Heroic Roleplaying in a World of Swords, Sorcery, and Steam
I’d like to introduce Aetrimonde, a TTRPG I’ve been designing with heavy inspiration from the houserules my group used back in our Dungeons and Dragons 4e days. I’m not ready to publish Aetrimonde yet, but I’m opening up this blog to discuss its design principles, mechanics, and systems.
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Category: Sample Characters
Posts walking through character creation to provide examples of how different characters work.
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Today kicks off my post series creating the fourth sample character for Aetrimonde’s starter kit, who is going to be an inquisitor to fill in a gap in the party left by the previous sample characters. I’m trying a new thing with this series and starting with the class first–which will let me put in…
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As a special Boxing Day post, I’m going to revisit Ragnvald and Valdo, to provide them some magical items of their own! Ragnvald One magical item that Ragnvald will seek out early on (he could easily afford to have them made around level 2) is a pair of Gauntlets of Might, putting some extra force…
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Well, it’s Christmas Eve, and I’m going to wrap up creating Gwynne of House Midwinter. If it’s not clear, I couldn’t resist the urge to make Gwynne a tongue-in-cheek take on a Christmas elf, especially because (once I worked out what the timing would be) I’d be wrapping her posts up today. So like with…
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I’m almost done with Gwynne of House Midwinter, elf artificer (and blatant holiday elf…). Today, I’ll be filling in the numbers based on all the choices made in the previous posts. Health and Healing As an artificer, Gwynne has a base of 24 hit points; expertise brings that to 28, and +1 <CON> will bring…
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In today’s post, I’m going to be picking out the powers, feat, and equipment for my elf artificer sample character, Gwynne of House Midwinter. I’m also going to be taking this opportunity to introduce three new power keywords that define some unique kinds of power: Armament, Ward, and Summon. While not unique to Arcane powers…
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In this next post covering a third sample character, elf artificer Gwynne of House Midwinter, we’ll be going over choices of skills, perk, and languages. Skills Gwynne has some overlap in her preferred skills: So Gwynne only has seven preferred skills, one of which (Arcana) she’s required to have by the Artificer class. She next…
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Today, I’ll be continuing with the creation of Gwynne of House Midwinter, elf artificer, and introducing the artificer class! The artificer fills a different niche than the two classes I’ve previewed thus far: the fighter is a tough “tanky” character able to protect allies; the skinchanger is a deadly shapeshifter able to quickly bring down…
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Today, I’m starting in on the creation of a third sample character: Gwynne of House Midwinter! Gwynne is an elf artificer, a combination I picked out in response to reader polls. So, as is my wont, I’m going to spend this first post in the series discussing Gwynne’s heritage: Ancestry: Elf Aetrimonde’s elves are a…
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For the last post on Valdo the Bat-Eater, I’m going to provide a peek at how Valdo might advance over the course of his early adventures. Partly, I’m going to use this to show off some different kinds of Spiritual powers, because the powers I’ve given him to start with, which are tied to animal…
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All right, it’s time for another math-heavy post today, as I’m going to be filling in all the numbers for Valdo the Bat-Eater. Health and Healing The skinchanger class gives Valdo 20 base hit points. His <CON> will give him another 12, and he will get 4 from expertise, for a total of 36 hit…
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