Preparations are underway for my full weekend game of Symbaroum at LongCon2 on the 9th and 10th July. I’m really excited to be able to give this game a proper run out and some intense game play.
Diving back into the book after a few months reminds me what a great setting we have here, full of adventure and mystery. I’m starting up character generation, only slightly perplexed by the way you should provide powers and rituals to characters. My starter characters will come into the first adventure with 20 experience points under their belt, which is enough to add in two new Novice level abilities or raise a Novice level to Adept. I’ve advised to add in new abilities to broaden avenues for the characters.
Andy and Jag have each created contrasting changeling characters, one infused in the witch tradition with an owl familiar, and the other a vicious duellist with some uncontrolled mystical power. What, I wonder, might be their connection? I’ll be posting up the characters as they start to come through.
One of the fantastic aspects to Symbaroum character generation is the completely free-form method of building capability. Archetypes are simply groupings of optimised abilities and preferred attributes to evoke that type in play. Everything is selectable, so that you can personalise your character to exactly the mix that you want.
In addition to rediscovering the detail of this fine game, I’m having fun printing and preparing handouts and table bling for the weekend. Now, I wouldn’t want anyone to think that I’m competing with Paul Baldowski in some sort of sad bling competition, oh my goodness no, however I shall prevail, oh yes, complete victory shall be mine… 🙂 Lovely to have both Paul (‘Bling’ as he shall be known) and Fil Baldowski from All Rolled Up joining as players for the full weekend, I’m rather honoured.
In fact I have been gifted one of their ARUs, all themed for Symbaroum to add to the weekend! Now, I know that GMs don’t need to roll, but I reckon I’ll have some polyhedral sets in there (Q-Workshop Elven Basic sets – also acquired from Fil) and I’ll be rolling for damage!