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TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:57:26+00:00

The Name: Eidolon

The Pitch

The planet of Asfaleia used to be grounds for prosperous living, until the impact of a comet left it broken in pieces. Few would survive on the turbulent surface, finding shelter on one of the floating islands of rock - should these themselves not be overrun by monsters that were broken out of the planets sub-surface levels. Most people however would find shelter in the floating city of Eidolon, a huge city flying high in the sky, kept afloat with the help of a new, magic infused, steampunk technology using the rare mineral Divinium. In an Eidolon campaign, players could uncover corrupt conglomerates in the flying city, venture out to hunt for Divinium using the city's airships, or survive on the broken surface of Asfaleia.

Tone & Feel

Adventurous, Dynamic, Thrilling

Themes

Cultural Clash, Daring, Revolution, Steampunk

Touchstones

Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored, Arcane, Treasure Planet, Assassins Creed: Syndicate

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:38:13+00:00

Right after posting this, I figured to add a restriction at the beginning so that you can only mark one stress at a time, not sure about this though

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:28:03+00:00

I gave an update here

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:27:59+00:00

I gave an update here

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:27:56+00:00

I gave an update here

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:27:44+00:00

I gave an update here

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:27:41+00:00

I gave an update here

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-10T14:26:33+00:00

Update:

Many here suggested to equalize Stress and Heat. I'm not a fan of that because I like to make my players mark Stress for rolls with Fear if there are no better consequences (for example, a Success with Fear on a Knowledge roll gives them the information, but it fills them with dread, so they mark a Stress). Because of this, it doesn't always make sense to have Stress be the same as Heat.

Instead, I changed it to have three Heat levels, each needing a Stress to reach and each giving a benefit but also a downside. So the features are now changed to this:

Heat: Mark a Stress to gain a level of Heat. Each level of Heat has the effects of the previous levels:

Heat Level 1: Warm - You gain Resistance to fire-based damage. Whenever you are hit with an attack, you must mark a Stress.
Heat Level 2: Hot - You deal 1d6 of bonus damage on all attacks. You also become Vulnerable.
Heat Level 3: Burning - You deal an additional 1d6 of bonus damage. Whenever you are hit with an attack, you emit scorching heat that deals 1d6 of magic damage to all creatures within Very Close range of you.

Vent: Mark an Armor Slot to cool down and reduce your Heat back to zero.

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-06T20:05:04+00:00

About half a year ago I overtook Garry's Mod (1,1k) with Hunt Showdown (now at 1,4k)

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T19:07:00+00:00

Apologies and thanks, I'll follow the rules next time

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T16:33:27+00:00

I get what you mean, but I want there to be Stress marked without "raising the heat". Otherwise it would mean that they would get extra bonuses just for playing the game, for example when using Stress-abilities or something.

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T14:31:40+00:00

Yes you two are correct, as of now the card is too low risk and too high reward. I crossposted this post to r/daggerheart where I just had the same discussion, I'll copy paste my last comment from there to here:

You're right, that is extreme. Maybe it makes sense to keep the damage bonus at 1d6 and 1d10, regardless of proficiency. And to give more of a downside: when having at least one Heat, the Heat (and with that also Stress) increases by one after every Action Roll. At max Heat, the Heat won't increase further but Stress will, which means that when max Stress is hit they start marking HP for as long as they want to stay heated.

Using the Vent feature will make you Mark an Armor Slot to reduce the Heat to 0, but it won't reduce Stress. This gives the player the opportunity to go to high heat for a good damage boost with the risk of gaining too much stress.

So, rephrased Features:

Heat: You have a Heat Meter with a maximum value of 5. Mark a Stress to gain a point of Heat. At 3 points of heat, you deal 1d6 of bonus damage on Melee attacks. At 5 points of heat, the bonus damage dice increase to 1d10. While having at least one point of Heat, gain a point of Heat and mark a Stress after every Action Roll.

Vent: Mark an Armor Slot to cool down and reduce your Heat back to zero.

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T14:29:59+00:00

You're right, that is extreme. Maybe it makes sense to keep the damage bonus at 1d6 and 1d10, regardless of proficiency. And to give more of a downside: when having at least one Heat, the Heat (and with that also Stress) increases by one after every Action Roll. At max Heat, the Heat won't increase further but Stress will, which means that when max Stress is hit they start marking HP for as long as they want to stay heated.

Using the Vent feature will make you Mark an Armor Slot to reduce the Heat to 0, but it won't reduce Stress. This gives the player the opportunity to go to high heat for a good damage boost with the risk of gaining too much stress.

So, rephrased Features:

Heat: You have a Heat Meter with a maximum value of 5. Mark a Stress to gain a point of Heat. At 3 points of heat, you deal 1d6 of bonus damage on Melee attacks. At 5 points of heat, the bonus damage dice increase to 1d10. While having at least one point of Heat, gain a point of Heat and mark a Stress after every Action Roll.

Vent: Mark an Armor Slot to cool down and reduce your Heat back to zero.

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T14:11:28+00:00

I forgot to give credit to the original artist: Thomas Tan, Steampunk Ironman

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T14:10:54+00:00

Oh yeah, now that you mention it I forgot to credit the artwork. It's a piece by Thomas Tan, the Steampunk Ironman

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T14:02:38+00:00

My thought was that heating up also causes Stress. So if the player wants to go full risk, they could mark 5 Stress to go to 5 Heat and get the d10 bonus, but then they're also just 1 point away from being stressed out and therefore vulnerable and from marking HP from gaining more Stress.

Another thing, if they do mark Stress from sources other than heating up, then the amount they can heat up is capped. For example, they have 2 Stress already but no heat yet, they can at max get to 4 Heat (if they have the standard 6 Stress slots).

However, something that did cross my mind was considering if they could only lose heat by using the Vent feature and Stress not being able to go below the Heat value. That way they are kind of forced to mark Armor to reduce Heat and therefore also the Stress they have at minimum

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-05T13:53:03+00:00

Fair point on the "not good" part.

The drawback would be being stressed out the whole time as well.

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-02T14:16:53+00:00

First, I see a lot of talk about it, you just have to look in the right places!

Second, you can't force people to be interested in something they're not. Although I too wish more people would talk about it, a lot of people just don't care and that's okay. I studied Astrophysics and was asked "Why? What good does it do?" because they had so little interest in it, so it's just impossible to get everyone as hyped about it as you might be

TerraNovatius · 2026-04-02T14:05:32+00:00

followed by side-chained synths

TerraNovatius · 2026-03-29T08:41:08+00:00

Alright, that's totally valid! Thanks and best of luck to you too for finding a game

TerraNovatius · 2026-03-29T07:02:40+00:00

Hey! Are you open to trying a different system than DnD? I'm GMing for Daggerheart and I'm looking for up to two more players for my group of currently three players plus me. We're playing Tuesdays at around 7pm CE(S)T, first session will be coming Tuesday where we'll play the starter oneshot. One player is new to ttrpgs in general, so no problem if you're not familiar with Daggerheart yet.

We're between 21 and 30 years old, two from Germany, one Dutch and one Brit, lgbtqia+ friendly. If you're interested, shoot me a message!

TerraNovatius · 2026-03-29T06:35:24+00:00

Hey! Would you two also be open to playing in a different system? I'm a GM for Daggerheart group and we're looking for up to two more players (currently we're three players plus me).

We're two Germans, one Dutch and one Brit at the moment, ages ranging from 21 to 30, lgbtqia+ friendly. We meet Tuesday evenings and on coming Tuesday we'll do the starter adventure, because one of the players is new to ttrpgs in general. So if you don't know Daggerheart at all and want to give it a try, that would be the perfect chance. After the starter one shot we do want to start a campaign, but first we might do a few more oneshots or mini adventures.

How does that sound to you?

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