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Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2022

The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford - Campaign Pitch

Chance Dudinack
The Pitch (in six sentences)

1. Something tragic has occurred in the idyllic forest town of Brandonsford.

2. A few weeks ago, a group of hunters were attacked by a dreadful dragon, black of scale and temperament.

3. The townsfolk are terrified by rumors of the dragon.

4. Merchants and craftspeople are refusing to journey to Brandonsford, leading to a decrease in wealth and industry for the town.

5. The ruler of the town, Lord Eric, desperate to resume trade, has put a bounty of 1000 silver on the dragon's head.

6. You are travelers, outcasts, and wanna-be heroes attracted to Brandonsford by the bounty and the rumor of a fantastical hoard of gold that the dragon guards.

The System

    The main system is the GROG by Vayra, with a few changes. The first change is combat. All attacks automatically hit and deal damage. Armor reduces damage equal to the amount of Inventory Slots it takes up, but will be worn down by repeated blows.

    The second change is XP. You gain Experience by doing things within the game world and engaging with the narrative. 10 XP is required for level 2, 30 XP is required for level 3, and 60 XP is required for level 4. Here are some rough XP values, subject to GM modification:

  • You gain 1 XP for each important or interesting roleplaying encounter you complete.
  • You gain [x] XP for killing a monster, where [x] equals the monster's HD.
  • You gain 1 XP for spending a moderate amount of recovered treasure.
  • You gain 2 XP for each unique magic item you recover.
  • You gain 2 XP for each unique location or area you discover and interact with.
  • You gain 1 XP by roleplaying your character's flaws and ideals.

    The final change is retainers. You can start with a number of retainers equal to your CHA score. Talk to me about what you want them to be and we can figure things out. These retainers can be used as back-up PCs in case your original character dies. Retainers gain 1/2 the XP for all of the values above.

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The Characters

    You have four classes to choose from:

  • The Zouave, a veteran of many campaigns.
  • The Thief, a stealthy rogue. (Note: I am planning on not including any archetypes, but if you can convince me otherwise...)
  • The Ranger, a woodsman and hunter.
  • The Wizard, occult and mysterious.
    More classes may be unlocked through play.

Saturday, October 16, 2021

GLoGtober '21 Day 4 - Traincrawl Engineward Entries

    Traincrawl. I never thought I would be writing about trains on my game blog given my dislike of train games, but here I am. I am working on the engineward portion of the Immortal Train, while my collaborator theisticGilthoniel is writing the coldward portion.

    The Traincrawl is a depthcrawl. When you enter a new car, roll a d6 on both tables, adding the distance in number of cars from your starting car (so the first car you explore will be +0, the second +1, etc.). Every car has a 2 in 6 chance of being semi-permanently inhabited, and each inhabited car has a 50% chance of having a party and a 50% chance of having a murder mystery. If the car cannot be feasibly inhabited by humans, dwarves live there.

Car

  1. Boxcar
  2. Seating Car (six seats wide)
  3. Seating Car (four seats wide)
  4. Dining Car
  5. Sleeping Car
  6. Observation Car
  7. Tavern Car
  8. Prison Car
  9. Slave Car
  10. Torture Car
  11. Mine Car
  12. Tomb Car
  13. Arena Car
  14. Eugenics Car
  15. Ritual Car
  16. Engine Car
  17. Assembly Car
  18. Angelic Car
  19. Beacon Car
  20. Locomotive Car

Details

  1. Empty
  2. Hot
  3. Dirty
  4. Burning
  5. Industrious
  6. Ruined
  7. Dead scrappers
  8. Dead dwarves
  9. Unstable
  10. Massive exposed silver train-wheels
  11. Protruding machinery
  12. Massive orrery
  13. Lava pools
  14. Clumps of iron
  15. Bloodstained
  16. Dead angel
  17. Smoke-filled
  18. First generation murals
  19. Heavily guarded
  20. Ominously silent

Encounters

  1. Empty
  2. Outgoing scrappers
  3. Returning scrappers
  4. Pacifistic, but hunted, cyborgs
  5. Fire cultists
  6. Dwarf soldiers
  7. Drunk dwarves
  8. Imprisoned slaves
  9. Slave village
  10. An angel torturer and tortured slaves
  11. Dwarf miners
  12. First generation tomb
  13. Blood-sport arena
  14. Angel gene-manipulator and its mutant servants
  15. Engine cult
  16. Grand Enginepriest
  17. The Assembly Master
  18. The Lord-Ophanim
  19. Sentient chained star
  20. The Conductor