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matsutsut · 3 days

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Terrible trigger discipline, someone correct her.

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anim-ttrpgs · 2 days

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Wait does Eureka have its own established lore for how different supernatural creatures work?

Yes, it does!

(I’m going to preface this post by saying that just about everything I’m talking about here, and more, is available FOR FREE for you to read in the free pre-release version of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook that you can download from our website. Go to Chapter 8 to start reading about the supernatural lore. The rulebook itself will do a lot better job of explaining all this than I will, because it has the exact details of how each one works, and I’m just hitting the highlights and going over what those details mean.)

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is a game about very human and believable investigators digging into dangerous (often supernatural) mysteries way over their heads, and sometimes those very human and believable investigators will be supernatural creatures themselves.

These supernatural creatures are every bit as human and “normal” as their mundane investigators counterparts, they have jobs, friends, families, hobbies, etc. They live among mundane society, not outside of it.

Most modern fantasy settings have some kind of separation between normal society and magical society, like you see in Harry Potter where there is normal society, and then a separate, secret magical society hidden away from it, or Vampire: The Masquerade, where vampires all have an agreement to keep themselves a secret from normal society despite acting within it.

In Eureka’s world, there is no “masquerade,” but that doesn’t mean that magic and monsters are well-known and well-documented phenomenons. Supernatural creatures such as vampires, wolfmen, etc. are exceptionally rare. Don’t take this as an exact number, but you can probably assume there’s about one of these per every 3.3 million normal people.

This rarity, as well as the fact that each individual has little to gain and everything to lose by revealing themselves (try “coming out” as a person who regularly assaults people and drains their blood), has led to them going largely undocumented in the modern day. Sure, this is the digital age, there are videos, but viral videos are not exactly scientific evidence. For every real vampire caught on camera, there are a thousand hoaxes and horror short films.

There is no secret vampire government controlling things from the shadows—most vampires don’t even know any other vampires, let alone enough to form a secret society with any effect on national politics.

As for how they work, well, that’s one of my favorite parts to talk about.

There are five playable monster types in Eureka (The Vampire, The Wolfman, The Fairy, The Witch, and The Thing From Beyond) plus two extras that are Kickstarter stretch goals (The Dullahan and The Gorgon), but in the interest of time, I’m only going to really go into detail with one of them.

Most playable monster types in Eureka are very, very old-school, with an emphasis on actual historical folklore over just making up all our own lore. That doesn’t mean Eureka doesn’t have a unique approach to the supernatural, though. Little of it is “new,” but it is certainly unique, because to my knowledge no other RPG has ever taken the old stuff this far before. A PC being a monster in Eureka isn’t just a few +1s here and there and maybe a little extra damage from silver weapons, it means playing by an entirely different set of rules from fellow investigators.

The vampires and vampire lore you see in movies are not folkloric vampires, they are mostly a 20th and 21st century pop-culture creation. Eureka’s vampire abilities, weaknesses, and other traits are based on pre-1900 vampire legends, with older traits usually taking precedent over newer ones. Thus, a lot of assumptions you might have about vampires going in could end up being very wrong. For instance, in movies, vampires instantly die when exposed to sunlight, but the first ever instance of a vampire in a story being killed by sunlight was in the 1922 film Nosferatu. In Eureka, sunlight is still awful for vampires, it strips them of their vampiric powers, but it doesn’t do any real damage to them. Sunlight is an issue vampires have to deal with, but it is far from instant death. That doesn’t mean being a vampire is inherently easy though, because in addition to having all the powers that folkloric vampires have (which is a TON), they also have all the weaknesses, and it is the emphasis on weaknesses that really makes the moment-to-moment playing of a monster PC in Eureka the most interesting. A few of my favorites for vampires are the refusal to enter homes without a direct invitation, and the compulsion to count large numbers of small objects. I think most vampire media these days considers these to be “silly” weaknesses and don’t want to acknowledge them in the lore of their “serious” scary horror vampires, but honestly I think that the “sillier” vampire stuff can still be used to great effect in horror. Imagine knowing that the only reason a vicious killer at your door hasn’t stormed in to rip your throat out is because they’re being polite.

A vampiric investigator will need to work around these weaknesses, and more, in their daily life, all while being sure not to reveal their true nature to their more mortal friends. It’s something that really changes how a character behaves and goes about problem-solving.

For instance, the rest of the party may be able to break into a house no-problem, but the vampire cannot. They need a invitation. That’s a problem. That’s a puzzle. It makes me excited just thinking about it.

This was originally going to be a much longer post where I went into more of the themes of monsters in Eureka, but I have decided that that would be most cohesive as its own post, an upcoming essay titled "How Eureka Handles Disability." So stay tuned for that.

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is kickstarting from right now until May 10th! Back it while you still can!

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If you want to try before you buy, you can download a free demo of the prerelease version from our website or our itch.io page!

If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!

You can also support us on Ko-fi, or by checking out our merchandise!

Join our TTRPG Book Club At the time of writng this, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is the current game being played in the book club, and anyone who wants to participate in discussion, but can’t afford to make a contribution, will be given the most updated prerelease version for free! Plus it’s just a great place to discuss and play new TTRPGs you might not be able to otherwise!

We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

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codyvrosh · 2 days

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Only one week left to back The People I've Been project! Thinking you might want a second option for the gold mica hand-embellished print, I have summoned...a red panda! Painting the gold on them is gonna be so much fun!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/codyvrosh/the-people-ive-been

#art #ttrpg #character #d&d #magic #illustration #watercolor #cody vrosh #artists on tumblr #painting #drawing #kickstarter #ttrpg community #ttrpg art #ttrpg character #5e #wizard #arcane trickster

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harprdraws · 9 months

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Here's a Shadowheart tarot card I drew to congratulate larianstudios for their release of baldurs gate 3 today! 🖤

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loosketches · 5 months

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couldn't sleep so I made some iterations of my last work.

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inked-dnd-doodles · 5 months

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Tumblr destroys quality but here's the finished work for my newest teifling! She's based off of peacock feathers and stained glass work.

#art #my art #dnd #character art #dungeons and dragons #dnd e5 #dnd character #digital art #tiefling #devil #pathfinder #ttrpg #dnd5e #ttrpg character

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enolezdrata · 5 months

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Something for our winter campaign and a reference of clothes for Reashi

#ttrpg character #ttrpg community #artists on tumblr #riebina #OC: Reashi #OC: Reesa #OC: Lond #OC: Akasa #OC: Shara #my art

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klimtsonian · 8 months

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NPCs for my VTM game 🧛🏻🏛️🩸✨

#at least… the ones that have made an appearance so far hehehe 👀‼️#I love this game and my players so much hehehe can’t wait to torment them further!!#digital art #digital illustration #oc #oc art #vtm art #vtm #vtm ocs #vampire the masquerade #ttrpg #ttrpg art #ttrpg character #dc by night

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edenruizart · 8 months

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The Pearl Keeper.

My piece for Tome of Pacts (Sleepy Wyrm Ed)

#art #myart #oc #original character #warlock #roleplay #ttrpg character #ttrpg #art zine

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zhjake · 6 months

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Magnagothica: Maleghast necromancer house 6/6: GOREGRINDERS

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lazlolemur · 4 months

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Have been horribly art blocked but wanted to make a piece for my oc of the year! Navi Valius (He/Him)

#dnd #dnd 5e #dnd stuf #dnd art #dnd character #dnd ocs #dnd oc art #my art #satyr #dungeons and dragons #satyr oc #navi valius #owe this guy so much #artists on tumblr #ttrpg character #oc #digital art #fey

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kamillyanna · 4 months

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Making sense of my girl's outfit design.

#dnd #d&d #dungeons and dragons #dungeons & dragons #tiefling #sorcerer #ttrpg #tabletop rpg #ttrpg character #dnd pc #character design #art #oc #original character #oc: ravenna #kamidraws

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raeoffrost · 21 days

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Smiley Day!! It’s FCG :) This one was really fun.

It’s been a bit since I posted the last one of these but I’m back at it! Now it’s just Chetney. I haven’t decided if I want to draw the new designs of bells or draw the mighty nein back when they first started.

#dnd #dnd art #critical role fanart #critical role #critical role campaign 3 #ttrpg character #ttrpg #fcg #cr fcg #warforged #robot #raeoffrost

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ydteus · 8 months

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Played with some lines a month ago

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regal-bones · 2 months

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Sanguine 💀🩸 “Warm, below the skin. Each beat of your heart you feel it, pulsing, moving, shifting through your body. It is food - it is power, energy. Drench your blade, quench her thirst. You owe it this much, after all.”

Thank you to @tara-mna for claiming this adopt!! Keep it sharpened and well fed 🩸

More information on my adopts here!

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szkin-art · 9 months

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#horus balor #horus #lancer rpg #lancer art #my art #ttrpg art #ttrpg character #mecha #giant robot #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #scifi art #players reached ll2 time for upgrades baybey

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