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Great & Small: The Roleplaying Game Of Animal Fantasy (New OSR-style game)

Started by King Truffle IV, February 12, 2015, 08:38:16 PM

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Aracaris

#60
September 05, 2015, 12:16:40 AM
I love the idea of playing a familiar too... they usually are badly neglected (players really do sometimes just totally forget they have them), but they have so much potential.  I actually did for part of a session have players go off on a short adventure playing their familiars and animal companions though, that was fun.

King Truffle IV

#62
September 05, 2015, 12:19:53 AM
Quote from: Aracaris;853479I love the idea of playing a familiar too... they usually are badly neglected (players really do sometimes just totally forget they have them), but they have so much potential.  I actually did for part of a session have players go off on a short adventure playing their familiars and animal companions though, that was fun.
Not just neglected, but often abused, too!  Most familiars and animal companions in my campaigns have been used as cannon fodder.  Poor beasties! :(

Aracaris

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September 05, 2015, 01:39:40 AM Last Edit: September 05, 2015, 01:42:18 AM by Aracaris
That's terrible, and incredibly unwise of a player, at least in systems where there's a mystical link between mage and familiar (and there really should be) it usually hurts them mage to do that (hit point loss possibly being a consequence).  

I like the idea the familiar is a manifestation of the mage's soul in animal shape (which would mean abusing them is a really messed up form of abusing yourself), or if not that some other sort of spirit that's bonded with them (and pissing off spirits is just generally a bad idea).  For your game that doesn't seem like it would make any sense, but you do have the empathic link, some shared HP and such.

King Truffle IV

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September 06, 2015, 02:07:44 PM
Quote from: Aracaris;853491That's terrible, and incredibly unwise of a player, at least in systems where there's a mystical link between mage and familiar (and there really should be) it usually hurts them mage to do that (hit point loss possibly being a consequence).  

I like the idea the familiar is a manifestation of the mage's soul in animal shape (which would mean abusing them is a really messed up form of abusing yourself), or if not that some other sort of spirit that's bonded with them (and pissing off spirits is just generally a bad idea).  For your game that doesn't seem like it would make any sense, but you do have the empathic link, some shared HP and such.
With familiars, the tactic doesn't work for very long, as the PC runs a big risk.  But animal companions?  Often toast.

I usually have the animal companion develop emotional problems and rebel against the PC after all the neglect and abuse.

King Truffle IV

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September 08, 2015, 02:08:27 AM
"Great & Small would be a grand experiment in seeing whether the world's first roleplaying game and its descendants could run smoothly using 'monster' stat blocks alone."
http://greatandsmallrpg.blogspot.com/2015/09/on-bandits-berserkers-banished-ability.html

King Truffle IV

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September 23, 2015, 01:21:36 AM
All Featured Creature entries have now been updated to conform to the rules revisions posted on 9/8/15.  Stay tuned for more fun stuff, including character stats for lizards (by request!), and a review of another one of my favorite animal fantasy novels.
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