tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post762696973834585154..comments2024-03-24T23:53:40.568-04:00Comments on In Places Deep: In Fair Narbona Where We Lay Our SceneMirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768774662263638305noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post-54493482364486437302012-10-14T01:37:31.873-04:002012-10-14T01:37:31.873-04:00Ran a session of this last night. We ended up roll...Ran a session of this last night. We ended up rolling up a trio of Knights, quite diverse in all but their station. <br /><br />Based on our rolls, we determined that two of us were brothers, the first and third born of a well regarded knight errant. As the first born, I took it upon myself to honor my father by taking up the sword and progressing the family name. By 26, I had acquired a rather large manor of my own. <br />My brother did not immediately take to the military life, first trying his hand at court, where he prospered in spite of his lack of natural suitability to the task. During this time he became a more devout man and, upon himself joining the knighthood found himself a Hospitaller.<br /><br />The third of our band began life the son of a craftsman, residing within the manor which would eventually fall within my dominion. In his youth, the boy would be a scoundrel, before finding his calling as a mercenary. Military discipline, it seems, brought forth the nobility in the youth and he eventually earned his knighthood on the field. Though he remains the more uncouth of the group, he's proving a valuable companion.<br /><br />Becoming aware the above hooks, we chose to see about the unruly serfs on our way to assisting Roger Trencavel, if only out of Geographical convenience. As a Hospitaller, the latter task falls within my brother's sworn duties, yet we also found opportunity to serve the Church on our first stop.<br /><br />We're currently off to East Carcassonne, having left Baldwin in my neighborly debt & securing our, figuratively, fresh-faced knight a young wife. I hope that this venture may also secure him a manor of his own, and thus another loyal ally within the region to further my own ambitions, humble as they may be.<br /><br />Overall, I'd say we enjoyed the characters the system spat out at us, and felt that there was sufficient choice involved in the process, though it is a bit mechanistic. <br />One player didn't like how many rolls were involved, in the sense that 11d6 could have left him with either a 33 or 88 in a given skill, and while I didn't take issue with that myself - I see his point.<br />It DOES however, manage the best of both worlds when it comes to this Traveller style chargen, in that I didn't feel it would ever produce an unplayable character.<br />In my mind, the "mechanistic" feel mostly boiled down to the fact that it would have been made much simpler on everyone's part if we had a java applet that let us make the 3-4 decisions we were given and did all the math/tables in the background. That's not a NEGATIVE, really, just an interpretation of how the process felt - as opposed to, say, most D&D versions which feel more like choosing an connecting a handfull of modular pieces.T1000https://www.blogger.com/profile/07156934381373511727noreply@blogger.com