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A simple Redwall themed rpg you can do in 5 easy steps.

Making a Character:

Step One, Cosmetics:

   Name:
   Gender and species:
   DANGER: starts at 0 (explained later)
   Brief Description:
   Stuff they are carrying:

Step Two: What is their job / source of living? Example, warrior, freelancer, thief, farmer, bookseller, village idiot, etc.

Step Three: Name TWO skills they are good at. Example, sword fighting, archery, farming, charming, tough, etc etc

Step Four(Optional): Qualities and flaws. Qualities are special perks your character enjoys and give you +1 to your dice roll. They can be privileges you enjoy, like being the ruler of the kingdom, having items of note like being in possession of the Sword of Martin. Or perhaps they are rare talents that make you special, like being the number one archer in all of Mossflower.

New Characters can start with ONE Quality, existing characters can start with THREE, but every quality you take, or gain later on, must be accompanied by a FLAW. Flaws can be personality quirks, failings, or circumstances that work against you.

Unlike Qualities, Flaws can STACK. So instead of taking two flaws, you can take a higher level one.

Step Five: Learn how it all comes together

Conflicts and dice rolling: Most conflicts can be resolved with out dice, but when failure can change the story for the worse, you roll 1d8. You can upgrade the type of dice depending on if you bring your job or skills into play. For every job or skill that applies to the given situation, upgrade the dice by one type.

1d8 becomes 1d10. 1d10 becomes 1d12.

The largest dice you can roll is 1d12. Extra skills add +1 to your dice roll. Qualities never upgrade your dice, but always add +1 to rolls. Every flaw that is applicable will subtract from your roll.

EXAMPLE: Fox is a warrior but has no skills in archery. He rolls 1d10 to use a bow, and add's or subtracts any Qualities or Flaws to the total rolled.

SUCCESS and FAILURE and Glorious horrible CONSEQUENCES

rolling 7+ is considered a success. You hit the enemy, you talked your way past the guard, you figured out your taxes, etc etc. The extent of the success is up to the GM.

Most of the time, failing a roll simply changes the story. When in dangerous situations, failure adds +1 to your DANGER stat. The DANGER stat slowly builds over time. When rolling for conflicts, if you roll at or below your DANGER stat, you suffer dire consequences. You can get captured, you can get knocked out, or you get wounded.

The GM and player can work out the exact consequence, but the GM has final say. If you are wounded, you take a new temporary flaw to reflect the damage at the level the DANGER stat was at the time you failed the roll. The Danger stat will then reset to 0.

EXAMPLE: Fox has a DANGER stat of 2. He swings his sword at an enemy and rolls a 2. Not only does he fail, but he takes a level 2 wound. Until the wound is addressed in story and given time to heal, he rolls -2 to his rolls.

If it becomes impossible to roll a success in combat, you are considered defeated or are killed.

You can remove DANGER by rolling 10+, or when the scene ends.

And... that's it. Make a character, have fun. Post any questions you have

Let's get this started then, shall we?

There are two polls to vote for. Please leave a comment below with your choices to vote. I'll let this poll run for a week and wrap it up Sunday.

The last time we saw Bandit he was about 33 years (16.5 seasons) old, very heavy set, full of scars from past battles, and retiring early from FV Head Guard because of his health.

He has been gone icly for over a year. So... what did he do in all that time?

1. Pursing a life of peace, giving up the sword and burying the hatchet with his enemies. Living like normal beast folk somewhere away from the chaos of Mossflower.

2. Pursing every vice under the sun. Drinking, gambling, eating his weight in pastries. Devoting his life to living fast, dying young, and leaving a pickled corpse.

3. Getting married! Bandit finally settled down and found himself a vixen to get hitched with!

4. Getting in touch with his vermin roots. Becoming more aggressive and becoming more criminal.

5. A prisoner. Be it woodlanders he has wronged, or... vermin he has wronged, or just the same tribe of cannibal lizards that at Wilks. Etc etc. He's been behind bars.

6. Something not on the list. (please leave us your story as a comment below!)

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The next question is, what role does he have now?

A. Bounty hunter.

B. An actual bandit.

C. Traveling Merchant.

D. Baker

E. Sherriff

F. Bard

G. Mercenary

H. Unemployed, still enjoying his retirement.

I. DEAD. Bandit died somewhere off screen! Oh no! (No, I don't plan to actually kill him off, but if you have a good idea how he died then I might make a short story of it or use it with another character )

So, to recap. All you have to do is leave a comment below with your votes in each category. Example: 'I vote for 1 and F!'

Feel free to have fun with it. If you have a story idea for Bandit, please feel free to leave it in the comments below.

After some long deliberation I have decided to be /that guy/. You know the one, that guy. The one who thinks, "Oi! Thar not be enough excuses for random violence here!" and so he makes a Vermin Horde and plops it down in the middle of Mossflower.

Yeah.../that guy/.

Now, right about here you are most likely having one or two reactions.

"You cant just plop a horde into the middle of mossflower D: this will mess with all my plots!" Hmmm, probibly. I wont say it wont but Mossflower is big enough to hold more than one one ongoing plot.

"But hasnt this all been done before? I'm pretty sure Redwall has a revolving door for villains invading them at this point?" Short answer, yes, and I think I've seen enough horde plots fail to know what went wrong.

Do not be mistaken, this is not another short TP idea that will wrap up in at summers end. This is a long lasting public event to give players plot hooks.

This horde will be a threat to mossflower, not just Redwall. Infact Redwall wont even be their initial goal but the woods around it. Whether or not the horde does take interest with redwall is up to rp.

Players will have not just random bandits to spawn into their stories but foes who are actively working against them. A group of horde npcs will have much more easily managable reasons to go beyond robbing you on the road, instead disrupting daily afairs in a village, blocking up a river,  or targeting characters specifically to attack them.

I havnt contributed much to the game in the past year, mostly I have been focused on side plots and one shot stories. Perhaps this will help other people with their stories as well.

That...and well to be honest Im kind of tired of waiting for stars to align for my own plots. Normally I cast out feelers in the form of forum posts to test the waters and see if people are interested before commiting to an idea. Not this time, this time I am just going to build something up and let people use it. Which brings me to the final part:

Who runs this?

Essentially, you do. There are still a few details I need to finalize before doing this but the basic setting is this horde is the advance scouting parting for a larger army to the south. While the main army finishes picking over the bones of their latest conquest this group searches the area for places to loot or burn to the ground.

This group will be controlled by a sharable npc. He's a bit off kilter to explain the differences in play style, it also allows easy use to make him unstable, meaning that one player can have him be buddies with players one day, and then backstab them on a whim the next day.

Assuming...of course he isnt killed and replaced by players or other npcs.

WHO CAN JOIN AND AS WHAT?

Anyone and anything

WHEN WILL YOU STOP TYPING HERE AND GET THIS DONE AND READY TO GO?

Soon...in the next few weeks.