Shadow of the Demon Lord - dark fantasy roleplaying done right

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unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

It probably should be mentioned that the game does tip its hat a lot to the 1st and 2nd edition of the Warhammer Fantasy RPG, from starting out in a fairly normal career and then progressing to more adventure-focused paths, and also the fact that one of special items you can start with is a small dog of noteworthy viciousness. (I don't think you can get 1d10 rats on a stick, but.)

I also appreciate that the game's doing the 'dark fantasy with occasional body horror' niche without ever leaning on rape or sexual assault to do it, at least in the books I have so far. Given other examples in the field that makes it kind of a standout!

# ¿ May 24, 2017 11:15

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 19:14

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I am really digging Glorious Death- I was always curious about the Jotuns, and now I want to play a giant blue Punch-viking.

# ¿ May 24, 2017 13:04

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

dwarf74 posted:

Some things I've noticed that I will probably forget...

* You get a free level 0 spell when you learn a tradition
* Ability modifiers don't affect damage
* That +/- at character creation
* The choice after you take your first profession

That +/- is also basically the only way you can wear heavy armor without taking the Dreadnaught master path, as near as I can tell, and even then, only if you're human, a war or work clockwork, or an orc. (Or Jotun.) You need to start with at least 11 strength, do the +/- tradeoff to raise it to twelve, and then 3 of your path attribute boosts all have to go to strength in order to meet the minimum requirements, so no plate armor until level 7 for anyone regardless.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 22:59

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Honestly I think you could wring the basics of a pretty decent FF:Tactics game out of the setup for this game. Wouldn't really have to lighten the tone much even, (or at all, really, given the actual plot of the first FFT.)

...Except now I want a Dragoon Master path.

# ¿ May 27, 2017 05:35

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

There's a couple options for building unarmed guy in the Demon Lord's companion and a third in A Glorious Death, which is the big (small) book about playing giant blue vikings, the Jotun. The options in the Companion are probably more monklike, while the ones in Glorious Death are about being huge meaning you have huge fists with which to hit harder.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 17:15

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I wonder if it's a weird nod to the original AD&D ranger starting with two hit dice at first level.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 14:48

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

My Rogue avoided the chance of ever not having a boon on hand by going Rogue/Spellbinder/Gunslinger. No backstab, but boons and extra d6s of damage for days.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2018 19:18

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 19:14

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Pope Guilty posted:

The Watermarked PDF option for the SotDL corebook on DTRPG is showing on sale for $19.99, discounted from $49.99?! Is the PDF of this game really normally $50?!

DTRPG always shows PDFs marked down from the physical book price.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 01:55

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