In the Company of Delvers
The underworld holds miracles, the remnants of ages lost, the forgotten, the places destroyed by magic. Entire civilizations thrive and sink, banished from the surface world, layers of an onion whose core is misery. From those places of Unending Gray, the delver companies extract ancient relics and former riches. In a nutshell, delvers are not mere fellowship parties, they are true marauding bands.
I will continue with a warning: Most of you do not have the temperament to play this game. Cordially I say, you are weak and effeminate and living a fantastic lie. Your time I do not wish to spoil with hard truths and nauseous thoughts. Enjoy life and don’t enter this game design.
This game is a blood bath. Not for the love of carnage, but for the glory survival brings. This game presents a viable contest not a chatty gathering of friends. To play In the Company of Delvers is to be someone far removed from Tolkien, even Howard’s Conan; your other favorite role-play game is Burroughs’ John Carter, mere whimsy, compared to the reality of Mars or a Grunge Fantasy game like In the Company of Delvers.
Don’t send me protest letters – I’m too close to death to waste worry on your curses.
Free-Style Role-Play uses a Quick and Dirty system. The players are not going to always control precisely what happens in the adventure. The player selects a broad action and a result is generated from a set of outcomes. Yes, there are dice rolls. Wouldn’t be a game without such.
Yet instead of rolling D20 ad nausea and consulting the Hit Chart, you take actions in free-style fashion and compare your abilities against the generated event. A Tarot deck spawns the combat and labor actions and allows the players to improve in ability as they adventure.
As can be seen from the playtest video, link below, the game allows cooperative play with the gamemaster also running his character.
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Else, look at the playtest videos on YouTube.
Price: $4.99
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