PJ Coffey
Appearances
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
embracing work from home uh removing commutes from people's lives and i got something that is that is a strong strong capsule yeah yeah i mean i struggle with my commute yeah all the way down the stairs oh 8 55 i'll be late i'll be like oh i've made it
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But to be fair, with your dogs, you literally don't have traffic.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Whereas I'm like, I sat down and my cat jumped in my lap.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. I have a little tiny bit of news, which I thought was quite cool. René-Pierre Deshaies is offering free templates on Canva and Affinity to let designers, architecture designers, have them. So let me see.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
templates of things for game design like layout yeah it's almost like he's offering out our trade dress which oh I see oh cool I mainly offer it to people so that you know if you're making everything in home brewery here is an option yeah my layout is definitely one of those sort of bottleneck things there yeah yes
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, yeah. Or the ghost books, you know, so. That's fine, yeah. Yeah. I just threw that out there because I thought that would be the most accessible option.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
it's true you have brought with you an extra special guest which we are delighted to have with us today a person who could be rightfully described as the titanic queen of the osr scene and has doing some amazing things with her work yes that's right it's one it's the only it's the creator of show dark itself it's kelsey dion okay but the takeaway i get from that is that apparently jess found kelsey in wales
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
And I find owning things to be a pleasant experience in this day and age of digital printing.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
They did increase the gore considerably. It wasn't a bloodless film before, right? There's always a lot of stabbing.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It is an achievable goal, yes. I think you can do it. It looks really easy to make happen. Like, I know Tim C is, like, all revved up and ready to run some, so we're going to just dissuade him from running PowerPy in the second edition for a little bit and say, would you like to run some marbles? I'd be delighted to. Sorry, this is like super local to Southampton and my club.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's like a tiny, tiny, tiny audience, but there you go.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I did the thing.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, my most popular book. Do you want to admit it in public on a podcast? Well, like, I guess kind of. It's not relevant to, like, most people, but Crafting Heritage and Cultures, I've released a brown version.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, okay. Yeah, because there's, like, a... I thought, well, yeah, I really need to keep on, like, live in the, walk and walk, talk and talk and so forth. So yeah, it was actually really easy. So I was like, okay. Yeah, yeah. There's a tool that does that for you. Yeah, how did you do that? There is, it's called Braille Blast. It's amazing.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I think the main learning experience I have is that it doesn't like apostrophes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Like the tool for her reason. So I was running through it because I'm like, I can't read Braille, but some of it's highlighted. I'm guessing that's bad. I noticed that the – because it shows you, like, text and then the Braille text, I hope. I mean, it seems like – I mean, it could say anything. It could say anything. It is from a reputable source by someone I trust. So, yeah.
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 someone can tell me if it says something different. Yeah, so I've gone through it and changed it. So I'm hopeful this will be good. Okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
yeah but yeah i'll put that on my sort of like i've got like a little on drive for rpg i've got like just a place for just putting all my srds so as i bring out srds i'll just put them in there so people can have them and now i shall release a very less rd alongside because might as well it was accessibility it it was it was very little extra effort Very intellectual effort.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
You downloaded the Braille thing from... It's just like an extra file. So I presume you'd have to... It's like a .bbz file. So I'm presuming you would have to have Braille Blaster.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But if you're using this, I think that is expected that you'd have such a thing. It wasn't compatible. So I don't know how my customers would need Braille. But if you happen to be listening to this podcast, which seems possible if you buy it, then you're welcome, and I'll try and do better going forward.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Joy, pain, anger and fear, that sort of thing.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I mean, it is also a game which does involve, it says, combat.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
yeah well welcome there are literally giant caves in wales which you can like yeah basically go spelunking around it is awesome and amazing they've got like all these pitons stuck in the wall and of course just to just to cheer you up like the occasional used up can of no other no more nails glue left beside them just to just give you that sense of safety That sounds like the best place to do it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Androids, and EMPs, and potential self-destructive defensive upgrades. I noticed also, Russ, you might like, that they have, for the hacking, they have a unique wrist-die mechanic that blends speed and simplicity with texture and danger. Yeah. You can hack into it with a sentience. That does sound fun. Much like a book I'm reading at the moment.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's with heavy heart because I suspect I know which one it is. It's not our most positive. I've got two. I've got two things. Okay. So we'll go with the good news and the bad news.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
After them, I guess. Kelsey, do you dabble much with the old virtual tabletops?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I mean, that could be any time in the last five years.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'm sorry, I'm talking. Please, I'm just too excited. Go, go, go, say more.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I feel this is like a positive news story. Positive. That's very good.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Nice. You are such a nerd.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Hello? Pot? Yes, you're black.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
What's the other news you have for us? I would say it's quite positive, to be fair, but yeah, okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Something called changelog, I think they said.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Not one dragon is on the flag. Eight dragons.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's more dragons than most countries have.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Even though you're playing a 2014 game. Changing other people's character sheet without asking. Seems kind of bad to me. Yeah. Maybe a consent, like a, would you like us to update your character sheet? No, thank you. Yeah. Is he playing 2014 D&D? Perhaps later.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Technically, I think. I tried printing out my D&D Beyond character, which was just like level 12 Battlemaster. I got like, I don't know, 10 pages because they're not optimized for use in this way. It's kind of a mess. I honestly don't know if they've got all the details you need to read it. I think you would still have to refer to a player's handbook.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
People have suggested that the obvious easy thing to do is to, as a GM, homebrew the spell and then release it to your players so they can use that version instead. That's a lot of work. You have to do all of the 2014 spells. Well, one particular example that springs to mind because somebody was commenting saying, wow, my DM, I think that sucks, is someone who's playing a level 11 cleric.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
that's a lot of spells because as we know clerics are prepared spellcasters so technically you'd have to do every single cleric spell if you've got a bard or a sorcerer a sorcerer would be a pain but it would be easy enough to do but clerics yeah that's a lot of spells that you would need to have ready even if they just stick to the standard set it's a thing I just realised does that also mean magic items as well
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But we don't know anything about magic items, to be fair. That's, I believe, going to be in the DMG, is that? True.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Fun.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I really want to see what they do with the Anji boat. It was like the coolest thing when I was a kid. It's like, yeah, the rest of it is like, okay, this is whatever. Oh, you can shoot arrows without using string or arrows. It's amazing. It's the best.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's a class feature. Heavy armor is a class feature. So if you do things like take away class features, then that tends to get people's backs up.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Oh, I mean, Roll20's been heralding their switchover for quite some time. They've been offering, was it JumpGate or HyperGate or whatever it's called? I was like, yeah, I might give it a go. I might not. One Bookshelf has been doing the would you like to see things new super shiny view for ages and giving people a chance to opt in before it pushes it all through.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Whereas this is like, yeah, we're just doing it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I mean, that might be too much maybe because they are trying to get 2024 out so people can buy the books. But, you know, I suppose.
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!
Like maybe a bit better balanced.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
possibly a little bit easier to use. So that would be a positive life improvement for GM and the Thyrum, in fact, Robert.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, all right. That's kind of a neutral change for me. I don't care one way or the other.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Especially if it's... I'm with you, Jess. If you're midway through a session, I want to be able to use it. I've got other plates to spin! Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Are we on the same social... Are we on the same internet?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
There have been people mad about it. I've tried to, yeah. Yes. Okay. People in my very small social circles have been quite mad, but a lot of them, I'm like, you seem mad. Do you actually use D&D Beyond? They're like, no, but I was so mad about it. I'm like, that's fair.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
do so yeah but it's there is a certain amount of principle which is you don't update someone's character sheet without asking that's just not it's not a done thing like yeah it's like it is the one thing that players have control over so if you start messing around with it then that is deeply uncalled
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Who did? Oh, right, yeah. Yes, he did used to be able to get PDFs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Um... It's been quiet. I think Gen Con has been... Everyone's having a nap after Gen Con, I think.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Well, obviously, Russ, you know what question I'm going to ask. Oh.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
That might be quite difficult to do because I have Prime Video and it does not appear to be available to me. I do have Prime Video, so I will watch it. I have it, Russ. Oh. Why do you have it and I don't? Is it called Secret Level? Have I misheard that? Secret Level.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
It's a strange, palmy question. The definition is not strong here, so there's literally an army of people following Brandon Sansom. And this is Kickstarter. So I've been comparing it to actual sized armies.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, yeah. Get a strong female character in that. Always did.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I've only been doing it three weeks. It's fine, Jess. It's okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
If we wanted to stop this RPG from happening, we would need to get into diplomatic talks with Rwanda, is what you're saying? That's actually not what I'm saying, but we can do that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And having the torch go out midway through a round It happens all the time. Sounds like a player-facing problem to me.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
We haven't had a gaming industry cause a diplomatic incident with another nation for absolutely years now. Quite frankly, I think that Ian Publishing could be the next big thing.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'm just going to start doing that because I think it's an excellent idea that's just never occurred to me before. What you need, Russ, is you need one of those little kitchen timers, the wind-up ones.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
set it to an hour and leave it so it's like ticking away there yeah and then when you light a new light source you can like you know reset it because the old one's gone out and there you go get an extra extra hour of it i think i'd like i'd like the sound because i like the people to see it slowly dripping away and just have the slowly i just occurred to me what the next evolution of this rule is
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
But of course, it's a bit unlike Fishnet D&D where you can carry as many torches as you like. It doesn't really matter until you can carry like 500 torches. Here, core light management is gear management and is resource management with the slot system. And it's like, oh, nobody likes encumbrance and slots. I do. I like that. I do too. I saw what you did there. I was like, yes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
And Jessica is also a big fan. It's like, you know, the logistical half of the screen is on the right.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Good for them. I like it. But, like, this feels like a game that really thrives as a pen and paper.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
PJ, you guessed 13, didn't you? I think I went with 13. Did you? And Jess went with 20.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Cool. And that sounds like it was absolutely incredible.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
epic battles going from yeah i'm doing like 100 books oh 15 000 books okay hard hard work like yeah yeah but i i would quite like to talk about show job because i am like super excited about it i actually actually like you are the arcane library which is i believe your press you have a second print run so i actually on the 10th of august uh bought a copy of the physical book i'll throw it to you since me because i was like oh wow this appears to have won a lot of rewards and
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
People keep telling me I would like it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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And this is like people... Because I... I have whole blog entries about the sorts of games I like, and why I'm a nightmare to GM for, and why it's awful trying to do stuff for me, because this is the sort of game that I would like. And it turns out, actually, yes, this is the sort of game that I would like, so I'm very keen on it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
There's a lot of things which are similar to the OSR, but I feel you're really taking it up a notch and moving it into a new level of design, which I am deeply impressed by. It's really very cool. thank you yeah um i guess i guess my experience was like i saw like a classic car and Hop in, I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, it's a classic car, I expect this to be quite fun to drive.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
There's no, there's no, it's just supposed to press a button, and then suddenly all these, like, lights came on, and I'm like, oh, okay, good. And, like, a little virtual display comes down, and I'm like, going along at light speed, I'm like, oh, okay, wow, this is quite the beat, it's an electric car now. Because it just flows so easily. What's my emotional experience of the, of reading rules?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'm just like, It all flows together. I very much enjoyed the GM advice, which includes the pact, which is a great way to express it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Thank you. The pact being, I don't know, do you want to describe it? Because otherwise I'm telling you about your own game and that feels embarrassing. No!
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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Yeah, exactly.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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But this is Shepard Hart, so we call it the pact.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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It's a bit of the Eldritch era. I mean, there was a couple of pieces of advice. I noted that page 180 attitudes, the attitudes of the referee... You know what? I didn't read what you... What do you call the... What's the Shadow Dark name for the cousin running the game?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
We're talking in the millions. It's very reasonable. We're talking about Kickstarter, TTRPGs, 13,000 is a very logical thing to say, but this is not what we're talking about. This is just like, nope, nope.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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I thought it was just like a really nice way to bring all these attitudes, like the neutral arbiter, which is really, for me, at the core of what should be the OSR philosophy. And where I see a lot of people fall down, they bring a really adversarial mindset.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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I'm just like, the description on the packaging and what I'm seeing, not the same thing, but I feel a lot more confident here that this is what I'll be getting.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. I mean, ultimately, poor life decisions. Right. It should be the leading call to death.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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Amongst other things, people were mad at wizards. You made gold for XP work in a really clever way. It's like, I mean, it's going to be because it's me saying, oh, it's so clever. Okay, so the reason why I think it's clever is because normally for me, gold for XP, me, like, you know, in my simian game design would be like, ooh, gold for XP. XP equals gold pieces retrieved.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
And it's like, yeah, sure, you can do that. That's how it's done before. They were like, no, no, why would you do that? Just like have them go out for a night in the town. They spend a whole pile of money and then roll advice, add a modifier from the absolute state of debauchery that they achieved. The more debauched, the better. The more it's me. And that's how you level up.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
I'm like, bam, that is good stuff. I'm like, huh, this looks very stealable.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Exactly. Yes, yes, because it's like they have this enormous party. There's no hangover. They just leave stronger and more tiny.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. We're broke. Let's go in.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
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Anything where you have to get through, oh, it's fine, just get your shoulder through and then the rest of you will fit. I'm like, no, thank you. I'm sort of really intrigued by maybe the future stuff because I've only just read the core book and I'm seeing little things. I love the reference, was it India Jones' The Disc of Destiny? The Kytherian Mechanism?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
312 | Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne | D&D Direct, Paizo Content Use Policy, Secret Level Animated, and more!
Yeah. Yeah.
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Oh yeah, that's like the... I was saying in the intro, because that's that mechanism. And there's stuff like the Panoply of Memlong, and we've got little personalities in there, like there's Ramlat, some sort of berserker type, and Krieg, the wizard and so forth. Is there... Basically what I want to know is, is there more fanfiction?
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I wasn't able to read the whole thing word for word because there are a lot of random tables in there.
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I don't even remember where I put Bimbo's, but he's in there. I do. That's why we have control find and PDFs. Yes.
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How do you do that? I mean, for us, Kelty has managed to steal the three core books of D&D into one book of Shadow Dark and still have space for a whole system. I'm like, nice. Nice.
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Yeah. And it is, strictly speaking, not a D&D Kickstarter.
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Magic is very unpredictable. I'm sitting here. with my large tub of popcorn. Like, ah, yes, send me more. By the way, top marks from my personal thing for useful to the words ethereal bandersnatch and, of course, flubbed. Which is a word that doesn't get enough love. I'm like, oh, yes, you flubbed that spell. Marvelous, marvelous.
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I refer to the critical failures for spellcasting, and we got... Okay, mishaps by tier of spell, but mishaps by character tier, which I really love. That is amazing for me. Because if you're a first level spellcaster, you don't want to do a mishap and wipe out the entire party. You have something hilarious happen to you. And as you go up, more and more serious things go.
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I'm like, oh, it's good, it's good. I particularly like the difference between wizards and priests, where wizards demand stuff to happen, and without hubris comes penalties. And priests, they supplicate for stuff, and when it goes wrong, they have to say sorry and do better. And I thought that was tremendously thematic and very magical.
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Absolutely. It's like one of the stages of design. You start off with something simple and crude and, you know, like, no offense to yourself, but that is sort of what it does. It's like there's lots of little bits and they sort of work and then
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we move on to like sort of a complicated and sophisticated and you know stuff like a lot of modern games a lot of trad games do have a lot of complications a lot of sophistication and interesting things you can do and then the third iteration would be simple and sophisticated and for me for my personal aesthetic and
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In the time I judge, I feel that this falls into that area because there's a lot of the trappings of an OSR game. Sorry, I'm telling you about your own game. I'm really sorry about that. You're telling the audience, the listeners about it. Yes. Oh, okay. But it's like,
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You've got a lot of the trappings of the OSR, the aesthetics and the random tables, but the way it's all put together really uses very modern design principles to just make it all sing. Like I said, that's my impressions from having...
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having read the pdf it took me a couple of hours to read the pdf and normally this is a labor like i i quite like those but making me read them it's not something that i generally do willingly it's something that i have to be super infused about i just started reading and i'm like oh yes no i understand this yes this all because i so i think if you have any familiarity with the fifth edition you could pick this book up and you'd be like oh
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okay and like there's a couple of things like um the golfer xp failures critical phase for spell casting and probably the biggest criticism i would have is there's a real reliance on hard skills by hard skills and so you're not doing along there so that's something that you're aware of but uh for listeners at home i'll just run between hard skills and soft skills hard skills are player based as in you the player know these things and you can actually
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do a good representation of them. Soft skills would be things your character knows and that you as a player would have no chance of doing. I feel that there is quite a reliance on hard skills which could maybe make this game not preferable. Would you agree that's fair?
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varying opinions on, because that was essentially a reprint of Gloomhaven, which had a little RPG attached on top of it.
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It doesn't lend itself well to having necessarily a very strong idea for storylines. If you've made a pageback story for your Shadow Dark character before you start playing, I suspect you may have missed the point of this game. Would that also be fair to say?
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There is a Gloomhaven RPG. That is what it is. I don't mean to decorate their work, but... But the play level seems to have been increased by a $130 box.
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That's the Ten-Eyed Oracle.
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but for listeners who have not seen this it really is worth looking up it's uh it's definitely got a lot of similarities to this holder of which i'm not i'm not sure i don't know i'm sure i don't know what he's talking about but um it's like a Large floating ball.
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Nice.
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But where I'd expect to see something like a bit more, I don't know, skin-like, it's got all these sort of weeping, gaping sores upon it, and all of the eye stalks are reaching out, and the central eye...
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is sort of absent and appears to be have been maybe blinded or something and it's within this large stone arch and from its mouth it's like appears to be falling some sort of uh interior muck it's like if hr geiger says hey you know what let's have one of these beholder things yeah that's how i imagine it so yeah yeah
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This was the more... This is not goofy.
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To clarify for listeners, we're not talking more common. levels of aesthetic as in I can actually read and enjoy this like no offence to Morkborg but whilst I enjoy looking at the books I cannot actually read them I do like the look of Morkborg books they look great but I want to read them and this this has a like sort of that gothic Gothic characters for some of the typos, but not all of it.
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It's a lovely mix.
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You did the layout as well.
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It's been a real pleasure to meet you, Kelsey. As you may have been spot, I'm so sorry, actually.
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that's it I'm bored now you can go away shoo off you go goodbye get out of here if you wouldn't mind indulging me Kelsey I don't I don't mind the first is on page 256 we have a quote from the Tarrasque and I was wondering how exactly would you pronounce it
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Amazing. Thank you so much.
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Yeah, I mean, it's a shame we're not going to have a video broadcast because then listeners can share the joy of seeing a woman get her new directives.
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Sure, sounds good.
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That's right.
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You have to be a small creator who's selling it yourself. You can't get it all made in a factory in China.
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Well, like, it's not sneaky to try and hire publishers and so forth and buy them with non-disclosure agreements. But I'm better.
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Who would do that? Who would do that? I don't know.
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And with me this week is... PJ Coffey from the Southampton Guild of Roleplayers. Russ. How's it? I am delighted to be here. Joining us also this week, ever-watching, ever-listening, the ever-vigilant, it's the one! It's Yomi!
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Yeah. I mean, maybe as many as 100 employees, which is... Yeah, well, yeah.
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I'm not saying it's, you know... Yeah, like a medium-end variety, as we would count the states in the UK. Yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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And working from home is good, actually.
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I can confirm this is very much the case like yeah especially like we got people walking in and they're like oh I'd like to play some D&D I'm like uh-huh do you have any firm views on which D&D would like to play, oh, I just want to play D&D. If they say, I would like to play 5th edition D&D, here is my character sheet, as I have prepared already.
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Yes. But if they're looking to play, quote, D&D, unquote, I'm like, oh, well, please. What flavor of D&D would you like? That sounds like a lot of choice for us. I don't like to confuse people, so I just generally steer them towards the indie table and hope for the best, provided the indie table don't push them towards the D&D tables. But that's a different matter for a different time.
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that's us like we're the indie table you are the indie table run some games with people that aren't D&D and I'll get you some players anyway sorry good to know yes yeah so that's great I thought that was very cool and yeah just like a little bit of flavour jolly little thing nice speaking of actually no there's no segway I don't have a segway in a separate piece of news unrelated to what you just said
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That's something completely different.
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Yeah, Arianne Games has been doing fighting fantasy stuff for multiple players in the style of, I want to say... The Engineer, Port Blacksand, after the bit, for quite some time. Yeah, just saying, like, more recent 1920s. But are you saying there's a reissue of the book?
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Yeah, the original, starting with the Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
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Interesting. The Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games also wrote all the fighting fantasy books I hear. Hmm. So that's not confusing in any way.
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And of course they found a games workshop as well. Oh, it was the US Steve Jackson.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But who found the games workshop? I thought that was British Steve Jackson. Oh, okay. Sorry. I got confused because we're talking about USA's tube chats.
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So I've got a question. Who's on first?
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Anyway, moving on. Not Abbott and Costello fans, I see.
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I appreciate you.
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which is pretty good for a series that hasn't also been available for 20 years.
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If I remember correctly. That'd be about the right time for the D20 explosion, which I always like to think of as like the Cambrian explosion.
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It's not quite the same.
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I mean, you say that.
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Or the birds.
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Crocodiles being big reptiles. We may have... Sorry to be a dinosaur pedant at you.
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sorry it's just like that would be such a dreadful role for any sort of like classic introverted geek like I'm not saying that he is but it's it's yeah wow people would have some questions for him he's a very well known figure so yeah anyway that would be harsh it was just a thought I don't know these people and their lives and what their career aspirations are and where their strengths lie that's fair sorry I just caught tickled my fantasy hmm
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would you like to hear about an exciting zine or if you're us zine zine yes yes bless your heart yeah uh weird science link soon to be available in the show notes um is a ttrpg magazine or zine or zine depending on how you wish to say it it's got over 112 pages of interviews news and features all about various forms of gaming uh it does seem a little bit focused on osr sort of
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But they also have some other things as well, yeah. That's available on DriveThruRPG for a princely total of $7.85. There we go. So, yeah. It looks like a quality bundle, so I thought I'd throw that in there for people.
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That'd be something very different. Yeah.
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And again, once more, listeners are not getting the entertainment that I am from this podcast, which is sadly an audio-only media, as I cannot see the faces and the reflective looks that have passed across my co-host's faces.
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I'm looking forward to this cutting edge in...
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Oh, Cobalt Nemesis. That's an excellent name for a band.
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I should start one.
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saves me rolling dice i'm very lazy yeah yeah so sometimes i'm like yeah so we'll see like plus two brackets 12 for example yeah or if it's got advantage like i tend to give like the really crunchy monsters advantage on their initiative checks because it'd be a shame if they didn't get back yeah and sometimes i give the more lowly mooks disadvantage so it spreads it out a bit
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optimize the game it does help yeah I mean I know like I was using on Wednesday a Hydra that is already a legendary monster I decided to make it an elite to make it a satisfying challenge for my gang boy wow they were like They were, like, chewing on it. It's like, I don't know if listeners are familiar with what happens when you give a dog a chew toy, but it was a very similar sort of thing.
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They were, like, really, really getting their teeth into it. And it lasted a good three, four, five rounds. One monster versus five players at number six. So, elites. Worth it. And that's, I mean, at conventions, I don't know about the rest of you, but, like, My feedback has been people like to tell me about how good Monstrous Menagerie is. I'm like, yeah, I know.
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And they're like, oh, that's just ridiculous. I believe it's one of your best-selling books, is it not? It is, yeah. It's our best-selling book, yeah.
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Yeah, it is definitely our best-selling one. There you go. By how much, we don't know, but I would be interested to know what the numbers are. If you felt comfortable giving it.
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Let us seamlessly segue from the monstrous menagerie to a new backer kit crowdfunding exercise that is out. It is... The Slayer's Survival Kit and Hunter's Journal, which is, of course, very topical for the season leading up to the 31st of October. It's two new books for the Monster of the Week system.
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Yeah, yeah. Powered by the apocalypse. It's from Evil Hat. It's got 28 days left. Has on Friday the 18th of October and has currently smashed its 50k USD goal with
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basically 86 000 so yeah good job good job um that's gonna be a lot of very nice books got some lovely artwork on it like um on the covers um got nine new hunter playbooks nine new team playbooks new weird moves gear asset and um plenty of advice for uh All 33 official Hunter playbooks. So if you like Monsters of the Week, then this could be a very good choice.
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They also have some rather nice zinc alloy dice, which I think are quite charming. I imagine they smell quite nice.
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But how search engine optimization terms go...
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This is Beth Rimmel's like, you know, got her scuba gear on and gone for a real deep dive. Yeah.
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That sounds pretty good.
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End of October, yeah.
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Right. This is very nuts and bolts stuff. And I am super keen on this because... But I have said frequently that D&D 5th edition is unnecessarily hard to run. Especially if you're a new GM who does not have any practice. It is just a pain. So... If they're making encounter creation easier today, a lot of the rest of the game is actually a lot simpler. Yes.
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So tell me, what do we know about this, Russ? What do we know?
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Yeah. This is their design goal.
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All right. I mean, that's going to be a fairly good one-shot. I suppose when you're starting off, can I have one?
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situations like this before so you've all that experience to draw on whereas for me i'm trying to you know think i'm trying to get everything together and think about it so it depends what depends what tools you have like i i presume russ is talking about i presume we're talking specifically dnd and acceptable variations thereof and it's going to depend what tools you have available um so that's and how much customization you want to throw in yeah
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So, you know, with off-the-shelf bits, yeah, like, you could probably knock something fairly decent together in, like, 20 minutes. In terms of things like plot and flavour, reading books is, like, super helpful.
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I had a one-shot, which I had to do unexpectedly. And I basically stole the plot from Shadowslinger, the second Black Company book that I set up for that. And my players were like, ah, this is such an amazing idea. Wow, that's so creepy and cool. I'm like, yeah.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, and stealing from related stuff, like one thing that an old Jim of mine did, which I thought was very clever, and which it was like, it was an itch in my brain for ages, because we were playing like a vampire game, not using the vampire mastery system, and it's like the enemy, like the big bad evil guy, created a storm of crows that ripped the enemies apart.
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And I'm like, I know this. Where is it from? Where is it from? And eventually I realized, oh, Danabd at 40k, it's the unkindness, which is Robot Brakens. But such a strong image that you could take it from a different genre.
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clonk it right into the vampire and it fit perfectly and it's only because like I read like a whale just scooping up books with my big old yeah I'm really glad you explained the metaphor because I was like I don't know whales read a lot like I didn't but you know Consuming books.
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Right, yeah. They need to be. Yeah, yeah.
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And also just breaking away from the 2014 edition where they asked some particular kinds of people who had definite opinions, which are maybe not as mainstream as one would imagine.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, is this not like... Surely they've got this in the 2014 DMG. This is like super standard stuff.
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I did find the 2014 DMG to be quite inaccessible yeah it's yeah it's yeah yeah i don't think it's organized especially well yeah i don't like i don't like to think myself as a stupid person yeah yeah no it's got the magic items yeah
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uh yeah like different different maneuvers but it was just like it felt very bitty like a big book of appendices like yeah we've got no space for this in the main book so we'll stick it in here this feels like it's a lot more polished which is nice it's the sense i'm getting it's the sense i'm getting yeah so then we move into chapter three so this is like um dm toolbox we talked about last week so if people want to hear more about that they can listen to last week's um
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Oh, okay. Okay. Interesting.
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You had pantheons and so forth, but they weren't particularly privileging one set of lore over another. Yeah, so it depends which lore they're going with. I suspect Forgotten Realms, or is it General D&D?
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you're also useful. Yeah, I mean, also it can be quite fun to discover stuff in-game. Back in the day, we always said it's hard to fizzrep ignorance. You can pretend that you don't know something, but if you actually know it, then... But if you actually don't know it... This is the DM, though.
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I imagine a significant chunk of this book is going to be about ways to run the game.
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I don't care.
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It wasn't that many. Yeah, yeah. It was like concepts, but it wasn't – yeah. Not great and still very much marred in the traps as a hit point packs. Or like a deus ex machina. Oh, well, are you not immune to dual failure saves? Well, shame.
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No, no, no. Well, it's also the design philosophy that surrounds them.
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they've got a high hurdle to clear. I would say with me personally, if they're going to convince me that they can do a better job than Paul Hughes, who, yeah, as I say, really nailed it in a way which I found very convincing.
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Like, yeah, there's a lot to cover. So that's going to be a huge amount of value. But yeah, it's just like ways to make sure it runs and ways to make sure you deviate from traditional gaming. Because try and run this in a trap game. I mean, you could try. You could try.
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Oh, we've seen those before, haven't we? Yeah.
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Well, those are more customizing existing magic items, weren't they?
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Well, yeah, that's, I'm quibbling over what counts as new, so ignore me. Sorry, I do beg your pardon. I don't know what came over me with this, unless they're a type of pedantry, but yeah.
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I refer to the Firaxis games. I don't know about the original games. Apologies to listeners if that's causing you conniptions. Oh, Jess, you were saying?
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Maybe there's an index at the back, so if you were... Yeah, fair enough. Indexes are very hard to make. Sorry, just popped in my head. Back on. Anything else from the DMG?
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Yeah, well, as we said, this is the design goal. They want to make encounters easier to run. They want to make it less unnecessarily difficult to run. Which, yeah, I'm like... Anything that will make games easier to run, I'm sort of in favour of.
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I don't think my knowledge is perfect. I'm always looking to improve my skills, sharpen my sword, as they say. But if they've got some good ideas, I'll be having them. Yoink, away!
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and also six straight medium encounters per day Jess it's like why did you even bother getting your sword out for some of them yeah yeah because it's just like it just the amount of time it takes to roll initiative it's like oh so you could do more encounters of a higher higher like difficulty I recall there was a point system wasn't there
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Well, it's the same as the level-up version. There was easy, medium, hard, and deadly were the things. So I think they've changed that now, haven't they? Because that was not perfectly clear. Yeah. Because a deadly encounter, right, means that the party has to expend significant resources or someone might die. I'm like, I guess that is technically deadly, but... Someone may die.
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Yes.
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Yeah. Well, realistically, like, and this may be dreadfully unpopular with people who like to say how declarative I am, but my experience is, right, is, like, you probably only want about one long rest maybe every couple of sessions, because if you're doing a lot of fighting, taking short rests often just as good, and it lets classes like fighters, adepts, sorry, monks, um,
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Thank you for the thumbs up there. Warlocks, like, have a point, because all their abilities recharge on short rest. If you don't throw short rest in there, they don't get to do anything. They're like, oh, I used my abilities.
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well except obviously as rules was written you may take one long rest every 24 hours well yes it's an exaggeration but I was wondering if maybe Jess was talking about short rests because plotty's taking short rests does seem like a good way yeah okay
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An excellent opportunity to segue into maybe a role play.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess a classic example from Lord of the Rings would be when they're sat around a well and thinking, oh, this would be a good place to have a rest in the Minds of Moria. And then certain fools of a tuck knock stuff down and make a racket. Fools of a tuck. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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And they're saying, should we shut the doors and ram some wedges under and then kind of like, no, don't do that. That's how you end up dead. Those are good films. Those are such good films. Yeah, yeah. Strong films. But yeah, that would be a good example, but it wouldn't make sense. Originally,
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And then you've got things like I can't remember if it's called The Dome of Resting The Dome of Resting I know what you mean It's not called Tiny Hut Or Magic Hut or something like that Similar vibe Liam and Tiny Hut I can't remember who it belonged to Old Leo Now I know You throw that up After a 10 minute ritual class And then you can camp a little It's just, yeah. It does make it harder to GM.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. Even better than a rule of thumb. You don't need to do it as a rule of six. You've got the actual rules. They say that. It's probably a rule that I wrote. I probably came up with that. Yeah.
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I mean, that was always an example. D&D is a game of resource management in many respects. If you're going to engage with the rules, you can do it. You can treat it differently. That's absolutely fine. I do not care how you run your games, but I can say what the game is about. It's about managing resources. Yeah.
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It sounds like they're taking steps towards it, but I'm going to need to see some details because it does still feel quite complicated. I don't know how... I mean, it is the same game, isn't it?
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No, not entirely new. I don't know. It feels like a 6th edition because they've had some changes to the player-facing cycle.
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Yeah, I mean, they used to be in the PHB previously, so it sounds like they've changed the mode.
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Okay.
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For certain people, it's really important to have the flavour attached. The flavour... The name of the rules package is super important. So, like, for me, if I want to play, like, a roguish thief character, I'm like, you know what would do this much better? Rangers. That would do what I want it to do a lot better, thanks. Then I'll play a ranger and just say, well, I'm a thief.
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What are you going to do about it? But for other people, it's like, no, no, my character has taken a thief-like turn, so I now must take a class in Rogue to reflect this. I'm like, yeah, sure, you can do that. Why not? But it just feels a bit like you're making your character less good at what they do, generally. Yeah.
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I mean, it's fine if you want to do that. It's just like, I don't see the need for it myself. You can just roleplay it as part of this roleplaying game, in my opinion.
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Yeah. What was a bit about ability scores at the start? You choose three ability scores.
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Like we did three years ago. No, they're doing their best. All right.
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And you get some dice, yes. Where is it being published? Where is it being published? Yeah, yeah. Has it been published in the UK?
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Yes.
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Well, you could have plus three to one.
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That's what you know about Greyhawk. And what makes you excited or, I don't know, dreading it? Well... Not that that's the right term. The right opposition.
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That's correct, yes. Wow, that's a lot of space.
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It's Modiphius, isn't it? Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's like the first campaign setting that you'd probably make when you saw that.
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Yeah. The phrase we're groping around for is seminal words. As in, they're the scenes from which other stuff grew. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Anyway, yeah, good on them. Good on them. Yeah. And people say that things that aren't D&D don't sell.
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That's fine. It's like a tenth rate. setting yeah yeah so as in you uh it's quite sandboxy as well yeah yeah you got sort of a little bit of a set well sandbox very much implies a certain style of campaign where you're going around doing whatever uh so i try and use a tent frame because you have like some tent poles, they go together, and this holds everything up.
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But what color is the canvas that you drape over the top? Does it have windows in? What's the designs on it? That's up to you. It's not important, or it's not important to the structural integrity of the tent. Like you could, I don't know, dress it in muslin for all I care. If that's what makes you happy, it will still have the right shape for you to do the things you need to do for a tent.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, like Exalted, that really introduced me to that idea. They were talking specifically about fights, but I'm like, you know what, this is a great plan. Let's have it. And people have got their characters, lean in and support it. And that's the fabric that's going on to these tentpoles. And they can also create some.
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I don't have to make the whole thing myself because it's a collaborative, cooperative effort.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, less than a thousand. So arguably, I mean, to be fair, it certainly does, but arguably it should be doing even better.
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The salt marshes.
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There's a lot of emergent stuff that's happened.
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I read people's accounts of their games. I'm like, wow, okay. Choices are being made.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It depends on who you ask. If you were to ask me, I'd say Adventurous League is a way that you actually get to play D&D rules as written, as opposed to... That's another reason for it, yeah.
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It has various functions, but yeah. If you were to ask someone else, I'm not saying that they're wrong, not my experience, but if you asked someone else, they'd say D&D is for people with no powers who can't find a regular table to go play at. That's a bit harsh. Yeah.
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I mean, I very much decided I was going to commit to session zero as being a good idea when I started my first D&D camp. In fact, one of the players came from Strictly Board Games and they were like, wait, I have to cooperate with people? What? We have to share our treasure? And everyone else was like a good RPG communist.
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In this particular case, it was because being a young lady, as it was, she had a very bad experience of being quarterbacked, which is where someone tries to tell her how to play the game. which is like, never go fly at my table, because I'm like, oh, was I talking to you? No?
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Then please be quiet and let this person whose name I shall not reveal... The worst is when someone tells you how to play your character.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, all right, it depends. Occasionally there was, like, somebody was playing a barbarian and they kept missing, and, like... you know you could recklessly attack, which would give you advantage. Yeah, okay. That's fine, that's fine. That's as far as I'll go.
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Yeah.
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It depends on the context. They could better achieve what their stated goal is. I feel a lot happier with. I'm not going to tell them how to role play or what decision I should be making. That's their own problem. I'm busy with my own problems.
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Yeah. Well, that would be about 15,000 people. Maybe, yeah. Based on what it's currently doing, which is about 7,500 people. Yeah, yeah. We shall see.
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Or they can just ignore you, which is fine for me.
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It's not a me problem, it's definitely a you problem.
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Okay. So it's a sort of a port city. Support some sailors. Yeah.
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Cool.
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Didn't you have an article on your site, Russ, in World, about dragons playing the great game or something? Or did I read that somewhere else? Dragons playing the great game. Muffin Ring, Rascal, sorry. No, doesn't ring a bell. Yeah, yeah, like the great game being the British up to like truly highest colossal amounts of bullshit round about the 1800s versus Russia, France, Germany, Prussia,
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and just like maneuvering for power and having the dragons up to no such good uh instead and uh using mortals as their pawns in a sort of way that you know in more modern times we've had the cold war and proxy conflicts yeah though i assume that's what they mean but maybe not because that seems like not too many people just playing risk with the world yeah except the dragons yeah
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I can't think of any Ls where it curves up.
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This was. Job done. Yeah, I mean, and to be fake, we've got stuff like Savage Pathfinder kicking out there. kicking around out there. So if you're like, oh, I like a bit of Greyhawk, you know, Savage Worlds is pretty easy to pick up. It's got like a Dungeons & Dragons-esque Pathfinder rule set. I think that feels like a very nice little kit-bashed setting. Yeah. Setting assistant. Yeah.
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Or any Js that don't. No.
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Or, I don't know, Barbarians of Lumeria. Grab that. Use that. No problem.
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That's interesting. I mean, if you're saying Prague to me, I'm thinking Gollum or Gollum, depending on how you want to say it. Gollum as in Lord of the Rings Gollum?
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Or like a clay? Clay. Clay, technically. But yeah, it's like, you know, words in the head. Sorry, like, obviously at the top of my instance, we're just talking about Pratchett and so forth. So, you know.
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A frog defending the Jews there with a golem. Or golem. Yeah. Yeah, sorry.
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Anyway, that does sound very exciting. A lot of different things going on there. It does sound like a great way to get into playing Basin. Basin.
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We do.
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Fair, fair.
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Well, and have we also heard of Dungeons and Dragons in a castle? Yes.
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There, you can begin to sense where I am heading. How about Call of Cthulhu in a prison? That, yeah.
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For us, as ever, it is a delight to be here. And joining us now, in all her reprehensible glory, she has truly brought the sunshine back to Southampton after a cold, miserable day.
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Yeah, I have your attention. Marvellous. I shall continue and put this into the thing. Pentridge Prison Tours Topcom in Australia. Sorry, say that again. Super close, obviously. Very convenient. Is looking to put on some games called Cthulhu in a prison. Is this an active prison or is it like an old... Pentridge Prison, yeah.
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From the fact that it's being run by the National Trust, I'm going to say it's probably a historic prison.
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That's a lot more accessible.
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To help make it more accessible to people. Do you know what? If I was in Australia, I'd be up for that.
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You'd have to get to Pintridge Prison, but yeah, I'm delighted for them. 19th of November, 6.15pm to 9.30pm. 19th of November.
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You could actually. I can get there. I can do it. It might seem less affordable after you factor in plane travel. Accommodation.
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Think of the opportunities.
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But if they use Dungeon Master, then people will actually understand.
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Isn't it wonderful?
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It worries me, even legal things aside, even if they're not using other people's things and say they just use their own proprietary stories to feed, you know, the machine. I still don't like it because I think for me, like tabletop RPGs are meant to be like creative storytelling and just churning out the same thing and having some sort of pattern.
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And especially from like an industry leader because D&D is the biggest RPG out there and stuff they do other people follow. And what they do is kind of what a large part of the gaming space expects. I don't want that to be normal, that adventures and material and monster design is just... a pre-packaged product that comes out with a formula.
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Because I want that creativity. I want that innovation. I love speaking to different games designers and they get new ideas and perspectives that I don't... I look to for innovation, though.
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I'm trying my best. I've only had one coffee today. Bear with me, bear with me. But yeah, no, excited to have Sam here because we're going to be talking later about romance in tabletop RPGs. And Sam, you have the unique blend of skills of being someone who plays games, runs games, and is also a romance author as well.
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If D&D start doing this and that becomes a normal thing, I wonder how much that will trickle down and how many products in the market will become that and how much cheaper will they be? And then will that ruin the careers of writers because loads of publishers like, well, I'm not going to pay for a writer to come in and write this adventure for me because I'm just going to.
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We'll have artisanal tabletop RPGs, like, handmade, like, yeah. Yeah.
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Maybe. Yeah.
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Oh, apologies for the mispronunciation.
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A lot of people that work in the industry feel that way because there was a similar thing with your article about Evil Genius Games. A lot of people...
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Yeah, and in fairness, we can't really speak much more about it because they haven't said what they're going to do and what that means. So it's just, yeah, it's just my wild speculation at the moment. But something about it makes me feel uneasy because I think AI is a tool that could be used well, but I just, I don't trust there's enough regulation.
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So I thought, what a perfect blend of genres to bring it together and talk about it. Because Russ is very confused whenever I discuss this topic on the podcast.
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And also, like, to be frank, I don't trust Wizards of the Coast as a corporation to use it responsibly.
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We're such small fry.
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Anyway.
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No. Shall we segue into something else?
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I found an opportunity to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 again on the show.
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I know. It's a really brief thing. There's a piece of artwork in the new player's handbook and there's like a vampire scene and in the corner there's a little cameo because there's a vampire that looks a lot like Starion and And it's been confirmed, the artist, David Estruga, confirmed that the sketch is based on a starion. Because some people saw him.
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He's in the bottom right-hand corner of an image. The article's on EM World, so you can see the exact image. And people are like, he looks a bit like a starion. Is it? Is it? But he's like one part in a big scene, and it's not massive. But he has confirmed that was a thing. And that seems to be a thing that Wizards is doing.
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They're really leaning into the Baldur's Gate 3 success and using kind of art and coverage from that. So, yeah. I imagine we might see some more stuff in the new Monster Manual with art leaning into those characters that people really enjoyed as well.
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I mean, I loved it. And also there's a mind flayer in it and there's a mind flayer character in Baldur's Gate 3 called the Emperor who's potentially romanceable in case anyone's into that. Spoilers. I'm not giving you spoilers. I'm just telling you there's a character... That's potentially romanceable.
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I know. This is the topic of the podcast, Russ.
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Some people want to kiss mind flayers. I did it, but just for the achievement.
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Anyway. Sure.
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Me neither. I didn't feel good about it. It was awful the whole time. I was like, I don't like any of this.
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He's a vampire spawn.
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I've offered to play the game with you because I'm doing millions of runs, but you've made your choices. Anyway, but also they use, because we watched that Project Sigil virtual tabletop project thing and they use Baldur's Gate 3 stuff there. Yeah. And they're also using the voice actors and things. So I think we're going to see more stuff with little bits and pieces like that.
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Because like I said before, I think Baldur's Gate 3 is a really nice welcome to introduce people to the hobby that have been interested.
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Yes, many things have happened.
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I have some more potential Baldur's Gate news as well.
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All right, sorry. All right, no. But it's not Baldur's Gate 3, but there is a new D&D board game coming out, which is Builders of Baldur's Gate, which is an official Dungeons & Dragons licensed product from WizKids. So it's not Baldur's Gate 3, technically, but, you know, there was a slight segue there. But, yeah, so I don't know much about it.
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Like, they announced it, was it this week or the week before? I don't know.
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recently a couple of days ago i think but anyway it's by matthew dunstan uh so he's done monumental and elysium if you're a board gamer and enjoy that so i think the mechanics in this should be really interesting i'm looking forward to seeing how it plays uh so you're like placing buildings there's also an influence cubes to indicate control so it's that feels quite something i'd quite enjoy but yeah i like was it lords of water deep the board game i really enjoy that one i played that one yeah it's really nice games i've played i've played that one
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So this seems similar, like, tone, as in you're building ventures, defending monsters, controlling factions, managing things like that. So this might be something I'm interested in. So, yeah, it's going to be released second quarter of 2025. It is $65. Yeah, so I'm intrigued. I might take a look and see if I can get a play of it at UK Games Expo next year or something before I buy.
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Was I here?
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I thought they hadn't confirmed what system it was using.
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Interesting.
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Yes.
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I am not, but carry on.
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I do like the books as well.
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But I'm intrigued about this new narrative system because I do tend to lean more towards narrative rule systems than something a bit more crunchy. So I'm very intrigued. Oh, they're going to have some previews of Quick Start Rules later this month. So I think I'll have a look and we can talk about it then maybe.
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I feel it was more recent than that, but... Yeah, I just like... Kind of a construct anyway, yeah.
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This is a very different tone to... Yeah. You know, tone to that. So, although it is, like you say, silly and fantasy and all those things, it's not really the same vibe as Monty Python, I don't think.
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Oh, what is this?
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And a lot of this absurdity comes from the world and the situations you're in that are just bizarre, opposed to, like, you know, particularly that any of the characters are particularly, like, wisecracking.
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Which is what makes it funnier. Yeah. I'm intrigued by it. I definitely will be having a look at the quick start rules.
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To see what's that about. So when it's out at the end of the month, maybe we'll have a read on here and share it and share our thoughts when we know more. But I am intrigued for that one.
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So what else has happened this week? Has anyone else got any other news to throw in the ring or things they wanted to talk about?
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Oh, yeah, I do. They announced that a while ago and it looked... It was Chaosium. Yes.
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Nice.
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Yeah.
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It's just trying to kickstart a third-party community.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I'm scrolling through and there's a list on EN World with the top 10 finalists. We won't read them all out here because that probably isn't too exciting. But because the basic role-playing universal game engine can be used for anything... There's a real variety of different, like, settings and things like that.
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There's one where you're playing witches and doing magic and things like that. Some of them look cosy as well, which I like. Yeah, and then there's Prince of Masks, a Baroque dark fantasy setting. So there's... And I think this just does really showcase that, you know, that toolkit system, you can do anything with it, really. So...
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Nice, nice.
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Yeah, and you can go on. There's just a quick vote. You only get the short snippet of what it is because I was wondering if they have a bit more detail to place your vote, but it is just the brief.
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like, back of the cover kind of thing of it. But yeah, you can vote based on that. But I might vote on that later. I'll have a read through and have a think and place my vote. But yeah, I really like this initiative. Voting is open until September 26. So if you're listening, you too can vote and get involved. But yeah, I think it's a really nice way.
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And it's a really clever way to kind of, yeah, support the third party community and advertising and PR for the system, I guess.
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Yeah, I've only skimmed through them. Yeah, but I love the variety that I've seen when I've had a look through, so I'll have a look through and place my vote. I'll let you know next week where I voted as well. Okay.
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What will your dog Kirby think of that?
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i know he would think it's for him and he'd be wrong there's i like the little there's a pathfinder minis they're doing at whiz kids as well and there's a gourd figure it's like a pumpkin head i thought and seasonal uh it is for q3 2025 so it's for next year but so not for this halloween yeah but next halloween and the baby trinket for all the critical role fans Yes, as well.
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Again, that is coming out for next year. That's $130 for Little Trinket.
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It is sat in a little loaf format. It does just look like a cute kitten with, like, displacer beast, like, tentacle-y bits put on, so... Well, more to my taste than the cute kittens... Okay.
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Okay, Wizkid's doing some spaceships as well, are they?
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Oh, for The Expanse, sorry.
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Okay.
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Well, I mean, yes, if you want toy spaceships. But I suppose you could use these with any sci-fi RPG.
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As long as it met the sort of tech style that you had from that. Yeah.
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Oh, I think it's launching in four days and four hours.
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I wonder how much it's going to be, though, because doing a set, because it looks like there's 27 parts to it, so that would be quite expensive to manufacture and set up. So we shall see. I'm always interested about that, like how much people will and won't pay for minis and things like that. Because it's something we looked at at EM, but we're like, do people want this? Do they not? I don't know.
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It's hard to know.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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That does sound cool. I once did a pop-up Star Wars event. But that's where we put on, like, not AI, VR headsets. That's the one. And had those little body suits and we got guns and stuff and we all looked like stormtroopers. And basically the rooms themselves were probably just blank rooms.
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Yeah, that's a good excuse. I suppose you could get some chrome spray paint and just do that to make them look actually shiny metal. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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Anyone that paints minis now is like, Jess, no, you can't do that for all these reasons.
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I mean, yeah, same. I have a friend who likes to paint minis, so if I ever needed them doing it, I'd maybe sweet talk them because they enjoy doing it.
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Well, I think if you enjoy art and you enjoy painting, I imagine it is quite relaxing, especially because it's such fine detail. You must really need to focus. See, I don't think I find it relaxing.
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Yeah, but yes, I agree. I'd be the same because it would never look like how I'd want to in my mind and that would frustrate me. But other people don't have these hurdles in their heads.
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Well, that's the skill I don't have, Sam. My expectations are sky high, and my skill level is not, and so I'm like, this is terrible. And, yeah, so... Yeah. No pain in the ass for me.
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Tell me what Critical Role is up to.
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Mm-hmm.
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You can still watch it later for free on YouTube though, right?
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You get like an ad-free early version on Beacon.
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If I was correct.
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It was. I wonder if it's going to be something like that, but maybe instead of being VR, it's physical stuff, props and things. Okay, well, thank you for that informative news item.
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Okay.
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There you go. You've been in the same room.
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There we go.
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That's a very good claim to fame.
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Are you trying to say that 10 years ago they weren't planning their character for this campaign, that they've just announced some critical role? Is that what you're implying?
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Well, it's all on you.
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Lovely.
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I've seen snippets of that on social media and it is very funny. It's like a chaotic...
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Nice. And more of their live shows as well, I can see.
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Oh, that's coming out next year, so you should watch that for a bit of a preview, because I know there's been some people that like it online, there's been some people that really don't like it. It's divisive, isn't it? Yeah, it's been quite a divisive one, so yeah, I'm intrigued to see the final form.
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That's very true. That was unofficial, though, wasn't it? Oh, yes.
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But in fairness, Candela Obscura doesn't have that issue as much. I haven't heard as much negativity around that, and that's the same thing. It's that sort of audience, and it's very... Well, you're on a Candela campaign at the moment, aren't you, Sam? It's very different from D&D.
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No, they're not, like, doing a Tales of the Valiant or a level-up thing of their own.
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Well, we'll find out.
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At Critmas, won't we?
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Yes.
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Well, you're saying it on the internet, so someone will correct you. So don't worry about it.
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Much like this podcast.
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Wait for an email. Someone will tell you.
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Yes, that was the callback.
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Well, there's an RPG of it as well. That's coming out like next month. Is it next month?
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Oh, I thought you were talking about the narrative art book.
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Oh, so the narrative art book is out.
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Got it.
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Yeah, okay, yeah.
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Like a casual half a million. It's not a big deal.
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Yeah. So if you missed the Kickstarter, it's now out at retail.
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We got that. I thought you were announcing a new art book that they're doing based on it. That's what I thought the news was.
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Well, I'm so glad we clarified. Yes.
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We've nearly done the news.
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No, I have some Pathfinder news I can tell you about.
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Okay. So Pathfinder second edition, they're resurrecting two different classes that were in the first edition, but they're resurrecting them as archetypes. So I don't play a lot of Pathfinder, so I can't give context. I haven't played these. But they are bringing back the Blood Rager and the Inquisitor as archetypes. And this is in their book for the War of the Immortals.
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Okay. Well, other news. Do you want to stay on D&D news?
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So this is War of the Immortals, second edition. But yeah, so... It just expands the classes and gives more abilities and brings them back. Because I guess people really enjoy playing these in the first edition. I've not played these ones, so I don't have a lot more to say about it. But yeah, Blood Rager does what you think it would. It's like a barbarian class archetype. Access to blood rage.
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Absolutely what you'd expect from that.
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So I haven't read too deep into it, but I know there's been a thing with D&D Player's Handbook being ordered by PayPal, and there's been issues with that.
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It does a bit, doesn't it? So it does. I don't think it is a vampire, but I guess you could play it that way.
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Yes.
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Yeah, because they wanted to move away from... Because there's real world negative historical connotations to an inquisitor. Yeah. And they were like, let's do a sidestep on that one.
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Well, because they're baddies, yeah.
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Yeah, the War of the Immortals book, these will both be featured in. That's coming out in October 2024, next month. And that's dealing with the... Because there was that big meta event we talked about before, which deals with the death of the god, and we know that's now Gorom, the god of war.
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and so the book war of the immortals is is dealing delving more into that storyline and so these archetypes are coming out of that yeah and there's also two other new classes and rules for yeah there's a whole bunch of stuff in there so we'll do an article on war of the immortals looking at the whole book As a whole, when it's out.
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I'm sure we'll get more and more information over the next month in the build-up to it coming out. So that was one of the Pathfinder rules. And also, there's a Pathfinder video game coming out.
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So, yeah, so I don't know too much more about it than the brief article that we've got up on EMworld because it hasn't happened to me because, you know, but loads of forum comments and D&D Beyond are saying that they pre-ordered the player's handbook. They did it via PayPal and they're saying emails saying that the payments aren't working.
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So it's coming to Kickstarter. It's crowdfunding. It's Pathfinder The Dragon's Demand, and it's a CRPG-style game. It does use tabletop minis in the Pathfinder 2nd Edition. I haven't seen the whole thing, but I'm intrigued by it because I really enjoyed Baldur's Gate 3.
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It does a bit because it's got actual minis instead of like those moving characters.
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So this is like Pathfinder's version of that, really.
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I am intrigued with this, about this.
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Yeah.
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I'm interested in this. And also, it uses the Pathfinder 2E rule set, so it could be a nice way to get used to playing that as well. Yeah. So I'll probably take a look at this.
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Anyone else have any other news for the week?
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Well, related to TTRPGs.
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Did we? What did we do?
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Not all week, no. I've just been chilling.
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Yes.
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Yeah, it's got Adventures in Zeitgeist, Dungeon Delver's Guide, and Save the Kingdom Adventure Path in there as well.
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That's all the news I've got.
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which presumably means that they don't get access to the D&D Beyond content early, like they should have done because they were pre-ordering.
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So the topic of the week. So as I mentioned, I thought we could talk about romance in tabletop RPGs and that whole kind of discussion of it. Because I think it's quite interesting because some people don't really include it in their games. They're not interested in exploring it. Other people are literally like, wow, I only play D&D as an excuse to flirt with my friends.
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So there's a whole spectrum of people that play their games in different ways. And there's different games that tackle the subject. So I just thought it was an interesting area. And this is why I invited Sam Parks on as well to talk to us about it. Because Sam, you've got a really unique skill set that I briefly mentioned. So you're, you know, a DM and you play games and you write romance books.
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And recently you wrote a book that kind of blends both genres and both worlds that you have, weren't you? Why don't you introduce it and tell us about it?
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i i love it when i'm in a game and even if my character's not involved when i see two other player characters like getting a thing because you end up it's kind of like in real life you know when you see two of your friends get together and you know it's going to happen and it's just kind of like quite excited you're like oh no kiss or that moment in a film or a tv show so it's kind of fun being part of it on the table i think even when well for me when you're not involved but obviously with anything with romance it's
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I kind of approach it lines and veils in the same way I do horror, which is interesting now I say it out loud, like to say horror and romance, because they should be very different vibes. But obviously everyone's got to want to play that, because some people are just really uncomfortable with the whole thing. They're like, actually, I don't want to do that.
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Okay, so people got some messages saying their order had been cancelled, but they're aware of this, and now they're going to fix it so that people's orders won't be cancelled. Is that...
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it's always been a joke that's always the easy way to go isn't it because then it's like a silly fun thing like we're having a night at the pub and like somebody picks someone else up and it's like yeah
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Well, that doesn't seem like too bad then because I thought that meant people weren't getting digital access because that was the whole point of pre-ordering was you got your stuff early. But if that's not the case, then I guess it's not too much of an issue.
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I haven't used D&D Beyond since the new site's been up. Sam, I don't know, have you used D&D Beyond since the new stuff?
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I think the comfort comes from trust with the players you build as well. Because when I first started role-playing and I was new to it, I was new to the community of people. And also this was like years ago. And it was a very male-dominated hobby. And quite often I was a very minority as a woman at the table. And so I shied away from having those things because I was worried about boundaries.
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I didn't want players on the table to think, oh, if Jess's character is flirting with my character, is that Jess trying to flirt with me?
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So that could be a danger. I never wanted that because I was... That's not why I went to the RPG club. That's what I wasn't looking for. So I shied away from it for a long time.
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And I've only recently, probably in the last four or five years, started incorporating that in my role play because I've been playing with people that I know, that I trust, understand that differentiation and know that I'm not actually flirting with them as a person. This is Jess's character doing things like that. And my first step into that, I purposely did Regency.
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And it was a Regency lap I did because in Regency, there's no touching. No one's even going to try and hold your hand. So I was like, that felt really safe because there's really structured social rules in a Regency setting for what romance looks like. And so that felt like a really safe way to kind of dip my toes in.
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into exploring that style of play and those sorts of relationships I think it's so much easier for me like I probably wouldn't do a romance RPG at a convention because I wouldn't have that level of trust or know the comfort of the other players or know that they're going to receive that but when I'm playing kind of home games with my friends or with people I've gamed with a lot I'm far more comfortable to say hey is anyone interested and is everyone okay with that and just doing the lines and veils with
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what is and isn't okay like Sam was talking about. So I think another thing is who you're playing with and the context of where you're playing really does matter.
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thirsty sword lesbians where a huge part of it is the tension between characters of like which is like a romantic thing there or you've also got like oh is it called broken tales or just no it's not broken tales i can't remember i'll put it in the show notes i apologize broken something where you're playing two people who are going through a breakup and part of it you are physically breaking objects and like talking about it and role-playing that so that is
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you know, a lot about that as well.
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I don't think I'd like that. I would love that.
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Yeah, and I get that. Like for some people, some things are just for not, for some things like, yeah, there's some games I won't invite. So if I was running a game like that, Russ, like I wouldn't invite you because I know you would just be like, no, I don't want to enjoy that. Whereas to Sam, I would be like, hey, I'm going to do this game. Do you want to come play?
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And Sam would be like, yes, please. So you've got to be really clear and have the right audience for that. But my favorite RPG of all time is very unstructured and it's called Family Affair. And it is about two couples. There are two sisters and they are married to two men and the men are best friends. And then there's an affair that happens across one of the women and what has with them.
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one of the sisters has with the other husband, the best friend. And it's all about that interpersonal drama and relationships. And that was my most, that is my favorite RPG. And when I first played that, I'd never played anything like it. And yeah, it was really good fun. And it was just really messy. And there's something very like kind of cathartic and interesting.
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And it's looking about, for me, the draw and the interest is about people and because like exploring that side of people's minds and their motivations and yeah it's just interesting and that game is really tightly structured and i've played it so many times and it's always been different even though it has the same structure and the same ending every single time
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I mean, probably very true as well.
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Just because of the way people interpret intentions and emotions and the way they go to it, it feels different every time. I think that's part of the draw.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely. Because you can do that style, exactly what you said of being like, oh, and you notice during the conversation, the way she's talking to you, she sounds a bit flirty, actually. It can just be that it's not like you have to roleplay a whole conversation where you'd be like, hey, I can't think of a single pickup line. So for example, that's what we would do.
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I got to there and I was like, oh no.
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I should have at least gone to, I just want to say, and I was like, I'll think of something. And I got there and I was like, got nothing.
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Mm-hmm.
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It shouldn't be horrific, unless you want it to be, I guess, unless you're going through a horrific breakup, I guess.
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Yeah.
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I have a form which I get my players to fill out. And Sam mentioned doing something similar. And mine has a section on romance. And one part says, are you comfortable with NPCs flirting with other player characters? And there's, yeah, I'm fine for it to be on the table. I'm fine for it to exist, but not with my character, please. Or no, I don't want that at all.
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And it's the same for between players and players. And so if one person says, I don't want that campaign at all, it's not happening. But most of the time that will happen that I'll have some players that are like, I don't mind it existing on the table, but I don't want my character to be involved. So that does a really clear line.
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So I say for anyone, if you're not sure, you think you're uncomfortable with it, always put that boundary and just say no. And then later you could come in and say, actually, yes to this bit. And you can like decide later.
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Yeah, I have a thing similar with my horror games and I haven't run a specifically romantic focused game, but I have a traffic like system which you can have a card or an object, one red, orange and green. The red one, if someone holds up, the game is like, no, stop, we need to do something. Amber is like, oh, this is getting a bit weird. Let's maybe. And green is, yeah, this is OK.
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So sometimes if I was doing a really intense role play thing, I might just hold up something green like on the screen now just to check in. And everyone can like hold up their green card to opt in to say yes. Because sometimes it's easier to opt in and say yes, you know, to not opt in than to say no.
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Because someone might be uncomfortable and they don't want to be the person to put the red thing up. But if everyone's holding up the green thing, it's easier to not put up your green thing, if that makes sense. Maybe I didn't explain that very well. But I sometimes do that. And I've done that a lot with horror because...
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I've been describing a very gruesome thing, and it's not been on anyone's lines and veils beforehand, but I'm still like, is this okay? Because this is a lot. And everyone's generally been like, yep. But it's good to have those things. And the great thing with online games is people can direct message you as well, because I've always said that as a gem.
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So they can privately be like, oh, hey, you know, and it's easier to do things like that. But in person, I tend to do cards and traffic lights and things. So you can, in the moment, say, Actually, we didn't discuss this in advance, but no, thank you.
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Well, I guess they're looking into it and they're going to fix it. So if it's happened to enough people, I guess they'll make up a process for it.
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Yeah.
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I don't think that's what that is. Of course not. I mean, you know.
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Sat there making jokes. I can make a romance everyone else's issue. And the way I've done this is I love an unrequited love. So I've had, with the consent of the players in advance, an unrequited crush on this other player. And the...
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the character sorry characters just what Sam said so character to character a to character b and uh the character b didn't know anything about it but the rest of the party did and so the rest of the party was making it their mission to try and push them together so that is one way to actually have everyone be involved in it because the rest of the characters were all rooting for these two to to make it work and I was working hard to make sure that didn't happen so it would be as
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angsty and long-stretched as possible so it can be exactly what you said russ that it's like it's leaving everyone else out but you can find ways to make it everyone else's issue but also everyone's gonna give you a pretty in my experience i've never seen this happen where it wasn't really clear from everyone else how they felt about the situation
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Speaking of other Wizards of the Coast news, are we talking about Chris Cox talks about AI uses in D&D?
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Okay, what a lovely segue. Let's talk about that. So, Russ, tell us, give us the overview of this. Because you wrote a lovely, was it you that wrote the article about it?
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I think balancing a table and you want everyone to have a moment where they get their spotlight for their character arc. And that doesn't necessarily mean their romance or their relationship. So I think that's just another thing to balance in the party to make sure people are having their moment to do the thing they want to do with their character.
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totally so it's just and obviously if it's always going back to the same two people even if that was in combat if the GM's always focusing in combat on this particular character and giving them cool moments that's not fun for the party so I don't think it's exclusive to romance arcs focusing on that that
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Okay.
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They're a big financial thing in the US, yeah.
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Well, yeah. Or a form of flirting. Can it be one and the same? Because you are a romance author, the fact that you do that, does that influence the way you play romantic relationships and tabletop RPGs? Or does it go the other way? Has the fact that you've explored this and role-playing games influenced your writing?
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Well, Sam, if people want to see the blend of your RPG and your romance novel and pick up a copy of You've Got Chainmail, where can they do that?
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Had used it and it was in their contract that they shouldn't have. So Wizards of the Coast publicly told them off and reiterated their stance on it.
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Yeah, the line has been, it's made by people for people.
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Stakeholders, I don't know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it is. I'm impressed.
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Yeah, that also is not my experience. Like I know there are some people that use AI images for like their character artwork, but they tend to say, oh, this would be just for my home game and I'd just be grabbing an image off Google for free, if not that. But these people have all said, but I don't agree with it in like published materials properly.
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Like this is just me saying, oh, my character looks a bit like this.
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I do know some people that do that. I would say the majority of people in the games I play with are doing at least that.
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But whenever we talk about it in terms of publishing, they're like, yeah, but I wouldn't want to buy a book that had all that sort of artwork in it.
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Yeah.
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i yeah saying about using it for storytelling kind of worries me and like sam i don't know your thoughts because you're a professional writer and i just don't think like you say it's it's pretty much like a very complex kind of predictive text i don't think the technology is in a place where it's going to create interesting well-crafted stories in the way people can i i don't know what your thoughts are on that
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It's me, Jessica, from EM Publishing, and we have a special guest co-host with us this week. And when she runs a TTRPG, it does not stand for Tabletop RPG. It stands for Time to Romance My Players in the Game. We have a romance author, Sam Parks, joining us.
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Yeah, they're not all exactly the same as each other, but that's basically the idea. So Chaosium has launched one. They're calling it the Champions of Arthur. There's already 15 third-party titles available on it. Oh, wow. Okay. And yeah, so if you want to write and sell stuff for Pendragon 6th edition, it's got to be 6th edition. You can't write for previous editions on it. You can do so. Nice.
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It's quite cool. It's got a few restrictions. So only 6th edition. You cannot put any non-Arthurian material on it. So no alternate settings or other mythologies in the rules or anything like that. So it's got to be Arthurian. Cannot use AI stuff.
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Yeah, that's good.
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Sorry, who were you just going to say? Sorry.
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Yes, they have provided several art packs that you can use. Free art packs. So you can use those with your creations. And yeah, there's a whole bunch of stuff on there already. So if you want to write your Pendragon, go ahead and do it.
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I think that's kind of standard with the community. Because, like, DMs Guild does that. We do that. I think most companies do do that. Write a whole bunch of art that you can access.
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Yeah, yeah. So...
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So, you know Dungeons & Dragons' Honour Among Thieves? The film? The film.
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Yeah. It didn't do all that well at the box office. Not the best time for it to be launched, but it happens. I mean, it got a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score. So, you know, people liked it. But it didn't do so well at the box office. However, it's having a second life on streaming. I bet, yeah. And it's doing really, really well on Netflix. It's on Netflix? Yeah, it's in their top ten things. Oh, cool.
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I feel like when I was out of the room, I missed part of a conversation or something because I have no idea what happened.
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Which is pretty impressive. So, it's number nine. Yep. It's not available in the US, apparently. Oh. So this is not even with the US.
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Yeah, that was a good film, and I'm glad it's doing well on streaming.
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I guess probably there isn't going to be a sequel, but it would be lovely if there was. Yeah, yeah.
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I would definitely watch a sequel.
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That sort of marketing push.
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No, no, no. Talking of community content and all that sort of stuff, we didn't mention it, and this was actually last month. And I meant to mention it each week, and I forgot every single week to mention it. So it's now like three weeks late. Nice. Oh, it's Magicka. Yes. Oh, amazing. Has become open licensed.
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Yeah. The game system and setting will be released under an open license via a crowdfunding campaign. Sorry, crowdfunding campaign for the SRD, I guess. I'm not sure how that works exactly. And what you get as your reward if there's going to be an SRD, because that would be free by definition. I don't know. I don't know. I guess we'll find out.
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It's not crowdfunding expensive. It's not cheap. It's not crowdfunding expensive.
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But I think, looking at this, so it looks like the text of the core rulebook is going to be under a Creative Commons license. Right. As an early stretch goal. So it's going to be part of a stretch goal. All of Miles Ashaker's fifth edition source books may also be released during the campaign as stretch goals. There's 40 or more of those. And the campaign starts on October the 15th.
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Oh. Yeah. I think. Ah, here we go. This is, it's like burying the lead a bit. Okay. So the, if you're having fun, it's actually for Arse Magica Definitive Edition.
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Which is a 600 full-colour page rulebook and the.
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All this stuff is stretch goals. Six. There we go. That's the bit of information I was missing.
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Okay.
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Yeah. But wow, 600 pages. So it's going to be on Backerkit. That's going to be on. Right.
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Yeah, yeah. The Ars Manicica Definitive Edition with an open license as one of the stretch goals. There we go.
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Let's just say I did that deliberately. You did. I timed it perfectly.
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I didn't forget at all.
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Right. Any more news for any more news?
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Yeah, there's the DMG stuff. I thought we'd leave that to the end again, like we did last week.
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Well, that's the question. Are we at the end?
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I'm out. Got nothing. Do you remember we talked about Universal Studios doing something called Universal Fan Fest Nights? I can't remember whether you mentioned it or not.
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Yeah. So this is happening next year. And part of Universal Studios Hollywood is going to turn into Waterdeep.
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Oh, okay. Yeah, all right. I'm listening. And then basically you have to embark on a D&D adventure with fellow Harpers to save Waterdeep from Xanathar.
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These Universal FanFest nights, obviously they haven't just got D&D.
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That's just one of them. But also there's like a Star Trek one where you're on the Enterprise D bridge set.
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Well, you know that the 1986 Ghostbusters RPG is probably my favourite RPG.
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There's a Harry Potter one. You know, so all different things. Haunted houses.
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Yeah. I'm sure there's probably a Star Wars one. I'd be amazed if there wasn't. And a Marvel one. I'd be amazed if they didn't do that.
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Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. The Expanse role-playing game, Transport Union Edition from Green Ronin. That ends next week. Oh, how's it doing? We have mentioned it, but I thought I'd put a little reminder in there. So that one's on back of kit. It's done a quarter of a million dollars. Doing really well. Five days left. Looks awesome. It's got miniatures. It's got some spaceship miniatures even.
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Looks pretty cool.
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Is that using Space Age? It's using the Adventure Game Engine system. Nice, nice, nice. Which is their house system.
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Oh, and our friend Mike Myler has a Kickstarter going right now. It's Mists of Akuma 5E. Eastern Fantasy, Noir, Steampunk, Bonanza. I feel like Mike Myler's done a lot of Mists of Akula, Eastern Fantasy, you know, our Steam Bank bonanzas. I'm not sure. It very much rings a bell like Kickstarters that he's done before. So I assume this is... Oh, so this is... It's different in some fashion.
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Okay, so this is five. Yeah, there are five of them.
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Yeah, and he's bringing them all together. Ah, compendium. Yeah. Well, we've got Mists of Akuma, which is the setting. Right. We've got Beyond the Great Divide, which is an adventure path, 3 to 16. Mm-hmm. We've got Sobering Vignettes. Is it Vignette? Vignette.
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Vignette. Volumes 1 and 2. There's mini encounters of monsters and stuff. Mm-hmm. And 2099 Wasteland Campaign Setting Generator. Okay, bit of a sharp left turn there. Yes, yeah.
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It is a game that I consider the most perfect example of synergy between topic, tone and mechanics. It's absolutely perfect in that respect. Anyway, anyway, anyway. There's a gaming podcast that does sort of paranormal and spooky gaming stuff.
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I guess so, yeah. But this is basically updating and revising these books, basically. Right, right, right. Nice. And that's got a week left to go. But that's 5E Eastern Fantasy Noir Steampunk.
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It's a very specific genre.
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Well, yes. It certainly has those sections in the book. Let me go. I cannot tell you whether or not the advice is amazing or not. But I can tell you that there is advice in the book. There's definitely advice.
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Also, there's another very couple of quick news item bits. Nice! I'm shocked. You want to be an orc in a Pathfinder?
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Not really. If you did want to be, you could play the Triumph of the Tusk adventure path. Oh, okay, right. And there's a free player's guide out now, which is PDF. Yeah, every adventure path they put out a free PDF player's guide thing with player options and background stuff.
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No, no, no. Another thing is Monty Cook Games' Magnus Archives RPG.
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They had a big old Kickstarter last year. But that is based on a horror podcast about a secret archive and occult stuff. Yeah. They did a crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit for like two million last year or something. But it's going to be available generally, I think like next week or something. Really soon anyway. Nice. There we go. I've done the news now. There's no more news. That's it.
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We're finished. None that we are aware of anyway.
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Called Bob After Dark. Bob After Dark. Yes. I see. And for Extra Life, which is the children's charity, children's hospitals, specifically Children's Miracle Network hospitals in this case, Bob of the Dark will be playing the Ghostbusters RPG live. Oh. At Chicago's Sony Wonderverse, which I had to Google to find out what that is.
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Christian Hoffer, who is one of our columnists, has a copy. DMJ. And we'll be posting some articles next week. On EN World.
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I see. I don't know specifically what he's going to write about, but there will be stuff.
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But today we're talking about magic items and crafting, and we're talking about the Dungeon Master's Toolkit, the DM's Toolbox, sorry, which is an alphabetical chapter listing various topics in the DMJ. So which of these two would you like to do first?
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This isn't the advice chapter.
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This is the rules chapter.
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Was that fair?
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I don't know how it's introduced. I can't tell you that. What I can tell you is that it's an alphabetical chapter with a bunch of alphabetical topics. And the topics are things like creating monsters, fear and mental stress rules, chases, firearms and explosives, traps, alignment, character death, dungeon quirks, settlements...
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mob rules hazards marks of prestige so a whole bunch of stuff like that little basically little modular rule systems for various things in alphabetical order a lot of which were in the 2014 dmg but kind of scattered about or in other books yeah so this is more an organizational reordering yeah but of course we know they're rewriting every word of these books anyway so So that's what this is.
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It's basically, I guess, a chapter of optional rules.
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Oh, I agree, absolutely, yeah. I think a chase works better if it's more narrative than miniature-based.
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I don't know how the DMG's doing it. No, no. I know how I like to do it, and that will basically, you'll be going from basically obstacle slash set piece slash environment to scene to scene, and each side will be making checks like, oh, there's a wall in front of you. So each side's making checks to do that and things like that. To deal with it and so forth.
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control over where it goes so you'll sort of go okay so you've got two choices now you can turn left and you'll be going through the crowded marketplace or you can carry on straight over the broken bridge and you know so they get to sort of like guys which option and which which still checks or whatever focusing on the chasey the hunted rather than the hunters yeah yeah and then all you basically need is some kind of scoring system to work out how far behind the other guys are yeah and there's millions of ways of doing that but
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The first is that they take up two pages.
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And the second is that they distinguish between wilderness and urban chases. Nice. Makes sense. That's all I know. I know nothing else other than that.
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I think it's like a cinema slash events venue where they do things like themed food related to the thing. And they sort of do experiences as I understand it.
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If you want to.
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Sorry, in the current 5e, 2014.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I think what's interesting about Exhaustion is it's like a non-scaling version of Hit Points.
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yeah so heat points continue to go up and up as you go up in levels but exhaustion always has just those five stages and that's it yeah no matter what level you are and it has the same effects whatever level you are so um yeah yeah and it's also quite harsh as well no yeah yeah it really it i i mean like it makes the game much harder so if you're throwing it towards the end then
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Yeah.
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I mean, what we did in A5E is we stretched out the seven stages to make it less harsh.
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So it doesn't completely debilitate you quickly. It takes longer to do that.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So other things. So we've got... So I don't know how each of these things... I know that everything's one to two pages long in this toolbox.
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So we've got... And this is only some of the stuff. Rules for creating monsters. Yeah. Fear and mental stress rules.
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That's interesting.
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Well, mental stress, I'm going to guess, is what they used to call madness. Yeah. Yeah. And they've renamed that.
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And then fear, I don't know how that works, but I guess.
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Yeah, I mean, there's a heightened condition. We know that, but I don't think that's what they're talking about here.
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Oh, right. Yeah. There's something in Demon's that used to do that as well, like Dragonfear was a thing. They don't do it now, do they, in 5e? Well, not as far as we're aware.
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It will be streamed on their Twitch channel.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So Sony Wonderverse hosts these things called Taste Sip Experience themed events. And this is one of them. And it includes dinner and drinks and various activities and stuff.
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Your fighter causes dents instead.
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Wave the monster. Sorry. So we've got chases, which we already knew about.
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Firearms and explosives, a couple of pages on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because they're not in the sort of player's handbook basic weapons list. No, no.
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It's really interesting. You jump over to a different fantasy genre, like Warhammer, and it's like a big thing.
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Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And that's fine. So it all totally depends on basically your assumed universe.
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Oh, yeah, 100%.
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So we also have traps are in this section.
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I'm assuming, given that each of these things is one to two pages, I don't think you're going to get many traps there. Doesn't sound like.
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Maybe.
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Well, there aren't that many in the 2014 rules either.
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Or the barbarians because they have hit points. Traps are most fun when they end up being a group activity. Generally, I don't think you should hide the trap. You should let them know it's there and let them think of ways around it. And inventive solutions are fun.
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Unseen hit point taxes aren't fun. Oh, yeah. Walk along, fireball goes off, you take 30 damages. Yeah.
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Yeah, and the people who are going to be in it come from various Ghostbusters cosplay groups around the US.
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And, like, traps as puzzles are just... They're just fun. They're just more fun. Yeah. Tell the players to trap there. Let them find the trap.
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Yeah. Anyway, so traps. Yeah. What else have we got in there? Character death. So apparently they spent a couple of pages talking about the topic of character death and different ways that you can approach that.
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in the sense of what happens afterwards do you do memorial services in your game yes is character death permanent do you want to like send them to another plane when they die you know what happens to the equipment what happens you know all the different things and also I guess there's basic just sort of player management stuff like what happens to the player if a character dies like part way through a session you know I think yeah I mean there's all sorts of things because like from the prosaic
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Was just watching some other people play D&D, yeah.
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Yeah, so someone from Windy City Ghostbusters, Circle City Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters Virginia, South Carolina Ghostbusters. I'm going to read the whole list. But there's a whole bunch of people who I assume could be playing in cosplay. One would hope so, given the fact that they're cosplayers.
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as a super early alpha test.
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You know, it's pretty buggy and stuff. It's not ready to let everyone beat a tester yet. But it's amazing stuff. But the process of making a first level character, literally, I can whip one up in like two to three minutes. And that's me taking my time. It's so quick and easy.
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You have to write stuff out and calculate stuff.
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You'd be disappointed if they didn't, wouldn't you?
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If you've got the kit already, it seems a shame not to. Yeah, yeah. Although sitting on a chair with a proton pack on your back could be awkward. I imagine it might take it. Possibly.
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No, this is a subject based on game style and all sorts of stuff anyway. Yeah. Some games, social skills just might be irrelevant, you know.
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That's your preference.
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Yeah, possibly. But yeah, so this is happening on Saturday, October 19th. Chicago's Sony Wonderverse raising money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
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Anyway, moving on. Going through this chapter, we've also got a section on alignment.
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And they said that they're trying to make it clear that actions determine alignment. Yes. Not alignment determines an action. So your alignment is based on what you do. Yeah. It's not like I'm lawful good, therefore I act lawful good. It's I'm lawful good because I act lawful good. Interesting. Is what they're trying to say. And they say that you can change alignment if you change your actions.
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Yeah. I think some kind of destiny system would work, maybe. You know, where you've got different motivations...
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But even that isn't like set in stone. So if you just look at sort of real world mythology, like the classical example of evil in real world mythology is obviously Satan, who was originally an angel. Yeah. So, you know, not even all angels have to be good, really. You can have an evil angel.
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Anyway.
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Yeah, yeah. Okay. I don't know how it's going to do that, whether that's just like a paragraph where they just sort of say that.
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I don't think there's going to be rules.
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what else we got so we've got a big table of dungeon quirks dungeon quirks yes so some of it is like basic stuff like who made it like did giants make it and everything's on a larger scale yeah like all the chairs are like six feet tall or whatever or maybe is it built on top of a cloud or you know or a volcano
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Or in a volcano, or underwater, or, you know, basically ways to, themes that you can apply to a dungeon, I guess.
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Which basically change the nature of that dungeon. Yep.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we've got environments, probably the same sort of stuff that's in the existing GMG, like underwater, hot, cold. Being the three classic environments. Yes, those are the three. The three Greek classic environments.
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Underwater, hot, and cold.
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Oh, wow. That's when you mix them, you see.
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Before we waffle off. We've got settlements, including a settlement tracker and a way to roll up random settlements.
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There's a video where they actually roll up a settlement on the video. It was Chris Perkins and James Wyatt from Wizard of the Coast.
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I didn't watch through that bit of it. I kind of scrubbed through that bit of the video as they did that because I had a time limit. But yeah, and settlements can have quirks. I think I caught them saying one of them was this settlement has lots of magic users in it or something. Are you sure? In the same way that dungeons can have quirks, so can settlements, I guess.
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had a couple of very short games which fell over pretty quickly which is kind of i think it was that's kind of quite tolkien-esque isn't it points of light it's like yeah most of most of middle earth is just wilderness full of nasty stuff but then you've got the shire here and you've got rivendell there and there's brie in between them and you know and but most of it is yeah
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so settlements. What else have we got? So we have hazards... And they listed a few hazards with colourful names. I can't remember, but they were like, it's like a fireball fungus or something. I can't remember what they were. There was a bunch of fairly colourful sounding, cool sounding hazards that you can drop in. Mob rules. So this is interesting.
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I don't know if they're doing that specifically, but...
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So this isn't like swarms. Okay. This is like, if you've got a whole load of monsters. Yeah. It's rules to basically, rather than controlling them individually, you average out how much damage they're going to do.
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And simple rules to do that. So just to save time.
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So if 20 archers are firing at you... The DM doesn't have to roll 20 times. You just average out how many you're likely to hit and how much damage you're going to do on average. Sounds good.
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A little. A little, yeah. But, you know, it's a trade-off against the time it would take, I guess.
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It's basically a fireball. Yeah, yeah.
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And then we've also got Marks of Prestige. So these are non-monetary, non-XP awards. So they're like deeds or medals or titles, that sort of thing.
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Yeah, yeah. Letters of introduction, that sort of thing. Ooh. So that's the DM's toolbox. It's chapter three of the 2024 Thunder Masters Guide.
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Well, Ghostbusters has the ghost die. So if you roll the ghost on the ghost die, something bad happens. It'd be fun if maybe they got the audience to choose that or something. I don't know.
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Christian Hover's got one. There's a presser event.
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which I assume will have an embargo on it for those who attend. And we've got a couple of people going to that. We've got Beth and Christian are both going to be at that. So we'll have a few articles and columns about that too.
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So, yeah, yeah. We'll know all about it soon. Right, right, right, right. That was one of the two things. Yes. The DM's toolbox. We still have to go the crafting and magic item rules.
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And crafting. Oh, is it crafting magic items? Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So they've got extended crafting rules and lots of new magical items in the new DMT. Yes. So one of the things they have done is divide treasure into different themes. And different monsters can have different themes of treasure. And these could be like arcana or gems, relics, implements, armaments. So it's easier to pick.
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You want to stock an armory, it's very easy to go to an armaments table, for example.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's anything different to what's already in the rules anyway. You can pretty much shoot weapons or potions or rings, that sort of thing, can't you?
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so happens to be an item that would be useful for one of the players and like that's fun um but yeah i've never been one to yeah trawl through magic items and want to buy things and stuff like that for me it's always been i hate the idea of and i'm lazy so it always happens in my games but i don't like the idea of just sort of oh Yeah, you can just go and buy, you spend your treasure.
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Next. Who would like to go next? Who else has some news?
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Here's the list of magical items. Just go and buy anything up to, I don't know, this town will show you anything up to 400 gold or something like that. But I don't like doing that because it's totally unimmersive. I'd much rather they go into a specific shop and there's a shopkeeper there and they're talking to the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper's going, oh, I've got this lovely sword.
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Okay.
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What do you think of this? And that sort of thing. But it's work intensive. That's the problem. Work and time. I'm too lazy.
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What if you try and mix the shopping in with the adventure and encounters and challenges and things? I suppose you... I don't know.
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I kind of like the idea, you don't do a shopping trip. Yeah. You're like, okay, we're doing shopping now. You're playing the adventure, and the adventure happens to lead you through a bazaar, and there's this interesting stall, and the stall owner calls over to you. Or you're investigating a crime, and you go into the shop to ask them questions, and it's a potent shop, and while you're there...
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Every bit of magic item is given to you or it's treasure.
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Yes. So in the player's handbook, you can craft potions and scrolls. So the DMT expands that to all the other magic items. The non-consumables, yes. Yeah, so you can craft any magical item in the DMG as long as it's not an artifact. You can't craft that. But anything else, in theory, you can craft it.
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You might not necessarily have the resources or the skills to, but in theory, you can craft any magical item.
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Yeah, so... Is there a dice roll? Yeah, so you've got tools proficiencies, you've got the arcana proficiency, and you've got spells. And they're basically three components, plus whatever material components you need.
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So you need the Arcana skill to start with. Magic, check. I mean, you can craft non-magical items as well. This is just a magical item start. So you don't need the Arcana skill to craft a hammer. But you need the Arcana skill. And depending on the magical item, you need the appropriate tool. Yep. One of the examples they got was a wand of magic missiles. So for that, you need your khanoskel.
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You need woodcarver's tools to make the wand. And then you need to know the spell. In this case, magic missile. Feasible. So you need those three things.
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We've just lost our entire Swedish listener base.
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Good, because I really don't like skill checks. I don't know if you have to make a skill check. It says you have to have the Arcana skill and you have to have, like... A tool proficiency. Proficiency. But it doesn't say whether or not you have to make a skill check.
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Yeah. And this is basically measured in person hours. Yeah, yeah. So the more people you have working on it, the shorter time it takes.
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Not specifically, it's just as golden time, so I guess it abstracts the materials. Yeah, yeah. In Level Up, we've got every single magic item has specific crafting components that you have to obtain. This, I'm guessing, doesn't.
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Yeah. That's basically it, really. It looks pretty simple, unless there's a lot of nuance to it that they haven't revealed yet. Then magic items themselves... Not necessarily ones that you craft, but ones that you find. Also have quirks and randomly determined histories and creators and things like that, just to make them more interesting. So you wouldn't just get a wand of Magic Missile.
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You'd know who created it.
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But I think part of that goes, also that goes to how the game treats magical items. Like D&D...
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They don't make you do that, but I bet if you went and played The One Ring and someone gets a magical short sword, I bet they'd be interested in that. Yeah, it's got a name and a history. Because it's different and it's rare. But in D&D, you know... They're not rare.
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Yeah. So yeah, use magical items. So randomly determined stuff. So it can determine the creature type that created it, like a dwarf, an aberration, a giant or whatever. It's history. It might have been part of a religion. It might be a symbol of power. It might be a prophecy or something like that.
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And they get a bunch of minor properties and quirks just to, like, round them out and just... It's all standard stuff. You've seen all this before in every game in the world. Every fantasy game in the world does that. I mean, well... No, I know what you're saying.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, we'll find out. We can really find out more every single week up until it's released.
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Seems likely. Pretty much. Yeah. Well, that's it for the DMG for now. Yeah. I think that's it. I think that's the news. I think we're done.
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I'll see you next week. Bye. Bye. Bye.
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Most ciders I've tried have sort of gone... Bit sweet for me.
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I haven't tried a lot of them because I don't like cider. You don't try all of the ciders. You try and find if there's one cider.
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What do I understand about dry ciders?
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Have you agreed to an embargo? If you haven't, there's no embargo.
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Talking of Free League, sticking with Free League, there's another great game that they produce. They produce, as we all know, the Alien RPG.
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And there's a second edition coming.
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We have mentioned it a couple of times.
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Yeah, so originally it was going to be hitting Kickstarter this fall. But they have delayed it now until spring 2025. Okay. They say it's because, I mean, there's like 10,000 followers waiting for it. Yeah. There's like loads and loads of people waiting for this. It was going to be a big one. Yeah. It's not popped off yet, but...
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yeah they say that since they announced it back at Gen Con in August yes they've had so much feedback and ideas and you know people saying how they'd like the second edition to sort of change from the first edition from fans yeah yeah that they and they want to bring so many of those ideas to the table that they've decided to delay it until 2025 so that they can incorporate you know a whole bunch of that feedback they've been getting oh that's great which I think is kind of cool
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Yeah. It's not like people have seen the second edition. They played the first edition and they said, oh, it would be really good if you did this in the second edition.
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Yeah.
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And the other thing they're doing with it is they're going to be including content based on the recent Alien Romulus movie. So there's going to be information about the mining colony Jackson Star.
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And new weapons like the F-44 AA pulse rifle. And ships like the USCSS Corbellan IV mining hauler. Things like that. So it's going to have alien Romulus stuff in it.
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And with me this week is... PJ Coffey from the Southampton Guild of Roleplayers.
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There's a new starter box set coming with the new edition.
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Hey! And which of us is which? Who's the monster? Who's the horror? And who's the abomination?
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Cool, cool, cool. Yeah.
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What else have we got? Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed. It is a quiet week. It is quite a week. Chaosium? Yeah. There's more. Chaosium has launched a community content program for Pendragon. So community content programs are those things on DriveThruRPG. DMs Guild is the
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big one yeah with a business of the coast but lots of other publishers have them as well yeah and they're all under different names but basically they're all the same thing basically you can create stuff for a company's games the company takes 50 of the um revenue and you're kind of free to use their ip that's kind of how those things work they've never been a fool they're not your adventure
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That's probably about £60 on the market.
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Yeah, it's... I feel familiar with Betrayal at House on the Hill. It looks like... Yeah, I am. With, like, the dungeon generation being back and so forth, which is not a bad way to do it, to be honest. So, yeah, that looks like a... But, I mean, it's... Like, the rules are super quick to learn. You do not have to be a role-playing rules lawyer guru to pick up a dance fighting fantasy.
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I assure you. And, yeah, a bit of old-school messing around, to be honest with you.
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I thought it looked jolly.
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Yeah, yeah. Like, if you, by some chance, and this is a very low probability, see the original Warhammer Quest,
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totally recommend picking that up not so keen on the latest edition oh really it's not it's not capturing the same vibe but if you you're like you come across a car boot seller you're like oh what's this what happened quest what's that about just just just grab it i have heard tales of this yes yeah it was immensely fun the invitation of hero quest is you have the static board and it is yes is what it is but you know with the tiles and things that makes it new and exciting every time yes yeah hmm
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c'est moi Jessica from Ian Publishing but no you need the beret I have a beret somewhere well there we go podcast hats we should make make them a comeback I prefer the burglar idea with a sack that says swag on it I probably have that too I could I mean could have a beret and a little domino mask and a bag that says swag on good too I feel that would that would tick a lot of boxes hmm
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I talk about the people who give vegetarians a bad name. Yes.
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um i am very much against animal cruelty but like yeah but i think it's something like they do they have a lot of like kill shelters for pets or something or something like that a lot of euthanizing that doesn't need to be done or something like that i'm not sure exactly i don't know about them because every time i've looked at them they've been saying things which have hurt which have hurt my brain and made me sad i'm just like no i do not need to know about these people
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Yeah, it is. Can I ask for details?
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I mean, them wild rangers do need protection.
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Yeah. I mean... Americans out there will know a lot more about this than we do.
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It's an American organisation. Yeah. They're definitely... They're definitely not been... I've definitely not seen that much stuff about them over in the UK.
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So hopefully they won't send us pipe bombs. That would be nice. Well, that would be rude, I think. Not out of line with what I hear.
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It'd be quite funny if they decided to all swap around.
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I was enjoying that.
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I don't know. Hey, hey, hey. Prepare to hear about Baldur's Gate 3. With Jessica Hancock. There you go. We have a jingle.
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Those who make Shadowrun and Battletech. Oh, well, there we go, yeah. I mean, if the people who make Battletech do a big robot game, I'm expecting more big robots. It seems on brand, yeah. They know what they're talking about, yeah.
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Yeah, but it's not either their Shadowrun or Battletech systems, so... Maybe cause new punk as a suffix, you can say. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. But they adopt the aesthetic of rolling dice.
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If giant robots are your thing, that is definitely a thing to do. If giant robots aren't your thing, may I draw people's attention to the fact that we currently have the Warhammer Day sale. It's only going until the 7th of October, but they are currently doing 25% off. Nice. This is cute because I'm doing 25% off on all their role-playing game products.
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So I am looking at it thinking, oh, I do quite like the look of the Imperium Maledictum Collector's Edition Core Rulebook, which is an absolute beast and is discounted quite heavily from £100 to £75. So I'm like, I do like the look of it. It's very pretty.
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Yeah, yeah. Age of Sigmar. Is it everything? Collector's Core rulebook is £75. You've got Soulbound, £33, £74. I believe these are the hardbacks which come with PDFs as standard. And you can also pick up the PDFs. They're also discounted.
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Yeah, they've got pretty much everything there, yeah. Yeah, they've got starter sets for Foundry modules, Foundry core modules.
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Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Soulbound, Foundry core module, 1234. So, if you're a Foundry player, then this could be a good time. Those collector's core warbooks are very nice looking. I know. I'm just like, that, I'm just torn because it's like, it's a lot, I wouldn't spend that much on decoration, but also, I'd use it, but.
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Yeah, I mean, it's like, yeah, I could see myself using it. I've got a couple of days to make up my mind. You do, listen, I may have less. And you know, people always make really nice stuff. Do make really nice stuff. And it's basically, I had a look at the character sheet because they kindly lent me a copy, thanks Lee Donovan. And I'm like, oh, that is much nicer than Dark Heresy.
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So I think they sort of revamped it. So it should be, Good question, Mark. I don't know. I really enjoyed Dark Heresy when I played it. I enjoyed Death Watch when I played it. Never got a chance to play Rogue Trader.
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Have you ever played any 40k of Fantasies, Jess?
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uh with cubicle 7 and it did pique my interest and seemed like the sort of thing that would be for me but i've not dived into it just yet yeah so basically they got like this imperial maverickton which looks like a cleaned up version of the d100 series and they also have wrath and glory available as well so yeah that's uh That does look like a strong offer. Cool, cool, cool.
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Yeah, and so... How much will my wallet stream in pain?
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It's a premium product, but you do get value for money, I think.
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They don't... They never struck me as a, what's that, a corner-cutting bro. So, you know, I respect that, you know?
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Yeah. I mean, it's nice to actually have like a happy ending to something. Yeah. As opposed to things getting worse. God forbid. Yeah. Sadly, he does live in America where they believe in like massive, massive bills. But there is still that bundle that's on that has been helping him out quite a bit. It's on DriveThruRPG. I'll just pop a link in the show notes.
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For $1,271.93, that's how much it's worth, you can pay $29.95. Yeah, okay. And get that much worth of new product. More Pathfinder and Starfinder. Nice. You know, it's going to be good. I can't even imagine how many pages this is. And there's like, I don't know, 20, 30-odd creators who are all pitching in to provide.
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Oh, absolutely, yeah. It is a sad time, but yeah, he's pretty cheered. Yeah. He was able to ring a whole remission bell and everything, so yeah. Yeah. Owen, if you're listening, we're all very glad for you. Yeah.
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And I'll own it, yeah. Sorry, I'm laughing because the people on Ian World had all sorts of conniptions, most of which could be resolved by scrolling up. Anyway, yeah.
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Makes perfect sense. Like, presumably they get a bit of a kickback. Twilight, is it Twilight Struggle? Have I got that right? Twilight 2000. Twilight 2000.
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2000 fans can continue to enjoy excellent quality uh books and uh really stuff yeah yeah i mean perfect i mean is there any downsides that you can detect for us not really no no all sounds quite nice then really yeah yeah yeah just there's some there's less admin i guess now that mongoose is doing all this stuff directly well yeah yeah
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Yeah, yeah. Oh, as we are in October. We are. People do enjoy their talk of Halloween slash spooky slash spooky season.
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we uh i did see quite an interesting take available on drive for rpg let me whack a quick little it's called five evil splinters for dungeons and dragons and what that is is someone has um taken a look at 5e said this isn't practical horror morgan davies uh from the morgue if you're familiar with
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Top tip, hair dyke is a multitude of grey hairs caused by stress on one leg.
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that name and what they've done is they've taken that out and put in sort of like a skill challenges in place of combat to represent the dealing with the absolute uh terrifying horrors that are contained um monday horror inspired by the works of say stephen king and things like The Ritual, Descent, Jacob's Ladder, and things like Midnight Mass and Scarcity Twin Peaks episodes. So, yeah.
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I came across it because John Hodgson, who we know from Handiwork Games, which I believe, yes, Handiwork Games is publishing it, was mentioning it. And I was pretty intrigued, to be honest, because Handiwork Games is also the people who did Benz.
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Yes, indeed. They produced a lot of Roroks and stuff, and I was thinking, interesting. So what I'm hearing is that as we approach closer to Halloween, I could inflict a sort of potential dream sequence on my players who are very used to crushing all before them, and make them do skill challenges for their Advance 5th Edition game. That would go down well. I'm sure. Oh, dear me.
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It's a very tough price. It's a good price. It is a good price.
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Oh, well, somebody already has. Someone's given them a free star review. There's two ratings with five stars from people who've had something to say. There's one random freestyle rating in there just to help ruin the review scores, which is just one of those charming little things about publishing on Drive for RPG. We get that sort of person who comes along and does that.
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Just a little review bomb, just for the reward of having put out a free product. Love it.
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Right, right. I guess it's a nice Christmas stocking filler or something. That's what I was thinking, yeah.
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I know I've paid that much for dice in the past there's like seven beholders there just trapped inside these plastic dice prisons yeah that's what I like it feels powerful forever you could bust them out for when it's like you know the boss fights game series yeah I think a beholder could bust itself out really let's hope not disintegrate right Yeah.
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Otherwise you have like, I don't know, would a disintegrate ray hurt if it was from like a really tiny beholder? It is a tiny one, yeah. It's like, ow, quit it. Ow, ow, quick, quit it. It is a very, very small beholder. Unless you have one hit point. It's like, ah, stop it.
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Well, I mean, I personally am a big old-fashioned geek and would use stuff like a sticky note or like all those little multicolored tabs. But we like a ribbon.
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Ribbon bookmarks are the type of product.
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That sounds great. A good organisation, a much underrated DMing virtue.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, it's technologic for a start. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so that's very good. So if you talk about dungeon crawler, now point to the dictionary definition.
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I'm sure the others will catch up eventually.
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Russ is, as we know, a big milk drinker.
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Zombie apocalypse comes. I am screwed. Why don't we just skip over? Okay. I've got some good news, bad news.
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What? The number of consecutive months you've not missed any days of school? Yes. Is this something like 20 for most people? I don't know. I'm not sure.
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We're looking at world events.
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Not naturally resistant to poisons, actually.
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Wow, that's just stupidity. IQ tests aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
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I've done a couple of them. Not worth the time.
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Because, like, if we open the scope... It's really key to tabletop RPGs. I mean, there is a lot of bad news in the world. Yeah. It's a fact. Well, I mean, yeah, sure. Okay. Yeah. that the agreement is we try and stick to topic and this is pretty like it's the UK's fault so we're sorry about that rest of the world but the UK is doing a good thing You may never have heard of the Chagos Islands.
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But I don't know. It's all based on the concept of there being a general intelligence, G, which there is no evidence for. The person who proposed that there was a general intelligence that could be measured invented a whole branch of statistics to try and justify it. And people redoing it were like, that looks like a statistical artifact that comes after this. There's no evidence to support it.
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Yeah. I mean, it's like, it's all standardised with a bell curve, with a median of 100, and then like 15, 115, but you're a standard deviation of the rest of the population. So, like, it just gives you ridiculous numbers, like three, four standard deviations of the population. We all agree it's nonsense.
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no okay well it turns out that's page one and we're actually we're talking about some like real latest no no we're not yeah so do we have any text from Dungeons and Masters guide what do we even have an index what's going on tell me well they just started doing it this week their promotional stuff and if you remember for the player's handbook it was lots and lots and lots of videos yeah yeah and it was like it's gonna be the same again because this week came out two videos
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Hmm. That dragon's looking very dragonfly.
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It's quite a... Maybe not dragonfly, more butterfly.
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Yeah.
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Funny wings though. Yeah.
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They're like little islands near Mauritius, basically were stolen by the UK.
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I guess they're not fixing experience. Are they giving advice on how to balance encounters? I don't know. Something with samophiles. I don't know.
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They took people off them and have dragged them to Britain and they've been... having a terrible time haven't they been kept in the uh in the museum for like the last 200 years are you thinking the british museum yes no no this is like you know a whole bunch of people who who basically got displaced by the uk so the good news is that the chagos islands are being given to mauritius
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So far, it has not been easy to, like, yeah, there are many games that were easier to run than 5e, and 5e's not even that complicated.
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But it's just like... But a well-crafted DMG goes a long way to helping with that.
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I mean, I've looked at... Many people recommend the 4th edition DMG to me, and I have never, and I've got to be honest, will never run 4th edition. I read it. I was like, this is full of great ideas.
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Which, yeah, really good GMing advice. I'm like, okay, yeah, that is actually top quality stuff, and Like, you know, I am a big nerd and like to read about as much of the stuff. I thought it was really good. So, you know, 4 EDMG, the mechanical bit's not so much helpful, but a lot of the rest of it, you know, real gold stuff was the 5 EDMG for 2014. Not hitting it.
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there are people who will put things that will set your house on fire if you try and wire a plug in the way they insist is like a legit way to do it and there are people who are producing I only can presume it's deliberately bad GM advice either that or like they are literally the worst people who can say and equally not necessarily bad but controversial because they're clicking yeah we rage baiting yeah
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I think because we basically agree that the idea is that all the players should be having a good time. No, I don't agree with that at all. Yeah, I know.
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for various reasons, like the UK having its arm twisted about the matter, which is great. But as we all know, .uk and .fr, these are the domains for UK and France, right? Would you like to have a go and guess what the domain suffix for the Chagos Islands are? No. .ch? .io. Oh, okay.
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there's plenty of people I see their opinions and it's like wow you do not play this game they've got very strong opinions about how GM can never say no to it I'm like well we're going to have to disagree on that yeah because sometimes yeah sometimes no
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Right.
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Are they adopting the Sweet Crib model or the Clubhouse model? Because I know that Sleeveler has the Sweet Crib model, where it's like an individual thing, whereas I do feel like the Ganghouse model does have a Clubhouse model, does have something to it.
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So if we were to know any famous role-playing game distribution networks which had a .io suffix, that would be quite important. And the reason this is quite important is because this puts the .io suffix, the top-level domain, into dispute. Like it may stop being a valid top-level domain. Oh. So...
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for my friends to hate me personally because I am the opposition. Not a thing that I am interested in.
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That's my point. As I'm like... I want people to be, like, cursing my ingenuity and stuff, but more to be like, okay, well, that's fair enough. And for me to be like, well, I'm a fan of the characters, but the rules are the rules, and this is how we're playing. So, you know, like, well, sorry. Like, I would, like, just on Wednesday, ended up doing, like,
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80 points of damage to someone's character over a couple of turns which was quite worrisome for them and they managed to double one a death saving throw so they were not having a good time and they had advantage of it so double one was really unlucky And they were very nervous about it. But I wouldn't want to feel that they were holding me personally responsible.
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I'm like, this is why we're all nervous. This is just dice. This is not the thing to do with me. And they managed to save them. And it was awesome. And they had an exciting time and a good session. But to worry about feeling like, oh, I shouldn't be doing anything with this. I can't. I can't do this. I can't throw some extra stuff at it.
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Fair. Not Wizards of the Coast though, is it? And if you're playing online, then I suppose you can catch your behavior monitors as well. So it's a pain to think about.
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I'd just appreciate it if they'd actually explain what the thinking was. That would do a lot for it. Maybe there's a sidebar. Maybe. We'll look at it and be like, oh, of course.
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Anything else about the DMG then?
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Second only to OneBookshelf and DriveForRPG.com. So, yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
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Wow, wow. That was inspiring. I'm inspired. Well, that's the best sign-off we've done in like seven years.
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But when it goes below zero, how do you go from negative number? What do you do then? Do you have to go through imaginary numbers? Yeah.
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Yeah, which is suboptimal if you have lots of links to it. Yeah, not ideal. So, like I say, that's a real good news, bad news situation. Good news for Chuggles Islanders, bad news for Itch.io. I mean, nothing is set in stone. Money is always a powerful argument and so forth. A lot of Bitcoin people...
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I mean, technically, we're all time-travelling, so we'll find out about the future eventually.
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Are they, right? Can't get the help.
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That was pretty much a pretty full summary of the rules. Which was to recap, listeners, for whatever reason I haven't heard, the Turfu Naritidium engine... uses a tag system where a DM assigns arbitrarily a default... Traits, they call them, yeah. Traits, yeah, against this slash trait, and then they themselves roll a d8, and whoever wins the roll off... Yeah. So the traits...
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So you'd just say, I attack the... You could do it like Everware, which is a tarot card.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And the art in the books will be nice, and there'll be lots of lore, I expect. There you go. Yeah. That sort of thing, then. Good times. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, maybe. Maybe.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, Terry Pratchett.
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Because people will back it just for those.
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We'll have to see what Modiphius does with it. They definitely have the muscle to provide that sort of thing. So let's see what they do with it.
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I have a bunch of stuff I could talk about current exciting sales massive value bundles and a real blast from the past all intriguing PJ Oh, any particular things you'd be interested in hearing about from that list? Let's start with the blast from the past. Blast from the past it is then.
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Russ, and with me this week is... PJ Coffey from the Southampton Guild of Roleplayers. Russ, how's it going? I am delighted to be here. And joining us this week, is she feeling French? Is she feeling like an old-timey burglar? Who can say? All we know is it's...
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Okay, so those of you who used to enjoy the works of Steve Jackson and Ian Levy Stone will doubtless be aware of Fighting Fantasy. Oh yes, I am very aware, yeah. Yeah, we've got advanced Fighting Fantasy. Dark Dungeons Online. Advanced Fighting Fantasy hyphen Dark Dungeons colon The Board Game. There you go. That's a decent level of penetration, eh?
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It's just been released. Just spotted it. UK-based game company. They are looking for £20,000, which is a fair chunk. But they're about halfway there. We're three days down.
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Yeah, yeah. Graham Botley, a fairly well-established creator. I believe also Walker or various things. I'm thinking Graham Wormsley, my bad. But still, Graham Botley has been running Aryan Games for quite some time and they've been doing some stuff. So yeah, up to six players. It's very classic black and white, old school surf. You can pick it up in the US for, what, 60 quid in American for us.
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75 dollars yeah it's about 75 dollars but yeah if you enjoyed that if you enjoyed that sort of thing then uh they've got like a little set dungeon tiles and everything um you can It says it's a board game, but quite frankly, it looks like a role-playing game to me.
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Yeah.
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Oh, nice.
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Yeah.
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52,652.
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Good job.
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Hmm.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hawaii's kind of... Well, that's pretty interesting. So, you know, being able to keep in touch with reality, which allows me to segue seamlessly into talking about conspiracy and reality.
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Yeah. It's a role-playing game about falling for conspiracy theories, becoming obsessed with uncovering the truth, and gradually losing touch with the rest of the world. Let me whack a link in there for you. It's by someone known to me as KSandra. So, yeah. It's a laser and feelings hack.
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Yeah, very light. I think you might like it. Jessica, it looks pretty interesting. It's by Alexandra Brockman. I'm a little tired today. Not bringing the verve and vigour which this role requires right now. But yeah, I think it looks pretty cool actually. Sort of gives me maybe like a set of X-Files vibe. With like a soup song of unknown armies but a very low technical overhead.
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Yeah, it is there, but it's very... That could also be another conspiracy.
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For our younger listeners who are confused, we're referring to...
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stereophonic sounds being recorded by etching things onto a 12 or more inch disc which then has grooves which can be used with various devices to play sounds I've seen the stereophonics and they definitely weren't doing that yes Russ no worries anyway cool I do like bardcore music so is that what this is I don't know this has a 40 person choir that's about all I know it's composed by Michael Gatt mm-hmm
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Yeah. Please do not mistake my lack of excitement for disinterest in this product. It's me. I don't know if any of those people are the people who are more into the scene who are losing it right now with how exciting this is. I'm excited for you just on the inside.
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Yeah, I don't use it nearly enough.
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It's actually something that I really dislike in a game.
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Well, because, like, whatever with my ears and stuff, I have difficulty hearing people over the music because I can't pick their voices out. So maybe that's all just true process, I don't know. But it's just like... It can be nice, but I find it quite intrusive.
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Yeah.
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You did mention one person's young being a person's young. A way that you may be able to resolve that is through the Collaborative World Builders Guide. It's from Brooklook Games. Again, the things I've mentioned have all exclusively on being on itch.io, so clearly I'm in a super indie mood.
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Hey, feeling the itch to play some role-playing games. So, yeah, you come together and... creative world it's uh similar i imagine in scope to microscope but uh it's quite focused on hex brawls and so forth and there's uh got artists like evelyn monroe evelyn moreau on it
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I think maybe the microscope I've enrolled in is, because Microscope has, like, everything, like in the huge galaxy-spanning beams and so forth, whereas this feels like it's a bit more intimate. I haven't played or run it, so there we go.
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Oh, yeah, from the D&D cartoon.
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I would have said it's probably Uni's pet unicorn.
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yeah please proceed got that all the way round Bobby is the pet the pet barbarian if you need the unicorn yes but Bobby is a barbarian and a small child little prefer of Sheila yes or their foot Jessica
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Yeah.
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Not a cat, then.
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Well, they were Lachlan Healer in the Avengers series. Oh, yeah. What were they doing? A hit point, say? What were they doing?
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Oh, yeah.
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I imagine a full-grown unicorn is going to have a fair bit to their combat power. I guess. Yeah, it's like a lot of insignificant beasts.
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A white horse, as we like to call it. A horse, yeah. A magic horse. A My Little Pony.
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What have they got? A cutie mark? Well, you can pick that up for free anyway, should you wish to do so.
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That sounds amazing. Anything else in the adventure pipeline? Say again? Anything else in the adventure pipeline?
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Oh, yeah.
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open source campaign okay i think what they mean is that my surmise i could be wrong obviously is they're just going to be using stuff that's available in the creative commons rather than like specifically having it be a dnd set that makes sense oh yeah yeah yeah that that would be my intuition only so but there's more i might be wrong well anyway we can pick it up in april 1699 the swords of the winter sea sweet i also have further adventure news
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Tell us more.
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You're going to tell us the next Star Trek one, yeah?
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Yeah. Oh, there's an adventure that's come out for Level Up Advanced 5th Edition. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. That genius in his volcanic super layer, Anthony Alipio, has produced The Cult of Jai Krodar, which is, let me whack it in the show notes for you, it's all about goblins, kobolds, and a giant crocodile. Oh, how did I miss this? Well, what can I say? I've read it. It's not a massive adventure.
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It's like coming at 32 pages, but it's for fish level, which is pretty cool. Obviously, you can run this with like
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fifth edition rules and so forth the games are not that dissimilar but it's got combat social exploration challenges one of the things i've very much enjoyed about it when i was reading it was how easy it's going to be for me to run it's like it just really feels like i mean i know there are some people if you're the sort of person who enjoys like getting adventures of reading them for the stories because they don't like story you're probably not going to like this as much if you want to actually run a game you're going to have a good time just very nicely laid out
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It's got a two-page spread version for tablet and landscape viewing. Yeah, fresh new monsters. And just, yeah, it starts off in media res, which basically means in the middle of the action. And I'm like just reading through it. If I can get it now, I know exactly how to do this. This is brilliant. So for me personally, this was an amazing stuff.
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So thank you, Anthony, for drawing this to my attention. This is an excellent piece of work. Yeah. That's interesting. You know I don't say things I don't hold with, but this just makes it happen. And also I quite like the cover as well. It's got like a sort of an Aztec vibe to it on the front, which is pretty cool.
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lots to be said it's all oh and the inn is there's goblinoid cultists offering living sacrifices to voracious gods while adventurers explore the ancestral copper mines of a hermetically dwarf so yeah I feel this is this is a lot of things that I want for a one shot adventure and this looks like a good one that sounds like a cool adventure I like that
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Yeah, I was delighted to have that pop up for me. Good time.
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Yeah. There's a lot of people out there who want their D&D. Yeah.
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They do a super fancy version.
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For the discerning.
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I mean, I guess. They're kind of generic.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, sure, why not? I mean, it's generous. They've got them kicking around. Why not have them event? You could probably spring together a little adventure or maybe a small campaign based off of it.
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Yeah, yeah. That'll generally set you back about $20, $30.
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I mean, it's a lot of stuff, so not greedy prices, I feel.
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Yeah. That was an excellent offering from Beadle and Grimm. They are reliably good.
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No, actually, neither have I. I've never seen one. You're clearly not moving in the right circles, Russ. Clearly not.
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Yeah, sorry.
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But it seems like
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Unequal pay for equal work, so... Yeah. It feels like there's some space, you know?
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It depends, though, because if you're fulfilling through Drive4RPG, they've got Lightning over in the United States.
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Yeah, if you've got an offset printer, then. this is going to be a problem.
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I think also fulfilling your European and UK orders, say.
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Yeah. I suppose it depends on how much parallel processing it's like.
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Anything else in the news, Ross?
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He's got a cow in his hand rolled on his back.
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And four elephants. And four elephants.
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Yeah. That's a lot. That's a lot to put in the back of the turtle.
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Yep, black GM, all good.
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Right. Are traits added on to this, would you say?
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Yes.
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I mean, like, it's this world. Yeah. Why are you fighting things? I mean, you could, like, I'm struggling to think of any fights that, I mean, there's a couple where they're very short, just, like, really skipped over.
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Yeah, I mean, you might have Captain Carrot standing there, holding a door, swinging it along slowly and threatening to black people away, but he's not actually fighting people. Yeah. Or anything else that does happen is very one-sided. Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of fights, but nothing major.
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This, like, running Discworld is, conceptually, is extremely challenging because you're trying to do something funny. Yeah, well, that's... And being as funny as Terry Pratchett.
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It's like, I mean, but whilst also capturing the emotions, the heartfelt power of the writing, what, in a live tabletop game? Wow, okay. No pressure. Yeah. And you've got to have, like, everyone on board as well. Like, because if someone creates, like, a joke character because they think it's funny, it's like, you can create a character that is quite funny.
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It might be difficult, because if the game is kind of reliant on people being funny... Which, it's like, sort of the humour should arise from the real characters in the unreal situation, almost.
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like because if they're not it's basically it's an obvious joke character it is someone repeating the same joke actually time after time for like four hours ago which is not a great experience but there is humor to be derived and playing it straight in ridiculous situations so you don't necessarily have to be you know cracking witty jokes completely ridiculous character who takes themselves very very seriously is the way to do it because then the humor comes from them just doing
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what they regard as perfect natural well, which everyone else is like, that's stupid. Or even non-ridiculous characters just in ridiculous situations.
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Exactly, exactly. Both work.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it's like possible. I would find it very difficult. I think GURPS has had a GURPS at it first off, haven't they?
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There's a strong incentive to avoid rolling dice. But that's very counter to how a lot of modern games are played.
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But the thing is, the characters are very real. It's an emotional heart.
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and passion behind it um like yeah strong advocacy for social justice which is what carries it because if it was just like a very nerdy surrealist thing then it wouldn't be as popular because it wouldn't connect to people i don't know pj you'd be surprised at the amount of people that i've said that about and they've been surprised that this world is described that way
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that's what their book is about well thank you you have successfully ungeared my brain that's my brain going what yeah I know but in fairness it was on the internet so you know the internet is that kind of place but anyway they probably thought that Tom Morello was angry about the photocopier what can I say
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The yellow and black one, yes.
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How exciting.
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That just... An S-A-U-C-E book.
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I guess so, yeah. It's giving strong calamari. Very calamari, I don't know.
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Bress will now need a second whilst he regathers his will to live. You know why it took me so long to get that joke?
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If you throw them sufficiently hard at stuff, then they become a splatter as well.
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Necromunchicon. Nice.
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Or your space age game. Oh, yeah, yeah. That would be fun. Yeah. I need more recommendations for books with mythos set in near future.
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yeah yeah like you can get like military sci-fi like double queen and stuff like that yeah you know that's not niche but no it's not not quite what i'm talking about yeah yeah uh yeah don't really
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It's not One Night Werewolf.
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No, no, no. Blood on the Clocktower? Yes, thank you.
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Okay. Yes. All right. Yeah, no, I see what they're doing there. Okay. Well, certainly a way to help people partake of stuff is social situation.
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You can roleplay whilst very drunk, although it's quite very difficult.
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Good to know.
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Yeah. The roll 20 character I've had to use.
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Well, we'll be finding out where it's meeting the various requirements that people have. I mean, certainly Mike Shea did point out that being able to choose what sources you could draw on to permit people to have a go was pretty important. Yeah.
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Yeah, over $300. Oh, yeah. It's so cool, though.
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Distributors.
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No, but I've got affinity, so... Can't have one imminently.
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It wasn't, like, a big deal that we reported on on this very podcast that Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, weren't going to offer special deals to friendly game stores. And there was no, like, incentive program. They weren't really working with us. They were just treating them like regular consumers.
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I mean, I'm questioning why we're talking about this because it's clearly self-evident that it's going to be untrue. I mean, sure, sure. I'm not accusing him of dishonesty, let's be clear. I'm just saying the cherry-picked data is going to look very bad because it's cherry-picked. Yeah, it's just about countering misinformation, really.
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Which, you know, why not, why not? But it's just not how I'd want to make money, you know?
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So in-world size, but not in-world. No, no, no. Not in-world in a hat, in a session glasses. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I mean, to me, that actually seems like a low number. if you've only sold three and a half times, because the audience has increased a lot more than that.
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i haven't i haven't had any of my gaming groups excited and because because the new edition isn't different enough that you're like oh i'm gonna get that and then i can try out this new thing it's not different enough that you're excited to get it immediately yeah i guess that's sort of very much like from the massively wonky space uh with my people in who are the massively wonky rules lawyers and nerds who love that sort of thing they're like
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Yeah, I mean, they've improved some things, but other things just seem worse. And it seems kind of anti-DM, bizarrely, in some of the things, like making it harder to run the game, which is not what D&D 5th Edition needs.
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So, you know, it's like, you know, I can see people picking it up out of interest. So, to me, three and a half times, it seems a low number, but, you know, it's just not clearly better.
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anyway so there we go well well well done to the sixth edition writers anyway because uh you know they've still sold a lot of books a lot more than 3700 certainly a lot more than that like i reckon at least 3712 at least oh yeah i'm gonna go for 3720 just to no it reminds me of something yeah i'd say maybe 3721
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One of the ship.
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Price is right rules. Oh, speaking of the price being right, I don't know if you're aware, but there's been a TTRPGs for accessible gaming charity rule dropped.
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Well, allow me to drop a comment. Now, unfortunately, it's only got 24 hours to run. So whilst Daryl is pretty quick, it's maybe historic.
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Yeah, it's not zero, so it's always worth shouting out.
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and there's an absolute ton of books coming out 314 items 314 separate games for $10 so I picked that up and was very pleased to do so I'm going to do that as well yeah
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I already own it. Best day. But getting it to the table is a second challenge.
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Yes. Many raised from the charity bundle is going to fund the production of things like Signature Braille RPG dice, which will be the first ever Braille RPG dice available in retail systems worldwide. So, that's like a laugh, isn't it?
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I'm excited now. You told me about it now.
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hello hello hello and welcome to morris's unofficial tabletop rpg talk i am russ aka morris or morris aka russ and with me this week is pj coffee from the southampton guild of role players uh well sorry sam not 100 this week but i can do my duty as the at-height person in charge of letting you know that joining us also
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Yeah. I mean... On a D&D DMG scale, with, say, 4th edition at 10, and 5th edition being, I don't know, 3, it'll be interesting to see where it's coming. Because, like, you know, this DMG is very important because it teaches people how to run your game. And they're going to have to do a slight more than just say, oh, I'll check out all these YouTube. Well, I guess we'll find out. We will. Well.
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When does it come out? November?
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Yeah. Yeah, it must be November in time for Christmas. November 12th, there we go. Because we've got the Monster Man coming out next year.
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I was thinking, actually, that maybe that's why... The PHB sales, I feel they're maybe a little bit underperforming because people are waiting for all three books. Maybe.
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Right, okay.
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If you don't go to Washington DC, you're close enough to be like, Not Washington, D.C., Washington State, Seattle. Washington State. I do make a point. Yes, Seattle. West Coast, yes. Yeah. Northwest Coast of America.
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Whereas if it could just say compatible with 5th edition and 6th edition, you know.
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Yeah, but it just, it feels a little clunky. And so I don't know if any of the third party publishers are having this concern as well. Because some things, if you've historically published them, might not be compatible with 2024. And so it's important to have that distinction if people are buying third party products. And there's another problem.
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It's basically a law book. Adventures and things like that can have that.
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It's me, Jessica from EM Publishing. And I was doing a little dance before we started recording just to hype myself up. And it's a shame you, the listeners, will not see that.
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It says Barbarian class features level one. The feature is Rage. It's been revised.
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Oh, I get what you mean. Sorry, yeah. It does go into detail which elements have been revised and are new.
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But yes, no, you're quite right.
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You'd have to read the book?
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But there we go.
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Shall we have a look at the character sheets?
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Yeah.
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I've got a link in the chat. So for me, I'm going to say looking at it straight away, I know it won't be a character sheet I use purely because I'm dyslexic, And the way things are laid out is going to be hard for me to scan through and find what I need. But that's a very niche thing.
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So and there are lots of people that have created their own homebrew versions of it, which I find easier that have different shapes and I color things differently. But that's a very niche me thing. And I'm aware of other people. That's not a barrier.
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We don't know whether they consulted... And also, one character sheet isn't going to suit everybody's accommodation needs. So something that's useful for me, because I know someone, a player at my table saw my character sheet and they're like, whoa, that looks incredibly overwhelming, I won't be able to find anything, because there's different shapes, sizes and colours everywhere.
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And so for them, that was...
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So I am very aware that one size does not fit all. So there's no way that wizards could make a perfect character sheet. So any criticisms I make of this, I'm very much in mind saying I know that there's nothing that would suit everyone.
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Yeah.
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I like it functionally.
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But they're not even because what they've done is they've taken the ability and put the skills underneath. I understand. But it also does highlight how the skills are not equally balanced. Like, there's not many skills that are strength-based or constitution-based.
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whether that will still be an option in the DMG I don't know I think a lot of people homebrew it that way even before I ran level up that would be something I'd be keen to do because there's different ways you do things it was an official alternative yeah
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yeah but it seems very locked in by putting it I think when you put it on a character sheet like that you kind of lock it in as a default way of doing it and you say this is how it works or it subconsciously leans you that way anyway because you're just like because it's all there calculated for you because you would calculate your skills if I was writing this sheet up you'd do your modifier and then do the skills based on everything that's done for you so you just roll the skill
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That's true for backward compatibility, yeah.
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That's true. Some people like throwing dice about, you know?
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Yeah, no, I just thought it was interesting to talk about why that was important versus the other ones. Yeah.
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It doesn't have the how. It's got the little spot for the heroic inspiration, but heroic inspiration is different for different classes, isn't it? Am I making that up?
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I believe different classes had different ways of gaining inspiration. Is that what it was? Am I making that up?
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I'm now feeling very unconfident. Let's Google it. Am I thinking of just, like, level up A5E?
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I think I am, and that's really unhelpful for this podcast, D&D.
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Yeah. I do like that system. I interviewed a creator on Not D&D, so if people want a deeper dive, there's the Not D&D episode talking about it. But what I really liked about it was the...
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That's what I was thinking of. I'm glad I didn't just completely make that up.
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I don't think it's true for all, hashtag not all classes. So, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, yeah. I think it's one of those things. I'm very much... I do like... I think we talked about this before, the difference of having it mechanically rewarded, of those two vibes rewarded by the GM. I do like to vibes reward the table.
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So if somebody does something that, like you just say, does feel very in character and creates something interesting in the story, whether that be good, bad, or whatever... I do like to be like, here, have a cookie.
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For me, it's have a cookie.
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encounters with the beings the solution isn't always to kill them like sometimes there's like well i don't do spoilers in case you're playing again russ but like there's there's other ways that you can find resolutions with these beings that are not just and kill them we haven't met a a critter or a nasty nasty beastie yet well it's just that sometimes you know human beings are doing things that are annoying to them and if you just say hey maybe if you move you know
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I think it gives you both options, really, because I think some people then could play the way I do and be like purely vibes, and some people are like, no, I want this to be... something mechanical so that it's fair and across the board. I think we did an episode where we talked in detail about the merits of both approaches.
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So I guess this would give you the option to do both depending on what your table wants.
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What? Who would have suspected? I don't know.
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It's kind of relaxing. And also you can try out social interactions and it's not real. So if it goes wrong, it's a lot safer of social consequence because it's your character and not you as the player doing those things.
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Yeah. And not even the worst one. Did I tell you about my fighter character? Anyway. But yeah. So what are our other thoughts about the character? I like that it's condensed down to two. Yeah.
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I think because the spell slots don't have room for you to write out what the spells are.
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So you're going to need to be referencing your tone. But if you're playing a wizard, that feels like a very wizardy thing to do anyway, to just be referencing things in a book constantly.
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That's correct, yeah.
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I do like they've got a big section on the front for class features and notes and stuff, so that takes up a lot of real estate, which is good, because it means you can add cool little bits that your character does, so you don't forget.
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Yeah, and that's true, but again, I think so many people that play D&D regularly are using D&D Beyond as a tool, even if they're playing in person. I know there's people at my table who sit with a tablet because it is just, they find it easier. So I imagine that's the case. And I'm excited to see the rest of the community making their own
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Perfect.
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I love the TGF with you community because people just do cool stuff and like, here, I made this. I want to share it with everybody. And I'm like, ooh.
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that's so nice of you you're such a cool person but yeah I'm excited to see all the different character sheets that come out because I know there'll be people that game that bring out one that's more dyslexic friendly and things like that and all these other things that I haven't even considered and know about yeah so I'm excited to see the community post on there so post them on EMworld if you are if you've made one or find find a cool one link it on there so I can find it so I would appreciate that yeah
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Yes, I do remember that. It was very cute and I was surprised because from D&D I'm used to a more, I don't know, a different art style.
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But those sheets were, like, really cute. They were, yeah.
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Don't get me wrong. I like that. And I'm all for that. But I don't know if I am representative of the wider D&D community. I don't... Maybe I am. I don't know. But I... I suspect not everyone wants a cute vibe in their D&D game.
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makes sense I mean it's a big update and I imagine there's yeah yeah it's not it's not technically out yet really but um oh well that's all the better then before
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your lumber chopping business over here, that would solve all the issues. So sometimes it's things like that. So there's a nice investigative element with it.
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Excellent. I'm a big fan of that, of things that are not D&D.
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I used the Paragon system.
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I just made that up, so I genuinely am not.
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Kickstarter have changed their pre-launch page, so there's a bit more info now, which is quite nice.
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Well, yeah. But it works really well, and it is nice, because it does give you a bit more info than just a tagline. Yeah, I agree.
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And as a publisher, I do like it, because it does mean I can tell you more about it. Yeah.
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Yeah, it seemed like an obvious fay forest creatures. They'd be like, hey, stop chopping down my house, please.
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Do you know, I haven't actually, I haven't played it myself, but I have heard of it, and I've had people tell me they think I would like it, because it's very cinematic storytelling focused, opposed to crunchy rule system, from what I understand. Because it's quite light, more rules, and they're more intuitive, which is what I like to run.
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But I've not played it, so I don't know a huge amount about it. But it jumped out to me because people have told me, oh, you'll probably like this when I've described what I like to run. So, yeah. That's all right. I'm fair. I have no further insight at this time.
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Do you know what? Maybe I'll contact them, have them on Not D&D and see if they can tell me more about it because I am intrigued.
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Any more? I have other news related to cartoons, as you'd call them. So Critical Role Season 3, we had talked about before, so it's coming out shortly. Yeah. October 3rd. And there were just some nice news on the confirmation. So one of the actors, Lance Reddick, was the voice actor who did one of the main antagonists in the series. Suddenly he passed away in March of 2023. And so people were...
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obviously upset about that and obviously wanted to know what was going to happen to the character but he had already recorded his season three work so his voice will be in this series so it'll be the same actor so if you enjoy his work and were hoping to see more of it and sad by his passing it's still in this current series because of the timings of when it was recorded and made but yeah so I just thought
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Put that news out because I heard about that because I didn't know. And it was related to cartoons that you were talking about.
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Animation, as others would call it.
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Yes. There you go. Look at you.
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A new one.
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It's called Dragon's Milk.
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all the sort of fake folklore stuff from there the British ones are more creepy I'd say because the British ones are a lot like and then the thing comes and kills you whereas the Swedish ones are a bit more like oh they're a bit cheeky like haha not all of them but the British ones are really grim a lot of them are about children behave otherwise monsters will come and kill you that's the vibe of a lot of British folklore
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Do you know, I didn't know you could milk a dragon because I thought they laid eggs.
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So does this mean you could make dragon custard because they lay eggs and produce milk?
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Much like a platypus.
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Good. I can tell you both enjoy talking about this. Shall we continue this discussion?
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Yes, but that wasn't referred to as milk.
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Sorry, I lowered the tone. I lowered the tone. Yeah. I have some other news, though. It's something we're doing. So I'm excited because we're launching Split the Horde, which is our first ever...
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board game card game uh later this month very excited about and we finally because i've been struggling with it but i've done it it's available on tabletopia for people to play which isn't like a free online uh board game site um and so the card version of the game is available to play on there so if people wanted to try it out and see what it's about for free it's up and available now uh which i'm really pleased about because i managed to do it and hopefully there's no areas or issues with it
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If there is, that's my fault. Please message me and tell me and I'll fix it. But it's my first time using online tabletop simulator things and building it. So it's been an interesting new part of publishing board games that differs from tabletop RPGs.
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It's a browser-based system. You can also download it on Steam as well, but you can play in your browser and there's a free membership. There are certain games that are included for free. Split the Horde is one of them. I think there are some you need to pay for, but not Split the Horde, so not relevant for what I'm talking about. But yeah, it's just a way to play board games online with people.
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um it's a bit slower than in real life because playing card games on virtual tabletop things i always find a bit more fiddly well i noticed that when we played on tabletop simulator yes and a lot of it is just fiddling just trying to i'm trying to move that oh no put that no get back yeah and trying to move stuff about and so it does waste a lot of time does take a bit longer than in real life if you're playing a card game but it is there and you can and if you're good at using those systems i imagine it's
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. Well, when we were playing with Mark, the designer, he was very quick because he knew how it all works. And we were like, oh, how does this work here? But yeah, so if people are interested in the game and want to play it, you can. Enjoy. So that's something I've done this week.
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Nice.
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Okay.
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Not official.
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There's lots of third-party ones, yes.
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Yes, not by Wizards of the Coast, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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So I don't know what that says about British children and how badly behaved they are, that we need to threaten them with death. But, you know, that's one method of parenting, I guess.
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I also have a crowdfunder I'm excited about that I'd like to share. So it's So You've Met a Thousand-Year-Old Vampire, which is on Backerkit. So this is obviously the follow-on from Thousand-Year-Old Vampire, the solo RPG, which is very popular, very critically acclaimed, award-winning.
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um by tim hutchings so yeah i'm excited to see that so this is from the perspective of somebody that befriends a thousand year old vampire and it's about exploring your relationship because it's like who are you to this are you their friend are you an employee are you their lover are you just their food or you know because it's solo rpg it can be purely out of your creativity so it's very interesting because the original solo rpg i played through is a lot about loneliness and connection with others and your perspective as like an immortal being
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and then I think it's interesting looking at the other side of those relationships as somebody who's a mortal being trying to have some sort of connection whatever relationship that is you define with this so I think it's an interesting perspective on connection relationships yes I'm really excited about it and I'm actually interviewing Tim about it on Monday for Not D&D which is very excited because in the back of the original book actually there's an EN World article a written interview that we did back in the day when it came out so yes I'm excited for that one
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And I think a lot of people that haven't tried solo RPGs, this is one that draws people in, I think, because of the theme. And the book is just a beautiful thing as well. If you've seen the graphic design and the layout, it's just very pretty.
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Are you talking about the Patch 7 update? No. Okay.
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Well, if they'd just behaved, PJ, then we wouldn't have to release the Kraken.
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Okay.
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The bonus action, yeah.
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I like chucking a potion and it affects everyone in the area as well. So you smash a potion on the ground.
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I love that.
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And it splashes on everyone, yeah.
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I love that. But instead of being potions in glass bottles, I think if you made them in some sort of water balloon type material so that when they hit the person they don't do damage.
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Yeah. like a spray that would be an expensive bit of equipment like just to load it up with all the potions yes or a water gun and you take the potions and they kind of click slot in on top so it looks a bit steampunky and then it's you know what I think we finally found a use case for the artifice that I can get alongside yes
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I don't have children of my own. I think it showed in that moment. I was like, I don't know. I don't know what the appropriate level is.
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Yes, I love that.
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You're confident you recall this about them. That's funny.
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Well, what can I say? That's my vibe.
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Yeah, what happened this week?
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That does sound fun.
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Nice. That's cool. Put my fighter in there. Let her just go nuts. This is all she does.
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Okay, and that's the end of the episode. Thank you very much for listening.
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we haven't got the Kickstarter pre-launch page up to follow yet but we are working on it so we should we'll put a link on here and we do probably in the next few weeks or so we should have the pre-launch page up it's definitely the book that we've been asked for most yes
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Yeah. Well, we do have the Mythological Figures Level Up 5e book, but you want more. More NPCs.
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More.
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Have a little test.
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The royal we.
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Find ways to break it for us, please.
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That's the point of the testing. It's like, here's this fun toy. Can you show me how you can break it? And there are lots of people who are really good at doing that.
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I can break your toy.
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Cool.
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I think that's all the news. Do we have anything else?
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I think we're done for the week.
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All right.
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Should we go have a weekend? Go play some games?
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Perfect to sit indoors and play tabletop games.
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Oh, can we stop? No, I haven't seen any nipples on the new dragon artwork in D&D, to be honest.
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In fairness, I haven't been looking for them, I will admit. So maybe I just haven't...
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But anyway, so Dragon's Milk, the new drink you can get as a 50th anniversary. Good, that's a good piece of news. Wow.
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Yeah, I was about to say.
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Nice.
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Someone will crack and that's the only way to deal with him.
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He did clarify what he meant.
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Sorry, I meant shareholders.
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And I... I mean, I don't know. I haven't got a quote for this, but I think... That's a hell of a Freudian slip. I think there's a lot of people working at Wizards of the Coast who are very passionate about what they do, that care about the brand, that want to be good stewards. And I think there's some...
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corporate shareholderness and things like that getting in the way of what they want to do sometimes yeah i feel and we didn't go into any more detail that's managing wizard of the coast communications the last two years must have been a wild ride because like there's been a lot to communicate yeah shall we say and i imagine when you're in that job like the things that you're talking about
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If we have news, we will report it.
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Oh, so an analysis. Yeah, yeah.
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There wasn't even a sidebar saying how to... So in the law, is it that these species are not compatible to produce offspring together? Is that the law that they're trying to say?
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It's not for you.
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I find that interesting.
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From a third-party publisher perspective, I really wish they had said it was a new edition because it's really hard to communicate if you're doing a product for D&D, which it's compatible with. And we're trying to find a way to communicate that.
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I think, I could be wrong, but because I don't use it as a seller, but I believe that's actually Patreon rather than Apple. Patreon using Apple's price increase to put in some other things, which are...
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Absolutely. If you're listening to this, years in the future, this podcast was made in the week of the 5th, 6th of November, 2024. So maybe Google that if you're wondering why we're talking about this. Anyway, moving on.
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I do have a small thing that has come up a couple of times on Instagram. It's about the Honor Amongst Thieves sequel. The Dungeons and Dragons movie. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, I've not heard about a sequel. Yeah, what's... People talk about a sequel, but apparently there's some problems because the cast can't agree on schedules to get the dates ready for the next film.
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I'm afraid I've raised hopes and then dashed them. I do apologize.
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Yeah, there was a bit of a pre-show discussion between myself and Jess, because I'm probably a bit out of date, because what I do is when I'm browsing into it, I say, oh, that's interesting, and I put it into my calendar, and it pops up as a little reminder for the podcast, but I don't generally look too closely after that.
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And Twitch had put in new content creator guidelines, insisting on labelling. When I saw it, it was insisting that anyone whose identity was not cis, straight, would have to label their content in order to avoid... would have to label it as political, essentially, which...
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Yeah. Yeah. But that does sound like a big improvement. Yeah. There's been a lot of I was aware of it before the events of Tuesday, and now I'm... And since then, everything has disappeared. But I might be missing stuff in the streaming.
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Well, it's hard to tell when people have been deplatformed.
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But I haven't seen any shouting about it lately. But as I say, there is a lot of shouting and screaming.
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It sounds a bit more reasonable, but the devil's always in the details. So we'll just have to see how it's applied.
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Oh, yeah.
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2.96.
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Absolutely.
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It's also a sort of guide.
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He's run it already. I've run it already, yeah.
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Talked about it on the podcast. Did we actually talk about Blazing the Dark Deep Cuts from John Harper or were we going to talk about that? We did talk about it. The first official expansion. It'll last me $10. There we go. $10 on itch.
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Exactly. He's a nerd superhero. Yeah.
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Flanking in base D&D with the full advantage from flanking just from position.
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It actually works a lot better than I thought it would. Because it's only a bonus D4. Much smaller, yeah. From positional stuff. which is something that isn't like, you have to do it. You're an idiot for not doing it.
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Still spry. I have a wild idea. What? Why don't we talk about some TTRPG news? Go on then.
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Why don't you start?
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It's a great anecdote, and I very much appreciate it. I like it, Jessica. Thank you. It was a good anecdote. There you go. You can add more things like that. Anyway, so, yeah, so exciting news. One of the more interesting sci-fi settings that isn't a massive IP license, Eroda Consortium is enjoying its 10th anniversary.
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There is a large number of reasons why you might be excited about this setting, from its taken colonialism, its disability rep, But Edge Hour and Shades of Vengeance are doing a 10th anniversary Kickstarter. It's 16 days ago, and they've done 2,400 of, it's about $3,800 goals. So, you know, looks like they'll be getting through. I'm definitely looking forward to backing it.
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I mean, it does seem a bit... I'm not convinced of this idea that people are reading books and learning how to run games from them. Like, the concept of games marketing, like, you know, the concept, like the beginning concept, I think a lot of people do it because they've started playing role-playing games and they sort of learn it from other people. Yeah, sure. That's something I learned.
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You'll get the rulebook and up to three...
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three free expansions when it's funded and potentially more from stretch goals so so yes we have mentioned this game on the show before but for those that don't recall could you quickly sort of summarize what is era the consortium era consortium is a science fiction role-playing game it uses d10 dice pool so if you're familiar with white wolf games and so forth then
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you are very much in the right sort of uh area uh it has a wide variety of cross compatibility with other genres which yeah i i know rush from all the d6 dice ball rather than d10 dice ball but yeah i'm kind of going off d6s actually yeah yeah no d10 not a platyponic solid but still pretty cool i think um
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A tool for preparation, whereas Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, these are books that you use at the table.
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uh yeah and what can we say about the setting humans go to a strange far-off system and there is much bickering and part of the excitement for it is you can play as either the consortium which is essentially hyper mega corporations or there's a resistance to it sometimes you can even mix the parties and the integration of the
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Russ, as ever, I am delighted to be here. Joining us, as ever, we have the wonderful and erudite, and indeed, extremely talented, it's the one, it's the only, it's...
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different viewpoints of the world is part of the charm of the setting, in my opinion. And there's a variety of Baelin races, tree people and people and little squids that live inside human mecha suits and wander around so they can take part in a... And this isn't just a game, is it? It's also comics and all sorts of things. Oh, goodness. Yeah, there's comics.
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What's that? And if you also grabbed your attention and said, yeah, this is a really good part about this book.
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I believe there's some paperback novels and also some, they're not radio plays, actual plays, recordings, podcast recordings. I don't know what to call them. Media. There's media, audio media.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Was there anything else that you felt was missing from the book?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
which you can listen to and enjoy as well so there's really quite a family and certainly if you've been to any of several UK conventions you will probably have seen it signed up that the option to sign up for various era games yeah I'm a consortium person I do enjoy it a lot also era ballon which is space above and beyond but is a much simpler and kind of fun starship fighter thing so yeah there's a lot to be said for these various games
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And both by level. What's that? And wealth by level.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
How does this... Okay, so it's a bit of an open secret, but XP to gain levels stopped working round about level 10. Has that been fixed?
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Well, you can play it. It's preferred getting XP.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Is this a cross promotion that I've heard about?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
So it sets sort of, um, false expectations of the amount... I, I, I wonder.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
but it's a built quest hook and that's more story, more fun, more adventures.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I actually picked it relatively recently.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Very good.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
But they do cover them, yeah. One thing I was wondering, perhaps... I may have missed it and heard barely, but do they have a concept like extended skill challenges or clocks?
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah. Right. So, so everything just comes down. Rules is written.
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
Well, that's where the clocks, we mentioned John.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I mean, that's the nature of magic and role-playing games. Right. Yeah. Circumference plot. Right.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Well, I feel it's like a mode of play. I don't really feel that the three-person assets really captures the subtleties of what you're doing. Right. I think in the second edition, they said you've got combat, then you've got exploration, then you've got downtime. That sort of mode. You've got Lancer. It says you're either in a mech
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
you're not on a mech and you're playing different games yeah yeah yeah with different rules yeah it feels like level up does help you bring that out but it's basically dnd so it feels like that should be an assist you apply to dnd i feel like a chase is actually a mode within the game
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I guess for me, it's more like it's the players running away that has the opportunity for... Yeah, that's different.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
That's what I'm saying. You're changing the mode of the thing. Like, doing a chase in initiative order is a bad idea. You should not do it. Right. Just don't. Like, oh, if you can get to the map.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
If you can get to the map and the edge in initiative order, no, just don't. Just cut to a chase, a different frame of rules now applies, I would say. Error so far. I'll get my hobby horse.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Wow, wow. Fair enough. Just a reminder for listeners that Russ is editing the same podcast, so good luck with going out.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
more we have some people know him as Slifer others know him as Mike Shea I just know him as this cool guy who lives in a little box on my phone apparently now in my computer it's the one it's Mike Shea fantastic nose hey hello it's always a great back again back again I don't know how we keep getting you on because I love to talk and every invitation I get
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
So, yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It's been absolutely fascinating. I have been involved. So, yeah, it's been...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Meta game this.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I think Monstrous Menagerie is quite a good starter book for GM. Yes, I think so. All that, all the setup, the foreshadowing, it's all in. It sounds like it might be worth picking up Tales of the Valiant monster book for just,
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And here it is. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Okay, I'll stop. Probably even fast.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
We've got some cards outside you can share with that if you like, Russ.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, that's fair. Halloween has passed now. I mean, America does have the Thanksgiving buffer.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Well, I did see a game called Dwarf Mine, which is a game about drawing and designing a mine, uncovering treasures, and surviving the dangers of a mountain. And that looked kind of fun. I will whack this into the show notes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Well, it's a procedurally generated game available from itch.io for very small amounts of money. Like, it's super cheap. You can get nice digital downloads. You'll create a rich and unique history for your mind. No two games are the same.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I believe so, yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it looks like it could be quite a fun little way to do some world building. So maybe picking it up myself. Yeah. Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, that is very cool, yeah. I have two further items, so we can split them out, or I can give them both to you.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Go ahead and subscribe. Subscribe through the website.
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323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And sell yourself some money.