Now that the stool has settled, how was it really?
>>98056714Shit.
>>98056714Scat fetish aside the fact Rob said he designed the game to be played while drunk and he doesn't care about his own rules when running games should say a lot. In my experience if you don't use the absolutely McDonald's grease trap sludge-tier setting it's alright for the first few levels, but it has the same problem as WotC D&D where everything falls apart about halfway through. By level 7 everything is an absolute mess and you're having to track half a dozen or more boons and banes and modifiers on every single roll. Heaven help you if you have a caster in the group because that's going to multiply the confusion.
>>98056714Super fun to play, super easy to run. I enjoyed campaigns from both sides of the screen. Its the only game I've played where a full support caster that can't really do damage is actually fun as hell to play.>>98056872Never had that problem, and the group I ran had a couple of math illiterates. I found that physicalizing the modifiers made the whole thing quite a bit easier and smoother. It's honestly the smoothest d&desque combat I've ever ran.
>>98056714This >>98057112It's certainly a step up from 5e mechanically. These days Weird Wizard is probably the easier sell though.
>>98056714>Now that the stool has settledHehYou’re a funny guy
>>98057158I haven't gotten into weird wizard yet, my tastes tend toward more ultralite shit these days. The having to buy two books of it has kind of kept me from scoping it out.
>>98057164For you.
The most fun RPG that has come out in recent times. Some of the spells and lore is questionable but the mechanics are fun. Anyway, if you are playing with mature people it isn't a problem but he really needs to cool it with that poop stuff. I mean he made a shitmancer class and I don't think anyone defends his weird obsession with that stuff, but looking past that there are good mechanics in there
Isn’t there a spell that consists of the caster launching a torrent of shit at the target
>>98057195No but there are 2 or 3 spells that make your opponent do it. It's mostly in the forbidden tradition.
>>98056714Bait aside, genuinely great for a mid weight dungeon crawler. Really fun class system, great magic, and the core rules are mostly very solid. I think it's biggest issues are that the core book is a little lacking but I'd be happy to play it any night if the first companion was included.
>>98057207>core book is a little lackingOh, interesting, how do you figure? I thought the core was really robust for the length. The only thing I think is weak is the core priest, you really need uncertain faith to make that path sing.I feel like you can get quite a few miles out of just the core book.
>>98057206Ah so it’s spontaneous combustion to fireball.
>>98057195There is an entire supplement dedicated to it (Excrementalist)>>98057191>I don't think anyone defends his weird obsession with that stuff, but looking past that there are good mechanics in thereI can agree, there's stuff in there and some of his game ideas I like, but he makes it as hard as humanly possible to endure everything else about it. There's also the issue that the poopoo content isn't as easy to ignore as some people say. You can ignore the entire prebuilt setting, sure, but the vast majority of->rule splats>spells, both arcane and religious>races>paths>adventures>monstersare made for the setting, with much of the mechanical text relating to the default setting. Example, if you want to play SotDL in a setting with Elves, you're going to have to basically build a new race since SotDL's Elves are extremely specific to its setting. And many of those things listed above include the scat or general grimderp of the default setting. So yes, you can ignore it like you can ignore anything in any game, but you absolutely do have to lift some weight in order to make it work.It's doable but it gets really annoying playing "Find the autistic poop fixation/edgelord content" and having to trim it. You will be doing it alot.
>>98057300I don't use any of the pre built adventures so I don't have that problem. The races and paths are largely fine apart from the more edgy ones and I make my own monsters anyway most of the time. Most of the items are also fine
>>980573001 path from a set of 8 doesn't sound like a whole supplement to me.
>>98057300>You will be doing it alot.I've run an entire campaign in the base setting primarily using prewritten adventure modules, and across all of that I can only think of one time that it was notable. And that was as simple as making a set of parasites into brain-worms instead of tapeworms.Edgelord content I'll more broadly grant you, but even that's often a matter of framing and narration.I didn't find it particularly more difficult to run compared to something like Dark Sun, to use an example of another niche setting that I've run a full campaign of.
>>98057300>supplement dedicated to itThat's just one of the two edge lord paths supplements. There are other evil paths there. Filth Mage, Gorger, and Mother of Monsters are probably the most degenerate of them. But there are other neat ones like Brain in a Jar or Muliplist.3/8 is the ratio to the weird shit to the more reasonable.
>>98057535>I've run an entire campaign in the base setting primarily using prewritten adventure modules, and across all of that I can only think of one time that it was notableYou must've lucked out because the last time I tried running a campaign literally every scenario I looked at including had trash in it.>tales of the demon lord: multiple references to feces at multiple points, strong black lesbian girlboss town watch captain>haunted shores of hymen caul: gross name, includes references to poop>beginner adventure, forgot the name: to progress to the boss the party has to walk through a room of statues of naked women shitting>adventure about a monster in a lake, party has to walk past a room with beastmen having an orgy while covered in shit>my last scream, not poop related surprisingly but the writing is painful, female demon is le misunderstood victim because her husband was cartoonishly sexist, includes letter at the end written by her husband that literally says "you are stupid wife because you are woman woman stupid i am man i am smart i do not care about you because i am evil man"Some of the worst bottom of the barrel WFRP adventures were written by Rob so it didn't surprise me, but still. Shoutout to him giving Khorne a scat fetish in Tome of Corruption.
POO POO MAGIC LOLOOPOO
>>98060156>You must've lucked outNot really. I looked at plenty of modules and I can't say any of them would have been more difficult to implement than tapeworm to brain-worm was. Unlike statues or a room full of beastmen, the tapeworms were actually important to the adventure and so couldn't just be removed entirely. It sounds like you've either got the worst luck imaginable or are otherwise misrepresenting things. For example.>my last scream,The woman isn't a demon. She's a crazy ghost driven mad by grief. A ghost being dangerous because it is upset about having a terrible death isn't exactly an uncommon story. Certainly not the most inspired story, but I didn't see anything in there I'd need to change to avoid making everyone at the table uncomfortable.I didn't include that in the campaign I ran because I found it boring, but part of why it seemed boring was precisely because it was so generic. Besides, the complaint was that it'd be a lot of heavy lifting to remove the disgusting aspects of the game, so it doesn't really help your case.
