Darkest Dungeon

[PRC]

This game gets an early access release on Steam next week.  I love the look of it and the playthrough's on youtube look like it's going to be fun too. 

[Martinus]

Thanks for the heads up. It looks interesting.

[PRC]

Those who backed it on Kickstarter, which I see a few of you did, can access it now.

[Habbaku]

Only if you did the $20 tier.  $15 tier still has to wait until the 3rd.

[Valmy]

Well so far so good.  I like the Cthulu inspired plot.  Seems easy and intuitive, at least early on since most options are locked.

[Solmyr]

I watched some gameplay videos and was instantly sold on this. And now I also want to introduce insanity rules into my ongoing tabletop RPG campaign.

[Valmy]

Ok I played it just to try it and like 2 seconds later it was 2 AM and I had to go to bed.  Amazingly fun game, the challenge is a huge breathe of fresh air from most modern games.

It may not be very kindly balanced to the player so far, I had groups that were falling apart from nerves before we even fought a battle.  But that may just mean I need to understand how to play it better first, it is hard to tell when you first start playing a game.

Always bring plenty of food, torches, and at least one shovel if you know what is good for you.

Anyway I loved it, everybody should play this.  It is going to be a classic.

[PRC]

Ok I played it just to try it and like 2 seconds later it was 2 AM and I had to go to bed.  Amazingly fun game, the challenge is a huge breathe of fresh air from most modern games.

It may not be very kindly balanced to the player so far, I had groups that were falling apart from nerves before we even fought a battle.  But that may just mean I need to understand how to play it better first, it is hard to tell when you first start playing a game.

Always bring plenty of food, torches, and at least one shovel if you know what is good for you.

Anyway I loved it, everybody should play this.  It is going to be a classic.

I'm wishing I backed it on kickstarter because I want to dive in right now.  Oh well, i'll be picking it up on the 3rd, glad to hear you're into it!

[Scipio]

It is so fucking difficult, it's like playing a game from the late 80s. It makes Wizardry VI look like a walk in the park.

[Valmy]

It is so fucking difficult, it's like playing a game from the late 80s. It makes Wizardry VI look like a walk in the park.

Wizardry IV still laughs at it though.

I am not sure if it is really this hard or if I just need to get used to the rules.  It is starting a little better in my second campaign attempt.

[Martinus]

I watched some gameplay videos and was instantly sold on this. And now I also want to introduce insanity rules into my ongoing tabletop RPG campaign.

Or you could just play Warhammer FRPG (which, imho, is still the best "classic setting" fantasy rpg out there). They have it all, plus player characters can suddenly grow tentacles and extra eyes.

[Martinus]

Ok I played it just to try it and like 2 seconds later it was 2 AM and I had to go to bed.  Amazingly fun game, the challenge is a huge breathe of fresh air from most modern games.

It may not be very kindly balanced to the player so far, I had groups that were falling apart from nerves before we even fought a battle.  But that may just mean I need to understand how to play it better first, it is hard to tell when you first start playing a game.

Always bring plenty of food, torches, and at least one shovel if you know what is good for you.

Anyway I loved it, everybody should play this.  It is going to be a classic.

I wonder what the replayability is going to be - but so far looks super cool. It also seems like an ideal game to be ported to iPad at some point.

Regarding the group composition, from the playthroughs I have seen, it seems to me not only you have to pay attention to individual characters' phobias (e.g. don't send a ruin-phobe to ruins etc.), you also have to match their personalities somehow. For example, I got an impression that more scholarly characters (like Occultists) really get along badly with barbarians and the back-and-forth between them alone sends their stress levels through the roof.

[Solmyr]

I watched some gameplay videos and was instantly sold on this. And now I also want to introduce insanity rules into my ongoing tabletop RPG campaign.

Or you could just play Warhammer FRPG (which, imho, is still the best "classic setting" fantasy rpg out there). They have it all, plus player characters can suddenly grow tentacles and extra eyes.

I've played and ran WFRP plenty of times. Right now I'm running Conan RPG, which lends itself well to Lovecraftian horror.

[Martinus]

Oh, is this a new game system? I remember when I wanted to run a Conan game like 20 years ago but all I could find was a GURPS setting (which imo lacks that certain oomph of a game specifically designed with a setting in mind).

[Solmyr]

Not exactly new, it was a d20 OGL game published by Mongoose in the 2000's. Despite being d20 this is pretty well designed with Hyboria in mind. I've mostly just fixed some d20 quirks (like skill ranks and grappling rules) but otherwise playing the system as is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan:_The_Roleplaying_Game