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@deidungeon Not a particular favourite, but I like taking regular monsters and fleshing them out.
Ran tower dungeon with a family of ‘ghouls’ in various states of transformation recently, and it was a lot of fun. Grandmother fully transformed kept caged in the entry, uncles partially transformed and kept from the hearth room, half-elf mother partially affected, and unaffected daughter who was kept in the tower top hearth room.
Fighting Fantasy Russ Nicholson really inspired this vibe.
@SJohnRoss Sorry - should have cut you!
@Tim_Eagon @kevin @SJohnRoss @Taskerland Watching it did inspire me to immediately play a similar world, but it didn’t make me want to buy the product, and I played that world with an easier GM toolkit.
@Tim_Eagon @kevin @SJohnRoss @Taskerland Id say it was pretty balanced review based on real play experience: creative world; evocative presentation; fun experience for players to play; but deliberately over complicated rules to fit that world make it harder to GM. I think the problem is that this is an innovate game that won a bunch of awards and that people love, so even loving criticism can look like a kick in the face. Essentially an issue with the maturity of RPG review discourse.
@kevin @SJohnRoss @Taskerland @Tim_Eagon
The latest Indie RPG Newsletter refer to some tension about this review on Discords that couldn’t be linked to: https://ttrpg.in/2025/09/21/triangulation/
I did the same and looked and the video comments, but it was all pretty positive about the quality of the review.