3/12/2023 0 Comments Carcosa rpg map![]() ![]() This randomness, the book states, is intended to make combat dangerous and unpredictable, giving the players hope against even the nastiest horror and making them think twice about attacking even the lowest peasant. Again the type of die is determined randomly. Every weapon in Carcosa does 1 die of damage. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile the beastie’s 5 hit dice turn out to be d4’s and its hit points 9 (2,1,4,1,1). For example, if a 3rd level fighter were battling a 5 hit dice beastie, the fighter would roll some dice, consult a chart and see that his hit dice are 8-siders and his hit points are 17 (4,5,8). At the beginning of every battle the type of these hit dice at determined randomly and than rolled. In Carcosa, no creature has set hit points, only hit dice (one per level for PCs). Packaged as a setting for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Carcosa takes some serious liberties with the system.Īfter a brief introduction citing some inspirational material (Lovecraft, Howard, Moorcock), the book jumps in with its biggest bit of weirdness: the dice mechanics. Set on a blasted world “153 light years away from Earth, orbiting a star in the Hyades Cluster,” it is a brutal game of barbarians hopelessly battling (or insanely aiding) Cthuloid monstrosities with swords and clubs and left-over alien ray guns. Carcosa by Geoffery McKinney is a weird game and it revels in it.
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