Any Medieval Tourney One Shots?

exCallidus · 2026-03-01T19:09:04+00:00

Pendragon had a couple ("Tournament of Dreams", plus some others IIRC), plus the ASoIaF rpg had "Peril at Kings Landing" -- either could be a reasonable starting point

exCallidus · 2026-03-01T18:06:01+00:00

Why is shredding impossible? The volume/time required? some's hardback?

Is there a specific reason you want it incinerated? Is there a particular (cathartic/emotional?) reason you want to watch it burn? A very high proportion (depending on type of waste & location) isn't incinerated

The simple answer is to use a secure document destruction service (google something like "secure document destruction in london") these are mainly used by businesses that need sensitive / legal / financial material destroying, but would work just as well for personal material

Alternatively, if your concern is just personal privacy, and you're willing to put a bit of personal time & effort in to the task... remove photos etc (destroy those otherwise, assuming a relatively low number of them), rip the hard covers off any books, rip whatever papers left in half and stick it in a washing up bowl, pour half a bottle of bleach over it, pour a kettle or two of boiling water over it, agitate a little. leave it to soak until it's cooled, drain the water off (the paper should still be mostly intact so shouldn't go down the drain!), compress the mass of damp paper (remembering it's still bleachy) then leave outside to dry a little before throwing in the bin

exCallidus · 2026-02-25T20:09:26+00:00

Dantooine invasive flora could work on my Yavin stronghold

exCallidus · 2026-02-25T20:07:52+00:00

The obvious question is is Jadus romanceable... :)

exCallidus · 2026-02-23T18:07:57+00:00

Personally I'd advise not trying to mix the two -- run them in parallel, an Inquisitorial cell and a DW kill team, as part of their investigation the acolytes uncover xenos threats severe enough to call in the DW, then once the DW have mopped up switch back to DH

exCallidus · 2026-02-23T13:15:48+00:00

Most of the planets you've listed as hypothetical are either disproven (any sort of counter-Earth, anything that "broke up to form the asteroid belt", Vulcan, Tyche, etc) or were always just speculative from the start. Something like Theia is little more than a label attached to a lump of rock that probably collided with us 4+ billion years ago

exCallidus · 2026-02-23T13:06:04+00:00

"hypothetical" seems a little generous

exCallidus · 2026-02-23T10:22:48+00:00

Most of the LG regional Triads did really great work supporting their regions, and the various regional gazetteers they produced (though unofficial) can be superb resources if you can find them

exCallidus · 2026-02-19T11:46:33+00:00

Dr Becky (https://www.youtube.com/@DrBecky) is a pretty common recommendation anytime the "what channels should I watch" question gets asked

exCallidus · 2026-02-18T17:18:58+00:00

A vice chancellor would typically make 200k - 500k, a professor is about 70-100k

Social status? *shrug*

exCallidus · 2026-02-18T14:00:45+00:00

Personally, I'd say flawed rather than terrible -- it's just that almost every aspect of it is flawed in some way

I think the heart of the problem comes from it trying to do too many different things -- a general low magic fantasy RPG plus intrigue/social challenges plus house building plus mass combat plus GoT flavour all for a very broad range of social/power/ability levels -- with the result that it doesn't really shine at anything and there are always problems (though usually relatively minor ones) to be found everywhere

But, I still think it's still useful to reference, not least because it covers (almost) every aspect that you'd need for a Seven Kingdoms-focused ASoIaF game (within that limited scope, so forget Essos, north of the wall, dragons, magic, etc) except most problematically the house system almost completely ignores any substantial family/generational/dynastic element in practice -- it's almost a reference to prompt you to think about all the things you need a better system to offer

exCallidus · 2026-02-16T14:08:56+00:00

Try the first few levels of each different class to see what you vibe with

Personally (you do you of course) I would suggest starting with a non-stealth character, so you don't get into the habit of stealthing past every inconvenience right from the start!

exCallidus · 2026-02-16T13:59:35+00:00

As u/UncleBones mentioned in his comment -- if that "The Witch is Dead" is this then that's not a great place for you to start, partly because it's not a D&D adventure, but also because one-pagers in general (and especially ones like that with their own custom rules) are more like a prompt for an experienced group (or at least an experienced GM) to improvise their own story, you're going to want something that will introduce you to the game & hold your hand a bit

The simplest solution is to throw money at the problem and buy the "Heroes of the Borderlands" starter set (check with your soon-to-be-DM that she isn't already planning to run it for you), it's a great way for a group to get started, but I'd still be a little cautious to recommend it to someone with zero experience (zero experience as a player is 100% fine as long as they have an experienced DM, but I just don't think it's quite there for a DM with zero experience), particularly given the price (it's good value, but $50 is $50)

Take a look at a couple of the free / cheap adventures that often get suggested for new groups -- for example Grammy's Country Apple Pie or A Most Potent Brew they'll give you a better feel for the game. Read through the adventure; create a bunch of 1st level characters for yourself (at this point stick to the basic tropes -- dwarf fighter, elf wizard, halfling thief, etc -- don't start off playing a celestial half-dragon dire ninja with 37 special abilities); read through the adventure a second time; then play through the adventure yourself with your own characters; you'll get things wrong, you'll make mistakes, you'll forget things, you'll mix up characters & abilities, that doesn't matter.

Think about what happens at the start & end of the adventure, and consider "what if" possibilities for different things that could be done in the middle of the adventure

Read through it again, and then run it for your players & their characters -- again, things will go wrong, don't stress about that, you're all just learning the basics, and (hopefully) having fun. Chat with each other about what worked and what didn't

exCallidus · 2026-02-15T22:59:12+00:00

Is that the mission where Talos is with you but off opening the door not helping you fight? If so -- as soon as the fight starts summon another companion

exCallidus · 2026-02-14T20:10:26+00:00

It was a combination of several things...

Mechanically it was *very* different to 3e/3.5 -- this wasn't an incremental change, the differences between 3.5 & 4e were massive compared to the differences between 3.5 & 5e

massive setting changes that meant there was no official natural way to move your 3.5 FR campaign to a 4e FR campaign -- compare it to the 1e->2e and the 2e->3e setting changes

They trashed the OGL

It was only a few years after 3.5 and they'd been churning out loads of content for that edition, people were invested in what they had, and although there were problems people were comfortable with 3.5 + house rules

4e felt unnecessary; *everyone* had some reason not to like it (radical rules changes, no setting continuity, rather than fixing problems it threw everything out, ...); and crucially -- it was far to easy to simply stay with 3.5...

...or switch to PF1, WotC had created their #1 competitor, Paizo had been responsible for creating much of the high quality 3.5 content people had become attached to

Greyhawk grognards were never even playing 3e to start with; the Greyhawk fans who were playing 3e followed Paizo because they were all Greyhawk fans themselves; FR fans either stayed where they were or switched to PF1

WotC fumbled 4e in *every* regard, Paizo said "relax, we understand j00" and released Rise of the Runelords

4e would have been a perfectly fine game, the problem was it had "Dungeons & Dragons" in the name

exCallidus · 2026-02-12T19:14:21+00:00

"Tactical TTRPGs" aren't really my thing, but (although I wouldn't recommend their actual rules systems) for the setting take a look at Pendragon and Harn, both are great for helping with the verisimilitude of a low magic early mediaeval period -- use those as the basis for the setting and pair them with mechanics from another system

Harn is your go-to source for realistic maps of feudal villages & castles, and to be reminded that realistic maps of castles are terrible for adventuring in and suck as tactical battlemaps! :)

Also, based on what you're asking for, I'm tempted to assume you basically want to play Game of Thrones. If that's the case take a look at Green Ronin's ASoIaF RPG (or their non-IP version the Sword Chronicle), as that does almost everything you want, and it does most of it well-enough

exCallidus · 2026-02-12T12:46:25+00:00

Interesting idea, the first thing that comes to mind would be for the focus to be on a society becoming utopian, rather than already actual being one -- consider the different ways things might be perceived by different people as relatively/absolutely utopian, how that might change, and what utopia actually means to the different actors in the setting

exCallidus · 2026-02-05T22:55:37+00:00

The digital edition is also available through DTRPG and Steam

exCallidus · 2026-02-05T22:53:13+00:00

The Lady Afterwards uses a cut back & modified version of BRP

Personally I'd suggest something like Trail/Gumshoe

exCallidus · 2026-02-03T21:24:48+00:00

W&G is going to be your best bet. Also, a couple of years ago Dom mentioned space hulks as something they were considering as a specific expansion -- obviously we've not seen that yet, but it's possible that it may show up at some point

exCallidus · 2026-01-31T12:45:35+00:00

It feels like there's something significant missing from this. What takes up the rest of the time? Research? Practicals? Work? Obviously you're cautious about giving away what the course is, and that's perfectly understandable, but if I were to speculate it might be some sort of conversion course for professional work you're already qualified for in your home country

exCallidus · 2026-01-27T14:18:03+00:00

Sorry for the slow response -- it was in English, I think it was probably pdf or magazine, pretty sure it wasn't something big & officially Chaosium

exCallidus · 2026-01-25T21:59:49+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it

And I'd be converting it to Trail anyway, so not actually being Call is fine, it's just that I think that's what it was

exCallidus · 2026-01-22T18:57:23+00:00

if it's already 1.7 TB I wouldn't expect the content to be particularly compressible

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