Parselings is an RPG that uses an innovate deckbuilding mechanic. You play as people infected by symbiotes that form tattoos on your skin to give you superpowers. This game is beautifully laid out and has fantastic artwork.
I love the game and the mechanics surrounding it but I have a bit of a mechanical question that comes from sorta confusing wording.
So for the Pidgin Trait Tree, the Trait Complementary says that at Point 2 your Lingua gains an additional dice to a total of 4 dice and at Point 4 your Lingua gains another dice for a total of 5 dice. So does this mean that when you get the Complementary Trait your Lingua immediately gains an additional dice since you already got the Point 2 Trait Reciprocal and then get another additional dice when you get the Point 4 Trait Synonymous, or do you immediately get two additional dice because you spent 4 points in the Trick Tree?
Thank you for enjoying the game, the Pidgin is one of my favourite little pieces in the game. We've been looking at this trick to clear up some points in clarity for the next update.
To answer your question, the dice distribution should be as follows.
Point 2: The lingua has 3 dice on creation. Point 3: The lingua should have 4 dice (it gains an additional dice for this point of the trick tree)
Point 4: The lingua now has 5 dice and has the additional abilities from synonymous.
Hope this clears things up.
Join our discord if you get the chance, we'd love to hear about your adventures so far. The link should be on the inside cover of the book :)
I love how creative this book is with its mechanics and how it approaches character development in a more fluid fashion. This is definitely something I'm going to plan a session for with my playgroup.
Thank you Przewal! :) - We appreciate the compliment and kind words!
If you end up enjoying the gameplay and world, our first Parselings setting book, Nominal City, is coming to IndieGoGo and launching on April 12th! You can signup here at the link below to get notified when we launch :)
I feel like being a racist or a sexist shouldn't be put into the same category of "Personality Quirks" as ADHD or OCD, since I think being a bigot is more of a problem to the target of their discrimination.
You’re absolutely right - and because of this, we are updating the PDF and have sent stickers to those who purchased the physical copy of the book. It is embarrassing that after many passes of sensitivity readers, editors, and dev/design that this slipped through.
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Where can I find a separate PDF of the character sheet if such a thing even exists?
hey folks - are there any more physical copies likely to be happening soon?
Our new Parselings Nominal City setting book is live on IndieGoGo!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/parselings-nominal-city/x/28628391#/
Parselings is an RPG that uses an innovate deckbuilding mechanic. You play as people infected by symbiotes that form tattoos on your skin to give you superpowers. This game is beautifully laid out and has fantastic artwork.
Hey there!
I love the game and the mechanics surrounding it but I have a bit of a mechanical question that comes from sorta confusing wording.
So for the Pidgin Trait Tree, the Trait Complementary says that at Point 2 your Lingua gains an additional dice to a total of 4 dice and at Point 4 your Lingua gains another dice for a total of 5 dice. So does this mean that when you get the Complementary Trait your Lingua immediately gains an additional dice since you already got the Point 2 Trait Reciprocal and then get another additional dice when you get the Point 4 Trait Synonymous, or do you immediately get two additional dice because you spent 4 points in the Trick Tree?
Thanks!
Hi there Werby,
Thank you for enjoying the game, the Pidgin is one of my favourite little pieces in the game. We've been looking at this trick to clear up some points in clarity for the next update.
To answer your question, the dice distribution should be as follows.
Point 2: The lingua has 3 dice on creation.
Point 3: The lingua should have 4 dice (it gains an additional dice for this point of the trick tree)
Point 4: The lingua now has 5 dice and has the additional abilities from synonymous.
Hope this clears things up.
Join our discord if you get the chance, we'd love to hear about your adventures so far. The link should be on the inside cover of the book :)
If not, good luck on your game
I love how creative this book is with its mechanics and how it approaches character development in a more fluid fashion. This is definitely something I'm going to plan a session for with my playgroup.
Also, I really dig the illustrations. :)
Thank you Przewal! :) - We appreciate the compliment and kind words!
If you end up enjoying the gameplay and world, our first Parselings setting book, Nominal City, is coming to IndieGoGo and launching on April 12th! You can signup here at the link below to get notified when we launch :)
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/parselings-nominal-city/coming_soon/x/2862839...
I feel like being a racist or a sexist shouldn't be put into the same category of "Personality Quirks" as ADHD or OCD, since I think being a bigot is more of a problem to the target of their discrimination.
Hi there Pizza :)
You’re absolutely right - and because of this, we are updating the PDF and have sent stickers to those who purchased the physical copy of the book. It is embarrassing that after many passes of sensitivity readers, editors, and dev/design that this slipped through.
We also addressed this on the Kickstarter in a previous update a few months ago :) - you can read more about the update here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smunchygames/parselings/posts/3293434
The description mentions a teaser PDF but there doesn't seem to be one available?
Hi Aaron! Thank you for pointing this out to us. We've now updated the Parselings Core Rulebook itch.io page to include the teaser demo download.