A downloadable game

Are you tired of Tabletop RPGs with good design, good rules, and good ethics?

Darkbad  is a 20 page, rules lite fantasy roleplaying game inspired by the OSR and the flotsam floating around it. It is ugly, cheap, and lazy. A true callback to simpler times.

Anti-features:

  • Strict 1:1 Timekeeping
  • Simple combat system where death is fast and grim
  • Always-on initiative system
  • Familiar skill rolls with a minimalist twist
  • Endless room for improvement

Neighborly disclosure: Darkbad contains some machine generated images. You will know them when you see them.

Neighborly disclosure the second: this is a shitpost. Please don't take it seriously.

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 2.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
AuthorArchivesOfMu
Tagsartpunk, Fantasy, OSR, satire, Tabletop role-playing game

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DARKBAD RPG.pdf 10 MB

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(+5)(-3)

Proof that TTRPG's are in fact art, a parody and critique of recent gaming trends and yet has its own ideas and works in a somewhat disjointed way.

Darkbad, technically does more and says more than Kickstarters that get hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Even if its a mocking warped reflection of recent gaming darlings like ShadowDark, Mork Borg, and a plethora of OSR Heart Breakers, written by an internet edgelord in a day or so.

(+5)(-8)

Hot garbage. 

Failed parody of ShadowDark, if that's what this is. SD has zero culture war or politics in it (half the reason I gave it look in the first place), and yet this pretentious piece of miserable humor is just politicized commentary on a game the designer obviously hasn't read, since said game has none of the elements DarkBad is trying to turn into a punchline.

Keep the ol' chip on your shoulder and keep blindly perpetuating the culture war in gaming, bro. So sick of the politics.

(+6)(-5)

I'm embarrassed to have believed Shadow Dark to be the upmost peak of role-playing gaming. Dark Bad is innovative and straight to the point, it's layout immaculate, even surpassing my countrymen in every aspect. I shall repent with the help of a lifetime's worth of Dark Bad Gaming

(+5)(-6)

The finest ultra-light ever produced. A possible rival for DORK SÖRD.