Learning Kryptothera. A game about hunting cryptids.
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Yes, Man Alone is great. I watch pretty much all his stuff. He can be long winded, but usually his longer vids hold up.
He’s also a creator of RPG supplements:
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I really need to get this!
Printed and bound my own copy of Grimscar. Really got into this morning. Reading the setting was fantastic and I fell pretty deep into the journaling.
However, at the tail end of the day I have stopped journaling altogether and I have fallen into a vicious cycle of taking a Serious Wound, taking the mission to heal a Serious Wound, taking another Serious Wound during that mission, each time being forced to return back to town. So, all I am doing is trying to heal my wounds while taking on more. This is because there is no specific place to go (that I have found) to find a Quest Objective Item, you have to just keep playing until you happen upon one.
In the meantime, the amount of rules questions is steadily stacking up.
I am always perplexed at how a game like this ends up having successful crowd funding campaigns for expansions when the base game has no FAQ, tons of typos, and tons of rules ambiguities. (I believe there are SIX expansions for this game.) I am starting to think that the majority of folks play these things an average of 1/2 a session, enjoy the theme, want to COLLECT more, and fund further expansions with no real intention on playing the thing.
I am also just BAD at all games.
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When / if something like happens in a solo game I’m playing, I just ignore / change it for something fun to happen. I also don’t really journal beyond a few key words. Just say you cured your wound and move on to the next fun thing to do.
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I’m heading back into the woods this morning. I was thinking about it last night as I drifted in and out of sleep, I don’t think I am Fleeing from combat nearly enough.
There are a lot of situations where you are setup to fight an enemy that clearly offers no rewards. I think these are the times to flee, particularly if I am down on my health.
Thanks Daniel, yeah, I actually do that kind of thing a LOT more than I used to after watching your videos for so long.
Also, I emailed the author some questions that I thought there were obvious answers to and it turned out I was incorrect in my assumptions. I was completely missing that monsters have their own Major Wounds chart!
In summary, first time playing of course I made a bunch of mistakes. Excited to get back in because this game is a stupid good value for money. It’s only $6! And there is a free demo.
https://crowheartroleplay.itch.io/grimscar-rpg
UPDATE: I do not recommend this game.
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Getting a game of A Touch of Evil played. I love this game so much. Love the stories it tells while playing.
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I’ve been playing this recently too and having a great time with it.
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@thekeeper dredged up some old A Touch of Evil playthroughs from the video archive last month 
PS.couldn’t resist conjuring up a ghost captain to go with the exhibit 
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Trying out Ker Nathalas on the Puget Sound.
It’s very slow going. I’ve never played a game so complex/fiddly. I almost just chalked it up to “this is too hard for me” but I’m just going to take it as slow as it needs to be.
(I’ve never played anything like this actually, it’s quite intimidating.)
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Decided to make sketches for enemy groups and tracking statuses and hit points etc. like tokens on paper? I can just erase the pencil bits and come back when I fight them again. Pretty fun so far.
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Great sketches! Really like the style.
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Looking forward to a video on whatever this is.
Thank you for the compliment on my sketches, that really means a lot coming from you. I really want to see more of your drawings!
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Sounds interesting. What do you need during play? Just what we see in the pic?
I’ve started and stopped a few dives in this game because I had the same reaction. Everything has a check to a check, but it’s so cool to see how those checks (and many fails) work out. Was considering getting the gravebound edition because I know it’s more user friendly formatted in the book
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I keep going back and forth on purchasing this game!
That is debatable. It’s likely a game that the player will want to customize what they use to some degree. Everything is in the book on charts but those charts are sometimes 100 pages away from each other. This is why I decided to draw my enemies so I could write right on them their various individual statuses.
But what I would say is you need the main book, at least two full sets of poly dice, a print out of the four page character sheet, pencil and eraser to start.
How you track the enemies as you fight them will be up to you, so you’ll probably want a scratch pad to begin with.
Oh, also I have a sheet of grid paper to draw out the randomly generated dungeon maps.
It was pretty intimidating and it’s a very slow paced game, but it’s working out for me.
I like that I can pick it up and play one room/fight and then leave and come back to it.
It’s almost got a metroidvania vibe.
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That being said, honestly I feel like the formatting is still pretty chaotic in this book. I would tweak where some of the charts are even still. It’s a lot honestly, but being I’ve no other game like this, it’s novel right now and I’m into it.
This is abstract and personal but to me it feels like the Warhammer quest 1995 roleplay book if that book itself were a game. I LOVED reading through that book so it’s pretty fun to me.
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