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 come from a good family and a fine upbringing. You were firstly surprised, then most annoyed to find yourself raised from the dead and subjected to a “life” looking like a thing that had arisen from the rubbish piles of the most foul back alleys of the city. You have no money, your former friends run at the sight of you, and you cannot even go into the lowliest coffee shop to get a latte to help you cheer up without being hurriedly thrown out by the management.
Maybe if you get some money you will be able to have fine clothes and friends again. So this is why you are down in this disgusting dark cavern system looking for lost treasure. You are hoping that it will be easy to find some. Then you will be able to get back to the lifestyle you yearn for.
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 come from a good family and a fine upbringing. You were firstly surprised, then most annoyed to find yourself raised from the dead and subjected to a “life” looking like a thing that had arisen from the rubbish piles of the most foul back alleys of the city. You have no money, your former friends run at the sight of you, and you cannot even go into the lowliest coffee shop to get a latte to help you cheer up without being hurriedly thrown out by the management.
Maybe if you get some money you will be able to have fine clothes and friends again. So this is why you are down in this disgusting dark cavern system looking for lost treasure. You are hoping that it will be easy to find some. Then you will be able to get back to the lifestyle you yearn for.
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.