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Image 1 — Moving our Draw Steel game to a JRPG setting
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Image 3 — Moving our Draw Steel game to a JRPG setting
▲ 11 r/mcdm

Moving our Draw Steel game to a JRPG setting

I really like the Draw Steel mechanics. And also I don't think it's good sportsmanship to murder hordes of goblins and other communities of weak creatures.

So we're moving our game to a self-aware JRPG. Because verisimilitude to me means "real place TTRPG" minion slaughter is unethical, but "video game setting" is okay because they can all be demons or icky spiders and it doesn't have to make sense or be ecologically sound.

Whatever, I'm excited about it! I think I needed the tone to be drastically different from my Shadowdark and 5e games for the big hero energy to work.

Has anyone else had a similar reaction to minion hordes? Or making an over the top setting?

Map made with Inkarnate.

u/TheNatureGM — 10 days ago
▲ 8 r/shadowdark

Ideas for a doll that's obviously cursed but will get picked up anyway

In the tomb of the elf king Varond Elderflower, which is guarded by gargoyles, skeletons, buffed animated armor, etc.

I initially thought about making the gold cursed. However since the dungeon establishes animation magic, I think it's more fun to let the party have the gold but also pick up a nuisance doll.

Suggestions?

Setting is coastal and semi-Nordic, though they're currently in a misty temperate forest region.

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u/TheNatureGM — 11 days ago