@Ben Possibly? Can't find much one way or the other, except where they couldn't license much new art. Probably best to treat the 3e version as its own animal.
@BESW I can't remember the name of it unfortunately, and it was while we were playing the Darks Souls board game (lots of fun cc @miniman) so I never really payed much attention to it - other than the fact that a Necromancer Raccoon is entirely possible in said system. Lol
All I do remember is that the cover of the manual had cartoon representations of the PCs on it.
> Our most potent magics must be fueled by blood sacrifice. To lengthen and empower our spells, we will kill a small animal like a bird, mouse, frog, or rat and pour its life force into our spells. Of course, no decent feline would sacrifice a sapient animal. [...] The corpse must be fresh—one sleep old or less—but it doesn’t have to be complete; you might like to bite the head and front parts off for a tasty snack before you get to work.
For example, you can use a snackrifice to ward an area against a particular threat, and the ward will last for as long as the corpse remains there.
(This is why cats are so upset when we throw out the things they leave under our pillow.)
Some cats can use wards to create invisible ramps and bridges which give them access to impossible-to-reach places.
But since they can't use magic in front of humans, they sometimes get stuck if their burden (that's what they call their human) comes along unexpectedly.
There are a lot of systems that I want to play and play again - for one-offs or more involved games. Fate, Dark Heresy, Ironclaw, Iron Kingdoms, my friend's homebrew zombie survival system, AFMBE, maybe a few others
When we flipped the medium card, we all went "oh crap, we should've rested and refought the easy encounters". But we managed to scrape through without a death.
The only part I didn't like was that there's no point leveling except to meet equipment requirements, so we ended up sitting there rolling for equipment for ages, trying to find something worth using.
Yeah, we had some teething problems of that kind. After the first room, we were all "I know it's Dark Souls, but really? " Once you work out the actual rules, it's not that hard.
Before we understood the rules, we didn't make it through the first main encounter. After that it was a bit more reasonable - we were also a bit more in-sync so it was like the first time you played DS1 vs the first time you played DS2
@Miniman Haha. Well, in comparison, I died within the first 20 minutes of playing DS1, but in DS2 there was an achievement for your first death, and that was the second achievement I got in that game
@Shalvenay I have no absolute commitments on weekends at the moment, but there may be demands from week to week, which is why I ask for two days' notice.
Pain in the butt: the guy who figures out that quark condensates are a potentially real thing and wants to use true polymorph to make them from monsters
One sliiight problem. If the arcane archer's projected anti-magic field is still a thing, then if you can survive the ensuing blast you can reach some stupid epic levels immediately.
Guess I'm starting another small games collection, because you can never have too many.
These are meant to function as play-by-post prompts for Blades in the Dark. Here's a first one, which is also a love letter to the Festival of Doskvorn episode (S01E12) of @magpies_pod.
(disclaimer: never been a fan of that game in the first place, just happened to stumble upon this older game page - don't know if there are other similarities.)
@Carcer yep, but I wouldn't have expected someone to actually sell such a game back in 1890.
That said, I would never had expected a game where you have to hide some radioactive uranium sample in the room and then have your friends find it using a small Geiger counter
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...so you can play Golden Sky Stories to save Christmas, because of course you can.
The Visitor playbook is pretty much designed for somebody to drop in and play for a bit - they find it easier to form connections to other people, and their capstone power is to go away again and make everyone forget about them but they all get Dreams to forge connections with other people. It's introduced by a gleep-glop alien who ends by saying "even your Earth human Santa Claus is a visitor" and SANTA NEEDS CHRISTMAS CHEER TO GO BACK TO THE NORTH POLE YOU GUYS
GSS is about cute spirits and folklore creatures helping other people who need help.
In the session I played we came across a spirit who was sad because she was lonely and nobody ever visited her shrine, so we played games with her to cheer her up and I think we planned to find a way to bring some new attention to her shrine.
@SevenSidedDie - "I have sometimes submitted a WIP answer then immediately deleted it" - I've saw some of your answer SSD, and for some of them you should have just stopped there. ;) :D
Admittedly it's an answer composed mostly of links but... well that question is of a unique sort for this stack so it may warrant a different type of answer
Hmm the first link is also just a link to an amazon search which isnt exactly helpful
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