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I've written a touch about Helldivers 2's slapstick<\/a> deaths, reinforced by rapid respawns and a low punishment for beefing it\u2014its Magika-esque friendly fire systems<\/a> also contributing to its 'Warhammer 40k Gone Wrong' vibes. It joins Lethal Company<\/a> as a game where dying is just inherently funny, each panicked, scrambling doom its own punchline.<\/p>\n

Arrowhead Games history of games centred around friendly fire fun is\u2014according to the studio's CEO and creative director Johan Pilestedt\u2014directly inspired by the chaos of tabletop roleplaying (thanks, GamesRadar<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“[Comedy] is absolutely what I'm going for when I design games. The concept originates from years of playing [pen and paper] RPGs, where the players manage to turn everything into a farce. No matter if it's Cthulhu or D&D, it always ends with us crying of laughter.”<\/p>\n

As someone with a vested interest in running tabletop myself<\/a>, Pilestedt is bang on the money here. The improv nature of most TTRPG games always leads to a chaotic network of stacking consequences, which can easily result in four grown adults giggling like school children around a bunch of dice and pencils.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That word choice\u2014'farce'\u2014describes it perfectly. A good old-fashioned farcical comedy is built on physical humour, absurd situations, and unlikely circumstances\u2014all things the whims of the dice help to enable. In a bi-weekly Sunday game I play over discord, the ongoing debate over whether horses actually exist or not has grown into a running joke that raises my cleric's blood pressure while I remain in stitches.<\/p>\n

Helldivers 2 doesn't have a single dice roll in it, but it does<\/em> occupy the same space by virtue of every mission being a playground. Here's a video of one player having a grenade hucked back at them by a bug completely on accident, to which Pilestedt replies<\/a>: “this is the reason why you always simulate everything even though it doesn't make sense at the time.” You can almost picture the DM saying: 'You rolled a natural one? Uh. The grenade bounces off a bug's hand and flies back at you, and you swear <\/em>it pulled the pin. Make a dexterity saving throw.'<\/p>\n

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I've even seen this play out over the weekend. As I mentioned in an opinion piece<\/a> yesterday, my matches with some of the PC Gamer crew led to a situation in which we all equipped “Rover” Guard Dog backpacks, creating a game of deadly laser tag where none of us were in control. Shoutout to our guides writer Sean Martin<\/a>, who kept throwing himself in the hole left by a deployed ICBM for The Bit every single time. Sterling dedication.<\/p>\n

Pilestedt isn't the first to be inspired by his time playing TTRPGs. Here's a piece we wrote a few years ago<\/a> detailing different devs from different games, and how thoroughly they've been inspired by the likes of Dungeons and Dragons. Deus Ex's Warren Spector, James Ohlen of the original Baldur's Gate games\u2014even John Romero, father of Doom, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We never thought that the D&D games we were playing would end up influencing our game designs \u2026 It just flowed easily and was enthralling. We all liked playing together. No one pored over stat sheets, and no battle or rewards were held up due to some arcane rule lawyering. D&D was yet another way that we gelled as a team.”<\/p>\n

While games like Baldur's Gate 3 are obviously inspired by the freeform nonsense of TTRPGs, it's fascinating to me how the act of 'sitting around a table with four of your mates and engaging in dice-fuelled hallucinations' has genuinely unlocked the creativity behind many of gaming's classics\u2014and now Helldivers 2 gets to join that canon. Once spots at the table are freed up<\/a>, that is.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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