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The release date for the third season of the Netflix series is scheduled for March 5th! And we got a new poster for it.

Given how polite Aubergine has been, I choose to believe he didn't welcome TAA in the "Hi, Welcome!" backhanded greeting spirit that was made against the rules some years ago. I didn't know that sneering fake welcome messages were even a thing Sir. I admit I was a dummy and legitimately t...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:"Welcome to the Gaming Den", he says to a guy who's been here for 3 years...

We're both lurkers then. Clearly I was "welcoming" them to active engagement.

Although I suppose the answer is just to make the swords/axes/whips magical and therefore able to magically compete with modern mundane weaponry. Duh. Firstly, welcome to the Gaming Den. 'Tis a savage place, but full of knowledge and drollness too. I hope you enjoy your stay. My homebrew has archai...

The X-Wing tabletop game is close to the 'feeling of Castlevania' to me, as you have maneuver/momentum/movement arcs, attack arcs to 'trap' opponents for a hit while avoiding hits. I'm picturing a sidescroller version of this for a Castlevania feeling tabletop game I wholeheartedly agree about the ...

More clans then... Yin Yang magic, Abe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei Big Katana samurai, Minamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yorimitsu Snake Demon, Bai Demon Hunting Monks, Fahai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake Poke-ghost Trainer, Zhong https://e...

I'm a massive Castlevania nerd, who was unhappy with the way the Netflix Series portrayed Hector in season 2. This has left me a bit nervous to see how they handle season 3. I freely admit this is a nerdy nitpick and probably at least half of the people watching the show didn't know who Hector even...

I should add some family names: Crenshaw (Monster Squad) Brooks (Blade) Spellman (Archie) Blake (Anita Blake) Neville (I Am Legend) Halliwell (Charmed) Should be more than enough to get some 'power sets' that work in a cooperative tabletop environment. -Username17 A Brooks (Blade) bloodline is a gr...

Sorry for the double-post, but they released an image for the upcoming Season 3 of the Castlevania Netflix series. The second season ended rather neatly. I'm interested to see what they do with the Dracula's Curse and Curse of Darkness characters and the new characters of course. :ecstatic: https://...

"Zoinks, Scoob, Dracula's summoned Castlevania where Old Man Jenkins used to live! Just looking at it gives me the heebie-jeebies!" Shaggy seems like a superb speedrun character to me. Just give him a few frames of invincibility on his dash and he'll be fine! :rofl: https://www.youtube.co...

I generally think having vulnerabilities is a good thing. Implementation matters. If a low-level enemy can ONLY be killed by the right material, that creates a very different experience than if they're EXTRA VULNERABLE. Sometimes nobody cares about the extra vulnerable - if I have a sword that does...

I do think it's worth pointing out that there are certainly Belmonts, Lecardes, and Belnades that aren't canon characters. We just never see them but they have to exist. How interesting. I wasn't even thinking of it that way. I assume my players are going to want to play Bob Belmont and not young S...

I think you'd want to make a couple of extra clans that had power sets that work better for multiplayer (like healing allies) as well as giving players options that specifically are not one of the families that has a lot of canon members so that players have white space that they can write in if be...

Interestingly, d20 Modern 's Menace Manual has a monster called a Star Doppelganger. It's quite literally The Thing, right down to disguising itself as a Husky in its backstory. Or did you mean the Thing from Fantastic Four ? No you're right I meant the body horror one from the movies. Shame the de...

Good point, I'll have to remember that. Another adventure you could run is for the characters to kill the followers of Darkness (worshipers of Dracula/Satan) before they can complete the Black Mass (ritual to resurrect Dracula). They hunt down Shaft, Barlowe, Carmilla, Drolta Tzuentes, or your own ...

It makes me sad how much pushback to playing monster pcs exists even now. Giving up 95-100% of the monster's stats, defenses, special attacks, movement modes, senses, and turning them into a re-skinned dwarf or elf is the first step. Step two is for the referee to ALSO ladle X number of humanoid-cen...

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote: It can't fly and has no ranged attacks. It's got a cold aura but if you fly 65+ feet above its head it can't do a damn thing about it.

It's basically a lamer Tarrasque.

Poor guy never could never fill the shoes of the Thing. XD

As the clan traits are very important, why not make them a 'racial' Class? This is a specialized game to begin with so it seems alright to be a lvl 5 Belmont adventuring with a lvl 5 DeNasty How very 1st edition of you! If I had the creativity and patience your idea might be the best way to go. Giv...

So what I did was change the playable "races" into the major clans you encounter in the games. DaNasty, Belnades, LeCarde, Renard, Morris, etc. etc. So I take it each of these clans have the respective special abilities that elevate them to Castlevania status? If so, this is indeed the ri...

That's the Hammer I was referring to... I'm guessing you haven't seen the majestic glory that is Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ? Oh snap. I think I AVGN did a review of it. Abraham Van Hellsing by way of Grand Moff Tarkin, with some very talented stunt men as his muscle. They fight jiangshi or so...

the fucking Hammer Brothers monsters Is this a reference to the critters from Mario or is it a reference to the Hammer/Shaw Brothers classic Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires ? I'm fine with it either way. Mea Culpa. I meant Hammer Film Productions Ltd. The film company that made the likenesses o...

You try to fight 20 Orcs, you get your ass handed to you. That seems a poor fit for a series with a propensity for groups of Medusa Heads. You're right of course. I don't know if it will be enough, but I added in a cleave mechanic and several other combat options to try and make your average fighti...

I'm mostly a lurker on here, but holy shit, my obsession is briefly relevant to these forums. I've been working on a homebrew 5e campaign for Castlevania off and on for years. I know nobody likes fucking 5th, and I have plenty of gripes about it myself, but I used Vapor Edition as my base because it...

But honestly, you don't really have to go that far. You can trim down the background murder rate to something vaguely plausible and fit it into a world that has only slightly more violent death than ours does. In the real world, seven percent of people in the United States will ultimately die of so...