you never have enough resources to go around. even totally successful delve can have negative, lasting (or costly to fix) impacts on your characters. Enough stress and they can even die from it. Enough stress and they can go crazy, which is stressful on others. characters suffer stress from delving, from getting critically hit, from almost dying, from running away, from standing to fight, from darkness, from too much light (with the wrong manias), etc. It's basically permanent (although there are events that affect that.) ![]() character death is something to try to avoid, but it happens. you take a ride to a sad little hamlet next to your ancestral home, a ciffside house with a nearby wilderness, warren, ruin, and cove as well as the titular "Darkest Dungeon" and recruit adventurers to send to clear out the evil. In the paraphrased words of Glen Cook, he brought back fingers cobwebbed with damnnation. your ancestor was a bored rich person who dug too deep and dreamed a little too much of a dream of power. If you're not familiar with the game, I'll give you a quick rundown: Nothing like the mind-drain that is War in the East or (to me anyway) its more complex brother, War in the West. I ended up with a game that takes some thought and planning. What I wanted was a game I could play with minimal thought. And heck, maybe I could get an idea or two for my own gaming. I'd been eyeing it for years, literally, after having heard a couple of my players talk about it.įor $5 I figured that even if I got only a few hours of fun out of it I'd be okay. ![]() The other day I posted that GOG had put Darkest Dungeon on a very steep discount.
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