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Lonely TTRPG EP 32 - Nomadic by Fari RPGs
Episode 32 • 25th November 2022 • Lonely TTRPG • Black Dragon Dungeon Company
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Nomadic is a solo tabletop role-playing game of exploration and survival. You explore dangerous worlds in a quest to find a new home for humankind.

You use oracles when things are uncertain, perform dangerous actions, and manage resources to keep your body, your mind, your equipment, and your spaceship in good shape.

The game uses the Breathless system, so every single action you take brings you one step closer to a complication.

The game is harsh, and beautiful at the same time.

Explore, document, but most importantly, survive.

Thoughts: This is a great exploration game with solid mechanics and a fun feel. Definitely something to grab.

You can find Nomadic at https://fari-rpgs.itch.io/nomadic?ac=pEV55vHqdvG

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Greetings, very wanderer and welcome back to Lonely TT, R P G,

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the Solo Actual Play and Review podcast.

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So this week if you are tired of the Thanksgiving leftovers for our American

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friends, or tired of hearing about Americans talk about Thanksgiving, and

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you're just looking to get away from it all to escape for a little bit, then

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we are playing nomadic by fari games.

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Now Nomadic was the winner of our Patreon poll for this week.

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It resoundingly was the one everybody wanted to hear about, but don't

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worry if you saw a game that you wanna see on that poll listed,

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they are all going to get played.

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I am just letting my Patreons help determine the.

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But onto the game.

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Nomadic, by fari games nomadic is a solo tabletop role play

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game of exploration and survival.

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You explore dangerous worlds in a quest to find a new home for humankind.

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You use Oracles when there are uncertainties, perform dangerous actions,

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and manage different resources to keep your body, your mind, your equipment,

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and your spaceship in good shape.

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Nomadic explores themes about isolation, despair, futility,

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and mental and physical health.

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Your safety is important, so for this reason, do not hesitate to rewind,

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rewrite, pause, or take a break as you see fit to play, you'll need a set of

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polyhedral, dice, a pencil, and something you can either write on or record

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yourself with for the journaling phase.

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Humanity abandoned Earth as it got destroyed by catastrophes.

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The International Space Program sent hundreds of pilots into the depths of

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space to explore, document, and survive the harshness of the void and the hope

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of finding a new planet where humans could prosper again during that time.

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What's left of humanity is left waiting in giant cryo ships for

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a new planet to be discover.

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You are a nomad, one of the pilots sent to look for inhabitable worlds.

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Through the vastness of the universe, you are cryp with a high

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tech exo suit that lets you survive some of the most harsh environ.

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You carry with you a blaster, a portable drone scanners, and various sensors.

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You pilot a nod class Starship, equipped with a light engine, an astro droid

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who helps keep things in good shape,

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All right, so to start, you're gonna start on your.

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You've been navigating for a while and you have finally found a planet to explore.

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Now, the gameplay loop for this is gonna be you spot a new planet.

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You're going to describe landing on the planet using some of the various planet

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sensors that you have available to you.

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Explore the planet as long as you want.

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If you have any questions while you're there, please refer to the Oracle.

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We'll be talking about that in a minute.

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In addition, if you run into any challenges and have to do any checks,

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there are tables for that as well, which we'll also get to in just a second.

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When you're done exploring and ready to take off, make a resource role to see

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how many resources you found leave the.

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Take a moment to reflect on your trip down there and if that planet

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wasn't the right one, that's fine.

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This wasn't for nothing for the information and resources you gather

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are still crucial to your efforts.

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So before we dive too much into some of the other rules, it is

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important to say that this game is based off of the breathless S R D,

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which Fari RPGs has also developed.

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And this is a great little s r d where all your skills can be up to a D 12.

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Every time you use it, it drops down one dice level.

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So if you had a D 10 and you use that skill, then it becomes a D eight, then a

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D six, then a D four, D four is the floor.

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Now this can be reset by you pausing to take a breath or in

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this game to focus, but that is going to incur some complications.

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Now, as for some of the gameplay, all right, first of all, you have your

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Oracle, which is gonna be two D six.

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Add those together and refer to the table.

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Your answers are going to vary from no and no.

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Yes, but yes and yes.

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And then you have your risk.

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Oracle if you wanna try to do something.

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Roll on the risk Oracle to find out how hard or risky it's actually going to be.

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And then once you find out your risk, then you're gonna roll your

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check using your relative skills.

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Now you do have four resource tracks, body, mind, gear, and ship.

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Whenever you have a complication or you use focus, you're gonna choose one

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of those and you're gonna mark a box.

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So if you have any type of failure or anything like it, that you're going

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to mark a box on your resource track.

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Now, if you fill up a resource track, Then you're gonna have to make a choice.

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You can either abandon your mission, meaning you can't go on and must abandon.

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As a result, you will die in the coming hours.

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The cause of your death is directly related to the last

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resource track you marked.

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Make a final log entry or you can push forward.

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You knew this wasn't gonna be easy and you aren't about to give up.

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Leave the current system.

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Fast forward several weeks or months and clear all of your tracks.

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You are now in a new system.

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Start a new log and find a new planet to explore.

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And then of course when you're leaving a planet, there is resource checks.

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Now resources are an abstract value that represents what

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you scavenge as you explore.

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When you leave a planet, roll a D 20 to find out how much you scavenge,

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and depending on your role, that is going to range from one to eight.

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Now, at any time, you can consume as many resources as you want, clear away

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the same amount of boxes on a track.

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When you do this, you take the time to heal yourself and repair your equipment

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so that you can continue the mission.

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So, for example, you're.

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Have two boxes checked in your mind track, and you have three resources.

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Well, you're a little nervous.

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The next place that you're gonna be, you think it's gonna be challenging.

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So you spend two resources to clear out those boxes.

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You can also use that in order to prevent having to make a choice

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just yet and continue to explore.

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Next up, you have your planet scanners and.

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This is gonna start with a planetary scan to tell you if

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it has life or if it is barren.

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If it has life, you have a region scanner to tell you.

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Biome, weather and terrain, a wildlife detector and a flora monitor.

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Now all of these would be used again on planets that show signs of life.

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If you don't wanna come up with your own complications and you want to just

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roll for it, there are complication tables for your four main tracks.

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And finally you have your character sheet.

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So building your character, you are gonna start off with a

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D 10, a D eight, and a D six.

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So put that in the three skills that you want.

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All your other skills are gonna be a D four.

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Then you also have determination.

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Your skills aren't all you have to survive.

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Sometimes you can rely on sheer determination to push forward

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and make the mission a success.

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You may use determination once instead of a skill rating, and with

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determination, you roll a D 12.

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Now focus.

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You can focus as many times as you want, but remember every time you focus.

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Yes, your skills will reset to their initial dice level, but you are marking

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a box on the resource track and you're gonna need to do a complication.

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So focus is not free, but it is a great option if you need to reset.

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But without the further ado, let us go ahead and dive on in to nomadic.

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Now, I've already taken the I've already taken the time to

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fill out my character sheet.

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I decided that Know, oh, nomad Steel stash.

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He's gonna be a bit of a, be a bit of a rogue on here.

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Bit of a rogue trader type.

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You know, he signed up to explore and find some interesting things.

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You know, find what interesting things that he can have.

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So I gave myself a D 10 in the learn stat, which will be

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analyzed, investigate, and grasp.

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Now, you know, being off on his own, he took a D eight in the tinker stat

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for repair, revamp, and Restore.

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And then we also have a D six in the dash stat for run, jumping climb.

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Cause you know, sometimes, sometimes the best option is to get away.

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Well, this is Nomad Steel stash duty log.

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We have arrived in the Alpha Percy system.

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Sensors currently show that there are.

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Five planets that fit the Goldilock Zone criteria that we're looking for.

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So we're just gonna go ahead and head on into the closest one and

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we're gonna see if we're gonna see if that one fits the bill

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Initiating Planet analyzer.

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And so far things look promising.

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We sh are showing signs of life on this planet.

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Now let's see if we can't find ourselves a suitable spot to touch down.

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And it would appear that it appear one of the most promising locations

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seems to be some type of forest area.

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Luckily scanners are showing.

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That's a nice clear day.

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I mean, I can see it's a clear day.

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I don't see any clouds in the sky overhead and.

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But sensors showing decent weather,

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it would seem that the mountain range that we are a part of are capturing most of the

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bad weather, keeping it on the other side.

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So we're just gonna go ahead and check out that little forest area

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right there, and let's see if any wildlife are turning up on scanner.

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And it seems that we got some small reptile like creatures down there and just

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pulling up some of the enhanced scanners.

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Yeah, it looked to be slimy little suckers.

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Now, don't they?

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But they seem to only be going after the going after the plant life but they seem

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rather aggressive toward each other.

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Hopefully that don't translate to aggression towards us.

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After all, they all quite small.

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With any luck, we will be able to be an imposing and intimidating figure on 'em.

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And finally, let's see what our let's see what our plants, scanners.

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Pull up.

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See if all plants scanners pull up anything.

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And the flora of scanners, they're pulling up some some gigantic type

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plants and it seems to be dominant by gigantic climbers on this here

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forest, so small lizards, big plants.

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That seems to be the seam around here.

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Well, I guess there ain't no time like the present.

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Might as well head on down there and go check 'em on and out.

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And with that, I'm gonna land the ship and we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna

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go ahead and start taking a look around.

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And I am looking for, like, right now, I'm looking for a suitable spot to build some

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type of some type of initial landing zone.

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Now I know I'm in the mountains.

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And that's not great for finding good spots to land.

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I was able to do it because I have a nice small ship, but we're talking

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about, like, we're talking about cryo boats here and them cryo boats.

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They some big suckers, you know, they're gonna need plenty of spot.

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So based on, based on my initial landing zone, is there

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anywhere that's even suitable?

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Anywhere that's even suitable.

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And we rolled a nine.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Seems like, seems like I have.

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Found a good spot.

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At the very least at the very least, I found a spot that is Large enough

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and flat enough that I don't have to worry about anything except for the

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plants and the animals in the area.

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So I guess now the question is how much, how much work is this gonna be.

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Like do we start, do we start clear cutting now or not?

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Cause we're gonna have to clear cut.

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We're gonna have to clear cut some of this in order to build that landing spot.

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So do I start clear Cutting here And that is going to be a no and.

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And I'm gonna say that no, we don't start clear cutting here and

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we can't really use the rest of the area because of these lizards.

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Now, we did describe the lizards as aggressive, so.

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I'm gonna do a slight modification of the rules.

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I'm gonna go ahead and add a plus one to my to my Oracle question cuz anything over

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a four is gonna be a yes or correction.

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I'm gonna add a plus two cuz anything over a six is gonna be a.

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And so that's gonna account for the fact that these are like

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listed as aggressive lizards.

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So like, do these lizards like start attacking me?

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No.

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Man, it should barely squeak in there.

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All right, so what other reason is it going to be that we can't land here?

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Cause the ground is flat enough.

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Is it the mount?

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Like is it the mountainous terrain?

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Does it have something to do with the mountainous terrain?

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And that is a 10, which is Yes.

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So it has to do with the mountainous terrain.

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Does it have to do with the metal in the mountainous terrain?

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That is another, yes.

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So fun fact that I know

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radio communications can be disrupted by, Certain ore deposits like iron ore

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deposits, things like that, things that have a electromagnetic signature, or

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things that are magnetic can interfere with the electromagnetic signature.

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So

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I'm gonna say that while I'm down here, like I'm down here, I'm walking around.

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I'm checking this place out and like I realized that, that my coms are on

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the fritz, my radios are on the fritz.

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Like I'm not right next to my ship like this.

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We're gonna go ahead and say that the clearing that I could land in

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was a little ways back and that wasn't suitable for the cryo boat.

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This is the spot that's suitable for the cryo boats but I'm not able to

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communicate well with my, I'm not able to communicate well with my

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ship because of the ore in the area.

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So

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let's see.

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Can I do a skill check on this?

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Actually, let's go ahead and roll a learn check.

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Well, no, and see, so like the problem with the checks is,

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the problem with the checks is if the check is not risky, you

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automatically succeed, which I like.

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But like, just knowing that, knowing that there's an ore deposit in the area,

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that there's a lot of iron in the area and it's messing with communication

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like that's, that's not risky to know.

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Is it just iron ore is it the iron or is there something else messing with it?

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Is there something else messing with the communications in the area?

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Eh, that's a four, which is just a no.

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So no, it's the iron.

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Well, it seems like this particular region ain't ain't exactly suitable.

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Let's go ahead and head on back to the ship and we're gonna go

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ahead and try another region out.

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We're gonna just go, we're just gonna go to another region.

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This is not a suitable spot.

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Let's see if we can find one more spot on the planet.

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And before I do that I'm gonna go roll a D six to see how many regions

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are actually suitable on the planet.

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Four.

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So this is not in the rules.

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This is just me adding something.

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So I've currently checked one of the four available regions, so we're gonna go ahead

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and go back to our scanners and we're gonna find another biome to check out.

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So that is gonna be another two D 10 plus one D four.

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And we got two tens and one.

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So that is going to be a tundra and a sandstorm,

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and also in the mountains,

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And is there any wildlife in the area?

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That's 1, 2, 3, 4 D six plus one D4 . So gigantic.

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Right.

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Scan the new region complete.

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And it seems that

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seems we got ourselves another mountainous tundra.

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This one's a tundra with gigantic invertebrates and uh, with feathers.

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For some reason, I never seen an invertebrate with feathers.

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There you go.

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And they seem to be eating all the small flowers in the area.

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Now, as I fly, or as I'm flying in, there seems to be some sort of storm

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going on, some sort of sandstorm.

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So I'm gonna say this is not a suitable spot either.

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This is not a great location to land.

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But my question is, do I receive damage from the storm?

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That is a yes.

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All right, so I'm gonna force the land because of storm damage, so,

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and I'm actually gonna go ahead and give that a tick on my, I'm gonna

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give that a tick on my ship as well.

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So, Forced down into here because of storm damage

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and, and this sandstorm is actually actively going on, and

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I don't know about y'all, but I'm not too keen on getting outside

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and trying to repair this ship in the middle of a sandstorm.

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But what we're gonna do is we're gonna roll to see how risky this is gonna be.

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That's an eight.

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So this situation is risky,

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so this is definitely gonna be tinker.

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I'm gonna have to tinker to try to fix my ship up.

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So that's gonna be roll one D eight.

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Oh, and that's an eight.

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Heck yeah.

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Heck yeah.

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So on an eight or on a five plus, you succeed.

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The higher the result, the better the effect.

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Well,

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there was a risk.

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There was always a risk, had to worry about sandstorm messing up my suit.

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But luckily we were able to get in there quickly, knock

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out this knock out this repair.

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So, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and call this region a no-go.

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And we're gonna go ahead and move on to the next spot.

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All right, y'all rolling up into the third region.

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We got ourselves a desert.

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With some planes, that's definitely suitable.

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Definitely a lot of land.

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We're in the middle of a storm right now.

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You know, desert storm should, shouldn't last too long,

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these desert storms never do.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and land, take a look around.

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There some giant amphibian like creatures with fur running around here and you

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know, sensor say they're saprotrophic.

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That would, that would be interesting to see, seeing a giant frog eating dead tree.

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Luckily, luckily there does seem to be some normal trees running around here.

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Some.

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Some normal looking trees.

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Well, normal height looking trees.

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Got this weird green together, going around to 'em.

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So you got these weird green trees and you got these scragily looking trees.

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That kind of remind me of mesquite back home.

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You, it seems like these frog like things.

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They jump on them, knock 'em to the ground.

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And just start chowing down and it seemed to wait a couple days

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before they start chowing down.

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But I mean, so a sight behold giant frog like things jumping in the storm,

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they probably loving this weather helps speed up that rot on them trees for 'em.

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But one important question to ask is, is the area flooding?

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I'm gonna give myself another plus two because I know that deserts flood easily.

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I know it sounds like a surprise.

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They do.

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Oh, that is a 12.

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So that is a yes, and not only is the area flooding, it seems to be a flash flood.

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So it seems that

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seems that I landed in the decent spot.

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All right.

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Did I land on high ground?

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Yes.

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All right.

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So yes, I landed on high ground.

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Yes.

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And I landed on high ground.

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So yes, and I landed on high ground.

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I picked a good spot to land.

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So I do have like, my ship is protected, so I had to have been walking around

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and as I was walking around, I seemed to have found myself in a, in

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a wash, and there's a flash flood.

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And so that no bueno.

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That is no good.

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Let us see how risky this is right now.

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Three.

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Apparently not risky at all.

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I don't like that role.

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This is risky.

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This is risky.

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Flash floods are no joke.

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I will, I will take that.

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Not risky at all as saying that.

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Well, at least like I was able to see it.

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So we're gonna roll our dash

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to try and get out of the way of this flash flood.

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No.

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No, and that is a failure.

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So that is going to be another box tick.

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And this one we're gonna take to the body.

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So we're gonna be, we're gonna be bodied by this.

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Let's see what happens.

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Let's see what the fate charts say.

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You did a bad move and you sprained your ankle.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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So was I able to, was I able to get out of the wash before I sprained my ankle?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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But.

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All right.

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So yes, I was able to get out of the wash, but I'm on the wrong side.

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Hey, O'Connell, it looks to me like we got all the injuries.

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Hey, Benny, it looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river, and so

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we are, we are on the wrong side of the we're on the wrong side of this wash and.

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Yeah, it's gonna be a minute before the storm end.

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Now the frogs are territorial.

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Do I have a frog coming towards me?

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No.

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All right, cool.

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So I seem to be relatively safe, so I am able to I am able to wait it out.

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Actually how risky is rating it out?

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So waiting it out is risky.

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I'm gonna go ahead and use my learn to see if I can find a suitable

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shelter to wait this out in,

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man.

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I am not doing good.

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Right.

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That is another failure.

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So we're gonna do this.

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One of the mind.

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We're gonna do this, one of the mind because it's wet.

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It's not a good spot.

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I know I'm not in a great spot.

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My ankle hurts.

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I am not, I'm not doing well.

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I just wanna be back in my ship.

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I wanna be back in the warm dry.

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I wanna be able to go on my merry way like I'm done with this planet.

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I don't even care what the third biome is or the fourth biome.

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So I'm gonna say that, I'm gonna say the rain only lasts for

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about 20 or 30 minutes like that.

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That's a good length for a desert storm.

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You know, it's another, it's another 20 minutes or so before the water

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and the wash settles down enough that I feel confident moving through it.

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And I'm gonna get back to my ship.

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I'm gonna load up and.

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I mean, I'll mark the desert as a possibility.

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The planet as a whole, like the forest mountain has potential, but

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the forest Mountain has potential.

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But those those iron deposits in the mountains, that's gonna

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make communication rough.

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You know, it's not exactly ideal.

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Desert's a decent spot to set up.

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Got plenty of room to grow, but it's a desert.

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A lot of people don't like living in deserts, you know, might be a little

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bit of a shock to those people in the cryosleep wake up from their nice

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cold bed into a nice hot living room.

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So to speak.

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. So we're just gonna mark this place as a possibility and we're gonna call it a day.

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We're going, we're gonna go back.

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Remember, we're gonna go check out one of them other planets.

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And before we take off, let us see how many resources we got.

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ah, really wants to get me in the end.

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So that is one resource we found.

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One resource.

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And that is where we're gonna stop for tonight.

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That is nomadic.

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So that's . I like that game.

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That game's fun.

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That's a great game.

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I really like the I really like the breathless mechanic, the

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constantly moving things down and.

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The fact that taking the fact that taking a break costs something

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that's, I think that's something that a lot of games forget.

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You know, especially, especially games like d and d where you can just take

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a short rest whenever and it's up to the dungeon master to do something.

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But you know, sometimes they don't wanna do something and sometimes not gonna lie.

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As players, we tend to get a little miffed when we're like, I'm taking a short rest.

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And the dungeon match is like, cool.

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You're in the middle of a dungeon and the monster see you.

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And they attack and you get no benefits.

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You know, we get, we get mad as players about that, you know, I do, I do.

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I'm a, I'm a horrible player.

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I'm a good gm or I'm a good dm, bad player, bad player.

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I could say that in hindsight, looking back on how I played some

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of my games, but like, I like the fact that with breathless, With

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breathless, like that is just built in.

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It's like, yes, you can take a break whenever it is going to cost you,

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it is going to cost you mentally, it is gonna cost you physically.

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Hell, it might break some of your equipment.

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You know, like there is, there is no free lunch out.

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in the vastness of space.

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So I like that.

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I think the, I think the exploration mechanics are great.

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I really enjoy the exploration mechanics.

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You know, a couple things, a couple things that it's missing is,

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Something for like how many places you can explore on the planet.

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Cause if I'm just, look, I got it.

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Planet Earth has a lot of regions and a lot of biomes within those regions.

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I got it.

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As a player, I don't want to think about all that stuff.

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You know, especially if I have a table for everything else.

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Gimme a table for how many regions I can explore.

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You know, I solve that by just rolling a simple D eight.

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I think that, I think that just codifying it in the game would be nice.

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You know, same thing with how many planets are in a system.

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I know that's kind of not the point.

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You know, there's always going to be a planet there because

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the planet is where the game is.

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You know, just, just from a world building perspective, which is the.

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The neediest of picks, you know?

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Definitely, definitely my world building coming out.

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Well, if only we had a, if only we had a table for how many planets

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are in the solar system and how many regions are in the area.

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I got it, like the look.

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I got it, but, Great game.

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Super fun.

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Super fun, super enjoyed it.

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This is definitely something to check out.

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Definitely got some strong, some strong exploration vibes.

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And you know, I know it says solo, but it, this is like one of those ones

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that's easy to play as a group as well.

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So if you got some friends you wanna explore something, Check this out as well.

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Or if you're bored and you just wanna explore something or you want to

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like create an environment for just some reason, this is a great game.

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This is a great game to check out.

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This is a great game to get strongly recommend that y'all do it, and you

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can find this game on Itch for 5 99.

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All you have to do is go to.

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fari- rpgs.itch.io/nomadic.

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And if you do, tell 'em that Steel stash sent ya.

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And before we go, if you're bored and you've already picked up this game and

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you're still looking for some others,

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maybe check out some of the great games that I've written for the

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Black Dragon Dungeon Company over on drive through RPG or Itch.

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We're talking games like surveyors, which is another map, making and exploration

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game where you just play a group of homunculus wandering around trying to

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find alchemical resources for your wizard.

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So if you got the itch.

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Nomadic has been great, but you need something else.

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You know, check out surveyors.

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It's only like three bucks.

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And again, you can find that on drive through RPG and itch.

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But again, I've been steel stash.

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Thank you very much for joining us and remember, I mustache