Solo-a-Module Month – Death in Freeport, Part 3

Or, The cover is not a lie Last time in Death in Freeport, Jevan’s investigation into the disappearance of the scholar Lucius was interrupted by an attack by mercenaries. Once they were defeated, he found a scrap of parchment with an address on it. GME Q: Does he go there this evening? A: Yes. He […]

Solo-a-module Month – Death in Freeport, Part 2

Lucius’s House The next morning, Jevan decides to start his investigation at Lucius’s house; he sends word to Egil that he’d like to look around. The message comes back to meet in the mid-morning. GME The GME throws a twist at us, right at the start; an interrupted scene. The people behind Lucius’s disappearance were […]

Solo-a-module month – Death in Freeport

Introduction We’re playing through the Shadow of the Demon Lord versions of the Freeport trilogy. SotDL is a D&D adjacent RPG, with a character advancement scheme that owes something to Warhammer FRP in that you pick careers – called Paths, for your character. However, unlike in WHFRP, the Paths are picked at set level points […]

Agon – Character, Island and Quest creation

We’ll be creating three characters in order to build up a network of Oaths around them. Damia the Monster-Slayer, daughter of Ares, Far-Reaching Nikaie, daughter of Scylax, and Fleet-footed Maeon, son of Arion. It’s perfectly acceptable to play female characters as the game is not attempting to be historically accurate. Damia the Monster-Slayer With Damia […]

Agon – Overview

Agon Agon is a game where you play ancient Greek heroes completing quests given to them by the gods. You’re working together, but also competing in order to be the Best Hero ™ and ensure that your name echoes down the ages. Agon translates as ‘struggle’ and this is reflected in the game mechanics – […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part eight – Urban adventure, Part five

Scene ten As Kasumi listens at the door, it’s time to decide what’s actually going on; if the current score would have been a Complete Victory, we’d go with Option 2 – Yanmei has actually been kidnapped; as it’s only a partial victory, we’ll pick randomly. “If this is true, perhaps we deserve to be […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part seven – Urban adventure, Part four

Scene six Once in the mansion, Kasumi is going to poke around a bit more to try and find out what’s actually happening. I could swop over to the Dungeon adventure rules here, but I want to test out each adventure engine as a discrete thing rather than play mix ‘n’ match. Scene type: Investigative […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part six – Urban adventure, Part three

Scene four Before turning her attention to the matter of getting access to Boss Nobu’s mansion, Kasumi takes a few hours break to rest and recoup her energy, healing all damage and refreshing her spells. The downside of this is that it automatically gives the Antagonists a Victory Point. Scene type: Conflict Intimidate or put […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part five – Urban Adventure, Part two

Scene Three Mechanics – Heat The Urban Adventure engine has a mechanic called Heat – how much attention your character has drawn to themselves; it increases when you use violence against unacceptable targets, and sometimes when you use magic in a noticeable to solve problems. If you have too much heat at the end of […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part four – Urban Adventure, Part one

Having created Kasumi, it’s time to send her on an adventure or three. This time I’ll be using the tables included in Scarlet Heroes, and running Kasumi through each of the three types of adventure. There’s a page of General oracles, Including a Yes or No? table, tables that answer How far away a thing […]