How would you get Liminal spaces to work for DnD? I have an idea but I don't have anyone to bounce it off to get it working without spoiling it for the players. (this is for DnD 5e)
>inb4 crying about 5e
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How would you get Liminal spaces to work for DnD?
>>inb4 crying about 5e
I thought your concept was moronic before, this is just the cherry on the shit cake
>I have an idea
then say it
FPBP
kill your self anon.
the frick does that even mean?
>the frick does that even mean?
how new?
you in with the rest of the hamas tourists?
We used to have a saying in the old says. It was
>Lurk the frick moar
I'll give you an honest and detailed answer rather than just telling you you're dumb.
the "liminal space" spooky phenomenon comes from a combination of visual things. You will not be able to get the same idea purely from description, because it depends on image framing, color palette, clutter or lack thereof, out of place objects, recollection and recognition. It's like a form of negatively-tainted nostalgia; something that feels like it should be right, but due to extenuating circumstances is instead lacking qualities that the nostalgia would make positive.
Plus, a large amount of the sense of horror comes from a suggestion that there Might Be Something. Once you introduce something, the lingering dread of the mysterious and unknown is collapsed into a solidified understanding of what's there, and it loses the mystery that makes those images spooky. There are questions of how one got there - a "liminal space" image often makes you wonder how one gets there and where it goes. In a tabletop game your players know how they got there, which means that half of the spatial mystery is solved.
TL;DR not every form of horror works in every medium. Run what you can, don't try to make something that's spooky in some unexplained still images work in a descrptive, non-visual interactive medium.
And now I've actually explained things as best I can, I'll stop holding back.
>Not everything from your zoomer spooky video games and youtube iceberg videos works in a tabletop game. When your elders say that we've tried a lot of things and don't think your idea will work we're not just dismissing you out of hand, you dense little nugget. Dip yourself in the well-aged sauce of our wisdom and don't do dumbfrick shit like this. And if you're new to Ganker, lurk and learn what things mean.
I'm new to THIS board. And I just had an idea, I didn't come here thinking I was the second coming of Jason Bulmahn or some shit.
Refer to
>I'm new to THIS board
anon, if you lurked for even a fricking week you would know what FPBP means you absolute tosser
This is like watching a newbie type
>I didn't type tbh I typed tbh.
He needs to GB2R.
never used reddit
You've apparently never used Ganker either.
>I forget how fricking daft Ganker users are some times.
You are the stupidest, gayest Black person on this board. I wish for your mouth to forever remain free of the wiener you so eagerly devour.
Could have just lurked moron
this anon gets it. Its a very visual genre, something that does not transfer well to tabletop.
What is you're actual idea?How do you intend to describe what your group sees besides "You see more yellow walls like the last 1500 feet" every 10 minutes?
Is the liminal spaces the whole campaign or is it just a part?
No i was planning on it being a forest that loops. kind of like the Blair Witch, and they have to fallow marked trees to get out. its not vary fleshed out but it was a general idea i thought would be nice.
That's not really a liminal space as much as it's just a really basic puzzle.
Yeah that's why I was asking how a liminal space would work, because I want to flesh it out more and wanted people to bounce more off of.
I don't think you've really thought through any of these ideas enough to have any sort of meaningful question to ask.
That's fair. At least you are reasonable about it.
Oh dear, did the scary meanie anon leave you butthurt? And somehow we're supposed to believe you're not new as frick to Ganker... Are you thirteen or something?
>Oh dear, did the scary meanie anon leave you butthurt? And somehow we're supposed to believe you're not new as frick to Ganker... Are you thirteen or something?
wtf dude
For what it's worth, I don't think the "liminal space" idea of endless empty office spaces and pool rooms is completely off-limits for TTRPGs as a kind of abstract survival horror, procedurally generated giga-dungeoncrawl, but I don't think it works for D&D.
D&D characters are too empowered and granted means to handwave their way through problems. Monster? Kill it. Running out of food and water? Goodberry and create water. Injured? Lay on hands. Take away those things and you have very few rules, if any, for really engaging with some kind of surreal pocket dimension where space extends outwards forever.
It works perfectly for B/X, basically that’s what old school D&D is
thats 10000 times better then what I would consider "liminal" space. Its a solid idea that needs to get fleshed out.
Why is the forest like this?
Is there anyone else in the forest?
Is there any"thing" in the forest?
This guy fricking gets it. Well said, probably best post on /tg/ right now.
This.
fpbp
FPBP.
>5E brain rot zombie also fell for the liminal space meme of making an entire game out of the subject
lel
The thread ended here but she still suckin'. If this is a bait thread, can I ask why threads like these are somehow preferable to the /slop/ threads?
Too broad of a subject for anyone to make rules for
yeah that is what i was worried about. Maybe it could only be done with some kind of rp but eh I'll just pin it to the board
>how new?
>you in with the rest of the hamas tourists?
So because I don't know what your acronym means I am a terrorist? I forget how fricking daft Ganker users are some times.
>So because I don't know what your acronym means I am a terrorist?
No, it means you're new like all the pro-Palestinian anons.
fpbp is used in like 50% of threads on Ganker
it means first post best post
In other words: this post has already addressed OP's autism as well as possible.
You could have googled it.
You could have lurked moar.
Instead you showed that you're an unobservant idiot.
They're called Coterminous Planes, like the Ethereal.
>How would you get Liminal spaces to work for DnD
It wouldn't work at all. It's a dungeon that amounts to wandering around an endless maze of identical rooms until a jumpscare monster finds you.
ITT: morons falling for the lowest level of troll bait.
Oh, look. I replied as well.
Why?
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It’s just a dungeon, it fits well with the mega dungeon concept of OSR
Didn’t see it was 5e. Make it feel like an old school dungeon crawl by denying rests and forcing them to track their resources and be stingy when replenishing. You’re fitting a square peg in a round hole though.
I don't know if I've ever seen an OP that is more of a reprehensible newbie
what a trainwreck
OH SHIT! YOU ARE IN AN EMPTY ROOM! MAKE A WILL SAVE!
Get out the Jenga tower and play Dread set in the Backrooms. Turn the lights down a bit, put on some muzak at a just barely audible volume. Boom. Done. 10/10 experience.
OP you fricking IDIOT.
I came here to laugh at you, you moronic homosexual
Ditch the new "endless hallways" take on liminal spaces and go back to the original meaning: the threshold between two defined spaces. Doorways, gates, bridges, the shoreline, twilight, midnight and other such between things. Put an old fencegate out in the middle of a field with a sign saying Keep Closed and make anyone who knows about insist in a panic the party obeys the sign but refuse to speak further. Maybe the party opens it, maybe the mage notices something wrong, maybe they close it in time or not. Maybe the party arrives to find it already open, called to the nearby village just as the killings begin. What exactly it was that slipped through or from where is a mystery, but it's clearly malevolent and infinitely hungry.
Or maybe the party gain ownership of a large house, only there's a door that sometimes opens to elsewhere, if you know how. Someone from the other side certainly does.
>Liminal Spaces
kys zoomer
EMPTY HALLWAYS AREN'T SCARY, ZOOMIE
IM FRICKING SCARED BROS