WHFRP Reboot
Here's my thoughts on the reboot. I'm changing some of the rules because I like what I saw in some other systems.
The bulk of the rules stay the same.
Contents
Characters
Character creation can be done in several ways:
- Points: You get 85 points to distribute to your various attributes. New Rule: Half of your stats must not end in 0 or 5. I like irregular stat lines. If you've already made your character, you don't need to change, but for new characters, this rule is in effect.
- Roll Choose: Roll 2d10 8 times and write down the values. You can choose which rolls go to which stats. You get no Shallya's Mercy.
- Roll: Roll for each stat. You get one standard Shallya's Mercy.
Careers can be chosen or rolled for, but in both cases you get only one free advance.
Looting Rules
- Looting a weapon takes a full action
- Looting armor takes two full actions per armor location
- Looting miscellaneous, easily accessible items takes a half action
- Searching a body can be done in a Cursory (half action), Detailed (two full actions), or Exhaustive (three full actions) manner. To get a Search roll you must do at least a Detailed search. To be able to oppose your search roll to Concealment rolls you must do an Exhaustive search.
All of the above rules assume you've got somewhere to put the stuff you find, which generally takes a half action.
Fortune Points
Fortune points regenerate daily.
Fortune points can be used for all the usual purposes, but also for narrative elaboration. You may use a fortune point to force another character to re-roll. A PC may spend a fortune point to block this effect.
Setting
The setting would remain in my fucked-up Old World remix. If you wanted to play a "Not Elf" or a "Not Dwarf", you could go for it, it'd just be on the down-low like the examples you met were. The characters themselves would be new ones - I'm already thinking of hooks, but if you guys want something specific, like "everyone's a military man" or "we're bone pickers trying to escape Gabe's Mom", then put it on the discussion page. Your old characters would be NPCs - I'd ask you guys for input occasionally on how they'd respond to things, but on the whole I'd use them for my own nefarious ends. The time frame would probably be a few years after we stopped the last game.
The World
The Prologue will be set several years after your old characters were captured, in the year 1114. Below is the recent history of the Empire:
Races
Not-elves and not-dwarves are uncommon enough that those who meet them figure they're probably just physically odd humans, unless they hear of their history or people. However, even amongst the non-human races, their concept of history, of their own people, isn't defined by them being "not human" or "elf" or whatever; it's defined by the aspects of life important to those people. A 'not-elf' would probably describe himself as a "Person of the Forest", while a 'not-dwarf' would describe themself as one of 'they who guard the deep places' or something similarly obtuse.
Not-Dwarfs
Not-Dwarfs use the Dwarf stat set, but have two of their Spiritual Attributes capped at 2 instead of 3.
Note that a critical part of the Western Empire setting is that the time of these other races seems to have passed.
Not-Elves
Not-Elves use the Elf stat set, but have all three of their Spiritual Attributes capped at 2 instead of 3.
Note that a critical part of the Western Empire setting is that the time of these other races seems to have passed. Not-Elves in particular have for the greater part left the world of Men to, er, Men. But they're around, like Lorn or the jerk who wouldn't introduce Anjou to the Lady.
Not-Halflings
Oh, God, why hast thou been so cruel to me????
Magic
I'm going to try and tone down the overt magic that we had lots of last time; my favorite kind of magic is the sort from Lord of the Rings - not necessarily flashy, but a really big deal.
I'm changing the way cast dice and rerolls work to help implement this, and if this rule doesn't work, then we'll change it:
- Cast dice can be rerolled as any other dice. However, if any of cast rolls (including the original) indicate Tzeentch's curse, the results of the curse are calculated.
- If, through hideous circumstance, you roll more than one Tzeentch's curse during your cast die rerolls, only the one greatest in magnitude is calculated. i.e., you take three rerolls on your 3-magic casting roll: the first is two 2's and a 1, the second is three 1's, and the final is three distinct numbers that hit your target number. A magnitude-3 tzeentch's curse is calculated by the GM.
- The effects of Tzeentch's curse may be rerolled normally, assuming appropriate SA's are in effect.
Prologue
I'm actually thinking that other than tying Ben's character (and Nate's if we see him, and anyone else there next session) in to the group, the prologue is more or less complete. We'll consider the Floating World Chronicles to be what took the players to their second careers (I know this is a change-up).
Anyways, everyone gets 1200 xp. That's what everyone has, so the xp you gained last session is included in this.
Absenteeism
If you're gone from a session, you don't get that session's XP. But! There's a way you can mitigate that! Send me an email with what you would want your character to accomplish that session, you get 50xp. If I respond with the results and any additional information, you have a bonus opportunity: write a story (I don't care how good it is, I just want to know how your character responded to the results), and you can get up to 30 bonus XP! If the exchange goes back and forth a few times and a really robust account of what your character did develops, you can get up to the entire XP allotment for a session (so 50 xp + 50 bonus XP).
Note that this means if you want any shot at bonus XP you'd best email me early in the week so I get a chance to get to it.
If you're absent for a *REALLY LONG TIME*, we'll bring your character up to within a 2-4 advances of everyone else, the only catch is you need to write a story (again) that describes how you got those advances.
Helpful Stuff
[Character Sheet Excel File http://www.blackindustries.com/includes/char-sheet.xls]
