let me introduce drama system drama system focuses primarily on dramatic scenes which are scenes that affect the characters emotional stakes there are also because you can't get away from the procedural scenes where the characters are doing things that are uncertain and that's the usual territory of a set of roleplaying rules so in dungeons and dragons it's understood that the characters are working together to kill monsters when some treasure or maybe there's a plot along the way that you're trying to solve but it doesn't examine at least not mechanically the interactions among the main cast those are the sorts of scenes that we're going to be to be focusing on by scenes going up or down and by up or down i mean in the direction of making the audience hopeful for the character versus making the audience fearful for the character there is a trajectory  bees where they have good outcomes in scenes and their trajectory goes upward there's a downward force or momentum that starts to apply dramatically on the character bringing them back to the mean or bringing them back on course for that the overall trajectory that the character is going and it's a very dull a story where character starts out everything goes perfectly well for them from beginning to end and they end much much better place without having run into any challenges along the way that's in drama system there are these things called drama haunts and that's what this collection of pretty blue stones which in no way resemble naked mole rats are for the blue stones are called drama points any time you are in a dramatic scene and you don't get what you want you're going to get a drama point in a scene somebody is going to be the petitioner and somebody is going to be the grantor so you can call a scene to have somebody ask you for something you can call a scene to go and ask somebody for something drama points are basically your consolation prize for your character not getting what they want out of the scene so in a scene you're either going to get the thing that you went into the scene looking for or you'll get a drama point there are also procedural scenes so if you want to climb a wall or sneak into a building the were the big confrontation with the big bad those are all cases where we'll get into a procedural scene you'll notice that everybody has three different procedural tokens which are represented by different colored rocks or you have a green one a yellow one and a red one and i have green yellow and red procedural tokens as well that represents how much opposition gets thrown against you when you attempt to a procedural scene if you're trying to do something that you're strong at i may be inclined to take one of the weaker tokens like the yellow one or the red one if you're attempting something with one of your weak this is i might be inclined to use my green one or at least my yellow one but there are going to be ups and downs over the course of the campaign in general the bigger token i spend the harder it gets for you and the bigger token you spend the more resources you have to deal with the problem for our listeners at home if you would like a copy of the drama system rule book you can download one free of charge from our website at episodes of adventure dot wordpress dot com or from our permanent website at worlds of adventure dot org a million years before the dawn of history the ancients walked the earth until a century ago when they returned the holy northern church had been the center of learning and stability for all of dinosaur kind it sparked the scientific revolution and the invention of the printing press a century ago someone claiming to be the ancients contacted them and the hi melissa accepted this claim sense than the church has claimed that it has been doing the work of the ancients whose power is second only to that of the four gods of creation church but a handful of renegades have risen up to create the dinosaur uprising so tonight rachel is going to choose the theme for our episode and she's also going to call the first scene the theme for tonight's episode prophecy you're encouraged to call scenes that relate to the theme and at the end of the night whoever plays their dramatic polls best in relation to the theme of prophecy is going to get a little benefit that they can carry and whew next monday so i'm going to call a scene i'm imagining it this is the be very beginning of the very first episode strong paul i'm the second in command of the resistance so there's something unusual about the design of the sacred architecture of the holy northern church what is it they use a lot of white and assign it a different name again this is a very different sort of game than d m d the players have a lot of power and so anybody around the table can speak up through our suggestions and the table can collectively come up with with the answers to a lot of open ended questions about about the setting perhaps for the people that are part of the church which is the majority of us we just colloquial it call it the church of the north and then they have a name we just don't know what it is oh there's that and an internal ecclesiastical name right that only the clergy now yeah excellent there's something unique about the people around the table are free to throw in other narrating their ration elements of you want to be a bit part minor n p c wandering by can it costs drama points to add yourself to a scene that somebody has called that they haven't included u n and nobody has drawn the points yet we push in on the interior of the church and action the church is called the holy synagogue of monaco as far as we know yes as far as so i take the case and i wrap it up and blanket and i go to don't want to secluded part of the church where i'm going to try to sneak and the thing that i gain from the scene was like kind of wanted someone to i kind of wanted to get out of the situation but i also kind of wanted someone to convince me to to egg me on to do it like me i needed someone to basically encourage me to do it ok you were seeking emotional reassurance and support from him all right so i think the drama talking actually goes to you what does that what does everybody else think actually no you got what you wanted so he gets the drama  the important thing wasn't her succeeding at whatever task it was her being being being psyched up to go and do the task and later on we can we can fill in the details of what she actually did and what the consequences were that that was all about the emotional interplay between the two of them you are listening to worlds of adventure and w l p p p f m one zero two point nine in peel and bill new york you can use a drama token to duck out of a scene that somebody has called you into that you don't want to be and if you need to drop drama token to crash into a scene that somebody hasn't called you into that you want to be and you can use a drama talking to block somebody else from crashing into your you can use a drama token to call the scene between other characters but not you with two drama tokens you can force somebody to give up the thing that you're petitioning for or for three tokens you can cancel somebody's forcing you to do that if you're with somebody and helping out you can contribute your own drama tokens either the two or the three several people can gang up on a character to force than they did to give a concession or stories rip strong has been trying to coerce me slowly subtly to joining the resistance and one side i could soon be a career dinosaur and on the other side of the secret drug problem maybe i'm i love you like a brother but money takes precedence yeah but you know that the check comes in next week right so i don't have the cash on it right now but i can get some more water right now tonight or something  no one bad comes in and all you gotta do show up bring your music bring your whatever you're bring and like play or stuff what you say is freddie how would down how much would he be getting for in the club i see champ so us and i go up there and just starts casually striking up a conversation oh hi i've got seen you around oh hello hi have your face looks very familiar to me did you get what you wanted yes rachel you get a drama this is worlds of adventure with susan davis ben feldman eugene fama rachel you and in many all my next is my scene and is that the church that we have information for hearing and the more the melissa pulls back the screen which is normally not done in the course of our regular religious service and hands you a photo it's a photo of this suspect was seen leaving the church and you can see it's a picture of the church and there's a cloud of smoke coming out of it and she's carrying a box and scurrying away we've found evidence in that well i'm not sure if she has part of i think i mean she might be being let on that you know the the higher ups in the group would be better for with if they went after some of them if you can tie any of that to her that will widen the usefulness but i need you to arrest her within a reasonable amount of time can we trust you to do that you should yes and c n n i got what i want i'm going to call a scene with ben again to set up the scene basically i thought that the device was to cut the power and i assume my own fault in the bomb going off so i set it up raul and so what i'm looking for from ban is forgiveness and actually i'm but i knew one of the ladies in that church in the church you think you knew one of the ladies i remember but i made muffins for her last thursday and and she's  she's a wonderful no i completely know that she is not who you think she is she is one of them she  is many lies to try and coerce you into a false sense of security i just i don't like i don't like being manipulated into hurting people i don't want hurt people i agree that the church is wrong and what they're doing is just evil but i'm not the kind of person that would hurt someone i can appreciate that but i think you need to realize where the resistance comes from and what we're up against it's for a better place and a better time well i'm not quite sure that any decisions that i make along those lines of blowing up the church is going to make anyone's life better just i don't see the good and perhaps we can put you on one of our more delicate missions next time oh i'd be great a gathering information i mean i can get information from i don't i don't mind being here he has a talk and people in the community learn what they know but this business of hurting other people it's just wrong i just can't do it you are aware of and he flicks through his folder and he pauses gomer at the office oh yes yeah we require his specific talents and i know we talked about this before and i'm trying my best i mean he is he he seems to avo reason i think he's just very very special you just he's just he's a wonderful he's a wonderful wonderful man you need to try a little harder maybe make him some special m a new main ingredient in your muffin it's all wonderful i don't know what it is but it looks good we do not taste it smell it oh smells kind of sour looking for well i was looking for forgiveness but then i kind of found out that it was deliberate in these i guess i didn't get what i wanted he didn't get what you wanted so you get then do you have any drama tokens i have one you have one to give it to her now and then turning around did you get what you wanted from rachel yes yes you did if you had another one you would give it to her and i will give you  one for that because that actually turned into two different petitions with two different grants so next it's ben and after that eugene so it's the day after extensions big concert at the local pub i'm sitting in a darkened pub with domer who has stacks of cash in front of him late it's scarface times one hundred he's made so much money from this and hasn't yeah and had to pay and her band had to pay for it to do this never dealer paid a price yeah so i walk in and see this mountain of cash sitting on on one of the tables with gomer just flicking through bills upon bills of money just counting his riches six seven eight nine ten oh another time we were called on gomer oh well hey how you do in a minute do i'm doing much better now that i know that you can pay for  these two little stocks that money came in from but from the music from the band the rest of these let's say i call muffin sales oh my god the money has just come i live like no are enormous piles of money he's killed off for bills or for coin so what describe describe the money describe what money in the society looks like so i will say it is paper you need this just last night he gave you know he told you he found it on the back of a boat and all of this is except for whatever he's giving you is mine we're all making initial reviews of your concert last night it's lukewarm at best lukewarm but i'm sure we can get you another similar gig in the future yet we plus pay you back oh yeah i got all right yeah i can do that the result is put aside for a rainy day i swear you will regret this gomer i told you you're like a brother to me but i killed my own brother and he brings out a large bag big bang wow i am puts it on the table it's probably about four pounds i don't know where they get this stuff but i love it  bag picks up some of the big bang and shoves it towards your face did you get all this stuff anyway mind your own business just focus on your drink back there we'll talk about your band later god man i just want to know i might come in late one day we'll discuss that on monday and see him then did you get what you wanted not entirely not entirely a huge team do you have any so here is a shiny new drama token to give to band i may end up to you crash the scene wanting something did you get it i would say no it was presumably about any i was hoping that he would own up to the when you got something which i guess i got a little cash but it but you didn't get it he didn't get your fair share who didn't you get it from i did not get it from actually either of you because he basically it was his money but i mean that he collected but then apparently was al scene with an n p c yes you can cut can't go ahead and call the scene with the n p c you and i will play the thing in ok i know in a church of the holy northern church but a different one than we were in earlier because i want to make a  confession all right but not to the city because they know me at that other church all right here is one more i don't know anyone you go into the inquisition booth and the moon is sitting on the other side of the curtain confess to being sions my child forgive me melissa but and in danger of sinning oh you were in danger of setting tell me what is the nature of the anything where that would lead that we might be all right or not i said remember my child the prophecy of falwell which that says that all of those who are women  so far she never gets what she was and you were raking in the drama points as a result funny how the pushovers get all the drama well drama is interesting when your character gets what they want about half the time or have to give something out about half the time and that's how the drama tokin on to me is designed to work it's interesting this is two nights after the extinction concert this is add a church run shelter and a very very over the intoxicated  on the floor in absolute agony after having what they choose to much of the big thing you had so much big bang that it's gone all the way through being the most ecstatic experience of your life to being the most incredible uttered torture you hate your existence right now and you wish you were never born you're riding around on the floor and up walk the very sympathetic melissa oh my child what has what has happened to you i had the most craziest bunder i i don't save you from the evils of this drug that has taken hold of your life and destroyed it but first you first my child you must get free from this man who claims to be your friend shelter and familiar with people who frequent it have you been looking for him yet i've been looking for him the melissa speaking very sympathetically see she sort of cheesy or possibly he can again you can't tell under the mask and the room is crouch life who gave him i don't know who that was but i swear i swear on the ancients that if i find out who that person is going to have  i try every day he's a wandering soul i'll be honest with you minute man majesty so it's good that you have a good friend here one who will help you help keep you away from the tonight's play the last thing that we're going to do before breaking for the evening is we're going to vote to hand out what we call bennies bennies or special bonuses that you get they carry over into later play sessions so we have two of them to give out tonight first of all everyone's going to go around the table and explain how your character weighed against both of their dramatic polls how you were torn one way than the one poll at which point it's time to start thinking about new polls and you want to be torn in both directions and ideally you want to relate it back to the theme of prophecy i could see this prophecy been set up the band success the future taking its place amanda how did you play your dramatic poles and how did that relate to prophecy i did get some of the prophecy when we had the scene in confession in the let's mentioned some kind of  the two inquisition to try to get forgiveness for doing that yes that sounds like a classic being torn between between yes definitely and not only that i am torn because i know i received an assignment to hol rachael how did you play your holes my poles where are between playing nice and following the rules and getting along and finding justice for dinosaurs i think i played my poles really well which was basically like i wanted to not cause any waves i wanted to be the good girl and play nice i mean i made a lot of difficult choices and a lot of difficult acts i think the other thing that came up in this game is my character already so has a weak knowing because she's so nave the theme of prophecy didn't come up a whole lot except for in the church scenes i felt i guess i'm using the word prophecy interchangeably with doctrine or things like that but basically that's the only time prophecy came into it then how did you play  so much to trying to figure out what's going on behind the scenes just setting up those the relationships with with gomer and with with to further the future goals of the record label as well as the resistance bennies go to amanda and then oh cool and that's all we have chime for tonight join us next week on our next exciting episode of world other adventure the game moderator with susan davis the wondering monster was simple music and 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