Articles and discussion on Roleplaying including Shadow World, Forgotten Realms.
So this time I want to cover two chapters of HARP Fantasy, Stats, Race and Culture. The biggest difference here is that there are eight stats and they are on a scale of 1 to 105. The rules give three options for generating stats, the first is roll eight d100 rolls and then assign them …
When I first mooted this idea it was to do a chapter per post. Having looked at the rulebook there are 15 chapters but some are more substantial than others and some lend themselves to be discussed together. This is all based upon High Adventure Role Playing Fantasy, last updated 7th April 2017. Chapter 1 …
That they never end up with the personality that I imagined they would have. I find the very first session with a new character quite hard. I have to sort of grow into them a little. In some ways I am ultra conservative. I always play humans for example and always male. In other ways …
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I suspect that this is going to be a story that is repeated all over the rpg blogosphere today. My school friends and I pretty much have RPGs as the social glue that holds us together. Over the decades each of us has had lifes ups and down. I think we have had nine wives/partners …
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So I thought I would write an adventure that would put player characters under a bit of stress. One relatively easy way to do that is make them go blind. Without line of sight then a lot of magic is stuffed, fighters generally don’t like fighting blind either. So that is the basic premise of …
This one goes back to the days of MERP. 3 PCs in a dwarven jail, I think it was in Erebor but it could have been the Iron Hills, the exact location is not important. We had been tricked into killing the dwarven queen, as you do. You know what it is like, these things …
Continue reading “RPGaDay2018 Day 15: A tricky RPG experience that you enjoyed.”
So I am running behind schedule again. I have two days to catch up and I have a post that I want to share that has nothing to do with RPGaDay. So how has my play evolved? It is convoluted answer time…. When we started we were terrible role players. We were more roll players …
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I am struggling with this question. In the RPGaDay set up there are alternative questions in case you don’t like a particular question and I nearly plucked one of them out instead. I have been gaming since I was about 13 or possibly 14 years old. I have never stopped. I gamed at school both …
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The title above is a song by Grateful Dead which I thought was very apt for this post. So we have a magical throne that urges one towards the dark arts and necromancy. The last human ruler of the city of forgotten heroes was very magical and it was them that caused the throne to …
Kill The Priest sees a corrupted priest unleashing a creature to look for a religious relic. The creature is now on a quest to kill any and all powerful female priests of the deity in question. The priest is themselves a dupe, and the characters must stop the creatures and the priest. This adventure has …