For my first Nuts & Bolts article
I'll try to elucidate how I used various resources to guide the story
of my Viking Character in the Talomir setting.
So I started with a given, we want a
Viking theme in Talomir so we start in Mirholme. I tried some random
generators for a prophecy for this character and ended up narrowing
down a list from donjon, but as of right now it still doesn't fit. Or
at least I don't know how to make use of it yet in the story.
What did make sense was the Age of
Fable character motivation table. I believe the available tables were
Barbarian, Peasant and Noble. A quick d6 roll gave me Noble (1-2,
3-4, 5-6 if you're wondering). Rolling on that table I received a
result of [Committed a crime and was let off on condition they go
into exile (innocent)]
Mirholme is made up of two provinces so
1-3 capital (western) province, 4-6 Eastern. And I got Capital.
So it was at this point that I felt I
needed to flesh out the back story a little more. I came up with the
idea of a succession struggle and our main character being framed for
kidnapping the clergy who would be needed to coronate the next King.
I could have just written a narrative, but I decided to give Mythic
GME a try to help me drive the story forward.
Mythic Questions ( Chaos Level 5):
Is the person who framed him a family
member? [50/50 Roll 90 = No, 91 would have been an exceptional no.]
Is
the person who framed him now the King? [ 50/50 Roll 73 = No]
Has
the person who framed him been granted possession of his lands?
[Likely Roll 97 = Exceptional No]
Does
he have a younger brother who is now in charge? [Very Likely Roll =
76 Yes]
Does
this brother support the new king? [Likely Roll = 34 Yes]
Is
the new King from the other province of Mirholme? [Very Likely Roll =
74 yes]
So
from this line of questioning we see that the younger brother has now
taken over our heroes duties and has, while not framing him outright,
supported the rival faction.
Now
we had characters to name. I chose to name the characters with the
Age of Blood naming table and I made up an IPT file to do so which
you can get here.
Main
characters:
Our
Hero: Hemming Wulfgarson, his brother (Dag), the High Priest (Stakard
Svafrlamirson), the evil Jarl (Aun Bjarnisson) and the characters of
Oleg Vikarson (the young spearman) and Fafnir Svafrlamirson (the
grizzled vet). These last two were his shieldmates so to speak who
would help him on his adventures, essentially so he wouldn't be
killed outright.
This
brought about one more Mythic question:
Are
Fafnir and the priest brothers? They have the same patronimic.
[Likely Roll = 58 Yes]
I
ended up not really doing anything with this story line, but it may
be useful later.
So
that is how I used Mythic and Age of Fable to start the campaign.
It's definitely interesting.......
ReplyDeleteVery cool behind the scenes look.
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