Grimscar RPG

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• Grimscar is absolutely awesome.
• At its core, it's a pretty simple game and it's a solo hex crawl.
• The writing is great. There's a lot of lore in this book.
• The forest has memory.
• I absolutely love that memory mechanic.
• This game is fantastic.

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• Bestiary Cards — Features a deck of cards with information for the bestiary.
• Hex Crawl — A core mechanic where players explore from a central village on a hex map.
• questing — Players go on quests for villagers, returning to town to unlock more.

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• 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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• Hex Crawl — your goal is to go out and explore these hex's to find a way to stop the encroachment of this dark forest.
• Map Keying — You will keep a map key of all of the hex's you have explored.
• NPC interaction — you can visit different NPCs. You can pick up different quests from some of the NPCs.
• Roguelike — It's almost kind of like a rogike where you are going on runs and you need to get back to your town in a certain amount of time.
• Town Building — You can kind of build up your town in between runs.

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• This is one of the best tools for hex crawling that I know of.
• It just works so effortlessly.
• This little snap box here has everything that you would need to have a little solo hex crawl.
• So just a really really neat little pocket uh hex crawl.
• This isn't a game in and of itself. You will need a game. You will need a system.
• This is one of my favorite subgenres of the tabletop hobby.

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• Bestiary with Lore — The bestiary contains monster stats for gameplay but also includes lore, side stories, and nursery rhymes associated with creatures.
• Biome Expansion — Expansions add new biomes or territories to the game map (Deep Thicket, Black Lake, Root Domain, Burnt Glade) with new encounters, NPCs, and quests.
• Campaign Modifiers — The Hidden Campaign expansion offers optional entries for each layer of the forest to swap in for variety, and includes new hidden characters and side quest cards.
• Hex Crawl Exploration — Players explore a hex map of the forest, with different levels of the forest (regular, dark, savage) having unique encounters.
• In-City Quests — The Dark Rights expansion focuses on new citizens, quests, and interactions within the town of Grimscar.
• Monster Hunting Side Quests — The bestiary includes requests from a character named Factory, which act as mini side quests, such as collecting a creature's tongue.
• Permanent Hexes — Certain hexes are permanent and tracked on a separate map and key sheet, transferred between games, making the map evolve.
• questing — Players undertake main quests and side quests given by citizens of Grimscar, some with prerequisites.
• random encounters — Rolling up on charts in the main book to discover what is found in hexes, some of which are purely randomized and change as you play.
• Stat Management — Unique character stats like rage, hatred, butcher, patience, pity, and hope are managed and spent, with opposing stats ticking up or down based on usage.

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• I really like that eb and flow of this kind of constant battle of of of being angry at the world but also wanting to do good and how good is used up and your anger and your hatred uh becomes more full as you use up your good stats.
• This bestiary is super super cool. Again it's spiralbound. I love that because you can keep it open.
• I would recommend the bestiary over any of the small expansions. I think it just adds kind of like the most to the game. It's just a really nice bestiary.

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