Why You Should Play Trophy Dark!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I talk about why you should play Trophy Dark, a fantastic narrative dark fantasy rules light system that has brought me a huge amount of fun.
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I've only played Trophy Dark once and it was one of my favourite games. I love the collaborative aspects of the storytelling and the questions asked by the GM which get my brain flowing.
#2 Couple Reflections on Running Trophy Dark
From my experience, the true potential of Trophy Dark only reveals itself when we develop a set of techniques and best practices that support this brilliant game, such as:
* How to facilitate a Risk Roll to maintain the play tempo?
* How to work with Moments to enhance the atmosphere even more?
* How does “ask questions and build on the answers” best work in Trophy?
* How to impose more Conditions and not delve into gonzo absurd?
* How to pace the consecutive Rings and transitions between them?
The rules and procedures of Trophy Dark are super smart, and the Incursions for Dark are a true work of art. However, the rule text is not overly extensive, and the “well played game” of TD, in my experience, relies primarily on developing practices around these and many other questions.
GREAT REVIEW
As an oldbeard from the late 80s I am so magnificently happy that we have entered a golden age of TTRPG, glad to find your channel and subscribed. Look forward to seeing all of your back content.
Glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, it's an amazing time to be into TTRPGs.
As a longtime Call of Cthulhu/Trail of Cthulhu Keeper, I really appreciated the purity and focus of Trophy Dark for short-term games. Great review.
Love the video! I agree with the bit about expectations; it's an excellent system for single scenarios/one shots!
#1 Key Differences Between Trophy Dark and Trophy Gold
Trophy Dark is a very narrative, psychological "tragic horror" about desperate characters who lose themselves in cursed space, trying at all costs to gain wealth, power, and might, as an answer to their desperate need.
It's a very "storytelling game" based on cooperatively telling a tragic story in a dark fantasy / dark fairy tale setting.
Trophy Gold emulates dungeon exploration known from OSRs in a story game format. It is in the same anti-canonical world as Trophy Dark (check out Trophy Loom, a setting book! remembering that it's still anti-canon), and it also has a set of similar mechanics (Risk Roll, Rituals, Ruin, etc.).
However, Gold is very game-oriented (vs Dark being story-oriented) - structurally it's about exploring a treasure-filled locations, squeezing as much gold out of it as possible, avoiding combat and danger, and escaping from the location at the last tactically sensible moment, all dressed up in a lot of cool color and themes offered by the modules.
In Gold, you inherently have a chance to survive the expedition and return to the city with the treasures you've collected, first you must return with the gold to pay off your debt (cost of living in the city, maintaining a household, renting weapons and armor) and if you manage, to save gold towards realizing your big, desperate goal.
From my perspective, these are two dramatically different games, despite a lot of similarities at first glance (character cards look similar, both games have Risk Roll, Help Roll, Contest Roll, it's really the same world and the same color).
GREAT REVIEW !!
I highly recommend both!
Thx dude! What a wonderful game! And a very nice presentation, too. Subscription more than earned.
Thank you for the super kind words
Thank you! I've been looking for a review of this game that I could send my table ever since seeing... (holy shit!) your actual play of "A Warm and Pleasant Hum", but TH-cam has been rather short on Trophy Dark reviews lately.
Such a cool system and different spin on fantasy. I bounced off gold but we run dark all the time.
that's interesting because I also bounced off Gold. I haven't given it a fair shake just yet so I am holding off on having a cemented opinion but when I read it after Dark it did not hit the same. I think that might change with a good group/GM to introduce it but the mechanics of Dark are so tight it's hard to beat.
Wonderful review! I gotta try this some time.
Hell yeah! I had a similar experience with TD, heard about it a lot on Fear of a Black Dragon, then played a game of it and immediately going and buying the books and running about five games in the next fortnight.
I think there's something really freeing about knowing where the story is going for players. It allows them to lean in and engage with the premise a lot more. I've found a similar effect happens with Ten Candles, and since playing TD have actually taken a lot of techniques from Trophy back to a Ten Candles game, especially those "paint the scene questions", such a good tool to focus player involvement.
I have you to thank for really turning me on to T:D Wasabi. It instantly became one of my favorites, especially to run( still only played that 1st time)! Contest rolls absolutely rock and I have to say if you aren't doing them you're missing out on a key component of the game. Grab the hardcover it's one of my favorite rpg books in both presentation and content
Cmon Wasabi. Run this again!
Awesome video Wasabi! Best introduction to Trophy Dark right here. I picked it up a while ago & haven't run it yet. I can't wait, it's an amazing game!
Thank you! I hope you get around to it soon, it is absolutely a blast!
I've run this game many times (disclosure, I contributed very minority to the Gold book). IMO this is one of the best derivatives of the masterpiece that is Cthulhu Dark.
aww hell yeah great video. trophy dark is so good
Also, I think this may be the first time I have ever experimented with slowing down the playback speed; you’re going like 1.5x or faster already. 😂
Haha sorry, my talking speed is naturally so fast, I am still working on slowing down :D
-1 for mispronouncing Schadenfreude.
I heard it back and knew I did and I actually thought of you in that moment, Mitt and left it in. As a little treat.
You sold me on it. I’ll have to pick up a copy.
I feel like it would be cool to play this in the Darkest Dungeon universe.
I think you're 100% correct. Which is funny because there is a really great DD documentary that shows the creators talking about that they made DD because the premise was them showing how awful it would actually be to be a D&D adventurer. Dealing with disease, monsters, madness, paranoia, dark magic, etc. That it wouldn't be this fun adventure but a horror story with swords and shields so Trophy Dark would emulate that perfectly.
@@wasabiburger3047 That’s a very good point! I remember seeing a 5e hack that turned D&D into darkest dungeon, and while it was a cool project, it still didn’t feel like Darkest Dungeon because it’s still trying to play a very different style of game at the end of the day.
Interesting, it sounds a lot mechanically like Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsey.
That is what it is based off of!
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