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DarkBad RPG

For all your tabletop & board game needs.
Bah! They don't even play at physical tabletops anymore.
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DarkBad RPG

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DarkBad on itch.io wrote:
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DarkBad RPG

Are you tired of Tabletop RPGs with good design, good rules, and good ethics?

Darkbad is a 20 page, rules lite fantasy roleplaying game inspired by the OSR and the flotsam floating around it. It is ugly, cheap, and lazy. A true callback to simpler times.

Anti-features:

  • Strict 1:1 Timekeeping
  • Simple combat system where death is fast and grim
  • Always-on initiative system
  • Familiar skill rolls with a minimalist twist
  • Endless room for improvement
You can download the rules here: https://archivesofmu.itch.io/darkbad-rpg

Lookin' pretty good. I already made my character:
► Thrinarv Lightbeard
@Ratcatcher, you ever considered setting that pansy CoC crap aside and playing a real man's RPG like DarkBad?
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Post by Ratcatcher »

Interesting but I only play CoC to introduce new people to pnp and lure them in. Once they are addicted, I present them with advanced systems for true Grognards, like Macho Women with Guns:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macho_Women_with_Guns

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387 ... women-guns

It's gud.
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Sorry, I prefer high concept games like HYBRID. :ugeek:
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Post by Humbaba »

Hot garbage.

Failed parody of ShadowDark, if that's what this is. SD has zero culture war or politics in it (half the reason I gave it look in the first place), and yet this pretentious piece of miserable humor is just politicized commentary on a game the designer obviously hasn't read, since said game has none of the elements DarkBad is trying to turn into a punchline.

Keep the ol' chip on your shoulder and keep blindly perpetuating the culture war in gaming, bro. So sick of the politics.
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Post by Fedora Master »

Humbaba triggered because he read "Dark" and "Bad"
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Post by Emphyrio »

Humbaba wrote: July 30th, 2023, 10:33
Hot garbage.

Failed parody of ShadowDark, if that's what this is. SD has zero culture war or politics in it (half the reason I gave it look in the first place), and yet this pretentious piece of miserable humor is just politicized commentary on a game the designer obviously hasn't read, since said game has none of the elements DarkBad is trying to turn into a punchline.

Keep the ol' chip on your shoulder and keep blindly perpetuating the culture war in gaming, bro. So sick of the politics.
It seems like a parody of one of the 500 other OSR games.
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It parodies both OSR and nuRPG design, but it's not like that's a secret. From the description page quoted in the OP:
DarkBad RPG on itch.io wrote:
Darkbad is a 20 page, rules lite fantasy roleplaying game inspired by the OSR and the flotsam floating around it. It is ugly, cheap, and lazy. A true callback to simpler times.
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Post by SiMtRy »

Its a funny spoof of the stuff Stockholm Kartell makes (in this case its morkborg). Haven't actually played it tho.
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