This weekend retro-nots, some truly wise commentary. Oh, yeah. Hey everyone. Welcome to Retronots. Episode 594. That's six short of 600 that's like 1% away from 600. I'm so good at math. Amazing and I'm good at

math because I play RPGss. So today we are going to talk about a series that is not an

RPG in the purest sense of the word but is nevertheless an important part of the role-playing evolution the milieu etc etc.

But first before we get started I would like to introduce our guests starting with the sponsor for this episode.

We're finally getting back on track with our patron request episodes, which kind of fell by the wayside because my life was

chaos for like six or seven months and I could barely like stay alive. So now that I'm

safely alive we're back to to making up for lost time starting with this episode please patron

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Prever of the Arts, Kind Soul, please introduce yourself.

Hi, Bump Combat Defender, Scott Rothman.

So I have to ask you, are you defender of bump combat in all its myriad forms?

No, not all of its marriage forms. I mean, very much to the east spun combat I find fun some of the older iterations

uh not so much. Where do you stand on hidelide?

No comment. So the defender has logged off, I guess I see.

Okay.

Scott, what made you want to join us for this episode, this discussion of the Ease series?

We've given it away in case you haven't seen the title of this episode.

Yes, it's about the Ease series, Ease 1 through 3 specifically.

Yes, so I played Wanderers from Wise as I thought it was as a young child.

It was a very like confusing game to me because I had only sort of basic

understanding of genres at the time of like things are turn-based or things are

action and there's like no numbers involved and then here I was presented with this both and it was just like sort of confusing as to me but enthralling also it was something that always just like stuck in my brain this game

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