I did some solo playtesting for SHATTER6.
Character: Vlad Teppish, a 500 year old Necrocrat Nightstalker.
Vlad was spending an evening doing what he enjoyed best - watching a theater performance. It was a production of the 1001 Nights, one of his favourites (he'd seen it more than 1000 times). Suddenly there was screaming from outside. Mostly annoyed with the interruption, Vlad walked outside to see a lot of people crying and pointing at the sky. A flaming ball was hurtling towards the city. Upon closer inspection, it wasn't a ball at all but a huge green man.
CRASH. The man hit the ground, killing dozens of bystanders. Vlad recognised him as Yardash, God of the Wild, though why he was he he had no idea. Vlad ran over to him and questioned his coming. Yardash was silent, but suddenly brought his giant sword down, slicing a house in half. Vlad drew his rapier and attempted to turn it into an undead snake, but something caused the spell to fizzle out. The god brought his sword down once again, but this time on Vlad, sundering the ground in hot flame. Vlad flew into a wall, badly injured (in game terms, all his attributes had just been set to 0). He summoned all of his powers to raise ten corpses from the dead and led then against the god (in game terms, he used 3 of his 4 shatterdice to ensure the challenge was met). They crawled over him, gnashing and gnawing. Seeing an opportunity, Vlad ran up a wall, spun in the air and decapitated Yardash (using his final shatterdie), landing in a cloud of dust.
He had killed a god and it wasn't even suppertime.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/245354/SHATTER6-Open-Roleplaying
How does it hold up to solo play?
ReplyDeleteOvy Ortega pretty well!
ReplyDeleteScott Malthouse You beat me to it! I had already made a character. What better setting for cinematic action than Star Wars. I made a bounty hunter but didn't get the chance to play him: Physical 8, Intellect 4, Charm 4, Instinct 7, Tags: Streetwise, Perceptive, Military Combat Training. He is an ex-soldier. Your short write-up sure reads epic.
ReplyDeleteI really would love to be able to do a short, epic scene like this! I kinda wonder around and roll dice too much. Great read!
ReplyDeleteScott Malthouse it was a good read, I'm looking forward to playing it! One thing I did notice is that the last paragraph on page 2 (Out of Action) is outside the light part of the page and kind of hard to read. May be worth lightening that corner up a litte to make it easier?
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I also think that given the name (Shatterdice), that any shatterdice rolled should explode on 6s (an additional reason to burn those Shatterdice!)
ReplyDeleteJustin Gordon done!
ReplyDeleteScott Malthouse I saw, thanks!
ReplyDeleteJustin Gordon it's a cracking idea and a few people have messaged me about it. No reason not to add really
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