Thoughts on this game and its setting? I was thinking of doing a one-shot or campaign set in its setting using some rules I found for free (An Untitled Turnip 28 RPG, for anyone wondering).
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Would you care to explain it or share the PDF? It looks like goblins from the Labriynth film.
It's basically post-apocalyptic Napoleonics with root vegetables making everyone crazy. The PDFs are available for free and they'll give you a far better explanation of the setting than I ever could. The Swollen Magglette's first issue should give you a good idea of what it's all about.
>The same Root that caused all of this mess, turning people's lives into misery, and themselves into tuber mutants, is right now the only way to sustain themselves
Yeah, pretty much. It's as "grimdark" as anything inspired by Warhammer would be, but it also has a sense of humor that I appreciate.
Grimdark Monty Python and the Holy Grail with lovecraftian parsnips.
In theory I should like the setting and aesthetic, but I can't help to be put off by it. It feels obscene for some reason? Maybee it's a little bit to dirty? I don't know.
That's exactly why I like it. I know it's probably been done before, but Turnip28 was the first time I encountered such a grimy aesthetic for a tabletop game. The humor it has makes it more palatable, too.
for me its that Napoleonic does nothing for me.
It'd be much better with medieval, or WW1 models.
Due to wear and tear much of it amounts to medieval or at least pike and shot and landsknechts rather than bayonets only everywhere. Any WW! nods would likely be aesthetic only though rather than reflecting mechanics, wouldn't let that stop me though!
Anything you dislike about Napoleonics is probably not present in T28. If you hate painting Napoleonic uniforms and stuff like that, you are encouraged to make your minis as grimy as possible. Just look at the pic in the OP. Very medieval while having its own vibe.
thats because you are a historylet
>Napoleonic does nothing for me.
Sacre bleu!
this is what was happening on the other side of the pond.
during napoleonics i think.
I've neither the scratch not skill to sculpt a warband but ideas keep coming to me. It helps that "root vegetables" covers more than tubers and bulbs; peanuts and lotus are visually interesting.
The aesthetic is charming but I have no idea what the deal is exactly, I've seen a few people talking about it.
This goofy shit has inspired me to grab some of those historical minis in the back of my FLGS and some greenstuff and make some grimey dudes
Kudos to you for making the effort. I hope you enjoy converting your own dudes.
OP is a gay, here is a pdf of the rulebook
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ex0nH0lRqEjNV1QEi7C-aOCGKGa_MKzu
Think he meant this though obviously it's the wargame that inspired it.
Indeed. What sort of regiment do you
have in mind?
I'm having a fun solo romp so far. Fleeing a cartel deal over slightly-too-ripe cheese only to end up among exploding pigs in the murk was a good start. The intact head of a boar retaining enough life to lunglessly squeal and my character letting a full-throated scream in response matches
suitably imo.
I'm casually interested in the American civil war, so whatever I make it's going to have some union kepis. Oh! Or maybe some of those b***hin' black hats the iron brigade wore!
I like hats ok
They are pretty b***hing. Though it's beyond the setting's tech scope the Monitor and Virginia's clash strikes me as an optimal blend of bloody and bloody ridiculous, two bona fide wunderwaffen duking it out with nothing to show for it but stalemate, depleted ammo and deafened crews...
Just make them pumpkins for Halloween!
If you had just googled it, you'd know the rulebook posted in
is readily available for free. I guess I set my expectations too high as to the average IQ of /tg/ posters. My bad.
tbf OP had little reason not to post the pdfs in the thread. Easy bumps.
over the past couple weeks ive been developing an addiction to beet juice. what could it mean?
did you know you can use onion skinss, beet juice and dandelion root as dyes.
you need a mortant to fix the dye.
the most common in the aulde tymes is baking soda or ash.
blood also stains clothes too.
root veg implies cooking.
napoleon was a master of logistics.
knew the importance of a wagon train.
they use pigs in france to hunt for truffels.
cooking based warbands
big soup
deep fat friars
the baking soda boys
>deep fat friars
Nice. Also re: staining redcaps are fun folklore which I'd refluff as cordyeps-ish removable skull-top symbiotes. The infected dive into battle because if their hungry accessory goes unwatered by blood for long enough they fade to white and then burrow down into the grey...
On the subject of fungi while non-Root crops are a non-starter fungi's unnaturally fecund. Corn smut's a Mexican delicacy but really I could see it being more of a necessity. Imagine growing a few anemic ears solely so they can be infested and augmented by supernaturally abundant parasites.
ergot is basically rye smut isnt it?
ergot rye is the biological precursor to lsd.
smut is just moldy grains right??
It is though I'd wanted to expand to corn smut because that's actually harvested irl as a delicacy and the former's already in T28 as an animate loaf familiar/equipment. That said as ergot contamination's suspected to be behind "dancing plagues" which sometimes swept medieval villages maybe cause and effect could be reversed with mass hysteria being a rite to coax the fungus to seize dying rye and twist it into unseemly fecundity.
Beaver pelts were big business back then and though trees are sparse I could see them turning to Root-chewing, the dambuilder habits have a nice symmetry in that they promote the wetlands Cist is cursed with. Among the nebulous nations the forever war spread to hints of a sturdier Iroquois Federation and civil war sides come early (especially tragicomic as due to widespread mutation few can agree who the "natural inferiors" are supposed to be). Maybe some Ruskis who kept scorched earthing all the way to Vladivostok, over the Bering strait and through the Yukon too for good measure.
seems like a nice inversion of the manifest destiny
instead of go west and prosper in gold.
its go east and scorch the earth in a wild fire wierd west.
would have to say bicorns and tricorns also feature heavily in naval warfare.
theres a model line coming out right?
i am shit at conversions and sculpting.
It's already out. "Forlorn Hope" is the name.
>want to get into this
>know I'd never ever be able to play an actual game
>give up
a painful cycle
does max do this shit all by himself?
a patreon based board game company seems like an interesting business model.
id consider something like that over kickstarter.
a board game or card game about digging for root vegtibles would be cool for an ancillary game.
theres a buncha art already to draw from.