About Grenoria

The world is a semi mediaeval setting, but with lot of barbaric and chaotic area in the borderlands. In Grenoria Knights and Clerics control the society, but in the background they do their fight against each other. In this shadow war the hidden clans of assasins are important players.
In the forest rangers defend the unprotected living. But from the shadows more and more creatures comes to corrupt the natural realm. And in the forgotten catacombs powerful monsters and dangeorus traps are waiting for adventures to discover them.
Knights are organized in orders and the only and exclusive religion is organized too in church. The church maintains temples, monasteries, hospitals. A significant part of the leaders are corrupted, there are honest rulers, but rare. Ancient dark fractions are fragmented and isolated, but very dangerous, because they are still powerful. There are a lot of forgotten tomb, abandoned castle in the wilds.
In the desert live many little nomad tribes, they often attacks the civilization, but the tribs haven't enough power to occupy the civilized kingdoms.
In the realm of see pirates patrols the unpredictable territories to looking for treasure, glory and triumph. The kingdoms are not able to eliminate them, because their ships are swift and they know better the ways of shipping.
The most dangerous enemy of the chaos forces, currently the chaos isn't enough to demolish the city of order, but it will stronger and stronger, year-by-year. The order destroys itself because of corrupted and selfish leaders. Hidden civil wars and political game weakens the strength of the forces.
As I mentioned there are only one religion in Grenoria, but it is fragmented to fraction. God has seven manifestations: Creater, Destroyer, Maintainer, Keeper, Comforter, Feeder, Saviour. Each manifestation has worshipper fractions and each fractions has organized denominations. The fractions are fighting for the ruler position, currently the Keeper fraction is the most influential. This is eternal struggle, which will ends when the chaos forces attacks the civilization, but maybe it will too late.

Orc Tribe Lair in Grenoria

There was a description in the fighting fantasy game book: Titan about an orc tribe lair. It was very intresting for me in my early life. And last week I saw a sideview description of the Wretched Catacombs in the blog A Character for Every Game. It was very similar, but a little bit smaller dungeon, but inspirational. So I made a Orc lair with this map for begginers.

 
                       
Orc lair                           
1. Goblin Watchtower: d4+2 Goblin merceneries watch the surroundings of the lair.
2. Goblin room: Here live the hired goblins d10+4 Goblins stays here. (Treasure: d4 Silver/goblin)
3. Orc post: 2 Orc Warrior guards here with short bow (d6), they can attack the surroundings of the entrance.
4. Entrance: 4 Orc Warrior deffens this gate. (Treasure: d3 gold/orc )
5. The room of the Beggars: Here live the most common mebers of the tribe. (old beggars, handicapped or wounded poor orcs) d10+5 0. lvl orcs stays here. The room is very stinky, because of the sick monsters.
6. Living hall: All common member live here (3D10+10 0. lvl orcs) Dark, stinky and crowded.
7. Secret door to the Warriors room. Diff to find: 10.
8. Warriors room:  It is the living place of the warriors and hunters. Here lives the leader of the clan (As Orc Warrior just +2 for all).
9. Guard Post: 2 Orc warrior deffends this place all time.
10. Lake of the Water-Ogre: This monster is the shaman's favourite pet. It can attack the intruders with water split. (Average Ref check for stay on the stair.) If the shaman wants to use its pet he charm it and the warriors pulls it from the lake with rope.
11. 15' wide pool with full of water. The hole is 20' deep.
12. Shaman's living place: The spiritual leader lives here. It can reach this place with levitate. (At the pool too) So common orcs can't disturb the shaman.
13.Inner Sanctuary: Shaman works here (20% chance to stay here.)

Monster Manual (Rolecraft RPG):


Goblin Mercenery:

Hd: d8-1 (3)
Defense: 13 (studded leather armor +3)
Move:20
Attack: +1 short sword(d6-1) or short bow (d6-1)
Save: 1/0/0
xp lvl: 1/2


Orc Warrior:

Hd: d8 (4)
Defense: 14 (studded leather armor +3, shield +1)
Move:30
Attack: +1 Long sword(d8)
Save: 1/0/0
xp: 1

Orc Shaman

Hd:2d8+2 (10)
Defense: 13 (Leather Armor +2, Dex +1)
Move: 30
Attack:+1 Qarter Staff (d6+1)
Save: 1/1/0
xp:2

Spec: Magic: as lvl2 priest
Spell levels: 3+1; 0.:4;

0. lvl orcs (children, female, old)


Hd: d8-1 (3)
Defense: 11 (Cloth +1)
Move:30
Attack: +0 (d4) (stone, club, tools, etc.)
Save: 0/0/0
xp: 1/3

Water-Ogre

Hd:4d8+8 (24)
Defense: 16
Move: 30
Attack:+6 Great Club (d12+2)
Save: 4/4/3
xp:4

Spec:

Spit:
If Water Ogre fighting in water (see, lake,stream,etc.) It can swallow water and attack its enemies with a split instead melee attack once a turn.
Range Attack: +4 (d8+2) If the attacked character has unsuccesful Average Ref. Save he will falls to the ground.

My special Ranger

In my world Rangers are hunters and trackers. They lives in the woods and defends it with his weapons and in fellowship with the inhabitants of the forest.

Here is the Ranger class as I modified:

Ranger:

HD:  1st lvl: D8+Const bonus. further lvls: +4+Const. bonus.

Attack: lvl*1.

Skills: Scientific: +2 Non Scientific: +1

Weapons and Armor: Simple weapons, and with light armor and shields (except tower shields).

 Save: Fort: lvl/2 Ref: lvl*1 Will:lvl/4

Abilities:

Wild Empathy: As D20 SRD Check: d20+lvl+Wis bonus
 
Tracking: +1 in every 2 lvls for trackings in woods.
 
Hunter weapon specialization: +1 damage and attack for bow and jevelin.
 
Hide: +2 to hide in woods.
 
Endurance: +4 for endurance based checks in lvl 3. (Eg.: swimming, running, climbing)
 
Animal Companion: In lvl 6  a speciel animal joins to the ranger and helps him in his work. Choose from the following: Mouse, Cat, Dog, Wolf, Eagle, Falcon, Pony, Owl, Badger, Dire Rat.
 
Improved Companion: As the Animal Companion, just in lvl 12 and the following races allowed: Unicorn, Giant Bat, Giant Eagle, Brown Bear, Shaman Horse, Tiger, Lion, Griffon.

Some ideas about my development

I would like to introduce my brand new hombrew rpg development.

This system is based on D20 core, but it is inspired by old dnd systems and retroclones.
Main changes:
-average attribute values (with lowest reroll)
-lower attribute bonus allocation ( normal characters have only maximum +3 bonus)
-DC: 6-10-14-18-22
-No feats
-Skills: divided by 2 main category: scientific and common. First category hes int bonus, second has
dex bonus. Generally every character has D4+dex/int+classmodefier skills. The values of the skills are half of the character level.
-Classes: Fighter, Rouge, Cleric, Wizard plus: Knight, Assasin. (The latter two classes are because of the setting.) In world of Grenoria  there aren't Paladins, Clerics haven't turn undead ability. (It will particular spell.) Assasins are common in this world, because the leaders use them in the political game. Knights are the leaders of the armies, or the noble elite. They haven't magical powers, just they are stronger in combat and wear heavy armor. They have leading ability and diplomatic sense. Other classes are similar than the basic d20 instances, but redesigned to the new rules.
-HP: little bit lower HD in 1st level and half of the maximum per level. (For example: Fighter: HD: d8+Const. Bonus +4HP/level+Const. Bonus)
-Base attack: (3 category: lvl*1, lvl/2, lvl/4 ), No multiple attack, I am thinking about it, how can I implement in my system.
-AC: As usual, but I would like to incrementing AC. (For example: Fighter: +1 AC/3lvls; 1-4-7-10-13-16)
-Magic: I would like to simplify it: Magic user classes has x slots/lvl, every spell costs as its lvl. X is equivalent to the amount of Spells per Day. It would be simple daily mana system.
-Saving System: As usual, but I created 3 categories: lvl*1,lvl/2,lvl/4.

These are my ideas first time. Nothing is set in stone.  If anyone would like to comment it please do it. Any feedback is welcome.

G.

Hello Guys,

Long time wrote I post. I decided, that I develop an oldschool inspired rpg, but with D20 rules and with feudalistic emotions in a low fantasy world.

If you intrested in please support me: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/5671-rolecraft-rpg

Thank you in advance.


Grungi

MAGUS reboot

MAGUS reboot

This the name of the most famous topic in the main hungarian rpg site currenly. MAGUS is under attack since the first publishing. There was a lot of arguing. Thousands of rpg fans discussed the system during 17 years. The most accepted edition is the first, because it is the most simpliest. I prefer it too. But it has a lot of problem. For example the mosaic magic system, what I mentioned before. The little beginners uses it for weird spellmaking. (Magical nuke and copying similar modern technical things)
Now there is a intention to renew and begin the developing of this game, but there are too many ways and fans can't agree. Some people want to develope it to high fantasy direction, and there is the oldschool way, some want to drop the mosac magic, some want to reduce the number of the skills.
The main problem is that the fans always lost in petty arguing about economy, armies, magic. For example there is a rule, that the material magic can't affect on personal aura. (So material transformations can't use on living creatures.) This is one of the most famous arguing subject. Where is begining the aura? Who has? Etc. There is an exception: An effect of material magic can affect on living creature in indirect way. For example: Magic user make a wide dagger and with the rune oftransformation transforms it to a thin needle, when he damage with it an enemy, the rune wipes off and the transformation  turns back in reversive way. And poor bastard suffers more damages. This is typical mosaic magic application. Fans developed many spells with this system. Little stone spike teleports to the front of enemy's eye and shoots it with elemental force into his eyes. You can't teleport it to the eye, because of the aura, but the elemental force helps you :)
Who are grown up with D&D want to drop this system and make unified magic system. Someone want to drop the classes, instead they would use schools. Schools have been existing in Ynev from begining, but just in the game world, not in the game sytem. In the core book for example there was just one type of warrior. (Later the developers published a book with more than 50 warrior subclasses, but it made the system too complex) Thanks God they couldn't go on this way. There were critical tables in one of supplement. So they had a several attemps to attract more fans. after the first publisher went bankrupt 2 more publisher tried to renew the system, but with few succes. There was D20 variant too for example.  These days the pnp rpg is dying, so there is little chance to make profitable renewed edition. (WOW and similar games kills the hobby.) I think fans will arguing until the end of the world.
Question: What kind of rpg can attract more fans for pnp gaming?

1. location - Abbandoned House with Robber Gang

 This is the first map of the location in my sandbox campaign: The Abandoned Valley. You can find it in the Apolisz area with number 1. Here you can read about a robber gang who are lead by a clever and mysterious warlock.

1. First floor: nothing intresting or valuable.
2. Second floor: same situation as first, the house level has been.
3. Storeroom and Cellar: At the door there are 2 guards,  they often patrol in the surroundings of the house. In the storeroom there are a few empty barrel and chest, but nothing intresting. A stair leads to the lower level of the cellar.
In the cellar 1 man guarding, if he can hear some noise from the surface he runs to outhere and helps the guards. Still there isn't any valuable, just rubbish things. There is a secret door which opens a hidden corridor to the room 7. (secrett door searching difficulty:50%)
4. Robbers section: in this corridor there are rooms where the guards live. There are 10 common robbers, who guard this lair and make the robbering. 6. defend the main positions of this place and the rest of the group meanwhile are resting or robbing, sometimes they make heavy drinking and playing rude games in room 12.
There are 1-1 guard always in the first rooms.
5. Resting room: Sometimes Robbers rests here. You can find some food and 2D6 copper hidden in the doss.
6. The warlock's guardroom: One man guards this place in every minute, because the warlock is very paranoid.
7. Sanctuary: The warlock have sacrificed people since he settled here, the robbers worsip him, because he told them he is the ambassador of the dangeourus deamon princes : Sherkul. Sherkul is a fiction, the  warlock made him, because he wanted to control the dumb and credulous robbers. between the guardroom and the sanctuary in the corridor there are 2 pit traps, if anyone fail the int (detection) check falls and suffers 2D6 damage. Find trap difficulty: 60%.

8: Warlock's place: The leader of the robber gang is a warlock. Nobody knows his true name, because he is a paranoid. He is a 2nd level warlock, he always stays here, exept for when he make human sacrifice or other important business in the city with Viarro. In this room there is a little laboratory and he prepares poisons and alchmist goods. He has a valuable short sword (It worth 30 gold), Poisons: (20 portion weapon p. l2, 10 portion food poisons l3, 5 portions aeril p. l6) 20 gold, 10 books about poison preparing and alchemy. Some drugs. good quality clothes. 1 rubin (50 gold)
9. Hidden corridor: There is a arrow trap in the wall where is marked with arrow. It is magical, If someone enter this corridor and doesn't tell the password ("Arrow Stop!") it shoots. Attack is 40, Damage: 1D10+D6 poison. It has 6 shots and 1 per/round.
10. Store room: Here are stored the robbery loot. A lot of good quality clothes, 10 longswords, 12 shortswords, 3 maces, 4 leather armors. 1 chain armor, 2 medium shields. 100 gold pieces. 3 silver ring,  1 gold neclace. 1 painting. 4 barrels of wine. The door is closed (difficulty: 80%) The officers and the warlock have key to open it. The other door is secret from both side (from warlock and from the store) is the difficulty is 75%.
11. Officers room: 3 Officers live here, they lead the robbering and organize the life of the gang.
12. The main room, usually it is empty, except for some tables and chairs. There is a darts table in the wall. It is like a pub. Sometimes the robbers make a heavy drinking party here.


Guards:


In:15
Attack: 35
Defense: 80
HP:5
PTP:12
Armor: Cloth armor (1)
Weapon: Short sword D6


Officers:
In:20
Attack: 40
Defense: 90
Range att.: 15
HP:6
PTP:15
Armor: leather armor (2)
Weapon: Long sword D10 or lt crossbow (D6)


Warlock:


HP: 3
PTP:10
In.:30
Attack: 38
Def.: 85
Range Attack: 12
Mana point: 14
Weapon: Short sword D6 (+D3 poison)