Bloodstained: Shadow of the Demon Lord

This is crossposted from Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Bloodstained/comments/aqlpjd/bloodstained_shadow_of_the_demon_lord/

Be forewarned, this is high nerdery of the Tabletop RPG kind. You've been warned.

Soooo, I know some folks on here are already doing a D&D thang with Castlevania-esque play.

Now, my main game is a gem from Robert Schwalb, one of the devs for D&D 5e, called Shadow of the Demon Lord. Schwalb's goal in designing this game was to make something he could run five beers in, and that's what it is. It's also absolutely brutal.

So, why does this game call out to me for Bloodstained on the tabletop? It has mechanics that the setting of Bloodstained already mention, namely Corruption.

In Curse of the Moon, we see Zangetsu becoming corrupted to the point of becoming a demon himself. We also know the 'Crystal Curse' slowly corrupts Shardbinders. While Corruption is of a different 'flavor' in the vanilla Shadow of the Demon Lord (the taint of one's soul that drags a person to Hell), this could easily be retooled to have other deleterious effects as a trade-off for bonuses (new abilities, etc.).

The other selling point is damage is actually linked to the character's abilities more than the weapon used. A whip is crappy unless it's in the hands of a seasoned fighter who can use it to negate armor's defense bonus and gain stupid amounts of bonus damage that make the initial damage die trivial.

This should give me something to do while I wait for Bloodstained to come out. Heck, I have nearly every SotDL book to convert this, so why not?