Old School Essentials: Starting with just Mage, Thief and Fighter

As we start our Ioun City campaign, I asked that we start with only the Mage, the Thief and the Fighter on the table, using the d6 rules and alternate Fighter rules – all included with the Mage in Carcass Crawler #1. We’ll add classes and other kindred slowly but surely. This got us started quickly with simple characters who could gain depth with time as the world’s lore was learned and things got stranger and stranger.

We’ll add more character options through play, like downloading DLC, whenever the players make significant contact with another group and enter into some kind of agreement with them. Maybe doing a job for the kobold construction workers in Crown Town would open up kobolds as a playable kindred. Taking a job or making some kind of agreement with the local Temple of the Arcane Trinity will open up the Acolyte (also in Carcass Crawler #1, linked above). It will give us a fun result after make contact with factions and encourage us make new characters for the fun of it.

Posted to the FB group for this game:

So, I’ve got this idea on the Ioun City game and when Anthony asked if he could play a Halfling, I realized I had not explained it. So, we unlock new character options by interacting with the world. So, if you go do a job with the Anvilless (The Dwarven Crime Syndicate) who you met last week – you can hire Dwarven retainers and/or make Dwarven characters to play.

That way the gang gets stranger as you make more and more contact with the strangeness of the world around you. If we make contact with something without a clear character option we’ll either see if someone else has made something out in the internets or make it ourselves.

Sound like fun?
Message to FB Group

There is totally a place for a game that starts with a robot, a devil-person and a scrappy thief venturing into a monster-haunted hole. I dig those games. That just isn’t this game (at least not yet it isn’t; the night is young).