🎓⚰️🎪 First Impressions Lordsworn
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solo_knightFirst Impresssions: LordSworn
What is it?
A game for 1-4 Players where you narrate the stories of 3 characters per player after a catastrophic event (a war lost, a god dead) who just try to make it home.
Is it playable out of the box?
For multiple players, quite probably. For a single player… I have my doubts.
The doubts are that the chances of your company dropping below the viable threshhold is much greater when you start out with 5 characters than with 3-per-person.
The other issue is that I don’t want to run five characters. It’s too much mental load. Especially as bad things will happen to them.
Amendments:
n/a
Tools
A deck of playing cards. There are archetypes (further customisable) for each of the Hearts and Spades cards.
d4 for customising characters, gods, homes, and your fallen captain and events.
Price:
$15
Verdict
🎓 Need to study
⚰️ This can get dark
🎪 This game is not for me.
I’ve been staring at this for several days and decided to stop making an effort, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be in the mental space for this. A big part of the narrative will be how different characters react to events; and that sounds much more like a group game (albeit a grim, challenging one that I would want to play only with people I trust, and I probably want to play other games more).
It’s an intriguing thought, the materials are well-presented, the tables offer plenty of customisation, and the gameplay sounds interesting, and yet this has been open on my computer for over a week, and every time I’ve looked at it, my heart sank.
It’s time to acknowledge that this game is preventing me from playing games that excite me, that make my heart sing. I’m not going to eliminate it from my life entirely, but I will be removing it from my hard drive for now.
What is it?
A game for 1-4 Players where you narrate the stories of 3 characters per player after a catastrophic event (a war lost, a god dead) who just try to make it home.
Is it playable out of the box?
For multiple players, quite probably. For a single player… I have my doubts.
The doubts are that the chances of your company dropping below the viable threshhold is much greater when you start out with 5 characters than with 3-per-person.
The other issue is that I don’t want to run five characters. It’s too much mental load. Especially as bad things will happen to them.
Amendments:
n/a
Tools
A deck of playing cards. There are archetypes (further customisable) for each of the Hearts and Spades cards.
d4 for customising characters, gods, homes, and your fallen captain and events.
Price:
$15
Verdict
🎓 Need to study
⚰️ This can get dark
🎪 This game is not for me.
I’ve been staring at this for several days and decided to stop making an effort, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be in the mental space for this. A big part of the narrative will be how different characters react to events; and that sounds much more like a group game (albeit a grim, challenging one that I would want to play only with people I trust, and I probably want to play other games more).
It’s an intriguing thought, the materials are well-presented, the tables offer plenty of customisation, and the gameplay sounds interesting, and yet this has been open on my computer for over a week, and every time I’ve looked at it, my heart sank.
It’s time to acknowledge that this game is preventing me from playing games that excite me, that make my heart sing. I’m not going to eliminate it from my life entirely, but I will be removing it from my hard drive for now.
