#dsa rpg

[feivelynart]

Rahjadan, the most respectful Horny Bard TM out there (...until he falls victim to demonic seduction, that makes him a rapey asshole.)

[oldschoolfrp]

The party sets out for adventure -- Ugurcan Yüce cover for The Dark Eye introductory box set, Schmidt Spiele -- Schmidt France version "L'Œil noir;" originally released in German as "Das Schwarze Auge" (DSA). This art has been attributed to a second alternative version of the 1984 1st edition, and to the 1988 2nd edition.

[valtharr]

When i was younger here in Germany most ttrpg players i know played a system called "Das Schwarze Auge" (DSA), which has a fantasy setting comparable to D&D. (and honestly the rules are rather complicated in places, too) But over the last couple of years i kinda saw this game fade into background. Because of the dominance of US-American popculture D&D overtook the market. And while i generally enjoy D&D, it kinda worries me how much the system just pushes other systems out of the picture.

I mean, DSA sucks too (at least the version I played. Unnecessarily complicated resolution mechanic plus I really don't care about medieval fantasy at all...)

Like, I get what you mean, but let's be real, DSA was the D&D of Germany. It had generally the same role in the German TTRPG space, and I personally don't think one cultural monopoly is inherently better than another?

[tagedeszorns]

Something not Warhammer-related: Revro, the professional Imman-player.

In Germany, the role-playing game system DSA ("Das Schwarze Auge" - "The Black Eye"), now also forty years old, is more popular than D&D. It has much more complex rules (both blessing and curse) and is more geared towards building a character that fits into the incredibly detailed world and interacting with the creatures and circumstances there. The power level is lower and the characters rarely become overpowered heroes. On the other hand, there is the opportunity to explore all kinds of well-developed areas, cities and political contexts and you can easily be a travelling blacksmith, a cartographer or a wonderfully useless, incredibly nerdy mage. Or a trader, a mercenary who is actually a cook (or vice versa) or a tattoo-artist.

Of course, this also means that an average DSA adventure is not a dungeon crawl.

Which led to our game master "gifting" us an NPC who is a celebrated Imman player in Havena the not very mage-friendly town we are currently involuntarily staying in. Imman is a very popular team sport, distantly related to hurling. Revro, that's his name, plays for the Havena Bulls and has developed a crush on my clueless mage. Much to the continued amusement of the rest of our group.

Doesn't matter - my mage is happy. Finally, someone who is willing to listen to his elaborate explanations of old-puninian number magic!

And because I had so much fun with Revro, I sketched him and hope we can keep him.

[lamiasage]

Commission for my dear friend @/intro-verve on Twitter, showing Pettar Peddersen, one of his DSA characters :)

[famigsart]

I drew our group in DSA

Everyone has the trait "good looking" except one guy. It happened by chance too. We all wanted some hot characters I guess XD

This one is mine

Valerio Loriano! Bard and Swords man!

[stuffedcrocodile]

The Oldest TTRPG Forum on the Net

Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the late 70s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much diminished state than at it’s heyday. I don’t know if you ever heard the term Usenet before, and even if you did, if you don’t just connect it with data piracy. Because that’s what it is mostly used for nowadays. What it…

[doomaday]

When you suddenly decide you want a background and your pen stops working, so you Fingerpaint it all and also make Up a Concept while doing so aka. How to NOT paint backgrounds #art #procreate #rpg #dnd #dsa #dasschwarzeauge #thedarkeye #tabletoprpg https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIrkepN5uk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[linestyleartwork]

I was once again allowed to paint a map illustration for "Das schwarze Auge" and Ulisses Games: "The Andergast Borderland" for "The Seed of the Black Oak". It was a pleasure again!😊

AD: Steffen Brand

[hoschimoto]

The Purple Tower – Der Purpurturm, The Exploration of Orclands, Volume I, Adventure 16 for Das Schwarze Auge, Schmidt Spiele, 1987 (Claus D Biswanger cover art, Ulrich Kiesow author)

[wolfman-al]

He is a big dumb strong guy with a club and silly clothes. Thats it. But you what? Sometimes characters like that are the most fun.

[feivelynart]

Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye PCs in the style of Darkest Dungeon

[spooky-rabbit11]

Just building my first D&D char (5e) and I'm so annoyed, why is everything so darn combat focused and mean?

Tbh, just as like a general thing, I think "playing a tabletop roleplaying game is a bitter and ruthless power struggle between the DM and the players" is a bad attitude to have regardless of who you're "siding" with

[jirihazekk]

Es wird wieder gewürfelt! #rpg #ttrpg #roleplaying #rollenspiele #dnd #dnd5e #dsa #thedarkeye #shadowrun #pathfinder (hier: Studentenclub Block 17) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnEFSemNOEm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thydungeongal]

Have you ever had any experiences with DSA? Das Schwarze Auge *is* a German game ,but I'm wondering if it's ever breaking containment nowadays

I know of it! The English translation of it has been featured in a number of Bundles of Holding so I wouldn't be surprised if it showed up there again, and as far as I know it's actually been used as the basis for a number of CRPGs, including the Blackguards series and the Realms of Arkania series (which was incidentally my first encounter with the series)!

It is relatively obscure outside of Germany but has still sort of broken containment enough to warrant multiple translations, so it clearly has an international audience! Which I think is great: just like it's cool that Dragonbane, formerly Drakar och Demoner, Sweden's premier fantasy RPG has gotten an English translation, I think it's extremely cool when originally non-English language RPGs get to reach a wider audience.

Speaking my personal encounter with the series, Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva was weirdly enough translated into Finnish in the nineties. It owns.

[for-gilded-cups-are-empty]

So, sitting on a train, there are like, 3 other people next to you, yea?

What are the odds that one of them notices me staring at her, I tell her I’m trying to read the writing on that sticker on her headphones: she tells me it’s a sticker from the indie music festival she runs. Which she tells me is in a castle ruin. I tell her that I too hang out in castle ruins a lot, and if they get any larper.

They do, Witcher larp specifically. Person 3/4 joins in to talk about the Witcher, asks what other kinds of larp there are. I mention DSA. He has spent his entire childhood getting absorbed into that world but was afraid to talk to anyone about that stuff as an adult.

Person 4 hears we are talking about pen and paper rpgs and joins in with some Star Wars edge of the empire anecdotes.

Sadly had only four or five stops with these amazing people, but it’s still great to just find others out in the wild