Episode 10 - A Night with a Twist

 Jaephing has the best night he will never remember. The next morning, elements of Jaephing's past are revealed.

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Episode 9 - The Next Mission

 In this episode, Jaephing is chosen to get information from Detective Yuzu; who is tied to the syndicate.

• To read synopsis and rules descriptions, visit https://roll4saves.blogspot.com
• To hear Roll 4 Saves in a podcast, visit https://anchor.fm/roll4saves, search for it on the podcatcher of your choice, or follow the links in the side menu.
• To see Roll 4 Saves in videos, visit https://www.youtube.com/@roll4saves
• To support this content and gain access to the Roll 4 Saves documentation, visit https://www.patreon.com/roll4saves
• Questions and Comments are best left at roll4saves@gmail.com

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Episode 8 - Down Time

 In this Episode I playtest the healing and extended activity loop. 

Story wise, Jaephing heals and the Blade Archivists attempt to figure out the artifacts.

• To read synopsis and rules descriptions, visit https://roll4saves.blogspot.com
• To hear Roll 4 Saves in a podcast, visit https://anchor.fm/roll4saves, search for it on the podcatcher of your choice, or follow the links in the side menu.
• To see Roll 4 Saves in videos, visit https://www.youtube.com/@roll4saves
• To support this content and gain access to the Roll 4 Saves documentation, visit https://www.patreon.com/roll4saves
• Questions and Comments are best left at roll4saves@gmail.com

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Episode 7 - Induction

 In this episode, Jaephing was taken to the Blade Archivists' lair.

There are about 15 members, and they convinced Jaephing to full commit to the group.

They then tried to figure out the artifacts they scored from the heist.

But Jaephing had his fingers crushed by the machine.

Episode 6 - No Story 1

 This episode took a break from the story. 

Instead I talked about the design of the Roll 4 Saves.

Episode 5 - Fight at the Docks

 This episode picked up with Jaephing on duty.

To add a twist to our session, I through a new faction at the heist.

We randomly created a faction temporarily named the Low Nobles. A bunch of nobles that wish to secure artifacts to both hit the merchant class and to bolster their own position in the aristocracy.

This ended with a physical confrontation between the Blade Archivists and the Low Nobles had a brief dust up. During which, Jaephing handedly proved himself as the dove in, machete swinging.

Episode 3 - Jaephing and Nala

 In this episode we chose Jaephing to be out main character.

We then went through the process of generating a plot.

We ended up with a police detective working for a cult, that wants to heist something from the Central Train Station. They tried to work Jaephing into the cause. Jaephing has their interest piqued, but so far has been reluctant.

Mistakes Were Made

One of the issues of running everything live, without editing, is fact that mistakes will be made. Here are the corrections for Jaephing so far.

1. Jaephing only had 1 Coin and 4 PD. So Jaephing should have 2 additional trappings. So I updated the character sheet to include the Rope d6, and Jack Knife Easy Nautical.

2. In episode 2 I had rolled that Jaephing was a female, but I forgot about this and later rerolled Jaephing to be a male. I am going to keep Jaephing as a male. I will explain my reasoning later.

And that is it so far.

This week, I'll try to do some setting posts.

Episode 2 - Characters

 In this episode we made 4 characters. Ugby, Thaki, Jaephing, and Laeth.

We used a weird table I made that gives you a series of vowels and consonants to throw together into random words.

We then randomly rolled the rest of the characters.

That was it really. 

Episode 1

 The ReLaunch of Roll 4 Saves is upon us. See previous post for an explanation.

This is the explainer episode.

I introduced myself, 

Hi, I'm Wayne.

I introduced the show,

This is an solo, actual-play, beta test.

I introduced the game system,

Start with a d6. Bump it up if something makes the roll easy, if you have a matching skill, and/or if you have a matching background. Bump it down if something makes the roll hard. A roll of 4 or higher avoids consequences.

I introduced the setting,

Pretty much just humans. But archipelagos separated by abyssal leviathans. Then Technology! and Airships! and the discovery of a continent. The continent is named Lurr. The greatest city on the continent is Nyrborg. Magic is a thing that exists, but it is weak.. There was once a great civilization in the world. Their towers and catacombs are testaments to their power. Electricity is generated by Furthstein, magic, glowing stones that can be threaded together to create more powerful currents.

That is pretty much it.

Show Relaunch

 A few thoughts were running through my head this past week.

1. I need to find a way to adjust the gain on my big microphone...
2. It is a bit difficult to follow the mechanics and story and all in a purely audio format.
3. I'm 5 episodes into the story of the Charbone Collectors, and bored.

So I did some experimenting.

• If I record with Zoom, I can mess with the Gain.
• If I record in Zoom, I can record a video along side the audio.
• If I'm going to use videos, I'd like to have it available for all episodes.
• If I start over, I can use my plot cards, which I had recently rewritten for a more generic setting, AND had added to the text of Roll 4 Saves.

So Friday, I took the nuclear option.

I made 3 episodes, and started a plotline I'm much more interested in.

One of the main differences is that the story will focus on a single character, instead of a full party.

Also, there is video on YouTube (see links below and in the sidebar).

As the older episodes had worse quality audio, and might dissuade new listeners that want to start at the beginning, I nuked them.

On the otherhand, I uploaded all three episodes that I recorded on Friday.

I am still planning to have Episode 5 up by Friday (November 5th, 2022), and then an episode released each week after that.

So if you read the previous posts and wonder what is happening to Melillot and the others, sorry, there story is gone.

But I'm sure Jaephing will more than make up for it.