statler_waldorf
I’m playing the “demo” and just met an elf companion who said something like “whoopsie! My gods are real and they’re going to destroy the world! 🤷” And it just undercuts the whole story.
Marvelization is the perfect way to describe it. There are zero stakes.
Origins had humor and snark, but it was mostly used in service of the story and themes.
A few years back, I handed out candy for friends while they took their kids around the neighborhood, and a group of kids jokingly asked for potatoes. I obliged and grabbed them each a potato from the pantry.
When my friends came back, the potato house was apparently the talk of the kids in the neighborhood.
Happened to me nearly 40 years ago on my baby teeth. My mother finally had enough and took me for a second opinion and the next dentist found no problems. It’s given me 40 years of dental anxiety so bad that I have to go to a specialist that deals with it. The only time I had to have work done there, they drugged me to the gills.
Oh shit, there’s a horse in the hospital!
Looks pretty cool to me. I haven’t played 5E in a while, so I can’t weigh in on the balance.
I ended up playing something similar in a Zweihander campaign a few years ago. It was a street preacher with some similar effects. I’ll dig up the book when I’ve got a sec and see if there are any interesting ideas to share. Mechanically the system is a lot less forgiving than D&D, so it may not be useful.
Free market! No, not that kind of free market!