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I said we got some news

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what we're gonna meet up tomorrow and for

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we're going to start sat there out that

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we're like said or people watching together with in

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me I was at like one was was

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was ever big into Prince of Persia. I'd

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buy plated like two thousand and eight maybe.

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for a Pathfinder Society scenario that

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I love so much the the

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element. Element wins

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the com when you ran like ten times.

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the I read that like five times as

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a grad student. The one that's like out

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with the that the deserts there were two

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thousand. oh I see other Susie I'm saying

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the was my care member was like have

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revealed by the blowing sand like an ancient

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citadel of flame said else or citadel a

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flame. If you've never played to see if

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a scenario and you're still interested in one

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ear you want to try to convert. What

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an amazing scenario. Or it's kind of an

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old citadel that was covered by millennia of

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sand. Or and then act as a

11:48

gets blown away And it's a wizard who

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happens to be flying over the desert like

11:52

en route from one thing to another, like

11:54

a high level wizards happens to notice it

11:56

and like rights into the path. And Assad

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is like these. It's. The team out to check

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this out. Oh did we play that of of Massachusetts

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Wooden? when up. Like. The first year at

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every day that and I had already played.

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it's as if plane down be as playing

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with friends you could use. Ah now I

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unlicensed awesome. You know cinema music us and

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so I used the Prince of Persia soundtrack.

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I remember original Prince of Persia assuming one

12:18

I've ever played. Yeah Swing On is the

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first game ice since like pitfall that you

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could swing on roads and was very Jackie

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aren't Let's get into the episode we could

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do at Liberal Episode talking them will go

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into we are Stupid Ah before we are

13:21

stupid I think you're one of the bigger

13:23

things from this happen said is why I'm

13:25

so glad you're here. Is the first time

13:27

we see Asa an accent and the first

13:29

time. We. Find out what class

13:31

your flag may guess. Yeah I talk us

13:34

through the that the did the decision why

13:36

makes her add you come to this decision.

13:38

I. Think because Lucky was a fighter and we

13:41

had built our group kind of knowing this

13:43

the roles we needed to sell and I

13:45

was really excited about playing that because else.

13:47

I love playing casino and that was my

13:49

first like paint on character in Legacy to

13:51

seen as his blood razors. he said dope.

13:53

So. When I made love. As an or right

13:56

yeah, fighter with magical properties As

13:58

what? Aca? Yeah. Blood readers like. The Source

14:00

or in a Barbarian. So when lucky with a fighter

14:02

of a great I'm going all in on the site

14:04

or class. And. Then when she died as it's

14:06

like man I don't want to make a replica of her.

14:08

I don't want to be afraid or I don't want to

14:10

be a champ. yeah I don't to be a barbarian I

14:12

was like I wanna do something. That. I

14:14

still get to fight, but I also wanna have

14:17

something else interesting about my character because I just

14:19

didn't want to make a carbon copy of Lucky.

14:22

And I found out about the majors I never knew

14:24

about this class did know it existed. I

14:26

thought it was so interesting. On A fan of the Glasgow. Well

14:29

ah to Sydney would talk about

14:31

losing the Giants layer And now

14:34

like over the years we've like

14:36

to sectors and figured out exactly

14:38

where she stopped at a time

14:40

right around episode nine or to.

14:43

Assess. I know the hits. I know that. Out

14:46

on river boat and Emma enjoy some

14:48

answers. Like to get to that part

14:51

yet I. Know some of the character's

14:53

names and I know many of the

14:55

deaths much as up in between. In

14:57

Osceola it you know, don't fill us

14:59

in on it's all questions Vida. But

15:02

then after I decided I talked to Matthew about

15:04

it and that he was like ah. Be.

15:06

Careful like, have so much fun. Be

15:08

careful. It's an interesting class size. Yeah

15:10

because I would say I don't know much

15:12

about the class at all. but one of

15:15

the I would say this with Matthew Prior

15:17

ran into his. It's a powerful damage dealing.

15:19

Frontline class that is not trying

15:21

to. Yeah, Exactly. So glad minute

15:24

yeah is a black guy were?

15:26

Yes! But. I yeah I was interested in

15:28

the class and I figured I have. Why not

15:30

try something new? Now is the time you know

15:32

I get a new character. And

15:34

yeah, Six Hundred. Formed. From that

15:36

idea and had the idea of a kid soon A. Weirdly,

15:40

You said it. Yeah, Unrelated but

15:42

you had like mentioned it the you like what? Are

15:44

you going to be a kid sooner? You dug

15:46

a beggar could soon as yeah as

15:48

that plant. These subconsciously be a junior

15:50

Hermes You always think. Maybe I also

15:52

thought it was into seen that like. The.

15:54

Fox as max didn't like the said we're kind of

15:56

in a while words and I was I get it's

15:58

in a like they were. His into the wild

16:00

would like they're from there. Are. So

16:03

yeah, but she kind of formed after I came

16:05

up with the majors idea and then I was

16:07

like, okay, An. Interesting. kind of

16:09

like magical creature. Could soon as a

16:11

cool. So. Yeah, that's that's what sparked

16:13

it. I'm courses thought the question is

16:16

so had died very quickly in that

16:18

episode. As and then you had the

16:20

whole episode said go back and watch

16:22

you're really looking their computer snide as

16:24

you guys and forty have backups and

16:26

nobody really had backups. Maybe light concept.

16:28

Was it during that episode that you

16:30

are like made this? I think it.

16:32

Yes Yes it was. During that episode I

16:34

had like three thanks I had three Israelis. do I

16:36

make a few and then I kind of narrow it

16:38

down based off of once I start to build the

16:41

character I'm like doesn't make any sense. It was as

16:43

a useful character. Ah, and the mages.

16:45

Still, Learning. I. Mean A

16:48

in episode eighteen out of my first sight. So.

16:50

That was a real like Baptism by Fire time.

16:52

the things that are made new characters made a

16:54

new class that I've never played before and then

16:56

did a combat. Level to. At. Level two

16:59

that so yeah I came up with it

17:01

during the episode yet he was. he was

17:03

the of the third like keep.i look miserable

17:05

and yes I was sad but also I

17:08

was just very focused on trying to get

17:10

my character ready to to come back. and

17:12

I didn't have much to do in the

17:15

rest of the episode so ahead of time.

17:17

That I've been there. have been there done

17:19

that class can live of someone. Ah, haven't

17:21

even watched a habit of the courses and

17:24

he comes back with an him since. The

17:26

second thing with a thought is like i

17:28

love kids in ageism way An enemy is

17:30

also Jade Region we played. there's a productive

17:32

soon a character becomes like and and B

17:35

C I think it's books for the Forest

17:37

of Spirits to guess yeah through the or

17:39

yoga would they called the fuckin. A

17:41

little creatures that are for spirits don't I

17:43

don't know. know the what could armor. Madame

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17:51

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17:58

read a magazine. That and. The just

18:00

read this is forgot about that make

18:02

us said oh right. Maybe it was

18:04

subconscious when he said it, but also as a

18:07

fan of like Anna Mae and stuff like Naruto,

18:09

the whole the whole story is nine tails like

18:11

the Korean a the Fox. And

18:13

also I wanted to be a cat folk and I

18:15

didn't get to do that so maybe I went with

18:18

like another. Animal human hybrid sort

18:20

of Santa and other college

18:22

Moscow's. So

18:25

Fox is determined get sued and it

18:27

sucks. It's well. in this episode I

18:29

felt like it was a. A

18:32

real testament. I mean you know

18:34

our asses a big part of

18:36

it, but a real testament to

18:38

how leveling up to seven second

18:40

level completely changed the dynamic against

18:42

these these gorgeous it felt like

18:44

we are much more in control

18:46

and met and massing. Skidded Zoc

18:49

How to divide the you got like to

18:51

second level. Boggles feel are more powerful than

18:53

first level down? I don't You don't think

18:55

about a very often, but it is like

18:58

an occasion where you're you're doubling your level

19:00

of the only time that ever happened right?

19:02

and doubling your hit points. Yeah, yeah, as

19:04

your W level. Yeah. As

19:07

you know, there are so yeah.

19:09

It's it's it's You know you

19:11

feel like you've finally are getting

19:13

some kind of. You.

19:15

Know battlefield effectiveness and. You're.

19:17

Feeling a little bit more like a are

19:19

a lot less a little less like a

19:22

regular guy, little more like a super person.

19:25

Yeah, just vertigo as yeah yeah I don't normally

19:27

think about it was like you just and a

19:29

breeze through. Those. Early levels sometimes

19:31

in her mind, but we also saw

19:34

some cool foundry stuff in this episode,

19:36

particularly because they were coming out of

19:38

the the darkness and and for and

19:40

and odd umbra leaping back into the

19:42

darkness as part of their tactics are

19:45

in the site. Good. Job to

19:47

has we're the campfire yet because we had

19:49

the campfire and that was like emanating. That

19:51

was really cool but I loved how ah

19:53

skit a one point you as bottles and

19:55

his like I see them. Israel

19:58

I know what are we can see the i'm i'm

20:00

going delay and I think our to lead to may

20:02

have delayed as well. It's I will points and you're

20:04

like well I'm just gonna go hit it feels like

20:06

it's the right there because the your dog vision it's

20:09

I guess you're the only character with dark vision and

20:11

that yeah I guess very important in the party. I

20:13

guess that's true. It. Is cool.

20:15

It really is cool to have. A.

20:17

Virtual tabletop that has us. Seats are never

20:19

actually work. Yeah, they're really nice. Very immersive.

20:21

Yeah, it's of a i wish I had.

20:24

On. Other says his successor.

20:26

Yeah, no. stretch it out. a

20:28

healthy. The not met again that so immersive that

20:31

you the player when you can't see it's like. Isn't.

20:34

Too bad down while we're there some tactical

20:36

several get two and a second. a professor

20:38

at wrote him a or as I settle

20:41

a chunky review on we are stupid are

20:43

but always very oppressive emulates or as professor

20:45

is want to do but ah let's move

20:47

on from the combat for a moment. As

20:50

we patch up our wounds I get the

20:52

rest of our sleep and then head out.

20:55

Towards. Thin Lambs Farms and have an

20:57

N N piece of random Npc encounter

20:59

on the road is always. I feel

21:01

very unsettling right? like in in a

21:03

place like a while would wear a

21:06

in a you don't know who you're

21:08

going to meet on the side of

21:10

the remeber opera. the Ramius is doing

21:12

perception checks immediately for like bandits off

21:14

the highway like ready to jump us

21:16

because this guy's the go solo that

21:18

travelers is. You never trust this guy

21:21

this our second the second he starts

21:23

like oh that traveler like this guy's.

21:25

Gonna kill us all as like Sega hitchhiker

21:27

in the middle of I seventy six highsmith

21:29

hands as he says I to feed by

21:31

death is this is just as God sort

21:33

out that was that. Also tell someone to

21:35

the speed by well understood put you on

21:37

the spot. Here is so early we don't

21:39

know We have no idea we we The

21:42

Boggles and Brother Ramius in character was I

21:44

thought was really fun decide. Make. the

21:46

decision we're going to trust disguise

21:48

are asta not so much now

21:50

let's just talk about as players

21:53

for a second long term prediction

21:55

for melky or ah is he

21:57

a bad dude or a good

21:59

do My initial,

22:01

I'm sticking with my gut, my

22:03

initial instinct, it felt exactly like

22:05

you said, exactly like you said,

22:07

two skids. Person in the middle of the

22:10

road, help, oh, I'm hurt or

22:12

oh, I'm lost. And it's like, you

22:14

will murder us. You will murder us in our sleep the

22:16

minute that you get the chance to. You're going to steal

22:19

from us, whatever. I don't know if he has like

22:21

a bigger story with what's

22:23

going on, but everything has

22:25

been so weird and everyone

22:27

is so weird that the

22:30

fact that a normal guy shows up that

22:32

just like wants help, I don't think

22:34

so. I think

22:37

either his friend is made up and

22:39

he's going to steal from us or just a

22:41

thief. Or

22:43

his friend is real, but they're like planning

22:46

something together. He's like, my friend is lost and then we're

22:48

going to meet the friend and then they're both going

22:50

to turn on us and be like, we were actually beaten.

22:52

You think this is going to be bad that we brought

22:55

him along with us. How

22:57

do you feel as a player? Flip of the coin. How

22:59

does this pan out for us? I don't know. I

23:02

mean, you saying this now, it

23:04

reminds me of Red Dead Redemption 2.

23:07

There's a guy looking for his friend. This

23:10

is Gavin. Gavin!

23:12

Gavin! I never did finish

23:14

that, Clint. Yeah, yeah. I was

23:17

just like, you seemed all right. He always shows

23:19

up in every new town. Yeah, I've seen Gavin.

23:24

So that guy was

23:26

harmless at worst. Annoying.

23:28

Yeah, definitely annoying. But

23:31

I think a bugle

23:34

certainly, I think he's a little more

23:36

optimistic, naive, I guess, than Asta would

23:38

be. So I think he genuinely

23:40

does see the...

23:43

Actually, someone reminded me that it's a

23:45

similar kind of trait. We

23:47

talked about Silverado so much a couple years

23:50

ago and I was just reading Cream Abdul

23:52

Jabbar, he does a sub-stack every week, and

23:54

he was talking about Silverado. He

23:57

was talking about this Kevin

23:59

Kline character. in that movie, he

24:01

gets jumped by these guys, like these cowboys, they

24:04

go out in the desert and they end up

24:06

jumping him because they like his horse, but he's

24:08

just like, oh, I guess that, but

24:10

it's like the reason that he let that

24:12

happen was because he also just tends to

24:15

see the best in people and it blinds them. And

24:18

so it's like, oh, it's like, I

24:20

think Bugle kind of has the same kind

24:23

of malady. And Kareem was

24:25

talking about it, it's just like, I wish I

24:27

had that. And it's just

24:29

like, well, sure, but you also don't live

24:31

in a fantasy world where there's like giant

24:33

spiders. Yeah. It

24:36

could look like people. So it was consistent

24:38

with your character because you did the same

24:40

thing when Asta joined the party. Everyone kind

24:42

of standoffish. You were like, we should help

24:44

her, she's like us. Yeah.

24:46

Oh yeah, that's true. That was a great moment. I

24:48

love that moment. That moment made the tease, right Francis?

24:51

Yup. Yup. I

24:54

think we should trust her. We should help her. It

24:56

was really nice. Let's really

24:58

dive into Asta with a

25:01

little, we are stupid. Oh.

25:03

Courtesy of Professor Eric. We're

25:05

gonna hit on a viewpoint here before we get to

25:08

listener mail. Got a couple questions from the day- From

25:10

me? That we're gonna get to answer with Skid and

25:12

Sid in attendance, which is great. All right, so regarding

25:15

Asta's forms and then

25:17

Eric writes for three

25:20

and a half pages, single

25:22

spaced. So. I'm

25:25

going to take a minute to do this. I

25:27

can't wait to see why. All right, so just

25:29

a quick summary for those that don't know, it

25:32

seems that you came in sort of

25:34

implying that you could at any time

25:36

switch between all three forms. That's not

25:39

really the case. Yes, I've

25:41

remedied it. I realized after

25:43

I had misread something, I do get

25:45

a Fox form. My other form is

25:48

a Kitsune form. I

25:50

remedied it in a cool way in one of the recent

25:52

EPs that I think- Hasn't aired yet.

25:54

It hasn't aired yet, it's not out, but I

25:56

think story-wise makes sense and like character-wise makes sense.

26:00

Professor Eric, thank you so much. Yeah, it feels

26:02

like it doesn't really make a difference. It's more

26:04

a little more social. If

26:07

this was more of a social campaign,

26:09

it doesn't feel like that so far

26:11

though. This doesn't feel like a political

26:14

thriller campaign. This is like monsters and horror

26:16

and you know. If you walk into a

26:18

town and there's a big sign that says

26:21

no fox people, then you're gonna be interrupted.

26:23

Yeah, I talked to Troy about it too,

26:25

and Troy was like, I don't really care,

26:27

that doesn't matter to me. But yeah, if

26:29

we enter a metropolitan city and they've never

26:31

seen a katsune before, sure, maybe. But we're

26:33

in the woods right now and they

26:35

exist. Right, you also described

26:37

her luxurious nine tails, but

26:41

also something that comes with time,

26:43

right? Yeah, I thought it was a flavor.

26:45

I thought you could pick however many tails that

26:47

seem to do. I mean, every time I see a

26:49

katsune in my mind, it's not really a bunch of

26:51

tails. When you level up, you gain,

26:53

it's kind of like ambiguous, but you gain

26:55

another tail at each level, as

26:58

you grow, you grow in power. That's cool. And it

27:00

is cool, and the tails have like a power, you

27:02

can do stuff with them, so that's fun. In

27:04

other words, they're gonna make you earn it. Yes. Fox

27:08

form, we did sort of just imply that

27:10

it had darkvision. We

27:12

just assumed it does because foxes seem

27:14

to actually hunt at night and stuff

27:16

like that. Don't get

27:19

skid started on Pathfinder

27:21

nerfing animals. Real bugaboo. It

27:25

seems that that has carried over to second edition. Yeah,

27:28

I googled it too. I was like, can foxes see

27:30

in the dark? Well, we

27:32

might be wrong on this, but it

27:34

seems that in fox form, because of

27:36

the pest form spell, you're not actually

27:38

a fox, you're using a spell called

27:40

pest form, that you would get low

27:42

light vision and scent for

27:45

30 feet, but not darkvision. Yes, it is a

27:47

change form action that you can do,

27:49

and yeah, the fox traits, I get

27:52

low light vision. Yeah. All right, let's

27:54

talk about arcane stance. So

27:56

this is something where you enter

27:58

a stance after. you cast a

28:00

spell? Yes. Or what's

28:03

the other thing? You cast a spell

28:05

or you basically

28:07

do it you cast a spell anything

28:09

is like casting a spell that takes

28:13

one or two actions and

28:15

the idea is the magic that

28:17

you cast or use or use a

28:19

spell strike sorry or use a spell spell or use a

28:21

spell strike which to use a spell strike you have to cast

28:23

a spell but the magic like

28:25

reflows through your body so it's similar to

28:28

the monk stance you stay in the stance

28:30

as long as you're not like

28:32

stunned or something that would make you not be

28:34

able to do the stance but it

28:36

costs an action to do and like the

28:38

magic reflows through you from the spell you

28:40

just cast so depending on the magic type

28:43

you get a plus one damage or more

28:45

if you have weapon specialization to

28:47

your next attack so it's

28:50

cool but again I'm like a conduit

28:52

for your own magic that's all like through

28:54

your breath work and your foot stance you

28:56

like keep the magic circulating in your whole

28:58

stance the entire time so it's

29:00

super cool but as I'm learning with the mages the

29:03

action economy is so important that you do

29:05

you know this step then I do

29:07

my arcade stance the arcane stance and I do this

29:09

and I do my spell strike so I'm getting the

29:11

hang of it there's a lot of moving yeah

29:13

and we also like I believe you

29:15

went into that stance around after casting

29:18

a spell as your last action but

29:20

we're pinpointing here in the rules that

29:22

it seems that you need to do

29:24

that in the same turn yes so

29:26

it's worded and they've made a change

29:28

right in the wording that says within

29:30

the same her requirements for the

29:32

stance you used your most recent action this

29:35

turn to cast a spell or make a

29:37

spell strike you need to meet this requirement

29:39

only to enter the stance not to remain

29:41

in it yeah so you can't round the

29:44

corner so to speak and like cast something in

29:46

the next turn use the stance it has to

29:48

be so the action economy becomes very important

29:50

around the corner idea that that makes

29:52

sense all right how about

29:55

stunning fist from Zephyr pow

29:57

pow pow we One

30:00

of these dogs or Zephyr stunned one of these

30:02

dogs and then you gave it an attack of

30:04

opportunity We now know you can't do that when

30:06

it's stunned. It can't take any action. I stand

30:08

by you can't act Yeah, I figured you stand

30:10

by my you're wrong You're

30:13

wrong, but you missed anyway, so it didn't really

30:15

have any mechanical impact on the episode But good

30:17

to know for future reference man. That's stunning fist

30:19

is gonna be awesome So dope,

30:21

but it does have the incapacity trait So it's

30:23

gonna be dope against things that are about our level

30:25

or lower but not you know things that are gonna

30:28

be higher level one more one last

30:30

thing before we get off of the The

30:34

magus is the spell strike does

30:36

provoke an attack of opportunity Because

30:39

if you use a spell within it that

30:41

has the manipulate action. Yeah, and we did

30:43

that right? Yeah Yeah, but but there were

30:45

some comments on the YouTube video that suggested

30:47

that maybe it does not provoke an attack

30:49

of opportunity But it does the thing is

30:51

most spells that you would cast have the

30:53

manipulate trait and would provoke I don't know

30:55

maybe there is one in the living like

30:58

shocking grasp Does that not because it's meant

31:00

to be used in melee right so but

31:02

I believe because your cat I can look it up

31:05

But I'm almost positive It's

31:07

not to nurse the mages like they're very

31:09

powerful But I think the idea is that

31:11

most creatures don't have an attack of opportunity

31:14

You're taking a risk if they do and

31:16

maybe you get hit but also you should

31:18

be like the tank So maybe that hit well,

31:20

so they're never gonna have more than one Right

31:24

Right and and they have

31:26

to crit to interrupt it So

31:28

like even if they know you you still get the

31:30

spell strike through yeah You know But

31:32

they would have to crit in order to to interrupt

31:34

the action first edition was cool that you could like

31:36

cast it then move and it was just a Large

31:40

up and hold it in the hold the

31:42

charge in the blinkers charges, but like, you

31:45

know, everyone had an a o o so

31:47

now Yeah, it's also balanced a bit that

31:49

like if you use your attack of opportunity

31:51

That's your reaction. You can't theoretically

31:54

do anything else that would cost a reaction

31:56

like until right? Right, right All

31:59

right. Last thing we are stupid. It's just the

32:01

cybers, which is buggles ability to

32:03

how do

32:07

you describe the cybers? What is that

32:09

just direct mental damage like scanners? It's

32:11

like, boom, hitting a how

32:14

there was I can't remember like first edition

32:17

D&D and the psionics thing that was like it

32:19

was just like mind blast. I think it's

32:21

basically that you're just like shooting psychic

32:23

energy like into harmfully into another person's

32:26

brain. But the

32:28

one thing we did is I believe you did that

32:30

without having already unleashed your psyche. And so that's what

32:32

we just have to keep in mind for future. I

32:34

forgot that it had the in the moment that it

32:37

had the psyche trait. So I can only use it

32:39

when I'm on these. All right, so this is what

32:41

this is the way that your your spells your abilities

32:43

the traits that if they have

32:45

the psyche trait in them, you can't

32:47

use them unless your psyche is unleashed.

32:50

That's pretty the overall rule. Right. Makes

32:52

sense. Also, just want to say to answer

32:54

that question, because I was curious to shocking

32:57

grass does it would

32:59

provoke because it has the somatic

33:01

trait, which almost all spells have, because

33:03

it has a somatic trait, it gains

33:06

the manipulate trait. And that's I

33:08

think I mentioned it in an episode like the mages

33:11

doesn't have to do hand movements, they can

33:13

use their weapon, which is cool with the somatic

33:15

stuff. So like they get to cast up

33:17

close and do whatever but it's yeah, it does

33:19

have the the attack of opportunity, they would take

33:21

it. Very cool. All right, let's

33:23

kick it over to the nays. Let's get a

33:25

couple questions before we before

33:27

we get out of here. Then

33:44

if we do this again, if we know that we're doing this

33:47

again, we have time ahead of time, we should just tell Nick

33:49

to come beyond the fog. Live? Live. Oh,

33:53

I don't know if you can get him to sing on cue. Yes.

33:58

On camera. I don't know. Oh yeah, he'd be too

34:00

shy. I'll go to work on him. I'll try to

34:02

stop him off. Maybe. Maybe

34:05

you could break him out of his shell. Yeah, break him out

34:07

of his shell. He's texting us right now. Are you guys talking

34:10

about me? Do you want me to sing live? I could never.

34:12

All right, we got a question here from

34:14

Chris in Salem, Oregon, who was a long

34:17

time fan. Home of the witch trials. Home

34:19

of the witch trials. No, no, no. Oh,

34:21

no, no. The lesser known, the

34:24

lesser known Salem, Oregon witch trials. They had

34:26

them too. Well, they called it 1964. Chris

34:30

has had something come up in his game a

34:32

few times. He's running this. This is ideas that

34:34

he has perpetrated with the players that

34:36

he first started running games

34:38

for because of the Glass Kind of

34:40

Podcast. Oh, cool. And he said that they've had

34:42

this kind of theme that's been going on, and he just wanted our

34:45

thoughts on it. I think it's really, I wanted to grab this because

34:47

you guys were gonna be here. And it's really just a, would

34:49

you ever do this in your game? What do you think about this? He

34:53

says, I like bringing dead

34:55

player characters back as undead.

34:58

We've done it a few times, much

35:00

more than I've seen on any actual plays that I

35:02

listened to. And I wanted to get your thoughts. I

35:05

only bring characters back if the player is interested, and

35:07

narratively, I try to match the kind of undead to

35:09

the character. If the PC died before they resolved some

35:11

big part of their backstory, they might come back as

35:13

a ghost. Or if the PC died

35:15

a particularly violent death, they might return as a

35:18

white. What do you think

35:20

of this? Is having an undead PC a good

35:22

way to give the party an edge in potential

35:24

role play, or does it cheapen character death too

35:27

much? Karate,

35:29

would you ever do this? Man,

35:31

I do think it cheapens it,

35:33

right? But that doesn't mean that- Are they

35:35

bringing it back as an enemy to the party or

35:38

as someone who joins the party? I think it's giving

35:40

either way, but I think it joins the party. I

35:42

think it joins the party. I think it cheapens it,

35:44

but every instance is gonna be different. I think you

35:46

gotta, like anything, be judicious about it. You can't do

35:48

it all the time. But if you

35:50

thought of a really cool way to make it

35:52

work, it seems like 2E has the capabilities for

35:54

you to reskep- Right, to do like a ghost

35:56

sort of template. We were talking about Blood Lords,

35:58

like part of that adventure. I feel like

36:00

deals with this in the book of the dead that came

36:03

out I could be Miss

36:06

coordinates, but I feel like there are rules in there

36:08

on how to give your characters these These

36:10

skins to come back. Yeah, I mean I

36:13

in side quest side session I played a

36:15

skeleton right and the skeleton was champ Kindly

36:19

old champ kindly the skeleton was

36:21

a playable Ancestry now

36:23

because of that book, but it also

36:25

sort of is informed by

36:28

the You know

36:30

just the kind of template where you can give

36:32

a skeleton to multiple different things so champ was

36:34

like a human skeleton or

36:36

humanoid skeleton, but you can also have like

36:38

a stat

36:41

block essentially for You

36:43

know a giant skeleton or a lizard

36:46

skeleton or whatever like there's different ways

36:48

that they put it together, but Yeah,

36:51

I'm okay to you said what would you is this something

36:53

you would ever do in a game bring? Yeah, you see

36:55

back is an undead. Yeah, I would I think it's

36:57

fun, and I think it's interesting, but only It's

37:01

hard because I don't know what the Circumstances

37:03

sure but it sounds like with what he's

37:05

saying like if the character had unfinished business

37:07

that like the party was aware of That

37:10

they brought them back like they they came to

37:12

this city that the character had this unfinished business

37:14

in and it was gonna happen All along and

37:16

they're you know their player character died It's

37:19

cool to bring it back in a way where

37:21

they're they show up in the city and the

37:23

whole party's like Oh my god, you know like

37:25

yeah clearly we have to take care of this

37:27

unfinished business for our beloved character and to me

37:29

That doesn't cheapen the death because it it

37:32

enhances the story and it moves the story forward

37:34

But I think yeah, I think if every time

37:36

a character dies, they just like you know, they're gonna

37:38

breathe Yeah,

37:40

it's a little weird sometimes It's like you got

37:42

to move on and if and if you do

37:45

you can put enough focus into that new character

37:47

Yeah, that it's gonna make your you know your

37:49

game better for that reason You

37:51

also don't want to I say

37:53

you but here's the situation I worry about getting

37:55

into you have a player with two

37:57

characters There well, I was gonna happen to me

38:00

before and it's not enjoyable. I don't think

38:02

you give it to the player. I think if you

38:04

bring the character back you discuss it with the player

38:06

and maybe they can do some like role play and

38:08

speak as their character but I think if they assist

38:10

you in like a combat or a few combats for

38:13

like a scenario the GM would play for

38:15

them and roll for them to like have them do

38:17

the attacks and stuff because I think almost that's I

38:19

don't know I wouldn't appreciate it if my character dies. My

38:22

ghost would never do that attack. No but I wouldn't

38:24

do that I think if the GM was like your ghost

38:26

comes back and now you have to deal with that I'd

38:28

be like oh thanks

38:30

like now I have to manage

38:32

two characters in combat. It would have

38:34

to be a group effort. Yeah I don't

38:36

know that's tricky. Skid would you ever do

38:38

it? Would you ever consider it? The first

38:40

sketch that Conan O'Brien

38:42

ever wrote for Saturday

38:45

Night Live had it

38:47

was John Lithgow was like a professor

38:49

of anthropology and he's teaching

38:51

his class and he has a skeleton next to

38:53

him and he's just like yeah so

38:55

as you see as the human evolved the brain

38:58

becomes like every

39:00

time he looks at the skeleton he has to go to

39:02

the you know the chancellor

39:06

and he's just like getting all these complaints you can't

39:08

get through a class it's just like I'm just scared

39:11

of skeletons like what if it was a

39:13

like a tiny skeleton would that be scary it's

39:15

like no I think that'd be okay so get

39:17

the tiny skeleton this is like so if you

39:19

look here I think you look very closely there's

39:22

a third rib and he's just like no one can see it

39:24

no no one can see it I

39:26

don't you put what if I put a pirate

39:29

hat on it okay

39:31

so if it's a pirate hat and

39:34

a patch and a parrot on it

39:37

and every time he looks at he starts

39:39

laughing and then the chancellor comes in to

39:41

check on him and he's scared of pirates

39:44

he takes the part out it's like oh it's a

39:46

good sketch hopefully

39:51

that answers I

39:54

think I think that about sums it up I'll

39:57

say two things one I think it's

39:59

much better if the player isn't there anymore either.

40:02

So if your player that died or for whatever

40:04

reason is not in the game or it moved

40:06

on or whatever, fun way to

40:08

bring them back because you completely control that

40:11

character as the GM. That to me is

40:13

interesting. We've done it before, kind of, have

40:15

we? Oh yeah,

40:18

yeah, yeah, we kind of have before. Yeah,

40:20

you know what I'm also thinking about is our-

40:22

When I say we, you, Troy. That is true,

40:24

you have done it before. What

40:27

I'm thinking of is there was a home game

40:29

that we had and the final, this is with

40:31

Merwin back in the day, us and McD, where

40:34

at the end, the last final

40:36

climactic battle, I think McD's

40:38

character played this cleric and he was a

40:40

crazy high level and a god offered him

40:42

the chance at godhood and he took it

40:45

and then the final battle, wasn't he fighting

40:47

alongside us as a demigod? No,

40:50

he turned on us. Yeah, he turned on us.

40:52

Well, no, he fought alongside us right up until

40:54

the end and then the god

40:56

offered him to rule over us for

40:59

a layer of hell, basically. And he said, yes,

41:01

but so he left us. But he became a

41:04

demigod. He became a demigod. He was fighting against

41:06

us. Yes, yes, and yeah, I

41:08

think some of the epilogue scenes had him

41:10

just fucking with our lives or something. Like

41:13

he did in real life every time he got together. Well,

41:15

you did kind of do it, that is true,

41:17

but it was, to me, it didn't feel like

41:20

we were adventuring together ever, right? Like it

41:22

was kind of in dream sequences and kind

41:24

of- I'm not sure what you're referencing because

41:27

there's been so many like tangential ones. Okay.

41:30

You don't want to say it? It's

41:32

the whole Gormley storyline from

41:34

China. I mean, that's kind of a good thing.

41:36

There's that, but there's also, I was thinking of

41:38

Raiders of the Lost Carters. Yeah. Oh

41:41

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, well, it's

41:43

Sheepers, yeah. There's a lot. It's

41:45

a lot. Unfinished stories. But what

41:47

was I gonna say? Oh, one other way that

41:49

I think you could do it interestingly for missions

41:51

is if they are a revenant. Like

41:54

if you had a play or

41:56

die to a monster creature boss

41:58

who got away. Yeah, that I

42:00

think is really fun I was back as

42:03

a revenant for one mission and when they

42:05

kill this thing you will release their spirit

42:07

that it seems fun To me that was

42:10

my concept for nester. Oh After

42:12

the events of giants like you would come back

42:14

as a revenant. Oh, yeah Yeah,

42:17

yeah, there are some creatures

42:19

I see this a lot in to II and

42:22

I remember seeing it in one E as well

42:24

We're like have an ability was like if a

42:27

you if you go up to a dead

42:29

creature You could do this ability and like

42:31

turn them so like some creatures have the

42:33

ability built into their step block that you

42:35

never get to use because usually you're going

42:37

to give Sort of like a mob of

42:40

five or six of them and you overwhelm

42:42

them But like if you die you could

42:44

this creature could turn you into something and

42:46

if that ever happened You know, I guess

42:48

my initial thought was like well now you're

42:50

fighting the evil dead version of your person

42:52

But what if you were able to beat

42:54

that fight and that person's turned and

42:56

now you have to like convince them to continue

42:59

fighting? Alongside you that might be interesting. Yeah, fun.

43:01

If it was like happened in the mechanics of

43:03

the game. It'd be something worth exploring I see

43:05

it all the time It's already been in like

43:07

three staff blocks of gate walkers at least of

43:10

like little things like that Well, I'll never have

43:12

the opportunity to do that. But if I did

43:14

it'd be interesting. That's cool. That's cool concept

43:16

All right. Let's get one more in here and then we'll

43:19

we'll get out of here Eric from

43:21

Canada Is

43:25

he coming to the Toronto No,

43:28

no, we had there's still like six VIPs

43:30

and a handful of ticket. All right, so

43:33

Toronto Eric from Canada

43:35

says you brave fools Make

43:37

sure you bring your poutine forks and your

43:40

knitted knickers. All of us Canucks cannot wait

43:42

to see you up here Okay,

43:45

this is great And I I did

43:47

not expect this to have more people in the room

43:49

to talk about it But man, is this a tough

43:51

one? Have you ever had to break

43:53

up with another player? I need

43:55

to gently let a player know that

43:58

we don't mesh and they need to search for

44:00

another game. Any advice? It's not

44:02

me, it's definitely them. So the

44:04

normal platitudes won't do. Now

44:08

Troy has done this before. We've talked about

44:10

it several times. Troy has broken up before.

44:12

Sydney, have you ever broken up with a

44:14

player before? Yeah, recently. Really? Really?

44:17

Really? Are you the one that had to let them go?

44:19

No, it was for my... Or were you the

44:21

one that let go? No. There's only

44:23

one or the other, so. It

44:26

was for our D&D campaign with my group of friends.

44:28

And I was super pumped that we were playing because

44:30

I haven't played D&D in a while. And

44:33

it was with three friends

44:35

who were like, I'm really tight with, and

44:37

then two others who were new, and then two others who

44:40

were also new. So it was like, it was a good

44:42

mix. Two of them,

44:44

the new people, they live in

44:46

Massachusetts. And they would drive down

44:48

on the weekends, and they would

44:50

stay at the other couple's apartment so

44:52

we could all play D&D. And

44:55

to me and my two other friends who I

44:57

knew very well, we all were like, that's a big

44:59

commitment to drive down. And then

45:01

the people are hosting them. And

45:03

then we play for one day, one session, and then

45:06

they drive back up. So we said to

45:08

the couple who was hosting them, we were like, hey,

45:11

they are not our friends. We

45:14

don't like them. They're your friends. But isn't

45:16

this a lot? Isn't this silly? Shouldn't we

45:18

just make a smaller group and kind of

45:20

branch off? And they were like, oh, yeah,

45:22

like, I don't know, maybe, blah, blah, blah.

45:25

They must like it if they come down. Yeah, they

45:27

didn't care. So I was kind of like, dang

45:29

it. Well, now how do we deal

45:31

with this? So me and my three friends,

45:33

we kind of just said in our group chat, it's

45:35

surprisingly easier than you think it is. It seems like

45:38

a big deal to break up with like a player.

45:40

But we kind of were just like, hey,

45:42

you guys can

45:44

only play on certain dates that like

45:46

never work for anyone else in our

45:48

group. It's unfortunate. But like, I

45:51

think it would be better if we

45:53

split off for now. And if we can find like a

45:55

better time to all play together,

45:57

great. If not, you know, like, so be

45:59

it. fun while it lasted. And we were very nice

46:01

about it. There was no bad blood, but it was more so

46:03

just like, find a different group. Find

46:06

a better group that you can like hang

46:08

with more and play. And we felt bad.

46:10

And then honestly, they were just like, yeah,

46:12

you're right. Bye. Yeah.

46:14

We all like worked about we were like, Oh, I don't want

46:16

to be mean. I don't want to do that. I want to do

46:18

this. And then eventually we were just like, who cares?

46:20

We're not playing anyway. We haven't played in two

46:23

months. Like, we can never play. She

46:26

just called me in like Harvey Keitel and Pulp Fiction.

46:28

Yeah. Yeah. I was just wolf. Skid,

46:34

have you ever had that awkward conversation? If you had

46:36

a player, you had to kick out of a game

46:38

or anything like that? Yeah. And it is difficult. What

46:41

I ended up, you had a lot of drama back in the day.

46:45

You could see the weight of it on his

46:47

face still. Yeah. The one mild man, just

46:51

the drama around some of

46:53

those. Yeah. Much of it was I maintained.

46:55

A lot of it wasn't my fault, but

46:58

agreed. But the one

47:00

time we really had to, it

47:02

got bad was we took a tiny little

47:06

bit of like a

47:08

crack cocaine and like

47:10

stuck it in his jacket like when he was

47:12

in the bathroom. There you go. And then when

47:14

he left, we called the police and

47:17

like he was in the system so long that by

47:19

the time he was done with that, like we forgot

47:21

all about it. So you never had to have that

47:23

awkward conversation. Never had to have a conversation. That's smart.

47:25

That's probably the best way to do

47:27

it. So that was completely unhelpful. But,

47:32

sorry, Eric, but it

47:35

is true that Skid had a lot of drama in that game.

47:38

And there were a lot of conversations that had to be

47:40

had. Here's the thing. If you're

47:42

playing for fun, because not for work,

47:45

like you only have so much time

47:47

to do it. If you're not fully

47:49

enjoying the experience because of someone in

47:51

the group, odds are other people aren't

47:53

as well. Ain't enough time in the

47:55

day. So find a way to get that conversation

47:58

over with because you only have so much time to do it. much

48:00

game time you want to make it. It's also miserable for you.

48:02

Like I never got to play with this group and

48:04

when we did it was like such a hassle and

48:06

I was like I do this for work one and

48:08

this is the one game that I'm playing outside of

48:11

work right now if I'm not if my heart's not

48:13

in it like I'm not gonna play it. Yeah. So

48:15

which stinks it feels like bad. It does. It makes

48:17

me feel bad but. Yeah I mean it's a shitty

48:19

situation always but I think you have to be direct.

48:21

Yep. And I think that you have to talk to

48:23

the other people in the group because it might be

48:26

he says it's not him. But like

48:28

if you go to the other people and you're

48:30

like look I really like playing with this guy.

48:32

Do you want to play with this guy and

48:34

it's all nose then like if it's got to

48:36

be you it's got to be you that rips

48:38

the band-aid off and just has the hard conversation

48:40

and be direct. Yeah and just be direct. Don't

48:42

beat around the bush. I just don't think that

48:44

our play styles mesh well. I hate you. We

48:47

don't want to we don't want to continue playing this

48:49

game. Yeah. And then you know if they find out

48:51

that you went off and then added somebody else and

48:53

continue and played a new campaign or something with other

48:55

people like so bad. You know it is what it

48:57

is. Also like do you work with them?

48:59

Are they like in your friend group? You might never

49:01

see them again. It might be. Is it your mom?

49:04

Is it your mom? Do they have blackmail material

49:06

on you? Yeah yeah. Do they

49:08

have a compromise? Before you

49:10

put crack cocaine in their pocket do they have

49:13

blackmail on you? Well because you could even

49:15

the scales then too. Skid

49:17

knows all the answers. A lot of

49:20

tricks you can in there in a

49:22

GM's toolbox. Don't put

49:24

that in the remastered GM. They don't put

49:26

that in the GM core. What is a

49:29

role-play game on that page? Like they were

49:31

covered like on that page. How to frame

49:33

your mom. Like how to frame one of

49:36

your friends. Why is this on page three?

49:39

I normally skip over this page. I've played so

49:41

many role-playing games but did you see this? Oh

49:44

my god well this is awesome. Guys thank you so

49:46

much for coming and hanging out playing with us.

49:49

Hanging out on the FOD with us.

49:52

Sydney Skid. This is awesome. Francis C.J.

49:54

thank you guys for producing an in-studio

49:56

FOD. We appreciate it greatly. Troy

49:58

let me thank you. obligated to get it uh...

50:07

crack it up right now really good

50:09

time i can't wait to be remote again away

50:11

from the street uh... uh...

50:15

remember we got a lot of stuff this week

50:17

we got more uh... gatewalkers on thursday night we

50:19

got time for kato so do you know i'd

50:21

a night uh... troy streaming i'm streaming

50:23

i'm sure skill be up on gee gee cnf i

50:25

will be streaming to i got a new game that

50:27

that i have to meet again to me that i

50:29

want to stream will go okay i think you know

50:33

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