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TOPIC: True Grind VTD?

True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #1

With no TD at GenCon this year, is there a chance for the return of True Grind in a virtual format?

I would definitely volunteer as a DM and would imagine dozens of other folks would also volunteer to help. Even if it were primarily creatures we’ve already faced that would still be interesting, we could add several others to recapture the sometimes goofy theme with very low production costs. Specifically:
The Dread Gazebo - we film one showing the Gazebo in its natural habitat
The invisible stalker (sunglasses suspended by fishing line in front of a green screen)
The Mimic - it looks like a normal desk, or is it?
The murder cow - hey, more people are killed by cows each year than lions and sharks combined…

On a higher end, several of us know serious cosplay groups that would be happy to be filmed in costume doing a few lines of dialog. I also have a pair of friends that 1) make monster props for haunted houses ( www.worpedstudios.com/ ) and 2) a B movie producer (example: bigfoot related comedy “naked fishing”
).

I think the community would be happy to help make it happen!

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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #2

V True Grind -- big fan of the idea or better yet True Grind at GHC or better yet both!!!

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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #3

True grind... the excitement is in the interaction around the table and with the DMs. The DMs make the grind super fun!
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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #4

I completely agree that the DMs are what make Grind work. I think we could put together a set of good ones.

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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #5

Definitely been wanting True Grind. I love challenge runs but i want grind back. Would also be a great place to work on testing out or shifting folks and DMs who love and want DM weird style play.
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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #6

For those of us who are new to TD can you explain what True Grind is?
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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #7

Casey Wren wrote: For those of us who are new to TD can you explain what True Grind is?


It's all combat, all the time. You get 1 treasure for playing, so treasure enhancers aren't needed. Once you kill a monster, you move onto the next one. In 2019 it was the greatest hits of boss monsters.

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Acherin wrote: I also added VTD support for the most annoying token of 2024 the +2 Sun Scimitar.

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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #8

Casey Wren wrote: For those of us who are new to TD can you explain what True Grind is?


Forget about the escape room aspect of TD. It is about an hour of non-stop sliding combat on multiple boards and Incognito having his way with your characters, your tokens, and your sanity.

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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #9

Casey Wren wrote: For those of us who are new to TD can you explain what True Grind is?


It's also to see how your team works together. We finished all the monsters on normal and all then all the monsters on nightmare in 2019.

Smack was MVP (not for hitting anything because he can't, hehehe) for him remembering about the psychic ability of no damage when falling. Dragon picked up the whole party and dropped us! LOL
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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #10

Casey Wren wrote: For those of us who are new to TD can you explain what True Grind is?


2 or 3 monsters per "room" when one monster dies the next one jumps into it's spot. "room" only transitions when all 3 monsters from the room are dead.

Rooms or the run tend to have weather themed effects you can mitigate with tokens, etc

Each to hit bonus is calculated separately for each weapon on monk/ranger.
At nightmare level expect Incognito to single out the healers or bard and break lutes/lenses, etc.

It's specifically designed to be as hard of a run as possible for a given difficulty

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True Grind VTD? 2 years 9 months ago #11

And it's glorious!

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