Drawn from the Undertow

It's a new year, and we are rapidly getting EIDOLON 2E to the finish line!

In this episode, we hit a smattering of random issues that we want to tackle. 

• Damage is an important part of this game, and the way the rules are currently written, GMs are perhaps not given enough guidance on when to inflict it. Luke's been bangin' this drum for a while now, and he finally got Molly to go along with him!
  

• We removed the limit on how many times you can Push Yourself, because we though the soft pressure of an oncoming Phantom fight would discourage people from doing it too much. Unfortunately, it turns out that Phantom fights are "cool" and "radical," and people aren't particularly scared of them! Maybe we oughtta change that.
  

• The Downtime system still isn't quite firing on all cylinders. We keep having the bend our own rules to make it work how we want it to. Maybe should just... permanently bend them?

In addition to all that, we also review some of the pitches for Move name punch-ups! You can take a look at the spreadsheet where we documented the suggestions here.

"Walkin' free, let me be..."

CREDITS:

Iris Christianson as Haley Holst
Mike Painter as Bob McGovern
Tyberius Wilson as Maurice Bailey
Fabby Garza as KC Cardenas
Jordan Rogers as The GM
Luke Varner as Jordan Rogers

MUSIC BY MAXIE KNIGHTLEY
EDITED BY LUKE VARNER

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of depression, suicidal thoughts, and body horror.

"My family is my island
I better get down
Thinking the plane into the ground
I’m like that guy who couldn’t figure out
The water from the sky"

CREDITS:

Fabby Garza as Thea/Tim Lambert
Iris Christianson as Juniper Rhodes
Mike Painter as Flint Tinder
Zoe Tunnell as Ilana Ramsey
Maxie Knightley as The GM

MUSIC BY MAXIE KNIGHTLEY

EDITED BY LUKE VARNER

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains body horror and metaphorical representations of gender dysphoria.

Happy New Year, everyone! In our final release of 2023, Ty, Maxie, Mike, Iris and Fabby hang out and discuss the inspiration for our third and final miniseries of the season, Of Montreal! This band's kinda weird!

Spotify link to the playlist 

"I'll be your roundabout..."

WE'RE BACK, FOR REAL THIS TIME! Full solidarity with Hollywood unions that struck this year, but it was some real awkward timing for this bonus podcast! Well, sure hope we're coming back on a good one and not a set of episodes about a weird old man who drinks his own piss!

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Ah nuts.

SPOILER WARNING: We discuss an upcoming Stone Ocean character death, because Zoe's already been spoiled on it and she's the only one I care about keeping fresh. We also discuss a character death in Jujutsu Kaisen that's put us off of wanting to return to covering that show in the future! Sorry if you've been hoping for that.

GENERAL CONTENT WARNING: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is often a crass series that incorporates a wide variety of fraught subject matter, and prioritizes using that fraught material for high drama and unconventional action scenes over approaching the subjects with appropriate care or consideration. We'll include more specific content warnings when covering especially rough episodes, but as a baseline, assume that most topics are handled with insufficient levels of sensitivity. Also, JJBA is a show that heavily features bloody violence and body horror.

"We saw the White Witch of Glenwood, then got high and watched ourselves as re-runs."

CREDITS:

Mike Painter as Flint Tinder

Iris Christianson as Juniper Rhodes

Fabby Garza as Thea/Tim Lambert

Zoe Tunnell as Ilana Ramsey

Maxie Knightley as The GM

MUSIC BY MAXIE KNIGHTLEY

EDITED BY MIKE PAINTER

What the heck?? A second Design Session in the same month??? Why, that's some sort of... Christams miracle! We make up for skipping November by sitting down to bang on The Conductor some more.

With that, we have (hopefully) completed all of the Playbooks for 2E! Next month, we'll be taking another look at Downtime, which still isn't quite nailing what we're looking for, as well as beginning to take our first real look at the combat system since 2020. Feel free to send in emails to [email protected]!