Warhammer RPG V2 : NPC sheets

 As I couldn't find any suitable NPC sheet anywhere, I have made my own (in French):

 The goal was to create a light and easy to fill character sheet. Please feel free to share, give feedback and edit.

The .pdf file can be downloaded here

And the editable .odt is here

Reviving Heroquest is dead. Long live Alea Jacta Erat

 Today is the first day of the new a new era for this Blog. After several years dedicated to Heroquest, it will now open up to Role Playing Games in general.

Why such a change ?

As readers may have noticed, this blog has not only been about Heroquest but it has also given tips to play with children. You can find the articles here.

As time flows, the children are getting older. To the point that they finally got out of the dungeon to earn the ultimate reward : a whole new dimension to the game. For those interested, the ultimate quest was briefly depicted in this post.

Where does the new name comes ?

Alea Jacta Erat is the past tense of the latin quote "Alea Jacta Est" ("The die is cast" in English). This of course refers to the random part of every role playing game. Which is materialized by the typical multi-faced dice.

But this name also has another historical meaning for the author of this Blog and the first one who will guess it will get a very special reward... It's up to you !!!

What will come next ?

As a logical continuation of the previous articles, the first RPG that will be featured here will be Warhammer.

I am currently mastering two campaigns : one IRL and one on a forum (in French). Both campaigns being linked, only those who follow the later one will learn about the IRL one. Note that anyone interesting in starting another campaign (online or IRL) should not hesitate to send me a message.

As a consequence, you will find very soon resources for Warhammer RPG featured on this blog.

 

Reviving Heroquest now turns into...

 ALEA JACTA ERAT

 Why this change ? What comes next ? Stay connected to learn more...

Ouverture d'une page Tipee

Pour ceux qui souhaiteraient participer au développement de mes différents projets, une page a été ouverte sur Tipee. À défaut de participer vous pourrez toujours découvrir bien d'autres choses...

C'est par ici...

The Ultimate Quest

 Tonight is time to address the Ultimate Quest for our Heroes:

A long journey out of the darkness of dungeons to a whole new Era is waiting for them.

 

 

 

 Leaving the good old dungeon to enter the Unholy Temple

 

Even though they could reach the open air, forces of evil were still waiting for them:

To eventually face the scariest of all the monsters:

Most probably the largest game we've ever played:

To eventually reach the Ultimate reward:

 

Could any of you guess what is enclosed in the parcel ?

Ambush on the way back to the village

On their way back to the village carrying the gold chests to the Prince Magnus, the heroes were ambushed by a warband composed of Orcs and Goblins lead by a Fimir

The Barbarian and the Elf promptly attacked the flanking Goblins while the Archers dealt with the Orcs.

It was a fierce but short battle easily won by the heroes. 

Maybe next time should the Evil Wizard summon more creatures... Why not wolf riders ? Or even an Ogre ?

This short battle was played on a custom board made up of the back of a frame on which I have pasted tiles found on the internet (unfortunately I can't remember where I've found them).

Be careful when you try to print and paste different tiles : it came out that almost none of them have the same exact size.

The road is just sand pasted over the tiles and the road block made of a couple of wooden sticks.

Otherwise the game was played according to the standard Heroquest rules.

Prince Magnus' Gold

Tonight the 4 girls were tasked to retrieve the stolen Prince Magnus' Gold chests.

I think it is one of the first times the four agreed to play together. 

The elder one (10 yo) was playing with her experienced Elve, the second and fourth (9 yo and 6 yo) were playing Archers and the third (7 yo), who plays less often, was playing the Barbarian.

I have a couple of custom rules, one of which being that you can only search for treasures in a room where there is furniture. To compensate, I am using the custom equipment list that can be found in the character creation chapter of OpenQuest.

As a consequence, experienced characters are a bit strong but it is more fun for the girls.

More important is that the players are getting better and better after each game. They are really starting to play as a team, not competing with each other.

Yet the men-at-arm are still left behind too often as you can see on the picture above.

But the best point was that the two youngest have managed to stay focused on the game for almost 45 minutes. Which is an absolute record and a great victory!

And to answer your question : yes they were victorious and the gold was returned to the Prince!