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?
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.
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
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.
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