Shin Megami Tensei - The Roleplaying Game: Tokyo Conception | Encounters in the Vortex World - Ep. 1

[@lilicona5957]

This is Awesome!!! I hope we get more of the SMT TTRPGS Translated and even some new ones! please atlus do it!

[@mjd11452]

how many are there I admit this one is the first I saw.

[@randomnom]

Jack Frost having Hee/Ho pronouns is so fucking good

[@AzureEternal]

I NEED THIS SO BAD. Like someone else said, I hope this is just the start of more of the SMT TTRPGs getting published in English!

[@LassBisharp]

Wait there's other SMT TTRPGs?

[@69Kazeshini]

@@LassBisharp Yeah there's at least 2 others that came before Nocturne, based around SMT 1 & 2. They had a more Fallout post-apocalyptic feel but sadly they are all in Japanese.

[@totalpartykill999]

it just dropped on Amazon.

[@AATCathala]

That Jack Frost though AMAZING

[@darklordliam]

I wonder if the game system allows for multiple enemies to appear in an encounter. It wasn’t uncommon for the video game to have an encounter with 6 demons or more at a time, though dodging/nullifying/repeling/draining attacks doesn’t seem to remove actions like it does in the video game. I can imagine getting into a fight with 6 enemy demons or enemy demons who can summon more demons can get really difficult.

[@churchergames]

Hey there! GM for the Actual Play here. There definitely are multiple enemies in the upcoming episodes. It makes it an interesting combat system. And you're correct in that ineffective or missed attacks don't remove actions. If your skill rating is 100% or more, you can half it to do multiple actions in the same round. That'll come up later, both for our player characters and enemies.

[@darklordliam]

@@churchergames That’s super cool! Can’t wait to see the next video. I’m looking forward to playing this with friends when it releases.

[@MidnightBikerHostility]

Watched this while playing the SMTIII Nocturne soundtrack in the background myself, it was a delightful experience. If you guys have a editor who's up for it, i recommend adding in music from the game at fitting moments while the session progresses, it'd make for a even more enjoyable experience for the expectators.

[@vincentcolantonio1564]

They have the licence for the tabletop, I think that the music could cause them to infringe copyright

[@MidnightBikerHostility]

@@vincentcolantonio1564 I would like to think it wouldn't seeing that many other smt youtubers use the game's music willy and nilly, and Nocturne's soundtrack is really not the most copyrighted sountrack out there anyway. That aside, f**k the copyright it can suck a egg.

[@vincentcolantonio1564]

@@MidnightBikerHostility I mean, Ur right but I think they can't risk it

[@MidnightBikerHostility]

@@vincentcolantonio1564 Yeah, hoping here they find out someway for sure that it's safe to use the soundtrack though. Either way, their campaign here has been great thus far.

[@markcochrane9523]

So does this edition include the option for humans to have COMPs, or is recruiting demons only going to be an option for Fiends? Also, is there going to be demon fusion?

[@rayfethegrim]

Amazing! I can't wait to have this!

[@mentalkitty789]

This was a good watch and nice introduction into what we're getting. The combat seems nice! I've seen in the preview pictures they have things like the talk skill, and they advertise the 'faction' system. I am wondering how those are going to play in? I noticed there weren't really any skill checks for things besides combat this session.

[@Grimlock64]

Game system sounds like Call of Chtulhu in a sense. So I already feel confident I'll enjoy this!

[@gadellomagnollo1810]

It uses percentile rolls, yes.

[@extrakrispy81]

This is pretty cool. I'm looking forward to seeing how Magatama are used and if Fusion is in the game.

[@marcosfelipe018]

When will the next episode be released? Is it going to be a weekly thing? Edit: this was great to watch, btw! I watched it the day it was published and I really enjoyed it, that's why I ask. xD

[@LionWingPublishing]

Next month!

[@HFOfficial]

Just out of curiosity, does this rpg feature Dante from the Devil May Cry series?

[@xmus4023]

probably not but you know someone will make it custom

[@derrickhaggard]

Hyped for this

[@LassBisharp]

Why isn't there any SMT Nocturne music playing in the background? Is the music so good that you'd get distracted by listening to it? I know I would! Also: This system isn't accurate, the party is still alive. /j

[@markcochrane9523]

The real inaccuracy is that they could just walk up to the boss without having at least a dozen random encounters first.

[@LassBisharp]

@@markcochrane9523They haven't found the boss yet. The boss was described in the beginning as being a dragon. They haven't found the dragon yet.

[@markcochrane9523]

@@LassBisharp Well, about that...they went out looking for one demon, and they found one demon. Maybe it was the demon they were looking for who had been misidentified as a dragon, or maybe it wasn't and they just called it quits at the first really strong demon they saw, but at the end of the day.....the important bit is that they did not have a random encounter every 5 to 30 steps they took.

[@LassBisharp]

@@markcochrane9523Remember, this liveplay says, "episode 1," so that implies that there's going to be more liveplays. Also, I feel like if that was the case, the GM might have said something along the lines of, "maybe this enemy was the, 'dragon,' you were searching for after all."

[@thehonkerdonker]

How long until preorder period ends?

[@Hexphile]

This needs to be out now

[@chromegaman]

It does take time for the translation and localization team to parse through the book and maintain the integrity of the rules. Soon (tm)

[@krayozmines]

I love Jack frost so much😭 hee ho

[@Sketchguy1248]

I'm SO excited!!! But I want to ask, will it play similarly to D&D 3-5e? Or will it run on a completely different system? I assume since this was originally made in japan it will be far removed from 5e. (I originally wrote this comment before the first encounter so I didn't know d100s were the main die used lol)

[@tinopulkka956]

Man, I have to play this with my friends, I wonder if the system will give the Demon Class evolutions, or do you stick as the same demon the whole campaing?

[@Joan-jq5ho]

Someone arbitrarily makes a Jack Frost be Chaotic Evil simply to turn into Black Frost

[@Manavine]

I imagine a GM could work it akin to Devil Survivor for that situation. @@Joan-jq5ho

[@abesolutzero]

Is the Vortex World mechanically centric to the RPG, or is it possible to run it on a more... normal setting like the other SMT games and spinoffs?

[@Palindome]

For most ttrpgs, you can make the setting whatever you want. You might have to re-flavour some of the mechanics but you can do whatever you like

[@abesolutzero]

@@PalindomeI've played TTRPGs for a long time. However, in some systems, there's only so much you can do because the world and rules are deeply linked together. I'm hoping that's not the case in this one! If it's just Kagutsuchi, then that's easy enough to change into normal moon phases.

[@Q-Bit]

This system has been around for a while (the first edition goes back to 1993; this book is the fourth edition, from 2004), and other books cover other settings (mostly Tokyo). Hopefully this book will sell well and they’ll be interested in translating the other books too.

[@abesolutzero]

@@Q-BitIt goes that far back? Oh, well then. I doubt the setting will be baked into the core mechanics, then. That's good.

[@69Kazeshini]

​@abesolutzero, yeah, they have tabletop books based around SMT 1&2. So far what I have heard about those books is that there are 2 settings in one, pre apocalypse and post apocalypse. Pre apocalypse plays more like call of cathulu and after each session depending on choices the PCs made they gain points which could speed up or slow down the apocalyptic event. The second part is post apocalypse where the game turns from call of cathulu to more of a survival game with demons. I heard that after a while of playing, specifically after the apocalypse, your character becomes overpowered to the point where there's not much challenge and you then have to retire your character to create a new one. There's a youtuber trying to translate it but we haven't got an update in 2 years.

[@RandomGhostDragon]

I apologize if this was explained in the video, as i tried searching for it, but can i ask how the resources like mp and hp are managed in this rpg? Is it like dnd where its multiple spell slots or is it like spell points instead for example? Regardless, its very cool how you are allowed to play as the demons themselves! Didnt thought much about it!

[@Palindome]

This system seems really interesting but I'm not sure how I feel about rolling for accuracy AND rolling for dodging, I'll see how I feel once I see more off the system

[@eidochan]

This is so exciting!

[@JohnBluemon]

I enjoy the example play.

[@churchergames]

Glad to hear it! We've got two more episodes on the way!

[@JohnBluemon]

@@churchergames That is great to hear. ^^

[@DEFRaven]

Worth mentioning im not done with the video yet but based on the first combat, Is there no press system? Or smirk? Or anything like that?

[@JohnBluemon]

Heavenly.

[@screenmonkey]

Can you play as a manikin, or just as a human, can we also get a more in depth character generation and over view of the setting, and any chance we will see other settings from the series or a in house setting.

[@Ray_Moses]

any idea when we'll get another episode?

[@nethxing]

whats the difference on the variants

[@randomnom]

main difference between the bundles is whether you want the hardcover, the pdf, or both, getting both saves you $20 the death/nocturne/nihilo variants are just differences on the cover art for the hard cover, nocturne uses the base nocturne box art, death uses the maniax box art, and nihilo uses the regular box art the game will ship with after pre-orders

[@nethxing]

@@randomnom ty so much

[@critical_6164]

oh is this like a fanmade real life board game or an online board game?

[@MrPsyren99]

This is a translation of the Japanese ttrpg for smt that's finally getting an English release after 20 years

[@critical_6164]

@@MrPsyren99 thats sick

[@user-vr8bt2tg3c]

Seriously it should be online with being able to play with A.I.

[@SayuriMiki]

AYO?