Does Veeky Forums play Das Schwarze Auge? German pen and paper, I think it is called The Dark Eye in English.
Recently started playing and it's fun. I don't think it is that succesful outside of Germany though.
Does Veeky Forums play Das Schwarze Auge? German pen and paper, I think it is called The Dark Eye in English
Oliver Campbell
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Christopher Brown
The combat bored me to death, but everything else seems fun. I wish the DM would get his shit together so we could play another round.
Carson Moore
Anyone?
It's less focused on combat and more on puzzle solving, gathering knowledge and social interaction.
Also, roles are interesting due to them being based on three (out of I think 8) stats that you have to roll individually.
Brayden Hall
Tried it.
Like the core resolution mechanic, but everything else from character creation to combat systems is horrible.
Robert Ortiz
What's so bad about the character creation? I like that characters don't have levels or gain exp by fighting, but rather points for solving adventures as well as possible. It seems more realistic that way.
Andrew Gomez
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Easton Campbell
I really like it. It's rather a down-to-earth game without insanely powerful characters. Players have to rely on their wits and interaction with other people as much as on their combat skills
Juan Fisher
It's an impenetrable, horrifying, unstructured mess for the uninitiated, like most point buy systems.
Mind, I'm not up to date on the system, but when I tried it, the digital Helden character creation tool was considered mandatory.
And "realistic" does not necessarily make for a good game.
Speaking of which, the spell names are by far the most cringeworthy I have ever heard or read in my entire life.
Jordan Sanders
Was my first RPG and is maybe slightly more popular than D&D among German fa/tg/uys.
Nathan Clark
>It's an impenetrable, horrifying, unstructured mess for the uninitiated, like most point buy systems.
I think it's fine once you have someone go through the whole thing with you once and you learn the dos and don'ts. It is only unstructured on your first character because you don't know yourself what you are doing. Try it again if you get the opportunity and make a new character that someone else helps you with. Or don't, I guess, I consider it your loss.
I know that realism does not necessarily make for a better game, but it doesn't encourage you to run into every fight to gain experience points, but rather think ahead in every situation because finishing the adventure and all potential side quests is by far the most important thing.
Spell names are fine, but I never played a magical character myself. Did you play it in German? Maybe it's the translation.
As far as I know it is the market leader in Germany, but maybe that information is a bit aged.