the one everyone plays got dmca’d by FFG during the pandemic (lol thanks guys) try asking in the tts club discord
discord where people are still updating it → Super Complete Existential Dread
here is the latest version → https://files.catbox.moe/k0syub.zip
“Open the .zip file, and copy the .json (and optionally the .png thumbnail) into your TTS saves directory. The mod can then be loaded from the Games > Save & Load screen like any saved game.”
this took me like 5 minutes to find
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Oh thank you. I tried to find a link to a discord on reddit… but didn’t end up finding what anyone was talking about. So thanks again for doing the work.
Edit: oh yeah this is nice, very robust. It should do a lot to reduce the drag of playing in tts. Plus, you don’t need to pay for anything to play the expansions.
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I’m a searcher by trade. That means I look for things. Ask me to find something and I’ll find it. That’s what I do…
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you’re the finder, for finding things
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She’s got a very particular set of skills
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She will find you, and she will download you.
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hustling for a couple more players for 1889
Been playing one of the first games that caught my eye way back when I first started looking at board games earlier this year called Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood, a game that was described as half choose-your-own-adventure and half-boss battler. I’ve learned a few things, but mainly: don’t trust boardgame reviewers on what makes a narrative or story interesting, I guess.
So the idea of a board game that’s like a campaign with a story was neat, and it’s something Jaws of the Lion disappointed me with. I felt like going through the work the narrative portions was busy-work because the story just wasn’t interesting. The battles were the real part of the game.
In Oathsworn, each chapter is split into a story part and a battle part. In the story part you’re reading through a CYOA story book (or listening to narration on an app) where your choices affect the kinds of allies you recruit (which can be pulled into battle or unlock story options later on), acquiring items to equip your character, or gaining bonuses for the start of the battle. So the narrative portion is a lot meatier than Jaws of the Lion, estimated at around 45 minutes per chapter. Which is about accurate.
But the writing isn’t particularly interesting. As someone new to board games I didn’t know what to expect and I came in with the same trepidation as someone who’s new to videogames: why should I be playing a board game for a story, particularly one told through reading a book, when I could just read a book instead? And I don’t know that this game makes a strong argument for discrete storytelling mixed with a board game. Your reward for the story portion is more equipment for your characters and bonus buffs for the next battle, and there’s once or twice where it felt like it was doing something interesting enough mechanically even if the writing wasn’t quite there.
But having played maybe 15-20 hours, it still doesn’t feel like there’s much of an actual story here. Just some shallow depictions of self-serious generic fantasy adventuring. It might be one of those things where it wants you to be the main characters but also doesn’t want to characterize you too much so you can self-insert, but then ends up leaving a gaping void where there should be some sort of central throughline as to what you’re actually trying to do in the world other than wander around town looking for a monster to kill that chapter.
Luckily, the game also comes with an abridged version of the story you can use that shrinks down every chapter to a single page of story with some light CYOA to get you items and buffs for the next battle. This was probably intended for people who didn’t care about the story and just wanted to do the fights, but I think I’ll do it because the game is making me not care as much about the story.
At least it’s been fun to experience though, just as a new type of game I’ve never played before. It’s not like there’s nothing of value there, and it’s got some interesting ideas in the battle system. Just disappointed in the narrative after seeing it praised so much in reviews.
Currently I think euros are more satisfying, but I can see something like this maybe being more fun if I was playing with other people and could talk about it while playing.
Also it’s big.
And you can play a bear woman.
You can either draw cards to modify your attack success, like Gloomhaven, or roll dice. You can also mix and match so you can draw cards and roll dice at the same time. So if you know your odds are bad in what remains in your deck at any point, you can gamble on the dice until you get the opportunity to shuffle your decks.
Closeup of a character. Instead of discarding used cards, each ability card has a cooldown of 0, 1, 2, or 3 and the card gets placed in the appropriate cooldown slot. Cards don’t moves down cooldown slots automatically, and you have to instead play a card to that cooldown slot to move any card already in that slot down a level (this is called battlefow). Cards in slot 0 come back to your hand at the beginning of your next turn, or instantly if you “battleflow” whatever is in that slot 0. So you want to plan your order of abilities to maximize how quickly you get cards back into your hand.
The simplified characters, called “companions”. Instead of a deck with the battleflow mechanic, you get a card with two abilities. Each companion gets to use two actions per turn on either movement, a regular attack, or an ability. So pretty straightforward, but maybe too straightforward too often.
Fighting a satyr that for some reason has a loincloth and a satchel. Monsters have their ability deck that chooses what it does each turn, and it escalates to stronger cards over the course of the battle. it also has up to six body parts, each with its own health counter/dice. You damage different body parts based on from which direction you’re attacking, and this can weaken its attacks if an attack specifies it’s from a certain body part.
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@daphaknee join you coward
brain says no right now, only mmo grind
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Yeah I’d love to join but I’m working on clearing some stuff off my plate this weekend.
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The secret war is leaking into this thread
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christ, I gotta come up with the scenario for the meet up, what if I just make a bunch of one-note philadelphia jokes and call that a scenario
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ugh now we have to go to iowa so we can do me and veronicas state fair porkchop mayhem scenario
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I killed the ground
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ah, no bother. trains will be there when you have time
@vodselbt feel free to join even if you’re busy this weekend. am not going to be making many moves in Pacific hours so expect me to be the blocker & thank you for your patience