Legends

Mission Statement

I'm trying to keep the same feel of the LARP. Some places I diverge, obviously. The tabletop RPG I'm modeling this after is Ars Magica. A SG is a Storyguide: the point is that, eventually, everyone takes turns running stories, so that instead of only pitting wits against a single GM, everyone gets to play and run their ideas. Since this is just a one-story experiment, some of the stuff written here won't apply.

Races

As per the LARP ruleset.

Stats

A LARP doesn't need stats; a tabletop does. They are:

Charisma		Perception
Strength		Stamina
Dexterity		Quickness
Cool		Will

There is no Intelligence or Presence stat. Welcome to roleplaying. :)

Cool reflects how well you "keep your cool". Will is "mental fortitude". Walking into the Dark Tavern and finding out that Drago has crashed your party involves a Cool check to act as if that's normal. When Drago starts to crush your mind, Will dictates how many milliseconds you resist. :)

Stats are -3 to +3 and are bought arithmetically: a -2 stat gives you 3 points, a +3 stat costs 6 points. You have 7 points to buy stats.

Note how skills are paired: the maximum difference a pair of stats is 3. So you cannot be Dex +2 and Qu -2 (+2/-1 is okay).

Health and Fatigue

Health is done via vitality. You're either conscious or not. Not exactly realistic, but it's what the LARP does.

Fatigue is handled on its own scale. As you get fatigued, you have penalites applied to your die rolls. Sometimes fatigue is short-term; other times, it's long-term. Recovering short-term fatigue gets harder as you get more tired: you always recover the worst fatigue level first. Long-term fatigue can only be recovered by sleeping a minimum of 2 hours.

Level	Penalty	Time to Recover
Fresh	0	-
Winded	0	2 minutes
Weary	-1	10 minutes
Tired	-3	30 minutes
Dazed	-5	60 minutes
Unconscious	Weak	2 hours

Skills

In a LARP, not having to reset your stats is a big help logistically. But this is a tabletop.

Generally speaking, skills will reset across stories. If a story drags on for a long time, the SG may incrementally reset your skills.

For LARP skills, you just burn the skill. Just as in game, it automatically works, and it resets at the end of the story.

For non-LARP skills, you build up a skill score arithmetically by accumulating XP (1xp = score of 1; (1+2)xp = score of 2; (1+2+3)xp = score of 3, etc). So 6 xp in Awareness gives you an Awareness score of 3; adding 4 more XP would get you a score of 4. To resolve non-LARP skills: roll 3d6, add the appropriate stat (if any), and 3x your skill score. Yes, that's a lot of math, but it gives the kind of bell curve I'm looking for.

Non-LARP skills with a score greater than 1 also have a specialty: in these circumstances, your effective score is 1 higher. So if you have a Long Weapon score of 2 and a specialty of Mace, then when using a mace, you fight with an effective score of 3. Specialties may change only when the score changes value; they can start blank and be filled in after a story. Specialties are subject to SG approval.

Non-LARP skills:

Arcane Skills Turning Undead General Skills Athletics How well you run, etc. Awareness Noticing the ghoul behind you. Charm Making friends. Folk Ken Figuring out what people are feeling. Or if they're lying. Guile Hoodwinking people. Concentration Ignoring people when you have to. Combat Skills Combat Reflexes How fast you react in combat. Short Weapon Daggers and shortswords. Long Weapon Short Weapon and Shield Long Weapon and Shield Two-Handed Weapon Thrown Weapons Includes spell packets. Bows Brawling Includes dodging.

Performance Skills Jongleur Juggling Play (Instrument) Sing Storytelling Rogue Skills Forgery Legerdemain Sleight-of-hand Pick Locks Stealth Includes hiding. Social Skills Bargain Carouse The ability to have a good time. Also, the ability to not get drunk. Etiquette (This skill may be removed.) Intrigue Leadership Wilderness Skills Hunt Also, tracking, finding paths, etc. Knowledges * Lore Almost anything you learn from the Library will contribute towards some sort of Lore (Galenese Law Lore, etc).

For combat skills, you need to first buy the ability to use a weapon (a LARP skill) in order to get good at it (a non-LARP skill).

Weapon scores for off-hand use are at a -1 penalty. No additional penalty for using two weapons.

Skill Values

Having a skill of 1 means that you know a trivial amount of information about the subject. 3 means that you are skilled; 4 is very skilled; 5 is a master. 7+ is an obscene master.

For instance, a new dreamwalker would spend 12+ events learning about the dream realm, thus accumulating at least 10xp in Dream Realm Lore for a skill of 4. After walking around in the dream realm a bit more, they would have a 5. (Just because you dreamwalk doesn't mean you learn anything.)

Note that for some things, you will need a minimum of a score in order to even attempt anything. So, it might be the case that you need a Dream Realm Lore score of 4 before you can even attempt to test for a cord (this is almost certainly dependent on your teacher's method).

Virtues and Flaws

Everyone gets 2 virtue points to spend. These are spent as fixed bonuses to skills; the value of the bonus is bought arithmetically. You can also take flaws (also bought arithmetically) to gain more virtue points. Flaws are subject to SG approval. Also, flaws invite karmic retribution. So even if you normally don't sneak around, the one time you do, if you have a -2 flaw, you will almost guaranteed to run into something looking for you.

The maximum value of a virtue or flaw is +/-3.

XP

(This is totally subject to playtesting.) You get N xp per story, where N is typically 1-3. XPs translate directly into CPs.

XP on non-LARP skills can only be spent if that skill was used in a meaningful way. CPs can be freely spent on LARP skills.

Combat Resolution

• Rounds are 5 seconds long.
• Every 6 rounds, everyone makes a Fatigue check (3d6 + 3*Athletics + Stamina) vs a 18.
• Combat in a round happens on impulses. The earliest impulse you may act is ( 3*(combat reflexes) + Quickness - 3d6). If your result is 0-, then you spend the round doing nothing (although you may opt to try an Awareness check).
• Before rolling, declare if you're calling a skill (maim, slay, etc).
• Roll twice: once for attack and once for defense. Shields add 6 to your defense. Compare attack and defense.
• Disarms land even if your attack misses by up to and including 3.
• If your attack is greater than their defense by <3, then you can optionally push them back a step. If it's >=3, you also hit. If it's >=6, then you score a torso shot. (You lose if you were going for a maim. Oops.)
• Maims tend to land on the same side as your weapon arm. Roll a d6: 1, opposite leg; 2, opposite arm; 3-4, same side leg; 5-6, same side arm.
• Rolling 2 6s (out of 3d6) is a crit success: roll 3d6 again and add. If you roll 2 6s again, keep going.
• Rolling 2 1s is a botch check: depending on the severity of the circumstances, you'll need to roll botch dice. For combat, this is typically 3 botch dice. The number of 1s that show up on the botch dice indicate the number of botches. Rolling a single 1 means you probably fumble your weapon. 2 botches is bad. 3 botches is typically lethal.
• Flanking and double-teaming: attackers gain no bonus; instead, defenders get penalties.
• Flanking: if you attack from the side, the defender gets a -3 penalty. If attacking from the rear, then the defender is at -9.
• For double-teaming, you can either engage or ignore an opponent. If you ignore them, then you add no skill (your defense is your 3d6 roll). If you engage multiple opponents, then you are at -3 per extra opponent vs all opponents (thus if double-teamed, you are at -3 to both; if triple, -6 to all 3).

Character Creation

• Characters start with 30, 50, 70, 90, or 110 CPs. If you make three characters, make them with {30,70,110}; if you make two, use {50,90}.
• Additionally, characters get 50 XP.
• Don't transfer XP to CP and vice versa: with the disjoint skill sets, it's trivial to create a minimaxed character, and it'll be easier to see what breaks if there isn't transferring going on.
• As a guideline, new characters of <50 CPs should not have non-larp skills of 4+. 4 is ok for 50-99 CP characters; 5 is okay for 100+ CP characters. Note that this does not include virtue bonuses.
• Having a skill of 1 is very useful: it means you can at least try. It's not uncommon to have a whole slew of skills that you only have a skill of 1 in.

Clarifications

• Casting a Spell Shield on yourself is a free action, which can be done at any point during a round. You can cast only one spell shield per round. (Don't get double-teamed.) Note that you cannot retroactively cast a SS on the first round.