How would /tg/ build a Darkest Dungeon PnP?
>>43554018
D&D B/X or Chaosiums BRP (same system as RuneQuest 6 and MagicWorld) layered with rules for psycological disorders and morale. Setting the dark Fantasy tone is more up to the material.
>>43554018
It's just a highly lethal dungeon crawl.
Any Dungeon Crawl style system would work.
>>43554018
Warhammer Fantasy 2E
Any Retroclone
How would you handle the stress mechanic? Rolling on a table of random neuroses whenever stress gets too high is pretty straightforward. But then would you require players to act out that penalty or just have a stat penalty? There's a lot of hilarious disorders to pick from.
Just alter a savage world's module or two.
I mean all the rules for grave injuries and mental stress are there anyway so may as well use them.
>>43554255
I second this. Not just because I am a WHFRP fanboy either. I have heard mumblings that DD was written with a major influence by it in the first place.
>>43556118
WHFRP already has a wide list of addictions, psychological afflictions etc, and a scaling stress/sanity meter is covered in the Tomb of corruption. The stats rolled against depend on the stress involved; Willpower, and strength/intelligence/toughness etc.
>>43554255
>>43556174
i agree with these guys, but would like to add Dark Age Cthulhu if you want to deal with the mythos side of things.
>>43556194
I totally forgot about that! I WILL say that Cthulhu is much less "brutal combat against abominations" and more "You can try. I don't suggest it".
Amazingly, in this comparison, Warhammer is the one that actually gives the players hope.
>>43554018
I don't know, it's sounds rather...
Stressful.
>>43554018
Make a LotFP or Torchbearer game. Done.
>>43556951
>>43556964
>>43554255
Thirding WFRP 2e. It's pretty great.
>>43557002
>>43557035
>>43554018
That says "Dankest" not darkest.
>wellmemedmyfriend.jpg
>>43557063
>>43557075
>>43557116
>>43556951
>>43556964
Vestial and Graverobber are love, they are life.
>>43557163
>not Hellion
>not based barbarian fury waifu redhead with a based glaive
>>43557143
>>43557179
Hellion is pretty good, bro. I can't hate. But too many of them have been shitty for me... and the one good one I had died, so I can't deal with the heartbreak again. My sex-fiend Vestial and my Kleptomaniac Graverobber are still there for me though.
Some modification to Call of Cthulhu perhaps? The game already features Eldritch abominations
>>43557634
Could work either by making the characters stronger or monsters weaker in combat because 3d6 is a bit much against a health pool averaging at 12 or so.
I imagine it'd be something with a lot of dice rolls and tables, like DCC possibly? maybe a little lighter though hahaha
>>43554018
>How would /tg/ build a DarkEST Dungeon PnP?
I somehow managed to misread that.
Everybody mentioning WHFRP and CoC Dark Ages has the right idea.
Do you think we'll ever get more information on Darkest Dungeon's setting? The little blurbs you get here and there throughout the game makes it seem like there's some interesting stuff going on outside The Estate.
>>43556145
This is pretty much how I do it.
>>43556956
You need to add morale checks for PCs and jrpg-style combat system.
>>43557179
>not based Gravedigger with her daggers of never missing and constant trap spotting
>not wanting to bed a princess
>>43560673
>not Occultist
>not wanting to bed a sanitized middle-east stereotype
>not wanting all those tentacles either
>>43557634
Hnnng
Reminder that best doc does a cute little hop whenever throwing blight grenades.
>>43559683
HOW QUICKLY THE TIDE TURNS
Also, use Torchbearer.
>>43557063
>>43562657
I like how Plague Doctor does not need changing.
> Darkest Dungeon based game set in mordheim
Would you play it? Should I dude WHFBRPG rules for it?
>>43554018
WHFRP 2e can literally be played with virtually zero changes safe to remove demihumans if you don't want them.
It has addictions, diseases, odd careers, insanity, and very lethal combat. If you were really anal-retentive, creating careers to represent the DD classes would probably be the work of a couple of hours at most.
>>43556222
Sauce on this pic? Looks like old warhammer frpg Art?
>>43564165
>Would you play it?
If the party consists of a dwarf ranger, a bright wizard, a wood elf waywatcher, a witch hunter, and a state trooper.
>you will never play a leper Sigmarite who has accepted his death by corruption and decided to turn his faculties against the forces of Chaos rather than give in to despair
>you will never cause a party that initially despised and feared you as a font of corruption and a possible traitor to feel shame as they realize you were the best of them
>>43562611
what a bloody idiot, there's no reason to jump around like a loon
>>43557634
>wanting the plague doctor
i'm willing to bet you she looks as bad as the leper under that mask
>>43564750
You bet your dick it is.
>>43565422
I see what you did there...
>>43565478
There is already a class for that too!
>>43562611
>>43565632
She throws like a nerdy girl. Which she is. It fits pretty well.
>>43565422
i'd allow it, but surely you'd want something a bit more substantial than just killing rats in terms of plot right?i'm actually not knowledgeable enough about mordheim to come up with some adventure seeds
>>43565632
>i'm willing to bet you she looks as bad as the leper under that mask
The entire point of the mask is to protect her from disease. She probably just looks unusually pale with some acne if she isn't washing her face between expeditions.
Besides, it doesn't matter. As you can see from >>43565478's pic, the two are in bittersweet love, with the leper refusing to commit because he doesn't want to die and break her heart with her not caring and wanting him to enjoy the life he has left, and there's nothing anyone can say to stop that for me.
>>43566493
The general plot of Mordheim involves people being there to acquire warp stone, kill people looking for warp stone, or similar.
Skaven and servants of Chaos are both partial to making a bid for warpstone.
>>43565632
>>43566813
>>43554018
i feel like if you wanted the true expeirence, you need the snarky voice clips of your dad-uncle/ the narrator and/or be a snarkster yourself.
>>43568033
And I suppose that chaos can replace cultists and the skaven would replace the swinefolk n mordheim right?
Anyone else here have any good stories.
I play 1 vestal and 3 men-at-arms, as a joke-team when I'm bored. Then I spam the Men-at-arms move that counter-attacks every time you're hit by the enemy (Riposte or something)
Every time an enemy uses an AoE attack, they get hit by 2 or 3 full strength attacks. I've killed alot of blunderbuss thugs, and those pig drummers on their own turn like this. I remember one boss taking 3 attacks, 2 of which were critical, doing a total of like 40 damage in its own turn.
>>43568574
>Replacing chaos cultists with chaos cultists
>Replacing beastmen with beastmen
You overthink it, anon. Hell, they even have a whole campaign scenario about giant beasts in the woods, tentacled gribblies in the harbour, and ruined mannor and the endless sewers.
>>43568827
what about the fishmen? would they fall under beastmen or some other type of chaos horror? What about the Carnival?my autism is flaring
grave robber best
>>43569656
"Beastmen" is just a term for any chaos mutant that is part animal, part man. Hoved animals of any sort are most common, but birds, fish, squid, ANYTHING can be mutated into a beast man. Chaos is equal opportunity like that, and whatever enviroment they can exist in, they do. Pic related.
Hell, Skaven are just a very specific, highly stabilized form of beastman, like centaurs. There are even reptilian beastmen in canon, but the lizardmen of Lustria hunt them down with extreme prejudice.
>>43569656
Fishmen were a planned expansion but never happened. Some sort of deep one style civ, if the early hints are any indication. Technically extant chaos beastmen could show fish traits.
Nurgle runs a literal travelling carnival in WHF.
>>43570201
There is also the Carnival of Change (tzeentch) and the Carnival of Delights (Slaanesh)
>>43570201
>Fishmen were a planned expansion but never happened.
Fully cannon in the fiction and RPG.
How the fuck is there only one mention of Torchbearer in this thread?
Torchbearer is LITERALLY Darkest Dungeon: The Tabletop game.
"you must delve into forlorn ruins, brave terrible monsters and retrieve forgotten treasures. However, make no mistake, this game is not about being a hero or about fighting for what you believe. This game is about exploration and survival. You may become a hero. You might have to fight for your ideals. But to do either of those things, you must prove yourself in the wilds. Because there are no jobs, no inheritance, no other opportunities for your deadbeat adventurers. This life is your only hope to prosper in this world. "
You even make Stress checks, have Light mechanics, and have turn-based combat.
>>43569832
>>43572632
>Because there are no jobs
What? What sort of adventurer's skills are NOT applicable in a town?
>>43566813
That feel when he hates his disease again, bitterly, because it taints their every moment and yet brought them together.
>>43573436
It's not that the town has no jobs, it's that it doesn't have any that the adventurer can get in on.
Because the adventurer has a shit reputation, or the town is at capacity and the blacksmith isn't taking on new apprentices, and the innkeeper is already drowning in tavern wenches to need a new one and he can't afford to pay you anyway.
>>43569832
> Dat heretical ass
>>43572632
Literally the first time I've heard of Torchbearer is right now.
>>43554018
BATTLE OF THE CONGA LINES
>>43572632
Give me a Torchbearer illustrated by Chris Bourassa and I'll buy it.
>>43569832
Ma nigga.
>>43574263
Torchbearer is basically streamlined Burning Wheel with an old school theme. It actually works quite well, particularly for a Dark Dungeons survival style game.
