Adam and Crazon walk through character creation for The Exorcist Codex, an 1890s BRP-based occult RPG. They discuss setting lore (the Unseen War), professions (priest, vanguard), skills, holy faith mechanics, codex lore, and backgrounds while building two agent characters.
The episode covers world tone, mechanics for spirit/power points and demonic corruption, quirks, and order affiliations, ending with impressions and recommendations for further reading and supplements.
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00:00:21 --> 00:00:27 Hello, welcome to Real Plane Exchange. Today we're going to be doing a row up for the Exorcist Codex.
00:00:27 --> 00:00:32 And this is Adam, obviously, and joining me today is my good buddy, Crazon.
00:00:32 --> 00:00:34 Crazon, how you doing, bud? I'm doing pretty good.
00:00:36 --> 00:00:41 Getting ready for the Halloween season, or is that going to date us? Yeah, well, yeah.
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00:01:03 --> 00:01:06 December, January. There we go. I got it down pat, Chris.
00:01:07 --> 00:01:11 So the Exorcist Codec, I want to go ahead and take a moment real quick.
00:01:11 --> 00:01:16 I would like to thank the publishers, Two Starving Noel, for providing me with
00:01:16 --> 00:01:20 a review copy of both this and the GM's guide.
00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 It was super nice of them to do so.
00:01:23 --> 00:01:29 And offhand, it's got the title of Exorcist on it, so pretty clear on what we're
00:01:29 --> 00:01:30 going to be doing here today, Chris?
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 I think we're gonna be playing a
00:01:33 --> 00:01:37 gym rat rpg because you
00:01:37 --> 00:01:43 know exorcists right yeah they're exercising yeah in fact just exactly it and
00:01:43 --> 00:01:52 we're gonna be doing victorian era early the oh my god i is it sad that i want
00:01:52 --> 00:01:57 to play like a silly like elizabethian era gym rat game.
00:01:58 --> 00:02:02 You know i think we should do that only if you would draw characters with everybody
00:02:02 --> 00:02:09 we've had oh i mean it is yeah we're just pugilists we just punch demons out of people,
00:02:11 --> 00:02:17 well i got my character concept well i mean historically a lot of exorcisms
00:02:17 --> 00:02:23 did just involve beating people to death or or to near death to get them to
00:02:23 --> 00:02:29 beat them the demon out of them so yeah not entirely out of character for exorcists,
00:02:30 --> 00:02:34 As far as the game goes, it's built on the BRP system.
00:02:34 --> 00:02:40 So the previous month here, we actually did a roll-up for Chaosium Rivers of London.
00:02:40 --> 00:02:44 Thank you, Chaosium, again, for providing us with a review copy.
00:02:44 --> 00:02:46 This is going to be pretty much the same system.
00:02:46 --> 00:02:52 So if you guys are familiar with Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green or any of those
00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 types of games, it's the same system.
00:02:55 --> 00:02:59 So we're fairly comfortable with this. We've played several Call of Cthulhu,
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 Delta Green games. So we're kind of good at this, but you know,
00:03:02 --> 00:03:05 there's still some differences going on here.
00:03:06 --> 00:03:09 Want to jump into the lore behind this.
00:03:10 --> 00:03:15 Yes, please, please regale the audience. Cause I mean, I totally know the lore
00:03:15 --> 00:03:18 of this place, but for the audience, let them know about the,
00:03:18 --> 00:03:24 uh, sort of the background of this, this, this series or this, this, uh, the setting.
00:03:25 --> 00:03:31 Well, guys, it, the setting is 1890 and it's, We're in a period in this world
00:03:31 --> 00:03:33 that's known as the Unseen War.
00:03:33 --> 00:03:39 It's just a secret supernatural conflict between humanity and demonic forces
00:03:39 --> 00:03:45 that have been tearing up stuff for, you know, since 2500 B.C.
00:03:45 --> 00:03:51 It's pretty much our world, our historical 1890s, but there's a hidden level
00:03:51 --> 00:03:55 of the supernatural. It's a secret world?
00:03:56 --> 00:03:59 I was wondering if you were going to make a connection to that.
00:04:02 --> 00:04:05 Cue the opening theme from the MMO, the secret world.
00:04:07 --> 00:04:13 I think it's got, I feel a lot of, what was John Constantine kind of energy on this.
00:04:13 --> 00:04:17 Stuff well there's even there's like a sort of uh inspirational or
00:04:17 --> 00:04:20 like things to like recommended like media to to
00:04:20 --> 00:04:23 to get in the in the vibe of this show or
00:04:23 --> 00:04:25 this uh of this setting like it like
00:04:25 --> 00:04:29 inspirational movies so this is on page nine i just
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 noticed this earlier inspirational movies the exorcist obviously
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35 rosemary's baby the omen the pope's
00:04:35 --> 00:04:39 exorcist indiana jones and the ninth gate and
00:04:39 --> 00:04:42 then such tv shows and video games.
00:04:42 --> 00:04:46 Are like penny dreadful warrior nun silent
00:04:46 --> 00:04:49 hill alan wake so yeah like
00:04:49 --> 00:04:53 they they it's definitely a it's
00:04:53 --> 00:04:56 a vibe it's an atmospherical sort of
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59 like it's got a it's got a themed atmosphere to it of
00:04:59 --> 00:05:02 like it seems like kind of like turn of
00:05:02 --> 00:05:05 the century or like 18th night is it 18 i guess it'd be 19th
00:05:05 --> 00:05:08 century 19th century like pulp sort of
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 uh aspect to it yeah with horror
00:05:11 --> 00:05:14 and it's built in on this cosmic history that
00:05:14 --> 00:05:17 kind of goes back to well i guess the book listens at
00:05:17 --> 00:05:20 prehistory there where the world was religionally dominated by
00:05:20 --> 00:05:23 demons that were led by an entity called the eternal
00:05:23 --> 00:05:27 and it just made life rough for all living beings
00:05:27 --> 00:05:33 there was a great demonic war where the divines fought against the demons and
00:05:33 --> 00:05:38 they eventually banished the eternal and forced the earth's demons to retreat.
00:05:38 --> 00:05:45 Then you have something called the age of light which is between 4 000 to 2 500.
00:05:46 --> 00:05:50 Well, I think, yeah, B.C., which is a golden era where the celestial beings
00:05:50 --> 00:05:55 shared their knowledge of humanity, advanced civilizations with technology,
00:05:55 --> 00:05:59 and is comparable basically to the late medieval period.
00:05:59 --> 00:06:02 There's the unseen war which takes
00:06:02 --> 00:06:06 place since 2500 bc to
00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 1890 or the current date
00:06:09 --> 00:06:14 of our game where the arch demons in particular bale began a subtle campaign
00:06:14 --> 00:06:19 to regain influence on earth through human cultists while erasing humanity's
00:06:19 --> 00:06:24 mystery at memory of the demonic threat you know the devil's greatest trick
00:06:24 --> 00:06:28 was showing people that making people believe they didn't exist kind of thing.
00:06:28 --> 00:06:34 And as of 1890, or sitting here, the demonic possession and supernatural phenomenon
00:06:34 --> 00:06:36 has increased at like an unprecedented rate.
00:06:37 --> 00:06:41 Cultures have infiltrated governments, businesses, and other institutions.
00:06:41 --> 00:06:47 The rise of science and industrialization has weakened traditional spiritual defenses.
00:06:47 --> 00:06:51 So kind of like a Boston Free League thing going on there.
00:06:51 --> 00:06:54 Yeah. It just seems like every, like at the turn of that, like basically during
00:06:54 --> 00:06:59 the Industrial revolution is sort of the end of the age of miracles.
00:06:59 --> 00:07:05 And because we're putting more stock into science than simple faith or than
00:07:05 --> 00:07:07 the power of faith. Yeah.
00:07:07 --> 00:07:12 And I think the most public remains unaware of the supernatural threat with
00:07:12 --> 00:07:17 incidences explained away as mental illness, hoaxes, and natural phenomenon.
00:07:18 --> 00:07:20 So our players that we're going to create today,
00:07:21 --> 00:07:25 likely but not necessary, belong to an order of some sort,
00:07:25 --> 00:07:29 which are secretive groups that are dedicated to fighting these demonic threats
00:07:29 --> 00:07:34 using fragments of ancient knowledge called, and we got a title here,
00:07:34 --> 00:07:36 guys, the Exorcist Codex.
00:07:37 --> 00:07:44 And in 1879, Pope Leo, the X-I-I-I, or I think that's 13th, if I'm not mistaken.
00:07:44 --> 00:07:48 I think so, yeah, because X is a 10. So, yeah, that would be 13.
00:07:48 --> 00:07:54 So the Pope began a campaign to recover and secure the lost knowledge,
00:07:54 --> 00:07:57 giving limited access to the Vatican's secret archives.
00:07:58 --> 00:08:03 And as far as organizations go, we got a couple of movers and shakers here.
00:08:03 --> 00:08:09 I know I'm doing a lot of talk here, but I'm just kind of finishing up the introduction summary in a way.
00:08:10 --> 00:08:13 There's the orders. They're the last line of defense against demonic forces
00:08:13 --> 00:08:16 working in secret across different religions.
00:08:17 --> 00:08:19 There's the fellowship of Baal.
00:08:19 --> 00:08:26 Which has cultists dedicated to the archdemon bell who may have infiltrated
00:08:26 --> 00:08:28 society. And then there's the Catholic church.
00:08:28 --> 00:08:35 So under the Pope, everything is in, he has intensified efforts to combat the
00:08:35 --> 00:08:38 demonic forces, including licensing more exorcists.
00:08:40 --> 00:08:45 So, I mean, I like it to where it's close enough to our own history. Yeah.
00:08:45 --> 00:08:48 It's an alternative history or alternative time period.
00:08:49 --> 00:08:53 Where again the supernatural exists or
00:08:53 --> 00:08:56 like or it's like a secret a secret society or
00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 secret secret world of the supernatural or like of
00:08:59 --> 00:09:02 of a secret war of light of
00:09:02 --> 00:09:05 light and darkness just sort of vying for
00:09:05 --> 00:09:08 human souls yeah and i i
00:09:08 --> 00:09:12 think one of the things that i really like that's mentioned
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15 in this introduction as well is i think
00:09:15 --> 00:09:18 just by looking at surface level glance
00:09:18 --> 00:09:21 of the content and the characters that you're playing and stuff
00:09:21 --> 00:09:24 like that you're i was kind of giving the
00:09:24 --> 00:09:27 impression of it was going to be an exorcism of the week kind
00:09:27 --> 00:09:29 of thing where we got to go to a certain
00:09:29 --> 00:09:34 household or a village or a hamlet or whatever you want to call and go in there
00:09:34 --> 00:09:40 and exercise the demons and upon digging into this i mean we can work on like
00:09:40 --> 00:09:46 recovering lost knowledge from the exorcist codex i would really love to do
00:09:46 --> 00:09:48 a crossover where you have to go over the.
00:09:49 --> 00:09:54 Virginia, and where, because, you know, I'm fascinated with like Roanoke and Croatoan.
00:09:54 --> 00:09:59 I would like to tie something in with that, but, you know, you have to go retrieve
00:09:59 --> 00:10:04 some of this exorcist codec that made it to the new world or the colonies.
00:10:05 --> 00:10:09 You're going to be either combating culture schemes and demonic possession.
00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 So, I mean, we can even have sessions where there's no demon at all,
00:10:12 --> 00:10:17 but there's, we're trying to root out this insidious infection.
00:10:18 --> 00:10:23 Protecting sacred sites and artifacts operating in secrecy while most of society
00:10:23 --> 00:10:30 remains skeptical of the supernatural threats so work on your 1890s opsec and
00:10:30 --> 00:10:35 you know another theme is just that there's a race against time as our demons
00:10:35 --> 00:10:37 gain more and more power over the mortal realm so,
00:10:38 --> 00:10:42 You realize you're just giving me, Lee, when you said like 1890 OPSEC,
00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 we're gaslighting by gaslight.
00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 I think we have a campaign name. I think we do.
00:10:52 --> 00:10:56 Damn it, we need to quit doing these episodes. Oh my God. If only we had enough
00:10:56 --> 00:10:58 time to run all the games that we look at. Yeah, I know.
00:10:59 --> 00:11:02 Yeah. I really want to do this one though. Gaslighting by, okay,
00:11:02 --> 00:11:03 I'm just going to, I'm going to type that.
00:11:03 --> 00:11:07 I'm going to make, if you're not going to, I'm going to make a Google doc.
00:11:07 --> 00:11:12 It's just so it's there it's it's there so it
00:11:12 --> 00:11:15 as a do you have it do you have any
00:11:15 --> 00:11:21 anything to add to this little rambling introduction i i like i'm glad you did
00:11:21 --> 00:11:24 bring it like you did kind of like give us flesh out like they were kind of
00:11:24 --> 00:11:30 like a a rough rundown of of what the what the settings like because i i went
00:11:30 --> 00:11:33 in blind i lied earlier like it wasn't for the audience it was for me.
00:11:35 --> 00:11:38 But yeah it definitely it definitely feels like it's
00:11:38 --> 00:11:41 sort of a cross between diablo and like
00:11:41 --> 00:11:44 again like demonically like some demonic thing
00:11:44 --> 00:11:49 that's trying to like the demonic legions of hell are trying to come back and
00:11:49 --> 00:11:55 they're using humanity and like like various cults and various individuals in
00:11:55 --> 00:11:59 throughout society to basically try and do that and then like the the the church
00:11:59 --> 00:12:03 or like the holy orders are basically trying to like stop them from,
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 from making this happen. Yeah.
00:12:06 --> 00:12:08 So like, yeah, it's very, I've,
00:12:08 --> 00:12:14 I've, there's a, there's a half dozen franchise or like, or like, uh,
00:12:15 --> 00:12:19 IPs that are popping in my head that I've, I've watched or read in,
00:12:19 --> 00:12:23 in my life that like are, are swimming in my head right now based on that I
00:12:23 --> 00:12:26 could like, that I could like leech off of for like context for this.
00:12:26 --> 00:12:33 So yeah i i really do like the the setup already so i'm not gonna lie i'm probably
00:12:33 --> 00:12:38 gonna make my holy pugilist i think that's gonna happen.
00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 So, why don't we go ahead and do what we do on Row Ups.
00:12:43 --> 00:12:49 Chris, will you turn with me on the PDF to page 23, where it talks about our character?
00:12:49 --> 00:12:54 Sure, that's, sorry, what page is that? 23 in the PDF and 23 in the book.
00:12:55 --> 00:12:58 It's labeled the same as the PDF there. Yep.
00:12:58 --> 00:13:03 Okay, so part one characters. Your character is your alter ego in the game,
00:13:03 --> 00:13:06 consisting of physical and mental abilities and characteristics.
00:13:06 --> 00:13:10 Through your character, you engage in challenges, you know, kind of the rundown
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 of what a player character is.
00:13:13 --> 00:13:18 Within the game, The Exorcist Codex, all player characters are referred to as
00:13:18 --> 00:13:24 agents due to their affiliation, whether hired, employed, or otherwise engaged in one of the orders.
00:13:25 --> 00:13:32 And, yeah, we're going to, and I like this because we've done other books, by the way,
00:13:32 --> 00:13:37 RPG books that you'll roll up a character and then you'll read some kind of
00:13:37 --> 00:13:41 text that, oh, yeah, on this page you need to do this.
00:13:41 --> 00:13:44 And then you have to reset everything because that changes everything.
00:13:45 --> 00:13:50 On midway through, on page 23, it says, before beginning the process of creating
00:13:50 --> 00:13:53 your player character, familiarize yourself with the following section.
00:13:54 --> 00:14:00 So there's professions, there's holy faith, rituals, and divine powers.
00:14:01 --> 00:14:05 Now, those are, I hadn't even prepared really that much for that.
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 I'm actually kind of wanting to look at that, Chris. I'm looking at the page,
00:14:09 --> 00:14:15 page 51 is the, uh, it's all basically like holy or like religious professions
00:14:15 --> 00:14:18 like church licensed exorcist, demonologist, a futumashi.
00:14:19 --> 00:14:25 Order guardian, occult detective, priest, private exorcist, relic custodian,
00:14:26 --> 00:14:29 relic hunter, shaman, spirit medium, and vanguard.
00:14:30 --> 00:14:36 Okay. And then it gives you like kind of a, a single page write up and example.
00:14:37 --> 00:14:42 Of the, of each profession. And the section over the Holy Faith,
00:14:42 --> 00:14:45 Holy Faith is a measure of your character's divine and spiritual connection,
00:14:45 --> 00:14:50 influencing their capacity to perform rituals, access divine powers.
00:14:51 --> 00:14:53 Interact with divine energy, et cetera, et cetera.
00:14:53 --> 00:14:57 So it goes over this particular section, since we are going to probably have
00:14:57 --> 00:15:02 to return to this during character creation. It's not only calculating your
00:15:02 --> 00:15:06 faith, but what your faith does, right, bonus-wise.
00:15:07 --> 00:15:08 And how you can use it,
00:15:09 --> 00:15:14 So it's kind of, kind of cool there. So you can use it for, you know,
00:15:15 --> 00:15:20 obviously divination kind of things or rituals or praying or there's,
00:15:20 --> 00:15:24 there's a lot here that if, if we read through every single one of these here,
00:15:24 --> 00:15:28 it would be, we'll probably touch on two or three of these as we roll up our
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 characters, but there's quite a bit there.
00:15:31 --> 00:15:35 And let's see, what is page 20? Let me see back on 23.
00:15:36 --> 00:15:40 Let's look at divine powers real quick. 281. I know we're just kind of glossing
00:15:40 --> 00:15:47 over these, but I'd like to have like a little bit of a kind of a feel for what
00:15:47 --> 00:15:48 I'm creating here. Yeah.
00:15:49 --> 00:15:54 So list of divine powers. All right. So, yeah.
00:15:54 --> 00:15:58 Arma, the Venya, or divine weapon, holy faith plus 10.
00:15:59 --> 00:16:04 You have a charged talisman. So, I mean, there's just tons of different abilities
00:16:04 --> 00:16:10 that you can kind of pick up here. Not tons, but there's several pages here.
00:16:10 --> 00:16:14 So we'll probably pick out, we'll probably incorporate some of these.
00:16:14 --> 00:16:15 Ooh, they're dark powers, Chris.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:19 Saw that. Oh, did you now?
00:16:20 --> 00:16:25 Also, I was looking at the different orders and there's a sisterhood from France
00:16:25 --> 00:16:28 and then there is the Templars in London.
00:16:28 --> 00:16:35 So this is getting awfully familiar from my time in the secret world. so,
00:16:36 --> 00:16:39 I like this. I don't know. I'm
00:16:39 --> 00:16:44 interested in that. It's got a lot to work with. So I might go back to 23.
00:16:45 --> 00:16:48 We know that kind of. 23 and me.
00:16:50 --> 00:16:55 I'm going to find my genealogy. So moving over to 24, character creation.
00:16:55 --> 00:16:59 So step one, we're going to establish our character's identity,
00:17:00 --> 00:17:04 details, and core attributes to build a foundation of the role.
00:17:05 --> 00:17:10 So name and gender characteristics and
00:17:10 --> 00:17:13 honestly do you want to do do you
00:17:13 --> 00:17:16 actually want to row dice or would you like there's an alternative like
00:17:16 --> 00:17:20 where you select one of the following sets of values to distribute i
00:17:20 --> 00:17:24 i am all
00:17:24 --> 00:17:28 i'm i am a fan of rolling dice i as
00:17:28 --> 00:17:30 as simple as like the alternative just like here's a here's one
00:17:30 --> 00:17:34 like three like like optional like
00:17:34 --> 00:17:38 rows of dice or of numbers i do
00:17:38 --> 00:17:45 like the idea of like rolling rolling dice so we can do that that's not a problem
00:17:45 --> 00:17:52 so alternative one again is the sets alternative two is we roll 3d6 five times
00:17:52 --> 00:17:55 and assign these scores to StrengthsCon,
00:17:56 --> 00:17:57 Dex, Pal, and Charisma.
00:17:57 --> 00:18:01 So very familiar to Call Cthulhu people there.
00:18:01 --> 00:18:09 Yep. And we row 2D6 plus 6 two times and assign that to size and int.
00:18:10 --> 00:18:13 Mm-hmm. And, yeah. So tell you what.
00:18:14 --> 00:18:18 So they don't hear us rattling off here. We're going to take a brief little break.
00:18:18 --> 00:18:23 We'll probably take a few of these with this here, And we're going to go in
00:18:23 --> 00:18:29 here and do our roles, jump back in here, and we'll give a basic rundown of
00:18:29 --> 00:18:32 our character and how they sat out.
00:18:48 --> 00:18:53 All right, and we're back, and, well, boy, did we roll, Chris. Yeah.
00:18:54 --> 00:19:00 I was doing pretty good there. I want to admit to you all, we mentioned beforehand
00:19:00 --> 00:19:05 the creation of this, mentioned you wrote 3D6 five times, so I started multiplying all my 3D6 by five.
00:19:06 --> 00:19:09 And I was like, man, I'm burning this up. I'm like, oh, man,
00:19:09 --> 00:19:13 I got like 11s and 10s is my highest, or 17 is my highest.
00:19:13 --> 00:19:16 And then you got 70. I was like, Adam, I think you're doing this wrong.
00:19:19 --> 00:19:22 So it's before i go any further into
00:19:22 --> 00:19:25 this character i just want to say that there was
00:19:25 --> 00:19:28 one particular row where i did row a five and
00:19:28 --> 00:19:32 i was like man we should just re-row like give one free re-row and all that
00:19:32 --> 00:19:35 and then you're like nope i'm keeping mine like you know what i will too but
00:19:35 --> 00:19:40 having like low stats like this actually seems to give you a lot of decent fodder
00:19:40 --> 00:19:44 for you know what your character is and what they've been through and stuff
00:19:44 --> 00:19:46 like that It could be a plus.
00:19:47 --> 00:19:50 So, hmm, I have created...
00:19:52 --> 00:19:57 Sixten Olsen, so it's S-I-X-T-E-N Olsen. I'm saying he is of Swedish descent.
00:19:58 --> 00:20:04 And my stats. Well, here's my dump right now.
00:20:05 --> 00:20:11 So I wrote, my dump stats are, my strength is six, so not so strong.
00:20:11 --> 00:20:16 His con is eight, so low side of average, I guess you could say.
00:20:16 --> 00:20:22 And his dex is five, so definitely something's happened that's interfered with their mobility.
00:20:22 --> 00:20:25 So I don't necessarily think I'm going to be a Tomb Raider or anything like that.
00:20:26 --> 00:20:30 But on the plus size, my charisma is 17.
00:20:30 --> 00:20:33 So very charismatic person.
00:20:34 --> 00:20:37 And my pal is 13.
00:20:37 --> 00:20:43 So I assumed that, you know, that seemed like a good kind of trade-off for me. What did you create?
00:20:44 --> 00:20:49 I created Hayward Ashworth III.
00:20:51 --> 00:20:54 And he's i've gone with the profession the guardian
00:20:54 --> 00:20:57 because i again well earlier you
00:20:57 --> 00:21:00 probably heard that i wanted to try and go for like a pugilist like
00:21:00 --> 00:21:04 character so i got a strength
00:21:04 --> 00:21:07 of 11 a con of 10 a dex
00:21:07 --> 00:21:11 of 11 a pow of 7 a
00:21:11 --> 00:21:14 charisma of 4 a size of
00:21:14 --> 00:21:18 17 and intelligence of nine yeah so
00:21:18 --> 00:21:23 i have already put in my appearance bald horrible
00:21:23 --> 00:21:30 hatchet scarring across face with some burns yeah but yeah still has still has
00:21:30 --> 00:21:37 a handlebar mustache but it doesn't it does nothing to compensate for the the
00:21:37 --> 00:21:43 horrible scarring my characters have been inflicted with from his 27 years of life.
00:21:45 --> 00:21:48 I've already decided like the age and such. At this point, I'm kind of going
00:21:48 --> 00:21:52 for the price from England somewhere, but.
00:21:53 --> 00:21:56 Yeah so yeah the character is quite
00:21:56 --> 00:22:05 strong quite big maybe not so not so not as not as smart but also well not not
00:22:05 --> 00:22:11 terribly not terribly dumb like nine's not bad but definitely hideous if i had
00:22:11 --> 00:22:16 to guess what four is on that richter scale of uh of uh attributes,
00:22:18 --> 00:22:23 my charm times five for example is in fact 20 percent so.
00:22:25 --> 00:22:28 Well, I, you know, I was kind of thinking that you needed somebody to gaslight
00:22:28 --> 00:22:31 somebody and I think charisma would be the one to do that.
00:22:31 --> 00:22:34 So that's why I made mine like a near perfect score.
00:22:34 --> 00:22:36 We got a gaslight by gaslight.
00:22:37 --> 00:22:40 Indeed. We got to always be gaslighting by gaslight.
00:22:42 --> 00:22:46 I don't think I mentioned this and we're going to get into the background a
00:22:46 --> 00:22:50 little bit later on here, but I didn't mention this profession,
00:22:50 --> 00:22:55 but currently working with like a priest. that I'm thinking that an exorcism went wrong.
00:22:56 --> 00:23:00 And so, you know, like in the end of the exorcist movie, you know,
00:23:00 --> 00:23:04 you need a young one and an old one. And an old priest and a young priest, yes.
00:23:05 --> 00:23:10 I tell you what I want to briefly mention that I do enjoy the fact that Two
00:23:10 --> 00:23:14 Server Knows also had a form-fillable character on our sheet on our website.
00:23:14 --> 00:23:21 We are using it, and it did a nice job of just adding over all of our scores.
00:23:21 --> 00:23:26 It did all the multiplication by five. So we didn't have to fill out and do any math.
00:23:27 --> 00:23:30 We kind of mentioned this. We jumped ahead just a tad bit.
00:23:30 --> 00:23:35 This is going to take us to page 26 in the book where we're looking at the professions.
00:23:35 --> 00:23:38 We briefly, we picked them out, but I want to kind of refer to this and we're
00:23:38 --> 00:23:41 going to move forward as we follow the rules as listed here.
00:23:42 --> 00:23:49 So refer to professionless, which we did for a desired profession, priest and protector.
00:23:49 --> 00:23:53 Each profession includes a description, a professional special.
00:23:54 --> 00:23:58 I fucked up earlier. Sorry, my bad. It was Vanguard, not Guardian.
00:23:59 --> 00:24:00 Oh, Vanguard. My apologies.
00:24:01 --> 00:24:06 No, you saying that woke me up from what I had said earlier. So, yeah.
00:24:07 --> 00:24:12 So, I think we should probably take a moment here to go over our professions.
00:24:12 --> 00:24:13 Just a tad bit more in detail.
00:24:14 --> 00:24:18 Because with this, we get skills that we can go ahead and add in there.
00:24:18 --> 00:24:24 A holy faith factor, and a purchase role modifier or sorting equipment.
00:24:25 --> 00:24:31 And, you know, that's also, you know, we'll get into that. So let's go to 51
00:24:31 --> 00:24:33 real quick around. I think mine was like 58.
00:24:33 --> 00:24:38 I have something to say that only people who have listened to our previous Urban
00:24:38 --> 00:24:40 Shadows roll up will get.
00:24:40 --> 00:24:46 If we didn't go, if Gaslighting by Gaslight wasn't so goddamn good as a title.
00:24:47 --> 00:24:50 And if it was just our characters, because I assume like we'll probably have
00:24:50 --> 00:24:52 some other players in this game at some point.
00:24:52 --> 00:24:56 But if it had just been us, because you're going with a priest,
00:24:56 --> 00:24:58 right? And I'm going with the Vanguard.
00:24:58 --> 00:25:00 We could have been faith and faithless.
00:25:02 --> 00:25:07 Because I have no, I have zero, uh, zero holy faith in my, uh,
00:25:07 --> 00:25:11 as the Vanguard or like zero holy faith factor. So.
00:25:12 --> 00:25:15 Well, you like naming your rep, each session, a different title.
00:25:15 --> 00:25:18 So it can be a session title. Yeah, exactly. That's definitely.
00:25:19 --> 00:25:20 Yep. Where we meet up.
00:25:22 --> 00:25:25 I'm going to go ahead and grab the bull by the horns here. I think priest is
00:25:25 --> 00:25:29 pretty much self-explanatory, but I would like to kind of mention a couple of the big perks here.
00:25:30 --> 00:25:33 So your primary duty is to guide, protect, and strengthen those around you,
00:25:33 --> 00:25:38 bring in comfort and wisdom to your community and allies with a foundation in
00:25:38 --> 00:25:40 academic knowledge and religious ceremonies.
00:25:40 --> 00:25:47 You provide a spiritual insight and support, serving a saithian presence in all times of crisis.
00:25:48 --> 00:25:51 Beyond the walls of the church, you venture into the world where your role extends
00:25:51 --> 00:25:55 to offering counsel and clarity to those facing challenges.
00:25:55 --> 00:25:59 Orders seek out priests for their ability to enhance the team's effectiveness
00:25:59 --> 00:26:01 through grounded perspective and resilience.
00:26:02 --> 00:26:06 Your presence provides teams with a unique combination of scholarly knowledge
00:26:06 --> 00:26:09 and spiritual assurance, allowing them to tackle complex situations.
00:26:09 --> 00:26:13 So with this background, I'm going to get a couple of modifiers.
00:26:13 --> 00:26:16 I get Holy Faith Factor at one.
00:26:16 --> 00:26:20 My background row will be
00:26:20 --> 00:26:22 3d6 plus 2 so when we get to that
00:26:22 --> 00:26:26 particular portion of it and my purchase
00:26:26 --> 00:26:29 row modifier so i guess i do have a little bit of extra
00:26:29 --> 00:26:33 funds i get a five percent increase on that my
00:26:33 --> 00:26:40 starting gear is going to be a basic exorcism kit basic charge talisman and
00:26:40 --> 00:26:46 cleric robes there are some special abilities i get the ability of divine grace
00:26:46 --> 00:26:53 Holy face and prerequisites of all divine powers are reduced by your codex or value.
00:26:53 --> 00:26:58 Additionally, both knowledge, theology, and etiquette, religious and other hierarchies
00:26:58 --> 00:27:06 are considered codex skills for a priest that are marked with a little cross emblem on the name.
00:27:06 --> 00:27:11 My profession skills, again, etiquette, otherworldly beings, etiquette, religion.
00:27:12 --> 00:27:14 Orders and hierarchies, knowledge
00:27:14 --> 00:27:19 of divine and celestial, knowledge of theology, language, any codex.
00:27:19 --> 00:27:25 It says mystic sense, research, sacred rites, spiritual support, and teach.
00:27:25 --> 00:27:29 I do get some restrictions and benefits as well.
00:27:29 --> 00:27:33 I must devote a substantial part of each day to prayer and meditation.
00:27:33 --> 00:27:39 As you're packing me around on your back like a Mad Max character, I can be praying.
00:27:39 --> 00:27:45 And my benefits are usually granted access to private homes in restricted areas
00:27:45 --> 00:27:50 like crime scenes, prisons, morgues without question, trusted for their discretion,
00:27:51 --> 00:27:52 and Rowan providing counsel and comfort.
00:27:53 --> 00:27:57 So that is Sixten Olsen's career.
00:27:58 --> 00:28:03 How about Punchy Mitt Burnt Face? Yeah, Ashworth, which is, I guess,
00:28:03 --> 00:28:06 Ashworth has definitely got his name because he's, again, burnt up.
00:28:06 --> 00:28:10 Um, yeah, Hayward is going to go with the Vanguard.
00:28:10 --> 00:28:15 So as a Vanguard, uh, you are the essential muscle hired to provide steadfast
00:28:15 --> 00:28:17 protection in high-risk situations.
00:28:18 --> 00:28:21 Known for your strength, reliability, and combat skills, you safeguard agents
00:28:21 --> 00:28:25 who confront hidden dangers, serving as both bodyguard and frontline defender.
00:28:26 --> 00:28:31 Orders frequently hire you to accompany teams on missions, trusting your tactical
00:28:31 --> 00:28:36 awareness and combat expertise to shield others from harm.
00:28:36 --> 00:28:42 Though you may not share their beliefs, your presence ensures that those investigating
00:28:42 --> 00:28:46 the unknown can do so with a crucial layer of security,
00:28:46 --> 00:28:50 allowing them to focus on their tasks without fear of their safety,
00:28:51 --> 00:28:52 or without fear for their safety.
00:28:53 --> 00:28:57 And as I said earlier, for modifiers, my holy faith factor is a zero.
00:28:58 --> 00:29:04 So I may, I'm not much of a believer or not much of a, I don't put much stock
00:29:04 --> 00:29:06 apparently in the spirituals more than the physical.
00:29:08 --> 00:29:11 But, and then, yeah, there's a background roll, but we'll get to that soon.
00:29:11 --> 00:29:15 A purchase roll modifier of plus 10%.
00:29:16 --> 00:29:19 My starting gear and equipment. I have urban expedition gear,
00:29:19 --> 00:29:23 a first aid kit, probably for all the fights I get into.
00:29:25 --> 00:29:29 Binoculars, handgun of my choice, which I went with a large handgun or a large revolver.
00:29:30 --> 00:29:34 And then a melee weapon of my choice. And I went with brass knucks because adopting
00:29:34 --> 00:29:36 that, I'm going with that whole pugilist thing.
00:29:36 --> 00:29:43 So yeah restrictions and benefits so for my restrictions must always prioritize
00:29:43 --> 00:29:45 the safety of those under my protection
00:29:45 --> 00:29:49 even at great personal risk this character is going to live long,
00:29:51 --> 00:29:54 benefits can easily obtain weapons and
00:29:54 --> 00:29:57 permits virtually anywhere ensuring they
00:29:57 --> 00:30:03 are well equipped for any situation oh that's good special ability is guardian
00:30:03 --> 00:30:07 angel so kind of similar to the whole restriction thing of like prioritizing
00:30:07 --> 00:30:13 my those under my protection on a successful destiny role you may take damage
00:30:13 --> 00:30:15 intended for another character i.e.
00:30:15 --> 00:30:22 Jumping in front of the bullet or taking a hit from a knife you know and all i could think of is.
00:30:25 --> 00:30:28 Uh what was the character's name mr olson get down,
00:30:29 --> 00:30:33 they're trying to kill you get down get down again,
00:30:34 --> 00:30:38 wow but yeah I gotta
00:30:38 --> 00:30:42 say you probably need to do this too on your character sheet because I do like
00:30:42 --> 00:30:47 this so on the form fillable if you actually do like ctrl f and type in like
00:30:47 --> 00:30:53 holy if there's any modifiers there or your purchase modifier is clearly marked
00:30:53 --> 00:30:57 on the character sheet which is about three pages by the way guys but so So, well,
00:30:58 --> 00:31:02 to be fair, the, to be fair, the third page is just like an equipment sheet.
00:31:02 --> 00:31:07 So yeah, it's not, it's not super superfluous. So.
00:31:08 --> 00:31:13 What were you going with? Sorry. Oh, I was just saying, I like that.
00:31:13 --> 00:31:16 It's easy to add these things in there. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:31:17 --> 00:31:22 Oh, yeah. So back to the guardian angel aspect. So, yeah, this role must be
00:31:22 --> 00:31:24 made before the damage is determined.
00:31:25 --> 00:31:29 Such an action is rewarded with two experience marks, see page 144,
00:31:29 --> 00:31:32 on any physical or combat skills.
00:31:32 --> 00:31:37 So I guess it, it, it comes in handy for like, basically I'm taking damage,
00:31:38 --> 00:31:41 but I, uh, I'll get some experience for like when it comes to like physical
00:31:41 --> 00:31:42 and combat prowess and such.
00:31:42 --> 00:31:47 And then professional skills of the, of the Vanguard is brawl,
00:31:47 --> 00:31:50 command, drive, horse drawn.
00:31:51 --> 00:31:55 Firearm, a handgun or rifle, melee weapon, a knife or club, well,
00:31:56 --> 00:32:02 or brass knucks, spot, stealth, strategy, toughness, and track.
00:32:02 --> 00:32:06 So at least there's going to be a toughness skill that I can like bump beef
00:32:06 --> 00:32:08 up to make myself a bit durable.
00:32:09 --> 00:32:13 Yeah, that's, that's the Vanguard. And that is, that is what Hayward Ashworth,
00:32:13 --> 00:32:15 the third is, is going to be about.
00:32:15 --> 00:32:21 I'm sure we'll get a Hayward Ashworth, the fourth, but point down the road.
00:32:22 --> 00:32:24 You're going to be in a party with other people, man. It'd be fine.
00:32:26 --> 00:32:30 You know, as I talk about the character sheet, which I am falling in love with, by the way,
00:32:30 --> 00:32:35 On page 26, it also, as you're going through the step three for professions,
00:32:35 --> 00:32:38 it mentions like what the purchase role modifier does.
00:32:38 --> 00:32:43 Oh, good. It also mentions where you actually are going to put your profession special.
00:32:43 --> 00:32:47 It refers to the character sheet page number two, and then certain equipment,
00:32:47 --> 00:32:49 pages two and three. So that's kind of nice.
00:32:50 --> 00:32:54 I really like how it's laid out. I usually, when it gets beyond two pages or
00:32:54 --> 00:32:58 really one page, because I'm more of a PBTA Of course, if you think about those
00:32:58 --> 00:33:01 pages are kind of loaded too,
00:33:01 --> 00:33:04 you know, they, they, it kind of turns me off, but as this goes right here,
00:33:05 --> 00:33:08 like everything's laid out super nice. Yeah.
00:33:09 --> 00:33:13 We're going to be doing step four now that is skills. Now, skills are,
00:33:13 --> 00:33:18 we're going to set and allocate skills to define your character's abilities and expertise.
00:33:18 --> 00:33:21 You'll divide skill points between professional and personal skills,
00:33:22 --> 00:33:25 giving your character's unique balance of strengths.
00:33:25 --> 00:33:31 So as far as professional skills points, as I am reading this from the book, by the way,
00:33:32 --> 00:33:38 page 26 toward the bottom, you'll find a list of professional skills in the
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 Selected Professionist description, which it did mention those.
00:33:41 --> 00:33:48 Allocate 250 points to these skills, ensuring no single skill stat starts above 75%.
00:33:48 --> 00:33:54 The codex skills listed in the Selected Profession are the only codex skills
00:33:54 --> 00:33:56 available to your character.
00:33:56 --> 00:34:03 The number of codex skills you select determines your codex lore value, which is step 10.
00:34:03 --> 00:34:07 It is strongly recommended you invest in multiple codex skills.
00:34:07 --> 00:34:10 Each one contributes to a higher codex lore.
00:34:11 --> 00:34:17 Now, personal skill points, you multiply your int by 10 to find your personal skill point pool.
00:34:18 --> 00:34:25 For additional skills, and you spend these skills on points that are all non-codec skills you like.
00:34:25 --> 00:34:29 With your Game Master's approval, add points spent to the skill,
00:34:30 --> 00:34:36 excuse me, add points spent on a skill to its base chance and professional skill
00:34:36 --> 00:34:38 point allocations. No skill, again, is above 75.
00:34:39 --> 00:34:47 There is a cap of 50% per personal skills that range too far outside the character's profession.
00:34:47 --> 00:34:54 So I can't be a forger sniper. And there are special rules for applying learning
00:34:54 --> 00:34:58 codec skills outside those provided by your selected profession.
00:34:58 --> 00:35:03 To gain additional codec skills, you may need to seek training and other expertise
00:35:03 --> 00:35:09 in those skills or acquire them through significant game experiences.
00:35:10 --> 00:35:14 So yeah, you get to further your skills up. So it looks like we're going to
00:35:14 --> 00:35:16 be doing a little bit of math game.
00:35:17 --> 00:35:20 And that looks like it's time for another break.
00:35:20 --> 00:35:26 Does that sound about right for you, Chris? After these messages, we'll be right back.
00:35:58 --> 00:36:06 We're back. Back again. Well, I mean, this was a whole lot easier than I thought it would be.
00:36:07 --> 00:36:11 We divvied up our points. So again, we did our professional points,
00:36:11 --> 00:36:14 which, I mean, we threw some numbers in here.
00:36:14 --> 00:36:20 I'm trying to think if anything kind of went a little off as I thought,
00:36:20 --> 00:36:25 but it seemed like the skills, dividing the 250 up between everything that I get as a priest.
00:36:25 --> 00:36:31 It seems like I had to spread that 250 kind of thin, but I managed to get a
00:36:31 --> 00:36:33 little bit of something in everything.
00:36:33 --> 00:36:36 And then, you know, I was able to tweak it and then, you know,
00:36:36 --> 00:36:41 I may end up tweaking a bit further later on, but I did make sure that I bumped
00:36:41 --> 00:36:45 up some of my priestly stuff like etiquette, religious, like, you know,
00:36:46 --> 00:36:51 kind of stuck with my other worldly beings at 10 and just kind of bounced around
00:36:51 --> 00:36:54 with, with this stuff here, physical stuff.
00:36:54 --> 00:36:57 I did put like 15 in it, so it was a times 10.
00:36:57 --> 00:37:02 Anyway, my aunt, my aunt times 10, and I had 150 points.
00:37:02 --> 00:37:07 And honestly, I just kind of spread everything out between personal skills,
00:37:07 --> 00:37:11 talking, and then perception and a few mental things.
00:37:12 --> 00:37:15 You know, to be honest with you, I thought I may be doing this kind of long,
00:37:15 --> 00:37:19 but on to starving those website, they have character sheets that have been
00:37:19 --> 00:37:22 pre-generated and they've been putting out one every week or so.
00:37:22 --> 00:37:25 They haven't got to the priest yet, but I looked at a couple of the other character
00:37:25 --> 00:37:28 sheets that the creators had and they were pretty nice.
00:37:28 --> 00:37:32 And I mean, none of these are, I didn't have anything above 50 anywhere.
00:37:33 --> 00:37:36 Mainly my highest ones are typically 40 and, you know, we're kind of starting
00:37:36 --> 00:37:37 out and you level up anyway.
00:37:38 --> 00:37:41 Yeah. Do you have any, uh, any thoughts on it? Uh, yeah.
00:37:41 --> 00:37:47 So i mean well i really only had like a hand like the i chose what the i went
00:37:47 --> 00:37:51 with the professional or the profession skills that they gave me so like command
00:37:51 --> 00:37:55 of 40 and i'm using like the bait i'm kind of like added on to the base stuff
00:37:55 --> 00:37:59 so like i did give myself a pretty high first aid.
00:38:00 --> 00:38:03 Because i figure my character's probably used to patching himself
00:38:03 --> 00:38:07 up given how many scars and how fugly he looks i
00:38:07 --> 00:38:10 restrained from giving my care so the character has spot
00:38:10 --> 00:38:13 and sense like basically sensing his surroundings and
00:38:13 --> 00:38:16 like and and like a good visual like sensory
00:38:16 --> 00:38:19 but like i refuse to give my character like any additional
00:38:19 --> 00:38:22 things from base for listen because of like
00:38:22 --> 00:38:24 again i'm wanting to have this character be like kind of like a fighter so like
00:38:24 --> 00:38:31 he's got some kind of like maybe some ear damage as a result of that yeah otherwise
00:38:31 --> 00:38:36 i gave the character some climb dodge drive horse ridden just at like kind of
00:38:36 --> 00:38:42 like pretty decent values about like about uh anywhere between like 45 and 30 to 50.
00:38:42 --> 00:38:48 I had to give my character Heavy Machinery, specifically Crane.
00:38:48 --> 00:38:53 Who knows if that'll ever come up, but Heavy Machinery, it's a BRPG system like
00:38:53 --> 00:38:56 Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
00:38:57 --> 00:39:06 And as we know, as fans of RPPR and Caleb Stokes, Heavy Machinery is vital for every scenario.
00:39:07 --> 00:39:12 Indeed. So I gave my character specifically a little boost. Not,
00:39:12 --> 00:39:17 not, not a lot, like 21% in, in heavy machinery use of cranes.
00:39:17 --> 00:39:22 Like, so we'll, I, I expect there to be a, a, a large like industrial crane in every scenario.
00:39:23 --> 00:39:25 I mean, they got to work on that. I will riot.
00:39:26 --> 00:39:29 Exactly. I will riot if I don't get an opportunity to use crane.
00:39:31 --> 00:39:35 And then also I gave myself grapple and like maxed out my, my brawl.
00:39:35 --> 00:39:39 Cause I'm going with like a fighter kind of type character. So. Yeah.
00:39:39 --> 00:39:43 But other than that, yeah, it was basically the, uh, characters pretty like
00:39:43 --> 00:39:49 with, with the skills I was given as like what this, this profession archetype is supposed to have.
00:39:49 --> 00:39:53 And like, then with some like extra personal skills, like I,
00:39:53 --> 00:39:56 I went pretty just well-rounded, I think.
00:39:57 --> 00:39:59 Yeah. For the, for the allocation. So.
00:40:00 --> 00:40:03 I mean, honestly with myself, I, and I think you've kind of did the same,
00:40:04 --> 00:40:08 you recommended that I do it of the 10 professional skills I had,
00:40:08 --> 00:40:13 I just threw 25 into everything. and as I kind of whittled them around, you know.
00:40:13 --> 00:40:17 Yeah, just fudged the numbers. And then if our characters do end up in a session
00:40:17 --> 00:40:20 together, like it'll be kind of a nice like twist because like you'll be the
00:40:20 --> 00:40:25 talkie, like you'll be the charismatic preacher and I'll be the big strong man behind you.
00:40:26 --> 00:40:33 My wheelchair, you push me around and you have a... No, you'll be on my back, like on my shoulders.
00:40:33 --> 00:40:36 You'll be, again, you're master, I'm blastered.
00:40:37 --> 00:40:40 Welcome to a barter town a barter
00:40:40 --> 00:40:43 town all right man looks like we're at step five
00:40:43 --> 00:40:46 so this is where we're getting to the background so we're going to do this one
00:40:46 --> 00:40:53 live on the air here well live live fucking we'll do it live so step five on
00:40:53 --> 00:40:57 page 26 still says select the background add depth to your character's history
00:40:57 --> 00:41:02 and abilities your background provides bonuses and modifiers that shape your character.
00:41:02 --> 00:41:08 Refer to the background row table on page 64 and row dice indicated for your
00:41:08 --> 00:41:11 profession to determine your background.
00:41:11 --> 00:41:17 Each background includes description, bonus skills, purchase role modifier, and holy faith factor.
00:41:18 --> 00:41:23 And a few little addendums here, you know, add the background bonus skills to
00:41:23 --> 00:41:25 your character sheet. Max is 75.
00:41:26 --> 00:41:31 Add background purchase role modifier to the purchase role modifier on the character
00:41:31 --> 00:41:36 sheet and add the holy faith factor to the section on the character sheet.
00:41:36 --> 00:41:38 So let's go ahead and look at page 64.
00:41:39 --> 00:41:43 I'm really curious how this is going to pan out with my character on a roll.
00:41:44 --> 00:41:52 So yeah, the backgrounds that we are given, and they each have a page allocation to them.
00:41:52 --> 00:41:58 But in terms of the background names or the names for these backgrounds, We have urban atheist,
00:41:59 --> 00:42:09 skeptical academic, raised by nobles, skeptical analyst, rural resident, philosopher.
00:42:10 --> 00:42:15 Artistic upbringing, naturalist, cultural guardian, humanitarian.
00:42:17 --> 00:42:20 Astrological enthusiast, unyielding visionary,
00:42:21 --> 00:42:28 reformed cultist, restless seeker, faithful artisan, altruistic upbringing,
00:42:29 --> 00:42:32 devout convert, religious apprentice,
00:42:33 --> 00:42:37 raised by religious fanatics, and clerical orphan.
00:42:37 --> 00:42:44 So those are the 20 backgrounds that are provided that we get to roll a die 20 off for. Yeah.
00:42:46 --> 00:42:50 And it says there's also a bonus on your character sheet. So if you look at
00:42:50 --> 00:42:52 it. Yes. For a profession.
00:42:53 --> 00:42:57 I'm just trying to figure this out too. Oh, so are you talking about the profession purchase?
00:42:58 --> 00:43:02 No, I thought there was something else here. Hold on. Scrolling down.
00:43:03 --> 00:43:10 Okay. So it also mentions. Oh, yeah. background row 3d6 plus 2 is what mine
00:43:10 --> 00:43:11 says. Oh, so that's for you.
00:43:11 --> 00:43:13 That's what yours says. Okay, because I just have a flat D20.
00:43:14 --> 00:43:18 What does yours say? Mine just has a flat D20. Under the modifier?
00:43:18 --> 00:43:21 No, no. So for the background roll D20.
00:43:22 --> 00:43:25 That's what I'm trying to figure out here. So yeah,
00:43:25 --> 00:43:31 I think, I believe the background roll, like that's like what you're supposed to roll.
00:43:32 --> 00:43:36 That is interesting. Yeah, yours is D20 and mine's 3D6 plus two.
00:43:36 --> 00:43:41 Okay, we're going back. Let's go back up to 53 or 50, sorry,
00:43:41 --> 00:43:42 52, which I think is where the.
00:43:43 --> 00:43:46 Your page, Vanguard's on 63. Let's go to.
00:43:47 --> 00:43:50 Hang on. Where is this thing? That's weird. It doesn't show.
00:43:50 --> 00:43:53 Because like on page 51 there's a bunch of information about
00:43:53 --> 00:43:56 like what you're what it means when it says like starting gear and
00:43:56 --> 00:43:59 like profession specials and all that stuff but it doesn't say anything for the
00:43:59 --> 00:44:04 profession for the background role so
00:44:04 --> 00:44:08 weird that's just
00:44:08 --> 00:44:13 because like a d12 like a max on a d12 plus four or like for you it's a priest
00:44:13 --> 00:44:21 a three die six plus two that's going to be 12 20 well that's a 20 and then
00:44:21 --> 00:44:25 oh maybe okay maybe oh d12 you know so they all.
00:44:26 --> 00:44:31 That's so dumb why are they all like they're all are they all just different
00:44:31 --> 00:44:38 ways of rolling a 20 like rolling from an option of 20 yeah one's a d10 plus
00:44:38 --> 00:44:41 10 for one and relic study i thought Oh.
00:44:42 --> 00:44:45 One's a D12 for the Occult Detective. Yeah.
00:44:46 --> 00:44:48 So for that one, you can only get...
00:44:49 --> 00:44:54 Like just about, just over half of the options. If you roll that one.
00:44:54 --> 00:44:57 Let's take a look at this here, because I mean, it's a little atypical,
00:44:58 --> 00:45:00 but I'm up for trying it. It's peculiar.
00:45:00 --> 00:45:05 You say the least. 64 is the age. So I'm going to get this, go to the 64 again,
00:45:05 --> 00:45:09 and I'm going to roll my 3d6 plus two and see what I get.
00:45:09 --> 00:45:12 Oh, I guess, I guess it makes sense. Like, because what was it? D12.
00:45:13 --> 00:45:17 So like they can't get reformed cultist, restless seeker, faithful artisan,
00:45:17 --> 00:45:23 altruistic upbringing, devote, convert, religious apprentice, raised by.
00:45:23 --> 00:45:28 So maybe, maybe those ones are like the more like religious versus like the
00:45:28 --> 00:45:30 more academic side of things. Yeah.
00:45:31 --> 00:45:34 Yeah. It's just interesting that the, they don't, they won't let the occult
00:45:34 --> 00:45:37 detective have a religious upbringing.
00:45:37 --> 00:45:44 Yeah. It's, it's clever. I like it. In the beginning I was kind of thrown off, but so.
00:45:44 --> 00:45:46 All right, Chris, it's time to roll.
00:45:46 --> 00:45:53 Also i love i do look in in faithful like 19th century noir the detective is
00:45:53 --> 00:45:58 not allowed an altruistic upbringing it's got to be a dirty world for the for
00:45:58 --> 00:46:05 the detective always and forever all right so you got a 16 yeah it's just funny you mentioned.
00:46:06 --> 00:46:14 I have an altruistic upbringing yep and see see page 65 for details on the on
00:46:14 --> 00:46:19 that on that background so what is yours sir uh let's find out let's give me
00:46:19 --> 00:46:21 self-enrolling i've got the one,
00:46:21 --> 00:46:30 next to yours uh 17 so devout convert wait yeah you found god in a pool of your
00:46:30 --> 00:46:36 own blood in a box of man i don't have any faith unless unless this this background gives me faith but.
00:46:37 --> 00:46:41 Okay, so this gives me a 0.5 holy faith factor.
00:46:42 --> 00:46:46 And it decreases my purchase roll modifier by minus five.
00:46:47 --> 00:46:52 So regarding that, like, purchase roll modifier that we see in the profession
00:46:52 --> 00:46:55 stats or, like, the profession options and such,
00:46:55 --> 00:47:01 that basically dictates, like, what you can afford or what you can purchase
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03 in terms of, like, gear and stuff.
00:47:03 --> 00:47:08 So, and then, so yeah. So, yeah, I guess, do you want to go with yours or describe
00:47:08 --> 00:47:10 your altruistic upbringing?
00:47:10 --> 00:47:14 I was raised in an environment that emphasized compassion, empathy,
00:47:14 --> 00:47:15 and the importance of helping others.
00:47:16 --> 00:47:21 Whether it was a family dedicated to charitable work, religious community focused on service,
00:47:21 --> 00:47:25 or a close-knit group of friends always ready to lend a hand,
00:47:25 --> 00:47:30 your formative years instilled in you a deep sense of responsibility towards
00:47:30 --> 00:47:32 those in need, which works good for the priests.
00:47:32 --> 00:47:36 This upbringing fostered strong social skills
00:47:36 --> 00:47:39 and a genuine desire to connect with people from
00:47:39 --> 00:47:42 all walks of life so the details is
00:47:42 --> 00:47:45 it's going to increase it i get a 0.5 for my holy
00:47:45 --> 00:47:49 faith factor which is still a little bit of a mystery to me my personal girl
00:47:49 --> 00:47:56 modifier i get another additional plus five and my motivation row is 3d4 plus
00:47:56 --> 00:48:04 two and i do dig the skill bonuses so my insight i I get a plus 20 into that, which, God.
00:48:05 --> 00:48:11 I can add that in there and then I also get etiquette cultural norms at plus 20. Nice. So, yeah.
00:48:12 --> 00:48:18 Well, for the devout convert, your journey to faith was not a simple one,
00:48:18 --> 00:48:19 despite being a simple man.
00:48:21 --> 00:48:25 Mongo just bought in Game of Life.
00:48:25 --> 00:48:30 No, I'm not going to be like super dumb in this character because I don't think
00:48:30 --> 00:48:31 a nine is actually that bad.
00:48:32 --> 00:48:38 No. regardless your journey to faith has not been a simple one once a skeptic
00:48:38 --> 00:48:43 or perhaps even an outright non-believer you underwent a profound transformation
00:48:43 --> 00:48:49 that led to your embrace of the spiritual path so i don't think maybe that was
00:48:49 --> 00:48:51 either like i almost died in the ring and saw and
00:48:52 --> 00:48:55 think i saw the angels or something like that like i was like dead
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57 i was almost i was like maybe technically dead for
00:48:57 --> 00:49:00 like a set for a few moments or and then came back
00:49:00 --> 00:49:03 or like maybe when the hatchet went through my
00:49:03 --> 00:49:06 almost like went through my face i saw
00:49:06 --> 00:49:09 god i saw my life flash before my
00:49:09 --> 00:49:13 eyes and i had a spiritual awakening yeah whether
00:49:13 --> 00:49:18 the yeah whether through a sudden epiphany or a gradual awakening or a life-altering
00:49:18 --> 00:49:24 experience just gonna check that off your newfound faith ignited a passion within
00:49:24 --> 00:49:30 you driving you to delve into religious studies and share your beliefs with others.
00:49:30 --> 00:49:39 So this pugilist turned, so I'm a pugilist turned religious heavy.
00:49:41 --> 00:49:46 Which I guess makes sense. I guess this is sort of like how I came into the
00:49:46 --> 00:49:53 attention of the orders is that I was like I basically found God.
00:49:54 --> 00:49:57 Maybe I found the halo in the ring.
00:49:59 --> 00:50:02 And then started actually attending, like going to church and started,
00:50:02 --> 00:50:05 started seeking out religious studies.
00:50:06 --> 00:50:11 Was it Paul that was shirk blind while riding a city by God?
00:50:11 --> 00:50:16 Maybe. It could have been, it's, it's, it's been a while. Been a while.
00:50:22 --> 00:50:26 Had to get that out of your system. Yeah. No, I need. Great.
00:50:27 --> 00:50:31 My purchase. Sorry. my purchase so for my profession my purchase roll modifier
00:50:31 --> 00:50:39 was a plus 10 and and now it's a five no i just added it says plus no mine's
00:50:39 --> 00:50:41 mine's minus five yours is plus five sir,
00:50:42 --> 00:50:46 okay i'm just glad i didn't get clerical sorry i'm just glad i didn't get clerical
00:50:46 --> 00:50:51 orphan because that's a minus 10 i'd have nothing for purchase it would be starting
00:50:51 --> 00:50:55 from finish sorry i just can't see on the character sheet where,
00:50:56 --> 00:50:58 motivational role is. It says I got three.
00:50:58 --> 00:51:01 That is, it's going to come up. I think we actually have to,
00:51:01 --> 00:51:02 we have to go find that one.
00:51:02 --> 00:51:06 Cause that is, I think like our, oh, that's at the top of your character sheet,
00:51:06 --> 00:51:07 actually your motivations.
00:51:08 --> 00:51:10 So that's also where you, and right above that is where you put your background,
00:51:10 --> 00:51:14 uh, Seth. So. Oh, snake, it would have bit me.
00:51:15 --> 00:51:20 Yeah, I'll just kind of fill that in there. And I'm pleased with mine.
00:51:20 --> 00:51:22 And I think yours makes a very unique character.
00:51:23 --> 00:51:26 Yeah, it's kind of built the character. It's kind of like establishing the character
00:51:26 --> 00:51:28 background. What a concept.
00:51:30 --> 00:51:33 Helping elaborate on like, basically, it's sort of like character building or
00:51:33 --> 00:51:35 like world building or like lore building the character.
00:51:36 --> 00:51:40 And I do like, looking back, I do like how the roles are slightly,
00:51:40 --> 00:51:43 you know, modified by like 3D 6 plus 2 and etc.
00:51:43 --> 00:51:50 Like that that i do like how they kind of finagled where certain things were just not an option for,
00:51:51 --> 00:51:54 other you know backgrounds or yeah
00:51:54 --> 00:51:58 for your professions so it's pretty cool well
00:51:58 --> 00:52:02 i think this is going to take us on to move
00:52:02 --> 00:52:05 around here to step the next
00:52:05 --> 00:52:10 step is motivate step six motivations yeah oddly enough you determine your character's
00:52:10 --> 00:52:17 driving purpose row for motivation based on your background so that was 3d for
00:52:17 --> 00:52:23 72 and look at page 72 yeah it's a similarly another.
00:52:24 --> 00:52:30 20 20 uh spot table so i won't give there's a lot of them and they're like they're
00:52:30 --> 00:52:33 actually like like whole things but we'll just go with like whatever ones we
00:52:33 --> 00:52:38 come on like i'll just bring up whichever ones we we come across as ours so,
00:52:39 --> 00:52:43 Sounds good. I've got my number. Do you got yours? I've got a,
00:52:43 --> 00:52:44 I got to grab mine again. Hang on.
00:52:46 --> 00:52:50 Mine is going to be three die four plus six.
00:52:50 --> 00:52:54 So going with this, I've got a 16. What did you get?
00:52:55 --> 00:52:59 Quite a few. I have got a nine.
00:53:00 --> 00:53:06 I am going to have to explore ancient myths and their relevance today.
00:53:06 --> 00:53:10 So it would tie in with the whole Codex thing. You're going to love mine.
00:53:11 --> 00:53:15 Sorry. No, you continue. Sorry. No, no, no. I want to hear yours, sir.
00:53:16 --> 00:53:21 To fight and eradicate demonic presences in the world with my fists.
00:53:22 --> 00:53:24 I'm going to punch the shit out of Satan.
00:53:27 --> 00:53:32 That's awesome. My God. And that does give us bonuses to our,
00:53:32 --> 00:53:37 our Holy faith and a starting experience check marks. And I assume that we just
00:53:37 --> 00:53:42 were just going to go ahead and row those for like my Holy Faith. Yeah.
00:53:42 --> 00:53:46 I think it started at, it said one and then I got a one elsewhere.
00:53:46 --> 00:53:51 So I thought I had it at, now I could totally be screwing this up and I may
00:53:51 --> 00:53:52 need to double check this stuff.
00:53:53 --> 00:53:58 Yeah. Cause I've got a, I grabbed a six, I think.
00:53:58 --> 00:54:03 So I have a, yeah, so I have a six on my, for my Holy Faith bonus.
00:54:04 --> 00:54:07 So. Oh, that's a bonus. That's not your factor. Okay.
00:54:08 --> 00:54:12 So. Bonus is, well. I feel like, I think, so I think Holy Faith,
00:54:13 --> 00:54:18 I think this is essentially the Exorcist Codex's like sanity system.
00:54:19 --> 00:54:22 Like your, your spiritual scent, your spiritual stuff. Yeah.
00:54:23 --> 00:54:26 Cause like I'm seeing under, like below, like underneath the holy faith factors
00:54:26 --> 00:54:29 and stuff, there's also demonic corruption and demon marks.
00:54:30 --> 00:54:33 So that that's gotta be like, you're kind of like the, you're slipping into
00:54:33 --> 00:54:34 like insanity or like you're slipping
00:54:34 --> 00:54:38 into the, into, you're falling to corruption of the, of the demons.
00:54:39 --> 00:54:44 You also get to mark holy faith experience.
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47 Check marks. I'm not sure where that is.
00:54:47 --> 00:54:53 Oh no. So my current holy faith, this character sheet you provided,
00:54:53 --> 00:54:57 it actually gives you your current holy faith and such.
00:54:58 --> 00:55:04 So for example, I have a factor of 0.5, my faith bonus is 6.
00:55:05 --> 00:55:12 So my current holy faith is 3 as a result of that. Mine started out as 1.
00:55:13 --> 00:55:18 And I've got, and I thought I had another, holy faith, I'll have to double check
00:55:18 --> 00:55:20 that in my rows and all that.
00:55:20 --> 00:55:25 But I think I got around a four, maybe. No, not a four, 2.5.
00:55:26 --> 00:55:30 I had to double check it. It's not worth marking now. And I'm just looking to
00:55:30 --> 00:55:34 see, do you see where you mark starting experience checkmarks?
00:55:35 --> 00:55:39 Experience checkmarks. Oh, yeah, there was something I saw. Experience,
00:55:39 --> 00:55:43 no, that's not it. I thought I saw something that was like experience check marks.
00:55:44 --> 00:55:47 Oh, there it is. It's, oh no, it's expense boxes. That's what I saw.
00:55:48 --> 00:55:52 No, the only thing I saw for experience, I think was up at the top of the first
00:55:52 --> 00:55:53 page, which was experience bonus.
00:55:54 --> 00:55:59 It is for experience bonus. That's right. It affects that right there.
00:55:59 --> 00:56:02 So that looks like it'd already be modified. Yeah.
00:56:03 --> 00:56:07 Looks like we got this here. If we've messed this up, I do apologize.
00:56:08 --> 00:56:14 It's also 10 p.m. So. Oh, shit. Yeah. Just want to make sure I got this right. Oh, go ahead.
00:56:15 --> 00:56:17 Max HP con plus size.
00:56:19 --> 00:56:23 Con 27 plus your toughness modifier.
00:56:24 --> 00:56:28 It's interesting. I'm not sure how HP applies in this game. Sorry.
00:56:29 --> 00:56:33 Oh, my max HP is that. Okay, that makes sense. Sorry.
00:56:34 --> 00:56:39 I think we are next to move on to step seven, aren't we? I believe so.
00:56:40 --> 00:56:46 All right. All right. So it looks like step seven, as I scroll down the PDF
00:56:46 --> 00:56:49 here, go on time, quirks and habits.
00:56:49 --> 00:56:53 There's a quirks and habits table on page 74.
00:56:53 --> 00:56:56 These traits add depth and individuality to your character.
00:56:57 --> 00:56:59 Note the selected quirks and habits on your character sheet.
00:57:00 --> 00:57:01 You can also create your own quirk.
00:57:02 --> 00:57:07 So, row or choose. So, I've been rowing the whole damn time.
00:57:07 --> 00:57:08 Might as well row now, man.
00:57:09 --> 00:57:11 Yeah, let's go ahead and look at 74.
00:57:12 --> 00:57:16 Okay. All right. I got 44. So. 1D100.
00:57:18 --> 00:57:22 All right. That's interesting. Apparently, my character's into feng shui,
00:57:22 --> 00:57:24 like compulsive feng shui.
00:57:25 --> 00:57:28 Obsessively rearrange furniture wherever they go.
00:57:31 --> 00:57:34 My odd little quirk is 77 i
00:57:34 --> 00:57:38 refuse to drink from glasses with chips or cracks i've
00:57:38 --> 00:57:42 been i don't want glass in my beverage that glass
00:57:42 --> 00:57:46 has a crack in it what about that one a hair little girl
00:57:46 --> 00:57:49 from uh signs yeah you know that like
00:57:49 --> 00:57:52 the uh the there's a theory going on like the uh
00:57:52 --> 00:57:55 the twist of that movie like the that
00:57:55 --> 00:57:58 we all kind of missed was the fact that they weren't actually aliens and
00:57:58 --> 00:58:01 that they were in fact demons yeah and that's why
00:58:01 --> 00:58:04 the water in the in the in the former preacher man's
00:58:04 --> 00:58:08 house was actually affecting him or affecting
00:58:08 --> 00:58:13 them that's cool I like that yeah like I really love that I honestly like totally
00:58:13 --> 00:58:17 dig that theory of like and like that it'd be also really interesting because
00:58:17 --> 00:58:20 like yeah like that's what like we think that like it's they're aliens but they
00:58:20 --> 00:58:26 and they might also be like in the in the broadest spectrum of that term like yeah they are aliens,
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28 but they are, in fact, also demons of, like,
00:58:29 --> 00:58:31 that have been worn through faiths. So, yeah.
00:58:32 --> 00:58:37 I think for added depth, you can roll twice and combine two quirks and habits
00:58:37 --> 00:58:40 to create a more complex invasion character personality.
00:58:40 --> 00:58:42 Let's roll one more, man. All right, I'll roll another one.
00:58:43 --> 00:58:45 Let's see where we go. Oh, that's gonna be...
00:58:47 --> 00:58:55 I think whispers affirmations to themselves in stressful moments. I like that.
00:58:55 --> 00:58:57 I dig that. Yeah.
00:58:58 --> 00:59:02 35 has a habit of chewing on the end of pens or pencils.
00:59:03 --> 00:59:06 So it's almost like a risk taking thing.
00:59:06 --> 00:59:13 So I don't want to cut myself or hurt myself, but there's a little bit of a
00:59:13 --> 00:59:17 thing about getting up to the edge to where you've mangled the tip of an ink
00:59:17 --> 00:59:19 pen or something like that,
00:59:19 --> 00:59:21 and it's just to the point that it's starting to get rough that you could cut
00:59:21 --> 00:59:23 your lips or your tongue or something like that.
00:59:24 --> 00:59:27 You know, just some kind of odd thing. But I do do these quirks.
00:59:27 --> 00:59:33 And thank you, creators, for creating many roll tables. I dig this.
00:59:34 --> 00:59:37 I'll have to give that some thought to how to tie those in a little bit more.
00:59:37 --> 00:59:39 But there's definitely some mouth thing going on here.
00:59:40 --> 00:59:43 So step eight, hip points and wounds.
00:59:43 --> 00:59:46 So our hit points were already calculated I
00:59:46 --> 00:59:49 think by the character sheet unless it just
00:59:49 --> 00:59:52 defaults as 10 hang on let's take a look here
00:59:52 --> 00:59:55 determine your character sheet determine your character's durability
00:59:55 --> 00:59:58 by calculating hit points and setting threshold
00:59:58 --> 01:00:01 setting thresholds for minor major wounds
01:00:01 --> 01:00:04 these values help track the effects
01:00:04 --> 01:00:08 of damage taken in combat so for max hit points calculate
01:00:08 --> 01:00:12 your total hit points by adding con in size
01:00:12 --> 01:00:15 dividing by 2 and rounding
01:00:15 --> 01:00:18 up if your toughness skill is 10
01:00:18 --> 01:00:21 or higher add the appropriate HP
01:00:21 --> 01:00:28 modifier mine it's actually I thought it defaulted as 10 for max HP but it looks
01:00:28 --> 01:00:34 like mine would be 18 so that divided I'm curious yeah so mine is con plus size
01:00:34 --> 01:00:39 so 10 plus 17 so 27 divided by 2.
01:00:41 --> 01:00:44 Two so it'd be 13 and rounded up so
01:00:44 --> 01:00:52 14 and then if your toughness skill is 10 or higher add the appropriate hp modifier
01:00:52 --> 01:00:57 what does that mean what's your toughness because my my toughness modifier is
01:00:57 --> 01:01:02 55 that's not so what is well i'm just like what is that in,
01:01:03 --> 01:01:08 because then my my my hp is actually not supposed to be 10 so like it says on
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10 the character sheet But what's a toughness modifier?
01:01:11 --> 01:01:15 All right. So I'm looking through it right now. Okay.
01:01:15 --> 01:01:20 Look at page 124 for your toughness description. Sorry. Page 24?
01:01:21 --> 01:01:24 124. 124. Okay. There we go.
01:01:24 --> 01:01:30 So toughness modifier bonus to your character's hit points based on proficiency with toughness skills.
01:01:31 --> 01:01:35 It represents your character's ability to endure physical punishment and remain functional.
01:01:36 --> 01:01:42 Okay. So my character has a 19 as their max HP and the, the character sheet
01:01:42 --> 01:01:49 does improve, does, does, does already do the math for the 25% and 50%.
01:01:51 --> 01:01:56 So good to know. If you're, you know, if you're toughness, that's, that's cool.
01:01:56 --> 01:02:00 Again, I like that. Is this a little bit of work? Yeah. To get that,
01:02:00 --> 01:02:04 but that's cool. So I'm, I'm, I'm basically nine hit points.
01:02:04 --> 01:02:07 Cause it said round up, but I mean, do I round up nine to 10?
01:02:08 --> 01:02:10 Well, no, it's, it's like, see, I got a 13.5.
01:02:11 --> 01:02:17 So I would round that up to 14. Yeah. I got nine and it was size and con. Yeah.
01:02:17 --> 01:02:23 Okay. All right. And then I guess next up is step nine, which is age.
01:02:24 --> 01:02:28 Now I did already give my character the age of 27, but I am willing to roll
01:02:28 --> 01:02:29 the dice just to see what I get.
01:02:29 --> 01:02:32 And I will just decide which one I want to keep.
01:02:33 --> 01:02:39 For characters is 20 plus three, two, six. All right. So let's go ahead and
01:02:39 --> 01:02:41 roll and see how old my guy is.
01:02:41 --> 01:02:46 If yes, if you want to roll your age, 20. And then, so three dice six.
01:02:46 --> 01:02:48 Let's go with that. Taste roller.
01:02:50 --> 01:02:53 Wow. Did I, wait, hang on.
01:02:53 --> 01:03:00 Did I actually, so the default age for your character is 20 plus three die six years old, right?
01:03:01 --> 01:03:05 Default age of characters is 20 plus three die six. Yes. Just gonna,
01:03:05 --> 01:03:09 I'm just gonna go ahead and screenshot something for you and send. So I have confirmation.
01:03:09 --> 01:03:12 All right, guys, I'll tell you if he's lying to me. Yeah.
01:03:13 --> 01:03:18 Seven. So seven. And that's added to 20 as a default.
01:03:18 --> 01:03:22 And what age did I go with? Like at the start of this whole thing?
01:03:22 --> 01:03:25 You said like 27, didn't you? I said 27.
01:03:26 --> 01:03:29 Ah, well. So it was meant to be.
01:03:30 --> 01:03:37 I rode, I basically rode 11. So it took me up to, I'm age 31. All right.
01:03:38 --> 01:03:41 So if you wish to buy order, okay, approval.
01:03:42 --> 01:03:47 Got another character sheet. Now we're going to, we're kind of rounding up here, guys.
01:03:47 --> 01:03:51 We're getting to the tail end of this stuff. It's going to be pretty quick.
01:03:52 --> 01:03:55 So step 10 is on page 30. It's the Codex lore.
01:03:55 --> 01:03:58 Your codex lore is determined by the number of codex
01:03:58 --> 01:04:01 skills you selected during character creation county
01:04:01 --> 01:04:04 codex skill marks which you probably don't
01:04:04 --> 01:04:12 have any i have nothing nothing i am i i'm willing to learn but i'm not there
01:04:12 --> 01:04:15 yet for codex lore i'm just starting
01:04:15 --> 01:04:21 to read the bible now i'm on i'm on genetics i got stuck at numbers.
01:04:24 --> 01:04:29 It got really boring in numbers and then this guy begot this guy who we got
01:04:29 --> 01:04:31 this guy it's just oh my god,
01:04:32 --> 01:04:38 where's that corinthian i can't anyway all right i do some math real quick chris
01:04:38 --> 01:04:42 i wonder if the etiquette,
01:04:43 --> 01:04:49 knowledge and all that kind of affected that. I need to go look at the priest. It does, I think. Yeah.
01:04:49 --> 01:04:53 Depending on what kind, because you have etiquette like other worldly beings,
01:04:53 --> 01:04:58 and I think I saw that one had a cross next to it.
01:04:58 --> 01:05:02 So, like when I was looking at your priest character sheet, or your priest sheet.
01:05:04 --> 01:05:07 All right, yeah, I can use your character sheet, really. So it's,
01:05:08 --> 01:05:11 there's like a cross, and then there's like a cross and a circle.
01:05:11 --> 01:05:15 Is it the one with the... No, looking at the, I think at the codex is the,
01:05:15 --> 01:05:17 is the cross with the, with the circle.
01:05:17 --> 01:05:20 Cause at the bottom of the, of the first page of your character sheet,
01:05:20 --> 01:05:24 you, you can see the cross with the circle and it right next to it says codex skills.
01:05:25 --> 01:05:28 So I have, I have six codex skills.
01:05:29 --> 01:05:33 So what's that mean? Let's figure it out. I look at page 37.
01:05:34 --> 01:05:35 Yeah. Go to page 37.
01:05:38 --> 01:05:41 So, oh God. uh
01:05:41 --> 01:05:44 codec lower value represents the
01:05:44 --> 01:05:47 depth of your connection you begin
01:05:47 --> 01:05:50 with the base value determined by the number of codec skills selected
01:05:50 --> 01:05:53 during character creation so those marked with the
01:05:53 --> 01:05:56 cross in a circle improvement comes
01:05:56 --> 01:06:00 through experience with demonic entities and all that such so
01:06:00 --> 01:06:04 your basic value your
01:06:04 --> 01:06:08 base value is that number what was that number again six six
01:06:08 --> 01:06:12 so if it's under if it's on the on the table for
01:06:12 --> 01:06:15 like lore benefits and stuff like that if it's under nine for your
01:06:15 --> 01:06:18 value you have 40 a 40
01:06:18 --> 01:06:25 chance codec lore checks are used to gain clues insight and hints during a scenario
01:06:25 --> 01:06:34 to perform a check a roll one die a 1d hundred against your codec lower percentage
01:06:34 --> 01:06:36 before making this role,
01:06:36 --> 01:06:41 you must clearly specify that what you, what you are seeking insight about and
01:06:41 --> 01:06:44 must have already gathered relevant items,
01:06:44 --> 01:06:46 texts, and knowledge. Yeah.
01:06:47 --> 01:06:52 So, yeah. So, I guess I even probably have, like, mine's probably just,
01:06:52 --> 01:06:56 like, a 40% chance because I'm zero on that.
01:06:57 --> 01:07:02 And when you click it, it actually modifies on the character sheet your current holy faith. Okay.
01:07:03 --> 01:07:08 So, when I clicked six, it moved me up to, like, 25.
01:07:09 --> 01:07:12 Gotcha. Pretty cool. I'm still trying to figure this out.
01:07:12 --> 01:07:15 Again, if we get anything wrong, we apologize. Guys, we're kind of,
01:07:15 --> 01:07:17 this is our first time looking at this stuff.
01:07:18 --> 01:07:20 This is, in fact, our first rodeo. Yeah.
01:07:21 --> 01:07:24 I do love, I mean, I read the beginning stuff about the world,
01:07:24 --> 01:07:26 but I didn't go into the system.
01:07:26 --> 01:07:29 Because, you know, God knows I ain't going to do a podcast about creating characters
01:07:29 --> 01:07:32 or anything crazy like that. What? I don't. Crazy.
01:07:33 --> 01:07:37 Let's see. I am trying to get to the next. Okay, so we're Codex lore.
01:07:38 --> 01:07:42 Now we're on to basically the system sanity, I think, is what the next one is.
01:07:42 --> 01:07:44 The holy faith and human corruption.
01:07:45 --> 01:07:48 Yeah. So if you let me, I'll... I'll go, please.
01:07:49 --> 01:07:53 Your holy faith measures your character's spiritual connection and devotion.
01:07:53 --> 01:07:56 Holy faith factor. Initially, your character... So as we've been kind of.
01:07:57 --> 01:08:00 Dipping our toes in on this through the other steps.
01:08:01 --> 01:08:06 Initially, your character's holy faith factor is the sum of your professions
01:08:06 --> 01:08:08 and backgrounds holy faith factor.
01:08:08 --> 01:08:11 It cannot be less than zero.
01:08:11 --> 01:08:14 This factor may also change after adventures.
01:08:15 --> 01:08:19 It defines your character's level of devotion to their belief and indicates
01:08:19 --> 01:08:22 whether they are a believer or a non-believer.
01:08:22 --> 01:08:26 Holy faith bonus initially this value
01:08:26 --> 01:08:29 is determined by your motivation but may change
01:08:29 --> 01:08:32 after each game session see page 40
01:08:32 --> 01:08:36 it reflects your faith related experiences and
01:08:36 --> 01:08:39 represents events or moments that influence
01:08:39 --> 01:08:42 your character's personal belief and level of devotion
01:08:42 --> 01:08:46 so holy faith equals your codex lore
01:08:46 --> 01:08:49 plus your holy faith bonus times your
01:08:49 --> 01:08:52 holy faith factor and on our
01:08:52 --> 01:08:55 character sheet that's already kind of calculated in once we punched in our
01:08:55 --> 01:09:01 holy faith factor or holy faith bonus and we've added uh whatever our codex
01:09:01 --> 01:09:05 lore what we've put in whatever number our codex lore is it looks like with
01:09:05 --> 01:09:11 mine i would do six plus 25 so it'd be 31 times two and a half.
01:09:12 --> 01:09:16 And then we have demonic corruption in this step as well.
01:09:17 --> 01:09:19 Demonic corruption tracks the extent
01:09:19 --> 01:09:25 of your character's exposure and susceptibility to demonic influence.
01:09:26 --> 01:09:29 The value is initially set to zero, so you don't have to worry about it until
01:09:29 --> 01:09:34 you meet the ugly demonic elephant in the room. And then you have to roll against it, I guess.
01:09:34 --> 01:09:40 Next up, we have step 12, which is spirit and power points.
01:09:40 --> 01:09:43 Oh yeah by the way my my spirit points oh
01:09:43 --> 01:09:48 yeah this currently looks like it is 77
01:09:48 --> 01:09:51 oh gee for for
01:09:51 --> 01:09:54 wait what if i'm doing my spirit points
01:09:54 --> 01:09:57 oh i haven't done that yet i haven't got there yet oh my
01:09:57 --> 01:10:01 bad yeah yeah yeah so step 12 yeah so determine your character's resilience
01:10:01 --> 01:10:06 and spiritual strength in with spirit points and power points spirit points
01:10:06 --> 01:10:12 determine with spirit points help withstand mental and emotional strain while
01:10:12 --> 01:10:15 power points fuel abilities to require.
01:10:16 --> 01:10:22 Divine spiritual energy okay so yeah holy faith is basically like so i guess
01:10:22 --> 01:10:27 the holy faith aspect of it is like your resilience against like or you're sort
01:10:27 --> 01:10:29 of like a bonus against your again when you're dealing with like demonic corruption
01:10:29 --> 01:10:33 and then spirit and power points are your,
01:10:33 --> 01:10:35 resilience is basically like
01:10:35 --> 01:10:39 the role for your rolling against like fear checks or like the stress of,
01:10:39 --> 01:10:41 horrible shit so yeah,
01:10:42 --> 01:10:48 So, and I've misread that with the Holy Faith bonus is what I screwed that up with. So, oops.
01:10:48 --> 01:10:51 I thought I determined the maximum. Okay. So yeah, like for,
01:10:51 --> 01:10:56 yeah, because spirit points are calculated by multiplying your POW by five to
01:10:56 --> 01:10:58 determine your max spirit points.
01:10:58 --> 01:11:03 These points are used to endure psychological stress and mental strain.
01:11:03 --> 01:11:09 So for me, since my POW is seven, it would be 35.
01:11:10 --> 01:11:20 So where is 35? on this put that in and then power the the power points or the pp hey i am a child.
01:11:22 --> 01:11:28 Calculate your power points by adding your pow and codex lore then multiplying
01:11:28 --> 01:11:35 by your holy faith factor these points reflect your spiritual and divine potency
01:11:35 --> 01:11:38 and are used to perform actions requiring spiritual strength.
01:11:39 --> 01:11:42 So basically you're spellcasting or your faith-based spellcasting.
01:11:42 --> 01:11:43 So this is going to be great for me.
01:11:44 --> 01:11:46 It'll be good for you. It'll be, it'll suck for me.
01:11:47 --> 01:11:52 Well, my spell, my spirit points were 65. So I wasn't too far off, to be honest with you.
01:11:53 --> 01:11:58 I mean, I've got like, I've got a 0.5 factor for holy and then my codex lore
01:11:58 --> 01:12:01 is zero. So I'm really just relying on my pow.
01:12:03 --> 01:12:06 So, and my pow being seven, what did I say, 17?
01:12:06 --> 01:12:11 Yeah. No, I said my... Seven. So, a POW of seven.
01:12:11 --> 01:12:14 Mine then times... I guess seven times 0.5?
01:12:15 --> 01:12:20 So three point... Round it up, so four. So I have four POW.
01:12:20 --> 01:12:25 Oh, interesting thing. This... Okay, so I've got to punch 35 there. And then...
01:12:26 --> 01:12:30 So I had to add something there. Pow, 13 times Codex Lore, I had 6.
01:12:31 --> 01:12:35 So 13 times 6 would be 78?
01:12:36 --> 01:12:40 Is that right? Wait, hang on. What? That's plus. I multiplied.
01:12:41 --> 01:12:48 Yeah, so Pow plus your Codex Lore. It's 19. Factor, okay. So 19? Okay.
01:12:49 --> 01:12:55 19 plus HF, so 18. It'd be 20. 19 times HF.
01:12:56 --> 01:12:58 Oh, 19 times HF? Yeah.
01:12:59 --> 01:13:02 If I did this right, which we may have figured out it wrong,
01:13:02 --> 01:13:06 I think my holy faith factor is like two. I need to double check all that.
01:13:07 --> 01:13:10 Yeah, you may want to quickly check that. All right, no, it's 19.
01:13:11 --> 01:13:13 19 times two would be 38.
01:13:14 --> 01:13:17 Does that sound right? Okay, what's your POW?
01:13:18 --> 01:13:21 13. 13? Okay, and what's your codex lore?
01:13:22 --> 01:13:31 Six. That's 19. So 19 times whatever your, your holy factor or holy faith factor is. I think two.
01:13:31 --> 01:13:38 19 times two is 38. So yeah, you have a 38 on your, for your power, for your PowerPoints.
01:13:39 --> 01:13:45 Which makes sense because you're a priest. So you should have a decent pool of power.
01:13:46 --> 01:13:49 You should have a decent pool of PP.
01:13:50 --> 01:13:54 If my numbers are right, I think they may be, it may actually be as high as
01:13:54 --> 01:13:56 47. But I'll double check that later.
01:13:57 --> 01:14:02 So I'll leave as is right now. I'm not here to power gain. We're almost done.
01:14:02 --> 01:14:04 We are literally two steps away.
01:14:04 --> 01:14:08 Step 13, I think, is just going to breeze by because it's appearance. so
01:14:08 --> 01:14:11 using size strength con and charisma
01:14:11 --> 01:14:13 characteristics determine your character's physical stature i
01:14:13 --> 01:14:16 think i've already figured that out optionally you
01:14:16 --> 01:14:20 can add unique traits to help bring your character to life visually and narrative
01:14:20 --> 01:14:25 yeah so that's just like that that's again my appearance for this character
01:14:25 --> 01:14:30 horribly hatchet scarred and burned bald with a fit with the handlebar mustache
01:14:30 --> 01:14:35 and just a big like pugilist style kind of, kind of man.
01:14:36 --> 01:14:42 So. I think honestly, I am going to, I've originally said that it was exorcism
01:14:42 --> 01:14:45 went wrong, but I didn't take the exorcist playbook.
01:14:45 --> 01:14:47 I just took the brief. So I think I want to recant that.
01:14:48 --> 01:14:54 And, you know, I, I think that it was a, I think I was caught up in a,
01:14:54 --> 01:14:57 like a train accident of sorts. Yeah.
01:14:58 --> 01:15:03 And I would like to kind of make it a little bit more like call to action and
01:15:03 --> 01:15:06 stuff like that. But I got onto the train.
01:15:06 --> 01:15:14 I went to, I was riding on a train and I felt myself drawn for some reason to
01:15:14 --> 01:15:16 one of the back carts of it.
01:15:16 --> 01:15:20 And as I wandered in back there, I found something that I didn't,
01:15:20 --> 01:15:22 I had never experienced before.
01:15:22 --> 01:15:28 And in the ensuing chaos that took place, I would even say it could be cultists.
01:15:28 --> 01:15:33 It could have been some kind of manifestation, but, uh, Can I add something to this? Please.
01:15:34 --> 01:15:36 Cause your, your last name's Olsen, correct?
01:15:38 --> 01:15:43 So the caboose of the train was not the original caboose for this train.
01:15:44 --> 01:15:47 It was actually for a different train called the Seer 1313.
01:15:47 --> 01:15:51 It's a tiny for D and D game. Yeah. I'm tying it with the Vossen,
01:15:51 --> 01:15:55 tying it to the Vossen game because we're that the seer 1313 or the mistborn
01:15:55 --> 01:16:01 1313 is a train that travels through like a dimensional fog. So.
01:16:03 --> 01:16:08 And there, did you ever play a red dead redemption too? Which I know. Yeah.
01:16:08 --> 01:16:13 Yep. One of the things that they did to play like an old, and this would be
01:16:13 --> 01:16:16 about the time of the Cowboys or the dying ages. 1890.
01:16:16 --> 01:16:20 It's the, but it's getting, it's getting there. Like, I think,
01:16:20 --> 01:16:23 I think the true death of the, of the West is like what? 1910.
01:16:23 --> 01:16:29 Or 19, like 19, yeah, about 1910 or 1911, I think is the, the true end of the West. So.
01:16:29 --> 01:16:33 There's a song that you can catch them singing when you go to camp sometimes.
01:16:33 --> 01:16:36 And it's those four bastards that do the song for,
01:16:37 --> 01:16:41 Oh, Gods of Appalachia. Oh, yeah. If you're familiar with that band,
01:16:41 --> 01:16:44 but they had a song, they did a rendition of this song that you can hear on
01:16:44 --> 01:16:48 Red Dead Redemption called The Hellbound Train.
01:16:48 --> 01:16:55 Nice. Maybe the train that I boarded, actually, you know, it's the Seer 1313,
01:16:55 --> 01:16:59 maybe it actually, for a brief moment, it went through hell.
01:16:59 --> 01:17:03 Yeah, it certainly could have, yeah. Or like, just like the,
01:17:03 --> 01:17:07 yeah, that caboose, or like, yeah, just like shifted, and during that shift,
01:17:07 --> 01:17:12 Like you saw hell through the windows or through the ports?
01:17:13 --> 01:17:16 Have you seen the deleted scenes for Event Horizon? Like the ones that they
01:17:16 --> 01:17:21 hint to, like what happens on the ship that they cut out and the footage has been lost.
01:17:21 --> 01:17:23 Maybe I went through something kind of like that.
01:17:24 --> 01:17:27 Yeah, I like that. The world went to Dad's face for me for a little bit.
01:17:27 --> 01:17:33 And when I came to, I wasn't, I think we blacked it out, but I was damaged in
01:17:33 --> 01:17:38 the process and these wounds have never quite healed. So I'm kind of lame.
01:17:38 --> 01:17:41 I don't want to, I don't mean this to be derogative. I mean, I'm in real life.
01:17:41 --> 01:17:46 I'm a bit crippled myself, but yeah, physically it broke him.
01:17:46 --> 01:17:51 But my charisma is still there. So I kept a, I Pollyanna that shit. Yeah.
01:17:52 --> 01:17:56 The mind will do a lot of things to shield itself. So, yeah.
01:17:56 --> 01:18:00 Maybe there was actually an exorcist that was on the ship or on the train.
01:18:00 --> 01:18:04 And that's what actually kind of, that was my origin story. Oh God.
01:18:05 --> 01:18:10 You're you switched places that it would be horrible that poor guy.
01:18:12 --> 01:18:15 He's trapped on the train he's yeah the weird thing is that when you when you
01:18:15 --> 01:18:19 like the train the the caboose looked different when you entered it and then
01:18:19 --> 01:18:21 when like all the weird and then suddenly you blacked out and when you came
01:18:21 --> 01:18:26 back to like you could have sworn it said something like the seer 13 something something,
01:18:27 --> 01:18:31 on the on the side of it but now it's it but then but now it's the same it's
01:18:31 --> 01:18:34 the regular like caboose for this train yeah.
01:18:34 --> 01:18:37 I think we're ready for step 14. We're at the end, boys.
01:18:38 --> 01:18:42 Yep. Order affiliation and group connections. Step is designed to deepen your
01:18:42 --> 01:18:46 character's integration into a group by exploring the affiliation with the order
01:18:46 --> 01:18:48 and how it shapes or roles in agent.
01:18:49 --> 01:18:53 Each player character must choose their affiliation with the order.
01:18:53 --> 01:18:59 As this defines a role as an agent, only order guardians are full members of the order.
01:18:59 --> 01:19:04 All other player characters work for the order in some capacity.
01:19:04 --> 01:19:07 Such as being hired, recruited, engaged in specific tasks.
01:19:07 --> 01:19:11 Its affiliation is a reason player characters were referred to as agents.
01:19:11 --> 01:19:16 And the character's title becomes agent of, insert name.
01:19:16 --> 01:19:18 See orders on page 218.
01:19:19 --> 01:19:25 And that's where we get the such orders, such as, we have the Order de la Lumria Sacre,
01:19:26 --> 01:19:30 otherwise known as the Order of the Sacred Light, which is a venerable sisterhood
01:19:30 --> 01:19:35 of guardian sisters, steadfast in their divine mission to combat demonic threats.
01:19:35 --> 01:19:40 The Order's origins trace back to a group of women who fled persecution and
01:19:40 --> 01:19:45 sought shelter in a remote valley near the Alps during the early stages of the Unseen War.
01:19:46 --> 01:19:53 Over the centuries, the Order of the Sacred Light became one of the most influential
01:19:53 --> 01:19:59 orders in Europe by maintaining a focus, preserving and applying the teachings
01:19:59 --> 01:20:00 of the Protector of the Holy Light.
01:20:01 --> 01:20:05 The Order's Foundations is in the remote valley near the Alps,
01:20:06 --> 01:20:07 allowing or allowed to be
01:20:07 --> 01:20:11 allowed it to train generations of guardian sisters without external interference.
01:20:12 --> 01:20:18 As the unseen war unfolded, the order played a critical role in preserving the
01:20:18 --> 01:20:22 teachings and practices passed down from the celestials, recovering forgotten
01:20:22 --> 01:20:24 rituals, safeguarding holy items.
01:20:25 --> 01:20:29 And ensuring continuity of teachings necessary to confront demonic forces.
01:20:30 --> 01:20:36 Yeah. I mean, I'm pretty open to whatever. It just seems like the orders are kind of, uh,
01:20:37 --> 01:20:40 one quick thing the order has established a wide
01:20:40 --> 01:20:43 network of monasteries and sanctuaries in smaller cities remote
01:20:43 --> 01:20:46 and remote locations across europe notable sites
01:20:46 --> 01:20:49 include the forested valleys of the black forest in germany
01:20:49 --> 01:20:54 the highlands of scotland and the isolated hilltops of tuscany in italy so you
01:20:54 --> 01:20:57 have your basically like you if you want to go with the order of the sacred
01:20:57 --> 01:21:01 light per se as like your as the order that you're affiliated with you could
01:21:01 --> 01:21:06 basically just choose like a a location somewhere in Europe and maybe somewhere
01:21:06 --> 01:21:08 in Scandinavia and then just,
01:21:08 --> 01:21:13 or say Sweden, and then put it like, put your, your, whatever monastery of the
01:21:13 --> 01:21:16 sacred light is there, uh, like somewhere remote. Yeah.
01:21:16 --> 01:21:21 If, if you so feel like going that route. Yeah. And then the other order that
01:21:21 --> 01:21:23 we have is the Templars of Dawn.
01:21:23 --> 01:21:27 Templars of Dawn were founded shortly after the departure of the last celestial
01:21:27 --> 01:21:32 guardian known to have fought alongside humanity during the great demonic war.
01:21:32 --> 01:21:37 Formed by warriors, priests, and scholars who have witnessed the celestial's
01:21:37 --> 01:21:43 power, the order sought to organize humanity's defense and preserve the practice
01:21:43 --> 01:21:46 of the practices and teachings learned by the divine.
01:21:46 --> 01:21:51 Their founding ensured that the knowledge granted during the Great Demonic War would endure.
01:21:51 --> 01:21:55 And then it goes on with a couple of other things, but leadership of the Templars
01:21:55 --> 01:22:01 is vested by the Grand Master, a position granted through a combination of lineage,
01:22:01 --> 01:22:04 merit, and what many believe to be divine intervention.
01:22:04 --> 01:22:09 The Templars' headquarters is located in London, England, hidden in a nondescript
01:22:09 --> 01:22:11 office building in the Financial District.
01:22:12 --> 01:22:15 Strangely enough, it's somewhere in Eastwick, probably.
01:22:17 --> 01:22:20 Again it's i'm seeing parallels again with with
01:22:20 --> 01:22:24 secret world with this whole thing yeah but i
01:22:24 --> 01:22:27 think i know which i think i'm gonna go with templars honestly because it fits my
01:22:27 --> 01:22:30 character being from like the the mean streets of
01:22:30 --> 01:22:32 london well mine was interested in the
01:22:32 --> 01:22:36 religious artifacts and stuff like that so so
01:22:36 --> 01:22:38 the background was yeah no i mean i think
01:22:38 --> 01:22:41 they both ought to be templars oh yeah they could yeah we could
01:22:41 --> 01:22:45 both go templar yeah any strong connection with the british society and religious
01:22:45 --> 01:22:50 organizations templars are also present in other major so one i so it sounds
01:22:50 --> 01:22:55 like one order is all about like like basically standing hanging out in like
01:22:55 --> 01:23:01 the one's all about like the small isolated rural areas and one's about the big cities,
01:23:01 --> 01:23:06 like big urban centers is where they have establishments i think we could definitely do that.
01:23:08 --> 01:23:11 And then I guess for that, where's that go on the character sheet?
01:23:11 --> 01:23:16 Does that have a spot? I see order does not appear.
01:23:16 --> 01:23:19 Okay. So it might just be like, that might be more of like a campaign or like,
01:23:19 --> 01:23:23 just like something to keep in mind on your character. Like, yeah.
01:23:24 --> 01:23:28 Yeah. I think that makes sense. Cause if we go to the, the step again,
01:23:28 --> 01:23:33 like we go back to the step there, each player can, each player character must
01:23:33 --> 01:23:35 choose their affiliation with an order.
01:23:35 --> 01:23:40 As this defines their role as an agent. Like you said, yeah.
01:23:41 --> 01:23:47 And then, so yeah, I guess we go with that. So we're working for the order of the Templar.
01:23:48 --> 01:23:54 Yeah. And then it just doesn't say like, that just defines like what group we're working with.
01:23:54 --> 01:24:00 And then group connection, establish how your agent's affiliation with the order
01:24:00 --> 01:24:05 brings them together with the other agents, whether through shared missions,
01:24:05 --> 01:24:09 common goals, or the Order's directives. These,
01:24:10 --> 01:24:15 connections should reflect the trust and cooperation needed to fulfill the order's
01:24:15 --> 01:24:19 objectives, discuss the motivations of the groups for it.
01:24:19 --> 01:24:22 So this is basically like, that's more of a camp like session zero kind of thing.
01:24:23 --> 01:24:27 Uh, actually I want to go back to two 18 to the orders and see,
01:24:28 --> 01:24:31 I'm just curious if this actually, okay.
01:24:31 --> 01:24:36 Yeah. It doesn't really like lay out a full, Oh no, it does. Okay. Here we go.
01:24:36 --> 01:24:41 Orders and agents. Agents are hired on temporary task-based missions.
01:24:42 --> 01:24:46 Independent complete assignments, so the experience is necessary for roles.
01:24:46 --> 01:24:51 However, orders may assist with immediate needs arising during a mission,
01:24:51 --> 01:24:57 such as such support may include providing temporary use of holy artifacts and
01:24:57 --> 01:24:59 relics essential to a mission,
01:24:59 --> 01:25:04 offering critical intelligence or context regarding an assignment,
01:25:04 --> 01:25:11 handling logistical issues such as disposing of bodies or concealing evidence,
01:25:12 --> 01:25:17 safeguarding or transporting holy items discovered during the mission.
01:25:17 --> 01:25:22 Agents are compensated for their services based on the nature and complexity of their assignments.
01:25:23 --> 01:25:26 Compensation includes money, equipment, access to training and knowledge,
01:25:26 --> 01:25:31 or even charged talismans and holy artifacts. I swear to God,
01:25:31 --> 01:25:37 Adam, we could, we could probably use this system as like, if we wanted to play
01:25:37 --> 01:25:41 in the secret world, but like in this time period.
01:25:42 --> 01:25:47 Yeah. Like I, I, this is, this is giving me, this is giving me such strong,
01:25:47 --> 01:25:53 like vibes from like the lore of like the Templar, the Illuminati and the dragon
01:25:53 --> 01:25:55 in the secret world. It's ridiculous.
01:25:55 --> 01:25:59 And what we're referring to here, and this has came up once or twice.
01:26:00 --> 01:26:03 Yeah. recording as well the secret world was based on
01:26:03 --> 01:26:06 it's a tabletop rpg they have it for
01:26:06 --> 01:26:09 uh five and five and uh
01:26:09 --> 01:26:11 and seven worlds sorry and it's it's
01:26:11 --> 01:26:14 well you know more about than i do but it's it's based on an
01:26:14 --> 01:26:17 mmorpg that was on big for
01:26:17 --> 01:26:20 a while there it's got it and we're we did a roll up
01:26:20 --> 01:26:23 on it several episodes back and uh
01:26:23 --> 01:26:26 we're still kicking around playing that game
01:26:26 --> 01:26:30 and all so it's uh basically yeah
01:26:30 --> 01:26:33 like yeah the the mmo the secret world
01:26:33 --> 01:26:36 back it came out in 2011 or 2012 and then
01:26:36 --> 01:26:42 it later became a free-to-play game called secret world legends honestly this
01:26:42 --> 01:26:47 game the the exorcist codex if you if you're a fan or like an old player of
01:26:47 --> 01:26:53 the of the secret world and like you played as a templar specifically this is your jam yeah,
01:26:54 --> 01:27:00 Because this feels like a, like, like you're playing in the history of the secret world.
01:27:00 --> 01:27:04 Like they even have like, like similar terminology, like the unseen war.
01:27:05 --> 01:27:08 And like in, in the secret world specifically, there's, there's,
01:27:08 --> 01:27:12 there is various storylines and narratives of fighting the legions of,
01:27:13 --> 01:27:14 of, of the, of the hell dimensions.
01:27:15 --> 01:27:19 So yeah, again, big fan of this.
01:27:19 --> 01:27:24 I'm already like a growing fan of this, of this, this game and system and setting.
01:27:24 --> 01:27:29 So it's very, it feels like also, sorry, no, you're good.
01:27:29 --> 01:27:35 You know, this also reminds me of Helsing, the movie, like, you know,
01:27:35 --> 01:27:36 like where like they're in, like, they have like that, that,
01:27:36 --> 01:27:37 that holy organization.
01:27:37 --> 01:27:42 Like that's like, uh, it's like various different holy, uh, like orders or like
01:27:42 --> 01:27:48 holy, like faiths working together to fight evil or to combat evil by sending their agents out.
01:27:48 --> 01:27:55 Yeah. It definitely feels like that kind of organization. Yeah. And I'm here for it, so.
01:27:56 --> 01:27:59 Well, I think we've actually finished a character creation.
01:28:00 --> 01:28:03 So, you know, what I like to kind of talk about here on all these episodes is
01:28:03 --> 01:28:08 just impressions so far of the, you know, not just character creation,
01:28:08 --> 01:28:11 but the game itself is presented through this lens.
01:28:12 --> 01:28:14 So, I think you've already alluded
01:28:14 --> 01:28:19 to it. So, can you give me your final opinions on the Exorcist Codex?
01:28:19 --> 01:28:21 What do you like about it? What do you not...
01:28:22 --> 01:28:26 What do you not like about it, if anything? And there's not a whole lot.
01:28:26 --> 01:28:29 I can't really name off anything right now that I hate.
01:28:29 --> 01:28:34 It's a system that I'm, I'm, I don't, I don't play a lot of BPR system.
01:28:35 --> 01:28:41 I play a lot of other systems, D20 and, and like Power by the Apocalypse and Gumshoe.
01:28:41 --> 01:28:46 I don't actually have a lot of, of experience with like Call of Cthulhu and
01:28:46 --> 01:28:49 Delta Green outside of like a handful of games.
01:28:50 --> 01:28:53 But that said like i do like the system i like
01:28:53 --> 01:28:56 the percentile system it it works it's very
01:28:56 --> 01:28:59 simple and like character creation i mean we've been we've been
01:28:59 --> 01:29:02 at this for probably an hour or two yeah but
01:29:02 --> 01:29:05 like that's also because like we're it's a brand new system
01:29:05 --> 01:29:08 that we had to like figure out the vernacular and and
01:29:08 --> 01:29:11 context to but like otherwise like
01:29:11 --> 01:29:14 it's very simple like character creation for like
01:29:14 --> 01:29:17 laying out like your like percentiles and stuff that for your
01:29:17 --> 01:29:20 stats and such setting wise like
01:29:20 --> 01:29:23 this the actual game of of the exorcist codex
01:29:23 --> 01:29:26 from what we've talked here about
01:29:26 --> 01:29:29 and what we've gleaned or what i've gleaned about the about the setting in the
01:29:29 --> 01:29:40 book it jams so hard to a vibe that i already love like 19th century like fighting
01:29:40 --> 01:29:45 demon investigating and fighting demons and cults and, and,
01:29:45 --> 01:29:50 and, and the, the terrors of the, of the, of a demonic legion or of, of darkness,
01:29:50 --> 01:29:53 like playing agents of light of that.
01:29:53 --> 01:29:58 It's very much a, a vibe that I, I'm, I, I click with.
01:29:59 --> 01:30:04 I'm, I, I can't wait to play this game. I look forward to seeing how,
01:30:04 --> 01:30:09 how it plays out, how it, like, if we do get gaslighting by gaslight off the
01:30:09 --> 01:30:11 ground, that will be really fun.
01:30:12 --> 01:30:17 I, I like my character. I like your character, uh, in conjecture with mine.
01:30:17 --> 01:30:22 I, I, again, like this, it's this, it's, it's a genre, like a pulp genre of
01:30:22 --> 01:30:27 like monster hunters or demon or demon investigators and cult investigators
01:30:27 --> 01:30:28 in the, in the 19th century.
01:30:29 --> 01:30:34 So like it's, it's just, it's a genre that clicks a lot of positive buttons for me.
01:30:34 --> 01:30:39 So yeah, I, I really, I'm, I'm very excited for this, the system and the system
01:30:39 --> 01:30:42 and the, uh, and the setting. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I.
01:30:42 --> 01:30:45 I think it's pretty clear that I enjoyed this as well. I mean,
01:30:45 --> 01:30:47 I think it's a beautifully laid out book.
01:30:48 --> 01:30:54 I feel like there was an elegance to the character creation that I did not appreciate
01:30:54 --> 01:30:58 at first, just by just simply glancing at it and figuring out that, yeah.
01:30:58 --> 01:31:02 I mean, I went to it as like, this is called Cthulhu. And while there are some
01:31:02 --> 01:31:07 similarities to it, it definitely is kind of making this, it's got some distinct kind of flavor.
01:31:07 --> 01:31:10 I am curious how because it
01:31:10 --> 01:31:13 doesn't have sanity like like like cthulhu does but it
01:31:13 --> 01:31:17 does have this like it seems like the the holy
01:31:17 --> 01:31:21 faith and spiritual points system
01:31:21 --> 01:31:24 and like even the powerpoint system to a degree it seems
01:31:24 --> 01:31:29 like it's a little bit more like it'll be it's a little bit more i
01:31:29 --> 01:31:32 was gonna say involved but like it is kind of a little bit more involved or
01:31:32 --> 01:31:35 a little bit a little bit more complex than just like simple sanity checks
01:31:35 --> 01:31:38 so i'm curious to see how that plays out because i wonder if it's going to be
01:31:38 --> 01:31:41 like how sanity and stress are
01:31:41 --> 01:31:44 two separate things in the gumshoe system
01:31:44 --> 01:31:47 trail of cthulhu and like stress is
01:31:47 --> 01:31:50 for your like basically like your your
01:31:50 --> 01:31:55 typical like frights and and and mental stress issues and then sanity is for
01:31:55 --> 01:31:59 like more longer lingering things and i wonder if that's gonna how how this
01:31:59 --> 01:32:03 is gonna play out with like spiritual points are for like defending yourself
01:32:03 --> 01:32:08 against like fears and the horrors of this game and system. Yeah.
01:32:08 --> 01:32:12 And then like we have to and then the other one like holy faith and like demonic
01:32:12 --> 01:32:18 corruption is sort of like the sanity aspect where like like the lingering sanity stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
01:32:18 --> 01:32:22 The book, and we didn't even go over this, it was on page eight,
01:32:22 --> 01:32:29 when it acknowledges the BRP system and chaos in Cal Cthulhu and talks about the origins of this.
01:32:30 --> 01:32:34 But there are some big noticeable differences, such as sanity.
01:32:34 --> 01:32:38 It mentions here, sanity is a defining trait in Cal Cthulhu.
01:32:38 --> 01:32:42 As knowledge grows, sanity dreams lead into madness in the exorcist codex.
01:32:42 --> 01:32:47 This balance is defined as spirit the measure of mental and emotional resilience
01:32:47 --> 01:32:51 representing the hope and devotion characters draw upon in their fight against
01:32:51 --> 01:32:57 demons rather than inevitable decline spirit reflects the inner strength essential
01:32:57 --> 01:32:59 for facing down to evil so i mean,
01:33:00 --> 01:33:03 it's we're not it's not it doesn't necessarily need to be a race to the bottom
01:33:03 --> 01:33:08 as yeah it's it's less of a nihilist like yeah it's less of a nihilist spiral
01:33:08 --> 01:33:13 and more of a like you have a You have a fighting chance because you have the
01:33:13 --> 01:33:20 forces of light on your side or you believe hard enough in the light to quell the darkness.
01:33:21 --> 01:33:25 And I like that. I mean, I love Call of Cthulhu and I love the horror of all this.
01:33:25 --> 01:33:30 And there's a humanist part of me that really likes this emphasis on,
01:33:30 --> 01:33:33 you know, a human's worth and the resilience.
01:33:34 --> 01:33:38 And, you know, we. The power of the human, the strength of the human spirit.
01:33:39 --> 01:33:43 Yeah. And I mean, it's great. I look forward to seeing more of this.
01:33:43 --> 01:33:50 I want to also kind of mention to you and readers as well, there was two books that was given to us.
01:33:51 --> 01:33:54 Two starving nose and this they actually
01:33:54 --> 01:33:57 have a gm's guide that goes with it
01:33:57 --> 01:34:00 which goes over gm and the demonic
01:34:00 --> 01:34:05 elements portals items and stuff like that there's there's like 189 additional
01:34:05 --> 01:34:10 pages to the 301 that we're dealing with with this book so if you were to actually
01:34:10 --> 01:34:16 you know purchase this book pdfs or whatnot you're you know you're getting almost
01:34:16 --> 01:34:19 500 pages worth of stuff And as of a couple,
01:34:20 --> 01:34:25 this is October that we're recording this in, but I know that recently Two Starving
01:34:25 --> 01:34:31 Nose finished up a, they were doing another Kickstarter for their first campaign,
01:34:31 --> 01:34:37 which was like the, I'd have to see if I can find it real quick.
01:34:37 --> 01:34:41 It was something Winchester, and I apologize, I don't know this,
01:34:42 --> 01:34:45 but they did actually, there's like a campaign book that came out.
01:34:46 --> 01:34:53 I hope i hope so otherwise i'm gonna actually have to redact this yeah also
01:34:53 --> 01:34:56 i just gotta say every time we every time we come every time you say the the
01:34:56 --> 01:34:59 name of this company two starving gnolls i was like somebody feed these gnolls,
01:35:01 --> 01:35:04 i'm sure that they i'm sure they haven't heard that before.
01:35:06 --> 01:35:10 Sure. It's a great game. I look forward to it, and I look forward to seeing
01:35:10 --> 01:35:13 what we can do with it. So I guess final thoughts on this.
01:35:14 --> 01:35:19 I regret not backing it when I saw it on Kickstarter advertised on social media
01:35:19 --> 01:35:22 a couple years ago, or whenever it did. I can't remember the time.
01:35:23 --> 01:35:29 But I saw this. It intrigued me, and I just missed out on it.
01:35:29 --> 01:35:35 And then they have a decent presence on Facebook. I saw again that you could
01:35:35 --> 01:35:41 pre-order or buy stuff from them, pre-order the books, and that's kind of how I rediscovered it.
01:35:42 --> 01:35:47 And I wouldn't be surprised if I don't go out and pick up these physical copies of the books.
01:35:47 --> 01:35:53 They look beautiful, and I'm excited to play, you know, 18th century Constantine.
01:35:55 --> 01:35:59 No, that's basically what, again, that's like Constantine or,
01:35:59 --> 01:36:04 yeah, like 19th century Constantine meets what I suspect meets Helsing.
01:36:05 --> 01:36:11 So, yeah, no, same. Like, I honestly, this is a good sigh and a good,
01:36:11 --> 01:36:19 like, just like, because I realized, like, I have a sneaking suspicion that after, like,
01:36:19 --> 01:36:24 playing this and then after, if we actually, if and when we get to play Gaslighting by Gaslight.
01:36:25 --> 01:36:28 I feel like I'm probably going to end up having another purchase to do a Gen
01:36:28 --> 01:36:29 Con the next time I'm there.
01:36:30 --> 01:36:35 Yeah. If it's available at Gen Con, I will probably be purchasing it there.
01:36:36 --> 01:36:40 And I actually found what I was talking about with the other book as well.
01:36:40 --> 01:36:45 So the recent one that is, oh shit, it's still going on, Chris.
01:36:45 --> 01:36:47 We have 63 hours to back it.
01:36:47 --> 01:36:51 Well, I may actually back it just to get the frigging other books into.
01:36:51 --> 01:36:55 But it's the additional book is called Winchester Tales.
01:36:55 --> 01:36:57 It's a supplement for Exorcist Codex.
01:36:57 --> 01:37:02 Winchester Tales expands on the Exorcist Codex with new scenarios set in 1890s.
01:37:02 --> 01:37:08 Winchester play as a full campaign or stand alone. It includes new demonic items,
01:37:08 --> 01:37:13 new holy artifacts, relics, new arch demons, the realms, and more.
01:37:13 --> 01:37:17 Where we, you said it takes place in 1890s Winchester. Like where is that in
01:37:17 --> 01:37:18 Winchester? Like where?
01:37:19 --> 01:37:22 I really don't know. off the top of my head I don't
01:37:22 --> 01:37:26 see well I'm just wondering is it Winchester Kentucky I
01:37:26 --> 01:37:30 wish I wish that would have been hilarious yeah well I did find that call could
01:37:30 --> 01:37:35 be a scenario set up not to dox myself but I'm sorry I don't work Winchester
01:37:35 --> 01:37:40 no shadow give damn they can find there's only one of me on the planet and also
01:37:40 --> 01:37:44 to be fair like Moorhead Mysteries is sort of yeah I'm out there.
01:37:46 --> 01:37:50 But, I mean, it looks really cool. And if you guys are interested in this as
01:37:50 --> 01:37:54 well, just a shout-out at the top of my lungs on this.
01:37:55 --> 01:38:03 If you go to DriveThruRPG, you can also pick up a sample scenario called The
01:38:03 --> 01:38:08 Unintended Faceless, which is a short, high-tension, demonic incidence in the Exorcist Codex.
01:38:08 --> 01:38:10 So, you know, you can pick it up for free.
01:38:10 --> 01:38:13 A nice little scenario.
01:38:13 --> 01:38:18 All right. I'm going to go ahead and add it to my card. right now so
01:38:18 --> 01:38:21 well thanks again folks for
01:38:21 --> 01:38:25 tuning in i want to let my good co-founder of
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01:38:42 --> 01:38:48 At least one of them is tabletop based. The tabletop one is One Less Die,
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01:38:54 --> 01:39:00 and editing the various game sessions and campaigns that I've run and that some
01:39:00 --> 01:39:03 of my friends have run for the past like decade now.
01:39:03 --> 01:39:06 And so I'm now getting around to editing them and posting them.
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01:39:17 --> 01:39:21 run is our most prominent one uh since it's the one that inspired us to to actually
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01:39:28 --> 01:39:35 am reading creepypasta with my other two co-hosts on al dente rigor mortis which is a,
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01:41:39 --> 01:41:43 Thank you very much. And Chris, thank you so much for joining me on this.
01:41:43 --> 01:41:46 And to starving those, thank you so much for the review copy.
01:41:46 --> 01:41:51 I've already looking at adding on the hard copy books to that Winchester supplement
01:41:51 --> 01:41:53 that you guys are releasing. You got me.
01:41:54 --> 01:42:00 You've sunk your teeth. Those hungry knolls have sunk their teeth into you. My money.
01:42:01 --> 01:42:03 Yeah. They've sunk their teeth into your wallet already.
01:42:05 --> 01:42:10 Well, guys until next time, we'll see y'all later. Goodbye. Sleep well.