Tag: Acritarche

I ran an 8 hour long Freebooter session this weekend at the Ludesco convention in Switzerland. The three courageous players had much much fun building the setting then exploring one of its islands in search of Mayondinca artifacts and ruins. Some epic moments with an elemental-driven typhoon, angry merfolks pursuing them through half flooded ruins and mangrove, strange but finally quite nice vegepygmies, old mayondinca legends becoming true again and a demon accidentaly awaken from eons of (troubled?) sleep killed with the newly constructed balista for their pirate ship.

Mayondinca = Maya + ondin (=merfolk in french) + inca

A question about Follower moves.

Why do Recruit and Give orders invite to mark XP on a 6- rather than mark an Ability? (that could be resp. CHA and WIS).

These look like easily won XPs to me.

Thoughts for a new rule in FotF.

Each class has a special ability linked to it (Mettle, Cunning, Favor, Power).

I would really consider being able to burn an ability point to raise it temporarily. the burnt ability being the one used to calculate it of course (resp. STR, INT, WIS and INT).

What do you think?

I’ve been solo testing Freebooters v2 for about two weeks now and filled 77 pages of Canson booklet.

My general feeling is that FotF v2 + Perilous Wilds works marvel together.

Here are some finer remarks:

• Making camp + Manage provisions is generally a quite risky endeavour even in peaceful regions. This can trigger a lot of fiction and some more moves.

• A good armour is the best investment e.v.e.r.

• Travelling requires a lot of +WIS moves (Make camp + Manage provisions + Stay sharp. This should be balanced a bit. (1)

• Find a buyer is not a fair move : 10+ hardly a win, 7-9 is a non-win scenario (2)

(1) My take on this :

• Make camp + WIS ;

• Manage provisions +INT (because careful planning and management),

• Stay sharp +CON (because the greater hardship is to stay awake after a long day trip >> resist, endure)

(2) Find a buyer

When you seek to convert valuable objects into coins, roll+size.

10+ : someone offers you 1d4+7 x 10 % of its value. Accept or Negociate.

7-9 : someone offers you 1d6+3 x 10 % of its value. Accept or reject.

6-: you draw unwanted attention on the object(s) and the Judge makes a move.

Something I’d like to find in Freebooter v2 is a random table for picking up ressources that might appear in Regions, Areas, Sites and/or Steadings.

Here is the one I made up for my solo Freebooter test.

1-6 COMMON

1-3 Wood

4-5 Stone

6-8 Food

9-10 Common crafts (shoes, clothing, tools, etc.)

11 Common minerals (clay, sand, iron, etc.)

12 Medicinal and aromatic herbs

7-9 RARE

1-2 Precious woods, marbles, furs, etc.

3 Specialized crafts including armoury

4-6 Fine food products (wines, delicatessen, etc.)

7-8 Livestock (cattle, ovids and company)

9 Semi-precious stones

10-11 Rare ores (Sn, Pb, kaolin, white sand, etc.)

12 Slaves

10-11 VALUABLE

1-3 Precious metals (Au, Ag, Pt, etc.)

4-5 Gems and precious stones

6-7 Extraordinary livestock (Pegasus, Palomino ghost, etc.)

8-10 Arts and crafts including quality armoury, parade armoury

11 Exotic products (spices, silk, etc. – !adapt to your world!)

12 Archeomancian relics and monstrous trophies

12 ARCANE

1-4 Magic components (all types)

5-7 Talismans (gri-gri, cult sign, etc.)

8-9 Magic-binding powder or element

10-11 Magic objects

12 Magic relics

Another thing I’d like to have is a random table for deities and cults (Name, Domain, Tenets, Cult Structure, Remarquable rite). But I don’t have this one yet. 😉

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.