Darkest Dungeon

[Awson]

[Awson]

[Awson]

[Kill Bones]

Yoooooooooo First Bounty Hunter you get Slap my name on that bitch

[Awson]

But first we need a Highwayman, a Plague Doctor, and a Vestal.

[idlehands]

If only @Dervishwas here to be the Plague Doctor.

[Kill Bones]

But first we need a Highwayman, a Plague Doctor, and a Vestal.

@Awson

I can settle for a Highwaybro I'm just saying Bounty Hunter master race You heard it right here folks

If only @Dervishwas here to be the Plague Doctor.

@idlehands

The Plague Doctors are totally female though I'm not sure Dervish is ready to be the waifu we deserve

[aza]

Im vestal fuckers

[idlehands]

I can take the mask then, I'll wear it in good faith.

[Awson]

So now we have:

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Awson, LVL 1 Crusader

Good starting combat skills.

Notable quirks: Warrior of Light = (Light Above:75)+10% Damage

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Kill Bones, LVL 1 Highwayman

Average starting combat skills.

Notable quirks: Quick Reflexes = +2 Speed

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idlehands, LVL 0 Plague Doctor

I haven't played much with Plague Doctor, so I dunno about the skills.

Notable quirks: Quickdraw = (First Round)+4 Speed

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Azarthes, LVL 0 Vestal

Below average starting combat skills.

Notable quirks: Quickdraw = (First Round)+4 Speed

Syphilis = -5 Accuracy, -10% Damage, -10% Max HP

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Now I have to decide whether or not I'll swap out starting skills and remove negative perks when I unlock the coinciding buildings in town.

Doing neither will be awful for mortality rates. I'm thinking of doing skills stuff but letting negative perks stick around.

It looks like @Kill Bones knows what's going on, so I'll want to see his opinion on this.

[Kill Bones]

I mean The game is kind of balanced around the assumption that you're going to remove the negative shit, so I don't think you necessarily have to handicap yourself by refusing to get rid of negative shit. You can only remove one negative trait per visit to town, and whatever character you're trying to fix is unavailable for that entire turn. And your characters are pretty much guaranteed to amass an array of new negative traits anyway, it's not like you're fixing them forever. One bad run can put a fuck ton of horrible shit on your crew. I've seen people get 10+ bad traits on a character before they even unlocked the places to fix shit. Another thing to consider is there's plenty of shit you can get like kleptomania that can pretty much make a character completely undesirable to use, which is kind of an unfun thing for a playthrough where people want to see the character with their name actually do stuff. It'd be pretty lame if you get an ungodly pile of shit combo of negative traits for someone and end up never wanting to use their character anymore. Again, I don't really feel like getting rid of traits makes the game any easier, it's an intended feature and they're bound to get more horrible shit back on them eventually. So I guess my answer depends on how much you've played. If you're super experienced and want a challenge run, by all means go ahead and impose whatever limitations you wish. But I can't really recommend not removing quirks if it's your first time, it's an integral part of the game and without it you're going to get overwhelmed quickly.

[Kill Bones]

Take a shot every time you read the word "shit" in my posts You'll get shit faced off of that shit really fast

[KeysOfKayes]

Jester me up.

[Awson]

Our first quest is a Skirmish in the Ruins. We must complete 100% of room battles. Right off the bat we find a map in a bookcase. It reveals much of the upcoming dungeon, and will take a bit of the unwanted surprise out of our quest. After two easy battles and a third which left us slightly bruised, we arrived at the second to last room in the dungeon.

Hider

The skeletons were dispatched with relative ease. But there was one battle left. On the way to the final room idle read some very disturbing books and opened a jar of ashes which left her with a Creeping Cough = -5 Accuracy, -5 Dodge, -1 Speed. Our final enemies consist of one giant asshole the size of two men, a cutthroat, and a fusilier. After taking out the big guy and the ranger, we looked to be on the way to success without any casualties. But victory and survival are never assured until the very end, as the enemy cutthroat deals two simultaneous critical hits on Awson and Azarthes, leaving the two at 0 HP and at Death's Door.

Hider

But without a second enemy to finish them off before our party could react, we successfully defeat the last foe and finish the quest.

Hider

Though we succeeded, we did not leave entirely unscathed. Between the dark atmosphere and specialized enemy attacks, our heroes suffered a great deal of stress. It's important to keep those levels in check, so during the next quest Awson and Kill Bones will be spending some time healing their minds in the Abbey while Azarthes will be drinking his troubles away in the Tavern. And now we need names for this new lot of chucklefucks: a Vestal, a Crusader, and a Leper.

[Rina]

I'll be the Crusader!

[Smink]

You can use my name for one of your characters if you want. i don't mind :')

[idlehands]

Creeping cough, sounds like my whole January.

[aza]

Oh shit yeah my skills are shit lol

[BrokenVeil]

I will gladly take the position for leper, as I currently have a very evil and debilitating disease...THE COMMON COLD!(insert soap opera organ music here)

[idlehands]

I will gladly take the position for leper, as I currently have a very evil and debilitating disease...THE COMMON COLD!(insert soap opera organ music here)

@BrokenVeil

Unclean!