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Actually, something you might want to think about CD's. I am over 40, and I was all ready to chuck my CD's away -- but I got cold feet (there was over 1000 of them). Now that everything is digital and on streaming, I've realized that if you don't have any physical copy of the favorite album of yours, you might one day wake up without the ability to ever listen to it again. There's been a whole bunch of music that has just spontaneously disappeared from streaming over the years, and that's just within my own library. So I am definitely in the category of keeping digital copies (files) and physical copies (LPs and CDs).
As a wise man once said "If purchasing isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
As a french guy who have already play the game it's an awesome one.
I tried the game two years ago at a convention and the GM was amazing, he was able to create a really dark and choking atmosphere in the middle of a convention noise.
I love when games mechanics influence roleplay and vice versa, MIR is a great example of that.
for anyone wondering about the "metal" involved, it seems to be AFBM (atmospheric french black metal)
Yes it is!
The dark Russian Orthodox aesthetic harkens to Batuska from Poland
Cool, ty! As someone from the U.S. unfamiliar with AFBM, any recommendations to check out? I'm pretty mainstream (Maiden, Anthrax, Tool, Coheed, and Mastodon are probably a good summary), Opeth is probably as close as I get.
@@taejaskudva2543 th-cam.com/video/wKMJUwHEHrA/w-d-xo.html !
@@taejaskudva2543I have to recommend Alcest!
I am delighted by all the cool games you cover so well on this channel! Wonderful video!!
Honored to have you here!
The layout of that screen is amazingly excellent. Easy-to-Read and visually attractive. Nice attention to detail.
The CD jacket is the perfect sized mini GM screen.
Wow, nice idea, I absolutely have to try that with my chipmunks PC!
Looked at it, played it. The books are really one of the most gorgeous thing I've held.
The game and its universe have a great feeling and that ambiance gothic and full of weirdness is really interesting. I had a blast playing a few games. The pregens are twisted AF. It's really a game for a mature audience
This RPG seems like something truly special. I love the artwork!
The white on black design looks dope. It together with the orthodox vibes give me flashbacks to Death Note.
I love dark mode on my phone. But white text on black background is the main reason I never got past the first few pages of the Bladerunner RPG...
Their artwork is like totally maxfield Parrish style. Freaking awesome!
This is very obviously heavily influenced by the World of Darkness. The cursed nations are like vampire clans, and the echos and their exorcism are like the shadows and spectres in Wraith, where it's also an open concern that the ruling class are secretly corrupted doppelgangers. The health system is also similar to Wraith's corpus system. The sheet design is similar, as well as the use of a dice pool with double successes on the max value like Exalted. It sounds like a mature WoD game, with tighter visual and mechanical design, and cleaner worldbuilding.
Love the influence of Book of the New Sun that I'm seeing. Amazing art. Gonna keep an eye on this one.
Has a Kult mixed with Degenesis feel, the psycho-emotional echos amid a dark world of cultural factions. The lore, the art, the presentation, all pretty epic... 85 bucks for a quickstart... also pretty epic.
You're right, it's better to take the all-in 😂 !
Ouch 😢
But... 85 bucks is not the price! The book + the GM screen is 60 bucks!
@@wyr66in plus shipping... always plus shipping. And this isn't the core rule book. Look I get trying to make the most boutique product possible, as a way to get some fat on, indie ttrpgs is the lean end of the bone scraping business that is publishing.
@@wyr66in plus shipping, always plus shipping. And this isn't the core rulebook. Look I get trying to make the most boutique product to put some fat on, indie ttrpgs is the lean end of the bone scrapping business that is publishing. But yeah, I'm tapping out at 85$ quickstarts.
I am french and never heard of this game before, that's bizarre. But it looks very nice. I have found the official site and unfortunately, it does not explain a lot about the game. Without your video, I would never have guessed what it is about.
You have several video presentations in french on the Globtopus TH-cam channel : th-cam.com/play/PL0Mwn4sG3dZu20KsTt3Y_83za_S18a4Zi.html&si=GeoGWWpLR7t7-sHA
Looks gooooood visually. Ill dig into reviews a bit more before backing
Counterpoint - use that GM screen up because the art is fantastic and just roll most rolls in front.
And yes, I prefer black text on white backgrounds most times (exception- the Borg games, because I know what I'm in for and the important stuff is summed up on the end papers) which is why I am hoping that when they do ALIEN 2e that one is a bit less black everywhere and easier to read.
This looks pretty amazing. I want to learn more about this setting.
I've baught it, played it, and it's so validated!
Thanks for reviewing less known games! This one looks interesting. Reminds me a bit Degenesis.
Sounds like if you crossed Degenesis with The Witcher, theme-wise.
Wow, this is freaking cool!
Degenesis meets VtM (d12 dice pool instead of d10) with a touch of Kvlt.
A GM screen book sleeve 🤯
Yes it is indeed mind-blowing. Even more when you have it in your own hands!
Looks great, the art work is beautiful. I wonder if it has any Slavic fantasy themes with that name? I’m looking for more Eastern Europe flavored rpg’s.
Мир has a double meaning, being either Peace or World depending on the context.
@@DasGutStuff I didn’t know that! Thanks. I tried learning some Russian a few years ago, it’s tough lol
Yeah it's quiet heavy Slavic culture inspired
So basically a game about the United States in a few years! Awesome!
Jokes aside, love your stuff!
A friend of mine has a general guide he uses for realism in games, books, etc. Who takes care of the trash? Who manages the detritus of everyday living?
It is the MIR : _Modern Industrial Recycling_ 😁
Excellent vidéo, interesting game!
Oh man, even if you weren't familiar with terminology, I'm still interested in the musical roots that the authors would have referenced. Now I'm gonna go look it up.
Oh, and not gonna lie, while I've been ripping cds to mp3 and listening to the digital for decades and the discs just live in a box in my basement, i did feel slightly attacked when you chuckled at the idea of a cd. I think it's just because I'm an old, but i can't buy digital music. I buy a cd, even if it never comes out of plastic wrap and i just download the files - but i think that's mostly because i never acclimated to buying single tracks. I always want the whole album. Helpful that i live in a city and there's a decent resale market for used cds.
Looks truly interesting and potentially awesome. Sadly the genre background is not in my wheelhouse as a GM, I am not much for running ultra-dark psychological horror, and I'm also looking for systems outside of the foundation of medieval or near medieval fantasy setting. Still caught my eye and I'll keep watch.
I do love the presentation, the cover alone looks like some magical tome. Really cool. But the game content seems way to dark for my liking.
It's weird everybody uses dark mode in their internet browser but hates it in a published book. What's with that?
I think the difference is that computer monitors emit light, whereas books reflect light.
Thus it is more comfortable for the eyes if the computer monitor emits less light, and the book reflects more light.
It has something to do with matching the ambient light level in the room.
@@larsdahl5528 Bingo! Science!
So beautiful
Sounds badass
"MIR" means "peace". At least in my language 🙃 I assume it means the same in Russian.
Yes! Peace/World depending of the context!
I was really excited to hear about something new until you got to the mechanics, not crazy about dice pools. But it does sound amazing otherwise!
So while the setting looks amazing, the lore incredible, and the book a wonderful presentation - it seems extremely overly complicated to run - maybe I need to read the rules more, but whenever I see "flow diagrams" on how to resolve things, I know that the game has the potential lose the emersion when you are looking up a "meter" rating on your relationship with someone. I understand how some may like this. I'm excited on how mechanics can resolve social encounters, but as stated I am having trouble understanding when and how these rules apply.
@@drew-g-b3180 all RPGs have a flowchart to resolve actions, whether the authors include one or not.
so it's a quickstart? I like the look and idea, but if there might be a core book in the future, i rather wait for that then.
There will be no duplicate content between the two. MIR: Oath contains, intradiegetically, the information available to a novice agent entering the MIR. The Core Book will contain what an experienced agent needs to know.
@@wyr66in that means mechanical things of the first will be missing in the second, so you need both to completely run it?
@@otakuofmine no except for the rules, I meant the lore chapters. You have all you need to play with MIR: Oath except character development. A good comparison would be the Starter Set for Alien RPG.
@@otakuofmine but with two levels of knowledge about the Lore : Novice for MIR: Oath and Agent for the Core Book.
@@wyr66in that's what i mean. other RPGs corebooks contain whats in their quickstart/starter set.
So if you want to create a character + play it you need only the 2nd or both? that's where i am confused at.
Did you take a look at Farsight yet?
... you ditched your CDs twenty years ago? 🙄 Why?
You speak French????
@@YannMiollan I don’t speak French. Lovely language though.
Beautiful, but they lost me at elves and dwarfs. Just an aesthetic dissonance to me for any setting involving the real world or its fantasy future. I know it doesn't bother others. Love the idea of echoes.
Not quite the elves and dwarfs that we're used to, though.
To be more accurate, it is _Delnataar_ vampiric multidimensional creatures manipulating time and _Az-granor_ , hive minded shapeshifting, stone eating creatures.
'Elves and dwarves' is for noobs 😂 !
First 😂!