Dark Eye Megabundle
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Adventurer! The Dark Eye Megabundle presents the English-language edition from Ulisses Spiele of the leading German tabletop roleplaying game of heroic fantasy, The Dark Eye. In continuous publication since 1984, The Dark Eye is Germany's premier FRPG. As a virtuous knight, elven ranger, or erudite mage, you'll rebuild the war-weary Middenrealm, marvel at the Lands of the Tulamydes, discover lost ruins in steaming jungle, or drive back the evil of the Shadowlands. Rescue innocent victims from cults of the Nameless One – navigate labyrinthine intrigues at the Court of the Empress – or defend border cities from the Orc Storm.

I’m quite intrigued by the game. Anyone got an opinion if this bundle has the “must have” books for the game or is it mostly filler stuff?

  • frotz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    There’s a lot of extra but it’s not necessarily filler. It would all depend on whether you were going to run your game in the Aventuria world and/or wanted the Theater Knights campaign. It depends on how much of the published stuff you want to run.

  • Red_Ed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t get it because it has a reputation of being extremely crunchy. So maybe if you like that level of crunch you should probably get it. I hear the world building is pretty good.

    • sacredbirdmanOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For me, it depends on where the crunch is… like HERO is pretty crunchy but it’s very front-loaded and it’s pretty smooth during the play. Also it’s a bit different these days because I play most of my games through Foundry VTT which takes care of a lot of crunch if the support is good… That said, I’m leaning toward more narrative systems these days, not because of lack of crunch but because I think they make better use of TTRPGs’ advantages (over say computer rpgs) and because it’s easier to model characters and stories in them. I think I’d really like a narrative crunchy game :D

  • GrumblingGM@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve only played the Dutch translations, so it could be a problem with localisation; but 5th edition felt really horribly made in my opinion. I’ve played both 3rd and 5th Edition of DSA (5th edition is what’s in this bundle), and I would never touch 5th edition again if given the choice.

    That said, if you do want to try 5th edition, this collection looks very decent, has all the books I played with in Dutch, and more.

    • sacredbirdmanOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, translations are bit of a double edged sword… if they’re well made they are awesome… but if they’re poorly made they can ruin the whole experience. Anyway, thanks for the input!