The Other Riddle House

20 August 2010 | Filed Under RPG 

The first Harry Potter RPG campaign was a success! There are still a few kinks to work out, like the logistics of combat, but overall, a positive experience.

Campaign Stories

We had two each of Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw, and one Hufflepuff, first years all. The story was they were serving detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest when they ran across a unicorn whose foal had been stolen. So off the ickle firsties went, trying to rescue it.

My favorite part, aside from watching them figure out the riddles I set for them, was the Nightmare Grass (stolen shamelessly from Pamela Dean’s Secret Country). Anyone who steps in the grass faces their worst nightmare, whether it be snakes, the death of a loved one….or butterflies. (That was a fun one. We had the boy running away from a snake and the girl running away from butterflies running in a giant circle.) Some of our players didn’t take the Boggart section of their character sheet seriously, so we also had people chased by chickens or falling into banana pits.

The Next Step

Now I’m trying to think of a longer campaign for second years. I have an underwater campaign planned, but I need to wait for the characters to learn a certain charm that will let them breathe underwater…that would be a big problem otherwise.

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