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JP: Hello, and welcome to the premiere
of Rollplay: Swan Song.

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The latest show in the Rollplay franchise 
I guess you could say.

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I'm JP McDaniel, one of 
the cast members here.

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You're gonna recognize pretty much 
everyone on the show,

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except for the guy right down
in the center, under the logo.

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That is, of course, Adam Koebel, you've
probably seen him around,

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at least these parts, 
for Dungeon World,

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he's done a couple of things 
with Misscliks, as well.

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Adam, why don't you start off 
tell us a little bit about who you are,

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what you do, and 
why you're here.

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Adam: Alrighty, I am Adam Koebel, I am
the co-creator of Dungeon World,

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today I am the Space Master of space.
Wheat: Yesss...

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Adam: What I do- I master space 
right now, for the next few hours.


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That's all I'm about right now.

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JP: What about not right now, 
what else do you do, aside from that?

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How many other campaigns 
do you DM actively?

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Adam: This is campaign #3, I've got two 
live campaigns that I'm running right now.

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Playing a game of Burning Wheel, 
that just got started,

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and I'm playing a game called 
"Night Witches", which is about Soviet...

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JP: I heard a lot about that.
Adam: Soviet bomber pilots in WW2,

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which is also pretty cool.

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JP: And that's like a 
tabletop RPG, as well?

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Adam: Yeah, it's pretty badass.

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Geoff: Do you guys get into the accent?
Adam: I do, for sure, accents are key.

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For everybody else it varies.
Steven: Damn straight.

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Geoff: If you're doing a Soviet D&D thing,
you gotta be into it.

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Everyone's gotta be like, "Comrade!"
Wheat: "Listen to me. Let's go bowling."

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JP: That's all Wheat knows. That's his 
entire repertoire of Russian.

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Geoff: "Bowling's for nazis."
(Laughter)

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Oh shit, is everyone 
wearing glasses but me?


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JP: Yeah.
Steven: Get with it, Geoff.

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JP: Also, Wheat shaved his beard,


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we were gonna have a fully bearded 
cast, but Wheat fucked it up...

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Steven: Wheat...
JP: What are you looking at...?

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Steven: He's got the soul patch.
JP: I see this [motions to face]

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but then I look at Adam, and I'm
like, "Well shit, Wheat, you're..."

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Wheat: I had to reset.
JP: You had to reset, yeah.

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Let's intro everyone else on the show.
You probably recognize them from before,

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as they are all already on other 
Rollplay shows,

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Wheat, why don't we 
start with you...

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Who are you, 
and what do you do?

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Wheat: Yo, I'm djWheat. You might 
have seen me in other Rollplay shows,

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such as R&D, and Crossed: The Good Life.
And other things...

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And I'm excited for 
this one, here, let's do it.

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I stream and do some shows with JP.
I do some shows with Geoff.

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I want to go on the record: I'm glad
you let me go first,

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I'm excited, obviously, we have Adam
as our Space Master, but,

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I am fucking thrilled that I get to play
with the one and only Steven Lumpkin.

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BOOYAH, let's do it.
JP: We'll use that as a segue.

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Steven, it's your first Rollplay show
as a player character.

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Steven: It's true.
JP: No longer are you pulling the strings.

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Well, maybe you are...
Steven: That's what you all think.

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Geoff: You're gonna have 
your hands full, Adam.

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This guy... 
'I' DM'ed this sonofabitch.

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Adam: I'm not scared of Steven,
I'm not afraid.

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Geoff: I believe he was 
rolling around in poop,

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I think he tried to set Neal on fire
and kill him...

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Adam: I distinctly remember you guys
butchering my game, that was great.

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Thank you for that.
(Laughter)

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Steven: I had a lot of fun rolling around 
in poop in Dungeon World.

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JP: Nice, for those just joining from
the front page, Steven's the weird one.

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He's the odd guy, just go with it.
Steven: Hi guys.

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I run some other roleplaying shows
on Rollplay, including R&D,

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and maybe there's another one?
I don't know. And...

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I work in the video games industry,
I'm currently working on a game

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called "Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade",
it's gonna be awesome.

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I think that's about it,
for what I do, online.

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JP: Wheat, I'm just gonna give 
you the platform,

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people want a close-up of the shirt.
I saw you going like this,

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trying to get it in there.
Is that a "One Piece" shirt?

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Wheat: It is, it is... And who's 
the best "One Piece" character, JP?

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JP: I don't watch the anime, so...
Wheat: Correct answer is Nico Robin.

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JP: There you go, Nico Robin...
Wheat: Just so you know...

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JP: Oh that's right, you've lectured 
me before about Nico Robin.

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Well, not lectured, but.
Wheat: She's the best...

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JP: It's a female character that- I forget.
Wheat, just tell us...

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Wheat: She grows hands out of her body.
Adam: I do that too, look.

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Wheat: No, like multiple, 
she's the best...


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Geoff: Do they stay on her,
after she grows them?

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Wheat: If you want them 
to stay on her, they can.

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But they're not permanent.
Geoff: Oh my god, Wheat...

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(Laughter)

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Wheat: Look at chat! They're agreeing.
JP: Chat's loving it.

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Geoff: Yeah, that's good, right? 
Chat agreeing with you?

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Wheat: Yeah, actually, it is. 
It's pretty good.

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JP: Once in a lifetime, when 
the stars align,

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chat agrees with someone 
on stream. It's what happens.

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Geoff, what's going on with you?

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Who are you and what do you do
on the Internets, or in life.

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Geoff: What's up, everybody?
In case you just now are joining us,

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I'm a former full-time professional 
Starcraft 2 player for "Evil Geniuses",

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now I'm more like a commentator/
host/personality kind of thing.

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Still playing, still competing, Red Bull 
Atlanta Battle Grounds this coming weekend

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where Wheat will be joining us, 
I believe, right Wheat?

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Wheat: ...Negative.

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Geoff: God damn it... 
I just assumed. I apologize.

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Wheat: Hey, you know, I'm bummed, 
I was supposed to be there,

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I think I've actually said it 
already but, yeah...

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I wish I was going, dude.
Geoff: He sometimes shows up there.

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I've been doing shows with JP,

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which is actually kind 
of weird to think about, for...

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JP: Two and a half years now?

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Geoff: Only two and a half? 
JP: No, "State of the game" was...

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Maybe three years. 
Geoff: Three or four now, I think.

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Getting old, is what we're doing.
JP: We're getting pretty old. Four years older.

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Geoff: Been with the McDaniels
for a while now, doing shows.

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We've been doing some 
Rollplay, I'm on Solum,

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before that it was just called 
"Rollplay", I guess, the original one.

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JP: It was the flagship show, still is.

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Wheat: You sound salty 
about that, Geoff.

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Geoff: Not salty at all, man, it's all 
good times. You fucking kidding me?

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Wheat: Asshole...


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Geoff: Check out those VODs,
they're on JP's thing, his youtube.

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And then for me, 
I'm also a Warhammer fanatic.

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Steven and I have bonded over that,
he's creating a Warhammer computer game.

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I play the vanilla, 
the original Warhammer 40K,

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Tyranids for life, 
the great devourer.

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Other than that, you can just
find me on the internets,

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we'll see a lot of each other if you 
check out the show.

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JP: I think Geoff is probably a part of-
I think we're in the 400s now,

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400 hours or so of content, 
Rollplay-related,


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I think you're in 200 of it.
You're in a good portion of it.

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Geoff: Been around for a while.

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JP: Alright, cool, that does 
the intros and everything.

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Adam, this is your turn to take it away,
typically the DM will, from here on out,

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tell us what the fuck this game is.

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I guess you can tell us why this
show is called "Swan Song".

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I think a lot of people are wondering.

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Adam: The game we're gonna be playing 
is called "Stars Without Number" (SWN).

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It's a sci-fi roleplaying game,
based primarily on basic D&D,

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real old-school, real lethal,
very simple mechanically.

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It's got a skill set that comes to us
from a game called "Traveller"

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which, if you're an old nerd, 
you've heard of,

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if you're not, Traveller is to sci-fi RPGs
what D&D is to fantasy.

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It came out in the 70s, SWN got a 
skill set sort of based on that.

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"Stars" is what we call a sand-box game.
Steven: Yesss..

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Adam: Rather than me leading the players
from plot-point to plot-point,

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I'm just going to say, 
"Here's the universe, go be in it."

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Geoff: Go forth.

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The show is called "Swan Song" 
because that's the name of the ship,

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that the characters 
are responsible for,

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it's technically property of the 
Sunbeam Multistellar corporation,

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you guys owe an 
ass-ton of money on it,


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and the game is gonna be about paying 
that money down, getting your ship.

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You might just bail out part-way through, 
and then it'll be about evading people

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trying to collect money for the ship.

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JP: I hope actually, that within
the first ten minutes we lose the ship,

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and then it's called "Swan Song" 
for no fucking reasons.

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Steven: "Part-way through", Adam?


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[UI] up debt is one of 
our primary responsibilities.

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Adam: Well, the great thing about the show
being called "Swan Song",

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"swan song" also means the last glorious 
thing you do before you die horribly.

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So, you know...
Multi-purpose title, there.

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JP: There you go.

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Adam: For today it's the name of the ship.
JP: We can name each season,

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I can fit 8 characters in there, 
we'll be good.

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We can change the title 
anytime we lose the ship.

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Let's get through a couple of 
episodes, because it's not cheap.

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Adam: So the setting is inspired 
primarily by classic era 70s/80s sci-fi.

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Syd Mead concept art, Blade Runner,
the novel "Dune",

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I'm particularly inspired by 
Iain Banks' "Culture" novels.

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If you want any extra 
media to absorb


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while you're desperately waiting for 
the next episode, go and do that.

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Things that exist in SWN: 
faster than light travel (FTL),

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ships have what are 
called "spike drives",


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that allow them to drill down into 
sub-space, and travel at faster speeds.

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Psychic powers are really 
important to the setting,


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primarily because the sector the 
characters are in, called Asgard Sigma,

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it's very far away from Earth, so far 
that no one who lives in that sector

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knows where Earth is anymore.

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The people of this setting have been 
separated from Earth

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for a very long time, by an event 
called "the Scream",

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which was a horrible psychic backlash
that killed most of the powerful psychics,

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and now you're stuck out in 
the wilderness, trying to get by.

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There are aliens, we may or may not
see them. Cybernetics are a thing.

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Standard sci-fi stuff, energy weapons,
repulsors, space ships, cool motorcycles.

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One thing you don't have 
is FTL communication.

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In a lot of ways, the setting feels 
like a high seas thing,

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where you have to take communication
on-board your ship.

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There are mail ships traveling from
sector to sector, delivering news.

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What might happen in one sector 
might not reach the far reaches

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of the sector for a while.
That's something to keep in mind.

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The characters are all members of the crew
of the Swan Song, filling various roles.

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The Swan Song is a small 
free merchant ship,

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built on a freighter hull, it's got
a simple spike-drive,

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100 or 1000 tonnes of cargo space, 
it's on the sheet if you haven't...

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Hopefully you'll be using that cargo 
space to move expensive stuff around.

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What we're gonna do for character 
creation, we'll jump right into it.

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We need attributes for the characters.

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As I mentioned, the game uses 
the oldest of old-school,

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3d6 rolled in order 
and assigned to


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strength (str), intelligence (int),
wisdom (wis), dexterity (dex),

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constitution (con)
and charisma (cha).

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Let's get to doing that.

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JP: Who wants to go first?
Geoff: I suggest Wheat.

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Wheat: What? NO, I'm not 
going first! Fuck you!

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Steven has been GM'ing 
for years, he's going first.

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Steven: Alright, I'll go first.
Wheat: And fuck you, Geoff.

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(Laughter)

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Adam: We'll do each step...
Steven: What's the order of the abilities?

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Adam: We'll do them all together,
Steven, roll your 3d6 six times,

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and then we'll move on, we'll get
everybody attributes before we move on.

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JP: I want to state that, 
in other Rollplays,

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typically where we do the 3d6 or 4d6,
I guess mostly Solum and D&D,

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it was always 4d6, remove the lowest one.

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So this is even a little bit more 
hardcore than that,

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but you can- what's the ruling, Adam?
You can change it from an 8 to a 14?

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Adam: There are two ways that you
can move your scores around,

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you can reduce scores that are above 13,
you can basically "mediocratize" yourself,

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if you've got a 16, you can bring it 
down to a 13, to bring your 4 to an 8.

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There's a middle band.
JP: 4 to a 7?

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Adam: Yeah, you can move them up, 
but you can't bring a low score above 8,

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or lower a high score below 13.


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And when you choose your class, 
you'll be given an opportunity


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to bump one of your prime requisites
up to 14 if it's not already.

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The thing about this is that it's based
on that old version of D&D,

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the attributes really aren't
that huge a deal,

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your skills are way more important,
the way you get shit done in-character,

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is gonna be way more 
effective than being like,


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"I've got a +17000 on my strength, 
I'm gonna punch everything to death."

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Geoff: Which is still cool, Adam.

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Adam: Yes, it is cool, but do it
without the numbers, man.

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JP: Also, do we go in order, 
the first roll is strength?

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Adam: Yeah, the first roll is strength, 
intelligence, wisdom...

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Geoff: Let Steven go first.
Adam: It's harrowing.

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Steven, what's your strength?

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Geoff: Should we introduce our 
characters after the attributes?

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Adam: Yeah, we'll do 
character introductions


00:13:32.634 --> 00:13:35.374
because we'll do attributes, classes, 
backgrounds and training,

00:13:35.374 --> 00:13:37.924
and then we can talk about what 
your character's are about.

00:13:37.924 --> 00:13:41.924
Steven: Is it strength, dex, con, 
intelligence, wisdom, charisma?

00:13:41.924 --> 00:13:44.684
Adam: It is whatever order it is 
on the character sheet.

00:13:44.684 --> 00:13:47.654
Steven: I'm going strength, dex, 
con, int, wis, cha.

00:13:47.654 --> 00:13:49.861
Here we go! 
[rolled 15]

00:13:49.861 --> 00:13:52.431
JP: Oh my god!
Adam: Boom!

00:13:52.431 --> 00:13:53.971
JP: 15!


00:13:53.971 --> 00:13:57.971
Steven: Alright, let's see what
the next one is...

00:13:57.971 --> 00:14:01.941
Oh my god, why doesn't 
it let me go up?

00:14:01.941 --> 00:14:03.761
Steven: 9 dex.

00:14:03.761 --> 00:14:07.031
Geoff: JP, can you skype me 
that warrior one?

00:14:07.031 --> 00:14:09.651
JP: Oh, you mean the PDF?
Geoff: Yeah.

00:14:09.651 --> 00:14:12.651
Steven: 9 con.
JP: 9 is pretty good.

00:14:12.651 --> 00:14:17.051
Adam: You peaked early, Steven.
Steven: 15, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9...

00:14:17.051 --> 00:14:20.277
Oh no!
[rolled 7]

00:14:20.277 --> 00:14:23.647
Geoff: You're not very smart.

00:14:23.647 --> 00:14:27.127
C'mon, Baby Daddy needs 
a new pair of shoes!

00:14:27.127 --> 00:14:31.227
Oh god!
[rolled 8]

00:14:31.227 --> 00:14:35.617
Geoff: Damn...
Steven: Oh no, this is gonna be the worst.

00:14:35.617 --> 00:14:38.141
Geoff: It's not all about 
the numbers, remember that.

00:14:38.141 --> 00:14:40.291
Steven: Ah, so nice.
[rolled 14]

00:14:40.291 --> 00:14:43.291
Geoff: You're a strong, idiotic, charismatic guy.

00:14:43.291 --> 00:14:47.711
JP: So it goes strength, dex, con, 
int, wis, charisma.

00:14:47.711 --> 00:14:51.198
Adam: Yeah, so Steven, while we move
on to the next person,

00:14:51.198 --> 00:14:54.308
you can keep that 15 and 14 
if you want to,

00:14:54.308 --> 00:14:58.308
or you can bring them both as far down
as 13, to bring up the other scores.

00:14:58.308 --> 00:15:02.286
But the only thing you can bring up would
be int by 1 point, so don't worry about it.

00:15:02.286 --> 00:15:08.626
JP: I'm going last!
Wheat: I'll go. I'll go now.

00:15:08.626 --> 00:15:12.246
Alright, so...
Adam: Strength, go.

00:15:12.246 --> 00:15:16.986
Wheat: Strength... 11.
And then...

00:15:16.992 --> 00:15:19.632
JP: Dex.
Wheat: 10.

00:15:19.632 --> 00:15:21.592
JP: Con.


00:15:23.870 --> 00:15:26.000
Wheat: 12.
JP: Not bad.

00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.208
Steven: Hax!
Adam: Slightly-above-average guy.

00:15:29.208 --> 00:15:31.346
Wheat: 12, and...

00:15:31.346 --> 00:15:34.155
Bring it home!
JP: Intelligence, 13.

00:15:34.155 --> 00:15:37.375
Wheat: 13- No! Adobe,
why'd you do that?

00:15:37.375 --> 00:15:39.275
My character sheet crashed.
But that's OK...

00:15:39.275 --> 00:15:42.235
JP: Don't worry, I'm recording all-
Well, you're gonna be adjusting it,

00:15:42.235 --> 00:15:44.845
so you will have to tell me 
what the final ones are.

00:15:44.845 --> 00:15:48.845
Wheat: OK. I'll redo it again. 
What was my int, 13?

00:15:48.861 --> 00:15:51.781
And then... 12!
Holy shit...

00:15:51.781 --> 00:15:55.111
JP: Damn, king of mediocrity over here!
Geoff: Well-rounded.

00:15:55.111 --> 00:16:01.611
Wheat: And charisma... [rolled 13]
JP: Damn! Good fucking rolls from Wheat.

00:16:01.611 --> 00:16:05.410
JP: Geoff, one of us is gonna suck.
Geoff: I know, I know.

00:16:05.410 --> 00:16:09.130
JP: One of us gonna suck so bad,
and I'm so nervous.

00:16:09.130 --> 00:16:12.540
Geoff: I'll just have Wheat roll for me.
JP: God, I'm so nervous about it.

00:16:12.540 --> 00:16:14.480
Geoff, you're up next.
Geoff: Alright...

00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:18.380
JP: Strength...
Geoff: Roll 3d6...

00:16:18.925 --> 00:16:22.125
JP: 10.
Geoff: That's about what I was imagining.

00:16:22.125 --> 00:16:24.415
JP: Dex... 10.

00:16:24.415 --> 00:16:27.875
Con... 9.
(Laughter)

00:16:29.388 --> 00:16:34.288
Int... 9.

00:16:35.695 --> 00:16:38.005
Wis...
Geoff: Is it one more?

00:16:38.010 --> 00:16:40.610
JP: There's two more- 10!

00:16:42.524 --> 00:16:45.024
Last one, Geoff, 
last one, charisma.

00:16:45.036 --> 00:16:46.716
Geoff: It's gonna be a 9!

00:16:46.717 --> 00:16:50.717
[rolls 8]
(Laughter)

00:16:50.717 --> 00:16:53.057
JP: These are the worst rolls.
Goddamnit.

00:16:53.057 --> 00:16:58.137
Geoff: You guys are lucky I'm 
really good at imagination shit.

00:16:58.137 --> 00:17:00.817
These numbers ain't doing it for me.

00:17:00.817 --> 00:17:04.587
Adam: Try to imagine yourself 
having better stats, maybe?

00:17:04.587 --> 00:17:08.377
Wheat: Adam, we have two columns 
in the stats...

00:17:08.377 --> 00:17:11.157
Adam: Yeah, so the left 
column...

00:17:11.207 --> 00:17:13.247
I don't have the character 
sheets in front of me.

00:17:13.247 --> 00:17:15.097
One of the columns is 
for the number,


00:17:15.097 --> 00:17:18.527
there's a modifier that'll be what 
you roll, what you add to rolls.

00:17:18.527 --> 00:17:21.647
You can see it, if you have the PDF, on 
page 10, we'll get to that in a second.

00:17:21.647 --> 00:17:25.187
Be consistent, fill out the leftmost with 
the numbers you've already got.

00:17:25.187 --> 00:17:27.877
Wheat: Oh, the leftmost... OK.


00:17:27.877 --> 00:17:29.867
JP: OK, here we go.


00:17:29.867 --> 00:17:34.117
Strength... 13. Not bad.

00:17:34.123 --> 00:17:38.793
Dex... fuck, 7.

00:17:38.793 --> 00:17:42.006
Con is next, right?
Adam: Yeah.

00:17:42.006 --> 00:17:45.046
Fuck me...
[rolled 8]

00:17:45.046 --> 00:17:47.636
Int... 11.

00:17:47.636 --> 00:17:50.136
This is not good.
Steven: Wisdom.

00:17:50.136 --> 00:17:53.306
JP: Wisdom... [rolled 7]
Motherf-

00:17:53.306 --> 00:17:55.726
Steven: Yeah, boy!
JP: Last one is what?

00:17:55.726 --> 00:17:58.347
Adam & Steven: Charisma.
JP: I need this one.

00:17:58.347 --> 00:17:59.987
FUCK!
[rolled 6]

00:17:59.987 --> 00:18:01.687
(Laughter)

00:18:01.687 --> 00:18:07.887
God damnit! 
I only have two double-digits.

00:18:07.887 --> 00:18:10.877
That's so bad.

00:18:10.877 --> 00:18:13.297
Adam: You can move points
between your scores,

00:18:13.297 --> 00:18:16.427
lowering abilities above 13,
and raising below 8 to even out.

00:18:16.427 --> 00:18:21.807
No such modifications can lower a score
below 13, or raise a low one above 8.

00:18:21.817 --> 00:18:24.917
JP: So I'm fucked!

00:18:26.067 --> 00:18:28.838
Adam: Now everybody needs 
to choose a class.

00:18:28.838 --> 00:18:31.338
There's only three in the game:

00:18:31.338 --> 00:18:34.728
Warriors are survivors proficient 
in fighting and combat.

00:18:34.728 --> 00:18:37.028
Psychics are gifted with 
unique mental powers.

00:18:37.028 --> 00:18:39.058
Experts are everybody else,

00:18:39.058 --> 00:18:42.408
experts have expertise in 
a wide variety of useful skills.

00:18:42.408 --> 00:18:45.288
Pick one of those three things,

00:18:45.288 --> 00:18:49.462
and then we can talk about 
your prime requisites.

00:18:49.462 --> 00:18:52.842
Wheat: Does anyone else have this 
issue with the character sheet?

00:18:52.842 --> 00:18:56.842
When I change my dex, 
the con changes as well.

00:18:56.842 --> 00:19:00.241
Adam: The fields might 
have the same name.

00:19:00.241 --> 00:19:03.271
Geoff: How do you save this, 
now that I look at it?

00:19:03.271 --> 00:19:05.791
JP: What do you mean? 
You just go File->Save As..

00:19:05.791 --> 00:19:08.781
Steven: Did you download it? 
Geoff: Right-click and "save as", I guess?

00:19:08.784 --> 00:19:13.524
JP: Yeah, you gotta download it.
Geoff: I did download it.

00:19:13.524 --> 00:19:20.704
Adam: If dex and con are linked, then I 
have to pop Acrobat open and fix it.

00:19:20.704 --> 00:19:24.164
I'll make a note somewhere.

00:19:24.164 --> 00:19:29.317
Steven: Can we talk about 
character concepts, for a second?

00:19:29.317 --> 00:19:32.377
Adam: Yeah, sure.

00:19:32.377 --> 00:19:36.777
Steven: Wheat, what's the idea 
behind your character?

00:19:36.777 --> 00:19:38.843
Wheat: What do you mean?


00:19:38.843 --> 00:19:41.513
Steven: Well, you know, we need 
someone to drive the ship.

00:19:41.513 --> 00:19:43.863
We need someone to...
Wheat: Oh...

00:19:43.863 --> 00:19:48.997
Steven: We need navigations, computers
and vehicle/flight.

00:19:48.997 --> 00:19:52.991
Adam: Navigations will allow you to chart 
your trip from one place to another,

00:19:52.991 --> 00:19:57.541
so you don't end up in the middle of a 
star, or empty space with no fuel.

00:19:57.545 --> 00:20:02.335
Computers is for managing all the stuff
that happens in a system.

00:20:02.335 --> 00:20:08.635
Communications in the ship, jamming and
detection of scanners, that kind of stuff.

00:20:08.635 --> 00:20:12.615
Spock ship... 
And then...

00:20:12.615 --> 00:20:16.025
Vehicle/space is the actual 
piloting of the ship.

00:20:16.025 --> 00:20:18.791
And it would probably be helpful 
if someone had business,

00:20:18.791 --> 00:20:23.091
so you can haggle when you take jobs,
but it's not necessary.

00:20:23.091 --> 00:20:26.188
JP: Wheat, what were you gonna go with?

00:20:26.188 --> 00:20:30.528
Wheat: My character is going to have
the computer skill.

00:20:30.531 --> 00:20:33.554
Geoff: I'll take business, too, 
if we need that.

00:20:33.554 --> 00:20:37.394
Can a warrior take business, or do you
have to be an expert to take business?

00:20:37.394 --> 00:20:41.114
Adam: What'll happen is that, 
after you pick your class,

00:20:41.114 --> 00:20:44.324
the class just modifies your stats
and gives you a special ability.

00:20:44.324 --> 00:20:47.574
Your background package, which is your
character's early training and origins,

00:20:47.574 --> 00:20:51.824
like where you came from, you can pick
up business from that, if you want to.

00:20:51.825 --> 00:20:54.645
And then your training package is what
kind of warrior you are.

00:20:54.645 --> 00:21:00.865
So like, space marine or 
primitive dirt worlder, or whatever.

00:21:00.865 --> 00:21:04.497
If you want a skill that's outside of what
you'd expect in your normal skill package,

00:21:04.497 --> 00:21:08.497
usually the background package covers it.

00:21:08.497 --> 00:21:11.877
JP: I assume everyone's picked a class.
Steven, what class are you going with?

00:21:11.877 --> 00:21:15.397
Steven: I was thinking I was 
going to be an expert.

00:21:15.397 --> 00:21:19.057
JP: OK, Wheat, you're going psychic?
Still true?

00:21:19.057 --> 00:21:22.397
Wheat: I'm going psychic, yes.
JP: Geoff, are you still going warrior?

00:21:22.407 --> 00:21:25.307
Geoff: Yep.
JP: OK, I'm going expert, as well.

00:21:25.307 --> 00:21:29.337
So Steven... I'm marking all of this 
down to put it on the sheet.

00:21:29.337 --> 00:21:33.917
Warrior... Wheat... psychic.
JP... expert...

00:21:33.928 --> 00:21:37.498
And then real quick: 
What are the stat modifiers?

00:21:37.498 --> 00:21:40.508
If they're higher than a 14 we can take
it down?

00:21:40.508 --> 00:21:44.178
Adam: If it's higher than a 13 you can
reduce it down to 13.

00:21:44.178 --> 00:21:48.398
If it's lower than 8 you can
bring it up to 8.

00:21:48.398 --> 00:21:52.220
Geoff: What do you do if all your 
numbers are 10, 9 and 8?

00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:55.680
Adam: You live with them.
JP: I can't modify at all, either.

00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.890
Adam: Here's the thing, 
once you pick your class,

00:21:57.890 --> 00:22:02.320
you can replace any one of 
your two prime requisites,

00:22:02.320 --> 00:22:05.940
so if you're an expert, and you don't 
like your intelligence or charisma.

00:22:05.940 --> 00:22:08.750
Get rid of that stat and make it a 14.
Pick one or the other.

00:22:08.750 --> 00:22:10.010
JP: OK, perfect.


00:22:10.010 --> 00:22:14.010
Adam: If you're a psychic, you can turn
either your wisdom or constitution to a 14,

00:22:14.010 --> 00:22:18.780
for a warrior you pick strength or dex,
if it's lower than 14 you can bump it up.

00:22:18.780 --> 00:22:21.109
Geoff: I just get to do that?

00:22:21.109 --> 00:22:23.661
As a warrior I pick my dex, 
so it's a 14 now.

00:22:23.661 --> 00:22:25.538
Steven: What's that you say,

00:22:25.538 --> 00:22:30.333
my lowest score becomes 
equal to my highest? Huh.

00:22:30.333 --> 00:22:31.778
Oh wait, I have a 15.

00:22:31.778 --> 00:22:34.774
Now I've suddenly become like 
the best character in this group,

00:22:34.774 --> 00:22:37.134
because I have a 
15, 14, 14, 9, 9, 8.

00:22:37.134 --> 00:22:39.699
JP: Is that the only stat modifiers we
are going to get at all, Adam?

00:22:39.699 --> 00:22:43.289
Adam: That's it, you're done.
JP: Steven, can you read me your stats?

00:22:43.289 --> 00:22:45.729
What's your strength?
Steven: 15.

00:22:45.729 --> 00:22:47.969
JP: What's your dex?
Steven: 9.

00:22:47.969 --> 00:22:50.279
JP: What's your con?
Steven: 9!

00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:52.679
JP: What's your int?
Steven: 14.

00:22:52.679 --> 00:22:55.419
JP: What's your wisdom?
Steven: 8.

00:22:55.419 --> 00:22:58.329
Geoff: Everytime I change my dex to 14,
it changes my con...

00:22:58.329 --> 00:23:02.329
Adam: Yeah, that's a bug in the sheet,
I'll fix that for next session.

00:23:02.329 --> 00:23:07.359
JP: What was it [charisma], Steven, 14?
Steven: 14, fourtizzle.

00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:09.589
JP: Wheat, do you have yours?

00:23:09.606 --> 00:23:12.556
Wheat: Yeah: strength, 11.


00:23:12.556 --> 00:23:17.396
And I can only raise a stat 
that's my prime to 14, correct?

00:23:17.396 --> 00:23:23.426
Adam: Yeah, you can take either wisdom
or charisma, no, constitution.

00:23:23.426 --> 00:23:33.766
Wheat: Strength 11, dex 10, con 12,
int 13, wisdom 14, charisma 13.

00:23:33.766 --> 00:23:37.420
JP: Fuck you... Geoff, you know what
your stats are?

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:48.290
Geoff: Yeah, 10 strength, 14 dex, 9 con,
9 int, 10 wisdom, 8 charisma.

00:23:48.291 --> 00:23:50.951
JP: Mine are... god damnit.

00:23:50.951 --> 00:23:54.631
Mine are 13, 7, 8, 11, 7, 14.
(Laughter)

00:23:54.631 --> 00:23:57.031
Steven: That's pretty wild.
JP: They're the fucking worst.

00:23:57.031 --> 00:24:00.321
Adam: You're all over the place.
Not a balanced individual.

00:24:00.321 --> 00:24:04.451
Now that you've got your classes and
your stats are all ironed out,

00:24:04.451 --> 00:24:10.650
if you have a stat that is from 4 to 7, 
put a -1 next to it.

00:24:10.650 --> 00:24:14.350
This is the modifier, if you do anything
with this stat, it'll be that number.

00:24:14.350 --> 00:24:21.120
4 to 7 is -1. 8 to 13 is no modifier.
Geoff: Excellent.

00:24:21.120 --> 00:24:25.776
Adam: And 14 to 17 is +1. 
And nobody has a 3 or an 18.

00:24:25.776 --> 00:24:29.976
JP: OK, perfect, me and Geoff just have 
no modifiers at all, ever.

00:24:29.976 --> 00:24:35.596
Geoff: The +1 thing does it for con, so...
JP: Oh, wait, 14 to 17 is +1?

00:24:35.596 --> 00:24:38.626
Adam: Yeah, 14 to 17.
JP: Oh my god, I have one modifier.

00:24:38.626 --> 00:24:42.626
Geoff: Same here.
JP: Geoff, high-five, buddy.


00:24:42.626 --> 00:24:46.006
Wheat: I have one, as well.


00:24:46.006 --> 00:24:50.396
JP: HP, do we roll a d6, 
or do we start with 6?

00:24:50.396 --> 00:24:53.166
Adam: Just start with the maximum
amount of HP for your class.

00:24:53.166 --> 00:24:55.576
Steven: You're starting us with max?

00:24:55.576 --> 00:24:57.956
Adam: If I didn't, then Wheat 
would have 1 hit point.

00:24:57.956 --> 00:25:03.126
Wheat: Thank you! Can I just,
for the audience, roll.


00:25:03.126 --> 00:25:06.306
I can put 16, but let me roll 
for the audience.

00:25:06.306 --> 00:25:08.916
Geoff: Is 16 the max?
Wheat: For me.

00:25:08.916 --> 00:25:14.633
Adam: No, hit points is a d4 
plus your modifier for con.

00:25:14.633 --> 00:25:19.043
Yours is gonna be, what's your
constitution modifier?

00:25:19.043 --> 00:25:23.843
Wheat: Oh, my constitution modifier is 0.
Adam: You have 4 hit points, buddy.

00:25:23.843 --> 00:25:29.380
Wheat: 4 hit points? It's not... oh my god.
I was thinking 4d4.

00:25:29.380 --> 00:25:33.110
Adam: You can survive a single, average
shot from a pistol.

00:25:33.110 --> 00:25:36.520
Way to go. Don't get shot.
Steven: Don't get shot.

00:25:36.520 --> 00:25:40.000
Geoff: Also, that's a 
good rule for life, guys.

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.778
JP: Mine is 6. Geoff, is yours 10,
as a warrior, or 8?

00:25:42.778 --> 00:25:45.128
Geoff: Where does it say that?
Steven: It's gotta be 8.

00:25:45.128 --> 00:25:48.158
It's in the upper right of your sheet.
JP: Yeah, where it says H...

00:25:48.158 --> 00:25:51.588
Adam: It's 8.
JP: HD, so it's "hit dice".

00:25:51.588 --> 00:25:54.478
You have 8, and Steven has 6.
OK, cool, what do we do now?

00:25:54.478 --> 00:25:57.854
Steven: JP, do you have a -1 in your con?

00:25:57.854 --> 00:26:04.112
JP: I'm 8, so no.
I have 13... oh wait, my dex is 7.

00:26:04.112 --> 00:26:09.605
Whoops, I entered that wrong.
Oh, it's because the con changes.

00:26:09.605 --> 00:26:13.575
Steven: Because chat is saying
you have 7 hit points, not 8.

00:26:13.575 --> 00:26:19.595
Or 5, not 6, I guess.
JP: No no, I have 8 con, 7 dex.

00:26:19.595 --> 00:26:22.945
Adam: You're fine.
JP: Chat, that's a bug.

00:26:22.945 --> 00:26:25.785
Adam: It's your dex that's -1.

00:26:25.798 --> 00:26:29.798
OK, so. If it wasn't already 
on the character sheet,

00:26:29.798 --> 00:26:33.798
note down your class' special ability,
but for the audience I'll read them out.

00:26:33.798 --> 00:26:40.358
Experts have a knack for success, and can
reroll a failed skill-check once per hour.

00:26:40.358 --> 00:26:44.547
That's hour of real-time, like gameplay,
so if we play for three hours,

00:26:44.547 --> 00:26:48.353
experts, you can reroll 
one failed skill check per hour.

00:26:48.353 --> 00:26:51.033
Warriors have "uncanny luck 
on the battlefield",

00:26:51.033 --> 00:26:54.583
once per fight they can automatically 
evade an attack that otherwise would hit,

00:26:54.583 --> 00:26:57.743
and you can wait until I do damage
on this, if you want.

00:26:57.743 --> 00:27:03.303
I can be like, "You take 47 damage",
and you can be like, "Nope. No thank you."

00:27:03.303 --> 00:27:07.303
Psychics, your special ability is 
"psychic powers"...

00:27:07.303 --> 00:27:11.303
Wheat: That's just... OK, great.

00:27:11.303 --> 00:27:14.733
Adam: It's so hard. Life is hard. 
You can move things with your mind.

00:27:14.733 --> 00:27:18.343
JP: That's what he can do?
Wheat: I can, but...

00:27:18.343 --> 00:27:22.733
Adam: It depends on what powers you pick.

00:27:22.733 --> 00:27:26.423
The next thing everyone needs to do
is select your background package.

00:27:26.423 --> 00:27:29.613
This is an option to reflect your 
character's early training and origins.

00:27:29.613 --> 00:27:33.043
And you record the skills the package 
grants on your character sheet.

00:27:33.043 --> 00:27:36.913
Backgrounds can be found on page 13.

00:27:36.913 --> 00:27:39.683
They represent things that 
your character did

00:27:39.683 --> 00:27:43.133
before you got roped into 
this crew of misfits.

00:27:43.133 --> 00:27:46.863
You might have been a bandit,
or a hermit, or a noble,

00:27:46.863 --> 00:27:50.333
or you might have been 
a con-artist, or a priest.

00:27:50.333 --> 00:27:54.922
Each one will give you a set 
of skills that you'll gain.

00:27:54.922 --> 00:27:57.772
If you don't like any of them that
are already here,

00:27:57.784 --> 00:28:02.854
the adventurer one allows you to take 
culture/specific world, or culture/spacer,

00:28:02.854 --> 00:28:04.903
and then any two skills you'd like.

00:28:04.903 --> 00:28:07.573
You get less skills overall, 
but you can make up your own.

00:28:07.573 --> 00:28:09.353
JP: I have a question...

00:28:09.353 --> 00:28:18.952
Since we have to have either navigation, 
flight/space and computers.

00:28:18.952 --> 00:28:23.022
Can we just get that or does have to be
part of your background packages?

00:28:23.022 --> 00:28:24.972
Adam: It'll either be part of your 
background package,

00:28:24.972 --> 00:28:28.022
or your training, 
which is the next step.

00:28:28.022 --> 00:28:31.258
If you don't take it now, 
you'll have to pick one later.

00:28:31.258 --> 00:28:33.554
Steven: Oh, you get training too, cool.

00:28:33.554 --> 00:28:37.041
Adam: We'll do this again, 
but they're gonna be class specific.

00:28:37.041 --> 00:28:40.451
JP: Adam, do you also have the link
handy for that free PDF?

00:28:40.451 --> 00:28:43.899
I think Geoff needs it.
Adam: I do, I'll give you the drop-box.

00:28:43.899 --> 00:28:52.151
Wheat: So, when I was reading through
it seemed like we could bargain with you

00:28:52.151 --> 00:28:56.261
in terms of these background and
training packages, right?

00:28:56.261 --> 00:28:59.491
Adam: Maybe, what are you looking 
to bargain about?

00:28:59.491 --> 00:29:03.731
Wheat: I would really like to either...

00:29:03.731 --> 00:29:11.942
Rogue psychic and criminal mind are both
ones I like, and they're somewhat similar.

00:29:11.942 --> 00:29:15.942
But basically, I want to 
give up culture/criminal,

00:29:15.942 --> 00:29:19.072
because I already get a culture 
from my class,

00:29:19.072 --> 00:29:24.722
and take combat/any in its spot.
I feel like criminal mind, that's..

00:29:24.722 --> 00:29:28.357
Adam: Yeah, that's fine, I'm not gonna 
stick you on that stuff.

00:29:28.357 --> 00:29:30.357
Wheat: Excellent.
Adam: But you're jumping ahead,

00:29:30.357 --> 00:29:33.327
criminal mind and combat psychic,
those are for later,

00:29:33.327 --> 00:29:35.587
we're looking at background right now.


00:29:35.587 --> 00:29:39.304
Wheat: Oh, background. God damnit.
Steven: God, Wheat!

00:29:39.304 --> 00:29:41.171
Adam: Advanced SWN...

00:29:41.461 --> 00:29:45.648
Just to give you guys an idea, most of
the skills are pretty straight-forward.

00:29:45.648 --> 00:29:49.028
If you have combat/primitive weapon 
you can use a bow and arrow.

00:29:49.028 --> 00:29:51.358
If you have history you know things
about galactic history.

00:29:51.358 --> 00:29:53.628
Culture is a little bit different,


00:29:53.628 --> 00:29:57.428
culture allows you not only to learn 
things about specific stuff.

00:29:57.428 --> 00:30:01.428
If I'm like, "You crash-land on planet X."
And you're like, "I got culture/space."

00:30:01.428 --> 00:30:04.464
"I wanna learn some stuff about
the customs of planet X."

00:30:04.464 --> 00:30:10.374
you can roll to know that.
But it's also a way to generate NPCs.

00:30:10.374 --> 00:30:12.924
I you show up on a world, and you're like,


00:30:12.924 --> 00:30:18.194
"I know a guy here, I have culture/traveler,
so I know lots of different space travelers."

00:30:18.194 --> 00:30:20.774
We can roll and introduce that character,

00:30:20.774 --> 00:30:25.724
It's kind of like how when Han Solo
is on the run from the Empire.

00:30:25.724 --> 00:30:29.072
He's like, "Oh hey. Bespin. 
Lando lives there, he's my buddy."

00:30:29.072 --> 00:30:32.239
And then his player flubs the roll, 
so it's a trap, but he doesn't know that.

00:30:32.239 --> 00:30:34.489
That's how it works in this game.

00:30:34.489 --> 00:30:37.029
Culture skills are useful both 
as knowledge skills,

00:30:37.029 --> 00:30:43.622
and then also for having your character
tied to the various cultures of the sector.

00:30:43.622 --> 00:30:48.502
Wheat: And these are separate from
the class background packages?

00:30:48.502 --> 00:30:51.595
Adam: Yes.
Wheat: Oh, so that's where I fucked up.

00:30:51.595 --> 00:30:55.418
Adam: You get two, you get 
background first, and then training.

00:30:55.418 --> 00:30:57.301
Wheat: So...
JP: Go ahead, Wheat.

00:30:57.301 --> 00:31:01.525
Wheat: If I was going to choose computer,
like comm crew would be...

00:31:01.525 --> 00:31:04.092
Adam: Yeah, that'd be the way to get it.
Wheat: OK.

00:31:04.092 --> 00:31:08.092
Adam: For the skills that you take,
just put a 0, skills start at 0.

00:31:08.092 --> 00:31:11.612
The way this game works, if you try to 
do something you don't have the skill for,

00:31:11.612 --> 00:31:15.612
you take a -1. If you have the skill, 
you don't add anything.

00:31:15.612 --> 00:31:19.702
And then they range between 0 and 5.

00:31:19.702 --> 00:31:23.712
JP: For the skill combat/gunnery,
is that only on ships?

00:31:23.712 --> 00:31:29.042
Adam: Yeah, that's ship lasers,
sand-throwers, and missiles and stuff.

00:31:29.042 --> 00:31:32.754
Steven: We've got lasers 
and sand-throwers, JP.

00:31:32.754 --> 00:31:37.184
JP: I was gonna go navigation, 
but I wanna take con-artist.

00:31:37.184 --> 00:31:41.154
But that doesn't give us 
anything that we need.

00:31:41.154 --> 00:31:44.178
Steven: But you get the option to get
something we need

00:31:44.178 --> 00:31:48.178
with your expert training 
package as well, right?

00:31:48.178 --> 00:31:52.258
JP: What page is that on, Adam? I feel like
we should look at them at the same time.

00:31:52.258 --> 00:31:55.114
Steven: Page 18 and 19.

00:31:55.114 --> 00:31:59.526
Adam: Yeah, background packages
are 13 and 14.

00:31:59.526 --> 00:32:04.146
JP: Nice, perfect. I've got navigation, guys,
I've got that under lock.

00:32:04.146 --> 00:32:11.846
I'm gonna take con-artist.
Background. con-artist...

00:32:11.846 --> 00:32:15.840
Geoff: I take soldier, I guess.
JP: OK.

00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:21.240
Steven: Geoff, are you looking to take...

00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:26.860
What is it, comms, navigation and computer?
Wheat: I took comm crew.

00:32:26.860 --> 00:32:32.030
Steven: You took computer, navigations and
what's the other one? I can't remember.

00:32:32.030 --> 00:32:36.526
Wheat: Business?
Adam: Computers, navigation, vehicle/space.

00:32:36.526 --> 00:32:41.160
Steven: Yeah, vehicle/space. 
Are you planning on being a pilot, Geoff?

00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:45.000
Geoff: No, but if we need to
I guess I could do that.

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.000
Steven: I can be a pilot.
Wheat: Yes!

00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:53.202
Geoff: We need business, I guess?
But I can do that with the other one?

00:32:53.202 --> 00:32:56.312
Which one has business?

00:32:56.312 --> 00:33:00.412
Adam: If you are a warrior, let's see
any of these have business...

00:33:00.412 --> 00:33:04.480
I imagine there's like a 
private military one.

00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.130
Mercenary, yeah.
If you do soldier/mercenary,

00:33:07.130 --> 00:33:09.486
you get business from mercenary.

00:33:09.486 --> 00:33:13.466
When you're picking your training 
package, if you get a repeat,

00:33:13.466 --> 00:33:17.249
you have a skill you've already got,
I think it just gives you a bonus +1.

00:33:17.249 --> 00:33:19.372
Wheat: Oh, OK. Really?

00:33:19.372 --> 00:33:23.166
Adam: If you double up you get extra.
Geoff: And where's the training one?

00:33:23.166 --> 00:33:25.826
Adam: "If a skill appears in both your 
background package and training,"

00:33:25.826 --> 00:33:27.726
"take it at level 1 instead of 0."


00:33:27.726 --> 00:33:30.666
Those come immediately 
after each class description.

00:33:30.666 --> 00:33:36.115
Pages 19, 21, and 23.
JP: Oh shit, I'm excited, guys.

00:33:36.115 --> 00:33:38.375
Wheat: I'm excited, too.


00:33:38.375 --> 00:33:40.909
JP: This is working out.

00:33:40.909 --> 00:33:45.473
I'll just have to edit that in.
The sheet has "culture/",

00:33:45.473 --> 00:33:48.389
but it's not editable for 
those three things.

00:33:48.389 --> 00:33:51.379
I'll have to edit that in.
Adam: Yeah, just make a note.

00:33:51.379 --> 00:33:55.468
JP: Steven, did you already 
choose your background?

00:33:55.468 --> 00:33:58.478
Steven: Still looking through 
it all, let's see here,

00:33:58.478 --> 00:34:01.838
I wanna see what kind of expert 
training packages I could get.

00:34:01.838 --> 00:34:04.578
Oh geez. Well, I could become a pilot.

00:34:04.578 --> 00:34:07.238
That could be a training package 
that I take for expert.

00:34:07.238 --> 00:34:12.028
So, yeah... I think I'm gonna be a 
biotech crew,

00:34:12.028 --> 00:34:17.032
which gives me culture/spacer, science, 
tech/astronautic and tech/medical.

00:34:17.032 --> 00:34:18.286
JP: Interesting.

00:34:18.286 --> 00:34:20.286
Adam: Get some Lazarus patches,

00:34:20.286 --> 00:34:22.806
make sure no one else dies,
especially Wheat.


00:34:22.806 --> 00:34:26.775
Wheat: Yes.
Adam: His 4 hit points...

00:34:26.775 --> 00:34:30.175
JP: Who hasn't... 
Wheat, did you choose?

00:34:30.175 --> 00:34:34.175
Wheat: Yeah, I'm choosing comm crew.
JP: Comm crew, OK.

00:34:34.177 --> 00:34:36.047
Geoff, what about you?


00:34:36.047 --> 00:34:38.647
Geoff: Mercenary.
JP: OK, and I'm taking con-artist.

00:34:38.647 --> 00:34:40.727
Geoff: How do we know what this gives us?


00:34:40.727 --> 00:34:43.217
Is it on the sheet, we highlight 
that somewhere?

00:34:43.217 --> 00:34:46.377
JP: It's in the PDF that you just got,
go to page 13.

00:34:46.377 --> 00:34:49.707
Geoff: Yeah, I got that, but are we
supposed to remember these things.

00:34:49.707 --> 00:34:52.777
Wheat: You take that, where it 
says "skills", underneath,

00:34:52.777 --> 00:34:56.237
and you just put a 0 next that skill
on the character sheet.

00:34:56.237 --> 00:34:58.917
Adam: You've got combat/projectile, 
combat/unarmed,

00:34:58.917 --> 00:35:03.416
culture, you pick a specific 
world, and tactics, all at 0.

00:35:03.416 --> 00:35:08.096
Geoff: But for the ones you have redundant
between background and training you do +1?

00:35:08.096 --> 00:35:10.987
Adam: Yeah, if you have it on both,
if you have soldier,

00:35:10.987 --> 00:35:14.363
and then mercenary also gives 
combat/projectile, you add another 1.

00:35:14.363 --> 00:35:16.549
So it goes from 0 to 1.
JP: OK.

00:35:16.549 --> 00:35:20.646
How do we get skills, do we get skills
when we level up?

00:35:20.646 --> 00:35:26.026
Adam: Yeah, you'll get skills points
that you can spend when you level up.

00:35:26.026 --> 00:35:28.622
Experts get them a lot faster than
everybody else.

00:35:28.622 --> 00:35:33.952
JP: Damn right they do.
Geoff: "Damn right!"

00:35:35.313 --> 00:35:38.093
JP: What package are you 
gonna take, Lumpkin?

00:35:38.093 --> 00:35:39.903
I don't know why I'm calling you 
by your last name.

00:35:39.903 --> 00:35:42.523
Let's just go with it.
Geoff: It is what it is, you know?

00:35:42.523 --> 00:35:44.683
JP: Come on, Lumpkin.

00:35:44.683 --> 00:35:48.683
Steven: There's so many.
JP: I'm taking bounty hunter.

00:35:48.683 --> 00:35:53.066
Steven: I was not looking at 
bounty hunters, so you're golden.

00:35:53.066 --> 00:35:57.616
Adam: Your background is con-artist,
and your training is bounty hunter?

00:35:57.616 --> 00:36:00.276
JP: Yep.
Adam: OK, cool.

00:36:00.276 --> 00:36:05.386
Geoff: Culture/world isn't here...
There's a culture one and just...

00:36:05.955 --> 00:36:11.066
Adam: I think JP mentioned that you can't
edit that, so I'll fix that.

00:36:11.066 --> 00:36:13.947
Just think about that.
It'll be a specific world,

00:36:13.947 --> 00:36:18.029
it might be your homeworld, 
it might be another world.

00:36:18.029 --> 00:36:22.094
Steven: Vehicle/any means I choose one?
Adam: You pick one, yeah.

00:36:22.094 --> 00:36:25.744
Steven: I'm gonna be a xenoarchaeologist.
Wheat: Oh, nice.

00:36:25.744 --> 00:36:28.672
Steven: Which gives me another combat, 
another culture, history, language,

00:36:28.672 --> 00:36:32.852
perception, science, 
tech/any, and vechicle/any.

00:36:32.852 --> 00:36:35.382
Wheat: You're gonna be a pilot too, right?


00:36:35.382 --> 00:36:37.832
Steven: Yeah, vehicle/any 
is gonna be vehicle/space.

00:36:37.832 --> 00:36:43.249
Adam: What background did you take?
Steven: Biotech background.

00:36:43.249 --> 00:36:46.629
Adam: So biotech crew and then...
Steven: Biotech and Xenoarchaeologist.

00:36:46.629 --> 00:36:48.859
Adam: Your character is such a nerd...

00:36:48.859 --> 00:36:51.889
Steven: Yup.
Adam: Ship's nerd.

00:36:51.889 --> 00:36:54.949
Geoff: If it says combat/any, 
do you 0 in all the combats?

00:36:54.949 --> 00:36:56.979
Adam: You pick one.
JP: You choose one.


00:36:56.979 --> 00:36:59.509
Geoff: Oh, OK. But it gives me 
combat/projectile,

00:36:59.509 --> 00:37:02.419
so potentially I could just go 
double up on that one, right?

00:37:02.419 --> 00:37:04.919
Adam: Not if it's in the same...

00:37:04.919 --> 00:37:07.799
if it gives you combat/projectile 
and combat/any, you can't.

00:37:07.799 --> 00:37:10.454
But if you have /projectile in one 
and /any in the other,

00:37:10.454 --> 00:37:13.699
yeah, you can just add projectile again.

00:37:13.699 --> 00:37:18.112
Geoff: Would knives be unarmed?
Adam: Knives is primitive.

00:37:18.112 --> 00:37:21.542
And as a bonus you get spears. 
And other sharp objects.

00:37:21.542 --> 00:37:25.632
JP: Steven, are you flying?
Steven: Yeah, I'm flying.

00:37:25.632 --> 00:37:30.062
JP: You want me to fly and you not fly?
Steven: Hell no, sucka.

00:37:30.062 --> 00:37:32.402
Ship's my baby.

00:37:32.402 --> 00:37:36.452
JP: Do we have any other vehicles on
the ship, Mr. DM?

00:37:36.452 --> 00:37:38.779
Adam: Not presently, no.

00:37:38.779 --> 00:37:41.446
You have the cargo space to fit 
vehicles, if you want to,

00:37:41.446 --> 00:37:44.764
but, yeah, you have no money.
If you steal one, though...

00:37:44.764 --> 00:37:49.234
JP: What would be considered
a vehicle/grav?

00:37:49.234 --> 00:37:53.213
Would that be something that is floating?
Adam: Yeah, hover-cars, hover-tanks.

00:37:53.213 --> 00:37:58.258
JP: What is more common in this world?
Adam: Depends on what planet you're on.

00:37:58.258 --> 00:38:02.488
Tech level 3 (TL3) planets
don't have grav technology.

00:38:02.488 --> 00:38:04.442
TL4 and above will.

00:38:04.442 --> 00:38:07.216
JP: Let's see what planet 
I chose earlier.

00:38:07.216 --> 00:38:09.680
Oh shit, I gotta open up that thing 
that you sent me.

00:38:09.680 --> 00:38:13.430
Wheat: I'm gonna choose criminal mind,
by the way, for my training.

00:38:13.430 --> 00:38:17.980
But as I mentioned, I wanna give up
culture/criminal for projectile weapons.

00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:20.979
You're cool with that?
Adam: Yeah, that's fine.

00:38:20.979 --> 00:38:24.269
Wheat: OK, great.
Geoff: Are we starting at level 1?

00:38:24.269 --> 00:38:27.654
Adam & JP: Yeah.
Geoff: Cool.

00:38:27.654 --> 00:38:31.184
Adam: JP, just for reference, more than-

00:38:31.184 --> 00:38:34.674
I would say two thirds of the worlds 
in this sector are TL4 and above.

00:38:34.674 --> 00:38:38.674
JP: So they would have grav?
Adam: Yeah, grav stuff is pretty common.

00:38:38.674 --> 00:38:42.434
JP: I'm kind of jumping ahead, but I don't
have it easily accessible and I think you do,

00:38:42.434 --> 00:38:45.884
can you tell me what 
type of planet Asa is?

00:38:45.884 --> 00:38:48.034
Adam: Yeah. Let me pull up the...

00:38:48.034 --> 00:38:51.896
JP: Because whatever that is, 
I'll choose my vehicle from that.

00:38:51.896 --> 00:38:58.399
And yes, I did choose the planet 
named after the porn star.

00:38:58.399 --> 00:39:00.442
That's how it was chosen.

00:39:00.442 --> 00:39:04.310
Adam: Planet Asa is a...


00:39:04.310 --> 00:39:06.878
Tech level 4 planet.

00:39:06.878 --> 00:39:08.716
JP: Cool, so they would have grav.

00:39:08.716 --> 00:39:12.476
Adam: Yup.
Wheat: I have one other question,

00:39:12.476 --> 00:39:18.366
Inbetween all the background packages,
and then the individual classes,

00:39:18.366 --> 00:39:21.526
there are also the character skills...

00:39:21.526 --> 00:39:28.946
Adam: The class skills, those just
modify the cost of raising them later.

00:39:28.946 --> 00:39:31.707
Where it says expert class skills:

00:39:31.707 --> 00:39:34.917
"All except combat skills, tactics
and tech/psitech."

00:39:34.917 --> 00:39:38.107
For psychics there's a list:
Combat/psitech, culture/any...

00:39:38.107 --> 00:39:40.937
Those are your class skills, they're
gonna be cheaper later on.

00:39:40.937 --> 00:39:43.027
But they don't really
matter right now.

00:39:43.027 --> 00:39:48.657
Wheat: So you don't actually select one,
it's just an explanation of them, right?

00:39:48.657 --> 00:39:55.027
Geoff: Adam, give me a world that would
be a city, high-tech and crime...

00:39:55.027 --> 00:40:02.107
Adam: The highest TL world is... 
Onintza.

00:40:02.107 --> 00:40:07.977
It is a... abandoned colony.
Geoff: How do you spell that?

00:40:07.977 --> 00:40:10.907
Adam: O-N-I-N-T-Z-A.


00:40:10.907 --> 00:40:13.867
Geoff: Oh, my god, you just said "Zed".
Are you german?

00:40:13.878 --> 00:40:15.888
Adam: No.
Steven: He's canadian!

00:40:15.888 --> 00:40:19.888
Geoff: We don't hang with germans here!
(Laughter)

00:40:19.888 --> 00:40:22.118
Happy Canada day a week ago, though.

00:40:22.118 --> 00:40:24.238
Adam: Sprechen sie Space?

00:40:24.238 --> 00:40:27.568
Wheat: Since we're talking about,
are you selecting homeworlds?

00:40:27.568 --> 00:40:32.768
Adam: Onintza, just to make sure it sounds
like a place you'd like to be from.

00:40:32.768 --> 00:40:38.149
Onintza was a colony world that was 
abandoned due to a religious war.

00:40:38.149 --> 00:40:42.819
There's a religious war over the planet
that caused massive damage,

00:40:42.819 --> 00:40:44.659
and most people left.

00:40:44.669 --> 00:40:49.409
There's still some embittered hold-outs
that still live there, fighting the war.

00:40:49.409 --> 00:40:52.355
Geoff: But it's the highest tech planet?

00:40:52.355 --> 00:40:56.625
Adam: Yes, it has pre-tech and 
pre-scream technology,

00:40:56.625 --> 00:41:00.031
which is probably why people 
are fighting over it.

00:41:00.031 --> 00:41:05.128
Geoff: If you think a criminal kind of 
suave dude would come from there...

00:41:05.128 --> 00:41:09.228
JP: Of course, you're gonna be the one
trying to steal the ship.

00:41:09.228 --> 00:41:13.958
Geoff: OK. I like germans, chat, don't 
freak out. I'm half-german, myself.

00:41:13.958 --> 00:41:17.478
JP: We're very sarcastic on the show. 
Don't take anything we say seriously.

00:41:17.478 --> 00:41:23.394
Wheat: Adam, can you tell me what the
most wealthy homeworld would be?

00:41:23.394 --> 00:41:27.525
Adam: So the homeworld 
that's the most prosperous?

00:41:27.525 --> 00:41:30.635
Wheat: Yes.
Adam: Uhm...

00:41:30.635 --> 00:41:34.045
JP: Guys, I just went by the name, 
I didn't go by the stats of the world.

00:41:34.045 --> 00:41:36.965
I saw "Asa" and I'm like, "I'm in!"
Geoff: You've done goofed.

00:41:36.965 --> 00:41:39.945
JP: I know, I'm worried now.
Wheat: JP, don't worry about it,

00:41:39.945 --> 00:41:44.795
because my character is poor as fuck
in the wealthiest place in the universe.

00:41:44.795 --> 00:41:49.753
Adam: There's a planet called "Majid".
It's currently undergoing a gold rush.

00:41:49.753 --> 00:41:54.763
That's probably a good bet.
Wheat: M-A-J-I-D?

00:41:54.763 --> 00:41:57.563
Adam: M-A-J-I-D, yep.
Wheat: Wow, I got that.

00:41:57.563 --> 00:42:01.483
Everyone: "Majid".

00:42:01.483 --> 00:42:04.213
Adam: Planet 5 in the Vafa'i system.

00:42:04.213 --> 00:42:06.373
JP: I do have question for you.
Adam: Yes.

00:42:06.373 --> 00:42:10.783
JP: In terms of combat, what 
would be an energy pistol?

00:42:10.783 --> 00:42:14.013
And would I have access to something
like that at level one?

00:42:14.013 --> 00:42:19.663
Adam: At character creation you're allowed
to purchase TL4 and lower equipment.

00:42:19.663 --> 00:42:25.203
The lowest TL energy weapon 
is a laser pistol,

00:42:25.203 --> 00:42:28.523
it's TL4, so you could buy it.
JP: Perfect.

00:42:28.523 --> 00:42:31.386
Adam: It's 200 credits, though, so you 
might not be able to afford it.

00:42:31.386 --> 00:42:33.959
You'll start with...
JP: What if I..

00:42:33.959 --> 00:42:36.493
Can I somehow con someone out of it?

00:42:36.493 --> 00:42:39.713
Adam: You can do that at the 
beginning of the game.

00:42:39.713 --> 00:42:42.213
Or you could convince your friends 
to lend you some money.

00:42:42.213 --> 00:42:44.293
JP: I could.
Geoff: How much money do we start with?

00:42:44.293 --> 00:42:46.933
Adam: I'm looking for that right now.
But it's not a ton.

00:42:46.933 --> 00:42:51.183
JP: You said that was an energy weapon?
Adam: Yep.

00:42:51.183 --> 00:42:55.325
You start with 400 credits 
plus 1d6 times 100,

00:42:55.325 --> 00:42:58.185
so you might have 1000 
credits to start with.

00:42:58.185 --> 00:43:01.115
JP: Can we all roll for our 
credits right now?

00:43:01.115 --> 00:43:05.115
Adam: Has everyone picked their 
background package and training package?

00:43:05.124 --> 00:43:06.694
Geoff: Yes, I believe so.

00:43:06.694 --> 00:43:09.574
Adam: I just gotta make sure 
I have it in my notes,

00:43:09.574 --> 00:43:13.634
Wheat, you're comms crew/criminal mind?
Wheat: Yes.

00:43:13.634 --> 00:43:16.614
Adam: I think that was 
the only one that I had.

00:43:16.614 --> 00:43:20.514
These are ways of thinking how you 
want to play your character,

00:43:20.514 --> 00:43:25.314
the first thing is what you were before,
and the other one is what you are now.

00:43:25.314 --> 00:43:30.484
Wheat used to be comms crew on a ship,
but now you're a criminal psychic.

00:43:30.494 --> 00:43:34.284
Think about what moved you from one
to the other, what happened to your ship.

00:43:34.284 --> 00:43:39.124
Where's the rest of your crew, what made 
you go from comms crew to criminal mind?

00:43:39.124 --> 00:43:42.492
Some of them are easier to figure out,
like soldier to mercenary;

00:43:42.492 --> 00:43:46.132
maybe you were part of the army,
now you're part of your own army.

00:43:46.132 --> 00:43:51.642
Steven: Biotech crew to xenoarchaeologist.
A natural transition, if ever I heard one.

00:43:51.642 --> 00:43:53.992
JP: You're just a fucking life-long nerd.

00:43:53.992 --> 00:43:58.362
Adam: I'm pretty sure Steven 
is playing Zoidberg.

00:43:58.362 --> 00:44:04.403
Geoff: Except he's more charismatic, strong, 
dexterous and powerful than the rest of us.

00:44:04.403 --> 00:44:07.039
Adam: Super nerd.

00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:11.349
Everybody has that stuff, you've all
marked your skills down,

00:44:11.349 --> 00:44:14.269
does everybody have a homeworld?
Steven: No.

00:44:14.269 --> 00:44:18.269
Can you link us to the drop-box with
the system in it?

00:44:18.269 --> 00:44:21.409
Adam: The thing? Yeah.
JP: While you're doing that,

00:44:21.409 --> 00:44:25.752
if I wanted to dual wield pistols,
would that give me any benefit?

00:44:25.752 --> 00:44:28.872
Amd is there a skill 
relationship to that, or no?

00:44:28.881 --> 00:44:33.931
Adam: No, the skill is just...
In combat it's real simple.

00:44:33.931 --> 00:44:36.611
You get a move and an action,
the benefit of having two pistols is that

00:44:36.611 --> 00:44:39.661
if one runs out of ammo, 
you have the other one.

00:44:39.663 --> 00:44:43.016
JP: I couldn't use two pistols at once?
Adam: No, not initially,

00:44:43.016 --> 00:44:47.886
because you only have one shot,
time for one shot, basically.

00:44:49.983 --> 00:44:54.603
Adam: If anybody in the chat 
wants to follow along,

00:44:54.603 --> 00:44:57.733
and look at the Asgard 
Sigma Encyclopedia,

00:44:57.733 --> 00:45:02.023
it's on JP's reddit.
Steven: Aw yes.

00:45:02.023 --> 00:45:06.658
Adam: All the maps n' stuff.
I'll post this...

00:45:12.272 --> 00:45:16.272
Cool. So there's Asgard Sigma...

00:45:16.272 --> 00:45:20.132
While Steven is deciding 
where he's from


00:45:20.132 --> 00:45:24.431
if you haven't already,
note your hit points.

00:45:24.431 --> 00:45:27.386
Just take the max for the die,

00:45:27.386 --> 00:45:32.536
the two experts will have 6 plus 
your constitution modifier.

00:45:32.536 --> 00:45:35.666
Geoff, you'll have 8 plus your 
constitution modifier.

00:45:35.666 --> 00:45:39.666
Steven: Did you say, Adam, 
that we're starting in Gunnhild?

00:45:39.666 --> 00:45:43.666
Adam: Yes, I'm gonna start you off there.
Steven: I will be from Andoni.

00:45:43.666 --> 00:45:46.826
Geoff: "Andoneh"
Adam: OK, cool.

00:45:56.762 --> 00:45:59.962
Adam: Wheat, where are you from, again?


00:45:59.962 --> 00:46:02.292
Wheat: Majid.

00:46:04.334 --> 00:46:07.614
Adam: Geoff? What planet 
did we say you're from?

00:46:07.624 --> 00:46:12.444
Geoff: That awesome one we 
just described... Onintza.

00:46:12.971 --> 00:46:15.161
Adam: Cool.

00:46:17.763 --> 00:46:22.573
OK, choose your language. 
Your character speaks English.

00:46:22.573 --> 00:46:25.563
You speak your worlds native tongue,
if that's different.

00:46:25.563 --> 00:46:27.983
You can decide that yourself, 
I don't really care.

00:46:27.983 --> 00:46:30.063
It'll just matter if you go there.

00:46:30.063 --> 00:46:34.123
And then you can add one more language 
per point of intelligence modifier bonus.

00:46:34.123 --> 00:46:37.873
Geoff: Excellent.
JP: Geoff, next, let's go!

00:46:37.873 --> 00:46:40.933
Adam: The game is set in the year 3200,

00:46:40.933 --> 00:46:43.833
so you're pretty distance from 
normal Earth cultures.

00:46:43.833 --> 00:46:48.773
But people have managed to hang on to
their languages pretty solidly,

00:46:48.773 --> 00:46:53.083
so if you wanna speak Korean, 
that's a valid choice.

00:46:53.083 --> 00:46:57.556
Geoff: I don't see this on the...
JP: Where's this on the character sheet?

00:46:57.556 --> 00:47:01.216
Adam: I'm not sure, make a note 
somewhere, maybe in the "notes" section.

00:47:01.216 --> 00:47:06.156
Geoff: English, but it's based on Earthly-
Adam: Based on actual languages, yeah.

00:47:06.156 --> 00:47:08.496
Unless for some reason your...

00:47:08.496 --> 00:47:13.050
Like if you're a mercenary, you can have
a special mercenary hand-sign.

00:47:13.050 --> 00:47:15.770
You can make up languages if you want to.

00:47:15.770 --> 00:47:18.940
But they tend to be pragmatic,
rather than cultural.

00:47:18.940 --> 00:47:21.049
Because you haven't had time to 
build a whole cultural language.

00:47:21.049 --> 00:47:24.499
Steven: Surely I could speak some 
ancient alien tongue.

00:47:24.499 --> 00:47:29.639
Adam: Sure, yeah. The alien races 
you may have encountered...

00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.859
You can see them if you have 
the Galactic Encyclopedia open.

00:47:32.859 --> 00:47:35.479
See "Alien Races".
Steven: I do.

00:47:35.479 --> 00:47:39.108
Adam: You can pick one of those.
You can speak their native tongue.

00:47:39.108 --> 00:47:41.467
Steven: Hmm...

00:47:41.467 --> 00:47:47.668
I like Shindel, because they're
"hybrid: avian and exotic".

00:47:47.669 --> 00:47:52.609
Scales instead of feathers, and 
chainsaw-like mouth parts or claws.

00:47:52.609 --> 00:47:55.729
Adam: I would love to hear you try 
and use your human mouth

00:47:55.729 --> 00:47:58.779
to make a "chainsaw-like mouth" sound.

00:47:58.779 --> 00:48:03.039
Steven: I probably need to use my hands.
Adam: Probably, yeah.

00:48:04.116 --> 00:48:08.156
You have to chew a rock 
while you're speaking.

00:48:08.641 --> 00:48:12.191
Steven: Alright, I speak English 
and Shindelian.

00:48:12.191 --> 00:48:15.611
Adam: Shindel, OK...
Steven: Ancient Shindelian.

00:48:15.611 --> 00:48:18.331
I have no use for 
modern Shindelian.

00:48:18.331 --> 00:48:21.781
Geoff: You said that without modifiers
we just get to pick one other?

00:48:21.781 --> 00:48:25.616
Adam: You get English and your world's
native tongue if it's different.

00:48:25.616 --> 00:48:30.746
Geoff: Onitziwa people are Japanese, 
it sounds kind of Japanese. Right?

00:48:30.746 --> 00:48:32.345
Adam: Onintza, yeah, yeah.


00:48:32.345 --> 00:48:35.215
Geoff: Oh, I did say "Onitziwa", 
which is not what it is.

00:48:35.215 --> 00:48:37.965
It's "Onintza", but it still 
sounds kind of Japanese.

00:48:37.965 --> 00:48:39.165
Adam: Onintza...

00:48:39.165 --> 00:48:41.715
Yeah, you can say "Onintza" 
in Japanese, there you go.

00:48:41.715 --> 00:48:44.705
Geoff: I'll steal all the anime fanboys


00:48:44.705 --> 00:48:47.615
that djWheat otherwise would've 
garnished for himself.

00:48:47.615 --> 00:48:51.945
Wheat: Then I take all the Firefly fanboys
and choose Chinese, so fuck off.

00:48:51.945 --> 00:48:56.795
Adam: Does that mean, Wheat, that 
Majid speaks Chinese primarily,

00:48:56.795 --> 00:48:59.365
and if so, 
Mandarin or Cantonese?

00:48:59.365 --> 00:49:02.051
Wheat: Mandarin.

00:49:02.051 --> 00:49:06.831
Adam: It sounds to me like it wasn't 
named by Mandarin speakers.

00:49:06.831 --> 00:49:11.571
So if it like a different ruling group
that originally named the planet, or?

00:49:11.571 --> 00:49:14.781
How did that happen, because it 
sounds kind of like Arabic.

00:49:14.781 --> 00:49:20.361
Wheat: I feel like the people... the people 
that are governing the planet,

00:49:20.361 --> 00:49:24.319
basically bought their way in there.

00:49:24.319 --> 00:49:28.337
They had enough money to call it whatever 
they want, and do whatever they want.

00:49:28.337 --> 00:49:33.247
Hence the mining of all the gold.
The rich get richer.

00:49:33.248 --> 00:49:39.941
That's kind of awesome, it's kind of like
a gold rush world, led by a Mandarinate.

00:49:39.941 --> 00:49:41.714
Wheat: Yes. Yes.
Adam: OK, cool.

00:49:41.714 --> 00:49:44.288
Geoff: "Werrcome"...

00:49:46.782 --> 00:49:48.772
Adam: Watch that.

00:49:49.921 --> 00:49:54.911
You start with 400 credits, 
plus 1d6 times 100 credits.

00:49:54.911 --> 00:49:58.201
You can buy any equipment 
of TL4 or lower.

00:49:58.201 --> 00:50:01.797
And you can find all of that fun stuff,

00:50:01.797 --> 00:50:06.153
all of your gear porn on page... 
starting on 33.

00:50:06.153 --> 00:50:12.249
Geoff: Did you say 1d6*100?
Adam: Yeah, roll 1d6 multiply it by 100.

00:50:12.249 --> 00:50:16.229
Geoff: I got 5. So I'm at 900 credits, 
is what you said?

00:50:16.229 --> 00:50:18.259
Adam: 900 credits, yeah.

00:50:18.259 --> 00:50:20.710
Geoff: We buy our weapons, we don't 
start off with anything?

00:50:20.710 --> 00:50:24.710
Adam: No you don't start with anything,
you have clothes and a space ship.

00:50:24.710 --> 00:50:28.710
JP: Start off with Wheat. Oh, 1000!
Adam: Rich psychic.

00:50:28.710 --> 00:50:31.260
JP: You're a rich poor person, Wheat. 
Good job.

00:50:31.260 --> 00:50:34.857
Can't wait to roll this 1...
[rolls 1] Motherfucker!

00:50:34.857 --> 00:50:37.554
Geoff: Did you actually..?
Oh my god.

00:50:37.554 --> 00:50:40.272
Adam: Your last con didn't work 
out so good for you.

00:50:40.272 --> 00:50:43.812
JP: No man, not at all.
God damnit.

00:50:43.812 --> 00:50:47.072
Adam: Draining some old 
lady's bank account.

00:50:47.072 --> 00:50:49.396
Geoff: How do you change your name?


00:50:49.396 --> 00:50:53.270
Where it says "as Geoff R", 
how do you change that?

00:50:53.270 --> 00:50:57.356
JP: Click the cogwheel 
in the top right...

00:51:00.193 --> 00:51:03.843
Steven: Cogwheel, top right.

00:50:57.342 --> 00:51:00.193
Geoff: Cool.

00:51:05.418 --> 00:51:11.583
JP: What's next?
Adam: Buying stuff, buying equipment.

00:51:11.583 --> 00:51:16.593
You can find all your equipment 
starting on page 33.

00:51:16.593 --> 00:51:22.414
I would suggest purchasing... 
Look at regular equipment first.

00:51:22.414 --> 00:51:25.714
Wheat: Adam, did you want me to tell 
you my psychic powers, by the way?

00:51:25.714 --> 00:51:29.714
Adam: No, we'll do that next. 
That's the last thing.

00:51:32.004 --> 00:51:35.877
Look at exploration gear on pg. 41 first.


00:51:35.877 --> 00:51:39.750
Things like communication equipment,

00:51:39.750 --> 00:51:44.674
that sort of thing, you want the 
space equivalent of a cell phone.

00:51:44.674 --> 00:51:51.016
Steven, I would suggest spending a few 
credits on Lazarus patches and a med-kit.

00:51:51.016 --> 00:51:55.426
A Lazarus patch allows you to bring 
someone back from 0 hp, if they're dead.

00:51:55.426 --> 00:52:00.126
You get one shot at it. 
So if you wanna be the...

00:52:00.126 --> 00:52:03.518
Steven: Difficulty 6, that's not too bad.
Difficulty 6 is not so bad.

00:52:03.518 --> 00:52:05.898
Wheat: A comm server, you were saying?

00:52:05.898 --> 00:52:10.818
Adam: A compad, or data slab, 
both of those are useful,

00:52:10.818 --> 00:52:15.748
think of them as a phone or an ipad.
Geoff: Adam, what's a mono-blade?

00:52:15.748 --> 00:52:21.620
Adam: A mono-blade is a knife with an edge
that's a sharp as a single-

00:52:21.620 --> 00:52:24.880
Geoff: Stop! I'll take it.

00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:30.180
Steven: Adam, can I get a motorcycle 
if I'm in debt by an extra 200 credits?

00:52:30.180 --> 00:52:34.848
Adam: No, borrow it from the rich 
warrior, or the psychic.

00:52:34.848 --> 00:52:39.928
Geoff: Whoa, hey! Ease up, there.
Wheat: So a compad is good to have?

00:52:39.928 --> 00:52:42.822
Adam: Yeah, if you want to be able to 
communicate with each other,

00:52:42.822 --> 00:52:45.042
or make phone calls...

00:52:45.042 --> 00:52:47.352
Geoff: Oh my god, sub-machine guns...

00:52:47.352 --> 00:52:51.572
Wheat: It can reach other compads within 
1km? Is our ship equipped with something?

00:52:51.572 --> 00:52:57.162
Adam: Yeah, the ship has built-in 
short-range communication.

00:52:57.162 --> 00:53:01.162
You can always call the ship, 
and the ship can call you.

00:53:01.162 --> 00:53:05.162
JP: How much is a compad? 
I only see comm server.

00:53:05.162 --> 00:53:08.982
Wheat: Compad's down.
Adam: Yeah, keep going, compads are...

00:53:08.982 --> 00:53:11.913
Geoff: Adam, can I ask you a question?
Adam: They're a 100 credits.

00:53:11.913 --> 00:53:14.503
Geoff: When we get into the show,
how soon can kill someone

00:53:14.503 --> 00:53:17.353
with a really good weapon?
Adam: Almost immediately.

00:53:17.353 --> 00:53:20.433
Wheat: Shut up, let me ask 
the real questions.

00:53:20.433 --> 00:53:25.933
Can you explain armor before I spend
any money on this other shit?

00:53:25.933 --> 00:53:28.013
Geoff: More is good!

00:53:28.013 --> 00:53:34.503
Adam: Combat in SWN: the attack roll that
anyone will be making, you or other NPCs,

00:53:34.517 --> 00:53:40.417
you take a d20, you roll, add your bonus,
and add your opponent's armor,

00:53:40.417 --> 00:53:45.056
The lower your armor, the better that 
armor is. That's what you're adding.

00:53:45.056 --> 00:53:49.678
If you have no armor, anyone attacking
you gets to add 9 to their d20.

00:53:49.678 --> 00:53:52.531
Geoff: There's a fucking musket 
that you could have.

00:53:52.531 --> 00:53:55.001
I god damn dare someone to take a musket.

00:53:55.001 --> 00:53:58.511
Adam: If you want armor that's 
reasonably protective,

00:53:58.511 --> 00:54:01.041
look for something with low armor,

00:54:01.041 --> 00:54:03.481
The idea is that you roll d20, 
add your target's armor class,

00:54:03.487 --> 00:54:07.067
add your combat skill, your attribute
modifier and your attack bonus.

00:54:07.067 --> 00:54:09.657
If you get 20 or better, it hits.

00:54:09.657 --> 00:54:14.127
It's a little weird if you're used to D&D, 
but basically it just builds up.

00:54:14.148 --> 00:54:17.578
Wheat: As a psychic, is there any
limitation to what I can...?

00:54:17.578 --> 00:54:21.878
Adam: No, you can wear 
whatever you can afford.

00:54:21.878 --> 00:54:25.505
Keep an eye out that power armor,
which I doubt you can afford,

00:54:25.505 --> 00:54:28.115
requires specific training to use it,

00:54:28.115 --> 00:54:31.675
plus it needs batteries, 
keep that in mind.

00:54:31.675 --> 00:54:35.595
Wheat: OK. Gotcha.
Geoff: <i>Sigh</i>...

00:54:35.595 --> 00:54:38.415
Adam: JP, if you're gonna buy 
that laser pistol,

00:54:38.415 --> 00:54:41.965
make a note; all energy weapons
get a +1 to hit, no matter what.

00:54:41.965 --> 00:54:43.655
JP: Yeah, I'm in.

00:54:43.655 --> 00:54:48.585
Wheat: How does ammo work for 
the laser pistol vs something else?

00:54:48.592 --> 00:54:51.742
Versus, like, projectile?

00:54:51.742 --> 00:54:56.132
Adam: You buy it more or 
less the same way.


00:54:56.132 --> 00:55:00.847
It'll say "magazine" and have an 
amount of shots available.

00:55:00.847 --> 00:55:04.847
And then there should be 
a section for purchasing.

00:55:04.847 --> 00:55:11.127
Don't worry about rations
and stuff, your ship can...

00:55:11.127 --> 00:55:15.427
It has enough food for... I put it 
on the ship sheet,

00:55:15.427 --> 00:55:19.427
you can survive in the ship, you can
live out of your car, if you need to.

00:55:19.427 --> 00:55:22.997
JP: What does AB mean in the
weapons thing?

00:55:22.997 --> 00:55:25.957
Adam: Attack bonus.
JP: So I get a +1 there?

00:55:25.957 --> 00:55:29.077
Adam: Yeah, because 
with a laser pistol,

00:55:29.077 --> 00:55:32.917
you point it, and pull the trigger, and 
it goes exactly where you're pointing,

00:55:32.917 --> 00:55:34.787
because it travels at the speed of light.

00:55:34.787 --> 00:55:37.387
JP: Are you giving us full ammo 
on the purchase,

00:55:37.387 --> 00:55:40.007
or are you gonna be a dick and say
we're missing some rounds?

00:55:40.007 --> 00:55:41.887
Adam: No.
Geoff: Good answer.

00:55:41.887 --> 00:55:46.887
Adam: The gun comes with 10 shots.
JP: Beautiful. OK.

00:55:50.945 --> 00:55:54.351
If you guys wanna move on, because
we're coming up near the break,

00:55:54.351 --> 00:55:56.821
we can move on to the psychic 
stuff for Wheat,

00:55:56.821 --> 00:55:59.581
and then you can choose your
equipment during the break.

00:55:59.581 --> 00:56:02.311
Does that work for everyone?
Geoff: Sure.

00:56:02.311 --> 00:56:05.391
JP: Wheat, what are you gonna choose?


00:56:05.391 --> 00:56:08.371
Adam: You get a primary discipline
at level one,

00:56:08.371 --> 00:56:13.191
one more point to spend on a secondary
discipline. What are your disciplines?

00:56:13.191 --> 00:56:18.657
Wheat: My primary discipline is 
going to be a pre-cog.

00:56:18.668 --> 00:56:23.638
Which means I get "Omen", 
and it's pretty cool,

00:56:23.638 --> 00:56:27.230
basically the pre-cog will receive a 
distinct sense of whether following

00:56:27.230 --> 00:56:29.790
that course of action will 
result in physical injury

00:56:29.790 --> 00:56:32.260
or mental distress within 
the next ten minutes,

00:56:32.260 --> 00:56:35.990
according to the GM's best 
judgement of likely outcomes.

00:56:35.990 --> 00:56:38.370
This power can be used 
only once per hour.

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And my second one will be biopsionics,
and it will be biostatis.

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Which is somewhat ironic considering
that I'm probably the most likely to die,

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but it lets me bring 
someone back to life.

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Adam: It's essentially a 
psychic Lazarus patch.

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JP: I know you already explained this,
but is armor class higher or lower better?

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Adam: Lower is better, you start with 
AC 9 if you're not wearing anything,

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and it goes down the more 
armor you put on.

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JP: What is encumbrance 
based off of? Strength?

00:57:06.417 --> 00:57:08.737
Adam: Yeah, it's like a 
number of slots, I think,


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each item takes up a certain
amount of encumbrance.

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I find encumbrance generally 
pretty boring and stupid,

00:57:15.957 --> 00:57:20.637
but it's there so you can't be like,
"I'm carrying 47 assault rifles." So...

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Try and keep track of it, and if I think
you're being abusive I'll be like,

00:57:24.342 --> 00:57:28.072
"What's your encumbrance?", and then you 
gotta justify it, but otherwise I won't.

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Wheat: Where does it show 
your encumbrance?

00:57:31.722 --> 00:57:34.102
Adam: I don't know, 
because I don't care.

00:57:34.102 --> 00:57:38.102
JP: It only has an inventory, I don't 
think it keeps track of it, though.

00:57:38.102 --> 00:57:41.890
Steven: I have a combat shotgun.


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Adam: Here you go...

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You can carry a ready number of items,


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equal to half your strength 
score, rounded down.

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Ready items include those things you're
wearing, ready at all times,

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like in holsters and belt pouches.

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you can draw or produce a readied 
item as part of any other action.

00:57:57.858 --> 00:58:00.348
You can have stowed items 
equal to your full strength.

00:58:00.348 --> 00:58:02.678
That's like crap in a bag 
or like a deep pocket.

00:58:02.678 --> 00:58:04.368
If you have a gun in a holster

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it's readied, so you 
don't have to be like,

00:58:06.398 --> 00:58:08.388
"I'm taking an action to take it out,
now I take an action to shoot you."

00:58:08.388 --> 00:58:09.878
You just go, out, boom.

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Geoff: Why is armored undersuit expensive?


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Adam: Because it's armor that 
you can wear under other armor?

00:58:16.078 --> 00:58:20.498
You can hide it, it's like a 
bodysuit of nano-weave.

00:58:20.498 --> 00:58:24.608
Geoff: But how does it stack then?
Let's say you have woven body armor for 5,

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then you have armored undersuit that's 7,
what do you do to make your AC lower?

00:58:29.797 --> 00:58:35.172
Adam: I think you divide the lower one.
I'll check for you on the break.

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Geoff: But then why would 
you have the other one?

00:58:37.366 --> 00:58:39.066
Adam: You add them together,

00:58:39.066 --> 00:58:44.846
I think if you have 7 and 5, you add 3,
or whatever, you reduce it.

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I'll check it for you, though.

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Geoff: What do we start at, these are 
subtracting from what you start at, right?

00:58:51.106 --> 00:58:54.326
Adam: Yeah, that's right.

00:58:54.326 --> 00:58:59.173
If you have no armor at all,
you're wearing... your AC is 9.

00:58:59.173 --> 00:59:04.093
JP: Is there anything else we need to do?
We'll do some character stuff afterwards.

00:59:04.093 --> 00:59:08.088
Adam: When we come back everyone 
can introduce their characters,

00:59:08.088 --> 00:59:11.148
we'll get names and descriptions 
so we can jump into the action.

00:59:11.148 --> 00:59:13.588
JP: Perfect, sounds good. 
We'll take our first break.

00:59:13.588 --> 00:59:16.578
We're going for three more 
hours today, so stick around.

00:59:16.578 --> 00:59:20.578
Take a quick three minute break, when we
come back we'll actually play the game.

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It's pretty typical for the first hour of 
the premiere of shows,

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we do character creation.

00:59:26.198 --> 00:59:27.844
People wanna create a character,

00:59:27.844 --> 00:59:29.954
perhaps do a game of their own,
then they can follow along.

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We'll be back in three minutes.

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Thanks for watching, 
we'll see you soon.