Lampblack & Brimstone: Freebooters on the Frontier – Page 6

Nathan Roberts got me inspired on this one!

Nathan Roberts got me inspired on this one!

Originally shared by Acritarche

Dernièrement, Nathan Roberts s’est lancé dans un solo avec Freebooters on the Frontier v.2. Non seulement j’espère qu’il continuera longtemps, mais en plus il m’a donné une sacrée envie de faire pareil. J’ai décidé de ne pas me priver! ^^

Première étape: impression de Freebooters v.2, montage du bouquin et pose des signets.

Hey Jason Lutes

Hey Jason Lutes,

Here are the further adventures of Raggalto the aspiring sorcerer…

How do you handle difficult situations?

For example I was running Hot Springs Island and the group decided to take on a Goa warrior in hand to hand combat. Even 4 against one, this should be a tricky fight for any group of heroes.

But I couldn’t really emphasize that through the mechanics. They had enough Luck/Cunning/Points to roll 10’s for every action.

And because the success on attack is: “Deal damage. Enemies misses.” it was a total steamroll.

How would you handle this? Just tell them: “You lose. No rolls.”

On a teaching stint in Denmark, got to playtest Freebooters+Funnel 2e with some amazing people!

On a teaching stint in Denmark, got to playtest Freebooters+Funnel 2e with some amazing people! First time using the new level 0 villager rules went well, and it was fun to run them through a full-fledged adventure I’ve been working on.

I think what I admire most about Freebooters is the robust economy at play.

Extensive items lists, gold for XP, etc.

It’s rare to see that in other games.

Barbarian!

Barbarian! Paladin! Druid! Bard! Ranger! I’ve got all of these up and running in our “d12 World” game of Freebooters. Updates (and PDFs) soon 🙂

3 of five players dropped out of our usual DW session, and I finally got to playtest Freebooters 2e with my two…

3 of five players dropped out of our usual DW session, and I finally got to playtest Freebooters 2e with my two remaining players.. I’m loving it, and the players are loving it!

The premise: they were minor characters doomed to die in the dungeon the DW-characters are travelling to. The main cast might find their bodies later on.

A longish report is attached:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FT8p3JpwYW3Yi2EA7QBkFDQztQ89UmQb322eH0myHKA/edit?usp=sharing

Finished our first session today.

Finished our first session today. I’m playing with 3 guys who have never played Dungeon World or Freebooters before, and my wife (whose played everything I’ve played). We have one of each class. That wasn’t deliberate, it just worked out that way!

Orcs hadn’t been seen in 200 years but there were rumors that there were orcs coming down from this mountain, same mountain as Dwimmermount – an OSR megadungeon. Our first encounter, the PCs found a room full of orcs and proceeded to brace for a fight.

The halfling magic-user cast Memory of Smoking Mud, not to slow the orcs down but to nauseate and confuse them into thinking they had somehow trod through a swamp.

The thief separated from the group in order to backstab an orc as they rushed the party from their encampment.

The cleric of Lieutenant Columbo (tenet: Dominate the corrupt; domain: Intelligence and Torment) cursed them, striking fear into their hearts as the party met them blade to blade.

The fighter went last and charged into the middle of the orcs.

Only a few rolls and half the orcs were dead, the rest turned to flee.

We ended the session with them hearing chittering sounds from behind, as the sound of their battle had awoken something else in the darkness.

So Jason Lutes, I’ve been playtesting the 2nd ed rules in an interesting way!

My dad gave me this cool dragon leather covered tome for my birthday, but the rice paper thin blank pages are no good really for drawing.

Sooooo…

I’ve stuck in the collected rules for 2e in page by page. Old skool 80’s style, just like I did back at high school. I’ve used ALL the random tables, generated a cool PC named ‘Raggalto the Cruel’ (a wizard), and followed the See the frontier rules using only what I garnered from FbotF (not PW).

The results have been a solo game of fantastic adventure! Raggalto hangs out in the caves underneath a tavern in the frontier village of Storms Reach. He hopes to explore the nearby ruined tomb of the Dread Priest Azred and secure some greater Magic’s than his ‘Soil Blade’ spell.

I’ll make the dungeon unique areas / dangers / creatures / discoveries up on the fly as he pushes his luck or ventured forth. He may need some fighty hierlings first though!

Loving the updates so far, and can’t wait to continue the tween girl gang game next holidays. But until then the solo adventures of Raggalto are super fun to play through.