One of the games I really enjoyed playing back in the early days of the new Millenium was Green Ronin's Blue Rose, True20 edition.
The Game: Blue Rose, 1st Edition
Blue Rose is a great game. It takes fantasy and instead of drawing from the heroic Pulp tradition it instead draws from the Romantic fantasy traditions. The characters are every bit as heroic, but their actions are guided by different principles.
I have spent a lot of time talking about Blue Rose here so instead of converting that ground again, I will direct you to some relevant posts.
- Review: Blue Rose (True20 Edition)
- Blue Rose and True20
- Plays Well With Others: Blue Rose
- My Ravenloft/Blue Rose mashup Black Rose.
Marissia (and yeah that is the spelling I am going with here) has the distinction of being the very first NPC witch I ever created. Or at least the first one that I still have notes for. She makes her appearance in module B1: In Search of the Unknown where I call her the "Daughter of Zelligar."
She is an evil witch, or at least she will be when she gets higher in level. Given my big Black Rose deal for this version of the game, I thought I might as well bring her in.
1st level Human Adept (Arcanist)
Strength: +0
Dexterity: +1
Constitution: +2
Intelligence: +3
Wisdom: +3
Charisma: +4
Intiative: +1
Defence: +2
BAB: 0, Melee Attack: +0, Ranged Attack: +1
Toughness: +0
Fortitude: +0
Reflex: +0
Will: +2
Conviction: 3
Corruption: 0
Alignment: Shadow
Calling: Adept - Mastery of Arcane
Light Nature: 8 of Pentacles - Dedicated
Shadow Nature: 10 of rods - Obsessive
Skills: Heal, Intimidate, Notice, Concentration, Craft (potions), Knowledge (Arcane), Sleight of Hand, Search
Feats and Powers: Arcane Focus, Brew Elixir, Visionary Arcana.
Arcana: Scrying, Battle Dance
I'd have to go over her again to make sure this fits my eventual idea of her, but it is a good place to start.
How'd she end up with those stats? I thought first level characters only had six points to divide among them & I don't see any minuses there to compensate.
ReplyDeleteHi Timothy, glad to see the challenge is going well and that you've covered so many games. This isn't one I had ever heard of before but I must say I do like the premise. I'm curious. How well do you feel it strips back d20 compared to modern OSR games?
ReplyDeleteMark, she is a conversion of a D&D character, so that's where her stats come from.
ReplyDeleteTom, True20 is pretty stripped back. It is almost like an experiment in which the OSR went in a different direction.