Brutkey

Jürgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

@billiglarper@rollenspiel.social

I must admit, I am among the minority of German #pnpde players who are not very familiar with #TheDarkEye .

But I am pretty sure that there are plenty of elements from German folklore that they missed. I mean, does the setting even have Ultraterrestrial Venetians? 😉😉

Billiglarper
@billiglarper@rollenspiel.social

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Kinda? There's a half sunken city (more German than Italian) with water fey (Necker) and a court of the river king. 😁😁

But my point isn't that #TheDarkEye has done all of the fairytales and folklore. They haven't. They have some of it. Like a powerful witch with a house on chicken legs.

So adding more is easy. TheDarkEye offers an incredible range in moods, from grim and epic to flimsy and fairylike. And "fairytale like" is something the playerbase enjoys.

A cover of "Havena - Sunken Secrets". It depicts the foggy ruins of a sunken city at night. A lone treasure hunter in a boat gets lured by a mermaid holding a trinket. Cover of "Creatures of the Otherworld". Depicts a fey queen on a throne of brambles, flanked by beast knights with stag and bear heads. In front of her rests a three-heades dog. The scene is set in a flowery forrest filled with light and shadow.
Jürgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

@billiglarper@rollenspiel.social

A point of distinction: I prefer local legends rather than fairy tales - more "here's a weird thing that happened to me on the way home from the pub" than "a long time ago, in a kingdom far away".

Local legends are tightly tied to the local culture, history, and geography in a way that fairy tales are not.