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HarnMaster

Character creation
The system is HarnMaster 2nd edition. Changes from character generation RAW are as below.

Everyone is human, and chooses their gender.

Everyone is in a feudal/viking culture, and unguilded.

Roll for Strength, Stamina, Dexterity and Agility, swap rolls within this.

Roll for Eyesight, Hearing, Smell and Voice, swap rolls within this.

If you roll on the physical chart, get +2 to put into these eight.

Roll for Intelligence, Aura, Willpower and Morality, swap rolls within this.

If you roll on the mental chart, get +3 to put into these four.

ignore Piety and gods for now.

Choose any occupation on the Viking/Feudal lists, but no gladiator, seaman, chieftain or viking as the culture doesn't have them.

Folklore is an automatic skill

When choosing the 5 non-occupation skills, can open any 2 combat skills to represent service in the fyrd.

You can get +1 Skill Base or +1 to an Attribute for,

an appropriate image of the character

a character background of 1/4 to 1 page

an existing close relationship with 1 or more other characters in the party

Random armour is only for those who choose to be

huscarls or mercenary/brigands

weaponcrafter who specialises in armour

anyone with Hideworking skill may have leather armour

anyone with Textilecraft may have quilted armour

In these last three cases, roll against the skill.

Critical failure gets nothing

Failure gets 1 random item of an appropriate type

Success gets 2

Critical success gets 3

Character Improvement

Any skill used during the game session gets a check put next to it. Whether it was used successfully or as a failure doesn't matter.

After the session, roll above that skill, adding your Skill Base and it goes up by 1%. If you get a critical (d100 ends in "5" or "0") then it goes up by 2%.

During any down time for the characters, they will get Will + Int + Sta in points of improvement each game year, though nothing may be improved past Skill Base x5 in this way (you need practical, adventuring experience for that!)

Acquiring a new skill takes a season (three months) of private study, or one month with a teacher. Some skills like reading and writing can only be learned with a teacher. You get it at the starting level mentioned on the tables, SB1, SB4, etc.

You can improve an Attribute in one month with a teacher or one season alone with a roll above Attribute x5. CS+2, MS+1, MF0, CF-1 and can never improve that Attribute again (you injured yourself and have reached a personal limit!)

Combat house rules

Only the worst wound of each type (minor, serious, grevious) gives you a malus. So if you get an S2 knee wound and then an S3 chest wound, you are just at -3, not -5. The maximum possible malus would then be M1+S3+G5 = -9 / -45%

Likewise, only bother recording the worst wound of each type, and only have one Physician roll for the most serious of each, rather than a Physician roll for each and every wound. An S1 on the knee and an S3 on the chest, the Physician would just roll once for the S3 chest wound; if that doesn't heal, what happens to the S1 knee wound doesn't matter.

For Fumble/Stumble, roll when you receive a Serious wound against that limb, rolling 1d6 for each level of the wound's severity (ie, 2d6 or 3d6). Grevious is an automatic fumble/stumble. There are no modifiers to this roll.

For Shock, roll when you receive a Serious or Grevious wound, rolling 1d6 for each level (ie 2d6 to 5d6). Add current Injury Level (worst M + worst S + worst G) to this roll.

Last modified: 23.01.08 by Kyle

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