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 […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part three – Completed character

Kasumi Tanaka 1st level Cleric Str: 7 -1 Dex: 14 +1 Con: 15 +1 Int: 11 Wis: 16 +2 Cha: 8 -1 Attack bonus: +1 HP: 7 AC: 6 (5 with shield) Fray die: 1d6 Traits Warrior Monk: 2 Bursts of Strength: 2 Helped a Skilled Lawyer: 1 Spells […]

Scarlet Heroes, Part two – Character creation

Scarlet Heroes, Part two – character creation I’m going to be following the quick character creation rules, which start by rolling for your Race and Class (1d20, 1d8). 1d20: 11, a human 1d8: 2, a Cleric Next three rolls on the Trait tables – one Background, one Inate quality, and one relationship. (1d100 x3)

Scarlet Heroes, Part one – Overview

Scarlet Heroes Published by Sine Nomine Publishing, Scarlet Heroes is an OSR game intend for lone player characters rather than the usual party. Whilst the standard assumption is for the usual GM and Player setup, the book also contains oracles and systems for three types of solo adventure – the Dungeon Crawl, an Urban Investigation […]