Chronicles - Tabletop RPG

[Daniel36]

Hey guys,

Today I released my free, open-source tabletop skirmish role playing game Chronicles.
Quite a mouthful...

http://chroniclesgame.wordpress.com/

Chronicles is a free to download set of fantasy role playing rules. It is written to use miniatures and it's skirmish based, akin to Mordheim in terms of how battles are played out. The role playing part is very free form with very limited rules to govern it. We have left the documents very bare bones to keep it setting generic. It's fantasy, but it's up to the players and GM to decide what kind of fantasy. So if you want steam punk or even science fiction influences, the books won't force you into a different direction with aesthetics and names. It is still in its testing phase (and will probably remain so for a while) but you can download it now and give it a read. Right now, there are 5 different characters to choose from but more will be made available in due time. Also, there is an Adventure Book to help test the rules with some goblins, but of course new enemies will be released as well.

We are actively looking for feedback and criticism. So if you have any thoughts after reading, let us know. If you decide to try out the game, we would love to hear from you even more.

Thanks for reading!
Daniel36

[Daniel36]

After an incredibly fun playtest, as well as getting some feedback from some people who downloaded and played the game, it's back to the drawing board as some things don't work well, and some of the statistics are pretty broken. That's okay though, it was to be expected.

In the coming week or so I will rewrite some things, leave out several rules that didn't work and add some that were pointed out as needing to be included. The basic concept will stay the same.

That said, at least everyone at the table enjoyed themselves greatly. One of my philosophies seemed to work out well. Leaving the roleplaying as much as possible in the hands of the players instead of being put into stats and dice rolls, people really immersed themselves into the characters, even though this particular bunch decided to go for very tongue-in-cheek characters. That's okay though, they are allowed. Some people were apprehensive as the characters are, for the most part, pre-determined, but that meant they had to look for character development elsewhere, right where I personally would want to see it anyways.

So, enjoyment was a big 8/10, gameplay as of yet was a 5/10, but that was mostly because of stats being unbalanced.

Thanks for reading. I will keep people updated here as well as on the blog itself.
Daniel36

[Daniel36]

Version 02 for the Core Book, the AB and all the initial Adventurers is out! Come over and download and see if you like it.

Aside from some balancing, such as lowering the Adventurers' DEF and such, we have now included an injury table. Chances of dying are small, but they are there. Hopefully it will create some interesting and mayhaps even emotional scenes.

[Daniel36]

Things have been going into hyper mode recently, and as such many updates have seen the light of day quickly after each other. AB000 "A New Start" is already in its 6th version. This is because I made some minor changes that all affected the Adventure Book.

The Adventurers in particular see a pretty big update today. Points cost have been dramatically lowered, as well as monetary cost of upgrading.

Work on the first Encounter Book Undead is still going onwards as well as Core Book II. Items and Defining Features are probably going to be released as seperate PDFs in a little while because the wait would be too long otherwise. Core Book II is, in essence, no more than suggestions on how to play Chronicles, aside from the Items and Defining Features.