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Wicked Ones
WICKED ONES is a Forged in the Dark tabletop RPG about a group of fantasy monsters building a dungeon, launching raids on the surface to gather a hoard, and pursuing your nefarious master plan. Along the way, there's pillaging, rituals, concoctions, contraptions, discoveries deep in the ground, dungeon rooms, traps, creatures, minions, and so much more! You build your dungeon over time throughout the campaign and no two dungeons will ever be alike.
You bask in choosing the greater of two evils as your group strives to accomplish its master plan and terrorize the region around your dungeon. However, your vile deeds lure increasingly greedy and powerful adventurers into your dungeon. Can you stave off the inevitable onslaught of heroism that your notoriety brings?
You bask in choosing the greater of two evils as your group strives to accomplish its master plan and terrorize the region around your dungeon. However, your vile deeds lure increasingly greedy and powerful adventurers into your dungeon. Can you stave off the inevitable onslaught of heroism that your notoriety brings?
361 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2020
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February 5, 2021
How many years have we been adventurers? Delving into darkness, slaying found fiends and retrieving treasure to increase our heroic power. Sure, sometimes we might be more mercenary murderhobos than actual heroes, but roleplaying games are about adventure. Well, not any more!
Wicked Ones is a Forged in the Dark game about being the monsters. You are creatures of unusual ambition and intelligence, ruling over a dungeon populated by lesser minions and imps. You argue, scheme, develop dark plans, and venture out onto the surface to raid and corrupt the forces of Light that are prevent you from fulfilling your monstrous destiny. As your dungeon grows, you attract adventurers who murder their way towards your sanctum. But if you survive, you'll topple the whole region into chaos, claiming it for the forces of darkness.
Wicked Ones gets a lot of points for the reverse dungeon concept, but it's also a really nicely tuned version of the FitD system. Monsters are resilient, so they clear stress and harm automatically. There's a new level of consequence, Shocked, which imposes a penalty to the next roll using the relevant ability. Downtime and the loot cycle have also been reworked to be more monstrous, and you can bank Dark Hearts to get bonus dice by playing into moments when your monstrous appetites harm you. Resistance rolls have been reworked into a static cost. In general, having read a fair number of FitD games, Wicked Ones is one of the better implementations of the system, a clear and stripped down FitD 1.5!
The book comes with plenty of material, with three schools of magic, alchemy, and goblincore mad science to flavor the usual abilities. There are four sample regions to corrupt, lots of tables of weird items and spells, four advanced monsters with powerful abilities, and plenty of incredibly stylish artwork. The tone is horror-slapstick. You're encouraged to commit atrocities, but fiction and your base appetites will implode your plans in a funny way.
There aren't many games in this vein, and Wicked Ones is a cut above. My only problem is that it came out after my Monstrous Revolution campaign was in full swing. Maybe next time!
Wicked Ones is a Forged in the Dark game about being the monsters. You are creatures of unusual ambition and intelligence, ruling over a dungeon populated by lesser minions and imps. You argue, scheme, develop dark plans, and venture out onto the surface to raid and corrupt the forces of Light that are prevent you from fulfilling your monstrous destiny. As your dungeon grows, you attract adventurers who murder their way towards your sanctum. But if you survive, you'll topple the whole region into chaos, claiming it for the forces of darkness.
Wicked Ones gets a lot of points for the reverse dungeon concept, but it's also a really nicely tuned version of the FitD system. Monsters are resilient, so they clear stress and harm automatically. There's a new level of consequence, Shocked, which imposes a penalty to the next roll using the relevant ability. Downtime and the loot cycle have also been reworked to be more monstrous, and you can bank Dark Hearts to get bonus dice by playing into moments when your monstrous appetites harm you. Resistance rolls have been reworked into a static cost. In general, having read a fair number of FitD games, Wicked Ones is one of the better implementations of the system, a clear and stripped down FitD 1.5!
The book comes with plenty of material, with three schools of magic, alchemy, and goblincore mad science to flavor the usual abilities. There are four sample regions to corrupt, lots of tables of weird items and spells, four advanced monsters with powerful abilities, and plenty of incredibly stylish artwork. The tone is horror-slapstick. You're encouraged to commit atrocities, but fiction and your base appetites will implode your plans in a funny way.
There aren't many games in this vein, and Wicked Ones is a cut above. My only problem is that it came out after my Monstrous Revolution campaign was in full swing. Maybe next time!
September 16, 2023
I was introduced to this game as a player first, i found it intriguing enough that i ended up running it myself. The book is a quick and easy read, rule system is the Forged in Darkness one.
For those not familiar with Forged in Darkness, it is essentially 1-3 on a d6 is a fail, 4-5 is a mixed success which means it comes with a consequence. 6 is a success. And if you get 2 or more 6's on a roill it is a critical success.
You have 9 Actions or skills you can do, which is rated from 0 to 3. You get a few abilities based on your class. It is a very quick and easy to pick up system. Char gen on average takes 5-10 minutes for new people in my experience.
Now for the core of the game, it is akin to Dungeon Keeper of old. Where your players are the evil ones, trying to launch a vile masterplan while also hoarding loot. And then these do-gooder morons come stumbling into your halls looking to steal your stuff. So naturally you need to make the most punishing dungeon and traps you can to teach them a lesson.
This is a game that lends itself well to shorter campaigns. But one could easily do a longer one as well. A lot of silly fun can be had with this. I will definatly be running more of this and hopefully get to be a player again in it now and then. :Because i love Dungeon Keeper'esque games.
For those not familiar with Forged in Darkness, it is essentially 1-3 on a d6 is a fail, 4-5 is a mixed success which means it comes with a consequence. 6 is a success. And if you get 2 or more 6's on a roill it is a critical success.
You have 9 Actions or skills you can do, which is rated from 0 to 3. You get a few abilities based on your class. It is a very quick and easy to pick up system. Char gen on average takes 5-10 minutes for new people in my experience.
Now for the core of the game, it is akin to Dungeon Keeper of old. Where your players are the evil ones, trying to launch a vile masterplan while also hoarding loot. And then these do-gooder morons come stumbling into your halls looking to steal your stuff. So naturally you need to make the most punishing dungeon and traps you can to teach them a lesson.
This is a game that lends itself well to shorter campaigns. But one could easily do a longer one as well. A lot of silly fun can be had with this. I will definatly be running more of this and hopefully get to be a player again in it now and then. :Because i love Dungeon Keeper'esque games.
March 27, 2021
Well, this looks like it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun to run - a tabletop role playing game using the Forged in the Dark system, but this time you're the monsters who live in and build - and die defending - the dungeons so beloved of fantasy role playing. It's the old Dungeon Keeper computer game dirt pen and paper and dice. Can't wait to get some friends together and give it a go
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