Speaker A: I like to think the first book that he went through for the orangutan thing was
• 50:29
  like, what are they allowed to eat and what would be poisonous to
• 50:32
  orangutan? So I don't accidentally.
• 50:34
  >> Speaker B: And the first one just said, under no conditions.
• 50:37
  Feed them. Stew.
• 50:46
  >> Speaker A: Awesome. All right. And then, let's see, Jackson,
• 50:49
  you've got your stats for your sorcerer.
• 50:51
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, I also kind of just went with the suggested
• 50:54
  stats. highlighting the plus two being
• 50:57
  instinct, and the minus one being strength.
• 51:00
  Yes. I, feel like, as a sorcerer,
• 51:02
  these make sense, because as it says
• 51:05
  in the description, you were formed and shaped by the will of
• 51:08
  Arcana. And, that being said, a sorcerer
• 51:11
  probably uses Arcana to solve most
• 51:14
  of their problems.
• 51:15
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 51:15
  >> Speaker C: And so never really the need for
• 51:18
  strength, but always has kind of a
• 51:21
  proficiency when it comes to navigation
• 51:23
  or sense or
• 51:26
  perception. okay.
• 51:28
  >> Speaker A: And I was going to say, my one concern would be, is that I think everybody
• 51:31
  here took a minus one to strength. so, yeah, that'll be
• 51:33
  interesting.
• 51:34
  >> Speaker B: We need a fourth member to our party.
• 51:37
  Hang on. You have an orangutan.
• 51:42
  >> Speaker A: Jackson, for your character. I kind of thought, like, given the kind
• 51:45
  of earthbender or, the orc kind of
• 51:48
  background, I feel like most people's first thought would be, oh, yeah, it
• 51:51
  makes sense that he'd be the plus two strength. But I like what you said,
• 51:53
  which is I've never had to rely on strength before. I
• 51:56
  rely on my magic to do the strength for me.
• 51:59
  >> Speaker C: So if Skyrim ever taught
• 52:01
  me anything is that orcs are very
• 52:04
  diverse people, it's not fair to be
• 52:07
  racist to them.
• 52:09
  >> Speaker A: Yes. Try to pigeonhole them into
• 52:11
  warrior type.
• 52:12
  >> Speaker C: They are all different types of people. We are
• 52:15
  beyond our stereotypes.
• 52:16
  >> Speaker A: Exactly. I appreciate that. And so do the
• 52:19
  orcs.
• 52:20
  >> Speaker B: Orc players.
• 52:21
  >> Speaker A: Yes. Awesome. So number five in the
• 52:24
  process is set your threshold and hope. so
• 52:26
  basically, this is about your damage threshold. We're not going to go
• 52:29
  over this because this kind of delves into the more,
• 52:32
  like, stat base and rules that we don't technically have just
• 52:35
  yet. Basically, the way that that is is you have your damage
• 52:38
  thresholds and there are different levels of
• 52:41
  that. So you've got minor, major, severe damage,
• 52:44
  and then you have your HP. And so, as
• 52:47
  I understand, taking minor damage is going to
• 52:49
  deal different amounts to your HP
• 52:52
  versus major damage. Right. You're going to have, like, oh, some dude
• 52:55
  punched you versus you just broke your arm
• 52:58
  or you just got stabbed in the chest. Those
• 53:01
  are going to be different levels of how bad this damage was.
• 53:04
  Right. but again, we don't have a whole lot of information on
• 53:07
  what the rules are on that, so we're going to kind of skip over those
• 53:09
  for now and then. Otherwise, you have your hope, which we've
• 53:12
  kind of mentioned a couple of times throughout here. Hope
• 53:15
  is kind of like a. I almost want to call
• 53:18
  it when you get inspiration dice. So it's kind of along
• 53:21
  those lines where it's going to benefit you or your
• 53:24
  allies, by using your experiences
• 53:27
  as kind of a storytelling arc to give you
• 53:30
  additional bonuses to your stat rolls.
• 53:32
  Again, something that we don't have a whole lot of information on. So there's not really
• 53:35
  much point in us going over it. But it does say that
• 53:38
  regardless, you, take two plus hope at the
• 53:41
  start of your campaign. so
• 53:44
  there's that starting weapon. if everybody
• 53:47
  has just kind of a general idea, there are some
• 53:50
  listed in the equipment, but pretty much anything that you can come
• 53:53
  up with if you feel like your character would have just kind of
• 53:56
  a really interesting specific weapon,
• 53:59
  what would they have basically got
• 54:01
  you?
• 54:04
  >> Speaker C: the pages suggested weapon is a dual
• 54:07
  staff.
• 54:07
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 54:08
  >> Speaker C: however, I was thinking more
• 54:11
  along the lines of a
• 54:14
  spear whose
• 54:17
  head of the spear is more of, a
• 54:20
  sharpened gem in a way. So more is
• 54:23
  like an arcane focus in a way.
• 54:25
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 54:26
  >> Speaker C: But also a weapon.
• 54:27
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, I like it. That's cool. That's cool. Dave, what
• 54:30
  would your, rogue be running around with in his
• 54:33
  froggy tendency?
• 54:36
  >> Speaker D: Frog hands. so
• 54:39
  he'd probably go with just the basic knife.
• 54:42
  Concealable.
• 54:45
  looks like the rogue still gets that sneak
• 54:48
  attack or melee attacks.
• 54:51
  So, that would benefit that. I don't know if this exists,
• 54:54
  but if I had another option for a starting weapon, it
• 54:57
  would be fun to have like a dart gun.
• 54:59
  >> Speaker A: Nice.
• 55:01
  >> Speaker D: If I'm going with like, I'm from a tree frog
• 55:04
  community, maybe I have a
• 55:06
  poison gland somewhere on my body.
• 55:09
  >> Speaker A: That's cool. You're able to kind of
• 55:11
  refill. You don't really need, like, you could pick up any little pointy,
• 55:14
  whatever that fits inside your dart gun, but you poison it
• 55:17
  yourself and then you shoot it. That'd be cool. I
• 55:20
  like it. Awesome. And then, Cameron,
• 55:23
  with your ranger, what is he wielding? What's he running
• 55:26
  around with?
• 55:28
  >> Speaker B: Can I dual wield?
• 55:29
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, I think you to.
• 55:31
  >> Speaker B: Well, as long as the weapon can be dual wield.
• 55:34
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 55:34
  >> Speaker B: I have two weapons of choice.
• 55:36
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 55:37
  >> Speaker B: one is what? It's my walking stick.
• 55:40
  >> Speaker A: Nice.
• 55:40
  >> Speaker B: I just always have on me. But if I know I'm going into combat, I'm going
• 55:43
  to stash that walking stick and pull out the big guns. My
• 55:46
  frying pan.
• 55:47
  >> Speaker A: Nice. I like it. I think we
• 55:50
  could probably homebrew the stats for just like a typical
• 55:53
  hammer and probably turn that. It's just going to be a
• 55:55
  blunt.
• 55:56
  >> Speaker B: Both of them are just blunt objects because
• 55:59
  as is very clear with my character, my
• 56:01
  orangutan does most of the heavy lifting for me. And mind you,
• 56:04
  I should have said this, when I was doing my pluses and
• 56:07
  stuff. those stats, my companion
• 56:10
  traits, I read it and it says I get two of them at the start.
• 56:12
  >> Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
• 56:13
  >> Speaker B: Say the two I took for my oring tang was climb
• 56:16
  and strike because I felt like those were the two most obvious
• 56:18
  for an orangutan.
• 56:20
  >> Speaker A: Right?
• 56:22
  >> Speaker B: So he can climb and strike.
• 56:23
  >> Speaker A: I like the idea that he could, because he is a
• 56:26
  primate, he could pick up a weapon if he wanted
• 56:29
  to and use it.
• 56:31
  >> Speaker B: Probably be more proficient than I would be with a weapon.
• 56:34
  You're like, oh, there's a long sword there. here you
• 56:37
  go. Just hand it off to him.
• 56:39
  >> Speaker A: He just wants the frying pan.
• 56:41
  >> Speaker B: You're like, no, my frying pan.
• 56:44
  He's trying to grab my ladle,
• 56:47
  not because he wants to fight with it, but because he wants more
• 56:49
  stew.
• 56:51
  >> Speaker A: Don't dirty my ladle, man. Awesome.
• 56:54
  Very cool. And then next up would be armor. So I'm just going to go
• 56:57
  through, because armor is pretty
• 56:59
  straightforward. You just have leather armor, you have
• 57:02
  breastplate armor, you have chain mail armor, and you have full play
• 57:05
  armor. And they all kind of either grant
• 57:08
  some sort of ability or just have a general armor score.
• 57:11
  It's very simple. So light armor is going to give you an armor score of
• 57:14
  three, but it also gives you a plus one to
• 57:16
  evasion because it is light. Breastplate
• 57:19
  armor doesn't give you any special abilities or anything like that. Gives you
• 57:22
  a five armor score. Chainmail armor, a,
• 57:25
  seven. But it's heavy, so it's actually going to subtract one from
• 57:28
  your evasion and then full plate armor, which is very
• 57:30
  heavy. It's going to subtract two from your evasion, one from your agility,
• 57:33
  but it gives you an armor score of nine.
• 57:36
  And basically, that's
• 57:39
  pretty much, like, almost spot on for DND. The more
• 57:42
  armor you have, the heavier it is, the more it's going to
• 57:45
  take away from your ability to kind of sneak around and do
• 57:48
  stuff like that. So that's pretty general concept.
• 57:51
  I don't know if we need to really talk about which armor our characters
• 57:54
  take. it's not the end of the world.
• 57:56
  >> Speaker C: You know what I would like to point out, though, on the DND
• 57:59
  five e character sheet, it's a pretty big empty
• 58:02
  box, for weapons. I mean, typically you
• 58:05
  have your little two lines, primary, secondary
• 58:08
  weapon. However,
• 58:11
  here your primary and secondary weapon
• 58:14
  are, very big
• 58:16
  sections of a box, and there's no real room for,
• 58:19
  like, oh, I picked up this weapon over here, I picked
• 58:22
  up this weapon here, and I can just be like, oh, I'm going to equip this
• 58:25
  one out of my bag. You have a primary weapon, a
• 58:28
  secondary weapon, and there's a space for a weapon in your
• 58:30
  inventory.
• 58:31
  >> Speaker A: Exactly. In case you want to switch out.
• 58:33
  >> Speaker C: So you have three weapons, which I
• 58:36
  think incentivizes you. Like, if you stop in a town, you'd
• 58:39
  be like, I put this in my
• 58:41
  backpack, right? I would like to put it in my inventory
• 58:44
  weapon. So I'm going to sell my current
• 58:47
  inventory weapon to kind of balance,
• 58:50
  it out.
• 58:50
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 58:51
  >> Speaker C: Because I would like this at my disposal.
• 58:52
  >> Speaker A: And then you also have the same thing for armor, too. You have a regular
• 58:55
  armor that you have on, and then you have an inventory armor. And I think this is really
• 58:58
  nice in situations where maybe you want to switch to light
• 59:01
  armor because you're sneaking through an area, although, I don't know, somebody could
• 59:04
  make an argument about, like, okay, well, you have the chain
• 59:07
  mail armor, which is normally noisy and
• 59:10
  subtracting from your evasion. Just because it's in your
• 59:12
  backpack doesn't mean it's not making any.
• 59:17
  Right, there you go. Okay, so there'd be a potentially,
• 59:20
  like, good argument for that. But anyways, yeah, so you could
• 59:23
  switch between armors. Of course your armor class is going to go down.
• 59:26
  >> Speaker C: Or change.
• 59:26
  >> Speaker A: Or change, exactly. But it's nice
• 59:29
  to have the ability to quickly jump between those two. So
• 59:32
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  >> Speaker C: I feel like this just gives you more of an
• 1:00:30
  idea of how to be a broader character.
• 1:00:32
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:00:33
  >> Speaker C: the starter guide kind of lays out a
• 1:00:36
  suggested primary weapon, but that list
• 1:00:39
  you showed me of all of the weapons
• 1:00:42
  kind of gave me an idea of a primary weapon and a
• 1:00:45
  secondary weapon and a weapon that I would probably put in my
• 1:00:47
  backpack just as like a kind of catch all.
• 1:00:50
  >> Speaker A: Exactly.
• 1:00:50
  >> Speaker C: Of course, I don't know. We don't really have the rules in front of
• 1:00:53
  us. I don't know what you necessarily start with, but
• 1:00:56
  if I could start by filling out all of those, I probably
• 1:00:59
  would.
• 1:00:59
  >> Speaker A: So what it says in my character creation guide is that you can
• 1:01:02
  have up to two hands worth of
• 1:01:05
  active weapons.
• 1:01:06
  >> Speaker C: Right.
• 1:01:06
  >> Speaker A: So you could have two weapons from the get go. Yeah.
• 1:01:09
  >> Speaker B: Like a stick in a frying pan.
• 1:01:10
  >> Speaker D: What if I have a tongue?
• 1:01:16
  >> Speaker A: He's got a third hand.
• 1:01:19
  >> Speaker B: Whoa, Zoro, I thought you were playing a
• 1:01:22
  different one piece character.
• 1:01:25
  >> Speaker C: I did see that up near the active weapons, there are,
• 1:01:28
  two drawn hands, and that kind of
• 1:01:31
  symbolizes, your hands in play.
• 1:01:33
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:01:34
  >> Speaker C: So my idea of a
• 1:01:36
  spear, kind of. I went ahead and took the stats of a
• 1:01:39
  dual staff anyway.
• 1:01:40
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:01:41
  >> Speaker C: just because it's essentially the same thing, but both of my
• 1:01:44
  hands are occupied, so I cannot have a
• 1:01:47
  secondary weapon in my active weapons box or a
• 1:01:49
  shield. There were
• 1:01:52
  shields in that list. but I could have a
• 1:01:55
  secondary in my inventory. Or if I went to a single
• 1:01:58
  handed weapon, I probably could have three weapons on
• 1:02:01
  my person. In theory.
• 1:02:02
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:02:03
  >> Speaker B: How big my frying pan is, it could double as a shield.
• 1:02:06
  That's true. Have you ever played pub?
• 1:02:08
  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:02:08
  >> Speaker B: I was just thinking, now we're dipping into
• 1:02:10
  orpheus.
• 1:02:12
  >> Speaker D: Pan shot.
• 1:02:13
  >> Speaker B: Pan shot. I'm just covered in pans.
• 1:02:18
  >> Speaker A: So after starting armor, we go to number eight, which is take your
• 1:02:20
  starting inventory. this stuff is all listed underneath your
• 1:02:23
  character. You have different options, and there's also kind
• 1:02:26
  of like, things that you would normally have, kind of your
• 1:02:29
  classic adventures kit. You're going to have torches, rope,
• 1:02:32
  basic supplies, how much gold that you kind of
• 1:02:35
  start off with. And then it gives you a couple of options to kind of choose
• 1:02:38
  between. Again, this is just stuff that you'll look through
• 1:02:42
  with your character. You can kind of choose between, same thing
• 1:02:45
  kind of goes for character description, which is the number nine section on
• 1:02:48
  the character creation. So you're going to have, what kind of clothes
• 1:02:51
  do you typically wear? What do your eyes look like? What kind of build
• 1:02:54
  does your body have? So, on and so forth.
• 1:02:56
  So again, all this kind of stuff that's sort of more
• 1:02:59
  cosmetic, something that you get to choose between. after
• 1:03:02
  that, you have your domain
• 1:03:05
  deck. So that's what I kind of wanted to jump into next. So
• 1:03:08
  more cards that we're going to jump into. And this goes
• 1:03:11
  back to what we talked about kind of near the beginning or kind of
• 1:03:14
  in the class section, it was actually near the end of when we were discussing
• 1:03:17
  classes. Under each class, as we mentioned before, you have two kind
• 1:03:20
  of domains. for instance, the sorcerer, which is
• 1:03:23
  the one I got in front of me, has Arcana and midnight.
• 1:03:25
  So there are three cards for
• 1:03:28
  each, domain, and
• 1:03:30
  they give you all the level ones, which means
• 1:03:33
  they're going to be more later on. Right?
• 1:03:35
  >> Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:03:36
  >> Speaker A: so level one for, like, blade, you have not
• 1:03:39
  good enough. You have retaliation, you have whirlwind. They're all
• 1:03:41
  skills that you get with your character. Now, they also have
• 1:03:44
  a little cost up in the top corner. We don't know
• 1:03:47
  what those are yet. they don't really list it in the
• 1:03:50
  rules that they've given out so far. And that's okay. That's something that we'll
• 1:03:53
  find out later on. But with each of your characters,
• 1:03:56
  you're going to take two cards total from the level
• 1:03:59
  one section of either of those domains.
• 1:04:02
  >> Speaker C: Don't you have other cards to look for? Did you want to try and
• 1:04:05
  mix match?
• 1:04:09
  >> Speaker D: I would pick probably either one of these and then this
• 1:04:12
  one.
• 1:04:12
  >> Speaker C: Oh, got you.
• 1:04:13
  >> Speaker D: You got to pick two.
• 1:04:14
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, two total.
• 1:04:15
  >> Speaker C: One from each or two from the
• 1:04:18
  other one.
• 1:04:19
  >> Speaker A: Really? Yeah. You're not limited to only
• 1:04:21
  Arcana or.
• 1:04:22
  >> Speaker B: Only you have these six traits to.
• 1:04:25
  >> Speaker C: Choose from, which is also kind of cool. I mean, these
• 1:04:28
  are kind of, we don't have a whole lot of rules, but are these kind
• 1:04:31
  of laid, out, like your cantrips and
• 1:04:34
  starting spells?
• 1:04:35
  >> Speaker B: These feel more like when you get a level
• 1:04:37
  up, every class gives you a
• 1:04:40
  level added perk, except if you go more spell casters,
• 1:04:43
  spellcasters typically are just like, sometimes just like
• 1:04:45
  levels. But from what it looks
• 1:04:48
  like, from how I was looking at it, it looks like each
• 1:04:51
  level. At level one, you get like the
• 1:04:54
  fighters get your martial class. At level two,
• 1:04:57
  you can heal.
• 1:04:58
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:04:59
  >> Speaker B: At level three, you get to pick your subclass. It looks like at each
• 1:05:01
  level up, you're basically just adding another perk to your
• 1:05:04
  character.
• 1:05:05
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:05:05
  >> Speaker C: Got you.
• 1:05:06
  >> Speaker A: Which is really cool, because, again, it really opens up the
• 1:05:09
  options to stem out. And you're not limited by whatever subclass
• 1:05:12
  that you choose.
• 1:05:13
  >> Speaker B: And I'm going to assume it's probably going to be like when you get to level two,
• 1:05:16
  you can take one of any level two within your two,
• 1:05:19
  or you can backward, back, go and take, like, another level
• 1:05:22
  one.
• 1:05:22
  >> Speaker A: If you, as far as I know,
• 1:05:25
  there's no dual classing. There might be.
• 1:05:27
  >> Speaker B: So there is multiclass.
• 1:05:28
  >> Speaker A: Is there multiclassing when you're at level.
• 1:05:30
  >> Speaker B: Five and an up, it says choose an additional class for your
• 1:05:33
  character, then cross out. So there is an option.
• 1:05:36
  We don't have these, but there is an option at five up
• 1:05:39
  where you can take an upgraded subclass. So I'm
• 1:05:42
  imagining one of these subclass. These are like my
• 1:05:45
  beastbound cards, Jackson's earth bending or
• 1:05:47
  whatever. They will have a back that upgraded
• 1:05:50
  side. And then you flip it and it goes to that. So this says, instead of
• 1:05:53
  taking that, you can instead multi class. And then you would choose an
• 1:05:56
  additional class for your character and then whatever
• 1:05:59
  that you would literally just take an additional class. So probably an
• 1:06:02
  additional subclass.
• 1:06:03
  >> Speaker A: So very similar to in some of the power by the
• 1:06:05
  apocalypse games. One of the level up options that you
• 1:06:08
  have usually is you can take an ability from another
• 1:06:11
  playbook. So I think it's going to be very similar to that to kind of
• 1:06:14
  just again, even further diversify your
• 1:06:17
  character and kind of the direction he's going in. So, with
• 1:06:20
  that being said, what domain cards did you guys pick? Dave,
• 1:06:23
  I see you got two in front of you. Unless you're still looking.
• 1:06:26
  >> Speaker D: yeah, I picked two. So first one is
• 1:06:29
  one of the grace abilities.
• 1:06:32
  Deft, deceiver. Spend a hope to take
• 1:06:34
  advantage on a role you make to deceive or trick
• 1:06:37
  someone into believing a lie you tell them.
• 1:06:39
  >> Speaker A: Awesome. Which fits your character perfectly.
• 1:06:42
  >> Speaker D: Other one is a midnight
• 1:06:45
  spell.
• 1:06:48
  uncanny disguise.
• 1:06:50
  >> Speaker A: Nice.
• 1:06:50
  >> Speaker D: When you have a few minutes to prepare, you can mark a stress. To don the
• 1:06:53
  facade of any humanoid. You can picture clearly in your
• 1:06:56
  mind while disguised. All presence roles to
• 1:06:59
  avoid scrutiny have advantage. The spell will
• 1:07:02
  begin to fade after 1 hour.
• 1:07:04
  >> Speaker A: Awesome. I like it. So you've got a disguise
• 1:07:06
  and another one to kind of help you with your
• 1:07:09
  deception, your lies, your trickery.
• 1:07:12
  So definitely that very roguish kind of feel
• 1:07:14
  there. I like it. So awesome. We'll go to Cameron.
• 1:07:17
  Cameron, what did you find?
• 1:07:19
  >> Speaker B: So first up, we were talking about the thing on the top, right?
• 1:07:22
  It's got a little lightning bolt thing.
• 1:07:23
  >> Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
• 1:07:24
  >> Speaker B: I'm not sure if it's actually a cost because the card
• 1:07:27
  I took is called nimble. And it says while this card
• 1:07:30
  is in your loadout, add your agility score to your
• 1:07:32
  evasion. That's just a passive.
• 1:07:34
  >> Speaker A: Right, right.
• 1:07:35
  >> Speaker B: But it does have the lightning bolt with the one on the top.
• 1:07:38
  Right. Okay, so if that's not a
• 1:07:41
  cost, it might be like, it adds something to me
• 1:07:43
  for just having this.
• 1:07:45
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 1:07:46
  >> Speaker B: Or it might have a cost to take this card, we don't know that yet, but
• 1:07:49
  I'm just saying that symbol doesn't mean it costs to
• 1:07:51
  do it. Right, because this is just a passive.
• 1:07:54
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:07:55
  >> Speaker B: Okay, I'm just adding that. Anyways, I took that so it fits with
• 1:07:58
  my character. My character is very nimble, very evasive. Right. Just
• 1:08:01
  from his height and stuff.
• 1:08:02
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:08:02
  >> Speaker B: And I would also say partly because they're distracted by the giant
• 1:08:05
  hulking beast to his side, they're probably less
• 1:08:08
  focused on him than the ring and tank.
• 1:08:11
  >> Speaker A: I completely agree.
• 1:08:12
  >> Speaker B: And then the other one, I think
• 1:08:14
  fits so well. it's called
• 1:08:17
  nature's tongue, and it says you can speak the
• 1:08:20
  language of the hidden natural world. And when you want to speak to
• 1:08:23
  the plants and animals around you, I can make an
• 1:08:26
  instinct role. And on a success, they'll give you the information they
• 1:08:29
  know.
• 1:08:29
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:08:30
  >> Speaker B: With fear, the knowledge might be limited or come at a cost. In
• 1:08:32
  addition, whenever you make a spellcast role while in a natural
• 1:08:35
  environment, I may spend hope before making this role to
• 1:08:38
  add one to the result.
• 1:08:39
  >> Speaker A: Nice.
• 1:08:40
  >> Speaker B: I feel like this just comes from seven years of having an
• 1:08:43
  orangutan braving down my neck.
• 1:08:48
  Very similar to rocket the
• 1:08:50
  raccoon and Groot.
• 1:08:54
  He didn't know, Groot. But then from just being in prison
• 1:08:56
  together all those years, he just one day just understood him. And I feel
• 1:08:59
  like that kind of makes sense with the orangutan just being together
• 1:09:02
  for seven straight years, and he won't leave me alone. My
• 1:09:05
  guy just yelled at him one day like, no,
• 1:09:08
  I don't have any more stew. And then he just responded
• 1:09:11
  in perfect English that my guy just understood
• 1:09:13
  orangutan. He's like, oh, no, I don't have
• 1:09:16
  bananas.
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  >> Speaker A: No, stop asking me.
• 1:09:18
  >> Speaker B: Responding to his request. But he's speaking
• 1:09:21
  orangutan the whole time. But he knows exactly what he's saying in
• 1:09:24
  orangutan.
• 1:09:24
  >> Speaker A: And, yeah, ah, stew was the, starter word to help
• 1:09:27
  him a lot of
• 1:09:30
  awesome. awesome. I love it. Jackson, what do you got? What did you come up
• 1:09:33
  with?
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  >> Speaker C: Yeah, so I took two arcana
• 1:09:36
  cards. and this arcana card
• 1:09:39
  might, explain the number in the corner.
• 1:09:42
  I took unleash chaos. And at the beginning
• 1:09:45
  of a session, place a number of tokens
• 1:09:47
  equal to your spellcast trait on this card.
• 1:09:50
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 1:09:51
  >> Speaker C: And if that is the little lightning bolt in the circle, that
• 1:09:54
  would kind of make sense.
• 1:09:55
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 1:09:55
  >> Speaker C: so that would be, like, one token, right. you can make a
• 1:09:58
  spellcast roll against a target within a far
• 1:10:01
  range and send any number of tokens to
• 1:10:04
  channel raw energy from within yourself and
• 1:10:07
  unleash against them on a success,
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  roll a number of d ten equal to the
• 1:10:13
  tokens you spent and do that much
• 1:10:15
  magic damage to the target. Mark a stress
• 1:10:18
  to replenish this card with tokens up to your
• 1:10:21
  spellcast trait.
• 1:10:22
  >> Speaker A: Spellcast trait. Awesome.
• 1:10:24
  >> Speaker C: Clear all tokens at the end of session. and then the other one
• 1:10:27
  I took, was wall walk. And that one
• 1:10:30
  says, spend a hope to allow a creature you can
• 1:10:32
  touch to climb on walls and ceilings as easily
• 1:10:35
  as walking on the ground below. The spell will end
• 1:10:38
  after ten minutes or when, you cast it on another
• 1:10:41
  creature.
• 1:10:42
  >> Speaker A: Okay, awesome. I like it. So once we figure
• 1:10:44
  out how the spell cast traits work, that
• 1:10:47
  unleash chaos could be ridiculously
• 1:10:50
  powerful too.
• 1:10:51
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, it kind of sounded like it because I wonder if
• 1:10:54
  I must need to level up or something to
• 1:10:56
  gain more tokens. But a, d ten
• 1:10:59
  equal to the amount of tokens you spent
• 1:11:02
  could be insane. Amount of damage.
• 1:11:05
  >> Speaker A: Exactly. If you can get like, what, six tokens, you're
• 1:11:07
  basically casting fireball on your enemies and
• 1:11:10
  just blowing things up. I love it. That's going to be
• 1:11:13
  epic. Then you said, for the second
• 1:11:16
  one you picked.
• 1:11:17
  >> Speaker C: Sorry, wall walk.
• 1:11:19
  >> Speaker A: Okay. So then you can do your classic spider climb situation.
• 1:11:22
  Okay. Yeah. Awesome. Very cool. Awesome.
• 1:11:25
  So we've got our domains, we've got our
• 1:11:27
  character stuff. there are the background,
• 1:11:31
  questions. So on each character sheet,
• 1:11:34
  and I like this better than the usual. In
• 1:11:36
  DNd, you have your personality.
• 1:11:39
  Personality, your bonds, your flaws, your
• 1:11:42
  ideals, right? And I know every single time I
• 1:11:44
  make a character sheet, I have to look up, like, examples for, at the
• 1:11:47
  very least, ideals and bonds. Because I'm like, oh,
• 1:11:50
  man, how did those work again?
• 1:11:52
  >> Speaker C: I think, what dnd five e did well, about those,
• 1:11:55
  though, is they gave you a table and a table
• 1:11:58
  of a die that you can roll. And
• 1:12:00
  if you weren't sure, you could go with, like, just
• 1:12:03
  go with bait, which was kind of easy
• 1:12:06
  to do. But the asking you questions does
• 1:12:09
  kind of make you think about it in a different way than, yes.
• 1:12:12
  You would just be like, oh, this
• 1:12:15
  bond was kind of makes sense, I guess.
• 1:12:18
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, no, I completely agree. It's stuff
• 1:12:21
  to kind of help you along the way with sort of fleshing out
• 1:12:24
  your character that I think helps people think a little bit more
• 1:12:27
  because you always have two players, right? You
• 1:12:30
  have the player that fully fleshes out their character and
• 1:12:32
  writes you, like, a four page booklet of their
• 1:12:35
  backstory and why they feel certain ways
• 1:12:38
  about skywars okay, fair enough. It's
• 1:12:41
  usually me. And then you've got the other players that they
• 1:12:44
  come to the session and they're like, oh yeah, I didn't even fill in this stuff. I didn't know I
• 1:12:47
  had to. And you're like, well, who's your character? Who are you playing
• 1:12:50
  me? There you go.
• 1:12:53
  And so this kind of helps simplify the
• 1:12:56
  process. It's literally just a question that
• 1:12:58
  helps you kind of come up with ideas for your character. So for
• 1:13:01
  instance, again, I'm looking at the
• 1:13:04
  sorcerer character, sheets. Like what did
• 1:13:07
  you do that makes the people in your community wary of
• 1:13:09
  you? who finally taught you how to control the magic
• 1:13:12
  bursting forth from you? And why are they no longer able to
• 1:13:15
  guide you? Ah, you have true fear. You
• 1:13:18
  hide from everyone. What is it? And does it scare you? And
• 1:13:21
  then from there you go into step
• 1:13:24
  twelve, which is generating experiences. So every
• 1:13:27
  character is going to have two experiences. And these
• 1:13:30
  stem from those background questions.
• 1:13:33
  as I understand, these experiences can be used
• 1:13:36
  to add stats or add
• 1:13:39
  numbers to your roles if
• 1:13:42
  you roll based on something that's related to that
• 1:13:45
  experience. So jumping back to who was it that trained you?
• 1:13:47
  Right? How did they help you control your magic? Right. You
• 1:13:50
  might talk about this mentor that you had and how they
• 1:13:53
  trained you and stuff like that, and then that would give you a plus one in
• 1:13:56
  theory. from this experience to your
• 1:13:59
  roles, when you're controlling your magic or using your magic, things
• 1:14:02
  along those lines. Right. That's how I understand it.
• 1:14:05
  Again, the rules don't explicitly say it, but
• 1:14:08
  I feel pretty confident, that that's how it
• 1:14:11
  works. And then as far as that plus or addition
• 1:14:14
  to your, experience, you're going to do one at plus
• 1:14:17
  two and one of them at plus one as far
• 1:14:20
  as how they benefit you.
• 1:14:22
  pretty cool concept, Jackson. for
• 1:14:25
  your background questions, you don't have to have an answer to them,
• 1:14:28
  but just if you do, go for it. But otherwise, what do you
• 1:14:31
  have for your background questions on your,
• 1:14:34
  I almost wanted to say ranger source. Well, you have the swords
• 1:14:37
  I just read through.
• 1:14:37
  >> Speaker C: You were just reading. Okay, so, I mean, by all means,
• 1:14:40
  yeah.
• 1:14:42
  >> Speaker A: if you want to go for it or if you feel like you have answers. I
• 1:14:45
  know I'm kind of like jumping.
• 1:14:46
  >> Speaker C: On, know, I can think of some quick
• 1:14:49
  answers at the moment. when it comes to
• 1:14:52
  what did you do to make people in the community weary of you?
• 1:14:55
  I think is an interesting question because I'm
• 1:14:58
  kind of also thinking of sorcerer as warlock in a way
• 1:15:01
  where, although I was shaped by Arcana,
• 1:15:04
  where warlock was granted
• 1:15:06
  by an evil wish, being
• 1:15:09
  usually right, I think that, being shaped
• 1:15:12
  by Arcana and choosing unleash chaos, it would
• 1:15:15
  make sense, for at some point in
• 1:15:18
  my life, unleash chaos just kind
• 1:15:20
  of came from me in, like, a fit of anger
• 1:15:23
  or something, and maybe I killed somebody as
• 1:15:26
  a young person, and now they're like, oh,
• 1:15:29
  man, that guy's dangerous. Don't go near
• 1:15:32
  him.
• 1:15:32
  >> Speaker A: He can't hold on his powers.
• 1:15:34
  >> Speaker C: Yeah, he doesn't know how to control nothing.
• 1:15:36
  Lame. who finally taught you to control the
• 1:15:39
  magic bursting forth from you, and why are they no longer
• 1:15:42
  able to guide you? kind of thinking of one
• 1:15:45
  piece. I was kind of thinking of a character, kind of like
• 1:15:48
  shanks, where he was just an older
• 1:15:51
  individual, who from a young age
• 1:15:53
  influenced me. and he went on a
• 1:15:56
  very nondescript quest,
• 1:15:59
  very, far away, and I haven't seen him since it's been
• 1:16:02
  like, twelve years.
• 1:16:03
  >> Speaker A: He's somewhere out there. He's out there.
• 1:16:05
  >> Speaker C: He just ain't with me.
• 1:16:06
  >> Speaker A: He ain't.
• 1:16:08
  >> Speaker C: And, the last question was,
• 1:16:11
  you have a true fear. You hide from everyone. What is
• 1:16:14
  it and why does it scare you? I'm hiding it from
• 1:16:17
  everybody so you don't get to know.
• 1:16:19
  >> Speaker A: Fair point. Fair, right. All right, fair
• 1:16:22
  enough. We got a cool character development there with a
• 1:16:25
  little bit of a plot twist coming up some point.
• 1:16:28
  Cameron, what did you come up with? Or what are your background
• 1:16:31
  questions and if you had some idea on
• 1:16:34
  an answer for them? Yeah.
• 1:16:35
  >> Speaker B: So the first one says, a terrible creature hurt your community and you're
• 1:16:38
  bound to hunt it down. What is it?
• 1:16:40
  >> Speaker A: An orangutan.
• 1:16:41
  >> Speaker B: See, I thought that, but it
• 1:16:44
  says, I want to hunt it down. Yeah, and that wouldn't make
• 1:16:47
  sense with an orangutan. So is what is it and
• 1:16:50
  what unique trail or sign does it leave that would be
• 1:16:53
  recognizable to find it.
• 1:16:54
  >> Speaker A: Right.
• 1:16:54
  >> Speaker B: I wrote giant Snake. So, like, a giant
• 1:16:57
  snake was always attacking our community,
• 1:17:00
  which is part of the reason why we became nomadic, was to
• 1:17:03
  get away from it.
• 1:17:04
  >> Speaker A: Got you.
• 1:17:04
  >> Speaker B: But we would always see signs of it, as if it was following our
• 1:17:07
  community. He got a taste for half
• 1:17:10
  lanes and he just couldn't. He wanted more.
• 1:17:13
  And so he would always be fond of us, and we would always, like. Our
• 1:17:15
  scouts would go out and they would see the trail and we'd have to change
• 1:17:18
  locations and how we recognize it. Of course,
• 1:17:21
  it'd leave a giant
• 1:17:24
  path in the ground because it was so big. But what made it
• 1:17:26
  unique from other snakes, giant snakes, was
• 1:17:29
  it had like a zigzagging pattern to its trail. So if
• 1:17:32
  you looked at its trail, it had, like, this indent of a
• 1:17:35
  zigzag under it.
• 1:17:36
  >> Speaker A: Nice.
• 1:17:37
  >> Speaker B: As if it had, like, a bony plate that kind of
• 1:17:39
  stuck out on the outside and you could recognize it because of
• 1:17:42
  that. So anyways, if I killed that
• 1:17:45
  snake, I know I would avenge your.
• 1:17:48
  Avenge the town, right? Yeah. the next one
• 1:17:51
  is your first kill. Almost killed you,
• 1:17:54
  too. What was it? And what part of you is never the
• 1:17:57
  same? my first kill was a crazed porcupine,
• 1:18:00
  okay. Just went mad and just started attacking me one
• 1:18:03
  time. And, rather he lost his left
• 1:18:06
  eye. Oh, yeah. Just like, it's one of its
• 1:18:09
  bristles flew out, just hit me right in the middle.
• 1:18:11
  >> Speaker A: Right in the eye.
• 1:18:12
  >> Speaker C: It's just gone.
• 1:18:12
  >> Speaker A: Toothpicked your eye.
• 1:18:13
  >> Speaker B: My guy has. Wears an eye patch.
• 1:18:16
  >> Speaker A: Nice. Okay, very cool, very cool. And, yeah, I like how it
• 1:18:19
  kind of leads you into some character description.
• 1:18:22
  >> Speaker B: There was a very interesting development one day
• 1:18:25
  when, the orangutan kept pointing at my eye.
• 1:18:28
  And so, my guy lifted the eye. Show him the
• 1:18:31
  open socket. The orangutan was more
• 1:18:33
  interested than scared, which was
• 1:18:37
  a. Ah, good surprising response that my
• 1:18:40
  guy, because he'd never shown it to anyone before and he figured the first
• 1:18:43
  person would be scared to see it. So seeing someone more curious about
• 1:18:46
  it than scared made him happier with who
• 1:18:49
  he was.
• 1:18:49
  >> Speaker A: Yeah. Kind of a self confidence thing. Yeah. Okay.
• 1:18:53
  >> Speaker D: Is the orangutan's name given
• 1:18:56
  his love.
• 1:18:56
  >> Speaker B: For Stu Stewart,
• 1:18:59
  that's a really good name. I have not had a name
• 1:19:02
  for him, but Stuart's too good.
• 1:19:04
  >> Speaker A: That's pretty good.
• 1:19:05
  >> Speaker B: We just call him Stu.
• 1:19:08
  >> Speaker A: It's what he is and what he is, what he eats.
• 1:19:10
  >> Speaker B: He is what he is. That's Stu. I'm like, hey, that's my buddy
• 1:19:13
  stew. And he's like.
• 1:19:17
  >> Speaker A: I love it. Then my last one is, you traveled.
• 1:19:19
  >> Speaker B: Many dangerous land, but what land do you refuse to go?
• 1:19:22
  Simple answer. Cat land. Don't go to Catland.
• 1:19:25
  >> Speaker A: Is it a theme park or is it.
• 1:19:30
  >> Speaker B: I shudder. I dare not speak of cat land.
• 1:19:32
  >> Speaker A: They took a cat cafe and they
• 1:19:35
  turned it into an entire amusement park. And he
• 1:19:38
  refuses to go there.
• 1:19:39
  >> Speaker B: Never again.
• 1:19:41
  >> Speaker A: Never again. I
• 1:19:44
  have so much fur in my coffee.
• 1:19:47
  All right, well, that'll be it.
• 1:19:49
  >> Speaker B: Don't ever mention Cat lander on stew, too.
• 1:19:52
  You see his eyes just, like, glare up, and he's got this
• 1:19:55
  rage and he starts beating his chest.
• 1:19:58
  >> Speaker A: He starts like having almost seizure.
• 1:20:00
  >> Speaker B: We both don't like cat Lance.
• 1:20:01
  >> Speaker A: Oh, all right. So it was a shared experience. Well, hey.
• 1:20:04
  Experience. Yeah. There we go. There's the experience right
• 1:20:07
  there. Awesome. All right, Dave, you got your rogue.
• 1:20:09
  What are his background questions and what's he got? Kind of
• 1:20:12
  plotted.
• 1:20:13
  >> Speaker D: So what did you get caught doing that
• 1:20:16
  had you exiled from your home?
• 1:20:18
  Oh, so I chose
• 1:20:21
  the wildborn community. Yeah, so it'd be like a
• 1:20:24
  tribe of frogs, basically. So
• 1:20:27
  I said that I stole like
• 1:20:30
  the pearl crown from
• 1:20:33
  the royal spawn.
• 1:20:35
  >> Speaker A: Did he use his legacy, his special tongue,
• 1:20:38
  to snatch it right off their head?
• 1:20:39
  >> Speaker D: M so I have this idea for
• 1:20:42
  the frog tribe that have you ever
• 1:20:45
  seen like, frogs or toads? They can be kind of brutal.
• 1:20:48
  >> Speaker D: When they're younger and eating their siblings
• 1:20:50
  and whatnot.
• 1:20:52
  >> Speaker A: It's disturbing.
• 1:20:53
  >> Speaker D: So, like this frog culture, in my
• 1:20:56
  mind, it's like you would only have
• 1:20:59
  pretty much a few of your siblings that would
• 1:21:02
  survive or whatever. in my character, he
• 1:21:05
  kind of just survived by hiding most of the time.
• 1:21:07
  >> Speaker A: Okay.
• 1:21:08
  >> Speaker D: but he did develop a close relationship with one of
• 1:21:11
  his spawn mates.
• 1:21:14
  but, he knew he wasn't really
• 1:21:17
  going to succeed in that society because he
• 1:21:20
  was so small, because he was hiding all the time. He really
• 1:21:23
  didn't get that much food or whatever he didn't want to
• 1:21:26
  eat his siblings from.
• 1:21:28
  >> Speaker A: Maybe he did, I don't know, the other ones,
• 1:21:31
  not the one he had the connection with.
• 1:21:33
  >> Speaker D: You're right. So he stole the crown. He had to
• 1:21:36
  get out of there. so then the second question.
• 1:21:38
  You used to have a different life from this one that you've tried to leave
• 1:21:41
  behind you. Who from that life is still chasing
• 1:21:44
  you?
• 1:21:45
  >> Speaker A: the whole freaking tribe.
• 1:21:46
  >> Speaker D: Yeah, that could be like some royal
• 1:21:49
  guard, bounty hunters or something.
• 1:21:51
  >> Speaker A: I like that.
• 1:21:51
  >> Speaker B: That'd be cool.
• 1:21:52
  >> Speaker D: From the frog tribe. also, probably
• 1:21:55
  anybody who I stole from would also be
• 1:21:58
  after me. But then who from the other life are you most sad
• 1:22:01
  to say goodbye to? Probably my spawn
• 1:22:03
  mate, Norbert.
• 1:22:05
  >> Speaker A: Norbert. Such
• 1:22:08
  a great name. So wait, do you still have
• 1:22:11
  the crown?
• 1:22:12
  >> Speaker D: no, I sold that. I had to sell
• 1:22:15
  it to start my new life.
• 1:22:17
  >> Speaker A: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. He pawned it off. Maybe
• 1:22:20
  somewhere out there at some pawn shop. It's still sitting on the shelf. I
• 1:22:23
  guess that would be an interesting plot point too. Like, what if he was able to
• 1:22:25
  get it back and he gave it back to the. I mean, I don't know. They'd probably
• 1:22:28
  still make him pay for having stolen it for so
• 1:22:31
  long, but, yeah, that'd be.
• 1:22:33
  >> Speaker D: Well, I kind of had the idea, like, oh, maybe only
• 1:22:36
  one frog egg
• 1:22:39
  from each spawn can survive. So they all have to
• 1:22:42
  kill each other to be the best warrior. And my
• 1:22:45
  character, just like, he hid, but he developed
• 1:22:48
  a relationship with his brother, and his brother didn't want
• 1:22:50
  to eat him, so they kind of became friends, but, he still had to
• 1:22:53
  hide all the time. And then he realized one day, oh,
• 1:22:56
  I have to get out of here. He needed to steal
• 1:22:59
  the crown to have money to start his new life.
• 1:23:02
  >> Speaker A: Right. So your brother would have had to have been the one that did
• 1:23:04
  survive out of however many other siblings. And maybe,
• 1:23:07
  like, the pressure of, like, we've seen your
• 1:23:10
  brother running around, hiding around and stuff like that.
• 1:23:13
  You need to go get rid of him. It's part of
• 1:23:16
  tradition that there's only one. There can only be one.
• 1:23:19
  It'd be, oh, my gosh, what if his brother was leading
• 1:23:22
  the royal guards that are trying to hunt you?
• 1:23:25
  He's real conflicted about Prince Zuko.
• 1:23:28
  Inner frustration, unsurity, kind of. Oh,
• 1:23:31
  man, there's something really cool there. So awesome.
• 1:23:34
  Very cool. next up, you would do your name and
• 1:23:36
  pronouns. We'll skip over that. I mean, unless anybody
• 1:23:39
  has named our.
• 1:23:41
  >> Speaker B: Character, I feel that's very important. We named Orangutan.
• 1:23:43
  >> Speaker A: Yeah. And then after
• 1:23:46
  that, you would have connection questions. these
• 1:23:49
  are very similar to your background. And, like,
• 1:23:52
  you know, he has his brother and cameron has his
• 1:23:55
  orangutan and so on and so forth, it kind of
• 1:23:58
  talks. Know your connections with the people of this.
• 1:24:02
  Like, for instance, and I don't know if they're different on each one of the
• 1:24:05
  sheets, but for instance, the sorcerer, one says, who do you trust?
• 1:24:08
  Why do you trust me so different? Oh, you know what?
• 1:24:11
  >> Speaker C: You're party members.
• 1:24:12
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 1:24:13
  >> Speaker C: Because I feel like rather than just
• 1:24:15
  meeting in a tavern for the first time and all doing the same
• 1:24:18
  work and then being like, let's just hang out.
• 1:24:20
  >> Speaker A: Yes.
• 1:24:20
  >> Speaker C: We are starting as a party of
• 1:24:23
  adventurers who seemingly have done this for a
• 1:24:26
  while already.
• 1:24:27
  >> Speaker A: Yes. Or they even just recently met each other,
• 1:24:29
  but there's some background baiting into.
• 1:24:32
  >> Speaker B: Them as they're doing a mission, rather finding them
• 1:24:35
  all.
• 1:24:35
  >> Speaker A: Exactly. Because it's a little bit cliche
• 1:24:38
  to do it. Just the, you met an attack.
• 1:24:40
  >> Speaker B: Also, it's more natural for true development.
• 1:24:43
  You won't open up immediately to brand new people
• 1:24:45
  you're doing a one off adventure with.
• 1:24:47
  >> Speaker A: Right, exactly.
• 1:24:49
  >> Speaker B: People you've been doing stuff with for a while.
• 1:24:51
  >> Speaker A: Yes. Awesome.
• 1:24:52
  >> Speaker C: So obviously, I mean, Skylar's going to say
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  it, but in the sorcerer questions, one
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  of the things is, what have I done that makes you
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  wary of me already? So obviously
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  there is some, past between us,
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  right?
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  >> Speaker A: Something that'll come up and it'll be
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  part of the narrative. It'll be an emotional moment, more
• 1:25:13
  unlikely. That'll kind of create more depth to
• 1:25:16
  the characters and create more. Some controversy,
• 1:25:19
  probably.
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  >> Speaker D: So that's interesting. You kind of have to maybe
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  work with your party members because you could be
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  like, here, this is what your
• 1:25:28
  character did. And be like my character. You might have to
• 1:25:31
  do kind of, workshop it. Yeah, no,
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  but maybe kind of
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  work with the suggestions. Because what if your
• 1:25:40
  character, oh, that one time where he murdered all the children
• 1:25:43
  in that orphanage?
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  >> Speaker B: You'd be like, no, I wouldn't do
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  that.
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  >> Speaker A: My serif, who worships the God of
• 1:25:51
  life. No, I don't think he.
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  Awesome. All right, that's pretty
• 1:25:57
  much everything that is currently released for
• 1:26:00
  character creation. again, it's really well designed on the
• 1:26:03
  character creation sheet. You've got places for your armor, your evasion,
• 1:26:06
  all your stats, everything like that. just to kind of
• 1:26:09
  pitch my idea for one that I did here,
• 1:26:11
  so I can have a little bit of fun as well. So I did a
• 1:26:14
  sorcerer as well. His name is, Levi
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  Christopherson. He him. I picked
• 1:26:20
  the qatari, the sort of feline
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  race I love playing.
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  Kind of, yes.
• 1:26:28
  >> Speaker B: I'm so glad none of you picked katari.
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  >> Speaker A: This is assuming I'm running anything. I was
• 1:26:35
  thinking you would and then I'd get to play this guy.
• 1:26:37
  >> Speaker B: Oh, no.
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  >> Speaker A: My favorite characters to play are always the kind of
• 1:26:41
  like naughty troublemaker types and stuff like that. So
• 1:26:44
  I often will lean towards rogues, warlocks,
• 1:26:47
  and, bards. I
• 1:26:50
  really couldn't decide. I had a lot of difficulty deciding
• 1:26:53
  between the bard and the sorcerer, but the more I looked
• 1:26:56
  into the domain cards that come
• 1:26:58
  with both, I felt like sorcerer felt a little bit more
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  towards this realm. So Levi, Christopher,
• 1:27:05
  Katari, he comes from the Slyborn
• 1:27:07
  community, and I used the primal origin
• 1:27:10
  subclass instead of the one that you picked, Jackson. so I like
• 1:27:13
  that we were able to snag two different ones. Highest
• 1:27:16
  status in agility. I, kind of had this idea that he
• 1:27:19
  kind of had like, kind of a roguish thing going on. So he's
• 1:27:22
  kind of nimble. He's used to kind of causing trouble
• 1:27:25
  in town, having to run out of there. Very Aladdin. strength,
• 1:27:28
  of course, is his minus one like everybody else's,
• 1:27:31
  because who cares about strength? I
• 1:27:33
  did take the dual staff because I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's like
• 1:27:36
  gambit or something. I thought that was kind of cool.
• 1:27:39
  but otherwise. So with Arcana, I thought
• 1:27:42
  about taking the unleashed chaos as well. So kind of having just
• 1:27:45
  that massive explosion of potential damage at
• 1:27:48
  some point for, midnight, I think I also took
• 1:27:51
  the uncanny disguise that you took Dave for your
• 1:27:53
  rogue, just to kind of give me that classic,
• 1:27:56
  like, I can change my appearance and kind of sneak around and do
• 1:27:59
  stuff like that. one of my favorite characters I ever played was a
• 1:28:02
  changeling in Dungeons and dragons, and that was kind of his whole thing
• 1:28:05
  was he had just a wardrobe of
• 1:28:07
  costumes, and then he would shape shift into people
• 1:28:10
  that he had met along the way, change into the appropriate outfit,
• 1:28:13
  and then just go mess with people. So that's
• 1:28:16
  kind of what I'm going for, for this, kind of being able to replay that. But
• 1:28:19
  again, that's pretty much everything there is to know about
• 1:28:22
  the character creation. We hope that you guys try out dagger heart,
• 1:28:25
  of course, and then we will soon be able to
• 1:28:28
  probably, well, the same time this episode comes out will be
• 1:28:31
  when they release a lot of the other information, and they
• 1:28:34
  open it up to everybody because we're not allowed to talk about it until then.
• 1:28:37
  So definitely check out dagger heart. Definitely try it out.
• 1:28:40
  I know we are looking at, possible opportunities in
• 1:28:43
  the future to hopefully be able to try out dagger heart as a
• 1:28:46
  campaign, but we'll see kind of where things go as far as schedules
• 1:28:49
  and stuff. but definitely check it out. Check out the rules. Check out
• 1:28:52
  the character creation. Have some fun with it. this has been an
• 1:28:55
  episode, kind of a special episode of session zero heroes. So
• 1:28:57
  definitely check out the stuff that we've got. Vendors and brews. Season three
• 1:29:00
  is airing right now. unless you're listening to this episode
• 1:29:03
  way down the line, but whatever the case, thank you all
• 1:29:06
  for joining. We'll see you guys next time.
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  Our.