I’m starting to annoy myself with the system flipping to support a possible Hellfrost ‘West Marches’ style game. I’ve run through a host of obvious (though not SWADE!) and ‘out there’ possibilities. Far from scraping the barrel, I have returned to Helmgast’s lovely Hjältarnas Tid, which translates to ‘Age of Heroes’. I bought the PDFs of the game in their native Swedish, and then mangled them through a dodgy Google translate process, and came out with a BRP perfected KSR classic.
Here’s my cheeky translated cover.
It’s a simple d100 system that went on to power Troubleshooters (know that one?). There are great opposed rolls, a few stand out dice tricks, a handy dice-flipping meta-currency, and this malleable attribute called ‘Guard’ which reflects your ability not to be hit that acts as a quick recharging spatter sponge.
Anyway, witness my madness. Huge shiny mega games shout crooning invectives from my shelves, as I fixate on a few PDFs of a game that isn’t even in my native language.
I think, with the arrival of Dragonbane, there is unlikely to be any more published Hjältarnas Tid. The game covers the same silky smooth BRP fantasy vibes that have now been so comprehensively dominated by Dragonbane.
And really it should be Dragonbane. All the time, for ever, and for everything. I flail against the pull of that game’s simple power.
I’m off for a lie down.