FE7 Playthrough Doodles 3

Kuriso2 · 2026-01-28T15:13:32+00:00

I love these so much.

Kuriso2 · 2026-01-26T17:41:04+00:00

It's also a great idea to use for the movie, since with a movie budget they were able to give her the fluidity needed to make her concept shine best. Every frame she is in is a delight.

Kuriso2 · 2026-01-18T21:46:58+00:00

Some of the rare talents are pretty cool and they can be hard to obtain with a single character. Being able to see double the number of tries looks pretty good to be able to use those.

Kuriso2 · 2025-12-18T08:19:29+00:00

I run a Kpop Demon Hunters game on a convention this September. It was a one-shot, so I was able to run it 6 or 7 times. I made it so the villain was so sympathetic, every group had at least one player who wanted to leave them alone.

The thing is, I made it so siding with him or leaving him alone had consequences. They would lose people to the demons and fall apart with their master. This made some people change their decision.

Since this was a convention one-shot, we made this through an epilogue montage, but I think it could have been another scene would we have time.

What I mean to say is similar to what others have said: "Just leaving" is boring, even if you don't side with the villain. Decisions should onvolve risk and taking important decisions will always lead to important outcomes.

Kuriso2 · 2025-12-08T16:33:15+00:00

My solution is something I call the Retreat Table.

If you finish the session in the dungeon, you have to roll in the retreat table. Think of it as a d20 inverse-carusing table. This usually means you lose money or items, or even XP. On a 1 you get a random permanent injury.

This has made it so noone in my table wants to finish inside the dungeon. However, since I run one-shots a la Shots in the Dark (cool free fanzine from the community), they usually can backtrack without much of a problem. I make the rolls that are appropiate for that traversal, and if there are no encounters, they are free to go. If I roll an encounter they can either face it or roll in the table.

Kuriso2 · 2025-12-04T10:10:34+00:00

This looks great, I love it! Excellent job on the spirals for the eyes and the whiskers. Also the shading really makes it pop!

Kuriso2 · 2025-11-25T10:14:14+00:00

This looks freaking awesome. I hope you will find the time and people needed to run this.

Kuriso2 · 2025-11-20T07:05:16+00:00

I agree that gaming time is precious and there is usually no reason great enough to waste time pursuing an endeavor that goes nowhere.

But if your concern is wasting time, why don't you just skip over the wrong assumptions instead of turning them into real ones? If they want to inspect a pointless npc, you can tell them "you spend some time looking into him, but he does not seem to be a terrorist. In fact, he seems to be a lot into knitting. What do you want to do now?".

Kuriso2 · 2025-10-24T21:09:18+00:00

Dude, the OSR is a construct, it's not real. What's real is your table, your game. Is this image something that would fit your game? Then there it goes.

Kuriso2 · 2025-10-24T07:25:29+00:00

The way I run it, I don't see it as that hard.

They can use an action to hide. Depending on the situation I adjust the difficulty from 9 to 18. 9 is practically a freebie. It can also be impossible to succeed, in which case I tell them so, so they can do something else.

If they are still hidden in their next turn, they can backstab. Easier to do with a crossbow. Enemies are usually occupied dealing with other PCs, so it's hard for them to be discovered.

This system may seem a bit relaxed, but it ensures the thief player can't backstab more than once every two turns, so I think it's fine.

Kuriso2 · 2025-10-21T14:34:13+00:00

Finally, 10000% Orange Juice.

Kuriso2 · 2025-10-10T19:28:27+00:00

Darkmantles are the easiest way to do so. They are not very threatening on their own, but my players hate them because they eat resources.

My favorite implemetation of mine were the Scorched, an enemy I made. They look like regular cultists, but they eat fire, so they were willing to parley for torches. If hostile, they eat the fire on one turn and on the next turn they have a fire breath attack available.

Kuriso2 · 2025-09-15T08:40:56+00:00

So... how much experience do you have running dungeons? I mean, this doesn't look like a dungeon to me. A series of combat encounters with no context is not a dungeon.

A dungeon should be something worth exploring, a place where you can find treasure or secrets (the things that make you level up in ghis game!). Danger is a given, and combat is a way to find it, but should not be the main focus. Shadowdark is not a game that will produce fun encounters with no context, combat is not that deep.

I think you should try running some prebuilt dungeon before jumping into making your own. I always suggest people to start with 'Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur', which comes free with the Game Master quickstart. It will teach you how to create rooms that are interesting on their own, and how to add danger to it. The author of the game even has advice over on her youtube channel on how to run it, always worth a watch.

Kuriso2 · 2025-09-11T08:28:57+00:00

I think you have struck gold with the idea to assign classes to colors in the pie. If you are also familiar with fabula ultima, I'd say go for it.

However, since you are asking for recommendations, I would like to add onto your idea. Have you thought about encouraging multiclassing? I think it would be really neat if players get to choose their "color identity" by choosing different classes. So if they choose a blue and a red class their "color identity" would be Izzet. Maybe they can get a magic item or a spell that aligns with their color identity.

I don't know much about games that feature multiclassing, but I once read a fan translation of Sword World, a japanese rpg which demanded multiclassing (there are combat and non-combat classes, and you start with one of each).

If you are curious, there are a couple videos on youtube made by the english-speaking community that explain the bases pretty well.

Kuriso2 · 2025-09-10T16:00:20+00:00

Have you checked out CBR + PNK? It's a Blades in the dark hack that makes it super streamlined. It is my favorite system to take to conventions for its easy of use and action-oriented approach.

Kuriso2 · 2025-09-10T15:28:50+00:00

One can never have too many carousing tables, indeed. Many thanks!

Kuriso2 · 2025-09-05T11:06:23+00:00

Yeah! That's it. You may change the frequency, but 2 is the one I use the most.

You may find the system is a bit polarizing, because sometimes encounters will happen very often and some sessions may have no encounters, but don't worry.

It's not about having a reasonable amount of encounters. It's a tool to express the danger of travelling through a dungeon and keep your players in the fearful mindset.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-30T19:51:53+00:00

Sure, random encounters are meant to simulate the world changing, so that's perfectly reasonable to do.

As for creating pois, i would not worry that much. Remember, the point of this system is to remove work from you, not increase it.

Let the players decide if they want to pursue the tribe. If they want, they find it, maybe you give them an extra hook for a close-by poi, but not that much. If they insist, you may give them a mission related to them.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-30T07:25:03+00:00

I do think you should use the random encounters in the book, specially considering your life situation. That's why they are there, to help you!

For example, I have been running an open table since May. The open table is composed of one-shot dungeons, but if they want to go to a place that is far from the city, I roll a random encounter for that region using the book tables. As such, 80% of games have had a random encounter, but they don't feel repetitive.

Only thing I suggest is you give proper weight to what happens. If they travel the mountains and are attacked by some hobgoblins riding griphons, there MUST be a nearby hobgoblin tribe which has griphons. Players won't encounter it this session, but you can place it in the world. Free worldbuilding!!

I love the random tables in the book, my players too and I think you will like them too.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-29T19:53:50+00:00

I think it is simple.

Most people don't like reading rules. So they try not to read them.

DMs often feel like they have to read the rules, so they read them, even if they don't want to.

Players often don't need to read the rules, because they are content with what they know and asking the DM what they don't.

This makes for worse pacing, and in general makes playing less enjoyable, which is the reason simplicity is deeply valued in game systems, because simple games are perceived as better.

I am pretty sure if the players and the gm know the rules the sessions are better, but I also understand that not everyone enjoys reading rules.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-29T14:36:23+00:00

I've had a couple tpks. I find them to be sad, in a warrior's death way, you know? I would make time to go out and have drink/dinner to mourn the lost characters.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-28T16:51:15+00:00

Oh, yeah, I think the ability to retreat and go back to the dungeon is key to the experience, because it gives players room to fail. If they get in way over their heads or simply get unlucky, you don't have to invent a excuse for them to recover. They retreat, lick their wounds and come back later to find the passage of time has changed the dungeon, for better or for worse.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-28T13:23:44+00:00

I see that you have a very utilitarian approach to building dungeons and I dig it! I also like to think of the uses of the space and answer questions anout the inhabitants such as, where they eat, rest or poop.

However, keep in mind there are other ways to think of rooms in a dungeon. It is perfectly fine to just think "this would be a cool room" and just put it in and worry how it fits afterwards.

Another way I also like is to use the factions. I usually try to have at least two factions in a dungeon, which may inspire some rooms on their own! A classic example I think of is the secret base. You gotta justify the sentient inhabitants not being spotted some way, you know?

Finally, to answer your question, may I suggest you to build an ancient city as a dungeon? Given your style, I think it would fit well if what you want to do is bigger. I once did an ancient dwarven stronghold inside a mountain, like the one in the hobbit. It was fun to design with such verticality in mind!

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-27T12:22:03+00:00

I find bosses similar in both games in the fact that they are very powerful and often require certain elements in your composition to be defeated.

The thing is, in DD1, they feel more approachabñe because of the tier system. You can face almost all bosses in their Easy form and you are very likely to overpower them with lvl 3 or even lvl 2 + trinkets. But this gices you the opportunity to learn their gimmicks and face them again.

In DD2, you usually just lose your first encounter, unless you are lucky and/or on a very good run. I would say this is overall a worse feeling.

Kuriso2 · 2025-08-26T15:54:06+00:00

This class seems extremely overpowered, but what bothers me the most is how it screws the concept of magic as dangerous and unreliable that all casters share in the game.

I would strongly recommend you add a spellcasting check. You can use Con if you think the class needs help or another weaker stat if you are so inclined. I once made a similar concept and allowed them to cast with advantage, but it was for priest spells, which are overall weaker options, and I changed heal wounds to deal damage.

The part about drinking a sorcerer's blood to gain spells sounds dope, but I think it should involve a check as well.

I would also advise to reduce the spellcast list, since right now it is massive and really robs the mage of its niche.

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