hello oh can you hear me nope you are there we go hello everybody and welcome back to another Cobalt chats my name is Kendrick or Kendo whichever you prefer I use they pronouns and it's another Wednesday everyone uh it is a uh uh uh the middle of our week you know halfway through another very very busy week halfway through the day and so we just get to hang out here talk a little bit about Cal press and uh you know Just Vibe for a little bit you know just us um how's everybody doing this week uh
this is our second week of doing Cobalt chats over on the Cobalt press Discord uh there's a bunch of people that uh hey how's it going all of you who are watching there and also all the people who are watching on Twitch uh this is just going to be a kind of regular thing for us as uh well you know the more places that I get to hang out and talk to you about Cobalt press stuff uh the better for me honestly so uh hello Zach um you know we just got back uh this past uh week if you do follow us ove
r on the uh on the Cobalt press Tik Tok uh you and also just like various Cobalts on social media and such uh you've probably seen that uh we had a kind of an interesting shoot uh this past week um where uh me and Dot and a couple of the other Cobalts including our Cobalt and chief Wolf Gang Bower coo uh uh one of our lead editors like we we we had quite a few people come together uh in Seattle so we could shoot something for Cobalt con uh which uh was very exciting uh so much fun it was my firs
t time in Seattle gorgeous City absolutely gorgeous and uh the first time I got to meet some of uh my fellow Cobalts like Megan who's uh in the chat uh and uh and it was I don't know it was a lot of fun um I can uh see someone in the Discord has asked uh if they uh could speak I'm sorry to say that Cobalt chats is not a uh Forum where we will be having audience members come in to talk and speak uh but if you have anything you want to say you can say in the chat um just so that you understand and
know you know what's going on here uh but I've talked too much so let's go over to my good friend jro and figure out hey all right jro so if you haven't already done it campaign Builder Dungeons and ruins the next uh book in uh Cobalt press's campaign Builder series uh right after after you know uh castles and crowns cities and towns and now you get to delve into darker dunge darker dungeons darker Dungeons and ruins uh the uh let me just go ahead and put this in both of uh sorry I'm copying an
d pasting of things so you all have access to it bam uh you can go get notified over on Kickstarter right now uh the link is right there if you the kickstarter launches in April so if you just want to make sure you don't forget if you get you get a little email once it goes live boom but not only that uh once the kickstarter goes live if you click to get notified on launch you will also be receiving a link to a free pdf trapmas uh which I mean it's it's what it sounds like right it's a it's a it
's a book of traps it's it's it's a book of traps so you can be the master of those traps and you could put them in your games you could put them all around have your players stumble into some traps it's a nice little teaser into what is going to be in Dungeons and ruins which is a book full of obviously rules about hey how do I make a good dungeon how do I make a good ruin but it's also going to have curses it's is also going to have traps and puzzles things to complicate the adventure things t
hat uh will help you know spice things up a little bit so go ahead uh go over to the link that I've put uh obviously both in twitch uh in the Discord and also if you're watching this VOD it is in the description below uh so go check that out uh if that PDF you could get it it's free you get a free pdf even if you don't want to even if you end up going to the kickstarter you don't want to back dungeons dungeons Dungeons and ruins I don't know why my brain had such a hard time uh trying to say tha
t but even if you don't end up backing if you go click that notify link you still get that PDF regardless so why not you know uh next up we talked about it last week but I'm going to talk about it again uh toome of beasts is now on DND D Beyond if you haven't already gone and checked that out you can go and do that now uh it is the book that we've been asked the most to put on D and D Beyond so people have access to all of those stats and if you're on D and D Beyond and you have uh the access to
their virtual tabletop hey you get tokens that you could just Boop drag that right in it's tied to its stop Block it's easy drag and drop for you and your your your your players to to kill your players I guess it's more for you than it is your players right I bet the maps uh for this one are going to be crazy oh yeah I mean come on they've got to be they've got to be we're bringing you I it is a skill that I wish I had to be able to design a get dungeon hopefully this book may help me but the t
he the the cartographers that really really really dig themselves into just becoming some of the best best Dungeon map makers like it's there's something just so when I see a good dungeon map and I get to like either as a GM or as a player and I'm sitting down and I'm looking at it like there's so many just art helps make a lot of things come to life even if we think we have an idea of it in our imagination so you you best believe the maps and map folio for this they're going to go it's going to
be great uh next up convention sign up links again talked about it last week but I just want to drill it in your head because they are still open um um if you are interested in being oops I sorry hold on I put I spelled conventions wrong uh if you are interested in being a GM for Cobalt conon which is coming May 10th through the 12th or if you are going to Gen Con and are interested in being uh an assistant hold on I realized that there is a little mistake here hold on there isn't a space in be
tween Jin KH con and the end of that there we go that is way easier to read and actually is a link that works in comparison to a link that doesn't work uh you see how a single space makes a difference it does it really really does and I love it when things need spaces because it makes me have to pay a little closer attention so if you're interested in being a uh GM for Cobalt con let me pull up this information for you because it might be something that you're interested in so if you're interest
ed in being an assistant for Gen Con you could go to that link that I just put in there and you can see it's just super easy information we just need your name your email have you uh uh have you done organized play before hey why do you want to work uh uh for cobal press in this capacity and then when you're available now if you want to be an assistant for Gen Con hey here's some things you're going to have to do you're going to have to assist in table management you're going to uh uh in schedul
ing and event execution you at times will be required to walk long distances because hey it's that it's a convention floor it's there's a lot of space um and you're going to have to do uh you're going to have to be comfortable working with customers because that's what the deal is uh and uh you get to to help uh contribute creative ideas and how we can better make the experience better for game Masters and tende and also yourself now you will be paid an hourly weight uh rate of $15 an hour uh fo
r uh throughout the period of time in which you're working you will also receive a $300 housing stien which you can use on travel housing whatever you would like um you also get a little Cobalt care package from us you get some Cobalt goodies and two meals covered for throughout the convention weekend so if you're interested hey go on and sign up similarly Cobalt con now Cobalt con is an online convention so there's not really any traveling food or whatever uh in that way but if you want to be a
part of our very first online convention being a GM on start playing games or or or or whatever it is um that's more of a Zach question than it is a me question um just similar things just putting your name information how we can contact you uh and all that good stuff and Bam you're one step closer to being a GM for the first ever Cobalt conon which I think is kind of neat now before we get into our adventure prep which we kind of I'm excited to get back into today uh before we get into that uh
we have another I think this is the final Zack you can correct me if I'm wrong uh but we have our very final isekai blog part of the isekai blog series uh which has uh been a six-part uh series on the cobal Press blog telling you how you can run an isekai adventure uh in your game and it's there have been uh gez how what hold on well I guess we can go and see what all has there been so uh today's yes oh yes today uh today's uh uh uh uh blog post is a bunch of rollable tables on how to set up yo
ur isekai there's information about the different genres of isekai so you can have if I know I'm just saying this word uh if you don't already know what an isekai is an isekai and well hey look hey Bam if you don't know there is a whole blog article just telling you about the different kinds of isekai but to give you a really short version of it isekai is a genre of fiction uh that is about someone being transported from their world into another world now that is a very broad sense right and it
gets broken down into genres and hey if you want to check out what that is there's a blog post for it you can do the adventure isekai the heram or ultimate isekai the monster isekai the reverse aai and then hey a new monster look at that uh there it's like the co the Cobalt press blog We have basically a new blog article just about every day and it's just it's just free content it's free supplemental content that you can just kind of check out uh whenever you want and it's like I don't know it's
just cool cool stuff cool free stuff that you get to check out so if this is something you're interested in I'm putting uh the link to it in the uh chats you can just go on over to the cobal Press blog and check this out and every other thing out but today uh let's see so these are the rollable tables as you consider setting up an isekai game for your players you can take many different routes to get there and use a number of different sources for inspiration try these tables to roll up a game
or mix and match and choose one you like so there are a couple of different tables here so there are the arrival methods yes so uh there are different form there are different ways that people arrive in the new world within an isekai uh this could be being summoned this could be dying and being reincarnated they are so many different things uh so here's a rollable table so you can kind of spice it up uh for your own uh I like okay I'm actually gonna go through we're GNA roll something up really
quick uh after you know a brief overview of this but this first one right here the PCS die in a plane crash uh that's that's just lost that's just lost is lost in isekai that's a good question is lost an isekai uh huh kind of it's kind of an isekai and a very broad sense H all right well those are the rival methods uh the setting that the different kind of world accidentally ride a bus through a tunnel to the underworld hey it could happen um isekai settings are varied uh there are fantasy setti
ngs there were uh strangely uh historically accurate things that don't have magic um there's there's a lot that could happen here uh ooh plot or themes of the isekai and those are three so this is actually hold on let me just get a D12 we're going to roll something up right now where are my dice over here D12 let's go all right I got my little sparkly D12 here and so for our arrival method hope you got good I rolled a one all right well that's it so PC's die in a plane crash rail disaster or sim
ilar large scale accident and are reincarnate and are reincarnated in fresh adult bodies when they arrive bam all right die in a plane crash uh and you can you know hold on let me write this down uh die in a large scale accident okay scale accident okay cool what's number two here our setting what's our setting 10 a funnel shaped World consisting of a single Mega dungeon and a surrounding Metropolis okay hold on okay I have ideas funnel shape world with a mega dungeon is that just in a surroundi
ng Metropolis is that just uh what is that Sword Art Online of funnel with a I think kind of is technically well that's that's just Sword Art Online um okay so funnel world with a singular Mega dungeon it also might be I don't know enough about that to say that that's true uh single uh Mega dungeon okay I have ideas I have thoughts I have thoughts okay cool but the last one is a plot or theme which will really help bring all of this together won't it um an eight uh the PCS appear in the bodies o
f monsters feared by Humanity they can either Embrace their monstrous Natures or uh wait oh God my eyes no wait did I read the right okay yeah the pces appear in the bodies of monsters feared by Humanity they can either Embrace their monstrous Natures or become unorthodox Heroes is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon some would say yes some would say yes uh okay so they're going to be monsters in okay wait hold on so the PCS appear as monsters okay so the campaign idea that we currentl
y have as I've written on these sticky notes is the players die in a large scale accident so presumably many people die and so potentially many people also show up in this world uh in this funnel world with a single Mega dungeon where all of the PCS appear as monsters now here are my thoughts what if this Mega dungeon uh singular Mega dungeon that what yeah wait let me make sure I read all this correctly what was this a 10 okay singular Mega dungeon and a surrounding Metropolis what if all these
people who died become monsters and the mega dungeon is a giant castle Fortress where all of the non monstrous people live whoever gets to determine what that is where all like the humans elves y y y whatever and everybody else gets to be demons monsters uh strange beasts slimes uh Undead and such um they've been summoned to This World by uh a lich or some other incredibly powerful uh Magic user who needs an army to Siege this great unseeable castle that has never been you know has all these pe
ople has a metropolis inside of the dungeon uh that the monsters are trying to get into the monsters being our people and yeah no that's the uh that's what I have I think that's fun that's interesting and I never would have come up with that and that's the power of rollable tables thank you so much rollable tables but also thank you so much to our blog who wrote this blog Philip lwood thanks Philip lwood I don't know if you're watching this maybe not but if you are love it um yeah so go check th
at out it's free over on the cob press blog I've already put the link there you can go check it out um it's kind of just kind of cool it's just kind of fun uh and you can go check that out with everything else on the cobal Press blog for free uh it's you know pretty easy to just go there let's see what else we have uh the uh that o Tov Tuesday whoa what's Tov Tuesday let's check that out oo so conversation with Celeste con which our lead designer for Tales of the Valiant uh is well they're talki
ng about I think so they''re talking about race as a concept ability scores tied to race the ranger problem ooh interesting okay yeah that's cool so if you weren't already familiar we had a thing called Black Flag uh Fridays where we would post on the blog and talk a little bit about uh the Black Flag uh project or Black Flag yeah no I was right no was I black Black Flag document Zach give hey help me out Zach you you were here when this happened I don't remember because by the time I started wo
rking here it was Tov and I had heard of it and I'm making I want to make sure I'm saying it it's the Black Flag document is definitely a thing but it is whatever I don't know my brain is kind of fried so instead of that we now have Tov Tuesday because tales of the Valiant and uh we will be having you know more blogs talking about uh the game talking about um uh the kind of design processes that are are going behind it uh interviews with people uh who worked on it so I think that this is going t
o be very helpful especially as we start leading into June when you can expect the PDF and July when you can start expecting the books um or no you can expect the PDF in May because it'll be out by the time that cobal con is so yeah Tov Tuesday over on the blog sorry my brain just fried halfway through that and that tells me it's time for us to move on to our next thing if you weren't here last week then you probably don't know so I'm going to tell you now I hold on I get a little closer I am go
ing to destroy Zach newbill our community manager Zach hi and it's like not it's not there are no hard feelings about it right or at least I hope not there are none for me it's you'd love to see me try oh it's going I will be trying um at some point in the nearest Future Zach and I are going to be doing a one-on-one game in Cobalt chats um using uh some of the awesome PDF supplements uh supplements uh that uh we've been putting out and some of my own twists on it uh we are going to be running a
soulslike one shot uh adventure with me and Zach where I put Zach through my version of Dark Souls and I am very very excited excited to do so uh because I love Dark Souls Dark Souls is one of uh is like top three video games for me um and so when the souls like role playing PDF came out uh I was incredibly interested because I love Dark Souls and I was and I wanted to see how they uh uh translated the mechanics uh and like philosophy of that game into tales of the Valiant and like making it lik
e a 5e um uh kind of game style and honestly I think they did pretty pretty dang good and so using the souls likee role playing uh book green Maiden which is another PDF that came out recently uh which is talking about the green Maiden a a nature imbued succubi um who goes around granting the land and uh magical gifts and stuff and stuff uh dealing with nature and I love like nature and bio horror uh personally um so I'm going to use these things I'm going to use all of this and I'm G to make Za
ch new bills not life because it's just a game but I'm going to make your existence within the playing of this game a living hell for fun you know as long as you're having fun you know uh with it as well so here is the stuff that we kind of nailed down uh about uh uh about what this adventure uh will look like um from last time so uh hold on gotta there of so many things there we go so last time some notes that I made looking through uh the souls like role playing and the green Maiden first note
death is not the end it can come quickly and frequently it will be coming quickly and frequently watch out Zach uh I want to make uh interesting items and characters how many people are Hollow what does it mean to be Hollow and how am I going to you know uh what level are you uh that's a great question I think because you were just hollowed cuz we're starting it like around the time of your first hollowing once you've had your soul taken out from you um so level one could be fun and then like I
think level one I I'll I'll I'll give you the choice would you rather be level one or level three CU I know level three you get sub classes uh and you know you get more toys to play with um I'm okay with either of those I will let you decide since I'm going to be the one killing you I want you to have the ability to have a little you know a little a little control and what's happening so you just tell me what you want and I will balance it from there um cuz yeah I don't think did you even I I d
on't remember if you decided what class you wanted to play either um so let me know let me know I don't know why I said that like I was crying um so uh oh yeah uh how do people interact with items that give the spark of Life are they rare uh do people fight over them are they recorded uh are they shared uh is something that I'm interested in in thinking about you like the idea of level one I think I also like the idea of level one I think uh that'll be a fun challenge um uh what kind of creature
s serve Ean wrath is another thing I'm thinking about do they also do they also uh do they have their souls are any of them also fellow hols you started stronger in Tov anyway that's so true oh oh my God uh I played Tov for the first time I forg I completely forgot to say that I played tales of the valley for the first time when we were in Seattle for that secret thing that I was talking about about Cobalt conon but I got to play and it was so much fun uh I played uh I played a Cobalt warlock um
I played one of the Valiant six uh a Cobalt warlock named z um and it was great it was so much fun like genuinely it was uh really cool being able to see the changes from DND in like just a small ways and how it completely changed the way that I interacted with the game um and how the other players interacted with the game um like I don't know if I can say I don't know what I can and can't say I'm realizing yeah I can't say a lot you'll get to see it you'll get to see it but I enjoyed playing m
y cobal warlock a lot is what I will say and I liked seeing other people play their characters especially the mechanist which was super cool uh seeing all the uh the stuff that they could do oh yeah okay uh and then uh make the dungeon feel alive and connected think ahead trying to seed in connections for deeper levels so that is my thought assuming that you know Zach doesn't get uh tired of uh of of of going through the dungeon I built for him and perhaps wants to do more uh based on character
creation and Beyond I've enjoyed the new additions to character creation and Tov content yeah absolutely I like the separation of like lineages and uh uh or heritages and backgrounds were super cool because of the way that they kind of mixed and matched uh some of options uh some of the options now uh that have changed from from d and D5 um are Prett are are are are fascinating and fun to play with the cobal Scurry was just such a fun image in my mind imagining it but also being able to do that
move was very fun yeah yeah more deep character options that really just give you so many more Avenues and like yeah it was fun um outline Okay cool so here's kind of the thought process behind it you know what I'm going to put this here so we know so the introduction we're going to start in media res Zach you're already hollowed perhaps even in the dungeon you're starting off at level one I want to make sure you get to the bonfire I want to make the bonfire presence impactful warm and inviting
but powerful and contained uh some creatures that I'm thinking of using and these creatures or uh or at least some of these creatures are coming from uh our good friend the green Maiden uh we were talking about the linger Len which is cool zombies skeletons the bower wolves mids why did I just put 69 there um oh I remember Megan also hold on wait I got some more toys I'm going to throw at you Zach because Megan sent this to me okay so I'm G to have to go digging a little bit um yeah yeah yeah ye
ah yeah so we've got the Spore uh the Spore born bloat BL Blossom the Spore that God I that is a hard name to say three times fast sport born bloat Blossom the Spore Bor the the Spore born bloat Blossom God that's a name a great name yeah that's quite the tongue twister uh uh uh so that's in a monster Vault um oh I should yes for my own personal thing so this is uh this is a uh green Maiden uh this is uh I think just the TV Alpha is where I was getting this skeletons you know T the alpha okay ye
ah that's yeah I think this is green Maiden Still yeah and this is also Tov Alpha okay cool cool cool oh wait I wasn't even showing you all the screen I was on I was doing that um okay okay so the Spore born bloat Blossom what else did she send me the infested duelist from Tom of Beast 3 uh the O the elite the Ali the alumite the alumite the alumite uh from uh to O2 to3 cool and then the stone creeper Stone eating vine Okay cool so we've got some really interesting plant creatures uh to plant uh
and and nature creatures to use again the onion heads is that what is that who's the onion heads is is that the alley the AL God I cannot say I can't say words today for some reason the alley you might what is that Toma Beast 2 or three I have Toma Beast two or three let me find that Tom of Beast this Tom Beast 3 layers I gotta go through my my folder of PDFs that's layers I know I have t of be two in here somewhere do I not am I a fool am I a fool and I don't have Tom of Beast 2 or three absol
utely ridiculous absolutely ridiculous I can I can go get it though give me but a moment and I'm going to go get N I can go look for these later I don't need to get right now don't forget the G uh creature codex ah cc is creature codex thank you that is going to be helpful for me to remember all of the plant mobs make me think about delicious and dungeon do yes you can 100% do a delicious and dungeon campaign actually doing Dungeons and ruins and adding like a bunch oh oh a Dungeons and ruins to
make a a dungeon meshy campaign would be kind of good and by kind of good I mean really good uh the garlic hole page 15 of the creature codex okay hold on you know what I am going to I'm just going to grab these books really quick cuz I want to read them and I want to find these things creature codex wait yeah let me thank you all for helping me crowd crowd crowdsource some ideas here um uh that I can use against Zach uh so this will be uh page 162 of Tom of Beast 3 I sorry Tom piece to Old Sch
ool dwarves used to eat Giants all the time just so happen to be my first character cool too o o yeah some of these creatures are way outside of level one yeah I'll keep I'll definitely keep that in mind I will look at them I will these are ideas for creatures these are ideas for stuff and I hey I can balance it out for you Zach trust and believe I would not I'm here to give you a a an achievable challenge I'm not here just to kill you over and over again I wouldn't do that on purpose but thank
you everybody for uh uh for I'm here to die so yeah you will die over and over again just not like out not like maliciously so you know um I'm here for you you um so let me so think it will work out that's so true um let me what was I looking for I was looking for come on H there's so many things in here this actually was a little harder to find than I wanted it to be come on there's got to be is this nope okay cool H I'll deal with that later okay so we've got some monsters we've got some monst
er ideas boss now I was thinking actually ooh you know what this will be the big thing I'm going to start looking for something that could be the boss love that in fact I think actually finding Tom of beasts three I want to look at this infested do list because that kind of is going in line with the I wanted someone who had been corrupted or seduced by the green Maiden someone who's deeply in love with their work uh and sees them as like a and sees themselves as like a protector of like all of t
he things that she's creating all these horrible corrupted fungus or plant uh uh plant infested um creatures like oh they're so beautiful H she does such good work honestly me just me uh I'm just making myself embrace the fun I like yeah I like your attitude too I hope you I hope you keep up I hope you keep that up okay me download this give me but a moment projects nope I just need this in Cobalt PDFs yes please thank you and now come on what okay it's going to take a second it's going to take
a second to download and that's fine you know we're going to be here so uh while I am waiting for that to finish its download talking about this boss yeah I think I'm kind of I mean so typical first Dark Souls bosses right and this like they aren't this is to set it up about these are like the heights of challenges here right so within this boss fight there are some things that I want to make sure that I'm doing first and foremost has to be challenging if it is just going to be this one person w
ith like who thinks of themselves as like a protector of of this creation kind of like a gardener maybe they're minions you know uh we can get some some uh some I'm kind of imagining uh the what is that fight in Dark Souls 1 when you're and this isn't going to be it because that would actually be kind of ridiculous um ah what is it it's the demon that is in the small room with the two dogs um right after going down through the other half of of uh Undead BG oh my God it's been so long since I pla
yed Dark Souls 1 this just tells me I need to play more Dark Souls 1 again um but there's a demon in there who has two dogs uh and it's such a small room you have to work in um honestly there's something about that that that's kind of fun um but that's kind of the vibe I'm imagining minions uh that could be the bow wolves potentially um I like the idea I'll have to look at what some of these other excuse me um what's how some of these other creatures kind of work in of themselves cuz I could see
something purely just by the name like the linger Len or the stone creeper being things that are in the space of the boss fight but aren't active that they are just like creatures that also act as like um hazards or something like that uh I think there's something to that that could be a lot of fun um still waiting for to of Beast 3 to finish its download it's almost there I'm halfway there not halfway it's more than halfway there so I'm watching it tick down everybody watching with me or I gue
ss not everybody's watching with me I'm just watching by myself as it says s 6 5 4 3 2 1 those aren't seconds Google Chrome is lying to me those aren't seconds that was way faster than seconds okay cool awesome Tomy Beast 3 is mine now okay cool hey everybody it's Tom of Beast 3 so what was the thing who hold on let me I have to go back and find the thing that you said what page um should I start making a character or we going to do that in stream uh we could do that on stream we could do that u
h not next week because I have a thing we can if you want to start getting character ideas together or like even if you want to basically start building all of it out we can do the active part of it on screen so people who haven't made a character in Tov can see how it's done if that's a thing uh they're interested in how do you feel about that what was I looking for I was looking for the infested doist where is the infested du list show me where the infested du list is it's taking a while to lo
ad this is a big book this is a 424 page book there's so many monsters in here so many monsters in here page 409 oh Megan you're the best for e e e oh sorry uh Hey thank you Kim for that I accidentally press the button see that's what happens when your macras are numbers um what was I saying oh um in the souls like uh PDF uh appreciate you Kim um uh in the sorry I'm getting my brain back together okay in the souls like a role playing PDF which you go go find on the cobal Press store um to make t
he game feel more like a soulslike game Dark Souls so on and so forth uh rather than XP when you kill creatures you get uh you get souls um and there are also Soul items which uh you can crack uh to be able to to to get you Souls as well and you use that not just for buying items but also for leveling up so there's kind of like a a balancing act you have to play there of like oh do I want to level up or do I want better equipment or do I need new equipment all of that fun things um I think let's
see what's the leveling up okay cool methods for gaining Souls we know how to gain Souls Souls as currency okay so yeah this is Souls as currency one soul is a copper piece 10 Souls is silver so here's kind of your l conversion area you just treat Every Soul like a copper um getting Souls as PCS uh earn Souls equal to XP that they would normally gain from a slain monster each PC receives the full amount of souls do not split them amongst the party because that would make this much harder uh los
t soul items are scattered throughout the campaign wherever gold jewels art objects or other lootable wealth would normally appear in a dungeon a PC can SP an action to crush a lost soul item to gain its value according to the lost soul items table or you can carry the lost soul in uh in your inventory to PR to preserve its value against possible death or for later barter crushing a lost soul item Awards souls to the PC who spent the action to do so killing a boss monster Awards Souls equal to t
he XP that PCS of normally gain as well as a boss Soul item that can be used for for crafting bartering or just to crush like a single use loss Soul item and gain an appropriate number of souls ooh yes okay cool that reminds me that I have to come up with a cool um boss Soul item that'll be fun um and then the flame Minister Souls there you go so yeah that's how Souls work so uh let's say in this game since I've I've already said that they're going to be B wolves because I really like the B wolf
uh Zach kills one B wolf hey guess what bud bam you get a number of XP equal to hey how many XP does this give hey how many XP does this give hello oh oh wait it's equal to CR right so whatever the CR half XP is which I don't know off the top of my head since I typically use milestones and not XP uh that's kind of a me thing but I could probably figure it out somewhere oh challenge rating okay challenge rating 9 is 5,000 XP challenge rating two okay wait I just need to find someone who's challe
nge rating half we could do it we could do it that's six that's five come on there's got to be some oh those looked small and killable those oh hello yo this is such a cool monster I love going through these books I love going through these books because I always find something I've never seen before um yo that's so cool there's so many monsters there's so many monsters hey KAG ogre what's your thing I'm just I'm purely just going through this so I can try to figure out how much xp you would get
for killing a CR one half creature your cr9 dang all these things are so high high CR why come on don't you guys want to okay so it's 100 100 XP Okay cool so you get 100 souls for killing one you got a room with three of them bam that's 300 XP that you can you that you can split however you want between leveling up and buying items so that's going to be a big thing I need to as far as notes for myself make sure there are enough souls to go around I want to make sure that you have enough so that
because I would like I would like for bare minimum for you to be able to get to level three I would love for you to be able to get to level three um if possible yeah yeah yeah yeah so boss okay cool yeah yeah good to know okay great back to figuring out who this infested duelist so uh evasion if the Duelist uh if the infested duelist is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a dexterity save just zoom in so it's easier to read uh to make uh dexterity Sav throw to take only half damage th
e Duelist instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw and only half the damage if it fails parasite sent sense the infested duelist has advantage on attack roles against poisoned creatures okay okay okay okay okay o okay okay there things about this that I really like plant powered Mobility opportunity attacks made against the infested duelist have disadvantaged if a duelist is prone at the start of its turn it can immediately stand without costing movement that's pretty good that
's pretty good okay okay okay multi so it gets multi attack it gets a slam and two shortswords uh or it makes two Thorn shot attacks okay so shortswords it's just windy six plus uh six plus 10 to hit slam 28 plus six blooding damage and the target must make a dc15 constitution saving throw on a failure the target takes 46 poison damage in this poison for a minute okay boom so it's a slam try to get them poison slash slash got it on a success the target it takes half damage and isn't poison the p
oison Target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns ending the effect on a success got it Thorn shot just a range 2 D4 B Bop uh um Spore Cloud when the Duelist takes uh damage from a range attack it emits a burst of thick yellow spores the spores surround the infested duelist and heavily obscure the area within 5T of it the spores dissipate at the start of the Duelist next turn okay okay yeah yeah I like this I like this a lot and this art oh ooh the Duelist with the the the
oh the plant like the poison ivy like plant like corruption down and then the singular flower for an eye beautiful amazing amazing one of those is bad enough you could to couple that that with anything and it would be crazy no truly and I think that's that's actually one of my favorite things about Dark Souls is that um you fight creatures earlier on as bosses that end up just becoming regular dudes later down the line and it's like you're fighting it's the is it the kapper demon is it the kapp
er Demon I've been thinking of it is the Capper demon and 100% is the kapper demon uh in that boss fight where like when you hold on I'm just gonna hello oh okay yeah uh the it's where a thing that is super big super hard and like really like makes you like have to have to really think about like geometry in a fun way and it's you start fighting bosses and as you get stronger bosses just become regular people and so I love the idea of like the boss of this level being this really like really pow
erful infested creature or infested person that's like dang all right yikes and then as you keep going there are just more of them but they're just like oh huh this is easy now which is kind of fun um obviously I won't be taking exactly the stat block because as as noted it is cr9 um and so I think the main things that I'm taking from this are as follows um it has natural armor on okay cool let's zoom in a bit here so it's easier for yall to see cool how does this keep happening oh because six a
nd n or oh that's so funny that's why that makes a lot of sense actually Okay cool so let's start talking about this boss here what is this hello no one so uh we are just doing some Adventure prep um I am going to be running an adventure uh uh uh an adventure for Zach um using uh rules from The Souls like roleplaying supplement and some stuff from the green Maiden PDF uh and also just taking some other like other stuff from uh uh Cobalt press products that I I don't know I just want to make my o
wn Souls like Adventure and Zach has been kind enough to let me do this to him so it's going to be fun uh big things that I am pulling from the infested du list are um it has a climb speed so there's a climb speed of 30 natural armor I don't know if it'll still be 18 but it starts off at 18 uh uh it's damage resistant to uh to to acid and then damage immunity to poison uh condition immunities exhaustion or strain oops poisoned cool so that is the main thing I'm getting that I don't know if this
is going to be a du list because I think there's some stuff here that is coming specifically because it's a du list like uh evasion uh plant powered Mobility um so I think about that but the big trait that I'm pulling from here is Parasite sense let me put here that I'm using uh infested creature uh that I'm pulling from to3 uh page 409 excuse me so I'm taking parasite sense um because that that seems to be the main um uh the sorry uh the main uh cycle combat cycle for this creature tries to get
po uh tries to get poison damage on the creature so it can then have uh advantage on them this plant- powered Mobility is interesting but I think is mostly important because um oh wait no okay it's mostly because it's a is mostly because uh it is a duelist so I I don't know if that's going to be sticking around because I don't know if I want this to be a duelist you know um I'm glad PCS don't have that well how many PC well how many PC skills poison people right I don't think that happens often
unless you have a lot of people people using poisons and such I typically haven't had a lot of people who do it um but I I wish there were in general more options for players to deal conditions that mattered right cuz getting making something poisoned super huge super huge um but even uh but even things like uh uh um oh God my brain like uh other than like grappling things for like getting them like restrained um and so on and so forth they're just like fun like Charmed I think doesn't happen e
nough um poison doesn't happen enough uh uh uh paralyzed um God there's so many that could burning like like dealing like consistent burning damage there's some I think there's a lot that uh I would love to see uh more players being able to have similar options over time as um some monsters do without like having to burn a bunch of huge spells on it um cu the Marshalls out there deserve some of the fun too um and then Thorn shot I think I'm keeping uh overtime items aren't much of a thing and I
agree it would be nice Edition maybe hard on the GM but still interesting yeah you know it yeah it will take the GM like some working around or not even working around it's working with right because your players are using the tools that they have to be able to do things right so sometimes it's fun to lean into that and let the players feel cool for like oh yeah no you came up this with this really cool thing that is like you're like the thing like the thing your character wants to do is like oh
yeah you want to have a a poisoner character that can poison things that aren't just other people right cuz I think that that's like one of the big things is like yeah you can use the poisons and stuff but it's primarily useful for like beasts and people there are lots of creatures monsters demons so on and so forth that are just immune to poison to being poison resistant to it or whatever and it's like H okay that's fine but if you were The Witcher if you were The Witcher you would have a pois
on for everything make more witchers all right uh so I'm taking the thorn shot because I think uh the ranged um attack is nice and also it you know it doesn't have to be a huge thing uh you know it's just uh measly little uh me little uh piercing and poison damage obviously knocking down the the the damage probably KN it down to uh 1 D4 plus Dex um or it'd be 1D uh 1 D4 piercing plus plus whoops jesz Christ plus 2d6 poison plus decks I feel like what yeah what is that that's 7 plus two that's ni
ne plus Dex which will probably around three or four so yeah that's solid it's better than the 17 yeah it'll end up around like yeah like a couple of points lower than that that's not bad um and then the last thing from this that I really want to keep is Spore cloud um because I think that being able to burst into spores whenever you get attacked is kind of cool did I miss spell Spore yes yes I did so we're taking spor Cloud we're taking Thorn shot uh we're taking parasite sents and then like uh
uh uh immunities resistances and stuff natural armor I think I'm going to bring down to uh I'm not sure I'll leave that for right now so it's got a climb speed of 30 feet it's got a regular movement speed of 30 feet okay so I think this is a good template that we can use that these are the things that I'm pulling from and will be putting into uh another creature of a desire um who is going going to essentially be this kind of Lieutenant for the green Maiden who will be a later boss in this dung
eon um let's see is there any creature right now that I can find over on this now so we got NPC oh yeah look at this so we got NPCs so we've got acolytes we've got Bandits commoner cultist cultist fanatic okay maybe cultist okay wait okay cultist fanatic with that's kind of something maybe so what uh their armor CL 14 they have dark devotion so they have resistance on being Charmed or frightened they get multi attack with two sacrificial daggers or bolt dark bolt actions um sacrificial dagger do
es that if the target is paralyzed prone uh stunned or unconscious takes an extra bit of damage um Unholy bolt just does a nice little bit of the 2d6 damage fanatic cast one of the following spells light theurgy command inflict wounds or hold person okay I kind of like that a little bit let's see guard Knight spy veteran Thug so for the first boss fight I'm imagining usually you don't get like a mage for the first one right it's like a big guy with a sword usually or a big demon with a sword usu
ally um give them a familiar oh you just want I do like that I do like I I like that give them a familiar that or what if it's a Duo what if it's a Duo boss fight what my one one of the great things about Dark Souls there's always the duo one right where you've got two big people ready to fight um one of them may be doing something from long range while the other one's close one or if you're onsteen if you're if you're own and SM you just come in and you just and you and you do the hammer and th
is and and the spear and you just Rush him if Capper demon flashbacks literally um if you use a okay so Megan says if you use a fanatic cultist the Unholy brand could apply to plants instead of fiends to better fit your theme so you could put little plant minions with it ooh okay oh yeah I completely did not look at this console fights with early wow we're great group bosses um Unholy brand one creature The Fanatic can see within 30 ft of it must exceed on a dc13 Charisma safe or be marked with
an Unholy brand until the start of the fanatic's next turn while the creature is branded fiends and cultists have advantage on Attack rules with it ooh yes oh I love that parasite s sounds like you could use Lely in a Duo fight boss mobs being aware of each other is a nice evil thing to do truly yes K hey they get to work together why not they get to work together as a little tree um I like the idea of the Unholy brand um I think that's I think that's interesting I think that's cool um I I'm I'm
starting I'm I'm slowly I'm slowly leaning into maybe what if it's a Duo boss fight I that's kind of fun I like the I like the Mage controller and then someone who's close up um and then maybe still like some small minions to help you know uh do some stuff I do have to remember that this will be a solo fight with just Zach so I do have to I have to keep this in mind with when balancing things um but I would probably be using a lot of Minion rules uh for something like that where it's just like
one hit can take them out kind of deal um but I am going to have to I'm going to have to make sure that Zach has the tools necessary to be able to um to do this fight so I have to keep that in mind if I am doing a Duo boss fight I probably shouldn't also do Minions I should probably just have it be the two people that would be the nice fun fair thing to do probably um yeah love The cultist Fanatic and then who would be maybe if I can find a cr1 like should I just get Bandits or not Bandits shoul
d I just do cultist if I do one cultist and then a bunch of smaller cultists Maybe because going with the gardener idea it does feel like okay I'm moving a little away I'm I'm sorry gang I'm sorry gang for this boss fight I'm moving a little away from the duo boss fight but having Minions that synchronize with what the cultist fanatic can do is interesting to me plant monsters yes plant monsters um and then I can have a mixture of cultists who are probably like more they probably aren't cultists
I will probably change this to Undead and plants rather than fiends and cultists um though I think the pl like okay wait let me look at Tom of Beast 3 here again what is the Duelist count as okay their duelist counts as a humanoid interesting okay cool um very cool very cool were there I don't know why I thought there was like an infected Spore thing here is there not maybe I'm just run I don't know um so for the boss we're looking for infested creature um and also uh uh cultist fanatic from uh
the uh Tov oops not yob Tov Alpha um 172 and then things that I'm really pulling from this are dark devotion Unholy brand and then spellcasting I think those are the big the big things that I'm pulling from uh The Fanatic cultist to be able to make this creature I think that this is going to bring this down to 16 I just typed in eight again natural armor 16 which will be um yeah uh Dex is uh Dex plus two uh the natural armor is 14 um very cool the Unholy brand copy this cool and then dark devot
ion you know you're just resistant to being Charmed and frightened and then what so this gets uh it gets two at will spells uh two three a day spells and one two a day spell cool so currently it has whole person command inflict wounds light thury cool I think that's primarily pulling from the Arcane Circle oh my God I get to look at spells oh wait also there was a Oh bloat Blossom bloat Blossom is in this let's go and then what's that that's a Spore born skull Bloom medium plant infected human o
r that succumb to fungus become Spore born skull blooms Spore born skull blooms skull blooms show physical signs of their transformation oh okay so I think actually skull blooms are what we're going to be using quite a bit then an apocalyptic fungus I love Bight Town love Bight Town everybody oh wait you can't see my screen oh wait can you still not see my screen or oh duh I see what you're saying look at him look at this guy look at this guy this is kind of exactly what I'm looking for um the b
loat what's the bloat Blossom it's a plant bloat blossoms skull blooms eventually grow into bloat blossoms a riot of fungal growth U makes the body of these Spore born Broad and ungainly with layers of tough fibrous growth that protect it from damage bloat blossoms have better echolocation than the younger skull blossoms as well as nodules filled with mot toxins that they can tear from their bodies and hurl at Targets okay the blow Blossom pretty cool pretty good kind of like it this is kind of
going into this thing away away bit heightened multi-attack bite slam toxic nodule in instinct to pursue the blow Blossom takes the dash action towards an unaffected humanoid it can censor C God oh okay so talking about these oh the Spore born blo Blossom this is exactly what okay okay this is what Megan was talking about under understood um cool so this is also just in uh the alpha page 163 from The Last of Us yeah it does kind of feel like something straight out from Straight From The Last of
Us in kind of the best way um cool and then so we'll also be using the sporn skull Bloom so this is sporn that's the bloat Blossom and then we have the skull Bloom which is CR 12 uh it's the basically this the same thing as this but it's on Alpha 162 so these I think are going to be our zombies for the most part in this area so I don't really need that cool and is there anything about the skull Bloom that spe everything you do in life heightened hearing plant resilience it's got a bite piercing
damage poison damage oh my God if the target is humanoid and must succeed on a dc2 conve or become infected with apocalyptic fungus what is this fungus do I say as I'm about to go find out what the fungus do what that fungus do we're about to find out um wait where is it oh no I lost it there it is um okay there it is uh so apocalyptic fungus is an infectious disease transmitted through uh via fungal spores infected creatures become irritable and sensitive to noise in the final stages fibers fun
gal growth Sprout from the skin particularly particularly around the cranium if left untreated the infected creature turns into Spore born skull blooms Spore born skull blooms trigger a humanoid that ingests food water contaminated with spores of the apocalyptic fungus Breeze and okay they become infected Okay cool so once you're infected what happens an infected Target can't regain hit points and when it finishes a long rest must make a DC 15 conve or gain two levels of exhaustion when the targ
et when the infected Target reaches the sixth level of exhaustion it does not die but instead becomes a skull Bloom at which point no mundane or magical healing can return the creature to its formal State former state if the humanoid infected with apocalyptic fungal spores is killed it rises an hour later as a skull Bloom resolution pre-transformation the fungal uh infection can only be cured by the Lesser restoration spell or similar magic do I want to do this do I want to do this dc12 Con saav
e isn't that bad but God God that's so much that's so much to do to Zach because obviously whenever he would die he would I mean he will so essentially the way that I'm seeing uh how this would work right um in this kind of Dark Souls conceit is that if uh if Zach were to get it and Zach were to go through the process of become in some way uh become you know go through the process of this transformation and they would die they would rise like they normally would back at the nearest bonfire um bu
t I think the body that they left behind is still there and has been transformed which is interesting in some ways what does that mean about the world if that is what happens what is this body different from the other body maybe I don't do that but why would it not happen maybe I just don't I kind I like the idea I like the idea I like the way that this would kind of paint how like the like the destruction that has happened upon you know the green Maiden coming here planning all of these things
and then leaving that like it starts cultivating this um area of Spore born who are affected by it but is there anything actually interesting in me having this be like having the disease portion of it because I could just do the Spore born and just not do the disease part of it um but like is that as interesting I don't know I don't it's hard to say um chat if you have any thoughts I I would love to hear them uh I think right now I'm kind of just leaning and towards maybe not doing it maybe mayb
e not having the disease and like the transformation because that's like a whole thing boss moms can always look like his last character use it right like I kind of like the idea of if this were to happen it leaves behind a twisted version of himself that he has to fight later to get the to get his things back um which is kind of fun um like a snake skin yeah yeah when you create the disease you add a layer of spread you add additional conflict you add additional investment because if players do
n't get rid of things it will all go beyond the area that's true that's a good point that's a good point yeah it adds a layer of I'm not just trying to delve further into this dungeon I'm trying to prevent the spread of the corruption that is coming from it disease could just be a storytelling device for why there are so many of these things in the dungeon but Hollow people are somehow IM yeah maybe somehow being hollow makes you immune or don't come back when they die I kind of like that maybe
this is a kind of disease that not just feeds on the body but also feeds on like the soul and like that kind of like spiritual energy so Hollow um not having it uh makes it so like they can feed on like the the physical part and it can kill you but it doesn't it it might not make you come back plants clone themselves so why not a hollow that's true that's true hm okay you all are convincing me you all are convincing me you're convincing me yeah and then I I could if Hollows are immune and makes
them uniquely qualified to be the only ones capable of solving the problem that's true that is true okay I think we'll keep the disease and that actually yes that kind of that that does bring a nice story element into it of like hey I know you're here for going to get your soul or whatever but it also helps ground them in the world of this is like hey you could just go in do it you could kill these guys or just go straight to your thing but we do there is maybe an NPC groups of NPCs survivors or
whatever um in this town out like just outside of the dungeon that has been like hey we are having this problem because um we for we for whatever reason needed to go to this area it's been a part of our like it's a part of like the regular ecosystem of our of our town right we go to this place um it's usually fine but now it's not and people who have been sent there either haven't come back or have come back changed and we're afraid this this disease is going to spread and also cut off a very v
aluable resource for us um can you do something about it please um I like that I think that's cool I think that's cool okay so yeah we are going to have uh introdu uh in the introduction uh Zach is going to be level one we're also going to introduce uh we are going to introduce the apocalyptic God I can't spell this is why I'm not an editor apocalyptic fungus um as a threat to uh the town right out side of the dungeon they used to use the upper um level of it as a special Garden where they culti
vated um cave Foods uh Cave uh plants for food and medicine but recently something has uh a new fungus has overtaken the area and foragers who've gone there either haven't come back or came back changed now the town is uh cut off from necessary re source for um and the Spore born um creatures corrupted by the fungus May or um are growing in number Hollows seem to be un are Hollow seem to be affected by the disease but they don't turn into uh Spore born after they die potentially because of the l
ight of the bonfire cleansing them upon Revival I like that it ties in uh the bonfire it gives an act of conflict that the people in general want to deal uh want to deal with it gives Zach a little bit of a hint as to what is going to be happening inside of this dungeon um uh and and uh uh town is uh or uh someone in town is willing to pay uh sack for the retrieval of um a specific uh item left behind by one of the Spore born or uh left behind by uh uh a loved one taken uh loved one uh that went
into the dungeon and did not return gives a reason to come back to this town gives a reason um gives a little bit of a reward um especially like after the death of um after uh if if Zach beats the boss um obviously bam new bonfire that's the deal right be able to teleport back to the other bonfire back in town um so that can re uh restock up on uh supplies um go take care of any any side quests or whatever before heading back into the dungeon sick oh I love this okay it's all coming together it
's all coming together yeah all right well well gang it's that time we've we we've gone considerably over almost almost an hour over time but hey I had a lot of fun so thank you everybody for being here for another cobal chat it has been a great time uh I love looking through all of these Monster books looking through Souls uh Souls like again looking through green maiden and now I've got some more books I need to check out download and have for next time um yeah yeah yeah no this is super cool
thank you all for all of your suggestions all of your help I love this kind of crowdsourcing you know uh this is this is I think especially for the people in the Discord uh right now this is one of the great things about the Cobalt press Discord right you can sit here and talk with all of these other people who also have read all of these Cobalt press books and have all of these really really cool ideas and be able to just toss them around and be like oh here's some cool things that you can use
to destroy your players if you want uh it's it's just really cool uh so thank you all so much it has been uh a joy doing this don't forget uh if you haven't already go uh click the get notify link for dungeons and ruins because hey you're aren't going to want to miss it because I'm definitely going to need I'm I'm going to need this book I'm going to need this book to be able to uh do make a dungeon um just in general but so I can get better at making dungeons uh and don't forget if you do go cl
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been K kindo whichever you prefer you can find me everywhere on the internet at kindo films you can find me here every Wednesday uh either on the Discord stage uh or uh over on Twitch uh same time same channel uh 2 pm central time uh and what else uh what did I say yeah you can find me everywhere on the internet at kindo makes films you can find my actual play podcast Tales yet told anywhere you get your podcast and also in the internet at Tales yet told um next week I'll be doing uh an intervie
w uh with uh one or more of the judges for the previous Kickstarter which I think was the game Masters Guide uh the judges for The Adventure pitch uh if you backed at a certain level you were able to pitch an idea uh for uh an adventure uh that cobal uh press would help publish and such and and they would write for and those winners have been chosen and so I will be interviewing uh one or more of uh of the judges to kind of talk about what that was like um what they were looking for and how uh a
nd and how the winners uh measured up so that's going to be a lot of fun and I will see you all when that happens but until then don't forget to go out eat enough food drink enough water get enough sleep and take care of yourself cuz selfcare is very important especially in the times we're living in right now and don't forget to love yourself like I love you peace
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