Symbaroum: Treasure Hunts in Davokar - Review

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If I wasn't drowning in RPGs i don't have time to play I'd be all over this.

Also I think you need to adopt the dead-eyed smile of a weird christian cult if you wanna make tantrum house money.

You probably know this, Barnes, but TROPHY DARK was created in large part because the designer loved the setting and themes of SYMBAROUM but didn’t care for the crunchy system.

Ha! Actually, I didn’t know that but it makes perfect sense. I don’t know that I’d call it crunchy though....but I’m also suffering through a Pathfinder campaign, god help me.

In the grim darkness of the Pathfinder future, everything else is rules-right.

Using licenses (presumably the 'richer' the area, the more expensive the license) is a great way to subtly level gate adventures. And it drives some of the need to get money in the first place, something very lacking in most of the 5e stuff I've read/played, where cash is basically worthless because there are few magic items, hirelings, or strongholds to buy and maintain and money isn't linked to xp or levelling up costs. That serves their "story first, second, and third" approach with 5e but I miss the mercenary angle.