The character shown here is from the Nettlebed Caverns game as one of the options for the player characters. Here is the characters profile...
You have grown bored digging rock, and singing the "Hi Ho" song and have decided that adventuring would be for you. So far things have been going really well and you have enjoyed the change - especially now that you have discovered Kareoke and that there are many more songs in the world than the "Hi Ho" song. Just because you are Grumpy does not mean that you cannot be happy.
You are good with weapons, and have a natural defensive advantage because most adversaries are used to fighting someone a little taller.
You are renown amongst dwarfs for your beard waggling trick, which is very popular with youngsters (under 200 years).
This exercise started out as an attempt to produce a set of rules for the old Caverns game described in the Beholder website (www.beholder.co.uk). The description was obviously set up with the intention of encouraging people to come up a set of rules themselves to roughly match the gameplay the author had recollected from his version of the game. Which is exactly the challenge being met here. However, the exercise has very quickly developed it’s own life under the influence of exposure to other game systems, and other developments that seemed like a good idea at the time.
Other games that have impacted on this development are: Hero Quest, Talisman, Wabbit Wampage, Tantrix
The game is basically a swords and sorcery game which is not all that serious and will hopefully have some quite fun and novel types of play involved.
The main aim of the game is that the players draw a Quest card for themselves then attempt to fulfill that quest. Once the quest is fulfilled then the character wins the game by getting back to the Caverns entry point. It’s as easy as that.
The game is split into three man downloads and a couple of additional downloads for those interested in getting at the source material. These cane be accessed from my "Models and Games" pages on this website.
At this stage there is no artwork on the event, spell, and quest cards, but I intend to do that at some stage.....
All instructions and contact details are in the zip files. Give it a try and have fun.
You have grown bored digging rock, and singing the "Hi Ho" song and have decided that adventuring would be for you. So far things have been going really well and you have enjoyed the change - especially now that you have discovered Kareoke and that there are many more songs in the world than the "Hi Ho" song. Just because you are Grumpy does not mean that you cannot be happy.
You are good with weapons, and have a natural defensive advantage because most adversaries are used to fighting someone a little taller.
You are renown amongst dwarfs for your beard waggling trick, which is very popular with youngsters (under 200 years).
This exercise started out as an attempt to produce a set of rules for the old Caverns game described in the Beholder website (www.beholder.co.uk). The description was obviously set up with the intention of encouraging people to come up a set of rules themselves to roughly match the gameplay the author had recollected from his version of the game. Which is exactly the challenge being met here. However, the exercise has very quickly developed it’s own life under the influence of exposure to other game systems, and other developments that seemed like a good idea at the time.
Other games that have impacted on this development are: Hero Quest, Talisman, Wabbit Wampage, Tantrix The game is basically a swords and sorcery game which is not all that serious and will hopefully have some quite fun and novel types of play involved.
The main aim of the game is that the players draw a Quest card for themselves then attempt to fulfill that quest. Once the quest is fulfilled then the character wins the game by getting back to the Caverns entry point. It’s as easy as that.
The game is split into three man downloads and a couple of additional downloads for those interested in getting at the source material. These cane be accessed from my "Models and Games" pages on this website.
At this stage there is no artwork on the event, spell, and quest cards, but I intend to do that at some stage.....
All instructions and contact details are in the zip files. Give it a try and have fun.