Skill checks work similar to classic TTRPG / Pen'n'Paper skill checks. Skill checks can be triggered through dialog options or via interactions with items. In "A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen", you have seven different skills that you can level up over the course of the game. Each skill check corresponds to one of these skills. During a skill check two values are displayed, on the one hand a measuring value, which you have to roll, and on the other hand a skill value, which results from your respective skill level + possible bonuses or mali and serves you as a kind of buffer. You must now roll four times with a W20(twenty sides) and exceed the measuring value. If you roll a value that is smaller than the measuring value, you have to fill up the difference with points from your skill value. If you can't reach the measuring value on a roll and your skill value points are used up, the skill check fails. But don't worry, by strategically using consumables, certain skills can receive a temporary bonus or malus. You can still use these consumables during a skill check. This way you can gain a small advantage even in difficult situations with the right Bavarian delicacies ("Schmankerl"). If you manage to reach the measured value in all four rolls, the skill check was successful. Most of the time this leads to essential information, new dialog options or access to unexplored locations. Good luck with your rolls!
A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen
Active Fungus Studios
Active Fungus Studios
2023-02-02
RPG Singleplayer
Game News Posts 61
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(260 reviews)
https://activefungus-studios.de
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1694560
[18.41 G]
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Right before your eyes, the picturesque, pastoral village turns into a world full of dark secrets, inexplicable events, social tensions and a hostile hush of a village that seems to hate nothing more than a stranger poking around in other peoples’ business. Can you find out who supports you and who is trying to set you on the wrong track without risking your own life?
The most important features at a glance:
- Historical crime RPG from the 3rd-person perspective
- Action takes place in the Upper Bavarian State village of Wolpertshofen in 1866
- Skills can be improved freely and are used in pen & paper style
- Decisions have an influence on the outcome of the story
- Complete voice output in Bavarian and English
- German and English subtitles
- Playtime: Approx. 10 hours
- 11 different endings
Lead intriguing conversations: use the dialogue-mechanic to collect information, find out who is hiding something from you and convince the villagers to help you out.
Make difficult decisions: your decisions have an impact on the course of the story, the world and the villagers. Will you find the right words?
Level up your skills: decide wich skills to level up and use them wisely in classic TTRPG / pen'n'paper skillchecks.
Find hidden clues: use the detective-mechanic to find clues and evidence.
Move around in the shadows unnoticed: sneak past enemies and guards to stay unnoticed. Or knock them out from behind.
Defend yourself: if your sneak-mission has failed, you can use the fight-mechanic as a last resort and defend yourself with an old fashioned fist fight.
Craft items to boost your skills: with the things you find in the world you can craft items that will allow you to succeed in difficult skillchecks
Decide how you want to solve the tasks at hand. With charisma, diplomacy, brute force, the art of stealth or strategic escape? The mission, however, is clear: solve this case!
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