Heretical Playtest: Group 3 gets dogpiled by orcs
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Heretical Playtest: Group 3 gets dogpiled by orcs

I’m tired. so this will be a quick summary. I was joined by +Erik Tenkar , +Tim Shorts , and +Rob Conley in the first session for “Group 3,” one of the playtest campaigns I’m running for the Heretical RPG. The characters were two rangers with chain shirts and longbows, both with one or two short swords, plus a dwarven cleric…

Point-based new backgrounds (hat tip to Forgot My Dice)
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Point-based new backgrounds (hat tip to Forgot My Dice)

Image from Forgot My Dice, Backgrounds for the Wild Over at Forgot My Dice, the proprietors published a few new backgrounds. For various reasons, I’ve been on a background kick recently, and I posted a guide to using points to balance backgrounds. Seeing his backgrounds, the first thing that struck me is that the first one…

Heretical Backgrounds by point allocation
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Heretical Backgrounds by point allocation

As I have been working on the Heretical RPG project, I’ve been struggling with backgrounds. It’s not that there aren’t a ton of them out there already – there are. But they’re also not clearly something I can just, well, steal. It’s one thing to go out and get permission both implicit (via the OGL)…