Hey everyone,
I’ve had this playbook saved to my computer for a while and keep meaning to fine-tune it; it kind of fills the niche of a druid in traditional fantasy games while being more suited to the genre. Haven’t had a chance to see it playtested and I still have a few mixed feelings about some of the features, but here it is for your appraisal: The Earthbound.
(Also, if someone could tell me how to make the comments go away and stay gone that’d be nice ;_; )
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jhjL36VuVLuh66ruz_AdvxmMOdgTVT0i/view?usp=sharing
I like a lot about this. It is pretty specific, but why the hell not. The marks, I feel, should not all be weapons. Maybe make half weapons, and half other things. Beast speech: I think you can be more generous and let them speak the language of all beasts; the fun lies in speaking with a toad this game and a fox that game, not in waiting three sessions for a bloody tortoise to turn up.
Half the histories are great (1,2,4,6), the other half a bit bland – maybe one about a hunter that fears your powers, ask them why; or one who has offended the Earth, or who is the most removed from the Earth’s embrace; one who should never be buried in soil, tell them why; … make it a bit odd.
Felix Girke those suggestions for histories were very good; I had some weirder thoughts but I didn’t want to make them all too weird. I was thinking of allowing the beast speech to be expanded by an advanced move but maybe you’re right – I was thinking all of a group such as reptiles, canines or birds would allow something thematic of your character while not being species dependant and thus as you mentioned waiting several sessions until one showed up. Part of the appeal for some of the people I pitched it to was in that.
I wanted to make the marks weapons or weapon adjacent; but i did try and not make them all weapons for example the hallucinogenic ability, but I described it in very weapon terms to sort of define it more, if that makes sense? I want the Earth to have given the Hunter a means of defence without relying on anything so crude as guns, but if course a hunter who rejects the earth could still use them.