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Description
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Downcrawl is a system to help gamemasters run randomly generated, open-ended adventures in a weird and fantastical underworld called The Deep, Deep Down: a place so far from the surface that the sun and sky are only legends, and so vast that no bounds can be placed on its dimensions or contents.
Compatible with any fantasy roleplaying system, Downcrawl contains rules for taking dangerous journeys through unmapped places, tables of fungi with curious effects, procedures for GMs to generate strange new peoples, places, and encounters, and tips for running a satisfying, spontaneous campaign when your players might explore in any of six directions. Oh, and huge intelligent spiders who eat faces. Watch out for those.
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The Dungeon Dive Top List at 7:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Generates otherworldly, strange, and bizarre worlds and encounters
- Very structured system with step-by-step guides
- Contains survival elements
- Good rules for solo and co-op play
- Impressive generation capabilities with book and cards
Cons
- Can be a little daunting for complete beginners
- System might be too simple for some
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Generators — Tons of tables for generating locations, denizens, NPCs, and encounters.
- Moves System — Uses specific moves for different stages of the game (preparing for journey, on journey, encountering NPCs, settlements, etc.).
- Oracle Cards — Worldbuilding cards can be used as oracles for generation.
- Sliver of Fate — Uses a simplified and modified version of Fate with a 2d6 system.
- Survival — Includes rules for survival elements like collecting fungi.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's Fun to Go Alone. This is the top 10 solo RPGs.
- As a matter of fact, I've done an episode on uh solo analog dungeon crawl.
- And boy howdy did I fall in love with this game.
- This is a game that that treats the kind of spirituality and folklore and mythology of the Japan in a very very respectful nature.
- Holy crap, what a game. I love this game. It is so much fun.
- This game is super super simple.
- The simplicity can be a little confusing because as you're reading the rules, you're kind of like, 'Oh, wait. That's it. I don't get it.'
- Morgborg, man, what a game. I love this game so much.
- The solo rules that made me understand solo role playing.
- The generosity liberal thirdparty licensing.
- Scarlet Heroes really is the game that made solo role playing click with me.
- This is an all inone solution with some of the best, most useful solo oracles and rules I have ever played.
- The urban adventure rules in Scarlet Heroes handle that really well, better than just about any other game I've played.
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The Dungeon Dive Top List at 5:01 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fantastic oracle cards
- Neat game about exploration
- Nice procedural system
- Easy to get into
Cons
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Thematic elements
- Exploring with strange creatures and environments
- Otherworldly, deep, dark caverns
- Procedural system
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Oracle Cards — The reviewer found the oracle cards to be fantastic and cool, enhancing the solo experience.
- Procedural generation — The game uses a procedural system where 'everything has a little rule'.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And in this video, I'll be discussing the best games that I played in 2025.
- And the golden torch award I am giving out to games that uh are just shining examples in the hobby. They are the golden torches and I think the game that I am awarding that to this year really really does deserve it.
- But my most disappointing was the uh the expansion for Talisman fifth edition, the co-op expansion. Man, what a disappointment.
- Those house rules created by Dragon Phoenix Games, which are the designers and publisher for Gathering Gloom, are great. they make the game how it should have been from the beginning.
- Wandering Galaxy was going to be my game of the year. It's a fantastic game.
- Conversely, my game of the year and the winner of the very very first Dungeon Dive Golden Torch award is shockingly just shocked me to like I couldn't believe that I am giving my game of the year to a Stonemer Games game uh from from uh from Jamie Stagmire and that is Vantage.
- It is so effortlessly easy to set up, to learn, to play. I mean, it literally takes about 5 minutes to set the game up and start playing.
- What I care about is having an experience of having a fun experience of exploration of discovery of mystery of of that kind of illusion of infinite possibility.
- And I can't think of another game that gives me that illusion better than Vantage does. It is absolutely truly the modern adventure game perfected.
- So, all right. Well, hey, let me know some of the best games you played.
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