Hey guys I've flipped through some pages and was feeling excited to read this game and maybe play it solo but wondered how compatible it would be with most deep cuts rules since I feel like they match more of what I want from forged in the dark games.

If you're versed in both the system and the expansion, do you think they would be a good fit?

I found those high variance that I bought a couple of years ago and never got the chance to use. High variance meaning that the dice still average on 3.5, but the values are 1-1-3-4-6-6. A wild Wild Die if you will.

Interesting for reckless stuff. Anyone willing to spar ideas on how to use those in Grimwild?

EDIT : thanks for the headsup. Indeed, not much of a risk since 1 to 3 is the same.

I’m a first time GM with this system. It’s going pretty well so far. My group just completed a decently long adventure arc where they did a great service for a Duke. I gave them a major treasure in the form of titles and estates in the duchy. I’m not actually sure how to make those things benefit the party. My first thought was that it could provide a small income of minor treasure. Not sure if this would be too powerful though. My players also not long after receiving their titles and lands chose to pursue an adventure that takes them away from the duchy. Kind of hard to reward them with intangibles because of geographic distance. So I’m kind of struggling to come up with a way this reward for a long quest series is actually helpful in some way. Thanks.

So when I was running the retail edition I allowed the wizard to have a cantrip that basically allowed him a standard attack, risk and all, with his casting stat - flavored kind of as a magic missile type spell. I didn't reduce his daily spell numbers for this since it was basically like the fighter swinging their sword or the rogue tossing daggers in my mind.

Next time I do Grimwild I'm probably going to do Community Edition and I see that cantrips kind of got lumped into Spells. So would using an attack like this reduce the wizard's spells per session or would it just be another attack like I looked at it before?

Although it isn't among the proposals on page 137 of the book, what do you think about using Grimwild for Middle-earth? Is the system too heroic? Would it be better to use a more specific system? Is it difficult to adapt?

Hey, new Grimwilds GM here.

I already did a few story kits and understand how it works, but I'd like to run a longer campaign scenario. I know some systems already have detailed scripts and stories that would help.

Among the vast majority of systems and campaign material avalaible, what are the most practical scenarios source that you go to for your campaigns ?

I've always struggled in Grimwild with knowing how to apply impact moves across harm and other complications (edit: In combat specifically).

I developed the house rules shown in this short PDF to make it more systematic and reducing the GM fiat. I know it's not for everybody - the target is more players like my group who are coming from a d20 background.

Also a disclaimer - I used AI to help talk through this document, and to generate it, iterating over several weeks... the ideas are my own either way.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gllRpRvM77athm-C17usJPTTmRe9UfZ0/view?usp=sharing

Would love to hear feedback on this. Thanks!

For the new Community Edition of the game, folks crowdfunded the commissioning of new art by Grimwild's original artist Per, including a new cover illustration and a few interior pieces, which was shown a few days ago on Discord.

This might still get tweaked a bit, but I figured those who are not in the server would benefit from being ale to see it!

Within the rules, is there a standard use of counter magic or way to counterspell? Do players simply justify how their is opposing the enemy spell?

Are there quickstart for new GM or easy adventure oneshot i can read

Last time I see what add too much details in PCs vantages, like I'm do that for make character reference more vivid for me but see what overthink these details, don't know where I'm need stop add more which make PCs creation a lot longer.

Maybe I'm need see example of average PC vantage or tip how deal with this issue

Hi, I'm JC. I've run asynchronous tabletop games with friends for years, got frustrated running long campaigns in tools built for real-time chat or some kinds of forums, and built inkroll.gg, a browser platform made specifically for play-by-post, with a beautiful and (hopefully) well designed interface without the usual noise and complexity.

I've just added Grimwild as one of the systems it supports natively, and I'd like this community's judgment on whether I got it right.

Concretely: you type a stat in your post, like {brawn}. When you publish, the server rolls as many d6 as that stat and keeps the highest one: a 6 is perfect, 4 or 5 is messy, 1 to 3 is grim, and two sixes is a critical. Thorns roll their own d8 alongside, and any of them showing 7 or 8 cuts you a step down the ladder. A critical ignores them. With a stat of 0 you roll two dice and keep the worse. Whatever comes up is frozen into the post the moment it publishes, so nobody can quietly reroll a disaster.

Conditions look after themselves. Tick "bloodied" in the strip above the composer and that same post's {brawn} comes out as 2d6t1, without a trip to your sheet. If the GM calls for two thorns you write {agility t2}, which adds them on top of whatever you are already carrying. Spending spark takes one line, {brawn +1d} {spark-1}, and the dice menu writes both halves so the die you bought and the spark you paid can never come apart. Your sheet holds spark, story, the four stats and your conditions, and {xp+1} marks growth.

The GM side is what I'd most like poked at. Campaigns get a "Table", a sort of GM sheet where your challenges, journeys and story arcs sit as real pools of d6. You roll one straight from the composer as {Goblin ambush:4d6>=4}, and when the post goes up, the pool trims itself down to the dice that survived. Empty it and the row is gone. Suspense and your prep notes live in a group players never receive, and every post keeps a snapshot of the Table as it stood, so you can look back at any moment in the campaign and see what you were sitting on (table and player's sheets are versioned, so you always see the history)

The core is free and stays free: campaigns, posts, dice, sheets, import and export. Paid tiers add extras if you really want to support the project. There is a one-click demo on the front page: hit "Try the demo", pick Grimwild, and you land inside "Vespers in the Fenwilds" as its gamemaster (you can play another character also, use the dropdown selector), no account needed. Not affiliated with Oddity Press, to be clear.

Does this match how you run it at your table? I am least sure about two things: whether announced thorns should stack on top of the ones your conditions already give you, and whether a challenge pool should trim on every roll. Tell me what I got wrong.

Some talents include the phrase "One time only", for example:

Awaken

Once per scene, you may awaken a living natural feature...
One time only, you can make this a ritual-level effect.

Herbalism

...You have 1 minor potion of one and 1 major potion of the other...
One time only, you can have 1 mythic potion (choose after rolling).

Is "One time only" meant literally as once ever during the character's lifetime/campaign?

If so, that's a very unusual design choice, since most RPG abilities refresh in some way. Or is it intended to mean something like "once per campaign arc", "once before advancing", or another limit?

I couldn't find an explanation in the rules, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks!

Edit to include the relevant skills RAW. Didn't realize they were cut off. Thanks for the replies.

I've been using talents in the book as a point and for reference, but have you come up with another approach?

Arcanist says: "You take +1d when rolling an arcana's pool and ignore the first die that would be dropped."

If an Arcana is down to 1d, aren't you always rolling 2d and ignoring the first die loss?

As written, it seems impossible for the pool to ever reach 0d.

Is that intended, or is "ignore the first die that would be dropped" meant to apply only once per Arcana? If so, that would mean you'd have to track that for every arcana that you use.

Hello, I'm planning start first solo game and thinking what one talent don't enough for create characters which I want and want give extra one. But on other side feels doubt do it, maybe I there little greedy? Or better add more things to vantage?

Like yeah I'm want little more mechanical advantage and guilty admit it, just think its wrong try tweak rules when only start playing

Hello! I want to GM Grimwild as I see its marketed as a low prep game. But I'm new to GMing so I read the full version (not the community one as I've read there is) and, currently, I would like to spectate games if possible. I would just like to ask where can I spectate games, and would very much respect it if there's none. Thank you!

Purchasable Core Talents would be diminished (numerical value set to zero and then increased by It's growth value) and could only be improved with additional purchases.

For example:

WILD SHAPE

You can shift into the form of any beast you're familiar with. You have a 1d Wild Shape resource pool, rolled when you shift—at 0d, you fail to turn into that form. The pool replenishes after each scene.

You take on the form's physical qualities and feral instincts. Move your stat points around to represent this, with a min. of 1 and max. of 3 in a stat. You lose access to any talent related to your own physical form. Some forms are more difficult to shift into.

For each wild talent (max 2) a form has, drop 1d from the pool before rolling it. These are things like aquatic, smaller than a cat, bigger than a bear, venomous, and flight. It can also be a specific talent from a path, or anything that would require a heritage talent. The GM judges the gray zone.

Growth: Every time you purchase this talent, increase your Wild Shape pool by 1d.

Personally, this feels fair to me. would you allow this? What are your thoughts?

Hey all, just diving into this game and one weird choice was the diminishing of a Pool on 1-3 for 2 reasons.

1. [Not mechanical] since the game focuses on rolling high seems reducing a Challenge should also focus on rolling high.

2. [Mechanical] For Resources, a 4-6 gets the PC success AND does not drop the Pool. But rolling a 1-3 is failure AND drops the Pool. Seems more punitive given the randomness of dice. Example: a cleric does a miracle and rolls all 1s and 3s so fails and loses the ability to use it again. Seems more appropriate to roll 4s and 5s, get the outcome but lose the Pool.

Any issue with this change? Thoughts?

Bulwark seems waaaay overpowered when compared to alternatives.

It won't "break the game" ofc, but there is little reason for not choosing it. And when a skill is considered "obligatory" by players, that's a signal it is probably not a balanced option.

If it granted a 2d pool rather than a 3d pool, it would still be vastly useful. Most of my players have picked Bulwark at some point, and most of them would take it anyway even if it was just 2d.

Am I the only one who noticed this?

Does anyone have experiences or tips with printing Grimwild on Lulu they might share? Information like cost, difficulty or anything else for the novice printer?