Jessica Hancock
Appearances
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, you do. Like coming down the stairs is not an easy mission.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, you're stuck then. You can't move. Exactly. That is the law.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's me, Jessica from EM Publishing. I am back after a week off, but I have not returned alone, have I, PJ?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
yeah and in canva that's so accessible like you don't have to be okay you don't have to be a graphic designer like because obviously there's loads of softwares you have but if you're just maybe if you're a writer and not in that you might not have that software at all whereas can be you get for like it's like 10 or a month or there's a free version so yeah yeah i i'm a big fan of the affinity suite because they just keep on doing sales so if you wait for a little sale they can get quite cheap oh and it's on affinity as well yeah and then you own it
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'm a big fan of our layout artists as well. Yes, they do great work.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's exactly what you think the film is going to be there. You get everything you want from a Deadpool film is what I'll say.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
yeah yeah there was yeah there was a lot more I felt yeah it was kind of but it wasn't unexpected for Deadpool because well I enjoyed it immensely yes and I haven't played the Marvel multiverse role-playing game yet oh
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Your dream can come true. That's such an achievable dream.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, really?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
In what sense?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Okay, but there is a full review people can read online.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
That we won't read out loud on the podcast because that won't be interesting.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
What did you do?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, nice.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
to get to Wales you go via the Shadow Dark and we met there so I thought I'd draw her back out into our realm temporarily for some respite yeah just a little stab over
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, before we get into that, because that's what I was going to talk about, I've seen a Kickstarter that looks quite cool. It's ending next week, and it's at like 93% funded.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
this is called sentience the role-playing game it's about artificial consciousness and it seems to do and i know there's other games that look at this but it seems to do it in an interesting way because it's looking a lot about social justice movements and and things like like like that um and it reminds me very much of the i don't know if you've seen the tv show being human
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
it reminded me of it had that sort of vibe to it so it doesn't look like it's like high drama like I'm a big strong robot I'm gonna like laser everything it's not that vibe it seems more like oh like I'm scared and I'm dealing with my emotions and I'm you know, in a society that doesn't acknowledge my existence and I'm under threat and like a lot of it's finding, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yes. And it uses a D6 dice pool system and I do like a dice pool system. So, and it's a unique system. Yeah. So the mechanics are about emotion and stress and there's hacking and there is combat in it as well, which like obviously is there, but it seemed to be more about like,
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
yeah like finding yourself identity and being part of this resistance and yeah and just really interesting yeah so i've backed that it's it's not due to come out to like the estimated delivery of physical books is july 2025 which i was actually pleased to see because a lot of creators sometimes do a really short timeline and i think oh are you going to be able to do that because actually
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But yeah, it looks really good, and it, yeah, it knows what it's doing, and yeah, it just seemed really interesting to me and appealed to me.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Mm-hmm, yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. So I've backed this for a book because I thought that looks kind of interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it focused on the elements of this sort of storytelling that I would be interested in exploring. So, yeah. So that's my other little shout out for a new little RPG. Yeah, it's nice. It's nice. Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, sure. We'd be remiss if we didn't.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
We had a sneak peek a couple of weeks ago from the Gen Con.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, there's a video online from Gen Con. There's a video that exists.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, it's on ENworld. The link is on there, so I can send you the article link. Cool. Yeah. But they do have a... You can sign up for the closed beta, so you can try out Project Sigil. I signed up for that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, I signed up for it, so I don't know when that's going on.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, I thought then I can report back here. And I'm also interested to see how it is with my Baldur's Gate 3 addiction. I'm like, is this going to feel similar?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Speaking of gaming, I didn't mention it, but I'm having a Baldur's Gate 3 LAN party tomorrow with some friends because that's how cool I am. I'm so excited.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I know, right?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Okay, all right, so that's the D&D Direct news. Is that the neutral news? That's the neutral news, yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Dragons are on the flag, so yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
A dragon, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
see I naively assumed that would come under the web of classes
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, as far as we know.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yes, it is. Yeah, infinitely more. Which is why it's the best country flag.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
So the best thing to do is to print off your character sheet now, and if you want to keep it as it is, just go to pen and paper, I guess.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, what happened in the last week? Not a lot. Okay, good.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
have and also you could do like of course cool things with it so it'd be cool to see what this yeah you know this is interesting because at first i didn't realize why people were upset and i think that's because i don't play a lot of spell casting characters so i looked at this and i was like what's the problem you can use the old one but now you've explained this i'm like ah because i just naively assumed that spells would come under the umbrella of the class and it wouldn't be changed but now you've mentioned it i'm like oh yeah that's that's super annoying there are things which are basically class features that we don't call class features like yeah
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I kind of get why from like a digital platform reason.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, they didn't seem like hugely different. Like, I mean, there were changes, but it didn't feel... Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
No, they have said 2014 rules will be accessible marked with legacy badges for monsters, so...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I quite like the new layout, so I'm okay with it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'll take function over prettiness for RPGs, though.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Wow. That's a lot.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. So what has the internet's reaction been to this? Because I haven't seen much of it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
The internet's reaction has been... Well, the internet is very good as a collective at having a nuanced and reasonable approach to things and is good at long-form discussion.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
So have people been really mad about it? Has there been a lot of people...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yes, okay, okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Because this is my thing, because I don't use D&D Beyond, and no one in my group's
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
There's Pac-Man in there. Is that going to be like an existential horror?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Like, yeah. It's like an episode of Black Mirror.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I don't. Okay, okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, I'm going to watch this.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I don't think it's out yet, but it's coming.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, there's some of my Christmas holidays sorted. That's what I'm going to do.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, we'll find out in December, won't we? Very classic of them to do that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, right.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
That's what I heard.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I think Morris' podcast could be the one to make it happen.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
As long as it's not bulky and gets in the way of the game. And I think that was the goal with this. There's that management, but it's not like, oh, now we have to sit and do some admin before we can have fun. I think some games do that. The resource management is part of it, but it just feels like it's annoying and it's not fun.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
this is like simple enough where it matters and you have to manage it, but it's not like, I feel like I have to go and do some paperwork for my game, you know?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I know, that's why I'm confident about it. PJ and I are like, yeah, it's fine. My name's not on this.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Never met him before in my life.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Did I? That's right. I don't think it's quite going to get to 20.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
maybe you're smarter than me there's definitely been mistakes where we've kicked ourselves and said we could have predicted this mistake yes and it's totally on us yeah there's been other stuff as well like I've been doing game fulfillment like for about six years five six years now and so when 2020 when 2020 happened suddenly shipping costs were like two three times what they were and there was no way that we could have had that and that was just we have to throw money at the situation because
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
the games are, you know, in place A and they need to get to place B. And they've been promised to people. And that's how much it costs to get them there now. Like we'd budgeted, like, I think it was something like four grand for a container and ended up being 12, which is just, it was like, it was like that in 2020. It was, it was absolutely wild. It was things like that were happening.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
No, that's fair enough. But I think always a thing with other creators is buffering with time is a thing because when mistakes happen, it always takes you a bit more time. So I always say do your timeline really generously and the end,
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, yeah. And worst case scenario, if everything goes to plan, you fulfilled your backers two months early. Oh, no. Right. Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But that's why I let them know. And for that person that complained, I said, that's fine. We'll hold it and we'll fulfill it for you in two months. That's fine. And they said, I can have it this month, but that's not the point.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I don't know what the point is yeah but that's yeah if you're dealing with like thousands of backers there's always one person which is a bit odd I think and I'm sure with customer services messages on that scale you've had one or two people you're like I don't know what you want to be happy here but you know right it was I just tell me what you want and I will try to do it but I can't tell what it is you want you know sorry PJ yeah I'm like I mean this is
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Or a heroic sacrifice, or, you know. That's right, exactly.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
My goodness.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I mean, a lot of people have that as a hobby. They go splunking and stuff. So, you know, some people would disagree with you. In Wales, right?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's exciting when someone in the industry does really well. It is. I think it makes you feel as a TTRPG creative, someone else is doing really well. You're like, oh, well, there's the potential. There's that market. And maybe this will invite new people into the hobby.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
one thing that jumped out to me was the magic system so I really like how you made magic scary and volatile and with cost in the world it feels like it's not just a oh I do this magic spell and it's done but it feels like oh it can go wrong even if you really know what you're doing which was really nice and
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'm not sure how so maybe you can maybe this was intentional and you can explain why I feel this way but when I was reading through I don't play a lot of magic users in things like 5e because I'm just like oh that feels like admin and work and I have to like do homework but this felt a lot more approachable and it felt a lot more accessible and like something I could try out so I don't know what your approach was with kind of almost trying to strip back magic or yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I know, that's why I'm also really happy because it's something that's not D&D.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
There is a Gloomhaven RPG, though, PJ.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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But every big Kickstarter has stuff attached to the RPG that's not RPG stuff. Like, they have minis and coins and tote bags and stuff, which that's... Half the match. Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
And then becoming a logistics company, organizing plushies, moving around the globe is a whole other job, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yep. Not what I wanted to do that time.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Or at least an expression of emotion, yeah. Right, right. Yep.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Check it out on our next Kickstarter.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
So I understand Paizo has been doing some things. Should we segue and talk about that a little bit?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
So we, it was, was it two weeks ago we talked about Paizo updating? About two weeks ago, yeah. I was definitely here. So it wasn't last week. Anyway, so they updated their community use policies. And my understanding, in brief, is that people were not happy with that. and just discuss their displeasure in a reasonable way online as people do online in a nuanced way.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
And then Paizo announced on Thursday that they're reversing course in the plan to replace the community uses policy with the new fan content policy. But yeah, so that's all that I know. I don't know if you have any more detail, Russ, but that is kind of my brief overview of understanding of it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
which I feel like I can't remember what the difference was it was trying to bring it in line because they're bringing out second edition like they're in the process of doing that and also because of the OGL crisis they were moving away from using OGL like stuff so I think this was meant to bring it all in line with all the new stuff
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But it had specific terms.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Exactly. So if you handcrafted dice bags and sewed on different character classes on there, that was fine. But you couldn't do a print-on-demand Etsy store, you know,
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
t-shirt thing where you know the drop shipping you couldn't do that but you could make your own t-shirts and sell them one at a time yes you could do that yes nothing that's mass production was pretty much the thing so they wanted to encourage artisans yeah is the best way i can describe it
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
but yeah from what I understand I haven't read into it too much I saw a bit of it online a lot of people in the community that use this and it affected them were unhappy with the policy in the same way that with you know the OGL situation people were like hey this doesn't seem very fair this is unclear here this doesn't seem you know so I saw a lot of that discussion happening online and in fair play to us it seems like they've gone back and said okay I think the thing was that the fan content policy didn't allow like
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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So it looks like they're saying, well, it looks like there's for now saying you can use the old one and they're going to refine the fan content policy to clearly define
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
things so i think the plan is to take it away redo it and i imagine they're probably going to put out a draft and get feedback before putting it out fully this time maybe i would imagine like from a pr perspective that would be my advice i'll be like hey but yeah they've apologized and said oh sorry for the misstep let's we'll we'll redo it and I think that's fair enough.
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I think that's fair enough for me.
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And I saw some people online comparing it and I think, I don't feel this is the same because it's... No, it's not the same at all.
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Who would do that, PJ? PJ?
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Yeah, yeah. So what is it? There's two editions. You've got the standard edition, which is the rulebook and the card set. And the limited edition. And then there's a limited edition, which has a GM screen, dice and tokens as well.
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That's a commitment to luxury. Pre-order it now. You can pre-order it. No Kickstarter for this one. No Kickstarter. You can pre-order it now.
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Yeah. Well, spring 2025, there'll be a big old splash of news about it then, I guess.
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That's not news. That's not news.
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Yeah, a nice little conversation about the differences between board games and RPGs.
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Chris Cox and AI.
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They opportunistically re-announced the thing that everybody announced a year ago.
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It would be a great opportunity. Yeah.
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Apparently so.
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It's the same. It's like the same as everyone's.
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We made it a year ago as well. It's like, yes, we're all saying it. We're all saying we're not using AI for art. We're not using AI for text. We want artists. We want humans to make our things. We want artists to be paid for their work. We're all saying it.
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Well, yeah.
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I'm like, well. I'm sorry.
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There's some more news about that Pathfinder video game.
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Sure. It is based on a classic Pathfinder adventure. It's the one with the 3D miniatures and animated effects. The one that looks a lot like Project Sigily.
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Well, should I tell you what happened this week, Jess?
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Sigily. It adapts a classic Pathfinder adventure called The Dragon's Demand, but updates it to Pathfinder 2E.
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Oh, we mentioned it, yeah. Okay, so you have more. Just a little bit more information, yeah. So you will control a party of four characters and three companion characters, which you can choose from about a dozen different companion characters. You can potentially romance your companion characters, because that's a big thing these days.
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And there's a list of the classes that you can build your characters from and the ancestries, which are basically kind of the standard Pathfinder 2e ones. But yeah, that's... It's really interesting that it's like a halfway point between Baldur's Gate and a virtual tabletop. It's kind of like halfway. It sits between those two things. So it's a video game that looks like a virtual tabletop.
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Well, you already know what happened this week, but I'm going to tell the listeners what happened this week.
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Yeah, I'm interested too. Yeah, I'm interested.
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So I was sitting happily in my house, as one does, and the delivery driver from our local supermarket turns up in his lorry, reverses into our drive, keeps reversing, keeps reversing, keeps reversing, and reverses into the front of the house.
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Yeah, delay the other one then.
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There cannot possibly be more news. I have some.
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Yeah, I've got a Kickstarter. Faster Purple Worm Everybody Dies Volume 1.
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Not that I've seen it, but you always end in a TPK. And in this adventure, you choose a short adventure and the players can just be really reckless because they are going to die. It's going to be a TPK. I think it's a concept. So you just recklessly do all these insane things.
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As I understand it. Yeah.
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And that's over on Kickstarter right now with five days to go on that one.
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And that's done very well. That's done about $150,000-ish. Nice.
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Yeah.
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All the stuff.
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Yeah. So... You can go and look at that. I mean, it is awesome. So, should we just quickly go through the stuff?
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All right. So, stuff number one.
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Stuff number one. So, think Monstrous Menagerie, if you're familiar with that. It's everything you loved about that, plus this new stuff.
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So we've got 300 more monsters.
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These include the Whisper Snake, the Deathless Legionnaire, Death Spiders, Prismatic Oozes, Advocate Devils, and about 295 more. We've got a new monster type, which is called the Horde Monster.
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So, in Monsters from Legendary 1, we had elite monsters, which is designed to basically be a solo encounter. Like, it can challenge an entire party. So, you have elite versions of monsters in Monsters from Legendary 1. We have squads in Monsters from Legendary 1, which is sort of like a swarm of beetles or something. Yeah. A small thing.
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I did not go out of my way to specify, please do not drive into our house.
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But the horde monster is basically designed so that you can have loads and loads and loads of them, and the heroes can...
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Yeah, it's when the evil necromancer summons like a hundred zombies and then you have to fight through them to get to the necromancer and stuff. That sort of thing. So we've got those.
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Speaking about the necromancer.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, basically monsters that gain levels.
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Which is kind of cool. Yeah. Well, the fun thing about that is we're starting that in Monstrous Menagerie 2.
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But next year, we're going to be bringing out a massive book on basically companions and pets. Yes. Which will leverage those rules. More. That's going to be fun.
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I am not admitting liability. As the Tesco driver told me, he was very apologetic because he'd knocked out one of the pillars at the front of the house and the balcony, one of the supporting pillars of the balcony. And we were like, that doesn't look safe. And he went back to his lorry and he phoned it into Tesco to tell them what had happened.
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Yeah. So it's also got tons of high-tier monsters.
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A higher proportion of high tier monsters than the previous book, including a lot of unique elite villains. Yeah. Named villains, like including archdevils and lich lords and dragon kings and gods and, you know, things like that.
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We have got a load of great worms because not every type of monster, every type of dragon in Monstrous Mystery 1 got a great worm because of space issues, because we had like 600 or monsters in there already. Yeah. So we now have Earth, River, Shadow, Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire, Brass, Bronze, Copper and Silver Great Worms to fill out that list. Oh my. Oh my, oh my, oh my.
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And three new dragon types we've got. We have got Purple Dragons, also called Storm Dragons.
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We have got fey dragons.
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Yeah, and they're very sort of petulant and unpredictable and these illusions and traps and stuff.
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And then we've got spirit dragons, which are kind of bound to holy places and given shape by the belief of those around them, which is kind of cool also.
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This... They speak so highly of you.
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They do. They have a club. Yeah. They have the We Love Jess Club. And they listen... And they meet every month.
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And they listen to the podcast. And they all talk about how much they like you. And they are going to be so upset now.
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Oh, that's a good little segue, isn't it? Thanks. Wow. Wow. I like that one. Yeah, so in Monstrous Monotory 1, we had legends and lore for each monster so that you can make checks to find out what your characters know about a monster. Now we have added false rumours. So if you make a really bad roll, there's misinformation on those tables.
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Because if the player makes a roll and they roll a two, and then you give them some information, they're going to know that that's false information.
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I suppose so, yeah.
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If you're playing... I don't, I don't, I never want to have fun. I hate fun.
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And he came back and said, well, Tesco have told me not to admit liability.
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I think that is all the news. I think all we have left to do is to let Mark in because he's there knocking at the door and he's been knocking at the door for the last half an hour and I'll be going, no, no, no, Mark, go away. You can't come in yet. But now he can come in and talk about... Split the board.
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I'm sure it's fine.
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so we have a special guest joining us this week some of you may already know him because mark has worked with us in various capacities over the years um so our guest is mark kenobi mark tell us well don't tell us tell the listeners because we know um what what well you know what what capacities you know what what have you worked with us over the years on
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It's factual. But he did. He did. He admitted liability because he said he wanted to be honest. And so after a few phone calls to Tesco this week, they are coming out, sending some builders out to fix it. I'm glad to say because I was worried about that. But they were perfectly good about it and they're coming out to fix it.
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Yes, yeah, yeah.
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We had to cut that monster, unfortunately. But anyway, that's not why you're here. You're here because you are a board game designer also.
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And your first game to be published, somehow we ended up being the people publishing it. Who'd have expected something like that to happen? But tell us...
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And there's always that one player that you suddenly realise has five times more treasure accumulated over the years than everybody else. Yep.
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No one ever noticed that that one player was just taking a little bit more each time until you add it up. Just a little extra.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. My version of that is you each basically take things from the treasure pile and then take turns to negotiate or bluff or whatever with the other players. And then at the end, you know, you see what treasure you've got, what you managed to acquire, what treasure you managed to sort of like negotiate to get off the other players. And you basically score victory points, points.
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So hopefully sometime in the next week or so, we will have our pillow back, I guess.
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Yeah. And see who's won, who's the best treasure grabber.
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It's not a decorative pillar. Yes, it's a weight-loading, load-bearing, that's the word. Load-bearing.
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um my process has always been to start with a blank page start typing something will come out and then just go from there and i doubt very much that that's the same as everybody else's process i think everybody has their own processes that's mine it's very much a sort of like just start doing something see what comes out and then and then go and then go from there
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I don't, you know, like, I don't kind of like start with an oval structure and fill it, you know, the skeleton or anything like that. That's not, that's definitely not my way of doing it. It's like start at the beginning and start moving forward. So I think that may, it's probably not the best way to do it, to be honest. But that's not what I asked.
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It's the one in front of the front door.
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Well, not in front of the front door, next to the front door. So to the left of the office.
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I think I'm the opposite. I think I'm mechanics-led. I'm not that worried about the story because I want to write the mechanics to allow the GMs and players to tell their story.
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all the games i've written they've never they've never really had a setting in them or they've always been kind of setting yeah if you look at yeah toolkits in a way so yeah so yeah that's definitely a difference in but that said i would argue a bit that a certain mechanics lead you into a certain type of storytelling like there are certain stories yeah so i might say this is kind of like a space opera genre i'm trying to do star trekky star warsy stuff
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Yeah. But in that case, I'm really just borrowing a story, aren't I? I'm borrowing a genre that exists and then trying to write mechanics that work with that genre. I'm not making a story there. At least I don't feel like I am.
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Yeah. When you're designing a board game, or in this case a card game or whatever, there are definitely overlaps and similarities. But what would you say the primary differences are in the process of doing one as opposed to the other?
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Yeah, I mean, you can easily make that game without any of that stuff and just say, you're trying to get these points. Yes. Yeah. It's like the story shapes it, I guess.
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yeah yeah well i think in a board game you've got issues of fairness that come in there don't you so if you've got various you know four different players playing against each other it has to be fair yeah whereas in an rpg to an extent it does but not not so much because because you're not playing against each other so if one one one's a little more powerful than another doesn't really matter all that much because they're not they're not you know in conflict with each other
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Yeah, yeah.
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I think there's an element of experience and being able to eyeball stuff helps.
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You need to have a basic sense of intuition about probabilities and how something's going to play out just because you've seen it so many times before when playing or designing or just reading games. So, I mean, that helps. RPGs usually aren't quite, I mean, not always, as mechanically complex as, say, board games. I mean, some of them are very mechanically complex.
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But, you know, on average, like any individual subsystem of an RPG, like picking a lot, for example, it's not a particularly mechanically complex thing. It's you're rolling in D&D, you're rolling in D20, adding a thing, does it beat 15 or 16 or whatever? Yeah. It's not like a...
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really really complicated thing to get your head around and sort of intuitively sense how that's going to play out and other than that you play test it you lean on stuff that you already know works and reuse ideas and concepts that you know you've done in previous games and they've worked or you've realized you could have done a little better and now in this game you know it's just it's a similar mechanic but it's a iteration on that so i guess in a sense like it is kind of like what mark was saying but just on a much slower scale
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Yeah.
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I would also say sort of in my RPG design, I don't think I've ever written an entirely original rule that requires a massive amount of experimentation to work out how it works. It will always be based on something I've seen or played or written before and has already probably had decades of playtesting just through its existence in the industry. Yeah. I guess.
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So if you're writing something based on 5E, 5E is a very well-played game. If you're using that chassis, you already know that 90% of the balancing work is done for you and the mechanical work is done for you because Wizards of the Coast did it and tens and hundreds of thousands of people have played that game ever since. You know the wrinkles. So... Yeah. I think it's easier.
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I think I would find writing a board game harder than writing an RPG, I think.
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Exciting, exciting, exciting.
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I think board games are probably more vulnerable to a broken mechanic as well. So in a board game, if you've got a broken mechanic that can screw up the entire game for everybody, whereas in an RPG, if your lockpicking rule is broken, it doesn't really affect how the fight against the ogre is going to go or how a fireball spell works. You know, all these other things are not...
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As closely entwined as they are in a board game, I think.
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And they all have to feed together.
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Anyway, shall we do some news?
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People are much more willing to fudge with RPG rules and board game rules, aren't they?
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When I play chess, I replace the queen with Hulk.
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Hmm. For me, okay, I haven't... We say designing board games. I've only attempted to design one. I'm partway through it. And if I'm honest, it's the same game that I've been working on and had versions of for throughout my career in different games, and really what it is is just a combat system. It's not a board game.
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So really, I'm kind of designing an RPG combat system, and that's where I'm coming from. This one happens to be about spaceships, but that's kind of what it is. Like I said, that's mechanics first and stuff. That's what I'm doing. I'm designing an RPG combat system, and I've been designing this specific one for a long, long, long time.
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Well, there's a new Ravenloft novel coming next year.
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Yeah, in the sense that you could probably take most RPGs' combat rules and make a skirmish game out of those. I'm just doing it the other way around. I'm making a skirmish game, but you could certainly use those as the combat rules for a larger RPG. Not that the rest of the RPG will be there, but in concept, you could imagine an RPG surrounding those skirmish rules.
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Which is interesting.
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It's not so much a board game as a war game, isn't it? That's why. There's a slight difference there.
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Well, I have to admit, I've read very few Ravenloft novels. I mean, there haven't been, like, the 80s? Or maybe there have, and I just don't know about them. But I remember reading them a really, really long time ago. Or the 90s. Maybe the 90s, that would have been. I don't know. Yeah, it'd have to be the 90s. I don't know.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think going to that fun aspect, I think there is a difference between board games and RPGs there because, at least for me, with an RPG, I think it has more of a buffer, more of a cushion in that, for me, probably the people I'm playing with is more important than the game. And I probably enjoy most RPGs if I like the people I'm playing with, to be honest.
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You see a lot of people say, oh, I hated that RPG, I don't like the mechanical, I don't really care. You know, I'm having fun with some people I like, it's fine. But I think with a board game, I think the actual game is more important. I mean, obviously the people you're playing with is important, but there's a good chance you might be playing with people you don't know in a board game.
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With RPGs, you're more likely to be playing with friends. Not necessarily, you might be playing at a convention. So I think maybe there's a slightly different emphasis on the actual game itself as opposed to the players. Does that make sense? Yeah.
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Four hours is too long for me anyway on any... My RPG sessions, I don't like a four-hour session. It's too long for me.
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Yeah, so obviously the Ravenloft campaign is hitting. We all know what that is. It's the sort of gothic horror, Strahd von Zarevich, zombies, all that sort of stuff, vampires, that sort of stuff.
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There's also some RPGs which people say this is basically a board game. So there is a Venn diagram with something in the middle there. There is an overlap. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to start, like, addition wars and flame wars and stuff, but there are certain additions of certain games which a lot of people quite vociferously said, this is not really an RPG, it's a board game.
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In one, you play a character. In the other, you might control a character. I think you're spraying hairs there.
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But there's going to be a new Ravenloft book from Penguin Random House.
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I mean, that's how I play chess, obviously, but you know.
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They're all disappointed about that, I know, I know.
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I'm a lot less experienced in board games than both of you two. A lot less. I've always been an RPG guy, not a board game person. I've played a dozen board games or something. It's not like the hundreds you two have probably played.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not necessarily the person to really speak on the differences between the two, I guess, because I just don't have the breadth of experience needed.
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I think it's the role playing that's the difference. Are you role playing or are you not? I guess. That's the only real difference, I think.
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There's no author named in the listing, at least yet, but it does say that it's going to feature Count Strahd, which I suppose is the main Ravenloft character. Is he the author?
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, board game is a very broad tent, isn't it? That's true. Yeah. I mean, board games do have subdivisions, though, don't they? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. The terminology is there to make the distinction between chess and Screamhaven.
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So going back to Split the Horde specifically, let's just talk about the development of that. So how long did it take you to develop that game? I mean, obviously, it's an ongoing process. It gets tweaked right up to the last minute. But the bulk of it, so it was a game that you could sit down and play, and it was pretty similar to what will be in the box.
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But you'd been working on it before then because, yeah.
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Is this like some kind of weird fourth wall meta thing where the actual... That's what I'm asking. ...fiction character of Count Strahd is the author of the Penguin Random House book about him? I don't know.
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Yeah. But at that point, it's still fundamentally the same game.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. And then after that, of course, we had the process of getting the art and then the prototype versions of it and then playtesting it at conventions. And, you know, there's a whole load of stuff that then takes place, which is all fun. None of which I've been involved with, I've got to say. The art design, I think, is amazing, but I can't take credit for it.
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I don't know. Yeah, we'll find out in April 2025. It's going to be...
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That's lovely.
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Can't... Yeah, yeah. Couldn't tell you I was any happier. I think graphic designers... Graphic designers are some of the most amazing people in the world. And they're so important, just getting these things. Whether it's a book or a card game or whatever it is, it's so important.
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It took it to a different level.
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It doesn't say much. Basically, this is the entire description. It's almost nothing. A group of adventurers must fight their way through a dark and twisted realm known as the Domains of Dread, where powerful dark lords rule over worlds filled with supernatural horrors. That's it.
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totally different skills so yeah so that's been really interesting for me and it's one of those things i think you get to a point where you're too close to see it and you have to put it out to other people to feedback and things so yeah so that's yeah you need to give it to people who don't already know how to play the game yeah so that there's no they're not going into that with some assumptions or knowledge yeah and so that if so therefore if it's not in the wall book they won't know it because yeah yeah so that's that's that's always important i think
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You almost have to tell people what a card is. You have to get that basic almost, really. You can't assume anything. You can't assume that the player knows a single thing.
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But still. So again, really glad with where that's got to. Yeah, I think one of my favourite things is always when your first proof copy of a book arrives and you open it up and it's all laid out and you can see the art and the tech and it all looks gorgeous. So do you remember getting hold of the first proper pretty proof version? Prototype, yeah. Prototype, yeah, of the game.
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Do you remember that occasion? So that hasn't happened yet.
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And it was just that moment of... I will open it and I will instantly see a typo straight away. No matter how many times it's been edited. You open it, look at it, typo. First thing you see. Always, without fail. It's quite frustrating. That really wasn't a dig, it was an observation.
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Could be.
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Could be.
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Yeah, my local grocery store is full of supernatural horrors.
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but you know i i kind of feel like for you you know it's a first step in building a portfolio of games and building your brand as a game designer and for us it's exactly the same thing it's the first step in building a portfolio of board games and building a brand as a board game designer you know we're both in exactly the same position here yeah at least how i see it anyway
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Okie dokie. That's it for this week. We're all going to go and have a lovely weekend. Thank you all for listening. Thank you, Mark, so much for joining us. It's been a pleasure as always. Same here. Thank you so much for having me. Until next week, goodbye.
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That is a lot of time. How many days is that? Was it 400 and... 476.6 476 divided by 24 is 20 full days really if you count them as eight hour days yeah eight hour days like a shift like a work day yeah okay this is how many work days 60 work days
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two two months of yeah i love two months because yeah i mean coming up to three months and that's over a year though because i started playing like september october time last year because it's the one year anniversary so of the last year you spent three months of it playing builders gate yeah no regrets no regrets fair enough fair enough
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Yeah, and you can dig out the 80s and or 90s and or whenever it was novels as well. There was two where Lord Soth went from Dragonlance to Ravenloft. which I believe Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, the Dragonlance authors, say do not consider canon.
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They say it didn't happen. Officially it did happen because it was in the official books, but apparently they don't consider it so.
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Go on.
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How many have you purchased so far?
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Only zero?
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It's now become a point of principle.
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A number between zero and 700 inclusive. Is it one? It is not one.
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There's a whole mix mash of various things.
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yeah you can grab it anywhere now amazon your local game store random place anywhere you want you can why not anywhere you won't you probably can't get it from your local grocery store well you might be able to i don't know who knows probably probably in like the us probably it's available in lots of i think it's available in barnes and noble yeah so uh it'll probably be available over here in waterstones they do have a bit of a game section now
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Probably. Probably.
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Go on then. How about Elfquest? That's not Dungeons & Dragons.
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Elfquest originally came out and it was a sort of RPG of a comic.
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So there is a new edition from Chaosium, which is coming to Kickstarter in October 24. That's the next month. That is next month, yeah, yeah. Very, very soon. And this is like a classic reissue, so it's not a new edition. So it's going to be the game in its original boxed edition, boxed set.
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Hello, hello, hello and welcome to Morris's unofficial tabletop RPG talk.
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But with some added later supplements chucked in.
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Yeah, so it's not a new edition. It's a reprint from 1984, but with extra stuff, basically.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know what else to say about it, really.
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I have not played it, no. I've never seen the game in my life or read the comics, so I don't know enough about it.
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I think that's really cool. Especially that you play an elf. I know that much.
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Yeah. I think you can play other species as well, but it's kind of about a bunch of elves, and they live on this planet, Earth-like planet, with two moons, and there's comics about them, and... That's pretty much all I know, I'm afraid. That's the extent of my knowledge.
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Yeah. I think it's a bit sci-fi. They fly around in these, it says here, egg-shaped spaceships, and they've got psychic powers and stuff.
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Yeah.
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You're being elves and stuff.
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Yeah, yeah. All right, what have you got? What have you got? What news have you got?
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Dagger heart. So, we have this... Is that, right, a heart that's a dagger? Is it a dagger heart? Or is it, like, a dagger intended for a heart?
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yeah yeah i'm intrigued about the system like there's two t12s and one's a hope die and one's a fear die so i'm intrigued you know i mean i suppose i could just go and look at the uh play test versions i'd know exactly how it works but i'll wait for it to come out i think yeah and of course there are actual plays available because uh critical role of course are doing campaigns yeah with dagger heart so so you can yeah they'll have the information out there about it
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You get this 300-page book, but you also get a box of 279 cards as well.
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Oh, yeah, then they're looking for that specific system, yeah.
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Fighting Fantasy. Classic adventure game books. So they've been away for 20 years, but they are returning in... In the US. In the US, yes. But I'm sure you could order them online and get them posted to any place in the world.
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There is.
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Yeah, so Steve Jackson Games is distributing, well, publishing them. But the original Fighting Fantasy series was written by Sir Ian Livingston and Steve Jackson, but it's not the same Steve Jackson. And I didn't realise it wasn't the same Steve Jackson. So when I first saw this, I was like, yeah, of course. And then I was like, oh, a different Steve Jackson.
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So I was confused. But anyway.
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Yeah, it's a bit cloudy here.
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This conversation is like what was happening inside my brain when I was taking on this piece of news originally. So I'm glad it's not just me.
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Was I sorry?
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Anyway, there's going to be five books made available in early 2025, and then they're doing another five later that year. But there are like 50 titles in this series, so I imagine the plan is to kind of do all of those if they sell well, which I imagine it will, because since 1982, over 20 million copies of the series were sold, which is quite a lot.
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Who were the dinosaurs in this analogy?
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Well, people still use a lot of D20s, so, you know, I guess those are the crocodiles in this analogy then.
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Or the birds, yeah.
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we may have taken this um a little too far yeah let's start off topic yeah just news that is not related to the dungeon masters guide go for it discord has partnered with roll20 to give away a free adventure and this is part of the 50th anniversary promotions so you can play the adventure directly in discord because discord roll20 has a new integration with discord as an app so that you can use
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So yeah, there's a free adventure. You can use the app launcher on Discord to find and launch it. It's called Voyage into Discord. Yeah, and there's also profile effects that are available on Discord and things like that. So it's basically a way to show off how this all works. And it's got a cute wrapper of a baby Displacer Beast or an Owlbear Cub and stuff like that for you on Discord.
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But yeah, so it's a Halloween season one. And yeah.
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Yeah.
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I haven't used them, but it's a new thing, so I think part of this is to promote that that works. I know when I used to play online during the pandemic a lot, we used Discord and Roll20. Those were the things we were using, so this would have been really useful then, but I'm mostly trying to play in person these days.
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Yeah.
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It's doing all right, isn't it?
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So, okay, yeah.
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There we go. You don't think he's moving into that new PR role?
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I don't know.
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We still don't know who's got that role yet. I assume they're still trying to convince someone to take it.
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Oh, yeah. Well, there'll be a team of people who, you know, it's not like it was one person that did everything. So there'll be a team covering for stuff. Someone who's quite stressed doing overtime.
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Well, anyway. Anyway.
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I'm not done.
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Well, there's something you should know about, Russ. So Monstrous Mastery 2, we're planning on bringing to the Kickstarter this wintertime. And the introductory chapter is out. We've put that out for people to have a look at.
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Yes, but it gives you some info and information about what the tools are going to have. Because obviously it has all the stuff in the first one, like legends, lore, science, behaviour, encounters, treasure and stuff. But all the new stuff as well, because there's horde monsters and heroic monsters and things like that. Loads of stuff going on. So yeah, it gives you a preview of that.
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So I thought if people were interested, you can download that chapter and have a look.
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uh in the monster game side yeah what we should do actually a bit closer time is probably get our cf pools available to come on and talk about it yeah yeah so we'll talk more about it then maybe i've already i have already uh suggested it to him and he has answered in the affirmative all right so we'll do that sometime but for now yeah the introductory chapter is out just to give you a little uh and the pre-launch page is up so you can click yeah and follow yeah i mean basically but yeah it's good good
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It's shy of 7,500 backers, so a goodly amount.
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I'd have to run the numbers, but it's definitely up there.
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Well, it was the one we needed to reprint first, so... Yes, which is like that.
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Oh, nice. I like Monster of the Week.
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Well, there we go, yeah. I don't have anything to add on that. It looks like it's exactly what you expect it and want it to be. It's very clear what it is and what you use. Nice. The case books for investigators look nice as well, the little notebooks.
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That's how I've been talking about it already, in fairness.
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That's all right. But then I think that's experience, isn't it? Because I think you two have been running... For me, it's a minute or two. Well, you two have been running games for so much longer, you've probably encountered...
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interesting the only issue with that is if your players consume the same media that you do because i did i did that with a zombie campaign it was quite sad planned it and it was quite sandboxy and i've consumed a lot of zombie media because you know that's who i am as a person and a lot of things that i started to throw seeds in the person was like oh this one reminds me of this and i was like okay thanks
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And it just so happened we happen to have a big overlap in the media that we're consuming.
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Oh, that's really good. I like that.
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Yeah, I think we did, and they did a playthrough as well. So you use all the dice and, yeah, I think we were worried about balance and things. We were like, maybe they'll be in water and there wasn't, but there was.
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When you explained it, I got on board with the metaphor. It made sense. I did need the context.
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It's like those toddler books you get that are waterproof.
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sorry i feel we're getting off topic yeah so the dmg has loads of so whilst i'll segue in so those are some ideas for like advice for campaigns and it seems like the dmg is really going for it with advice for and structure for new gms would you agree yeah so so you asked about this earlier
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Because the GM decides which dice you roll, which can be a D4 to a D12. And then, yeah, if you roll higher than the GM, you're successful.
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What a great news podcast.
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In the first chapter, when this is preparing for it, does it include have a little cry?
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Good.
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Oh, cool. So I'm guessing like Matt Mercer's in that group.
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I think this is really smart to put in there because I think this book is really done to welcome new people and it's not assuming that you know anything about it. And it's giving you enough information where you can jump in and not feel Like you're lost in the old boys club.
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Because I know sometimes jumping in to run games of D&D and when you join a community, if you don't know all the lore, you can feel really outstaffed with things.
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I was hesitant to run things, so I don't want to bump into some lore that my players know about and do it wrong, as I know is an odd way to say, because in...
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Exactly that.
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Fair. But anyway, Russ.
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No, I said that's why we're a team of people. No one person has all the knowledge. We have metaphors between us.
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So I think this is very much like a collector's edition, so it is going to be for all sorts of different people. And I also feel it's going to be a bit of a beer and pretzels vibe sort of game, because I think if you want a really crunchy, in-depth system, you're not going to get it from this. But it's very clear about what it is.
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Yeah, if it helps make games happen, let's do it.
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And also, I think it's a really nice game for casual players that don't play tabletop RPGs, because... If people are fans of the Discworld and you say, hey, we're playing a Discworld game, this might be the right thing for them to jump in and give it a try.
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And the dice rolls aren't complicated and they'll know the world and they'll probably just have fun sitting there getting to walk around the Discworld a bit. So that's where it sits in my mind.
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That makes sense to me, because I don't ever feel, in my experience, that the DM drove when rest happens. It was like the party, like, oh, I feel like we really need a rest at this point, and they would do that in the narrative. The DM wouldn't be like, okay.
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I'm in both because generally the party has said, like, we'll get to a point and be like, I think we're kind of done for the day and done with things we want to do. And then as the GM, we can be like, yeah, it's early evening. So you could settle in and make a camp and get ready to rest for the evening and, you know, all that stuff. So you can react in that way.
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obsession around the campfire absolutely for me the long rest and campfire things in a campaign is absolutely the time when people get to you know have that there's some situations where a long rest isn't appropriate either what if you're right in the middle of a dungeon If it's not a safe area to rest and set up camp, yeah.
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Are you two picking up a copy of it?
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You have? Oh. I don't think this one is one I'm going to get because I just don't know when I would run it. I think I'd like to play it. So if you're running a game, let me know.
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An inn or your home or somewhere like that.
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Okay. So the adventuring day is done. Recommendations of six to eight encounters per day is gone. It's, yeah. Okay.
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yeah I think I would because like so many of the spells have changed it is 5.5 in my mind absolutely and everyone I speak to thinks that as well I just think not calling it that is going to cause confusion down the road for people bringing the wrong books and wrong versions of the rules to tables and especially with newer players
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Should we talk about Greyhawk then?
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Okay. Fair enough. Carry on.
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What are those rules for us?
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I mean, you could.
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Maybe that's why it's moved to the DMG, because it needs to be at the Dungeon Master's discretion. So a player can't just do whatever. They need to come to their DM and be like, look, I want to do this. And they're like, yeah, okay, we can do this. And it gives the DM a bit more control so that they don't do something too wild.
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And you get some dice.
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Well, it's just something I'd read about and have opinions on things to talk about. So that's fair enough.
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I'm not specifically like, oh, I'm so excited for Greyhawk. But I just thought it was interesting because it's not been... It's not a setting that's had a lot of love from what I understand, like historically in D&D. Interestingly, I know that on the Dungeon Masters Guild, it's now unlocked as a setting. So third party creators can sell material set in the world of Greyhound.
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Yeah, because it's in Great British Pound.
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So that's cool. So it opens up some options for third party publishers on there. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I think it's only like 30. It's a 30 page chapter.
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From what I understand, they've got the setting, but the idea is it's quite a generic setting so people can pick it up and fill stuff with it in many senses. I don't know a huge amount about it.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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James.
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See, I like settings like that that give you a vein thing, like a necromancer. Then you can fill in the details with your own.
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It's not... Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not...
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Standard fantasy D&D.
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It's not got its own unique flavour attached to it. It's just... It's a roast dinner of a D&D campaign. There's no extra seasonings involved.
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Yeah. No, I don't know where it's being printed. I don't know how much shipping is because that can be a different question.
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Because it was the first one.
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Yeah. I guess it's like when you read early science fiction books, you're like, oh, I feel like I know this. But it's not because that is generic itself. It's because it was the first one and everything else has kind of springboarded off that.
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Correct. Yes, thank you. I did not have that word. Thank you for providing this. This is why we're a team.
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I'm on the metaphor I know what you mean yes and this is exactly kind of what I want from a setting I don't want something really in detail that I have to do a lot of homework for this is like 30 pages for example does feel like I've got a lot of information I can get the vibe I can get what's going on but I can fill in the rest because I love filling things in on the fly in my games especially to my players because usually when my players ask me a question they're like what does this look like I'm like I don't know what do you see and I let them do it as well
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like sharing or for all control absolutely yeah well it's because i'm lazy but they like them players seem to like it so it's good it gives them buy-in yeah yeah it gives them buy-in and i don't have to do anything everybody wins
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Things that aren't D&D and don't have a license.
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Yeah. Yeah, so Greyhawk looks interesting to me because it's, like you say, generic D&D. So people are going to know what's what without having to do a lot of work. But yeah.
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Or maybe it's the Discworld's brand.
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You can watch other people's games on actual players.
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I think that's why now safety tools are so important and session zeros, just because to make sure everyone's expectations are in the same place.
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To make sure everything's standardised across different... Yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way, because I've not really done Adventurous League stuff. I haven't thought about it in that sense.
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hmm yeah very rude but yeah that's that it's the same idea but people very different takes on that yeah and i think most frustrations and games breaking down i see that i see online of people writing is usually because people have different expectations of things and they haven't explicitly said it that's like yeah it's like i was doing a because i was doing horror games this weekend i have a safety sheet
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i get people to opt in on the safety sheet in advance and it has a list of topics there's some weird stuff on there when you see that sheet out of context and somebody saw it and they're like what is this why would you have that in a game and i'm like i don't have it in the game as you can see in this one that's saying that's not topic we're doing but it warrants saying because if i don't explicitly say it someone might think that's okay to put in because for someone else that might not be a obviously that's not going to be included so okay yeah yeah
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Yeah, I'm not going to tell you what your motivations should be and what your goals should be and what you should want to do, but I will mechanically help you to achieve that. If you're like, oh, I wanted to do this thing, but I failed this role, you'd be like, oh, well, you could instead, blah, blah, blah. And then they can sometimes go, oh, yeah, I'll do that. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, no. Yeah, both of them are supposed to be different, but yeah. But yeah, interesting about Back to Greyhawk with, yeah, because we... Yeah, what else have we got?
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I'm just thinking, though, isn't a reverse J a capital L?
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I'm sure we'll get more info about the... Yeah, we'll get more.
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As the weeks roll on.
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And then we'll actually have a copy.
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Depends what font you use, I guess.
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Well, you...
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well there you go it feels like a good generic setting that doesn't have too much going on I don't if I were to run if I wanted to run a D&D campaign I don't think I'd do but if I did that would be the kind of setting I'd use because it's like you know this generic D&D fantasy setting that you're all familiar with it's kind of that I don't have to do a lot of homework and lore I'm not going to have a player on the table sit and go actually that can't be the case because back in 1602 I don't know something happened
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Comic Sans. Okay.
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Well, that's all for this week, then. All right, then.
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I'm recording this afterwards because I forgot to do my obligatory reason to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 on the podcast this week. So I'm just going to fix that. In the Dungeon Master's Guide, there is a piece of artwork at a ball and there is a picture of Minsc and Boo in that artwork. So that is my fun Baldur's Gate 3 fact of the week. Thank you.
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I really did. I really did. I'm like, I'm tired, but not tired enough to not be chaotic, which is perfect for a podcast host.
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I say Vasen, but I don't know if I'm saying it wrong.
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Okay.
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No, it's like a stone golem, do you mean?
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Yeah. Maybe it's in there.
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Gil and Crutes or Yeel and Crutes?
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But Gyllenhaal is the westernised version, but it's meant to be Yeel and Helen, so I don't know if it's just like Yeel and Crutes.
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Where is it based? What part of the world?
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I mean, that would be the British way of pronouncing that word.
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So let's just do the British thing and take something foreign and make it our own and interpret it through our lens. That's a very British thing to do.
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Oh, well, yeah, my writing skills are fantastic, as you know.
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That game is on my list of things to run. I have a lot of books and things, so I'm probably not going to pick these up because I need to get through what I've got already. But I really like it because, I mean, having played it, I assume it feels a bit investigative with, like, it's not just, like, go kill the monster.
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And I'm sure sometimes combat is one of the solutions, I'm sure. But it's not the only solution.
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Pretty much. I like it. That feels interesting to run because I imagine sometimes players will do things that you didn't think as a solution. But you're like, yeah, that works. Yeah, let's do that. And I love it when tables do that because that's always a very cool thing.
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I mean, setting like it, original lore, ugh.
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And that's my answer to your question.
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I have heard of this, yes.
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okay so this isn't like for inmates this is for people to come along and be in a spooky setting and play the game yes great cool because i wasn't sure because i know that ttrpgs are used by a lot of inmates in prison because it's i'm looking at this and you you have to meet at the pentridge prison tours ticket office so i'm guessing it's not an active i'm on board now now i'm understanding where we're going with this i'm here i've arrived thank you
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That's a lot different, yeah. And if that's in Australian dollars as well, because that's a lot... It is Australian. Yeah, so that's a lot less in US dollars or Great British Pounds.
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November, not October.
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You've got a month.
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Don't care for while you're away.
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It is cool. I do like these events of RPGs in cool locations, because I do think it makes games accessible for some people, because if some people are like, I want to try this, but we don't have a GM, it's nice that there are events to book on. But it is a very luxury thing.
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We've got the one, the only, it's... It's me, Jessica from EM Publishing. I don't feel too much like a ray of sunshine today. I feel very tired by existence, but that is good to know. I am masking well.
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Well, I bet loads of people are like, oh, are you playing that Dungeons & Dragons event with Cthulhu? There'll be people that say that, because it's become a... People use the term tabletop RPG and Dungeons & Dragons interchangeably.
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Well, I think there's a number of lawsuits in the US which are currently in progress where some of these companies are being sued by large authors or artists or... basically for plagiarism.
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ai did not have permission to access all of these articles that we wrote and you're using it to replace us needed a court to yeah i think we need a court to come down and just say definitively what we already know but for court to say definitively and put in the legal precedent that ai is plagiarizing and a court to actually say that right because you know we we all know that but until a court says it it's not a it's not necessarily legally true does that make sense
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And I am equally impressed by how Jess did that in just one take.
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I think, yeah.
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I kind of look to indie games for innovation. D&D is kind of... Yes. There's the safe kind of thing. But...
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Yeah, because obviously it's already affecting artists.
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Yeah. I mean, yeah.
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Greg Tito. Incidentally, last week we kept calling him Greg Tito. I think that was my mistake. I'd never heard his name said aloud. And I've never met him. But Greg Tito, apparently. We got a couple of emails about it.
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We were saying his name wrong. Greg Tito, who was communications director at Mrs. of the Coast until like a couple of weeks ago and left for that political career.
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He has commented, he posted on Blue Sky, he says, because now obviously he no longer needs to be the voice of wizards and speak the party line, as it were. He says, and this is something he would never have said before he left, I'm deeply mistrustful of AI and I don't want people using it anywhere near my D&D campaigns. Which is an interesting thing to say.
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leftover concerns of ai and that sort of tech being used in the games so yeah yes and anyway anyway that's that's that anyway that's that topic um i guess it's just to keep an eye on and see what happens
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There's genuine ethical uses of AI. Yeah. But generative content creation is not one of those.
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I would agree.
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Yeah. Sadly, I think this is an issue that's going to be resolved on a much larger scale than the TTRPG industry. Oh, yeah. When it comes down to it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be a global thing with big, big, big industries. Mm-hmm. And we'll just be writing the tale of that, you know. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, when Hollywood starts putting out AI-made movies or something like that, you know, that's... I don't know.
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I wouldn't say confused. It's a strong term.
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That's not a feature I want. Put it that way.
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Yeah.
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It wouldn't surprise me because, you know, Baldur's Gate 3 was big and they apparently own the characters. Yeah. Larian don't. Wizards do. So there's no reason not to, is there? You know, it's a big, big popular franchise. Yes. Might as well use it, I guess.
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I still might get to play this game.
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Okie dokie. Right, well, before we get onto that, shall we have a look at some of this week's RPG news?
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Come on. Fair enough. Fair enough.
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Hmm.
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I don't know what to say to that.
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Is he an actual vampire in Baldur's Gate then?
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I'm right, okay. Yeah. Okay. As you know, I'm very, very familiar with Baldur's Gate 3 and know all the details about it. I'm just pretending not to for the sake of the audience.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to stick around with a sort of circle around D&D for a bit because there is some non-D&D news.
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Go on, then. I know what it is. I was about to say it, but you say it. Go on, you do it.
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It has been quite a week, actually. Where should we start? I don't even know where to start. There's so much that's happened this week. Okay, let's start with... If you're in a Canada, one of our calendars, Toronto specifically...
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Okie dokie. Yeah. So, Modiphius. You know they're making their Discworld RPG. I do now. We did talk about it a few weeks ago on the show when they announced it.
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Unknown. Possibly. Or maybe not. One of those two things.
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Yes, they've announced the Kickstarter date. So that is going to be launching on October the 15th. Marvellous. What's also interesting is it's not using the 2D20 system, which Modiphius uses for pretty much everything.
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They have now. Oh. It's going to be a new game system, a narrative-focused game system.
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Hmm. Other than that, I can't tell you much. Okay. I mean, it's the 40th anniversary of The Colour of Magic, which was the first Discworld book.
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So I guess that's kind of the timing. I'm interested. I haven't read a Discworld book in ages, but I did enjoy them a lot years ago when I read them as a kid.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I am not either. There is a Dungeons & Dragons themed touring experience starting soon.
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Yeah, yeah. I wonder how similar, because there was the Monty Python RPG that came out, it was kickstarted a couple of years ago and then came out, what, last year? I don't know, I can't remember.
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Yeah, but games which are basically based on sort of like surrealism and silliness and humour. So I wonder how similar to that it is in terms of...
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Yeah. I always kind of worry with that sort of thing that because, like...
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Monty Python and Discord and stuff are so funny and so good and basically you know Discord was basically written by you know a genius who is clearly far far funnier than I could ever be and cleverer than I could ever be I kind of worry that sort of like trying to run such a game could you really capture the voice and the tone of it because that sounds like a difficult thing to do I'd be worried about it yeah
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I'm not 100% sure what it is. So it was announced by Hasbro. Okay. And the details are scarce. It's called The Immersive Quest, a D&D experience.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, I suppose when it comes to support material and stuff like that, if all the humour is ingrained in the actual adventures and stuff, that helps, doesn't it? It gives you tools to use. Yeah, and the way things are described and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, yes, some of them play it completely straight, don't they? Yes. Yeah.
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No, I am too. I am very intrigued.
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Yeah. So do you remember the basic roleplay design challenge?
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Launched that and there was $10,000 in prizes. A lot of money. Basically, a bunch of finalists would get $500 each and the top three will get like $2,000.
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Something like that. And one of the cool things about it was, Chaosium weren't trying to claim the rights to any of this. They were basically saying, just kind of like kickstart, I guess, a creative community.
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Incentivize a creative community. So they're basically saying, you make this stuff, it's still yours and you can set it. We don't want any of it, but we're going to try and incentivize that by having a little competition and the best ones will just give you... A prize.
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Yeah.
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I think it's a clever idea.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're not trying to claim ownership of these things. They're not saying they're going to publish these things. They're just saying this is the stuff that you would do normally using our licences, but you can enter this competition and, you know... It just fuels the sort of creator base, I guess.
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It's launching in Toronto. It's been announced by Hasbro, but at the moment, I mean, I couldn't find any details about it or anywhere where I could...
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In a way.
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Yeah, I'm seeing historical, sci-fi. I'm seeing intrigue.
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Yeah. Well, this is now open to a public vote because there were, I think, nearly 200 entries and they had a panel of judges which selected the top 10. And then so those top 10 are now getting that $500, I think. And then it's the public vote now to find out who the top three are who will get the $2,000.
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buy tickets not that I was going to buy tickets but anywhere that I you can buy tickets so I guess more information is coming soon but what what we did find was they did one based on Minecraft a while back and I'm wondering if it's going to be similar to that what was the Minecraft one is it like at a venue and you it's like a walk around and there's activities or yeah so you you it takes about an hour
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Yeah. But I think it's such a cool thing to do. I think it's a really, really cool thing to do.
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I agree entirely.
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Fair enough. I haven't voted yet. I will do after the show, I think. I'll read through them all and then I'll vote then.
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Okie dokie. Right, more news, more news, more news. We got some Expanse miniatures. We got a miniature of the new D&D Black Dragon. We've got some WizKids life-size replicas of dragon eggs and Displacer kittens and things.
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...is the spaceships. Because I like a spaceship.
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So these are from Green Running...
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Because they make The Expanse, actually. And it's a new miniature line of spaceships. And so it's going to be two box sets of their hard plastic miniatures. One is the spaceship crew and one is ships of The Expanse. So there's characters and ships, two of them. 28mm scale. Can't wait. I'm going to check that out because I just like toy spaceships.
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Well, it took about an hour and you explore this sort of Minecraft world and there was this interactive scavenger hunt thing that you could do. So I guess something like that. I don't know.
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Even though I've never played The Expanse, I will still probably get it just for the toy spaceships.
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Exactly, yeah.
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Well, that's going to hit Battle Kit in another day, actually. I'm trying to look for the date, but there is nearly 4,000 people queued up on waiting for that, though.
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Oh, wow. I think this is going to do really well for them. I think so, as well. Well, miniatures always do, though, don't they? Miniatures are...
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People want minis.
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Miniatures Kickstarters always do really well. But I don't know about tokens and standees and stuff, but miniatures ones definitely always do really well. People just love minis.
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I mean, my philosophy on minis, though, is always that I'll never paint them. Same.
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Yeah.
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I have no desire to. I have no skill in doing so. Don't have the fine motor skills for it.
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So, yeah. So, generally, I only buy pre-painted minis anyway. So, I guess that kind of walks me out for this, probably. Sadly.
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Unless I just said all the spaceships are grey. Spaceships can be grey, can't they?
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Yeah, they're grey. Actually, I have painted them. I've painted them metal colour.
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I mean, you could.
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That is literally as close to painting minis as I would ever get.
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You know when you go to some of the large conventions and you'll see there'll be a stand there with like 100 people sitting there painting minis?
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As a recreational thing.
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Yeah, I haven't even done that.
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I think I find it stressful and frustrating.
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We've only got a couple of bits left now. We're nearing the end of the news. We've got Critical Role's full programming slate, and we've got the Electric State RPG. Which one of those do you like the sound of most?
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Okay, I will tell you what Critical Role is up to. So you know they had to announce their Beacon streaming service a while back?
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So they're having their own streamer and they're going to be putting their content on that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Oh, I wanted to do that. It was really good fun. My brother told me about it. We didn't get around to doing it. Oh, that sounds so much fun.
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Well, they've kind of announced what's going to be coming on that later this year, 2024. So there's going to be the Re-Slayers Take, the second season of that, which is a family-friendly series set in Exandria, which is the Critical Role Universe world setting. And that includes a bunch of actors, including Billy Boyd from Lord of the Rings, one of the Hobbits.
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I'm related to a hobbit.
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Yeah.
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Well, the other hobbit, Dominic Monaghan. The other hobbit. I am related to because, well, sort of, not by blood, but my brother's... That's what related means. He's the cousin of my brother's wife.
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Am I related or not?
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A cousin-in-law. Is that a thing? A cousin-in-law.
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I mean, I've never met him or spoken to him, but I have seen him at a wedding.
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Okay, that's all right.
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You run in the same circles. I've been in the same room at a wedding.
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That's my claim to fame, I guess.
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Yeah.
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Do you know what? This wedding was over 10 years ago.
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That is what I'm saying.
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This has been in the works for a while. But anyway, okay, yeah. So yeah, that's happening. Billy Boyd is in this thing. Anyway, so. Billy Boyd, who is not Dominic Manahan, he's a different Hobbit. But a Hobbit nevertheless. So there is a guest star. I don't think it's a regular. But also we have the third season of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.
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Which is a family-friendly one. It's an independent show. I don't think it's made by Critical Role, but it's joining the Beacon streaming service.
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RPG tables like being retold and animated and it feels very relatable to a silly D&D table that you've had yeah well so they've also got so the Legend of Vox Machina which is on Amazon am I right Amazon? Amazon.
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The Critical Role cartoon. Amazon, isn't it? Yes. Has a companion show called Insight Editions, and that is going to be launched on Beacon. So you can watch the show on Amazon, and then you can go over to Beacon, presumably, and watch Insight Editions, where I guess they talk about it. They sit around in a studio and talk about it, I guess.
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But, you know, these things happen, you know. I mean, it's got to be better than that Willy Wonka one. That's true.
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Yeah. I mean, there's only two episodes, each covering half the season. It's not like one episode for each episode. So only two episodes, but that's the thing. And then they're going to be having a bunch of fireside chats with Travis Willingham and Ashley Johnson, announced for September and October, and presumably others later.
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Oh, yes. The Daggerheart Critmas Story Live Show. It's going to be on December 7th in Camden, New Jersey. And that is going to feature the final version of their Daggerheart RPG.
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I think some of the root of that is a lot of Critical Role fans kind of know D&D very well, or are mainly familiar with D&D, and where Daggerheart kind of differs from D&D, maybe that doesn't sit super comfortably with the brand that they kind of... I don't know.
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I think that's possibly why, though, because that's so different from D&D, whereas Daggerheart has more overlap with D&D, doesn't it?
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Well... So I think some people were kind of thinking that Daggerheart was going to be Critical Role's version of D&D, and that's not what it is.
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Very unofficial, I believe. I think so.
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That's not... Yeah, yeah. No. I mean, I don't know. I can't speak for other people.
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I'm just guessing.
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I guess so. I guess so. Right, what else have we got? We've got Electric State.
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So this is from Free League. And this is, you know, Tales from the Loop was based on the art of, what's his name? Simon Stalaharg? I don't know how you say the name.
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Almost certainly.
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Almost certainly. Well, they definitely told us that I was saying Quick Tito's name wrong.
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Thank you to those people that did let me know. Several people that let me know. Thank you very much for doing so. But anyway, so The Electric State is another of his narrative art books. Separate to Tales from the Loop. And it kind of featured kind of like America, Southwestern USA in the 90s. And it's kind of ruined and post-apocalyptic.
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I didn't go. You'll be surprised.
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And there's all these sort of giant robots with cute heads and things wandering around.
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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
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No, that's what it's based on.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry, I got confused. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yes, the Electric State RPG is coming out on October 1st.
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Because that hit Kickstarter like last year or something.
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Made like 400 grand or something. I can't remember what. Casually.
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Free League always do really, really well, don't they? They've got a big and loyal fan base and their stuff is gorgeous. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. I think that's probably for the best, to be honest.
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Well, as of October 1st, yeah. Okay. A couple of months, yeah. But it's coming.
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And it's not the thing I was doing. I was counting the game.
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Oh, I'm exhausted now.
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Are we done? Is there any more?
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All right. Tell me Pathfinder.
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Sure, if you like.
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They harvest blood action that allows them to refresh temporary hit points. Sounds like a vampire.
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Does that make you a vampire? Or do you literally have to drink it?
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Yeah. Okay. What's interesting, the Inquisitor renaming it to the Vindicator.
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Because of the real world... The evil ones. Well, they wanted to get... Well, the evil ones are still called inquisitors, but the good ones are called vindicators.
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Yeah, yeah. But they're keeping it for the baddies, so...
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Because they're baddies, basically, yeah.
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Oh, yes. I'd forgotten about that. Yes, I saw that.
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It looks like that, or it looks like Project Sigil.
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If you look in the trailer, they're moved like minis as well. And they're not animated. It's sort of like you say, this one's doing a fireball and there might be a spell effect animation, but it's not like they run across there.
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Yeah, I was quite interested in that.
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It looks a lot like Project Sigil, just visually, the way it seems to. Obviously, it's a video game and Project Sigil is a virtual tabletop, so they're different things. But just visually, when you look at it, they look similar.
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Like similar things.
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Yeah. Okay. Okay. Now we've got to be done. We've got to be done now. There can't be any more news.
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In the entire world, nothing else has happened, I'm sure.
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Oh, we did something.
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We did something. Yes, we did. Do you not remember doing something?
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Bundle of Holding.
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We have got two bundles over on Bundle of Holding. They are both Level Up Advanced 5th Edition bundles.
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And one of them is a Core Rulebooks bundle.
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And one of them is called Level Up Adventures, and it contains the starter set and some of our adventures, adventure material.
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Yeah, yeah. And they're, you know, basically, they're a really good deal. It's about $130 worth of books, digital PDF books, for about $30. Yeah. That's a really good deal. Yeah.
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Right, now we've got to be done. That's got to be it now.
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Okay.
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So they do get that. Oh, they have? Okay. What I understand is the way it's processed is you're not charged for the physical book until it ships. Right. So when they pre-ordered it originally, they were charged for the digital half of the bundle. And then partly because of the way PayPal works or something, it has a sort of session token which expires.
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That's a Venn diagram of talent.
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Are you the only person in the center of that, or is there anyone else? No.
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And did you blend the romance into your actual game sessions as well? I mean, is that a common theme in your games?
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And then when it came to like three weeks later, and then Wizards went to try and charge for the physical half, that had expired. And therefore the payments failed, as I understand it, and I'm not 100% sure that's 100% accurate, but it's something like that, I think.
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So whenever I... I think I'm one of those people. I mean, I'm not saying that I would refuse to try, given the right situation and people. But it's certainly not something that's ever really been part of my experience.
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Or might not even know, I guess.
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When you describe that scale of it, and you mentioned that it could just be an NPC doing something like that. So when you put that perspective on it, then I guess, yes, I have experienced that in my games then. That's just, that's not what I was thinking of when we said romance. But yes, certainly on that scale, then I have interacted.
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But I think in my experience, it's always been played for laughs.
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Yeah, it's a city. So, I mean, I don't know, maybe that's just a gateway?
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As far as I can make out, yeah. Oh, fair enough.
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It sounds like it's going to work out all right, I guess.
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Yeah. I suppose there's a danger. I suppose it depends on the group and the people involved. And especially maybe if you had, like, maybe a group of... you know, younger males involved that it could get, you know, kind of juvenile and stuff like that. I mean, is that, is that sort of like ways to approach it to try and avoid falling into that trap?
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I wouldn't like that at all.
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I would love that. I've had a lot of real breakups in my life. I don't want to add fake ones to it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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If you're not expecting it to go out in two parts, though, so you make your payment and say it came... I don't know how much it came to. Say it came to $60 or something or whatever it was. I don't know what it was. And they take $30 and then three weeks later take the other $30. I can sort of see how people... might get caught out by that because they'd assume it had been paid.
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Mm-hmm. I think for me there would be quite a strong element of self-consciousness as well in such. I mean, I think I would feel very self-conscious and awkward and silly doing that just because of who I am and what I'm like. It's not necessarily things that can't be overcome. I don't know. I don't know.
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If you didn't pay too much attention. And so they wouldn't assume they'd have to leave $30 in their PayPal account ready for the second half. I don't know. Maybe.
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Always, always, always go Joey Tribbiani in Friends. How are you doing? How are you doing? There we go.
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Yeah. I think also, I mean, we've touched on consent and things like that. And we're all, I'm sure, aware of examples of actual pay, live streams and things like that, or reports from conventions where that has... been done wrong. Yeah. Sometimes with, you know, catastrophic consequences. I mean, I don't want to bring up any names, but... Yeah. I mean, we know that can happen.
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So, and you mentioned it as an analogy to horror.
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earlier, Jess, and I totally get what you mean.
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But the issue of consent is there, though, in exactly the same way. And so... I think with something like this... Mm-hmm. It's kind of a little less clear-cut than horror because it can develop and change.
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More than... You could sort of say, no, I don't want cannibalism, and therefore you just don't have cannibalism. Yeah. But a social interaction develops and changes...
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And that's why those safety tools are so... It's harder to prep for, isn't it, I guess.
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Yeah, you need the ability to change.
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Yeah, that's just struck me. So the code word basically is so that someone can use a code word without having to sort of feel like they have to stand up and go, no, I don't want this and make a spectacle or feel like a spoiled sport or any of the many different sort of social peer pressure type things that might happen so that the other people aren't aware particularly.
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But if everybody has a code word, a different one, and the GM knows what those code words are, That sounds like it would be, I'm sure, I'm not inventing this, obviously, but I'm sure someone's done this before. But that sounds like a way that you could certainly handle like things changing in game without having to force people to, you know, stand up and make a scene and, you know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, especially if your credit card has expired in that time and you've got a new one or something. Yeah, because that's happened to me before.
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Yes, you don't have to necessarily do it in public when it's online.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's a really interesting topic. And, you know, just because I've never encountered it in my gaming doesn't mean I'd be opposed to it. But I think it really would have to be the right people and in the right situation. I certainly wouldn't do it at a convention. I wouldn't do it with people I don't know, I don't think. Yeah. And probably I would tend towards the humour with it.
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I think. But that's possibly just a coping thing. I don't know.
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Yeah, it doesn't sound like it's going to turn out to be a major issue. I mean, you've got an obvious contingent of people sort of going... oh, look, Wizards of the Coast are trying to steal people's money and not give them their books or something. And it's like, of course that's not happening.
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You can do that. Yeah. And you do that in combat too.
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I guess the other thing that maybe occurred to me is group dynamics. If you're playing, say, just a regular D&D game and you get into a fight with a bunch of kobolds or something, that's kind of something that everybody's involved in and doing their thing. Whereas a romance will probably be just between two players. Yeah. And what's everyone else doing at the time?
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There's a lot of things to criticise Wizards of the Coast for. That's not one of them. This isn't one of them.
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We are, we are.
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No, Christian Hawke wrote that.
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So Chris Cox is the CEO of Hasbro. And he used to be president of Wizards of the Coast before he got promoted like two years ago or something. I can't remember when it was. Yeah. Two years ago-ish. So he's now CEO of Hasbro. And he was at this Goldman Sachs event.
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Yeah. We've also kind of, like, talked about this quite a bit in terms of a developing romance, flirting and then a date and stuff like that. But, of course, romance could exist as, like, right from the start, two players are, I don't know, maybe married. Yeah. Characters, sorry, may be married. And they're playing a married couple in this game.
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So you don't have to necessarily go through the whole romancing process. You know, so that's... Yeah, I think that would probably be easier.
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I think, yeah, also you could sort of say you're playing a game and say Jess and I are in this game and we were playing a couple who had been married for 20 years and were a bickering.
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Yeah, and that's still...
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I was talking about AI products and how those interact with Hasbro brands such as D&D. It is interesting because, you know, wizards have been, certainly in the last year, saying we will not use any AI for art. And there's been a couple of controversies regarding that where they've published stuff and it has AI art in it. Not always to their knowledge.
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I do like bickering, though.
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Yeah, yeah. Right, we are coming up to four, so we need to wind down now. Coming up to the end of our time together, I'm afraid.
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Thank you very much.
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Yeah, it's been a real, real pleasure talking to you.
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Oh, believe me, we get lots of rants about AI on our show.
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You know, sometimes it was, you know, an artist that, you know,
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But yeah. But they've kind of like very much taken the stance that AI is going to not go near D&D. At least that's the messaging that I feel I've been receiving. whether that's what they intended or not. So that's kind of the impression I've gotten.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Chris Cox was talking to people at this Goldman Sachs thing. I guess they're investors, I guess, or someone, something like that. I don't know who would be at that.
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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. So he's talking about AI, machine learning based AI or proprietary AI. And he says he's excited about what he calls the playful elements of AI. And he talks about the people he plays with.
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He says that he plays with 30 or 40 people regularly. That's an active gaming schedule.
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Yeah. And he says, you know, if you look at a typical D&D player, he says there's not a single person, and these are his words, there's not a single person who doesn't use AI somehow for either campaign development or character development or story ideas. And that's a clear signal that we need to be embracing it.
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Which, I don't know what that says about the people that Chris Cox is gaming with, because that's not my experience.
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So I'm not even aware of people even doing that much in my days.
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Right, okay.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I guess from the player side of it, it's not that different to just grabbing an image off Google, which I've definitely done for my characters and things. You know, if I'm playing an elf wizard, I'll just Google elf wizard, see what I like and just say, that's what my character looks like.
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So, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about it. I mean, he does go on to talk about how it needs to be done responsibly and ethically and how creatures need to be paid for their work. So, clearly, he is aware of the issues surrounding AI.
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, he definitely links it there to D&D and player introductions and user-generated content, emergent storytelling. These are the terms he's using.
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I've never looked at one, but I'm going to guess they're not great.
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But at that point, they're just regurgitating their own stuff. They're not making... anything new, are they? They're just going around in circles.
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Yeah.
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Good. I mean... There are things you can do. There's like Free Art on Pixabay, Creative Commons has stuff. Library of Congress has like a trillion pieces of art. There's a lot of open source art. There is. It's just not necessarily the vibe, the look or feel, the aesthetic that you're going for. But yeah, you can do stuff. Black and white tends to be a bit easier to be honest. Very good.
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But, wow, cool. Very cool. The thing is, it's a good movie. It is a good movie, yeah. It's put together well. I can imagine a lot of people being super annoyed at Hasbro, which, you know, shared... It wasn't that, though, because mainstream audiences don't know about that sort of thing. And people who do know about it might be like, well, you know what?
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The last five Dungeons & Dragons movies were pretty terrible. There have been five? Really? There's a number greater than one. I thought there was only three. I thought there was only five. Wow. Well, anyway, the previous ones. I might make it five. Previous ones have ranged from terrible to terrible.
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truly abysmal so having something with a coherent plot with like a running through line with like symbolism foreshadowing actual jokes that are actually funny jokes that are funny was the best joke in it is still where the paladin walks over the rock that that was pretty good joke I mean, everyone's got like a favorite. My bit's the bit where the, what do you call it?
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The brain eaters or whatever they're called. Just walk past them and ignore them.
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I'm like, oh, that's so relatable. Yeah. Yeah. It's got a tubby dragon in. What more do you people want? Yeah.
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Oh, I see.
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I would probably watch a sequel to it, which is as close to a glowing endorsement as you're going to get.
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A beauty spot.
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Smooth move from Atlas Games. Good work, John.
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They are.
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It's cheaper than creating something new. Yeah. But you're paying for something to be bought into creation.
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Yeah.
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Okay. That sounds good.
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He's a master of social media.
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That's okay. Thanks for having my back. That's very of us.
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We talked about a lot of stuff, man. It's weekly. It's a lot.
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I'd feel quite stressed doing that. It sounds like it'd be fun. I mean, I do remember, like, I went there about eight years ago, really heavily into immersion. Like, really heavily. Like, when you're queuing up for things, they've got, like, little repeating video messages which are telling you, okay, adventurers, you're going to be doing this, that, or the other, and, you know.
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all of the walls are made to look like you're in a location, like where you're going to be. Yeah, yeah. A real focus on immersion, which I particularly value, so I was quite impressed.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Nice, nice.
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Don't Disney own? No, it's Universal Pictures. Universal Studios. Universal Studios. So they don't have that. And Disney has Star Wars and Marvel. Yeah, that's true.
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It does, yeah.
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Good times. I have enjoyed reading the X-Factors.
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Vignette.
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Yes, yes. But if you are a fan of... Those things. Or is it... Mist of Akuma. Yes, Mist of Akuma. I'll just say Mist of Akuma. Use the proper name rather than the description. That's the best. So if you like Mist of Akuma, then good news, you can pick them all up in a definitive edition or a compilation edition.
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That is true. This is also true. Yes. Cannot argue with that. Yeah.
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Well, well, well. Will it provide you with amazing advice on how to frame your game with D&D? Apparently.
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Well, they used to do that. They did that with Wizards of the Coast, with the Elemental Evil Players Companion, which is a source of much Genasi, Arakokra, and some other full thing. I think it makes sense. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty good, but they stopped doing that, so I haven't really seen those in a while.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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So what is a DM's Toolbox?
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I would be interested to see what the chase rules are, because after immense amounts of banging my brain against the problem, I'm pretty much of the opinion that you really need to adopt a modal approach, and that a chase is a separate mode from a combat mode.
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Fierce of the Mind feels very strong. And you give the chase E...
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I don't recall the 5th edition DMG having what I'd call good chase rules. There were rules, certainly. No one can deny that, but I didn't find them satisfying or to do what I like. I can only tell you two things about these chase rules. Okay.
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Two pages? All right.
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I think that it would be fair to say that the 2014 edition of was envisaged as having Exhaustion play a much larger role than most games of 5e that I've seen or had actually had it play. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think there was definitely two camps, at least.
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that can really affect the game.
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But yeah, it's all those interesting things with survival versus exploration.
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Which I think is a little distinction worth borrowing.
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So they're doing an actual play on stage, it sounds like. Yes, I believe so. I believe it's on stage. Will it be streamed, Russ? That's the question.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's probably better. Yeah. Hopefully got the sensitivity readers in. Yeah, mental stress is a thing. Yeah.
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I don't know. Presumably not, I suspect. Well, are we happy for me to engage in some baseless speculation?
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Yeah, I think this might be something that I'm familiar with from Games Workshop. Some creatures caused fear and others caused terror. and basically that would affect whether you could approach them.
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Possibly it's an additional rule. Yeah, with this 24-ish. And Death Knights did it as well. Yeah, just to bring that back to maybe if you're doing something like Ravenloft or something, having foes that are too scary to approach. Rather than, oh, there's a phone over there. I will just lamp it for 300 hit points.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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With my blessing. Enjoy. Enjoy. Oh, of a phrase you might like, panel beat.
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I know.
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Yeah, I'll go panel bait it into the ground, which has a definite, I grab it and I repeatedly bonk it. I have multi-attack as a fighter. Isn't that what you do to straighten out dents in a car? That's called panel beating, isn't it? Yeah. It's a monster's head as well. I think it's great.
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Because people have views on gunpowder in games. Yeah. And the only thing I can tell you about people's views on gunpowder in games is that everyone disagrees with everyone else pretty strongly.
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I mean, as far as I'm concerned, Paul Hughes has pretty much nailed that. But I'm interested to see what they come up with.
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So analysis of how to use traps.
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Yeah. I'm talking about you.
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No. There's no choice to be made, is there?
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Exactly, exactly, yeah. Yeah.
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And the challenge is... Ideally, with some sort of baiting. Like, you know, you could just ignore the trap, but it's a shiny thing, isn't it? Mm-hmm.
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Do they just have to sit out? Because I was reading online, someone was saying, I went along to a session, had my character in the gym, killed my character at the start of the session. So that evening didn't happen for me.
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Went home, because there wasn't even a chance to watch other people playing D&D. That sounds abysmal. And then some people are very invested. I've forgotten how invested people get into characters. But one of my players on Wednesday, due to unfortunate amounts of crits being rolled at them, was like, oh no, my character.
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And then they rolled and they managed to get two death saving throw failures, which was not good. Not ideal. No, no. So it was like they're not really shifted the focus of the game. They were getting up and pacing around. They were so wound up about it. Which, like, I guess I'm just old and jaded. Because I'm like, oh, wow.
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yeah I mean because it takes time to make even a simple character like a 5e character I've made like dozens of them because like I've made lots of what's it pregens for various adventures league games it takes at least 20 minutes yeah and that's with I mean all the rules yeah yeah first level character see I was using level up gateway last night oh yeah yeah because our whole group got to use it for the first time for an alpha testing
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I mean, yeah, spamming out. I refer to pen and paper. Oh, yeah. At that point.
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I think maybe we have different, we could talk about that a little bit.
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I have. The design space in 2014 5th edition isn't sufficiently big that that is a huge problem to choose from the correct answers. That's probably true. In Level Up, the design space is somewhat larger.
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I've done the calculations a couple of times and it's definitely in the millions. And yeah, which one's the best ones is the subject of much debate. And I don't know, basically.
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Because you're good-hearted and dedicated to resisting corruption.
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Which is the Augustine school of morality, which I haven't really thought about in so long. Like Manichean, you've got good versus evil. They have a fight. Good should win, technically, whatever. I don't know. Whereas Augustine, it's like it's resisting evil. And by resisting evil, you're killing Gollum, which Gandalf shouts out in the first book. Like, it's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him.
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And a stick in the boiler soon.
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Well, maybe Gollum's got a point. We'll have to wait and see. And then at the end, Gollum turns up and Drawn by his evil to the evil's ring, evil destroys itself, which is bang on for Tolkien. And that's what we've heard. I've read a great essay about that.
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I'd actually like the level of take of, if you're a being from the angelic planes, you probably are likely to be good. And if you're from one of the other places, abyss or hell, you're probably likely to be evil. And then you have Cowboy to come around and say, ooh. aye, your brain looks so tasty. And that amuses me.
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Under hot water or under cold water.
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So you're saying you were adventurous to find themselves in hot water?
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm. This feels very Fallout adjacent, where you're... I've not played it, but as Alan said, it's supposed to build up settlements and support them and so forth.
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Generally, my experience when they're streaming these things, they like to throw in the opportunity that you can throw in a bit of extra cash in order to have something hilarious happen. I've seen them once they do that, yeah.
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I mean, something that I thought was a very good idea when I heard about it was the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons had the points of light setting
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yeah you'd have the settlements that acted as um like little oases of civilization and beauty and peace and order and you'd be trying to build them up so maybe that would be good for a reason yeah i mean that's what it is yeah yeah yeah it never really went very far that set and i remember it i don't think it was even named yeah i think point to light is as far as i got but i i was like so i i i
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Large amounts of empty space and algorables.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, like MCDM, flee mortals, level up, possibly entails the value. I don't know how to check. Well, yeah.
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That would mean it's a more auto-hitting witch, wouldn't it?
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Yeah, I like the level-up approach of making a deck saving throw against that sort of thing, with the DC being based on the number of shots.
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Yeah.
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Reputation and all that, yeah.
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So keeping it tier-appropriate.
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Like, if you're using D&D Beyond, if you're using their books, it's a lot more fiddly because there's different tables which can be accessed at different times according to if you're doing random rolls. And it's not massively clear, in my experience from looking at them, what tier is for what. But, you know, it's like That was like, I don't know, eight years ago for me to be messing around with.
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So, you know. possibly things have changed yeah is it something you've looked at Jessica?
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And you've never really been into cyberpunk?
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Which seems like a weird suggestion, but one of the best things about Cyberpunk is just the pages and pages of interesting things you can buy. Yeah, it's just so much stuff.
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Like having rumours be part of it. Like if you go round... Like, you know, if you're really... delving into, like, sort of a hub-based game. You've got, like, the magic, the various, like, vendors of alchemy, magic weapons. You can go and talk to them. You can do, like, you know, computer game style. Yeah. But they've got, like, instead of repeating the same thing, they have the rumours as well.
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maybe you you know so it's like part of what's going on it's not just right shopping trip time yeah yeah it's an underutilized part of the game i don't want to screw you i think i think i think you're right it's just it's work intensive it's work intensive and it's time intensive it's like is it delivering bang for the buck like we spent table time on this has it been exciting well the other option is no shopping yes no shopping at all yeah there are no magic shops yeah
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Yeah, yeah. Loot.
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That's 2014. Or you can make your own. Wow, 2014. Steering back. Can you make your own magic items?
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Oh, shit. Sorry, I don't mean to sigh quite so heavily. It's just, well, it's just like that means that to engage with that as a player, you have to be aware that these options are on the table to craft stuff. And then you have to make sure, if that's something you'd be interested in, that your character has the arcana proficiency or a tool proficiency or something like that. I think it's both.
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You need both. You need both. So you need to set yourself up to really...
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like almost dedicate your character to it before you can engage with it i don't think yeah i don't think crafting is something that most people probably want to do in their games it's it's it's there for a certain you know i mean people enjoy crafting in computer games um and i i know i can enjoy crafting in computer games it's just the circumstances are exceedingly rare that i do so
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Let's see how this works.
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Oh, Drakons and Demons.
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Right. So...
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straight away unless you invest the feet into it this is not a game that you get to have they do say that multiple people can contribute work together okay and so well you need to because otherwise that's a lot of skills yeah yeah yeah so basically then it's a question of gold and time and this is determined basically by the rarity of the item yeah so this is something you could give to your players and say crack on and sort it out yourselves yeah
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They don't need to make a skill check.
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Yeah, yeah. So Wonder Magic was sold pretty easy to crank out. If you want something legendary, then that's going to take a while.
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There is a collaborative element.
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where characters can bring their, you can have multiple people, that's what I said, which I feel is pretty essential. So yeah, okay, it's a crafting system, it's pretty basic. Does it say anything about materials?
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Yeah, I mean, I think, to be fair, if you're not interested in the crafting, which is fair, you can just pay full price.
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But if you're interested in the crafting and you're interested in the components, you can have like a little mini quest to find it.
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And, you know, depends upon the game you're playing. So, you know, it sounds okay. Yeah. I mean, I like to do a mini quest to get the right component.
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Oh, yeah. Sorry, I'm talking about The DMG. Yeah. You just need gold. Yeah. It's fine. Yeah. It'll work. Sounds good.
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You'll know which culture has created it. That's a holdover from the 5th edition, 2014. Yeah. which I really liked. I had a lot of fun with that. If only my players had been interested in reading the stuff. I wrote stuff on an index card, and they just, on the back, wrote what bonuses it gave them. I was like, oh, okay.
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For better or worse, magic items are just... I'd say to a certain extent, it almost becomes a class feature. Like a magic sword at fifth level is pretty much essential because... that's when you start encountering magic resistance or resistance to non-magical weapons. And then you're like, well, I guess I'd best use my magic sword then. Yeah.
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But, yeah.
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It'd be nice to acquire things with a bit of personality. But I mean, it's nice with the flavor text, but I guess for me, it's not really connected into the core game. So it's like loses a bit of value.
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It becomes like something that accretes on to what you're trying to do rather than being like a real... It's nice to have it, but it's not... If you don't have it, then it's very optional, is what I'm saying. And I don't know, it'd be cool to have a game where like these... really fed into the main narrative, which you can do, but again, it takes actual work.
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But maybe they've got some of that in the section on the install box. We shall have to wait and see.
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It's fine. Russ doesn't understand about dry ciders. Yeah.
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I don't like cider. You come from the New Forest. How can you not know about cider? Soap? Doesn't mean I like cider.
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We should. We should. I don't bid you good day.
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In full colour.
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So it's got kind of a sandbox vibe to it.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's very much coming across really strongly to me. It does sound very friendly. Dragonbane itself is. I only played it, but it was pretty simple. No particular hard things. It's like a roll under a D20 versus a stat. So, you know, kind of ridiculous-esque. But no, this sounds like a really, this is the sort of standard of adventure which I would look to pick up.
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Because if I, you know, I'm not a newbie at GM by any means, but I am very lazy. And like, if I am running a pre-written, I don't want to be working Yeah. Like, you know, like that's why I'm wearing a pre-written. If I wanted to work, I felt invested in working hard. I would literally do it myself. I have all the tools.
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But sometimes you just want to run an adventure and have some fun. And it sounds great for that. So amazing.
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Yeah. This girl has her eye on the Book to Journalist pipeline.
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Like taking advantage of the feedback and make it really good.
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Yep.
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Right. Well, that does sound like one for the fans of the franchise.
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And I've had a bit of experience with that. Played a Star Trek game, which was using it to help us have some parasites around. So that was very cool. Did enjoy that. Yeah. All the trauma dice in action. Yeah. Oh, that's free legal, yeah.
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Mm-hmm. Okay. Yes. More news. I have a little bit of news. Okay. It is called Monsters, Horrors and Abomination.
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Tips on horror. What this is, is Ben Minnett from Periapt Games, who did the Life Path character creation for 5th edition characters, based over in New Zealand, has launched a whole bestiary. 210 pages. Pollock Warriors, Singing Parasites, Primeval Lizard Gods, and something called Rule Eaters. Unsettling Monsters for D&D 5E is the description. So that hasn't launched yet.
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Right. As ever. It is a delight to be here. Joining us also, a mysterious figure. Some say that she's a remnant of 18th century French nobility. Others, that she's secretly a pretty, pretty princess pony. All I know is that's one hell of a cutie mark. It's the one! It's Siri!
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So if you want to be notified... then you can join in the queue for notification. I saw it and I was like, oh, that's quite good.
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All right.
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It feels like HeroQuest-y to me. Very HeroQuest-y.
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Yes, I may be tempted by this.
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Yeah, I fancy that.
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Do you know what? Yeah, thanks for bringing that attention. I have backed it. I've backed it.
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Yeah, live on the show.
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I have a nephew that really enjoyed HeroQuest, and now he's a bit older. He's playing RPGs and things, so I think this might be that nice intersection.
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P-E-T-A, as in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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Somebody needs to control them, yeah.
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Of all of their campaigns, this doesn't feel like an extreme and controversial thing, though. It's, you know, by comparison. In the bigger picture, this doesn't feel like, yes.
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But anyway, it's free to download on Peter's website and the link is on ENworld if you would like to have a look at it.
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Is it time for me to do my weekly excuse to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 on the podcast?
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I know. so one thing is for those that are going to the MCM Comic Con in London so that is happening later this month in October 27th they are doing the cast of Baldur's Gate 3 will be performing a D&D live show at the Comic Con so it has Neil Newman who plays Astarion Devorah Wilde who plays Lazelle Theo Solomon, who plays Will, and Samantha Burt. Is it Burt or B-Art? Who plays Karlak?
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I can't remember. It looks like Hart, which I love about her name because of the Karlak thing. But anyway, but they're all playing in a live D&D show. And, yeah, it looks really cool. Yeah. You have to buy a ticket to the show. It's at 11 a.m. And, yeah, that's it, really.
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Let me tell you the thing that I'm most excited about that's happened this week.
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Yes, yes.
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That would be funny.
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But yeah, and Wizards was tagged in the show, so I imagine this is another promo of the 2024 D&D rules or something. No word on whether we'll see anything about the VTT, because they did that last time, but I haven't got any confirmation that that would be the case.
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They did it previously at Gen Con.
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yeah but maybe it's the in the development time scale it's not doesn't work or i don't know i don't have details whether it will or will not but i know that the the actors will be there and they'll be playing that so that'll be fun so if you're fans of them and i imagine they'll also be at the show if you like signings and things also in other bolder skate news so whiz kids have released some bolder skate 3 miniatures it's got seven of the characters so it's kind of the core companions
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Yeah, news, if that's okay. So we talked last week, there's the International Longshoremen's Association was having a port strike in the US, which is valid, fair, love a union, love a strike, all for that. But that would mean that would significantly impact a lot of imports and exports, particularly things coming from Europe to the east coast of the US. And of course, of course...
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So the core kind of six companions you get in the game, plus Withers, because who wouldn't want him? And they're pre-painted, Russ, so no painting needed. And they look really good, actually. They look... Yeah, I looked at them. They look... Yeah, that's what I'd want from a miniature of them, really. I don't really have much more to say about it other than that.
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So the box, they'll be released in February 2025, and you can pre-order on the website. They're going to have two of them, I believe, but... Yeah, it looks good. I don't really have much more to say. There's minis from Baldur's Gate 3. Cool. So I wonder if this will be a thing that people get as a collector's thing if they just play the game.
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I hadn't planned on it. It depends. Because like I say, I have my little gaming budget each month. And also, I don't use a lot of minis when I do gaming at the moment as well. Well, yeah, I mean, a lot of my gaming is online, so... Yeah, so some of it's online, or some of it's using systems where you don't need to move 30 feet and measure and things like that, so that's not... it's not a thing.
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Or a game I'm running a lot is I'm running games when I do one-shots events, I'm using the starter box sets that we have, and they come with little tokens. So... Fair enough. I haven't indulged in that puppy enough yet. But that's my Baldur's Gate 3 news for this week. Should we get a jingle for that? Jess's Baldur's Gate 3 news.
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Yeah, I think I'll chat to Daryl.
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I love that. Done. Okay.
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I was only briefly present in the 80s.
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Nice.
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They know they're big robots. Yeah.
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Maybe when the Kickstarter goes live, maybe there'll be some info.
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That is something us at EM Publishing are just finishing printing something and sending it over. But yeah, so I was a little bit worried about that. And on Monday of this week, we were seeing if they were going to reach a resolution, but they didn't. And so the strike happened. But now, as of today, they have reached a tentative deal to end the strike.
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Does that include Age of Sigmar things?
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Oh, maybe a quick, maybe a cheeky PDF on a discount.
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Nice.
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I'm in a Warframe campaign, yeah, that I play every other week. So I play that. I've already got the rulebook for that PDF. I haven't played 40k, but some friends of mine are in a long-running campaign of it, and they really enjoy it. They really like the setting and the world and things, and they're having a great time with it. But the 40k thing doesn't appeal to me as much. I don't know why.
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I've never just been like, ooh, that's what I want to play. But Age of Sigmar, I did an interview, I think last year? Maybe the year before that.
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So it's not signed and things yet, but it means they have suspended the strike until January 15th so that they can negotiate it properly. And get everything signed. But. This means the strike. Is ending. And people are going to be going back to work. Which. First of all. Good for the people on the strike. Because it seems like they have. A deal that they are happy with. Yeah. And second of all.
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I have another offer sitting at some pre-order that I wish I had known about a couple of weeks ago. Because a friend of mine is running a little Candela Obscura and loves it. And now there is a Candela Obscura adventure book. It's by Beadle and Grimm, so it's luxury. So it's got...
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216 page book with eight different assignments which are like the adventures that you have it's got a premium edition standalone version of the book it's got region maps gm screens props it's got art cards there's handouts linen bound foil stamped hardcover but like it's it's a pretty collection of stuff and the maps look really cool as well
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Okay. Yeah. Alrighty.
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This is in Great British Pounds, so please translate to your local thing.
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Yeah, and it will ship in February 2025.
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but yeah it does look there's a lot of stuff in and i see why it costs that much because there's loads of there's loads of maps there's a gm screen there's the adventure there's loads of handouts there's art cards as well so you can show and this is the person you're speaking to so it is and there's props as well it looks like one of them's like a necklace and amulets and things like that so it has the stuff in it comes with all the digital tools as well so you can play it on demiplane and
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So it does have all the stuff you'd expect. It is like a pretty penny, but if you have... I mean, yeah, but it's big and grim.
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Yes, I think so, but yeah.
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This feels like a great gift for somebody that's enjoying Candela Obscura, to be honest. This feels like a good, like, get together your friendship group and buy it for somebody sort of thing. And I wish I knew about two weeks ago, because it was that friend's birthday two weeks ago, so how do I know? Could have had a whip around for it, but never mind, alas. Yeah, no.
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but yeah that is happening now so yeah so by Beadle and Graham they said they have an arrangement with Darrington Press but they haven't announced who the design team is or who you know wrote things and stuff yet but it is a thing that exists that you can get I've got some good news if people would like to hear I love good news it is pretty good news Owen Casey Stevens has been cleared of cancer
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Good for me. Because I was quite stressed about. As a person that manages shipping and operations. But yeah.
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Yes, instead of being licensed, they own it, own it.
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Let me just enjoy the moment. Let me just enjoy the moment. And yes, we will have a shipment, but our other shipment could go around the West Coast instead.
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Yes, but no, it's fine. And luckily, I mean, I told our supporters and everyone was like, yeah, fair enough, because I mean... What really can we as a tiny company do? Things like that. And like, you know, so many people. I think it was like three billion a day it was costing the economy. So like so many people were affected. Yeah.
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I mean, it is free, so you can't argue with that price.
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I'm sure someone will complain about it, though.
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Okay, so like locations, magic, NPCs.
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of like dnd merch coming out is there's some beholder dice and they do look really cool they're like some clear dice and inside there's a little beholder inside and it looks really well done actually and um nice it's 24 25 dollars for them so actually it's for a set of like luxury nice dice isn't that isn't that bad yeah
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And apparently the two products that were panic bought most in America as a result of this was milk and toilet paper. And those are two products that are produced domestically and would not be. Yeah. would not be affected by the strike.
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But yeah, that was one on that list of random D&D merch things coming out that I thought, oh, that does look nice.
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Well, ribbon bookmarks are great as well.
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Little clothing pegs, you know, the mini ones you can get, like in a stationery accessory thing, you can get them in multiple colours. And then I use that on the page. It usually works in a softcover book, just if I'm running to flip through an adventure. Yeah, yeah. And then I use a coloured pen that matches that to write what it is. So I, yeah, I'm that person. That sounds great.
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Exactly, yeah, I love that. Yeah. Okay, so that could be some cool bits as, like, Christmas gifts for a D&D fan in your life. Yeah.
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Oh, I don't want to do that. I'm myself all day.
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Mm-hmm.
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Immediately dead. Yeah. It's the answer to that. Pretty much.
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Yes. Well, the thing is, I remember in the beginning of the pandemic, toilet paper was the thing that everyone panicked for. It's the go-to thing.
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There is a website where you can do your D&D stats, and there's a questionnaire it takes you through. Me and my friendship group did that, but my gaming group at the time... Was it very depressing? Well, there's a lot of chronically ill people in my gaming group, so the constitution was like, five. Wow. But yeah...
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Bench press? Why don't they do squats? I'd do better with that. Squats or deadlifts?
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Everyone's like, this is what I cannot live without.
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No, no, I do not.
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What's a military press? She says eating a cookie.
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Um, I don't know. You can have a good day.
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It's an overhead press with a bar.
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Oh, okay.
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Mine would be very low, though. If you're deadlifting, I'll be okay.
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That's not dexterity, that's athletics. That's like, what? Surely dexterity would be like, can you do the coin thing with your fingers? Or like, I don't know.
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Can you jump out the way?
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I disagree. Let's make our own.
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It doesn't really account for somebody if you're managing a long-term chronic illness. With work, I don't miss work, but I do my hours as and when over the week that makes sense. So technically... The last time I missed it was June when we had COVID after UK Games Expo.
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Sounds about right, to be honest. Like... Someone with an autoimmune disease, like, not... No.
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Okay.
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Yes. Well, is it related to tabletop RPGs?
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I don't think I've ever had an IQ test. Because why?
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Yeah, but I don't know what purpose I'd use it for, because academic things, like getting my academic qualifications, there was a reason for it.
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Did they ask you to? No, it was for laughs. No, it was for laughs.
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that one I like that one's a bit funny subtract the resulting number from 20 and this is your wisdom that's I like that that's funny that's silly that's so the more you play D&D the lower your wisdom basically am I saying I think that's probably the only uncontroversial one that they proposed yeah I like that because what other measure would you have is like how many times a week do your friends say really again like minus your score based on how many of those you get hmm but what if you've got terribly stupid friends yeah
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praise the results right off. Well, if they say it at you, you know.
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Oh yeah, what's the measure on that?
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What if you were, like, in Cops or something? Like, we have apprehended a suspect. You know, you're technically on TV, but it's not because you're charismatic.
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I bet there are people that have. I bet there are serial offenders. That guy, what's his name? Florida Man. He gets up to a lot.
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Yeah, how do they calculate the stats? Yes.
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It looks like a dragon.
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I like the artwork of a cool D&D setup. There's like a table with a castle and pieces on it and a portal and little clipboards on the side attached to the table which have maybe what would be character sheets I guess.
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And side tables for drinks and stuff.
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Yeah.
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That does sound like something we'd do.
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The way they've been talking about it in the chapters, it seems like they're moving to do a bit more of how to use the tools in this book than they previously did. Because before, it was very much, these are all the tools. But if you were new and picking it up, you're a bit like, oh, I feel overwhelmed. So I think this book is going to be a bit more, and this is how you use it in this example.
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So that's the vibe I've got from when they've been talking about it. But I've not seen the text to...
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confirm if this has been realized but i think that is a good idea because the hobby needs more people to run games because i know so many people that want to play that don't want to run that want to play and try it out but there's not enough there's not enough people running games in the hobby it's unreasonably hard to run in my opinion like i've run a lot of games i've played a lot of games and
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Yes, it would, yeah.
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Still to this day, not clear how it works.
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Yeah.
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And I think it's really valid because a lot of people, when they come to the hobby, it's just their group of friends. They're like, we want to start playing. Let's try it out. And one person goes, okay, I'll give it a go.
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and they just they're left on their own and this book might be the only resource that they have because they might not know about online communities and things like i'm very lucky i joined rpgs as a player became part of a community and be able to be a player and learn things for a decade before i even started trying to run games
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But that is still very overwhelming, because, you know, like, which video do I watch? And then you get all these click-based YouTube videos that are, never make this awful DM mistake, and things like that, because that's what the algorithm favours.
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yeah equally as well with with gm with jamming there is so many different it's hard to do because there are so many different type types of styles of doing things like i know there's a lot of one true ways about it as well i know the three of us the way we all run games is very is different i'd say we all three of us have different styles of running games and it's not that one is right or wrong it's just that's the what works for us and some people will like it and some people won't
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In the same way that there's different genres for storytelling and some people like some more than others. And I think that gets lost sometimes as well.
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I want them to be weird.
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Including the GM. I think that's the bit that gets left out a lot. It's like, what's your job? Entertain us. Dance, GM.
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I'm a big fan of no, but. Absolutely.
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Oh, disgust.
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What does it say? Tell us.
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Very honest of you. Thank you.
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That's a real collaborative.
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I think I'm going to be kind.
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I'm going to think the intent is to be, do you know what? Managing Bastion seems like a whole thing. We want to take some work off the GM. Because as we just mentioned, running a game is a lot of work and you're doing a lot. Maybe things for players to do. So I'd understand that intent. So it'd be like mechanically, this is something that the players sort and resolve and do.
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And they have their actions and stuff they can do. And you don't have to worry about it as the GM. Maybe that's kind of the intent. But the way that's phrased does make it seem very...
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GM versus the table and yeah I think well in my opinion a good gaming group it's we're collaboratively telling a story all of us as a table and and sometimes the ideas come from the GM they're running sometimes it comes from the table yeah and I did I did not sign up to role-playing games
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Like... Yeah. My friends already hate me. Why do I need to run again?
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Interact it and have the world impact it, I think would be... I guess it needs more context and we don't have the context. I was trying to be generous and think maybe the intent is something like this is something for the players to take ownership of and manage. That's one less thing for you as the GM. I'm hoping that's what the meaning is.
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That I understand. So it's not something you want to make their life more difficult. This is, yeah. this is meant to be something that's a positive thing for them mechanically. Like they get facilities at different levels so they can get an armoury or a workshop and you'd want that to be something that gives them a bonus.
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It's not like, oh, well now you have to run around finding enough iron to make it work. You don't want it to become a slog.
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Until we know more, it's hard to say. I'm going to decide that it's meant in the best way and that line is just misleading.
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The thing about D&D is that Wizards of the Coast cannot come to your house and tell you off for playing it wrong.
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No, no. Yeah. I mean, like, like with any role-playing game system, people like, if you don't like the role, don't play. And that's always true. Cause it's like, you know, yeah, fine. But yeah.
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Like I say, this is... And itch.io is a big sales platform for TTRPGs, so that's the... Yeah. Oh, okay.
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We don't have the books.
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So it could be... That's why I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt. Yeah.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Gosh.
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Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we're speaking to your local game store now so they can make sure they have a copy put aside for you or something.
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Yeah, I think we're done on that note.
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All right.
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What's that charisma score you think going to be now? That's what they do. Get several people to listen to your podcast sign-offs and decide what your charisma score is.
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That feels like a vicious mockery thing. Your charisma is the square root of two. What?
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Are you lottery ticketing?
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No, but if we say on the podcast, all the time-travellers will use it, and the value will be much lower. Do your own work, time-travellers. It's trouble. No time-travellers want to work these days.
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Fast surpasses my knowledge, so I'm impressed.
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So kind of like fate, when you have the... It's not called tags, is it? What's it called? Aspects in fate?
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What are they called? Yeah.
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That makes sense, because that kind of humour is, like you say, funny for a one-shot, but I imagine... could drag after a year or two you know like yeah i do like comedy rpgs for a one shot like being silly and things for one session sure i could spend a few hours doing that but yeah i don't i don't think i'd want every other week or every week to be doing that myself
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I guess because it's a one shot again there'd be less frustration potentially of the mechanics of that because if it's just for one night you're like okay fine but yeah in a campaign like we talked about before if there's you know if the rules aren't as tight and doesn't feel fair for everybody, that could become a real point of contention long-term.
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If it's just for one night, it could be something you brush off and let go, I guess.
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I guess you'd just do it narratively, wouldn't you?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Love that. All right. When does that come into crowdfunding?
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Yes.
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Yeah, I think it looks like that will fund. That would be my bet.
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There are.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, fair enough.
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Oh.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Ooh.
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Where?
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Right, right, right.
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Woo-hoo!
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Anyway.
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baby called way podcast to act as a ministering angel of mercy it's the one it's the only it's it's me jessica from em publishing and yes as we're pre-recording my partner is way doing a lovely emergency dentist appointment and my dog is having a week with his ongoing conditions so i am both other members of my household are having a time so i am i am on call for various
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Yeah, I like it. That looks fun. I like this sort of thing.
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It does say flat.
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I would have to work out what... But what do you mean?
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As a general concept, yes.
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I'll play it. In terms of D&D music, I have been listening to the Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack all week at work.
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Okay.
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Interesting. I don't have the technology to play vinyl.
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I might give it a listen if it's on like a streaming. I know I usually listen on Spotify and I know people that are really into their music. I know that's not the best quality for things. But yeah.
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I mean, yeah. I mean, that would be the case for me. The main thing is, if I really want to listen to good music, there's nothing like listening to it in person. Like, I really now want to go listen to... They do, like, orchestral performances from the Bald Skate 3 soundtrack, for example. I'd love to go listen to that, because that would be a different elevated experience, I think. Yeah.
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And it will happen again.
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Okay. I like music in my games because I think it creates a mood.
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Yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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Well, that's the thing with RPGs, isn't it? One person's young because another one's young. I don't often get the chance to do music because often if I'm running at a convention or in a games club, there's other tables and then that would feel a bit rude to be using music and sound effects to do the tables.
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But if I'm playing a home game or something or an online game, I tend to do sound effects and music and things.
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medical things as they may occur we'll have to call you Florence when you say doing an emergency dentist appointment you don't mean performing it but being subjected to it well from what I understand he won't be performing it on himself but I didn't I actually didn't ask to clarify so did he leave the house with a big pair of pliers I didn't check you know well I guess we just have to wait is he a qualified dentist
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Because I like it.
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You're in an itchy mood.
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This is nice. This could be really nice if you know you want to do a session zero, but you're not sure on how to structure that session. I think this just gives you a really nice structure to do that if you've not done it before. So if you're like, I do want this to be a collaborative world building experience, but how do we, you don't just want to sit down and be like, so what do we want to do?
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I think this is, yeah, it could be a nice structure.
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Well, home is where the heart is, I guess.
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Yeah, it's a My Little Pony.
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No, but, you know, when does being qualified for something stop you doing it? Much like this podcast. That's true.
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So you can find out.
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But from a galaxy far, far away. It's not Star Wars. I don't know why I went there. It's space.
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No, it's the alien RPG in space.
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Yeah, some news. A D&D tabletop RPG and various global shipping crisis news is the news that I've seen.
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Do you know what? In a role-playing game, I can make it if I want because the limit is my imagination. Anyway, so Alien RPG second edition is coming out. So Free League is doing a crowdfunder for their Raptor protocol. So there's going to be an adventure. There's going to be a starter set, which is called Hope's Last Day. and they've released the maps for them.
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And they've also said that the maps, the way they've designed it, they've got some minis and updated rules, so you could use this as a miniature skirmish game if you wanted as well, as part of your role-playing game, which is cool. I have the Aliens first edition that I have not played yet, so I'm going to play that first before looking at second edition. But the maps look really good.
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Yeah, I love the maps. There's an article on EM Worlds, and you could really use this for any sci-fi adventure, really, that matches that sort of genre. You could use this for your mothership adventures or stuff like that. It's like a big ship deck plan and things.
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No, it doesn't have... Is it quite thin? No. Oh, okay. Well, the images I have here are not...
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Yeah, if you use it online to overlay it. In fairness, on the big deck plan, the rooms do have squares because I think that's the design of the floors, like metal square sheets. But no, not really. They're not gridded. But yeah, they just look really cool. And I'm used to free leagues, adventures, having nice accessories and nice stuff in. So I kind of expect no less.
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If a free league game came out and it wasn't stunning, I'd be like, what happened? Like, they've raised the bar in terms of aesthetics for me quite high.
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Can you get it outside of Kickstarter?
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Oh, so you can't put it on your Christmas list.
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Yeah.
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Oh, there we go.
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Do we have any other adventure news whilst we're going, as we're on the topic?
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Oh, yeah.
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Yes, I guess, yeah.
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I've got a non-fun bit of news, really.
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Well, I'm not going to find it fun anyway. As you mentioned, as the person that does a lot of the logistics and operations for an RPG publisher based in the UK. So, there is a longshoreman union strike which could affect shipping in the UK to the EU for games going to the USA. So... Pretty much.
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The International Longshoremen's Association has threatened to strike if they can't make a deal about their current contract. And their contract expires at midnight on September 30th. And as of the time of recording, there is no deal secured currently.
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So this means that 14 major ports in the Atlantic coast, all the way from Texas to Massachusetts, they would have a walkout, which is like 45,000 workers going on strike.
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yes and this is the first east this would be the first east coast dock strike since 1944 so it is it will be a big deal this will cause shipping chaos because with shipping you can't accept inbound ships until the ones there have been unloaded emptied moved on it means that it's it and also the it'll increase prices from other parts of the world because the way shipping containers work is
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it depends on a constant circulation of the containers moving globally around. That was part of the issues during COVID is things weren't moving around. So it has impacts on price, delays, loads of stuff. So what this means, so for me, as somebody who works in this, I'm like, oh no, because I had to deal with all this. This could cost us money.
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But for you as a listener, if you're not a publisher, this could impact you getting your goods and rewards back. So I'm saying if you are supporting crowdfunding campaigns from UK or European publishers and there's a delay and you're getting your games, please be nice to your publisher because they did not want to order this. So for us, I just saw this today.
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Well, I think the hobby has grown since 2014.
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and this might potentially impact the Planes Riders journal film we've got coming up.
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We do, yes.
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That is absolutely correct. So that is one of the ports affected. So I might need to see if we need to... have it go to a different port, which could impact the timeline.
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Yes.
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And that is exactly what we're doing. So... I mean, if you're waiting for a crowdfunding campaign, I'd wait to hear from your publisher if they're shipping from that part of the world, depending on what they manufacture. But this will also could impact other shipping things globally as well, because that's how it works. That number of ports closing down will impact the prices globally.
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of shipping freight around globally.
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That means on Monday... I mean, if I was them, I'd be wanting to find a deal because this would cost them... Yeah, because this strike will impact 55% of all imports in the United States. This isn't just tabletop RPG. This will impact tabletop RPG, obviously, but...
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The estimated cost of this would be $5 billion per day. They don't resolve this. So I think, but yeah, there's information in like the Guardian, CBS News and all the other big places.
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In terms of tabletop, this could mean delays with your crowdfunding, and potentially, if this goes on for a long time, could mean shipping costs increase as well for things like that. Yeah.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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Why is that?
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Yeah, Russ, why are you doing that? I said it to you like you caused this, you did this.
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Yeah, Russ, why are you setting the prices?
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, that does feel a little bit... I would have questions, too.
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And yeah, that's not me saying people shouldn't strike or things like that, just to be clear. This is just me saying this is what it will mean.
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And if you're planning on launching a crowdfunding campaign, it might be worth holding off and checking your shipping prices or... saying you'll do shipping prices later or something, because this could change drastically, and if you've got a small campaign, that can make or break your campaign. If suddenly it costs an extra $5 per parcel to send, that can be a thing.
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If you had 85 million people, it could be quite quick, though. Yeah. If they each share out the workload.
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Oh, yeah, it depends how you're doing it, but if you were offset printing something.
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It might be.
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Yes. But anyway, so there's some news for you.
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I'll keep you updated.
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I'll keep you updated next week on the podcast because I'm, yeah, I'm interested.
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Would you describe that earth as a fat earth?
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Oh, and now we know.
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Oh, I'm kind of intrigued.
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Yep, I'm down.
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Yeah, then it'd be done.
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I'm not the numbers person at EM Publishing.
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Yeah, I know, but not the numbers. I'll make Zyn do that. That sounds difficult.
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Okay. So it seems very fast and loose, very vibes.
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I don't mind that.
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I'm intrigued. I'll take a look.
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That's not the thing in the story, is it? No. You don't go to Discord for epic combat.
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That is a lot.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Or just surrounded by ridiculous people.
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What does it bother you?
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Yes, but, and I would say when you're running more narrative games like that, I wouldn't get you to roll for going up a ladder.
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Same Zs.
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I mean, I've run a session where nobody made a single dice roll, so...
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I mean, it's a style of role-playing, I think, which we talked about before about, you know, the amount of rules and things like that, that, you know, some people are not going to like this, some people are going to like this, I think.
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Yeah. I'm sure. Yeah. There's probably more to it than what's written there in terms of rules. But I am intrigued.
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Well, we can read that and give our opinions on that then, can't we?
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It could be a moment in a role-playing game, though.
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But that comes from the character's by-play, really, more than... I don't know. I wouldn't be rushing to run a Discworld...
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It is, but it's got a very intelligent point it's making behind it, generally.
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It seems silly, but it's a metaphor for something.
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really yes some people that yeah i mean some people that they just enjoy it on the surface level in fairness so yeah i know i know because that some of them some of the underlying messages of it to me seemed very obvious but and i sure is to a lot of people but there are some people that have been like what do you mean you're just looking for your agenda in it and i was like no that's that's what the book is about there was a lot of social commentary
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I think that's how many they sold. They sold that amount probably at Gen Con. How many did they sell at Gen Con?
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Shall we move on to another piece of news?
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So you know that Morkborg tabletop RPG?
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The heavy metal fantasy Morkborg.
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Indeed, it's getting a video game.
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Morbidware announced Morkborg Heresy Supreme. It's a side-scroller video game and you take control of an adventure battling through monsters and creatures and it's got that same art style. There is a crowdfunder launching on October 1st and next week. And they've got a cool trailer for it. So if you really like the aesthetic and the vibe of that game, this video game might be the thing.
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And if you like side-scroller ones, it might be one to check. It's a little indie kind of video game. So, yeah, but it looks quite cool.
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Oh, I have, yes.
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I played it once over a decade ago, so I do know it, but I don't recall it.
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Yeah.
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As a sauce book, so is it like bechamel? Yeah, as a sauce book. Oh, come on, that was a funny joke.
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A sauce as in food, a sauce, like ketchup.
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I guess a Cthulhu sauce book would be quite seafood-based, I'd imagine.
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What made a book about saucers? There's lots of them. I wonder if a Cthulhu sauce book actually exists.
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There are Cthulhu recipe books. Recipes from the world of H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu's cuisine. But they've missed the chance to call it a sauce book.
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I've seen a good one. Sorry, the last one. The Necromunchicon.
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Sorry, carry on. What's the piece of, sorry. Second Age Fantasy Edition. Fantasy Age Second Edition.
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Yeah, so that'll be your Barnes & Noble.
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Is it an RPG? Or I thought it was a party card game. It's a typical role-playing game. It is? Oh, I misunderstood.
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Yeah, I think it's a board game that has... role-playing talk bits. It seems RPG-themed, like, in terms of fantasy, but I wonder if it's something more like Sheriff of Nottingham, where you have a phase where you do something and then you have to talk and convince people.
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Werewolves of Millers Hollow?
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Blood on the Clocktower I wouldn't call a role-playing game, but it is a...
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I don't know. For me, it's not a new one for me. A lot of my friends are sober for various reasons, and so this wouldn't be the sort of thing I'd play in my social group. But then other groups of friends are not like that, and so maybe this would be fine.
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It's actually a skill on my CV.
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That's how I got the job at Ian Publishing.
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Yeah, well, how often does it update? I think it's... Do you know what I mean?
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Oh, really?
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Ooh. Because we're getting close to being able to beta test it. I know we're going to get the original level up backers access. They're going to be the first beta testers, aren't they? Yes.
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The OG crew, as they're also known.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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I hope people feel the same way when they try it out.
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Yeah, to 6,000 people. I think.
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But as more stuff is added. The first bit that goes out is just so you can make something and have it.
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For early testing.
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That's all going to be in the proper version.
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What I really liked about it is when I do a long or a short rest, before I do it, it says, okay, when you do this, all these elements will change. And it just reminds you the things that are going to change.
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Yeah, but there's a button to do it, but when you go into that section, it says these are the things in your character sheet that are affected by a long or a short rest, so you can see, and it shows you the amount. So it makes me sometimes go, oh, actually, maybe I don't need a short rest, because I could, you know, actually, I could do, you know... Yeah, I'll play. I like that.
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Because it also, it felt like it wasn't making me fully dependent on... on it I still it felt like I could learn how to do a pen and paper one as well because our business model with this is not how we'll make you all do this digital thing and then we'll catch you with microtransactions that's not our plan yeah maybe it should be it would be richer if we did that wouldn't we
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But would we be happy?
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But would we be happy? Yeah.
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See you next week. Goodbye. Bye. Bye-bye.
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In what?
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From whom? Did you make it?
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Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
I don't have one. Do you have one, PJ?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
There we go.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
So they haven't had the Amazon report.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Yes. So if you've heard this rumour, the answer is no.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
And also, a lot of people that already have the Player's Handbooks, maybe this is my circles I know, aren't necessarily buying the new one, because they're like, oh, should we just keep using this for now? Yeah, sure. So...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
No, you need more game masters.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
I don't know about this, please tell me more.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
so many games yeah i mean you played one of them every day it would still take you nearly a year i you know i love these bundles with stuff like that because you find all these like weird games you wouldn't find otherwise and it's great for not dnd for me discovering smaller more niche games so i love these bundles and sometimes some of the charity at the game i'm like that sounds amazing i go and have a look i'm like
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Yes. Oh my goodness. Well, I've just bought it now, so... Oh, there's Glitter Hearts on here.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Oh, Inspirals is on here as well. I have that one. That is an RPG that teaches you sign language and
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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american sign language and british sign language you can choose which one depending on that's right which is gonna be more useful to you depending on where you are in the world yeah oh there's lots of nice things here i'll look at that later we should do a podcast sorry i'm just there scrolling through yes yeah yeah oh so um one of our favorite things has happened what are you talking about an announcement
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Of an announcement?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Ooh, what's the teasing news?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
I'm intrigued to listen about that. But, as I said, I always loved the idea of a stronghold system, but I never actually use it whenever I have it.
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317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Yeah, I'll try and watch that one, I think, and then we can discuss it next week.
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317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Next week.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
The DMG? Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Oh, no, carry on, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
It seems like they're not underperforming because they're doing very well sales-wise. I was going to do a segue of speaking of, you know, they do an announcement of the announcement for the announcement. If you're like, man, that's an annoying PR way to roll things out. I could do a much better job at that myself.
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Well, you could, because Wizards of the Coast is hiring a senior manager for brand publicity. How's that for a segue? Was it good?
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Great. So this is for Dungeons & Dragons, obviously, and also it is Magic the Gathering as well, because it's at Wizards of the Coast, so it's that whole sort of thing. So yes, they're pretty much replacing, it looks like Greg Tito, who we reported, who's left. This is like backfilling that role. So yeah, the job role is up on the website. It's linked on EMworld if you want to find it.
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It's on Glassdoor and LinkedIn and all those things as well. So you need to be in Washington, US.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
No.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
317 | Free D&D adventure based on 1980s cartoon | PHB fastest selling D&D book ever, Mork Borg video game, and more!
Yeah, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Then job done.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Ooh.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Fair enough.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
It looks very pretty, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
I don't know the system at all.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yeah, okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
In the original commentary, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Oh, yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
No.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
314 | 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond, Greg Tito leaves Wizards of the Coast, Pathfinder NPC Core Book, and more!
Hmm.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Marvelous, marvelous.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I don't know.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Sequel? Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Here we are.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Just grab it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
That's right.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Did you? Yeah. Oh, cool.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, right.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Hmm.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Write down this thing. Yeah. Yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Like...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Anyway, let's get out of here, shall we?