Legends of the Land Corebook.pdf

Legends ofThe Land RPG

by Simon W ashbourne

(A variant of Legends of Middle Earth RPG by Jeffrey Schecter)

Part One

Introduction

What is Legends of The Land?

Legends of The Land is a role-playing game (RPG), set in the world of The

Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen R Donaldson. It uses the same basic

rules as those found in The Legends of Middle Earth by Jeffrey Schecter. Thanks to

Jeffrey for allowing me to plunder his game. There is also a version coming soon that

uses the d20 rules by the Wizards of the Coast, that are available under the Open

Gaming License.

This document does not go into great detail about The Land and it is therefore a good

idea to be familiar with the books, especially if you are planning to run the game

yourself! I recommend you check out the ‘Land Tribute’ site, which is linked to my

website, where you downloaded this game.

If you are new to RPG’s you may be wondering what this whole role-playing thing is,

or at any rate, why one needs this booklet to do it. In a RPG, a group of friends get

together and pretend to be people they are not and have adventures in a world they do

not live in, dealing with people and situations that don’t actually exist. In other words

they tell a fictional adventure story by just talking to one another about what their

fictional selves would do in the circumstances they find themselves in. How well their

characters do things is determined by using these rules as guidelines and rolling dice

where appropriate. These rules are designed to help you decide when rolling dice is

appropriate and how to determine the results.

Most of the players create characters to portray during the game. However, one

player, called the Gamemaster or GM, must take on the role of the entire rest of the

world. It is the GM’s job to mediate conflicts and provide opportunities for fun and

adventure. The GM describes the world (here, The Land) and allows situations to

develop according to the input of the players (through their characters).

The goal of Legends of The Land is to be as conducive to creating Donaldson-like

stories as possible. Hopefully, you will be able to do that using these rules as your

guide. At the end of the day, these rules are only guidelines to help you design your

characters and determine the outcome of character actions. However you should never

let the rules get in the way of a good story and if you want to ignore them or change

them then by all means go ahead. Just be sure that the changes you make reinforce

similar situations and themes to those of The Chronicles.

Part Two

Characters

Player characters

In Legends of The Land, every player character (PC) is created using a simple five

step process. Select a race for your character, then a Role, spend extra points on skills,

choose passions and then spend points to finales and round off your character. With

this method, you will be able to create almost any denizen of The Land, from a Giant

like Saltheart Foamfollower, a powerful Lore Lord like Mhoram or a stoic Haruchai

like Bannor.

Each character is defined by a few sets of values and statistics: Attributes, Skills,

Passion, Story Tokens, Special Abilities, Flaws and Artefacts.

Attributes

There are three attributes and these give a very rough measure of your characters

natural make up – whether she is tough, noble or wise or perhaps naturally a bit of an

all-rounder. These attributes and their descriptions are as follows

Prowess

general, all round athleticism and fitness

Bearing

a measure of presence and self-confidence

Lore

this represents knowledge and understanding

Choose the following one of the following four sets of numbers and allocate one of

each number in the chosen set to your three stats. So if I choose set #2, I might

allocate the 7 to my character’s Bearing, 8 to Lore and 9 to Prowess.

Set #1: 8, 8, 8

Set #2: 7, 8, 9

Set #3: 6, 8, 10

Set #4: 6, 9, 9

Skills

These are basic talents, knowledge and learned techniques that may be possessed by a

character. They are divided into three groups that are based on the three attributes and

there are eight in each group, although you can add more if you need to. However, the

skills are intended to encompass a wide range of specialist skills, to avoid the

character sheets becoming one long list of little-used skills, so add new ones only very

sparingly.

The average rating of a skill is 8, 6 is poor and 4 is abysmal. 12 is competent, 14

expert, 16 is a master and 18 is a grand master. 20 is the peak of human achievement.

Player characters will start with a minimum of 6 in their skills (if set #3 or #4 is

chosen for their attributes).

Skills and their associated attributes

Prowess

Bearing

Lore

Acrobatics

Deceit

Art

Alertness

Friendship

Beast

Archery

Intimidation

Heal

Melee

Leadership

Land

Riding

Words of Power*

Lillianrill (Wood)*

Stamina

Rhetoric

Perform

Stealth

Truth

Rhadamaerl (Stone)*

Strength

Willpower

War

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Passions

These define a character’s strongest emotions and desires. They can be love or hatred

(of places, people, things, ideas and so on), envy, conscience, a destiny, a drive or

motivation, a feeling and so on.

Flaws

These are things that are weaknesses in your character. They are things that the enemy

might be able to exploit (like Covenant’s disbelief) or they are fears (like Covenant’s

fear of heights). If you take a Flaw, you have extra points to spend on other things for

your character.

Story Tokens

Are a form of ‘meta-game currency’ that can be spent by players to insert brief facts

into the story that weren’t previously known or fleshed out or to unlock their

characters most potent powers.

Special Abilities

These are unique or rare qualities possessed by characters and include things like the

long life of Giants and Bloodguard and the great magical powers of the Lore Lords.

Artefacts

These are items of power possessed by the character. Examples from the Chronicles

would be Covenant’s White Gold Ring, The Krill, A Lomillialor Staff, a pot of

Graveling and so on. Some items cost more points than others.

Despair

Despair starts at 0. It is a measure of the characters current state of well-being – the

higher the value, the worse she is feeling. As the character experiences set backs or

losses, or learns of the corruption of the Land by Lord Foul and his minions, her

mental state suffers. Keep tab of Despair. When Despair exceeds Willpower, then the

character’s flaws start to show themselves more and more.

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