Author: Jason Lutes

First stab at FotF 2e treasure tables

Okay, getting ’em down to 1 page was a bit of wishful thinking, but 3 pages ain’t bad, right? I wrestled with this a long time. It does call for a fair number of rolls, but I am liking the output so far. And hey, if they’re rolling to see what treasure they find it won’t be boring. Right? Right?

Maezar and John Marron, you may have immediate interest in this. Note that if you roll a “Rarity,” all there is right now is magic items in that category.

As mentioned previously, I need to streamline/pare down the creature creation guidelines, but for now they do the job. I went through the steps with a feral vampire in mind an ended up with:

Feral Vampire

Medium, solitary, stealthy, undead, vulnerable (holy)

12 HP, 0 Armor

Claws and teeth (1d8+4, close, messy)

>> Cross great distance in utter silence

>> Strike from the shadows

>> Drain victim’s blood to regain 1d6 HP

And then I used the “Find Some Treasure” guidelines to see what it had stashed back in its nasty hole:

>> 270sp worth of mixed coinage, most in the pouches and pockets of the creature’s victims, whose rotting remains are strewn about.

>> 4 rations’ worth of dried fruits and meat in the backpack of the most recent victim.

>> A set of fine tinker’s tools (10sp), belonging to one of the victims.

>> A flawed pinkish gem (90sp), which hypnotizes anyone who stares into it.

>> A viscous potion in a leather flask that smells of tree sap, which grants the imbiber +1 to Perceive in the wild.

>> A symbol of the god of death made of smooth black stone, which will drain Constitution from any Good character who carries it.

Feel free to try it yourself, report the results, and critique my approach.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5pzsahewav5w4hf/FotF2e%20-%20Beasts%20%26%20Booty.pdf?dl=0

THE BEST BOOTY

I’m trying different ideas for a pared-down set of treasure tables, to make it as easy and direct as possible to generate treasure. My goal is to fit it all onto one 5.5″ x 8.5″ page, but it will likely end up spread out over two pages. For me it’s important to include a wide variety of “stuff” in addition to raw coinage — trade goods, furs, spices, art objects, etc. That part I can handle. The challenge is figuring how to scale things properly without bogging down the process (with calculations, too many rolls, etc.), while maintaining the level of “simulation” that already exists in Freebooters.

I’m researching how others have done this kind of thing, so I would love to hear about treasure generation systems that you have used on the fly, and what about them really works for you.

Just threw this together before running off to class. Too on the nose? Open to other title font ideas, this is just the best one I had on hand. Image is placeholder.

Freebooters (in)Complete playtesting package

This is pretty raw, and things are missing (you will need FotF 1e and The Perilous Wilds to fill in the gaps), but I’m making it available here for anyone who wants to give it a spin. Especially John Marron, since he is planning to run a game imminently.

Note that the creature creation guidelines need a lot of massaging, and the treasure procedure is largely incomplete. I’m going to try to get the latter into workable shape before the end of the week.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p88e7exekcb0qsa/AACDXT11NSfNsy_VtQS51xDca?dl=0

Here are some revised settlement encounter tables to take around the block. The Perilous Wilds tables are meant to supplement this stuff in some places, and will be folded in to the final version of FotF2e.

They don’t feel as unified as I would like, but I’ve been rolling test encounters and I’m pretty happy with the scope and depth of results made possible by these 4 page spreads.

Roll some yourself and interpret them here, if you feel inclined!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/100b2wu92twbm70/FotF2e_Settlement%20%26%20NPC%20tables.pdf?dl=0

Here’s the latest draft of the Travel & Exploration Moves for Freebooters 2e. Trying to make these applicable to overland and underground exploration. Also cribbed and modified the “Cramped Quarters” move from Uncharted Worlds because I’ve been wanting a formalized way to encourage character development and interaction.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzqldksmbpd5jq8/FotF2e%20-%20Travel%20%26%20Exploration%20Moves.pdf?dl=0

Splitting my day between Stonetop revisions and tinkering on Freebooters 2e, I came up with this draft playbook design for Freebooters. Feedback appreciated.

Copping some design elements and font from Maezar’s character sheets, which are really great. I hope that’s okay, Maezar!

Still a little torn between this more pulpy display font and something rougher.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xztjrykb9geus5v/FotF2e_playbook_magic-user_test.pdf?dl=0