Clarifications
Particular Strengths
- Even if more than one Particular Strength is included in the narration, only ever add in an additional die for one of them.
- Generally, a Particular Strength should not be brought into a conflict already underway.
- Particular Strengths are balanced: although they make it more likely to win a conflict, they also make it less likely that the character will go on the Owe List.
The Owe List
- When comparing dice sizes, when 2 dice are rolled against 3 dice and the 2 dice include the highest die, the 3 dice set is considered the highest set if the 2 dice 'bracket' the 3 dice. For example, with a d12 and a d6 versus a d10 and two d8, the d10 and two d8s count as the highest set. Otherwise the high die rule is as described in the rules.
- If a player buys in an advantage die, add the advantage die's sides (6) to the highest die when calculating who has the highest set.
Changing Forms and entering conflicts mid-way through
- Once declared, Forms cannot change during a conflict.
- Characters can enter conflicts already underway, but it may be less messy to avoid this where possible. They cannot go on to the Owe List.
Consequences
For genres other than sword and sorcery, Humiliation, targetting With Love and For Myself, might replace one of Exhaustion or Injured.
The Game - 2 Chapters so far...
Features of the World
From Chapter I:
- Two neighbouring kingdoms, one wealthy but mercantile, the other aggressive and aquisitive. The latter sends regular raiders to harrass the border, which the former is trying to appease with their emissary;
- Land scattered with deserted settlements, emptied by plague;
- The King has many old secrets buried.
From Chapter II - a year later:
- Demons exist, mostly trapped or departed in this age;
- War erupted between the two kingdoms, with the huge battle ending inconclusively. However, Ugurnazir's men hunted Noshin down and murdered the emissary during the battle;
- Tattooing, especially of the face, is a common custom, especially for the great heroes of old.
Current Owe List
Pujman (Jim)
Darriash (Will)
Pujman (Jim)
Chapter I
Oracle: The Unquiet Past
Elements:
- An apothecary, squint-eyed with many uncanny potions;
- An unsavory treasure seeker with an honest map;
- The arrival of honoured emissaries from a wealthy exotic land;
- A golden armlet still on the skeletal arm of its owner.
Player Characters
Zahir (Benedict)
A tailor and straight forward seeker of his patrimony
Forms
Covertly d10 (d8)
Directly d6
For Myself d12
For Others d8 (d6)
With Love d6
With Violence d4
Particular Strength: Guardian Angel (his mother), Significance 1, Broad, Forms: Directly, For Myself/Self Protection
Best Interests: Defeat the King's champion who killed his father; marry the emissary.
Zah Eil (Julian)
An unsavory treasure seeker with an honest map
Forms
Covertly d8
Directly d6
For Myself d10
For Others d6
With Love d4
With Violence d12
Particular Strength: Web of Court and Religious Contacts, Significance 1, Far Reaching, Forms: For Myself/Maneuvering
Best Interests: Use the armlet to depose the King; Put the King's champion on the throne.
Pujman (Jim)
Finely dressed ambassador and servant of the emissary
Forms
Covertly d10
Directly d6
For Myself d4
For Others d12
With Love d8
With Violence d6
Particular Strength: Invisibility, Significance 1, Potent, Form: Covertly/Maneuvering
Best Interests: Destroy the evil armlet; Replace the emissary
Jesper (Will)
An apothecary, squint-eyed with many uncanny potions
Forms
Covertly
Directly
For Myself
For Others
With Love
With Violence
Particular Strength: Potions, Significance 1
Best Interests: Become wealthy; Protect the King's interests.
NPCS:
Rab Seen
King's Champion and bully
Particular Strength: none
Best Interest: Get the map.
Noshin
Honoured emissary from a wealthy exotic land
Particular Strength: Great wealth, Significance 1, Broad, Forms: Covertly, Directly/Maneuvering
Best Interests: Recruit a spy in the King's court; Find the golden armlet.
King Ugurnazir
Aging King
Particular Strength: Royal bodyguard, Significance 1, Potent, Forms: With Violence/Self Protection
Best Interests: No one must find the buried skeleton of Zahir's father; The apothecary must die.
Special Particular Strength: The Golden Armlet
A golden armlet in the shape of a snake with ruby eyes swallowing its tail
Effect: When rubbed the wearer can overshadow the mind of others
Significance 1, Consequential (For Myself), Forms: For Myself/Action
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Chapter II
Oracle: God Kings of War
Elements:
- A demon god of blood and vengeance forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened;
- The head of a high war-captain in a carved wooden box;
- An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill;
- The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking and the widows mourning there.
Player Characters
Pujman (Jim)
Finely dressed ambassador and servant of the emissary
Forms
Covertly d10
Directly d6
For Myself d4
For Others d12
With Love d8
With Violence d6
Particular Strengths: Invisibility, Significance 1, Potent, Form: Covertly/Maneuvering
Necromancy, Significance 1 (requires sacrifice and a deal with the soul), Far Reaching, Form: Directly/Action
Best Interests: To recover the emissary's staff of office; To marry the widow.
Maya (Benedict)
A demon god of blood and vengeance forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened
Forms
Covertly (now 0)
Directly
For Myself
For Others (now 0)
With Love
With Violence
Particular Strength: Magical axe, Significance 2
Best Interests: Have people worship him; Take a mortal woman as his consort.
Darriash (Will)
Surviving soldier from the battle
Forms
Covertly
Directly
For Myself
For Others
With Love
With Violence
Particular Strength: Run like the wind, Significance 2
Best Interests: Kill Adar and take revenge; Claim the watchtower for himself.
NPCs:
Beletsunu
Head of a high war-captain
Particular Strength: Carved wooden box that can trap souls, Significance 2, Potent and Consequential (With Violence/Action), Form: For Others/Action
Best Interests: Be united with a body (Darriash's); Stop the demon.
Adar
Surviving soldier of the battle
Particular Strength: Bloodthirsty, Significance 2, Potent and Consequential (With Love/Maneuvering), Form: With Violence/Action
Best Interests: Return a hero with proof of killing the emissary; Steal the demon's magic axe.
Kimya
Widow mourning the dead
Particular Strength: none
Best Interests: To have her husband back from the dead; To fall in love with Darriash.
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