Love Lankmar. Love no small crimes in Lankmar but it works better as a second adventure than a meet. The meet in Grave maters book is actually a really good one I think. As it can end in a repeating villain depending on how well the players roll.
As someone who adores Call of Cthulhu and horror RPGs, I am definitely interested. I am a big fan of DCC so I just might check out this kickstarter! I could see this connecting to the DCC Adventure 101: The Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen. Have you ran/played that one yet? Albeit the adventure mentioned above is not nearly as focused on investigation but could be a could introduction to horror gaming in general.
I'm glad I limit my social media interactions. I missed out on the hatred against Shadowdark rpg I guess because of that. I did go all in on the Kickstarter for Shadowdark rpg. I only have a couple issues with Shadowdark which I can tweak easily and have to use it the way I want to. It feels like a less over the top gonzo DCC rpg as an aside. Which isn't a bad thing in my opinion. DCC rpg can be a bit too much for some, though I'm a big fan personally and own most of it as well. Basically I'm not much of a fan of D&D overall, some editions can be more fun than others but its all interesting. If I run D&D, I'd rather run a variant of it like Shadow of the Demonlord, DCC or Shadowdark. All three can be a lot of fun to run or play in. Though honestly I'm more of a skills based generic system fan, like GURPS, Savage Worlds, Basic Roleplay systems from Chaosium (CoC, RQ etc).
Food and/or water or even ammo are always great motivation to go somewhere in post-apocalyptic settings. " After a morning inventory of your provisions, you discover that your supplies have decayed... likely from the questionable no-man's land you recently crossed."
Darkest Dungeon feels like a HUGE inspiration for this game. When people talk about wanting to do a Darkest Dungeon game, I would absolutely use this for it.
This game hits right for me and my group because I wanted something simpler than OSE, darkness being meaningful (no ancestry with darkvision) and for spells like Magic Missile and Fireball (sorry WWN). When you treat Shadowdark as a canvas instead of an entire painting it's great.
I think that is a great way to put it. I also agree that it's simpler than OSE, but I also think the character builds/classes more compelling when I both played and ran the game.
thac0 is a bit of a pain but as a way to make it easier it was just replaced with your attack bonus. If you think of it as "To Hit AC 20" instead then in modern terms, with no attack bonus you need a 20.. as you level up to say lvl 3 and get a +2 attack bonus then you only need an 18. Thinking of it that way look back at the chart and it makes it seem less complicated.. i still dont care for it though.
I'm with you on the number of fantasy systems and how similar some them are. I've pruned the number of games I've got on the shelf down by about half for just that reason and I'm definitely aiming to spend more time playing fewer systems. Now about THAC0...
I think DC20 is the next flavor of the month. It has some neat stuff too blending pf2 and 5e together. I passed on the Kickstarter because im gonna dump my cash on Caverns of Thracia DCC stuff.
Firmly in the bucket of 'neat, but what else you got' for me. OSR F20 game with some ideas but a little too safe to catch my interest. Topic suggestion: turning grid map dungeons into point crawls?
If you notice the beginning cut weird, the opening song which was supposed to be royalty free got claimed this time but not the last 3 times. Anyway, I opted to cut it to keep the video monetized.
Ran Dead By Dawn last night with the intention of leading the survivng characters into a tweaked Curse of Strahd Campaign using this system. One of my players made the excellent point that the setting feels very much like the Old Diablo games.
Just getting into DCC as 5e has become too bloated, overpowered and the outcome a forgone conclusion. Learning a lot and really enjoy the chemistry between the players and Judge. Great job guys!
So far I just run my own content going off of what I am in the mood for. I bought several SotDL campaigns but they didn't really get my neurons firing when I read them. Funnily, I was actually thinking of running a few to make a video on them to review a few since I like actually running stuff before reviewing it. But from the ones I grabbed none of them really made me go "Oh I need to run this right away" over my own creative ideas.
@@wasabiburger3047 Nice insight! Did you use any of the tables in the Core book for the campaign? Or just used prior experience as a DM to bring it all to life?
This is such a great rundown and I had such a great time following along with it. I wish I'd known about this months ago! I'm happily subbed now; if you ever feel like doing more CWN coverage I'm very here for it :D
Oh god i cant express how appreciative i am for this! And so happy its actually organized and has quality audio, I was afraid that this would be one of those rambling videos where a couple dudes just use their phone mic to record while theyre pretty much just hanging out. Im so glad that era of RU-vid is pretty much over lol
I started the hobby with DnD 3.5. We ran with it for years but my players prefer 5e for convenience, despite me building a custom playset for 3.5 with a reference sheet. Lately we got experimental and started different ttrpgs like Vampire, Lancer, and Pathfinder. I'm eager to try this one out as well.
Oh nice! I was looking at Lancer about 2 months ago and it felt like just a crunchier SotDL since the rule core was so similar. I hope you enjoy SotDL if you end up trying it out :)
Thank you! I've been looking for a review of this game that I could send my table ever since seeing... (holy shit!) your actual play of "A Warm and Pleasant Hum", but RU-vid has been rather short on Trophy Dark reviews lately.
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As an oldbeard from the late 80s I am so magnificently happy that we have entered a golden age of TTRPG, glad to find your channel and subscribed. Look forward to seeing all of your back content.
I've run this game many times (disclosure, I contributed very minority to the Gold book). IMO this is one of the best derivatives of the masterpiece that is Cthulhu Dark.
