But there are no links to other encounters like "Explore" that's why I suspect that Ed Teixeira just took back some material from his previous works ("Mission St Mary" ?), turned it into something medieval but forgot to fix the loose ends. OK, you can start by carousing at the local inn, meet a potential employer and go wandering or delving into a dungeon.
However, on the contrary to his other works, Ed didn't bother/forgot to give us a random encounter generator.
TWO HOUR WARGAMES TABLETOP PDF
The fourteen encounters are the sole interest of that PdF even if they are of different qualities : the abstract dungeon generator does work, and the employment encounter can help you start some short adventures. Similar systems are used in other titles of the collection and the issue with that "one-stat" is that you're either doomed to defeat, or that you can become near invulnerable after two encounters (and that's what happened to me in another title of the collection) if you're lucky.īut worse, developing a strategy is what makes the gist of wargaming, and even of tabletop RpGs here, the boiled-down rules and the one-stat don't let you much space for strategy and you end up throwing mechanically the dice until you grow tired of it. scenes where you face a challenge like "exploring", "carousing", etc. The rule system is quite simple and revolves around one Stat : Reputation, which can increase or decrease following the outcome of the Encounters, i.e. The book is 70 pages long and contains approximately 29 pages of rules, 24 pages of encounters and the "scenario", Distant Shores on 9 pages. Ed Teixeira wrote many other games of the same category in his collection "Two Hour Wargames". a mix between a tabletop wargame and a role-playing game, where you can manage a small group of adventurers and have them face different challenges. "Talomir Tales - Distant Shores" is a "skirmish game" by Ed Teixeira, i.e. Of course, you can use it with other medieval settings of Two Hours Wargames.
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So, even if you don't catch on to the combat rules, this free PdF is still useful for any medieval RpG system of your choice. Three linked encounters are given : explore/raid/defend (I just don't understand why the terrain in "Explore" doesn't have Buildings in Square 2 while this same terrain has them for "Raid" if you successfully explored it). Fortunately, Swordplay 2015 includes the possibility of different weapons for your warriors and a nice rudimentary "battlefield" generator : if you fight with a team, you can then decide if you split your squad or keep it as one. I've already written in another review that the problem with a one-stat system is that you cannot develop a strategy with it :you're either doomed to failure or you become near invulnerable. Most of the system revolves around one characteristic, Reputation. Like his other products, these rules are meant to manage your small team of warriors and to pit them against opponents (randomly generated as "Potential Enemy Forces" = PEF).
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(you also download it with Swordplay 2018 on the author's website).
"Swordplay 2015" is a "skirmish" free rulebook by Ed Teixeira.
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