hi everyone thank you again for joining us for this week's SJ games live where we have our wonderful Steve Jackson who will be showing us and talking to us a little bit about our Illuminati game as well as the 2018 release where you can give us some feedback instructions in the link below and so I'm just gonna kind of get started right off the bat and go right into it so Steve is the Steve Jackson the wonderful person whose name is on this company modest and and he is going to give us just a little
bit of an overview of the Illuminati game ok segment so Illuminati is a game about two secret conspiracies trying to take over the world in other words it's completely rooted in daily life sigh everybody starts off with one card that represents their Illuminati you can be the UFOs the Bavarian Illuminati the granddaddy's of everybody the gnomes of Zurich who have too much money the Discordian society which is simply nuts the Bermuda Triangle which is mysterious this deadly society of assassins the network which is the computer guys or the servants of Cthulhu whose objective is to
destroy things and they have a bonus to destroy but everybody starts off in the game by taking over other groups so let's clear the excess Illuminati out of the way because you do not yet have a full wall television screen what I'm going to do is set up one illuminati group just as an example we'll use Cthulhu you see Cthulhu has outgoing arrows on all four sides no Cthulhu can take over a group with any of those arrows let's look over here at the different groups that have already been turned up and as possible targets
and Cthulhu is going to try to take over video games because video games now let's see if this works see if I'm getting a focus can you see that card clearly I hope so but it has an income of 7 money is wonderful especially early in the game so I'm going to try to take over the video games I have a power of 9 they have a resistance of 3 that means on a die roll of 6 I can take them over that's not very good but that's where the money comes in let's just say
that I've started off with a little bit of money here on whatever mysterious turn this is drop it card so we decided I needed a die roll of six because I have a power of nine versus a resistance of three at six I'd like to improve that a little bit so I'm going to take some money and throw it in throw in five get one back that's four that I added so 4 plus 6 is 10 on a die roll of 10 or under I'll take it over now somebody might mess with me but let's
say for the purpose of starting off the example that nobody's interfering with me everybody's out of money or just doesn't care if I control the video games roll the dice 3 yeah took it over easily so I can put it on any one of my ongoing arrows we're going to set it like that and we'll turn up a replacement card the Trekkies now it would be the next players turn but we're going to fake all those turns and come right back around to me I would start by taking money on my new turn I have
an income of 7 because I also have a wonderful income of 7 on my video games RIA if I say anything that you don't think it's clear I want you to interrupt with a question no you're doing fantastic that's why I'm keeping silent but now we will let the video games try to take somebody over just as an example of what we can do the video games have one outgoing control arrow down here 9 no that's on the edge of the screen so I'm going to cheat you're not supposed to move your cards to a
different layout once you place them but this is just for an example so I'm going to put my video games up there so they're outgoing arrow points to a real area and they're going to try to take over for no special reason the United Nations because video games should control the United Nations everybody so they have a power of two against the resistance of three that's a minus one right there but the servants of Cthulhu can use their power to aid in that because their power is transferable they're the Illuminati so power of 9 Plus
that minus 1 gives us a die roll of eight I want to get it up to a ten oh wait let's turn this around now so the outgoing arrow matches the incoming arrow we got it up to 1/8 these guys are going to spend a little bit of their money and then the game you can rotate the gate the cards as needed to fit your that's right so that gets it up to a 10 a 10 is the best dive roll I can have on a take over on an 11 or 12 I automatically blew
it that's oh I'm hot today Snake Eyes so that's a take over so that is the main mechanic of Illuminati right there is taking over other groups there are two other things that you can do and you do them both to the other players let's say now that I'm somebody else coming after Steve here I could try what's called an attack to neutralize which would just be to knock something off my power structure or I could do an attack to destroy which is what Cthulhu itself specializes in which would really be let's say we're trying
to destroy the United Nations that's also a possibility of this Cthulhu I have a bonus for that we're not going to try to get into those now the die rolling mechanics are similar they're just things that you do to the opponent rather than yourself fantastic so that's our overview correct for this so that's our overview for Illuminati if you'd like to learn a little bit more or participate and input on cards go ahead and check the links below and we are the deadline for input on links for cards is November 1st correct yes and now
you're asking well what are you updating don't you already have the game yes but for 2018 the noob reprint is going to change a lot of cards some things have gotten kind of old are you pieces funniest they used to be I'm not sure let's get some feedback on that underground newspapers well there's a lot of underground media now besides newspapers and maybe we should just call that the underground media and so on and so on we have groups like survivalists well we still have survivalists out there but they're called Preppers now so that card
needs a name change just to keep up with current reality and then the Tri liberal Commission card this is one that may come out the Trilateral Commission still exists and is still a Bugaboo of commentators who think oh my gosh it's some kind of liberal conspiracy but they're not really in the news as much as they were maybe we have funnier things to do with this card then pick on the Trilateral isms and that is what the feedback that we're getting is about so this is not just for people who already played the game but
I will not lie if you are already familiar with the game your feedback is going to be more on point and if you are an Illuminati fan but haven't joined the play test comment yet please do we'd like to see you we'd like to see what you consider to be old and busted and suggestions for conspiratorial groups that might be new and funny yes so a reminder that that is closing November 1st so make sure you get the link below so that you can participate thank you again Steve for giving us a quick overview thank
all of you for joining us here today thank you for logging in yes you approve of you the check is perhaps in the mail there you go and just so everyone knows we will be doing our next one on Wednesday and not Thursday because we have our wonderful company game day on Thursday so the next one will be Wednesday I can't tell you what we're doing Wednesday because if there's a chance it may be something super cool and super secret yes we have a we have a new thing to show you and the question is
can we show you Wednesday exactly find out see you next week
