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THE DEAD LORDS HAVE ARISEN!
The People's Revolution has overthrown the nobles of the realm and seized the Imperial capital of Kynburgh. The Emperor Titan Kyne died cursing the land and all who deposed him. Now the only coin that is left lies buried with the undead Lords who forged the Empire. Delve into the dungeon, twice-kill the dead Lords, and secure the People's Revolution!
A SINGLE-PLAYER RPG FORGED IN THE DARK
Using a single-player stream-lined variation of John Harper's Blades in the Dark rules, players can quickly generate characters with unique skills and items. As you delve you use your creativity and limited resources to overcome 100's of encounters, randomly generated from 9 unique dungeon locations. When your pack is full of broken crowns and Imperial coins you return above ground to the Imperial capital for downtime where your character can recover and resupply for their next delve.
If you succumb to your wounds you die!
If you become corrupted by diabolism and the wealth of the dungeon you die!
If your last torch burns out in the middle of the pitch black dungeon you die!
The only way to live is to kill the ghoulish nobility in their crypts, steal back their wealth, and survive to delve again. For the realm! For the people! For the Revolution!
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The Dungeon Dive Analysis at 1:14:14 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Unique journaling game experience
- Quick and easy to play
- Focuses on narrative and character story
- Good for players who enjoy creative writing
Cons
- Requires significant player input and imagination
- Not a dungeon simulation game
- Limited mechanical depth
Thematic elements
- Dungeon crawling focused on encounters
- Journaling game, fiction-driven
Comparison games
- Escape the Dark Castle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card-driven encounters — Uses a standard deck of playing cards to determine encounters in nine different dungeons.
- dice pool building — Players assemble dice pools based on skills, level, and items to overcome challenges.
- journaling — Encourages journaling to flesh out character stories and experiences.
- Narrative skill focus — Skills are narrative-focused and chosen by the player to define their character.
- Point Crawl — Players move from one highlight encounter to the next, rather than mapping rooms or corridors.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, many of us growing up played a lot of computer and video games like Bard's Tale, Wizardry, Might and Magic, and various rogue style games.
- These games are often on the slower side of things and can be a little more contemplative and relaxing as they often involve a lot of dice rolling, looking up charts, drawing, and bookkeeping.
- So, I've been wanting to do uh this video for a really long time, and it's taken a ton of time and effort to put everything together.
- I really enjoy all of the games that you see on this table, and I think they all have something to offer in this little kind of a sub niche of our tabletop gaming hobby space.
- And so, if you want something simple and something that is closed and direct, then you might want to look into uh Notequest.
- I would not play one without the other. Actually, I that's not true. I would actually play World Builder on it by itself just to create a hex world before I would play the base D100 Dungeon by itself. But my favorite way to play is to combine them together.
- So, I think more so than any other game that we're talking about today, Marching Order is all about style. It's all about the vibe.
- Dollar for dollar, bang for your buck, you cannot go wrong with Carnathus.
- If you want a game with a lot of expansions, if you want to really uh modify the game and tailor it to to become the exact kind of game that you want, then Four Against Darkness is is for you.
- And I also really enjoy the combat. I think this has the best combat out of all of the games that we are looking at today.
- A lot of this game relies on fiction, not on rules.
- It's such a fun little space to explore.
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Rob's Tabletop World Discussion at 7:22 sentiment: positive
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positive
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Thematic elements
- dungeon crawl
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dungeon Crawl — old school Dungeons and Dragon feel dungeon crawl
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think sometimes that gets pushed aside for all these Kickstarters with all these different type of minis and expansions and bigger and flashier and we all get sucked into it and the gameplay just isn't there.
- it's it's one of those things where a print and play games are really really more important now than than ever.
- I mean, you could probably get all these games for what you would pay for maybe, you know, you know, maybe 60 60 bucks.
- And each booklet has a different story with a a a great final boss and a lot of fun and and very very very cheap and affordable.
- If it could go wrong, it'll go wrong.
- I have gotten my butt kicked by this game a million times.
- And just absolute fun.
- And I think it's a time, you know, when when people want to make things tougher that you we should be leaning to our print and plays and just have fun because there's a lot of brilliant, brilliant people out there making brilliant and wonderful games.
- So, uh, definitely check out the videos for them and check them out.
- if you're looking for the new year for some good fun and you want to save some money, these are the games that you will have hours and hours of just great fun with.
- So much fun. So much fun.
- And for you sci-fi nuts like myself, it is one that you will absolutely love and just have a blast with.
- Saving a buck and having fun, that's what gaming's about.
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