So I Just Got The Rune RPG Thanks To @dragonkid11's New Video, And Holy Crap Is It Good. I Didnt Think
So I just got the Rune RPG thanks to @dragonkid11's new video, and holy crap is it good. I didnt think I'd be a fan of the dice-ai enemies, but make their movements smart, and every fight feels like a puzzle where you just have to dance around the enemies and charge in at just the right moment. I'm only still on the first island, but already my adventure has had me barely scrape through a fight on 1 hp, taking down two big bads at once, finding a key that unlocked a new spell for me in a secret path, and now I think my character is ready.
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Have you considered the fact that this may be what his original inspiration was?
crossposting this to tumblr too since twitter really liked it
Honestly for me, i feel like everyone kinda missed the point. The point is not the place in of itself, but rather the isolation and dread that comes from *suddenly and without explanation arriving there*, with **no way out**. The monsters are just another threat that makes it so you can't, lets say, attempt to survive there. You constantly have to be on the move because these things break reality in extremely unpredictable ways. Some of these things can kill you just by looking at them, and with the original premise none of it was even documented because no one had entered here and survived to tell the tale.
I'm just going to say it:
The attempt to crowbar "Lore" into something at the expense of overall tonal cohesion or even having a set of larger themes really kills an idea.
Like. Who gives a shit about what floor of the Backrooms has what theme or precisely how fast the monster can run? Nobody needs to know the budgetary breakdown of the lab that is trying to reach into forbidden sciences.
Silent Hill works because its' first consideration is the texture and the ideas - whether or not it is a town in West Virginia or a rot endemic to the human soul that grew from that place isn't important - the sense of unease and fear it instills is the important part.
New on the Penflower Ink store and itch.io: The Modular Character Sheet Digital Asset Pack!
You can use these system-neutral assets to create character sheets for your home TTRPG of choice, or for commercial use in your own games (with attribution!).
The pack contains the various boxes and sections as transparent PNG files, as well as a selection of decorative black and white fantasy-themed illustrations, to further embellish your sheets! You can find the pack at the links below:
