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My Little Pony RPG
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Less than one day to take the survey and enter for a chance to win Incarceron! This is where I coerce, beg, plead, intimidate, and you know, any other verb that will convince you to participate. I’ll announce the random winner on Friday.
Don’t laugh. Well okay, go ahead. It’s pretty funny. My friends and I watch the latest incarnation of the show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. (Yes, even the guys.) The plot’s kind of lame, I must admit, but the characters are the fun part.
So of course, that means we’re going to do a role playing game. I’m running it, and I’ve decided to try a new system called Amber Diceless. As the name says, it doesn’t use dice. Hopefully, it’ll be an easy system to use – and starting with ponies gives us considerably fewer variables. (I mean, how many ponies do you know fight with swords and bows?)
Depending how this goes, I might try to implement some of the system into my [still under construction] Harry Potter RPG system. I’ll let you know!
The Other Riddle House
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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.
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.
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.
I am writing so many riddles in preparation for Harry Potter Weekend (a birthday party for Harry, and then the first game of the HP Role Playing Game).
I need clues for a scavenger hunt we’re doing for the party, and I need riddles little firsties can solve, since they’re not skilled enough to take on much else.
Riddles are both frustrating and fun, to come up with clues that are both challenging and possible to solve. I like to make them rhyme, so that’s another difficulty. So it’s like poetry, but designed to stump.
For obvious reasons, I won’t post what I have now. I’ll update this post with my Harry Potter riddles after Harry Potter Weekend is over. Stay tuned!
EDIT: Here are some of the riddles I made. Short ones are from the scavenger hunt, longer ones are sphinx riddles for the RPG. If you like, post your guesses to the sphinx riddle in the comments!
“On the threshold of a magical portal
Lies power too great for a mortal.
Look past the bone and Mungo’s sign,
To find this, the fourth clue of mine.”
Answer: the Elder Wand, hidden in the St. Mungo’s sign of a crossed wand and bone.
“When you get in trouble with the Marauder’s Map,
You go to Dumbledore, but not for a nightcap!
He’s in the dungeons playing a game,
And knowing Dumbledore, it’s probably lame.”
Answer: the invisibility cloak, hidden in a Dumbledore’s Office lego box
“First think of getting a drink off the cuff,
Or when someone doesn’t have nearly enough.
Next, tell me what’s always the first thing to steep
Dark in the morning when you want to sleep.
And finally give me the thing often found
Within a front door or lost on the ground.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which item would you be unwilling to miss?”
“My first never are and never will be;
It’s trapped in the past, but Man is the key.
My second is hunted by Man in the wood;
But it owns the night, as well it should.
United you’ll find these opponents are bound;
Though their tensions remain, changes abound.”
Harry Potter RPG
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Yes. I have created a Harry Potter Role Playing Game.
I combined Dungeons and Dragons, World of Darkness, Mouse Guard, and my own stubbornness to stick to canon to produce an RPG system that will knock Dobby’s socks off.
The system revolves around Hogwarts, so you can play in Harry’s time, the Marauders’ time, Tom Riddle’s time, Albus Severus’ (hahaha stupid name) time, or what have you!
I’ve been wanting to run a campaign for a while, but I didn’t feel like reading up on the endless rules and items for any of the games my friends play, so I thought – why not create my own? (Note: this may not have been the smartest course of action, but it worked out in the end thanks to several very kind and talented friends.)
Eventually, once I’m sure all the kinks have been hexed out, I’ll post the rules here. That way you can go forth and role play in the world of Harry Potter.
And to all you Animagi fans out there, I’ve made it very difficult to become an Animagus. Otherwise everyone would do it!
Our first ever campaign will be in August, and it’s going to be awesome. Stay tuned for Campaign Stories!
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