We are close to publishing Aspects of Fantasy, a fantasy rpg that takes the Fate system - with its aspects, fate points and areas - and merges it with an OSR influenced version of D20.
While playtesting, one issue we ran into was getting D20 players to come up with aspects for their characters. In Aspects of Fantasy, your player starts out with 3 aspects. Players unfamiliar with Fate usually came up with one aspect, but often struggled with the last two. For this reason, we came up with the ‘Random Aspect Table’. This table has 100 aspects listed, players simply roll a D100 to see what aspect they come up with. Oftentimes players would roll multiple times to get an aspect they liked – which was okay. We even had veteran players roll on the table and take an aspect for the fun of it.
This table is included in the game. Some of the aspects are written up to show how they can be invoked and compelled. The table is shown below:
I'm looking for additional aspects so that I can expand the table from 100 to 200. Anyone have any good recommendations for aspects for fantasy roleplaying? I'm looking for 1 to 5 words, quotes from books and movies welcome.
Thanks,
Steve Bode
-IDD Inc.
Kickstarter for Aspects of Fantasy: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1503538195/aspects-of-fantasy-a-d20-fate-fantasy-roleplaying
Lonely DM blog: http://sabode.wordpress.com/
While playtesting, one issue we ran into was getting D20 players to come up with aspects for their characters. In Aspects of Fantasy, your player starts out with 3 aspects. Players unfamiliar with Fate usually came up with one aspect, but often struggled with the last two. For this reason, we came up with the ‘Random Aspect Table’. This table has 100 aspects listed, players simply roll a D100 to see what aspect they come up with. Oftentimes players would roll multiple times to get an aspect they liked – which was okay. We even had veteran players roll on the table and take an aspect for the fun of it.
This table is included in the game. Some of the aspects are written up to show how they can be invoked and compelled. The table is shown below:
I'm looking for additional aspects so that I can expand the table from 100 to 200. Anyone have any good recommendations for aspects for fantasy roleplaying? I'm looking for 1 to 5 words, quotes from books and movies welcome.
Thanks,
Steve Bode
-IDD Inc.
Kickstarter for Aspects of Fantasy: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1503538195/aspects-of-fantasy-a-d20-fate-fantasy-roleplaying
Lonely DM blog: http://sabode.wordpress.com/
