Thread: I like Magic World character generation!

I am putting together a demo adventure for Magic World and I made seven pre-generated characters -- nothing fancy -- in a few hours in the evening while watching TV with the family! For Rubble and Ruin it would take me at least an hour per character and I wrote the dang rules! Not only did I find the system easy and fast, but I like the variation in characters. Most characters have a skill over 90% -- everyone came out with strengths and weaknesses (of course I haven't run the demo yet, so who knows how they will play).

If Ben gives his blessing I will post the whole lot to the download area.

Also, when the book hits print I will have a few house rules to add regarding starting equipment that will make character generation even a bit easier.

That's great news! Now if only we could actually get the book in our grubby paws, that would be even more awesome!

Here is the link: Magic World Pregenerated Characters - Downloads - Basic Roleplaying Central

I see that "culture" has been added by hand to the character sheet.
Does MW have rules for character culture?

Originally Posted by TheShadow

I see that "culture" has been added by hand to the character sheet.
Does MW have rules for character culture?

Yes, it's part of the character creation process. Ben revised the basic concepts from RQIII and then found away to fit them into the streamlined MW framework. It's one of the small, subtle changes Ben made to Elric! that I really like.

Cheers,

Nick

These look great! Thanks. Wasn't there supposed to be some Personality mechanics included in MW?

I'll like to know about MW combat rules. Are those different from the ones at the BGB? (i.e. Volley fire rules, Martial Arts, Riposte, Two weapon Fighting)

Thanks for posting these.

Classic example of reading rules before worrying about them, I did not like the idea of half STR being the bonus for Agility type skills, but actually those in the Physical category suit STR and the ones which better fit DEX are all in the Manipulate category anyway. I like.

Originally Posted by onearmspence

I'll like to know about MW combat rules. Are those different from the ones at the BGB? (i.e. Volley fire rules, Martial Arts, Riposte, Two weapon Fighting)

Not radically, no. Magic World is a subtle evolution of the SB5 / Elric! rules, which were in turn ONE of the major sources for the "baseline" core system in the BGB (Call of Cthulhu sixth edition was the other). So the majority will look very familiar, albeit it is more straightforward to read as their aren't as many optional sub-systems as there are in the BGB. Plus, there are a few subtle tweaks: the "combat matrix" have been revised to the (corrected) Elric! version but with MW terminology for example...

Cheers,

Nick

One thing to be aware of: the riposte rule says you get a riposte on a critical; it should say special but the terminology was carried over from Elric/SB, which uses crit/impale rather than special/crit. I mentioned this to Ben and he said it's too late to fix in the printed version but will go in errata.

BTW I ran a drop-in demo session of MW yesterday at Dundracon and I was gratified at how much the players enjoyed it, even though we didn't get very far into an adventure per se. Two guys had no BRP experience and one only knew CoC, and they were all very keen on the mechanics. Another BRP-newb came by later and engaged in a very intent conversation about the game. He seemed very favorable. All of them seemed eager to see the actual book when it comes out.