r/Symbaroum

Howdy I love nicher ttrpgs and I wanted to check what symbaroum was about?

I like the grittierness but I'm not a fan of hyper grimdark (like 40k) I like some hope and some fight and saw the advanced guide, player guide, and gm book and wondered if I should get the collection? I got the money but I wanna know what I'm jumping into first

Hey everyone so I need some advice on how you guys run deep political intrigue campaigns in Symbaroum. New to the system/setting but it's all super interesting to me.

We really want to focus on the gritty city politics like in Yndaros and scheming against noble houses instead of just crawling through the davokar forest.

Our group doesn't really like tactical grid math, so we want to keep our combats super fast like 30 minutes max so we can stay focused on the cinematic story first vibe.

How do you guys handle faction reputation and social challenges to make the politics feel super deep without getting bogged down in crazy rules? any simple house rules you recommend to keep the crunch low but the drama high?

Any tips, tricks, advice would be super helpful!

My group just started with Symbaroum and after 4 sessions we are loving it.

I am leading them through the copper crown mini campaign to get comfortable with the rules and flow of the game (before moving them to the throne of thorns), and we have just finished the second adventure Mark of the beast.

The group has defetead Alahara/Gorak and the fake inquistor, and recovered the copper crown- and after short deliberation, decided to bring the crown to the elves (as they dont trust the church nor ordo magica to deal with it properly).

They also found the iron ring artefact, wich one of the players is currently wearing, and he made the initial contact with the elves through the dream sequence. So the party is on their way to the clearing in the woods where first contact will happen.

Since this isnt really a resolution the adventure had in mind for the copper crown- any ideas how to handle the situation without creating a mess with future adventures would be greatly appreciated.

My idea is for the elves to refuse taking the crown themselves, but sending the players to return it to the tomb where it was found- but that may mess up the following adventure in the chain.

Thanks in advance