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Nov. 7th, 2021 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI started my new Ironsworn-but-also-a-Universal-Horror-film game on Wednesday and have been playing it a whole bunch this weekend. Thoughts:
- I haven't actually made any of the custom assets I was talking about before yet, but since my character is (so far) not a supernatural creature but is instead a human woman slowly discovering the existence of supernatural creatures, I haven't needed them yet. I'm still going to make them, though, because I want the option of playing as a vampire (etc) in a future game*.
- I'm also using this supplement to investigate a mystery while playing solo and it's working really well. Basically, it allows you to occasionally roll for random clues and what those things/piece of information are clues to, and then relies on your inbuilt human pattern-finding tendencies to shape those into a coherent solution to your mystery. It's honestly really satisfying and I'm very much enjoying it.
- It's funny how much moving the setting from "fantasy Iron-age Scandinavia" to "fantasy Victorian London" makes me much more hesitant to have my character just stab somebody. I did get to hit someone in the face with a oil lamp, though.
- Also, god, I love my character so much! I didn't have a huge amount of character concept when I started - just chose some assets that sounded good and figured I could build up from there - but she's turning out to be super rad. This session, I found out some backstory stuff about her and I'm very excited to see where that leads in the future.
- Right now, the mystery she is trying to solve is the disappearance of her kinda sorta boyfriend and I can't decide which I want more: for her to actually rescue him or for her to be too late and have him become some sort of monster companion/ghost that haunts her for future adventures. Guess we'll have to play to find out what happens.
- I'm mostly playing using Starforged rules (but Ironsworn assets) and god, Starforged is so good. I mean, Ironsworn also = extremely good, but Starforged is even better.
- I seriously cannot wait for the books to come out though, because navigating back and forth between oracles in the pdf version is a pain and a half.
*There is a whole Ironsworn-but-vampires hack out there and it's cool, but it doesn't quite do what I want.
- I haven't actually made any of the custom assets I was talking about before yet, but since my character is (so far) not a supernatural creature but is instead a human woman slowly discovering the existence of supernatural creatures, I haven't needed them yet. I'm still going to make them, though, because I want the option of playing as a vampire (etc) in a future game*.
- I'm also using this supplement to investigate a mystery while playing solo and it's working really well. Basically, it allows you to occasionally roll for random clues and what those things/piece of information are clues to, and then relies on your inbuilt human pattern-finding tendencies to shape those into a coherent solution to your mystery. It's honestly really satisfying and I'm very much enjoying it.
- It's funny how much moving the setting from "fantasy Iron-age Scandinavia" to "fantasy Victorian London" makes me much more hesitant to have my character just stab somebody. I did get to hit someone in the face with a oil lamp, though.
- Also, god, I love my character so much! I didn't have a huge amount of character concept when I started - just chose some assets that sounded good and figured I could build up from there - but she's turning out to be super rad. This session, I found out some backstory stuff about her and I'm very excited to see where that leads in the future.
- Right now, the mystery she is trying to solve is the disappearance of her kinda sorta boyfriend and I can't decide which I want more: for her to actually rescue him or for her to be too late and have him become some sort of monster companion/ghost that haunts her for future adventures. Guess we'll have to play to find out what happens.
- I'm mostly playing using Starforged rules (but Ironsworn assets) and god, Starforged is so good. I mean, Ironsworn also = extremely good, but Starforged is even better.
- I seriously cannot wait for the books to come out though, because navigating back and forth between oracles in the pdf version is a pain and a half.
*There is a whole Ironsworn-but-vampires hack out there and it's cool, but it doesn't quite do what I want.
