ShadowDark Has BROTHEL Mechanics Now???
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Kickstarter launches August 6th, 2024 for this new third party supplement for ShadowDark RPG!
Kickstarter: shorturl.at/rjUiG
Placing this brothel in your ShadowDark game will pull your players into surreal adventures and keep them on their toes with new social mechanics! Find out how The Shucked Oyster brothel will bring creative chaos and excitement to your campaign and shake up your sleepy little fantasy town!
#shadowdark #dnd5e #osr #dungeonsanddragons
We are going to need a harlot table for the 21st century, Kelsey.
@@Motavian we've got you covered
Comments to appease Slaanesh
Nurgle loves you.
6:33 "The next time you see the painted strumpets, they don't hate you, they love you! And your players won't have any idea why." Keeps things from becoming predictable or boring, and reminds some of us of actual relationships we've been in.
This sounds perfect for my next shadowdark campaign. Definitely backing
@@Sanctum_of_Solos hell yeah
You had my curiosity, and now you have my full attention.
a) I LOVE that you called the brothel "The Shucked Oyster" 😆
b) The TOM mechanic and custom carousing tables are WILD!
Sign me up, take my money, etc.
We did a 2 day marathon of gaming this week and almost had a TPK in one of the dungeons. Absolute madness in the town, it's awesome
@@blacklodgegames THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR! Legendary over-caffeinated, sleep-deprived crawls that are as much a story as for the PCs. Can't wait for your KS!
"Cellar Door," may be the most beautiful phrase in the English language, but I now firmly believe that "Awful Trollop," is the closest runner up.
Peddle their wares in the most aggressive and off-putting ways possible.
Sounds a lot like my ex-wife.
@@Dalthos2 many such cases!
Realism aside? Sooo many stories can be told by/through brothels being part of the setting
Love the colorful use of language; that's rare these days
Healing Ulric got me in trouble with Svetlana. God damn it! :D
I like this humoured mockery of what is usually expected from a Fantasy TTRPG, it is indeed interesting to roleplay in such advanced narrative, and extreme alternative perspective, the crude reality of what players don't initially decide to carouse, and unexpected exercise in seedy immersion & emulation. Bizarrely Chaotic Yet All Wondrous.
Well fucking done. That was enticing! You'll be big guys, keep doing what you're doing!
Sounds perfect for my group
@@GodOfMoxie555 awesome, be sure to click the link in the description to get notified for when the Kickstarter goes live on August 6th
I have an adventure in a town called New Brothelle.
Love that I can take this and use this system for other faction reputation as well. Awesome!
@@Robstopper78 hell yeah
I realize that "TOM" is already settled as the acronym, but I confess I was hoping for "JON" [Judgmental Oyster Number].
I was just thinking of Blue Velvet and Frank … synchronicity
Frank Booth should be an NPC.
What is the DC for Hookers and Blow?
Hi, this is the second video of this channel that I have watched. What game system is this?
This will be primarily for ShadowDark but is compatible with most old school rpgs
Hey, New Subscriber, I came from your show with Northern Exile I watched today which was VERY cool and made me interested in wathcing your channel. It's cool that you came up with this official book and mechanics! Great work! In a long running campaign I ran, one of my PCs from another campaign (a level 20 bard) bought a bar which seemed to be a pretty low-class Dive bar kind of place but happened to have some of the most high-class, highly sought after Courtesans in the city. Thanks to another level 20 former PC turned NPC who was a mage who kept them healthy and always looking high elven beautiful though his magic. these Courtesans became some VERY good source for rumors and information about some of the most powerful people in the city. It was fun to be able to let my PCs incorporate some of their old characters who had out leveled being PC's back into the game, I even let them play the character from time to time if I was not using them as a tool for setting up potential hooks. Any of my group was more than capable of playing multiple characters as we also played Wraith from White Wolf, and they were all very good at playing each other's shadows. I look forward to checking out this resource someday, it sounds very interesting! I wish I had had your book to give my Courtesans more personality though that would have been very cool and very useful.
Thanks for subscribing. Absolutely love wraith, it's a masterpiece imo
Holy shit, this sounds awesome. I'm sold
Did anyone else cue Stephan: “This place has *everything*…”
This is going to be great.
The inverting bit...you just summed up women.
great video
Gormax is a bro. No spoilers tho.
this will be perfect for my sausage fest table!
Why do i need this when I already have my. random harlots chart in the AD&D? And "ladies"??? What about Morgan Ironwolf? What is offered for her daliances???
Are you running ShadowDark?
Does it have Dan Cortez?
i will be backing this n words
This sounds hilarious
It is. Kickstarter still has late pledges and we are finishing up the last stretch goal so we can get a print copy
I agree that balance is boring, life isn't balanced so why should this simulated world be.
0-6 hostile 7-8 suspicious on 2d6 is wild. There are 72% that an average joe would get negative treatment from people of this brothel doing nothing wrong. With 41.7% are them being *hostile*. Who are their customer? Charismatic folk won't have to pay for their service and average joe would be threat like shit.
All those numbers has to be 2 lower for it to even *begin* to make sense. With 58.3% of getting 'eh' service or better, 33.3% of feeling unwelcome, and only 8.3% for them to have extreme reaction like hostile or friendly. Equal chance of friendly and hostile... Your world as is has 6 times higher chance for these people to spit in your face than being friendly with you.
TOM? Is this someone you know?
I was hoping for the "OH, UM," or Oyster Hooker Unified Modifier
"We don't want this to be balanced?" Seriously?
And this sounds like a nightmare for the DM to take care of.
Addition and subtraction are easy. All modifiers make sense and there is a summary table with all of them listed.
And yes. Balance is boring. Player agency with consequences in a world that feels real is far more fun and interesting than constantly grinding against monster encounters that are designed to be just challenging enough to overcome.
Play test feedback has been *extremely* positive (again, not balanced)
@@blacklodgegames If you want realism, do you get rid of magic? Magic isn't realistic at all. Better modify HP too, because realistically you take a sword stab and you're dead.
Play the way you want, but this just seems like excess pointless busy work for the DM to me.
@@AngelusNielson unbalanced encounters = build some tables, roll, here you go. Balanced encounters = meticulously building encounters on a railroad ride for the players, on a sweet spot of "balance". Because they're sissies and don't want their PC to die.
@AngelusNielson there is a difference between feeling real and being realistic. A fantasy world can feel real but still be fantastic.
And even a level 1 shadowdark adventurer is going to be heartier than your average commoner.
@@fccphoto "Realism" was the word they used. Not "it's realistic" I stand by what I said.
And to make sure it's clear, I'm saying "I don't want realism in MY fantasy, so this product isn't for me."
I'm really looking forward to the KS. These days, a non-woke supplement for RPG is rare. Please mail it to Canada as a game, not a book; otherwise, we will have to pay an importation fee.
Fulfillment will be handled through drivethru RPG so not sure we can specify that unfortunately
Hello, do you need a thumbnail designer?
@@ajizunataprawira no
@@blacklodgegames Okay, thank you for replying. I hope your channel continues to grow.
@@ajizunataprawira thank you!
@@blacklodgegames You're welcome!
@@blacklodgegames Oh, do you have an acquaintance who needs thumbnail creation services?
But... you developed an entire hour long video explaining you dont like the reaction table... maybe you changed your mind
@@felipemendoza5581 I did change my mind and have edited that video description, title, and comments to that effect.
As a player, this concept has me crazy excited. As a person with friends in the sex work industry, the language used in the promo materials and videos (“the catty and mercurial nature of the prostitutes…both the whores and the patrons love to gossip…”) my god, there is no nuance or care here.l for perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
Sex workers, who are legitimate workers, face untold discrimination irl. The kind of language in your promos and kickstarter adds to stigmatizing this work. You know who talked about prostitutes well? Critical role, in talking about Jester’s mom in campaign two. No “whores,” no “Ladies of Whatever,” they were actual legitimate business people, and didn’t resort to stereotypes like whores = women = women be gossiping!
I’ll support TTRPG creators who can to it without the side of misogyny, thanks. I’m really sad, because I was so hopeful! “Painted strumpets?” Really? Name one other group you’d talk about so derisively while shrouding it in a veil of being respectful.
Womp womp
This is not a mechanic its a random table
wut?
Ain't you the "just roll the dice" dude?
Game mechanics are the rules and procedures that guide the player and the game's response to the player's actions. Random tables are one of many such procedures that determine how the world responds to the player's actions.