173. City of Mist Part 1

One Shot

James D'Amato

Games, Comedy, Leisure

4.8 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week we head to a city where everyone has a story to tell. Some of those stories are stronger than others, the roll through the concrete towers searching for a host to be told and told again. Somewhere in dimly lit and dusty office Decklan La Strange is about to have one of these stories find him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are venterers.
0:02.0	We've into every place anywhere in the world.
0:06.0	We are venturing.
0:08.0	We are venturers.
0:10.0	Hello Heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your game master.
0:16.4	This week we're starting our play-through of City of Mist. For those not in the know, City of Mist is on
0:22.2	Kickstarter right now.
0:24.3	It's a noir superhero RPG that combines everything that's great about Apocalypse World
0:29.8	with everything that's great about fate.
0:32.0	City of Mist allows players to focus themselves
0:34.3	on the fiction by using power tags instead of stats. Tags operate a lot like aspects
0:40.5	in fate. They're core principles of your character that help you when you're making die rolls.
0:46.0	Doing any action in City of Mist means you're searching your character sheet for appropriate power tags to your action.
0:52.0	Once you found all the abilities that you have that would be able to help you out on a certain role,
0:56.0	you roll the old Apocalypse 2D6 and see if you can get 10 plus, 7 to 9, or the dreaded 6 and below. City of Mist has a lot of neat mechanical
1:06.4	tricks all wrapped up in a gorgeous dark city full of secrets that will lead you to
1:12.0	pulpy high intensity action.
1:14.0	As I said, City of Mist is on Kickstarter now, and they will be until November 24th.
1:19.0	I highly recommend everyone follow the link in the show notes to go check out the Kickstarter page. Look at the art and see why I want this beautiful game on my
1:27.7	shelf. There you'll also be able to find the link to the free
1:30.2	quick start rules. Before we get started on the episode, I want to remind everyone that this week,
1:34.5	Kat and I are just coming back from Metatopia in Morristown, New Jersey.
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