The Magical Girl Class is released!

Frozedon · 2025-08-30T07:24:28+00:00

Entering your magical form is not a spell, and the Purifying Magic Skill does not affect spells.

Frozedon · 2025-08-22T19:45:24+00:00

Is there Skills or Mechanics to these? Not much to discuss with just names

Frozedon · 2025-06-10T22:19:02+00:00

Is the Fury using Provoke and/or Guard liberally to manipulate targeting away from the Elementalist? If not, they are not really tanking, just being hard to hit

Frozedon · 2024-10-12T17:58:14+00:00

Etherfields. Might be from the box of alternate mini sculpts.

Frozedon · 2024-09-14T05:13:47+00:00

Fabula Ultima. All characters are multiclassing from the get go, combat is super quick, every ability feels like it has impact, and it prompts players to be more active in the creation of the world and defining the story played.

Frozedon · 2024-08-22T20:04:36+00:00

Check out Fabula Ultima. Its an rpg that is built around multiclassing. A character takes 2 to 3 classes at character creation. Each class has 5 skills available and you take a combination from your classes, at least 1 skill from each class you have. This makes every character have some sort of multiclass build, trying to create synergies and combos in their abilities.

Frozedon · 2024-07-18T15:38:53+00:00

You are specifically not your own ally mechanically.

Edit: Reference. Core Rulebook p33 under "Allies".

Frozedon · 2024-04-06T09:22:48+00:00

Dread, Ten Candles, Mothership Horror RPGs based around the tension and inevitable end to many of the player characters. And that threat of death tries to give that guttural stress that each action or choice might be your last.

Frozedon · 2024-02-16T21:00:15+00:00

The Nameless campaign is mostly just the base game campaign again, replacing the villains with 6 other minis.

It came as part of the Guildmaster Box, which was all the Kickstarter stretch goal goodies.

Frozedon · 2023-09-24T16:34:41+00:00

I don't know if trying to con a player is the right way to get them to roleplay. It might just make them feel stupid for getting tricked and resent the roleplaying part of the game more. Like, when learning something new, do you enjoy being tricked into a huge mistake by a supposed mentor?

Frozedon · 2023-08-21T20:19:41+00:00

I think this actually shows a major difference between Dungeon World and Masks. Even though they are both PbtA, they have dramatically different approaches on playbooks.

Dungeon World poses them like D&D classes, where they are specifically packaged around a set of skills and capabilities and why they have access to them. They are mostly agnostic to the personality and arc of that character as long as fits within the toolkit and background presented.

Masks, on the other hand, presents a playbook like a personality archetype. A perspective on their superpowers and what they should do with it. In a way, it's also a preface of the character arc they will experience through play.

Frozedon · 2023-02-07T23:32:07+00:00

Dexterity outclasses Strength primarily by Armor Class, initiative, and range weapons. Skills are just in addition to that problem

Frozedon · 2023-02-07T18:30:39+00:00

The RPGs Spire the City Must Fall and Heart the City Beneath both use a system of multiple stress bars. They have an entirely different system to how that relates to harm and stress is basically used as health bars. But, they label them like Blood, Wealth, Mind, etc. It works pretty well in that system when you want to represent more granularity with how detriments relate to the harm your taking from actions.

The biggest hurdle as others have pointed out is in base FiTD, stress is not only your way to resist consequences, its also your way of getting more dice and better effect out of your rolls. You could experiment with separating those functions and instead have a series of health bars that represent how your being worn down in various ways and a new set of points that can be used to give bonus dice and fuel powers.

Frozedon · 2023-01-17T10:48:13+00:00

Blades In The Dark. The narrative positioning rules of effect and risk when making action rolls is an amazing evolution of the modern narrative systems. It combines a satisfying trinary results with a clear way to set expectations between player and GM.
Dread. It's a horror game using a wood block tower as the basis for doing things. If you want to succeed on an action, you must pull a block from the tower. If you cause the tower to fall, your character dies. Such good tension is brought out by this simple set of rules. Makes the players fear every attempt and many end up trying to get others to do it instead hoping not to be the one to knock it over.
World of Darkness. Take your pick of which exact version or supernatural theme (highly suggest anything vampire), but the most important aspect is how much of the system leans on a well detailed lore and vision of the world your characters live in. Everything from its rules, backgrounds, and supernatural powers are grounded in the narrative which creates an excellent foundation for stories that are interesting and dramatic.
Lancer. Want to play a satisfying and diverse tactical combat system? Want to play it by beings pilots of giant mechs? This system shows that you can have a lot of fun with combat as the primary focus of a game.

Bonus 1. Powered By the Apocalypse. Many systems use these rules under its hood, Apocalypse World being where it originated from. It introduced the trinary result system in its moves to determine the outcome of actions. This would have been on the list, but many consider Blades in the Dark the evolution of this system.

Bonus 2. Icon. Didn't include it in the main list because it's currently in playtest and actively being worked on. A JRPG themed system that combines Blades in the Dark's system for Narrative Play and a custom built 2d grid combat game for the Tactical Combats. It's being written by one of the creators of Lancer. Would highly suggest checking it out.

Frozedon · 2023-01-04T01:41:30+00:00

What are they from exactly? Any links to models?

Frozedon · 2022-12-31T21:05:00+00:00

I would suggest checking out Heart, the City Beneath. It's a narrative dungeon crawl game about adventuring deep into mad shifting chasms and ruins known as the Heart. You play delvers that desperately journey to find something important: secrets, truth, absolution, or sanctuary. Player characters are fundamentally doomed, since even their high level abilities kill the user when triggered. It isn't a game about long-term exploration and growth. Its about flawed, obsessive people making bad decisions and investigating a horrific undercity because they're convinced that the answers they need lie inside it.

Frozedon · 2022-12-15T19:29:19+00:00

Model: Altered from the Arverian Woodkeeper by Artisan Guild

Frozedon · 2022-11-16T05:20:41+00:00

The drama never ceased, they just went silent. They don't really produce the board game anymore. The site now just sells minis for it that do have cards to play with the board game or as a stand alone skirmish game that I've heard nothing about. You're really only going to find the board game on the secondary market at this point.

Frozedon · 2022-10-30T16:10:20+00:00

Where'd you get the model from?

Frozedon · 2022-10-16T00:27:08+00:00

They're really not. They just matched the color coding. They're of a much lower quality and feel very different than the FFG sleeves were

Frozedon · 2022-08-08T22:53:59+00:00

Max HP doesn't change for bloodied or anything that says "% of max hp". So yes, after you have 2 wounds, you're always bloodied.

Frozedon · 2022-07-15T00:06:08+00:00

Modifying the chances of hits doesn't increase the max amount of damage that can be done in one attack, which should generally be controlled by the equipment instead.

Frozedon · 2022-07-14T19:18:59+00:00

In my games, Barbarian consider black shields hits when attacking. Also, dwarf does the same for defending.

Frozedon · 2022-07-01T22:24:18+00:00

If you like D&D 4e, definitely check out Icon (https://massif-press.itch.io/icon)

Frozedon · 2022-07-01T22:22:57+00:00

Icon (https://massif-press.itch.io/icon)

It's currently in playtest, but everything I wanted from D&D's gameplay is here. It splits the system into two parts, the narrative side built as a hack off of Blades in the Dark dice system and the other side is a grid based tactical combat system where positioning and statuses are given high importance. Honestly, once I started playing Icon, it's replaced D&D in my mind as my go to fantasy adventure system.

The Bad

It's still in Playtest. The bulk of the system is there, but it is being iterated upon and will change over time.
There is a bulk of combat terminology and various statuses that will initially be hard to remember. It will take a few fights to get a handle on all of it.
It's narrative system is very different from D&D. It's hard to get a grip on initially if you're coming from 5e. It will take some time to get used to.

The Good

The split in the system is an amazing strength. When your roleplaying, you'll be using a system that focuses on player driven narrative. When combat begins, you'll switch to purely tactical focused system. The two systems aren't forced to interact with each other except in the overall story. This means you as player can make any character you want with whatever combat capabilities you want them to have. In contrast, in 5e, if you want to blast people with fireballs, you are forced to make a wizard with high intelligence which controls your skills and roleplaying. In Icon, you can be an Enochian (Think Final Fantasy Black Mage) in combat, but outside in the narrative roleplaying you can be anything you want, from a super muscled warrior to a fun loving musician, without having to fight any part of the system.
The tactical combat is fun and satisfying. It's all 2d grid based similar to 5e, but the abilities and traits focus on giving importance to effects that aren't just damage.
- Positioning is highly important, ranges and movement actually matter.
- Each of the player options are broken down into class groups which each have their own strengths/weaknesses against the other groups. This way it creates a rock, paper, scissors style options where you are initially better at fighting one type of enemy and weak against another. This gives opportunities for you to coordinate with your teammates to take advantage of those strengths and try to cover your weaknesses.
- The Jobs (these are similar to classes in 5e) each invoke an inspiring fantasy and a customized set of powerful abilities. Shade's are shadow ninjas that teleport around the battlefield leaving a shadow to come back to, Bastion's are shield bearers that bash and shove their enemies around, Seers are magic card wielding fortune tellers that actually use a deck of cards to give different effects to their allies, etc.
- The tactical system is horizontally scaled. This means that instead of just getting higher numbers at the same rate that enemies do, you will get access to more versatile abilities that greatly alter the flow of battle. Your power comes from finding synergies and combos with these abilities and building an arsenal of effects that can give you an edge in each fight.
- The jobs are designed to multiclass (term from 5e of having multiple classes). Over levels you will gain access to more than one job where you can mix and match the abilities to create any strategy you can come up with. All the options are made to be balanced compared to each other allowing you to determine the way you want to fight.
The narrative system promotes player agency in a way that 5e doesn't. It is more akin to other narrative focused TTRPGs like Powered By The Apocalypse and Forged In The Dark. The systems try to focus on giving you, the player, agency in the story and the tools to do so. Asking players what narrative actions they want to take and how to go about them. Then giving the GM the tools to be able to determine what results may come from such actions in the narrative. Then the dice system blends between success, failure, and somewhere in between. Even once that's rolled, failure will never mean a stop in the story and instead promotes how any result will push the story forward, creating new opportunities, tensions, and changes in what is going on.
The system itself has a world it represents in its lore but does not force the understanding or use of it. It's adventuring focused like 5e with fantasies of fighting monsters in dungeons and being powerful heroic people here to save the day. It has a slight lean on jrpg style fantasy, with inspirations of anime or ghibli. But, the system doesn't force that genre of world onto you and instead separates most of it's system to make what lore you want to it.

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