#Dungeon Encounters

[actual-lea]

Listen. Listen to me. I need the Internet to know about Sir Cat.

There is a Square Enix game called Dungeon Encounters on the Switch. It’s a very minimalist type game, there is not really a plot to speak of, cutscenes, anything like that. You just explore 99 floors of a dungeon and fight monsters and find stuff and play through this whole game with very simple but very fun JRPG mechanics. Part of this is that you can find “wandering” party members in the dungeon that you can recruit to your party. One of them. Is the most important character that has ever been rendered in a video game.

He is Sir Cat. He is an Absolute Unit. He is the only party member in the game that can be equipped with a Cutlery Set, an item that allows him a chance to just. Eat an enemy. Consume it entirely.

Sir Cat does not walk. He FLOATS.

Fucking LOOK AT HIM

This is all of the backstory Sir Cat has. It’s all he needs.

13/10 the Most Character. I love him.

[herodzn]

speak to the hand kabru i just ate glass

[gorematchala]

I played some more of Dungeon Encounters today and so far its pretty cool and I like it but I'm glad I paid $10 for it lol. I think i forgot to mention it the other day but the battle theme is so bad I turned the muaic off entirely. The battle system itself is cool though, and the way gear and builds work

I'm just so scared of the characters I like getting petrified or lost cuz the way you unpetrify them or find them is kinda nightmarish. Its the main reason a lot of people gave the game bad reviews but i think its one of the best parts of the game actually. If they get petrified you have to leave them where they are and find an altar on another floor that will ask for X Y coordinates of the person you want to cure, and that X Y coordinate shit is how you find wandering characters too. Ones you havent met yet or ones who got separated. They can end up *somewhere* on a floor with 700 tiles. Its awesome and also very mean

Battle works kinda like dissidia opera omnia actually where theres a number barricading your health bar. Every character and enemy has physical and magical defense bars that need to be worn down before they lose health. The values vary though so like black bears have 110 physical defense but only 90 magical, so obviously the most efficient way to kill them is magic. But then i got my ass kicked because I tried to use AOE spells before I realized that the wizards next to the bears could reflect my magic back at me

Theres stuff in there to be sure its just taking a while to find all of it

[lordsovorn]

dunmeshi inner voices but it's all actual strengths of the characters

Senshi: maintain a balanced diet, listen to your body and be mindful of where your food is coming from. Don't take more than you need from the ecosystem, but remember that to live means to take.

Chilchuck: get paid upfront, get a contract, always have ways to protect your interests in a job, unionize.

Marcille: maintain good hygiene, and take care of your hair and clothes - it's nice and it's worth it. Things in the handbook are there for a reason, but tools aren't moral.

Laios: know your weaknesses and your strengths, and those of your friends. Rely on them and make sure they can always rely on you.

Falin: it's always worth to try kindness first, and to keep a heavy blunt object on hand if that doesn't work out.

Izutsumi: search for your own goals. Be open to change.

Kabru: make your own judgments, and then update them, rather than fit everything you see to your expectations. Act on your beliefs and judgements.

Shuro: always keep the cops in mind, never trust the cops. Know how to balance pressure and politeness in diplomacy.

Namari: maintain a balance between your personal and group interests. Act on your strengths.

Hien: you're staggeringly pretty as is

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Chilchuck says: Do what you can from where you are. Every action matters, every dollar counts.

[honey-doc]

“Mithrun can’t feel love” then what is this 🥺🥺🥺

[oldschoolfrp]

Dueling dragons (Jeff Easley, Dragon magazine 170, June 1991)

[theworldbrewery]

1d12 ways to complicate an encounter

A magic or mundane artifact generates an effect harmful to the PCs, but it is guarded by the monster's minions.

The encounter's setting starts to collapse during the battle, and all the combatants will need to escape.

A boss monster has a 'second form' that activates mid-way through the battle.

Traps are placed throughout the battlefield, and characters must be wary of them.

The PCs must complete a ritual while fending off attacks from the enemy.

The encounter area is a series of cliffs or platforms, forcing characters to jump around and risk falling, possibly into a pit, water, or lava.

There is a monster that uses the blink spell or tunneling to avoid attacks between its turns.

A minor enemy has the ability to summon or call for reinforcements every round.

There are three sides, not two, battling in this encounter.

A disastrous environmental effect, such as an avalanche, wildfire, or earthquake, occurs in the area, dealing damage and forcing the combatants apart.

An anti-magic pulse affects some areas of the battlefield periodically, suppressing spells and magical items when it is active.

The enemies are shockingly weak and easily defeated, but the PCs' goal isn't here -- the treasure chest is a mimic, or their princess is in another castle.

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[mxqiulin]

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[dailyadventureprompts]

Monster Hunt: The Doloron Colossi

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Enigmatic titans that stride endlessly through the snowy wastes, mummified by the cold, driven on by some unknown puprose, most think the colossi remnants of a forgotten age, and give them wide berth lest they be trampled underfoot.

There seems to be no aim to the Doloron's wandering, as they trek across the tundra and mountainsides alone or in groups of two or three like some mobile monument to hopeless exhaustion, occasionally collapsing to be buried by drifting snow only to be unburied decades later when some shift in weather or poor traveller unearths them.

Sightings of the Doloron are thought to be a bad omen, least in part because none are sure what draws their unthinking ire or what can dissuade it. Everyone has heard stories about the unlucky travler who somehow angered the colossi before escaping to warmer lands, only to have the giants arrive along with the winter winds and level the entire village. Some tales suggest their wandering is a millennia old hunt for some ancient foe they are sworn to slay before they can finally die.

Adventure Hooks:

It's well known that each Colossus is garbed in enough Adamantium to outfit a small legion, and while some scavengers spend years hunting for the smallest scrap offcast in the frozen wastes. Some of those prospectors found a Doloron trapped inside a ravine and half buried in ice, and now an impromptu mine has popped up excavating the undead and trying to strip its armour piece by piece. Only now the thing is whispering to them in an unknown language, a never ending, half heard litany in a language none of them can understand.

A cruel wizard has realized that the giants follow the worst of the winter storms, and has used weather magic to "steer" a Doloron into a frontier garrison, with aims of using it to bring a nearby kingdom to its knees.

Legend says there is some way to rally the colossi to one's aid, though accounts vary whether it might be a great horn carved into a hidden mountain, the crown upon which they swore their oath of service, or the words of forbidden binding that gave them their beleaguered immortality. As the final battle approaches, the party may need to discover the truth of these rumours if they hope to even the odds against their foe.

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[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 212

“Did we just pull an Isekai?” 

“I mean, does it count if it’s practically just Ghostwriter’s usual shit, just more chaotic?” 

“Sam, this is like a game, look, we even have inventory overlays!” 

“Yeah but Tuck, I died so therefor I pulled an isekai, right?” 

“Shit, why does that make sense?” 

“Boys, perhaps actually look into your overlay there? Perhaps look at the map as well?” 

“... oh my Ancients, guys, we’re not the players, we’re going to be the bosses of this game.”

. . . 

“This is going to be so much fun guys.” 

The JL Jr team would really like it to be known that they are in fact done with Klarions shenanigans. This is literally the first day school is out for the summer for them! Who even showed him DnD and anime anyway?!

[notafagipromise]

I see directly post-canon labrumiso as a polycule that both laios and mithrun are dating kabru but not each other, BUT! I do think that they could be a triad after a while with mithrun and laios building a relationship.

it's insanely funny to me the image of laios sadly telling mithrun about a interesting monster he never got to see before he got cursed, so on one random regular meeting mithrun suddenly teleports into the room with a carcass of the monster laios wanted to see

but I think the funniest of it all is that because of mithrus terrible sense of direction he would have to teleport short distances to be able to figure out where he is and make his way into the castle,that week there was a lot of rumors of a elven ghoul dragging a carcass across the kingdom

also mithrun would immediately crash from lack of mana after teleporting all the way into the castle

[homolobotomized]

kabru going thru the labors of hercules (and dying more than any other named character) specifically because he wanted to listen to laios infodump ab his special interest is making me crazy like what do you MEAN..........

[feleven]

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