Chains of Gaelia

It's been an absolute honour to be featured on the podcast. Thank you so much for helping the project!

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First proper episode of the introductory campaign!

Check out session 0 for the first recorded playthrough of Chains of Gaelia! Thank you so much folks, it's gonna be a wild ride!

Heya Clyde! I realized we didn't follow here yet, had to rectify!

Just One Rapier, and a Thousand Steps Beyond. Folks, it has finally happened. The first homebrew expansion to play with Chains of Gaelia has released! Just One Rapier is a booklet of oracles to play solo adventures set in renaissance-inspired wor...

We surpassed a thousand downloads everyone! I wrote a devlog to celebrate, and to share the first homebrew expansion to be used alongside Chains of Gaelia, a booklet of solo oracles called Just One Rapier!

Why Chains of Gaelia? The idea for Gaelia came to me a long time ago. At the time I was in high school, playing RPGs with my childhood friends on the weekend, and listening to Ok Computer compulsively. Our main games were....

Why Chains of Gaelia?

In today's devlog I go into how the Chains of Gaelia project began, during a torrid italian summer eight years ago. I also discuss leather trenchcoats, and what roleplaying games can do as fascism and genocide ravage the world.

Play Chains of Gaelia on Halloween, or else.

sunday night hard at work

Looks very pretty. I tried it both on laptop and on mobile and it's buttery smooth. The notes at the end of the infernal contracts are hilarious. Great work chief!

- Dave

The game isn't even out yet and Dom is already fucked somebody save my mans 😭

I look forwards to reading it! I hope poor Dom is alright. I'm sure the doctor can sew them back up, somehow.

Looks properly spooky. Sanity points, scratchy black and white visuals, a *doctor*, I'm a fan. I'd love to give your game a read!

- Dave

The up and coming "Daggerheart" game seems like a promising Gaelia-like. We wish them the best in this endeavor..,

Gladly! Chains of Gaelia is a Dark Fantasy/Horror TTRPG inspired by lovecraftian horror and souls-like videogames! It is set in an original baroque setting in which the sins of men make them slowly turn into monsters. The game is out on itch.io, we launched it a couple months ago, it's going well!

Oh this is sick. This is really sick.

Hey there! I'm Dave, and my favorite pastime is terrorizing my friends with the most cerebral horror stories I can muster. Made a whole game about it, it's very fun, everyone should try it!

I would absolutely watch a video on that topic. It is very, very dear to me.

- Dave

Absolutely, completely agree with that. Other DMs, subreddits, sometimes I just straight up ask my players "where do you want to go, and how do you think it will go" and use it as a starting point to make some shit up on the fly!

Congratulations!!! That's sick!

Some of the more famous TTRPGs I think suffer a lot because of how homogenized the approach to them has become. Many rules of thumb have become unspoken rules in some communities due to this weird blog-based game of telephone. The over-acted and theatrical approach to D&D 5 is one example of it IMO

While I agree in general with this, I cannot overstate the importance of figuring out a problem by yourself right before a session. I learned how to DM long before I started reading TTRPG blogs (the fact that I'm not a native english speaker might have helped), and I think it made me a better DM.

You can get to the same conclusion about ten pages into the second one. I'm still gonna start reading the scouring ones, I'm ready to get hurt again.

- Dave

Here's the first review for Chains of Gaelia! Sorry for making the book so big, we can't help ourselves. The RPG book club is a great project, and a criminally underrated one at that. We're proud of being featured, go check it out!

It is with great regret that, considering itch's latest policy change, the release of Toes of Gaelia: Extra Freaky Edition will be postponed indefinitely

Oh no, oh no no no, not on microsoft word. I think with that cursed piece of malware it would be easier to print the document, glue the art on, and scan it back. Trying to wrap text around an image could melt a quantum computer.

No worries chief, the fact that Bluesky posts cannot be edited afterwards is very annoying. It's not a big mistake, so I don't think there's really a need to re-do the post.

The backwards spelling is a classic. Recently I was reading through Vermis, and one of the main deities is called Marko, which is insanely funny to me, as it's a weird spelling of a very common italian name. If you have a free spot in your pantheon, I suggest J'hames

- Dave

Glad to hear it chief. Burnout is very real, happy to see you back!

- Dave

Thank you for the share! Small correction, I think you still have the last rpg bookclub entry in the title. Simple D100 Fantasy was the 59th entry (really enjoyed reading through that one btw), while Chains of Gaelia is the 60th!

- Dave

I have always been of the opinion that any work of art is a better read in its original language, but with translations I usually prefer everything to be localized, or at least everything that clearly has an original language. Rivendell needs a localization, lothlorien doesn't, in my opinion.

-Dave