fantasy

Weapons of Body and Soul Martial Arts RPG

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Weapons of Body and Soul is a martial arts RPG currently in playtesting. The author writes:

The focus of the game is on being a Martial Artist in a land of mythology, where demons and beasts reign and humans can manifest the energy of their spirit to defend themselves. While the primary focus of the game is on combat, the end goal is not about gaining loot. It is about mastering your skills and learning to overcome challenges, becoming greater than you were and achieving your goals.

While it is a combat focused game, you are not required to play a fighter. There are rules in place to play other kinds of characters. This includes a diplomat, or a skill specialist such as an engineer, an inventor, or a smith. WBS emphasises three main design goals. 1) Realism and accuracy. 2) Skill focused gameplay, with high skill trumping high attributes. 3) Tactics in combat, including reasons to use weaker attacks, or to fight at less than your full capacity

La guerre des ames (souls war)

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Souls War is a French language set of rules where angels and demons battle for the souls of humanity. You can use the Google Translate function in your web browser to get an English version if that’s what you need. Here are the first two sections of the rules:

0-1 Hardware

A heaven, a hell, a purgatory populated by angels, demons and wandering souls. The figures can be of any brand (as long as the scale is respected), your monsters can serve as demons (and yes tyranids often populate the nightmares of marine spaces) and any humanoid figure can serve as soul. Some Orcs believe in god, well that’s what is said in some club like the Crazy Orc. For the angels

0-2 Goal of the game

The purpose of this merciless struggle is to harvest souls either for heaven or for hell. With three players, humanity tries to reincarnate in order to return to earth.

Heroscape Blank Card Maker

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One of the joys of Heroscape is that you can use literally any 25mm / 28mm figures. You just have to make up cards for them. This has led to efforts by a large number of people to duplicate the look of Milton Bradley’s double hex unit cards. Here’s one such effort. Its a .tif file in layers that you import into your favorite graphics editor. Be warned, though. It’s a big file at 13.4 megs.

Drake: The Dragon Wargame

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Drake: The Dragon Wargame is a set of free wargames rules for fantasy wargames focusing on Dragon leaders with their servants and lieutenants.

Terrene Print-And-Play Worldbuilding Game

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Terrene is a print-and-play game

where 2-6 players have to build a world with tiles to compete against each other and complete quests and win the game. The existing tiles are forests, mountains, fields and water tiles. In order to complete the quests the player has to combine these different land tiles and create the desired pattern for the quest criteria. If the player succeeds they will be awarded by the quest points and be able to move their meeple on the score board. Throughout the game there should always be three main quests visible for all players on the table until the quest pile is empty. Each player also receives a hidden quest only visible for the player and upon completion the player recieves a new private quest card.