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Hello players who are disgusted at their DM's choice of snack.
DM's who literally don't know what their source material is or will ever be, so they just steal it all instead.
It's so long. Welcome back to Table Talk.
I'm Maddie.
And I'm Robert.
What are we doing today Robert?
So if you listened to the last episode, which you should, please do.
It's all to have to be nicer when I'm asking you to do that now.
Yeah, because every time you're like...
Go fucking listen!
You have homework.
Listen to our podcast, dipshit, and it's like that's a lot.
Anyways, if you listened to the last episode, we talked about capes and crooks, not the system,
which is a different episode that you should also listen to.
We're doing a series of episodes that are currently running in our campaign that we're currently running in that system at our own table.
Sort of with the idea that we're building up to a one-shot, which are an actual play, I guess, that we do every five episodes.
So for this episode, which is the episode before that one, we're doing character creation with characters set in that universe,
so that way we can then play with them in that universe.
Pretty self-explanatory.
We did the same thing for our last one-shot, which was the Kids on Bikes one called...
The one before that, where we made Eva and Spara way, way, way back in the episodes three or four.
Four actual plays?
No, we did the simulated combat, which Timmy is still really playing.
Then we did the one-shot in the little dungeon book, and then we've done...
Okay, so I guess it's three.
Three actually playing at the table.
And it's pointed to the table for effect.
And we're probably going to end up doing more as we go along, just because that's, I think, one of the things with D&D about learning how to play
is like you play by getting in there, or watching people play, or listening to people play.
I think that's personally the most helpful tool.
Not to interject, but I'm feeling real Indiana neckbeard right now.
I have a can of original turkey chew, which is like...
It's fucking disgusting.
It's like the tobacco chew, but it's just shredded meat that's so fine that when you put it in your mouth,
it moisturizes and then turns into real meat.
Don't call it moisturized.
It gets moist.
No, we're not going...
It gets moist.
We're not moving past and saying it moisturizes.
And then next to that, I have a bottle of ski, which is bottled here in Evansville,
which is actually a really cool fucking love ski, shout-out ski.
And then I'm wearing a Demon Slayer hat and an Adidas hoodie.
Yeah, it's not a great look.
No, not at all, but I'm here for it, man.
It's a committed look.
That's for sure.
It's comfy.
That's sick.
Sorry, I just wanted to hit that tangent continue.
Ignore me while I eat my meat dip.
Meat dip is so gross.
I cannot overstate.
If you are listening to this and you have not seen like meat dip before, look it up.
It is fucking foul.
It's great.
I don't use it like dip, by the way.
I don't like putting it on my lip and shit.
That'd be gross.
I'm...
I don't even know how to fucking respond to this, so I'm just going to move on.
Are you done eating?
What the fuck am I going to say?
You're going to move on?
Yeah.
I thought you were intro-ing.
No, no, Ashrop.
No, that's for the characters that we are playing.
I didn't make them.
The characters that we're playing were intro-ed in one of our actual sessions at the table.
Those are two of my favorite, but also briefest intro characters ever.
Smoke and Fetch.
I've talked about them briefly, I think, once.
I might have just kind of mentioned the Miss Throwaway characters.
They're villains, for lack of a better term.
In my mind, they're like anti-heroes because of the universe that they're from, or at least sort of their source material that I've shamelessly ripped from.
But...
Or probably blame.
I'm like villains for simplicity.
So because...
So you're playing villains?
Because I kinda...
So I want to keep myself honest and also be honest with you all.
The character sort of source material that they're from is a video game series called Infamous, specifically Infamous Second Son.
You will very...
If anybody listening to this has played those games or looks those games up specifically, that one, you will very quickly tell who these two characters are based off.
Fetch is literally named the exact same thing.
And Smoke is kind of the sling word that people use to describe the main character because one of his many powers is Smoke, for lack of a better sort of way to phrase it.
I intro them sort of as just kind of to show an opposite example of what a villain their age might look like because they've...
Up until this point, they'd basically only fuck either grown ass men or women.
Grown ass people.
As two kind of children.
I mean one is like 21 year old and 18 year old and then we have a 30 year old and a 35 or 39 year old.
Anyways, it's a mixed bag and then we have a newborn robot.
So I wanted to kind of show them an example of somebody that in real life is also kind of a little closer to their age.
Who was kind of on the opposite side of the fence.
They were a little bit more unhinged and kind of fun to play with and weren't just like serious.
Oh, I'm going to kill you or fuck you up.
And so came Smoke and Fetch.
Who...
God damn ass kicks.
They did, but they also did a lot of ass kicking.
I don't want you to forget that opening combat with Fetch...
No, I'm... This is the thing. So first of all, I have not played these games.
Um...
Fucking great.
Second of all, in this combat encounter that we have, one, this bitch rolls up and she looks like my character a little too much at aesthetics.
And I'm already not here for that. I'm like that fucking copycat.
And then she proceeds to fucking not get off of my dick.
For the entire combat encounter.
And I mean that in truly like the purest form.
This bitch was preying on my downfall.
And it's one of those things where every time Robert's like, nah, it's nothing personal when you get targeted in combat.
I don't think it's personal, but it's personal for me.
When she looks like me.
When she looks like me and she fucking just...
She has light powers, which is similar.
Light powers. My character's name is Nightlight.
She's fetched her, has nothing to do with that.
I'm aware, but she still is using the same fucking... the same powers as me.
I mean, kinda sorta.
And then I would get hit and then she would run away and then she's like, cool, full board of people to hit.
I know who I'm gonna swing at again and again and again.
She hit more than you, it's just you were the easier target.
You have less HP, you're the least mobile.
I get that. You wanna know the only person who I was hit by until the explosion at the end?
Fucking fetch!
Yeah, she did a great job and I can hit.
Somebody had to switch that up.
It was fetched.
Fuck that bitch.
She's like a speedster.
Anyway, now I'm playing her.
So now, yeah, I'm playing Smoke. She's playing fetch.
So their character personalities were very briefly kind of described in RP'd at the table.
So there is a little bit of like, I don't wanna say bias,
but kind of bias in terms of the way that they were played.
Like, we already know what that portrayal looks like in the form of me,
but for the sake of making an entertaining episode,
I've given Madison most creative liberties with the character.
There are some aspects of the personality that I still wanna keep the same and the aesthetic
that I still wanna keep the same, but as far as how she builds, her background,
things like her role or features, fun kind of character traits,
I'm leaving that up to her.
I already know who Smoke is, so I'm basically just building a character in my mind
from the video games that I played, so it should be a pretty easy and quick process for me.
Yeah, pretty much. It's just fun that way.
I like making my characters from scratch personally.
Unique and original characters are great until you get really tired of having to make unique and original characters.
From a DM's perspective, I 100% understand like...
Cause I don't even get to play them all.
Yeah, and I understand like, falling in...
There's a reason why Smoke and Fetch don't have a Snap Block,
and that's because I played them for one session, two kinda.
I get that. I think that would be like, one of the things we've talked about before,
like I've always talked about how I would be like a struggle DM,
cause I've got too many like control issues,
and I think one of those would be spending time on like all of these characters I really care about,
and then it's nothing.
Well, and I think I kinda get burnt out on doing that process time and time again for World Serpentine
because that wasn't completely original unique universe in my mind with very unique and individual NPCs.
But for this one, I've pulled on probably six or seven different touchstones.
They are heroes that are basically carbon copies from certain franchises,
from manga, from video games, from TV shows.
The vibes and the missions and the story points are also sometimes direct rips,
and that's made this a lot easier for me because I don't have to come up with it all myself,
I just have to put my spin on it.
And that's kinda what I've done for a lot of the heroes.
I just, I picked an example of somebody that I like from a franchise,
and then I just build them and give them a new personality or a similar-ish personality,
because I mean, I don't wanna just play that exact character.
Well, I think it's something that can also be better suited to different campaigns,
because I think in this setting where we're doing like a stereotyp-
we're not so much stereotypical, but like, if you're doing something with superheroes,
you're always gonna be falling back into, or falling onto stereotypes in some way.
Like, we know the archetypes of these characters, so I think it's a lot easier in this setting
to be like, okay, it's this person, but insert these three things.
Like, every universe, if you look at like any superhero media out there,
especially like parody superhero media, there's always gonna be a couple archetypes.
You've got the Batman type character, you've got the Superman type character,
you've got the Captain America type character, you've got the fucking, um,
the Wonder Woman type character, or like, there's the archetypes that they fall into.
So, I think it makes more sense in this setting.
Yeah, so I'm pretty shameless about it.
I don't really give a shit.
I also, we don't interact with a lot of the same media outside of D&D in terms of our interests aligning, so...
Yeah.
I'm more of this campaign than anything, but...
Yeah.
Somehow I think I still managed to hit pretty outside the box of what she knows and what she's seen, so...
Yep.
Pretty cool on my end, anyways.
Let's start ripping it from actual Marvel comics or DC comics.
Now that we've done the world's longest intro to a character creation,
we're gonna be rolling, so, uh, you know, in kind of the traditional character-creative way.
If this is the first episode you're listening to, I really, really...
Welcome!
Really encourage you to go and listen to one of the first few where we do character creation,
because this process is gonna make even less sense to you.
Um, we've gone over this book in a previous episode.
I'm not gonna take the time to go over the whole damn thing again.
I'm gonna walk through it like we know what we're doing, because we do.
Uh, so, please listen to this one, but also listen to the previous one so you're not completely lost.
Will you share the printed book with me?
Um, like now?
Yeah, while we're going through.
I mean, I'll probably just toss it back and forth, honestly.
I'll just put it like that.
Oh, well, yeah, I gotta flip through and then I'll turn it, you know what I'm saying?
I have to be able to flip.
So, the first thing that you start with, which is bizarre to me, is your alter ego.
High, high level alter ego is who's your person?
Like, what is their profession?
What is their kind of profession?
When they are not being, um...
A hero or a villain or whatever.
Hero.
The fifth edition equivalent.
Oh, what is that?
When you're like an artisan or a guild master background.
It's like your background.
It's the same thing.
I couldn't remember.
Um, just to go over the options really quick.
There's Average Joe, Businessman, uh, Reporter, Lawyer, Doomsday Prepper, again,
fucking crazy background, uh, Criminal, Mechanic, Scientist, Spy, and that's it.
So, not too many options.
Yeah.
We've, uh, Capes and Crooks is a wonderful source book and we've really enjoyed using it.
I do think that...
That is awesome.
Kind of tends more like adult with the things and like we've been playing with a very younger
or at least my character in the other campaign, um, like in our campaign and in this, uh, our
younger characters.
So, I think that reskinning is also like very much a possibility.
I think I reskinned Reporter to be college student.
Hmm.
To be like Door Dasher.
Yeah.
So, it's like, well, you know people around because you're always fucking Door Dashing.
Yeah.
And for me it's pretty easy, uh, thinking about who the character is.
Um, he's, his, literally his intro in the video game is him, uh, like tagging with spray
paint, his, like, brother's, like, political billboard.
Um, and so, Criminal's the background that sticks out to me the most, but instead of it
being, like, hard criminal, it's just kind of like, tagger and shit-poster and fuck the
establishment, I'm graffiti-ing things and skateboarding on things I shouldn't be.
Yeah.
Like, like, a troublemaker.
Yeah, just like troublemaker.
Uh, you could retitle, I would retitle it from-
Noisemaker.
Oh my god, this is so sticky.
Yeah, have fun.
Uh, that's a side note.
Something got spilled on our-
Fucking disgusting, by the way.
Yeah, you can talk about that.
Um, I really like, I legitimately, doomsday prepper's incredibly funny to me.
I think you can make it work.
I was gonna say, alternatively, Average Joe, I think it's a very funny background.
Uh, it's pretty good, which is just, you're just a guy.
Yeah.
Or a dude.
Um, so that's-
I'm trying to think of even like, what her background in the video game is, isn't it?
Don't tell me that.
No, I mean, that's pretty much it though.
Like, she doesn't come from anything particularly special, it's just like, hard, home life.
Well, now I want to switch it.
Do whatever you want.
I'm like, I just, I also want to-
I'm going with Average Joe.
I just want to talk about the character as well, like, um, make your decisions.
It's also one of my favorite video games of all time, I'm not gonna not talk about it.
Okay, we'll talk about it after I make my decisions, because I don't want to be influenced.
Alright, speaking of Average Joe.
Um, so that's gonna give me, I can choose any skill proficiency, any one tool proficiency,
and just two random pieces of equipment, and then my special feature is, you just have
one of those faces.
Um, you can easily find a place to rest or recoup among citizens, as long as you're not
a threat.
Uh, you can fade into a crowd.
Um, you can, you can kind of skate by.
You're not recognizable.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
Uh, criminal just for feature-wise, um, basically you've been caught so many times that whenever
you're held in custody, as long as you're not restrained or unc-
Oh no, literally just as long as you're not unconscious, you can find a way out.
Which is very much gonna who I imagine the character to be.
Um, skill proficiency, sleight of hand, stealth, hackers, tools.
I'll say I'm definitely taking fucking thieves tools, as my tool proficiency.
I owe you from another criminal accomplice, Bracelet, that clearly identifies you as a member
as a criminal underground, probably just like something he wears, like a wristband or something
that identifies him as part of like a local spray painting group or something like that.
You know, just to- A local spray painting.
I mean, cause that's not- It's a gang.
There's no gang to be a part of though.
Like I'm thinking of all the things that he would be in, like there's no gang.
There's like the graffiti community.
Yeah, but I mean there are some more underground niche groups of people that identify themselves
with specific tags or logos.
Like a club?
Yeah, kind of like a club.
But it's not a gang.
Are you saying the clubs are gangs?
No, I'm just saying that this is a club that is committing crimes.
Yeah, but they're not a gang.
Cause they don't commit gang-like crimes.
There's a fine line here and he's telling it.
Okay.
I mean, I mean, not really, but-
So I'm right.
Yeah, but it is, kinda sorta.
Okay, I don't know what I want my skill proficiency to be, so I'm just gonna put like a little note
on my character sheet and I'm gonna come back and fill that in once I'm filling in others.
Cool.
So, origins, this is kind of-
That was less for you and more for people listening.
This is race, so just think race.
Android, beast man, experiment, freak accident, genius, inherited, inhuman, mutant, training.
That's a fuckin' origin.
And undead.
Um, I'm- ooh.
I might go with experiment, cause if I- in my head freak accident sounds the closest,
but I've already done freak accident in my personal character at our campaign.
It's great cause he's going to be a freak accident.
Cool.
That works out.
Hell yeah.
I'm gonna steal this to see what I get.
Go for it.
Experiment, constitution, up by one.
What?
You choose one of the following further augmentations, balanced physical or mental.
And that'll do something different.
So balanced, you increase two different scores by one, physical strength up by two, or dex up by two,
and mental intelligence up by two, or wisdom up by two.
Now that you've picked your thing-
Now that I have- you've committed to this being a speedster, so-
No, I mean you do however you want to do it.
Okay.
Truly, it's- I will talk about the characters once we've made the decision so as not to more influence your decisions
now that we've locked in what we're doing.
Honestly, experiment or freak accident work both very well for these characters.
So the way that the power system works in the infamous universe is that basically it's a plague
that moves through and people that don't have a specific kind of gene-
It's kind of like the X-gene from X-Men.
They get very ill and die.
And then people that do have the gene suddenly get powers.
So a lot of times the way that a lot of people in this universe find out that they are-
I forget what the terms are called, condo-ins in the universe.
The way that they find out that they're conduits is a freak accident or an experiment happens
and then all of a sudden, holy shit, I have powers.
And this sucks because now all of my friends around me are dying and I have superpowers.
So either one of those works very well.
This thing kinda sucks.
Yeah.
I'm- Delsen, which is the character, smokes name in the video game,
literally finds out what his powers are by touching somebody who has them and then he finds out,
not in that moment, but down the line, that his abilities aren't smoke.
His abilities are that he can leech powers from anybody he touches that already has one
and then can just use them.
Fun fact about the infamous series, there's a very fun moral system where there's a good path
and a dark path and a dark path ends with him.
Not a huge spoiler, this game has been out for like seven years.
He kills his whole family.
And then breaks all the conduits out of prison and shakes all of their hands personally as a year welcome.
That's-
He goes, I know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go break him all out of prison
because I'm a great guy and I'm gonna shake every one of their hands on the way out.
That is behavior of someone who needs to get jumped.
I'm sorry.
Like, that's not okay.
So to talk about freak accident really quick,
my ability score, two different ones go up by one.
I'll just have to flip back to this one so we get to that.
Sizes medium, speed 30, proficiency in one skill of my choice, and then innate power.
Choose one first level superpower.
I wonder what I'll choose.
And then I get to cast it without using a spell slot and then I have to use spell slot again.
If you-
I have to.
Are you kidding me?
Did I not change it?
Just to fucking spite you.
Did I not change it at the table?
God damn it.
It's just to spite you.
Okay.
I don't want to explain the context of that to-
You know, once we do rolls.
Let's do rolls.
Okay.
Let's get to this next part.
Don't we have to choose what our-
Where's the hero advancement table right in the fucking middle?
And not at the end.
I don't know.
Anyways, don't know if we have to choose what our what is.
What our- our roll is before to get our hit die.
It's what I'm doing.
Rolls.
Oh, I thought you meant like rolls.
No, like the thing rolls.
I got that.
I'm hacking down.
Rolls are classes in this- in this universe.
So there are- there's Brute, crime fighter, what the fuck is this, Element Controller,
God damn these pages are long, Exosuit, Gadgeteer, God bless, Jumper, God these pages are long
and shit, Mystic.
And I think that might be- nope, Psychic.
And then Speedster I think is the last one.
Oh, Shape Shifter, then Speedster.
Okay.
I think for Shits and Giggles, I'm looking between Gadgeteer or Jumper.
This is not me asking you- like I'm not asking about like if that fits with the character
or anything, I'm just talking out loud.
Please don't do Gadgeteer.
I'm just asking.
It's not a shit on the system.
Gadgeteer's and Artifactors are just- please don't.
I was looking at this and I'll be completely honest.
Please don't.
I'm like, the big reason is I'm sitting here going, do I want to learn all of that before
we- and I think that's- that it's going to be too much for me to like-
Yeah, Gadgeteer is a wholly different beast that you've never touched and that I haven't
touched and it's going to be a such a large learning curve at the level that we're jumping
in at.
Correct.
Jumper is literally teleport and hit people.
Yeah, I'll say I know that.
I do that.
That's how I play most of my characters and that's simply-
That's both whole thing is just jumping hit people.
Not even that, but that's just the play style of every character that I've ever played
is I take someone with luck in Misty Step or some teleportation thing and I just fucking
go, fuck you.
That's valid.
For him it's definitely between Elemental Controller and what's the one that you get
to use other people's powers?
Misty, that's the one that you are, right?
That's what I use other people's powers but there's nothing in the book that says that.
Wasn't there one where you get to like, one of your features is getting to choose something
else, like somebody else's feature or power or something?
No, we talked about doing that because one of my features is useless for me.
No, that's valid.
Yeah, that's valid.
It's all about like-
Sorry, I didn't-
If they fail your check and I'm like, I have no powers that they have to pass a check on
so you gave me permission to choose one of those.
I thought there was a thing-
No, that's valid.
Okay, then not that one.
That's just a special thing for you.
You go to Element Controller.
It's pretty simple.
That's something else about-
So two roles that we already have at our-
Something else about this universe though is that every power is kind of based around
and element.
Some of them are a little bit more weird and fucked up than others but like thinking about
the ones that we've seen in the series, there's a guy that uses lightning, there's a guy,
a woman that uses frost, Delsen, the main character in Infamous Second Son, the character that
I'm kind of making here uses smoke, he gets neon, which is fetch, he gets concrete, which
is crazy and broken, and then he also gets video games, which sounds as nuts as you think
it is.
That sounds similar to nightlights.
He has-
Well, the guy-
His name is Eugene.
He's a gamer.
Fucking stupid already.
And his powers are almost exactly nightlights.
Their creation, specifically using the internet and electricity to sort of make the constructs,
and it just so happens that he's a huge gamer, so he gets bullied and then goes into a psychosis
and then starts making demons from his favorite video game and they then kill his school bullies.
That's a little-
It's sick as shit.
I was going more of like-
It's a really cool fucking power.
That just like don't come to school tomorrow.
That's exactly what it is.
It's so energy.
It's exactly what it is.
He then goes underground and hides for a very long time.
Yeah, I was going to say we had a couple of those in my high school.
And lives inside of video games so that he doesn't hurt other people.
But anyways, I'm going to do Element Controller, kind of with the idea that the character can
use more than one, but for the sake of this one shot, he won't.
Time to roll for error.
Health.
Element.
Elemental.
We're also playing level 11 characters.
Because crazy, 11 is when you get a signature power.
So again, if you haven't listened to the previous episodes, please do that.
This won't make sense.
For a very quick brief synopsis, at will powers or canned trips, there is first through, I
think, fifth level powers.
Those are your first through ninth level spells, but condensed.
Anybody can take any spell.
It is not class locked.
Which is one of the craziest things about this system.
Yep, nothing is class locked.
You can, as any role, you can take any power except for some of the features, which are
enhancements in this game, which you have to meet certain prerequisites to take.
Those are the only things that are roll locked.
But your ninth level spells are all locked behind this title called signature powers.
And you don't get one until you would think, tenth level, you're wrong.
It's the eleventh level.
You get signature powers at the eleventh level, not the tenth.
And you also get like four of them.
Yeah, you get a lot.
But you only have one slot a day, I think, at that level to spend, right?
At eleventh level, yes.
But once you get it.
Yeah, I was going to say at eleventh.
Yeah.
Yeah, at the eleventh level, you only have one slot.
You can know, by the end of it, you can know a lot and use a lot.
And I think I look like up to four.
But in the beginning, you get one, you use one.
And it's basically one ninth level spell that has its own dedicated power slot, or spell
slot if you're thinking fifth edition.
But you can only choose one, and you only know one.
Yep, it's kind of like, the reason they're called signature powers is because in my opinion,
it's to help people brand themselves around a specific kind of power.
Like I know a lot of them, a lot of the players at the table, started looking at signature
powers when they were making their characters because that gave them a better idea of how
they wanted to frame their character or how they wanted to create them.
Because the sig powers are things that are very unique and kind of tailored to the individual.
Anybody can take a signature power.
So that's not at all the case.
But it gives you a better frame of mind.
So I'm taking us up to eleventh because I want to play with the signature power.
My favorite, this is just kind of a funny sidebar.
My character that we play in our campaign, her signature power that is hers is contingency,
or it will be, which is not a power that anyone sees.
It is like fully not.
It's basically you create a backup plan, you go fuck in Batman, and you say when this
thing happens, something else will happen.
It's basically like holding an action, but a lot better.
And I'm pretty sure there's like a spell for it in 5e somewhere, but you can do that with
Chrono Mancy.
Yeah.
So it's something like that.
You can do several of those.
Her signature power has become a first level power that anyone can take.
And it has become her signature in the fact that she has been forced to use it so much
to a point where Robert got real life, like had a conversation with me and was like, I
nerfed it.
Spell away from you.
I nerfed it so hard.
And I went, but it's in the book.
I've done nothing to modify it.
And he went, I don't care.
I'm taking it away.
Then we also found out that you were rolling.
I was rolling too extra.
I'm bad at math.
Too extra dice the whole time.
I was bad at math.
But.
It's basically just a broken.
So we've discovered what it is.
We're 99% certain that it is one of the smites that you get as a paladin.
If you don't know 5th edition, I'll walk you through it briefly.
If you do know 5th edition, you'll understand why this is broken.
So the way that smites work is in 5th edition, mostly paladins and clerics, I think, have
access to them.
They do a lot of damage.
Now what happens is you have to hit somebody with a melee weapon, like a physical martial
weapon.
Once you've made that hit, you can then use your bonus action to smite somebody.
Smites are one of the best thing about the paladin class by far because they allow you
to do an ungodly amount of extra fucking damage every time you hit somebody.
You are limited to the amount of times you can use them.
It's usually locked behind a proficiency per day thing.
This one, however, isn't really like that.
So they took smite.
And the one thing that makes smite balance, well, the two things that make smite balance,
is that in order to use it, you have to burn an action and a bonus action, and you have
to hit somebody in the face.
What they did in this one was they turned it into a first level spell, and it's a bonus
action, no action required, and it's ranged.
And you can use that shit as many times as you have slots slots for, and there's a system
in play that I've helped modify that allows them to get their slots back.
And there are some classes that allow you, like Mystic, that allow you to burn a first
level spell without having to use a spell slot.
So just imagine someone doing at our level.
It was supposed to be 66.
We've been rolling 86.
Yeah, that was my bad, because we leveled up, and then I leveled down, and then I leveled
up.
There was a lot of level fuckery.
They've been through a lot of character changes.
I don't place it solely on Madison.
And everyone else at the party who has damage dealing stuff just wasn't either damage dealing
or didn't have any damage dealing.
So it was me, the fucking child, who was not really like supposed to be.
Basically spamming divine smite from 60 feet away every turn on top of a regular spell.
Yeah, it was.
So it's like, here's a regular...
Jesus Christ, excuse me.
Here's my action.
Here's a regular damage spell that still does like 46.
Also bonus action, 86.
I heal you for 45 points.
Bonus action, 86 damage.
It sounds as insane as it is.
I mean, it was as insane as it sounds.
So that's just a fun peek into the system.
So do we want to roll for stats or health?
I can get the boring stuff over first, but we'll do health.
So your roll determines...
I think we should do stats first because if we have any bonuses to con, it's going to
affect our health.
No, that's valid.
I guess we have to roll.
Just now first.
Your roll determines what your hit dice are.
Please go watch character creation if you don't know what hit dice is.
It basically means that you roll it and that's how much health you get.
Are you rolling hit dice?
I'm rolling stats.
Oh, me?
Oh, we normally roll 46 for that.
Yeah, but we only have three.
Well, it looks like we're doing it the hard way.
So we're doing...
We're going to do one and then just re-roll the lowest.
I mean, you can do that if you want to, I guess.
All right, so we got a four, a five, and a three.
We'll do it the way that I normally do it.
You'll get to choose.
Yeah, so I'm choosing the four as opposed to the two.
Yeah.
Well, like what it'll be, right, is if you roll a four, a five, and a three, if you choose
to re-roll the three and you get a one, you keep the one.
It's a gamble.
Yeah.
I just want to be clear on that.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
I rolled a four.
It's just a fun way I like to roll for stats.
I think it's a little bit more luck based, and that's fun, because that's what the fucking
game's about.
Yeah.
Bite me.
Was this the one that you left to score out on, or are these updated?
I updated them.
Hell yeah.
Sorry, there was one.
There was a version of the sheets that we're working off of when Madison made some very
amazing awesome character sheets, and then in her haste, I got one, one of the core stats.
It was fucking Constitution.
Nobody realized because you don't use con to do a goddamn thing.
Yeah, it kind of sucks.
Anyway, that was the most useless stat in all of fifth edition.
A 12 kind of fucking sucks.
You want to go like one for one, you roll one, I roll one, we'll do it that way.
Okay, cool.
So we're rolling for our stats right now, by the way.
In case that wasn't abundantly clear.
I would like to just pose to the world a very unhinged way of rolling for stats that I think
people should do, which is rolling for 20.
Oh my God, that was bad.
And just see what you do on the D20.
That was garbage.
How we roll a fucking two.
Oh my God.
Six?
Yeah, six to three and a three.
Let's go.
Okay, nine, 12.
Look at me.
I got a 12.
I'm not bad at all.
It's 13.
I'm two fives.
The same exact one.
13 it is.
I've never rolled this low.
Eight, it's an 11.
Ew.
I don't know what that is.
There you go.
Oh hell yeah.
I got a 14.
Let's go.
I need this number so far.
Yeah.
I mean, 12 is higher than average.
Yeah.
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
You gonna keep it?
Oh fuck.
Are we doing this right?
Cause I've never rolled this low before.
Yeah, we're doing it right.
Nice.
Nine, 10, 11, 12.
Again.
12 again.
I hate this.
12 again.
What is that?
I don't know what that says.
Five and a four.
And then you rolled a two.
It's an 11.
You rolled that?
Oh, this is going to suck.
I had to get, I could get that average.
Or I could get something amazing.
I would roll again.
I got exactly average.
I got a 10.
Cool.
Give me dice.
My old dead average.
Fucking sucks.
Two fives.
There's a one.
I'm going to re-roll that for fucking sure.
That was a three.
That's 13.
Hell yeah.
OK, I guess.
Six.
Hell yeah.
Oh, don't do that one at a time.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Three.
A six.
Holy shit.
That's a 12 already.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Are you going to take that or are you going to roll?
No, I'm going to fucking roll.
I got one lower.
I got a 14 again.
Give me dice.
You got a 12, a 14, a 14, and a 10.
Damn, that sucks.
That was a six.
You saw it was a six.
This is a six.
OK.
There's an 11 on the first one.
Fuck me.
Rolling slightly above average.
Wow.
OK, so I got an eight and a one.
I'm going to re-roll the one.
Please don't give me another fucking one.
Hell yeah, I got a five.
13.
Let's go.
That's not going to be upset, so I have better sense.
Nice.
OK, two sixes.
Fucking one.
13.
I'm, that's crazy.
I've only gotten 12s and 13s.
Three, five, and a four, so that's a nine plus three.
Wow.
I've literally only gotten 12s and 13s.
That's a six, baby.
I think that's our highest.
It's 15.
Let's go.
Impressively average over here.
Yeah, that's actually higher than average.
By like a lot.
Average is 10.
I get it, but like, not for me.
Just 10.
Not in my head, you know?
12, 14, 10, 14, 13, 15.
12, 13, 12, 13, 12, 13.
Wow.
In that order.
So I'm going to, as a,
Yeah, where we should look at our rolls and go,
what's more important?
Exactly, I was about to say that.
So.
What are you cast with?
I'm going to cast with a nine.
What are you cast with?
It's a thingy thing.
I also need to remember that from my origin,
I'm going to get a bonus to,
I already have a plus one to concentrate on.
You roll based on your origin, not based on your roll.
Right?
What are you talking about?
I'm trying to think of the scores that are more important, right?
Because like with Warlock, you cast the Yurich Risma.
Yeah, I'm thinking of my stat bonuses.
I'm talking about something else.
Yeah, I'm trying to think about what's one of the more important stats.
Is that based, did they tell you that on the rolls?
Are you playing a Mystic?
No.
You're playing an elemental character.
It is, it is in here.
Okay.
I think, I don't fucking know.
Yeah, because you power ability modifier.
So this mine is a constitution or charisma.
Two different ability scores of my choice.
That's a sorcerer.
Freaking accident, baby.
Okay.
So I get to up any of mine by one.
I need to remember that I'm going to get a plus one to con,
and then a plus two to whatever I want.
What does it tell you what your primary casting thing is?
When you go to your roll.
Uh-huh.
I'm on my roll.
This is the moment where I'm just going to point things out to Robert.
There should be something called power ability modifier.
Oh, it's on this sheet.
I was looking at the wrong fucking page.
Ignore me, folks.
I'm a little stupid.
If I had to guess, it's going to be charisma.
It's charisma or wisdom.
Yeah, because it's...
Oh, it's 100% charisma.
There's no way I can do it.
Mine's charisma or constitution.
He's so not...
This version of him is so not wise.
No.
There are two distinct versions of him in the game,
depending on which path you choose.
And one is just straight Riz and all evil.
And the other one is like a lot of wisdom and kind of stupid.
Yeah, the version we got in our campaign was...
There it is.
Rosa gets fucking knocked out.
Hey, he came back up.
Came back up.
And slammed the shit out of Jerry.
Yeah, it's solely because it went from a fight that was like,
yeah, we're all fighting all these people.
Smoke was on...
He was playing his own game, but he was fighting in battle.
He's like a 25-year-old man who is like level 10 significantly better
than most of the heroes in the party.
Comes in and like basically piss missiles.
Smoke off the building.
He does like 54 damage in a turn that chaos him immediately.
And he's just like wheezing on the fucking rooftop,
waiting to catch his breath and then comes back...
For half the fight.
Comes back last minute and then yanks Jerry down
and kind of almost beats his ass and then three people proceed to jump smoke.
On fucking sight.
Zero hesitation.
He has jumped so quickly as if putting a hole in his chest wasn't enough.
Like Jerry couldn't handle himself.
And then pretty much did nothing for the rest of that combat except get RKO'd by a fucking man.
Yeah, sucks to suck.
Could it be me?
It was you.
You got fucking sweeped.
I'm aware it happens every time.
You know at some point, at some point, you as the DM have to go,
hmm, there's a pattern here.
It's not every time.
Your definition of winning is so cut and dry.
It is if I'm the last person standing and I've personally killed every enemy in the combat, I have won.
So winning is going in and succeeding at doing what your goal was at the beginning of the thing.
Yeah, but your goals are always like, look cool and don't go down.
Sometimes, other times, my goal is literally, okay, knock this person out.
Well, you did that the other day though.
You knocked a guy out.
I knocked out which one?
Because one of them that was...
That was not...
I didn't want to do that.
That was not what I meant to do.
Anyways, what are you putting your stats in?
That's what I'm figuring out.
I thought that you were going to fucking banter while I could figure this out.
I'm going to do a 14 in Charisma for sure, because it makes no sense for it to be in anything else.
Or a 15.
Oh yeah, I got a 15.
If I get to choose my power ability modifier in this setting,
then I think I might just because you don't ever see people with Constitution as they're like...
Spellcasting.
I mean, if you really want to.
Sure.
Yeah, I'll allow it.
That's fine.
I'll allow it.
Hey, who's DMing the world, man?
It doesn't fucking matter.
It does matter. It matters very much.
This is not a codiuming experience.
I'm aware.
15 for Charisma for sure.
You can cast with Constitution.
I agree.
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, wait, no, because that's going to fuck me up, because I can do a plus two to anything else.
So then a 14 and a 14.
So I have to go Charisma.
Oh, I don't want him to be that wise of a character.
That's the thing, though.
Well, no, that's a lie.
That's a lie. I'm going to give him a 14 in wisdom.
My explanation for this is that while he is not an inherently wise person,
in the way that you would traditionally think wise in this setting is also very street smart focused.
At least in my mind it is.
That's also kind of how it's played in.
Capes and Crooks, which are really like, or not Capes and Crooks, these are kids on bikes, kids on brooms.
It's kind of played in that way.
Link your wisdom is also kind of like your street smart and like your know how when you're out and about.
And he's a very like, not from the streets character, but he's like being in that underground and sort of that like fuck the ass down.
Like graffiti scene.
Like he very much knows the system.
And so the way that I'm thinking he's wise is that like a perception check is to notice an undercover cop.
Yeah.
Or an inside check is to know if somebody's a fucking narc or like to find the best place to graffiti.
That's just out of eyeliner the camera on the side of the street.
Yeah, I have my stat array.
If I'm good to say that.
Yeah, go for it.
My plus two that I get from my whatever I can't remember to cover whatever.
So she's going to have charisma as her power ability modifier just because I'm able to get more of a bonus there than I would be Constitution.
That plus one is so I'm going to put that on one of those 13 and bump that up to 15 and charisma.
Then I'm going to take another one of those 13 and I'm going to get a plus one to Constitution from the thing before.
So her Constitution is going to be 15.
Then I'm going to put the other 13 that I've got index and then intelligence wisdom and what's the other and strength are all going to be a.
What's the other strength is important to me.
I've never once played a strong character.
You have to you have to at some point I will.
There's so much fun.
They're so simple.
I get it.
But it's too simple for me.
I like shit to be complicated.
I'll play a wild magic barbarian.
I think that that's a good balance of like hit but fucky.
Right.
12 in terms of just like straight strength.
It doesn't do much for me.
Can you just do this.
Sorry.
15 and charisma 14 wisdom 14 decks 13 intelligence 12 and Constitution 10 and strength.
Neither of these characters are very strong people.
I can also tell you based the video game there is not a single character in this.
Like there are no strength based characters in this setting that is not a thing that exists.
Every power is very element based.
There's not a element of muscle mass that doesn't fucking exist.
Even thinking about capes and crooks there are characters who are strong but like you can get out of that by just being like fucking dodgy or fast.
And the nice thing about this setting and the one thing that I really like the one thing that I like the most about the way that they did source book is something that they preface is that you can have somebody that fills the brute role which is dead.
And the other thing that I like the most about the brute role which is damage soaking and sort of high damage dealing is that you can be a psychic which has like a fucking D six for health but still have the character fulfill the role of damaged like damage soaker and like agro in the front.
So you don't have to really build around the traditional like oh he's a large guy made of rocks he has a high strength score he doesn't have to.
He could be a large guy made of rocks who moves things with his mind.
He can be fully telekinesis and he doesn't have to have a high strength score at all.
That's what I love about this book is it really lends itself to re-skinning and encourages it because when you get to the descriptions of the powers it's like you could do any of one of these things to get like the thing achieved because the character that I'm playing is a mystic.
She is able to has for several fights now played the role of a brute which is taking a brunt of damage and outputting the most damage in a group where looking at the lineup she should not be the person doing that just because of like the powers that she has and the way that she's like very flexible is that anyone can fulfill any role which is really nice.
So I have two plus ones that I can put in anything I'm going to put one in wisdom and one in charisma just because boosting the two stats that I cast with the most makes sense and thinking about the character.
Oftentimes the way that he gets himself out of situations is by talking and by looking the way I mean he's not I don't know he's not a traditionally attractive character like what I think about the video game which is just kind of something to consider right like are you charismatic in the way that you're pretty and everyone knows you're pretty
or you charismatic in the way that you know how to talk yourself out of a situation like yeah or is it like charm charm charm and I think for him it's much more the charm aspect of things and like having worked the system which kind of pairs high pairs really well with the high wisdom score.
He knows the right things to say to the right people just to get himself out of the situation so that he can skedaddle his way across the rooftop or teleport somewhere else.
I'll say I'm taking my highest is also in Chris man I think mine's probably a bit that it's fun though right like yeah having to high charisma characters because in a setting is a lot of fuck shit get to say a lot of things to each other to instead of having somebody being like the whole time which don't get me wrong those characters are fun
but it leads to more difficult I think role play sometimes when you have really high charisma characters and then you have super low yeah it's painful depending on how you're how comfortable your players are with role playing those kind of things.
It can be very difficult to navigate that you have people that are like I'm charismatic and I'm gonna flirt with everybody and be super really into it and you have other people that are like well my charisma stats as it's a nine and I'm basically a newborn so.
Yeah or sometimes you have like.
A not great charisma score but you're used to being the face of the party all the time so you're the one talking when you shouldn't be.
But I think having a higher charisma for this particular character is kind of be a kind of a combination of like using the fact that like oh I'm just like a young girl when I need to use that.
And then also being like a fuck you like I know what to say I know how to like play the game because I know what I look like which kind of gives her an edge up in terms of like I know what she is a little bit prettier than he is by like a mile.
He's not he's not that attractive of a character but you know he's fun.
She's just pretty privileged.
Oh 100% like the oh like I'm I'm just a girl.
What do you mean.
Shank bits.
Exactly.
Fuck you.
It's the it's the surprise.
Yeah.
All right what do we do next.
Health right.
Yeah.
All righty.
So now we go to work proficient seas.
Let's get the rolling out of the way.
So now we go to our roles with your role.
Jumper jumper.
I got a date.
First level is going to be a six.
Well my stamina dies as a date but my health that I roll for it says I'm using D sixes.
So that's fun.
I'll use the D six then.
That's fun.
I also have a D six but makes you feel better.
You can you can keep it even roll again.
I don't want to keep that a six.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
Look at you.
Fucked.
All right.
I hate doing this shit by hand.
I'm keeping it.
I'm not rolling again.
I got a five.
Yeah I wouldn't.
Okay.
So now we get to do this 11 times.
Hang on.
Well we have to go through the entire hero advancement table.
I got to figure out what my like proficient like what my ability modifier bonuses.
What do you have.
I had a 14.
Okay.
So it's plus two.
It's plus two because it's minus 10 divided by two.
Okay.
So a 12 is a one.
I got it.
I got there.
So I'll have a six to start.
I'll have a six seven eight to start.
Hell yeah.
And then we do this again and again and again and again and again.
This is going to be another fun game of us rating us rolling.
Now what we need to do.
That was a one.
I'm re-rolling.
No we also need.
What the fuck.
Two ones.
Something we also need to keep in mind is that as we level up we will start hitting
step increases and if either of us chooses to increase constitution or if we get a natural
bump we need to keep that in mind as well.
Yeah.
So we are up to level two.
We get an enhancement.
Are you not rolling your health.
I guess we can do that until we get to the ability score improvements.
So we're what at levels.
Are we rolling for health first all the way through or are we.
We can just roll for health all the way first.
I'm going to take a four.
So four plus one eleven.
This is the third one.
I need a calculator.
This is the third one.
I'll roll again.
No I'm rolling.
Okay.
Four.
Should I reroll.
I'd keep it dog.
Okay four five six plus six.
Cool.
Go.
I need.
I got a five.
I'm fucking keeping it.
So that's going to be a 17 total.
All right.
So this is our fourth one.
Go for it.
Six.
Keep it.
She's really feeling like we're rolling it.
No.
Why the fuck would I.
Why did you do that.
It meant to go in.
Five.
I'll keep it.
Let's go.
All right.
We're on our fifth one.
I'm going to roll Madison.
Do we want to see what we're going to take our increases to.
Do you plan on increasing your constitution.
No because my my other way I play is I always max out whatever my
power ability.
What did you decide I thought we said you were going to do con.
I was going to do con but I can get a plus two to one thing or I can get a plus one to con.
It would make more sense for me to take a plus two so I can get a higher.
Okay.
Fair enough.
So I don't plan on increasing con either so we'll just rip it and stick it to eleven.
Five.
This is five.
Gave it.
Five as well.
For all three fives.
26.
All right.
This is the sixth one.
Number six.
Another five.
Holy shit.
I got a four.
Should I.
I'd keep it.
Okay.
26.
Plus five thirty one plus 33.
I'm just counting on you to keep track of how many times we're rolling.
This is our seventh one.
Six.
Nice.
The two.
Holy shit.
Are we rolling.
Five.
That was better.
339.
I rolled again.
I got a five.
That was our eighth one.
Our eighth one.
This is our ninth.
Six.
Nice.
What the fuck.
Stop throwing them at me.
You got a five.
Five it is.
All right.
This is our ninth.
Four.
A four.
I'll keep it.
This is our 10.
Another fucking four.
A two.
Dear God, please don't.
A six.
Yeah.
It's going to be.
We roll.
A six.
That was our 11th.
Okay.
That was our 11th.
Okay.
That was our 11th.
Okay.
What are you at.
81.
God damn.
I rolled so many sixes.
60.
Holy shit.
67.
I mean it's the difference between having a plus two and a plus one.
Yeah.
And I also rolled a lot of sixes.
You rolled a lot of sixes.
I didn't roll anything below a four but.
All right.
So we got that done.
Now proficiencies.
I'm going to get proficiencies in all armor and shields which is nice.
That's fun.
Because I never fucking get to play characters with that.
60.
When I say 67.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
Write that on my HP thing.
Profession sees it tells you what it is right.
Does it not.
Yeah.
Some of them it does some of them it doesn't.
I have proficiency in light armor and simple weapons.
Simple weapons and one Marshal or melee weapon.
Simp.
Tools.
Armor.
Light.
Saving throws are in Constitution and Dexterity.
Then why the fuck did I just max out charisma.
You can swap the numbers around if you want.
No because that's my power ability modifier is not the same as my saving throws.
You can lie.
But that's still not one of the options for saving throws.
Swatch it or it won't make one of them con.
This is a fudgeable system.
It's a fudgeable system.
What if we just did Constitution and charisma which are my fucking my two choices for power ability modifiers.
What if we also had those as the saving throws.
I think that makes more sense.
Cool.
I'm ignoring that then.
Start with a simple weapon and Kevlar.
I could start with a Marshal melee or ranged weapon.
I'm getting a gun and reinforced Kevlar jacket.
And then for skills choose to from just fucking all of them.
Athletic, Zangor, bad X-light, a hand stealth lord.
What am I going to choose?
Great question.
I'm also trying to think about what I'm going to choose.
My initial thought for him was stealth because there's a lot of expertise like graffiti and going around at night.
But like this isn't the class doesn't really lend itself that well to stealth.
That in again thinking about the character that I'm building.
He's not that stealthy.
No.
He's very loud.
In this setting he carries around a giant fucking chain.
I think persuasion's got to be one of them, right?
Yeah.
So we'll go proficiencies that says weapons.
If you take persuasion I'll take deception.
Where's just regular ability proficiencies?
Is that on here?
So I'm seeing proficiencies on the little character sheet and then it says weapons.
Then equipment.
Yeah, what about it?
Where on the little thing?
It doesn't have like a list of.
Oh, we don't have a list of all the individual ones.
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
On the character sheet that I gave you.
It's on the character sheet that you gave me.
What you talking about?
What are you talking about?
Where you have all your individual skills.
Is that not anywhere on here?
It's on the character sheet.
Where you put, where you just wrote your stats down.
Oh, they're right there.
Yeah.
Okay.
They're right under it.
They were literally right in front of me.
Yeah, I was baffled at what I was talking about.
Persuasion for sure.
You said you were picking deception.
Yeah, if you take persuasion.
Yeah, I think that makes sense.
The other fun thing about sometimes when you build your character with other people,
you could build characters to pick up in the spots that the other person lacks.
So you don't all have proficiencies in the same exact thing.
And then I'm trying to think of what his secondary skill would be.
Athletics or acrobatics I could see working really well.
Definitely, it could be slight of hand.
Could be perception or survival.
Trying to think.
Graffiti arts.
Building clamor.
Paracord man.
Spider-man?
System fucker.
Like what do we think?
I don't know what the fuck the secondary skill would be.
I would do, I mean, generally, perception or insight is going to be good.
Yeah, it's not going to be insight.
It would probably be perception.
Slight of hand.
Did you take slight of hand?
I did not take slight of hand.
Why the fuck have you not taken slight of hand?
Slight of hand it is.
That makes the most sense.
That would be the check to do, your little criminal thingies.
Yeah, slight of hand and persuasion.
Cool.
And then based on the things, there were other things in there as well.
I'll do deception.
Freak accident.
I've already done the NATILs game proficiency once again over your choice from freak accident.
So I get one more.
I'm going to do acrobatics.
Curse of hand.
No, I'll be smart.
I'll choose.
And perception.
Why not?
Insight.
And, hmm.
That's what I want.
Yeah, perception.
Do you get a third one based on your, okay.
I've got deception, insight, and I always go for a dex one.
I really like acrobatics.
Acrobatics is fun.
It makes sense with a jumper.
Yeah, acrobatics went up.
Acrobatics.
Sight of hand, perception, persuasion.
I might also have an advantage at acrobatics.
Never fucking use that once.
Yeah, I don't really feel like, it's one of those things where in a setting that kind of assumes that you know how to navigate rooftops by nature of your work.
I'm not going to have you do an athletics or an acrobatics check every time we go into combat on a rooftop because why would you?
No, correct.
You know what I'm saying? Like I'm not going to make a dick gracing roll to jump from one ladder to the other.
Yeah.
I mean maybe for fun, but like I'm not going to do it every time.
That was just a flavor thing because she's someone without any powers to her.
I'm just saying like there are some things in this system and in this universe where it just doesn't make sense for you to constantly have to check those things because by nature of the work you're going to be good at them.
Yeah.
You know.
Um, what's next?
So we have a proficiencies, weapons, armor, we have our health.
I guess it's just time to do the fucking advancement table unless you want to do the more character specific stuff like age, height, weight build.
Yeah, let's, uh, no, let's build them first because I also like letting sometimes the mechanics roll like.
Okay, let me go to the advancement table then and we'll just go from one to 11.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
Um, first, so you get your roll power at one, we can take the time to do that another time.
We'll probably won't do a lot of spell picking because that takes a while.
Yeah.
We didn't do it last time just because again, it takes a long time to go through and do that.
So I'll just kind of give you a brief overview of the larger things that we get to do.
We'll pick our signature powers first.
Yeah, we'll do signature powers enhancements that kind of stuff, but we just won't do all of that.
We'll know powers, power slots on that stuff.
So let's go ahead and do it enhancement.
Enhancements are features for those that are fifth edition oriented.
Um, those are the only things that are occasionally in this system roll locked.
You either have to be this role or you have to meet a certain, um, like, I wouldn't like ability score, I think.
Yeah.
Okay.
Jesus Christ, there are a lot.
Yeah.
Um, I'm having to look at it on a little PDF.
So it might take me a minute.
Yeah, that's all right.
Um, enhancements do we get?
We're just going one by one.
Let me, I guess it would be easier to just look at it now and tell you how many to pick.
We need to choose what we took our ability modifiers in.
What do you mean?
From our levels up.
Go to the hero advancement table.
Yeah, the ability score improvements.
Yeah.
Let's just do, let's focus on one thing at a time.
Okay.
So some of these are just locked behind.
You have to have this score in.
We only get one fucking enhancement.
Or no, no, it says it says it there on the right.
Why is that a holy separate?
You know what?
Let me just shut the fuck up.
Five enhancements.
Pick five.
Okay.
So that's not one.
Pick five.
Pick five enhancements.
Um, I think actor would work really well for you.
Trying to think of what else.
Beguiler.
Beguiler would work as well.
I'll probably take Beguiler.
I'll do, I'll do Beguiler.
Is there a slot on here for enhancements?
Um, yeah, it's on a different page.
Aha, I see it.
Beguiler.
I'll do actor.
That's going to be, uh, the way they do these, you get three points whenever you make a check
using deception or if we're using two things, um, you can spend one of those points, uh,
to reroll, uh, to roll AD six and add it to it.
Um, they, it's exactly what it sounds like.
Yep.
So beguiler and actor are a little bit different in that beguiler has a focus on, um, deception
and persuasion and actor is deception and performance.
Yeah.
So again, it's just kind of covering the holes.
So we get four more.
Um, you should take amorphous.
I'm doing, if, yeah, either amorphous or desperate escape.
I think amorphous makes the most sense because that's what you actually like.
Um, amorphous.
Yep.
Now, just basically you just, you can, um, kind of manipulate your body.
Like the description is like putty.
I don't like to think of it that way.
Uh, you can just make your body into different shapes, move through things like metal grates
and shit like that.
I think I'm going to take brutal critical because reading ahead, one of the things that you get
to do is jumper, um, is, yeah, if you hit twice, uh, then you auto crit.
Yep.
And if you also, and you have advantage means you get to roll an additional whole set of
damage.
Uh-huh.
So you sure that one do.
Yeah.
Shit's kind of crazy.
Um, damage trim.
I thought about doing damage transfer, but I can't see him grappling a lot.
He doesn't have a high strength score.
Well, we saw what happened when he was at a grapple last combat encounter.
It worked really well until he got fucking jumped.
It worked super well until he got jumped.
I didn't do anything actually.
Um, I'll probably do extra attack, which is going to require me to have a 15 index.
Yeah.
Um, I know that based off of the ability score improvements, I will most likely up that.
So I'll go ahead and take it.
Um, extra attack.
Okay.
Um, force armor heated body hacker, great weapon fighter, push the limit.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Nope.
This is a lot of fun where it's just you all listening to us.
Yeah.
Kind of scroll through and going through and saying, this is what I would pick.
We're so bad.
So, I was thinking about taking extra attack because you already get to attack twice whenever
you do the teleporting thing.
Then I could, would I in theory be able to attack again on top of that and get three
attacks?
I would probably just keep the one.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
and so just to kind of guess
going off a mansion staying right being better about walking off through the
thought process the character that
i'm building in terms of that kind of what i'm looking to get out of combat is
somebody that is very hard to get a hold of
um... somebody that hits a lot and then moves locations separate that's
uh... which is why i think i want to take desperate escape which allows me to
burn stamina dice to basically turn uh... a crit into a normal hit
so fuck you i'm not getting credit
is actually i need to actually really nice
as nightlight need to take that
but yet i'm trying to play somebody who can kind of like change their body
between physical and gash states kind of laying on the smoke powers but who also
hits very fast very quick and then kind of moves
between different places him and fed actually pay play very similar in theory
uh... they're both very like hit and run characters but that's because in the
game
there like it's basically a gorilla style combat that they have to engage in
where it's like the few conduits against
all of uh...
but like the military
and you can't fight the military head on uh... so you have to move to gorilla
warfare in that case which is using the cityscape climbing buildings going up
ventilation shafts
hitting somebody jumping off a building teleporting to another place like it's
move move move hit hit hit
if you get hit your fault
yeah uh... that's just kind of a many of any game including dungy dragons if you
don't fucking move unless you're a paladin you don't care about movement
you die
alternative
you're me and i just always
have been in a situation where it's like cool
will you please move
yeah restrained or your grapple that i went can i cast
not moving can i get a break in this can i get ruined one of our uh... other
players entire we were doing a little like fun pvp thing
but a lot of things yeah i'll just restrain her and she'll stop
and then she didn't and he was like well
fuck i don't know mister two-up in survivalist uh... also gonna take
precision which means when you roll attack damage every role uh... that's a
one is treated as a two
that's fun
and combat no sage no
she's just all about dealing damage and that's all she's good for they both are
in a lot of ways
like even just thinking about the way the game is played like they are both
incredibly
offensive characters fetch in particular is very like
so her abilities in the game are to essentially like we'll play very similar
to the way nightlight is played but more focused on neon light in particular
so using the kind of chemicals that are present like the the called like xerox
or zero whatever the fuck it's called
the weird funky chemicals that are inside neon lights
she uses that
and by essentially pushing light behind her she can move
it blinding speed
so a lot of the way her characters played is that she will literally just
what looks like teleporting but it's just moving really quickly burst herself
from one location to another to another and then using her light she turns them
into basically solid spikes and snipes people
from like across the city
and then we'll move to another location by the time the military is to where she
was
when she's in close combat she basically turns that
light into serrated blades and then just fucking swings it be i'm aware about
the light blades because i also had like that makes a hell of a lot of sense even
thinking about the game which again is not we're going for but it's just cool to
see that work out
that way i mean she's very kind of
not only obvious character
form but in a way she does
uh... yeah i'm also gonna take
i'm also gonna take unarmed power
uh... which is going i can use my dex instead of strength for attack rolls uh...
when doing unarmed strikes
and you can roll a d8 in place of normal damage uh... and then at eleventh level
it increases to a d10 so she can just do a d10 with a fist
and do heightened intuition uh... where i powerful get feeling when something is
going to go sideways when you roll for initiative you can choose to move
yourself to the location above the player who would have gone before
so i can essentially have madison gets uh... a natural twenty
i can go above her initiative order by using that gut feeling
it also allows us to stay close to get to one another when we're talking about
initiative what i think makes sense for the character
well he is an asshole
uh... it plays huge on group dynamics in particular like using the powers of the
people that he's also using the powers of and so being able to stay close to
those people is going to be big
uh... so we'll we'll take that for fun as well i'm trying not to just take
comment focused ones
it's hard not to though because you're very much incentivized to
so we'll just do that heightened intuition but if i'm playing him as like a
street smart character who kind of like knows when shit's about to go sideways
it makes sense for him to have an
like an enhancement that literally is exactly that
and that's five
i think i need one more
this feels to
on the nose but i guess coming action
yeah i think i actually makes a lot of sense
connection makes a whole lot of sense which
uh... is coming out that that sounds like something from five eight it is it is
the road feature cutting action you can dash disengage or hide on uh...
your terms of bonus action
thank you
so those are enhancements uh... we now get to ability score improvements i have
to take the one in dexterity if i want to be able to get my extra tax so that
is what i will be doing
uh... i'm gonna but my dexterity up
how many team
just two points to do
to total billy score improvements one to
just two points or two sets
when you ability score increase it's
i didn't know it's too it just as ability score improvement so that would be
to and then to
and to to or you can do a plus two to one
in five i didn't know that
that makes a lot more sense
so i'm gonna go ahead and walk in a yet and do a plus two charisma
because that makes sense because that's what i might power ability modifier is
both of our power
seventeen
and the other one
so plus one plus one
i think i'm gonna do dex
our characters are shaking out almost the exact same way in terms of ability
scores i hate that
like almost the exact same way in terms of ability scores
i've got twelve intelligence fifteen dex twelve wisdom uh...
i have a little different strength and seventeen charisma
i have eighteen charisma
twelve con
sixteen wisdom or sorry sixteen wisdom
eighteen charisma twelve con thirteen intelligence fifteen dexterity
intense ranks
i
is that me that
pieces me off a little
not by much
uh... we're not i don't think i'm not gonna sit here do our like saving throws
and calculate all that shit because i don't care
uh... i'm not something that we the you will don't have to listen to i need to
choose my weapon
uh... because i get a
fancy weapon
i don't have that i do have that chart
sure doing so i had to recent it
all right
so i get to choose
i can choose from one of the
do you send the marshal ones or is it just far down
uh... it's just
really bucking far down
so you have a re-reacted i see that work we can re-read the jumper thing to see
if it's i have to hit with it because it just as a tack
it doesn't say what type of weapon
yeah
i've never i think it has to be a melee weapon
i think
i'm not quite sure
always kind of assumed
but
i've gone too far
jesus christ's book is huge
so what the
phrase in the most dramatic way possible
question that she's
trying to get clarification on here is that it says just so jumper one of the
unique abilities about jumper is that whenever they do a jump or teleport
they can roll with advantage to hit somebody once they take the attack
action
uh... if they land both hits they get a crit
it's a really cool ability that's basically can i working on the idea of
surprise the wording
sounds like it just says
take the attack action which in theory could also just mean a ranged attack
is there a
limit or a cap on the distance that i have to be to some you can use this
feature number times
projectile transfer on the transfer uh... surprise teleporter is that the
feature
your mobility makes you unpredictable this allows you to catch your enemies by
surprise you teleport before attacking enemy you have no will call arranged
i have two choices here
and coverage one of them's fun
one of them's smart
i love the idea and i've always been a second i know this is one of those
things where it's like
it i'm i'm a feminist and i want that to be known
however the trope of like small girl with massive fucking weapon is so good to
me and it's always so funny in the idea of having
a truly large
fucking weapon is very appealing to me right however
i'll be a little smart
i'll choose like a gun or some shit
i think it's i mean i think a marshall a male weapon sounds fun though i would
love that
i please do about as i go a bit of a i was already have options because you'll
probably pick ranged abilities with your powers
yeah and i'll call that attack okay i'll take that i'll call that an attack
that was i don't see why i wouldn't i mean
that i'm absolutely taking a fucking thing you'll have options
and do that
i don't know and the whole rebel thing you know
spray paint about my only thing with that is trying to find that on here
because i will call it baton and scale it up okay because i was gonna say i get
to choose a uh... marshall or what i get proficiency in one nice weapon
yeah
uh... but about would fall under
simple correct
i think so let me go to the little weapon thingy little bat is not in here
collapsible baton is
and that is the very first simple melee weapon listed equipment you get simple
and marshall yes
one simple and one way this is broken up the basic equipment is in a completely
different location than
the weapons
yeah kind of is odd
okay
uh...
weapons class of the time i mean to the great club
okay
that makes sense right
basically about
one d eight
call a great club
he gets a simple weapon uh... he uses a very i have to do to him for that is a
bat you can use one handed
uh...
uh... probably scale the damage that if it's one handed a d six of its two d eight
and i think that makes sense right yeah how much strength you can get into that
swing
uh... he uses in the in the video game he uses a very iconic weapon it's
basically a chain he infuses with whatever element he's using it's very
cool to a fun to watch so
generally matter with the fuck i pick i'm gonna rebranded is that anyways so
he gets a chain
i'll call us something different and i'm gonna care if you get marshall there's
a whip
and i think that that would kind of be the closest in terms of life half
marshall but i'm definitely gonna take that anyways
i don't give a shit i make the rules here
and do it comes ox only one d four
and one d six of its made of fucking metal that's what i'm saying yeah
it's like a chain
chain i still have to choose a marshal weapon with marshal uh... one d six
laser
laser blade
yeah that makes sense
you say like it's gonna use the fucking bat just like she was just wasn't
like a little switchblade someone laughs and then it's like
yeah get back to turn on as it's a fucking laser
for you it's
i powered with my own abilities
it's dad
it's shit on
all right what is next on our advancement table
okay you know what a role powers are we have our enhancements we have our
ability score improvements we know our features you know our features now we
need signature power i think we're done
yeah outside of well then we'll do the more character aesthetic stuff yeah but
uh... to say that it was fun part of we should picker at wills powers we go
in deliria
is just also still a lot to choose from there
all right
enhancements
for our seats is well online uh... on our patreon you should check out our
patreon
uh... and it'll have
the finished one will probably be coming out a day or two after
it's a lot of things
jesus christ and it's not small
uh... to give you
again glist of the previous
uh... episode we do on capes and crooks you'll get a more in-depth look at some
of these signature powers but just to kinda tell you what some of them do
stupefying stung you basically just stun somebody if they have less than a
hundred and fifty hit one i love that one
jury is a hundred percent taking that when she hits eleven
i was gonna use to kill him in the
our flashpoint one
he had the same thing
so it would just been who goes first
uh... storm of vengeance is fucking nuts
you basically get to do fucking uh...
elemental rain
and every round it's a different
and there we go another one that someone in our uh... flashpoint one used
yep reverse gravity which i think is fucking awesome sonic clap regenerate
psychic shock
uh... there's just straight up disintegrate the spell disintegrate
uh... meteors warren mind blank you basically is turn somebody into a
fucking rock
for twenty four hours it's kind of crazy
uh... photon barrier
is basically just a force field you can't get through
prismatic surge which is just a really beefy version of elder or chaos bolts
but you get to do multiple and they all do crazy shit
uh... first or foresight you literally just get fucking future vision
uh... freezing sphere it's what it sounds like
uh... connect blade is fun
i was just a little bit of a little bit fun uh... kinetic blade
can play with a lot and forty ten for stand-up i'm also creating on that
that's crazy dog
and i get another crit on top of that
forty two people mind
a theory illness also might do it for us
now when you eight hours though
as a bit much i mean you can
leave early
uh... disintegrate doesn't sound
terrible
i was thinking about something to does the game
some shit looks like that uh... another one which is really fun black hole
it's exactly what you think it is
i might take prismatic surge i think uh... that'd be fun make a lot of sense
that's fun which
do a bunch of cones and then depending on what color of a landed very taking ten
d six of a certain type of damage alternatively they get banished or
permanently blinded
uh... Jesus christ
yes crazy
uh... mind blank
project i'm thinking either storm of engines or
uh... disintegrate as the two that make the most sense to me
yeah i agree
can also do regenerate
on himself only
i guess
and i was gonna fit this integrate they are regenerate basically just you
come back
if you touch somebody for the next hour
they died they come back at five d eight plus fifteen hit points
uh... and they regenerate all limbs
i love the regenerate all limbs
yeah
uh... it's fun
this a lot of fun there's also one called strange which i think is
super interesting is basically just fucking fear toxin
kind of wild most of the good sunburst and just flagging that for personal use
later
yeah that's a lot of fun
what do you think storm of engines are disintegrate
i love disintegrate disintegrates a classic it's hard to beat man yeah
now to disintegrate bucket i'll be that guy i'll take that bullshit as well
terrified that most of this one shot is just gonna be combat
uh... no it won't
there's an actual one shot in the back of the book that i plan on using i only
say that because uh... we are level eleven
there's a higher chance with with that yeah for sure
that's what i meant
yeah
uh... okay
they were done
which it uh... we do character you fluff
but uh... that's what we want to use the little chart from kids on bikes
yeah if you want to
you start with yours i'll pull up the
give me a second to pull it up
you start with my character fluff
uh... okay
age
twenty three
uh...
height
was called five ten
nothing crazy
i don't need him to be large uh... billed
it's like skater boy
you know
that's literally what i'm gonna put in the things get a boy like
he's got uh...
like uh... a denim jacket with cut out sleeves and it's got like pens on it
and stuff he's got a red beanie a battle jacket red beanie
whole thing
uh... hoodie underneath
very in skater boy ask he's not very fit he's more like
lean
because the cleanse buildings all day in graffitis and it's a lot of acrobatics
but it's not like a lot of strength
with weight being on here i think is fucking crazy
uh...
will call it like one seventy five
i kind of ignore it i mean i just kind of for all of my characters have
always put my whatever my weight is just cuz
bucket
theme song
i added that that was a personal one
that was applicable to our table when i made the sheets
personal can demand was uh... break ship i let biscuit
it's fun you know do it
uh... it's kids there's so many cliche rebel theme songs out there
it's going to be a different direction i thought was uh...
uh... fucking ho
some of the clash
super famous one
that there's really stairway go uh... should i say it's a yeah she's there
should i go that was the one that i immediately thought of as well
uh... immigrants on
that's no time to
great song just not the vibe not the vibe
now
and there's so many options out there see
is the other thing that i don't imagine him as being like a rock character
but that's on but those are the those are like the classic one you know i'm
saying you have to close the other options choosing shit that you listen
to and i don't want to do that either
i listen to everything though
yeah but there's a lot of that on there
what rocker
no like that
revelry punk shit
oh yeah i know i listen to a lot of punk
i'm using punk for her
spi from is specifically a riot girl song uh... which is a subgenre of punk
that i really really enjoy
uh... i was trying to use this is being i really like
but they're not really a riot girl band which is why i'm leading away from them
which would have been destroyed boys
but i think
i might go with
choosing
a latee gray song feels too basic
that feels too
decepticon feels too on the nose
so i want to do that
honestly i know i said no rock but american idiot feels fitting
okay that's a good one
i have where's the playlist i have a playlist
looking to choose from
now all i can think of now my head is second
break ship i live this can i just keep singing in my head
bucket it's not really a riot girl song
which is what i wanted to choose
so i have been listening to a lot lately
i guess i could just check my legs on to see if anything on there
so i guess i'm gonna go with that
maybe
i go with the legit right girls on or
and i know that is
right girls on a band is a genre okay i was like i don't know if you're
for referencing a genre of it's like punk music specifically feminist lyrics
up to you and like i mean there's more to that definition than that right
but i'm going no respect by destroy boys which is not really right girl song
but it's a punk song that i like
yes don't really know for him
like in my mind it's it's always
it's never something they touch on in the games and so now i'm struggling
with coming up with a more original aspect
it's not like he's he's from seattle he's uh...
this isn't he's gotta it has to be something by nirvana
you know what's funny
the in song for the game is a cover of uh...
uh... what is songs off lithium
uh... it's it's a nirvana song well that that that was the other thing that i was
gonna pick
probably either smells like teen spirit or uh... would be good
comes you are also like
have a cover of nirvana song literally it's the cover that they choose by i
think it's called by dead sarah
be a phone wash the game
hard shape box
i do heart shape box specifically the cover by dead sarah it's a very intense
rendition of the song like it is very hard rock it plays at the end of the
game regardless of which ending you choose
hits a lot harder if you choose the ending where he murders his family
which is really intense
uh... but that yeah
i guess if he's from seattle i'd never made that connection
i was like what are they playing in nirvana song
because he's from seattle
so we'll do you know we'll do uh...
hearts a box i have the chart up whenever you're ready uh... i'm doing
no respect and i'm making robert listen to it in the car on the way back to the
house
i'll play my
city intense version of hearts a box and he will not enjoy it
uh... probably not
he doesn't enjoy most of my music that's here what's her alignments
uh...
can you draw
interesting
yeah not that's valid
uh... i'm trying to think between that and are we playing the village in this
because i still have a lot of good okay i can you try their way because i feel
like it's very
individual
so
in
part of what we didn't get to because we have about this episode out yet is
the part two of where a current campaign is these characters introduced is
what
looks like protege is of very hardcore villain there's definitely more there
because she apologize fetch in particular apologize is for hitting several
literally every single time she's just like my bad i'm here this is what i was
told to do this is a lot of fun you guys are so cool also we should hang out i
got i got to kill you though like that's that's what i'm doing
uh... some i'm trying to think if this is sort of pre or if it's post or if it's
unrelated if it's untouched because that to me says a lot about the character
uh... and sort of where they're at in their their journey
i like the idea of them being more
neutral like a lot of neutral regardless and it's more of a just trying to like
get by day today that's what i took it as because i don't think these are at
least the way that i'm leaning towards this character going is not someone
who's like like truly evil and like doing bad things because they're bad
maybe causing trouble i think that's something fun it would be fun to explore
in the one shot to is
throwing several sort of moral decisions that have to be made and it's like
are you gonna choose self-preservation or you gonna choose to help the people
yeah like where does your
like rebel spirit lies it down with the system to the better and or is it
the system is awful but also there are people that need to be helped yeah
uh... so also but chaotic neutral just to kind of keep that open
chaotic newt
bucket i hate that alignment by the way i've gone on a rant about that i don't
think it exists i
we're aware this instance
i'll go with it
okay what's next anything
uh... do we want to roll on the little chart that i pulled up i have any of the
chart work for a whiskey dattle
i'm not going to my i don't work in seven hours just because uh... i could go on
that ship for hours and we both know that
it's fine i mean i think for this character figuring that out ahead of
time will be helpful for you
yeah i'll have it before the
before we play
do you want to roll okay so positive relationship negative relationship or
they don't know each other
uh... established that they know each other positive
role
char
this is the final chart if you have it you know you are uh... kids on bikes one
that they have in the back of theirs which is just kind of guiding uh... into
figuring out characters relationships with each other
what do you admire about this character but would never tell them
uh...
well jesus
this is also because we're doing this before we've really dived into like
who their their personalities are
we have to make a lot of really strong opinion what i know exactly who he is
well okay pretend you don't
but i do but that's the character that i'm making okay well i still don't know
how to answer this question that is that's not something they explore at
all
they literally meet in the game in their relationship is
is only based in like a weeks time
so there's no answer to that question nice to meet you we gotta go
yes sorry i just ripped your powers uh... tell me how to use them
please
so i don't die
well i think this is a fun thing to also do before because you getting these
answers helps you base your character in the way that they interact with people
around the decisions that you make so it's kind of like me it's not making
decisions for other people but it's giving direction to go in
um... something that he
mires about
fetch that he would never tell her
uh...
probably
the ability to make hard decisions when it comes down to it i think deep to his
core he
he's more of a people person that he likes to admit like it's it's fucked the
system but it's also i care about
my people more so than any anybody else
and the way that i imagine fetches it's a like no like if it's if it's us or
them it's us every time i don't think he has it in him at the end of the day to
make that decision despite the fact that he likes to lead forward
uh... so probably that just the ability to make those shitty decisions
without having to deliberate forever
uh...
what is this character sacrificing to protect you
fricking vinyl
uh... if you don't have an answer i can come out and say give me a little bit of
something to go off of
uh... the way that i've kind of imagined their their meeting is it's very much
uh... a relationship based on necessity
so it's
like maybe they they're both getting held up by d r t at the same time and
they're both being questioned they're both about to be out at his deviance and
he says something or persuades somebody to look the other way
she immediately takes that opportunity to give them out through deception or
through a slight hand of something in a bailout together and now they're just
kind of running through the city making hideouts on rooftops just kind of going
from place to place
okay
so i'm not
situation i think would also kind of say like a read
uh...
trust
in a in a weird and trust being sacrificed is like a weird thing to
say but it's like
it feels like a sacrifice because you are banking so much on this other person
that you don't know that well and you're taking a huge risk so it's a little
thing like so rebel focused it's like you don't really put a lot of trust in
people that are naturally inclined to not hang around
yeah but i think that initial thing is kind of sacrificing of like okay he
could have taken an easy way out but he chose to step in
but his and at that point you're now putting your face
yeah attached yourself as a person
to this other person
in a like in a way enough
that it's like
okay
that's
uh... association
uh...
and that would be something
really good
looking at
six
uh... what role did this character play the best of your life we can reroll
yeah that's not gonna happen
these are the same ones we got
last time as well
and i'm
kindest thing
i'm gonna get the same one that's more fun your private nickname for this
character in why
uh... jesus
uh...
trying to think
probably something related to like neon signs
something that's
is right like the powers not just neon signs but it's kind of funny to
to say that
uh...
to
any ideas
uh... the only light related like nickname i could think of for someone is
sunshine and that's not
neon
not that's and then is funny though because i don't imagine her to be a very
like happy go lucky care
you know it's like also the powers are not that at all
yeah it's like this
fuck you
but this this not who i am it's just real life robert has been calling me
madeline
for
going on two years now
and i i don't understand that i'm on my phone that's not my name
i i i don't get it
fuck you please stop i don't understand this sunshine is
that's the goal
art what now that's the vibe just a vibe
uh... one
uh... what it is character do for you that makes you owe them a debt you can't
repay feel like we kind of talk about that touch that
you switch to a different category
i think we're out of positive same was a funny nickname
you just pick one
how about that
have you just fucking pick out this big one
uh...
and kia
care about scared to work here but you
that's
that's so shitty
why do you care about this character more than they care about you
all
yeah but i'll i'll do that though
will spice things up a little bit that's fucked up will spice it up okay
uh...
as she feels like a extreme loner character like literally
there's not friends there's not
family there's not anything
so i think having one person be like cool dog you are literally the only like
person that i talk to you
you are like the only person in my life and you're also the first person who's
like stuck up for me or like
spoken me outside of like
either making a deal to get by for the day or like uh...
you fucking hook up with the rain of guide a bar or in a girl a bar like any
of these other things and yet
you're my way out of this because you are giving me something to like ground
myself and
i'll pick one for myself to set seems to be easier
what links
and what links would you go to you in order to defend this character i think
it is my name is guys limit
like they're already aiding in a better each other's criminals already committing
criminal activities together
again the whole names and faces being associated with one another to it's like
if you go down
i'm fucked fire down your fox so
out of just necessity alone
i'm doing whatever i gotta do to get you out of there we are right or fucking die
yeah but i think
i don't know if i want to use
go this darker out with the character
in their sort of two different ways that that i see it to different streams it's
i will do anything i have to do to get you out of like custody or to get you out
of the city situation
to the extent that i will kill you before i let you stay with them
no that's fair and i think in his mind it's less of a like to cover my ass but
just knowing how deeply your character most likely just does not want to be put
in that situation yeah it's like i know that if i have to that's what it's gonna
come to you and i've made that commitment by being a thing of like it's in the zombie
apocalypse it's like cool if i get bit you're gonna kill me right yeah you're
not gonna
fuck around with that i think the answer to the question like what links i mean
pretty much anything
do we want to choose one to do together
uh... to do like workshop
yeah i'll let me go past
positives positive there's negative and then there's you don't know the other
person
yeah i'll go to negative and do a handful of these
uh...
this is for your character what is this character doing either knowingly or
unknowingly that hurts you
uh...
i think she's a little bit more she seems to be a little bit more swing uh...
then he does
in terms of like
getting in the fray of a fight and yeah
publicly
saying something or doing something
and i think that that would backfire if they've aligned themselves and are
basically operating as a duo
uh... or as a pair
and then to have one of them be a little bit more okay it's so cool that you
like
feel so strongly in all of the things that you think about that you just jump
right in
but like
dog
i am publicly associated with you
and you are making decisions that like i'm like cool i'm backing this up now
this isn't the route that i would have gone i don't think this is necessary
as yet i imagine that happening a lot between the two of them because i think
his his version of activism is graffiting it spray painting is vandalizing
in her's to me is like we're gonna blow up a truck yeah it's working at the
renaissance of through a police station like it's like no
stop please but then on the back of that's like why are we on a fucking
rooftop spray painting a billboard
yeah what is that accomplishing
this is too very different versions of activism yeah
uh... so i think that's kind of an answer together question
uh... what do you need to take from this character for their own good
uh...
i think she's also this is another body
uh... it like that sounds really fucked up to say but like
in in a dark way like that increases my odds of survival
and if it
comes down to i don't think she would do this
but i think there's a scenario of like cool if we're in a
getaway situation
there is a fifty percent chance they're going after you and not me
and i'm not gonna like actively hope for that or want for that
but at the same time like a deep fucked up part of like
just this
in our like i need to defend myself
and having another person in orbit is like
i just have to run faster than the person next to me yeah
in like not a primal instinct to that but in just that like on the back of
the backup lands it's like if it can like you never gonna happen but like i
can run faster than he can
yeah
which is really fucked up
looking at what you said earlier about like yeah i do fucking like i'll kill
you before i let you go in custody because that's what you want versus
someone is not the same characters that way
uh...
what part of this characters personality scares you
makes more sense for him to answer that
i think just the willingness that there doesn't seem to be a bottom out to the
extreme
and i think that part of it scares would scare him deeply
uh... is like for him
it there's there's a limit
yes we're doing fucked up things in yes for breaking the law but that there's
a little there's a line
there's a line yeah and i think in in his mind just watching in operating with
this person
there doesn't seem to be a line like it seems very emotion and temper base and
that i think is scary enough is
he's so
a hundred and fifty percent into this other person that like it i can't back
out of it
yeah if she commits i'm committing to
and that's fucking terrifying is what if we commit to doing something deeply
fucked up i can't bail out of this yeah
it's it's this is a really stupid she's in my brain she's like tinkerbell in a
way
but specifically the thing where it's like cool you can only feel one emotion
at once
so you're either
all angry or all like super pleasant and happy and it's like yeah let's just
have a great day and then versus the next day it's like this is bad we're
blowing up
uh...
a government building
uh... and there's not a lot of like
sorry some these questions one says how far would you go to make this character
suffer
but why though
and i guess they just assumed that if it's a negative relationship it's a
negative relationship that gets me with this chart is it no it varies to
because the positive one is like
what do you think is kind of cool about this character and another one on the
same positive relationship chart is like when did you realize you were in love
with this character for the first time
and it's like these are like just all sorts of like
it's just any form of positive or any form of negative relationship there's no
like variation
in like or distinguishing between what type of relationships
uh... what are you sure this character is hiding from you
uh... are you answering me
i think it's both
um...
probably
i don't
would he have divulged a lot of like a back story and like why he's now
cool that's suspicious i think just as a person he's probably very drifter e
in that it's
this isn't his primary city
yeah i've already kind of talk i still like the idea of his his like
uh... origin playing a huge role into who he is a person
like he wasn't uh... a deviant to begin with and then to just stumble into that
and then to suddenly have to be that person
yeah uh... the like it's the more he has to talk about it the more he has to
like except that that is who he is and will always be and if you don't talk
about it
you don't have to confront it i think that's in courage she'd be incredibly
suspicious that drifter as a like thing it's like cool but why
because that's inherently very suspicious you're not talking about like any of
the details know you just happen to have them one day
cuz i know where i got my powers and that's because i was in a fucking lab
and people were like fucking poking and prodding at me
uh... i know where i came from right so like what do you mean that that just
happened one day
uh... has that's that one really just way up like this there's always a
backstory yeah it's like you're not fully letting on and you're not fully like
telling me what the deal is
i think for him it's
if there was anybody previous in her life is the way that it sounds like the
characters going is that there were somebody or a group of individuals that
she used to run around with and something traumatic happened in there
no longer there which is where a lot of this deep mistrust comes from
i think it's the thing that he's probably suspicious of is like cool if
you're willing to go this far with me
who else were you going this far with
is like doesn't seem the person to to turn down like the extra body thing like
i mean just there's a lot of those vibes that are going to come through with
him having a higher wisdom
this is a character that is a hundred percent willing to move through people
if it means getting to a goal and there's no way she made it this far without
moving through a handful of people before so like
who came before me like who is in
the graveyard
being like fuck you
and am i next
what's up dog is is this like a is this your thing is this is a yeah what's the
final goal like we're helping each other out but i'm
they're a lot of people that seem like they probably would have helped you get
to this point and they're not around anymore yet have a deep mistrust of
other people which means there had to be people there to mistrust history here
something there like walking into a haunted house like the vibes are not
right it's like someone died that's a portrait of somebody
but you don't want to talk about it yeah it's like you definitely a photo is in
your wallet who are those people who are those people
who are those people don't worry is that dog
don't worry about it
don't talk about it
don't acknowledge it you don't need to know that
think that might be it i'm trying to go through and see if there's anything else
that's
would be interesting to to work through uh...
what secret are you keeping from this character that you would be devastated
if they found out
that it just kind of expands on the other one
probably that she has
sold somebody out before
i think that she's burned other people yet not even in like a
fuck you i'm like literally turning you over way but like
it came down she was
she's ran with other people before
uh...
probably had like a fucking
partner like a boyfriend or a girlfriend or something like a small group and
was in a situation where it was like cool it was me or them
and i
it was me
and i could have helped them and i didn't
and i knew i made that decision and i was
and i'm i continue to live my life
i feel like that would be a really bad thing for she knows that that'd be a
very bad thing for
him to find out because it's like cool that's
gonna confirm some bad things of like cool you were running around with this
other group of people
and you just left them
you just let that you let this thing happen to them and you had the
opportunity to save them and you didn't
like yeah gotten them and gotten out
and you didn't
like died
feel like that's enough of a thing to be like with that information being
public that's not gonna look great
yeah
uh... i think for him it's probably just the extent that his powers can go so i
still like the idea that he like if he wanted to
he could borrow powers from other people
and that process is a profoundly negative and traumatic experience for
whoever he makes that connection with and
that kind of imagine him having city hops are going from one city to another
uh... and having ran through a lot of people in the previous city seen all the
damage it could do another person and then left
i'm thinking also that there's probably like a lot of like wanted posters and
most one of things from the city came from previously and so it's like
if she ever found out that is somebody who prides themselves on being undercover
in low key that it's not just like a guy with smoke powers it's a wanted guy who
burned a lot of other deviants in a previous city
is there's a lot of attention that comes with his name if it gets public
then like the whole thing is fucked
yeah like then there's no more anonymity to it
because there's a lot of it he that comes with his
person uh... since he's sort of hopped cities
but i think for the reason why he wants to keep it as secret as he does and
maybe devastated is it happened when he was a much younger person
so it's kind of like and all just wanna be
like the seventeen eighteen year old version of the thought of the fun to
just fucking power hop people yeah and now those people are arrested or dead
and now i'm here spray painting and i'm just like being a drifter guy
and i think a foil her situation probably happened around like night i
figure she's like twenty two ish
probably happened around like
eighteen nineteen twenty ish yeah not that far along
but i think that's also a thing of like also being like cool now
i'm tied at the top because you i thought you were just a guy who was
fucking spray painting yeah and i know that i'm more wanted out of two of us
in this situation because i'm going up cop cars
um but no this is like federal
this is like yeah he's very much that it's like yeah i'm not just like one of
them like on drt's one of those like yeah like
they know who i am like that is a lot like dog
in a really different situation it's like i would not be running around with
you if i knew that like someone could see your face on a camera
and just shoot yeah and then fire and now i'm attached to that
yeah and like it because at this point i they are very publicly attached to
each other i say very publicly and like there's
like they're on twitter no just like pictures of them
hopping roofs and standoffs i think it's very in my head at least it's like you
don't see one without the other a lot just in that like
who the fuck are these goddamn like hooligans
yeah who are these menaces yeah it's like a like like a team rocket from
pokemon like that shit they're always together
yeah always a team always causing terrorism just a little terror just a
little bit of light terrorism just a little light terrorism
was wrong with that um that's a crazy sentence
oh this one's kind of fun let's do one more and then we'll ski daddle
um what is your first memory of this character
and i think it'd be like i think it's fun to also consider
like before meeting oh yeah before meeting
yeah um it's not small town it's not small town
it's not small town at all actually i mean okay i this book i feel like they
run in similar enough circles that you're in the same part of town
probably like it like a party like an underground party for him i imagine
um probably just again like being a drifter being new to town finding
himself in the right circles in the right groups of people that are going to
keep him a little bit away from sort of the public eye
like i mean she has fucking neon powers like it's a hundred percent gotta be
like a rave thing she's firing shit off having a great time
she's on the bar tripping mad balls like an entire leader of something
she is just she's swinging from she's like in the rafters
she's and then i imagine for him it's very much just kind of like moving
through the crowd and doing crowd work and getting names and picking up chips
out of people's pockets and just trying to like get himself set up for his
sort of stay in the city and then it's just like i'm never
interacting with that person again that is way too high energy that is way too
public the powers are so fucking bright how can you not miss that
yeah i'm never interacting with it again and then it's like a day and a half
later they're getting each other out of the situation with the police
i think hers is seeing him like eat shit or do something and
it's like not great at the party i think it's like trying to like talk to
someone and like distract from the fact that you're trying to steal their
watch and then just it goes south i imagine that it's
definitely like a like a really shitty sloppy bar fight with somebody
it's like he's trying to lift the wallet and he's like being real funny and
charismatic and goes to the next person and fucking guy just yanks him back and
is like excuse me and it's like whoa buddy i don't know how that happened
she's just well damn it's run just in between shots like who's that like
just fucking looking motherfucker that just punch and run like how do you fail
at stealing a wallet and how is he running like that he looks like
watching run baby it's not a clean run it's like a
i'm skedaddling used to having buildings to climb on
like looney tunes ass who is this looney tunes ass man
well it's definitely too like using his amorphous enhancement or sort of
ability to move between people so it just looks weird because it's like
it he's running and then all of a sudden he's not and then he is and then he's
not and he is and it's like it looks like he's stuttering
yeah but he's just like phasing through people to try and get through the crowd
yeah definitely bumping into strangers he's panicking
not used to being caught skedaddle out like a looney tunes ass
yeah all right well i think that's good um we're gonna post those character
sheets on patreon um they'll have a little bit more details uh in terms of
like character information um what they look like uh what their powers are all
the stuff that we haven't covered um in this little character creation
um episode
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