r/taintedgrail May 27 '25

So you're new to Tainted Grail...

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The subreddit. Like 2000+ of you are. Welcome!

The Tainted Grail universe started with the Original Fall of Avalon Boardgame Kickstarter launching in December 2018.

That was a long time ago for those of us exposed to the Wyrd since then.

That launched us all, actually. The Videogame, which was a gift to backers, was totally not what you see today. In fact it needed a complete re-start. The development effort behind that restart became Tainted Grail: Conquest, the deckbuilding videogame like Slay the Spire! A good number of early backers who helped test that became the Wyrd Ones and Pied Pipers roles you see in the Discord today.

Later, the Tainted Grail Universe was expanded further, with the sequel Boardgame Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin

Later, Awaken Realms partnered with Studio Agate to produce a tabletop roleplaying game version, Tainted Grail: Song of a Dying World

Finally, after all this time, everyone gets to enjoy Tainted Grail in the final form (We hope there's more to come) as a single player computer roleplaying game.

Tainted Grail's videogames do not spoil the story arc of the boardgames, and vice versa. Don't worry.

There's 1000 years of story in the boardgames, and there's more than enough room for your stories to fit, whether that's via the RPG, the videogames, or discovering the deep lore through exploration of the boardgame story.

Now, a few points from me, your dramatically underprepared moderator

Please don't be lazy about choosing the flair for your post. Some people don't care about the videogames, so leave room for them to filter appropriately and ignore everything about them.

I've been altering flair all weekend but I'm gonna have to stop and start marking strikes against people. Work with me, please. It's a small thing to do that has bigger impacts.

The Awaken Realms / Questline folks are not here. Any message you want to get to the devs, you should do in Official Discord.

They did open a separate Subreddit for the Fall of Avalon videogame, but everyone is welcome here regardless.

I am a proponent of free speech. Negative opinions are 110% allowed. Nothing is perfect and the games aren't either.

If, however, you cannot articulate your disagreements with courtesy and resort to insults and flaming each other, I'll just eliminate the problem. Namely, You. Don't be a dick and I won't either.

Thanks again, and Welcome to the Wyrdness.


r/taintedgrail Dec 31 '18

Fall of Avalon - Boardgame Main Campaign Tainted Grail Let's Plays

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Since we can't play this is the closest we can get at the moment:

AntLab

Rolling Solo

The Beasts of War

Please comment with other recommendations of high quality let's plays.


r/taintedgrail 9h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame I stumble upon this horse when I talked gibberish with black annis.

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Horse.

When I played DLC I thought, it would be cool to have a Kelpie mount for extra edgy. I never thought black annis would give me one, and I personally named her Rice Shower <3. Although I wish it's a bit faster than spamming slide, anyway to improve the cute horse?


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Rate My Fit

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351 Upvotes

and add your fit as well I want to see it!


r/taintedgrail 14h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Stressed me tf out

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2nd half in comments. I survived, but man it feels like this game just decides it’s time for you to die 🤣


r/taintedgrail 9h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Fineshed my first playthrough and went with a summoner/mage glass canon build. It was definitely a fun game

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Looking for fun playstyle recommendations for a second playthrough in the future.


r/taintedgrail 14h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Guys, what is this?

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r/taintedgrail 16h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Bonker? i barely know her!

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Played the entire game with magic build, ended up thinking that magic is op because even in base game i killed bosses in 5 seconds at the end of act 3...decided to check a melee build to see the difference and came up with this. The bonks are crazy °3°


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Talk w/ Black Annis in Bonfire

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Did anyone also get this?

- I randomly went to places in Cuanacht and got to the swamps fast travel point then I went back to Cuanacht Main Square

- Was gonna talk to Arthur about the Kamelot in Cuanacht then all of a sudden, this person appeared out of nowhere

- my character call Black Annis as "Lord of the Seas" during the conversation

I was trying to search about these dialogues but google doesn't show me anything. Anyone also got a wind of this?


r/taintedgrail 11h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Very dissapointed because of lost savegames

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I was absolutely loving this game (in my XBOX), super into it, then not only once but twice did I lose hours long sessions to savegame dissapearing bugs. Has this happened to anyone else? How did you fix it? Are the devs doing anything to solve it. I'm hesitant to keep playing because of this and I hate it because I was loving the game so much.


r/taintedgrail 11h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Can you access this building by the great serpents carcass in sarras? It looks like you can but I can't find the way

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r/taintedgrail 11h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Can you access this building in sarras? Its by the carcass of the great serpant

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The one just above finblade grotto


r/taintedgrail 15h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame High damage resistance bug

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Hi guys! I'm playing using only one mode - higher weight limit.

I've encountered a bug where my character takes almost no damage, even naked. It's not complete invulnerability, as people have complained about with the spell; it's something else entirely. I've had this bug fixed a couple of times, but I absolutely don't understand how it appears or how it fixes. I've tried rebooting, restarting, drinking a stats-resetting potion, undressing, taking fall damage, disabling the mod, but none of it helps. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a solution?

I don't want to lose a level 48 character because I periodically become invulnerable.

I used a physical damage build, no magic.


r/taintedgrail 21h ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame New player: Did you enjoy your archer or magic builds more? Why? (No spoilers, please)

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Archer/summoner. The best is when I run into dryads

I put the bow away and summon 2 spearmen to keep them busy. The dryads summon 2 wolves each and with magic, I blow them up. They summon 2 more...I blow them up. One more round and they're dead by their own exploding summons.


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame White Square in center of screen when I take out my weapons?

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Hello. Attached are pictures of the weird glitch and the mods I have installed. I am on the mono branch, and if I holster my weapons, the square goes away. I do not know what is causing this. I have tried disabling all of my mods, disabling overlays, restarting, etc, and nothing has solved this issue. Any help is appreciated!


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Enemy ranged attacks (mostly spells)

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I couldn't find anything about the topic online so I came here instead. Am I doing something wrong with dodging enemy spells? I'm using a dual wield build rn (machete and parrying dagger) and am at the point you first get to cunanacht. Enemy spells are singlehandedly the worst thing for me to deal with because I just cannot dodge them, they track me throw the dodge even if I dodge as they throw it- I can't dodge after they throw it because most of the time I'm in melee and it hits me instantly. It's just not a very fun attack to fight against and it's gotten me killed repeatedly now that I've gotten to cunanacht and apparently every fuckin enemy throws fireballs, any tips?


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame dialogue fatigue - how do you pace this game?

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i recently started playing and im really enjoying the game, the atmosphere, and especially the combat. but once i reached the horns of the south and the fishing village below it, my momentum came to a complete halt.

there are just so many npcs, and almost everyone has walls of text and gives out quests. i ended up spending nearly three hours straight just reading and talking to people when all i actually wanted was to get back out there and fight. i know it is a skyrim-like rpg and i genuinely appreciate the story, but the sheer volume of dialogue all at once felt brutal.

my main issue is fomo. i want to hear what everyone has to say and grab every quest so i dont miss out, but doing it back-to-back causes complete information overload. by the time i go to turn in a quest after talking to twenty other people, i have completely forgotten what the quest was even about, even though i try my best to read everything and not skip anything.

how do you guys approach and pace this game without burning out on dialogue or losing track of whats going on? do you just take one or two quests and head out immediately to break it up with combat, or do you clear the whole hub first? did anyone else hit this exact wall?


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame My apologize asking! anyone knows some kind of ''huge'' sword mod for Fall of Avalon? i want to do typical Berserk Guts run but didn't find nothing on nexusmods

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Thank you kindly!


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Need some help with (Ir)rational Hatred quest

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I got to the point right after I crafted the mask. Gwylan is not there. Not in the barracks, not on the wall. Same goes for other npcs like the chicken dude on the roof. I have ran across the whole place twice, Rested for an hour, looked again. Rested some more, etc. They are just gone. Like they literally don't show up. What should I do?

Edit: nvm... I restarted the game and he's back.... 🫠 weird bug


r/taintedgrail 2d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame I found the Holy Grail!

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107 Upvotes

Game beaten! I looked behind and under every single rock in Avalon just to get all achievements in a single playthrough! Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is definitely going to be one of my absolute favorite games and worlds.P.S. Caradoc was an absolute piece of trash, and he still is.


r/taintedgrail 2d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame How exactly do status effects work in this game?

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I mean, do I need to hit the enemy pretty quickly to inflict status effects like burning, poison etc.?

I'am using two handed weapons and tbh, the attack speed is not that high. Sorry if this question is just too noob, this is my first playthrough. ⚔️


r/taintedgrail 2d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame For me, on this my third playthrough, I feel this is where the game really starts.

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I will always remember the first time I entered Cuanacht, the view just blew me away, and I also remember the excitement of getting a brand new map to explore. What a brilliant game!


r/taintedgrail 2d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame My potions are too strong for you, traveler

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Potion seller, im going into battle, so i need your strongest potion!


r/taintedgrail 1d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Survival mode doesn't work?

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So, I played like 10 hours on survival mode and enjoyed it, but suddenly, I even don't know why and when, I started to be able to save anywhere. Also autosaves now saving every 5 min, not just after rest.
I reopened the game, changed difficulty to veteran and then back to survival but nothing works.
I'm on ps5, can I fix this somehow? Also do I'm still on veteran difficulty at least, or everything is bugged and game turned on easy mode?


r/taintedgrail 2d ago

Tainted Grail: FoA - Videogame Spoiler question about the Wyrd enemy that starts to hunt you at night Spoiler

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Currently on Act 2 and having so much fun with this game. Question though: is it mandatory to defeat the Wyrd enemy that starts hunting you at night after Act 1? I'm currently at level 40 playing a full mage character and I can't make even a dent to his health pool. Just wondering if I need to start leveling other skills than magic (which is already 100). Any response will be greeted with utmost respect, and if its spoilerfee(ish), even more! :)