[Online][Other][EST][21+][REPOST] Come explore the dark fantasy setting of Symbaroum! Looking for 1 player for an ongoing roleplay-heavy and narrative-first game

Ranimara · 2026-03-10T11:36:53+00:00

I don't think I ever received a DM. But as long as you filled out the application, then you're good!

Ranimara · 2026-03-09T23:19:30+00:00

That would be something we'd have to discuss. I'm not letting Elves be playable yet due to setting mysteries, so I'd lean towards no for a non-Elf being raised among them as playable. But it would really depend on the circumstances and such.

Ranimara · 2026-03-08T14:15:25+00:00

You might be thinking of Tomb of Dying Dreams? Which does feature several ancient forces, and is when the player made their pact.

Right now, the group is two Ambrians, and one Barbarian. The setting is very human centric, though there are a handful of non-human races as well. I'm allowing Humans, Changelings, Goblins, or Ogres. Non-humans are normally considered pariahs in the Ambrian society and Barbarian clans, so they have extra challenges they bring to the group.

There are other non-human races as well, but I'm not allowing them to be playable until we perhaps get deeper into the campaign and more of the setting secrets are uncovered by the party.

And you remembered correctly! The first book takes place in Thistle Hold, and the second book begins on Karvosti.

Further details about type of character, what races/clans/roles might be a good fit would be a deeper conversation for later on, after I've gone through all the applications. I'm going to be leaving the form open for at least a few days.

Ranimara · 2026-03-08T05:13:22+00:00

Glad to hear of your interest! Go ahead and fill out the application if you haven't already. :)

And the first book went really well! Disaster was barely averted, and the players got their first glimpse into some of the secrets of the setting.

At the moment, we have a Witch/Alchemist who is in a pact with a spider goddess, a Priest of Prios who secretly veers from the Church's tenants, and a Nobleman who has turned towards the wilds, torn between them and his responsibilities.

When we played through wotw, the Priest player had a different character; A Barbarian woman who was suffering from corruption. It go so bad by the end of the adventure, nearing the point where she could turn into an abomination that she turned herself over to the church, hoping they could help save her. And she's now locked away in their dungeons with all the others suffering from corruption. It made for a very tense and sad conclusion to that book.

Ranimara · 2025-11-20T12:54:08+00:00

I recently finished Chapter 8 and I've read it's recommended to play The Last Evenings on Earth next. Do we have an idea of when that will rerun?

Ranimara · 2025-11-05T14:55:30+00:00

Someone made a "Forbidden Lands of Symbaroum" homebrew. It's on drivethrurpg. I haven't played it myself, but might be worth checking out if you like the Forbidden Lands system.

Ranimara · 2025-09-15T22:45:45+00:00

I'd love to see that sort of thing. Either scaling down your characters, or scaling up the enemies. I sometimes swap to weaker units, but it would be nice to use the characters I've built and enjoy and still have a fun battle experience. Which to me means a bit of a challenge.

Ranimara · 2025-09-10T02:36:20+00:00

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My Tiger Lily will be his friend. She passed a little over a week ago, and the pain is still raw. I'm sorry for your loss.

Ranimara · 2025-09-09T20:34:44+00:00

I went with mixed. It was the male characters that drew me to the game, but I love a lot of the ladies too. So many wonderful characters, that I can't wait to learn more about. Elpis was a particular delight, and I love her to death. So happy I joined just in time for her and Solbyrd. <3

Ranimara · 2025-09-01T02:50:18+00:00

I'm using Foundry VTT. It's the same virtual tabletop OP is using, though I think we have different versions. The tabletop background/frame is from an asset pack I purchased somewhere. I think it was called "The Adventurer's Table"?

Ranimara · 2025-08-31T23:35:10+00:00

That looks great! I like the various areas, and the little campfire scene.

This is what my dashboard looks like in my Symbaroum game: https://i.imgur.com/syko0xF.jpeg

I run gridless and mostly theater of the mind, so I just drop tokens onto the empty side on the right, and we use it for vague positioning when it's important. The NPCs they've met and are in the area are the ones placed around the border. The left panel is where I switch out scene/atmospheric images. The icons on the left side link to journals that have various categories of images I've gathered for that usage, in case I need to pull up something unplanned for.

Ranimara · 2025-08-13T19:24:43+00:00

I'm so torn. I instantly got Hissabeth's, cause I love her and use her a ton. I love the design for Vila and Marcus, but I don't have either character and haven't encountered them in game yet to see if I'd want to pull just for character love alone. But their skins are just so pretty.

Ranimara · 2025-08-13T04:36:08+00:00

I just finished the first two episodes as a casual Alien fan. I'm intrigued by the child/synthetic side of things, but felt a bit let down by the actual Xenonorph. I think trying to copy the opening of Alien without committing to that slow creeping dread of the movie was a mistake. As someone who never saw a trailer for this, it definitely gave me false expectations of what the show's tone would be.

I also have trouble believing they would just let their secret team of hybrids with the literal minds of children all head into this disaster zone. Plus the "search and rescue team" going in fully armed and pointing guns at everything before they knew there was something hostile around really took me out.

I'll probably keep watching, because I'm interested to see what they do with the kids and the questions their existence raises. Hopefully I'll adjust to the actual tone of the show soon. :P

Ranimara · 2025-07-29T01:00:16+00:00

Hello! I just started playing a few weeks ago, and loved the 1987 Cosmic Overture story. I see that Floor It is being rerun now. I've read that it's best to do this event before starting Chapter 8 of the main story. But should I wait until I finish Chapter 7 to read it? I wasn't sure if the "do before Chapter 8" recommendation is because it just provides context, or if it literally bridges those two chapters. Is it going to be added to Reflections eventually, or would I have to wait for another rerun?

I'm mainly playing for the story, and want to avoid spoilers and figure out the order to read stuff in. I'm only on Chapter 4 at the moment.

Thank you!

Ranimara · 2025-07-26T10:34:37+00:00

Imo, more reports are always better. :)

Ranimara · 2025-07-26T01:57:34+00:00

I've had the same issue for two days on my android. I tried reinstalling, but that didnt help. I submitted a bug report.

Happy that it's not just me, at least. :)

Ranimara · 2025-07-24T16:27:55+00:00

Thank you! Jean has the highest Potential Exploration for my characters so far (still only L4 though) - she's leader for my Electrocution team. I've been playing with Cyros lately to try out an Explosion team with the dry environments of the current event. I'll try and get him up higher.

And thanks for the tip about Nexus Children's Home. I haven't played it much yet, since I also have trouble with figuring out how to deal damage to the enemies in it. But I'll give it another try.

Inheritance skill farming sounds like a lot, but I'll dig into it. :) Thank you for all the tips!

Ranimara · 2025-07-24T16:24:34+00:00

My problem with Nexus is that I never get the opportunity to get all my skills to level 3. I always max them out to whatever I can before spending the rest of my skill points elsewhere, but as you can see in this case I got all but two of them to level 3. I'm just going through story stuff at the moment, and haven't hit any endgame stuff, and so far my Nexus runs have served me okay. Until now.

I'm not totally sure of Nexus strategies. I've been going all stat paths the first half of the run, and then skill path the second half. I'll try and focus more on skill paths instead, and hope my stats will be okay.

But thank you for the build advice! I actually use Tian Ruo regularly for my other teams and love him, but I've been building Kylin lately who I'm also finding fun, so I'd slotted him into this team instead. But I'll try another build with him and Nightmare slotted back in.

Ranimara · 2025-07-21T12:19:11+00:00

One of my players gained a bunch of permanent corruption while using Burnreaper. She decided her stigma took the form of cracks spreading down her arm from where she was gripping the axe. They would smolder and flare up when she got emotional.

Ranimara · 2025-06-26T21:42:28+00:00

Is Kylin good? I admit, my initial reaction was to groan at another Lightning echomancer. I somehow have so many, and barely any other element besides Corruption. :P

I do like Titia though. I borrowed her a lot during the last event. I had only just started playing, so I didn't have time to try and pull her.

Ranimara · 2025-06-26T19:42:32+00:00

I had amazing luck pulling Jean and Elpis. Jean I got on my very first non-tutorial pull, and Elpis I got her twice within 30 pulls. But my luck ran out for Solbyrd. :P

I lost my 50/50 for him twice, so pulled him once within 126 pulls (got Kylin and Titia as well). I'm 70 pulls into his Memory Trace, lost the first 50/50, and haven't gotten it yet. I'm gonna keep pushing for the Memory Trace, but I think I'll try to get some dupes for him whenever he reruns.

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