High Rollers: Oneshot - DARK SOULS RPG

[@SherlockHulmesDM]

RULES CORRECTION: One thing I want to highlight, because it would have made a big difference to the difficulty I think and I want to give the best impression of the game, is that I got a rule wrong with regards to Position. In the game, whenever a battle starts you roll half (rounded up) your Position Die x Level and gain that many Temporary Position points *every time you fight*. So the party would have had between 1-8ish more "hp" each time. I don't think it would have changed MUCH given the way the team played... ;) But still! A correction! Totally on me! I was rushing to read the rules/adapt the adventure a bit and missed this.

[@beiste6708]

will there be more of this? loved it

[@lixthewitch6718]

Literally ruined! :P

[@ElSauce_Art]

We definitely need to see it continued sometime

[@jameswachter5295]

You can't be expected to learn every rule in a new game

[@AdriannaDaFox98]

I still don't think it's fair to combine HP and Stamina because it just makes it harder to do anything when ur having to burn ur own HP to use abilities

[@Lukasaske]

We were one Tom Bates away from having all the Toms in one RPG. It's my ultimate dream... It will happen one day 🙏

[@sonyagreen5801]

As long as you don't count spiffing brit who im pretty sure is also a Tom haha

[@Lukasaske]

@@sonyagreen5801 My dream has just been updated. It's quickly becoming a shopping list but without the shopping.

[@Samouraii]

We at least got Tom Tom (colloquially known as the drums)

[@john-marccartagenas6706]

Tommyinnit, is also a Tom I assume

[@kamikazesopp]

So close to the Trini-Tom, yet so far.

[@dblczx6819]

1:42:53 Mark: "You hear the sound of heavily armored footsteps beneath you... you look down... to see a very polished, silver helm of an armored figure." Ravs: "What color's the armor?" Mark: "Silver." [beat, Ravs is stunned] Tom C. (small voice): "...Okay..." Then, there's 1:47:00... *Death jingle* YOU DIED. Absolutely loved this part and all the little references the party made throughout the whole thing. Looking forward to part 2.

[@aramere3650]

Ravs and Kim: RP Tom C: scatting dobby Tom H: One Piece villain

[@The_Number1Candyman]

I would LOVE to see them do a full side campaign on this like with Strahd, I can already picture some amazing things Mark would do in the world of Dark Souls

[@MadkingLeviticus]

I would also dig a mini campaign of this. Would like to see how bosses play out

[@loganday1514]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS AMAZING MAKE A FULL GAME OF IT I WOULD DIE HAPPYYYY

[@salamanda550]

Man, I was skeptical about this, given it seemed like a "just wack it in 5e" thing, but watching this has me genuinely tempted to pick it up....

[@kamikazesopp]

5e has the benefit of being very adaptable, so using it to "quick build" a new system is comparatively safe.

[@angusseifried7990]

make this a new permanent series!

[@bryceaustin4995]

This had me rolling with laughter, good to see Tom C as a player.

[@Alba_Longa]

Tom (Clark) is amazing in this. Wish the yogs play more board game in general.

[@charlieholdsworth6086]

When Tom C ran in to check if the initial guards had re-spawned I nearly drowned in iced tea. Funny stuff

[@sorambit]

Ah yes. John Darksouls. The true main character. Glad for that reference from the goblin pile!

[@frantisekvrana3902]

Well, that was a thing. :D Honestly, I was worried when Other Tom broke the bonfire. I thought it might not work at all, and if they died before finding another one, they'd go hollow automatically.

[@mithosyggdrasill9710]

I've been running a Dark Souls 5e campaign myself. It's given me a lot of new insight regarding the lore. I'm having them sort of bridge the gap between 1 and 3. It's good to see others with this level of passion for this world.

[@yuzik01]

As a casual gamer Dark Souls is literally unplayable for me, but I've seen the memes and think it's a cool game so I've enjoyed this a lot. Loving the creepy laughs :D Your oneshots never disappoint, no matter what it is

[@kamikazesopp]

Dark Souls 2 and (sort of) 3 are more casual-friendly, at least in the beginning. Might wanna check them out on a sale.

[@Gothic_Analogue]

As a dyspraxic with the hand-eye coordination of a drunk fly, honestly DS3 isn’t that bad. The first tutorial boss does a lot to teach you the mechanics of the game.

[@thelaughingman4791]

If it matters, Elden Ring is somewhat easier than the Dark Souls games. And if anything/everything is too difficult for you there are always jolly cooperators.

[@robando2922]

Play as a mage, makes it so much eaiser 😅

[@derrickwiggins972]

This was such a fun showcase! I did not expect to laugh so much.

[@ducky5945]

This was brilliant. It really _would_ be amazing to see this continued.

[@Nesetroll]

I'm currently reading the DMG for 5E, and was going to start off with a one-shot where the players woke up from a tomb. Then they would react to how difficult it was when all the encounters from the get go was dangerous or deadly, and eventually everyone would die and respawn. Nice to see someone with actual skill refining it into an playable format, and not just for a goof!

[@orin331]

At long last, Tom C in a High Rollers video

[@soupkup9377]

I came for Tom in the thumbnail, I stayed for the D&D shenanigans. Fantastic!

[@thebookist1651]

Who is he?

[@MortalGlare]

Great to have a new team to spice things up a bit!

[@chance713]

"Every soul has its dark." -Johnny Darksouls

[@brandonlopina7733]

I recently picked up a copy of this book from my local Shop. It's a super interesting game that really pushes the 5e skirmish mechanics in a good direction.

[@thetripleallamaxx7895]

Jolly cooperation!!!!

[@noobredghost4227]

More of this please with the same crew

[@Yaboijack]

Loved this, loved seeing angry tom too, I miss the yogs dnd serieseses

[@joshuabryan3692]

Bearer of the - Seek - Seek - Lest -

[@reisuz3921]

As my good sir would say "Goooooodbyyeee."- Dexter Build

[@Volgeirea]

Pleeeease I’d love to see a part 2 to this!

[@ElSauce_Art]

We need to see more of this, It was so funny

[@ddmalarkey]

Amazing stuff! Would really love to see more of this!

[@AkkarinDarkmoor]

tom REALLY fucked the party here. i love it

[@ganymeade275]

Happened to be working on a mimic-filled inn that is itself a giant mimic when watching this >.>

[@hafen8362]

We need to see more of this please!

[@rebeljesus3470]

I'm gonna love this arent i? Edit: I absolutely loved it!!!

[@FrumpybutSuperSmart]

This was an unmitigated disaster and I loved all of it.

[@dylanmorris5352]

Genuine question for anybody who might know; Will there be a pdf version of this, because I haven't seen anything about it with the preorders?

[@identityflux]

I know that if you buy a physical copy you also get a PDF, I haven't seen anything regarding a purely digital PDF purchase sadly.

[@Voice_of_p]

Thx to the crew this was great

[@toxicteapot7941]

is every round considered a new combat for the plank shiled or is it whenever a combat is initiated?

[@youtoob4life]

Any news if this will continue? I'd love to see some more!

[@HughGort]

How can you play this and NOT give everyone bottles of sunny delight

[@HL65536]

If you roll a 1 on death, is the new character level 1 again? Or the same level as the previous character?

[@kamikazesopp]

As they said, it's permanently dead, so presumably you're reset to level 1 unless the GM says otherwise.

[@Mikemih]

Its here !!!

[@raindrop4308]

Lets go high rollers

[@Lukasaske]

This game reminds me of... Irithyll Dungeons and Everlasting Dragons.

[@derektafoya1152]

This was stellar

[@travisboothe5670]

I hope there is a bunch of forward rolls I this game.

[@dominussharith9016]

CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN MAKE IT INTO A CAMPAIGN

[@brett3415]

So, I'm a huge souls fan. Played all the games and have all the board games. I've never in my life played D&D. I literally know nothing. To me, this video seems like the DM makes absolutely random decisions based on nothing. Forgive my ignorance. As a souls fan I have bought this TTRPG book. Any tips or advice or anything that might help me get started? Much appreciated. Feel free to teat me as an idiot

[@toxicteapot7941]

This is 4 months late, but D&D is basically just random decisions. No matter how much a DM plans, players will always find a way to do the opposite of what you wanted. Making things up on the fly is a great skill to have. Really, the book is a toolbox. You can use it to build your own game. You can take the monsters and use those or create your own with your own stats and abilities, though this part may need some experience.

[@harperthegoblin]

Can anyone give me tips for catching up on aerois I don't have time to binge 12 seasons

[@madaboutlamaz1706]

there are things called "Rhi-caps" done by Rhiannon which are basically her catching the audience up on each chapter but they only go up to chapter 5 or 6 I think. There's the highrollers wiki which I think summarises the chapters, too. Beyond that, Mark does a good job at recapping events at the beginning of each episode so you could probably go back and just watch the first ten minutes of each episode to catch up that way. Hope that helps :)

[@harperthegoblin]

@@madaboutlamaz1706 thank you so much.

[@madaboutlamaz1706]

@@harperthegoblin no problem!

[@sonyagreen5801]

Also the podcasts are handy to catch up on while you are doing something else like driving or on the train

[@IcepersonYT]

I'm gonna be honest even if it takes you like a year or two to catch up I highly recommend watching Aerois from the start, it is a very dynamic game with characters who have grown a lot from episode one and the contents of their adventures are constantly evolving, no two "arcs" feel the same. Obviously do whatever is ideal for you, I'm sure jumping into it with Rhicaps or reading summaries is still going to be a load of fun but if you can find the time it is a very fulfilling campaign.

[@JesterfaceBassplayer]

Gives me conniptions.

[@expheonixincinere]

Hrm. I dunno, this seems like the same lazy attempt at a cash-grab like the Japanese released dark souls ttrpg. That was released in about 2017; it was created to many rave reviews, but others pointed out how the system wasn't custom to what they published, but like this more recent dstrpg, it instead had been like a square peg put into a triangle hole removing quite a few of the intricacies that the game had (not including other npc/enemy issues that made making enemies a pain).

[@IcepersonYT]

Honestly even with a system explicitly made to support it, videogames into tabletop games(especially RPG's) never seems to go over super well mostly for the reason of adapting enemies from the game accurately and then making new ones if you start running out of things to use. UESRPG(Unofficial Elder Scrolls Roleplaying Game) was really neat when my group tried to use it but we ended up with a similar issue of just not really knowing what to do for enemies once we used up most of the stat blocks in the books and there weren't any supplements or easy explanations for how the creators ended up with what made it on the stat blocks.

[@kamikazesopp]

The sad fact is, you can never convert a videogame into a boardgame of any kind without sacrificing complexity. A computer can handle infinite tedium and minutia, but a human won't.

[@cloudsRniceC0M3]

Intriguing

[@konstantinbreen]

strange to see TC as a PC

[@zuerock4854]

I love this so much

[@Accultus]

Please play this again sometime

[@gavincrosby5394]

i love tom

[@gamboapodcast]

The book of errors.

[@jamespatrick8145]

Any chance a hermit can make this work solo play?

[@FMD-FullMetalDragon]

There is a lot of 4e in this game.

[@Entariiljc]

yesssss :D

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

Would be fun if you dying would level up the monster that killed you, so to get it back you need to defeat an even tougher boss/monster than before

[@toxicteapot7941]

This could potentially soft lock the players out of a boss unless they grind, and grinding in DND isn't fun.

[@LPDani123]

Trying to cram Dark souls rpg into a DnD like system sounds like a bad idea

[@kamikazesopp]

Why? The games already follow pretty old-school game-design philosophies. 5e is also very easy to modify and adapt, so the only real limiter is how deep the designers wanted to go. Also worth noting, this does not put Dark Souls into DnD. They've used the ruleset of 5e to give DS it's own TTRPG, but the connection ends there.

[@bigmacchief]

Nice

[@brego5138]

First

[@JM-mh1pp]

This game is...absolutely terrible. It is just a bad mod to d&d 5. There is nothing even trying to get the feeling of dark souls, no stamina management, no positioning, just standing there and slashing at your enemies. Dark souls board game...a freaking board game...managed to recreate the feeling that positioning and learning patterns of enemy attacks is crucial, and here...nothing. The fact that it is official game and not a fan made mod is offensive to the idea of rpg and the biggest cashgrab in history. Thank you for this session, you saved me a bit of money.

[@toxicteapot7941]

I didn't find the board game to be very effective at displaying Dark Souls either. A lot of home rules had to be made at launch to bring it closer to the games. That being said, the Japanese TRPG is a great Dark Souls trpg. You can't even talk! You have to communicate with emotes and if the host does, everyone loses. Personally, these mechanics aren't very fun in a trpg, but some others were great. I do like the "3 memories, lose 1 per death, hollow when 0" mechanic.

[@Heimal]

I guess I'll have to buy it then.

[@AnoAssassin]

Using the soul xp item immediately effectively ensuring it was wasted was... I guess funny to _some_

[@denaz5000]

what a snobby comment

[@kamikazesopp]

It's a one-shot. If you're min-maxing during a one-shot, you have a twisted sense of fun (in my humble opinion).

[@AnoAssassin]

Seeing a level up in this system would've been fun but thanks. Min maxing is not the goal but min minning ain't that great either

[@MichaelTE]

Dark Souls really just needs to stick to computer games. The board game sucks, and the rpg doesn't look much better. I mean the whole dying and coming right back thing didn't seem to work very well at all, especially with multiple players

[@avlaenamnell6994]

i quite like the board game. :(